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BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


VOL.   XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  APRIL  9,  1909 


NO.   I 


THE  SPRING  BASEBALL  TRIP 

Bowdoin  Thrice  Defeated,  but  Gets  Some  Much=Needed 

Early  Practice — Brown  Game  Canceled 

on  Account  of  Rain 

The  baseball  team  left  Brunswick,  Friday 
afternoon,  March  26,  for  the  annual  vacation 
trip  to  play  Fordham,  Princeton,  New  York 
University  and  Brown.  From  Saturday  until 
Tuesda"  the  fellows  enjoyed  the  use  of  the 
Harvard  field  and  were  cordialb'  entertained 
on  Saturday  at  the  Harvard  Varsity  Club.  A 
short  practice  game  was  held  with  Harvard  in 
which  all  the  pitchers  were  gven  a  try-out 
and  in  spite  of  the  weather  conditions  which 
made  good  work  impossible,  the  team  got 
some  useful  and  much-needed  nractice  out-of- 
doors. 

From  Boston  the  team  went  to  New  York, 
Tuesday,  by  way  of  the  Fall  River  line  and 
on  Wednesday  played  its  first  game  with 
Fordham. 

Fordham,  6;  Bowdoin,  o 
Throughout  the  whole  game  the  Bowdoin 
players  showed  lack  of  outdoor  practice  and 
team  work  and  from  the  start  they  were  at 
the  mercy  of  the  Fordham  pitchers  who 
proved  to  be  very  efifective. 
The   summary : 

Fordham 

ab       r         h      po        a        e 

Gardan,     l.f 4         12000 

Coffee,   s.s 5        o        i         i        i        o 

Mahonc)',   p.,    cf 3         i         o        2        0         I 

Egan,   cf.,   p 4         I         2        o        0        0 

Scanlan,     r.f 3         12000 

Becket,    ib 4        o        i        2        0        o 

E,   Schiess,   3b 2        o        o        o        2        0 

Jackson,    c 4         i         2      20        3        o 

McCaffrey,    ab 2        00201 

Brown,   2ib    i         i         0        o        o        o 


Total 


Bowdoin 


Wilson,    c 3 

McDade,    l.f 4 

Clifford,     lb 4 

Harris,     ss 3 

Manter,    2b 3 

Brooks,    cf 3 

Bower,    3b 3 

Lawlis,    r.f i 


Wandtke,     r.f 2 

Holt,    p 3 


Totals     

First  base  on  balls- 
base  hits — Scanlan,  Egan 
by  Mahoney,  13 ;  Egan,  8, 


. .  29        0        o      24        9        I 

Off  Holt,  5 ;  Mahoney.  Two- 
Struck  out— By  Holt,  6; 
Hit  by  pitcher,  Mahoney. 


Princeton,  7;  Bowdoin,  2 

Thursday  morning  the  team  left  New  York 
for  Princeton  Junction  and  in  the  afternoon 
played  its  second  game. 

A  great  improvement  was  shown  by  Bow- 
doin in  batting  since  they  outbatted  Princeton 
6  to  3,  but  the  team  work  was  still  ragged  and 
defeat  was  largely  due  to  this  fact. 

Summary : 

Princeton 

ab       r         h      po        a        e 

Bard,     r.f 4         i         o        o        o        0 

Ballin,    l.f 4         10200 

Dillon.     2b 7.4         10         I         52 

Sides,    31b 3        2         I         I         o        o 

Warwick,    ib 4        i        i       14        o        o 

Pitman,    cf 4        0        0         i         0        0 

Reed,    s.s 3         I         i         4        6        0 

Dawson,    c 3        0        0        4        o        o 

LeFevre,    p a        o        o        o        2        0 

Curvningham,    p 3        0        o        0        0        o 


Totals     34 


Wilson,    c 3 

McDade,    l.f 3 

Clifford,    lb 4 

Harris,     s.s 4 

Manter,    p 4 

Brooks,    cf 3 

Lawlis,    2b 3 

Bower,    3b 3 

Wandtke,     r.f 4 


Total     31 


24 


First  base  on  balls — Off  LeFevre,  2 ;  off  Cunning- 
ham ;  off  Manter,  3 ;  two-base  hits ;  Clifford.  Struck 
out  'by  LeFevre,  3;  by  Cunningham;  by  Manter,  6. 
Double  plays — Lawlis  to  Clifford. 

N.  Y.  University,  8;  Bowdoin,  3 

On  Friday  morning  the  team  returned  to 
University  Heights,  New  York,  and  in  the 
afternoon  played  against  New  York  Univer- 
sity. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


The  game  was  played  in  a  rain  storm  and  Brewster  is  the  first  to  have  carried  out  this 

Clifford  'began  work  in  the  box  for  Bowdoin.  scheme. 

After  two   innings   IManter  went  in  but   was  On  Monday  last,  the  clubs  left  Brunswick 

relieved  by  Holt  in  the  fifth.     Owing  to  the  cii  route  for  Massachusetts,  giving  a  concert 

rain  the  game  was  called  in  the  eighth.  on  the  same  night  to  a  large  and  enthusiastic 

Line-up:  audience  in   Kennebunk,  Me.     Leaving  Ken- 

N.  Y.  University  nebunk  Tuesday  morning,  the  company  went 

AB      R       H     po       A       E  to    Portsmouth,    N.    H.,    and    in    the    evening 

Go"eltf"r.'..^"::;:;:;;t       I       I       I       \       I  g-e  a  concert  under  the  auspices  of  the  Y. 

Elliffe.    lb 3        o       o        7        2       o  M.    C   A.     Mere   the   crowd   was  very   small, 

Fisher,    c.f 2       00500  but  the  musicians,  nothing  daunted,  put  forth 

Rossell,    3t 3       I       o       3       I        I  their  best  efforts  and  met  with  generous  ap- 

^^Z^:'^:.'±-:::::l       I       I       I       °       °  Plause    which   made   up    in   duration    what    it 

Van   Chef,   c 4       i        i       4       o       o  lacked  ui  volume. 

Gorsch,    p 3       2        I       0       6       o  Friday   afternoon    found   the   clubs   on   the 

Murphy,    p I       0       I        I       0       o  way  to  Wellesley  in  some  trepidation  as  to  the 

„  ^  ,                              ~Z     ~Z  outcome  of  this  venture  into  the  land  of  the 

Totals  30       8       5      24      12       2  .              D   4.  4.1                   1    r                            ,1 

sirens.     But  the  young  ladies  were  more  than 

Bowdoin  gracious  and  accorded  a  hearty  welcome.     A 

AB      R       H     PO       A       E  reception  was  given  at  the  Phi  Sigma  House, 

Wilson,   lb.,   2b 4       0       i        5       o       0  by  Miss  Bessie  Conant  and  Miss  Hattie  Bra- 

Mcpade,    l.f.. 3       00000  zier  of  Portland,  which     affair     was     unani- 

Chfford,    p.,    rb 4        0         i         o        2        0  ,                ,        ' 

Harris     ss 4       o       0       o       2       i  mously  voted  a  grand  success.      Ihe  concert 

Mante'r,    ab 4       o       0       3       i       0  was  attended  by    a    large    crowd,    composed 

Brooks,    c.f 2       10       3       0       0  chiefly  of  young  ladies  who  applauded  every 

B^wer'  c*"'^ '       °       o       6       °       0  """"'t'er   to   the'"  echo.     The    members   of   the 

Wandt'ke?  3b. .  ....^'^^^'3  -     I       0       0       I        i  Wellesley    Mandolin    Club   made    a    point   of 

Holt,   p.,   c.f I       00031  securing  the  front  seats,  which  fact,  to  say  the 

—     —     —     —     —     —  least,  was  somewhat  disconcerting;  but  even 

Totals    29       3       3      24      10       3  "The    Flight   of   the    Birds,"    which    Leader 

First  base  on  tells— Off  Gorsch,  5 ;  off  Murphy,  i ;  Stone  had   whispered   was  a   specialty   of  the 

off  Clifford    2;   off  Manter,  2;  off  Holt,  3.    Two-  Wellesley  Club,  was  rendered  in  a  very  cred- 

base  hits — Van  Houten,  2 ;  Wilson  ;  Clifford.    Struck  Jtable   manner 

out — By   Gorsch,  4;  by  Murphy,    i;   by  Clifford,  2;  '    '        n       i- '                     <.             ti          i            •„?  » 

Manter-   bv   Holt       ^          t-  ^           ^  Ihe    Reading   concert    on    ihursday    night 

was  remarkably  well  rendered ;  but  the  audi- 

Saturday    saw   the   team   at    Providence    in  ence,  though  very  large,  was  slow  in  respond- 

readiness  to  meet  Brown,  but  a  drizzling  rain  ing,  and  the  men  came  off  the  stage  in  deep 

and  a  wet  field  made  play  impossible.     Harris  disgust.     Some  one  was  heard  to  remark  that 

had   been    saved     through     all    the    previous  he  never  saw  such  a  dead  bunch.     This  lack 

games     to     pitch     the     Brown     game.     The  of  enthusiasm  was  to  be  attributed,  however, 

enforced  cancellation  of  this  game  was  doubly  not  so  much  to  a  want  of  appreciation  of  the 

disappointing  as  several  members  of  the  Musi-  program  as  to  the  fact  that  a  dance  was  to 

cal   Clubs   went   down   to  Providence   for   the  succeed   the    concert, — a    case    where    spare 

purpose  of  witnessing  the  game.  moments   were   the   gold   dust  of   time.     The 

people  of  Reading,  however,  proved  very  hos- 

pitable  and  manifested  a  desire  that  the  clubs 

visit  the  town  again  next  year. 

THE  MASSACHUSETTS  TRIP  -phe  Friday    morning    train     bore    a    tired 

X        As  Told  by  a  Member  of  the  Mandolin  Club  crowd  of  students  into  Boston.     The  concert 

/•'  in  Steinert  Hall  was  to  be    the    grand    finale 

Nineteen-nine  has     seen     a     long-cherished  and,  in  a  way,  the  success  of  the  whole  trip 

hope  realized  and  a  precedent  established.   For  depended    upon   this    effort.     A    good    crowd 

several    years    the   managers    of   our    musical  assembled,    composed   largely   of   alumni    and 

organizations  have  entertained  the  wild  hope  friends  of  the  college.     This  was  the  best  ren- 

of  entering  new  fields  of  conquest,  beyond  the  dered  concert  of  the  series  and  every  number 

confines  o"f  the   Pine    Tree    State ;    but    Mr.  was  encored.     Although  the  audience  was  not 

[Continued  on  page  4,  column  2.] 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


Henry  Q.  Hawes  Ernest  L.  Goodspeed 

THE  WESLEYAN  DEBATE 

The  Connecticut  Institution  Gets  Decision  in  Forensic 
Contest 

The  first  annual  debate  with  Wesleyan  University 
which  was  held  in  Memorial  Chapel  at  Middletown, 
Conn.,  on  March  19,  resulted  in  a  victory  for  the 
home  team.     The  question  at  issue  was : 

Resolved,  That  the  Naval  Policy  of  ex-President 
Roosevelt  should  be  adopted  by  the  Country.  It  is 
understood  that  this  policy  is  contained  in  his  mes- 
sages to  Congress  from  November,  1907,  to  Decem- 
ber 18,   1908. 

Barbour,  'og,  originally  chosen  as  a  member  of 
the  Wesleyan  team,  was  prevented  by  illness  from 
taking  part,   and   his  place  was   taken   by  Hancock, 

'°9- 

G.  S.  Brengle,  '10,  opened  the  affirmative  for  Wes- 
leyan by  defining  the  "policy"  and  giving  a  detailed 
explanation  of  it  as  Mr.  Roosevelt  gave  it  to  Con- 
gress. He  then  showed  the  difference  'between  the 
"policy"  and  tlie  "program."  He  maintained  that  the 
program  was  only  temporary,  while  the  policy 
looked  into  the  future.  He  set  forth  the  policy 
of  Mr.  Roosevelt  and  argued  that  an  efficient  and 
effective  navy  should  be  maintained.  He  concluded 
by  stating  that  an  efficient  navy  should  be  main- 
tained instead  of  a  large  army  because,  as  a  conse- 
quence of  protecting  our  island  possessions,  and  of 
maintaining  the  open  door  policy,  and  the  Monroe 
doctrine,  all  our  battles  must  be  fought  on  the  sea. 

R.  O.  Brewster,  '09,  opened  the  neg'ative  for  Bow- 
doin  by  giving  liis  interpretation  of  the  question  as 
an  argument  for  a  specific  program.  He  endeavored 
to  prove  that  the  country  was  already  adequately 
protected.  He  showed  that  two  battleships  would 
keep  the  country  in  its  present  relative  naval  power. 
In  conclusion,  he  argued  that  the  isolation  and  self- 
supporting  power  of  the  United  States  are  good 
warrants  of  her  safety  and  that,  as  a  consequence, 
it  is  not  necessary  to  maintain  second  place  to  pro- 
tect ourselves. 

S.  G.  Barker,  '09,  the  second  speaker  for  the 
affirmative,  said  that  we  must  'have  our  navy  in  its 


Charles  F.  Ada 


Ralph  O.  B 


present  relative  strength  to  protect  us  in  time  of 
war,  for  war  is  always  possible.  He  maintained  that 
the  strength  of  our  navy  must  depend  on  our  own 
strategic  position,  and  he  said  our  strategic  posi- 
tion is  exceeded  only  by  Great  Britain.  Moreover,  he 
argued  that  a  larger  navy  would  advance  peace,  as 
it  would  make  arbitration  more  effective.  As  a  con- 
cluding argument,  he  said  that  with  a  large  navy, 
the  country  would  be  prepared  for  either  war  01 
peace. 

C.  F.  Adams,  '12,  the  second  speaker  on  the  nega- 
tive, said  that  the  affirmative  differentiated  between 
policy  and  program  much  to  the  surprise  of  the  neg- 
ative and  contrary  to  eminent  authorities.  He  fol- 
lowed up  his  colleague's  arguments  by  trying  to 
show  that  any  increase  in  our  navy  would  only  lead 
to  a  proportionate  increase  in  the  navies  of  every 
other  country. 

J.  T.  Hancock,  '09,  continued  for  the  affirmative 
and  he  gave  weight  to  the  argumenLS  of  his  col- 
leagues by  showing  that  the  United  States  can 
aft'ord  to  maintain  a  navy  better  than  other  nations. 
He  made  this  point  clear  by  saying  that  just  as  busi- 
ness men  pay  premiums  on  insurance  policies  and 
find  it  economical,  so  investments  in  a  navy  would 
pay  insurance  not  only  on  property,  but  on  human 
lives.  In  conclusion,  he  stated  that  it  was  no  new 
policy  that  was  at  issue,  for  every  President  from 
Washington  down  to  the  present  day  has  advanced 
this  idea. 

E.  L.  Goodspeed,  '09,  continued  for  the  negative 
by  addressing  a  series  of  questions  to  the  affirmative 
asking  their  reason  for  taking  their  view  of  the 
question.  He  argued  that  arbitration  can  and  will 
prove  an  efficient  factor  in  the  prevention  of  war. 
He  told  of  the  coming  of  world-arbitration  and 
peace,  and  dwelled  upon  the  efficiency  of  the  Hague 
conference. 

In  rebuttal  the  order  of  speaking  was,  for  Wes- 
leyan. Brengle,  Barker  and  Hancock;  for  Bowdoin, 
Brewster,  Adams  and  Goodspeed. 

The  judges,  Hammond  Lamont,  A.M.,  Editor  of 
the  Nation.  William  Bennett  Munro,  Ph.D.,  LL.B., 
of    Harvard    University,    and    Hon.    Arthur    Parker 

[Continued  on  page  5,  column  i.J 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,  1910  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  1911,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 

p.  B.  MORSS.  1910  C.  D.  ROBBINS.  1911 

THOMAS  OTIS,  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON.  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON,  1910  W.  A.  McCORMICK,  1912 

J.  C.  WHITE,  1911  W^.  A.  FULLER,  1912 


R.  D.  MORSS,  1910  Business  Manager 

J.  L.  CURTIS,  1911  Asst.  Business  Manager 

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Vol.  XXXIX.  APRIL  9,   1909  No.   I 


The  Orient  for 
1909=1910 


With  this  issue  of  the 
Orient  the  new  board  for 
the  first  time  assumes  the 
responsibihty  of  editorship  "to  guide  the  old 
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to  present  its  general  views  and  future  policy. 
The  Orient  will  be  pro-Bowdoin  in  spirit 
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THE  MASSACHUSETTS  TRIP 

[Continued  from  page  2.1 

as  large  as  could  have  been'  desired,  yet  the 
clubs  were,  on  the  whole,  well  satisfied  and 
termed  the  concert  a  pronounced  success. 

The  individual  stars  of  the  organizations 
were  everywhere  highly  complimented.  Espe- 
cially meritorious  was  the  work  of  Mr.  Ken- 
drie,  as  was  also  that  of  Mr.  Kellogg  and 
Mr.  Brown.  Mr.  Stone  as  reader,  made  a 
decided  hit  and  was  everywhere  encored  sev- 
eral times.  Great  praise  is  due  the  manager 
for  so  successfully  engineering  the  tour ;  the 
man  behind  upon  whom  the  responsibility  fell, 
and  yet  who  did  not  get  a  round  of  applause 
before  the  footlights. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  with  such  a  glow- 
ing precedent,  this  spring  trip  of  the  musical 
organizations  may  become  an  annual  affair, 
and  by  the  manly  demeanor  of  the  members, 
strenp"then  the  reputation  of  Bowdoin  in  our 
sister  state. 


JUNIORS  CAPTURE  INDOOR  MEET 

Three  Records  Broken — Class  Drill  Goes  to  Freshmen 

Contrary  to  the  predictions  published  in  the  last 
issue  of  the  Orient,  the  Class  of  1909  did  not  win 
the  23d  annual  indoor  meet  held  in  the  Town  Hall 
on  March  19th,  in  fact,  the  Seniors  were  forced  to 
take  fourth  place.  The  Juniors  with  a  well  balanced 
team  easily  won  out  with  a  total  of  27  points.  The 
summary  was  as  follows : 

1910  27  points 

1912  24  points 

1911  II  points 

1909  10  points 

The  class  drill  was  won  by  the  Freshmen,  1909 
and  1911  taking  second  and  third  places  respectively. 
The  record  in  the  relay  race  was  twice  broken,  1911 
winning  from  1909  in  20  4-5  seconds,  but  the  record 
was  not  allowed  to  stand  as  both  teams  stole.  In 
the  race  between  1910  and  1909,  1910  covered  the  dis- 
tance in  21  seconds  flat,  1-5  of  a  second  better  than 
tiie  old  record. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


The  individual  star  of  the  meet  was  Burlingame, 
'i2,  who  broke  the  records  in  both  the  pole  vault 
and  high  jump,  clearing  lo  ft.  1-2  in.  in  the  former 
and  5  ft.  7  1-4  in.  in  the  latter. 

Summary  of  events  :     . 

Class  drill — Won  by  1912;  second,  1909;  third, 
191 1 ;   fourth,  1910. 

Class  relay  race — Won  by  191 1;  second,  1912; 
third,  1910;  fourth.  1909.     Time,  21  l-S  sec. 

Relay  race — (Brunswick  High  vs.  Morse  High), 
won  by  Brunswick  High.     Time,  22  sec. 

Relay  race — (Bowdoin,  1912,  vs.  Bates,  1912), 
won  by  Bowdoin,   1912.     Time,  21  2-5  sec. 

Relay  race — (Edward  Little  High  vs.  Lewiston 
High),  won  by  Lewiston  High.     Time,  21  3-5  sec. 

Fencing  bout — (Bowdoin  vs.  Pianelli  Club  of  Au- 
gusta)  won  by  Bowdoin,  5-4. 

Putting  i64b.  shot — Won  by  Newman,  '10;  Hobbs, 
'10,  second;  Rowell,  '10,  third.  Distance,  35  ft.  7 
1-4  in. 

Running  high  jump — ^Burlingame,  '12,  and  Ed- 
wards, '10,  tied  for  first  place.  Pennell,  '09,  second. 
Height,  S  ft.  6  1-4  in. 

2S-Yard  hurdles — Won  by  Edwards,  '10,  McFar- 
land,  '11;  second,  Wiggin,  '11,  third.  Time,  4 
seconds. 

Pole  vault — Won  by  Burlingame.  '12,  Deming,  '10, 
second.  Burton,  '09,  third.     Height.   10  ft.  1-2  in. 

20- Yard  dash — Won  by  Colbath,  '10;  Atwood, 
'09,  and  McKenney,  '12,'  tied  for  second  place. 
Time,  3  sec. 


THE  WESLEYAN  DEBATE 

[Continued  from  pages.] 

Stone,  A.B.,  LL.B.,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  reported' unan- 
imously in  favor  of  the  affirmative  within  a  few 
minutes  of  the  close  of  the  debate. 

The  alternates  were,  for  Wesleyan,  William  R. 
Barbour,  '09,  Jesse  D.  Roberts,  '10,  and  Arthur  T. 
Vanderbilt,  '10;  for  Bowdoin,  H.   Q.  Hawes,  '10. 

Immediately  following  the  debate  a  smoker  was 
held  at  the  Chi  Psi  Lodge  in  honor  of  the  Bowdoin 
team. 


THETA  DELTA  CHI  HOUSE  PARTY 

The  annual  reception  and  house  party  of 
the  Eta  Charge  of  Theta  Delta  Chi  was  held 
at  the  chapter  on  Maine  Street  on  March  26. 
At  the  reception  from  three  to  five  in  the  after- 
noon the  guests  w_ere  received  by  Mrs.  W.  B. 
Mitchell,  Mrs.  Herbert  A.  Jump,  Mrs.  George 
T.  Files,  Mrs.  Allen  Johnson  and  Mrs.  H.  T. 
Baxter.  The  delegates  from  other  fraterni- 
ties were  Harry  W.  Woodward,  '10,  from 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Harold  M.  Smith,  '09, 
from  Delta  Upsilon ;  Gardner  W.  Cole,  '10, 
from  Zeta  Psi;  Stuart  F.  Brown,  '10,  from 
Kappa  Sigma ;  John  R.  Hurley,  '09,  from  Psi 
Upsilon;  G.  Cony  Weston,  '10,  from  Beta 
Theta  Pi ;  and  Harry  F.  Hinkley,  '09,  from 
Alpha   Delta   Phi. 

At  the  dance  in  the  evening  the  young  ladies  pres- 
ent  were:    Misses   Emily  Felt,   Mabel  Davis,   Sarah 


Baxter,  Ellen  Baxter,  Alice  McKinley,  Ruth  Little, 
and  Anne  Johnson  of  Brunswick;  Miss  Dephene 
Crane  of  Worcester,  Mass. ;  Misses  Lucy  Hartwell 
and  Madelene  Clifford  of  Bath;  Misses  Marion 
Preston,  Mildred  Moses,  and  Mrs.  James  N.  Chand- 
ler of  Boston;  Misses  Bernice  Ham,  Catherine 
Paul  and  Helen  Percival  of  Lewiston;  Misses  Mar- 
garet Starbird,  Irene  Hayden,  Hope  Merriman  and 
Helen  Mace  of  Portland;  Misses  Helen  Haskell  and 
Marion  Dana  of  Westbrook. 

The  committee  in  charge  of  the  affair  was  L.  F. 
Wakefield,  '09.  H.  W.  Slocum,  '10,  L.  H.  Smith, 
'10,  G.  W.  Howe,  '11,  and  J.  H.  Joy,  '12. 


SOPHOMORE=FRESHMAN  DEBATE 

Class  Teams  Chosen  for  the  Coming  Contest 

As  the  result  of  the  trials  for  the  interclass  debate 
held  the  last  of  the  winter  term,  the  teams  have  been 
chosen.  The  Sophomore  team  will  be  made  up  of 
Messrs.  Joseph  C.  White.  W.  Folsom  Merrill,  Arthur 
H,  Cole  with  Ernest  G.  Fifield  as  alternate.  The 
Freshman  Class  will  be  represented  by  Messrs.  Earl 
F.  Maloney,  Burleigh  C.  Rodick,  Herbert  L.  Bryant, 
and  Walter  A.  Fuller  as  alternate.  The  judges  at 
the  trials  were  Prof.  W.  T.  Foster,  Prof.  A.  H. 
Edwards  and  J.  J.  Stahl,  '09,  for  the  Sophomores, 
and  Prof.  W.  B.  Mitchell,  Mr.  Roderick  Scott,  and 
H.  H.  Burton,  '09,  for  the  Freshmen.  DT  J.  Readey. 
'10,  will  coach  the  Sophomore  team,  and  W.  T. 
Phillips,  '09,  will  act  in  the  same  capacity  for  the 
Freshmen.  The  contest  will  take  place  in  Memo- 
rial Hall  on  the  evening  of  April  30th. 


INTERCOLLEGIATE  TENNIS 

The  Maine  Intercollegiate  Tennis  Association 
held  a  meeting  at  the  Alpha  Tau  Omega  house  at 
Colby  College,  just  before  the  vacation  and  selected 
officers  for  the  coming  year,  and  transacted  the  busi- 
ness of  the  Association.  The  following  officers  were 
elected:  President,  H.  F.  Dow  of  Colby;  Vice-Pres- 
ident, R.  D.  Moss  of  Bowdoin ;  Secretary,  J.  A. 
Moulton  of  Bates;  and  Treasurer,  C.  F.  Smith  of 
Maine. 


PROF.  ARLO  BATES  SPEAKS  IN  MEMORIAL  HALL 
Gives  Interesting  Discourse  on  the  Art  of  Thinldng 

"A  proper  epitaph  for  the  majority  of  men  would 
be,  T  didn't  think.' "  This  rather  alarming  state- 
ment was  made  by  Prof.  Arlo  Bates,  '76,  Professor 
of  English  Literature  at  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology,  in  his  talk  upon  "The  Art  of  Thinking," 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Ibis  at  Memorial  Hall, 
March  22d.  "Man  is  constantly  defined  as  a  think- 
ing animal,  yet  the  number  of  men  who  do  not  think 
is  surprising.  The  tendency  of  the  individual  is  to 
accept  machine  made  thought,  but  real  thought  is  a 
creative  art.  Pure  original  thought  is  deduction  of 
relations :  to  deduce  correctly  and  form  intelligent 
opinions  is  one  thing,  to  merely  receive  impressions 
is  another." 

In  speaking  of  college  men  as  thinkers  Professor 
Bates  said :  "I  strike  earnest  boys,  and  clever  boys. 


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but  few  who  think  accurately.  This  is  perhaps  due 
in  a  measure  to  modern  conditions  of  society  in 
which  a  young  man  gets  so  many  impressions  second- 
hand that  it  isn't  necessary  for  him  to  think.  The 
activity  which  is  most  productive  of  clear  and  orig- 
inal thinking  is  that  found  in  athletic  sports.  The 
chief  value  of  athletic  games  is  that  a  participant 
must  think  for  himself.  No  one  else  can  do  his 
lliinking   for  him." 

The  speaker  next  showed  that  the  proper  way 
to  learn  to  think  is  to  read ;  not  to  read  cheap 
magazines  nor  to  drag  laboriously  through  the 
classics  of  English  Literature,  but  to  translate 
your  reading  into  terms  of  your  own  experience. 
The  best  book  is  that  in  which  the  reader  sees  some- 
thing which  is  not  written  therein,  in  other  words 
reads  between  the  lines.  The  connection  between 
thought  and  language  is  close.  The  best  thinker  is 
be  who  forces  the  mind  to  seek  for  its  conclusion 
in  an  adequate  English  phrase.  Clear  thinking  is 
impossible   without   conciseness    in   diction. 

For  this  reason  the  man  who  uses  slang  is  not  a 
clear  thinker.  When  a  person  is  not  willing  to  take 
the  trouble  to  find  out  what  he  means,  he  uses  a 
slang  word.  The  moral  strength  of  the  individual 
lies  in  his  ability  to  live  up  to  his  convictions ;  his 
intellectual  calibre  depends  upon  his  readiness  to 
accept  truth,  even  against  his  own  will.  If  you  can 
convince  a  man  of  something  which  he  does  not 
want  to  believe,  you  may  depend  upon  it  that  that 
man  is  a  thinker. 


INTERNATIONAL  BANKING  APPOINTMENTS 

Just  before  the  Easter  vacation  President  Hyde 
announced  the  appointments  for  positions  with  the 
International  Banking  Company.  The^  men  to  re- 
ceive the  appointments  are  Percy  G.  Bishop,  John  R. 
Hurley.  John  S.  Simmons  and  Charles  E.  Roseland 
of  the  Senior  Class  at  Bates  College.  The  men  go  to 
New  York  for  a  period  of  six  months  or  longer, 
then  are  sent  to  London,  where  they  remain  until 
they  are  considered  familiar  with  the  banking  busi- 
ness. From  the  London  office  the  companv  sends 
their  employees  to  all  parts  of  the  globe.  Bowdoin 
men  receive  these  appointments  through  the  courtesy 
of  Gen.  Hubbard  who  takes  men  from  each  grad- 
uating class  upon  the  recommendation  of  President 
Hyde. 

REPUBLICAN  CLUB  TO  HAVE  SPEAKER 

On  Monday  evening  at  seven  o'clock  Senator  Ed- 
ward W.  Wheeler  of  Brunswick  will  speak  to  the 
college  at  Hubbard  Hall  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Republican  Club.  Senator  Wheeler's  subject  will  be 
"The  Work  of  the  Recent  Session  of  the  Maine 
Legislature." 

At  the  close  of  the  lecture  the  Republican  Club 
will  elect  officers  for  the  coming  year. 


CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION   ELECTS  OFFICERS 

The  officers  of  the  Bowdoin  College  Christian 
I  Association  for  the  coming  year  have  been  chosen 
as  follows:  President,  W.  B.  Stephens,  'lo;  Vice- 
President,  P.  B.  Morss,  'id;  Corresponding  Secre- 
tary, E.  G.  Fiheld,  'ii;  Recording  Secretary,  K. 
Churchill,  '12;  Treasurer,  N.  H.  Burnham,  '11. 


(Tollcoc  flotcs 


Keth  N.  Pierson,  '11,  has  left  college  for  the  rest 
of  the  year. 

Prof.  Chapman  attended  the  Boston  concert  of 
the    Musical   Clubs. 

Professor  and  Mrs.  Foster  spent  a  part  of  the 
vacation    in    New    York. 

R.  E.  Merrill,  '09,  is  engaged  as  assistant  in  Dcer- 
ing  High  School,   Portland. 

Leigh.  '12,  and  Brown  '10,  were  guests  of  Waitt, 
'11,  in  Gardiner  during  the  holidays. 

Deming,  '10.  Slocum,  '10,  and  Slocum,  '12,  spent 
the  vacation   camping  on   Peaks   Island. 

Guy  P.  Estes,  '09,  re:urned  to  college  after  an 
absence  of  several  weeks  enforced  by  illness. 

Harry  Hinckley,  '09,  was  confined  to  the  house 
with    a    sprained    ankle    during    the    vacation. 

C.  D.  Robbins,  '11,  is  teaching  school  at  Orrs 
Island  and  will  not  return  to  college  this  year. 

Ralph  Files,  '09,  has  not  yet  heert  able  to  return 
to  college  because  of  the  death   of  his   father. 

Charles  Leight,  '11,  of  Worcester  Tech.,  is  a  guest 
of  his  brother,  E.  O.  Leight,  '12,  for  a  few  days. 

A.  W.  Wandtke,  '10  is  acting  as  assistant  in 
French  and  German  during  the  absence  of  Pottle, 
•09. 

It  is  rumored  that  Bert  Morrill  appears  as  one 
of  the  characters  in  Mr.  Ellery  H.  Clark's  new  novel. 
Loaded  Dice. 

Prof.  Mitchell  and  Mr.  Stone  took  part  in  the 
Dickens  entertainment  held  at  the  Congregational 
vestry  last  Saturday. 

Mr.  Hastings  was  one  of  the  after-dinner  speakers 
at  the  District  Convention  of  Phi  Gamma  Delta  at 
Amherst,   March  27. 

Arthur  H.  Flam,  '08,  who  has  been  ill  with  mala- 
rial fever  at  his  home  in  Livermore  Falls  is  slowly 
improving    in    health. 

Hiwale,  '09,  delivered  an  address  in  the  Congrcga- 
t'onal  Church  at  South  Paris  on  March  28,  upon 
Social    Conditions    in    India. 

W.  B.  Stephens,  '10  is  attending  a  conference  of 
New  England  college  Christian  Association  Presi- 
dents at  Harvard  this  week. 

Men  who  remained  at  Brunswick  over  the  vaca- 
tion were:  Newman,  '10  Crane,  '12,  Mikelsky,  '10, 
Burlingame,  '12,  Johnson  '09,  and  Bailey,  '12. 

Candidates  for  Assistant  Business  Manager  of  the 
Orient  should  hand  their  names  to  R.  D.  Morss. 
The  Assistant  is  chosen  from  the  Class  of  1912. 

J.  H.  Miliflin,  '12,  who  has  been  ill  at  his  home 
in  Exeter,  N.  H.,  since  the  mid-year  examinations 
returned  to  college  at  the  beginning  of  the'  term. 

R.  O.  Brewster,  '09  is  soliciting  fifty  cents  sub- 
scriptions in  the  several  fraternity  houses  to  defray 
the  expenses  of  the  Vermont  and  Wesleyan  debates.    ' 

To-night  will  be  the  last  chance  to  hear  the  Musi- 
cal Clubs.  They  wind  up  a  remarkably  successful 
season  with  the  annual  concert  in  Memorial  Hall, 
and  no  man  in  college  can  afford  to  miss  hearing 
the  organization  which  made  its  mark  in  Massachu- 
setts. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


J.  L.  Crane,  '12  has  'been  confined  to  liis  room 
with  grip   durfng  the   Easter   recess. 

Under  the  new  Editorial  Board  Professor  Little 
will  edit  the  alumni  column  as  formerly. 

Horace  Watson,  '11,  who  has  been  out  working 
for  the  past  four  weeks,  will  not  return  to  college 
this  year. 

In  the  March  number  of  the  Thornton  Tripod,  the 
monthly  paper  of  Thornton  Academy,  there  appeared 
an  article  on  Life  at  Bowdoin  College  by  Ralph  B. 
Grace,  '10. 

W.  P.  Newman,  '10,  has  opened  a  barter  shop  at 
the  Theta  Delta  Chi  House  where  he  will  give  fret 
hair  cuts  to  prospective  occupants  of  the  bald- 
headed   row. 

Leo  Hafford.  ex-'o4,  who  will  be  remembered  as 
one  of  Bowdoin's  star  half-backs,  has  signed  to 
pitch  this  summer  for  Albany  of  the  New  York 
State  League. 

Prof.  Robinson  has  gone  to  Colorado  to  look  at 
some  mining  property  and  to  visit  his  son,  D.  S. 
Robinson,  '07  who  is  working  for  DuPont  Powder 
Co.,    at    Louviers,    Col. 

On  Wednesday  evening  the  Musical  Clu'bs  gave  a 
concert  in  Freeport.  The  clubs  were  scheduled  to 
play  there  on  March  25,  but  did  not  give  a  concert 
because  of  inclement  weather. 

The  medical  students  began  dissecting  Tuesday. 
In  previous  years  only  the  second  year  men  have 
done  this  work,  but  this  year  both  first  and  second 
year  men  will  be  given  a  chance  at  it. 

Professor  Files  has  been  appointed  a  member  of 
the  committee  to  receive  and  entertain  the  trade 
extension  committee  of  the  Boston  Merchants'  Asso- 
ciation when  it  visits  Brunswick  May  Sth. 

Manager  Morss  of  the  Tennis  Team  has  issued  a 
call  for  candidates  for  the  office  of  Assistant  Man- 
ager. The  Assistant  Manager  is  chosen  from  the 
Freshman   Class  at   the   close   of  the   season. 

Among  the  recent  graduates  and  students  of  the 
college  who  witnessed  the  Princeton  game  were 
Bill  Crowley,  '08,  Doc  Thomas,  ex-'o8  and  Jack 
Hanrahan,  ex-'io.  At  New  York  the  team  saw  H. 
H.  Hayes,  '08,  H.  S.  Bridgham,  '08,  and  W.  D.  Lee, 
'08. 

An  important  change  in  the  football  rules  has 
been  made  by  the  Intercollegiate  Football  Rules 
Committee  in  the  reduction  of  points  for  a  goal  from 
;  the  field  from  four  to  three.  The  object  of  the 
change  is  to  prevent  two  goals  from  the  field  count- 
ing more  than  a  hard  earned  touchdown  and  a  goal. 
Other  changes  of  minor  importance  were  passed. 

George  Price,  who  died  recently,  a  veteran  oars- 
man, is  remembered  here  as  a  coach  for  Bowdoin's 
first  crew.  The  best  reminiscence  of  George 
Price  is  told  by  Dr.  D.  A.  Robinson  of  Bangor  of  the 
Class  of  '73,  Bowdoin,  in  "The  Tales  of  Bowdoin," 
published  in  1901,  which  begins  with  the  inception 
of  rowing  at  Bowdoin  and  takes  it  up  to  the  first 
great  boat  race,  when  George  Price  came  to  Bruns- 
wick  as   a   coach   to   the    Bowdoin   crew. 

The  college  narrowly  escaped  the  loss  of  one  of 
Its  fraternity  houses  by  fire  during  the  Easter  vaca- 
tion. On  the  first  Sunday  after  college  closed  fire 
broke  out  at  the  Delta  Upsilon  House  in  the  sleeping 
room  occupied  by  P.   C.  Voter,  '09,  W.  T.  Phillips, 


'09,  and  C.  L.  Morton,  '10.  Fortunately  Morton,  '10, 
and  E.  L.  Wing,  '10,  were  in  the  house  at  the  time 
and  discovered  the  blaze  in  season  so  that  a  chemi- 
cal extinguisher  was  used  effectively.  The  loss  is 
limited  to  two  beds  and  bedding  and  a  badly  smoked 
room. 

Mr.  Taft's  Cabinet  contains  two  Harvard  gradu- 
ates, Mr.  Meyer  of  '79  and  Mr.  Hitchcock  of  '91 ; 
one  Yale  man,  Mr.  MacVeagh  of  '62 ;  one  alumnus 
of  Mt.  Union,  Ohio  Mr.  Knox  of  '72 ;  one  man 
from  the  University  of  Nashville,  Mr.  Dickinson  of 
'71;  one  Williams  graduate,  Mr.  Ballinger  of  '84; 
one  man  from  Iowa  College,  Professor  James  Wil- 
son ;  one  representative  of  Lehigh,  Mr.  Wickershani, 
and  one  graduate  of  the  St.  Louis  Law  School,  Mr. 
Nagel  of  '72.  Mr.  MacVeagh  was  also  graduated 
from  the  Columbia  Law  School,  Mr.  Wickersham 
from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  Law  School, 
and  Mr.  Hitchcock  from  the  law  department  of 
what  is  now  the  George  Washington  University. 
Does  a  college  education  "pay"  ?  The  fact  that 
every  man  chosen  by  Mr.  Taft  for  Cabinet  honors 
and  responsibilities  has  had  the  advantage  of  either 
a  collegiate  or  professional  school  training  indicates 
that  it  does ;  and  a  recent  analysis  of  one  of  the  best- 
known  of  American  biographical  dictionaries  con- 
firms this  view. 


OBITUARY 

Hall  of  Delta  Upsilon,  April  6,  1907. 
Whereas,  God  in  His  infinite  wisdom  has  seen  fit 
to  take  to  himself  the  soul  of  our  beloved  alumnus 
and  brother  Clarence  E.  Stetson  of  the  Class  of 
1907,  we  wish  to  express  our  own  sorrow  and  our 
sympathy  for  those  bound  closer  to  him  by  ties  of 
blood. 

William  E.  Atwood^  '10, 
Lawrence  McFarland,  'ii, 
Wm.  a.  McCormick^  '12, 
For  the  Chapter. 


IN  MEMORIAM 


The  Bowdoin  Chapter  of  Alpha  Delta  Phi 
has  again  to  recofd  the  death  of  one  of  her 
Alumni  Brothers,  Charles  Chesley  of  the 
Qass  of  1852.  He  was  born  in  Wakefield, 
N.  H.,  April  12,  1827,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1856  and  practiced  law  in  his  native 
town  unitil  1865.  He  was  United  States 
Solicitor  of  Internal  Revenue  from  1872  to 
1885.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  the  Uni- 
versity Club  of  Washington  and  a  member  of 
the  Washington  Bowdoin  Alumni  Association. 
He  died  in  Washington,  February  25. 

The  Chapter  takes  this  opportunity  to 
express   its  grief  at  the   loss  of  this  brother 


8 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


and  its  sincere  sympathy  for  his  family  and 

friends. 

Claude  O.  Bower,  '09, 
Warren  E.  Robinson,  'id, 
Chester  E.  Kellogg,  'ii, 

For  the  Chapter. 


The  Bowdoin  Chapter  of  Alpha  Delta  Phi 
again  mourns  the  loss  of  one  of  its  alumni, 
Brother  Charles  Frederic  Kimball,  Class  of 
1874.  While  in  colle.s^e  he  was  prominent  in 
college  and  fraternity  activities.  He  received 
the  degree  of  LL.B.  from  Columbia  College 
in  1876,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  but  never 
practised  law.  From  1877  until  his  death  on 
January  7,  1909,  he  was  engaged  in  extensive 
business  enterprises  in  Chicago. 

The  Chapter  takes  this .  opportunity  to  ex- 
press its  grief  at  the  loss  of  this  brother  and 
its  sincere  sympathy  for  his  family  and 
friends. 

Claxjde  O.  Bower,  1909, 
Warren  E.  Robinson,  1910, 
Chester  E.  Kellogg,   191  i. 
For  the  Chapter. 


CALENDAR 

Friday,  April  qth 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  practice. 
2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball  practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Make-up  in  Gymnasium. 
4.00  P.M.     Dramatic  Club  rehearsal. 

7  P.M.  Debate  in  English  VII.  Question :  "The 
United  States  should  retain  control  of  the  Philip- 
pine Islands  for  at  least  ten  years.  Affirmative : 
Byles,  Callahan.  Negative :  Dreear,  Hiwale.  Chair- 
man :  G.  Cole. 

8  P.M.     Musical  Clubs  concert  in  Memorial  Hall. 

Saturday,  April  ioth 
l.oo  P.M.     Dramatic  Club  Rehearsal. 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  practice. 
2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball  practice. 
3.30.     Make-up   in  Gymnasium. 

Sunday,  April  iith 
5.00  P.M.     Chapel. 

Monday,   April    i2th 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  practice. 
2.30-5.30    P.M.     Baseball    practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Make-up   in   Gymnasium. 
7.00  P.M.     Dramatic  Club  Rehearsal. 

Tuesday,  April  13x11 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  practice. 
2.30-5.30   P.M.     Baseball   practice. 
4.00  P.M.     Dramatic  Club  Rehearsal. 


Tuesday,  April   13TH 
2.30-4.30  p.m.    Track  practice. 
2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball  practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Make-up  in  Gymnasium. 
7.00  P.M.     Dramatic  Club  Rehearsal. 

Wednesday,  April  14TH 
2,30-4.30.    Track  practice. 
2.30-5.30.     Baseball  practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Make-up  in  Gymnasium. 
8.30.     Dramatic   Club   Rehearsal. 
Baseball  team  plays  Andover  at  Andover. 

Thursday,  April  15TH 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  practice. 
2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball  practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Make-up  in  Gymnasium. 
4.00  or  7,00  P.M.     Dramatic  Club  Rehearsal. 
7.00  P.M.     Christian  Association  Meeting. 

Friday,    April    i6th 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  practice. 
230-5.30  P.M.     Baseball  practice. 
Dramatic  Club  at  Bangor. 
3.30.     Make.-up   in   Gymnasiimi. 


Hlurnni  department 

'04. — George  C.  Purington,  Jr.,  the  Bos- 
ton representative  of  Longmans,  Green  &  Co., 
was  married  16  February,  1909,  to  Miss  Ethel 
May,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stephen  H. 
Sincock  of  Houlton,  Me.  They  will  reside  at 
31  Royal  Avenue,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

'05. — Ray  W.  Pettingill  has  recently  received 
the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  Harvard 
University. 

'05. — Dr.  Harold  W.  Garcelon,  who  gradu- 
ated last  year  at  McGill  University  with  the 
degrees  of  M.D.  and  CM.,  is  taking  a  special 
course  at  Edinburgh   University. 

'08. — Nathan  S.  Weston  has  resigned  the 
instructorship  in  physics  and  chemistry  at  the 
Auburn  High  School  to  enter  into  business  at 
Augusta. 


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VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  APRIL  i6,  1909 


NO.  2 


THE  1909  RALLY 

The  Committee  Have  Made  Some  Elaborate  Prepara= 
tions — A  Good  List  of  Spealcers  Has  Been  Provided 

From  the  busy  mystery  which  some  mem- 
bers of  the  undergraduate  body  have  assumed, 
during  the  past  weeks,  tlie  annual  college  rally 
which  occurs  to-night  may  be  safely  set 
down  beforehand  as  success  for  certainly  no 
stone  has  been  left  unturned  which  might  con- 
ceal an  idea  essential  to  the  success  of  the 
occasion.  It  is  rumoured,  altho  the  com- 
mittee have  been  reticent  on  the  point,  that 
there  will  be  some  new  and  novel  stunts  pulled 
ofif  at  to-night's  rally.  The  Undergraduate 
Council,  imder  whose  auspices  the  Rally  is 
held,  are  making  every  effort  to  improve  on 
the  good  work  of  preceding  committees  and 
set  a  standard  for  this  Rally  which  it  will  be 
difficult  for  future  generations  to  excel. 

The  band  has  been  practicing  hard  for  some 
time  past  in  order  that  it  may  give  a  good 
account  of  itself  and  aid  in  making  the  Rally 
a  tremendous  success.  An  attractive  list  of 
speakers  has  been  provided  by  the  commit- 
tee. This  list  will  include  such  ever  popular 
Rally  orators  as  President  Hyde,  C.  T.  Hawes, 
J.  C.  Minot,  Doctor  Whittier  and  men  of  like 
popularity.  The  refreshments  will  be  suffi- 
cient in  quantity  and  quality  to  meet  the  most 
exacting  appetite,  and  last  and  best  of  all 
there  will  be  many  hogsheads  of  fruit  punch 
with  a  heavy  stick  of  H2  O. 


REPUBLICAN  CLUB  MEETING 
Senator  Wheeler  Outlines  Work  of  74th  Legislature 

On  Monday  evening  the  Republican  Club 
held  a  meeting  in  Hubbard  Hall  with  a  good 
number  of  members  in  attendance.  President 
Burton  called  the  meeting  to  order  and  intro- 
duced Senator  Wheeler  of  Brunswick,  who 
gave  an  informal  talk  on  the  work  of  the  last 
state  legislature  at  Augusta.  He  said  in  sub- 
stance : 

The  recent  session  of  the  Maine  State  Leg- 
islature has  been,    with    one    exception,    the 


longest  in  the  history  of  the  state,  lasting 
from  January  6  to  April  3.  It  has  passed 
some  700  private  and  public  measures  and 
about  300  resolves  appropriating  money. 
Most  of  the  measures  have  been  presented 
seriously  and  earnestly  discussed,  altho  a  few 
were  of  a  humorous  nature.  The  three  im- 
portant groups  of  questions  which  the  legis- 
lature acted  upon,  were  along  the  lines  of  tem- 
perance, labor  and  taxation. 

The  temperance  question  was  discussed 
from  strictly  party  standpoints.  The  Republi- 
can party  followed  a  program  adopted  by  a 
committee  chosen  at  the  first  of  the  session. 
The  party  was  unanimous  against  the  resub- 
mission of  the  liquor  question  and,  with  its 
heavy  majority  in  both  Houses,  easily  carried 
its  point.  It  was  decided  that  the  unpopu- 
lar Sturgis  Law  should  be  repealed,  provided 
a  satisfactory  substitute  could  be  found.  The 
proposed  Eaton  amendment  giving  the  gov- 
ernor power  to  remove  poor  county  officials, 
was  introduced  as  a  substitute,  but  was  lost 
by  a  narrow  margin.  After  this,  the  Sturgis 
Law  repeal  died  between  the  two  Houses. 
The  Hastings  amendment  requiring  all  liquor 
sentences  to  be  terms  in  jail  was- vetoed  by  the 
governor  after  passing  both  Houses.  Liquor 
agencies  were  severely  restricted  in  many 
ways. 

In  labor  legislation  the  two  most  important 
measures  passed  were :  The  58-hour  law, 
which  makes  that  time  the  maximum  for  the 
week's  employment  of  women  and  children; 
and  the  employers'  liability  law,  which  makes 
employers  liable  for  injuries  to  their  em- 
ployees in  a  much  larger  number  of  cases. 

The  taxation  of  the  wild  lands  of  the  state 
was  the  most  important  question  in  matters  of 
taxation.  By  raising  the  tax  in  the  entire 
state  one  and  one-half  mills  and  then  distrib- 
uting the  income  from  the  increase  in  the  wild 
lands  to  the  towns  and  cities,  the  system  of 
taxation  was  made  more  equable.  Various 
other  minor  taxation  measures  were  passed. 

While  it  is  true  that  many  good  laws  are 
lost  in  the  legislature  to-day,  because  the 
members  of  the  Houses  have  no  time  to  con- 
sider all  bills  carefully,  this  condition  could 
be   remedied   if  better  men   were   sent  to  the 


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legislature,  and  that  body  should  have  annual 
sessions  with  a  bi-ennial  election. 

At  the  close  of  Senator  Wheeler's  remarks 
the  officers  of  the  club  for  1909-10  were 
chosen  as  follows :  President,  C.  L.  Darning, 
'10;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  J.  G.  B.  Mc- 
Kusick,  '11;  Executive  Committee,  E.  E. 
Weeks,  W.  E.  Robinson  and  S.  F.  Brown, 
'10,  and  J.  L.  Curtis,  '11. 


ROSS  McCLAVE  TO  RETURN 

The  college  will  be  pleased  to  learn-  that 
Ross  McClave  has  been  secured  as  football 
coach  for  the  1909  season.  For  three  years 
Ross  has  handled  Bowdoin  football  teams 
with  great  success.  In  1904  and  1907  cham- 
pionship teams  were  turned  out ;  in  1908  Bow- 
doin tied  with  Colby  for  the  state  champion- 
ship and  won  the  game  from  Tufts.  With 
Ross'  coaching  along  with  prospective  good 
material,  it  is  safe  to  predict  many  Bowdoin 
victories  next  fall. 


LATEST  ACQUISITIONS  AT  THE  ART  BUILDING 

In  addition  to  the  gift  of  $300,000.00  which 
the  college  received  by  the  will  of  the  late 
Joseph  E.  Merrill  of  the  Class  of  1854,  we  get 
also  from  the  same  source  two  valuable  addi- 
tions to  the  art  collections.  Mr.  Merrill  left 
the  college  a  painting  of  a  sunset  scene  upon 
the  Bay  of  Naples  from  the  brush  of  George 
L.  Brown,  and  a  piece  of  modern  Italian  sculp- 
ture representing  a  mountain  boy.  The  new 
pieces  were  received  at  the  Art  Building,  Mon- 
day, and  put  in  the  Boyd  Gallery. 

Other  recent  additions  to  the  art  collections 
are  a  suit  of  Lapland  costume,  the  gift  of  Mrs. 
Marsena  P.  Smithwick  of  Lexington,  Mass., 
whose  husband  is  a  member  of  the  Class  of 
1888,  and  an  Easter  egg  made  of  Siberian 
spar,  the  gift  of  Miss  Violetta  Shepherd  of 
Bath.  Both  are  on  exhibition  in  the  Boyd 
Gallery. 

During  the  past  week  the  varnish  has  been 
scraped  from  the  hardwood  floors  in  the  Art 
Building  and  a  wax  finish  substituted. 


MUSICAL  CLUBS  ELECT  OFFICERS 

Wind=Up  of  Unusually  Successful  Season  with  Bruns= 

wick  Concert — Stone  and  Pierce  to  Lead 

Clubs,  Next  Year 

The  Musical  Clubs  closed  the  season  with 
the  annual  Brunswick  concert  in  Memorial 
Hall  last  Friday  evening.  At  the  close  of  the 
concert  the  officers  who  will  conduct  next 
season's  clubs  were  chosen  as  follows:  Leader 
of  Glee  Club,  Alfred  W.  Stone,  '10;  leader  of 
Mandolin  Club,  Stanley  W.  Pierce,  '11.  The 
business  end  will  be  in  charge  of  H.  E.  Weeks, 
'10,  as  manager,  and  L.  E.  Brunimett,  '11,  as 
assistant  manager. 

The  clubs  have  given  sixteen  concerts  this 
season  ranging  from  Bangor,  Me.,  to  Boston, 
Alass.  Manager  Brewster  is  to  be  congratu- 
lated upon  establishing  the  precedent  of  mak- 
ing Bowdoin  heard  outside  of  Maine  and  at 
the  same  time  keeping  down  the  expense  of 
the  trip,  so  that  the  experiment  is  a  financial 
success.  Altho  the  books  of  the  manager  show 
a  deficit  of  $30.00,  this  is  due  rather  to  the 
fact  that  the  proposed  trip  to  Rockland  and 
Camden  was  cancelled  by  order  of  the  faculty, 
than  to  the  expense  of  the  Massachusetts  trip. 
The  sum  total  received  from  the  Massachu- 
setts trip  was  $155.00.  Next  year  the  manager 
should  receive  twice  this  sum  for  such  a  trip, 
and  undoubtedly  will  do  so  if  he  takes  the 
clubs  to  the  same  towns  which  they  visited  this 
season. 

The  schedule  of  concerts  given  is  as  fol- 
lows : 


Feb.  17 
Feb.  18 
Feb.  19 
Feb.  20 
Feb.  22 
Feb.  23 
Mar.  8 
Mar.  13 
Mar.  26 
Mar.  29 
Mar.  30 
Mar.  31 
Apr.  I 
Apr.  2 
y\pr.  7 
Apr.      9 


Dexter 

Oldtown 

Bangor 

Flinckley 

Skowhegan 

Augusta 

Bath 

Westbrook 

Portland 

Kennebunk 

Portsmouth 

Wellesley 

Reading 

Boston 

Freeport 

Brunswick 


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BOWDOIN  DRAMATIC   CLUB 


Row  Standing,  Left  to  Right— H.  W.  Woodward  '10,  H.  M.  Smith  '09,  H.  B.  McLaughlin  '10,  H.  L.  Wiggin  '11 

Sitting,  Left  to  Right— J.  S.  Simmons  '09,  R.  D.  Cole  '12,  G.  P.  Estes  '09,  H.  N.  Marsh  '09,  C.  L.  Ashley  '12,  J.  M.  Gillin  '12,  A.  W.  Stone  '10 


DRAMATIC  CLUB  AT  BANQOR  TONIGHT 

The  Dramatic  Club  opened  the  season  at  Dirigo 
Grange,  Thursday  evening,  and  this  evening  will 
present  their  drama,  "A  Regiment  of  Two,"  at  the 
Bangor  Opera  House.  Manager  Woodward  has 
made  no  arrangements  for  dates  other  than  the 
usual  presentation  in  the  Town  Hall  during  Ivy 
week,  but  it  is  probable  that  the  Clubs  will  play  in 
Freepprt,  Portland,  Thomaston,  Camden  and  Bel- 
fast during  the   latter  part  of  May. 

The  cast  is  made  up  of  the  following: 

Arthur   Sewall,    a   theoretical   warrior, 

A.  W.   Stone,  'lo 


Ira  Wilton,  his  father-in-law,         J.  S.  Simmons,  'op 
Harry  Brentworth,   Arthur's  friend, 

H.  B.  McLaughlin 
Reginald  Dudley,  an  Englishman,  H.  N.  Marsh,  '09 
Jim  Buckler,  known  as  the  parson,  H.  M.  Smith,  '09, 
Conrad   Melzer,   a   plumber,  J.   L.   Hurlej',    '12 

Eliza   Wilton,    Ira's  better  half,         T.   D.   Ginn,   '09 
Grace   Sewall,   wife  of  Arthur,  G.  P.  Estes,  '09 

Laura  Wilton,  daughter  of  Ira,  H.  C.  L.  Ashey,  '12 
Lena,  a   German  maid,  J.   M.   Gillin,   '12 

In  addition  to  the  cast,  P.  B.  Morss,  '10,  E.  C. 
Mathews,  '10,  and  R.  E.  G.  Bailey,  '11,  will  be  taken 
for  minor  parts. 


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Published  every  Friday  op  the  Collegiate  Year 
BY  THE  Students  of 

BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,   igio  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  igii,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 
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Subscriptions,  $2.00  per  year,  in  advance.  Single 
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Lewiston  Journal  Press 

Vol.  XXXIX.               APRIL   16,   1909 

No.   2 

Some  Constructive  That  the  Undergraduate 
Recommendations  Council  is  filling  a  long- 
by  Undergraduate  felt  want  in  the  college 
Students  community     is      evidenced 

by  the  action  taken  at  its  April  meeting.  The 
matter  of  unpaid  athletic  subscriptions  was 
taken  up  and  it  was  voted  "that  the  secretary 
recommend  to  the  Athletic  Council  that,  after 
a  certain  date  to  be  determined  by  them  and 
after  due  notice,  all  unpaid  athletic  subscrip- 
tions be  published  in  the  Orient  and  posted 
on  the  bulletin  board  until  paid  or  until  the 
subscriber  has  left  college,"  Public  opinion  is 
one  of  the  most  efficient  means  of  social  con- 
trol, and  we  believe  it  can,  without  working 
hardship  to  anyone,  bring  about  a  radical 
refoirm  in  existing  conditions.  We  join 
heartily  with  the  Undergraduate  Council  in 
recommending  that  the  Athletic  Council  adopt 
this  suggestion.  As  a  permanent  measure 
for  putting  athletics  upon  a  firmer  financial 
basis,  the  Council  considered  the  proposition 
that  athletic  dues  be  levied  in  one  sum.  Such 
an    action,    if    passed,    would    centralize    ithe 


problem  and  therefore  simplify  it.  Any  action 
which  would  bring  about  such  a  result  would 
be  hailed  with   pleasure  by  the  college. 


The  Gymnasium       Track    work  _  this     spring 
Question  ^^^  b^^"    inhibited    by    a 

late  season  which  has  left 
the  track  soggy  and  heavy  during  the  past 
week.  This  is  especially  to  be  regretted  in 
view  of  the  three  important  events  which  loom 
upon  the  horizon  for  the  latter  part  of  May — 
the  Maine  Intercollegiate,  New  England  In- 
tercollegiate and  Eastern  Intercollegiate  track 
meets.  If  the  college  had  an  ample  gym- 
nasium equipment  we  could  smile  at  con- 
ditions with  a  little  better  grace.  With 
a  suitable  indoor  track  our  sprinters  and  dis- 
tance men  could  keep  in  training  thruout 
the  winter;  our  broad  jumpers  could  have 
been  in  trim  a  month  ago.  In  short,  every 
man  who  is  now  working  for  track  honors 
with  the  possible  exception  of  hammer  and 
discus  men,  could  have  been  familiar  with 
his  work  before  the  snow  was  off-Whittier 
Field.  Years  ago  when  Bowdoin  could  win 
Maine  meets  without  any  previous  training, 
our  present  gymnasium  did  very  well, 
but  in  the  present  day  of  competition 
with  the  leading  institutions  of  America,  con- 
ditions demand  a  change.  The  Orient  will 
not  attempt  to  solve  the  gymnasium  problem, 
but  will  from  time  to  time  make  such  sug- 
gestions as  it  thinks  consistent  with  the 
desired  result.  In  tlie  near  future  we  shall 
tell  you  how  Dartmouth  went  to  work  to  build 
a  new  gymnasium. 


UNDERGRADUATE  COUNCIL  TRANSACTS  SOME 
IMPORTANT  BUSINESS 

A  Third  Candidate  is  Nominated  for  Assistant  Football 
Manager 

A  special  meeting  of  the  Undergraduate 
Council  was  held  on  April  7.  At  this  meet- 
ing the  Council  heard  and  approved  a  petition 
brought  in  by  P,  G.  Bishop,  '09,  in  regard  to 
recommending  to  the  Atliletic  Council  the 
name  of  PI,  Berry,  '10,  as  a  third  candidate 
for  assistant  manager  of  football. 

The  regular  April  meeting  was  held  on 
April  8  in  the  Verein  Room  of  Hubbard  Hall. 
It  was  moved,  seconded  and  carried,  at  this 
meeting,  that  steps  be  taken  to  secure  the 
power  to  prevent  the  circulation  of  subscrip- 
tion papers  which  have  not  first  received  the 


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sanction  of  the  Council.  The  matter  of  un- 
paid athletic  subscriptions  was  then  taken  up. 
In  introducing  the  subject,  the  chairman 
made  it  quite  clear  that  some  measure  must 
be  taken  to  bring  home  to  the  average  under- 
graduate the  fact  that,  having  promised  to 
pay  an  athletic  subscription,  he  must,  under 
ordinary  circumstances,  pay  it.  Indifference 
to  these'  obligations  has  been  quite  marked 
during  the  past  three  years.  It  was  finally 
moved,  seconded  and  carried  that  the  secre- 
tary recommend  to  the  Athletic  Council  that, 
after  a  certain  date  to  be  determined  by  them 
and  after  due  notice,  all  unpaid  athletic  sub^ 
scriptions  be  published  in  the  Orient  and 
posted  on  the  bulletin  board  until  paid  or  until 
the  subscriber  has  left  college. 

The  question  was  then  raised,  in  the  form 
of  a  motion,  that  all  athletic  subscriptions  be 
levied  in  one  sum.  This  motion  was,  after 
discussion,  laid  on  the  table.  The  meeting- 
then  passed  on  to  the  subject  of  interfrater- 
nity  baseball.  The  council  was  of  the  opin- 
ion that  such  a  league  should  be  encouraged 
and  a  motion  was  carried  to  the  effect  that 
the  fraternities  be  notified  of  the  sentiment  of 
the  council  and  that  it  is  the  council's  sug- 
gestion that  each  fraternity  elect  a  baseball 
manager  and  that  a  meeting  of  these  man- 
agers be  held  in  the  Verein  Room,  Monday, 
April  12. 


THE  MARCH  QUILL 

This  number  may  not,  perhaps,  take  rank 
as  the  best  issue  of  the  current  year;  yet  it 
contains  much  that  would  do  credit  to  any 
number. 

"Riley;  A  Child's  Poet,"  attracts  at  once 
on  account  of  its  genial,  simple  manner,  which 
is  in  happy  accord  with  the  subject.  This 
simple  directness,  so  proverbially  lacking  in 
college  writing,  springs  naturally  from  a  clear 
and  sympathetic  perception  of  the  matter  in 
hand.  To  be  thus  "full  of  one's  subject,"  as 
'in  this  instance,  is  to  be  able  to  say  well  some- 
thing worth  saying.  Balance  in  treatment  is 
another  affair,  and  here  the  introduction, 
excellent  in  itself,  leads  one  to  expect  a  con- 
siderably longer  essay.  Such  coins  as  "gen- 
tle reader"  and  "Promethean  spark"  have  suf- 
fered so  much  abrasion  that  they  should  be 
sent  back  to  the  mint  and  re-issued  only  in 
another  form. 

"The  Cold,"  by  a  recent  graduate,  is  an 
intensive   study  of   a  tragic  situation,   and   it 


owes  its  decided  merit  to  close  observation 
and  personal  experience.  Its  grim  realism, 
clever  and  remorseless  as  it  is,  is  worthy  of 
Gorky  or  Dostoyefsky,  and,  as  is  the  case  of 
these  poignant  writers,  the  reader  is  har- 
rowed rather  than  satisfied. 

A  pretty  and  entertaining  sketch  is  "The 
Trust  of  Sir  Launcelot,"  piquant  in  its  blend- 
ing of  the  chivalric  with  the  commonplace. 
Although  Sir  Launcelot  comes  before  us  as  a 
scorner  of  bribes,  his  satisfaction  in  the  end, 
over  the  half-dollar  tip,  is  perhaps  not  un- 
natural, in  view  of  his  tender  years.  These 
also  may  be  held  to  excuse  his  boyish  slang, 
which  is  not  discarded  even  in  his  knightly 
character.  The  expression  throughout  is  cor- 
rect and  pleasing.  "By,"  in  the  phrase, 
"Flushed  and  breathless  by,  etc."  (page  89) 
should  be  zvith — the  only  verbal  inaccuracy 
noticed. 

Of  the  pieces  of  verse,  omitting  "In  Mem- 
ory of  Professor  Alpheus  S.  Packard,"  as 
being  an  outside  contribution, — one  finds  in 
"The  Snow  Arch  in  Tuckerman's  Ravine,"  a 
poetic  subject  not  realized  with  sufficient  in- 
tensity for  effective  treatment.  The  gram- 
matical construction,  and  hence  the  meaning, 
are  not  quite  clear.  The  versification,  how- 
ever, is  correct. 

In  "Gray  Goose  Tracks,"  amid  the  usual 
esoteric  sayings  and  doings  of  the  Ganders — ■ 
which  the  outsider  shrinks  from  prying  into 
— some  matters  of  pith  and  moment  loom 
forth,  but  soon  are  obscured  in  the  indigenous 
smoke  of  the  club-room.  The  suggestion 
arises  whether  the  discontinued  department, 
"Silhouettes,"  might  not  be  revived  to  advan- 
tage, where,  in  an  atmosphere  less  surcharged, 
a  clear-headed,  self-respecting  student  opin- 
ion, such  as  every  Quill  Board  may  properly 
be  expected  to  have  and  to  express,  might  be 
set  forth  for  the  general  good.  The  phrase, 
nouvelle  regime,  twice  given,  is  referred  to 
the  Professor  of  French  for  fitting  comment. 
Suffice  it  to  say  here  that  Ganders  should 
respect  genders. 

Wm.  a.  Houghton. 


GENERAL  CHAMBERLAIN  TO  LECTURE 

Gen.  Joshua  L.  Chamberlain,  "the  hero  of 
Little  Round  Top,"  ex-Governor  of  Maine, 
and  ex-President  of  Bowdoin  College,  will 
give  his  lecture  on  "Abraham  Lincoln"  in  the 
Congregational   Church,   Patriots'  Day,   April 


14 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


19,  at  7.30  o'clock.  Admission  free.  Every 
Bowdoin  man  should  avail  himself  of  this 
opportunity  to  hear  General  Chamberlain. 


PROF.  CAPEN  LECTURES  ON  "MAETERLINCK" 

Under  the  asupices  of  the  Romania  a  most  enjoy- 
able lecture  was  given  last  Thursday  evening  by 
Professor  Samuel  P.  Capen  of  Clark  College,  on 
"Maeterlinck."  Arrangements  for  the  securing  of 
Professor  Capen  as  lecturer  were  made  through 
Professor    Brown,    who    is   his   personal    friend. 

Professor  Capen.  after  giving  a  short  sketch  of 
Maeterlinck's  life,  stated  that  he  disagreed  with  the 
critics  who  class  Maeterlinck  with  the  French  sym- 
bolists. Briefly  speaking,  the  creed  of  the  symbol- 
ists is  that  words  are  not  merely  the  fixed  signs 
of  definite  ideas,  but  serve  to  act  on  the  imagma- 
tion,  both  by  sound  and  connotation,  and  call  up 
pictures  from  wihch  the  mind  derives  much  food 
for  enjoyment.  While  true  symbolism  is  the 
essence  of  all  great  writers,  yet  the  French  sym- 
bolists, keenly  alive  to  the  infinite  and  the  wonder- 
ful, spoke  a  different  language  from  the  rest  of  man, 
and  each  one  had  his  special  characteristics  to  such 
a  degree  that  even  his  fellow  symbolists  could  not 
understand  him.  But  Maeterlinck^  went  farther 
than  the  members  of  the  symbolic  school.  His 
earliest  work,  a  volume  of  poems,  was  true  to  sym- 
bolism, and  even  advanced  it.  In  1890  appeared  a 
drama  which  a  noted  French  critic  pronounced  a 
masterpiece,  hailing  the  author  as  a  greater  than 
Shakespere,  although  the  thousands  of  people  who 
eagerly  bought  and  read  the  play  were  really  at  a 
loss  to  see  where  the  greatness  lay.  They,  more- 
over, could  not  understand  it.  It  was  essen- 
tially different  from  all  dramas  they  had  known,  as 
it,  like  all  his  later  plays,  contained  almost _  no 
action.  Materelinck  was  governed  by  the  princi- 
ple that  the  soul  is  separate  from  the  intellect  that 
it  is  in  intimate  relation  with  the  mvstery  that  sur- 
rounds all  our  life,  tho  in  what  way  we  know 
not.  Forewarnings  and  presentments  were  the 
keynotes  of  his  argument.  One  can  readily  see  that 
this  creed,  if  carried  too  far,  will  paralyze  the  will 
and  make  it  utterly  submissive  to  fate.  But  Maet- 
erlinck later  finds  that  the  soul  may  exert  the  con- 
trolling force  and  thus  returns  to  the  old  adage  that 
man  is  the  arbiter  of  his  own  fortune. 


BASEBALL  SCHEDULE 

April  17  Amherst  at  Amherst 

April  19  Pine  Tree   at  Portland 

April  24  Tufts    at    Brunswick 

April  28  Dartmouth   at    planover 

April  29  Dartmouth    at    Hanover 

May      8  Maine    at    Brunswick 

May     13  Tufts    at    Medford 

May     19  Maine  at  Orono 

May     22  Colby  at  Waterville 

May     26  Colby    at    Brunswick 

May     31  Bates   at   Lewiston    (pending) 

June     4  Bates  at  Brunswick 


Colleoe  motes 

THE  ANNUAL  COLLEGE  RALLY  COMES  TO-NIGHT 
IN  MEMORIAL  HALL  AT  7.30.      DO  NOT  MISS  IT. 

Hill,  'id,  rece"^ly  underwent  an  operation  on  his 
throat. 

Nickerson,  '12,  who  has  been  ill,  has  returned  to 
college. 

Conant,  '12,  has  returnel  to  college  after  a  long 
illness. 

Arthur  E.  McCobb,  '05,  was  on  the  campus,  Mon- 
day'   afternoon. 

Mr.  Arthur  ChanTberlain,  Harvard,  '07.  was  on 
the   campus   last   week. 

Williams,  '10,  has  returned  to  college  from  work 
which  he  has  been  doing  in  Augusta. 

Joe  Pendleton,  '10,  will  be  on  the  campus  next 
week  to  confer  with  the  football  manager. 

Ralph  Smith,  '10,  was  operated  on  Friday  at  the 
Portland  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary  for  an  abscess  in 
the  ear. 

Chapman,  Leigh,  Whit( ,  and  Conant,  all  of  1912, 
are  working  for  the  position  of  Assistant  Baseball 
Manager. 

The  1912  delegation  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  had 
a  dinrf  party  at  the  New  Iven  House,  on 
March    ';  . 

The  I-Cappa  Sigma  baseball  team  was  defeated,  6 
to  2.  by  Brunswick  High  on  the  Delta,  Tuesday 
afternoon. 

A  full  page  picture  of  last  season's  football  team 
will  be  published  in  Spaulding's  official  rule  book 
this  year. 

Jim  Cox,  a  former  Bowdoin  pitcher,  will  pitch  for 
Pine  Tree  in  the  game  against  Bowdoin  in  Portland, 
Patriots'    Day. 

Mr.  Haywood  Jones  of  Bangor,  a  student  of 
Peekskill  Military  Academy,  was  a  recent  guest  of 
Woodcock,  '12. 

H.  G.  Clement,  '00,  principal  of  Bridgton  Acad- 
emy, was  the  guest  of  Spinney,  '12,  at  the  Kappa 
Sigma  House  last  week. 

Prof.  Allen  Johnson  gives  adjourns  Friday  to 
attend  a  meeting  of  the  New  England  Historical 
Teachers'   Association   at   Boston. 

Wm.  F.  Finn,  '05,  is  the  Washington  state  man- 
ager for  the  Frankfort  Insurance  Co.,  the  largest 
Insurance  Company  in  the  world  handling  exclu- 
sively liabilities. 

An  address  will  be  given  in  the  Congregational 
Church  next  Thursday  evening  at  7.30  o'clock,  by 
Miss  Mary  Patrick,  president  of  the  Girls  College 
in  Constantinople,  Turkey.  The  lecture  will  be 
illustrated  by  stereopticon. 

Jim  McBain,  the  janitor  in  Maine  Hall,  is  circu- 
lating a  petition  among  the  faculty  and  employees 
of  the  college  to  raise  money  for  the  benefit  of 
Fred  Winslow,  the  janitor  of  the  Science  Building 
who  has  consumption,  and  has  been  obliged  to  leave 
the  Maine  Sanatorium  at  Hebron  because  of  short- 
ness of  funds. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


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is  editing  the  Orient  Calendar 


the    Brunswick    High 


J.   C.   White 
this  year. 

Caldwell,    'li,    is    coaching 
School  'basehall  team. 

Horsman,  'il,  was  confined  to  his  room  with  grip 
a  few  days  the  first  of  the  week. 

Hovey,  '09,  will  be  taken  on  to  the  staff  of  the 
Boston   Herald   after   commencement. 

Tennis  goods  may  be  obtained  at  wholesale  prices 
of  Manager  Morss  at  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  House. 

Professor  Foster  will  teach  the  principles  of  Edu- 
cation at  the  Harvard  Summer  School  after  college 
closes. 

E.  F.  Sewall,  formerly  of  the  Class  of  1909.  who 
is  now  employed  in  Boston,  spent  the  week  end  on 
the  campus. 

Ira  Mikelsky,  captain  of  the  Hebron  Academy 
track  team,  was  on  the  campus  recently  visiting  his 
brother,   Lee   Mikelsky,   '10. 

The  selectmen  have  ordered  six  new  fire  alarm 
bo.xes.  Possibly  private  boxes  may  be  installed,  at 
the  Cabot  Cotton  Mill,  Bowdoin  College,  and  the 
Maine  Central  carpenter  shop. 

The  students  at  Spokane, .Wash.,  when  they  found 
the  college  authorities  unable  to  furnish  a  gymna- 
sium, undertook  the  erection  of  one  with  their  own 
hands   and   at   their   own   expense. 

Congressman  John  P.  Swasey  of  the  second  dis- 
trict, has  appointed  Stanley  W.  Pierce.  '11,  first 
alternate  to  take  the  examinations  of  Annapolis.  In 
case  the  principal  fails.  Pierce  will  have  a  chance 
to   take    the    examination. 

The  drama,  "Half-Back  Sandy,"  which  was  pre- 
sented by  the  Bowdoin  Dramatic  Club  last  year, 
will  be  presented  by  the  Waseca  Club  of  Auburn  at 
Auburn  Hall  on  M'ay  5th  and  6th.  Harrie  Webber, 
'03.  takes  one  of  the  leading  parts. 

W.  A.  Robinson,  '07,  has  been  appointed  Scholar 
in  American  History  at  the  University  of  Wiscon- 
sin. Eight  appointments  of  a  similar  nature  were 
made,  the  other  seven  going  to  men  from  the  larger 
institutions  of  the  country.  This  speaks  very  well 
for  the  department  of  History  at  Bowdoin. 

The  month  of  April  has  witnessed  the  death  of 
four  of  the  world's  great  artists:  Mme.  Modjeska, 
the  actress ;  Ethan  Allen  Hitchcock,  Secretary  of 
the  Interior  under  President  McKinley;  Algernon 
Charles  Swinburne,  the  English  poet,  and  F. 
Marion  Crawford,  the  American  novelist. 

John  Clair  Minot,  editor  of  Under  the  Bowdoin 
Pines  and  Bowdoin  Verse,  and  for  twelve  years 
associate  editor  of  the  Kennebec  Journal,  has 
resigned  to  accept  a  position  under  Edward  Stan- 
wood,  '61,  on  the  staff  of  the  Youth's  Companion. 
He  will  assume  the  duties  of  his  new  position  on 
May   17. 

Thomas  Littlefield  Mart)le,  Bowdoin  College, 
Class  of  '99,  has  written  an  extremely  pretty  little 
comedy'  in  three  acts  entitled,  "The  Wooing  of  Wil- 
helmina."  It  is  said  to  be  wholesome  and  vivacious 
and  strangely  recommended  to  the  lovers  of  old- 
fashioned  romance.  Mr.  Marble  showed  literary 
talent  during  his  college  course  and  Bowdoin  grad- 
uates will  recall  that  he  was  on  the  editorial  board 
of  the  Orient     and  Quill. 


Mr.  Scott  has  organized  a  Bible  Normal  Class  for 
the  purpose  of  training  men  to  conduct  the  classes 
in  Bible  Study  ne.xt  year. 

Bowdoin  graduates  who  are  studying  in  the 
various  departments  of  Columbia  University  are 
as  follows:  Law,  Lorenzo  W.  Baldwin,  A.B.,  1907; 
Political  Science,  Pliilosophy  and  Pure  Science, 
George  M.  Brett,  A.B.,  1897;  Chemistry,  Howard 
C.  Griffin,  A.B.,  1904;  Social  Economy  and  Sociol- 
ogy, Arthur  H.  Ham,  A.B.,  1908;  English  and  His- 
tory, Arthur  H.  Nason,  A.B.,  1903;  English,  Com- 
parative  Literature,   Charles  W.   Snow,  A.B.,   1907. 


CALENDAR 

Frid.w,   April   i6th 
2.30-4.30   P.M.     Track   Practice. 
2.30-550    P.M.     Baseball    Practice. 
330  P.M.     Psi  Upsilon  plays  Zeta  Psi. 
430   P.M.     Make-up    in    Gymnasium. 
Dramatic  Club  in  Bangor. 
7.30  P.M.     College  Rally. 

Saturday,  April  17TH 
.   2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track   Practice.  *    ■ 
4.30  P.M.     Make-up  in  Gymnasium. 
Baseball  team  plays  Amherst  at  Amherst. 

Sunday,   April    i8th 

5.00   p.m.     Chapel.     President   Hyde   will   speak. 
Monday,   April   19TH 

Patriots'    Day,    a    holiday. 

2.30-4.30   P.M.     Track   Practice. 

Baseball  team  plays  Pine  Tree  in  Portland. 

8.00  P.M.  Faculty  Club.  Prof.  Hastings  will 
speak    on    Gladstone. 

7.30  P.M.  Gen.  Chamberlain  lectures  on  "Abra- 
ham Lincoln"   in   Congregational   Church. 

Tuesday,  April  20th 

2.30-4.30   P.M.     Track   Practice. 

2.30-5.50    P.M.     Baseball    Practice. 

3.30  P.M.     Alpha  Delta  Phi  plays  Beta  Theta  Pi. 

7.00  P.M.  Debate  in  English  VII.  Question:  A 
College  Commons  would  be  for  the  best  interests 
of  Bowdoin  College.  Affirmative :  Merrill,  Ready. 
Negative :   G.   Cole,  McFarland.     Chairman,  Slocum. 

Wednesday,   April  2ist 
2.30-4.30   P.M.     Track   Practice. 
2.30-5.50    P.M.     Baseball    Practice. 
Alpha   Delta   Phi   banquet   in    Portland. 

Thursday,  April  22D 

2.30-4.30   P.M.     Track   Practice. 

2.30-5.50    P.M.     Baseball    Practice. 

3.30  P.M.  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  plays  Theta 
Delta  Chi. 

7.00  P.M.  Stereopticon  Lecture  on  "Northfield" 
at    Christian    Association    Meeting. 

Friday,  April  23D 
2.30-4.30   P.M.     Track   Practice. 
2.30-5.50    P.M.     Baseball    Practice. 
3.30   P.M.     Delta   Upsilon   plays   Zeta    Psi. 
Beta  Theta  Pi  House  Party. 

Saturday,  April  24TH 
2.30-4.30   P.M.    Track   Practice. 
Baseball  team  plays  Tufts  at  Brunswick. 
Dr.  Cram  addresses  the  Chemical  Club. 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


Hluntni  IDepartinent 

'48. — Dr.  Charles  Appleton  Packard,  the 
senior  member  of  a  family  that  for  three  gen- 
erations has  been  prominent  in  the  life  and 
government  of  the  college,  died  at  Bath,  March 
23,  1909,  aged  eighty  years,  four  months  and 
thirteen  days.  His  grandfather,Rev.  Dr.  Hez- 
ekiah  Packard,  was  vice-president  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  for  many  years ;  his  father, 
Rev.  Dr.  Alpheus  S.  Packard  was  for  over  six 
decades  a  beloved  and  honored  professor,  and 
Dr.  Packard  himself  served  upon  the  Board  of 
Overseers  until  his  infirmity  of  deafness  led 
him  to  resign.  After  graduation  he  studied 
engineering  at  the  Lawrence  Scientific  School 
at  Harvard  University  and  was  engaged  in  the 
construction  of  the  Portland  and  Kennebec  R. 
R.  In  1853  he  received  an  appointment  from 
his  uncle,  President  Franklin  Pierce,  in  the 
Department  of  the  Interior  at  Washington.  In 
1855  he  resumed  the  study  of  medicine  which 
he  had  begun  under  Dr.  J.  D.  Lincoln  and 
graduated  at  the  Medical  School  of  Maine  m 
1856.  Pie  settled  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession at  Waldoboro  where  he  speedily 
became  the  leading  physician  in  that  section. 

In  1866  he  removed  to  Fordham,  N.  Y., 
and  three  years  later  on  account  of  ill  health 
resulting  from  malaria,  to  South  Deei-field, 
Mass.  In  1873  he  settled  in  Bath  where  he 
continued  his  practice  till  nearly  the  close  of 
his  life.  He  was  for  some  time  port  physician 
and  for  over  twenty  years  was  physician  of  the 
Military  and  Naval  Orphan  Asylum.  Dr. 
Packard  was  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school,  a 
man  of  many  accomplishments,  a  good  artist, 
a  fine  musician,  a  lover  of  out  door  life  ancl  an 
ardent  advocate  of  fish  and  game  protection. 
Generous  of  his  time  and  talents,  he  is  mourn- 
ed by  a  wide  circle  of  friends. 

'51.— Dr.  Joseph  Palmer  Fessenden  died  at 
his  home  in  Salem,  Mass.,  March  26,  1909  of 
pneumonia,  in  his  seventy-eighth  year.  He 
was  the  youngest  of  the  distinguished  family 
of  Gen.  Samuel  Fessenden  of  Portland,  five 
of  whose  sons  graduated  at  Bowdoin,  William 
P.,  Samuel  €.,  Thomas  A.  D.,  and  Charles  S. 
D.,  and  whose  only  daughter  married  Dr.  John 
D.  Lincoln  of  the  Class  of  1843. 

After  graduation  he  studied  medicine  at 
Brunswick  and  in  New  York  City,  receiving 


his  degree  in  1854  from  the  New  York  Medi- 
cal College.  He  settled  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession  at  Lewiston,  Maine,  where  he 
remained  till  1871.  During  this  time  he  served 
as  superintendent  of  the  public  schools  and  in 
both  branches  of  the  city  government.  He 
was  also  postmaster  for  eleven  years.  After 
residing  in  Portland  two  years,  he  went  to 
Salem,  Mass.,  where  he  soon  acquired  a  large 
practice.  Pie  became  a  member  of  the  stafif  of 
physicians  and  surgeons  of  the  Salem  Hos- 
pital when  it  was  established,  and  continued  in 
this  capacity  till  his  death.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  state  and  local  medical  associations  and 
had  served  upon  the  U.  S.  Examining  Board 
for  Pensions.  Interested  in  educational  affairs, 
he  was  for  several  years  a  member  of  the  school 
committee.  Dr.  Fessenden  was  particularly 
loyal  to  his  Alma  Mater  and  his  old  college 
friends.  In  his  last  sickness  one  of  the  vol- 
umes he  chose  to  have  read  to  him  was  the 
catalogue  of  the  alumni. 

'97. — Rev.  Henry  E.  Dunnack,  pastor  of  the 
Green  Street  Methodist  Church,  Augusta, 
seems  destined  to  break  all  records  for 
length  of  service  in  Maine  Methodism,  for  at 
a  meeting  of  the  officials  of  the  church,  this 
week,  it  was  voted  to  recommend  at  the  com- 
ing Maine  Conference  his  re-appointment  for 
the  tenth  time,  an  unusual  honor.  There  is 
said  to  be  but  one  other  Methodist  minister  in 
New  England  wlio  has  served  one  church  as 
long.  During  his  stay  in  Augusta  Mr.  Dun- 
nack's  salary  has  been  raised  five  times.  To 
sliow  their  appreciation  of  his  services  the  offi- 
cials voted  to  raise  sufficient  money  to  refur- 
nish and  re-decorate  the  parsonage  and  to 
equip  it  with  all  modern  devices.  It  has  been 
currently  reported  for  several  days  that  the 
trustees  of  the  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary 
have  had  Mr.  Dunnack  in  mind  to  succeed 
President  W.  F.  Berry,  who  recently  resigned, 
but  as  Mr.  Dunnack  much  prefers  pastoral 
duties,  it  is  not  believed  that  he  will  accept.  He 
has  recently  declined  a  call  to  take  a  prosper- 
ous charge  near  New  Orleans. 


CAMP    LEADERS 

'♦  CAMP  MOOSEHEAD,"  Summer  Camp  for  Boys 

(111  the  WiUls  or  Miiiiie.) 
Write  L.  W.  Riggs,  39  Court  Square  Bullldliig,  PortlanJ,  Me. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  APRIL  23,  1909 


NO.  3 


BOWDOIN  0,  AMHERST  1 

Winners  Made  Only  One  Hit  off  Manter — Fast  Game 
by  Bowdoin  Infield 

After  a  long,  hard  trip  to  Amherst  the 
Bowdoha  team  played  the  wearers  of  the  pur- 
ple and  white  to  a  standstill.  The  fact  that 
Manter  struck  out  but  one  man  is  favorable 
testimony  in  regard  to  the  fielding  ability  of 
this  year's  team.  The  only  run  was  made  in 
the  first  inning,  when  Washburn  reached  first 
on  Bowers'  wild  throw,  was  helped  to  third 
by  a  hit  by  McClube  and  crossed  the  plate 
before  Henry's  fly  to  right  could  be  returned. 

The  game  was  a  pitchers'  battle.  Manter 
allowed  Amherst  only  one  hit,  while  Vernon 
was  hit  safely  only  three  times  and  struck  out 
seven  men. 

In  the  seventh  inning  Clifford  received  the 
ball  from  Bower  and  doubled  to  Wilson, 
thereby  preventing  a  second  run. 

The  score : 

Amherst 

BH         PO         A  E 

Jube,    c.f 0200 

Washburn,    3b o        2         i         0 

McClube,    I.f I         5        0        0 

Henry,    p 0        8        2        0 

Kane,    2b o        o        i        o 

Vernon,    p o         I         i        0 

Pennock,   s.s 0        3        i        0 

Burt,    lb o        5        0        0 

Mclnerney,    r.f 0100 

Totals    I       26        6        o 

Bowdoin 

BH         PO         A  E 

Wandtke,  2b 0  i  3  0 

Wilsoii,   c I  3  I  0 

Clifford,   lb 0  14  o  o 

McDade,    I.f I  o  0  0 

Manter,    p 0  i  5  0 

Bower,    3b i  0  7  i 

Lawliss,    s.s. . . ; 0  2  0  o 

Pratt,    r.f o  2  o  o 

Purington,    c.f o  i  o  0 

Totals    3      24      16        I 

Innings 
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Amherst    i    o    0    o    o    o    o    0      — i 

Run  made — By  Wasbburne.  Stolen  bases — Mc- 
Clube, Wandtke,  Bower.     Struck  out — By  Vernon  7, 


by  Manter.  Double  plays — Bower  to  Clifford;  Clif- 
ford to  Wilson.  Hit  by  pitched  ball— Henry.  Wild 
pitches — Washburne,  Bower.  Umpire — Foley.  Time 
— ih.  5Sm. 


BOWDOIN  12,  PINE  TREE  10 

Game  Stopped  by  Rain  at  Beginning  of  Seventh — 
Both  Pitchers  Hit  Hard 

A  Portland  paper  recently  announced  that 
"Pop"  Williams  was  up  at  Topsham  getting 
the  kinks  out  of  his  wing  in  preparation  to 
teach  the  youngsters  from  Bowdoin  a  few 
things  about  baseball.  Unfortunately  weather 
conditions  in  Portland  Monday,  put  a  dam- 
per upon  any  instructions  which  "Pop"  might 
have  given,  and  Bowdoin  defeated  Pine  Tree 
12  to  10  in  a  loosely  played  game  that  was 
called  in  the  beginning  of  the  seventh,  when 
a  rapidly  approaching  and  ominous  black 
cloud  drove  the  spectators  to  shelter.  The 
crowd  was  unexpectedly  large  for  such  a  day, 
about  800  spectators  turning  out.  In  the 
crowd  was  a  large  number  of  Bowdoin  under- 
graduates who  went  to  Portland  to  get  the 
first  chance  to  see  the  team  play.  The  game 
was  just  such  a  one  as  might  be  expected  on 
such  a  cold,  raw  day,  even  the  best  of 
"em  fumbled  the  easiest  kinds  of  chances,  and 
the  pitchers  could  scarcely  get  the  kinks  out 
of  their  arms,  both  Williams  and  Harris  being 
batted  freely. 

BoVdoin 

ab      r      bh      po      a        e 

Wandtke,    2b 4         i         i         i         3         i 

Wilson,    c 4         X         I         s         I         2 

Clifford,    lb 3        2        i        8        0        o 

Manter,    I.f 2        2         i         2         i         o 

Harris,    p 4         i         2         i        o        0 

Bower,    3b 2        2         i         o         i         o 

Lawliss,    s.s. -r.f 41         1002 

Pratt,    r.f. -s.s 4         I         I         i         3         o 

Purington,    c.f 3         i         0        0        o         i 

Totals    30       12        9       18        9        6 

Pine  Tree 

ab      e  bh  po  a  e 

McDonough,    ib 3        2  2  6  o  o 

Williams,   p 4        0  o  0  I  0 

Kilfedder.    s.s 4         i  i  0  2  2 

Cox,    r.f 231000 

Foss,    I.f 4         I  I  I  o  0 

Walsh,    3b 4        I  2  0  I  I 

Pumphrey,    2b 3         I  I  4  3  I 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


Jordan,   c.f 3       I       I       0       0       o     existing  to-day  as  it  has  before  and  the  stand- 

Gnmn.  c J     _^     J.     _Z     _!     _!     ard  of  Bowdoin  College  is  as  high  to-day  as 

Totals    30      10      10      i8       8       4      ^'^^''  '''^  ''^  history." 

„      ,  .  The  second  speaker  was  "Tack"  Minot,  'q6, 

Bowdom     3     0     7     2     o     0 — 12  ,   ,,  i   r    -ii  r   1      r   -T)         I    •    '        1  • 

Pine  Tree  4    i    4    i    o    o— 10      O"^  °^  ^^^  most  faithful  of  fjowdom  s  alumni 

and  one  always  in  touch  with  undergraduate 
Two-base     hits-McDonough,     Kilfedder      Stolen      iifg_     He  said  in  part : 
bases — i^oss,     i-'umphrey,     Jordan,      rirst     base     on  «  a    n        1    •  ■  ,1    ,     •  1 

balls-Off    Harris,    2;    off    Williams,    4.    Hit    by  A  Bowdom  man  IS  worth  twice  as  much  as 

pitched  ball— By  Harris,  Cox ;  by  Williams,  Manter,  any  other  man.  It  may  be  true  that  Bowdoin 
Purington.  Struck  out— By  Harris,  6;  by  Williams,  men  are  fond  of  bragging  but  it  is  bragging 
6.  Passed  ball-By  Wilson.  Double  plays--Man-  ^^/^^^^  something  behind  it.  Every  Bowdoin 
ter   and    Wandtke;    Kilfedder,    Pumphrey   and    Mc-  i,_i.i-        ^1^1       •  t  r 

Donough.    Time-1.30.    Umpire-Bower.  ma"  o"ght  to  realize  that  he  is  a  member  of 

the  fairest  Alma  Mater  on  earth  and  he  ought 

to  be  proud  of  it." 

In  closing  he  gave  the  following  Five  Com- 
SIXTH  ANNUAL  BOWDOIN  RALLY  mandments  for  Bowdoin  undergraduates : 


The  College  Gathering  Lets  Loose  a  Year's  Store  of 

Pent=up  Enthusiasm — Speeches  by 

Prominent  Alumni 

Friday  evening,  the  Sixth  Annual  College 
Rally  was  held  in  Memorial  Flail  with  a  large 
crowd  of  Bowdoin  men  in  attendance  and  an 
unusally  good  list  of  speakers  on  the  program. 
The  hall  was  finely  decorated  and  the  refresh- 
ments, particularly  the  punch,  were  well  up 
to  the  standard  promised.  The  band  was 
there  and  showed  the  amount  of  work  put 
into  practicing  by  the  able  manner  in  which 
the  music  was  rendered.  For  souvenirs  little 
white  flags  with  "Bowdoin  Rally,  1909," 
printed  upon  them  were  distributed.  Smoking 
materials  were  passed  around  from  time  to 
time  during  the  evening.  The  Undergradu- 
ate Council-  who  directed  the  whole  affair  did 
a  fine  piece  of  work  and  the  college  has  good 
reason  to  be  grateful.  Thanks  are  also  due 
to  the  band  for  its  contribution  to  the  enjoy- 
ment of  the  evening. 

Atwood,  '09,  Chairman  of  the  Student 
Council,  presided  at  the  rally  and  after  two 
numbers  by  the  band  he  introduced  Prof. 
Robinson  as  the  first  speaker  in  the  place  of 
President  Hyde,  who  was  obliged  to  be  ab- 
sent. Professor  Robinson  began  with  a  few 
witty  remarks  which  drew  out  the  good  feel- 
ing of  the  audience  and  made  a  pleasant  open- 
ing for  the  evening.  He  spoke  as  the  repre- 
sentative of  the  faculty  and  his  speech  was 
up  to  his  usual  standard  of  excellence.  In 
closing  he  said : 

"It  is  impossible  for  a  man  to  grow  old  in 
such  an  atmosphere  as  that  of  Bowdoin. 
Association  with  Bowdoin  men  makes  a  man 
stay  young.  Students  come  and  go  from 
year  to  year,  but  the    same    vigorous    life    is 


1.  Thou  shalt  not  allow  thy  studies  to 
interfere  too  much  with  thy  regular  college 
work. 

2.  Thou  shalt  not  be  a  knocker  or  college 
anarchist. 

3.  Thou  shalt  not  forget  that  thou  hast  an 
individual  responsibility. 

4.  Thou  shalt  give  the  faculty  a  show. 

5.  Thou  shalt  love  thy  Bowdoin  as  thy- 
self and  more  than  thyself. 

This  speech  was  followed  by  music  by  the 
band,  during  which  the  crowd  mingled  infor- 
mally and  enjoyed  the  refreshments.  At  its 
close  Judge  F.  A.  Fisher,  '81,  gave  a  short 
address  on  the  Bowdoin  of  30  years  ago.  He 
gave  a  few  reminiscences  of  rowing  and  other 
interests  of  those  days.  He  also  extended  to 
the  rally  the  greetings  of  the  Bowdoin  Club  of 
Boston,  of  which  he  is  president.  In  closing 
he  spoke  of  the  value  of  taking  an  active  part 
in  college  sports  and  activities  with  its  bearing 
on  later  life. 

The  next  speaker  was  Emery  O.  Beane,  '04, 
who  was  captain  of  Bowdoin's  football  team 
during  his  senior  year.     He  said  in  part : 

"Tlie  rallies  ought  to  be  rallying  times  for 
alumni  and  more  ought  to  return  every  year. 
This  was  the  plan  of  those  who  arranged  the 
first  rally.  Things  didn't  go  very  well  in  the 
beginning.  The  faculty  objected  to  the  term 
'smoker'  which  was  proposed  and  the  inno- 
cent name  'rally'  was  substituted.  It  was 
held  in  the  gym.  instead  of  Memorial 
Flail  but  everyone  then  had  a  good  time. 
Now  it  is  held  in  Memorial  Hall  where  it 
should  be  held  and  in  the  manner  it  should 
be  held.  You  cannot  have  college  spirit 
unless  you  have  individual  spirit.  Every  man 
ought  to  do  something  for  the  college  even 
tho  it  were  a    small    thing.     For    it    is    only 


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when  each  individual  is  working  for  the  col- 
lege that  there  exists  the  true  college  spirit. 
The  college  paper  ought  not  to  find  fault  with 
the  various  teams  nor  should  the  students 
knock  when  they  don't  know  they  have  reason 
to  do  so  or  even  when  they  do.  Bowdoin 
ought  to  have  more  athletic  relations  outside 
the  state.  More  and  more  men  are  coming 
from  away  and  if  Bowdoin  is  to  hold  her  true 
place  she  should  arrange  for  more  games  in 
other  states. 

Mr.  Bean  closed  by  complimenting  Coach 
Morrill  in  very  high  terms. 

Mr.  Chester  T.  Hawes,  '76,  always  a  wel- 
come speaker  at  Bowdoin's  gatherings,  was 
next  on  the  program.  He  paid  a  masterly 
tribute  to  three  of  Bowdoin's  older  alumni 
whom  Bowdoin  men  ought  always  to  honor: 
John  Parker  Hale,  '27,  who  was  a  prominent 
member  of  both  Houses  of  Congress  before 
and  during  the  Civil  War  and  one  of  the  first 
to  take  an  open  stand  against  slavery ;  John 
Albion  Andrew,  '37,  who  was  the  war  gov- 
ernor of  Massachusetts  from  1861  to  1865 ; 
and  William  Pitt  Fessenden,  '23,  who  was  a 
Senator  in  war  times  and  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  in  the  strenuous  year  at  the  close  of 
the  war.  These  three  were  men  of  sterling 
character  who  stood  by  what  they  thought 
right  regardless  of  what  the  consequences 
might  be  to  them. 

After  another  selection  by  the  band  Bert 
Morrill,  '10,  was  called  on  for  a  few  words 
about  the  track  team's  prospects  for  this 
spring.     He  said  in  substance : 

In  the  Maine  Meet  Bowdoin  wants  to  look 
out  for  over-confidence.  Maine  is  out  for  the 
meet  hard  and  will  put  up  a  strongfight.  With 
hard  work,  however,  Bowdoin  should  be  able 
to  win  the  meet.  Dartmouth  and  Tech.  are 
set  down  by  Boston  papers  for  the  leaders  in 
the  New  England  Meet  but  Bowdoin  ought 
to  be  able  to  furnish  them  a  big  surprise. 
While  it  would  be  too  much  to  talk  of  vic- 
tory at  the  National  College  Meet,  when  it  is 
thru  Bowdoin  will  have  a  national  repu- 
tation in  place  of  a  local  one. 

Captain  Newman,  '10,  of  next  fall's  foot- 
ball team  spoke  briefly  next,  urging  the  alumni 
to  see  that  every  good  football  man  they 
know  who  is  going  to  college  will  come  to 
Bowdoin. 

"Baldy"  Stanwood,  '08,  captain  of  last 
year's  baseball  team,  followed  with  a  few 
words  about  the  work  of  this    year's    team. 


He  urged  that  more  undergraduates  be  out 
on  the  field  afternoons  to  watch  practice. 

Dr.  Whittier  was  the  last  speaker  of  the 
evening.     He  said  in  part: 

Of  the  material  needs  of  Bowdoin,  that  of 
a  new  gymnasium  is  first,  is  second,  and  is 
third.  The  desperate  need  is  perhaps  scarcely 
recognized  by  students,  alumni  or  faculty. 
There  are  three  reasons  for  the  inadequacy  of 
the   present   gym : 

1.  It  is  23  years  old. 

2.  The  size  of  the  college  has  doubled 
since  it  was  built. 

3.  Ideals  in  regard  to  college  gymnasiums 
have  changed. 

The  first  cry  for  a  new  one  was  seven  years 
ago.  Now  is  the  time  for  an  earnest  endeavor 
to  get  new  funds.  Every  student  can  say  a 
good, word  for  the  project  and  stop  knocking. 
If  we  can  keep  on  wishing  and  working  there 
will  soon  be  a  gymnasium  out  by  the  pines 
well  worthy  to  be  compared  with  the  other 
fine  buildings  of   Bowdoin. 

The  evening's  festivities  were  closed  with 
a  rendering  of  Bowdoin  Beata  and  Phi  Chi, 
and  some  rousing  college  cheers,  led  by  Bur- 
ton, '09,  which  bid  fair  to  lift  the  boards  off 
the  floor  of  the  baseball  cage  above. 


FIRST  HOME  GAME  TOMORROW 

Bowdoin  to  Meet  Tufts  on  Whittier  Field— College 

Band  to  Furnish  Music — Undergraduates 

Urged  to  Attend 

To-morrow  afternoon  at  2.30  the  college 
will  have  the  first  of  only  four  opportunities 
to  see  this  year's  baseball  team  play  on  Whit- 
tier Field.  In  addition  to  being  one  of  only 
four  chances,  it  will  be  the  only  chance  to  see 
Bowdoin  meet  an  out-of-the-state  team. 
There  is  no  occasion  for  -reviewing  here  the 
poor  support  which  the  home  games  of  last 
year  received.  Suffice  it  to  remind  the  col- 
lege that  Manager  Webster  was  forced  to  cut 
the  number  of  home  games  to  four,  because 
experience  has  shown  that  the  home  games 
wil'l  not  pay  expenses.  To-morrow  the  price 
of  admission  will  be  35  cents  with  an  extra 
charge  of  15  cents  for  a  seat  in  the  grand 
stand.  There  are  three  reasons  why  every 
man  in  college  should  be  on  hand  to  witness 
the  Tufts  game.  The  first  is  that  a  Bowdoin 
team  plays ;  the  second  that  Manager  Webster 
has  had  hard  luck  in  getting  two  rainy  days  in 

[Continued  on  page  21.] 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,   igio  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  igii,  Managing  Editor 

ASSOCIATE  Editors 


p.  B.  MORSS,  1910 
THOMAS  OTIS,  1910 
W.  E.  ROBINSON.  1910 
J.  C.  "WHITE.  1911 

R.  D.  MORSS,  igio 
J.  L.  CURTIS,  igii 


C.  D.  ROBBINS,  1911 
E.  W.  SKELTON.  1911 
W.  A.  McCORMICK.  1912 
W.  A.  FULLER,  1912 

Business  Manager 
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Contributions  are  requested  from  all  undergradu- 
ates, alumni,  and  officers  of  instruction.  No  anony 
mous  manuscript  can   be  accepted. 

All  communications  regarding  subscriptions  should 
be  addressed  to  the    Business    Manager. 

Subscriptions,  $2.00  per  year,  in  advance.  Single 
copies,    I  0  cents 

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Lewiston  Journal  Press 

Vol.  XXXIX.  APRIL   23,   1909  No.  3 


*  ».  4*  t  +1,  At  its  April  meeting 
A  Matter  for  the  ^j^^  Undergraduate  Coun- 
Further  Consideration  ^.j  discussed  briefly  the 
of  the  Council  possibilities  of  levying 
athletic  dues  in  one  sum.  The  attitude  which 
the  Council  took  in  the  matter  was,  that  such 
an  action  would  place  athletics  upon  a  firmer 
financial  basis.  We  question  whether  the 
levying  of  athletic  dues  in  a  lump  sum  wQuld 
increase  the  amount  subscribed,  but  grant 
that  it  would  divide  the  receipts  among  the 
four  departments — football,  baseball,  track 
and  tennis — according  to  the  proportionate 
needs  of  each.  But  would  it  not  do  more 
than  this?  With  a  common  fund  the  Athletic 
Association  could  hire  a  trainer  whose  time 
would  be  devoted  to  all  teams  alike.  In  the 
past  Bowdoin  teams  have  suffered  because 
the  coaches  have  been  called  upon  to  train 
their  teams  in  addition  to  acting  in  the  capac- 
ity of  coach.  A  coach  is  hired  to  teach  the 
team  the  game,  not  to  train  the  men.  To  ask 
a  coach  to  do  more  than  this  is  an  imposition 
to  him,  and  a  hardship  to  the  fellows,  for  one 


coach  cannot  have  two  irons  in  the  fire  and 
get  results.  The  alumni  most  interested  in 
athletics  has  long  advocated  the  policy  of  hav- 
ing a  trainer  whose  sole  business  is  to  care 
for  the  physical  condition  of  the  men.  The 
hope  has  been  long  deferred  because  the  col- 
lege's athletic  interests  lack  unity,  but  the  pas- 
sage of  an  act  to  bring  athletic  interests  under 
one  financial  head  opens  up  the  possibilitv  of 
a  trainer  for  all  teams.  We  hope  to  hear  more 
discussion  at  the  May  meeting. 


While    the    Orient    does 
Some  Inside  not  advocate  the  policy  of 

Information  digging  up  old  scores,  it 
feels  callled  upon  to  set 
forth  some  "inside  information"  upon  a  mat- 
ter which  is  of  vital  importance  to  Bowdoin 
men  everywhere.  Altho  it  is  now  somewhat 
late  to  criticise  the  action  of  last  year's  base- 
ball team  for  purchasing  black  sweaters,  we 
wish  to  caution  all  future  managers  against 
repeating  the  offense.  Men  speak  of  the 
white  of  Bowdoin,  the  blue  of  Yale,  the  crim- 
son of  Harvard,  the  green  of  Dartmouth, 
leaving  Amherst  and  Williams  to  dispute  for 
the  purple,  and  Brown  to  solace  herself  with 
the  unobtrusive  color  of  her  name.  Like  the 
English  constitution,  the  white  of  Bowdoin  is 
unwritten  law.  If  for  emphasizing  the  college 
initial,  it  is  necessary  to  use  some  contrasting 
color,  and  if  black  is  thought  to  be  the  right 
color,  so  let  it  be.  But  the  dismal  shade 
should  not  be  regarded  as  any  part  of  the  col- 
lege color,  nor  should  the  white  ribbons  be 
disgraced  by  combining  them  with  black  ones. 


^     ,   ,   ,,       ,     ,.  Lest  there  be  any  confus- 

Track  Letters  for  the  .^^^      ^^^^.  ,ti„g     the 

Eastern  Intercom  ^^.^^^     j^^^^^  ^^          -tjci- 

legiateMeet  ^^^^.^^   -^^   ^^^  ^^g^g,.,^   i„. 

tercoUegiate  Meet,  we  quote  that  section  of 
the  Atliietic  Council's  constitution  which  bears 
upon  this  point : 

The  following  men  shall  be  entitled  to  wear  a 
track  "B"  upon  recommendation  of  the  Captain  ami 
Manager  and  subject  to  the  approval  of  tlie  Athletic 
Council:  Those  who  win  one  or  more  points  at  the 
N.  E.  I.  A.  A.  meeting  or  other  inicr-collcgiatc  con- 
test designated  by  the  council;  those  who  win  a  first 
or  second  in  the  Maine  Meet." 

We  venture  to  express  the  Utopian  hope 
that  every  man  on  the  team  will  win  his  letter 
at  the  Eastern  Meet. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


21 


FIRST  HOME  GAME  TOMORROW 

[Continued  from  page  19.] 

which  he  only  received  half  the  guarantee; 
and  the  third  is  that  the  Bowdoin  band  will  be 
there.  If  you  don't  care  about  the  game, 
come  because  the  association  needs  the  money, 
and  if  their  needs  do  not  appeal  to  you,  come 
and  hear  the  band.  A  squad  of  special  police 
have  been  engaged  to  shoot  any  undergrad- 
uate parasite  caught  crawling  under  the  fence 
or  climbing  a  tree. 

Bowdoin's  baseball  relations  with  Tufts 
since  1906  are  seen  from  the  following  data 
which  shows  Bowdoin  to  have  won  three 
games  out  of  five,  but  to  have  scored  a  total 
of  21  points  against  Tufts'  30. 

April  19,  1906  Bowdoin  2,  Tufts,  13 

June    12,  igo6  Bowdoin  2,  Tufts,     i 

May    16,  1907  Bowdoin  9,  Tufts,     7 

April  25,  1908  Bowdoin  4,  Tufts,     2 

May    12,  1908  Bowdoin  4,  Tufts,     7 

21  30 


H.  M.  BERRY,  'II,  ELECTED  ASSISTANT  FOOTBALL 
MANAGER 

Student  Body  Gives  Council  Power  to  Regulate  Cir= 
culation  of  Subscription  Papers 

At  the  mass-meeting  held  last  Thursday  in 
Meinorial  Hall  the  election  of  assistant  foot- 
ball manager,  under  the  recent  amendment 
to  the  Athletic  Council's  constitution,  was 
carried  out  with  the  result  that  Harrison  M. 
Berry,  '11,  the  third  candidate  for  the  office, 
was  elected  by  a  plurality  of  60  votes. 

It  was  also  voted  that  an  amendment  be 
made  to  Art.  6  Sec.  2  of  the  Constitution  of 
the  Bowdoin  College  Athletic  Association,  by 
striking  out  the  word  "two"  (2),  in  the  pro- 
viso, so  that  the  proviso  shall  read :  "Provided, 
however,  that  such  election  shall  be  made 
from  the  candidate  previously  nominated  by 
the  Athletic  Council  as  provided  in  Art.  5, 
Sec.  3  of  the  Constitution  of  that  body." 

And  a  further  amendment  of  the  saine 
section  by  adding  the  following  proviso: 
"And  provided  further,  that  such  election 
shall  not  take  place  until  at  least  two  days 
after  the  original  nominations  have  been  made 
by  the  Athletic  Council." 

It  was  also  voted  that  no  subscription  paper 
of  any  kind  is  to  be  passed  among  Bowdoin 
students,  without  the  permission  of  the  Under- 
g-raduate  Council.  , 


CollcGe  Botes 

MASS=MEETINQ  AT  7  O'CLOCK  TO=NIQHT 

New  Meadows  Inn  will  open  April  28th. 
The  Dramatic  Club  spent  Sunday  at  Bangor. 

George  P.  Hyde,  '08,  spent  Sunday  and  Monday 
at  home. 

I'Cendrie,  '10,  pumped  the  chapel  organ,  Tuesday- 
morning. 

Rev.  E.  M.  Cousins,  '"JJ,  of  Thomaston,  visited  the 
college  the  first  of  the  week. 

W.  L.  Grindle,  Bates,  '12,  was  a  guest  of  Skelton, 
'11,  at  the  Rally,  Friday  night. 

Maine  defeated  Colby,  i  to  0,  in  a  six  inning 
exhibition  game  a,t  Waterville,  Monday. 

New  back  stop  nets  are  being  erected  at  the 
faculty  tennis  court  near  the  Kappa  Sigma  House. 

An  illustrated  article  on  the  Bowdoin  Dramatic 
Club  appeared  last  Saturday  in  the  Boston  Globe. 

George  Bower,  '07,  umpired  the  Pine  Tree  game 
Monday.  "Ike"  Lawrence,  '08,  also  attended  the 
game. 

Brunswick  High  defeated  Morse  High  in  baseball 
by  the  score  of  22  to  8,  on  the  Delta,  Monday  after- 
noon. 

Hamburger,  '10,  umpired  the  baseball  game  be- 
tween Brunswick  and  Morse  High  on  the  Delta, 
Monday. 

Trials  for  the  Track  Team  will  be  held  Monday, 
April  26.  The  training  table  will  be  started  on 
Tuesday. 

L.  A,  Rogers,  '75,  Superintendent  of  Schools  for 
the  towns  of  Mexico  and  Dixfield,  was  on  the  cam- 
pus, Monday. 

R.  W.  Sullivan,  '11,  captain  of  the  Delta  Upsilon 
baseball  team,  sprained  his  wrist  in  practice  the 
first  of  tire  week. 

Freshmen  who  are  working  for  the  position  of 
assistant  track  manager  are  MoCormick,  Morss,  L. 
Pratt,   and   Hathaway. 

The  ball  game  scheduled  for  Thursday,  April  IS, 
between  Kappa  Sigma  and  Delta  Upsilon  had  to  be 
postponed  because  of  rain. 

McFarland,  '11,  and  Burlingame,  '12,  went  to 
Hebron  Thursday,  to  give  the  Academy  track  team 
a  few  pointers  on  track  athletics. 

Manager  Mack  of  the  Philadelphia  Americans  has 
begun  culling  out  his  team  for  the  season,  and  has 
sent    Pitcher   Files,    Bowdoin,   '08,   to    Holyoke. 

As  soon  as  the  courts  get  in  condition  the  tennis 
management  plan  to  hold  a  round  robin  tournament 
to  work  out  the  men  who  will  try  for  the  tennis 
team. 

The  Bowdoin  fencing  team  will  meet  the  Pianelli 
Club  of  Augusta  on  April  30  The  personnel  of  the 
Bowdoin  team  will  be  Bridge,  Tobey,  and  Stephens, 
as  at  the  Indoor  Meet 

S.  C.  W.  Simpson,  '03.  of  Portland,  who  was  for- 
merly with  D.  C.  Heath  &  Co.,  is  now  in  charge  of 
the  High  School  and  College  Publications  of  Benj. 
H.  Sanborn  &  Co.,  for  the  New  England   States. 


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A  picture  of  the  Bowdoin  fencing  team  appeared 
in  last  Saturda5''s  issue  of  tlie  Portland  Advertiser. 

Tlie  Delta  Upsilon  House  party  this  j'ear  will  be 
held  May  7th.  The  reception  will  be  held  in  the 
evening  from  8  to  9.30,  instead  of  in  the  afternoon 
as  formerly. 

Berton  M.  Clough,  '00,  who  for  several  years  has 
been  principal  of  the  High  School  in  Easthampden 
is  making  plans  to  engage  in  the  real  estate  business 
in   Portland,   next   year. 

The  Student  Council  requests  all  men  who  have 
not  yet  turned  in  the  prospective  student  blanks,  to 
do  so  at  once.  Blanks  may  be  handed  to  any  mem- 
ber of  the  Council  or  delivered  at  the  faculty  oifice. 

The  Massachusetts  Club  meeting  scheduled  for 
Saturday,  April  24,  has  been  postponed  until  Satur- 
day, May  I.  The  meeting  will  be  held  at  the  Kappa 
Sigma  House,  and  Dr.  Burnett  will  probably  give  a 
short  talk  before  the  club. 

Professor  Allen  Johnson  attended  a  meeting  of 
the  New  England  Teachers'  History  Association  last 
Saturday  in  Boston,  and  took  part  in  a  discussion 
on  a  proposed  Syllabus  for  the  teaching  of  Civil 
Government   in   secondary    schools. 

Capt.  Atwood  and  Coach  Morrill  called  the  track 
men  to  the  gymnasium  Tuesday  and  gave  fhem  a 
curtain  lecture  on  conduct.  Capt.  Atwood  told  the 
men  that  they  must  keep  out  of  interfraternity  base- 
ball and  must  not  cut  track  practice. 

Rev.  Paul  Revere  Frothingham  of  Boston,  will  be 
the  college  preacher  at  the  Congregational  Church 
next  Sunday.  Dr.  Frothingham  comes  here  thru 
the  kindness  of  Professor  and  Mrs.  Files  and  no 
Bowdoin  man  can  afford  to  miss  hearing  him. 

Pratt.  '12,  who  played  the  Amherst  and  Pine  Tree 
games  is  a  brother  to  George  Pratt,  '01,  captain  of 
the  baseball  team  his  senior  year.  In  playing  the 
Amherst  game  he  repeated  his  brother's  experience 
of  participation  in  the  first  college  baseball  game 
that  he  ever  saw. 

The  first  and  second  year  medical  students  are 
holding  a  series  of  baseball  games  for  the  dinners  at 
iSfew  'Meadows  Inn.  The  class  winning  three  out 
of  five  games  will  dine  at  the  Inn  at  the  expense  of 
the  losing  class.  In  the  first  game,  played  Wednes- 
day morning,  the  first  year  men  were  victorious  by 
the   score  of  6  to  5. 

Roy  L.  Marston,  '99,  who  was  to  be  a  speaker  ai 
the  Rally  last  week,  arrived  in  Brunswick  a  day  late. 
He  had  intended  to  be  present,  but  had  made  a 
mistake  in  the  date.  He  was  away  froni  home,  on 
government  forestry  work  near  West  Point,  N.  Y.. 
and  left  his  work  unfinished  so  as  to  come  to  the 
Rally.  The  mistake  was  unfortunate,  but  Mr. 
Marston  regarded  the  matter  as  a  good  joke  on 
himself,  and  spent  Saturday  evening  and  Sunday  on 
the  campus  as  he  had  planned. 

Maine  people  and  especially  the  friends  and 
alumni  of  Bowdoin  College,  will  be  interested  to 
learn  that  it  is  now  practically  certain  that  Con- 
gressman DeAlva  S.  Alexander  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
is  slated  for  the  chairmanship  of  the  Rivers  and 
Harbors  Committee  of  the  House.  Congressman 
Alexander  is  the  founder  of  the  Alexander  Prize  at 
Bowdoin  College,  from  which  he  was  graduated  in 
1870,  and  he  is  one  of  the  most  enthusiastic  of  the 
alumni  of  the  Maine  institution  to  be  found  in  or 
about  Washington. 


The  cups  which  are  offered  by  Mr.  Edgar  O. 
Achorn  of  the  Class  of  18S1  to  the  winner  of  a 
Freshman-Sophomore  debate  are  now  on  exhibition 
at  the  library.  They  are  three  in  number,  and 
should  prove  an  incentive  to  make  the  two  teams 
put  in  the  hardest  kind  of  work.  The  debate  takes 
place    in    Memorial    Hall    April    30. 

Wallace  C.  Philoon,  Bowdoin,  '05,  a  senior  at 
West  Point,  has  been  presented  a  sabre  in  recog- 
nition of  his  services  as  captain  of  the  football  team. 
This  gift  was  made  by  the  school  officials  when  they 
gave  out  the  medals  to  those  who  have  won  their 
A's  in  athletics.  It  is  the  first  time  that  such  a  gift 
has  been  bestowed  in  addition  to  the  medals. 

President  Hyde  went  to  Bowdoinham,  Tuesday, 
to  attend  a  hearing  before  the  State  Commissioner 
of  Agriculture  relative  to  his  charges  against  Tops- 
ham  Fair.  Each  year  the  state  appropriates  a  sum 
of  money  to  aid  the  fairs  provided  that  there  are  no 
gambling  games  or  immoral  shows  upon  the 
grounds.  President  Hyde  brought  evidence  to  the 
hearing  to  prove  that  both  gambling  games  and  im- 
moral shows  were  upon  the  grounds.  At  the  time 
of  going  to  press  the  result  of  the  hearing  is  not 
known. 

At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Brunswick  Village 
Corporation,  Professor  Files  was  elected  president, 
Mr.  I.  P.  Booker  and  Professor  Allen  Johnson  vice- 
presidents,  S.  B.  Furbish  treasurer,  Hon.  Barrett 
Potter,  Professor  Chapman.  Professor  Little, 
Professor  Moody,  and  Dr.  Elliott,  on  the  executive 
committee,  from  the  college.  An  investigation  is 
being  made  relative  to  extending  the  mall  further 
down  Maine  Street,  as  the  expense  of  keeping  in 
condition  the  street  of  its  present  width  is  very 
great. 

An  event  of  considerable  importance  to  Bowdoin  ■• 
students  will  be  the  ordination  exercises  next  Mon-  • 
day  afternoon  and  evening  of  Mr.  Chester  B.  Emer- 
son, a  Bowdoin  graduate  of  the  Class  of  1904.  Mr. 
Emerson  has  been  studying  at  Union  Theological 
Seminary  in  New  York  and  is  graduated  this  spring. 
The  afternoon  session  next  Monday  will  begin  at  2 
o'clock  at  which  time  a  council  of  ministers  and  del- 
egates from  the  Congregational  churches  of  the 
neighborhood  will  convene  and  examine  the  candi- 
date as  to  his  theological  views.  This  session  is  open 
to  the  public  and  always  proves  to  be  of  great  inter- 
est. At  7.30  in  the  evening  the  ordination  exercises 
will  take  place  with  a  sermon  by  President  Hyde 
and  a  charge  to  the  candidate  by  Rev.  Herbert^  A. 
Jump.  The  chorus  choir  of  the  church  will  sing. 
Students  are  invited  to  this  session  also.  Occasions 
of  this  sort  come  to  Brunswick  but  rarely,  and 
therefore  should  attract  the  greater  attention  when 
they  do  come. 


CALENDAR 

Frid,\y,  April  230 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  Practice. 
2.30-5.30   P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Delta  Upsilon  vs.  Zeta  Psi. 
4.30  P.M.     Make-up  Gymnasium. 
Beta  Theta   Pi   House   Party. 

Saturday,  April  24TH 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  Practice. 
4.30  P.M.     Make-up  Gymnasium. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


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Bowdoin  vs.  Tufts  at  Brunswick. 

Dr.  Cram  addresses  the  Chemical  Club. 

Sunday,  April  2Sth 

10.45  A.M.  Rev.  Paul  Revere  Frothingham,  the 
College  Preacher,  will  speak  in  the  Congregational 
Church. 

5.00  P.M.  Chapel.  Rev.  Paul  Revere  Frothing- 
ham speaks. 

7.00  P.M.     Questionaire. 

MoND.w,  April  26th 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  Practice. 
2.30-5.30   P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Zeta  Psi  vs.  Theta  Delta  Chi. 
4.30  P.M.     Make-up  Gymnasium. 

Tuesday,   April  27TH 

2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  Practice. 

3.30  P.M.     Kappa  Sigma  vs.  Psi  Upsilon. 

4.30  P.M.     Make-up  Gymnasium. 

Baseball  team  leaves  for  Hanover,  N.  H. 

7.00  P.M.  Debate  in  English  VII.  Question:  The 
powers  of  Europe  should  combine  to  deprive  King 
Leopold  and  the  Belgian  government  of  the  control 
of  the  Congo  Free  State.  Affirmative :  Robinson, 
Thompson.  Negative :  Phillips,  Skillins.  Chairman, 
Goodspeed. 

Wednesday,   April   28th 

2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  Practice. 

4.30  P.M.     Make-up  Gymnasium. 

Bowdoin   vs.    Dartmouth    at   Hanover. 

New  Meadows  Inn  opens. 

Thursday,   April  29TH 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  Practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  vs.  Beta  Theta  Pi. 
4.30  P.M.     Make-up  Gymnasium. 
7.00  P.M.     Stereopticon    Lecture    on    Northfield    at 
Christian    Association    Meeting. 

Bowdoin   vs.    Dartmouth   at   Hanover. 

Friday,  April  30TH 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  Practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Theta  Delta  Chi  vs.  Kappa  Sigma. 
4.30  P.M.     Make-up  Gymnasium. 
Sophomore-Freshman  Debate. 

8.00  P.M.  Bowdoin  Fencing  Team  vs.  Pianelli 
Club  at  Augusta. 

Saturday,  May  ist 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  Practice. 
4.30  P.M.     Make-up  Gymnasium. 


AN  OPPORTUNITY  NOT  TO  BE  NEGLECTED 

Why  All  Sorts  of   Bowdoin   Men    Want   to   Go   to 

Northfield  This  Year — Stereopticon  Lecture 

on  Northfield,  April  22 

Every  Bowdoin  man  wants  to  have  his  college 
considered  by  leading  American  colleges  and  pre- 
paratory schools  as  in  the  front  rank  of  educational 
institutions.  Moreover,  he  wants  to  make  the  high- 
est possible  use  of  his  powers.  In  no  more 
effective  and  yet  congenial  way  can  he  approacli 
both  these  ends  than  by  attending  the  Student 
Conference    at    Northfield. 

At  this  beautiful  summer  resort  on  the  banks  of 
the  Connecticut  there  gathers  every  year  a  body  of 


some  nine  or  ten  hundred  students,  representing 
some  hundred  and  fifty  leading  colleges  and  prep, 
schools  of  eastern  United  States  and  Canada.  They 
are  leaders  of  these  institutions  in  every  way. 
Many  of  the  best  athletes  and  finest  minds  in  the 
college  world  are  gathered  here  and  each  finds 
abundant  opportunities  for  the  exercise  of  his  pow- 
ers. Those  who  have  led  earnest  discussions  in  the 
morning  or  have  listened  to  some  pat  and  brainy 
addresses  in  the  evening  will  'be  found  in  the  after- 
noon engaging  with  all  their  energy  in  athletic 
events.  A  series  of  baseball  games  for  the  college 
championship,  a  tennis  tournament  with  150  or 
more  entries,  swimming  in  the  Connecticut,  tramp- 
ing expeditions  about  the  country,  a  track  meet  and 
unique  celebration  of  Fourth  of  July  offer  a  man  a 
splendid  chance  both  for  recreation  and  for  rep- 
resenting his  college.  Another  congenial  custom  in 
which  the  colleges  are  either  represented  or  fail  to 
be  represented  is  that  by  which  the  delegations  at 
meal  time  cheer  their  own  and  sister  institutions 
back  and  forth  throughout  the  meal.  On  Fourth 
of  July  eve  a  program  of  college  cheers  and  songs 
is  held  in  the  vast  auditorium,  in  conjunction  with 
other  unique  features,  in  which  each  delegation  must 
have  a  certain  number  of  members  to  enter.  Bow- 
doin last  year  had  enough  men  for  the  cheer,  but 
not  enough  to  entitle  "Bowdoin  Beata."  Surely  we 
cannot  afford  to  have  the  hard-earned  reputation 
Bowdoin  has  achieved  in  so  many  lines  be  dimmed 
by  a  poor  representation  here  and  we  have  not  yet 
approached  a  delegation  to  compare  with  those  sent 
by  the  body  of  other  colleges.  Moreover,  the  prep, 
schools,  whose  representatives  are  influenced  by  all 
these  things  are  among  the  most  desirable  to  be 
reached,   in   the  country. 

A  pleasant  feature  of  the  conference  is  the  fra- 
ternity fellowship.  The  members  of  each  frater- 
nity always  plan  to  have  some  sort  of  a  special 
gathering,  such  as  a  banquet  at  the  spacious  sum- 
mer hotel. 

The  real  end  and  aim  of  Northfield,  however,  is 
to  help  the  college  man  decide  those  great  issues 
which  underlie  his  problems  of  life.  By  its  invig- 
orating atmosphere,  its  congenial  association  with 
broadly  representative  men,  and  especially  by  the 
influence  of  its  leaders,  men  of  international  fame 
who  practice  what  they  preach,  Northfield  has 
brought  many  a  perplexed  and  cynical  man  into  the 
light  of  a  sane  faith  and  has  sent  him  forth  burn- 
ing, in  the  radiance  of  his  new  vision,  to  grapple 
with    the   problems    of   life. 

Bowdoin  men  owe  it  to  their  college  and  to  them- 
selves to  turn  out  in  a  representative  delegation  at 
Northfield  this  year.  It  lasts  from  July  2  to  July 
II.  The  expenses  are  trivial  in  comparison  to  the 
value  received,  a  reduced  rate  railroad  fare,  a  five- 
dollar  program  fee,  and  twelve  dollars  for  board 
and  room  completing  the  account.  Moreover,  a 
limited  number  of  positions  as  student  waiters  may 
be  secured,  if  applied  for  early,  which  will  reduce 
the  expense  account  to  almost  nothing.  With  some 
fellows  work  or  other  summer  plans  may  seem  to 
interfere,  but  any  man  who  has  been  to  Northfield 
will  say  that  it  pays  to  plan  for  the  conference  even 
to  the  extent  of  forfeiting  a  good  job.  All  those 
who  are  interested,  come  to  the  stereopticon  talk 
on  the  subject  next  Thursday  night,  April  29.  Fur- 
ther particular  will  be  gladly  given  by  A,  W.  Stone, 
'10,  chairman  of  the  Northfield  Committee. 


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Hlumni  S)epartment 

'60.— Col.  Albert  W.  Bradbury  died  at 
Buckfield,  March  27,  1909,  of  oneumonia.  He 
was  the  son  of  Hon.  Blon  and  Alice  (Will- 
iams) Bradbury,  and  was  born  at  Calais,  Jan. 
29,  1840.  He  spent  his  childhood  at  Eastport, 
but  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  University 
Grammar  School  at  Providence,  R.  I.  Upon 
graduation  he  began  the  study  of  law,  but  in 
the  early  days  of  the  war  entered  the  army  as 
second  lieutenant  of  the  First  Maine  Mounted 
Artillery.  He  passed  rapidly  through  the 
various  grades  to  be  major  of  his  regiment 
and  brevet  lieutenant  colonel  of  volunteers. 
At  the  close  of  the  three  years"  term  of  service 
he  re-enlisted  his  entire  command  and  after  a 
distinguished  record  for  bravery  and  efficiency 
was  mustered  out  of  the  service  July  24,  1865. 
He  resumed  the  study  of  law  with  his  father  at 
Portland  and  was  associated  with  him  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  that  city  for  ten 
years.  Subsequently  his  law  partner  was  Geo. 
F.  McQuillan  (Bowdoin,  1875).  He  served 
as  city 'solicitor  and  as  United  States  District 
Attorney  under  President  Cleveland.  Ill 
health  forced  him  to  retire  from  practice  a  few 
years  ago  and  he  has  since  resided  at  Buck- 
field.  One  who  knew  him  well  writes  as  fol- 
lows :  "The  charm  of  his  manners  and^  conver- 
sation was  irresistible;  and  the  high-bred 
courtesy  of  his  bearing  made  him  a  marked 
and  conspicuous  figure.  No  one  could  talk 
with  him  even  for  a  short  time  without  falling 
under  the  spell  of  his  delightful  personality." 

'64. — Rev.  Dr.  William  H.  Pierson  closes  in 
June  next  a  pastorate  of  eighteen  years  at  the 
First  Unitarian  Church  in  Somerville,  Mass., 
and  a  service  of  forty-two  years  in  the  Christ- 
ian ministry. 

'74. — Dr.  D.  O.  S.  Lowell,  after  a  brilliant 
career  as  a  teacher  for  twenty-five  years  in  the 
Roxbury  Latin  School,  has  been  chosen  head- 
master of  that  institution  to  the  great  satisfac- 
tion of  its  students  and  friends.  A  recent 
number  of  the  school  paper  published  an 
appreciative  sketch  which  has  been  heartily 
re-echoed  in  the  editorial  columns  of  Boston 
papers. 

'■jj. — Invitations  have  been  issued  for  the 
marriage  on  April  21,  1909,  of  Alice  Longfel- 
low, daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  H. 
Smith  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  to  Caleb  Wilson 
Spofford    O'Connor    of   Washington,   D.    C. 


The  grooan  is  a  son  of  Mrs.  S.  W.  B.  Diehl, 
the  wife  of  Captain  Diehl  of  the  United  States 
Navy. 

'94. — Rev.  Alfred  V.  Bliss  has  resigned  the 
pastorate  of  the  Plymouth  Church  of  Utica, 
New  York. 

'96. — John  Clair  Minot,  for  12  years  asso- 
ciate editor  of  the  Kennebec  Journal,  has 
resigned  to  accept  a  position  on  the  editorial 
stafl^  of  the  Youth's  Companion,  of  which 
Edward  Stanwood  (Bowdoin,  186I),  is  at  the 
head.  Mr.  Minot  will  move  from  Augusta  to 
Boston  and  assume  his  new  duties  May  17. 

'99. — Thomas  Littlefield  Marble  has  written 
an  extremely  pretty  little  comedy  in  three  acts 
entitled,  "The  Wooing  of  Wilhelmina."  It  is 
said  to  be  wholesome  and  vivacious  and 
strongly  recommended  to  the  lovers  of  old- 
fashioned  romance.  Mr.  Marble  showed  lit- 
erary talent  during  his  college  course  and 
Bowdoin  graduates  will  recall  that  he  was  on 
the  editorial  board  of  the  Orient  and  Quill. 

1900. — The  Portland  Sunday  Times  of 
March  28th,  contains  an  illustrated  article 
of  Barranquilla,  Colombia,  where  Albro  L. 
Burnell  has  for  a  year  and  a  half  been  United 
States  vice-consul. 

1900. — Philip  L.  Pottle  has  recently  become 
superintendent  of  the  International  Paper 
Company's  Mills  at  Glens  Falls,  New  York,  at 
a  salary  of  $3,000. 

'04. — William  F.  Coan,  who  has  been  prin- 
cipal of  the  Houlton  High  School  for  two 
years,  has  been  elected  superintendent  of 
schools  in  the  district  of  Houlton  and  adjoin- 
ing towns. 


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VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  APRIL  30,  1909 


NO.  4 


BOWDOIN  6,  DARTMOUTH  1 

Word  was  received  at  the  college  Wednes- 
day night  that  the  baseball  team  had  defeated 
Dartmouth,  6  to  i.  No  particulars  of  the 
game  could  be  learned  other  than  Means,  the 
new  Freshman  pitcher,  did  the  twirling. 
When  the  score  was  received  here  the  col- 
lege prepared  for  a  good  old-fashioned  cele- 
bration and  inside  of  fifteen  minutes  a  big  fire 
was  lighted  in  front  of  the  chapel.  The  mem- 
bers of  the  college  band  got  out  their  instru- 
ments and  the  entire  student  body  marched 
down  town  where  the  townspeople  were 
reminded  forcibly  that  Bowdoin  had  won  a 
victory.  Upon  returning  to  the  college  the 
procession  called  upon  Professors  Files, 
Woodruff,  Johnson,  Edwards,  Bridgham, 
Houghton,  Mitchell,  and  Copeland.  The  day 
was  cold  and  windy  and  the  students  shivered 
in  the  grandstand.  Diartmouth  had  little  dif- 
ficulty in  finding  the  Bowdoin  pitcher.  Means, 
but  failed  to  bunch  hits  at  critical  times  and 
suffered  much  from  errors.  Brady  at  first 
dropped  a  ball  in  the  third  inning  which  let  in 
two  runs  for  Bowdoin.  Dean  Emerson 
pitched  the  first  ball. 

SCORE    BY    INNINGS 

Dartmouth    0    0    0    o    o    0     i     0    o — i 

Bowdoin    o     o    4    o     o    0     2    o     0 — 6 

Base  hits — Dartmouth,  15  ;  Bowdoin,  7.  Errors — 
Dartmouth,  6 ;  Bowdoin,  4.  Bateries,  Eckstrom  and 
Chadbourne ;  Means  and  Wilson.  Time — 2  hours,  3 
minutes.     Umpire,   Killourhy   of  Laconia. 


BOWDOIN  3,  TUFTS  7 

Medford  Collegians  Connect  with  Manter's  Delivery  at 

Proper  Time — Costly  Errors  Lose  Game  for 

Bowdoin 

In  the  first  home  game  of  the  season  Bow- 
doin was  defeated  by  Tufts  to  the  tune  of  7  to 
3.  The  day  v\'as  very  cold  for  baseball  and 
the  strong  wind  affected  both  pitchers  and 
fielders  to  quite  an  extent.  The  attendance 
was  very  good,  especially  in  comparison  with 
the  poor  support  given  the  team  at  the  home 
games  of  last  year.     The  band  was  there  and 


gave  several  good  selections  which  added  to 
the  spirit  of  the  game. 

As  to  the  game  itself  it  was  interesting  and 
well  played  considering  the  unfavorable 
weather  conditions.  Tufts  won  the  game  by 
having  a  man  in  the  box  whom  Bowdoin 
couldn't  hit  safely  at  the  right  time.  Martin 
pitched  steady  ball  and  he  repeatedly  held  the 
Bowdoin  batters  down  when  there  were  good 
chances  for  a  score.  The  Tufts  men  seemed 
to  connect  with  Manter's  delivery  rather  easily 
and  hit  hard  almost  from  the  first.  Bow- 
doin's  errors  were  made,  moreover,  at  critical 
times  for  the  most  part  and  were  responsible 
for  some  of  the  Tufts  score.  In  batting  Tufts 
showed  excellent  team  work  and  their  sacri- 
fice hits  were  very  successful.  Manter  gave 
place  to  Harris  in  the  eighth  inning  and  the 
latter  pitched  well  for  the  remaining  two. 

Bowdoin 

R        BH         PO         A  E 

Wilson,    c I  2  5  I  0 

McDade,    If i  2  0  0  0 

W.    Clififord,    ib 0  0  IS  0  o 

Manter,    p.,    rf i  i  o  6  o 

Harris,    ss.,    p 0  i  i  4  2 

Bower,    3b 0  0  i  0  I 

Wandtke.    2b o  i  3  4  0 

Pratt,     rf o  o  i  0  0 

Pnrington,    cf o  i  I  o  0 

Lawlis,    ss o  0  o  2  0 

3        8      27       17        3 
Tufts 

R        BH         PO         A  E 

Dustin.    ss 0  I  2  3  I 

Hooper,    3b 3  2  2  I  I 

Priest,     cf I  I  O  I  O 

R.    Clifford,   c 0  I  9  2  0 

Martin,    p 0  0  o  2  o 

Knight,     lb I  i  I2  o  o 

Mc  Kenna,    2b o  o  2  4  l 

Hall,    If 2  I  o  I  0 

Simonds,     r.f o  0  O  0  0 

Totals     7        7      27       14        3 

Two-base  hits — Dustin,  Hooper,  Wilson,  Mc- 
Dade. Three-base  hits— R.  Clifford.  Stolen  bases 
—Hooper,  Knight,  Hall  2,  Wilson,  McDade, 
Wandtke.  Base  on  balls— Off  Martin  4,  off  Manter 
3.  Struck  out— By  Martin  9,  by  Manter  3,  by  Har- 
ris 2.  Sacrifice  hits — Simonds.  Wild  pitches— 
Manter  2.  Umpire — J.  Carrigan.  Time — i  hour 
59   minutes. 


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'VARSITY  TO  MEET  PINE  TREE  SATURDAY 

Manager  Webster  announced  Tuesday  that 
the  baseball  team  will  play  Pine  Tree  a  second 
game  at  Portland  next  Saturday.  The  Port- 
land papers  Tuesday  contained  the  follow- 
ing notice  of  the  game  which  perhaps  is  all 
the  introduction  that  the  game  needs. 

"The  Pine  Tree  management  yesterday 
received  the  welcome  news  that  the  Bowdoin 
Varsity  would  fill  their  open  date  next  Sat- 
urday with  another  trip  to  this  city  to  try  and 
land  another  scalp  from  Pop  Williams'  outfit 
and  the  fans,  if  the  weather  conditions  are  at 
all  favorable,  will  have  an  opportunity  to 
watch  an  exceedingly  fast  game.  Pop  is 
more  or  less  confident  that  his  team  with  a 
few  changes  will  be  able  to  turn  the  tables  on 
the  collegians  who  carried  off  the  honors  in 
the  Patriots'  Day  games  when  the  conditions 
made  anything  like  good  work  by  either  team 
an   impossibility." 


SOPHOMORE=FRESHMAN  DEBATE  TO=NIQHT 

This  evening  at  8  o'clock  the  college  will 
have  the  pleasure  of  listening  to  the  first  inter- 
class  debate  which  has  ever  been  held  here. 
The  movement  which  culminates  in  to-night's 
contest  was  started  by  Mr.  Edgar  O.  Achorn 
of  the  Class  of  1881,  when  he  offered  the  ele- 
gant cups  which  have  been  on  exhibition  in 
the  library  for  the  past  week  to  the  winners 
\oi  a  debate  between  the  two  lower  classes. 
Mr.  Achorn  has  always  been  interested  in 
debating  activities,  and  has  shown  his  inter- 
est in  to-night's  contest,  not  alone  by  offering 
the  cups,  but  he  has  also  left  his  business  to 
come  here  from  Boston  to  preside  over  the 
debate. 

The  question  is :  Resolved,  That  the  system 
of  trial  by  jury  should  be  abolished.  Nine- 
teen eleven  upholds  the  affirmative  with  the 
following  men  speaking  in  the  order  named; 
A.  H.  Cole,  J.  C.  White,  and  W.  F.  Merrill. 
The  speakers  for  the  Freshmen  in  the  order 
named  are :  B.  C.  Rodick,  E.  L.  Maloney,  and 
H.  L.  Bryant.  E.  G.  Fifield,  '11,  and  W.  A. 
Fuller,  '12,  are  the  alternates.  The  judges  of 
the  debate  will  be  President  William  DeWitt 
Hyde,  Professor  Flenry  L.  Chapman,  and 
Dean  Alfred  Mitchell  of  the  Medical  School. 


BETA  THETA  PI  HOUSE  PARTY 

Beta  Sigma  Chapter  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi 
fraternity  entertained  April  23  and  24  with 
its  annual  house  party.  The  reception  was 
held  in  the  afternoon  from  four  to  six  and 
dancing  began  at  nine  in  the  evening.  The 
living  room,  dining  room  and  library  of  the 
chapter  house  on  McKeen  Street  were  deco- 
rated with  palms  and  roses  of  the  fraternity 
color.  The  guests  were  received  by  Mrs. 
William  DeWitt  Hyde,  Mrs.  Henry  Johnson 
and  Mrs.  Franklin  C.  Robinson  of  Bruns- 
wick, Mrs.  William  T.  Haines  of  Waterville, 
and  Mrs.  William  Ginn  of  Gardiner.  Mrs. 
Haines  and  Mrs.  Nathan  Weston  of  Augusta 
were  the  house  chaperones. 

Coffee  was  poured  at  the  reception  by  Mrs. 
Frank  E.  Rolaerts  of  Brunswick  and  Mrs. 
Nathan  Weston  of  Augusta.  Mrs.  Allen 
Johnson  of  Brunswick  and  Mrs.  M.  Delmont 
Hanson  of  Portland,  presided  at  the  tea  urn. 
Ices  were  served  by  Mrs.  Algernon  C.  Chand- 
ler. The  committee  in  charge  of  the  house 
party  consisted  of  Thomas  Davis  Ginn,  '09, 
of  Boston,  Mass. ;  William  Haines,  '09.  of 
Waterville ;  Guy  Parkhurst  Estes,  '09,  of 
Skowhegan ;  Ira  Brown  Robinson,  '10,  of 
Bath,  and  John  Libby  Curtis,  '11,  of  Camden. 
The  young  ladies  present  were  Miss  Jean 
Partridge,  Miss  Evangeline  R.  Bridge,  Miss 
Sue  Ginn  of  Boston,  Miss  Gladys  N.  Libby 
of  Somerville,  Mass. ;  Miss  Alice  Wood  of 
Newton.  Mass. ;  Miss  E.  Louise  Morrissey, 
Miss  Alice  L.  Brummett  of  Roxbury,  Mass. ; 
Miss  Pearl  Davis  of  Cambridge,  Mass. ;  Miss 
Mildred  Smith  of  Dover,  N.  H. ;  Miss 
Frances  A.  Skolfield,  Miss  Margaret  Gra- 
ham, Miss  Dorothy  Clay,  Miss  Florence  Cof- 
fey, Miss  Webb,  Miss  Biyant,  Mrs.  Charles 
Webster  of  Portland ;  Miss  Jeannette  Jordan, 
Miss  Anna  Gay,  Miss  Harrington  of  Rock- 
land, Miss  Frances  Little,  Miss  Frances  Skol- 
field. Miss  Anne  Johnson,  Miss  Flelen  Merri- 
man.  Miss  Beatrice  Hacker,  Miss  Mildred 
Fides,  Miss  Ruth  Little,  Miss  Margaret 
Swett  of  Brunswick,  Miss  Lucy  Hartweli, 
Miss  ITelen  M.  Robinson  of  Bath. 

The  delegates  from  the  other  fraternities 
are  Lawrence  Parkman,  '11,  from  Alpha 
Delta  Chi;  Charles  F.  Carter,  '09,  ffom  Psi 
Lipsilon;  R.  B.  Martin,  '10,  from  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon;  Carl  E.  Stone,  '09,  from  Theta  Delta 
Chi;  Stetson  H.  Hussey,  '11,  from  Zeta  Psi; 
Earl  L.  Wing,  '10,  from  Delta  Upsilon,  and 
Ernest  ,L.  Goodspeed,  '09.  from  Kajjpa  Sigma. 


BOWDOiN  ORIENT 


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BOWDOIN  TO  HAVE  FRATERNITY  CONVENTION 

The  New  England  Convention  and  Banquet 
of  Delta  Upsilon  was  held  with  the  Amherst 
Chapter  on  April  23d  and  24th.  The  dele- 
gates from  the  Bowdoin  Chapter  were  Roy  C. 
Harlow,  '09,  and  Ralph  L.  Thompson,  '10. 
Upon  invitation  of  the  Bowdoin  chapter  the 
convention  named  Brunswick  as  the  place  of 
its  next  meeting  which  will  take  place  in 
April,  1910.  The  colleges  represented  by  a 
New  England  convention  of  Delta  Upsilon 
are  Harvard,  Tufts,  Technology,  Amherst. 
Williams,  Middlebury,  Brown,  Colby  and 
Bowdoin.  The  last  time  that  a  fraternity 
convention  was  held  at  Bowdoin  was  in  1906 
when  the  Bowdoin  chapter  of  Alpha  Delta 
Phi  entertained  the  national  convention  of  that 
body. 


NATIONAL   CONVENTION  AT  PORTLAND 

Alpha  Kappa  Kappa  Fraternity  Hold  Banquet  May  8 — 

Meeting  to  Discuss  Plans  for  National  Conven= 

tion  in  December 

Theta  Chapter  of  Alpha  Kappa  Kappa 
fraternity  of  the  Medical  School  of  Maine  will 
hold  its  annual  installation  of  officers  and 
banquet  at  the  Congress  Square  Hotel,  May  8. 

In  the  afternoon  the  officers  are  to  be  in- 
stalled after  which  a  reception  will  be  tendered 
to  the  honorary  members.  A  business  meet- 
ing is  also  to  be  held  and  in  the  evening  a  ban- 
Cjuet  is  to  be  served  with  Dr.  Francis  J.  Welch 
of  Portland  as  toastmaster.  Papers  are  to  be 
read  by  several  prominent  physicians  and 
plans  for  the  entertainment  of  the  national 
convention  of  the  Alpha  Kappa  Kappa  fra- 
ternity to  be  held  in  Portland  the  latter  part 
of  December  are  to  be  discussed. 

The  committee  in  charge  of  the  banquet 
May  8  is  composed  of  Adam  P.  Leighton,  Jr., 
James  F.  Cox  and  Frank  Mikelsky. 


SENIOR  CLASS  MEETING 

The  Senior  Class  held  ameeting Wednesday, 
and  elected  Harold  N.  Marsh  Class  Historian 
in  place  of  T.  F.  Shehan  who  will  not  be 
able  to  graduate  with  the  class  on  account  of 
sickness.  The  class  also  voted  to  adopt  the 
suggestion  of  the  Undergraduate  Council  and 
I  wear  the  caps  and  gowns  to  Sunday  chapel, 
I  and  caps  on  week  days  during  the  remainder 
;of  the  year.  This  custom  is  also  being  intro- 
duced at  Dartmouth  this  year. 


TENNIS  TOURNAMENT  TO  BE  HELD  IN  NEAR 
FUTURE 

The  Tennis  Association  will  hold  a  tourna- 
ment this  spring  and  every  man  with  any 
tennis  experience  is  urged  to  enter.  All 
names  must  be  handed  to  the  management  by 
Wednesday,  May  5th.  An  entrance  fee  of  25 
cents  per  man  in  the  singles  and  25  cents  per 
team  in  the  doubles  will  be  charged. 

The  New  England  Intercollegiate  Lawn 
Tennis  Tournament  will  be  held  at  Long- 
wood,  Brookline,  Mass.,  on  May  24,  25  and 
26,  and  the  Maine  Intercollegiate  Tourna- 
ment will  be  held  at  Bates  College,  Lewiston, 
on  June  7,  8  and  9. 


MAINE  BRANCH  OF  THE  NEW  ENGLAND  CLASSN 
CAL  ASSOCIATION  TO  MEET  AT  ORONO 

This  morning  Professor  Sills,  Professor 
Woodruff,  and  Mr.  Bridgham  left  for  Orono, 
where  they  will  attend  a  meeting  of  the  Maine 
Branch  of  the  New  England  Classical  Asso- 
ciation, of  which  Professor  Sills  is  President. 
Papers  will  be  presented  and  discussions  held 
relative  to  the  teaching  of  the  Classics  and 
History  in  secondary  schools.  In  the  evening 
Professor  George  H.  Chase  of  Harvard  will 
give  an  illustrated  lecture  on  Roman  Art,  to 
which  the  general  public  will  be  invited.  On 
Saturday  a  session  will  be  held  in  the  Bangor 
High  School,  at  which  Mr.  Bridgham,  among 
others,  will  present  a  paper  on  "Catullus : 
Latin  Poetry  in  the  School."  At  the  close  of 
the  meeting  the  election  of  officers  for  the 
ensuing  year  will  take  place. 


SPEAKERS  AT  FRESHMAN  BANQUET 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Class  of  1912  held  in  the  gym- 
nasium Wednesday  plans  were  discussed  for  the 
Freshman  banquet,  but  no  definite  date  was  set  for 
the  occasion.  The  following  men  were  elected  to 
take  part :  Toastmaster,  M.  W.  Burlingame ;  Open- 
ing Address,  F.  A.  Smith ;  Closing  Address,  C.  F. 
Adams.  The  banquet  committee  consists  of  J.  H. 
McKenney,  W.  F.  Davis,  R.  L.  Estes,  R,  P.  King, 
and  R.  W.  Hathaway.  The  cane  committee  is  R. 
E.  Harrington,  R.  D.  Cole,  and  G.  F.  Cressey. 

Harold  Small,  ex-'io,  was  on  the  campus  the  mid- 
dle of  the   week. 

New  Meadows  Inn  was  liberally  patronized  by 
Bowdoin  students  on  its  opening  for  the  season, 
Wednesday. 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,  1910  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  1911,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 
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thomas  otis.  1910        e.  "w.  skelton.  1911 
w.  e.  robinson.  1910    w.  a.  mccormick,  1912 
j.  c.  white.  1911  ■w.  a.  fuller,  1912 


R.   D.    MORSS,   1910 
J.  L.  CURTIS,  1911 


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AL    PkKSS 

Vol.  XXXIX.              APRIL  23, 

1909 

No.  3 

The  football  manager  has 
Football  for  1909  submitted  a  communicrj- 
tion  to  the  Orient  which 
states  that  a  debt  of  $415  must  be  paid  before 
the  Athletic  Council  can  approve  the  schedule 
for  next  fall.  Unpaid  board  bills  and  sub- 
scriptions will  cover  this  amount  to  the  extent 
of  $175,  leaving  a  balance  of  $240  to  be  raised 
before  the  association  can  proceed.  Manager 
Otis  makes  an  eloquent  appeal  to  the  loyalty 
of  the  student  body  to  repeat  the  action  by 
which  this  year's  baseball  team  was  raised 
from  the  slough  of  despond,  and  subscribe  the 
required  amount. 

When  it  comes  to  raising  money  to  have  a 
football  team  next  fall,  there  are  few  men  in 
the  institution  who  will  not  be  willing  to  sac- 
rifice a  small  sum,  but  before  a  cent  is  sub- 
scribed we  wish  to  see  every  dollar  of  that 
$175  owed  for  board  and  unpaid  subscrip- 
tions, placed  in  the  hands  of  the  football  man- 
ager. It  is  the  duty  of  every  loyal  Bowdoin 
man  to  stand  squarely  for    the    principle    of 


equality  to  all;  it  is  the  duty  of  the  Undergrad- 
uate Council  to  see  to  it  that  no  subscription 
is  imposed  upon  the  students  of  the  college 
until  the  men  who  owe  money  have  paid. 
The  Undergraduate  Council  has  already 
taken  one  step  in  the  right  direction  by 
recommending  that  the  names  of  those  in 
arrears  be  published  in  the  Orient  and  posted 
upon  the  bulletin  board.  It  only  remains  for 
the  Athletic  Council  to  adopt  this  suggestion. 


.  „  ,.  t  n  ii  A.t  Tufts  and  Dartmouth 
A  Question  of  College        4-     1  ,^    ,  <: 

^       p  ..  *    a  stipulated  sum  of  money 

^  for  athletics   is    put    upon 

the  term  bill  of  every  student.  The  amount 
ranging  from  ten  to  twenty-five  dollars  is 
collected  by  the  college  upon  the  term  bill  and 
turned  over  to  the  different  athletic  associa- 
tions according  to  the  proportionate  needs  of 
each.  The  system  has  two  distinct  advan- 
tages over  our  present  system  at  Bowdoin. 
First,  it  does  away  with  the  subscription 
paper  and  its  attendant  difficulties,  and  sec- 
ondly, it  gives  the  manager  a  definite  idea  of 
the  amount  of  money  which  is  to  be  at  his 
disposal.  The  disadvantage  of  such  a  finan- 
cial scheme  is  that  it  works  hardship  upon  the 
man  who  is  in  financial  straits,  and  sets  a 
limit  upon  the  maximum  amount  to  be 
donated,  so  that  a  man  will  give  ten  dollars 
who  might  otherwise  give  twenty-five  or 
more.  There  has  long  been  a  feeling  among 
both  alumni  and  undergraduates  that  Bow- 
doin needs  some  such  system  as  the  above  to 
free  her  from  the  financial  difficulties  into 
which  her  athletics  are  continually  falling. 

Amherst  has  a  method  of  raising  money  for 
athletics  which  seems  a  little  more  suited  to 
our  needs.  There  every  man  in  college  is 
assessed  upon  his  term  bill  two  dollars  for 
each  athletic  sport,  and  in  addition  a  sub- 
scription paper  is  passed  which  usually  gath- 
ers in  as  much  more.  Supposing  that  this 
method  were  instituted  at  Bowdoin  each  man 
in  college  would  be  assessed  eight  dollars 
($2  for  each  of  the  four  sports)  which  would 
be  collected  with  his  semester  bill  and  turned 
over  to  the  proper  authorities.  The  man- 
agers of  each  team  would  then  circulate  his 
customary  subscription  paper  to  meet  the  con- 
tributions of  those  men  who  feel  that  they 
can  afiford  to  give  more  than  eight  dollars. 

A  recent  graduate  of  Amherst  assured  the 
Orient  that  this   method  of  assessment  had 


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been  a  great  success  at  Amherst,  and  had  put 
athletics  in  that  institution  upon  a  firm  finan- 
cial footing.  The  process  thru  which  such 
an  action  as  the  above  must  go,  involves  a 
great  deal  of  red  tape.  If  the  college  makes 
any  move  in  the  direction  indicated,  the  sug- 
gestion should  properly  come  from  the  Un- 
dergraduate Council.  If  the  Council  will 
recommend  some  such  plan  to  the  faculty, 
and  the  faculty  will  in  turn  recommend  it  to 
the  meeting  of  the  Boards  of  Overseers  and 
Trustees  at  the  June  meeting,  it  may  be  possi- 
ble not  only  to  have  athletic  dues  levied  in  a 
lump  sum  but  to  have  a  portion  of  them  at 
least  put  upon  the  semester  bill.  Since  the 
option  in  the  matter  lies  with  the  Boards,  the 
way  to  bring  it  about  is  to  show  the  Boards 
thru  the  Undergraduate  Council  that  the 
question  is  vital  to  the  success  of  Bowdoin's 
athletic    interests. 


The  Leader  in   New 
Hampshire 


The '  Concord  Evening 
Monitor  in  speaking  edi- 
torially of  the  work  of  the 
recent  New  Hampshire  legislature,  pays  a 
flattering  tribute  to  a  Bowdoin  graduate. 
Governor  Henry  B.  Quinby  of  the  Class  of 
1869.  We  publish  it  here,  believing  that 
those  who  know  him  best  are  best  able  to 
judge  his  worth. 

"The  real  leader  of  the  legislature  this  winter  sat 
in  neither  the  Senate  nor  the  House.  His  chair 
was  in  the  executive  chamber  and  from  there  he 
laid  a  firm  hand  upon  all  the  proceedings  of  the 
session.  Through  his  own  initaitive  or  at  their  re- 
quest, he  has  been  constantly  in  consultation  with 
representatives  of  all  shades  of  political  and  party 
belief.  All  have  had  confidence  in  him  from  the 
day  when  he  laid  down  the  chart  for  the  session  in 
the  sterling  language  of  his  inaugural  message  up 
to  the  minute  when  he  prorogued  the  legislature, 
there  has  never  been  a  minute  when  Governor 
Quinby  entertained  a  thought  of  anything  but  a 
rigid  adherence  to  all  the  covenants  which  he  and 
his   party   had   made   with   the   people. 

His  methods  have  been  dignified  and  orderly.  He 
has  not  rushed  into  print  nor  used  a  megaphone, 
but  he  has  constantly  made  it  clear  that  he  intended 
not  only  to  do  his  duty  but  to  see  that  others  did 
theirs  so  far  as  he  could  command  the  situation." 


Something  New  in  The  story  is  told  of  an  old 
the  Way  of  Equip=  darkey  who  once  prayed, 
ujgu^  'Oh,    Lord,    if   you    wont 

bring  a  chicken  to  me, 
bring  me  to  a  chicken."  In  publishing  the 
Orient  the  similar  question  arises  of  whether 
the  Orient  is  coming  to  the  news  or  the  news 


is  coming  to  the  Orient.  Knowing  that  there 
is  something  of  human  interest  in  every  man 
and  hoping  that  we  may  be  able  to  extract  at 
least  a  part  of  it  by  a  process  of  mental  sug- 
gestion, we  have  caused  to  be  placed  on  the 
front  of  the  chapel  by  the  bulletin  board,  a  box 
into  which  it  will  be  possible  to  drop  any  news 
matter  which  the  writer  desires  to  have  pub- 
lished in  the  Orient.  All  that  we  ask  is  that 
the  college  use  it;  drop  your  copy  in  before  8 
P.M.  on  Tuesday;  and  sign  your  name  to  it. 

COMMUNICATION 

Bozi'doin  Orient: 

At  this  date  the  1909  football  schedule  has 
not  been  approved  by  the  athletic  council. 
Until  this  schedule  is  accepted,  Bowdoin  can- 
not be  represented  by  a  football  team  next 
fall.  In  order  to  meet  other  college  teams  in 
1909,  definite  and  favorable  action  must  be 
taken  by  the  Council  at  an  iminediate  date. 
This  state  of  affairs  is  due  to  a  recent  ruling 
of  the  Council  to  the  effect  that  no  athletic 
schedule  shall  be  approved  by  this  body  until 
all  bills  against  the  Association  have  been 
settled. 

Now  for  a  statement  of  the  financial  condi- 
tion of  the  football  association  at  this  date. 
The  liabilities  are  exactly  $415.  Unpaid  sub- 
scriptions and  board  bills  will  cover  this 
amount  to  the  extent  of  only  $175.  This 
leaves  a  balance  of  $240  of  liabilities  over 
assets. 

Various  methods  of  clearing  up  the. liabili- 
ties have  been  suggested  by  the  management, 
but  only  one  meets  the  approval  of  the  com- 
mittee in  charge  of  clearing  up  the  affair. 
This  is  a  general  voluntary  subscription^ 
which  if  every  man  in  college  did  his  share 
would  amount  to  a  dollar.  This  was  adopted 
last  fall,  that  Bowdoin  might  be  represented 
on  the  diamond  this  spring,  and  the  enthusi- 
asm of  the  student  body  saved  both  our  nine 
and  our  reputation.  The  football  manager 
feels  confident  that  the  same  hearty  co-opera- 
tion will  be  shown- in  his  efforts  to  preset ve 
football  at  Bowdoin. 

T.  Otis,  Manager. 

Saturday  evening  the  members  of  the  faculty  and 
their  wives  gave  Professor  Robinson  a  pleasant  sur- 
prise party  on  the  occasion  of  his  57th  birthday. 
The  affair  was  doubly  a  success  because  it  came  as 
a  complete  surprise  to  Professor  Robinson.  Among 
the  guests  were  Prof.  Robinson's  two  sons,  Arthur 
L.  Robinson,  '08,  and  Clement  Robinson,  '03, 
and    wife. 


so 


BOWt)OiN  ORIENT 


CALENDAR 

Friday,  April  30TH 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track   Practice. 
3,30  P.M.     Theta  Delta  Chi  vs.  Kappa  Sigma. 

Make-up  Gymnasium. 

Postponed   Meeting   of   Cliemical   Club. 

Sophomore-Freshman    Debate    in    Me- 


April  26 :     Theta  Delta  Chi  defeated  Zeta  Psi,  12-0. 
April  27 :     Psi    Upsilon    defeated    Kappa    Sigma, 

12-3 


Bowdoin    Fencing    Team    vs.    Pianelli 


4.30  P.M. 
7.30  P.M. 
8.00     P.M. 

morial  Hall 

8.00    P.M. 
Club   at   Augusta. 

Psi    Upsilon    Dance. 

S.\TURDAY,    MAY    1ST 

2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track   Practice. 
4.30  P.M.     Make-up  Gymnasium. 
Bowdoin  vs.  Pine  Tree  at  Portland. 
7.00    P.M.     Massachusetts    Club    meets    at    Kappa 
Sigma  House. 

Sunday,    May  2d 
5.00   P.M.     Chapel.     President   Hyde   will   speak. 

Monday,  May  30 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track   Practice. 
230-5.30  P.M.     Baseball  Practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Delta  Upsilon  vs.  Beta  Theta  Pi. 

Tuesday,   May  4Th 

2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  Practice. 

2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball  Practice. 

3.30  P.M.     Alpha  Delta  Phi  vs.  Theta  Delta  Chi. 

7.00  P.M.  Debate  in  English  VH.  Question:  The 
Recommendations  of  the  Simplified  Spelling  Board 
Should  be  Adopted  by  the  English  Speaking  World. 
Affirmative :  Colbath,  Stone.  Negative :  Woodward, 
Matthews.     Chairman,    Phillips. 

Wednesday,  May  5th 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track   Practice. 
230-5.30  P.M.     Baseball  Practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Delta  Upsilon  vs.  Psi  Upsilon. 

Thursday,   May  6th 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track   Practice. 
2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball    Practice. 
4.00  P.M.     Meeting  of  Student   Council. 
7.00  P.M.     Normal  Class  meets  in  Hubbard  Hall. 

Friday,   May  7th 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track   Practice. 
2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball  Practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Zeta  Psi  vs.  Kappa  Sigma. 
Delta    Upsilon    House    Party    and    Dance. 

Saturday,   May   8th 
10.30  A.M.     Track  Practice. 
2.30.     Bowdoin  vs.  U.  of  M.  on  Whittier  Field. 


THE  INTER=FRATERNITY  BASEBALL  LEAGUE 

April  16:     Zeta   Psi   defeated   Psi   Upsilon   12-6. 

(14  innings) 
April  20:     Beta  Theta  Pi  defeated  Alpha  Delta  Phi, 

6-3 
April  21 :     Delta    Upsilon    defeated    Kappa    Sigma, 

18-8 
April  23 :     Delta     Kappa     Epsilon    defeated     Theta 

Delta   Chi,   7-1 


Won 

Lost 

Per  cent. 

Beta    Theta    Pi 

0 

1000 

Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 

0 

1000 

Delta    Upsilon 

0 

1000 

Psi   Upsilon 

I 

500 

Zeta    Psi 

I 

500 

Theta   Delta   Chi 

I 

500 

Alpha  Delta  Phi 

0 

I 

000 

Kappa  Sigma 

0 

2 

000 

CollcGe  Botes 

SOPHOMORE=FRESHMAN    DEBATE    IN    MEMORIAL 
HALL  TO=NIQHT 

W.  T.  Phillips,  '09,  is  tutoring  in  Portland. 

Beginning  April  30,  Professor  Moody  will  con- 
duct Mathematics  4  in  place  of  Mr.  Stone. 

H.  B.  T.  Chandler,  '08,  visited  college  the  first  of 
the   week. 

E.  A.  Duddy,  '07,  who  is  studying  at  Harvard, 
was  in  town  for  a  few  hours  Friday. 

W.  T.  Phillips,  '09,  who  has  been  out  of  college 
for  two  weeks  past,  returned  Tuesday. 

Edward  Commins  of  the  Tufts  Medical  School, 
a  brother  of  Tom  Commins,  ex'io,  attended  the 
Tufts    game,    Saturday. 

Professor  Robinson  read  a  paper  before  a  teach- 
ers' convention  at  Rumford  Falls,  Wednesday 
evening. 

R.  E.  Merrill,  '09,  has  returned  to  college  for  a 
week,  but  will  return  to  Deering  High  School  to 
finish   the  year. 

Spurling,  '11,  returned  the  first  of  the  week  from 
his  home  in  Northeast  Harbor  where  he  has  been 
confined  with  grip  since   the  Easter  vacation. 

A.  L.  Robinson,  '08,  who  is  attending  the  Har- 
vard Law  School,  spent  his  short  vacation  at  home 
last    week. 

Atwood,  '10,  Palmer,  '11,  and  Somes,  '11,  visited 
Mount  Mica,  Paris,  Maine,  last  week  in  search  of 
minerals. 

Arthur  H.  Huse.  '08,  of  Camden,  and  William  W. 
Fairclough,  '08,  of  Richmond,  attended  the  Beta 
House  party. 

Decorators  from  Portland  were  here  Wednes- 
day to  give  an  estimate  on  the  cost  of  decorating 
Memorial  Hall   for  Ivy   Day. 

Mr.  John  L.  Alden,  teacher  of  Greek  in  Portland 
High  School,  was  the  guest  of  Robert  Hale,  '10, 
on  Tuesday. 

Trials  for  the  track  team  Tuesday,  were  of  a 
purely  informal  nature  and  Captain  Atwood  and 
Coach  Morrill  have  nothing  to  give  out  for  publica- 
tion. 

Tibbetts,  '12,  is  organizing  a  Freshman  quartet 
to  sing  at  the  Pastime  in  the  near  future.  The 
members  are  Tibbetts,  Burlingame,  R.  D.  Cole  and 
Davis. 


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Mr.  P.  P.  Milliken  of  Portland,  was  the  guest  of 
Meserve,   'li,   for  a  few  days  rceently. 

Glenn  A.  Lawrence,  '07,  was  married  April  21,  to 
Miss   Grace   C.   King  of   Ellsworth,   Me. 

Tuesday  evening's  Portland  Express  contained  a 
picture  of  Capt.  Newman  of  next  fall's  football  team. 

The  Brnnsivick  Record  next  week  will  publish 
interior  views  of  all  the  Bowdoin  fraternity  houses. 

Brunswick  High  defeated  Cony  High,  4-1,  at 
Augusta,  Saturday,  in  the  first  game  of  the  Bow- 
doin  Interscholastic  League. 

The  basehall  team  left  Tuesday  morning  at  7.50 
for  Hanover,  N.  H.,  to  play  the  two  games  with 
Dartmouth. 

The  Portland  High  School  debating  team  which 
recently  defeated  Cony  High,  was  coached  by  W. 
Sanborn.  '10. 

Professor  Foster  spoke  last  Friday  in  Bangor 
at  a  meeting  of  the  Penobscot  County  Teachers' 
Association ;   Sunday  he  spoke  at  Good  Will  Farm. 

President  Hyde  conducted  the  service  in  the  Col- 
lege Church,  Sunday  morning,  in  the  absence  of  Mr. 
Jump,  who  was  supplying  the  pulpit  of  Eliot 
Church,  Newton,  Mass. 

Saturday  afternoon  Brunswick  High  will  play  a 
game  in  the  scehdule  of  the  Bowdoin  Interschol- 
astic League  with  Lewiston  High  on  Whittier 
Field. 

Hiwale,  '09,  spoke  before  the  Portland  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  meeting  last  Sunday  afternoon.  Mr.  Hiwale 
gave  his  lecture  on  India  and  dressed  in  native 
costume. 

P.  H.  Timberlake,  '08.  the  present  holder  of  the 
Charles  Carroll  Everett  Scholarship,  who  is  now 
doing  graduate  work  at  Harvard,  attended  the 
Tufts    game    Saturday. 

E.  R.  Bridge,  '09,  visited  Hebron  Academy  this 
week  in  view  of  obtaining  students  for  Camp 
Moosehead  at  Bridgton,  Me.,  this  summer.  Bridge 
has  accepted  a  position  as  proctor  at  this  camp 
during   the    coming    summer. 

The  April  Quill  made  its  appearance  Tuesday, 
and  seems  to  be  up  to  its  usual  high  standard  as  a 
literary  product.  Is  it  interesting  to  note  that  sev- 
eral writers  make  their  initial  apparance  in  the 
April   number. 

A  new  course  in  school  supervision  will  be  offered 
at  Colby  this  year  for  those  who  wish  to  take  up 
educational  work  after  graduation.  It  will  be  con- 
ducted by  Dennis  E.  Bowman,  Superintendent  of 
the    Waterville   public    schools. 

It  may  be  of  interest  to  know  that  Frederick 
Moore,  the  war  correspondent  who  was  shot  at 
Constantinople  during  the  troubles  last  week,  was 
one  of  the  lecturers  at  Bowdoin  two  years  ago 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Ibis. 

Professor  W.  R.  Chapman  will  conduct  a  chorus 
of  two  hundred  and  fifty  voices,  Tuesday  evening. 
May  4,  in  Brunswick  town  hall,  the  singers  coming 
from  Lewiston  and  Auburn,  Bath  and  Brunswick, 
Freeport    and   Yarmouth. 

The  men  who  went  to  Hanover  with  the  ball 
team  Tuesday  were  Manter,  Wilson,  Clifford, 
Wandtke,  Bower,  Lawlis,  McDade,  Purington, 
Pratt,  Holt,  and  Means.  Harris  was  unable  to  go 
because  of  his  work  in  the  Medical  School. 


Dr.  Cram  began  recitation  and  lecture  work  with 
the  class  in  Mineralogy  I.  Wednesday.  During  the 
first  part  of  the  semester  the  work  was  all  done  in 
the  laboratory.  The  class  meets  at  3.30  p.m.  Mon- 
day, Wednesday  and  Friday. 

The  band  will  hold  a  rehearsal  next  Monday 
evening  at  which  time  officers  for  next  year  will  be 
elected.  Mr.  Bridgham  requests  the  members  of  the 
band  to  prepare  the  march,  "Salute  to  the  Stars  and 
Stripes"    found    in    the   black   book. 

For  the  third  time  out  of  twenty-two  contests. 
Bates  met  defeat  in  debate  last  Friday  night  before 
Clark  College,  on  the  question.  Resolved,  That  it 
should  be  the  policy  of  the  United  States  to  effect 
a  substantial  decrease  in  immigration.  The  debate 
was  'held  in  Lewiston,  and  Bates  defended  the 
affirmative. 

The  new  box  under  the  bulletin  board  at  the 
chapel  is  placed  there  for  the  use  of  persons  who 
wish  to  contribute  to  the  columns  of  the  Orient. 
If  you  know  a  piece  of  news,  a  college  note  or  any- 
thing else  of  interest  to  the  college,  drops  it  in  the 
box  before  eight  o'clock  Tuesday  evening.  The 
Orient  will  accept  no  copy  which  is  not  signed  by 
the   writer. 

Manager  Hall  of  the  University  of  Maine  track 
team  has  at  last  come  to  an  agreement  with  the 
Tufts  management,  with  the  result  that  the  uni- 
versity team  will  leave  Orono,  Friday,  for  a  dual 
meet  with  Tufts  at  Medford.  This  sudden  an- 
nouncement comes  rather  as  a  surprise  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Maine  team  which  has  only  had  a  week 
of  out-door  track  work,  due  to  the  unfavorable 
weather  conditions. 

FENCING    TEAM  AT  AUGUSTA 

To-night  the  Bowdoin  Fencing  Team  meets  the 
Pianelli  Club  of  Augusta  at  the  Augusta  House. 
After  the  bout  there  is  to  be  a  dance.  The  Bowdoin 
team  is  composed  of  Bridge,  '09,  P.  B.  Morss.  '10, 
and  Stephens,  '10.  The  Pianelli  team  will  be  the 
same  as  that  which  fought  at  the  Indoor  Meet, 
namely,  Mr.  Church,  Mr.  Sawtelle  and  Mr.  Jones. 
Bowdoin's  judges  will  be  Lippincott,  '10,  and  Lib- 
bey,  '12,  while  those  of  the  Augusta  team  will  be 
Mr.  Little  and  Mr.  Merrill.  Bowdoin  men  are 
always  welcomed  at  Augusta  and  a  large  crowd  is 
expected  to  attend.  A  cordial  invitation  has  been 
extended  to  all  Bowdoin  men. 

RESOLUTIONS 

H.-VLL   OF  THE  K.'VPPA  OF   Psi   UpSILON, 

March  26,  1909. 
Whereas,  It  has  pleased  God  Almighty  in  His 
infinite  wisdom  to  take  unto  Himself  the  soul  of 
our  honored  and  beloved  brother.  Dr.  Charles  Ap- 
pleton  Packard  of  the  Class  of  1848,  a  loyal  and 
devoted  alumnus  of  our  chapter,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  while  we  bow  to  the  Divine  Will, 
we  mourn  this  honored  brother,  who  has  passed 
away  at  the  end  of  a  useful  and  unselfish  life  and 
we  extend  to  his  bereaved  relatives  and  friends  our 
sincerest   sympathy. 

Kenneth    Remington   Tefft, 
Walter   Atherton    Fuller, 

For    the    Chapter. 


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BOWDOlN  ORIENT 


Hlumni  S)epartmcnt 


'57. — An  interesting  and  characteristic 
anecdote  of  Gen.  Thomas  H.  Hubbard 
appears  in  the  World's  Work  of  March,  1909, 
on  page  11,307. 

'58. — The  Boston  Globe  speaks  of  the  re- 
cently published  rendering  by  Rev.  L  Perley 
Smith  of  Vergil's  Eclogues  as  "one  of  the 
most  delightful  of  the  metrical  translations 
which  has  appeared  for  years." 

'66. — Dr.  Frederic  Henry  Gerrish,  Presi- 
dent of  the  American  Therapeutic  Society, 
will  entertain  a  large  circle  of  his  friends  at 
The  Harmonic  Club,  New  Haven,  Conn.,  on 
May  seventh,  in  connection  with  annual  gath- 
ering of  that  society. 

'69. — In  summing  up  the  work  of  the  New 
Hampshire  legislature  which  adjourned  this 
month,  the  leading  newspaper  of  the  state 
says  of  Hon.  Henry  B.  Ouinby :  "The  real 
leader  of  the  legislature  this  winter  sat  in 
neither  the  Senate  nor  the  House.  His  chair 
was  in  the  executive  chamber.  All  have  had 
confidence  in  him.  From  the  day  he  laid 
down  the  chart  for  the  session  in  the  sterling 
language  of  his  inaugural  message,  up  to  the 
minute  when  he  prorogued  the  legislature,  he 
has  thought  of  nothing  save  a  rigid  adherence 
to  all  the  covenants  which  he  and  his  party 
had  made  with  the  people. 

'86. — Dr.  Thomas  Worcester  Dike,  after  a 
long  illness,  died  at  Westboro,  Mass.,  April 
17.  1909.  Dr.  Dike  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Dr. 
Samuel  F.  and  Miriam  (Worcester)  Dike  of 
Bath,  Maine,  where  he  was  born  2  _[une,  1865. 
He  received  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  city.  After  graduation 
he  was  connected  with  the  McLean  Asylum, 
Somerville,  Mass.,  and  the  Massachusetts 
Homeopathic  Hospital  at  Boston  for  a  year. 
He  then  began  the  formal  study  of  medicine 
and  received  the  degree  of  doctor  of  medicine 
from  Boston  University  in  1890.  After  serv- 
ing as  resident  physician  at  the  Homeopathic 
Dispensary  at  Boston  and  at  the  Hahnemann 
Hospital,  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  he  began  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  at  Newton  Centre  in 
1891 ;  he  continued  it  for  two  years  at  Clifton- 
dale,  Mass.,  and  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  for  four 
years,  having  in  1895  studied  at  Vienna.  In 
1900  he  withdrew  from  professional  work  and 
became  treasurer  of  the  Pan-American  Dredg- 
ing   Company    of    Boston.     He    was    subse- 


quently in  the  employ  of  the  National  Biscuit 
Company  of  the  same  city  until  the  failure  of 
his  health  in  1908.  "Dr.  Dike  was  a  quiet, 
unassuming  man  of  large  capabilities  and  was 
greatly  beloved  by  a  circle  of  friends  as  wide 
as  his  acquaintance." 

'94. — The  Orient  last  week  stated  that 
Rev.  Alfred  L.  Bliss  had  resigned  from  the 
pastorate  of  the  Plymouth  Church  of  Utica, 
N.  Y.  Mr.  Bliss'  resignation  was  not 
accepted  and  he  has  been  granted  a  leave  of 
absence  until  next  October.  He  sails  for 
Europe  this  week  where  he  will  remain  until 
September. 

'98. — His  classmates  and  many  friends  will 
regret  to  learn  of  the  recent  loss  by  Frank  H. 
Swan.  Esq.,  of  Providence,  of  bis  oldest  son, 
Woo'dbury  Dana  Swan. 

'98. — J.  Meldon  Loring,  lately  director  of 
the  commercial  department  in  the  Hyde  Park 
(Mass.)  High  School,  has  accepted  a  similar 
position  in  the  Crosby  High  School  at  Water- 
bury,  Conn. 

"99. — Mr.  Cony  Sturgis,  for  the  past  year 
Instructor  in  Romance  Languages  at  Cornell 
University,  is  director  of  the  Sturgis  Tutoring 
School  at  Ithaca,  N.  Y.,  which  employs  nine 
teachers  and  has  met  with  success  in  prepar- 
ing boys  for  college  and  in  enabling  under- 
graduates to  make  up  deficiencies  or  to  anti- 
cipate work  of  the  following  year. 

'03. — 'Governor  Fernald  has  appointed 
Andy  P.  Havey  of  West  Sullivan  a  member 
of  the  State  Enforcement  Commission,  usually 
known  as  the  Sturgis  Commission.  Mr. 
Havey  as  a  member  of  the  legislature  was  the 
proposer  of  the  law  which  becomes  operative 
in  July  by  which  the  cost  of  the  enforcement 
of  the  prohibitory  law  in  any  county  by  this 
commission  is  to  be  meit  by  that  county  rather 
tlian  by  the  state. 

'07. — Charles  R.  Bennett  of  the  Interna- 
tional Banking  Corporation,  has  recently  left 
this  country  for  Yokohama,  Japan,  where  he 
is  to  remain  three  years. 

PROF.  FILES  TO  00  ABROAD 

Professor  Files  sails  May  i8th  on  the  Cuiiard 
liner.  Saxonia,  from  Boston  for  Liverpool.  He  will 
make  a  tour  of  England  and  Scotland  after  which 
he  will  go  to  Leipzig  to  attend  the  five  hundredth 
anniversary  of  Leipzig  University,  from  which  he 
received  his  doctor's  degree. 


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VOL.   XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  MAY  7,  1909 


NO.  5 


DINNER  IN  HONOR  OF  PROF.  CHAPMAN 

Bowdoin    Faculty  to  Celebrate  Completion  of   Prof. 
Chapman's  Fortieth  Year  in  Bowdoin 

On  Saturday  evening,  May  8,  at  the  Hotel 
Eagle,  the  academical  faculty  of  Bowdoin 
College  will  give  Professor  Chapman  a  din- 
ner in  honor  of  the  completion  of  the  40 
years  of  service  on  the  instructing  staf?  of  the 
college.       Professor     Chapman's     record     is 


Prof-  Henry  L.  Chap 


Who  Has  Completed  Forty  Years  Work  at  Bowdoin 
(Courtesy  Brunswick  Record) 

noteworthy  in  that  from  February,  1869, 
when  he  was  appointed  tutor  in  Latin  and 
Mathematics  until  the  present  time,  his  ser- 
vice has  been  without  interruption.  In  this 
connection  it  is  interesting  to  recall  that 
Professor  Robinson  has  been  on  the  faculty 
35  years,  Professor  Plenry  Johnson  32  years. 


Professor  Little  27  years,  and  Professor 
Moody. 25  years. 

Many  of  the  alumni  are  well  acquainted 
with  the  following  facts;  but  the  Orient 
desires  to  print  them  once  again  for  the  ben- 
efit of  the  undergraduates  in  particular. 
Henry  Leiand  Chapman  was  born  at  Bethel, 
Maine,  July  26,  1845.  He  prepared  for  col- 
lege at  Gorham  Academy  and  entered  Bow- 
doin in  1862.  He  was  graduated  in  1866 
with  Phi  Beta  Kappa  honors.  From  1866  to 
1869  he  studied  theology  at  the  Bangor  Sem- 
inary and  at  the  completion  of  his  course 
became  tutor  in  Latin  and  Mathematics  at 
his  Alma  Mater.  In  1870  he  was  promoted 
to  an  instructorship  and  in  1872  was  made 
professor  of  Latin.  In  1875  h^  was  elected 
to  the  Edward  Little  professorship  of  rhet- 
oric and  oratory,  and  in  1897  professor  of 
English  language  and  literature.  In  1884-5 
he  was  acting  president  of  the  college.  In 
1890  the  college  conferred  upon  him  the 
degree  of  doctor  of  divinity  and  in  190S  the 
degree  of  doctor  of  laws. 

This  brief  statement  shows  how  intimately 
Professor  Chapman  has  been  connected  with 
Bowdoin  College  as  most  of  the  Orient 
readers  know  her.  More  than  forty  classes 
have  been  under  his  instruction ;  and  his 
knowledge  of  the  alumni  and  their  interests 
and  activities  is  indeed  wide.  No  other 
speaker  is  more  desired  at  alumni  dinners 
and  no  other  representative  of  the  college  is 
heard  with  more  pleasure.  The  alumni  feel 
that  the  ties  between  them  and  Professor 
Chapman  are  peculiarly  strong.  Of  Profes- 
sor Chapman's  courses  and  of  his  relations  to 
the  undergraduates  this  is  not  the  place  to 
speak  in  detail ;  but  many  a  Bowdoin  student 
has  had  his  latent  love  for  literature  quick- 
ened by  an  hour  with  Chaucer,  or  a  reading 
from  Lear,  or  a  talk  on  Longfellow  or  Burns 
heard  in  former  days  in  the  quaint  recitation 
room  that  used  to  be  housed  in  old  Massa- 
chusetts, or  more  recently  in  the  familiar 
room  in  Banister  Hall.  More  important  still 
is  the  loyal  affection  of  many  a  former  pupil 
for  the  cordial  and  winning  personality  of 
one  whom  we  delight  to  look  on  as  peculiarly 
our  own — a  Bowdoin  graduate,  a  Bowdoin 
teacher  and  a  Bowdoin  man. 


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BOWDOIN  0,  DARTMOUTH  12 

New  Hampshire  College  Takes  Revenge  for  Defeat  of 
Day  Before 

Dartmouth  took  revenge  for  Bovvdoin's 
victory  of  the  day  before,  in  the  second  game 
last  Thursday  and  won  out  against  Bowdoin 
with  a  total  of  I2  runs.  Heavy  hitting  by 
Dartmouth  and  frequent  errors  by  Bowdoin 
are  responsible  for  the  one-sided  game.  Dart- 
mouth started  off  with  two  runs  in  the  first, 
and  scored  each  alternate  inning,  witli  four 
runs  in  the  eighth.  Bowdoin  was  unable  to 
connect  with  Mitchell,  securing  but  three  hits 
during  the  game. 

The   score : 

Dartmouth 

ab      bh      po      a        e 

Schildmiller    r 4         i         3        o        o 

Brady,    1 5         3        9        0        0 

Norton,    2 4        4        2        2        0 

Daly,    cf 5        2        0        0        o 

Ryan,    3 4         i         o         i         0 

Coggins,    If 3        o        I        0        o 

Conroy,    s 5         o        5         3        0 

Chadbourne,     c 4        o        6        o        0 

Mitchell,    p 4        I        o        3        o 

Ganley,    c o        o         I         o        o 

Totals     38  12  27  9  o 

Bowdoin 

ab  bh  pc  a  e 

Wandtke,  .2 4  o        0  4  I 

Wilson,    c 4  o        5  I  2 

Bower,    3 4  o         i  i  2 

McDade,    If 3  o        3  o  0 

Manter,    p 4  i        o  5  i 

Clifford,    1 4  I  13  0  o 

Lawlis,    ss o  o  i  3  0 

Holt,    r 3  I        o  o  I 

Purington,    cf 3  0        o  0  0 

Totals     29        3      23      14        7 

Innings    I     2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9 

Dartmouth     2     0     i     0    2    o     3     4      — 12 

Runs — Schildmiller   3,    Brady   3,    Norton   4,   Dalv, 

Mitchell.     Two-base    hits— Clifford,    Daly,    Mitchell. 

Three-base     hit — ^Manter.     Sacrifice      hit — Coggins. 

Stolen  bases — Schildmiller,  Brady  2,   Norton,   Ryan. 

First  base   on   balls— Off   Mitchell   3,   off   Manter  2. 

Struck   out — By   Mitchell   6,   by   Manter   5.     Double 

play — Conroy      to      Brady.       Wild      pitch — ^Manter, 

Umpire — Killourly. 


FRESHMAN  DEBATERS  WIN  CUPS 

Failure  of  Sophomores  to  Cite  Authority  Gives  Victory 
to  Underclassmen — Edgar  0.  Achorn,  '81,  Presides. 

On  Friday  night,  April  30,  for  the  first 
time  in  the  history  of  the  college,  the  Sopho- 
mores and  the  Freshmen  met  in  forensic  con- 
test, and  when  the  vapor  and  heat  of  argu- 


ment had  ceased  and  the  contestants  were 
recovering  from  their  oratorical  efforts,  the 
palm  of  victory  was  awarded,  by  the  unani- 
mous consent  of  the  judges,  to  1912.  Mr. 
Edgar  O.  Achorn,  '81,  who  offered  the  cups, 
which  were  displayed  conspicuously  on  a  ta- 
ble at  the  rear  of  the  stage,  occupied  the 
chair.  The  question  was:  Resolved,  That 
trial  by  jury  in  the  United  States  should  be 
abolished.  The  Sophomores  upheld  the  af- 
firmative. 

Cole,  191 1,  opened  for  the  affirmative  by 
stating  the  line  of  argument  that  his  side 
would  attempt  to  follow ;  namely,  to  prove 
that  trial  by  jury  does  not  serve  the  ends  of 
justice,  that  it  cannot  be  made  to  serve  the 
ends  of  justice,  and  that  another  method  can 
be  found  which  better  serves  the  ends  of  jus- 
tice. The  method  which  the  affirmative  pro- 
posed was  that  of  trial  by  commission,  said 
commission  .to  consist  of  two  lawyers,  two 
medical  experts,  one  mechanic,  and  one  lay- 
man, appointed  by  the  government  for  a  term 
of  service  of  seven  years.  Cole  then  tried  to 
show  that  the  present  method  of  impaneling 
juries  cannot  bring  best  results,  in  that  pro- 
fessional men  are  debarred,  that  merchants 
and  business  men  are  excused,  and  that  the 
third  class  from  whom  juries  are  chosen  are 
intellectually  incompetent  to  perform  the  duty 
devolving  upon  them,  as  they  are  prejudiced 
against  corporations  and  easily  swayed  by  the 
eloquence  and  sophistry  of  the  lawyers. 

Bryant,  1912,  stated  that  the  negative 
would  endeavor  to  prove  that  the  jury  system 
is  an  indispensable  moral  and  educational  in- 
stitution, that  it.  is  an  indispensable  political 
institution,  and  that  it  better  serves  the  ends 
of  justice  than  any  other  system.  He  con- 
tended that  the  jury  system  educates  the 
people  mentally,  morally,  and  socially,  in  that 
it  teaches  them  to  recognize  their  rights,  to 
sift  evidence  for  and  against,  drills  them  in 
logic,  and  is  in  fact  a  school  of  free  citi- 
zenship. 

White,  191 1,  for  the  affirmative,  objected 
that  such  education  is  by  a  method  both  cum- 
bersome and  clumsy,  that  the  delay  of  jury 
trials  is  a  great  drawback,  and  that  the  ten- 
dency of  men  to  shirk  jury  duty  cannot  best 
serve  the  ends  of  justice.  The  fact  that  men 
are  chosen  by  lot  is  furthermore  disadvanta- 
geous, for  not  all  men  are  fit  to  serve. 

Maloney,  1912,  for  the  negative  upheld  the 
proposition  that  the  jury  system  is  an  indis- 


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35 


pensable  political  .institution,  in  that  it  is 
founded  on  the  fundamental  principles  of 
democratic  government,  in  that  it  gives  the 
people  more  power  than  any  other  judicial 
system,  and  in  that  this  distribution  of  rights 
is  more  widely  spread. 

Merrill,  191 1,  the  next  speaker,  contended 
that  even  if  the  negative  succeeded  in  proving 
their  first  two  points,  yet  for  the  debate  they 
must  prove  their  last  point,  or  their  case 
would  be  utterly  lost.  In  upholding  the 
method  of  trial  by  commission  he  discussed 
the  advantages  of  such  system  accruing  from 
the  length  of  service  of  the  commission,  their 
ability  to  detect  the  sophistry  of  lawyers, 
their  freedom  from  prejudice  against  corpor- 
ations, from  prejudice  for  or  against  the  rich, 
and  .their  impartiality  to  women. 

Rodick,  1912,  closing  for  the  negative, 
contended  that  it  could  not  be  shown  that 
trial  by  commission  would  result  in  less  delay 
than  trial  by  jury,  and  endeavored  to  prove 
that  juries  act  as  a  check  against  injustice, 
that  they  are  more  impartial,  and  that  they 
are  better  able  to  decide,  on  cases  of  fact, 
because  they  are  representative  of  the  com- 
munity, and  have  a  first-hand  knowledge  of 
the  life  and  habits  of  the  people. 

Bryant,  in  rebuttal,  contended  that  the 
proper  performance  of  his  duty  by  the  judge 
in  summing  up  the  evidence  presented  by 
both  sides,  should  effectually  guard  against 
influence  on  the  jurors,  by  the  sophistry  and 
eloquence  of  the  lawyers.  He  objected  to 
the  commission  system  as  too  conjectural,  as 
being  unadvocated  by  any  statesmen  of  emi- 
nence. 

White,  first  on  rebuttal  for  the  affirmative, 
called  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  negative 
had  not  attempted  to  improve  their  system. 
and  challenged  them  to  admit  that  it  was  not 
satisfactory  as  conducted  at  present. 

Rodick  continued  his  argument  to  prove 
that  jurors  are  better  able  to  decide  questions 
of  fact,  and  objected  to  the  affirmative's  sub- 
stitute as  being  unknown,  untried,  and  un- 
recommended. 

Merrill  took  exception  to  the  authority 
quoted  by  the  negative  and  disagreed  with 
their  contention  that  the  judge  served  as  a 
'balance  and  check  to  the  jury. 

Maloney,  for  the  negative,  cited  a  list  of 
the  authority  taken  exception  to  by  the  af- 
firmative, and  rested  his  case  on  the  evident 
satisfaction  of  the  people,  on  the  cheapness 
of  the  jury  system  in  comparison  with  others, 
on  the  ability  of   England    to    secure    quick 


trials,  and  on  the  advantages  of  a  democratic 
execution   of   judgment. 

Co'le-  in  closing,  summed  up  the  case  as 
presented,  referred  to  the  second  issue  as  not 
having  been  touched  by  the  negative,  and  the 
third  issue  as  not  having  been  met,  while  the 
contention  that  jurors  were  better  judges  of 
fact  had  not  been  proved  to  his  saisfaction. 

The  debate  was  thoroughly  alive  and  very 
interesting,  and  surely  deserved  a  larger  audi- 
ence. The  Freshmen  were  more  polished 
and  easy  in  delivery  than  the  Sophomores  and 
intrenched  themselves  strongly  behind  a 
weight  of  authority.  A  fundamental  weak- 
ness of  the  affirmative  was  their  lack  of 
authority  for  the  substitute  proposed  for  the 
trial  by  jury  system,  a  loophole  against  which 
the  negative  effectually  directed  their  attack. 


BOWDOINS  FIRST  DEFEAT 

Pianelli  Club  Wins  Fencing  Contest,  Score  5  to  4- 

Bridge  and  Sawteile  Figlit  off  a  Draw 

Last  Friday  night  the  Bowdoin  Fencing 
Team  suffered  its  first  defeat  at  the  hands  of 
the  Pianelli  Club  of  Augusta.  Bowdoin  and 
Pianelli  have  met  four  times,  Bowdoin  win- 
ning three  and  Pianelli  one.  The  referee  was 
Mr.  Charles  F.  Bilodeau  of  Augusta.  The 
judges  were  Mr.  H.  E.  Merrill  and  Mr.  Fred 
R.  Fife  of  Augusta,  Hawes,  '10,  and  Libby, 
'12,  of  Bowdoin. 

In  the  first  series^  Pianelli  won  all  three 
bouts,  Mr.  Jones  beating  Bridge,  '09;  Mr. 
Sawteile  beating  P.  B.  Morss,  '10,  and  Mr. 
Church  beating  Stephens,  '10. 

In  the  second  series,  P.  B.  Morss,  '10,  beat 
Mr.  Jones ;  Bridge,  '09,  beat  Mr.  Church,  and 
Stephens,  '10,  beat  Mr.  Sawteile.  In  the 
third  series  Mr.  Church  beat  Morss,  '10, 
Stephens,  '10,  beat  Mr.  Jones.  The  score 
was  here  Bowdoin  4  and  Pianelli  4.  The  bout 
between  Bridge,  '09,  and  Mr.  Sawteile  de- 
cided the  contest.  This  ended  in  a  draw, 
which  was  fought  off  and  Mr.  Sawteile  won 
by  a  close  margin.  This  gave  Pianelli  the 
contest.     Pianelli  5,  Bowdoin  4. 

There  was  a  large  crowd  in  attendance  and 
a  dance  followed  which  was  greatly  enjoyed 
by  all. 

The  Bowdoin  team  fenced  in  superb  form 
and  won  the  admiration  of  all  the  old  fencers 
who  were  present. 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 

LISHED    EVERY    FrIDAV    OF  THE   COLLEGIATE   YEA 

BY  THE  Students  of 
BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,   igio  Editor-in-Chie 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  igii,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 

p.  B.  MORSS,  1910  C.  D.  ROBBINS,  1911 

THOMAS  OTIS.  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON,  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON.  1910  W^.  A.  McCORMICK,  1912 

J.  C.  WHITE.  1911  W.  A.  FULLER.  1912 


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J.  L.  CURTIS,   igii 


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MAY   7,   1909 


Forty  Years  of 
Service 


Forty  years  of  devotion 
to  the  interests  of  Bow- 
doin  College  is  the  envia- 
ble record  of  Professor  Henry  L.  Chapman, 
in  whose  honor  the  faculty  will  give  a  dinner 
at  Hotel  Eagle,  Saturday  evening.  In  those 
forty  years  of  service  Professor  Chapman 
has,  by  his  courteous  demeanor,  his  kindly 
affection,  and  his  sense  of  personal  interest 
in  every  Bowdoin  man,  eternally  endeared 
himself  to  the  college.  In  Professor  Chap- 
man are  embodied  those  most  fortunate  at- 
tributes of  a  college  professor;  true  gentle- 
nranliness  without  a  trace  of  the  superficial, 
and  scholarship  without  a  taint  of  the  pedan- 
tic. A  college  community  is  the  most  dif- 
ficult body  in  the  world  to  deceive,  and  the 
quickest  to  take  advantage  of  an  inconsist- 
ency. That  class  after  class  has  named 
Professor  Chapman  the  most  popular  man  on 
the  Bowdoin  faculty,  is  no  mean  tribute.  To 
the  most  universally  beloved  man  connected 
with  the  college;  to  one  of  the  founders  of 
Phi  Chi;  to  a  former  member  of  Bowdoin's 
crew   and   a   pitcher  on  the  college   nine   for 


three  years;  to  the  gentleman,  scholar  and 
teacher,  the  undergraduates  and  alumni  join 
with  the  faculty  in  extending  their  congrat- 
ulations upon  forty  years  of  usefulness.  May 
he  live  forty  more  to  honor  his  Alnia  Mater 
by  his  presence. 


Agreeing  with  Our     Although      there      are      a 

Contemporary        f^f  "^^f ^  "^^"  '"  ^°"^Se 
to-day  who  look  back  over 

their  experiences  with  Latin  and  Greek  and 
wonder  how  they  ever  passed  the  require- 
ments in  those  subjects,  there  are  few  who 
regret  that  Bowdoin  stands  for  the  classics. 
From  the  "easy"  chair  of  the  Quill,  comes  a 
commendable  utterance  in  which  the  editor 
expresses  his  satisfaction  that  advanced  Latin 
has  been  retained  as  an  entrance  requirement. 
From  its  beginning  Bowdoin  College  has 
stood  for  the  best  in  art  and  literature ;  Bow- 
doin, the  last  of  the  New  England  colleges 
to  accept  students  upon  certificates,  stood  out 
for  entrance  examinations  until  forced  by 
competition  to  adopt  the  certificate  system. 
Taking  into  consideration  its  past  history  and 
the  names  of  men  distinguished  in  literature 
which  adorn  its  roll,  it  is  altogether  fitting 
that  Bowdoin  stand  firmly  for  a  classical  cur- 
riculum. 

SPECIAL  RATES  FOR  TRACK  MEET 

The  Track  Management  has  secured  special 
rates  for  all  who  wish  to  go  to  the  Maine 
Meet  at  Orono,  May  15.  The  rate  for  anyone 
going  up  on  the  early  train  that  morning  and 
returning  not  later  than  the  second  midnight, 
leaving  Bangor  at  12.45  niidnight,  is  $2.00 
round  trip.  Tickets  good  for  from  Friday^ 
May  14,  to  Sunday,  May  16,  inclusive,  may 
be  had  for  $3.75  round  trip.  Both  these  rates 
include  the  fare  from  Bangor  to  Orono  and 
return. 

No  rates  to  the  New  England  Meet  on 
May  22  have  been  received  as  yet,  though  it 
is  probable  that  the  regular  round  trip  price 
of  $5.50  will  be  secured.  The  Manager  will 
have  reserved  seats  for  the  New  England  for 
sale  within  a  few  days.  Probably  the  cheap- 
est way  to  go  to  Boston  is  by  boat.  Quite  a 
number  have  already  made  arrangements  to 
make  the  trip  in  that  way. 

The  Secretary  of  the  Faculty  will  excuse  a 
man's  cuts  in  order  that  he  may  attend  either 
one  of  these  two  meets-  If  he  desires  to  take 
in  both,  he  must  take  the  cuts  for  one  of 
them. 


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DELTA  UPSILON  HOUSE  PARTY 

At  the  Delta  Upsilon  House  party  to  be  held  at 
the  Chapter  House  on  Maine  Street  this  evening, 
the  custom  of  holding  the  reception  in  the  evening 
is  to  be  reinstated.  The  reception  will  be  held 
from  8  until  9.30  at  which  time  dancing  will  begin 
in  the  dance  hall.  The  patronesses  for  the  even- 
ing are  Mrs.  George  T.  Files,  Mrs.  Frank  E.  Wood- 
ruff, Mrs.  Hudson  B.  Hastings,  Mrs.  Frederick  T. 
Nelson,  and  Mrs.  Samuel  S.  Thompson.  The 
committee  in  charge  of  the  affair  is  P.  G.  Bishop, 
'09,  R.  C.  Harlow,  '09,  A.  W.  Wandtke,  '10,  Law- 
rence McFarland,  '11,  and  S.  J.  Marsh,  '12.  The 
delegates  from  other  fraternities  are  E.  Curtis  Mat- 
thews, '10.  from  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  Stetson  H. 
Hussey,  '11,  from  Zeta  Psi ;  Ralph  H.  Files,  '09, 
from  Kappa  Sigma ;  John  H.  Hurley,  '09,  from  Psi 
Upsilon ;  James  M.  Sturtevant,  '09,  from  Theta 
Delta  Chi,  Daniel  F.  Koughan,  '09,  from  Beta 
Theta  Pi ;  and  W.  Bridgatn  Nulty  from  Alpha 
Delta  Phi. 

Among  the  out-of-town  guests  are  Mrs.  W.  A. 
Hill  of  Rockland;  Mrs.  R.  H.  McFarland  of  Port- 
land ;  Mrs.  H.  S.  Wing  of  Kingfield,  Mrs.  Kingsley 
of  Augusta ;  Mrs.  Dana  C.  Skillin  of  Hallowell ; 
Mrs.  John  T.  Sullivan  of  Roxbury,  Mass. ;  Mrs. 
M.  H.  Drake  of  West  Medford,  Mass.;  Mrs.  Geo. 
M.  Atwood  of  Paris;  Miss  Gertrude  M.  Harlow,  of 
Dixfield;  Mrs.  W.  J.   Hainmond  of  Howland. 

The  young  ladies  present  are  Misses  Ethel  Blair, 
Gladys  Berry,  Ruth  Robinson  and  Charlotte  Neal 
of  Gardiner;  Misses  Margaret  Burns  and  Bertha 
Linell  of  Saco:  Mises  Annie  Shea.  Emmie  Harris, 
and  Mrs.  C.  E.  Richardson  of  Lisbon  Falls ;  Misses 
Agnes  Green,  and  Dorothy  Abbott  of  Portland ; 
Misses  Beth  Fuller  and  Charlotte  Buffam  of  Rock- 
land; Misses  Marguerite  Hutchins,  Beatrice  Hen- 
ley, Gertrude  Sadler,  and  Gladys  Umberhind  of 
Brunswick ;  Miss  Ethel  Drake,  '  West  Medford, 
Mass. ;  Miss  Ernestine  Thompson,  Pittston ;  Miss 
Berenice  Munce,  Calais ;  Miss  Chrystine  Kennison, 
Waterville ;  Miss  Helen  Spear,  Bath ;  Mrs.  Roy 
C.  Harlow,  Richmond;  Miss  Viola  Dixon,  South 
Freeport;  Miss  Agnes  Stanley,  Kingfield;  Miss 
Gertrude  Wyman,  Intervale,  N.  H. ;  Miss  Jessie 
Daniels,  Natick,  Mass.;  Miss  Mattie  Swift.  Wayne; 
Miss  Eva  Carlton,  Woolwich;  Miss  Alice  Mifflin, 
Exeter,  N.  H. ;  Miss  Olive  Paine,  Hallowell ;  Miss 
Blandene  Sturtevant,  Dixfield ;  Miss  Evelyn  Win- 
ship,  Auburn. 

The  party  took  dinner  at  New  Meadows  Inn, 
Friday  night,  and  will  attend  the  baseball  game 
on    Whittier    Field,    Saturday. 


PSI    UPSILON    DANCE 

An  informal  May  dance  was  given  at  the 
Psi  Upsilon  House  last  Friday  evening.  Ken- 
drie's  Orchestra  furnished  music  for  an  order 
of  twenty-two  dances.  The  affair  was  in 
charge  of  a  committee,  consisting  of  Philip  H. 
Brown,  '09;  Clinton  N.  Peters,  '10;  Ben  W. 
Partridge,  '11,  and  Robert  P.  King,  '12.  The 
patronesses  were  Mrs.  Edward  P.  Pennell, 
Mrs.  George  T.  Files  and  Mrs.  Hartley  C. 
Baxter. 

The  guests  of  the  evening  were:  Miss  Ma- 


rian Carter,  Miss  Isabel  Carter,  Miss  Janet 
Peters,  Miss  Margaret  Starbird,  Miss  Helen 
Smith,  Miss  Alcede  Chenery,  Miss  Irene 
Moore,  Miss  Dorothy  Clay  and  Miss  Mar- 
jorie  Meserve  of  Portland;  Miss  Annie  Ross 
of  Kennebunk;  Miss  Lucy  Hartwell  and  Miss 
Dorothy  Duncan  of  Bath;  Miss  Beady  and 
Miss  Smith  of  Gardiner;  Miss  Shirley  White 
and  Miss  Dunn  of  Auburn;  Miss  Margaret 
Swett,  Miss  Mabel  Davis,  Miss  Margaret 
Sutherland  and  Miss  Ruth  Little  of  Bruns- 
wick. 


UNIVERSITY  OF  MAINE  GAME  TO=MORROW 

To-morrow  afternoon  Captain  Manter's 
diamond  artists  wilJ  cross  bats  with  the  team 
representing  the  University  of  Maine  on 
Whittier  Field.  There  has  been  a  shake-up  in 
the  team  since  they  appeared  upon  the  home 
ground  last  and  Coach  Rawson  looks  for  the 
team  to  hit  its  gait  in  this,  the  first  game  of 
the  Maine  series.  The  attendance  at  the 
Tufts  game  was  very  commendable  and  if 
the  college  will  only  do  as  well  to-morrow, 
the  management  will  have  no  cause  to  com- 
plain. The  band  will  be  in  the  grandstand 
as  usual  and  give  a  concert  before  the  game. 


THE  TRAINING  TABLE 

The  training  table  for  track  men  was  started 
Thursday,  April  29,  '09.  This  vear  the  men  are 
bemg  taken  care  of  by  Mrs.  Whitten  at  17  Cleave- 
land   Street.     The   following  men  are  at   the   table- 

Coach  Morrill,  Capt.  Atwood,  Manager  Warren 
Robmson,  Ballard.  Carey,  H.  Robinson.  Edwards 
Cole,  McFarland,  R.  Morss,  Simmons,  Colbath,  Slo- 
cuni,  Wiggm,  Newman,  A.  L.  Smith,  J.  D.  Clif- 
ford, Demmg,  Burlingame,  Rowell,  Burton,  Hine, 
Frank  Smith.  Warren,  E.  B.  Smith  and  McKenney. 

The  men  will  be  given  hard  work  during  this 
work  and  after  the  trials  Friday  p.m.  the  training 
table  squads  will  doubtless  be  altered.  Some  men 
will  be  dropped  and  new  men  brought  in  to  fill 
their   places. 


ALEXANDER  PRIZE  SPEAKERS 

The  following  named  men  have  been  chosen  to 
take  part  in  the  Preliminary  Competition  for  the 
Alexander    Prize    Speaking : 

Juniors:  J.  D.  Clifford,  Colbath,  G.  W.  Cole, 
Eastman,  E.  C.  Matthews,  H.  M.  Slocum,  W.  B. 
Stephens,  A.  W.  Stone,  H.  E.  Warren,  H.  E. 
Weeks,  Williams. 

Sophomores :  Berry,  A.  H.  Cole,  Curtis,  Dreear, 
Fifield.  McFarland,  Marston,  E.  B.  Smith,  Tors- 
ney,   J.    C.   White. 

The  competition  will  take  place  Wednesday,  May 
19,    in    Hubbard   Hall. 


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CALENDAR 

Friday,  May  7th 

2.30-4.30   P.M.     Track   Practice. 
2-30-5-30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Zeta  Psi  vs.  Kappa  Sigma. 
Delta   Upsilon   House   Party  and   Dance. 

Saturday,  May  8th 
10.30  A.M.     Track  Practice. 

2.30  P.M.  Bowdoin  vs.  U.  of  M.  on  Whittier  Field. 
Dinner  at  Hotel  Eagle  in  honor  of  Prof.   Chap- 
man. 

Sunday,   May  grn 

5.00   P.M.     Chapel.     President  Hyde   will   speak. 
Monday,  May   ioth 

2.30-4.30   P.M.     Track   Practice. 

2.30-5-30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 

6.30  P.M.     Band  Concert  on  the  Campus. 

Tuesday,  May  iith 

2.30-4.30   P.M.     Track   Practice. 

2.30-5-30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 

3.30  P.M.  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  vs.  Alpha  Delta 
Phi. 

7.00  P.M.  Debate  in  English  VII.  Question: 
Women  shall  be  given  suffrage  on  equal  terms  with 
men.  Aifirmative :  Byles,  Hiwale.  Negative : 
Goodspeed,   Grace.     Chairman :   Hawes. 

Wednesday,  May  i2th 

230-4.30  P.M.  Track  Practice. 
2-30-S-30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 

Thursday,   May  13TH 

2.30-4.30  P.M.  Track  Practice. 
Bowdoin  vs.  Tufts  at  Medford. 
3.30  P.M.     Theta  Delta  Chi  vs.  Beta  Theta  Pi. 

Friday,  May  14TH 

1.30  P.M.     Track  team  leaves  for  Orono. 

2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 

3.30  P.M.     Delta  Upsilon  vs.  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

Saturday,  May  isth 

Maine   Intercollegiate  Track   Meet   at   Orono. 
2.30-S-30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 


THE  INTERFRATERNITY  LEAGUE 

April  30:     Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  tied  Beta  Theta  Pi. 

2-2    (14   innings) 

May  3:     Delta  Upsilon  defeated  Beta  Theta  Pi,  5-2 

May  4:     Alpha    Delta    Phi    defeated    Theta    Delta 

Chi,   15-11 
Mays:     Delta  Upsilon   defeated   Psi   Upsilon,   11-8 
Won         Lost     Per  cent. 
Delta    Upsilon  3  o  1000 

Delta    Kappa    Epsilon  i  0  1000 

Beta  Theta   Pi  11  500 

Alpha  Delta  Phi  i  i  500 

Zeta  Psi  i  j  500 

Theta  Delta   Chi  I  2  333 

Psi    Upsilon  i  2  ;^23 

Kappa    Sigma  o  2  000 


CoUcQC  Botes 

DON'T    MAKE   ANY    DATES   FOR  MONDAY  EVEN= 

INQ,  AT  6.30.     THE  COLLEGE  BAND  WILL  GIVE 

AN  OPEN  AIR  CONCERT  ON  THE  CAMPUS. 

H.  M.  Smith,  '09,  entertained  his  father,  recently. 
Philip    W.    Meserve,    '11,    entertained    his    parents 
last  Sunday. 

Prof.  Files  gave  a  final  examination  in  German 
4,  Thursday. 

H.  N.  Marsh,  '09.  spent  Sunday  at  his  home  in 
Dixfield. 

Mr.   I.   G.   Ruillard,   Harvard,   '12,   was  the  guest 

of  McFarland,  '11.  at  the  Delta  Upsilon  house  party. 

L.  Davis,  '11,  has  accepted  a  position  as  principal 

of  Richmond  High  School  to  teach  the  spring  term. 

The   Freshman   debating  team   sat   for  pictures  at 

Webber's,    Tuesday. 

Chapin,  '11,  has  left  college  to  work  for  three 
weeks. 

Ralph  White  of  Rockland,  was  a  guest  at  the 
Zeta  Psi  House  the  first  of  the  week. 

Walton,  '12,  is  confined  in  his  room,  14  Maine 
Hall,   with  the   mumps. 

W.  E.  Sargent,  '78,  Principal  of  Hebron  Acad- 
emy, was  on  the  campus,  Tuesda}'. 

The  Seniors  and  Juniors  will  begin  to  practice 
marching    for    Ivy    Day   next    week. 

Capt.  'Manter  appointed  Black,  '11,  captain  of  the 
second  'baseball   team,   Tuesday. 

Hiwale,  '09.  gave  his  lecture  on  India  at  the  Con- 
gregational   Church,    Wednesday    evening. 

The  manager  of  the  Brown  track  team  is  arrang- 
ing to  send  his  team  to  the  Alaska- Yukon  exposi- 
tion  next   summer. 

Prof.  Chapman  attended  the  meeting  of  the 
trustees  of  the  State  Normal  Schools  at  Augusta, 
Tuesday. 

Professor  Woodruff  is  to  speak  to-night  at  a 
meeting  of  the  Gentlemen's  Club  at  New  Meadows 
Inn  on  the  subject,  "The  Outlook  for  Democracy." 
Kimball,  '11,  who  is  staying  out  this  semester 
because  of  ill  health,  was  in  town  a  few  hours, 
Wednesday,    April   28. 

Mr.  Hugh  Yarkes  of  Boston,  spent  the  first  of 
the  week  on  the  campus  as  the  guest  of  Bos- 
worth,  '12. 

Manager  Woodward  of  the  Dramatic  Club,  an- 
nounced the  first  of  the  week  that  "The  Regiment 
of  Two"  will  be  presented  at  Richmond,  May  26th. 
The  judges  of  the  simplified  spelling  debate  Tues- 
day evening,  were  Mr.  Scott,  Hovey,  '09,  and 
Hale,  '10. 

At  the  Faculty  Club  meeting,  Monday  evening. 
Prof.  Hastings  read  a  paper  on  Gladstone,  in  com- 
memoration of  the  100th  birthday  of  the  great  Eng- 
lish statesman. 

It  is  rumored  that  the  Colby  Freshmen  have  or- 
ganized a  baseball  team  for  the  purpose  of  chal- 
lenging the  Bowdoin  Freshmen,  but  no  word  has 
yet  been  received  from  the  up-river  institution. 


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The  caps  and  gowns  at  chapel,  Sunday,  were  a 
great  addition  both  to  the  appearance  of  the  service 
and  to  the  dignity  of  the  Senior  Class. 

Rev.  Chester  B.  Emerson,  '04,  will  supply  the  pul- 
pit of  the  "Church  on  the  Hill"  on  Memorial  Day, 
May    30th. 

Manager  Robinson,  '10.  acted  as  Timer  at  the 
Bates-Colby  track  meet  in  Lewiston,  Wednesday. 
Several    of   the    students    attended. 

Bridge,  '09,  Estes,  '09,  P.  B.  Morss,  '10,  and  Col- 
bath,  '10,  are  to  be  councillors  at  Camp  Moose- 
head  at  East  Denmark,  Maine,  this  summer. 

William  F.  Coan,  '04,  who  has  been  principal  of 
the  Houlton  High  School  for  two  years,  has  been 
elected  superintendent  of  schools  in  the  district  of 
Houlton   and   adjoining   towns. 

Joe  Stanwood,  'brother  of  "Baldy"  Stanwood, 
'08,  was  on  the  campus  last  week  on  his  way  to 
Houlton  to  coach  the  baseball  team  of  Ricker  Clas- 
sical   Institute. 

F.  V.  Stanley.  '09,  pastor  of  the  Methodist  church 
at  Lisbon,  has  been  officially  informed  that  he  is  to 
receive  a  $400  fellowship  from  Harvard  University 
for    graduate    work    next    fall. 

Philip  L.  Pottle,  igoo,  has  recently  become  super- 
intendent "of  the  International  Paper  Company's 
Mills  at  Glens  Falls,  New  York,  at  a  salary  of 
$3,000. 

Prof.  George  T.  Files  and  .  family  will  leave 
Brunswick  May  16  and  will  sail  the  i8th  for  Eu- 
rope, where  they  will  spend  the  summer  in  an 
extended   automobile   trip. 

Students  of  the  University  of  Missouri  named 
Smith  have  organized  a  "Smith  Club"  with  a  char- 
ter membership  of  twenty-four.  The  purpose  of  the 
club  is  to  perpetuate  the  Smith  family  and  ^  also 
endeavor  to  bring  other  Smiths  to  the  university. 

Herbert  G.  Lowell,  '08,  who  for  the  past  year  has 
been  an  instructor  in  Fryeburg  Academy,  has  re- 
signed his  position  to  accept  a  position  in  the  labor- 
atory of  the  Dupont  Power  Co.'s  works  at  Ches- 
ter, Penn. 

The  Orient  last  week  stated  that  Dartmouth  got 
15  hits  off  Means.  The  correct  number  is  eight. 
The  mistake  may  be  laid  at  the  door  of  the  Asso- 
ciated Press,  who  sent  the  news — to  the  Portland 
papers. 

Spinney,  '12,  returned  Tuesday  from  a  trip  in  his 
capacity  as  agent  of  commencement  goods  to 
Hebron  Academy,  Bridgton  Academy,  Norway 
High,  and  Paris  High,  and  surrounding  schools. 
He  left  Brunswick  April  30. 

The  college  will  lay  out  a  path  from  the  corner 
of  the  library  to  the  corner  of  Maine  and  College 
streets  for  the  use  of  the  Delta  Upsilon  fraternity 
and  others  who  may  be  passing  that  way.  The  fel- 
lows are  requested  not  to  cut  across  the  grass  from 
the  end  of  the  library  walk  to  the  corner  of  the 
building. 

P.  C.  Voter.  '09,  who  is  to  get  the  Charles  Carroll 
Everett  scholarship  next  year,  will  do  graduate 
work  in  Chemistry  at  Harvard.  J.  J.  Stahl,  '09,  the 
holder  of  the  Henry  W.  Longfellow  scholarship,  js 
considering  going  to  Germany  to  study  German 
literature  at  Munich,  but  has  not  fully  decided  to 
do   so   as   yet. 


Manager  Otis  has  collected  more  than  half  of 
the  $175.00  of  which  the  Orient  spoke  editorially 
last  week.  If  the  fellows  who  owe  money  will  keep 
up  the  good  work,  we  may  yet  be  able  to  have  a 
football  team  next  fall.  . 

The  Boston  Merchants'  Association  which  is 
making  a  tour  of  Maine  by  special  train,  visited 
the  college  for  half  an  hour,  Wednesday  morning. 
The  crowd  in  fron>-  of  Memorial  Hall  at  the  10.30 
recitation  gave  the  merchants  a  rousing  Bowdoin 
cheer. 

The  Boston  Herald  recently  made  the  first  an- 
nouncement of  the  inception  of  a  movement  to 
commemorate  the  three-hundredth  anniversary  of 
the  landing  of  the  Pilgrims  and  the  founding  of 
New  England  by  a  World's  Ter-centennial  Exposi- 
tion  in   Boston  in   1920. 


CHEMICAL  CLUB  MEETINQ 

The  Alpha  Deka  Phi  members  enter- 
tained the  Chemical  Club  at  its  regular 
monthly  meeting  last  Friday  evening  at 
Alpha  Delpha  Phi  House.  Dr.  Cram  read  a 
very  interesting  paper  on  "Petroleum"  of 
which  subject  he  is  making  a  special  study 
and  is  amply  qualified  to  speak.  During  the 
social  hour  which  followed  Professor  Robin- 
son was  presented  with  a  group  photograph 
of  the  club  by  its  members.  Refreshments 
were  served- 


NOTICE   TO    ALL    STUDENTS 

Please  return  the  student  blanks  promptly 
to  Harry  Atwood,  or  to  the  Registrar's 
office.  All  names  received  at  once  will  go  on 
the  special  mailing  list.  Copies  of  the  new 
bulletins  and  of  a  special  number  of  the 
Ouill,  will  be  mailed.  Additional  blanks  may 
be  obtained  of  the  Senior  Council  or  at  the 
Registrar's   office. 


M.  I.  A.  A.  OFFICIALS 


Officials  for  the  annual  Maine  intercollegiate  track 
meet  which  takes  place  at  Orono,  May  15,  have  been 
selected  as  follows : 

Referee,  Eugene  Buckley,  Boston.  Judge  at  finish, 
Dr.  W.  W.  Bolster,  Lewiston ;  E.  A.  Parker,  Skow- 
hegan.  Timers,  Dr.  Frank  N.  Whittier,  Brunswick, 
A,  L.  Grover,  University  of  Maine ;  E.  A.  Rice, 
Fairfield.  Starter,  H.  C.  McGragh,  Charles  Bank 
gymnasium,  Boston.  Measurers,  C.  W.  Atchley, 
Waterville;  R.  D.  Purington,  Bates;  E.  A.  Stan- 
ford, West  Kennebunk ;  I.  W.  Nutter,  Bangor. 
Judges  of  field  events,  H.  L.'  Sweet,  Orono; 
Albert  Johnson,  Turner ;  Henry  A.  Wing,  Lewiston. 
Scorers,  J.  A.  Wiggin,  Bates ;  E.  F.  Allen,  Colby ; 
A.  P.  Wyman,  Maine.  Announcer,  Ralph  O.  Brew- 
ster,  Bowdoin. 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


Hlumni  IDepartment 


•"55. — Among  the  many  American  mission- 
aries whose  long-continued  educational  work 
in  Turkey  has  rendered  possible  a  constitu- 
tional government  in  that  country,  none  is 
entitled  to  greater  honor  than  Rev.  Joseph 
K.  Greene,  D.D.,  who  this  year  completes  a 
service  of  fifty  years  under  the  American 
Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Mis- 
sions. For  many  years  he  has  been  stationed 
at  Constantinople  and  has  had  charge  of  the 
mission  newspapers  which  are  issued  in  sev- 
eral languages. 

'61. — Chief  Justice  Emery  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Maine  plans  to  take  a  two  months' 
vacation  to  observe  the  procedure  and  prac- 
tice in  the  courts  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland 
and  of  Belgium  for  which  he  has  been  offered 
excellent  facilities.  He  is  booked  to  sail  on 
the  steamship  Cymric  from  Boston  May  29, 
and  will  be  accompanied  by  his  son,  Prof. 
Henry  C.  Emery  of  Yale  University. 

"73. — Hon  Francis  M.  Hatch  of  Washing- 
ton, D.  C,  has  recently  presented  the  college 
library  with  an  elgegantly  bound  set  of  Theo- 
dore Roosevelt's  writings  in  which  the 
author's  autograph  was  inserted  at  the 
donor's  recLuest. 

'97. — Frank  J.  Small,  Esq.,  for  the  past 
two  years  city  treasurer  of  Waterville,  Me., 
was  married  April  19  at  St.  Mark's  Church 
to  Miss  Ellen  Hodgkinson  of  that  city.  The 
newly  wedded  couple  sailed  the  following 
day  on  the  Saxonia  for  a  wedding  tour  of 
England,  of  which  country  the  bride  is  a 
native. 

'00. — Mr.  Burton  M.  Clough  has  resigned 
the  principalship  of  the  High  School  at  East- 
hampton,  Mass.  The  local  paper  speaks  of 
him  as  follows :  "He  has  been  here  for  three 
years  and  has  accomplished  much  for  the 
school.  The  business  course  which  has 
added'  so  largely  to  the  numbers  of  the  enter- 
ing class  for  the  last  two  years  may  be  cred- 
ited to  his  efforts,  and  it  has  proved  very  suc- 
cessful so  far.  At  the  end  of  his  first  year 
the  right  of  entrance  to  the  New  England 
colleges  on  certificate  was  also  granted  to  the 
school,  a  privilege  continued  throughout  his 
administration;"  Mr.  Clough  is  planning  to 
engage  in  business  at  Portland,  Maine. 

•qi. — At  a  regular  meeting  of  Essex  North 
Association  of  Congregational  Ministers,  held 


in  April,  1909,  at  Rowley,  Mass.,  the  Stand- 
ing Moderator  and  Scribe,  Rev.  Messrs.  W. 
F.  Low  and  George  P.  Merrill,  were  in- 
structed to  sign  and  publish  the  following 
minute  adopted  by  a  unanimous  vote: 

"The  Essex  North  Association  of  Congre- 
gational Ministers,  having  heard  of  the 
reports  recently  published  against  the  moral 
character  of  one  of  our  members,  Rev.  David 
Frank  Atherton,  and  having  examined  the 
case  with  all  its  legal  papers,  and  many  of 
us  having  known  Mr.  Atherton  for  years, 
hereby  affirm  our  complete  confidence  in  Mr. 
Atherton's  moral  integrity,  purity  and  truth- 
fulness, and  we  commend  him  without  any 
hesitation  to  the  fellowship  of  all  Christian 
Churches." 

"05. — Wallace  C.  Philoon  has  been  pre- 
sented a  sabre  in  recognition  of  his  services 
as  captain  of  'the  West  Point  football  team. 
This  gift  was  made  by  the  officials  when 
they  gave  out  the  medals  to  those  who  have 
won  their  A's  in  athletics.  It  is  the  first 
time  that  such  a  gift  has  been  bestowed  in 
addition  to  the  medals. 

'08. — The  Boston  Transcript  has  the  fol- 
lowing concerning  the  newly  organized 
Lovett-Chandler  Company  of  that  city,  of 
which  James  M.  Chandler,  formerly  of  this 
class,  is  the  treasurer.  "It  is  the  aim  of  the 
company  to  obtain  results  by  means  of  clean, 
forceful,  business-getting  literature.  Mr. 
Lovett  has  had  experience  as  a  translator  and 
contributor  to  the  magazines  in  addition  to 
acting  in  a  consultative  and  advisory  capacity 
to  firms  contemplating  advertising  campaigns, 
while  Mr.  Chandler  has  been  identified  as  a 
statistician  and  exponent  of  the  publicity  of 
agricultural   products." 

THE    MASSACHUSETTS   CLUB 

The  regular  meeting  of  the  Massachusetts 
Club  was  held  at  the  Kappa  Sigma  House, 
last  Saturday  evening.  Dr.  Burnett  gave  an 
exceedingly  interesting  talk  on  his  trip  to 
California  last  summer,  and  told  of  many 
experiences. 

It  was  voted  that  the  next  meeting  be  held 
at  New  Meadows  Inn,  May  29th.  Dr.  Bur- 
nett was  voted  an  honorary  membership  in 
the  club.  Prof.  Allen  Johnson  and  Prof. 
Hastings,  both  members  of  the  club,  were 
present. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


VOL.   XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  MAY   14,  1909 


NO.  6 


BOWDOIN  6,  MAINE  S 

The  Traditional  Bowdoin  Spirit  of  Never  Quit  Gets 
Back  at  Maine  in  the  Ninth  Inning 

At  the  mass-meeting  on  the  night  before 
the  Maine  game  last  Saturday,  Coach  Raw- 
son  said  that  he  expected  to  see  the  Bowdoin 
team  hit  its  gait  when  it  met  the  boys  from 
up  state.  His  expectations  were  fulfilled  at 
the  very  beginning  when,  with  Maine  at  the 
bat  and  Means  in  the  box,  Bowdoin  retired 
her  opponents  without  score.  Wilson,  the 
first  batter  for  Bowdoin,  found  a  ball  to  his 
liking  and  laid  it  over  the  fence  for  a  home 
run,  the  first  of  the  season  on  Whittier  Field. 
The  rest  of  the  game  was  -characterized  by 
hard  hitting,  br'lliant  field  plays  and  inexcus- 
able errors.  Up  to  the  fourth  inning  the  two 
teams  alternated  in  taking  the  lead.  In  the 
fourth,  Means  was  taken  out  and  Hobbs  put 
in  the  box  with  two  men  on  bases,  and  one 
out.  It  was  a  hard  hole  to  pull  out  of,  but 
Hobbs  proved  equal  to  the  occasion,  retiring 
the  side  with  only  one  run  to  the  good.  At 
the  end  of  the  inning  the  score  stood  Maine 
5,  Bowdoin  4.  Neither  team  scored  again 
until  the  last  half  of  the  ninth  when  Bowdoin 
came  to  the  bat  with  the  head  of  the  batting 
list  up.  Wilson  struck  out,  McDade  got  a 
base  on  balls,  a»d  Harris  got  a  hit  advancing 
McDade  to  third.  Capt.  Manter  went  to  first 
and  Wandtke  came  to  the  bat  witli  one  out 
and  three  men  on  bases.  It  was  an  exciting 
moment  for  the  spectators,  but  Wandtke  met 
the  emergency  with  a  long  drive  to  the  out- 
field which  enabled  McDade  to  score.  The 
score  now  stood  Bowdoin  5,  Maine  5.  Clif- 
ford came  to  the  bat  and  knocked  an  infield 
ball  too  hot  for  Higgins  of  Maine  to  handle, 
and  Harris  scored  the  winning  run.  ' 

From  the  standpoint  of  the  baseball  expert 
the  game  was  loosely  played,  but  the  general 
concensus  of  opinion  seemed  to  be  that  it  was 


one  of  the  most  exciting  games  ever  seen  up- 
on Whittier  Field.  Wilson  was  the  particu- 
lar star  on  Bowdoin's  team.  His  throws  to 
second  were  wonderfully  accurate  and  in  the 
seventh  inning  by  his  clever  tactics  he  put  out 
Pond  between  second  and  third  without  aid. 
Harris  played  a  fine  game  in  the  field  and  did 
good  work  with  the  stick.  Wandtke,  Clifford 
and  Bower  made  timely  hits. 
The  summary : 

Bowdoin 

ab  r  bh  po  a  e 

Wilson,    c 4  I        2  6  4  3 

McDade,    If 5  i         i  o  o  0 

Harris,     ss 5  2  3  8  3  0 

Manter,    2b 3  i         0  2  3  2 

Wandtke,    cf 4  i  2  o  0  0 

Clifford,     lb 402801 

Bower,    3b 4  o  i  o  li  0 

Lawlis,     rf 4  0         I  3  o  0 

Means,    p 2  0  i  o  0  0 

Hobbs,    p 2  0  o  o  3  o 

Totals     37        6      13      27      13        3 

Maine 

ab  r  bii  po  a  e 

Smith,    c 4  o  I  5  o  I 

Mayo,    lb 5  o  i  11  0  i 

Pond,    If 5  o  2  3  o  o 

Co'bb.    3b 4  o  o  2  2  0 

McHale,    p 5  o  2  0  3  i 

Fnlton,    cf 3  2  0  I  2  o 

Scales,     rf 4  2  2  i  o  0 

Higgins,     ss 4  11  ~i  3  3  0 

Coombs,    2b 3  0  2  o  2  0 

Totals     37        s       II      26*     12        3 

*Winning  run  made   with  two  men   out. 

Innings : 

Bowdoin     i     0     3     0     o     0     0     0    2 — 6 

Maine     o    3    0    2    o    o    o    o    0 — s 

Two-base  hits — Harris,  Means.  Home  run — Wil- 
son. Stolen  bases — Wilson,  McDade,  Manter, 
Wandtke,  Cobb,  Coombs.  Base  on  balls — By 
Means  3,  by  Hobbs  i,  by  McHale  i.  Struck  out — 
By  Means  2,  by  Hobbs  2,  by  McHale  5.  Sacrifice 
hit— Clifford.  Sacrifice  fly— Wandtke,  Balk,  Mc- 
Hale. Double  plays — Harris  to  Clifford;  Manter 
to  Harris  to  Clifford;  Fulton  to  Higins.  Hit  by 
pitched  ball — Wandtke,  Manter  2,  Coombs,  Cobb. 
Passed  balls — Smith  2.  Umpire — John  Carrigan  of 
Lewiston.     Time — 2   hours    15    minutes. 


42 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BEYOND  BANGOR  LIES  ORONO 

Large  Squad  of  Rooters  to  Accompany  Track  Team — 
Entries  for  the  Maine  Intercollegiate  Meet — 
Bowdoin  Has  Won  Eleven  Out  of 
Fourteen  Contests 

To-morrow  the  attention  of  the  State  of 
Maine  will  be  largely  centered  upon  Orono, 
where  a  certain  up-state  educational  institu- 
tion is  hunting  around  for  a  state  champion- 
ship which  they  lost  at  Brunswick  last  year. 
Whether  or  not  they  find  it  will  depend 
largely    upon    Bowdoin,    and    her    squad     of 


Atwood 


track  athletes.  Orono  to-morrow  will  be 
visited  by  a  great  number  of  college  men, 
representing  every  college  in  the  state,  and 
from  present  indications  there  is  no  ground 
for  supposing  that  Bowdoin's  delegation  will 
be  any  smaller  than  usual.  The  team  leaves 
Friday  noon,  and  with  them  will  go  many 
of  the  undergraduates  who  wish  to  see  the 
meet,  but  the  greater  part  of  the  Bowdoin 
cheering  section  will  go  up  Saturday  morn- 
ing, leaving  here  at  eight  o'clock.  If  enough 
money  is  raised  at  the  mass-meeting  Thurs- 
day night  to  pay  at  least  half  the  expenses  of 
each  man,  the  college  band  will  go. 

While  the  Orient  would  not  presume  to 
forecast  the  outcome  of  the  meet,  we  feel  safe 
in  asserting  that  the  track  team  will  do  credit 
to  the  honor  of  old  Bowdoin. 


The  Bowdoin  men  who  will  enter  the  meet 
are  as  follows :  Capt.  Atwood,  McKenney, 
Ballard,  Cole  and  E.  B.  Smith  in  the  loo- 
yard  dash;  Capt.  Atwood,  Ballard,  Cole,  E. 
B.  Smith,  R.  Morss,  and  Reynolds  in  the  220- 
yard  dash ;  Manter,  Cole,  Morss,  Reynolds, 
E.  B.  Smith,  and  Capt.  Atwood  in  the  quar- 
ter mile ;  Simmons,  Manter,  Colbath,  and 
Reynolds  in  the  half  mile ;  Colbath,  Slocum, 
Carey,  H.  Rotynson,  and  H.  Hine  in  the 
mile;  Slocum,  Robinson,  Carey  and  Colbath 
in  the  two  mile;  Edwards,  McFarland, 
Wiggin,  F.  A.  Smith  and  Crosby  in  the 
120-yard      hurdles;      Edwards,      McFarland, 


Mgr.  "Warren   E.  Robinson 

Wiggin,  F.  A.  Smith,  and  Capt.  Atwood  in 
the  220-yard  hurdles.  In  the  field  events  the 
men  entered  are  Pennell,  Burlingame,  Ed- 
wards and  Capt.  Atwood  in  the  high  jump; 
Capt.  Atwood,  McFarland,  E.  B.  Smith,  F.  A. 
Smith,  Bur'lingame  and  Edwards  in  the  broad 
jump;  Burton,  Deming,  Burlingame,  F.  A. 
Smith,  and  W'ggin  in  the  pole  vault ;  New- 
man, ClitTord,  F.  A.  Smith,  and  Burton  in  the 
shot  put;  Warren,  Hastings,  Crosby,  S.  A. 
Smith  and  Newman  in  the  hammer  throw ; 
and  Rowell,  F.  A.  Smith,  Cliilord  and  Crosby 
in  the  discus. 

We  present  the  results  of  Maine  Intercol- 
legiate Meets  since  1895,  which  show  Bow- 
doin to  have  won  a  total  of  994  points,  with 
513  for  Maine,  206^-  for  Bates,  and  104I  for 
Colby.     Bowdoin  has  won  11  out  of  14  meets, 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


43 


U.   of  M.   winning  the  other  three   in   1902, 


1906 

and    1907.  . 

Bowdoin         U. 

of  M. 

Bates 

Colby 

189s 

99 

16 

9 

II 

1896 

108 

4 

13 

10 

1897 

72 

16 

24H 

13/2 

1898 

69 

39 

18 

9 

1800 

75 

38 

19 

3 

1900 

92;/. 

I2/a 

13 

17 

I90I 

89 

31 

10 

5 

1902 

57 

60 

8 

I 

1903 

67 

46 

II 

2 

1904 

64 

50 

10 

2 

I90S 

59 

55 

8 

4 

1906 

39 

51 

22 

14 

1907 

45/2 

46/2 

23 

II 

1908 

S8 

48 

18 

2 

Total 

s,              994 

S13 

206/ 

104/ 

UNDERGRADUATE   COUNCIL   MEETS 

Football  Manager  Allowed  to  Circulate  Subscription 
Paper — Question  of  Athletic  Dues  Discussed 

A  special  meeting  of  the  Undergraduate 
Council  was  held  on  Saturday,  May  i.  At 
this  meet'ng  the  Council  listened  to  a  peti- 
tion by  the  football  manager  for  permission 
to  circulate  a  subscription  paper  among  the 
undergraduates  to  meet  the  football  deiicit. 
The  Council  voted  to  lay  the  request  on  the 
table  until  further  collections  had  been  made 
of  money  owed  the  football  association. 
Upon  motion  the  chair  instructed  the  college 
customs  comm'ttee  to  report  at  the  next  coun- 
cil meeting  a  tentative  plan  for  the  more 
complete  centralization  of  athletic  expendi- 
tures. The  committee  was  further  instructed 
to  submit  a  scheme  for  the  coercion  of  delin- 
quent athletic  subscribers. 

The  sixth  regular  meeting  of  the  Counc'l 
was  called  to  order  on  May  6.  The  college 
customs  .committee  reported  a  provisional 
plan  for  a  more  centralized  administration 
of  the  financial  affairs  of  the  various  athletic 
teams.  The  committee  recommended  that  no 
definite  action  be  taken  by  the  counc'l  until 
time  had  been  allowed  for  investigation  of  the 
systems  in  vogue  in  some  of  the  other  East- 
ern colleges.  The  recommendation  of  the 
comimittee  was  accepted  and  the  secretary  of 
the  council  was  instructed  to  write  for  the 
information  in  question.  It  was  voted  that 
the   football  manager  be  allowed  to  circulate 


a  subscription  paper  to  clear  up  the  football 
deficit.  The  treasurer  of  the  College  Rally 
submitted  his  report  and  it  was  accepted. 
The  college  customs  committee  reported  that 
the  scheme  of  publishing  the  names  of  men 
delinquent  in  athletic  subscriptions  seemed  to 
them  the  best  plan  for  collecting  carelessly 
overdue  money. 


CALENDAR 

Friday,  May  14TH 

1.30  P.M.     Track  team  leaves   for  Orono. 

230-5.30    P.M.     Baseball    Practice. 

3.30  P.M.     Delta  Upsilon  vs.  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

Saturday,   May   isth 

Maine   Intercollegiate  Track  Meet  at   Orono, 
2-30-5.30    P.M.     Baseball    Practice. 

Sunday,  May  i6th 

10.45  A.M.  Rev.  John  H.  Denison  of.  the  Central 
Church,  Boston,  conducts  service  in  the  First  Con- 
gregational  Church. 

5.00  P.M.     Chapel.     Rev.  T.  H.  Denison  speaks. 

7.00   P.M.     Questionaire. 

Monday,  May  I/TH 

2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  Practice. 

230-5.30    F.M.     Baseball    Practice. 

3.30  P.M.     Zeta  Psi  vs.  Alpha  Delta  Phi. 

Tuesday,  May  i8th 

2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  Practice. 

230-5.30    P.M.     Baseball    Practice. 

3.30   P.M.     Psi   Upsilon  vs.   Theta   Delta   Chi. 

7.00  P.M.  Debate  in  English  VII.  Question: 
United  States  Senators  should  be  elected  by  direct 
vote  of  the  people.  Affirmative,  Rowell,  Wing. 
Negative :   Dreear,   Madison.     Chairrnan,    Colbath. 

Wednesday,  May  igxH 

Bowdoin  vs.  U.  of  M.  at  Orono. 
2.30-4.30  P.M.     Track  Practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Kappa  Sigma  vs.  Beta  Theta  Pi. 
7.00    P.M.     Alexander    Prize    Speaking    trials    in 
Hubbard   Hall. 

Thursday,  May  20th 

230-5.30    P.M.     Baseball    Practice. 

3.30  P.M.     Delta  Upsilon  vs.  Alpha  Delta^  Phi. 

Track  team   leaves   for   Brookline. 

Friday,  May  2IST 

2.30-5.30    P.M.     Baseball    Practice. 

Trials  in  the  N.  E.  I.  Meet  at  Brookline. 

3.30  P.M.     Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  vs.  Zeta  Psi. 

Saturday,  May  22D 

Bowdoin   vs.    Colby   at   Waterville. 
N.    E.    I.    Track    Meet   at    Brookline. 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,  1910  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  1911,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 
p.  b.  morss,  1910  cd.  robbins,  1911 

THOMAS  OTIS.  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON,  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON.  1910      W.  A.  McCORMICK,  1912 
J.  C.  WHITE.  1911  W.  A.  FULLER,  1912 


R.  D.   MORSS,  1910 
J.  L.  CURTIS,  191 1 


Business  Manager 
Asst.   Business   Manager 


Contributions  are  requested  fronn  all  undergradu- 
ates, alumni,  and  officers  of  instruction.  No  anony 
mous  manuscript  can   be  accepted. 

All  communications  regarding  subscriptions  should 
be  addressed  to  the   Business   Manager. 

Subscriptions,  $2.00  per  year,  in  advance.  Single 
copies,    10  cents 


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MAY    14,   1909 


More  Light  on  the     Since  the  college  rally  on 

New  Gymnasium  ^P*"^'  ^^*'  ^"'^  ^'"^^  "^^"" 
tion  has  been  made  of  the 
new  gymnasium.  Possibly  the  reason  for  this 
is  to  be  found  in  the  interest  shown  by  the 
college  in  the  work  of  the  track  and  baseball 
teams.  However,  the  need  of  the  gymna- 
sium grows  more  imperative  day  by  day  and 
every  Bowdoin  man,  whether  alumnus  or 
undergraduate,  must  realize  that  the  time  is 
not  far  off  when  he  will  be  called  upon  to 
actively  support  the  financing  of  the  pro- 
posed building. 

It  appears  now  that  the  new  structure 
must  be  paid  for  through  funds  raised  by 
Bowdoin  men,  and  although  no  initiative  has 
yet  been  taken  by  alumni,  trustees,  or  stu- 
dents, it  is  hoped  that  the  first  step  will  be 
taken  by  the  proper  authorities  before  the  end 
of  the  college  year.  We  reprint  a  clipping 
taken  from  a  Boston  Sunday  paper  showing 
the  present  standing  of  affairs  at  Dartmouth, 
where  a  new  gymnasium  is  to  be  built  during 
the  coming  summer.  This  shows  how  actively 


and  loyally  Dartmouth  men  have  responded 
to  the  call  for  funds. 

"The  issue  of  the  New  Gym  News  for  April  30 
bears  the  encouraging  headline,  "Only  $29,000 
More."  The  total  amount  to  be  raised  is  $125,000. 
Total  subscriptions  to  date  are  $81,000.  five  $i,ooo 
subscriptions  conditional  on  the  committee's  secur- 
ing five  more,  plus  $10,000  that  the  committee 
knows  where  it  can  get  make  a  total  secured  of 
$96,000.  The  second  page  is  entitled.  "Old  Grad, 
Attention!"  Below  are  tabulated  the  amounts  sub- 
scribed, number  of  subscribers  and  number  of  liv- 
ing members,  in  two  arrangements,  by  class  and 
by  locality.  The  Class  of  '71  leads  with  $5,015, 
from  three  subscribers.  The  Class  of  '78  is  first 
in  number  of  subscribers  and  second  in  amount 
pledged,  having  $2,770  from  12  members.  Chicago 
and  vicinity  lead  for  localities,  with  Boston  and 
vicinity  second.  The  third  page  is  occupied  by  the 
tabulation  of  the  classes  from  '85  to  '12,  1911  lead- 
ing in  amount  subscribed,  with  $4,530;  1901  in  per 
cent,  of  response,  with  93  per  cent. ;  1887  in  aver- 
age subscription,  with  $98.51,  and  1892  in  average 
subscription    per    living    member,    with    $77.85." 


It  is  almost  unnecessary 
A  Last  Reminder     for  the    Orient    to    urge 

every  man  who  can  to 
attend  the  Maine  Meet  at  Orono  to-morrow. 
The  fare  to  Orono  and  return  is  only  two  dol- 
lars and  the  admission  to  the  meet  fifty  cents. 
The  Secretary  of  the  Faculty  will  excuse  any 
man's  cuts  if  he  wishes  to  see  the  meet.  This 
year  Bowdoin  and  Maine  have  both  better 
teams  than  they  have  had  for  several  years 
and  are  more  evenly  matched  than  last  year. 
The  meet  will  be  a  fight  from  start  to  finish 
and  surprises  are  promised  by  both  sides. 
Maine  will  do  her  best  to  win  on  home  terri- 
tory and  the  Bowdoin  spirit  will  be  there  to 
win  another  championship.  Come  and  sup- 
port the  team. 


Rev.  John  Hopkins    One  of  the  priceless  herit- 
Denison  ^^^^  °'  ^  Bowdoin  man  is 

the  opportunity  afforded 
him  to  grow.  The  last  college  preacher  of 
the  year,  Rev.  John  Hopkins  Denison,  minis- 
ter of  the  Central  Congregational  Church  of 
Boston,  will  be  with  us  Sunday  at  the  Con- 
gregational Church,  at  Sunday  chapel  in  the 
afternoon  and  at  Memorial  Hall,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Christian  Association  in  the 
evening.  Many-men  recall  with  pleasure  the 
recent  visit  of  Mr.  Denison  to  the  college,  at 
which  time  he  talked  for  a  half  hour  at  the 
morning  chapel  service,  upon  his  experiences 
as  a  missionary  among  cannibals.     Any  man 


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45 


who  can  hold  the  attention  for  a  half  hour 
and  win  the  approval  of  a  body  of  undergrad- 
uates assembled  at  a  compulsory  chapel  ser- 
vice, needs  no  further  recommendation  as  a 
public  speaker.  The  Orient  looks  for  a 
record-breaking  attendance  at  the  services  of 
next   Sunday. 

The  generosity  of  Prof,  and  Mrs.  George 
T.  Files  again  claims  our  gratitude  for  they 
have  signified  their  intention  of  continuing 
the  College  Preacher  Fund  for  next  year. 
Henceforth  the  fund  is  to  be  administered 
from  the  office  of  the  college  treasurer,  and 
be  under  the  control  of  an  enlarged  commit- 
tee consisting  of  President  Hyde,  Prof.  Files 
and  the  pastor  of  the  church. 


A  ri,„_„»  *„         Jwst    on    the    eve    of     the 
A  Chance  to         -',  ,  ^       .,      . 

rfcao,  II.,  three    track    meets     it     is 

Cheer  Up  ,         ,,        ^,  . 

altogether  fitting  to  pause 

and  congratulate  ourselves  upon  the  fact  that 
every  man  who  can  be  counted  upon  to  win 
points  in  either  meet,  has  kept  his  standing 
with  the  faculty  above  reproach.  It  is  par- 
ticularly fortunate  this  year  that  such  has 
been  the  case,  for  to  give  Bowdoin  a  national 
reputation  in  track  athletics  we  can  afiford  to 
lose  no  one.  Bowdoin  is  still  more  strongly 
reminded  that  it  is  playing  in  good  luck  when 
the  daily  papers  bring  reports  of  misfortunes 
to   star  men  of  other   New   England  institu- 


COLLEQE  PREACHER  NEXT  SUNDAY 

Williams  Graduate  to  Occupy  Pulpit  of  Congregational 
Church 

The  college  preacher  next  Sunday  will  be 
Rev.  John  Hopkins  Denison  of  the  Central 
Congregational  Church,  Boston.  Mr.  Deni- 
son has  preaching  engagements  annually  at 
probably  as  many  colleges  as  any  active  pas- 
tor in  the  country.  Meanwhile,  he  ministers 
to  a  fashionable  congregation  in  a  church  edi- 
fice that  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  architec- 
tural treasures  of  Boston.  A  graduate  of 
.Williams  College  and  Union  Seminary,  Mr. 
Denison  went  into  the  New  York  slums  for 
his  first  pastorate,  and  the  varied  and  thrill- 
ing life  he  lived  there  furnished  him  with  the 
material  for  his  evening  address  to-night. 
Rev.  H.  Roswell  Bates  who  visited  us  as  col- 
lege preacher  a  few  months  ago  had  his  first 
experiences   as   an   East   Side  worker  under 


Mr.  Denison.  Considerable  travel  in  the  lit- 
tle-known portions  of  the  globe  fell  to  the  lot 
of  Mr.  Denison  between  his  slum  pastorate 
and  his  Back  Bay  pastorate,  and  then  he 
came  to  Boston  where  his  ability  and  refine- 
ment have  given  him  a  success  as  conspicu- 
ous as  that  which  he  won  working  among  the 
poor.  He  is  prominent  in  every  civic  inter- 
est, has  been  co-operating  with  Lincoln  Stef- 
fens  in  a  movement  for  the  uplift  of  Boston, 
is  one  of  thirteen  persons  guiding  the  policy 
of  the  American  Board  of  Foreign  Missions, 
and  his  courtesy  is  proved  by  his  willingness 
to  come  to  us  on  short  notice  as  substitute 
for  Dr.  Elwood  Worcester  who  had  to  cancel 
his  engagement  on  account  of  illness.  Mr. 
Denison  will  speak  in  Memorial  Hall  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Christian  Association 
Sunday  nig'ht  at  7.30  o'clock  on  the  subject 
"Life  on  the  East  Side." 


J.  H.  NEWELL  ELECTED  LEADER 

J.  H.  Newell,  '12,  was  elected  leader,  and 
W.  E.  Atwood,  '10,  manager  of  the  college 
band  for  next  year,  at  its  business  meeting 
after  the  concert  Monday  evening.  Newell, 
who  has  played  solo  cornet  with  Mr.  Bridg- 
ham  during  the  present  season,  has  been  a 
valuable  man  for  the  band  and  there  is  no 
reason  to  doubt  the  wisdom  of  his  election  to 
the  position  of  leader.  Newell  has  played 
with  the  Richmond  band,  the  St.  John  band 
of  Brunswick,  is  cornetist  in  the  college  or- 
chestra, and  has  substituted  in  Kendrie's 
Orchestra,  besides  playing  with  the  college 
band.  With  the  great  start  which  Mr.  Bridg- 
ham  has  given  the  band  this  year,  Newell 
oueht  to  turn  out  a  good  organization  next 


HILAND  LOCKWOOD  FAIRBANKS  PRIZE 

One  Thousand  Dollar  Fund  for  Excellence  in  Public 

Speaking — Was  Member  of  AINAmerica 

Football  Team 

President  Llyde  announces  the  receipt  from 
Capt.  Henry  N.  Fairbanks  of  Bangor,  of  the 
gift  of  $1,000  to  establish  the  Hiland  Lock- 
wood  Fairbanks  prize  for  excellence  in  public 
speaking,  in  memory  of  his  son,  Hiland 
Lockwood  Fa'rbanks  of  the  Class  of  1895. 
By  the  terms  of  the  gift,  one  or  more  prizes 
are  to  be  awarded  each  year  by  the  president 
for    excellence    in   public   speaking.     A   com- 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


mittee,  consisting  of  Professor  Chapman, 
Professor  Mitchell,  and  Professor  Foster  has 
been  appointed  to  make  arrangements  for  the 
terms  of  its  award. 

Mr.  Fairbanks  was  a  prominent  member  of 
his  class,  and  was  during  his  college  course 
chosen  a  member  of  the  All-America  football 
team.  Unt'l  his  death  he  has  attended  every 
reunion  of  hi,'-  class  at  commencement. 


THE   INTERFRATERNITY    LEAGUE 

May    II :     Delta    Kappa    Epsilon    defeated    Alpha 
Delta   Chi,    15-5. 


Delta   Upsilon    3 

Delta    Kappa    Epsilon. 

Beta  Theta   Pi    

Zeta    Psi     

Alpha    Delta    Phi    .... 

Theta  Delta   Chi    

Psi    Upsilon    

Kappa    Sigma    o 


Von 

Lost 

Per  cent. 

^ 

0 

1000 

0 
I 

I 

lOOQ 

500 
500 

2 

333 

2 

333 

2 

333 

0 

2 

000 

STANDING   OF   MAINE  COLLEGES 

Won  Lost        Per  cent. 

Bowdoin     i  o                   1000 

Maine    2  i                     666 

Bates     I  I                     Soo 

Colby     ■    0  2                      000 


BRIEF  GERMAN  GRAMMAR 
By  a  Former  Bowdoin  Professor 

Among  the  recent  pnblications  of  Ginn  &  Co.  is  a 
new  German  Grammar  written  by  Prof.  Roscoe  J. 
Ham,  formerly  of  Bowdoin,  and  Prof.  A.  N.  Leon- 
ard of  Bates  College.  The  grammatical  portions 
of  the. book  were  all  prepared  by  Prof.  Ham  and 
were  given  a  thorough  test  in  his  classes  here  at 
Bowdoin. 

The  book  is  practical  and  conveniently  arranged. 
It  is  planned  so  that  it  can  be  completed  by  the  end 
of  the  first  half  of  a  school  year,  and  a  pupil  who 
has  carefully  worked  out  each  lesson  will  have  at 
his  command  clear  ideas  regarding  the  main  facts 
of  the  language  and  will  be  well  equipped  to  take 
up  the  annotated  texts  commonly  used  in  first  and 
second   year  work. 

Although  the  book  has  been  on  the  market  but 
a  little  over  one  month,  the  first  edition  is  ex- 
hausted and  the  grammar  is  now  undergoing  a  sec- 
ond edition.  As  a  text  it  derives  great  advantages 
from  the  fact  that  it  has  been  carefully  criticised 
and  the  exercises  all  revised  by  a  number  of  teach- 
ers in  Berlin. 


Colleoe  Botes 


Warren,  '12,  is  waiting  at  the  training  table. 

Casco  Castle,  South  Freeport,  will  open  May  29. 

Ludvvig,  '10,  and  Hansen,  '10,  have  gone  to  Houl- 
ton   to  plant  potatoes  for   a  week. 

H.  E.  Thompson,  '03,  refereed  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
games   in    Portland   last   Thursday. 

The  chairman  of  the  Simplified  SpelHng  Board 
was   on   the   campus   last   Thursday. 

The  college  band  gave  an  outdor  concert  on  the 
campus    Monday   night   after   dinner. 

Next  year's  cabinet  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  enjoyed 
supper  at  the  Inn  last  Monday  night. 

F.  H.  Dole,  '97,  R.  W.  Smith,  '97,  and  E.  T.  Fen- 
ley,  '01,  were   in  town  last  Monday. 

P.  W.  Matthews,  '12,  has  been  called  to  his  home 
in  Lubec  by  the  illness  of  his  mother. 

Dr.  George  Pratt,  '01,  a  former  Bowdoin  base- 
ball captain,  was  on  the  campus  last  Friday. 

Thompson,  '10,  is  temporary  chairman  of  the  Ivy 
Day  Committee  during  the  absence  of  Ludwig,  '10. 

Basketball  has  been  dropped  from  the  list  of 
Harvard's  sports.  Wrestling  has  been  taken  up 
instead. 

A  meeting  of  the  Visiting  Committees,  Trustees, 
and  Overseers  of  the  College  will  be  held  here 
May  28. 

Dr.  Whittier  will  attend  a  meeting  of  the  New 
England  College  Athletic  Association  in  Boston, 
Friday. 

Arthur  Ham,  '08,  who  is  studying  Economics  at 
Columbia  University,  attended  the  Maine  game, 
Saturday. 

The  Seniors  began  to  practice  marching  on  Mon- 
day andthe  Juniors  Wednesday  for  the  Ivy  Day 
exercises. 

Phelps.  '10,  who  has  been  out  working  since  the 
Easter  vacation,  returned  to  college  the  first  of 
the  week. 

O.  F.  Simonds,  '06,  C.  S.  Kingsley,  '07,  and  John 
Kincaid,  ex-'o8,  were  guests  at  the  Delta  Upsilon 
House  party  last  week. 

Professor  Johnson  spoke  before  the  Men's  Club 
of  Christ  Church  in  Gardiner,  Thursday,  May  6, 
on   "The   Order   of   the   Prayer." 

Prof.  Mitchell  spoke  at  a  meeting  of  the  Oxford 
County  Teachers'  Association  at  Canton  last  Fri- 
day.    His  subject  was.  The  Teaching  of  English. 

Upon  invitation  of  Dr.  Willis  P.  Moulton  of 
Portland  the  class  in  Mineralogy  Wednesday  vis- 
ited the  tourmaline  deposits  at  Auburn  which  be- 
long   to    Dr.    Moulton. 

Roderic  Scott  will  be  one  of  the  speakers  at  the 
meeting  of  the  English  department  of  the  Alaine 
Association  of  Colleges  and  Preparatory  Schools 
in    Waterville,    May    isth. 

In  the  report  of  the  proceedings  of  the  New  Eng- 
land Association  of  Colleges  and  Preparatory 
Schools  held  at  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of 
Technology,  just  received  at  the  library,  is  a  speech 
'by  Dr.   Whittier  on  Physical  Training  at  Bowdoin. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


47 


Stephens,  'lo,  has  been  at  work  for  some  weeks 
cleaning  and  repairing  the  frames  and  mounts  of 
the    Bowdoin    Drawings. 

W.  E.  Robinson,  'lo,  and  R.  D..  Morss,  'lo,  will 
attend  the  meeting  of  the  New  England  Intercol- 
legiate Press  Association  at  Boston.   May  22. 

A.  E.  Moore,  of  Portland,  is  continuing  his  work 
of  cleaning  and  restoring  some  of  the  canvases 
in    the    Bowdoin    Gallery   of   the   Art    Building. 

McDade,  '09.  has  been  coaching  the  Cony  High 
baseball  team  for  the  last  two  weeks.  He  will 
remain  with  the  team  until  after  both  the  Gardiner 
games. 

It  is  interesting  to  note  that  Martin,  the  man 
whom  Tufts  selected  to  beat  Bowdoin  7-3,  was  also 
their  choice  against  Dartmouth,  from  whom  he 
won,   i-o. 

Professor  Harry  DeForest  Smith,  '01,  Professoi 
of  Greek  at  Amherst,  and  formerly  assistant  profes- 
sor in  the  classics  at  Bowdoin,  attended  the  Maine 
gamCi   Saturday. 

A.  M.  Laing  &  Son  of  Portland,  are  continuing 
their  regilding  work  which  they  begun  last  year 
on  the  frames  of  about  a  dozen  paintings  of  the 
Bowdoin   collection. 

Dr.  Burnett,  in  the  necessary  absence  of  Profes- 
sor Files,  the  reg^ilar  representative  of  the  college, 
will  attend  a  meeting  of  the  New  England  Cer- 
tificating Board   in  Boston,   Friday. 

Manager  Otis  wishes  to  ask  the  fellows  to  pay 
the  $1.00  football  subscriptions  as  soon  as  possible 
as  he  has  but  a  few  weeks  in  which  to  get  next 
season's    foottall    schedule   approved. 

The  Quill  has  received  a  communication  from 
the  Editor  of  the  Literary  Digest  asking  for  some 
of  the  best  verse  published  during  the  year,  to  be 
published  in  the  Literary  Digest. 

Dr.  Burnett  has  been  offered  a  full  professorship 
at  Amherst  College.  He  has  not  yet  decided  to 
accept,  but  if  he  goes  to  Amherst  he  will  be  Profes- 
sor of  Psychology  and  head  of  the  department. 

Goodspeed,  '09,  left  Wednesday  for  Boothbay 
Harbor,  where  he  will  finish  out  the  term  of  four 
weeks  as  principal  of  the  High  School,  the  former 
principal  having  become   superintendent   of  schools. 

When  the  faculty  gathered  at  the  Eagle  Hotel 
Saturday  evening  for  Prof.  Chapman's  banquet, 
attention  was  called  to  the  fact  that  the  occasion 
was  the  first  of  its  kind  ever  held  with  the  Bow- 
doin faculy.  The  faculty  have  met  at  club  meet- 
ings, but  never  before  at  a  banquet. 

At  the  Spring  Conference  of  the  English  Section 
of  the  Maine  Association  of  Colleges  and  Prepar- 
atory Schools  to  be  held  in  Waterville,  May  15. 
Mr.  Scott  will  be  the  speaker  for  the  colleges.  His 
subject  will  be  "An  Effective  Preparation  in  Eng- 
lish— its   Nature  and   Scope." 

But  for  the  presence  of  mind  of  Raymond  E. 
Merrill,  Bowdoin,  '09,  teacher  in  chemistry  at  the 
Deering  High  School,  a  fire  caused  by  the  explo- 
sion of  fuming  sulphuric  acid  and  potassium  bi- 
chromate might  have  badly  damaged  or  destroyed 
the  beautiful  high  school,  Monday  morning.  By 
Mr.  Merrill's  quick  action  in  smothering  the  fum- 
ing acids  in  the  chemistry  laboratory  the  pupils  of 
the  school  left  the  building  safely  and  the  fire  was 
nearly    extinguished. 


Charles  O.  Robbins.  '11,  spent  Sunday  on  the 
campus. 

Harry  L.  Brown,  '07,  was  back  to  see  the  game, 
Saturday. 

Charles    O.    Bowie,    ex-'og,    was     on     the     campus, 
Wednesday. 

Hebron  Academy  defeated  Bowdoin  Second, 
Wednesday,    10-2. 

Ralph  Brown,  special,  ex-'o6.  was  in  town 
Thursda.v,    May    6. 

Capt.  H.  N.  Fairbanks  attended  the  exercises  of 
English   5,   last  Friday. 

Philip  H.  Brown,  '09,  and  Clinton  N.  Peters,  '10, 
are  attending  the  Psi  Upsilon  Convention  at 
Chicago,  111. 

In  the  May  number  of  Review  of  Reviews  ap- 
peared an  article  by  Prof.  Foster  on  The  American 
Colleges  on  Trial. 

The  Laymen's  Christian  Convention  of  Maine, 
will  be  held  in  Portland  May  20-22.  President 
Hyde  will  be  one  of  the  speakers. 

The  Declamation  Committee  for  the  preliminary 
trials  in  the  Alexander  Prize  Speaking  contest  con- 
sists of  Prof.  Mitchell,  Mr.  Bridgham  and  Mr. 
Stone. 

Rev.  John  Hopkins  Denison,  the  college  preacher 
next  Sunday  spoke  recently  at  a  morning  chapel 
service  upon  his  experiences  as  a  missionary 
among  cannibals. 

Anand  Hiwale,.  '09,  will  on  May  23,  give  a  lec- 
ture on  the  customs  and  beliefs  of  his  people  in  the 
Universalist  Church  at  Augusta.  The  pastor  of  the 
church   is    Rev.   Leroy  W.   Coons,   '07. 

Rev.  Herbert  A.  Jump  has  been  offered  the  pas- 
torate of  the  South  Congregational  Church,  New 
Britain,  Conn.  This  church  is  the  second  largest 
Congregational  Church  in  New  England,  having 
a  membership  of  1 148,  a  parish  of  1030  families, 
and   a   Sunday  School  of  1362. 

The  following  men  from  the  Freshman  class 
have  been  chosen  to  compete  with  the  representa- 
tives of  the  Sophomore  and  Junior  classes  in  the 
trials  for  the  Alexander  Prize  Speaking  on  May 
19:  Adams,  Bryant,  Burlingame,  Fuller,  Gillin, 
Hurley,  Maloney,  Matthews,  Loring  Pratt,  Rodick, 
Weeks  and  Welch. 

The  last  number  of  the  Quill  for  the  current 
year,  now  being  printed,  contains  matter  of  special 
interest  to  prospective  students.  A  copy  will  be 
sent  to  each  student  for  whom  a  blank  has  been 
made  out  and  filed  at  the  Registrar's  office.  Addi- 
tional blanks  may  be  secured  at  Hubbard  Hall,  at 
the    Registrar's    ofiice,    or   of    H.    Atwood,    '09. 

The  Rumford  Falls  Times  says:  In  his  talk  at 
Rumford,  Prof.  F.  C.  Robinson  of  Bowdoin  criti- 
cised the  legislature  because  it  spent  much  time  and 
money  upon  liquor  legislation,  and  refused  to  do 
anything  to  aid  in  curbing  the  terrible  ravages  of 
tuberculosis  and  typhoid  fever;  things  far  more 
destructive  of  life  and  happiness  than  all  the  alco- 
hol that  ever  was  distilled.  He  referred  to  the  war 
against  alcohol  as  spectacular.  Saul  killed  his  ten 
thousand,  but  Saul  was  a  grandstand  player  and 
David  quiet,  unassuming  man,  but  later  he  was 
recognized,  and  so  will  the  movement  for  govern- 
ment aid  in  the  war  against  the  Great  White 
Plague. 


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Hluntni  'department 


'55. — Ezekiel  Ross,  Esq.,  a  highly  esteemed 
and  prominent  citizen  of  Newcastle,  Me., 
died  at  his  home  in  that  town  May  8,  1909, 
after  an  illness  of  three  weeks.  Mr.  Ross 
was  born  at  Jefferson,  Me.,  25  September, 
1829.  After  graduating  at  Bowdoin  he 
taught  the  high  school  at  Rockland  and  stud- 
ied law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  A.  P.  Gould. 
Admitted  to  the  bar  in  1858,  he  practiced  his 
profession  in  that  city  for  several  years  and 
served  as  clerk  of  courts  for  Knox  County. 
He  subsequently  removed  to  Pennsylvania 
where  he  was  engaged  in  the  coal  business, 
and  later  to  Minnesota  where  he  successfully 
conducted  a  real  estate  business  with  his 
brother-in-law,  Thomas  C.  Kennedy.  The 
closing  years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  New- 
castle where  he  was  beloved  and  respected  for 
his  generous  disposition  and  kind  heart.  He 
is  survived  by  his  wife  who,  before  marriage, 
was  Miss  Esther  Weeks. 

'68. — John  Sayward  Derby,  Esq.,  died  of 
apoplexy  at  Rochester,  N.  H.,  6  May,  1909, 
after  an  illness  of  several  months.  He  was 
the  son  of  Silas  Derby,  Esq.,  of  Alfred,  where 
he  was  born  16  January,  1846.  After  grad- 
uation he  studied  law  and  settled  in  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  at  Saco,  Maine.  He 
served  as  police  judge  of  that  city  from  1874 
to  1877,  being  elected  over  a  Republican  com- 
petitor by  reason  of  h's  personal  popularity. 
He  also  served  for  a  time  by  appointment  of 
the  court  as  attorney  for  York  County.  For 
five  years  he  was  in  partnership  with  Hon. 
Horace  H.  Burbank  (Bowdoin,  i860).  In 
1880  he  removed  to  New  York  City,  and, 
while  in  practice  there  issued  a  legal  text- 
book entitled,  The  Mechanics  Lien  Law  of 
New  York.  Under  President  Cleveland's 
administration  he  served  as  United  States 
consul  at  St.  John.  He  was  engaged  for  a 
time  as  editor  of  the  Biddeford  Daily  Stand- 
ard. He  then  resumed  the  practice  of  his 
profession  at  Sanford,  Maine,  residing  at 
Alfred  and  later  at  Lebanon.  Mr.  Derby 
was  a  man  of  unusual  ability  and  had  a  host 
of  friends.  He  married  Mary,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Tripp,  whose  death  preceded  his  own, 
and  is  survived  by  one  son,  Albert  Derby. 

'78. — The  sudden  death  from  pneumonia 
of  George  Colby  Purington  at  Monson,  Me., 
on  May  6,  1909.  brought  great  grief  to  the 


wide  circle  of  his  friends.  Mr.  Purington 
was  born  27  June,  1848,  at  Embden,  Me.  He 
began  teaching  in  district  schools  at  the  age 
of  seventeen  and  became  associate  principal 
of  Hebron  Academy  in  1872.  While  there 
he  prepared  himself  for  college  in  two  years. 
During  his  course  at  Bowdoin  he  was  also  for 
two  years  principal  of  the  Topsham  High 
School.  Previous  to  his  graduation  he  was 
elected  principal  of  the  Brunswick  High 
School,  a  position  he  held  for  three  years. 
The  two  following  years  he  had  charge  of 
the  Edward  Little  High  School  at  Auburn. 
In  1883  he  was  chosen  principal  of  the  State 
Normal  School  at  Farmington,  the  position 
he  held  at  his  death.  Of  his  labors  there, 
words  that  he  recently  wrote  of  another,  can 
be  most  truthfully  applied  to  himself.  For 
twenty-six  years  "he  gave  the  best  there  was 
in  him,  life,  energy  and  love,  to  the  upbuild- 
ing of  the  school  and  the  creation  of  right 
professional  standards  in  the  state.  He  was 
always  positive  and  aggressive  in  his  work. 
He  was  strong  in  his  friendships  and  loyal  to 
his  friends.  To  his  graduates  he  was  more 
than  a  teacher."  He  followed  their  career 
with  interest  and  was  ever  a  wise  counsellor 
and  a  true  friend.  The  appreciation  in 
which  he  was  held  by  them  was  strikingly 
illustrated  by  their  action  on  the  completion 
of  the  twenty-fifth  year  of  his  continuous 
serv'ce  as   principal. 

Mr.  Purington  had  too  active  a  mind  and 
too  earnest  a  soul  to  confine  his  interests  to  a 
single  institution.  As  president  of  the  Maine 
Pedagogical  Society,  as  grand  commander  of 
the  Knights  Templar  of  Maine,  as  an  over- 
seer of  Bowdoin  College,  and  especially  as 
president  of  the  Christian  Civic  League  of 
Maine,  he  exerted  a  powerful  influence 
throughout  the  state.  In  him  the  cause  of 
public  education  and  morality  has  lost  a 
leader,  tireless  and  fearless,  sincere  and  un- 
selfish. 

Mr.  Purington  married  26  November, 
1878,  Sarah  Cummings,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Dudley  P.  Bailey  (Bowdoin,  1829),  who  sur- 
vives him  with  one  of  their  three  children, 
George  C.   Purington,  Jr.    (Bowdoin,   1904). 

•03. — ^Dr.  Paul  Preble  is  now  stationed  at 
the  U.  S.  Marine  Hospital  at  Baltimore,  Md. 

'04. — James  F.  Cox  who  graduates  from 
the  Maine  Medical  School  this  year,  has 
received  an  appointment  as  an  interne  at  the 
Eastern   Maine  General   Hospital   at   Bangor. 


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VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  MAY  21,  1909 


NO.  7 


BOWDOIN  GETS  AWAY  WITH   MAINE  INTER= 
COLLEGIATE  MEET 

Five  New  Records  Established,  all  of  which  Qo  to 

Bowdoin — Capt.  Atwood  the  Individual  Star 

with  Ten  Points  to  His  Credit 

A  well-balanced  team  enabled  Bow^doin  to 
win  the  Maine  Intercollegiate  Meet  at  Orono 
last  Saturday  by  a  wide  margin  over  the 
three  other  Maine  colleges,  the  final  score 
standing  Bowdo'n  68,  LIniversity  of  Maine 
35,  Colby  12  and  Bates  11.  Five  new  records 
were  established ;  the  mile,  two-mile,  high 
jump,  pole  vault  and  broad  jump.  Of  these 
the  mile,  two-mile,  broad  jump  and  pole 
vault  were  broken  by  Bowdoin  men,  the  high 
jump  record  is  held  jointly  between  Bowdoin, 
JMaine  and  Bates,  and  the  new  record  in  the 
120-yard  hurdles  was  made  by  Blanohard  of 
Bates,  buit  was  not  allowed  because  the  run- 
ner knocked  over  the  hurdles. 

Althousrh  Bowdoin  won  more  points  than 
all  the  other  colleges  combined  and  within 
two  of  twice  as  many  as  Maine,  they  did  not 
run  up  as  high  a  score  as  was  possible.  Col- 
bath  was  used  in  only  one  event  as  it  was 
desired  to  save  him  for  the  New  England 
meet  next  Saturday. 

The  first  record  to  go  down  was  the  mile, 
which  Colbath  of  Bowdoin  covered  in  4  m. 
32  s.,  the  former  record  be'ng  4  m.  34  3-5S. 
Then  came  the  high  hurdles,  which  Blanch- 
ard  of  Bates  cleared  in  15  4-5  seconds,  the 
former  time  being  16  2-5  seconds.  The  two- 
mile  run  then  fell  from  10  m.  7  3-53.  to  10 
m.  5  1-5S.,  made  by  Slocum  of  Bowdoin.  The 
fourth  new  mark  was  in  tlie  high  jump,  in 
which  Burlingame  of  Bowdoin,  Williams  of 
Bates  and  Scott  of  Maine  were  fed  at  5  ft. 
8  in.,  the  former  mark  being  one-quarter 
inch  less.  Captain  Atwood  of  Bowdoin,  the 
highest  point  winner  with  ten  points  to  his 
credit,  broke  the  State  record  in  the  running 
broad  jump,  his  first  jump  in  the  trials  being 
21  ft.  6  in.  Three  Bowdoin  men,  Burlingame, 


Buiton  and  Deming  were  tied  at  10  ft.  7  in. 
in  the  pole  vault.  Deming  then  made  a  new 
record  of  10  ft.  loi/^  inches. 

All  those  men  who  made  the  record  in  the 
high  jump  will  receive  record  medals,  and  on 
the  toss  of  place  medals  Burlingame  won  tirst, 
Williams  of  Bates  second,  and  Scott  of  Maine 
third.  In  the  pole  vault  the  first  place  medal 
went  to  Deming,  second  to  Burlingame,  and 
th'ird  to  Burton.  Deming  got  the  record 
medal. 

The   summary : 

Broad  Jump — Won  by  Atwood,  Bowdoin ;  second 
McFarland,  Bowdoin;  third.  Skolfield,  Maine.  Best 
jump — 21   ft.  6  in.   (new   record). 

Pole  Vault — Won  by  Deming,  Bowdoin ;  second. 
Burton,  Bowdoin ;  third,  Burlingame,  Bowdoin  tied 
for  second.  Best  jump — 10  ft.  io>2  in.  (New 
record). 

Hammer  Throw — Won  by  Warren,  Bowdoin; 
secor.d,  Crosby,  Bowdoin ;  third,  Hastings,  Bow- 
doin.    Best  throw — 129   ft.   7   in. 

120-Yard  Hurdles — Won  by  Blanchard,  Bates; 
second,  Smith,  Maine ;  third,  Edwards,  Bowdoin. 
Time — 15  4-5  seconds. 

440- Yard  Dash — Won  by  Littlefield,  Maine;  sec- 
ond. Chandler.  Colby;  third,  Morss,  Bowdoin, 
Time — 52  2-5   seconds. 

100-Yard  Dash — Won  by  Atwood,  Bowoin ;  sec- 
ond. Pond,  Maine ;  third,  McKenney,  Bowdoin. 
Time — 10    1-5    seconds. 

Half-!\'Iile  Run— Won  by  Walker,  Maine;  sec- 
.  ond,  Simmons,  Bowdoin ;  third,  Joy,  Colby.  Time 
— 2  m.  5  3-5  seconds. 

Shot  Put — Won  by  Newman,  Bowdoin;  second, 
Clifford,  Bowdoin;  third.  Skolfield,  Maine.  Dis- 
tance— 37    ft.    4>4    in. 

Two-Mile  Run — Won  by  Slocum,  Bowdoin;  sec- 
ond, Whitney,  Maine;  third,  Hosmer,  Maine. 
10  m.  5   I-5S.     (New  record). 

Running  High  Jump — Burlingame,  Bowdoin ; 
Williams,  Bates;  and  Scott,  Maine,  best  at  5  ft.  8 
in.     (New    record). 

220-Yard  Dash — Won  by  Stacy,  Colby;  second, 
Williams,  Bates;  third.  Cole,  Bowdoin.  Time — 
22  3-5   seconds. 

Discus  Throw — Won  by  Walden,  Maine ;  second, 
Tibbets,  Colby ;  third,  '  Stevens.  Bowdoin.  Dis- 
tance— 107  ft.  6  in. 

220- Yard  Hurdles — Won  by  Edwards,  Bowdoin  ; 
second.  Knight,  Maine;  third.  Smith,  Maine.  Time 
— 26   i-s  seconds. 

One-Mile  Run — ^Won  by  Colbath,  Bowdoin;  sec- 
ond, Robinson,  Bowdoin ;  third,  Houghton,  Maine. 
Time — 4  m.  32   1-5S.     (New  record). 


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Edwards  Winning  220-yard  Hurdles 


Atwood   Winning  100-yard  Dash 


Summary  of  Points 

Bowdoin  Maine  Colby    Bates 

Half   mile    3  5  i  0 

440   Yards    i  5  3  0 

100  Yards    6  3  o  0 

One   mile    8  i  o  o 

High    hurdles    I  3  o  S 

Low    hurdles    5  4  0  o 

Two    miles    5  4  o  0 


220   Yards    i 

Pole   vault    g 

Shotput     8 

High   jump    3 

Hammer   throw    9 

Broad    jump 8 

Discus    throw    i 

Totals     68 


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5t 


Individual   Point   Winners 

Capt.  Atwood  of  the  Bowdoin  team  won  the 
most  points, — ten,  twice  as  many  as  any  other  man 
except   Williams   of   Bates. 

Bozvdoin 

Atwood,    'og     10 

McFarland,    'i  i     3 

Burlingame,    '12    6 

Deming,    '10     3 

Burton,    '09 ■  3 

Warren.    '10 S 

Crosby,    '10     ".  .  .  .  3 

Simmons,    '09    3 

Newman,    '10     5 

Clifford,    '10     ■. 3 

Slocum,    '10     5 

Edwards,    '10    6 

Colbath,    '10     5 

Robinson,    '11     3 

Hastings,    '11     

McKenney,    '12    

Morss,    '10    

Cole,    '12     

Stevens,    "Medic"     


BOWDOIN  2,  TUFTS  7 

Medford  Team  Scores  Five  Runs  in  Eiglitli — Capt. 
Manter's  Men  Unable  to  Find  Martin 

With  Martin  in  the  box  to  hold  the  hits 
down  and  a  bunch  of  good  ones  in  the  eighth. 
Tufts  defeated  Bowdo'n  at  Medford  last 
Thursday  for  the  second  time  rthis  year  to  the 
tune  of  7  to  2.  The  game  was  close  up  to  the 
last  of  the  eiglith,  when  the  score  stood  2-2. 
Then  the  Tufts  men  found  Means  and  sent  in 
five  runs  in  tlieir  turn  at  the  bat.  Martin 
pitched  a  steady  game,  allowing  only  four 
hits  and  striking  out  fourteen  men.  Bowdoin 
made  no  hits  till  the  fifth  inning,  when  Man- 
ter  got  to  first  on  a  scratch  hit  and  ended  by 
br'nging  in  a  run.  In  the  first  of  the  eighth 
Lawlis  got  a  two-bagger  and  second  on  Wil- 
son's single. 

The    suuTmary : 

Tufts 

ab  bh  po  a  e 

Quakers,    3     4  2  2  0  0 

A.    Hooper,   r S  i  0  0  o 

Priest,    c.f 5  0  2  o  o 

Dustin,    s 3  I  I  2  0 

Hall,    l.f 3  2  0  0  0 

*Knight,    1 2  0  7  I  I 

McKenna.   2    3  o  o  2  0 

W.    Hooper,   c 3  3  13  i  i 

Martin,    p <....     4  i  2  3  o 

Totals     32       10      27        9        2 


Bowdoin 

ab  bh  po  a  e 

Wilson,    c 4  I         7  I  I 

McDade,    l.f 40200 

Harris,    ss 3  o         l  2  i 

Manter,    2 4  i  0  4  i 

Wandtke,    c.f 4  o         i  0  i 

Clifford,     1 4  o  10  I  o 

Bower,    3 3  o        3  2  i 

Lawlis,    r 3  2  o  o  i 

Means,    p 3  o  o  2  0 

Totals     32        4      24       12        6 

Innings    i     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9 

Tufts     o     o     2     o     o     0     0     5     . — 7 

Bowdoin     o    o     o     0     i     o    o     i     0 — 2 

Runs — Quakers  2,  Dustin,  Hall,  Knight,  Martin, 
W.  Hooper,  Manter.  Lawlis.  Two-base  hits — Qual- 
ters,  Lawlis.  Three-base  hit — A.  Hooper.  Sacri- 
fice hit — A.  Hooper.  Stolen  bases — Hall  4,  Dustin  3. 
McKenna,  W.  Hooper,  Priest,  Quakers,  Wilson, 
Manter,  Clifford.  First  base  on  balls — Off  Means 
4;  off  Martin  i.  Struck  out — By  Martin  14,  by 
Means  5.  Passed  balls — Hooper  2.  Hit  by  pitched 
ball — Knight,  McKenna,  W.  Hooper.  Umpire — 
Henry. 

*A.  Hooper  ran  for  Knight  in  8th. 


1  BOWDOIN  4,  MAINE  3 

Word  was  received  at  the  college,  Wednes- 
day n'ght,  that  Bowdoin  had  defeated  Maine 
for  the  second  time  ithis  year  by  the  score  of 
4  to  3.  No  particulars  of  the  game  could  be 
obtained  at  tlie  time  of  going  to  press, 
Wednesday  night,  except  that  Hobbs  pitched 
the  game.  Winning  this  game  gives  Bowdoin 
another  leg  on  the  state  championship  this 
year.  The  team  plays  Colby  at  Waterv'lle, 
Saturday. 


TENNIS  TOURNAMENT  WITH  MASSACHUSETTS 
AGGIES 

The  tennis  season  will  open  May  31,  wlien 
Manager  Morss  will  take  a  team  of  four  men 
to  Portland  to  play  the  Portland  Athletic 
Club  team  at  the  Country  Club  courts.  Capt. 
Hughes  and  Martin  will  be  one  team,  and 
two  men  for  a  second  team  will  be  picked  by 
Capt.  Hughes  and  ex-Capt.  Tobey.  On  the 
day  following  the  match  in  Portland  the  same 
four  men  will  have  a  match  with  the  Massa- 
chusetts Agricultural   College  at  Brunswick. 

Next  Sunday  Capt.  Hughes  and  Martin 
will  leave  for  Longwood  to  participate  in  the 
New  England  IntercoUeg"ate  Lawn  Tennis 
Tournament  to  be  held  there  Monday,  Tues- 
day and  Wednesday,  May  24,  25  and  26. 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,   igio  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  igii,  Managing  Editor 

ASSOCIATE  Editors 

p.  B.  MORSS,  1910  CD.  ROBBINS,  1911 

THOMAS  OTIS,  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON.  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON.  1910  W.  A.  McCORMICK.  1912 

J.  C.  WHITE.  1911  -W.  A.  FULLER,  1 9 12 


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MAY    21,    1909 


No.  7 


,  The     college      sings      this 

Let  s  Have  Some    gp^ing  are  grand  things  to 
Songs  g.gj.    jj^g    college    together, 

and  serve  to  emphasize  our  need  for  several 
good,  snappy  college  songs  with  a  little  Bow- 
doin  jingle  in  them.  We  have  noted  with 
pleasure  the  efforts  of  former  Orient  edi- 
tors .to  call  the  attention  of  the  college  to  our 
poverty  of  college  songs,  and  with  approba- 
t'on  the  frantic  utterances  of  our  obscure 
contemporary,  the  Knocker.  A  whole  lot  has 
been  said,  but  very  little  done,  and  until 
something  comes  up  to  start  the  ball  rolling 
the  chances  are  that  our  book  of  college  songs 
will  not  grow  thicker. 

One  New  England  small  college  which  is 
famous  for  its  college  songs,  attributes  its 
success  to  class  competition.  Every  year 
each  class  writes  a  new  song,  end  in  the 
spring  the  classes  s'ng  their  songs  before  a 
board  of  judges  which  awards  a  prize  to  the 
class  which  in  their  opinion  has  sung  the  best 
song  in  the  most  pleasing  manner.  In  this 
way  Williams  College  constantly  adds  to  her 


already  large  collection  of  good  college 
songs.  We  call  this  matter  to  the  attention 
of  the  Undergraduate  Council  upon  whom 
the  responsibility  of  starting  such  an  idea  at 
Bowd'odn   devolves. 


.117    J  ..    n  •■■     The  past  three  volumes  of 
Writr  '^^    2««    are    but    slimly 

^  represented     in     the      col- 

lection of  Bowdo'n  stories  made  by  John 
Clair  Minot,  '96,  under  the  title,  "Under 
Bowdoin  Pines,"  for  the  reason  that  the  pres- 
ent generation  of  undergraduates  seems  to  be 
lacking  in  story  writers  who  deal  with  col- 
lege life,  while  alumni  contributors  along  this 
I'ne  have  become  very  rare.  Let  us  hope  that 
this  condition  is  but  a  temporary  one.  The 
field  is  large  and  mueh  of  it  remains 
unworked. 

_,      ,  ,       .    ,    ,.     To-morrow     the     prepara- 
The  Interscho  astic   ,  ,      ,        ^      Zi  ■     ^u 

„  tory  schools  entered  in  the 

Interscholastic  Meet  will 
send  large  delegations  of  athletes  and  stu- 
dents to  the  college  and  it  devolves  upon 
those  of  us  who  do  not  attend  the  big  meet  at 
Brookline  to  entertain  the  men  the  best  way 
poss'ble.  The  day  ought  to  be,  and  we  trust 
will  be,  open  house  to  every  prep,  school  man 
who  is  attending  the  meet.  Sub-Freshmen 
are  bound  to  judge  the  college  in  great  part 
by  the  treatment  they  receive  at  the  hands  of 
the  students.  This  is  our  last  opportunity 
this  year  to  entertain  prospective  college  men, 
and  we  are  in  duty  bound  to  make  it  the  best 
and  most  successful  of  the  year. 

TECHNOLOGY  AT  HOME 

Technology  will  be  "At  Home"  Friday 
evening  from  eight  to  nine-thirty  in  the  Union 
to  the  athletes  and  other  college  men  who 
will  be  :n  Bositon  for  the  New  England  Meet. 
The  Institute  Committee  has  arranged  to 
have  stunts  from  the  Tech  Show  and  num- 
bers by  the  Musical  Clubs  and  the  Tech 
Orchestra  by  way  of  stated  entertainment. 
The  main  object  of  the  affair  is  to  have  it 
entirely  informal,  so  that  the  fellows  from  the 
various  colleges  can  get  together  and  know 
each  other.  Between  150  and  200  guests  are 
expected  and  this  will  be  a  fine  opportunity 
to  find  out  the  meaning  of  the  term  "Tech 
hospitality."  Manager  Robinson  will  have 
tickets   to   distribute  at  the   trials   Friday. 


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INTERSCHOLASTIC  MEET 

Eight  Maine  Preparatory  Schools  to  Compete — Hebron 
Academy  and  Portland  High  in  Close  Contest 

To-morrow  eight  of  Maine's  largest  pre- 
paratory schools  will  struggle  for  the  cham- 
pionship of  the  eleventh  Bowdoin  Interschol- 
astic  Track  Meet.  This  year  only  eight 
schools  will  be  represented  where  in  most  for- 
mer meets  a  dozen  (teams  have  been  entered. 
Hebron  Academy,  Portland  High  School, 
Yarmouth  Academy,  Maine  Central  Insti- 
tute, Lewiston  High  School,  Oldtown  High 
School,  Biddeford  H'gh  School  and  Deering 
High  School  will  be  represented  in  to-mor- 
row's games. 

This  year  the  contest  will  no  doubt  be  closer 
ithan  for  a  number  of  years.  It  is  generally 
conceded  that  either  Hebron  Academy  or 
Portland  High  School  will  win,  the  "dark 
horses"  who  will  take  points  for  other  schools 
throwing  the  meet  either-  to  Portland  or 
Hebron. 

Portland  is  more  confident  than  ever,  since 
her  rival  Hebron,  who  has  won  the  last  four 
meets  handily,  has  only  two  of  last  year's 
point  winners  in  line.  The  rest  were  all 
graduated  lasit  June.  Furthermore,  Portland 
has  a  large  number  of  last  year's  team  to  sup- 
port 'her,  and  has  taken  part  in  one  interschol- 
istic  meet — that  held  at  Dartmouth  last  Sat- 
urday when  Portland  won  third  place. 

However,  the  Hebron  men  will  have  some- 
thing to  show  that  will  do  justice  to  the  green 
and  grey  and  the  contests  will  be  well  worth 
watching.  The  strength  of  the  other  teams 
is  hard  ito  determine,  but  there  will  doubt- 
less be  some  surprises  sprung  in  several 
events. 


A  COMMUNICATION  ON  ATHLETICS 

As  an  undergraduate  interested  in  athletics 
and  in  seeing  Bowdoin  as  well  represented  in 
this  line  as  possible,  I  have  been  glad  to  see 
the  efforts  of  the  Orient  and  the  Undergrad- 
uate Council,  as  spokesmen  for  a  growing 
sentiment  among  Bowdoin  students,  to  secure 
the  recognition  of  the  need  for  an  immediate 
and  radical  change  in  our  system  of  support- 


ing athletics.  In  times  past  various  plans 
for  an  athletic  association  with  fixed  annual 
dues  or  for  a  definite  athletic  assessment  to 
be  collected  on  the  college  term  bills  have 
been  proposed.  In  a  recent  issue  of  the 
Orient  a  plan  was  outlined  which  not  only 
is  theoretically  practicable  but  also  has  already 
succeeded  in  another  college  of  about  the  size 
of  Bowdoin.  It  seems  to  me  that  such  a  sug- 
gestion, backed  by  the  arguments  of  the  need 
of  a  change  here  and  of  its  success  at  Am- 
herst, is  worthy  of  consideration  by  the 
proper  authorities. 

The  argument  most  often  advanced  against 
an  athletic  assessment  on  the  college  term 
bills  is  that  athletics  here  at  Bowdoin  have 
been  self-supporting  in  the  past  and  should 
be  made  to  continue  so  in  the  future.  At 
present  it  is  a  question  whether  the  athletics 
here  can  rightly  be  called  so.  A  number  of 
the  teams  have  run  behind  lately  and  theii 
managers  have  beon  forced  to  come  around 
for  an  additional  subscription  from  men  who 
have  already  subscribed  once.  This  is  not 
fair  and  is  a  condition  of  things  which  can- 
not last,  and  ought  to  be  remedied.  If  we 
should  adopt  the  proposed  scheme,  it  seems 
altogether  probable  that  two  desirable  things 
would  result,  more  money  and  more  exact 
supervision  of  the  managers'  accounts  during 
the  season.  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  we 
need  more  sure  money  for  athletics,  so  that 
we  shall  not  have  to  depend  upon  uncertain 
subscriptions.  It  seems  to  me,  too,  that  if  the 
various  managers  were  obliged,  when  they 
wanted  money,  to  requisition  for  it,  stating 
what  they  wanted  it  for,  the  result  would  be 
more  economical  use  of  funds. 

The  principal  thing  which  I  wish  to  empha- 
size is  that  the  need  for  a  change  is  a  real 
need.  I  am  afraid  that  the  Alumni  will  look 
upon  it  as  merely  something  which  the 
Orient  proposed  to  fill  up  space.  There  is 
an  exceedingly  strong  undergraduate  feeling 
on  this  subject.  The  students  feel  that  the 
college  has  outgrown  the  present  system. 
They  admit  they  may  be  wrong,  but  they 
wish  to  have  the  matter  fully  considered  by 
the  Alumni.  They  may  be  able  to  offer  help- 
ful suggestions  and  perhaps  a  better  remedy 
for  the  situation.  We  ask  those  of  the 
Faculty  who  have  charge  of  athletics  to 
grant,  for  the  moment,  that  there  may  be 
something  in  the  plan,  and  not  to  turn  it  down 
entirely  until  it  has  been  proved  useless. 

1910. 


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CALENDAR 

Friday,  May  2ist 
Trials  for  the  N.  E.  I.  Meet  at  Brookline. 
2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  vs.  Zeta  Psi. 

Saturday,    May   22d 
N.  E.   I.  Track  Meet  at  Brookline. 
Bowdoin  vs.   Colby  at  Waterville. 
N.   E.   I.   Press  Association   Meeting  in   Boston. 

Sunday,  May  23D 
5.00   P.M.     Chapel.     President   Hyde    will    speak. 

Monday,  May  24TH 
2.30-4.30   P.M.     Track   Practice. 
2.30-5.30   P.M.     Baseball    Practice, 
3.30  P.M.     Psi  Upsilon  vs.   Beta  Theta  Pi. 
Bowdoin   Tennis   Team  plaj'S   at   Longwood. 

Tuesday,  May  25TH 

2.30-4.30   P.M.     Track   Practice. 

2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 

3.30   P.M.     Kappa   Sigma   vs.   Alpha   Delta   Phi. 

Bowdoin   Tennis   Team   at   Longwood. 

7.00  P.M.  Debate  in  English  VII.  Question: 
The  growth  of'  large  fortunes  should  be  checked 
by  a  graduated  income  tax.  Affirmative :  A.  H. 
Cole,  Eaton.  Negative :  Clifford,  Guptill.  Chair- 
man :    Readey. 

Wednesday,  May  26th 
2.30-4.30   P.M.     Track   Practice. 
2.30  P.M.     Bowdoin  vs.  Colby  on  Whittier  Field. 
3.30  P.M.     Theta  Delta  Chi  vs.  Delta  Upsilon. 
Bowdoin    Tennis    Team    at    Longwood. 

Thursday,  May  27TH 
2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 
3.30  P.M.     Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  vs.  Psi  Upsilon. 
Track   Team   leaves   for   Cambridge. 

Friday,  May  28th 

2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball  Practice. 

Trials  for  Eastern  Intercollegiate  Meet  in  Cam- 
bridge. 

3.30  P.M.     Zeta  Psi  vs.  Beta  Theta  Pi. 

8.00  P.M.  Final  debate  in  the  Bowdoin  Inter- 
scholastic  Debating  League  between  Portland  High 
School  and  Wilton   Academy. 

Saturday,   May  29TH 
Eastern  Intercollegiate   Meet   in  Cambridge. 
2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball  Practice. 


STANDING  OF  MAINE  COLLEGES 


THE  INTERFRATERNITY  LEAGUE 

May  13 :     Beta  Theta  Pi  defeated  Theta  Delta  Chi, 

1 1-6  ■ 

May  18:     Psi    Upsilon    defeated    Theta    Delta  Chi, 

6-1 
May  19:     Beta    Theta    Pi    defeated    Kappa    Sigma, 

9-7 

Won  Lost         Per  cent. 

Delta   Upsilon    3                    0  1000 

Delta    Kappa   Epsilon...    2                    0  1000 

Beta   Theta    Pi 3                   i  750 

Psi   Upsilon    2                    2  500 

Zeta   Psi    i                     i  500 

Alpha  Delta   Phi    i                   3  250 

Theta   Delta   Chi 1                    4  200 

Kappa    Sigma    o                   2  000 


Bowdoin 
Maine     ,  , 
Bates    . ,  . 
Colby     .. 


Won 


Lost 


Per  cent. 
1000 
500 
500 
000 


THE  APRIL  QUILL 

It  is  not  an  easy  task  to  review  the  April 
number  of  tlie  Bowdoin  Quill,  for  a  faculty 
critic  must  eitlier  hazard  some  comments  upon 
the  contribution  of  a  colleague  or  find  some- 
itlling  to  say  about  twelve  exceedingly  unpre- 
tentious pages  of  prose  and  verse  by  under- 
graduates. The  small  share  of  the  students 
in  their  own  publication  is  a  depress'ng  com- 
mentary upon  the  absence  of  literary  interest 
in  the  student  body. 

The  first  bit  of  verse,  Hazvail's  Isle,  is  not 
w'thout  substantial  merit.  It  is  tinged  with 
real  feeFng;  and  it  suggests,  ait  least  so  far  as 
it  is  possible  to  do  so  by  form  and  sound,  a 
tropical  atmosphere.  Still,  one  misses 
touches  of  local  color.  Only  once,  in  the  last 
stanza,  is  there  evidence  of  a  feeling  for  color. 
Possibly  iit  is  poetical  to  write  of  rice  fields 
and  sugar  plantations  as  waving  gently,  but 
hardly  tO'  describe  them  "as  level  as  porcelain 
tile."  Another  short  verse  from  a  member  of 
the  Freshman  class  is  welcome.  In  "The 
Fisher,"  a  homely  injunction  to  the  procras- 
tinating soul  is  re-enforced  by  a  simple  sea- 
side piature.  The  writer  of  "The  Gift"  has 
not  seized  upon  a  novel  thought,  but  he  has 
phrased  a  well-worn  theme  rather  prettily. 
The  ex'gencies  of  metre  rather  than  of  mean- 
ing seem  to  justify  the  terminal  "itoo"  in  the 
third  line.  "A  Response"  impresses  one  as 
a  correct  piece  of  versification,  without  much 
imaginative    charm. 

In  the  prose  contribution,  "Genius,"  the 
writer  has  sought  to  pa'nt  a  somewhat  im- 
pressionistic word  picture.  But  in  spite  of  a 
lavish  use  of  adjectives  and  of  rhetorical  in- 
versions, both  the  genius  and  his  chefd'oeuvre 
lack  substance  and  reality.  Still,  we  cannot 
resist  admiration  for  this  artist  who  sits  before 
his  easel  all  night  in  the  darkness,  and  then, 
when  "the  flaming  orb  of  morning  rolls  back 
the  curtain  from  a  sleeping  world,"  "up  from 
his  chair  rises,  and  free  froin  all  sense  of 
labor,  stands  ito  h's  task  again" — all  without 
any  breakfast !  Surely  this  is  genius, 
"Dickens  on  Immortality"  is  a  clearly-worded 
statement  of  our  occidental  notion  of  immor- 


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tality  as  the  persistence  in  time  of  personal 
identity.  The  "Christmas  Carol,"  thinks  the 
writer  approv'ngly,  "implies  that  the  judg- 
ment of  the  future  will  be  the  judgment  of 
myself  by  myself,  and  not  by  any  one  else." 
We  wonder  if  .this  will  commend  itself  as 
orthodox  to  some  future  examining  board. 

The  commenits  of  the  editor  from  his  easy 
chair  are  thoroughly  enjoyable  reading.  The 
classical  faculty  will  doubtless  welcome  an 
ally  from  the  student  body.  It  is  not  often 
that  the  classics  are  championed  from  this 
quarter.  Perhaps  ithe  adverse  t'de  is  turning. 
In  conclusion,  the  reviewer  would  suggest 
mildly  that  the  proof-reading  of  the  Oii.':ll 
leaves  something  to  be  desired. 
A.  J. 

College  Botes 

J.  E.  Hicks,  '95,  paid  Bowdoin  a  visit,  Monday. 

Frank  Wright,  '08,  was  on  the  campus  last  week. 

J.  B.  Roberts,  '95,  was  on  the  campus,  Tuesday. 

Dr.  Cram  gave  an  hour  examination  in  Mineral- 
ogy, Wednesday. 

Negotiations  are  being  made  for  new  Hymnals 
for  the  college  chapel. 

The  Finance  Committee  of  the  Overseers  and 
Boards   met   at   the   college   last   Friday. 

Professor  Sills  attended  the  State  Convention  of 
Episcopalians    held    in    Portland,    Wednesday. 

Prof.  Woodruff  supplied  the  pulpit  of  the  Con- 
gregational   Church    at    Hallowell    last    Sunday. 

Philip  W.  Meserve,  '11,  is  in  Portland  for  a  few 
days. 

In  the  first  round  of  the  tennis  tournament,  Brew- 
ster defeated  McCormick,  6-4,  6-4. 

The  following  men  are  out  for  assistant  tennis 
manager :   Foote,  Foss,  Fuller,   Gray  and  Riggs. 

Those  who  have  trials  on  Friday  will  leave 
Thursday   and   the   rest   of   the   team,   Friday. 

Prof.  Chapman  attended  the  meeting  of  the 
Maine  Congregational  Conference  at  Westbrook, 
Tuesday. 

The  Freshman  prize  contest  for  the  best  metri- 
cal translation  of  one  of  Horace's  odes  closed 
Thursday. 

Mrs.  Atherton,  Assistant  Registrar,  will  leave 
soon  for  an  extended  trip  to  the  Pacific  coast.  Mrs. 
Alice  Little  has  already  taken  her  place  in  the 
office. 

Brewster,  '09,  and  Woodward,  'lO,  started  Tues- 
day morning,  to  walk  to  Boston  to  see  the  New 
England  Meet.  They  planned  to  be  about  three 
or  four   days  on   the   road. 

Dr.  Burnett  has  decided  not  to  accept  the  call 
which  he  received  from  Amherst.  Had  Dr.  Bur- 
nett gone  to  Amherst  he  would  have  been  head  of 
the   Department   of    Psychology. 


The  subject  of  the  debate  on  June  first  has  been 
changed  to  read  as  follows:  Resolved,  That  a  grad- 
uated Federal  income  ta.x  in  just  in  principle." 

A  committee  of  the  faculty  are  now  considering 
the  method  of  awarding  the  new  prize  for  public 
speaking  which  has  been  established  by  a  fund  of 
one  thousand  dollars  just  received. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Bowdoin  Debating 
Council  for  the  reports  of  officers  and  election  of 
officers  for  the  ensuing  year  will  take  place  on  the 
evenmg  of  June  first  at  7  o'clock. 

Brown,  '09,  and  Peters,  '10,  who  have  been  attend- 
ing the  Psi  Upsilon  Convention  in  Chicago  this 
week  will  stop  over  over  in  Boston  on  their  way 
home,  to  see  the  New  England  Meet. 

Among  the  Bowdoin  Alumni  who  saw  Bowdoin 
wni  the  track  championship  at  Orono  last  Satur- 
day were:  Phil  Kimball,  '07;  Frankie  Bass,  '07; 
W.  W.  Bolster,  '06,  and  Charles  T.  Hawes,  '76. 

The  magazine  section  of  the  Leiuistoii  Saturday 
Journal  to-morrow  will  contain  an  account  of  the 
trip  of  some  Bowdoin  men  to  the  top  of  Streaked 
Mountain   in   Oxford   County,   one   Sunday  recently. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  New  England  Intercolle- 
giate Press  Association  held  in  Boston  this  fore- 
noon and  evening,  the  Orient  is  represented  by  R. 
D.  Morss,  '10,  W.  E.  Robinson,  '10,  T.  Otis,  '10  and 
J.  C.  White,  'II. 

The  Orient  last  week  stated  erroneously  that 
Prof.  Foster  bad  an  article  in  the  May  number  of 
Reviczv  of  Reviczvs.  Prof.  Foster's  article  entitled 
The  American  College  on  Trial  appeared  in  the 
May  number  of  the  School  Revieiv. 

Prof.  William  A.  Moody  delivered  a  paper  on 
"The  Use  of  Fallacies  in  Teaching  Algebra"  at 
the  meeting  of  the  Mathematics  and  Science 
Department  of  the  Maine  Association  of  College 
and  Preparatory  Schools  .  in  Waterville  last  Satur- 
daj'  afternoon. 

Those  interested  in  fencing  had  an  opportunity 
to  see  Monsieur  Pierre  Pianelli,  ex-Adjutant  Fenc- 
ing Master  in  the  French  Cavalry,  Maitre  d'Armes 
and  Harvard's  coach,  at  tlie  gymnasium  Tuesday 
afternoon.  M.  Pianelli  gave  an  exhibition  with  Mr. 
White    of   Augusta,    Bovvdoin's    coach. 

The  Bowdoin  Debating  Council  has  received  a 
challenge  from  Clark  College  for  a  debate  next 
year.  After  due  consideration  the  Council  decided 
that  in  view  of  the  one  year  agreement  with  Wes- 
leyan,  Bowdoin  would  be  unable  to  accept  the  chal- 
lenge. 

Of  the  $241  needed  to  send  the  football  associa- 
tion upon  its  way  rejoicing,  $125  has  been  collected 
by  Manager  Otis.  Manager  Otis  will  be  away  next 
week  and  wishes  everybody  to  pay  their  one  dollar 
subscription  before  that  time.  One  hundred  and 
sixteen  more  dollars  have  to  be  subscribed  before 
the   football  schedule   can  be  approved. 

The  following  is  the  provisional  list  of  the  men 
to  represent  Bowdoin  at  the  New  England  Meet 
on  Friday  and  Saturday,  as  given  out  by  Coach 
Morrill  on  Wednesday  afternoon :  Atwood,  Burton, 
Pennell,  Simmons,  Colbath,  Slocum,  Edwards, 
Deming,  Warren,  Newman,  Crosby,  Morss,  J.  Clif- 
ford, H.  Robinson,  McFarland,  Hastings,  Bur- 
linganie,    F.    A.    Smith,    McKenney. 


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'60. — Augustine  Jones,  Esq.,  read  a  paper 
on  Governor  Thomas  Dudley  at  the  May 
meeting  of  the  New  England  Historic  Gen- 
ealogical Society. 

'62. — Rev.  Dr.  Edward  N.  Packard  gave  an 
able  address  on  the  history  of  Religious  L'b- 
erty  in  Connecticut  on  the  occasion  of  the  two- 
hundredth  anniversary  of  the  formation  of  the 
Fairfield  Consociation,  at  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

'yy. — The  school  committee  of  Northbridge, 
Mass.,  begin  their  seventy-second  annual 
report  with  these  words :  "For  twenty-five 
years  we  have  been  fortunate  in  retaining  the 
services  of  Mr.  S.  A.  Melcher  as  principal  of 
our  High  School,  and  for  twenty-one  years  he 
has  been  our  Super'ntendent  of  Schools. 
With  constant  and  enthusiastic  devotion  to  his 
profession,  he  has  strenuously  and  success- 
fully labored  to  improve  our  schools  that  they 
may  equal  in  rank  the  best  in  the  State." 

'81. — Mrs.  Margaret  W.,  wife  of  Henry  S. 
Payson,  Esq.,  died  at  Portland  May  11,  1909, 
after  a  brief  illness. 

'81.— H.  B.  Wilson,  Esq.,  of  Redlands,  Cal., 
is  now  county  assessor  of  San  Bernard'no 
County. 

'92. — Recent  issues  of  the  Boston  Medical 
and  Surgical  Journal  contain  professional 
articles  by  Dr.  Ernest  B.  Young,  who  is  now 
'nstructor  is  gynecology  in  the  Harvard  Med- 
ical School  and  first  assistant  visiting  physi- 
cian for  diseases  of  women  at  the  Boston  City 
Hospital. 

'98. — Wendell  P.  McKown,  Esq.,  has 
recently  removed  his  law  offices  to  Suite  450- 
451,  No.  50  Church  Street,  New  York  City. 

'01. — George  L.  Lewis  has  been  re-elected 
librarian  of  the  Westfield  Athenaeum  at  an 
increased  salary  and  the  Trustees  have  voted 
him  an  additional  assistant. 

'08. — Sturgis  E.  Leavitt  is  teaching  at  the 
Jackson  Military  Academy  at  Jackson,  Mo. 

'08. — Murray  C.  Donnell  is  completing  h's 
first  }'ear  of  law  study  at  the  University  of 
Michigan. 

'03. — Mr.  S.  C.  W.  Simpson,  formerly  with 
D.  C.  Heath  &  'Co.,  now  has  charge  of  the 
high  school  and  college  publications  of  Benj. 
H.  Sanborn  &  Co.  for  the  New  Englaml 
States. 


IN  MEMORIAM 

By  the  death  of  Hiland  Lockwood  Fair- 
banks the  Class  of  1895  has  lost  one  of  its 
most  active  members.  Mr.  Fairbanks  was 
born  at  Farmington,  Maine,  on  September  21, 
1871,  but  his  family  soon  removed  to  Bangor. 
Pie  was  prepared  for  college  in  the  schools  of 
that  city  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  N. 
H.  At  Bowdoin  Hile  Fairbanks  was  one  of 
the  most  prominent  men  in  college,  espec'ally 
in  athletics.  He  played  two  years  upon  the 
eleven,  four  years  upon  the  nine,  was  captain 
of  the  former  in  his  Junior  year,  and  of  the 
latter  in  'his  Senior  year.  He  also  had  the 
honor  of  being  picked  as  the  quarterback  for 
the  All-America  Eleven  of  1893.  After 
graduation  he  spent  some  time  in  the  South 
and  then  entered  the  Harvard  Law  School, 
where  he  rece'ved  the  degree  of  LL.B.  in 
1900.  He  then  practiced  his  profession  at 
Bangor  and  also  assisted  his  father  in  the 
insurance  business.  For  fully  two  years 
before  h's  death,  he  had  been  a  sufferer  from 
tuberculosis,  but  this  was  not  generally khown 
to  his  friends  until  the  fall  of  1908,  when  he 
went  to  the  Moosehead  Lake  region  for  his 
health.  Early  in  January  he  entered  the  san- 
itarium at  Plebron  where  he  failed  fast. 
Returning  to  his  home  he  passed  away  quietly 
in  'his  sleep  on  the  morning  of  February  15th. 
He  left  a  wife,  formerly  Miss  Mary  Seavey, 
and  three  children,  two  girls  and  a  boy. 

Mr.  Fairbanks  had  a  generous,  loyal  nature, 
and  an  unusual  capacity  for  making  friends. 
Fie  was  frank  and  brave  and  ready  to  give 
help  to  those  who  needed  it.  He  was  deeply 
attached  to  Bowdoin  and  a  constant  attendant 
upon  Commencement  reun"ons.  In  1908  he 
was  back  but  a  few  hours  and  before  many 
had  arrived.  Legal  business  compelled  him 
to  leave  and  he  comforted  himself  with  the 
thought  that  he  had  at  least  attended  the 
gathering,  thoug'h  for  so  short  a  time.  He 
made  the  arrangements  for  the  tenth  reunion 
of  the  class  and  its  success  was  largely  due 
to  his  efforts.  At  our  fifteenth  reunion,  so 
near  at  hand,  and  perhaps  at  others  until  the 
loss  of  members  by  death  shall  have  become  a 
familiar  thing,  the  gathering  without  Fair- 
banks w'll  seem  incomplete ;  we  shall  fail  to 
realize  that  one  so  full  of  life  and  strength  is 
gone  forever,  and  will  turn  to  each  other  with 
the  question,  "Where  is  Hile?" 
Louis  C.  Hatch, 

Secretary  of  jSp^. 


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VOL.   XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  MAY  28,  1909 


NO.  8 


BOWDOIN  TAKES  FOURTH  AT  THE  N.  E.  I.  A.  A. 
MEET 

Cold  Weather  Badiy  Hampers  Contestants — Colbath 
Wins  Place  in  Both  Mile  and  Two=Mile  Runs 

Altho  picked  b)'  many,  and  expected  by  the 
student  body  ito  take  second  p'ace  at  the 
Brcokline  Meet,  Bowdoin  was  obliged  to 
accept  fourth  place.  However,  there  is  no 
dissatisfaction  expressed  over  the  perform- 
ances of  the  Bowdoin  team  for  all  who  saw 
the  mee't  realized  that  every  man  who  wore 
the  wh'te  of  Bowdoin  spent  all  there  was  in 
him  to  win.  Dartmouth  won  the  meet  with 
32I/.  points  being  p?  shed  to  the  limit  by 
Tech,  who  look  27.  Williams  followed  next 
with  24  and  then  Bowdoin  with  20  V^.  The 
Cither  teams  finished  in  the  following  order : 
Amherst  17,  Brown  13,  Wesleyan  9,  Maine 
6,  Tufts  3  and  Vermont  2.  Trinity  and  Holy 
Cross  failed  to  score. 

The  worst  upset  of  the  afternoon  was  in 
the  two-mile  in  which  Slccum,  picked  to  win, 
fai  ed  to  place.  Slocum  ran  a  game  race  but 
the  cold,  raw  wind  and  driving  ra'n  were  too 
much  for  him.  Light  men  stood  no-  show  in 
a  contest  held  under  such  conditions  as  can 
be  seen  by  a  perusal  of  the  finals  in  the  sev- 
eral events.  They  were  all  won  by  strong 
heavy  men  whose  constitutions  were  not  so 
affected  by  the  weather. 

Three  firsts  went  to  Bowdoin.  Colbath 
took  the  mile  in  handsome  style,  Edwards 
forced  the  versatile  Johnny  Mayhew  of 
Brown  to  take  second  to  him  in  the  low  hur- 
dles, while  Warren,  the  Ightest  man 
entered  in  the  hammer  throw,  won  out  from 
a  large  field. 

Newman  outdid  himself  in  the  shot-put, 
although  he  only  tied  for  third  pace.  His 
best  put  was  iii/o  inches,  better  than  his  best 
performance  at  the  Maine  meet  a  week  pre- 
vious. 

Captain  Atwood,  although  failing  to  qual- 
ify in  the  sprints,  nevertheless  took  third  in 
the  broad  jump.  The  feature  of  the  after- 
noon was  the  performance  of  Jess  Flawley  of 
Dartmouth.  When  Sherman  was  retired 
with  a  strained  tendon,  Hawley  responded  by 


taking  15  points — the  number  Sherman  was 
picked  to  win.  Another  act  which  although 
triv  al  showed  true  sportsmanship,  .was  exhib- 
ited by  Kooyumjian  of  Amherst.  It  was  in 
the  finals  of  the  discus  throw.  Hawley's  dis- 
cus was  dropped  in  the  mud  just  before  his 
final  throw.  Kcoyumjian,  his  Amherst  rival 
•,\ho  then  led  him,  picked  it  up,  carefully 
wiped  't  on  his  bath  rdbe,  and  handed  it  to 
Hawley  who  won  the  event  in  his  last  try. 

Captain  Gilbert  Horrax  of  Wiliams,  did 
splendid  work  taking  ithe  second  largest  num- 
ber of  points — 14.  Mayhew  was  Brown's 
largest  point  winner,  taking  second  in  both 
hurdles  and  fourih  in  the  broad  jumps,  a  total 
of  seven. 

The  most  wonderful  exhibition  of  stamina 
and  speed  was  that  shown  by  Bowdoin's  chief 
point  winner.  H.  T.  Colbath.  He.  ran  away 
from  the  field  in  the  last  lap  of  the  mi^e,  fin- 
ishing in  4  min.  35  4-5  sec.  remarkable  run- 
ning cons  dering  the  condit.on  of  the  track. 
The  twc-mile  found  him  in  line  again  and  in 
third  position  at  the  finish.  When  we  con- 
sider the  relative  merits  of  their  respective 
events  it  can  be  easily  seen  that  Colbath's 
work  was  more  remarkable  than  that  of  Haw- 
ley and  Horrax,  the  on  y  men  who  won  more 
points. 

SUMMARY  OF  EVENTS 
The  summar}' : 

100-Yard  Dash — Won  by  Hawley,  Dartmouth; 
Robson  Wesleyan,  second ;  Kelley,  Williams,  third : 
Pinkett,  Amherst,  fourth.     Time — 10  2-53. 

One  Mile  Run — Won  by  Colbath.  Bowdoin ; 
Watkins,  Technology,  second ;  Merrihew,  Ver- 
mont, third.  Wells,  Brown,  fourth.  Time — 4m. 
35  4-5S. 

120- Yard  Hurdles — Won  by  Horrax,  Williams  ; 
Mayhew,  Brown,  second ;  Marble,  Brown,  third ; 
Smith,    Maine,    fourth.     Time — 16    1-5S. 

440-Yard  Dash — Won  by  Bacon,  Wesleyan ; 
Schwartz,  Tufts  second ;  Salisbury,  Technology, 
third ;  Littlefield,  Maine,  fourth.     Time — 53s. 

8So-Yard  Run — Won  by  White,  Technology;  For- 
tier,  Maine,  second ;  Baxter,  Dartmouth,  third ; 
Lester,   Wiliams,    fourth.      Time — 2m.   2   3-55. 

220- Yard  Flurdles — Won  by  Edwards,  Bowdoin  ; 
Mayhew,  Brown,  second;  Stevens,  Williams,  third; 
Knight,    Maine     fourth.     Time — 27s. 

Two-Mile  Run — Won  by  Howland,  Technology; 
Greene,  Brown,  second ;  Colbath,  Bowdoin,  third ; 
Watkins,  Technology,  fourth.     Time — lom.  2  i-Ss. 


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220- Yard  Dash — ^Won  by  Hawley,  Dartmouth ; 
Kelley,  WilKams,  .second ;  Alexander,  WilUams. 
third;  Seligman,  Technology,  fourth.  Time — 23 
3-Ss. 

i6-lb.  Shot  Put — Won  by  Kilbourn,  Amherst  (40 
ft.  lYi  in.).Kooyumjian,  Amherst,  second  (.40  ft. 
I^  in).  Newman,  Bowdoin,  and  Chamberlain 
Tech.   tied   for    fourth  place,   38   ft.   2^    in. 

l6-lb.  Hammer  Throw — Won  by  Warren,  Bow- 
doin (129  ft.  2}/^  in.)  ;  Smith,  Amherst,  second  (126 
ft.);  Metcalf,  Technology,  third  (121  ft.  Ilj4  i"-)  ; 
Lewis,   Dartmouth,  fourth   (113  ft.  2  in.). 

Discus  Throw — Won  by  Hawley,  Dartmouth  (119 
ft.  2  in.);  Kooyumjian,  Amherst,  second  (113  ft. 
jYz  in.);  Kilbourn.  Amherst,  third  (106  ft.  10  in.); 
Hanna,   Wesleyan,  fourth   (102  ft.   I^   in.). 

High  Jump — W.  Palmer,  Dartmouth,  and  Horrax, 
Williams,  tied  for  first  (5  ft.  9^  in.)  ;  Dalrymple 
and  Allen,  Technology,  tied  for  third  (.5  ft.  SJ4  in.). 
Palmer  won  medal  on  toss-up. 

Broad  Jump — Won  by  Sherman,  Dartmouth  (21 
ft.  2flA  ill-)  ;  Horrax,  Williams,  second  (21  ft.  2  in.)  ; 
Atwood.  Bowdoin,  third  (20  ft.  II  in.);  Mayhew, 
Brown,    fourth    (20   ft.    TY    in.) 

Pole  Vault— Won  by  Holdman,  Dartmouth  (11  ft. 
6  in.)  ;  Allen,  Technology,  second  (11  ft.  3  in.)  ; 
Horrax,  Williams,  third  (11  ft.)  ;  Salisbury.  Tech- 
nology, and  Jenks,  Dartmouth,  tied  for  fourth  (10 
ft.  6  in.). 

Events 

Events.  D.      B.  A.  M.I.T.  W.Ws.Bo.    Vt.Me.T. 

Mile  Run 1  3  5  2 

Quarter    2  5  13 

100-Yard    5  1  2      3 

120  Hurdles    5  5  1 

Shot    S     11/2  ly^ 

Half -Mile 2  5         1  3 

Two-mile    3  6  2 

H.  Jump    4  3  4 

220  Hurdles    3  2  5  1 

220  Dash 5  5 

Hammer    1  3      2  5 

Discus    , 5  5  1 

B.    Jump    5         1  3  2 

Pole  Vault 51/2  31/2      2 

Totals  for  1909.  .321/2  13    17   27        24      9   201/2      2      C      3 


HEBRON  WINS  INTERSCHOLASTIC 

Forty=Six  Points  Take  First  Place — Portland  High 

Second  with  39— Might  of  P.  H.  S.  Breaks  Shot 

Record  in  Shot  Put 

In  the  Interscholastic  Track  Meet  on  Whittier 
Field  last  Saturday,  Hebron  pulled  out  ahead  with 
46  points  to  her  credit.  Portland  High  kept  the 
lead  during  the  first  half  of  the  meet  but  lost  in  the 
field  events  and  finished  second  with  39  points. 
Deering  High  with  10  was  third  and  Bangor  High 
with   6  was   fourth. 

The  day  was  cold  and  a  strong  wind  blew  down 
the  track  directly  against  the  runners.  Considering 
this  handicap  the  time  of  the  competitors  was  very 
good.  Several  performances  came  close  to  the 
records  and  one  record,  that  of  the  shot-put  was 
broken,  Hight  of  Portland  High  making  38  ft.  8  in. 
which  is  six  inches  better  than  the  mark  made  by 
A.  C.  Denning  of  Kent's  Hill  in  1900.  O'Connell  of 
Yarmouth  Academy  won  the  mile  easily,  three  sec- 
onds behind  the  record  and  could  undoubtedly  have 


lowered  it  if  pushed.  In  the  440  Russell  of  Portland 
ran  close  to  the  record  even  against  the  wind. 

A  large  crowd  from  the  various  schools  was 
present  and  enlivened  affairs  by  cheering  and  sing- 
ing. Portland  and  Hebron  were  especially  well 
represented  with  a  large  number  of  boys  and  girls, 
girls. 

THE  SUMMARY 
100- Yard  Dash 
Final     Heat — Won     by     Holding     of     Lewiston, 
Trowell    of    Bangor    second,    Washburn   of    Hebron 
third.     Time — 10   4-5S. 

220- Yard  Dash 
Final  Heat — Won  by  Washburn  of  Hebron,  Mur- 
phy of  Portland  second,  Walker  of  Biddeford  third. 
Time— 24  4-53. 

440- Yard    Dash 
Final   Heat — Won  by  Russell   of  Portland,   Soule 
of  Hebron  second,  Tukey  of  Portland  third.  Time 
—55  2-ss. 

Half-Mile  Run 

Won  by  Tukey  of  Portland,  Rice  of  Bangor  sec- 
ond,   Bartlett   of   Hebron   third.     Time — 2m.   7   4-5S. 

One-Mile  Run 

Won  by  O'Connell  of  Yarmouth  Academy,  Milli- 
ken  of  Deering  second.  Day  of  Portland  third. 
Time — 4m.    52s. 

High    Hurdles 

Final  Heat — Won  by  Woodman  of  Portland, 
Chadbourne  of  Portland  second,  Mikelsky  of 
Hebron    third.     Time — 17    i-ss. 

Low  Hurdles 
Final   Heat — Won   by     L.     Brown     of     Hebron, 
Sharpe    of    Hebron    second,    Lawrence    of    Hebron 
third.     Time — 29s. 

Pole  Vault 
Won  by  Sawyer  of  Deering,  Conneen  of  Portland 
second,  Curtis  of  Hebron  third.     Height,  9  ft.  6  in. 

Shot-Put. 
Won  by  Hight  of  Portland,  distance  38  ft.  8  in.; 
Welch    of    Hebron    second,    distance    33    ft.    Sj^in. ; 
Parsons   of  Hebron   third,   distance  32   ft.   SJ4   in. 

Discus  Throw 
Won  by   Stobie'of  Hebron,  distance  95   ft.;   Pat- 
ten of  Hebron  second,  distance  92  ft.  9J^  in. ;  Bryce 
of  Hebron  third,  distance  8g  ft.  6^   in. 

Hammer  Throw 
Won  by  Welch  of  Hebron,  distance  103  ft.  2  in. ; 
Walker   of  Hebron  second,  distance  95   ft.   9>4   in.; 
Thurston   of  Hebron  third,  distance  94  ft.   i   in. 

Broad  Jump 
Won   by   Winslow   of   Westbrook    Seminary,    dis- 
tance 19  "ft.  sV-x  in;  Hight  of  Portland  second,   dis- 
tance   19   ft.    v-Vs,    in. ;    C.    Brown    of   Hebron    tliird, 
distance  18  ft.  6^  in. 

High    Jump 
Won   by   Chadbourne   of   Portland,   Houghton   of 
Deering  and  L.  Brown  of  Hebron  tied  for  second 
and  third.     Height,  S  ft.  3  in.       • 


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59 


BOWDOIN  4,  MAINE  3 

Junior  Week  Game  Proves  Disastrous  for  Maine 

As  the  opening  event  of  Junior  Week  at 
Maine  and  with  an  unusiually  large  crowd  in 
attendance,  ihe  game  of  last  Wednesday  at 
Orono  added  another  victory  to  Bowdoin's 
credit  with  a  score  of  4  to  3. The  game  was 
interesting  and  full  of  excitement  aL  the  way 
through.  McHale  of  M^aine  pitched  a  fine 
game,  al'owing  but  five  hits"  and  strik- 
ing out  five  men,  but  his  support  was 
not  especially  good  and  bad  errors  were 
made  which  let  in  Bowdoin  men.  Hobbs 
p'tched  a  good  game  but  was  not  very  steady 
and  was  hit  harder  than  his  opponent.  As 
usual  the  Bowdoin  infield  played  a  star  game 
and  held  Maine's  runners  down.  At  the  bat 
Maine  excelled  and  Cobb's  home  run  in  the 
second  was  the  feature  of  the  game.  Bow- 
doin's scores  were  made  in  the  third  and  fifth 
by  a  combination  of  hits  and  of  bad  errors  on 
the  part  of  the  Maine  men.  In  the  ninth 
Ma'ne  came  near  tying  the  score  but  died  at 
third.     The  summary : 

Bowdoin. 

ab  r  eh  po  a  e 

Wilson,    c 3  I  0  3  3  o 

McDade,    If 5  i  o  i  i  i 

Harris,    ss 5  o  2  i  4  0 

Manter,    2b 4  o  i  i  3  i 

Wandtke,    cf 4  o  o  3  o  0 

Clifford,    lb 3  0  0  13  I  2 

Bower,    3b 3  i  0  2  i  0 

Lawlis,    rf 4  o  i  2  o  0 

Hobbs,    p 4  I  I  I  5  0 

35  4  5  27  18  4 
Maine 

ab  r  bh  po  a  e 

Smith,   c 3  I  I  5  I  I 

Mayo,    lb 3  o  0  12  0  i 

Pond,    If 4  I  2  2  o  o 

McHale,    p 3  o  2  0  3  0 

Scales,   rf 3  o  o  i  o  0 

Fulton,    cf 4  0  0  3  o  0 

Cobb,    3b 4  I  2  I  6  o 

Higgins,    ss 3  o  i  i  i  4 

Parsons,    2b i  0  o  i  0  o 

Coombs,  2b,   ss 3  0  0  I  I  0 

Richardson*    i  0  0  0  o  0 

32        3  8      27      12        6 
*Batted  for  Coombs  in  ninth. 
By  innings 

Bowdoin    0     0     2    o  2     o     o    o     0 — 4 

Maine    i     i    o    o  0    0    o     i     0^3 


I-Iome  run— Cobb.  Two  base  hits— Cobb  and 
McHale.  Bases  on  balls— by  Hobbs  3,  by  McHale, 
2  Struck  out— by  Hobbs,  by  McHale  5.  Double 
play— Wilson  to  Clifford  to  Bower.  Passed  ball- 
Smith.  Hit  by  pitcher— Bower.  Stolen  bases- 
Harris,  Clifford.  Sacrifice  hits— Wilson  Mayo  Mc- 
Hale,   Scales.     Time— 1.55.      Umpire— O'Brien 


BOWDOIN  6,  COLBY  7 

First  Defeat  of  Season  in  Maine  Series 

In  the  fourth  inning  of  Saturday's  game 
with  Colby,  Bowdoin  went  to  pieces  and  let  in 
six  runs  on  a  base  on  balls,  two  hit  batsmen 
and  four  hits.  Ne'ther  Means  nor  Hobbs 
coMld  hol'd  fhe  Co'by  men  that  inning, 
although  they  were  fairly  effective  the  rest  of 
the  time.  The  game  was  .loosely  played  as  a 
whole  and  did  not  reflect  much  credit  on  either 
team.  Bowdoin's  best  work  was  in  the  first 
and  n'nth.  In  the  latter  inning  the  white 
would  have  won  but  for  the  good  fielding  of 
Lander  and  Val.     The  score: 

Colby. 

T  ,  BH        PO  A  E 

Lander,    ss 2        4         i         0 

Ca'"y;    c 2        4        o        0 

Vail.,  rf...    2        4        o        0 

Niittmg,     lb 0700 

^li'iw,    cf I         I         0         J 

Michaud,     If j         o        o         i 

Sturlcvant,     2b 01-50 

Tibbitts,   3b '.■.'.■.  I         3        "i         3 

Totals    12      27        7        5 

Bowdoin. 

BH        PO  A  E 

Wilson,    c 2  9  2  o 

McDade,    If 2000 

Harris,     ss 0  I  5  2 

Manter,    2b o  o  3  i 

Wandtke,    cf 0  0  0  0 

Clifford,     lb o  11  0  2 

Bower,    3b 2  i  2  0 

Lawlis,    rf : 0  2  0  0 

Means,    p i  o  0  o 

Hobbs,    p o  0  I  o 

Totals    7      24       13         5 

Innings     i     2     3     4     5     6     7    8    9 

Colby     o     0     o    6     0     0     o     I       — 7 

Bowdoin     2    o    0    0     i     0     I    o    2 — 6 

Runs  made — by  Lander,  Cary  2,  Nutting,  Shaw, 
Michaud,  Sturtevant,  Wilson,  Harris,  Manter, 
Bower,  Lawlis,  Means.  Two-base  hit — Bower. 
Three-base  hits — Cary,  Wilson.  Base  on  balls — off 
Good,  off  Means  2.  Struck  out — by  Good  4,  by 
Means  4,  by  Hobbs  3.  Hit  by  pitched  ball — Means. 
Passed  ball — Cary.  Wild  pitch — Good.  Umpire — 
Flavin.     Time — ih.  S5m. 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BY    THE 

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Vol.  XXXIX. 

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No.  8 

Caspar  Whitney,  editor  of 
Organized  Cheering   the   Outing,  writes   in  the 

current  number  of  that 
magazine,  criticising  the  practice  of  organized 
cheering  in  college  games,  as  follows : 

"College  athlet'c -games  unaccompanied  by 
a  grandstand  and  several  bleachers  full  of 
cheering  students  would  lose  much  of  their 
picturesquehess.  The  sight  of  young  gentle- 
men with  their  coats  and  halts  off  and  their 
ariiis  jerking  back  and  forth  in  an  efTort  to 
elicit  a  united  cheer  from  the  undergraduate 
spectators  has  become  so  common  that  it 
seems  indispensable  in  college  life.  What  a 
noise  rends  the  sky  when  in  answer  to  the 
cheer  leader's  appeal  'the  eager  collegians  give 
voice  to  their  feelings !  The  college  boys  have 
shown  real  genius  in  the  science  of  organiz- 
ing the  cheering.  Work'ng  together,  cheer 
leader  No.  i  plunges  his  contingent  into  the 
first  part  of  the  locomotive  yell ;  then  cheer 
leader  No.  2  brings  to  bear  his  cheering  artil- 


lery to  deliver  tlie  second  installment  of  the 
long  yell.  The  students  are  out  to  show  the 
team  that  it  has  their  'hearty  support,  and 
what  more  natural  than  that  'the  young  Amer- 
icans should  follow  the  example  of  their  elders 
and  organize  upon  an  efficient  basis? 

"But  very  properly,  we  believe,  doubts  are 
being  entertained  in  some  college  circles  as  to 
whether  or  not  his  method  of  cheering  is  just 
fair  to  the  other  team.  It  is  urged  that,  while' 
spontaneous  college  cheering  should  be 
encouraged,  yet  to  organize  cheering",  to 
appoint  cheer  leaders,  to  so  manage  the 
noise-mak'ng  students  as  a  unit  that  cheers 
will  tend  to  disconcert  the  visiting  players,  is 
unfair.  We  are  inclined  'to  th'nk  that  this 
is  so.  The  visaing  team  enters  upon  the 
grounds  of  the  other  college  and  every  chance 
should  be  given  them  to  measure  themselves 
fairly  against  the  home  team. 

"It  'has  been  a  pleasure  to  note  in  recent 
years  a  growth  of  intercollegiate  good  feel- 
ing; we  believe  that  organ'zed  cheering  is  one 
of  the  relics  of  a  regime  that  is  past.  To  be 
sure,  most  coLeges  still  practice  the  habit,  and 
they  take  a  good  deal  of  pride  in  their  ability 
to  'get  together'  in  a  complicated  and  sky- 
splitting  cheer.  We  fear  that  sometimes  this 
ttnited  cheering  has  been  directed  with  the 
unworthy  desire  of  'getting  the  goat'  of  the 
visitors.  Surely  this  is  not  'the  good  feeling 
that  should  be  shown  to  the  outside  world  b}' 
the  democracy  of  learning. 

"From  the  view-point  of  this  magazine, 
when  one  college  team  goes  to  play  upon  the 
grounds  of  another  college,  it  should  be  given 
a  square  deal  in  every  way.  It  is  enough  that 
'the  players  be  asked  to  fight  the  battle  aga'nst 
the  skill  of  the  other  players  alone ;  to  be 
asked  to  pit  themselves  against  the  organized 
noises  from  the  benches  as  well,  is  surel}^  not 
the  highest  ideal  of  intercollegiate  rivalry. 

"Let  there  be  cheering,  of  course,  of  the 
hearty,  spontaneous  sort.  The  home  players 
w'll  never  be  in  doubt  that  their  non-athletic 
brethren  are  back  of  them  heart  and  soul ; 
but  let  the  other  fellows  win  if  they  can, 
fairly,  and  not  feel  that  they  are  in  the  enemy's 
country. 

"We  look  to  see  this  question  thoroughly 
discussed  by  responsible  managers  of  college 
athletics." 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT                                                       6i 

I                         BOWDOIN  S,  COLBY  8  PSI  UPSILON  CONVENTION 

Game  Won  in  Tenth— Shaw  of  Colby  Gets  Two  The   76th    Ccnvent'on   of   the   Psi   Upsilon 

Home  Runs  Fraternity  was  held  May  12,  13  and  14  with 

A  bunch  of  hits  in  the  tenih  gave  Colby  her  ''^'=.   Orneg^    Chapter    at     the    University    of 

second  victory  over   Bowdoin    this    year    on  Ch  cago.  The  convention  opened  on  Wednes- 

Whittier    F'eld,    Wednesday.      The    playing,  day  evening,  May   12,  with  a  dinner  for  the 

though  exciting,  was  loose  and  both  pitchers  delegates   at    the    new    chapter   house   of   the 

were  hit  freely.     Things  began  moving  in  the  Omega.     There  were  about  three  hundred  in 

first  inning  when  Colby  started  in  by  getting  attendance  at  this  dinner  which  included  the 

three  runs  only  to  be  tied  by  Bawdom    n  the  chapter  and  some  alumni.     On  Thursday  two 

second  part.     From    there    on    through    the  business   meetings   were  held,   followed   by  a 

nmth,  the  playing  was  full  of  ups  and  downs.  reception   at   4.30    p.m.     In    the    evening    a 

Neither   team   took   a   decisive   lead   and   the  smoker  was  held  at  the  Engineer's  Club  and 

score  was  tied    at    5-5.     Then    came    Colby's  was  much  enjoyed  by  all  present      On  Friday 

mnmg,  which  left  her  three  runs  m    the    lead  morn'ng  another  and  fina'    business    meetino- 

when  the  dust  had  settled.     In  her  half  Bow-  ^as  hefd,  ending  with  the  Convention  picture 

■  dom  failed  to  get  a  score  and  Colby  had  won.  at  the  chapter  house.     This  was  followed  bv 

In  the  field  Harris  and  Manter  showed  up  luncheon  at  the  South   Shore   Country   Club 

we  1  for  Bowdo  n  while  Good  and  Shaw  did  in  die  evening  the  Convention  Banquet  was 

good   work    for    Colby.     Shaw    was    the    star  held  at  the  University  Club  and  the  Conven- 

man  of  the  game  at   the   stick,   making   two  tiQ,-,  ^yj^g  ended 

pretty  hits  over  the  fence  which  were  good  for  There  were  'about  three  hundred  delegates 

home  runs.     Good  also  batted  well  for  Colby  f,-om  the  chapters  over  the  whole  country  in 

and  Wilson  and  Wandtke  -hit  best  for  Bow-  attendance.     The  Kappa  Chapter  of  Bowdoin 

dom.     In  die  box  Good,  although  hit  for  more  ^as  represented  by  Philip  H    Brown    '09   and 

bases  than  Hobbs,  was  the  steadier  man  and  Clinton   N.    Peters,    '10.     There   were   also   a 

showed  up  better  m  tight  places.  number    of    Kappa    alumni    present   who    are 

Ihe  summary:  residents  of  Chicago  and  vicinity. 

Bowdoin  -^ 

ab      r      eh      po      a        e 

Wilson,    c 5        2        3        5        2        0 

McDade,   If 5        i        i       o       0       o  THE  ALEXANDER  PRIZE  SPEAKERS 

Harris,    ss 4        0        0        4        3        0  t^,                     .                     , 

Manter.  2b 5       i        i       3       3       0  ^  "^    committee    to    choose    the    contestants 

Clifford.    lb 5       o       o      17       0       o  for    the     Alexander     Prize,     Prof.     Mitchell, 

Wandtke,    cf 4       i       3       i       o       o  Mr.  Bridgham,  and  Mr.  Stone,  have  selected 

LawlTs:    cf.' ;.■.•:;.•.•.■:;.■:    4       o       I       I       I       I  the  following  men  to  compete  in  the  contest 

Hobbs,'.  p 400054  on  JMonday  even'ng  of  Commencement  week: 

Brooks*    I       o       o       o       o       0  Adams,    '12,    Clififord,    '10,    A.    Cole,    '11,    G. 

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BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


represent .  Bowdoin  for  the  first  time  in  an 
Eastern  Intercollegiate  track  meet.  Bowdoin 
does  not  expect  to  win  the  meet ;  on  the  con- 
trary she  wi  1  think  herself  fortunate  if  she 
scores  as  many  £s  five  points,  The  reason  for 
this  will  be  evident  when  the  following  I'st  of 
colleges  which  will  take  part  in  the  contest  is 
read :  Harvard,  Cornell,  Princeton,  Michigan, 
Pennsylvan'a,  Yale,  Amherst,  Williams,  Bow- 
doin, Brown,  Fordham,  New  York  Univer- 
sity, Stevens  Institute,  Syracuse,  M.  I.  T., 
Dartmouth,  Swathmore,  and  Johns  Hopkins. 


CoUeoe  flotes 


Final  Debate  in  Interscholastic   League  at  Hubbard 
Hall  To=Night 

Chapin,   'ii,   has  returned  to  college. 

Casco  Castle  will  open   Saturday  for  the   season. 

McGlone,  'lo,  has  been  singing  at  the  Pastime  this 
week. 

Dodge,  'l2,  has  been  confined  to  his  room  with 
la  grippe. 

Slocum,  'lo,  is  spending  this  week  at  his  home 
in   New  York. 

Maine  defeated  Bates  in  a  i6-inning  game  last 
Saturday,  3  to  2. 

Oakes,  '12,  has  been  quarantined  in  14  Maine  Hall 
with  mumps  the  past  week. 

Prof.  Foster  attended  the  New  England  Meet  at 
Boston,    Friday   and    Saturday. 

Roy  C.  Haines  of  Ellsworth,  was  a  visitor  at  the 
college  the  last  of  the  week. 

The  dramatic  club  played  "The  Regiment  of  Two" 
at   Richmond,   Thursday   evening. 

L.  Davis.  '11,  who  is  principal  of  Richmond  High 
School,   was  on  the  campus,   Sunday. 

Memorial  Day  comes  Sunday  this  year,  and  the 
college  will  suspend  exercises  upon   Monday. 

The  college  band  gave  the  second  open  air  con- 
cert under  the  Thorndike  Oak  Tuesday  evening  at 
6.30. 

The  Massachusetts  Club  will  take  dinner  at  the 
Inn  to-morrow  night.  It  will  be  the  last  meeting 
of  the  year. 

Oxnard,  '11,  has  been  recently  elected  president  of 
the  Epworth  League  of  the  Methodist  Church  of 
Brunswick. 

Dr.  Copeland  and  Dr.  Cram  are  to  go  abroad  this 
summer.  They  will  sail  from  Boston  to  Liverpool 
soon   after   exams. 

P.  B.  Morss,  '10,  is  acting  as  Manager  of  the 
Orient  during  the  absence  of  R.  D.  Morss  at  Long- 
wood   with   the   tennis   team. 


E.  R.  Bridge,  '09,  has  gone  to  Boston  this  week 
on  business  connected  with  his  summer  employ- 
ment. 

Last  week  a  circle  of  the  Red  Cross  was  organ- 
ized in  Brunswick  of  which  Prof.  Sills  was  chosen 
president. 

Assistant  Manager  Berry  is  working  this  week 
clearing  up  the  football  liabilities  during  the  absence 
of   Manager   Otis. 

Hansen,  '10,  and  Ludwig,  '10,  have  returned 
from  Aroostook  where  they  have  ben  spending  a 
week  at  hard  labor  on  a  potato  farm. 

Dr.  Burnett  attended  a  meeting  of  the  Associa- 
tion of  College  Officers,  at  New  Haven,  Conn.,  from 
Monday  until  Wednesday  of  this  week. 

Rich,  '09,  acted  as  usher  at  the  wedding  of  the 
Misses  Sterling  in  Portland,  Tuesday.  Neil  W.  Cox, 
'08,  was  best  man  to  one  of  the  bridegrooms. 

Ex-Manager  Tefft  took  the  baseball  team  to 
Waterville  last  Saturday  in  the  abesnce  of  Manager 
Webster,    who   attended  the  New   England   Meet. 

Dr.  Copeland  took  the  class  in  Zoology  to  Mere 
Point,  Thursday,  to  study  marine  fauna.  The  class 
left  the  Science  building  at  9  o'clock  and  were  gone 
all    day. 

Pierce,  'il,  passed  his  examinations  to  Annapolis 
and  will  take  a  physical  examination  in  June.  If  he 
is  successful  he  will  be  admitted  to  the  naval  acad- 
emy as  a  midshipman. 

In  the  Interscholastic  Meet  last  Saturday,  Hight 
of  Portland  High  School  broke  the  shot-put 
record  made  by  "Cy"  Denning,  '04,  when  a  prep 
school   man   at   Kents   Hill. 

Archer  P.  Cram,  '99,  has  recently  become  man- 
aging clerk  of  the  firm  of  Hyde  &  Leonard  in  New 
York.  L.  B.  Leavitt,  '99,  has  retired  to  his  farm  in 
Wilton   to   recover  his   health. 

Tickets  for  Seniors'  last  chapel  will  be  given  away 
at  Senior  marching  next  Wednesday.  Three  tickets 
will  be  given  to  each  man  at  that  time.  If  you  are 
not  there  you  will  have  to  whistle  for  your  tickets. 

Owing  to  the  inability  of  Manager  Otis  to  attend 
the  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Intercollegiate 
Fooball  Rules  Committee  at  the  Murray  Hill  Hotel, 
New  York,  on  May  29th,  Bowdoin  will  be  repre- 
sented by   Walter   D.   Lee,   '08. 

Probably  the  largest  delegation  of  Bowdoin  men 
that  ever  gathered  in  Boston  at  one  time  went  from 
here  last  week  to  attend  the  Inercollegiate  Meet. 
Many  fellows  went  on  the  boat  from  Bath  Thurs- 
day night,  and  others  followed  by  train  and  boat 
Friday  and   Saturda^. 

W.  B.  Webb,  '04,  has  been  elected  treasurer  of  an 
Interfraternity  Club  in  the  Philippine  Islands.  The 
Club  is  made  up  of  college  men  from  all  over  the 
United  States.  Mr.  Webb  is  in  the  employ  of  the 
International  Banking  Co.,  and  is  a  member  of 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

Of  453  American  colleges  the  following  are  the 
first  twelve  with  regard  to  age :  Harvard  1636, 
William  and  Mary  1693,  Yale  1701,  University  of 
Pemisylvania  1740,  Princeton  1746,  Washington  and 
Lee  1749,  Columbia  1754,  Brown  1764,  Rutgers  1766, 
Dartmouth  1769,  Washington  College  1782,  Dickin- 
son College  1783. 


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63 


Mr.  Ellery  Berry  of  the  Springfield  Training 
School  spoke  in  chapel  last  Thursday  morning,  and 
also  'before  a  Christian  Association  meeting,  Thurs- 
day noon.  Mr.  Berry  who  is  coach  of  the  Training 
School  fencing  team,  had  several  bouts  with  Bridge, 
Stephens  and  Morss  Thursday  afternoon.  At  the 
meeting  of  the  Christian  Association  in  the  evening 
Harry  A.  Smith,  trick  pianist,  gave  a  pleasing  exhi- 
bition. 

In  the  first  round  of  the  singles  in  the  tennis 
tournament  Ross,  'lo,  defeated  Haines,  'og,  5-7, 
7-5  7-5;  Hawes,  '10  defeated  R.  F.  White,  '12,  6-3, 
6-2;  Black,  '11,  defeated  Chapman,  '10,  6-3,  6-2. 
Partridge  defeated  Timberlake  6-1,  6-3.  In  the 
first  round  of  the  doubles  Smith,  '10,  and  Lippin- 
cott,  '10,  defeated  Harlow,  '09,  and  McCormick, 
'12,  6-2,  6-2.  Hawes  and  Aubrey  defeated  Tobey 
and    Brewster,    6-3.    7-5. 

John  Appleton,  '02,  of  the  firm  of  Appleton  &  Vail, 
foresters  of  Bangor,  has  been  working  upon  the 
Thorndike  Oak.  All  the  decayed  portions  have 
been  taken  out  and  the  holes  filled  with  cement. 
This  precaution  will  probably  prolong  the  life  of  the 
Thorndike  Oak  seventy-five  or  one  hundred  years 
longer  than  it  would  have  lived  had  it  been  left 
alone.  The  Junior  partner  in  the  firm  is  also  a 
Bowdoin  man  of  the  Class  of  1903. 

An  examining  committee  of  the  boards  visited  the 
college,  Tuesday  and  Wednesday  of  this  week. 
Upon  the  committee  were  Prof.  John  S.  Sewall, 
'51,  formerly  professor  of  Rhetoric  and  Oratory 
and  now  emeritus  professor  at  the  Bangor  Serai- 
nary;  Dr.  Charles  H.  Cutler,  '81,  of  Bangor,  and 
George  P.  Davenport,  '67,  of  Bath.  Prof.  Sewall 
is  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  and  the 
other  two  gentlemen  are  members  of  the  Board  oi 
Overseers. 

Rev.  Chester  B.  Emerson,  Bowdoin,  '04,  who 
graduates  from  Union  Theological  Seminary  this 
spring,  will  preach  in  the  Congregational  Church 
next  Sunday  morning.  Mr.  Emerson  was  ordained 
in  this  church  a  few  weeks  ago,  and  his  paper  at 
that  time  attracted  much  favorable  comment.  While 
in  the  Seminary  he  has  been  assistant  to  Rev.  Wil- 
liam S.  Coffin,  one  of  the  leading  clergymen  in  the 
city,  has  had  down-town  work  among  the  news- 
boys and  bootblacks  meanwhile  taking  a  high  rank 
in  scholarship.  Several  of  his  classmates  and 
friends  were  refused  ordination  by  the  Presbyterian 
Church  because  of  their  liberal  views  at  the  same 
time  that  Mr.  Emerson  was  warmly  welcomed  into 
the    Congregational    Church. 

Popular  Science  Monthly  for  May  gives  a  de- 
scription of  the  biological  laboratories  in  Harps- 
well  which  are  devoted  to  the  study  of  marine  life 
on  the  Atlantic  coast,  and  the  article  is  accompa- 
nied by  illustrations  and  a  map.  The  real  founder 
of  the  laboratory  was  the  late  Leslie  A.  Lee  of 
Bowdoin  College  whose  recent  death  was  so  deeply 
lamented  by  all  who  knew  him.  The  present  direc- 
tor of  the  laboratory  is  Prof.  John  Sterling  Kings- 
ley,  of  the  chair  of  zoology  of  Tufts  College,  a 
native  of  New  York,  graduate  of  Williams  College, 
student  of,  Freiburg  University,  and  for  many  years 
connected  with  American  universities.  This  marine 
laboratory  is  located  at  the  southern  extremity  of 
Harpswell  Neck,  14  miles  from  Bowdoin  College. 
The  laboratory  is  preparing  for  a  large  number 
of  students  and  visitors  the  coming  summer. 


CALENDAR 

Frid.'W,   May   2Sth 

2-30-5-30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 

3.30  P.M.     Zeta  Psi  vs.  Beta  Theta  Pi. 

Visiting   committee   visits   the   college. 

Trials  for  the  Eastern  Intercollegiate  Meet  in 
Cambridge. 

8.00  P.M.  Pinal  debate  in  the  Bowdoin  Inter- 
scholastic  Debating  League  between  Portland  High 
School  and  Wilton  Academy. 

Reception  to  the  Debating  Teams  at  the  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  House. 

Saturday^   May  29TH 

Eastern    Intercollegiate    Meet    in    Cambridge. 

2-30-S-30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 

Massachuseftts  Club  meets  at  New  Meadows  Inn. 
Sunday,  May  30TH 

10.45  A.M.  The  Rev.  Chester  Emerson  occupies 
tlie   puilpit  in  the   First   Congregational   Church. 

5.00  P.M.     Chapel.     Rev.  Chester  Emerson  speaks. 

Monday,  May  31 
Memorial  Day. 
Bowdoin  vs.   Bates  at  Lewiston. 

Tuesday,  June  ist 
2-30-5-30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 
3-30  P.M.     Psi  Upsilon  vs.  Alpha  Delta  Phi. 
_  7.00   P.M.     Final    Debate    in    English    VII.     Ques- 
tion :   The  Federal   Government   should   have   exclu- 
sive  control  of  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  intox- 
icating liquors.     Affirmative :    Slocum,   White.    Neg- 
ative:    Hawes,    Stephens.     Chairman:    Ready. 
Business  meeting  of  the  Debating  Council. 

Wednesday,   June   2nd 
2-30-S-30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 
Rappa    Sigma    Reception    and    Dance    in    Pythian 
Hoall. 

Psi  Upsilon  Reception  and  Dance  in  Pythian  Plall. 
Zeta  Psi  Reception  and  Dance  in  Pythian  Hall. 

Thursday,   June   30 
2.30-5.30  P.M.     Baseball   Practice. 
3-00  P.M.     Alpha  Delta  Phi  Reception. 
8.00    P.M.      Performance     of     Dramatic     Club     in 
Town  Hall. 

Friday.  June  4th 
Ivy   Day. 

10.00  a.m.     Bowdoin  vs.  Bates  on  Whittier  Field. 
2.30  P.M.     Ivy  exercises. 
4.00  P.M.     Seniors  Last  Chapel. 
9.00    P.M.     Ivy    Hop. 


STANDING  OF  MAINE  COLLEGES 

As  a  result  of  Bowdoin's  second  defeat  by  Colby, 
Wednesday,  Bowdoin  takes  a  fall  in  the  standing  of 
the  Maine  colleges.  As  the  teams  now  stand  if 
Colby  should  beat  Maine  next  Saturday,  and  Bow- 
doin beat  Bates  two  games,  we  are  state  champions. 
If  Maine  beats  Colby  and  we  beat  Bates  two  games 
we  tie  with  Maine  for  the  championship. 

The  present  standing  is : 

Won  Lost  Per  cent. 

Maine    3  2  .600 

Bowdoin    2  2  .500 

Bates    2  2  .500 

Colby    2  3  .400 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


Hlunini  ^Department 

'45. — Nathaniel  P.  Richardson,  Esq.,  is 
now  residing  at  Westmount  near  Montreal, 
Canada. 

■57. — The  many  friends,  of  Rev.  Dr.  Daniel 
F.  Smith  will  regret  to  learn  of  h"s  illness  at 
his  home  at  Long  Reach,  California. 

'88. — His  many  friends  among  the  alumni 
will  regret  to  learn  that  in  a  period  of  severe 
mental  depress'on  Lincoln  H.  Chapman,  Esq., 
cashier  of  the  Newcastle  National  Bank,  took 
his  own  life  by  drowning  himself  Monday 
afternoon.  May  17th,  Since  the  death  of  his 
wife,  over  a  year  ago,  he  has  been  greatly 
depressed  and  recently  the  sickness  of  his 
children  had  added  in  a  remarkable  degree  to 
his  anxiety  and  .general  despondency.  H"s 
accounts  with  the  bank  were  in  every  respect 
exact  and  a  subsequent  careful  examination 
of  its  affairs  shows  it  to  be  to-day,  as  it  has 
been  in  the  past,  one  of  the  strongest  institu- 
tions in  that  part  of  the  State.  Mr.  Chapman 
was  the  son  of  Dav'd  W.  Chapman,  Esq.,  who 
is  still  living  and  whom  he  succeeded  in  the 
office  he  held  at  his  death.  He  was  born  16 
January,  1867,  at  Damariscotta,  and  was  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Lincoln  Academy.  After 
graduation,  he  engaged  in  the  insurance  busi- 
ness and  was  also  connected  with  the  bank  of 
which  he  became  cashier  in  1899.  He  married 
22  October,  1891,  Josephine,  daughter  of 
Dominicus  and  Phoebe  E.  Jordan  of  South 
Auburn.  She  died  December  22,  1907,  leav- 
ing three  children,  a'l  girls. 

'92. — Rev.  John  M.  Wathen  of  Claremont, 
N.  H.,  has  declined  his  recent  call  to  the  pas- 
torate of  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Saco,  Me. 

'94.— Charles  A.  F:agg,  Esq.,  the  class  sec- 
retary, has  recently  issued  his  eighth  class 
directory.  It  records  few  changes  of  address, 
but  four  marriages  and  the  birth  of  six  chil- 
dren. 

'02. — A  son,  Lyman  A.  Cousens,  Jr.,  was 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  L.  A.  Cousens  of  Port- 
land, Me.,  March  i,  1909. 

•o4._Dr.  Harold  J.  Everett,  having  com- 
pleted his  hospital  service  in  Boston,  has 
opened  an  office  at  727  Congress  Street, 
Portland. 

'o5.^Stanley  P.  Chase,  A.M.,  Instructor  in 
English  at  Northwestern  University,  has  just 
issued,  as  class  secretary,  a  directory  from 
which  the  fol'ow'ng  items  are  taken. 


Ernest  H.  R.  Burroughs,  attorney-at-law, 
is  manager  of  the  Employment  Department  of 
the  Massachusetts  College  of  Commerce,  at 
883  Boylston  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Kenneth  H.  Damren,  attorney-at-law,  is 
witli  Henry  L.  Stockbridge,  mortgages  and 
insurance.  15  Slate  Street,  Boston,  but  his 
home  address  is   Maynard,   Mass. 

Raymond  Davis,  .M.F.,  is  with  the  Cloquet 
Lumber  Company,  Cloquet,  Mich. 

Frank  Day  is  assistant  princ'pal  of  the 
New   Park  Avenue   School,   Flartford,   Conn. 

Robert  K.  Eaton  is  with  the  Whitin 
Machine   Works,   Whitinsville,   Mass. 

Everett  W.  Hamilton  is  with  the  Seaboard 
National  Bank,  18  Broadway,  New  York 
C-ty. 

Edwin  L.  Harvey  is  a  reporiter  for  the 
Times    New  York  City. 

Paul  Laidley  is  an  agent  of  the  Victor 
Chemical  Works,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Henry  Lewis  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  C. 
E.  Denison  &  Co.  Investment  Bonds,  4  Post 
Office  Square,  Boston. 

Arthur  L.  McCobb  is  teacher  of  French 
and  German  in  the  Adirondacks — Flor'da 
School,  Rainbow  Lake;  N.  Y.  In  the  winter 
months  this  school  holds  its  sessions  at  Pine 
Knot  Camp,  Cocoanut  Grove,  Florida. 

William  J.  Norton  of  the  Goodrich  Social 
Settlement,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  is  a  lecturer  on 
Soc'ology  at  Western   Reserve   LTniversity. 

Paul  G.  Robbins  is  in  the  shipping  depart- 
ment of  the  Wood  Wors'ted  Mill  at  South 
Lawrence,  Mass. 

Carl  W.  Rundlett  is  president  of  Rundlett 
&  Reynolds  Inc.  automobile  machinists.  Pel- 
ham  Manor,  N.  Y. 

Walter  M.  Sanborn,  attorney-at-law,  is 
with  Wi  liamson  &  Burle'gh,  Augusta,  Me. 

Frank  E.  Seavey  is  insti  actor  in  English 
at  Tufts  College. 

Ralph  C.  Stewart,  M.D.,  is  house  doctor  in 
the  Lowell,   Mass.,   General   Hospital. 

Donald  C.  White  is  treasurer  of  the  J.  B. 
Ham  Co.,  Grain  and  Flou  ',  Lewiston,  Me. 

Louis  D.  H.  Weld,  Ph.D.,  Columba,  1908, 
is  instructor  in  economics  at  the  University 
of  Washington,  Seattle,  Wash. 

'06. — Robie  R.  Stevens,  the  sub-manager  of 
the  International  Banking  Corporation  at 
Colon,  Republic  of  Panama,  sails  for  ths 
country  about  June  ist  on  a  three  months' 
leave  of  absence  and  expects  to  be  present  at 
Commencement. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  JUNE  4,  1909 


NO.  9 


IVY    DAY 


To-day,  at  the  dose  of  Junior  year,  the 
Class  of  19 10  fulfills  its  duty  towards  perpet- 
uating one  of  the  time-honored  traditions 
dear  to  the  hearts  of  all  Bowdoin  men — the 
plant'ng  of  the  class  Ivy  and  the  ceremonies 
connected  with  it. 

To  commemorate  the  occasion  the  Orient 
has  issued  this  special  number. 

In  the  morning  came  the  annual  Ivy  Day 
baseball  game.  This  year  it  is  with  Bates.  In 
the  afternoon  came  the  regular  literary  exer- 
cises consisting  of  the  oration,  the  poem,  and 
presentations,  followed  by  the  planting  of  the 
Ivy. 

Then  came  one  of  the  most  impressive  and 
solemn  traditions  known  to  Bowdoin — Sen- 
iors' last  chapel.  In  the  evening  and  until 
early  dawn  comes  the  Ivy  hop.  the  most  bril- 
liant social  function  of  the  college  year.  May 
the  best  of  good  fortune  be  with  Nineteen 
Ten. 


THE  FOLLOWING  IS  AN  ABSTRACT  FROM  THE 
ORATION  DELIVERED  BY  DANIEL  T.  READY : 

By  this  time  in  the  life  of  almost  every  col- 
lege man  he  has  begun  to  consider  very 
seriously  what  his  life  work  is  to  be  and  how 
he  hopes  to  accomplish  it. 

Ivy  Day  is  a  particularly  fitting  time  for 
such  reflect -ons,  since  it  marks  the  first  for- 
mal step  toward  graduation.  At  this  time 
the  man  has  begun  to  feel  the  sacred  influence 
of  Senior  on  Senior,  and  of  Faculty  on  Senior. 
This  is  the  time  that  a  man's  ideals  crystalize, 
and  it  is  good  for  him  to  here  pause  to  deter- 
mine what  manner  of  man  he  purposes  to  be. 

Business  and  the  dififerent  professions  offer 
the  young  man  great  opportunities  for  service, 
and  each  has  its  own  hardship  and  pleasures. 
However,  it  is  not  what  a  man  does  in  the 
world,  but  the  manner  in  which  he  does  it, 
and  the  spirit  he  displays  toward  his  fellows 
that  earns  him  honor.  Every  man  and  woman 
who  has  lived  in  the  world  has  contributed 
to  give  the  college  man  the  privilege  of  edu- 
cation, for  all  the  wealth  in  the  world  is  either 
the  free  gift  of  God  or  else  the  result  from 


the  labor  of  the  people  that  have  lived  in  the 
worid.  That  the  men  who  go  to  college  hap- 
pened to  be  born  into  a  group  that  controlled 
a  large  portion  of  that  wealth,  reflects  no 
credit  on  them,  but  implies  that  they  have 
inherited  this  privilege  from  the  world,  and 
owe  the  service  of  it  to  the  world.  Only  one 
man  in  a  hundred  secures  a  college  education, 
which  places  him  in  the  knighthood  of  the 
modern  world,  and  g'ves  him  the  task  of 
crushing  corruption  each  time  it  appears. 

.A.  consideration  of  the  problem  most  insist- 
ent to-day  shows  that  religion,  polit'cs  and 
business  are  most  in  need  of  a  reviving  influ- 
ence. 

Religion  to-day  is  in  a  most  unstabie  condi- 
tion for  many  peop'e,  finding  that  some  points 
in  the  fabric  of  religious  faith  are  untrue, 
straightway  reject  the  whole.  By  attention 
to  the  forms  of  religion  the  young  college 
man  can  do  much  to  maintain  the  principles 
which  are  always  sound,  and  prevent  the 
chaos  of  unbelief  and  selfishness,  into  which 
we  are  now  drifting. 

Turning  from  religion  to  politics,  we  find 
that  the  United  States  is  trying  the  greatest 
experiment  in  popular  government  the  world 
has  ever  seen,  but  the  recent  trouble  in  San 
Francisco,  Ph'ladeiphia,  New  York,  and  Bos- 
ton s'how  but  too  plainly  how  the  tide  is  set- 
ting. 

In  close  connection  with  the  political  sit- 
uation may  be  considered  the  industrial 
aspect  of  contemporary  life.  The  cotton 
manufacturing  company,  and  the  big  depart- 
ment store  proprietor  are  good  illustrations 
of  men  who  are  creating  dissatisfaction  and 
class  feeling  by  underpaying  their  employees. 
The  slavery  of  these  employees  is  just  as 
severe  as  was  that  of  the  negro  or  the  serf  in 
feudal  times. 

Present  conditions  are  leading  to  a  social 
revolution,  and  it  is  already  to  be  seen  that 
the  sensational  press  of  our  cities  is  feeding 
fuel  to  the  class  feeling  that  grows  more 
intense  each  day. 

It  may  be  beautiful  poetry  to  say  that, 
"They  also  serve  who  only  stand  and  wait," 
but  the  world  must  have  leaders  in  this  day, 
and  it  is  to  the  college  man  that  she  looks,  for 


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he  has  been  trained  in  the  requisites  of  lead- 
ership, which  are,  first,  to  be  able  to  foHow 
closely  the  path  of  the  great  men  that  have 
led  before,  next,  to  be  able  to  maintain  a  deep 
sympathy,  and  to  keep  a  close  connection  with 
those  who  are  to  be  led,  and  to  be  a  complete 
man. 

The  Poem 

June  4,    1909. 
By   Robert   Hale. 


Not  now,  my  friends,  my  classmates,  do  we  meet 
To  bid  these  college  halls  our  last  adieu ; 
Not  yet,  not  yet,  these  halting  untried  feet 
Must  tread  the  arduous  road  of  life.     The  dew 
Still  twinkles  in  the  morning  light ;  still  new 
Seem  all  the  myriad  beauties  of  this   Earth. 
The   fields   as  green,   the   skies   and   seas   as   blue. 
As  when  our  infant  eyes  so  full  of  mirth 
Looked  out  and  saw   the  God  of  beauties  knew  no 
dearth. 

II. 

For   life  lies   all  before  us.     Yet  a  year 
Remains  of  happy  days  passed  in  the  shade 
Of  Alma  Mater's  walls,  ere  our  career 
To  broader  spheres  shall  pass,  Youth's  glories  fade 
Into  the  sob'rer,  sterner  toils  we've  prayed 
So  long  to   meet,   yet   praying   oft   have   feared. 
So   think   we   not  the   future   to   invade. 
But  turn  our  rev'rent  thoughts  to  her  who's  reared 
Our    minds    in    learning,     Bowdoin     to      all     hearts 
endeared. 

III. 

We've  stood  upon  the  plains   of  windy  Troy 
And  seen  Scamander   rolling  to  the  sea; 
We've    felt   with   bold   Phoenician   the   joy 
Of  prying  into  that  dark  mystery 
That    locked    the   black    Atlantic's    majesty. 
And  then   in   whirling  years   we   have   beheld 
Men  yet  more  bold,  who,  sailing  westerly. 
Made  old  horizons  fade,  and  fearless  held 
Their  course,  and  found  strange  lands  unknown  to 
days  of  eld. 

IV. 

For  we  through  thee  are  all  (he  age's  heirs. 
'Tis  thou  hast  taught  us  that  no  time  nor  land 
Is   foreign   to   thine   offspring  who   but   bears 
The  gifts  bestowed  so  gen'rous  from  thy  hand. 
But  more  than  this  our  debt.     All  'hearts  expand 
To  some  new   friendship  formed  within  thy  walls, 
Friendships  that  ever   grow   more  firm   while   stand 
The    broad    foundations    of   thy    stately    halls. 
More    loved    and    cherished    while    the    murmuring 
pine  wood  calls. 

V. 
So  mind  and  heart  in  gratitude  confess 
The  debts  they  owe  to  thee.     Our  life  has  been 
A  happy  one  in  these  three  years,  where  less 


Of  care   and  grief  and   strife   have  entered   in, 
Than  e'er  we'll  know  again.    And  yet  we've  seen 
Some    part    of    human    sorrows.     Year   by   year 
We've  said  farewell  to  friends ;  each  year  more  keen 
The  parting  pang  for  those  who  entered  here 
Our  elders,  passing  on  before  to  broader  sphere. 

VI. 
But  sadder  far  than  any  bitter  pain 
Of  earthly  parting   is  the  grief  profound 
For   classmates   who   have   left  us   to   remain 
Within  these  halls,  while  they  so  early  crowned 
Their  eager  search  for  knowledge  and  have  found 
The  sure  solution  of  the  mysteries 
That  'hedge  our  life  about.     When  all  around 
The  world  grows  beautiful,  and  every  breeze 
Brings  joy,   we  think  of  two  whom  Nature's   smile 

did  please. 

VII. 
So  memories  ever  tender  flood  our  minds 
This  day,  and  make  us  gratefully  to  turn 
Our  thoughts  unto  the  past.     The  gentle  winds 
That  waft  the  scent  of  pines  make  each  heart  yearn 
For  days  gone  by.     The  breath  of  flower  and  fern, 
The  subtle,  pungent  odors  of  tlie  sea 
That  come  from  up  across  the  sands  that  burn 
With   sunlight, — each   recalls  some   memory. 
Some    memory    treasured,    sweet    or    sad    though    it 

may  be. 

VIII. 
From  snowy  campus  where  each  gaunt  old  oak 
Is  casting   fairy  pencillings   of  shade 
In    winter   noonday,    to    the    springtime   croak 
Of  frogs  in  far-off  ponds,  to  glories  made 
By  sheen  of  moonlig'ht,  when  all  airs  are  laid 
And  summer  moves  unquestioned  o'er  the  land, — 
Thrice  have  we  seen  the  seasons  pass  from  staid 
Array   to   gorgeous  panoply.     More  grand 
We    think,   each    season   waves   o'er   thee    its   magic 
wand. 

IX. 

For  each  revolving  season  surely  brings 
New  joy  in  wakened  memories,  new  ties 
That  bind  our  hearts  to  thee  in  closer   rings 
Of  love,  O  Bowdoin  fair.     Familiar  eyes 
Each   day  find  unthought  beauties,   see  arise 
New   glories   from   each   common   earthly   sight. 
So  time  glides  'by;   in  silent  years  more  wise 
Our  senses  grow  to  see  the  visions  bright 
In  glorious  pageant  of  recurring  day  and  night. 

X. 

Where   forks  the  sandy  road.  Inhere  is  a   spot 
Where    one    can    stand    and    catch    the    distant   roar 
Of  Androscoggin's   falls ;   while  dimly  brought 
By   fragrant   breezes   blowing   from   the   shore 
The   mighty   ocean's   murmurings   come   o'er 
The   intervening  trees   in  melody 
Unceasing.     E'en    upon    the    pine-spread    floor 
Of   pleasant   woodland,   we   can   hear    the   sea 
That   circles   round   the   world    in   linked   eternity. 

XL 

So  stand  we  now  in  life.  Behind  we  hear 
The  turbulent  rush  of  youthful  waters  loud ; 
Ahead,   the  sounds,  presistent,  low.   but  clear 


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Of  mig-iitier  seas  come  to  our  ears  and  crowd 

Upon   our   souls,   to   fill   our   youthful,   proud, 

And  haughty  spirits   with  submissive  grace ; 

For   on   a   mighty   sea,   all   unendowed 

With    sage   experience,   we   soon   must   face 

The  storms   and   dangers  in  a  wild,   relentless  race. 

XII. 

But  now  we  are  among  the  sheltering  pines 
Secure  against  the  ragings  of  the  sea 
That  wildly  tosses,  sending  ever  signs 
Of  its  unrest  in  mournful  melody 
Of  beating   surf.     And   now   less   noisily 
Each  rapid  year,   the  babbling  stream  of  youth 
Re-echoes    in   our   ears.     How   thankful   we 
For  these  still  woodland  days  where  we  forsooth 
For    lifelong   voyage    may    store     our     minds     with 
learning's  truth ! 


The  Ode 

Air  :  Wine,  Sweet  Wine. 

Now  life's  placid  stream  gleams  wide  before. 
Passions  claims  must  be  flung  behind; 
Leave   the  past's  dark  brink   forevermore 
Light  and  love  and  truth  in  mind. 

Thus  our  Ivy  grows;  and  shimmering  fair 

Less  dependent  on  sordid  earth 

Daily  gains  more  sustenance  from  the  air 

And   forgets  its  lowly  birth. 

So  we  lay  behind  all  bestial  strife 
And  free  men  tempt  the  stream  of  life. 

William  Stewart  Guptill. 


Presentations 


In  accordance  with  the  usual  custom,  cer- 
tain members  of  1910  were  the  recipients  of 
gifts  from  the  liands  of  their  class-mates. 
The  presentations  were  made  by  President  J. 
L.  Crosby,  2d,  at  the  close  of  the  exercises  in 
Memorial  Hall.  Those  who  were  rewarded 
were: 

Convict — ^W.  P.  Newman,  Prison  Uniform. 

Backslider — ^A.  T.  Rowell,  Goad  Stick. 

Infant — J.  D.  Clifford,  Pair  of  Scales. 

Cut-up — H.  W.  Woodward,  Cannon- 
cracker. 

Popular  Man — J.  H.  Hamburger,  Wooden 
Spoon. 


BOWDOIN  0,  BATES  8 

Before  one  of  the  largest  crowds  ever 
assembled  on  Garcelon  field  Bowdoin  went 
down  in  ing'orious  defeat  on  Memorial  Day 
in  a  game  in  which  Harriman,  Bates'  mid- 
get twirler,  held  the  Bowdoin  batters  com- 
pletely at  his  mercy  from  start  to  finish.  The 


game  was  slow,  and  after  the  second  inning 
failed  to  interest.  Hobbs  was  hit  hard  from 
the  start,  and  this,  coupled  w'th  the  short 
balloon  ascension  which  Bowdoin  took  in  the 
second,  accounts  for  Bates'  three  runs  in  that 
rotmd.  Harris  succeeded  him  in  the  fourth 
and  finished  the  game  in  fairly  creditable 
style,  Wandtke  being  moved  in  to  short  and 
Punngton  going  to  centre  field.  The  whole 
Bowdoin  team  seemed  to  lack  snap  and  vim, 
while  Bates  was  on  the  move  every  minute' 
Wilson  failed  to  shine  in  comparison  with 
Stone  who  was  the  mainstay  of  the  Bates 
team,  keeping  Bowdoin  runners  hugging  the 
bases  throughout.  Clififord  played  we.l  for 
Bowdoin,  while  Lamorey  excelled  for  Bates. 
Harris  fielded  his  position  in  great  shape  and 
Punngton  caught  some  d  fficult  flies.  In  the 
eighth  inning  Brooks  was  sent  to  bat  for 
Wandtke,  who  had  been  unable  to  find  Harri- 
man and  made  good  with  a  hit.     The  score: 

Bates 

AB  R        BH         PO        A  E 

Lamorey,    3b 4        o        2        i        •?        i 

Po™:"!'    lb 5  o  o  14  0  o 

Sto"e.    c 5  2  I  7  o  o 

^eaney     ss 4  j  2  o  2  o 

C°fe'    'f 4  I  2  I  0  o 

Bickford,    cf 4        0         I         3        0        o 

Claso",    rf 3        2        2        I        o        o 

Harnman,    p    4        j        0        0        2        o 

Total-s     •. 36        8      II      27        9        I 

Bowdoin 

ab  r  bh  po  a  e 

Wilson,    c 5  0  o  o  2  I 

McDade,    If 4  0  i  i  o  o 

Hams,   ss.,   p 4  o  0  0  6  i 

Manter,    ab 3  o  i  i  2  i 

Wandtke,    cf.,    ss 3  0  o  i  0  0 

Brooks,    If I  0  I  0  o  o 

Bower,    3b 4  0  i  i  2  0 

Clififord,     ib 3  o  i  12  i  0 

Lawliss,   rf.,   ss 4  o  i  2  0  2 

Hobbs,    p I  o  o  o  o  0 

Harris,    ss.,    p 0  o  o  0  0  0 

Punngton.    cf i  0  q  4  o  i 

Totals     33        0        6      24       13        6 

SCORE    BY    INNINGS 

Bates     I     3    o    i     i    0    2    o    x— 8 

Two-base  hits— Cobb.  Three-base  hits— Lamorey. 
Stolen  bases — Stone,  Keaney,  Cole.  McDade, 
Brooks,  Clason.  Base  on  balls — ^by  Harriman  3. 
Struck  out — ^by  Harriman  7,  Hobbs  i,  Harris  2. 
Sacrifice  bits — Lamorey,  Cobb.  Hit  by  pitched 
ball— Clason,  Manter,  Purington.  Wild  pitches — 
Hobbs.  Passed  balls — Wilson.  Umpire — Flavin. 
Attendance — 2,500.     Time — 2  hours. 


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No.  9 

AD-        1  iu       Since  this  is  the  last  issue 
A  Review  of  the       c  .u     r\  u  r        ^i 

c         '    Aiui  f       of  the  Orient  before  the 
Season  s  Athletics  ^  i.        -i. 

commencement   number,   it 

is  well  to  pause  for  a  moment  and  review  the 
season's  athletics  First  of  all,  we  must  say  a 
word  in  regard  to  our  coaches — "Bert"  Mor- 
rill who  has 'had  charge  of  the  track  men,  and 
"Harlie"  Rawson  who  has  been  at  the  head 
of  baseba'l!.  Hats  off  to  them  both ! !  In 
more  ways  than  one  have  they  won  their  way 
into  the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  Bowdoin 
men.  Never  has  Bowdoin  had  two  better 
coaches  and  it  is  the  sincere  wish  of  the  stu- 
dent body  that  they  be  with  Bowdoin  next 
year. 

In  so  far  as  the  success  of  our  track  team 
is  concerned,  the  results  of  the  several  meets 
in  which  Bowdoin  has  participated  is  familiar 
to  every  one  in  the  State  of  Maine.  Under 
the  careful  training  of  "Bert,"  Bowdoin  won 
the  Maine  intercollegiate  meet  on  May  15th, 
with  a  total  of  68  points,  10  more  than  the 
number  scored  by  the  three  other  colleges 
combined.  A  week  later  under  most  trying 
circumstances,  Bowdoin  took  fourth  in  the  N. 
E.  I.  A.  A.  meet  at  Brookline.     Last  Satur- 


day a  few  picked  men  went  to  the  Harvard 
Stadium  to  participate  in  tlie  Eastern  Inter- 
collegiate Meet.  Bowdoin  failed  to  score, 
but  she  shared  no  worse  fate  dian  many 
other  teams  representing  much  larger  institu- 
tions. Throughout  the  season  Coach  Mor- 
ri'l.  Captain  Atwood  and  Manager  Robin- 
son have  worked  to  the  limit  with  the  largest 
track  squad  in  the  history  of  the  college.  Bv 
graduation  we  lose  Capt.  Atwood,  Simmons, 
Burton,  all  of  whom  have  been  consistent 
workers  and  point  winners.  However,  there 
is  a  strong  bunch  of  point  winners  left  on 
which  the  college  builds  its  hope  for  1910. 
With  "Bert"  with  us  again  we  look  for  an- 
other championship  team. 

In  baseball  the  season  has  not  been  as  bril- 
liant as  the  seasons  of  1907  and  1908.  Yet 
the  college  is  by  no  means  finding  fault.  It  is 
genera  ly  conceded  that  we  have  been  with- 
out a  pitcher  who  ranks  with  fhe  other  col- 
lege pitchers  in  the  State.  Capt.  Manter, 
Hobbs,  Means,  Holt  and  Harris  have  all  been 
tried,  and  each  has  .given  the  best  there  was 
in    him. 

Behind  them  the  team  has  fought  hard  and 
consistently.  In  Coach  Rawson  the  college 
realizes  that  it  has  the  services  of  a  man  of 
exceptional  ability  whose  whole  heart  and 
interest  has  been  with  the  team. 

The  Orient  has  but  one  adverse  criticism 
to  make,  and  in  so  doing  is  by  no  means 
"knocking."  We  refer  to  the  lack  of  spirit 
shown  by  men  who  should  constitute  the  sec- 
ond team.  No  team  can  play  winning  ball 
when  it  is  obliged  to  play  "against  the  wind," 
and  that  is  exact'y  what  the  Bowdoin  varsity 
has  been  doing  for  the  past  month.  Three  or 
four  men  have  shown  splendid  spirit  by  show- 
ing up  rain  or  shine,  but  it  takes  nine  men  to 
make  a  second  team.  This  year's  experience 
should  be  a  lesson  to  the  college.  Turn  out 
— every  man  who  can  throw  a  ball !  It  is 
true  that  only  a  dozen  or  so  make  the  team, 
but  what  of  it?  It  is  the  duty  of  every  man 
in  college  to  help  out  whenever  and  wherever 
he  can.  By  graduation  Bowdoin  loses  some 
strong  men,  Capt.  Manter,  Bower,  Harris  and 
McDade.  To  fill  their  places  will  be  difficult, 
although  Coach  Rawson  has  a  good  lot  of 
second  string  men  in  line. 

It  is  a  splendid  thing  to  always  have  some- 
thing ahead  to  work  for.  Next  year  we  ^vant 
two  championships  in  the  spring,  one  in  track 
and  one  in  baseball.  The  prospects  are  excel- 
lent. 


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To-day  brings  forth  the 
1910  Bugle  year  book,  in  which  the 
1910  Bugle — the  co'.lege 
poets,  satirists,  philosophers,  funny  men,  and 
all  others  of  the  class  who  have  literary  aspir- 
ations set  forth  their  wares  for  the  benefit  of 
all  those  connected  with  the  college. 

As  usual,  we  find  in  its  pages  some  things 
which  enlighten,  some  which  amuse  and  some 
which   do  both. 

To  create  a  Bugle  is  no  work  of  odd 
moments  and  we  congratulate  the  1910  board 
for  the  excellence  of  the  present  number. 


PORTLAND  HIGH  WINS  DEBATE 

Defeats  Wiltoo  Academy  in  the  Finals  of  Bowdoin 
League — Cups  Awarded  by  the  Debating  Council 

On  Fr'day  evening  the  final  debate  in  the 
Bowdoin  Interscholastic  Debating  League, 
was  held  in  Hubbard  Hall  between  Portland 
High  School  and  Wilton  Academy,  resulting 
in  a  victory  for  the  former  team.  The  prop- 
osition debated  was : 

"The  Recommendations  of  the  Simplified 
Spelling  Board  should  be  adopted  by  the 
English  Speaking  World." 

The  Wilton  team  made  a  good  argument 
showing  the  need  for  a  reform  in  spelling  and 
giving  reasons  for  the  adoption  of  the  recom- 
mendations of  the  board,  but  -the  Portland 
men  showed*  that  the  benefits  gained  by 
adopting  simplified  spelling  would  be  far  out- 
weighed by  its  disadvantages. 

Portland's  team  was  composed  of  James  P. 
Baxter,  3d,  Edward  R.  Roberts  and  Fred  O. 
Wish,  Jr.,  with  Widiam  H.  Mulhal  as  alter- 
nate. Wilton's  men  were  Bernard  L.  Allen, 
Stanley  Miller  and  Fred  R.  Leavitt.  Jasper 
J.  Stahl,  '09,  was  the  presiding  officer. 
Hawes,  '10,  was  the  coach  of  Wilton,  and 
Sanborn,  '10,  of  Portland.  The  judges  were: 
Prof.  Hutchins,  Dr.  Burnett  and  Principal 
Cole  of  Morse  High  School,  Bath.  The  decis- 
ion was  unanimous  and  after  it  was  rendered 
Mr.  Stahl,  for  the  Debating  Council,  pre- 
sented the  prize  cups  to  the  Portland  team. 
At  the  conclusion  of  the  debate  a  very  enjoy- 
able informal  reception  was  held  at  the  Delta 
Kappa  Epsi!on  House. 


THE  INTERCOLLEGIATE  MEET 

Altho  Bowdoin  failed  to  place  a  man  in  any 
event  in  the  34th  intercollegiate  meet,  the  col- 
lege is  well  satisfied.  It  was  a  meet  where 
the  cream  of  the  college  athletes  of  America 


Summary  follows : 

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OOOOOOOo^OJOtlO 
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hH    VJ     ,_, 

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I 00-yard 
dash 

220-yard 
run 

440-yard 
run 

880-yard 

run 

One-mile 
run 

Two-mile 
run 

High 
hurdles 

Low 
hurdles 

Shotput 

Hammer 
throw 

High  jump 

Broad  jump 

Pole  vault 

Totals 


were  pitted  against  one  another  and  on'y  the 
stars  won  out.  Of  the  five  men  who  repre- 
sented Bowdoin,  two,  Atwood  and  Edwards, 
were  handicapped  by  injuries  recived  during 
the    week   previous.     Although    Colbath    and 


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Slociim  ran  a  strong  race,  they  were  unable 
to  place,  Colbath  finishing  sixth  in  the  two- 
mile  with  Slocnm  following.  Herbie  Warren 
came  within  a  few  feet  of  qualifying.  All 
the  men  who  went  on  tlie  trip,  together  with 
Coach  Morrill,  were  not  at  all  disappointed  as 
many  other  teams  were  shut  out.  It  is  inter- 
esting to  notice  that  Dartmouth  who  won  the 
N.  E.  I.  A.  A.  meet  scored  only  2^  points  and 
M.  I.  T.  scored  none. 


Ivy  Week  House  Parties 


ZETA  PSI  HOUSE  PARTY 

The  annual  reception  and  dance  of  the 
Lambda  Chapter  of  Zeta  Psi  was  held  at  the 
chapter  house  on  College  Street  on  June  2d. 
At  the  reception  from  three  to  five  in  the 
afternoon,  the  guests  were  received  by  Mrs. 
Henry  Johnson,  Mrs.  William  T.  Foster, 
Mrs.  Judson  B.  Hastings,  Mrs.  Charles  Baird 
and  Mrs.  Herbert  P.  Doane. 

The  delegates  from  other  fraternities  were 
Harry  Atwood,  '09,  from  Theta  Delta  Chi; 
Arthur  Hughes,  '09,  from  Alpha  Delta  Phi; 
Paul  J.  Newman,  '09,  from  Beta  Theta  Pi; 
Percy  Bishop,  '09,  from  Delta  Upsilon,  and 
Ralph  S.  Crowell,  '10,  from  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon. 

At  die  dance  in  the  evening  the  young 
ladies  present  were :  Misses  Sarah  Merriman, 
Helen  MerrJnan,  Margaret  Day  and  Marion 
Drew  of  Brunswick;  Miss  Sadie  Williams  of 
Fairfield;  Miss  Miller  of  Bangor;  Misses 
Hope  McKinney,  Gertrude  Stevens  and  Jean- 
nette  Eastman  of  Fort  Fairfield;  Miss  Clara 
Bailey  of  Machias;  Miss  Caddie  Johnson  of 
Hallowell;  Miss  Florence  Smith  of  Wells 
Beach ;  Misses  Hazel  Perry,  Jeannette  Healey 
and  Martha  Simmons  of  Rockland,  Miss  Pau- 
Une  Litchfield  of  Lewiston;  Misses  Margaret 
Sewall,  Nellie  Hodgdon  and  Margaret  Good- 
man of  Bath,  Miss  Angeline  Corbett  of 
Waterville,  Miss  Marion  Hathaway  of  Prov- 
idence ;  Miss  Helen  Daly  of  Boston ;  and  Mrs. 
May  Friend  of  Somerville. 

The   committee   in  charge   was   J.    S.   Sim- 
mons, '09 ;  H.  O.  Hovey,  '09 ;  R.  R.  Eastman, 
'10;  S.   H.  Hussey,  '11;  and    M.    W. 
lingame,  '12. 


PSI  UPSILON  HOUSE  PARTY 

The  annual  Psi  Upsilon  reception  and  dance  was 
given  on  Wednesday  by  the  Kappa  Chapter  at  its 
Chapter  House.  The  house  was  very  prettily  dec- 
orated and  presented  a  dharming  appearance.  The 
reception  was  held  from  four  until  six  in  the  after- 
noon and  dancing  was  begun  at  eight-thirty  in  the 
evening.  At  its  close  the  house  was  turned  over  to 
the    girls. 

The  committee  in  charge  of  the  affair  consisted 
of  Philip  H.  Brown,  '09;  Clinton  N.  Peters,  '10; 
Ben  W.  Partridge,  jr.,  '11;  and  Robert  P.  King, 
'12.  The  patronesses  for  the  party  were  Mrs.  E. 
R.  Brown  of  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  and  Mrs.  H.  T. 
Baxter    of    Brunswick. 

Among  the  guests  in  the  evening  were:  Misses 
Isabel  Carter,  Dorothy  Clay,  Margaret  Starbird, 
Marjorie  Ross  and  Janet  Peters  of  Portland;  Ora 
La  Croix,  Lena  Andrews,  Lucy  Hartwell  and 
Gladys  Parker  of  Bath ;  Margaret  Sweet  and  Mar- 
garet Sutherland  of  Brunswick;  Rena  L  Brown  of 
Watertown,  N.  Y. ;  Enid  Stevens  of  Somerville, 
Mass. ;  Anna  Chesley  of  Waterbury,  Mass. ;  Irene 
Cousins  of  Thomaston ;  Shirley  White  of  Lewis- 
ton  ;  Marguerite  Wiggin  of  Haverhill,  Mass. ;  and 
Ruth     Sanderson     of    Chester,     Mass. 

Tlie  delegates  from  the  other  fraternities  were : 
Stanley  W.  Pierce,  '11,  Alpha  Delta  Phi;  Harold 
N.  Marsh,  '09,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon ;  Leonard  F. 
Wakefield,  '09,  Theta  Delta  Chi;  Harold  M.  Smith, 
'09.  Delta  Upsilon ;  and  Daniel  F.  Koughan,  '09, 
Beta  Theta  Pi. 


KAPPA  SIGMA  DANCE 


Bur- 


The  third  annual  dance  of  Alpha  Rho  Chapter  of 
Kappa  Sigma  was  held  in  Pythian  Hall,  Wednes- 
day evening,  June  second.  An  order  of  twentj'- 
four  dances  was  enjoyed.  The  Colonial  Orchestra 
of  Brunswick  furnished  music.  The  hall  was  taste- 
fully decorated  in  red  and  green,  the  fraternity  col- 
ors, colored  lights  in  the  midst  forming  the  fra- 
ternity emblem.  The  guests  were  received  by  Mrs. 
William  DeWitt  Hyde,  Mrs.  Franklin  C.  Robin- 
son, Mrs.  Frank  M.  Stetson  of  Brunswick;  Mrs. 
Willis  B.  Moulton  and  Mrs.  Arthur  E.  Nickerson 
of  Portland.  The  committee  in  charge  of  the  affair 
consisted  of  E.  L.  Goodspeed,  '09,  chairman;  S.  F. 
Brown,  '10;  T.  Otis,  '10;  Wm.  H.  Callahan,  '11, 
and  E.  O.  Leigh,  '12.  The  house  chaperons  were 
Mrs.  Arthur  E.  Nickerson  of  Portland,  and  Mrs. 
Frank  M.  Stetson  of  Brunswick.  The  delegates 
were  John  D.  Clifford,  from  Alpha  Delta  Phi;  Guy 
P.  Estes,  Beta  Theta  Pi;  Henry  J.  Colbath,  Delta 
Kapa  Epsilon  ;  Lawrence  McFarland,  Delta  Upsilon  ; 
Linwood  Clarke,  Theta  Delta  Chi.  Among  the  young 
ladies  present  were  Miss  Elise  W.  Makepeace, 
West  Barnstable,  Mass. ;  Marion  E.  Ingalls,  Bridg- 
ton,  Mabel  Dougflhty  and  Lucy  Stetson.  Bruns- 
wick ;  Marion  Soule,  and  Louise  Smith,  Gardiner ; 
Gertrude  Callahan,  Lewiston;  Marion  Wheeler, 
Doris  Amick,  Dorothy  Abbott,  Florence  Cole,  Sallie 
Davis,  Irene  Havden,  Cassie  Young,  Portland;  Lil- 
lian Chapin,  Saco ;  Flora  Barrett,  Westbrook,  and 
Margarite    Feindel,    West    Somerville,    Mass. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


n 


Colleoe  Botes 

The  Ivy  Week  Orient  is  the  last  number  which 
will    appear   before    the    commenceraent    number. 

Professor  H.  B.  Hastings  has  been  called  by  the 
City  of  Augusta  as  an  expert  to  examine  the  bridge 
across   the  Kennebec   at  Augusta. 

Students  having  any  names  to  place  on  the  college 
mailing  list  for  new  publications  should  fill  out 
blanks    at    the    Registrar's    Office    at    once. 

The  Houghton  Mifflin  Company  will  sliortly  pub- 
lish a  volume  of  Addresses  of  Washington  and 
Webster,   edited   by   Professor   William   T.   Foster. 

Prof.  K.  C.  M.  Sills  goes  to  Seneca,  N.  Y.,  next 
week  to  be  present  on  June  2  at  the  marriage  of 
his  sister.  Miss  Mary  Sills,  to  Harold  Beverly  Rob- 
inson of  St.  John,  N.  B. 

In  the  second  round  of  the  singles  in  the  tennis 
tournament,  Aubrey,  'll,  defeated  Briggs,  '12.  6-2, 
6-1,  and  Black,  '11,  defeated  Hawes,  '10,  2-6,  6-4, 
6-3.  In  the  first  round  of  the  doubles.  Black  and 
Haines  defeated  Somes  and  Johnson  by  default. 

Rev.  Herbert  A.  Jump  preaches  at  Mt.  Holyoke 
College  next  Sunday.  Before  returning  to  Bruns- 
wick he  attends  the  Decennial  Reunion  of  his  class 
in  Yale  Seminary.  As  secretary  of  the  class  he  has 
charge   of   all   the   arrangements    for   this   reunion. 

Roderick  Scott  has  been  elected  Assistant  Profes- 
sor of  English  at  Earlham  College,  Indiana.  He 
has  also  been  asked  to  consider  a  position  as 
Instructor  in  English  at  Lake  Forest  College,  Illi- 
nois. It  is  probable  that  he  will  accept  the  Earl- 
ham   College   offer. 

Verd  R.  Leavitt,  who  was  far  the  best  speaker 
on  the  Wilton  team  in  the  Bowdoin  Debating 
League,  and  Fred  D.  Wish,  Jr.,  who  in  the  last  four 
interscholastic  debates  has  been  the  ablest  speaker 
from  the  Portland  High  School,  will  enter  Bow- 
doin next  September. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Franklin  P.  Weatherill  have  issued 
invitations  to  the  marriage  of  their  daughter.  Miss 
Louise  Margaret,  and  Thomas  Riley  Winchell,  on 
Saturday,  June  12,  at  8.30  o'clock  in  the  Congre- 
gational church.  The  at  home  cards  read,  "At 
home   after   October   the  first,   Houlton,   Maine." 

An  advanced  reprint  of  Stone  &  Webster  "Cur- 
rent Literature  References"  on  Public  Utilities, 
etc.,  entitled  Commercial  Research,  the  author  of 
which  is  G.  W.  Lee,  contains  some  points  sug- 
gested by  the  First  New  England  tour  of  the 
Boston  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Here  is  what  Mr. 
Lee  says  about  this  town :  "Brunswick,  thougfi 
something  of  an  industrial  center,  would  seem, 
above  all.  to  be  a  college  town,  with  a  magnificent 
library;  and  I  should  be  tempted  to  consider  it  the 
intellectual  and  educational  headquarters  of-  Maine, 
and  therefore  the  hi^h  court  of  appeal  for  informa- 
tion that  transcends  the  knowledge  of  the  rest  of 
the  state.  Brunswick  would  readily  dictate  to  our 
metropolitan  bureau  how  the  latter  could  best  serve 
Brunswick." 


THE  COMMENCEMENT  SPEAKERS 

Professor  Frank  E.  Woodruflf.  Professor  Fred- 
erick W.  Brown  and  Roderick  Scott,  the  commit- 
tee from  the  Bowdoin  College  faculty  appointed  to 
select  the  six  members  of  the  senior  class  who  will 
be  the  speakers  on  Commencement  day,  announced 
the  list  of  speakers  Saturday,  it  being  as  follows: 
Harrison  Atwood  of  Auburn,  Harold  Hitz  Burton 
of  West  Newton,  Mass.,  Max  Pearson  Cushing  of 
Bangor,  Dudley  Hovey  of  Waldoboro,  Jasper  Jacob 
Stahl  of  Waldoboro,  and  Fred  Vinton  Stanley  of 
Lisbon. 

Atwood  gave  the  Opening  Addtess  at  the  Fresh- 
man banquet,  was  president  of  his  class  Sophomore 
year,  has  been  on  the  Dramatic  Club  three  years, 
is  president  of  the  Democratic  Club,  president  of 
the  Athletic  Association,  and  Chairman  of  the  Stu- 
dent Council.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  var- 
sity track  team  four  years  and  was  its  captain  in 
1908  and  1909.  He  belongs  to  the  Ibis,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Theta  Delta  Chi  fraternity. 

Burton  was  toast-master  at  the  Freshman  ban- 
quet, recording  and  corresponding  secretary  of  the 
Christian  Association,  Editor-in-chief  of  the  Bugle, 
Assistant  Editor-in-Chief  of  the  Orient,  was  on  the 
Dramatic  Club  three  years,  was  president  of  the 
Republican  Club  and  the  Massachusetts  Club  his 
Junior  year,  and  a  member  of  the  Ibis,  Senior 
year.  Sophomore  year  he  made  the  Alexander 
Prize  Speaking,  took  the  Goodwin  French  prize 
Freshman  year,  and  the  Smyth  Mathematical  Prize 
Sophomore  year.  He  has  made  his  B  in  both  foot- 
ball and  track.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  and  Phi  Beta  Kappa  fraternities. 

Cushing  was  assistant  in  English,  Chairman  of 
the  Quill  board,  and  leader  of  the  Glee  Club  junior 
year.  He  was  chapel  organist,  pianist  for  the  col- 
lege orchestra,  and  belonged  to  the  Romania  and 
Deutscher  Verein.  Cushing  left  for  Constantinople 
at  the  end  of  the  first  semester  to  teach  in  Robert 
College,  so  will  not  deliver  his  part.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber  of   the   Delta   Kappa   Epsilon    fraternity. 

Hovey  was  a  member  of  the  Quill  board,  made 
the  Dramatic  Club  junior  year,  and  played  in  the 
Mandolin  Club  junior  and  senior  years.  He  is  a 
member    of   the   Zeta    Psi   fraternity. 

Stahl  was  a  member  of  the  Orient  and  Quill 
boards,  manager  of  the  Debating  Council  junior 
year  and  president  senior  year.  He  was  on  the 
Bradbury  prize  debate  junior  year  and  the  Ver- 
mont-Bowdoin  debate  senior  year.  He  was  class 
odist  Ivy  Day,  is  president  of  the  Deutscher  Verein 
and  belongs  to  the  Romania  and  the  Ibis.  He  is 
assistant  in  German  and  holds  the  Henry  Wards- 
worth  Longfellow  Scholarship  for  graduate  work 
next  year.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Zeta  Psi  and 
Phi   Beta   Kappa   fraternities. 

Stanley  came  to  Bowdoin  at  the  beginning  of 
junior  j^ear  from  Bangor  Theological  Seminary.  He 
is  pastor  of  the  Methodist  Church  at  Lisbon,  and 
has  been  granted  a  fellowship  of  $400  for  graduate 
work  by  the  college.  During  his  course  at  Bow- 
doin he  has  always  maintained  a  high  grade  of 
scholarship. 


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Hlumni  Department 

'58. — The  following  circu'ar  letter  sent  to 
the  surviving  members  of  the  Class  of  1858, 
explains  itself  and  will  doubtless  be  of  inter- 
est to  the  contemporary  alumni  of  that  class : 

Dear  Classmates:  If  we  "make  an  efifort," 
we  can  keep  for  another  year  the  Snow  trophy 
which  we  won  so  easily  at  last  commencement 
with  seven  out  of  thirteen  survivors  on  hand. 
Since  the  death  of  Edwin  Reed,  who  had  been 
ill  for  some  time  in  Europe,  we  are  twelve — 
an  even  dozen — in  reasonable  health,  and  not 
far  away  from  Alma  Mater  whom  we  should 
go  to  sa'ute  once  more  at  least. 

With  the  exception  of  Bradley  and  Hill  of 
Chicago,  who  are  sure  to  come  on,  we  are  all 
within  an  easy  day's  journey  of  Bowdoin's 
classic  air,  viz :  Abbott  of  Boston ;  Adams  of 
Cambridge  and  Smith  of  Lawrence,  Mass. ; 
Cilley  of  Rockland  and  Drew  and  Pulsifer  of 
Lew'ston,  Me.;  Sewall,  Spear  and  Jordan  of 
Washington,  and  Towle  of  New  York. 

In  our  college  days  at  Brunswick,  travel 
was  mostly  confined  to  the  stage  coach,  the 
sailing  packet  and  Shank's  mare.  Railways 
with  sleeping  and  dining  cars  were  not  in  it 
with  us.  A  trip  from  anywhere  east  of  the 
Penobscot  or  St.  Croix,  was  a  matter  of  days 
instead  of  hours,  with  hardships  on  the  way. 
We  have  no  excuse  of  this  sort  now ;  neither 
are  we  so  o'd  that  we  could  not  do  the 
stunt  in  any  case.  So  let  us  get  there  in  full 
force — making  it  unanimous.  If  we  do  this 
we  are  sure  of  the  vase  another  year ;  for  100 
per  cent,  of  attendance  can't  fail  to  take  the 
cup.  As  the  sailor  says :  "Make  it  so."  Let 
the  class  secretary  hear  from  you. 
As  ever,  most  truly, 

Horace  M.  Jordan,  Sec.  '58. 


'70. — The  third  vo'.ume  of  Hon.  D.  S.  Alex- 
ander's Political  History  of  the  State  of  New 
York  is  in  type  and  will  probably  appear  in 
August. 

'89. — ^William  M.  Emery,  Esq.,  who  com- 
pletes this  month  ten  years  service  as  city 
editor  of  Fall  River  Nezvs,  has  recently  Issued 
an  interesting  class  circular  entitled.  Twenty 
Years  After.  Of  the  forty-seven  belonging 
to  the  class,  two  died  unmarried  and  all  the 
rest  save  three  have  married.  To  them  have 
been  born  fifty-nine  children,  twenty-four 
boys   and  thirty-five  girls. 


'97. — Rev.  William  C.  Adams  is  pastor  of 
the  Unitarian  Churches  at  Dover  and  at 
Rochester,  N.  H. 

'00. — James  P.  Webber,  A.M.,  Instructor 
in  English  at  Phillips  Academy,  Exeter,  N. 
H.,  will  pass  the  summer  abroad  and  is  to 
represent  his  native  city,  Bath,  Maine,  at  the 
celebration  to  be  held  in  Bath,  England,  in 
July. 

'02. — Dr.  Eugene  R.  Kel'.ey  of  Seattle, 
Wash.,  assistant  State  Commissioner  of 
Health,  will  be  married  16  June,  1909,  to 
Miss  Grace  Elizabeth  Boutelle  of  Dorchester, 
Mass. 

'03. — Mr.  Jesse  D.  Wilson  was  married 
May  25,  1909,  to  Miss  Charlotte  Glendelia, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Isaac  H.  Danforth 
of   Brunswick. 

'04. — ^Jo'hn  W.  Frost,  who  has  since  Octo- 
ber, 1907,  been  a  student  in  the  Law  School 
of  St.  Lawrence  LTn'versity  at  Brooklyn,  New 
York  City,  took  the  examinations  given  by 
the  New  York  State  Board  of  Law  Examiners 
in  April,  1909,  for  admission  to  the  Bar,  and 
received  word  recently  that  'he  has  passed  the 
examinations.  For  the  present  he  will  remain 
with  the  Title  Guarantee  and  Trust  Co.  and 
the  Bond  &  Mortgage  Guarantee  Co.,  with 
which  companies  he  has  been  connected  since 
graduation. 

'05. — Invitations  have  been  issued  for  the 
marriage  of  Robert  E.  Hall,  Esq.,  of  Dover, 
Me.,  to  Miss  Mabel  Bathgate  of  East  Lyme, 
Conn.,  on  June  9,  1909. 

'07. — Invitations  have  been  issued  for  the 
marriage  of  Thomas  R.  Winchell  to  Louise 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  P. 
Weather  ill  of  Brunswick,  on  June  12,  1909. 


STANDING  OF  INTERFRATERNITY  LEAGUE 

Won  Lost 

Delta  Upsilon    5                    1  .833 

Delta   Kappa   Epsilon..    3                   i  .750 

Psi    Upsilon 4                    2  .666 

Beta    Theta    Pi 4  2  .666 

Alpha    Delta    Phi 3  3  .500 

Theta  Delta  Chi  2  4  .333 

Kappa  Sig'ma    I  4  .200 

Zeta    Psi    i  6  .143 


STANDING  OF  MAINE  COLLEGES 

Won  Lost 

Bates   3  2 

Maine    3  3 

Colby    3  3 

Bowdoin    2  3 


P.  C. 
.600 
.500 
•500 
.400 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  JULY  2,  1909 


NO.  10 


One  Hundred  and  Fourth  Commencement 


Sunday.  June  20 

Baccalaureate  Sermon 

The  Commencement  week  of  the  Class  of 
1909  opened  at  four  o'clock  Sunday,  June  20, 
with  the  Baccalaureate  services  in  the  Church 
on  the  Hill.  Led  by  the  marshal,  P.  G.  Bishop, 
the  class  marched  to  the  church.  Rev.  Ches- 
ter B.  EiT  .irson,  '04,  taking  j\lr.  Jump's  place, 
conducted  the  services.  President  Hyde  deliv- 
ered the  Baccalaureate  Sermon,  the  substance 
of  which  is  given  below.  He  took  his  text 
from  Rev.  xxi:i3,  "On  the  East  Three  Gates, 
on  the  North  Three  Gates,  on  the  Soulh  Three 
Gates  and  On  the  West  Three  Gates."  He 
said: 

"The  college  has  ecxuipped  you  for  either  of  two 
contrasted  lives ;  the  wilderness  of  natural  selhsh- 
ness,  or  the  holy  city  of  love.  Both  call  you  with 
many  wide-open  doors.  You  can,  if  you  please, 
make  money,  gain  social  position,  wield  political 
power,  all  for  selfish  ends;  all  by  unworthy  means; 
all  by  the  demoralization  of  others  and  the  degrada- 
tion of  yourselves.  If  you  choose  such  a  life,  the 
college  will  keep  your  n(\mes  upon  her  catalogue ; 
but  in  her  inmost  heart  she  will  never  own  you  as 
her   sons. 

"She  is  persuaded  tetter  things  arc  in  store  for 
you.  Through  one  or  another  of  the  twelve  gates ; 
through  worship  of  God,  following  Christ  or  respon- 
siveness to  the  spirit,  if  you  are  of  mystic  and 
reflective  temperament ;  through  disinterested  devo- 
tion to  politics,  integrity  in  business  or  loyalty  to  the 
home,  if  you  are  of  a  practical  turn  of  mind ;  through 
sympathy  with  the  oppressed,  charity  for  the  erring, 
and  service  to  all  in  need,  if  you  are  a  man  of  social 
instinct  and  temperament ;  through  plain  duty,  eager 
aspiration,  or  genuine  repentance,  if  you  are  of  a 
more  individualistic  temper;  the  college  expects 
everyone  of  you  to  be  citizens  of  that  many-sided 
New  Jerusalem  which  is  ever  coming  down  out  of 
Heaven  from  God ;  members  of  that  better  social 
order  which  is  slowdy  and  surely  being  built  vip  here 
on  earth  by  the  toil  and  sacrifice  of  all  right  minded 
men. 


Monday,  June  21 

All  day  Monday,  visitors  were  arriving 
in  Brunswick  and  getting  settled  in  their  tem- 
porary abodes.  The  committees  from  the 
classes  which  were  to  have  reunions  put  in  the 


day  making  preparations  for  the  good  times 
the)-  had  planned   for  the  week. 

Alexander  Prize  Speaking 

In  the  evening  came  the  Alexander  Prize 
Speaking  in  Memorial.  This  year  it  was  of 
exceptionally  fine  quality.  The  awards  were 
as  follows :  First  prize,  twenty  dollars,  to  W. 
B.  Stephens,  '10;  Second  Prize,  ten  dollars,  to 
J.  :\I.  Gillin,  '12. 

Below  is  the  program : 

Music 
Icilius  Efijali  Kellogg 

Alfukd  Wheeler  Stone 
The   Clock's   Story  Anonymous 

G.\RiiNEu  Wilson  Cole 

Clive  Robert  Brozvning 

Winston  Bryant  Stephens 

Music 

The  Spoils  System  Henry  van  Dyke 

Ch.\RLES    Fr.\NC:3    AllAMS 

Tlic  Vision  of  War  Robert  Green  Ingersoll 

S.\MUEL    HerM.\N    DrEEAR 

Tomlinson  _  Rudyard   Kipling 

Walter  Atherton  Fuller 

Music 

"The  Revenge"  Alfred   Tennyson 

Arthur  Harrison   Cole 
At  the  County  Fair  Anonymous 

James  McKjnnon   Gillin 

"Gentlemen,  the  King!"  Robert  Barr 

Earl  Baldwin   Smith 

Music 


Tuesday,  June  22 

Class  Day 

Class  Day  is  in  some  respects  the  most  fes- 
tive day  of  the  week.  This  year,  in  spite  of 
the  intolerably  hot  weather,  there  was  the 
usual  crowd  in  attendance  at  the  exercises  in 
the  forenoon  and  afternoon  and  just  enough 
at  the  dance  in  the  evening  to  fill  Memorial 
Hall  without  crowding  it.  H.  H.  Burton,  the 
president  of  the  class,  presided  at  the  exercises 
and  the  committee  in  charge  of  the  arrange- 
ments consisted  of  G.  K.  Heath,  I.  L.  Rich, 
R.  H.  Files,  R.  M.  Pennell,  and  H.  M.  Smith. 
The  exercises  in  the  forenoon  consisted  of  a 
prayer  by  H.  J.  Newton,  the  Oration  by  J.  J. 


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Stahl,  and  the  Poem  by  Dudley  Hovey. 
print  t'he  last  two : 


We 


has  been  wearing  deeper  the  channel  through  which 
the  vaster  flow  of  our  national  life  has  moved.  Dur- 
ing this  time  a  third  of  all  our  lawyers  and  states- 
men ;   five-sixths  of   our  host  authors ;   more  than  a 


Harold  H.  Burton 

President 


Jasper  J.  Stahl 

Orator 

The  Oration 

The  influence  of  the  American  College  has  gone 
through  all  the  ranges  of  the  manifold  and  diverse 
life  of  America.  Through  the  portals  of  commence- 
ments for  more  than  two  centuries  a  strong  current 


Ralph  O.  Brewster 

Closing  Address 

half  of  our  best  clergymen  and  considerably  more 
than  a  half  of  our  country's  most  eminent  educa- 
tors have  received  their  training  in  college  halls. 
These  men  have  entered  the  moral,  the  intellectual, 
the  everyday  life  of  the  people  through  the  minis- 


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try,  through  teaching,  through  the  interpretation  of 
law  by  the  jurists ;  through  the  interpretation  of  life 
by  the  novelists  and  poets  and  through  the  quiet, 
earnest,  helpful  way  in  which  they  have  lived.  To 
the  extent  that  these  men  have  shaped  custom  and 
thought  the  college  man  has  been  a  vital  factor  in 
our  development.  Such  is  the  record  of  the  past. 
The  college  man  has  assumed  the  burden  of  extend- 
ing American  civilization. 

With  the  rapid  advance  and  the  change  made 
in  social  conditions  and  methods  of  study,  a  corre- 
sponding change  has  taken  place  in  the  American 
college.  The  student  no  longer  saws  his  own  wood 
and  lugs  it  to  the  fourth  floor  or  fetches  his  water 
from  a  pump  in  the  college  j^ard.  Those  most  stren- 
uous days  are  now  asociated  with  us  as  mere  tra- 
ditions and  the  dial  of  civilization  shows  the  hand 
pointing  in  an  opposite  direction.  The  present  seems 
to  be  idealizing  the  conditions  of  college  training. 
Every  advantage,  however,  carries  with  it  certain 
perils.  The  American  college  to  a  certain  extent 
may  be  said  to  have  caught  the  American  habit  of 
extremes.  In  many  of  the  larger  universities  num- 
ber has  become  such  a  factor  that  close  relationship 
between  faculty  and  students  is  lost.  The  institution 
collects,  interprets  and  analyzes  facts  about  every- 
thing but  itself.  It  does  not  know  whether  the  stu- 
dent body  is  unduly  emphasizing  club  life,  social  life, 
athletics  or  rank.  "This."  says  Dr.  Lyman  Abbott, 
"is  the  most  serious  defect  of  our  higher  education." 
It  is  but  a  convenient  system  of  substitutes  and 
tutors  turning  out  a  large  mass  of  pleasure  loving 
men,  Princeton  before  the  coming  of  President 
Woodrow  Wilson,  was  known  to  the  pleasure  seek- 
ing New  Yorkers  as  "the  pleasantest  country  club  in 
the  United   States." 

This  change  in  the  conditions  of  life  has  brought 
with  it  certain  subtle  dangers. In  the  university  there 
is  the  lack  of  close  relationship  so  conducive  to  the 
development  of  personality,  and  the  unanimity  of 
aims  that  breeds  responsibility.  In  the  small  college 
there  is,  as  President  Hyde  has  put  it,  "the  danger 
of  missing  that  solitude  which  is  the  soil  of  individ- 
uality and  the  fertilizer  of  genius."  The  danger 
that  the  tendency  of  the  age  may  foist  on  the  stu- 
dent ideals  that  are  popular  and  mediocre.  In  ad- 
dition the  college  man's  judgment  is  frequently 
trained  at  the  expense  of  his  energy.  The  power  of 
clear  sightness  developed  in  him  too  often  intensi- 
fies the  difficulties  the  details  present.  Again,  but 
rarely  in  these  days,  the  college  man  bears  the  ear- 
marks of  what  a  certain  University  President  has 
called  "Academicity."  Such  a  type  was  one  who, 
when  told  on  a  certain  April  morning  that  Fort 
Sumter  had  been  fired  upon,  answered :  "What  do  I 
care  ?     I  must  finish  my  Greek  Grammar." 

The  life  of  some  few  in  college  and  university, 
as  in  every  sphere  of  life,  may  'be  seemingly  without 
purpose,  but  the  great  mass  is  eager  and  true.  The 
number  of  graduates  affected  with  the  evils  enumer- 
ated is  small,  yet  still  large  enough  to  raise  a  pre- 
sumption against  the  college  man  and  in  a  certain 
measure  to  bring  him  into  dis-esteem.  This  tend- 
ency is  well  illustrated  in  the  business  world  into 
which  one-third  of  the  American  college  graduates 
are  entering.  It  is  only  natural  in  an  age  of  highly 
organized  and  finely  adjusted  commercial  and  indus- 
trial life  that  employers  should  be  exacting  and 
observant,  and  not  infrequently  know  more  of  the 
selling    price    of    stocks    than     of     human     nature. 


With  such  men  each  subordinate  is  a  pin  in  their 
huge  machine.  Should  one  prove  faulty  the  whole 
system  is  deranged  until  repair  is  made.  Such  a 
flaw  existing  in  the  man  of  the  world  with  a  long 
apprenticeship  is  a  matter  of  small  comment.  In  a 
college  man  it  is  inexcusable.  He  is  not  only  dis- 
charged as  inefficient  but  the  whole  guild  of  college 
men  is  stigmatized  as  inefficient.  It  is  a  system  prev- 
alent in  the  twentieth  century. 

Such  an  attitude  in  one  sphere  or  another,  has, 
m  a  measure,  brought  the  American  college  to  trial. 
At  the  present  time  fourteen  of  our  largest  univer- 
sities are  receiving  monthly  criticism  in  the  "Inde- 
pendent" by  a  special  investigator.  Only  too  fre- 
quently do  we  see  in  the  daily  press  this  or  that 
business  man  disputing  the  value  of  a  college  train- 
ing in  business.  Conspicuous  among  these  is 
America's  greatest  railroad  king  who  has  refused  to 
employ  a  college  man  and  has  already  established  a 
school  for  the  proper  training  of  his  thousands  of 
employees.  Across  the  water  a  similar  tendency  is 
manifest.  Lord  Curzon,  pained  by  the  recent  criti- 
cism of  commercial  men  on  Oxford  training  as 
affecting  the  young  men  who  come  into  their  offices, 
has  set  himself  to  make  the  university  more  efficient 
in   its  education  for  the  nation. 

In  face  of  the  development  of  this  modern  atti- 
tude, emphemeral  though  it  may  be,  the  duty  of  the 
college  man  stepping  from  the  commencement  plat- 
form into  life  is  definite  and  clear.  For  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  years  college  men  have  'been  preserv- 
ing and  extending  our  civilization  and  I  am  glad  to 
say  that  the  burden  is  still  ours  in  a  two-fold  sense, 
deeper^  and  more  arduous  tlian  ever  before.  First 
there  is  our  allegiance  to  the  great  social  order 
It  is  for  the  college  man  to  furnish  the  formula  for 
the  solution  of  the  problems  of  our  national  life. 
Perpetual  readjustment  is  before  us.  There  is  an 
aristocracy  of  wealth  struggling  against  an  aristoc- 
racy of  truth.  Forever  we  are  placed  in  antagon- 
ism with  some  environment  spiritual  or  material. 
These  manifold  problems  of  magnitude  give  a  field 
where  we  act  our  lives.  Our  second  great  duty  and 
one  which  is  a  logical  result  of  our  primary  charge 
is  to  hold  high  the  standard  of  the  American  college 
because  it  presents  the  greatest  facto*  for  good  in 
American  life. 

A  few  years  ago  the  president  of  a  Western  uni- 
versity was  interested  in  comparing  the  college  grad- 
uate with  the  rest  of  society.  He  took  six  volumes 
of  Appleton's  Cyclopeadia  of  American  Biography 
(A  book  containing  the  name  of  no  recent  gradu- 
ates) and  counted  the  college  graduates  in  a  list  of 
over  fifteen  thousand  names.  A  little  more  than 
one-third  were  discovered  to  be  college  men.  The 
inference  is  that  out  of  every  ten  thousand  of  the 
people  who  'have  not  had  a  college  education,  one 
has  become  of  sufficient  note  to  be  mentioned  in  a 
biographical  dictionary,  while  one  out  of  every  forty 
college  men  finds  his  place  there.  The  chance  the 
college  man  has  compared  with  the  non-college  man 
is  two  hundred  and  fifty  to  one.  This  homely  illus- 
tration shows  that  in  the  present  day  the  college 
must  stand  for  the  same  thing  that  it  has  in  the  past. 
The  change  nnist  come  in  the  college  man  if  he  is 
to  occupy  an  equal  or  a  larger  sphere.  The  gradu- 
ate in  the  'broadcloth  must  'hold  to  something  of  the 
strength  and  simplicity  of  his  grandsire  in  the  home-: 
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The  colleg-e  in  its  own  sphere  must  still  stand  for 
the  things  of  the  mind,  although  many  other  activi- 
ties unduly  emphasized  tend  to  obscure  this  end. 
When  the  old  graduate  sits  by  the  open  fire  in  fra- 
ternity house  or  commons  and  the  students  gather 
around  in  the  attitude  of  discipleship,  the  story  they 
gather  is  "nothing  I  learned  from  books  was  any 
help  to  me."  This  springs  from  a  kind  of  inverted 
idea  prevalent  in  American  life.  Put  the  college  man 
on  the  platform  as  an  alumnus  and  he  will  tell  you  the 
college  stands  and  has  always  stood  for  truth,  train- 
ing and  culture.  These  make  up  that  indefinable 
composite  atmosphere  of  college  life.  "Truth  with- 
out training  makes  a  mind  a  mere  granary ;  training 
without  truth  makes  the  mind  a  mere  mill  without 
the  grist  to  grind.  Truth  and  training  make  the 
mind  a  forcible  agency  both  for  usefulness  and  for 
beauty."  This  is  the  offer  of  the  American  college 
to  its  graduate.  His  burden  hi  college  and  in  life  is 
to  combine  these  ciualities  with  his  own  inherent 
powers.  To  couple  determination  with  truth;  re- 
sponsibility with  training  and  loyalty  with  culture. 

Truth  reinforced  by  determination  involves  a 
clear  vision  of  final  ends  with  a  will  to  reach  them. 
Amid  the  perversions  of  the  social  and  industrial 
order  such  an  attitude  is  a  step  towards  solution  and 
also  towards  winning  from  all  classes  a  confidence 
in  the  American  College  that  is  absolute. 

A  recent  writer  has  brought  the  charge  of  blood- 
guiltiness  against  the  English  nation  because  it  has 
let  poverty  drive  so  many  of  its  greatest  geniuses  to 
death,  that  old  system  of  "naturalistic  ethics"  re- 
tains high  vogue  to-day.  The  college  man  must  com- 
bine his  talents  in  his  genius  with  determination  or 
fail.  Every  hig'h  service  that  the  world  receives  is 
miserably  paid.  Say  that  the  world  pays  for  work 
inversely  as  the  cube  of  the  value  rendered  and  you 
have  a  pretty  safe  approximation.  We  pay  the  mil- 
lionaire more  than  his  broker ;  the  bad  novelists 
more  than  the  good  poet.  If  in  business  and  the 
professions  such  an  attitude  should  keep  the  college 
man  for  a  life  time  with  his  nose  to  the  stone,  there 
would  be  no  cause  for  complaint.  We  should  be  no 
worse  off  than  the  great  mass  of  our  more  clerical 
brethren,  true  and  determined  on  their  traditional 
fare  of  locust  and  wild  honey.  Spinoze  found  time 
to  build  a  philosophical  system  while  grinding  his 
lenses  and  Kant  built  up  another  while  teaching 
for  his  bread.  Both  Kant  and  Spinoze  by  a  deter- 
mined use  of  the  margin  of  time  allotted  achieved 
large  results. 

With  the  passing  of  each  successive  commence- 
ment the  American  college  is  laboring  to  become  a 
more  vital  factor  in  American  civilization.  Tt  is 
training  men  for  service  in  the  first  half  of  the 
twentieth  century.  With  this  training,  however, 
the  college  man  must  combine  responsibility  in  ser- 
vice. A  distinguished  state  officer  at  a  recent  Cor- 
nell dinner  could  not  keep  from  shouting  out:  "Let 
the  college  man  rid  himself  of  any  idea  that  a  col- 
lege education  gives  him  a  monopoly  of  wisdom  and 
knoweldge  and  let  him  evince  a  willingness  to  assume 
the  responsibility  of  minor  things."  This  is  an 
extraction  that  the  social  order  is  making  of  the 
individual  and  one  wherein  the  college  man  may 
become  a  cheerful,  diligent  exemplar.  In  every 
sphere  that  is  open  there  is  a  cry  for  descent  to  the 
same  level  of  plain  living  and  high  thinking  whicli 
was  characteristic  of  the  college  man  a  generation 
ago.     The  aim  of  the  college  is  to  develop  the  needed 


responsibility  in  an  atmosphere  of  liberty  and  to 
bring  the  college  man  to  a  clear  recognition  in  the 
face  of  his  high  destiny  that  its  training  can  be  of 
use  in  the  largest  sense  only  by  close  subordination 
to   the   things   which   are   small. 

In  the  third  place  to  liberate  culture  from  any 
tinge  of  egoism  or  selfishness  the  college  man  must 
be  loyal  to  some  end  whose  realization  reacts  to 
the  advancement  and  betterment  of  the  race.  Dur- 
ing the  past  year  the  death  of  an  alumnus  has  shown 
what  an  object  of  devotion  this  college  was  to  him. 
Devotion  because  it  offered  a  sphere  for  great  physi- 
cal, moral  and  intellectual  advancement.  His  whole 
life  was  a  life  of  loyalty;  loyal  to  home;  loyal  to  the 
interests  of  his  friends  and  loyal  to  his  college.  In 
Washington  on  May  seventh  last  in  the  presence  of 
a  large  and  distinguished  audience,  a  statue  was  pre- 
sented by  Mr.  Brainerd  Warner  as  an  image  of  a 
poet  beloved  by  the  whole  world.  Attorney-General 
Wickersham  accepted  the  statue  as  the  property  of 
the  nation  and  American  Literature  in  a  bronze  figure 
of  Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow  had  at  last  found 
recognition  in  a  noble  monumental  form  at  the 
national  capitol.  At  the  time  Bliss  Perry  said: 
"Longfellow  was  the  ideal  American  citizen  of  his 
day.  As  a  true  college  man  he  has  been  loyal  to  the 
higher  ideals  of  life."  In  the  hearts  of  the 
people  his  power  has  been  mighty.  That  bronze 
figure  of  a  man  who  as  a  student  and  professor 
passed  his  life  in  college  halls  stands  eloquent  of 
true  training  and  culture;  eloquent  of  the  large 
sphere  of  good  the  college  man  may  hold;  eloquent 
of  Bowdoin  and  the  ideals  for  which  she  stands  in 
art  and  in  life,  and  eloquent  in  its  plea  to  graduates 
and  undergraduates  for  loyalty  to  their  best. 

In  the  present  age  it  has  been  seen  that  the  duty 
of  the  college  man  is  large.  His  sphere  has  been  in 
fulfilling  the  ideals  of  the  people.  In  the  face 
of  hostile  criticism  and  even  boycott,  it  remains 
for  those  who  love  'the  American  college  and  who 
work  for  it,  good  as  it  is,  to  make  it  better,  to  com- 
bine its  truth,  its  training  and  its  culture  with  their 
own  inherent  worth,  to  increase  its  power  for  secur- 
ing its  highest  ideals,  to  enlarge  its  material  endow- 
ments and  to  quicken  the  force  of  its  great  person- 
alities. As  college  men  it  is  our  privilege  to  bear 
our  share  of  this  burden  and  to  help  make  the 
American  college  a  more  vital  factor  and  a  more 
vigorous  part  of  American  life. 


The  Poem 

High  on  a  sea-girt  isle  of  Northland  rose 
A  stately  castle  old  of  mossy  stone. 
Stout  Castle  Youth,  the  which  Life's  deeper  woes 
Had  scarce  come  nigh, I  ween  all  but  unknown 
The  greater  world  to  those,   secluded,  grown 
From  childhood  'neath  that  honored  pile,  a  band 
Of  comrades  bold ;  yet  oft  the  waking  moan 
Of   ocean    restless    on    the   distant    strand, 
Enchanting  called  them  forth  to  roam  from  Father- 
land. 

Some  years   agone  as   in   the  hall  they   lay. 
Of  evening  bleak,  before  the  hearth-log's  glow, 
A    wandering    minstrel    wearied    of    his    way, 
Enticed  by  cheer  beneath  the  arch-way  low, 
Had  softly  entered,  and  with  accents  slow 


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A  mystic  legend  told;  while  in  a  throng 
The  lads  deep  crowded  'round,  and  eyes  did  grow 
With    wonder-light   and   3-outhful    interest   strong. 
To  hear  this  simple  burden  of  his  olden  song. 

In  some  clijiie  near  that  cradled  sea, 

Whereby  the  ancient   race   did  bide. 

There  lies  embowered  o'er  a  lea 

A  hidden   slirine ;   mehap  beside 

That  lake  where  sage  Tritonis  rose, 

In  Sargon's  clime  past  which  the  tide 

Of  ages  like  the  Nile-stream  flows, 

Or  yet  in  classic  lands  of  knowledge  .wide. 

Hard  by  the   shrine  a  crystal   rill 

Soft  murmurs  to  the  sluggisli  air. 

There,  resting,  one  may  quaff  his  fill 

Of  solace  deep.  Truth's  vision   rare. 

Famed  Wisdom's   Muse  with   matchless   grace, 

Broods  by  the  pool,  and  from  his  lair 

A  monster  Ignorance  with  face 

Repellant,  ever  watchful  guards  with  care. 

In  praise   thrice   deem'd  blest  he  he 

Who  slays  the  dragon ;  frees  the  Muse ; 

Of  Lethic  waters  quaffs,  whence  flee 

Dark-boding  sorrows ;  hopes  enthuse 

The  sluggish  breast,  and  darkness  vail 

Dispells  as  fade  the  rainljow  hues 

In  waning  lig'ht;  nor  can  e'er  fail 

The   pilgrim   who,    resolved,    the   quest   pursues. 

So   seeking  wander-yearning  to   infuse, 

Sang  thus  the  errant  bard  his  breathless  tale ; 

And   youths    with    purpose    fixed    did     straightway 

choose 
A   young  Prince  Virtue,   leader   strong   and   hale. 
Then  firmly  swore  by  mutual  vows  to  sail 
A  pilgrimage ;  and  long  ere  dawn  did  ope 
The  curtained  east,  they  quickly  tried  avail 
Themselves  a  gallant  ship  which  cherished  hope 
Effected,  soon  embarked  the  b-llows  high  to  cope. 

Their  trusty  keel  borne  on  the  breasting  tide 
And  gently  urged  by  sail-compelling  breeze. 
Forsook  the  home-land  while  the  crew  deep  sighed 
To  see  the  dimming  marge  sink  'neath  the  seas. 
But  long  ere   waning  of   the  year's  degrees, 
They  passed  where  mighty  Atlas  first  upbore 
His  crushing  burden   over   bending  knees. 
Where  bright-Spain-land  divides  from  dusky  Moor 
With  vastly  cliff  dark  frowning  o'er  the  nether  shore. 

Past  Aetnean  rock   where  strange   Silenus'   rout, 

Upon  the  fell-eyed  Cyclops  did  attend; 

Thence  borne   on  gentler   seas  the  vessel   stout 

Drew  nigh  t^he  Afric  land,  which  once  did  send 

Bold   Hannibal  with  mighty  horde   to   rend 

The  Romish  state  ere  vengeance  had  befell 

That  city  old,  great  Carthage  forced  to  bend 

A  captive  knee,  when  Scipio  did  quell 

Her  land  and  o'er  the  site  his  spurning  plow  compel. 

What  recks  the  sojourn  of  that  Pilgrim  band 

In  lands  Numidic  or  by  Egypt's  stream, 

Where  "Serpent  Queen"  beguiled  with  lavish  hand 

The  hours   winging  sweet  as   summer's   theme? 

Enough  'twere  said,  the  Youths  could  not  well  deem 


The  time  mis-spent  thoug'h  for  fair  Wisdom's  clime, 
Their  quest  here  failing,  turned  their  hopeful  dream 
To  Asia  rising  on  the  brink  of  Time, 
A  mother  nourishing  of  influence  sublime. 

There   lay   a   land   subdued   with    misty   light, 
Where  sometime   famous   Persian  poet-sage 
Deep  pondered  o'er  the  stars  and  scanned  the  flight 
Of  cycling  years,  youth  speeding  swift  to  age 
The  meaning  to   reveal ;  but  on  his   page 
Hath  writ,  "The  flower  once  blown  forever  dies," 
So  bids  us  fill  the  cup  all  grief  assuage. 
Yet  some  beguiled  by  tenets  wherein  lies 
Remorse,  too   long  there  lingered  and   disdained  to 
rise. 

A  richer  heritage  those  lands  that  face 

The  eastern  sun  have   flung  adown  the  hall 

Of  Time,  while  empires  crumbling,  gave  place 

To  western  worlds,  where  Progress'  tramp  did  fall. 

Birthplace   of  seers   and  of  prophets;    all 

The  years  have  listed  to  the  pleading  voice 

Of  gentle  Nazarene  and  Islam's  call; 

Yet  tliine  was  but  the  breath  which  did  rejoice 

The  weary  breast  of  man  in  climes  of  newer  choice. 

Now  o'er  Aegean  wave  fair  Grecia  lured 

The  roving  band  past  Ida's   snowy  brow, 

'Neath  which  dark  Cretan  cave  sometime  secured 

Olympic   Jove,   escaped    from    Crono's   vow, — 

Swift  skimming  bore  the  vessel's  curving  prow 

Till  touching  classic  shores,  with  zest  and  crew 

Near  Parnassus  which  Muses  did  endow 

With  graces   rare,  their  fond  dream  did  pursue 

Amid  dark  groves  which  by  Castalian  waters  grew 

A  templed  City  by  Athena's  hill ! 

Proud  nurturer  of  men !  whose  life  and  thought 

Hath   swayed   the   older   growing   world   until 

There's  little  new  but  hath  of  old  been  wrought 

In  concepts  bold, — Socratic  precepts  taught 

To   "know  thyself"  makes   life  the  Hvjng  worth, — 

Here  Plato  reared  his  dream   State  fraught 

With  high  ideals,  though  built  on  slavish  dearth. 

And  greater  still  they  mig'ht  in,  Aristotle's  birth. 

Yet,  farewell !  ruins  of  Acropolis  ! 
Of  fairest  marble  wrought  by  slavish  toil 
From  rich  Pentelicus !  the  sun's  ra3?s  kiss 
With   mellow  fading  light  this  ancient  spoil 
Of  "Golden  Age,"   reared  on  thy  sacred  soil. 
That  Pilgrim  band  would  fain  have  lingered  near 
Those  pillared  shrines,  nor  cared  to  strive  and  moil 
To  Latinum  Fields  where  Trojan  brave  did  rear 
A  famous   race, — whence   led   thf     quest     o'er     sea- 
wastes  drear. 

Twice  o'er  had  Aries  since  the  band  forth  fared, 
His   mighty  magic  cycle  run ;   twice  o'er 
The   vintage   time  had   pased   since  first  they   dared 
The  trackless  bounding  seas  where  currents  bore 
Their  ships  to  sunny  realms  of  ancient  lore; — 
Yet  found  they  not  fair  Wisdom's  long  sought  boon 
In  Grecia's  land  nor  e'en  by  Tiber's  shore, 
Where  rose  Eternal  Rome,  which  all  too  sQon, 
Bowed  'neath  the  curse  of  days  lascivious,  did  swoon. 


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Vol.- XXXIX. 


JULY   2,   1909 


Another  year    has    passed 
Forward !  and  it  is  time  to  say  good- 

bye to  the  class  whose 
turn  has  come  to  go  into  active  Ufe.  Parting 
is  ever  sad,  but  it  loses  some  of  its  bitterness 
when  we  consider  that  those  who  are  leaving 
are  taking  a  step  in  advance  in  the  march  of 
life.  We  have  this  thought,  too,  to  console 
us,  Bowdoin  College  has  cherished  these  men 
so  tenderly  for  four  years,  has  so  knit  them  to 
her  with  ties  of  class,  of  fraternity  and  oi 
friendship  that  they  will  let  slip  no  opportu- 
nity for  revisiting  her.  The  sorrow  which 
we  feel  at  losing  our  brothers  in  1909  is  almost 
drowned  in  the  joys  of  seeing  again  those  who 
had  left  us  for  a  time,  but  have  yielded  to  the 
impelling  force  of  filial  love  and  come  back 
for  a  few  more  happy  days  at  their  Alma 
Mater.  Let  us  be  optimists  and  remember 
that  without  change  the  world  would  be  at  a 
standstill.  Let  us  feel,  not  sadness,  but  joy 
that  over  three  score  more  strong  men  have 
gone  forth  from  here  with  heads  up  and  eyes 
to  the  front,  determined  that  when  next  they 
return,  their  Alma  Mater  shall  have  just  cause 
to  be  proud  of  them. 


The  Orient  wishes  Godspeed  to  one  of 
our  graduates  especially.  He  has  been  with 
us  but  two  years,  yet  in  that  time  has  found  a 
place  among  us  entirely  his  own  and  has 
earned  our  respect  and  ought  to  have  our 
hearty  support  next  year  at  the  beginning  of 
his  work  for  the  college  and  Christianity.  The 
Christian  Association  has  undertaken  to  help 
him  as  much  as  possible  and  wishes  the  coop- 
eration of  the  whole  undergraduate  body,  all 
of  which  joins  in  wishing  good  fortune  to  Mr. 
Hiwale. 


The  Poem 

[Continued  from  page  77.] 

As  by  the  Summer  sea  at  morn  they  stood, 
With  hearts  well  nigh  despairing  o'er  the  quest, 
A  youthful  guide,  called  Hope,  with  office  good, 
Did  lead  them  to  a  lofty  Alpine  crest. 
Which   gave  upon  a  plain   far  rolling  west, — ■ 
The  mighty  Field  of  Life,  o'er  which  did  sway 
All-seeing   Wisdom,   from   a   vantage   blest; 
And  'neath  her  lofty  throne  in  ceaseless  fray 
Men  strove,  some  upward,  others  aimless  by  the  way. 

We  are  that  band  of  youthful  Pilgrims  bold. 
Who  four  years  now  agone,  from  home-land  strayed. 
Haply  to  find  great  Wisdom's  boon,  in  love  of  old ; — 
Though  stern,   dispelling  Time  hath  caused  to  fade 
Fond  dreams ;   yet   'neath   these   college   halls   we've 

made 
Communion   oft,    with     thought     and     deed      long 

wrought ; — 
Sound    principles   we've   treasured,    careful   weighed 
From  funded  years ;   but  only  facts  are  taught ; 
Experience    is    Wisdom's     school,     oft    times    dear 

bought. 

So  farewell!  dales  where  late  we've  tarried  long! 
Now  left  below  'neath  shrouding  mist  veils  deep, — 
Elysian  fields,  where  less  of  toil  than   song 
Hath  reigned,  at  last  are  silent,  lulled  in  sleep. 
The  pass  is  gained  and  other  visions  creep 
Upon  the  view,  of  mighty  reaches  vast ; — 
A  far  call  urges,  and  the  pulses  leap 
To  dare  the  rugged  steep  descent  at  last. 
And  while  the  blood  springs  warm,  our  lot  in  strug- 
gle cast. 


Class  Gift 

Just  before  the  class  marched  out,  Presi- 
dent Burton  announced  that  they  would  pre- 
sent the  college  with  a  solid  oak  set  of  furni- 
ture for  use  on  the  Memorial  Hall  stage.  He 
said  that  the  gift,  though  not  of  any  great 
money  value,  carried  with  it  enough  of  the 
class's  deep  gratitude  to  the  college  to  make  it 
priceless. 

In  the  afternoon  at  three  o'clock  came  the 
exercises    under    the    Thorndike    Oak.     The 


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Opening  Address  was  by  Harrison  Atwood, 
the  History  by  H.  N.  Mars'h,  and  the  Closing 
Address  by  R.  O.  Brewster.    They  follow: 

Opening  Address 

Mr.  President,  Classmates  and  Friends  of  Bowdoin: 
It  has  indeed  become  a  truism  that  those  who 
have  enjoyed  the  advantages  of  a  college  education 
are,  because  of  that  fact,  expected  to  bear  the  brunt 
of  the  nation's  burdens,  are  looked  to,  to  be  the 
solvers  of  its  problems,  its  reformers,  its  leaders 
and  its  guardians.  It  is  no  more  than  just  that  such 
should  be  the  responsibilities  of  the  college  graduate, 
and  yet  it  is  very  proper  that  in  these  commence- 
ment days  we  should  pause  and  consider  wherein 
lies  his  superiority,  just  what  characteristics  he  has 
derived  from  a  college  training  which  thus  fit  him 
for  a  position  of  superior  responsibility.  We  may 
very  well  ask,  in  other  words,  what  constitutes  the 
educated  man?  The  reply  to  the  question,  the  pop- 
ular reply  of  the  age,  cannot  be  more  truly  or  more 
tersely  put  than  in  the  words  of  Ex-President  Eliot 
of  Harvard :  "That  man  is  best  educated  who  is 
most  useful."  The  age  is  applying  to  all  men  the 
practical  test  of  the  utilitarian.  The  questions 
which  one  face  are  not:  What  rank  did  you  get?  or 
How  much  do  you  know?  but  rather.  To  what  use 
can  your  knowledge  be  put?  or,  Of  what  service 
can  you  be  to  society?  What  can  you  do  that  will 
add  to  the  happiness  and  the  welfare  of  the  world? 
The  college  man  is,  more  than  any  other,  capable 
of  fulfilling  the  ideals  which  these  questions  imply, 
and  his  superiority  is  due  to  the  fact  that  his  train- 
ing has  been  designed  to  secure  for  him,  not  mere 
knowledge  of  the  subject  but  to  develop  in  him  the 
broad  and  general  power  to  observe,  to  imagine, 
to  feel,  to  think,  and  to  will;  powers  which  are  ever 
at  his  command  and  ready  to  be  applied  to  the 
countless  details  and  varying  situations  which  life 
presents.  He  lacks  the  technical  knowledge  which 
makes  one  an  expert  in  any  special  business  or  pro- 
fession, but  he  has  that  broader  knowledge  called 
wisdom  wbich  enables  one  to  see  the  fundamental 
and  essential  relations  of  men  and  things  (to  them- 
selves and  to  each  other)  and  to  determine  one's 
conduct  accordingly.  He  does  not  have  in  hand  the 
immediate  details  of  fact  which  may  apply  in  a  given 
situation  but  he  knows  the  fundamental  truth,  the 
underlying  law  or  principle  in  life  by  which  that 
situation  must  be  determined. 

Men  of  technical  training  are  holding  positions 
of  responsibility  and  are  performing  a  part  which 
is  absolutely  essential  in  the  work  of  social  organ- 
ization ;  but  men  of  liberal  training  are  holding 
positions  of  equal  responsibility  and  are  doing  that 
work  of  relating  parts  to  wholes,  of  relating  the 
immediate  to  the  remote,  of  discovering  not  mere 
symptoms,  but  the  basal  faults  of  present  methods 
and  organizations  and  of  devising  ways  and  means 
for  their  correction;  they  are  doing,  in  short,  that 
industrial  and  creative  work  without  which  reform 
and  progress  would  be  imposible.  The  combination 
of  both  liberal  and  a  technical  training,  is  especially 
valuable  and  the  growing  tendency  of  professional 
schools  to  require  a  bachelor's  degree  as  a  condition 
of  admissison  will  make  their  graduates  far  more 
efficient  agencies  in  advancing  the  welfare  of  society. 


One  of  the  most  distinguished  characteristics  of 
the  educated  man  is  the  power  of  judgment,  the  abil- 
ity to  think  clearly  and  to  reason  logically.  The 
educated  man  has  a  skilled  mind  which  can  observe 
facts  and  things  as  they  are ;  which  is  not  confused 
by  irrelevant  matter  nor  prejudiced  by  that  which 
would  be  most  pleasant  to  observe ;  a  mind  which 
sees  the  deepest  meaning  of  its  observations,  which 
has  the  insight  to  generalize  correctly  and  the  fore- 
sight to  see  what  will  be  the  consequences  of  alter- 
native courses.  Such  a  mind  serves  as  a  tool  with 
which  to  analyze  and  interpret  whatever  situation 
may  arise  and  is  one  of  the  most  valuable  faculties 
that  a  person  may  possess. 

Another  and  no  less  important  characteristic  of 
the  educated  man  is  his  power  of  self-knowledge  and 
self-reliance.  He  knows  his  own  weakness  and  his 
own  strength ;  his  disabilities  and  his  aptitudes.  Life 
then  presents  a  definite  end ;  a  task  which  gives 
pleasure  in  itself;  pleasure  in  seeking  to  develop 
those  powers  which  he  lacks  and  in  giving  expres- 
sion throiigh  some  useful  service  to  his  fellowmen  to 
those  which  are  already  his.  He  comes  to  realize 
that  what  he  thinks  and  what  he  feels  in  his  own 
heart  has  a  meaning  and  a  significance  not  solely  for 
him  but  for  all  men.  He  speaks  his  own  thought 
thereafter,  with  a  firmer  conviction  of  its  ultimate 
value  and  truth.  He  comes  to  realize  the  worth  of 
individuality  and  he  feels  with  Emerson  that  "Noth- 
•ing  can  bring  you  peace  but  yourself."  He  sees,  too, 
in  the  words  of  the  Epilogue  to  the  "Honest  Man's 
Fortune"  that 

"Man  is  his  own  star,  and  the  soul  can 
Render  an  honest  and  a  perfect  man. 
Command  all  light,  all  influence,  all  fate, 
Nothing  to  him  falls  early  or  too  late. 
Our  acts  our  angels  are,  or  good  or  ill. 
Our  fatal  shadows  that  walk  by  us  still." 

But  it  is  the  crowning  virtue  of  the  educated 
man  that  he  is  broad-minded,  tolerant  and  demo- 
cratic. A  liberal  education  has  opened  his  mind  to 
all  departments  of  human  interest.  His  pleasures  in 
life  come  not  from  a  single  source.  He  can  appre- 
ciate the  beauties  of  nature ;  he  has  a  taste  for 
music,  for  literature,  for  art;  is  interested  in  the  dis- 
coveries of  science,  and  can  derive  enjoyment  from 
competitive  sport.  His  breadth  of  view  is  evi- 
denced most  of  all  by  his  demand  always  to  know 
the  truth.  He  is  firm  in  his  convictions  so  long 
as  he  has  basis  for  his  judgment,  but  he  is  ever  open 
to  conviction  and  best  of  all  he  recognizes  the  right 
of  mental  freedom  in  others  and  has  respect  for 
their  views.  As  a  prominent  educational  writer  has 
put  it :  "A  willingness  to  know,  a  readiness  to  listen, 
a  desire  to  be  convinced,  an  attitude  of  candor,  an 
honesty  of  the  intellect, — these  things  are  wrought 
into  the  fiber  of  the  developed  mind." 

The  educated  man,  too,  recognizes  that  none  is 
sufficient  in  himself;  whether  rich  or  poor,  learned 
or  ignorant,  that  each  is  dependent  upon  the  labor 
of  others,  for  food,  for  shelter,  for  clothing;  for 
the  bare  necessities  of  life  as  well  as  for  its  com- 
forts and  pleasures,  and  tlierefore,  how  ill  it  be- 
comes any  man,  whatever  his  station  or  achieve- 
ments in  life,  to  look  down  upon,  or  hold  in  con- 
tempt even  the  most  humble  laborer.  Far  from 
making  him  arrogant  and  haughty,  his  own  powers 
and   advantages   serve  to   awaken   in   him   sympathy 


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for  those  less  fortunate  than  himself,  a  consider- 
ateness  for  their  defects  and  a  sincere  concern  for 
their   welfare. 

Such  are  the  characteristics  of  the  educated  man 
— a  broad,  non-technical  knowledge,  general  powers 
that  are  applicable  in  a  wide  range  of  circumstance?, 
ability  to  think  clearly  and  to  reason  logically,  self- 
knowledge,  self-reliance,  breadth  of  interest  and 
breadth  of  view,  tolerance,  and  a  democratic  spirit. 
Armed  with  these  attributes,  college  men  become 
the  servants  of  society ;  its  reformers,  its  leaders 
and  its  guardians,  for  they  have  come  to  learn,  by 
actual  experience  in  the  service  of  their  college,  that 
one  can  find  life  only  by  losing  it  and  the^  surest 
way  to  happiness  is  through  unqualified  devotion  and 
loyal  service  to  some  interest  greater  and  higher 
than  oneself.  They  go  out,  therefore,  into  life  with 
a  purpose  as  President  Hyde  'has  expressed  it,  "not 
to  find  a  place  ready  made  to  fit  them  but  to  fit 
themselves  for  a  place, — a  iilace  where  they  can  earn 
an  honest  livelihood ;  can  serve  the  pirblic  interests 
and  contribute  to  the  happiness  and  welfare  of  their 
fellow-men." 

Thus  to  represent  the  college  man  may  seem 
more  ideal  than  real.  It  is  the  ideal,  and  of  course 
like  all  ideals,  it  is  not  always  attained,  and  yet  it  is 
my  sincere  belief  that  this  view  may  fairly  represent 
a  college  class  when  taken  as  a  whole ;  may  fairly 
represent,  therefore,  the  present  graduating  class. 
We  at  least  have  confidence  in  ourselves  aiid  though 
we  look  upon  our  Commencement  Week  with  sad- 
ness in  that  it  is  the  close  of  a  life  of  pleasant  asso- 
ciations and  memories,  it  is  a  source  of  satisfaction 
in  that  it  is  the  beginning  of  a  more  useful,  more 
complete  and  richer  life  5'et  to  come.  The  latter 
mood  predominates.  We  rejoice  in  flie  pleasures  of 
Class  Day  and  of  Commencement  Week  and  are 
pleased  to  have  with  us  our  relatives  and  friends, 
and  all  loyal  to  the  college.  To  all  I  extend,  in  be- 
half of  the  class,  a  most  sincere  and  cordial  wel- 
come. 


Extract  of  the  Class  History 

In  the  fall  of  1905  when  a  new  class  entered  the 
gates  of  Bowdoin,  the  campus  looked  much  as  it 
does  to-day  with  its  trees  and  buildings.  The  songs 
of  the  birds  carried  us  back  sadly  to  the  home  places 
where  we  had  lived  those  sane  and  safe  years  that 
precede  responsibility.  The  buildings  looked  cold 
and  uninviting,  but  day  by  day  they  'became  asso- 
ciated with  new  friendships  and  we  found  in  them 
the  open  door  and  welcome  to  new  joy.  Some  of 
our  fondest  memories  to-day  cluster  about  old  Win- 
throp,  IVIaine  and  Appleton  and  every  building  from 
the  Gym  to  the  Library  summons  a  throng  of  remi- 
niscences both  painful  and  sweet.  King  Chapel  and 
the  "Church  on  the  Hill"  have  found  hallowed  places 
in  our  hearts. 

In  the  journey  of  our  days  we  have  shared  a_  com- 
mon sorrow ;  we  have  suffered  a  common  loss  in  the 
death  of  fellow  students  loyal  and  true  and  in  the 
passing  of  a  professor,  a  student  and  an  interpreter 
of  nature,  and  companion  of  men.  Because  they 
lived  our  hearts  are  the  richer,  because  they  died 
our  lives  are  the  holier. 

During  the  four  years  of  common  ties  and  com- 
mon tasks  in  the  sharing  of  one  another's  joys  and 


sorrows  and  the  friendship  of  work  and  play  there 
has  gradually  been  developing  within  us  a  sense  of 
responsiliility.  During  the  span  of  3'ears  from  Sep- 
tember, 1905,  to  June,  1909,  things  have  remained 
much  as  they  were  but  Ave  have  changed.  Any  one  of 
the  cherubs  who  sat  huddled  together  in  the  Fresh- 
men forms  of  King  Chapel  on  the  morning  of  Sep- 
tember 28,  190S,  would  have  told  you  that  his  class 
was  to  restore  the  golden  age,  although  the  occu- 
pants of  the  next  forms  had  instructed  him  only  tlie 
evening  before  to  keep  it  to  himself.  Brief  was  the 
chapel  service,  briefer  was  the  rush  which  followed 
Out  of  sympathy  and  apprehension  the  upper  class- 
men forbade  us  to  attack  the  remnants  of  igo8,  who 
were  not  disabled  in  the  first  three  rushes.  This 
victory  brought  us  a  most  favorable  comment  in  the 
first  number  of  the  college  weekly.  The  number  of 
this  new  Freshman  Class  was  equal  to  the  number 
of  girls  who  have  since  asked  me  if  I  didn't  think 
that  Howard  Kane  was  good  looking. 

After  their  pitiful  exhibition  in  the  rush  the  Soph- 
omores neglected  to  cultivate  our  friendship  or  even 
to  provoke  our  wrath.  We  tendered  them  our 
regrets.  They  sent  a  team  to  the  Delta  the  follow- 
ing Saturday  and  I  have  only  foimd  one  account 
which  may  not  be  authentic.  I  will  not  give  the 
score.  About  the  second  game  I  am  quite  certain. 
Wallie  Hayden  made  a  note  of  it  in  his  diary.  We 
won  by  the  score  of  22 — 6.  The  football  game  was 
not  especially  interesting..  The  first  time  we  met 
them  on  the  gridiron  only  one  touchdown  was  made. 
The  results  of  the  indoor  meet  caused  some  surprise 
to  upper  classmen,  but  created  no  excitement  for  us. 
How  could  we  help  winning  with  Tanunany  Garce- 
lon  behind  the  shot? 

Although  they  excelled  in  athletics  from  the 
beginning,  these  energetic  sons  of  wisdom  took  an 
intense,  in  some  cases  dense  interest  in  their  stud- 
ies. It  is  indeed  an  honor  to  be  associated  with  so 
many  men  of  unquestioned  scientific  achievement. 
Mathematics  has  maintained  the  unfailing  interest  of 
the  class.  Undaunted  when  the  coveted  i\Iath  prize 
was  awarded  to  another,  Jackson  persevered  and 
majored  in  Mathematics  I.  A  physical  examination 
was  given  shortly  after  college  opened,  but  it  was 
not  imtil  the  end  of  Freshman  year  that  our  mental 
capacity  was  put  to  test,  in  the  examination  in  Logic 
conducted  by  Professor  Mitchell.  Each  question  was 
like  a  spool  of  thread  after  a  kitten  was  through 
playing  with  it.  Dan  McDade's  exclamation,  "Lord 
God  of  Hosts  be  with  us  yet,  lest  we  forget,  lest  we 
forget,"  was  voiced  by  his  fellow-sufferers. 

In  one  respect  our  first  year  marked  a  great 
advance  in  the  institution  in  the  eyes  of  mothers 
indeed,  if  not  in  the  eyes  of  Sophomores.  The 
Faculty  observed  that  we  were  "ganging"  pretty 
much  our  "ain  gait"  and  by  the  time  we  were  Sen- 
iors  they  were  convinced, — hazing   was   abolished. 

Our  attention  was  now  turned  to  Portland  and 
we  began  to  train  for  the  Freshman  banquet.  On 
May  3d  came  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi  Convention  when 
Phil  Brown  and  Arthur  Hughes  were  so  hospitable. 
At  the  Freshman  banquet  it  was  unfortunate  that  we 
had  to  leave  before  some  of  the  speeches  were  given. 
It  is  a  coincidence  that  the  opening  and  closing 
addresses  at  the  banquet  were  delivered  by  the  same 
gentleman  who  gave  them  to-day,  and  so  far  as  I 
can    remember   the   opening   address   was   the   same 


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to-day  as  the  one  which  Harry  gave  in  Portland  two 
years  ago. 

As  the  time  drew  near  for  college  to  open  the 
following  fall  we  were  almost  overwhelmed  as  we 
realized  the  great  responsibility  which  we  as  Soph- 
omores must  assume.  The  entering  class  was  able 
to  make  it  interesting  for  us  in  the  rush,  but  in  base- 
ball they  were  a  disappointment.  We  took  the  dual 
meet,  but  the  score  of  the  football  game  was  1910, 
to;  1909,  6.  It  was  announced  that  Minot  St.  Clair 
Francis,  an  escaped  convict,  was  in  our  midst.  Armed 
with  a  firecracker.  Sticker  Harlow  led  forth  a  band 
of  braves  and  threw'  open  the  door  of  the  closet 
where  Francis  had  taken  refuge.  The  convict  had 
escaped,  but  this  deed  of  bravery  will  long  live  in 
the  minds  of  admiring  friends.  During  this  year 
Stubbs,  the  Strong  man,  proved  himself  a  hero  by 
his  invaluable  information  gained  from  the  tower 
of  the  library,  from  the  spires  of  the  chapel  and 
from  the  twigs  of  trees ;  Tony  Fisk  and  Nick  Car- 
ter showed  themselves  martyrs  to  the  cause  of  devel- 
oping the  Freshmen  ;  Sturtevant  became  secretary  of 
the  Annassiguntook  Snowshoe  Club  and  Harry 
Atwood  gained  fame  at  playing  kn'ife  and  this  year 
he  challenged  Gardiner  Heath  to  a  contest  but  Card 
preferred  marbles.  Our  Sophomore  hop  was  the 
first  and  last  ever  given  at  Bowdoin.  "Whenever  a 
banquet  is  now  proposed  we  are  immediately  assured 
it  will  not  be  like  our  Sophomore  one.  That  is  all 
that  it  is  necessary  to  say  of  that  occasion. 

The  first  two  years  were  spent  in  adjustments 
and  re-adjustments  to  the  new  environments ;  the 
last  two  years  have  been  spent  in  doing  more 
effective  work,  as  Juniors  and  Seniors.  With  Junior 
assemblies  and  Ivy  there  came  a  responsibility  to 
the  college.  In  a  social  way  we  were  to  represent 
Bowdoin.  I  believe  we  proved  ourselves  not  unfitted 
to  our  opportunities.  In  two  years  our  number  has 
been  diminished  -but  new  names  have  been  written 
among  the  old.  Out  of  the  Far  East  came  Hiwale 
and  we  wish  him  Bowdoin's  best  God  speed  as  he 
turns  again  home;  Stevens  and  Stanley  also  joined 
us  from  Bangor  Theological  Seminary  and  with  the 
coming  of  another  Christian  Association  promoter 
to  the  faculty  this  year  the  meetings  of  that  body 
came  to  be  class   reunions   for  these  men. 

As  Seniors  review  the  incidents  of  Freshmen, 
Sophomore  and  Junior  years  they  see  them  in  rela- 
tion to  something  firm  and  eternal.  From  our  sec- 
ond mother  each  of  us  takes  not  only  these  mem- 
ories but  others  which  are  more  profound.  We 
remember  the  cup  of  cold  water  given  us  by  a  fel- 
low-student ;  we  recall  those  in  affliction  whom  we 
have  comforted.  We  begin  to  measure  our  own 
achievements  by  those  whom  we  respect.  In  some 
of  our  attemepts  we  have  failed,  in  others  we  have 
succeeded.  With  the  kindly  aid  of  professors  and 
fellow-students  we  have  come  more  fully  to  know 
ourselves.  As  members  of  this  class  and  college 
we  have  co-operated  with  others  for  common  ends. 
Bowdoin  has  been  bountiful  in  her  gifts  to  the  Class 
of   1909.     She  now    fondly  bids   us   forth. 

Quit  you  like  men,  be  strong : 

There's  a  work  to  do 

There's  a  world  to  make  new 

There's  a  call  for  men  who  are  brave  and  true 

On !     On  with  a  song. 


Closing  Address 

We  are  gal^hered  here  to-day  to  say  our  farewell 
as  a  class  to  our  life  of  four  years — the  four  years 
that  have  nourished  our  growth  together  fromhigh 
school  boys,  to  the  embryo  men  of  to-day.  Any  for- 
mal expression  of  sentiment  inevitably  smacks  of 
liypocrisy.  The  words  of  heart-felt  farewell  have 
been  too  often  profaned  by  insincerity  and  self-in- 
interest  to  carry  here  their  full  message.  Only  our 
course  through  life  to  the  end  can  with  fidelity 
show  our  appreciation  of  the  generous  gifts  thus 
far  received.  Nevertheless,  as  we  venture  forth 
from  the  artificial  sheltered  lagoon  of  college  to  try 
our  taut-strung  ships  alone  it  is  altogether  appro- 
priate that  we  should  express  as  briefly  and  as  truly 
as  we  may  our  varying  gratitude  for  the  past,  our 
various  hopes  for  the  future,  and  then  go  in  austere 
silence    to    live. 

The  homing  instinct  is  strong  in  youth  and  not 
easily  can  we  forget  this  campu.s — these  trees  and 
buildings  and  blue  skies — wbicli  for  four  long,  long 
years  have  encompassed  our  ambitions  and  our  joys. 
If  hereafter  we  should  ever  walk  through  fields  and 
country  lanes  often  our  eyes  must  search  the  horizon 
for  those  twin  chapel  spires — so  ever  pleasant  to 
the  eye  in  our  college  rambles  through  this  hill-less 
country.  Returning  here  in  the  possession  of  the 
\oars,  dwarfed  though  this  quadrangle  may  be  by 
the  physical  grandeur  of  our  future  experiences,  we 
shall  ever  hold  these  shapes  and  colors  precious  as 
the  most  familiar  images  of  our  youth,  and  however 
sweetly  fortune  may  seem  to  smile  or  cruelly  to 
taunt,  if  we  should  ever  wilfully  neglect  this  little 
spot  of  ground  we  shall  he  base  though  foolish 
traitors  to  the  faith  of  many  men  to  whom  we  owe 
much  of  what  we  are. 

Our  too  often  needless  criticisms  of  the  acts  and 
ideas  of  our  patient,  voluntary  friends  and  teachers 
cannot  be  atoned  by  the  repentance  of  a  day  but  as 
our  understanding  of  the  faculty  has  grown  from 
the  servile  fear  of  Freshmen;  through  the  youthful 
abuse  of  Sophomores ;  the  supercilious  indifference 
of  Juniors,  unto  the  man  valuation  of  Seniors ; 
we  have  come  to  realize  that  these  teachers  are 
merely  men  like  ourselves  except  that  they  have — 
each  and  every  one — consciously  given  up  their  lives 
to  the  most  sacred  task  of  modern  civilization  with 
a  full  aprpeciation  of  the  hopelessness  of  any  mate- 
rial reward  commensurate  with  their  personality  and 
influence.  Among  the  varied  and  virile  characters 
residing  here  year  after  year  from  their  common 
love  of  Bowdoin  if  we  have  found  only  one — and 
who  has  not — who  personifies  in  humanity  some- 
thing approximating  our  ideal  let  us  show  our  grat- 
itude in  the  only  fitting  terms — by  our  manner  of 
life.  Let  the  memory  of  the  disinterested  sacrifices 
of  so  many  of  our  teachers  and  espec'ially  of  the 
genial  personality  of  that  one  who  was  taken  from 
us  at  the  summit  of  his  influence  be  always  a  reve- 
lation to  us  of  the  wisest,  happiest  manner  of  life 
and  a  spur  to  those  acts  whose  performances  by  us 
he  would  have  deemed  a  sufficient  recompense  for 
his  patient,  kindly  labors  here  on   earth. 

As  a  class  we  are  with  something  of  sadness 
bidding  farewell  to  these  well-known  buildings  and 
to  these  well-loved  men  although  as  individual 
alumni  we  shall  all  re-visit  these  pleasant  places 
and  renew  the  glad  associations,  but  most  inevitably 
are   we   saying   farewell    to    each    other.     The    class 


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reunion  trophy  is  won  each  3'ear  by  less  than  sixty 
per  cent,  of  a  class  and  that  at  the  twenty-fifth  or 
fiftieth  reunion  so  that  we  may  not  delude  ourselves 
with  the  hope  of  all  greeting  each  other  again.  We 
are  at  the  parting  of  the  ways  and  many  of  our 
future  paths  will  never  cross  and  so  we  are  sad.  We 
have  been  together  long  and  known  each  other  well 
in  sorrow  and  joy;  in  despair  and  courage;  in  defeat 
and  victory;  in  discouraging  work  for  the  college 
or  team  and  in  happy  relaxation  at  dance  or  rally; 
in  partisan  strife  and  in  class  pride ;  in  petty  jeal- 
ousies and  noble  sacrifices  and  ever  have  we  revised 
our  estimates  of  our  classmates  as  each  year  has 
witnessed  steady  growth  in  us  all  toward  a  stronger, 
better  personality.  Now  the  time  has  come  to  part, 
to  go  out  into  new  surroundings,  amidst  new  com- 
panions, to  try  our  mettle  on  the  world  and  be 
judged  not  by  what  we  mean  but  by  what  we  do 
and  that  not  with  the  sympathetic  criticisms  of  this 
sheltered  college  life  far  removed  from  the  harsh 
realities  of  hunger  and  cold,  but  by  hard,  stranger 
critics  who  will  thrust  us  mercilessly  down.  On  the 
eve  of  such  a  change  it  becomes  us  to  be  sadly  fear- 
ful and  as  the  plunge  draws  nigh  we  are  rudely 
wakened  from  our  dream  life  of  lofty  service  by  the 
necessity  of  satisfying  our  creature  demands.  From 
the  apex  of  college  Seniors  we  shall  step  to  the 
foot  of  the  world  and  the  next  ten  years  will  be  as 
crucial  in  deciding  our  world  life  as  were  our  first 
two  years  in  this  college  life — unregarded  as  they 
seemed  at  the  time.  Remembering  this  and  the  many 
inevitable  discouragements,  we  can  wisely  gather  all 
the  passionate  sentiment  of  this  day  to  start  us  well 
on  our  journey. 

We  are  assembled  like  the  knights  of  old  to  take 
our  vows  at  the  feet  of  our  mistress,  yet  we  go  out 
to  pass  on  to  the  future  gifts  of  the  past. 

Most  of  us  must  live  and  die  unknown,  but  we  can 
at  least  avoid  the  grosser  forms  of  unhappiness — 
originating  in  false  ambition  and  material  greed — ^by 
thinking  of  the  old  French  proverb  of  happiness  in 
obscurity  and  the  enjoyment  of  the  simple  pleasures 
of  nature.  The  proverb  runs  like  this  and  its  mean- 
ing is  wisely  remembered  and  lived :  "My  glass  is 
not  large  but  I  drink  from  my  glass."  Not  the  less, 
however,  because  of  our  insignificance  does  our 
Alma  Mater  expect  us  to  make  and  keep  our  vow 
to  her — so  simple,  so  elemental,  and  yet  so  enor- 
mously   difficult. 

We  came  here  with  differences  in  creed,  princi- 
ples, aspirations  and  potentialities  and  we  go  out 
often  with  those  differences  accentuated.  A  com- 
mon vow  would  seem  impossible  and  yet  we  came 
with  one.  common  end — to  clear  and  strengthen  our 
mental  vision — and  we  can  go  out  with  a  silent  vow 
to  keep  that  vision  bright  and  follow  its  commands. 
Our  futures  will  be  as  diverse  as  our  numbers,  but 
we  can  all  determine  them  by  our  will  and  thought 
rather  than  by  easy  agreement  with  chance.  What- 
ever our  course  let  it  be  ours  because  we  think  it 
best  and  consciously  choose  it,  and  then  let  us  fol- 
low it  with  as  much  of  energy  as  we  possess.  The 
unpardonable  crime  for  a  college  rnan  is  to  be 
thoughtless — to  excuse  himself  with  "I  didn't 
think."  Our  endeavor  shall  be  to  keep  thinking  and 
it  will  be  no  easy  task  as  the  years  wind  us  about 
with  the  meshes  of  easy  habit.  Yet  in  return  for  all 
our  happy  college  days  now  past ;  in  return  for  all 


the  intangible  gifts  of  Bowdoin — in  learning,  in  dis- 
cipline and  in  friends — our  Alma  Mater  asks  us  only 
to  remain  that  most  wondrous  creature  of  God — 
Man   Thinking. 

After  the  class,  seated  in  a  circle  on  the 
grass,  had  smoked  the  Pipe  of  Peace, they  sang 
the  Ode  written  for  the  occasion  by  P.  J. 
Newman.  The  air  is  "America"  and  t'he 
words  are  as  follows : 


Class  Ode 

Oh,  Alma  Mater  fair, 

We  pledge   in   song  and  prayer, 

Our  faith  to  thee. 
Through  these  our  joys   complete 
Made    real  our   visions   sweet    . 
Enthroned    in    memories    seat 

Fidelity. 

Equality   thy   dower. 
Time-wrought,    eternal   power, 

We've  shared  in  thee 
Thine  unstained  banner  flies 
In  Heaven's  holy  skies — 
Gleams    in    the    souls    and    eyes 

Of  all  thy  free 

Hearts  that  have  bled  for  thee. 
Lives  lost  and  found  in  thee. 

Healed  and  are  proved, 
Hail  to  thy  glorious  name, 
Fire  with  ancestral  flame 
Sons   to   renew    thy   fame, 

Bowdoin  beloved ! 

Then  they  marched  about  the  campus  and 
cheered  all  the  college  buildings,  ending  -in 
front  of  the  Chapel  where  they  said  farewell, 
each  man  shaking  the  hand  of  every  one  of  his 
class-mates. 


Commencement  Hop 

In  spite  of  the  hot  weather  there  was  the 
usual  number  in  attendance  at  the  Commence- 
ment Hop  in  Memorial  Hall  in  the  evening. 
The  Plall  was  decorated  with  ropes  of  ever- 
green, in  which  at  intervals  pink  and  white 
carnations  were  placed.  The  patronesses 
were:  Mrs.  William  DeWitt  Hyde,  Mrs. 
Franklin  C.  Robinson,  Mrs.  Frank  E.  Wood- 
ruff, Mrs.  William  T.  Foster  and  Mrs.  Hud- 
son B.  Hastings. 

Among  the  ladies  present  were:  Misses 
Marion  Drew,  Anne  Johnson,  Emily  Felt,  Sue 
Winchell,  Lucy  Stetson,  Florence  Allen,  Mar- 
garet Swett,  Frances  Skolfield,  Edith  Weath- 
erill,   Beatrice   Hacker,    Virginia    Woodbury, 


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Marguerite  Hutchins,  Sarah  Merriman, 
Cecil  Houghton,  Lula  Woodward,  Sarah  Bax- 
ter, Mrs.  Thomas  H.  Riley,  Jr.,  and  Mrs.  John 
W.  Riley  of  Brunswick;  Miss  Pierce  of  New 
Mexico ;  Mrs.  Edward  K.  Leighton  of  Thom- 
aston ;  Misses  Lucy  Hartwell  and  Eliza- 
beth Fuller  of  Bath;  Misses  Edna  Smith  and 
Selma  Smith  of  West  Newton,  Mass. ;  Miss 
Angle  Corbett  of  Dover,  N.  H. ;  Miss  Julia 
Robinson  of  Bangor;  Mrs.  D.  C.  Dorrothy 
and  Mrs.  Herbert  H.  Oakes  of  New  York; 
Mrs.  W.  L.  Came,  Misses  Josephine  Leckie, 
Beatrice  Henley,  Sally  Ginn,  Ellen  Chandler 
and  Mrs.  Herbert  Gay  of  Boston ;  Mrs.  Her- 
bert Rich,  Misses  Frances  Skolfield,  Lydia 
Skolfield,  Marion  Wheeler,  and  Agnes  Greene 
of  Portland ;  Miss  Rena  Brown  of  Watertown, 
N.  Y. ;  Miss  Christine  Kennison  of  Water- 
ville;  Miss  Helen  Batchelder  of  Exeter, 
N.  H. ;  Misses  Blandine  Sturtevant  and 
Florence  Marsh  of  Dixfield;  Miss  Mary 
E.  Berry  of  Kent's  Hill;  Miss  Helen  Gale  of 
Winthrop;  Mrs.  Willard  T.  Libby  of  Pejep- 
scot ;  Misses  Lena  Paul,  Grace  Bower,  and 
Clara  Haskell  of  Auburn;  Miss  Gertrude 
Straw  of  Salem,  Mass. ;  Miss  Avesia  Stone  of 
Lynn,  Mass. ;  Mrs.  James  Chandler  of  Jamaica 
Plain,  Mass. ;  Mrs.  J.  D.  Sinkinsoh,  of  Woorl 
bury,  N.  J. ;  Mrs.  Thomas  R.  Wincnell  of 
Houlton;  Mrs.  Millard  F.  Chase  of  Winches- 
ter, Mass. ;  Miss  Abbie  Mayo  of  Rochester, 
N.  Y. ;  Miss  Dorothy  Foss  of  Woodfords,  and 
Miss  Carrie  Johnson  of  Hallowell. 

Wednesday,  June  23 

\  Medical  School  Graduation 

Wednesday  morning  sixteen  men  received 
the  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  Medical  School. 
The  address  was  delivered  by  Hon.  DeAlva 
S.  Alexander,  LL.D.  He  held  up  as  an  exam- 
ple to  the  class  of  what  a  physician  ought  to 
be,  the  late  Dr.  John  D.  Lincoln  of  Brunswick, 
who  was  ever  in  advance  of  his  profession  in 
his  knowledge  and  interest.  The  graduates 
were:  Henry  Whiting  Ball,  William  Hiram 
Bunker,  James  Francis  Cox,  A.B.,  Charles 
Hunter  Cunningham,  A.B.,  Charles  Leverett 
Curtis,  George  Ivery  Higgins,  Harris  Page 
Illsley,  Irving  Ellis  Mabry,  A.B.,  Walter  Irv- 
ing Merrill,  John  Luke  Murphy,  Sidney 
Eugene    Pendexter,     Hugh     Francis    Ouinn, 


A.B.,  Archibald  Charles  Ross,  Clarence  Ray- 
mond Simmons,  Otis  Franklin  Simonds,  A.B., 
Ivan  Staples,  Herbert  Ellery  Thompson,  A.B., 
William  Cotman  Whitmore,   A.B. 


Phi  Beta  Kappa 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
Fraternity,  Alpha  of  Maine,  was  held  in  the 
Alumni  room  of  Hubbard  Hall  at  11.30  on 
Wednesday.  Nine  new  members  were 
initiated  as  follows:  From  1909,  Harrison 
Atwood,  W.  M.  Harris,  H.  S.  Pratt  and  F.  V. 
Stanley.  From  1910,  Robert  Hale,  H.  O. 
Hawes,  W.  E.  Robinson,  R.  E.  Ross,  H.  E. 
Rowell.  M.  P.  Cus'hing,  '09,  was  also  elected 
but  was  unable  to  be  present  for  initiation. 

The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the 
coming  year:  President,  James  McKeen,  '64 
Vice-President,  Thomas  H.  Hubbard,  '57 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  T.  Files,  '89 
Literary  Committee,  George  T.  Little,  'yy 
Samuel  V.  Cole,  '74;  Charles  H.  Cutler,  '81 
Charles  C.  Torrey,  '84;  K.  C.  M.  Sills,  '01. 

In  the  evening  President  and  Mrs.  Hyde, 
assisted  by  Chief  Justice  Fuller  and  his 
daughter,  received  the  Alumni  and  friends  of 
the  college  at  Hubbard  Hall  from  eight  till 
eleven.  After  that  came  the  reunions  at  the 
various  fraternity  houses. 


Thursday.  June  24 

Commencement  Day 

In  the  forenoon  at  g.30  came  the  meeting 
of  the  Alumni  Association  in  Hubbard  Hall. 
The  following  officers  were  elected :  Presi- 
dent, Franklin  C.  Payson ;  Vice-President, 
Charles  T.  Hawes ;  Secretary  and  Treasurer, 
Prof.  Geo.  T.  Little;  Alumni  Committee  on 
Athletics,  Charles  T.  Hawes,  Franklin  C.  Pay- 
son,  lion.  Barrett  Potter,  lienry  A.  Wing  and 
Roland  W.  Mann. 

At  the  meeting;  of  the  Board  of  Overseers, 
also  held  Thursday  morning,  these  officers 
were  elected;  President,  Hon.  Chas.  F.  Libby 
of  Portland;  Vice-Pres.,  Galen  C.  Moses  of 
Bath ;  Secretary,  Thomas  H.  Riley  of  Bruns- 
wick; Visiting  Committee,  Hon.  DeAlva  S. 
Alexander,  LL.D.,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Judge 
Levi  Turner  of  Portland,  and  Hon.  Frederick 
A.  Powers  of  Houlton. 


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The  followingf  new  members  were  elected 
lo  fill  the  five  vacancies  existing;  on  the  board: 
Dr.  Ernest  B.  Young-,  'ga,  of  Boston;  Edgar 
O.  Achorn,  '8i,  of  Boston ;  Frederick  O. 
Conant,  '80,  of  Portland ;  Thomas  J.  Emery, 
'68,  of  Boston;  Alpheus  Sanford,  '76,  of  Bos- 
ton. 

Among  the  iroprovements  voted  by  the 
governing  boards  is  one  which  will  be  most 
interesting  to  every  undergraduate.  A  new 
floor  is  to  be  laid  in  Memorial  Hall ! 

Thursday  forenoon  the  Class  of  1904 
inaugurated  a  new  feature  which  was  voted  a 
success  by  all  who  saw  it.  The  class,  accom- 
panied by  a  band,  ai^peared  in  Japanese  garb, 
carrying  palm  leaf  fans,  and  headed  by  two 
boys,  also  in  kimonos,  bearing  a  large  '04  ban- 
ner. The  class  cheered  all  the  buildings  and 
college  organizations,  smoked  the  pipe  of 
peace  anew  and  went  to  the  library  to  register. 
While  there  they  listened  to  a  short  address  in 
Japanese  by  Frederick  E.  Whitney,  '73,  of 
Oakland,  Cal.  The  Japanese  costume  was  in 
evidence  all  the  forenoon  and  "at  the  banquet. 

All  the  classes  marched  to  the  Church  on 
the  Hill  to  listen  to  the  graduation  exercises. 
Prayer  was  ofi^ered  by  Prof.  John  S.  Sewall 
of  I3angor,  and  the  parts  were  read  as  fol- 
lows : 

Socialism    and    Monopolies  Harold    Hitz    Burton 

Poetry  and  Age  Jasper  Jacob  Stahl 
The  Optimism  of  Christianity    Fred  Veston  Stanley 

Modern  Patriotism  Harrison  Atwood 

A  Poet  of  London  Streets  Dudley  Hovey 

The  Unity  of  Faith  *Max  Pearson  Gushing 
^Excused. 

Degrees  of  A.B.  were  granted  to  the  fol- 
lowing men  from  the  Class  of  1909 : 


Atwell.  Rdbert  King 
Atwood,    Harrison 
Baltzer,    Melbourne    Owen 
Bishop,   Percy   Glenham 
Bower,  Claude   Oliver 
Brewster,  Ralph   Owen 
Bridge,   Ezra  Ralph 
Brown,    Philip    Hayward 
Buck,   George   Henry 
Burton,    Harold    Hitz 
Carter,   Charles  Frederick 
Gushing,   Max   Pearson 
Estes,    Guy   Parkhurst 
Files,   Ralph   Henry 
Gastonguay,  Thomas   Amedeus 
Ginn,   Thomas   Davis 
Goodspeed,  Ernest  Leroy 
Haines,   William 
Harlow,  Roy  Clifford 
Harris,  William  Matthew 
Hayden,  Wallace  Hanson 


Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

Auburn 

Steuben 

Boothbay  Flarbor 

Auburn 

Dexter 

Hampden 

Watertown,    N.    Y. 

Harrison 

West   Newton,    Mass. 

Portland 

Bangor 

Skowhegan 

West   Gorham 

Brunswick 

Roxbury.   Mass. 

Randolph 

Waterville 

Richmond 

Lynn,  Mass. 

Bath 


Heath,   Gardner  Kendall 
Minckley,  Walter  Palmer 
Hiwale,   Anand  Sidoba 
Hovey.'  Dudley 
Hughes,   Arthur   Wilder 
Hurley,   John    Robert 
Jackson,    Sumner   Waldron 
Johnson,   Edwin   William 
Kane,   Howard  Francis 
McDade,    Daniel    Michael 
Marsh.   Harold  Newman 
Merrill,  Harry  Clyde 
Merrill,   Ravmond  Earlc 
Moulton,   Albert   Willis 
Newman,   Paul   Jones 
Newton,    Harry    Jenkinson 
Pennell,    Robert    Maxwell 
Phillips,   Willard  True 
Pike,  Harold   Parker 
Pletts,    Louis    Oliver 
Pottle,   Ernest   Harold 
Pratt,  Harold  Sewall 
Rich,  Irving  Lockhart 
Richardson,   Clyde   Earl 
Shelian,    Thomas    Francis,    Jr. 
.Siinmons.  John  Standish 
Smith,   Arthur   Lawrence 
Smith,   Harold  Merton  East 

Stahl,    Jasper    Jacob 
Stanley,  Fred  Veston 
Stanley,    Oramel    Henry 
Stevens,  Charles  Leon 
Stone,  Carl  Ellis 
Stubbs,    Ro'bert   Goff 
Sturtevant,  James  Melvin 
Tefft,    Kenneth    Remington 
Timberlake,    Leonard    Fremont 
Voter.   Perley  Conant 
Wakefield,   Leonard  Foster 
Wentworth,  John   Alexander 


Augusta 

Hinckley 

Bombay,    India 

Waldoboro 

Brunswick 

Oldtown 

Waldoboro 

Greenwich,  Conn 

Machias 

Pawtucket,    R.    ]. 

Dixfield 

Portland 

Conway,   N.   Id 

Portland 

Fryeburg 

London,    Eng. 

Brunswick 

Westbrook 

Lubec 

Brunswick 

Farniing'ton 

Farmingtiin 

Ponland 

Strong 

Portland 

New  York,  N.  Y. 

New   Vineyard 

Barrington,   N'   Id. 

Waldoboro 

Lisbon 

Lovel) 

Warren 

Norway 

Strong 

Di.xfield 

Syracuse,    N.    Y 

Phillips 

West  Farmington 

P>,-ir   Harbor 

Portland 


Two  men,  Chester  Adam  Leighton  and 
Harold  William  Stanwood,  received  the 
degree  as  of  the  Class  of  1908. 

The  honorary  appointments  were : 

Sninma  Cum  Laudc 

Harrison  Atwood, 
Ralph  Owen  Brewster, 
Harold    Hitz    Burton, 
Ernest   Leroy   Goodspeed, 
Jasper  Jacob  Stahl, 
Fred  Veston  Stanley. 

Magna  cum  Laudc 

Ma.x    Pearson    Gushing, 
William   Matthew   Harris, 
John  Robert  Hurlev, 
Harold   Sewall   Pratt. 

Cum  Laudc 
Claude  Oliver  Bower, 
Ezra  Ralph   Bridge, 
Dudley   Hovey, 
Harold  Newman   Marsh, 
Harry  Clyde   Merrill, 
Flarry  Jenkinson  Newton, 
Perley   Conant  Voter. 


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Honorary  Degrees 

The  following  honorary  degrees  were  conferred : 

The  Degree  of  LL.D. — Gen.  Ellis  Spear,  Class  of 
1858,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Gov.  Henry  Brewer 
Quinby,  Class  of  1869,  Laconia,  N.  H. ;  Associate 
Justice  Albert  R.  Savage  of  Auburn ;  Associate  Jus- 
tice Geo.  E.  Bird  of  Porlland. 

The  Degree  of  D.D. — Rev.  Joseph  Langdon 
Quimby,  Class  of  1895,  of  Gardiner ;  Rev.  Charles 
A.   Moore   of   Bangor. 

The  Degree  of  Litt.D. — Daniel  Ozro  Smith, 
Lowell,  Class  of  1874,  principal  of  Rox'bury  Latin 
School. 

The  Degree  of  A.M. — Weston  Lewis,  Class  of 
1872,  of  Gardiner;  Edward  Augustus  Burton  Smith, 
Class  of  1889,  of  Portland ;  Ernest  Roliston  Wood- 
bury. Class  of  1895,  principal  of  Thornton  Academy. 


Awards 

The  award  of  prizes  for  the  year  1908-1909  is  as 
follows : 

Goodwin  Commencement  Prize — Fred  Veston 
Stanley,  '09. 

Class   of   1868   Prize — Jasper   Jacob    Stahl,    '09. 

Pray  English  Prize — Jasper  Jacob  Stahl,  '09. 

Alexander  Prize  Speaking — Winston  Bryant 
Stephens,  '10,  iirst  prize ;  James  McKinnon  Gillin, 
'12,  second  prize. 

Sewall  Latin  Prize — ^Chester  Elijah  Kellogg,  '11; 
honora'ble  mention,  Edward  Warren   Skelton,   '11. 

Sewall  Greek  Prize — Chester  Elijah  Kello.gg,  '11  ; 
honorable   mention,    Charles   Boardman   Hawes,   '11. 

Goodwin  French  Prize — No  award. 

Noyes  Political  Economy  Prize — Fred  Veston 
Stanley,  '09. 

Smythe  Mathematical  Prize — Edward  Warren 
Skelton,  '11. 

Class  of  1875  Prize  in  American  History — Rob- 
ert Hale.  '10. 

Philo  Sherman   Bennett  Prize — No   award. 

Hawthorne   Prize — Robert   King  Atwell,   '09. 

Bradbury  Debating  Prizes — Ralph  Owen  Brew- 
ster, '09;  Ernest  Leroy  Goodspeed,  '09;  Daniel  John 
Readev,  special,  first  prizes;  Charles  Francis  Adams, 
'12;  Henry  Quimby  Hawes,  '10;  Willard  True 
Phillips,  '09;  second  prizes. 

Intercollegiate  Debating  Medals — Charles  Fran- 
cis Adams,  '12;  Harrison  Atwood,  '09;  Ralph  Owen 
Brewster,  '09;  Harold  Hitz  Burton,  'og ;  Ernest 
Leroy  Goodspeed,  '09;  Henry  Quimby  Hawes,  '10; 
Jasper   Jacob    Stahl,    '09. 

Special  Gold  Medal  in  English  7— Daniel  John 
Readey,  special. 

Brown  Memorial  Scholarships — Albert  Willis 
Moulton,  '09;  Robert  Hale,  '10;  Philip  Weston 
Meserve,  '11;   Robert  Danforth   Cole.  '12. 

Charles      Carroll      Everett      Scholarship— Perley 
Conant  Voter,   '09. 
Almon   Goodwin  Prize — Harold  Edwin  Rowell,   '10. 

Henry  W.  Longfellow  Graduate  Scholarship — 
Jasper  Jacot  Stahl,  '09. 

The  benediction  at  the  close  of  the  exer- 
cises was  pronounced  by  Prof.  Charles  C. 
Torrey  of  Yale. 


Commencement  Dinner 

At  the  Commencement  Dinner  held  in 
Memorial  Hall  the  accommodations  were 
barely  sufficient  for  the  large  number  present. 
After  the  dinner  Prof.  Chapman  led  the  sing- 
ing of  the  college  hymn.  Then  President  Hyde 
gave  briefly  the  history  of  the  past  year.  He 
said  that  thanks  to  the  addition  of  half  a  mil- 
lion dollars  in  our  endowment  since  a  year 
ago,  we  are  able  to  increase  our  efficiency  in 
many  ways.  We  can  keep  our  teachers  here 
and  can  even  get  desirable  men  from  larger 
institutions.  The  recurring  deficit  has  been 
stopped.  Salaries  have  been  raised.  We  are 
able  to  enforce  more  strict  requirements  for 
entrance  and  to  reduce  to  a  minimum  the 
number  of  special  students.  Yet  the  number 
of  men  is  increasing,  especially  the  number 
from  outside  the  state.  We  are  able  to  do 
away  largely  with  incompetent  instructors.- 
Hazing  has  been  abolished  and  the  moral  tone 
of  the  student  body  has  been  greatly  raised,  r 
The  speakers  were :  Governor  Bert  i\I.  Fer- 1 
nald  of  Maine,  who  spoke  for  the  state ;  Gov- 
ernor Henry  B.  Quimby,  of  New  Hampshire, 
who  thanked  the  college  for  his  degree  and 
said  that  he  would  carry  Bowdoin's  greetings 
to  Dartmouth  next  week ;  General  Thomas  H.  / 
Hubbard,  who,  speaking  for  the  "unknown' 
donors"  to  the  college,  gave  their  reasons  fof 
wishing  to  remain  nameless  and  took  occasion 
to  call  the  attention  of  those  present  to  thi? 
priceless  services  which  the  I'aculty  was  ren- 
dering to  the  college ;  Judge  Albert  R.  Sav- 
age, who,  after  thanking  the  college  for  his 
degree,  said  that  Bowdoin  was  helping  greatly 
to  introduce  culture  and  refinement  into  this 
present  age  of  steel  and  gold;  Mr.  Charles  T. 
Hawes,  who  spoke  for  the  Overseers ;  Prof. 
Henry  L.  Chapman,  who,  after  the  tremendous 
applause  had  subsided,  gave  one  of  his  inim- 
itable talks  such  as  Bowdoin  men  are  always 
so  glad  to  hear.  The  speakers  for  the  classes 
which  were  holding  reunions  were:  Prof. 
James  A.  Howe  of  Bates  for  '59 ;  Frederic  H. 
Boardman  of  Minneapolis,  for  '69;  Rev. 
Oliver  H.  Means  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  for 
'84;  Hon.  Frank  L.  Staples  of  Bath,  for  '89; 
Rev.  Fred  J.  Libby  of  Magnolia,  Mass.,  for 
'04 ;  Wallace  H.  White,  Jr.,  of  Lewiston,  for 
■99 ;  and  John  W.  Frost  of  New  York  City, 
for  '04. 


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Reunion  Trophy  to  '69 

Tlie  David  William  Snow  reunion  trophy 
was  won  by  the  Class  of  1869  with  the  record- 
breaking  percentage  of  80.9.  The  Class  of 
1879  was  second  with  50  per  cent. 


IVY   DAY  GAME 

I  In  a  game  which  was  full  of  striking  plays 
Bowdoin   defeated  Bates  on   Ivy   Day  to  the 

,  tune  of  8  to  6.  Harriman  of  Bates  did  not 
appear  up  to  his  usual  standard  and  was  hit 
hard  at  critical  moments.  Errors  by  both 
teams  were  made  when  they  meant  runs  and 
that  fact  swelled  the  score.  John  Manter  in 
the  box  for  Bowdoin,  pitched  good  ball,  con- 
sidering the  fact  that  he  has  been  filling  his 
regular  infield  position  so  far  this  year.  The 
usual  Ivy  Day  crowd  of  about  600  watched 
the  game.  This  game  leaves  the  teams  in  the 
State  College  League  tied  for  the  champion- 
ship, each  having  won  three  and  lost  three. 
The  score : 

Bowdoin 

ab      r      bh      pc      a        e 

Wilson,    c 5        o        o        5        i        o 

McDade,    l.f 4        o        o        2        o         I 

Clifford,    lib 3         I         o       13        0         I 

Harris,  ss 5        o        2        3        4        2 

Manter,    p 4        2        o        o        4        0 

Bower,    3b 3        2        2        2        4        o 

Wandtke,    2b 4         i         i         o        0,0 

Lawlis,   r.f 4         l         i         o        o        o 

Purington,    c.f 4         i         I         2        0        o 

Totals,  36        S        7    27       16        4 

Bates. 

ab      r  bh  po  a  e 

Lamorey,    3b 5        2         I  o  I  I 

Dorman,     rb 4        2        2  11  o  0 

Stone,     c 5        o        2  2  0  I 

Keaney,    ss 5         o        2  I  2  i 

Cole,   l.f 5        o        0  3  o  0 

Cobb,    2b 3        o        0  2  2  0 

Bickford,   c.f 300400 

Clason,  r.f 4        3        2  i  0  o 

Harriman,    p 4         I         i  0  4  l 

Totals    38        6       10      24        9        4 

Innings : 

Bowdoin    o    0    0    4    o    o    3     i    x — 8 

Bates    0    0     I     I     o    3    o     i     0 — 6 

Two-base  hits  Lamorey,  Dorman,  Keaney.  Tliree- 
base  hits^Bower,  Harriman.  Sacrifice  hit — Dor- 
man. Stolen  bases — ^McDade,  Harris,  Bower. 
Wandtke,  Lawlis  2,  Purington,  Lamorey,  Dorman, 
Keanev.  Cobb,  Clason  2,  Harriman,  Bases  on  balls 
—Off  Manter,  i ;  oFf  Harriman.  3.  Hit  by  pitcher- 
Clifford,  Bower,  Cobb.  Struck  out— By  Manter,  4; 
by  Hariman.  i.  Passed  ball — Wilson.  Time — 2 
hours.     Umpire — Allen   of  Fairfield. 


INTERCOLLEGIATE  TENNIS   TOURNAMENT 

In  the  intercollegiate  tennis  tournament  at 
Bates  last  week,  Bowdoin  won  out  over  the 
other  three  state  colleges,  Martin  winning  the 
title  of  state  champion  in  the  doubles,  and 
Huehes  and  IMartin  in  the  singles.  Several  of 
the  matches  were  close  and  exciting  and  the 
tournament  as  a  whole  was  fast  and  well- 
played. 


ELECTIONS 

At  the  Mass^meetings  held  for  the  Annual  Elections, 
the  Results  were  as  follows : 

President  of  Athletic  Association,  Col- 
bath  ;  A^ice-President,  Newman ;  Secretary, 
McFarland ;  Junior  member  of  Athletic  Coun- 
cil, W.  H.  Clifford;  Sophomore  member,  Bur- 
lingame ;  Baseball  Manager,  Wiggin ;  Assist- 
ant, Leigh  ;  Track  Manager,  Emerson ;  Assist- 
ant, McCormick;  Tennis  Manager,  Somes; 
Assistant,  Fuller;  Cheer  Leader,  Hamburger; 
Assistant,  LI.  L.  Robinson.  The  following 
members  of  the  Student  Council  were  chosen : 
Colbath,  President;  Otis,  Secretary;  New- 
man, Crosby,  Edwards,  Wandtke,  Atwood, 
Hale,  R.  D.  Morss,  Webster. 


NEXT  YEAR'S  CAPTAINS 

The  varsity  baseball  team  has  elected  as  its 
captain  for  next  season  William  H.  Clifford, 
'11.  Clifford  played  on  the  team  last  year, 
but  did  not  get  his  letter.  This  year,  how- 
ever, he  has  played  the  whole  schedule. 

Track  captain  for  next  year  is  Henry  J. 
Colbath,  '10.  He  has  been  on  every  track 
team,  relay,  cross-country  or  varsity,  since 
he  has  been  in  college  and  is  without  doubt 
the  man  for  the  place. 

The  tennis  captain  for  next  year  will  be 
R.  B.  ]\Iartin,  '10,  who  is  also  the  only  varsity 
man  in  that  sport  who  will  be  left  in  college. 
He  has  made  his  B  two  years. 


THE  NEW  PROCTORS 


The  following  men  have  been  chosen  proc- 
tors for  next  year :  Henry  O.  Hawes,  North 
Winthrop;  Robert  D.  Morss,  South  Win- 
throp;  Herbert  E.  Warren,  North  Maine; 
Harold  E.  Rowell,  South  Maine;  Sumner 
ivlwards.  North  Appleton;  Henry  J.  Colbath, 
.S(juth  Appleton. 


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THE  IBIS 

The  following  members  of  the  coming 
Senior  'Class  'have  been  elected  to  the  Ibis  : 
Hale,  President;  Slocum,  Secretary  and 
Treasurer;  Colbath,  Crosby,  Edwards,  R.  D. 
Morss,  Nickerson,  and  Ready. 


DRAMATIC  CLUB 


At  the  close  of  a  succesful  season,  from 
which  it  cleared  a  considerable  dividend,  the 
Dramatic  Club  elected  H.  B.  McLaughlin,  'lo, 
President;  H.  W.  Woodward,  'lo,  Manager; 
and  Allan  Woodcock,  '12,  Assistant  Manager. 


THE   FRIARS 

The  Friars  held  their  annual  initiation 
shortly  after  Ivy  at  Portland.  From  the  com- 
ing Junior  Class,  they  took  in  G.  W.  Howe, 
H.  L.  Robinson  and  E.  B.  Smith. 


MANAGERS'  REPORTS 


Owing  to  lack  of  space,  the  Orient  is  una- 
ble to  print  the  reports  of  the  various  man- 
agers in  this  issue.  The  following  statement 
will  give  some  idea  of  the  financial  standing  of 
the  teams : 

Tennis,  balance  of  $137.40. 

Track,  balance  of  $13.88. 

Baseball,  deficit,  but  covered  by  unpaid 
subscriptions. 


NORTHFIELD 

It  is  expected  that  a  delegation  of  eight  or 
ten  Bowdoin  men  will  attend  the  annual  stu- 
dent conference  at  Northfield,  Mass.,  July  2 
to  II.  Among  those  who  are  going  are 
Hiwale,  '09,  Stone,  '10,  Stephens,  '10,  W.  E. 
Robinson,  '10,  Fifield,  '11,  McCormick,  '12, 
and  Churchill,  '12.  It  is  expected  that  C.  C. 
Robinson,  '00,  the  state  student  secretary,  will 
be  there  and  that  the  delegation  will  be  joined 
by  some  High  School  boys  from  Portland.  All 
fellows  who  can,  are  urged  to  come  to  North- 
field.  It  is  an  experience  that  is  never  for- 
goten  by  any  man  who  has  been  there  and  we 
want  Bowdoin  to  have  a  good  representation 
this  year. 


Hlumni  IDepartincnt 

The  following  is  the  necrology  of  Bow- 
doin College  and  the  Medical  School  of  Maine 
for  the  year  ending  June  i,  1909: 

Ac.'\DEMIC. 

1837— William  Wilberforce  Rand,  born  8  Dec. 

1816,  Gorham,   Me. ;   died  3   March, 

1909,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 
1842— Hosea   Hildreth   Smith,  born   17   Feb., 

1820,  Deerfield,  N.  H. ;  died  14  Sept., 

1908,  Atlanta,  Ga. 
1843— William  Warner  Caldwell,  born  28  Oct. 

1823,  Newburyport,  Mass. ;    died   23 

Oct.,  1908,  Newburyport,  Mass. 
1843— William  Reed  Porter,    born    20    May, 

1825,  North  Yarmouth,  Me. ;  died  28 

Nov.,  1908,  Camden,  Me. 
1844 — Charles   Edward   Swan,  born   5   Sept., 

1822,    Calais,    Me.;    died    13    July, 

1908,  Calais,  Me. 
1845 — Nathaniel    Putnam    Richardson,    born 

22  Aug.,  1825,    Portland,    Me. ;    died 

30  May,  1909,  Westmount,  Province 

of  Quebec. 
1848 — Charles    Appleton    Packard,    born    10 

Nov.,  1828,  Brunswick,  Me.;  died  23 

March,  1909,  Bath,  Me. 
1849 — William   Ladd  Jones,    born    18    Sept., 

1827,    Minot,    Me.;    died    19     Nov., 

1908,  Cloverdale,   Cal. 

1 85 1 — ^Joseph  Palmer  Fessenden,  born  27 
Sept.,  1831,  Portland,  Me.;  died  26 
March,  1909,  Salem,  Mass. 

1852 — Charles  Chesley,  born  12  April,  1827, 
Wakefield,    N.    H. ;     died    25     Feb., 

1909,  Washington,  D.  C. 

1853 — John  Leland  Crosby,  born  17  May, 
1834,   Bangor,   Me.;    died    31    July, 

1908,  Bangor. 

1854 — Joseph  Edward  Merrill,  born  8  Dec, 
1832,  Yarmouth,  Me. ;  died    9    Jan. 

1909,  Newton,  Mass. 

185s — Ezekiel  Ross,  born  25  Sept.  1829,  Jef- 
ferson, Me. ;  died  8  May,  1909,  New- 
castle, Me. 

1857 — William  Henry  Anderson,  born  18 
Oct.,  1835,  Belfast,  Me.;  died  26 
Dec,  1908,  Portland,  Me. 

1857 — Charles  Weston  Pickard,  born  28  Oct., 
1836,  Lewiston,  Me.;  died  15  Dec, 
1908,  Portland,  Me. 


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1858— Edwin     Reed,     born     19     Oct.,     1835,      1853- 

Phippsburg,  Me.;  died  13  Oct.,  1908, 

Danvers,  i\Iass. 
i860 — Albert    Williams    Bradbury,    born    29      iSSS" 

Jan.,     1840,    Calais,    Me. ;    died    27 

March,   1909,  Buckfield,  Me. 
1862 — Joseph     Noble,     born     7     Oct.,     1839,      1859- 

Augusta,    Me. ;    died   17   June,    1908, 

Washington,  D.   C. 
1865 — John   Bradbury   Cotton,   born   3    Aug.,      1864- 

1841,  Woodstock,  Conn. ;  died  6  Jan., 

1909,  -Washington,  D.   C. 
1866 — George  True   Sumner,    born    30    Jan.,      1868- 

1844,  Appleton,  Me. ;  died   17  Aug., 

1908,  Julesburg,  Col. 
1868 — Orville  Dewey  Baker,    born    22    Dec,      1869- 

1847,  Augusta,  Me.;  died   16  Aug., 

1908,  Phippsburg,  Me. 

1868 — John   Sayward  Derby,    born    16    Jan.,      1872- 

1846,  Alfred,  Me. ;  died  6  May,  1909, 

Rochester,  N.  H. 
1870 — Walter     Ebenezer     Holmes,     born    31      1876- 

July,    1846,     Oxford,    Me.;    died    9 

March,  1909,  Worcester,  Mass. 
1874 — Charles    Frederic     Kimball,     born     31      1878- 

July,   1854,    Portland,    Me.;    died    7 

Jan.,  1909,  Chicago,  111. 
1878 — George  Colby  Purington,  born  27  June,      1879- 

1848,  Embden,   Me.;    died    6    Alay, 

1909,  Monson,  Me. 

1881— Otis  Madison  Shaw,  born  7  Dec,  1857,      1879- 

Biddeford,  Me.;  died  19  Sept.,  1908, 

Boston,  Mass. 
1886 — Arthur  Robinson  Butler,  born  16  May,      1879- 

1863,    Portland,   Me.;    died    5    Aug., 

1908,  Portland,  Me. 
1886 — Thomas    Worcester    Dike,    b.    2    June,      1881- 

1865,  Bath,  Me. ;  died  17  Apr.,  1909, 

Westboro,  Mass. 
1888 — Lincoln   Hall   Chapman,  born   16  Jan.,      1882- 

1867,   Damariscotta,     Me. ;    died     17 

May,  1909,  Damariscotta,  jNIe. 
1895 — Hiland  Lockwood   Fairbanks,  born  21      1884- 

Sept.,    1872,   Farmington,   Me.;   died 

15  Feb.,  1909,  Bangor,  Me. 
1899 — Walter  Stimpson  Mundy    Kelly,    born      1888- 

23   Aug.,    1879,   Bath,   Me.;  died   21 

Dec,  1908,  Portland,  Me. 
1900 — Samuel  Pope  Harris,  born  3  Feb.,  1878,      1892- 

East    Machias,    Me. ;    died    27    June, 

1908,  Portland,  Me. 

1907 — Clarence  Elbert  Stetson,  born  i   Sept.,      1896- 
1884,  Flartford,  Me.;  died  13  March, 

1909,  Canton,  Me. 

Medical 
1838 — Thomas  Croswell,  born  22  June,  1814,      1891- 
Mercer,    Me. ;    died    6    Oct.,     1908, 
Streator,  111. 


-Moses  Williams  Caverley,  born  8  Jan., 
1823,  Strafford,  N.  H. ;  died  23  Dec, 

1908,  Brentwood,  N.  H. 
-Christopher    Prentiss    Gerrish,    b.    22 

Dec,  1829,  West  Lebanon,  Me. ;  d.  2 

Feb.,   1909,  South  Berwick,  Me. 
-William    Buck,    born    15    Aug.,    1833, 

Hodgdon,   Me.;   died  9   Aug.,    1908, 

Foxcroft,  Me. 
-Charles    Smith   Boynton,   born   8   Jan., 

1836,  Laconia,  N.  H. ;  died  14  Nov., 

190S,  Burlington,  V't. 
-John   Henry  Jackson,  born  26  March, 

1838,  Lee,  Me.;  died  27  Oct.,   1908, 
Fall  River,  Mass. 

-Alonzo  Bishop  Adams,  born  8  July, 
1843,  Wilton,  Me.;  died    10    March, 

1909,  Wilton,  Me. 

-Edward  Martin  Tucker,  born  22  April, 

1839,  Springvale,  Me. ;  died  8  Dec, 
1908,  Derry,  N.  H. 

-Roscoe  Ellsworth  Brown,  born  11  May, 
1851,  Lynn,  Mass.;  died  7  Jan.,  1909, 
Everett,  Mass. 

-John  Dearborn  Holt,  born  15  Aug., 
1847,   Rumford,  Me.;  died  20  Aug., 

1908,  Berlin,  N.   H. 

-Frederick  Edward  Maxcy,  born  15 
May,  1853,  Gardiner,  Me. ;  died  25 
Dec,   1908,  Washington,   D.   C. 

-Freeman  Evans  Small,  born  24  July, 
1S54,  Stoneham,Me.  ;died  19  March, 

1909,  Portland,  Me. 

-George    Franklin     Webber,     born     12 

June,  1853,  Richmond,  Me.;  died  11 

May,  1909,  Fairfield,  Me. 
-Harold    Verne    Noyes,    born    21    Jan., 

1859,   Wilton,    Me.;    died    25    Jan., 

1909,  Berwick,  Me. 
-George    Wells    Way,    born    10    Nov., 

1856,    Sutton,    Vt. ;    died     12     Feb., 

1909,  Portland,  Me. 
-Leonard  Dearth,  born  20  March,  1858, 

East  Sangerville,  Me. ;  died  26  Jan., 

1909,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
-Charles    Ernest     Lancaster,     born     16 

April,  1862,  Richmond,  Me. ;    died    5 

April,   1909,  Brunswick,  Me. 
-Russell     lierbert     Croxford,    born     17 

May,    1858,    Lincoln,    Me.;     died    5 

Aug.,   1908,  Brewer,  Me. 
-LeRoy  Oliver  Cobb,  born    20    October, 

1873,  Westbrook,  Me. ;  died  20  Feb., 

1909,  Portland,   Me. 
Honorary. 
-liorace  Melvyn    Estabrooke,    born    20 

Jan.,   1849,   Linneus,    Me.;    died    30 

Oct.,  1908,  Orono,  Me. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


VOL.   XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  OCTOBER  i,  1909 


NO.   II 


BOWDOIN  AT  THE  NORTH  POLE 

(Copyright  igogby  the  Bowdoin  Orient.     Other  papers  may  use 
by  giving  credit  to  the  Bowdoin  Orient.) 

COMMANDER  PEARY  AS  AN   UNDERGRADUATE 

When  a  college  man  wins  a  success  so 
striking  as  to  draw  the  attention  of  the  civil- 
ized world,  it  is  natural  to  ask  whether  he  dis-- 
played  in  undergraduate  days  the  qualities 
that  underlie  his  achievement.  This  is  the 
writer's  apology  for  recounting  some  trifling 
details  of  fraternity  and  college  life  at  Bow- 
doin in  1873-77. 

"Will  the  anemic  youth  at  the  polar  end  of 
this  festive  board  cause  the  oleaginous  matter 
to  move  southward?"  Something  like  this 
was  the  first  remark  I  remember  that  Bert 
Peary  made  me,  a  later  comer  than  himself,  at 
the  table  of  the  D.  K.  E.  eating  club  on  Page 
Street.  He  meant,  pass  the  butter.  Just 
then  a  wave  of  euphonism  was  sweeping  over 
the  fraternity.  Every  day  conversation  was 
pitched  to  a  Johnsonian  style,  and  this  young 
student  in  the  scientific  course,  with  little 
Latin  and  less  Greek,  could  command  more 
sesquipedalian  words  than  any  of  Professor 
Sewall's  Greek  "immortals." 

This  rhetorical  gift  he  cultivated  in  more 
serious  ways  later  in  his  course  which  offered 
little  formal  instruction  in  English  in  compar- 
ison with  the  numerous  courses  in  the  curric- 
ulum of  to-day.  He  was  selected  to  represent 
his  class  in  the  two  prize  declamations,  and  the 
writer  can  recall  to-day  his  exquisite  render- 
ing in  a  class  exercise  of  Longfellow's  "My 
Lost  Youth,"  and  the  thrill  of  feeling  which 
he  put  into  the  refrain,  "A  boy's  will  is  the 
wind's  will."  There  were  original  declama- 
tions, moreover,  and  here  again  Peary  suc- 
ceded  in  winning  more  plaudits  than  the  other 
"natural  orators"  of  whom  the  class  had  sev- 
eral. While  the  chief  honor  in  English,  the 
Class  of  1868  prize,  fell  to  a  more  scholarly 
and  better  -written  part,  his  own  address  on 
"Shall  the  Turk  Leave  Europe"  left  no  doubt 
in  the  minds  of  the  audience  as  to  his  senti- 
ments toward  that  nation.  He  spoke  and 
wrote  from  the  heart.  Once  arouse  his  feel- 
ings and  he  would  not  be  gagged.     This  sense 


of  anger  at  what  he  deemed  injustice  and  his 
unwillingness  to  sit  silent  once  led  to  the  only 
bit  of  hard  feeling  that  I  personally  knew  about 
between  members  of  our  fraternity.  Surely 
his  college  training  helped  him  in  that  remark- 
able lecture  tour  of  his  in  1893,  when  in  one 
hundred  and  three  days  he  gave  one  hundred 
and  sixty-five  lectures,  and  thus  earned  him- 
self $18,000  for  polar  exploration  in  less  than 
four  months.  Of  them.  Major  Pond,  the  vet- 
eran lyceum  manager,  writes,  "None  ever  met 
with  greater  success  on  a  short  notice,"  and 
styles  him  one  of  the  finest  descriptive  lectur- 
ers we  have  ever  had,  with  his  heart  and  his 
soul  in  his  work. 

Bert  Peary  came  to  college  with  a  reputa- 
tion already  gained  as  a  student  of  natural  his- 
tory. He  was  an  earnest  advocate  of  every 
man's  having  a  vocation,  a  hobby,  which 
would  take  him  out  of  doors  and  anchor  his 
interest  in  something  beside  his  regular  occu- 
pation. It  was  here,  as  well  as  in  his  required 
studies,  that  he  displayed  the  industry  and 
persistence  so  prominent  in  his  subsequent 
career.  Stuffing  birds  was  his  play.  The 
pains  he  would  take  to  ascertain  by  personal 
observation  in  the  field  the  characteristic  pose 
of  a  beast  or  bird  would  surprise  a  profes- 
sional taxidermist.  The  discomfort  he  met  in 
handling  hawks  and  eagles,  from  their  para- 
sites, and  the  sore  finger  nails  from  occasional 
carelessness  in  the  use  of  arsenic  would  have 
disgusted  completely  the  ordinary  amateur. 
He  became  a  state  taxidermist  and  considera- 
ble pecuniary  profit  came  from  this  enthusias- 
tically pursued  hobby.  Was  it  perchance  a 
prophecy  that  of  the  many  specimens  of  owls 
mounted  by  him  while  in  college,  the  Arctic 
owl  outnumbered  all  the  rest? 

The  enthusiasm  and  tirelessness  he  mani- 
fested alike  in  his  hobby  and  in  his  engineer- 
ing studies  left  him  no  time  for  loafing.  Yet 
he  by  no  means  cut  himself  off  from  college 
interests.  He  was  an  editor  of  the  Bugle  on 
the  committee  for  Junior  assemblies.  Ivy  Day 
odist,  prominent  in  the  civil  engineers'  club, 
and  active  on  class  committees.  Track  athlet- 
ics were  not  so  systematically  pursued  then  as 
now.  A  good  runner,  a  fine  walker,  excellent 
at  jumping,  he  particularly  ex;celled  in  throw- 


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ing  the  baseball,  then  one  of  the  events  in  the 
annual  field  day. 

He  had  his  share  of  class  spirit.  I  remem- 
ber his  tall,  lithe  figure  running  along  the 
muddy  shores  of  the  Androscoggin  opposite 
Cow  Island,  followed  by  a  group  of  class- 
mates, all  yelling  like  madmen  in  a  vain 
endeavor  to  bring  '77's  boat  in  ahead  of  its 
competitors.  The  boys  in  the  boat  responded 
nobly  to  our  exhortations,  but  the  other  fel- 
lows had  more  muscle.  We  always  thought 
well  of  ourselves.  As  earlv  as  Freshman  din- 
ner another  classmate  who  has  since  won 
great  success  in  his  chosen  profession — wrote 
a  song  in  which  he  claimed  for  the  class  the 
adjectives,  optiini  fortissimiqiie.  At  our  part- 
ing Peary  wrote  a  lyric  which  in  its  closing 
lines  breathes  a  similarly  ambitious  hope.  It 
is  here  reprinted  because  he  kept  himself  so 
clean,  sound  and  straight  during  those  four 
years  that  no  one  of  our  number  seemed  more 
likely  to  become  a  brave  leader  of  men  and  a 
doer  of  deeds. 

Listen,  old  Oak, 

Aid  I  invoke, 
Aid  from  thy  sylvan  heart. 

Hush  thy  soft  sighs, 

Bend  from  the  skies. 
Teach  me  one  song  ere  we  part. 
Teach  me  those  mystical,  murmurous  strains. 
Born  of  the  sunshine,  the  wind  and  the  rains. 
Give  me  thy  restless  wild  essence  of  life; 
Let  my  verse  thrill  like  an  army's  wild  strife. 

Softly,  O  friend, 

This  is  the  end. 
End  of  our  college  days. 

Fleeting  so  fast. 

Here  is  the  last. 
Gilded  by  sunset  rays. 
Down  on  the  meadows  at  evening  tide, 
Noiseless  and  spectral  the  river-mists  glide. 
Up  from  the  campus  and  halls  as  we  gaze. 
Float  the  white  wraiths  of  collegiate  days. 

Now  with  a  sigh 
Whisper  good-bye, 
Bowdoin,  fair  Eastern  queen. 
Treasure  her  gems. 
Opaline  gems, 
Lucent  with  astral  sheen. 
Let   their  keen   gleamings   our   young  brows 

enshrine, 
They  shall  the  stars  of  the  morning  outshine. 
Led  by  their  clear  light  again  and  again, 
We  will  be  rulers  and  kings  among  men. 


DONALD  BAXTER  McMILLAN 

In  the  fall  of  1893  the  most  popular  fellow 
in  the  Freshman  Class  at  Bowdoin  was  Donald 
Baxter  McMillan,  then  a  youth  of  seventeen. 
He  had  fitted  for  college  under  Professor  Wil- 
mot  B.  Mitchell  who  that  year  resigned  the 
principalship  of  Freeport  High  School  for  the 
chair  of  Rhetoric  and  Oratory  at  Bowdoin. 
Professor  Mitchell  says  that  while  at  Freeport, 
McMillan  excelled  in  scholarship,  was  a  leader 
in  athletic  sports  and  was  noted  for  his  tenac- 
ity of  purpose,  carrying  to  a  successful  issue 
all  his  undertakings.  At  Bowdoin  young 
McMillan  showed  the  same  characteristics. 
The  records  of  the  Bowdoin  College  faculty 
show  that  he  maintained  a  high  standard  of 
scholarship  during  his  college  course.  He  was 
a  splendid  gymnast  and  took  a  prominent  part 
in  the  college  athletic  exhibitions.  He  excelled 
in  giant  swings  and  somersaults,  then  a  feature 
of  gymnasium  work  at  Bowdoin. 

In  athletic  sports  he  was  no  less  prominent. 
Freshman  year  he  was  a  member  of  the  'var- 
sity track  team  and  won  the  100  yards  dash  in 
the  Maine  Intercollegiate  Meet  with  a  record 
of  io-|-  seconds.  He  was  captain  of  his  class 
nine,  playing  third  base  and  captain  of  his  class 
eleven,  playing  fullback. 

Sophomore  year  McMillan  was  a  member 
of  the  'varsity  track  team  and  played  quarter- 
back on  his  class  eleven.  He  was  a  director  of 
the  baseball  association  and  one  of  the  Sopho- 
more  declaimers. 

It  was  in  the  fall  of  his  Sophomore  year 
that  McMillan  climbed  to  the  top  of  the  north 
spire  of  King  Chapel.  At  three  o'clock  in  the 
morning,  November  2,  1894,  Charles  D.  Moul- 
ton,  '98,  the  famous  Bowdoin  quarterback,  had 
cHmbed  to  the  top  of  the  spire  and  left  there  a 
flag  bearing  his  class  numerals  as  a  challenge 
to  the  Sophomores.  Late  on  the  night  of  the 
same  day  McMillan  climbed  hand  over  hand 
the  insecure  lightning  rod  attached  to  the  spire, 
tore  down  the  '98  flag,  put  a  flag  bearing  the 
red  numerals  of  '97  in  its  place  and  set  a  plug 
hat  on  the  top  of  the  spire.  The  exploit 
attracted  much  attention  and  the  Bowdoin 
faculty,  realizing  the  great  risk  involved,  for- 
bade future  climbing  of  the  spire. 

During  Junior  year  McMillan's  greatest 
athletic  honors  came  in  football.  He  played 
halfback  on  the  famous  Bowdoin  eleven  of  '95 
which  did  not  lose  a  game  to  a  college  team. 

In  the  fall  of  '96  McMillan  left  college  for 
a  time  to  teach  school.    He  contracted  typhoid 


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91 


fever  from  which  he  did  not  fully  recover  for 
a  long  time.  As  a  result  he  was  obliged  to 
drop  out  of  the  class  of  '97,  but  returned  the 
next  year  and  graduated  with  the  Class  of  '98. 
During  his  last  year  he  was  somewhat  handi- 
capped by  the  ejfifects  of  his  illness,  yet  he 
played  football  and  was  a  great  help  to  the 
team. 

Every  one  who  knew  McMillan  as  a  Bow- 
doin  student  was  impressed  by  his  tenacity  of 
purpose  and  absolute  sincerity  of  character. 
These  are  the  same  qualities  that  made  him 
trusted  lieutenant  of  Commander  Peary  for 
wresting  the  secrets  from  the  frozen  North. 


BOWDOIN  18,  FORT  McKINLEY  0 

First  Game  of  Season  Gives  Promise  of  a  Successful 
Season 

In  a  fast  and  entirely  satisfactry  game 
from  a  Bowdoin  standpoint, ,  the  famed  sold- 
iers from  Ft.  McKinley  were  forced  to  trail 
their  colors  ignominiously  in  the  dust  of  Whit- 
tier  Field  last  Saturday  afternoon,  and  that, 
too,  with  little  effort  on  the  part  of  the  vic- 
tors. The  score  was  18-0,  and  by  just  about 
that  much  was  McKinley  outclassed.  The 
visitors  made  first  down  but  twice,  and  never 
was  Bowdoin's  goal  line  in  danger.  Frank 
Smith  was  the  star  of  the  contest,  he  scoring 
every  point  made  by  the  white.  Within  the 
first  ten  minutes  he  booted  the  ball  twice  across 
the  bar  from  placement,  failing  only  on  a  third 
try,  and  a  few  minutes  later  carried  the  ball 
across  the  line  for  the  first  touchdown  of  the 
game,  kicking  the  goal  a  moment  later.  He 
scored  another  touchdown  and  kicked  the  goal 
again  in  the  second  half.  Several  of  the  new 
men  showed  up  well,  prominent  among  them 
being  Farnham,  E.  B.  Smith,  and  Hurley. 
Sullivan  at  quarter  ran  the  team  well,  and  car- 
ried the  ball  frequently  for  long  gains.  The 
forward  pass  was  tried  twice,  and  twice  it  suc- 
ceeded, the  passes  in  both  cases  being  perfect. 
The  Bowdoin  line  held  well,  with  perhaps  the 
exception  of  the  first  few  minutes  in  the  first 
half,  when  it  showed  symptoms  of  weakness 
near  centre.  Penalties  were  few,  and  there 
were  few  injuries  on  both  sides. 
The  summary: 
Bowdoin.  Ft.   McKinley. 

E.  Smith,  Mathews,  l.e r.e.,  Brooks,  True 

Newman,   l.t r..t,  Farch 

Jackson,  Pratt,  l.g r.g.,  Clare,  McSweeney 

King,  c c.  Cowan 

Hastings,  r.g l.g.,   Smiglin,   Judson,   Rash 


Crosby,  r.t l.t.,   McSweeney,  Clare 

Hurley,    r.e I.e.,   Flood 

Sullivan,  q.b q.b.,  Toutant,   Brennan 

F.   Smith,  Wood,   l.h.b; r.h.b.,  Tyler 

Farnham,  Knight,  r.h.b l.h.b..  True,  Slater 

Ballard,  Kern,,  f.b f.b.,  Floyd 

Score:  Bowdoin,  18;  Fort  McKinley,  0.  Touch- 
downs— F.  Smith,  2.  Goals  from  field — F.  Smith, 
2.  Goals  from  touchdowns — F.  Smith,  2.  Ref- 
eree, Clifford,  of  Bowdoin.  Umpire — Gage,  of  Mc- 
Kinley. Head  linesman — Wing,  of  Bowdoin.  Field 
judge — Ralph  Smith.  Timers — Haley  and  Humph- 
rey.    Time — 15-minute  halves. 


NEW  MEMBERS  OF  THE  FACULTY 

Paul  Nixon,  Instructor  in  Latin,  was  born 
in  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  in  1881.  He  graduated 
at  Thayer  Academy,  Braintree,  Mass.,  and  at 
Wesleyan  in  1904.  In  the  years  1905-1907 
he  was  Rhodes  Scholar  at  Oxford  from  Con- 
necticut. Instructor  in  classics  at  Princeton 
one  year  and  in  Latin  at  Dartmouth  one  year. 

Jonathan  French  Scott,  Instructor  in  His- 
tory, was  born  in  Newark,  N.  J.  He  fitted  at 
Rutgers  Preparatory  School  and  graduated 
from  Rutgers  College  in  1902.  He  taught 
four  years  in  preparatory  schools,  the  last  of 
them  being  St.  Paul's  School.  In  1906  he  was 
elected  Assistant  in  Education  and  History  at 
the  University  of  Wisconsin  and  while  there 
took  three  years  post-graduate  work  in  history. 

Henry  Pratt  Fairchild,  Fayerweather 
Professor  of  Economics  and  Sociology,  was 
born  in  Dundee,  III,  but  has  lived  most  of  his 
life  in  Nebraska.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Crete 
Academy  and  of  Doane  College  in  1900.  He 
taught  three  years  at  the  International  Col- 
lege in  Smyrna,  Turkey,  after  which  he 
returned  to  Doane  where  he  was  for  three 
years  state  secretary.  He  has  spent  three  years 
in  post-graduate  work  at  Yale  and  received 
the  Ph.D.  degree  there. 

Charles  Wilbert  Snow,  Assistant  in  Eng- 
ish  and  Argumentation,  is  a  native  of  Spruce 
Head.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Thomaston  High 
School  and  of  Bowdoin  in  1907.  While  at 
Bowdoin  he  was  prominent  in  literary  work 
and  debating.  Since  graduating  he  has  been 
Instructor  of  Argumentation  at  New  York 
University. 

James  Lukens  McConaghy,  Instructor  in 
English  and  Secretary  of  the  Christian  Asso- 
ciation was  born  in  N^w  York  City  in  1887 
and  is  the  youngest  member  of  the  Bowdoin 
faculty.  He  fitted  at  Mt.  Hermon  School  and 
graduated  from  Yale  last  June.     During  his 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.   E.   ATWOOD,   igio  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  igii,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 

p.  B.  MORSS.  1910  J.  C.  WHITE.  1911 

THOMAS  OTIS.  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON,  1911 

■W.  E.  ROBINSON.  1910      W.  A.  McCORMICK,   1912 
W.  A.  FULLER.  1912 


R.  D.  MORSS,   igio 
J.  L.  CURTIS,  igii 


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„      .  .     P        .       Nelson's    famous    message 

n         M      T?   i^^     to  his  fleet  before  the  bat- 
Every  Man  To  Do     .,       r  'r     r  i  hit     i     j 

His  Dutv  Trafalgar,     England 

'  expects  every    man    to    do 

his  duty,"  has  come  ringing  down  through  the 
years  until  it  reaches  us  to-day  as  fresh  and 
inspiring  as  when  it  was  hoisted  to  the  mast- 
head on  the  memorable  October  day  in  1805. 
So  Bowdoin  expects  every  member  of  the 
entering  class  to  do  his  duty ;  to  contribute  his 
mite  towards  the  common  end  of  Bowdoin 
men — a  bigger  and  a  better  Bowdoin. 

Assuming  that  every  member  of  the 
Freshman  Class  knows  nothing  about  what  is 
expected  of  a  Bowdoin  man,  we  are  about  to 
venture  some  suggestions.  In  the  first  place, 
and  above  all  else  remember  that  Bowdoin 
is  consecrated  to  the  principle  of  "Fair  play 
and  may  the  best  man  win."  Muckerism,  is 
manifested  in  the  form  of  "yagging"  is  not 
tolerated.  Prep,  school  letters  are  not  to  be 
worn,  for  the  college  Freshman  must  remem- 
ber that  he  is  virtually  a  new  man.  The  Bow- 
doin "Hello"  is  a  tradition  of  long  and  honor- 
able standing  to  be  used  without  the  formality 
of  introduction.     The  position  he  occupies  in 


the  life  of  the  college  will  depend  upon  what 
he  does  here,  not  on  what  he  did  before  he 
came  here.  Every  Freshman  should  bear  in 
mind  the  fact  that  a  man  who  receives  a  minor 
warning  in  the  middle  of  the  semester  or  has 
conditions  of  more  than  one  year's  standing, 
cannot  represent  the  college  in  athletics,  in  the 
musical  clubs,  or  debating  teams,  so  that  every 
man's  duty  is  to  keep  himself  out  of  trouble 
with  the  faculty,  by  constantly  keeping  in  mind 
that  he  is  here  to  study.  By  so  doing  he  will 
be  available  when  the  opportunity  comes  for 
him  to  serve  the  college. 

In  closing,  we  quote  John  C.  Minot,  '96, 
who  gave  the  following  Five  Commandments 
for  a  Bowdoin  Undergraduate  at  the  spring 
rally  last  year: 

1.  Thou  shalt  not  allow  thy  studies  to  in- 
terfere too  much  with  thy  regular  college 
course. 

2.  Thou  shalt  not  be  a  knocker  or  college 
anarchist. 

3  Thou  shalt  not  forget  that  thou  hast  an 
individual  responsibility. 

4.  Thou  shalt  give  the  faculty  a  show. 

5.  Thou  shalt  love  thy  Bowdoin  as  thy- 
self and  more  than  thyself. 


In  these  days  a  "bumper" 
Honorable  Freshman  crop  is  quite  the 

Shrinkage  ^ule.     A  college  failing  to 

to  report  one  is  regarded  with  pity  or  sus- 
picion. Rapid  growth  is  desirable,  if  effi- 
ciency be  not  sacrificed  to  it,  but  it  is  by  no 
means  a  sure  sign  of  scholastic  prosperity. 

In  the  numerous  announcements  of  regis- 
tration for  collegiate  openings  we  note  only 
one  which  shows  a  falling  off.  Bowdoin's 
Freshman  Class  is  smaller  than  last  year's, 
owing  to  an  increase  in  the  entrance  require- 
ments. This  action  is  consistent  with  a  cen- 
tury's adherence  to  high  standards.  Bow- 
doin's roll  of  graduates  contains  more  illus- 
trious names  than  may  be  found  among  the 
alumni  of  any  American  college  of  its  size.  It 
has  no  reason  to  be  ashamed  of  honorable 
shrinkage. — New  York  Herald. 

NEW  MEMBERS  OF  THE  FACULTY 

[Continued  from  page  gi.] 

course  at  Yale  Mr.  McConaghy  specialized  in 
English  Literature  and  Rhetoric  and  took  an 
active  part  in  debating,  being  a  member  of  the 
Yale  team  in  the  debate  with  Princeton.  He 
was  also  deeply  interested  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work 


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and  was  prominent  at  the  Northfield  and  Sil- 
ver Ba}'  Conferences. 

Roscoe  James  Ham  returns  to  Bowdoin 
after  an  absence  of  two  years  spent  in  teach- 
ing at  Wesleyan  to  take  his  place  in  the  Ger- 
man Department  of  the  college. 


UNDERGRADUATE  COUNCIL  MEETINGS 

October  Nineteenth  Set  as  Date  for  Fraternity 

Initiations 

The  Undergraduate  Council  held  its  first 
meeting  in  the  Verein  Room  at  the  Library 
Tuesday  evening,  and  decided  upon  October 
19th  as  the  date  for  holding  fraternity  initia- 
tions. This  date  falls  between  the  Exeter  and 
Holy  Cross  games  and  is  on  a  Tuesday  instead 
of  on  Wednesday  as  in  previous  years.  The 
Council  felt  that  Tuesday  was  the  better  even- 
ing of  the  two  on  account  of  the  football  game 
on  the  following  Saturday. 

The  manager  of  the  band  was  given  per- 
mission to  circulate  a  fifty  cent  subscription, 
beginning  not  earlier  than  Oct.  10.  H.  J.  Col- 
bath  is  Chairman  of  the  Council  and  Thomas 
Otis,  Secretary.  Other  members  are:  J.  L. 
Crosby,  Sumner  Edwards,  W.  P.  Newman,  A. 
W.  Wandtke,  W.  E.  Atwood,  R.  D.  Morss, 
Robert  Hale,  and  S.  S.  Webster. 

The  next  meeting  will  be  held  at  8  p.m. 
Oct.  7. 


CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION  RECEPTION 

The  annual  reception  given  by  the  Christ- 
ian Association  to  the  Freshman  Class  was 
held  in  Hubbard  Hall,  Thursday  evening, 
September  26th.  The  chief  speaker  of  the 
evening  was  A.  S.  Hiwale,  '09,  Bwdoin's  mis- 
sionary to  India.  In  a  few  words  he  expressed 
his  gratitude  to  the  President,  members  of  the 
faculty,  and  students  for  all  they  had  done  for 
him  during  his  stay  at  Bowdoin.  Speeches 
v/t.re  made  by  W.  B.  Stephens,  '10,  President 
of  the  Association ;  Prof.  Henry  Chapman, 
Prof.  Franklin  Robinson,  "Ross"  McClave, 
and  Mr.  James  McConaughy,  General  Secre- 
tary of  the  Association  for  the  coming  year 
outlined  the  work  and  made  an  appeal  for  the 
men  to  enter  heartily  into  the  work  which  the 
Association  is  planning  to  do  this  year. 

The  class  and  friends  then  adjourned  to 
Alumni  Hall  where  refreshments  were  served. 
The  reception  committee  consisted  of  P.  B. 
Morss,  '10;  H.  L.  Burnham,  '11  ;  E.  G.  Fifield, 
'11;  K.  Churchill,  '12,  and  W.  A.  McCor- 
mick,   '12. 


CROSS   COUNTRY  RACE  WITH  TUFTS 

Bert  Morrill  to  Coach  Track  Team  Again — New 

Course  Laid  Out  for  Cross  Country 

Down  in  Boston  there  is  a  slogan  "Boston 
1915"  and  up  here  in  Brunswick  the  slogan  is 
going  to  be  Bowdoin  1910,  meaning  that  Bow- 
doin has  an  eye  on  the  New  England  Meet  in 
1910.  Two  years  ago  we  got  a  second  place 
in  the  New  England  Intercollegiate,  last  year, 
through  a  run  of  unexpected  hard  luck  and 
bad  weather,  Bowdoin  pulled  out  only  a 
fourth,  but  next  year  there  is  going  to  be 
something  doing  out  on  the  Tech  oval  when 
the  team  from  the  Pine  Tree  state  strikes 
there.  The  Orient  had  a  talk  with  Bert  Mor- 
rill the  first  of  the  week  in  which  he  outlined 
the  plans  for  fall  track  work.  But  first  of  all 
everybody  on  the  campus  is  glad  that  Bert  is 
going  to  be  with  us  again  this  year,  because 
the  college  believes  that  he,  if  anybody,  can 
turn  out  a  winning  team. 

No  definite  action  with  regard  to  fall  track 
work  has  been  taken  yet,  but  the  plan  now  is 
to  have  a  cross  country  run  with  Tufts  on  the 
day  of  the  Tufts  football  game,  or  the  Friday 
before.  The  cross  country  this  year  will  be 
at  Brunswick,  and  the  course  will  be  a  new 
one.  In  former  years  the  race  has  started  and 
finished  at  the  corner  of  Maine  and  McKeen 
streets  in  front  of  the  Theta  Delta  Chi  House, 
but  this  year  it  will  start  on  the  athletic  field 
and  finish  with  a  lap  on  the  track. 

Bert  wishes  through  the  columns  of  the 
Orient,  to  urge  the  Freshmen  in  particular  to 
come  out.  Most  college  Freshmen  are  young 
and  capable  of  great  development  along  cer- 
tain lines,  and  the  time  to  get  out  and  learn 
something  about  track  work  is  this  fall.  There 
will  be  an  interclass  meet  before  the  cross 
country  comes  off,  in  which  it  is  the  wish  of 
the  coach  and  Captain  Colbath  that  every  mem- 
ber of  the  Freshman  Class  participate.  A  man 
may  know  that  he  can't  play  baseball  or  foot- 
ball, but  he  never  knows  what  he  can  do  in 
track  work  until  he  tries.  The  greater  num- 
ber of  men  we  have  entered  in  the  minor 
events  of  the  fall,  the  greater  our  chances  of 
getting  away  with  the  New  England  Intercol- 
legiate in  1910. 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


ColleGC  Botes 

D.  T.  Parker,  '08,  was  on  the  campus,  Saturday. 
(   Pierson,   '11,   has   gone  to   Brown  this   year. 

Irving  L.  Rich,  '09,  was  in  town,  Sunday.  He  is 
in  business  with  his  father  in  Portland. 

Charles  H.  Byles,  '11,  preached  last  Sunday  at 
the  Fourth  Street  Free  Baptist  Church,  Bath. 

Waitt,  '11  is  ill  with  typhoid  fever  and  will  not 
return  to   college  this  year. 

W.  C.  Allen,  '11,  has  returned  to  Boxvdoin  after 
a  year  at  the  University  of  Minnesota. 

Mr.  F.  H.  Knight,  Dartmouth,  '82,  visited  friends 
on   the   campus,    Saturday. 

Jack  Gregson,  Jr.,  captain  of  the  1900  football 
team,  is  in  town  for  the  week. 

Heath,  '09,  will  enter  the  Harvard  Law  School, 
this  fall. 

E.  J.  B.  Palmer,  '11,  has  entered  Harvard  this  fall 
where  he  will  study  Chemistry. 

Purington,  '11,  and  Purington,  '12,  entertained 
their  father,   F.   O.   Purington,  '80,   on   Sunday. 

Charles  Oxnard,  '11,  has  been  confined  to  his 
room  with  grip  this  last  week. 

George  C.  Purington,  '04,  was  on  the  campus  last 
week. 

Professor  Brown  has  moved  on  to  Federal  Street 
and  Professor  Ham  is  in  the  brick  house. 

President  Hyde  attended  the  Peary  banquet  in 
Portland  last  week. 

Thirty  or  more  students  saw  "The  Roundup"  at 
the  Jefferson,  in  Portland,  Saturday  night. 

Professor  Files  has  omitted  German  9  this  year 
on  account  of  the  few  number  that  registered  in.it. 

Professor  Files  has  returned  from  his  trip 
abroad  and  will  meet  his. classes,  Thursday. 

E.  W.  Johnson,  '09,  was  in  town  Sunday.  He  is 
working  in  the  State  Laboratory  of  Hygiene  at 
Augusta. 

C.  E.  Carter,  '09,  was  in  town,  Saturday,  for  the 
football  game.  He  will  soon  leave  to  accept  a  bank- 
ing position   in   Oklahoma. 

Newell,  '12.  leader  of  the  college  band,  played 
with  the  Richmond  band,  Tuesday,  at  the  Farmers 
and  Mechanics'  Club  Fair. 

Don  White,  '06,  played  ball  on  the  Ariel  Club 
of  Lewiston,  winners  of  the  series  with  the  Waseca 
Club  of  Auburn. 

Henry  G.  Clement,  '00,  has  resigned  the  Princi- 
palship  of  Bridgton  Academy  to  accept  a  position  as 
principal  of  the  High   School   at  Redlands,  Cal. 

A  large  party  of  students  took  a  trip  to  Gurnet 
Saturday  night,  going  by  way  of  boat  from  New 
Meadows. 

Nickerson,  '12,  will  not  return  to  college  this  year 
because  of  sickness.  He  will  spend  the  winter  in 
Florida. 

Captain  Colbath  wants  all  men  interested  in  track 
to  come  out  this  faU  whether  or  not  he  has  ever  had 
on  a  track  suit.  Cross  country  practice  started  on 
Monday  and  the  other  track  men  will  start  work 
soon. 


Rev.  John  Hastings  Quint,  '97,  who  has  been 
called  to  fill  the  place  made  vacant  by  Mr.  Jump's 
resignation,  will  assume  his  duties  in  the  Church  on 
the  Hill,   November  fifth. 

Arthur  Ham,  '08,  who  was  recently  operated  on 
for  appendicitis,  is  convalescent,  and  will  soon  enter 
upon  his  duties  on  the  commission  for  the  distribu- 
tion of  the  Russell   Sage  Fund. 

Captain  Grant  of  the  1912  baseball  team,  has 
issued  a  call  for  candidates  for  the  team  to  represent 
the  class  this  fall  in  the  annual  Freshman- Sopho- 
more series. 

The  play  the  dramatic  club  will  give  this  year, 
has  not  yet  been  decided  upon,  but  it  will  be 
announced  this  week  when  the  call  for  candidates  is 
posted. 

Maurice  Hill,  '11,  will  not  return  to  college  this 
year.  He  has  been  attending  the  Lewis  School  for 
Stammerers  at  Detroit,  Mich.,  and  will  stay  out  of 
college  a  year  to  finish  the  work  of  the  school. 

The  college  band  held  the  first  rehearsal  of  the 
year  Thursday  afternoon.  With  the  addition  of 
material  in  the  Freshman  Class  the  band  promises 
to  equal  that  of  last  year. 

George  Bower,  '07,  and  Claude  Bower,  '09,  ex- 
'varsity  baseball  men  are  learning  the  woolen  man- 
ufacturing business  with  their  father  at  the  Colum- 
bia Mills,   Lewiston. 

P.  C.  Voter,  '09,  winner  of  the  Charles  Carroll 
Everett  scholarship,  and  H.  M.  Smith,  '09,  were  on 
the  campus  the  first  of  the  week.  Both  will  go  to 
Harvard  where  Voter  will  take  a  Ph.D.  in  chemistry 
and  Smith  will  enter  the  law  school. 

A  week  ago  Bates  played  Fort  Mclvinley  with 
the  score  o  to  o.  Maine  played  the  Amherst  Aggies, 
o  to  0,  Saturday,  and  Colby  beat  Kent's  Hill. 
12  to  o. 

George  C.  Webber,  '98,  and  Harrie  L.  Webber, 
'03,  have  opened  a  suite  of  offices  in  the  new  National 
Shoe  &  Leather  Bank  Building,  Auburn.  They  now 
have  the  second  best  suite  of  offices  in  Auburn  and 
Lewiston. 

Thru  the  addition  of  Mr.  Scott  to  the  History 
Department,  Prof.  Johnson  and  Mr.  Scott  are  able 
to  find  time  to  give  weekly  half-hour  conferences 
upon  the  week's  readings.  This  system  is  in  vogue 
at  Princeton  where  it  is  known  as  the  preceptor 
system. 

A  good-sized  Bowdoin  delegation  attended  the 
Harvard  summer  school  this  year.  Prof.  Foster 
gave  a  popular  course  in  the  Principles  of  Educa- 
tion, and  among  the  Bowdoin  men  present  were 
Sparks,  ex-'og,  Murray  Donnell,  '08,  John  Leydon, 
'07,  T.  D.  Ginn,  '09,  E.  J.  Palmer,  '11,  and  W.  E. 
Atwood,.  '10. 

On  Monday  evening  Dr.  Burnett  met  those  men 
interested  in  the  study  of  Philosophy  in  the  Psycho- 
logical laboratory  for  the  purpose  of  forming  a 
Philosophy  Club.  Those  present  at  the  first  meeting 
were  Townsend,  '10,  Guptill,  '10,  Crossland,  '10,  P. 
B.  Morss,  '10,  Babbitt,  '10,  Pierce,  '11,  Kellogg,  '11, 
Meserve,  '11,  E.  H.  Webster,  '10,  Atwood,  '10, 
Wandtke,  '10,  Grace,  '10,  Weston,  '10,  and  M.  G.  L. 
Bailey,  '11.  The  next  meeting  will  be  held  in  the 
same  place  at  seven  o'clock  on  Oct.  II.  Anyone 
interested  is  invited. 


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95 


Keating,  '12,  is  carrying  the  library  mail  this  year. 

Frank  Smith,  '12,  broke  his  little  finger  in  the 
Fort  McKinley  game. 

Grant,  '12,  was  elected  captain,  and  Newell,  '12, 
manager  of  the  1912  baseball  team,  Saturday. 

The  Freshmen  and  Sophomore  baseball  teams 
commenced  practice  on  the  Delta,  Monday. 

The  football  training  table  is  at  Pennell's,  as 
usual. 

All  those  out  for  track,  football,  and  baseball  this 
year    are   being   given   physical    examinations. 

Wyman,  '12,  was  down  at  Brown  University  a 
few  days   this  week,  visiting  his  brother. 

Ninety-seven  1912  men  return  to  college  this 
year. 

Mr.  Hiwale,  '09,  spoke  at  the  Christian  Associa- 
tion   reception,    Thursday   evening. 

The  first  Freshman-Sophomore  baseball  game 
comes  off  next  Saturday. 

Chapel  monitors  commenced  taking  attendance 
Tuesday  morning. 

The  college  dormitories  are  now  equipped  with 
wash  bowls  upon  every  floor  and  shower  baths  upon 
the  second  floor  of  each  end. 

P.  G.  Bishop,  '09,  has  left  the  employ  of  the 
International  Banking  Co.,  and  is  now  working  for 
the  New  York  Telephone  Co.,  in  New  York  City. 

The  Class  in  Economics  I.  this  year  is  especially 
large.  The  History  room  in  Adams  Hall  is  filled  to 
overflowing  and  extra  seats  will  be  needed  to 
accommodate  all. 

Jasper  J.  Stahl,  '09,  is  at  present  in  Gottingen, 
Germany,  where  he  writes  his  friends  the  purest 
German  is  spoken.  He  is  doing  some  hard  but 
thoroly  interesting  work.  He  leaves  for  the 
University  of  Leipzig  the  first  of  October. 

The  passing  of  Peary  through  Brunswick  called 
out  the  college  spirit.  Many  of  the  classes  that  were 
in  session  were  dismissed  and  almost  the  entire 
college  was  at  the  station  to  give  Peary  some  rous- 
ing  cheers. 

The  Sophomore  baseball  team  candidates  held 
their  first  practice  Monday  afternoon  on  the  Delta. 
About  15  men  presented  themselves  and  light  prac- 
tice was  indulged  in.  The  material  as  a  whole  seems 
of  good  quality. 

The  Freshmen  held  their  first  class  meeting 
Tuesday  in  Memorial  Hall.  The  class  did  not  elect 
class  officers  at  this  meeting,  however,  the  only  busi- 
ness transacted  after  organization  being  the  election 
of  captain  and  manager  of  the  class  baseball  team. 
These  were  Greenwood  from  Medford,  Mass.,  cap- 
tain, and  Norton  from  Phillips,  manager. 

Professor  Foster  has  been  granted  a  sabbatical 
year  for  1909-1910.  He  will  spend  the  year  at 
Columbia  University  under  an  appointment  as  Fel- 
low in  Education  at  Teachers'  College  and  Exten- 
sion Lecturer  for  Columbia  University  in  Educa- 
tional Psychology.  He  will  give  a  course  of  thirty 
lectures  at  the  Brooklyn  Institute  of  Arts  and 
Sciences.  His  courses  in  English  at  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege will  be  given  by  Mr.  Snow  and  Mr.  McConaghy. 
His  courses  in  Education  will  be  omitted  in  1909-10 
and  offered  in  1910-11.  His  address  is  Livingston 
Hall,  Columbia  University,  N.  Y. 


The  following  men  will  be  taken  on  the  Harvard 
trip:  Capt.  Newman,  E.  B.  Smith,  Simpson,  King. 
Hastings,  Crosby,  Hurley,  Sullivan,  Farnham,  Wil- 
son, F.  A.  Smith,  Matthews,  Pratt,  Jackson  or  Boyn- 
ton.  Knight,  Kern,  Ballard,  Coach  McClave,  Man- 
ager Otis,  Trainer  Nickerson,  and  Assistant  Coach 
Gregson. 

Alfred  Wandtke,  '10,  Humphrey  Purington,  '11, 
and  Donald  Weston,  '12,  played  summer  baseball 
on  the  Mechanic  Falls  team.  Ex-Captain  Stanwood, 
'08,  and  Coach  Rawson  played  on  the  same  team. 
Mechanic  Falls  defeated  all  opponents  and  won  the 
championship  of  Oxford,  Cumberland  and  Andro- 
scoggin counties.  Ellison  Purington,  '12,  was  the 
official  scorer  for  Mechanic  Falls. 

At  Syracuse  this  fall,  there  has  been  installed,  in 
the  new  Gymnasium,  a  rowing  tank,  which  is  the 
only  successful  one  of  its  kind  in  the  country, 
although  a  similar  one  was  tried  at  Harvard  but 
without  success.  In  the  tank  is  a  stationary  shell 
with  seats  for  an  eight-oared  crew.  The  oars  have 
holes  bored  in  the  blades  so  as  to  lessen  the  strain. 
The  water  is  forced  down  one  side  of  the  tank  by  a 
motor  which  sucks  it  back  on  the  other  side,  making 
a  continuous  current  around  the  shell..  Thus  the 
men,  by  facing  one  another,  equalize  the  strain  which 
is  also  lessened  by  the  perforated  oars  being  pulled 
with  the  current.  Another  motor  ventilates  the 
room  by  constantly  changing  the  air.  By  using  this 
tank  in  the  winter  the  crew  has  the  advantage  of 
several  months  over  the  other  college  crews. 

BOWDOIN  FOOTBALL  SCHEDULE 

Oct.  2 — Harvard  at  Cambridge. 
Oct.  9 — Dartmouth  at  Hanover, 
Oct,   16 — Exeter  at  Brunswick, 
Oct,  23 — Holy  Cross  at  Worcester, 
Oct,  30— Colby  at  Waterville, 
Nov,  6 — Bates  at  LewistOn, 
Nov.   13 — Maine  at  Brunswick. 
Nov.  20— Tufts  at  Portland. 


MEETING  OF  ATHLETIC  COUNCIL 

A  meeting  of  the  Bowdoin  Athletic  Council  was 
held  in  Dr.  Whittier's  office  after  the  Fort  McKinley 
game  Saturday,  at  which  matters  of  importance  con- 
nected with  the  administration  of  business  of  the 
Council  for  the  coming  year,  were  talked  over  and 
officers  of  the  Council  were  elected,  C,  T.  Hawes 
was  re-elected  chairman,  Prof,  C.  C,  Hutchins, 
Treasurer;  McFarland,  '11,  Secretary;  Newman, 
'10,  and  Hon,  Barrett  Potter,  Auditing  Committee, 
and  Prof,  C.  C.  'Hutchins  and  Colbath,  '10,  schedule 
committee. 

Acting  under  the  new  board  of  officers  it  was 
voted  that  the  managers  of  all  athletic  teams  who 
have  not  already  done  so,  be  required  to  hand  in 
reports  or  their  receipts  and  expenditures  before 
Sept.  30th.  

June  21,  1909,  C.  C.  Hutchins,  Treasurer, 
In  account  with  Bowdoin  Athletic  Council : 
Dr. 

Balance   from    1907-8 $245  33 

Tennis    balance    11   13 

High  School,  10  per  cent,  funds 9  77 


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Return  of  track  loan  49  62 

From  Lee's  old  account  3  7S 

Fort  McKinley  game    7  85 

Colby   game    55  20 

Bates    game    23  77 

Loan  paid  by  Robinson 62  00 

Maine    game    16  87 

Colby   game    1 1  42 

Tufts   game    10  35 

Bates    game 1580 

$522  86 
Cr. 

Trophy  case,  Geo.  T.  Little $23  00 

Loan  to  Track  Manager  Robinson 62  00 

Cedar   posts,    Wm.    Mixer SO  00 

Printing.   Geo.  T.   Little 10  00 

Frtight,   John   Leonard    12  00 


$157  00 
Cash  on  hand  June  21,  Union  Nat.  Bank,        365  86 


Union   National  Bank. 

The  funds  are  distributed  as  follows : — 

Balance  in  10  per  cent,  fund $315  52 

In   General   Treasury    So  34 

I  have  examined  the  books  and  accounts  of  the 
Treasurer  of  the  Athletic  Council,  and  find  the  fore- 
going to  be  an  accurate  summary  of  receipts  and 
disbursements   for  the  year   1908-9. 

Barrett  Potter^  for  the  Auditors. 

June  21,   1909. 


NEW  BOWDOIN  MEN 

One  Senior,  Four  Juniors,  Two  Sophomores,  Eighty- 
six    Freshman,    and   Four    Specials. 

1910 
Edward  H.  Webster,  Brooklyn,  N.   Y. 

1911 
Elmer  H.  King,   Cape  Elizabeth,   Me. 
David  T.    Burgh,  Wiscasset,   Me. 
Paris   E.    Miller,   Cumberland   Centre,   Me. 
Willard  H.  Curtis,  Pittston. 

1912 
George  H.  Nichols,  North  Grafton,  Mass. 
Clarence  R.  Long,  St.  Albans,  W.  Va. 

1913 
Moses  Burpee  Alexander,  Houlton,  Me. 
Edward   Oliver  Baker,   North  Adams,    Mass. 
Robert   Willis   Belknap,   Damariscotta,   Me. 
Josiah   Steele  Brown,   Whitinsville,   Mass. 
Percv   Clarence   Buck,    Harrison,    Me. 
Charles  Roy  Bull,   Monticello,  Me. 
Edwin  Clarence  Burleigh,  Augusta,  Me. 
Manning  Hapgood  Busfield,  North  Adams,  Mass. 
John  Coleman  Carr,  Frankfort,   Me. 
John   S.   Childs,   Lewiston,   Me. 
Sanford  Burton  Comery,  Thomaston.  Me. 
Reginald   Adell   Conant,   Portland,   Me. 
Warren   C.   Coombs,   Camden,   Me. 
Frank    Irving   Cowan,    Pittsfield,    Me. 
Yurnyer   Adrian   Craig,   Frankfort,   Me. 
James  A.  Creighton,  Thomaston,  Me. 
Lawrence    A.    Crosby,    Bangor,    Me. 
Cedric  Russell   Crowell,  Richmond   Hill,  N.  Y. 
George   Otis   Cummings,    Portland,   Me. 
Albert  Percival  Cushman,  Bangor,  Me. 
Leon  Dodge,  Newcastle,  Me. 


Stanley    F.    Dole,    Portland,    Me. 

Paul   Howard   Douglas,   Newport,   Me. 

George  Campbell   Dufifey,   Jr.,   Medford,   Mass. 

John  Edward  Dumphy,  Portland,  Me. 

Percy  O.  Dunn,  Yarmouth,  Me. 

Walter   Faber   Eberhardt,    New   York   City. 

Frederick  Trevenen   Edwards,   Milwaukee,   Mass. 

Charles  Richard  Farnham,  Bath,  Me. 

Paul  Hamilton  Emery  Kennebunk,   Me. 

Edwin   Johnson   Fuller,   Groveland,   Mass. 

Daniel  Earl  Gardner,   Calais,  Me. 

Harold  Davis  Gilbert,  Farmington,  Me. 

Merton  W.  Greene,  Madison,  Me. 

Winthrop  Stephenson  Greene,  Worcester,  Mass. 

Carlton  Greenwood,  Medford,   Mass. 

Mark    Langdon    Hogan,    Bath,    Me. 

Raymond  Kingsley  Hagar,  Island  Falls,  Me. 

Harry  Howes  Hall,  Sturbridge,  Mass. 

Henry  Levenseller  Hall,  Camden,  Me. 

Charles   Blanchard  Haskell,  Jr.,   Pittsfield,  Me. 

Philip   Thoburn   Hazleton,    Portland,    Me. 

Stanley   J.    Hinch,   Danforth,    Me. 

Benjamin  Dyer  Holt,  Portland,  Me. 

Herbert  Martin  Howes,  Ridlonville,  Me. 

Leon  Everett  JoneSj  Winthrop,  Mass. 

Ira  Benjamin  Knight,  Derry,  N.  H. 

Verd    Russell    Leavitt,    Wilton,    Me. 

John  Lewis,  Skowhegan,  Me. 

Wilmot    Clyde    Lippincott,    Augusta,    Me. 

Paul   C.   Lunt,   Portland,   Me. 

William   Benedict   McMahon,   Brunswick,   Me. 

Douglas  Howard  McMurtie,  Woodfords,   Me. 

Eugene   Wallace   McNeally,   Portland.   Me. 

Aaron   Marden.   Farmington,   Me. 

Harold  William  Miller,  Lynn,  Mass. 

John   Arnett   Mitchell,    Gallipolis,   Ohio. 

Bryant  E.  Moulton,  Portland,   Me. 

William  Joseph  Nixon,  East  Rochester.   N.  H. 

James    Augustus    Norton,    Phillips.    Me. 

Clifton    Orville    Page,    Bath,    Me. 

Ray  Eaton  Palmer,  Bath.  Me. 

Albert   Elisha   Parkhurst.   Presque   Island.   Me. 

Harry  Leavitt  Perham,  South  Ackworth,  N.  H. 

James   Everett   Philoon,   Auburn,   Me. 

Sumner  Tucker   Pike,   Lubec,   Me. 

Leo  Walter  Pratt,  Wilton,  Me. 

Walter  Henry  Rogers,  Topsham,  Me. 

Henry  Rowe,   Oldtown,   Me. 

Daniel   Saunders,  Lawrence,  Mass. 

Paul   C.   Savage,   Bangor,   Me. 

Donald  S.   Sewall,  Bath,  Me. 

Lester  Borden   Shackford,  South  Poland,  Me. 

George  Lincoln  Skofield,  Jr.,  Brunswick,  Me. 

Lawrence   W.    Smith,    Portland,    Me. 

Alvah    Booker    Stetson,    Brunswick,    Me. 

Albert  Dyer  Tilton,   South  Portland,  Me. 

John  Howe  Trott.  Yarmouth,  Me. 

Curtis  Tucker  Tuttle,  Colusa,  Cal. 

Earle    Blanchard   Tuttle,    Freeport,    Me. 

W.  Fletcher  Twombley,  Reading,  Mass. 

Harry  Burton  Walker,  Biddeford,  Me. 

Luther  Gordon  Whittier,  Farmington,  Me. 

Frederick  S.  Wiggin.   Saco,  Me. 

Fred   Dixon   Wish,   Jr.,    Portland,   Me. 

Philip    Shaw    Wood,   Bar   Harbor,   Me. 

Specials 
Harold  D.  Archer,  Dorchester,  Mass. 
Herbert  F.   Gates,   Constantinople,  Turkey. 
William  E.  Montgomery,  Wakefield,  Mass. 
George  M.  Graham,  Topsham,   Me. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  OCTOBER  8,  1909 


NO.  12 


HARVARD  17,  BOWDOIN  0 

Crimson  Team  Much  Faster  than  Last  Year — Bowdoin 

Makes  First  Down 

Bowdoin's  hopes  of  making  at  least  as 
good  a  showing  against  Harvard  this  fall  as 
she  has  done  for  the  last  two  years  were  rudely 
shattered  by  the  crushing  defeat  administered 
by  the  crimson  at  the  Stadium  last  Saturday. 
Harvard  gained  ground  almost  at  will,  being 
able  to  break  through  Bowdoin's  line  again 
and  again,  and  often  circling  the  ends  for  long 
gains.  Bowdoin,  on  the  contrary,  could  make 
no  impression  on  her  opponent's  almost  im- 
pregnable line,  gaining  first  down  but  twice, 
once  when  Frank  Smith  cut  loose  for  27  yards 
around  Harvard's  end  and  once  on  a  forward 
pass.  Smith's  run  was  made  in  the  second 
half,  when  Harvard's  substitution  of  many 
second  string  men  made  the  teams  more  evenly 
matched.  Bowdoin,  moreover,  played  rather 
disappointing  football. 

Harvard,  after  receiving  the  kick-ofif  be- 
hind her  goal  posts,  chose  to  scrimmage  from 
the  25-yard  line,  and  from  there,  by  rapid  fire 
plunging  and  end  runs,  carried  the  ball  over 
Bowdoin's  line  in  4^-  minutes.  The  second 
touchdown  was  made  by  Corbett  after  F. 
Smith  had  fumbled  on  Bowdoin's  15-yard 
line.  Harvard  scored  a  third  time  in  the  sec- 
ond half  in  the  first  few  minutes  of  play,  but 
thereafter  the  ball  was  kept  in  the  middle  of 
the  field.  About  9,000  spectators  attended 
the  game.  The  summary : 
H.-kRVARD  Bowdoin 

Houston   (Huntington),  l.e I.e.,  E.   Smith 

McKay,    l.t l.t,    Newman 

West    (O'Hare),   l.g l.g.,    Pratt 

Withington,    c c.,    King 

Fisher    (  Stowe) ,   r.g r.g.,   Hastings 

Fish    (Forster),    r.t r.t.,    Crosby 

G.   Brown,   r.e r.e..   Hurley 

L.    Smith,    r.e. 
R.  Brown,  r.e. 

O'Flaherty    (Galatti),   q.b q.b.,   Sullivan 

Corbett    (Frothingham),   l.h.b l.h.b.,   F.    Smith 

Leslie    (Pierce),    r.h.b r.h.b.,    Farnum 

P.    Smith    (Morrison),   f.b f.b.,   Kern 

Score-— Harvard,  17 ;  Bowdoin,  0.  Touchdowns 
— P.  Smith,  2;  Corbett.  Goals  from  touchdowns — 
Withington,  2.  Umpire— Hackett  of  West  Point. 
Referee — Pendleton  of  Bowdoin.  Field  Judge — 
Farmer  of  Dartmouth.  Time — 20-  and  is-minute 
halves. 


SOPHOMORES  14,  FRESHMEN  12 

Freshmen  Throw  Away  Game  by  Changing  Men 

The  Sophomores  won  the  opening  game  in 
the  series  with  the  Freshmen  last  Saturday  by 
the  score  of  14  to  12.  The  Freshmen  played 
fast  baseball  during  the  first  of  the  game  and 
had  a  big  lead  on  the  Sophomores.  In  the 
middle  of  the  game  several  changes  were  made 
in  the  pitchers  on  the  1913  team  and  the  result 
was  disastrous.  In  the  seventh  inning  the 
Sophomores  scored  eight  runs  and  gained  the 
lead  which  they  kept.  Several  men  on  the 
Freshman  team  played  games  that  marked 
them  as  possible  varsity  material.  Alexander, 
Dole,  Childs,  and  Tilton  were  especially  good. 
The  score : 

1912 

BH         PO  A  E 

Davis,   2b o  I  2  0 

Joy,   ss,   lb I  7  I  2 

Marsh,  cf.,   ss 0  0  i  i 

Brooks,    c I  10  3  o 

O'Neil,   3b,   cf I  3  0  2 

Parcher,    l.f * i  i  0  o 

Daniels,    ib,   3b 3  5  2  i 

Purington,    r.f i  o  0  0 

McCormick,    r.f 0000 

Means,    p 3  0  7  i 

Totals    II       27       16        7 

1913 

BH         PO  A  E 

Clancy,  3b,   p i         i         i         o 

Greenwood,    r.f 0003 

Gilbert,    l.f i         i         0        0 

Savage,    l.f 0100 

Alexander,    ib 2        9        0        2 

Tilton,    cf I         I         o        0 

Childs.    ss 2         I         3        o 

Lewis,   p..   l.f 1040 

Dole,   2b I         0         I         o 

Belknap,    c i       10         i         2 

Skoltield,    p 0        0        o        o 

Hall,    p o        o        o        0 

Stetson,    p o        o        o        o 

Totals    10      24       10        7 

Innings    i    2    3    4    $    6    7    8    9 

Sophomores     0     0    o     i     2     2     8     I      — 14 

Freshmen    2     i     3     3     0    o     i     2     0—^12 

Runs  made — By  Davis  2,  Joy,  Marsh,  Brooks, 
O'Neil,  Parcher,  Daniels  3,  McCormick  2.  Means  2, 
Clancy  2,  Gilbert  3,  Alexander  3,  Childs,  Lewis, 
Belknap  2.  Two-base  hits — Daniels  2,  Childs  2, 
Alexander,  Lewis.  Stolen  Bases — Davis  3,  Marsh 
3,  Brooks  2,  O'Neil,  Means  2,  Clancy,  Childs,  Dole, 


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Belknap.  Base  on  balls — Off  Means  2,  off  Lewis  4, 
off  Skolfield.3,  off  Hall,  off  Clancy.  Struck  out— 
By  Means  6,  by  Lewis  3,  by  Skolfield,  by  Hall  2,  by 
Stetson  2.  Sacrifice  hits — Tilton,  Greenwood.  Hit 
by  pitched  balls — McCormick,  Gilbert,  Belknap. 
Wild  pitches — Lewis,  Clancy  2,  Hall.  Umpire — 
Clifford,    '11.     Time — 2h.    lom. 


A  NEW  GREEK  READER  BV  PROF.  WOODRUFF 

Prof.  Woodruff  in  collaboration  with  Prof. 
J.  W.  Hewitt  of  Wesleyan  (Bowdoin,  '97),  is 
at  work  upon  a  Greek  Reader  to  be  used  in 
place  of  the  Anabasis  in  the  second  year  work 
in  Greek.  As  many  of  the  colleges  base  the 
elementary  examination  for  admission  on 
either  the  first  or  second  book  of  the  Anaba- 
sis, these  two  books  will  be  included  in  the 
Reader,  and  an  amount  of  text  equal  to  books 
three  and  four  will  be  made  up  of  numerous 
short  selections  of  easy  passages,  each  fairly 
complete  in  itself.  By  the  use  of  such  a  book 
the  pupil  instead  of  being  limited  to  one  author 
will  make  the  acquaintance  of  several.  This 
will  give  a  much  greater  variety  to  the  work 
than  has  been  customary,  and  it  is  hoped  will 
stimulate  interest  by  bringing  the  student  into 
contact  with  a  wider  range  of  thought,  and 
giving  him  a  clearer  view  of  Greek  life  and 
customs. 

Prof.  Hewitt  will  contribute  the  work  on 
the  Anabasis.  During  the  suinmer  Prof. 
Woodruff  has  been  working  on  the  other 
selections.  He  hopes  to  complete  his  annotat- 
ing and  the  special  vocabulary  required,  in  the 
course  of  the  college  year  and  it  is  expected 
that  the  book  will  be  ready  for  the  publishers 
sometime  next  summer. 


CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION  SPEAKER 

A  feature  of  the  Christian  Association 
meetings  this  year  will  be  a  series  of  talks  on 
the  general  subject,  choosing  a  Life  Work, 
presented  by  men  who  have  been  eminently 
successful  in  their  work. 

The  first  of  these  talks  will  be  given  next 
Thursday  evening,  Oct.  14,  when  Alfred  E. 
Burton,  '78,  Dean  of  the  Massachusetts  Insti- 
tute of  Technology,  will  speak  on  "Scientific 
Work."  Dean  Burton  is  well  known  to  all 
Bowdoin  men  because  of  his  interest  in  the 
college  and  his  frequent  visits  here.  Let  us 
give  him  a  good  audience ! 


SUNDAY  CHAPEL 

President  Hyde  was  the  speaker  Sunday 
in  chapel  and  he  used  for  his  text  the  parable 
of  the  five  talents.  He  said,  in  referring  to 
the  progress  Bowdoin  has  made  in  some  of  its 
departments,  that  there  are  two  kinds  of  col- 
leges and  two  kinds  of  men.  One  kind  is  con- 
tent to  leave  well  enough  alone;  the  other 
knows  that  nothing  is  so  good  but  that  it  turns 
to  the  bad  if  left  alone. 

In  Bowdoin  two  great  defects  were 
noticed.  Two  years  ago,  modern  languages 
were  not  taught  correctly,  for  the  divisions 
were  too  large.  History  and  Government,  it 
was  realized,  cannot  be  properly  taught  by  lec- 
tures merely,  with  one  examination  at  the  end 
of  the  course.  By  that  system,  the  men  do  no 
work  through  the  year,  only  "cramming"  up 
on  the  subject  for  the  examinations.  "It 
would  have  been  possible,"  President  Hyde 
said,  "to  have  gone  on  in  that  way,  and  no 
one  would  have  known  the  difference."  But 
the  difference  between  a  moving,  progressive 
institution  and  a  stagnant  one,  is  that  the  for- 
mer takes  up  all  possible  advantages  and  elim- 
inates all  possible  defects  in  its  system,  no 
matter  what  the  cost. 

His  second  point  was  that  there  are  two 
ways  to  look  at  work.  One  is  the  conven- 
tional— "well-enough"  way,  practiced  by  the 
fellow  who  "crams"  at  the  end  and  supposes 
that  is  education.  Nine-tenths  of  the  money 
spent  on  that  man  is  wasted.  The  other  and 
the  good  way  to  look  at  work,  is  to  realize 
what  you  are  here  for;  to  do  your  work  as 
best  you  can  and  take  advantage  of  your  op- 
portunities. The  first  is  the  stagnant  stu- 
dent ;  the  second  the  wide-awake  one. 

His  last  point  was  on  individual  responsi- 
bility, a  thing  everyone  should  realize,  as 
Daniel  Webster  did  his  to  God.  The  faculty 
realize  their  responsibility  and  are  endeavor- 
ing to  keep  this  college  from  being  stagnant. 
They  hope  for  the  best  of  everytliing  for  the 
college  and  are  doing  what  they  can  along 
these  lines.  It  is  hoped  that  the  students  will 
realize  that  they  have  an  individual  responsi- 
bility, each  one,  and  that  they  will  help  by 
doing  their  part. 


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HARVARD,  DARTMOUTH  AND  WESLEYAN  TO 
INAUGURATE  PRESIDENTS 

This  fall  is  to  witness  the  inauguration  of 
new  presidents  in  three  of  the  old  New  Eng- 
land colleges, — ^Harvard,  Dartmouth  and 
Wesleyan.  The  change  of  executives  in  each 
instance  marks  the  end  of  a  long  and  honora- 
ble career  on  the  part  of  the  retiring  presi- 
dent. 

The  inauguration  of  President  A.  Law- 
rence Lowell  of  Harvard  University,  occurred 
on  Tuesday,  Wednesday  and  Thursday  of  this 
week.  Two  hundred  and  fifty  delegates  rep- 
resenting the  learned  institutions  of  the  civil- 
ized world,  were  present,  the  number  including 
185  presidents  of  colleges  and  universities. 

On  Oct.  14  Dr.  Ernest  Fox  Nichols  will  be 
inaugurated  as  president  of  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege. Elaborate  exercises  have  been  planned 
and  a  large  number  of  alumni  and  invited 
guests  are  expected  to  attend. 

President  Taft  has  promised  definitely  to 
be  the  guest  of  honor  at  the  inauguration  of 
Dr.  William  Arnold  Shanklin  as  president  of 
Wesleyan  University  on  Nov.  12.  Senator 
Root  of  New  York  and  President  Hadley  of 
Yale,  are  to  be  among  the  speakers. 


economics  at  Bowdoin,  and  in  1900  he  was 
called  to  the  chair  of  economics  at  Yale  at  the 
age  of  twenty-seven,  the  youngest  man  ever 
made  a  professor  there. 


BOWDOIN  MAN  ON  TARIFF  COMMISSION 

Professor    Henry   Crosby    Emery,    '92,    Honored    by 
President  Taft 

The  choice,  by  President  W.  H.  Taft,  of 
Professor  Henry  Crosby  Emery  of  Yale,  as 
chairman  of  the  newly  created  tariff  commis- 
sion, meets  with  general  approval ;  but  no- 
where has  the  news  been  received  with  greater 
satisfaction,  than  in  Maine.  His  is  one  of  the 
most  important  public  positions  in  the  United 
States,  to-day.  The  three  men  on  the  com- 
mission will  receive  annually  an  allowance  of 
$75,000  for  salaries,  experts  and  expenses. 

Prof.  Emery  is  the  son  of  Chief  Justice  L. 
A.  Emery, '61,  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Maine, 
and  was  born  in  Ellsworth,  Dec.  21,  1872. 
In  1892  he  graduated  from  Bowdoin.  Har- 
vard conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  A.M. 
in  the  following  year,  and  the  next  year 
Columbia  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  From  1894- 
1900  he  was  instructor,  and  later,  professor  of 


AMERICAN  HISTORY  PRIZES 

The  Class  of  1875  Prize  in  American  His- 
tory will  be  awarded  this  year  for  the  best 
essay  on  one  of  the  following  subjects : 

1.  The  statesmanship  of  Charles  Sumner. 
During  the  Reconstruction  Period. 

2.  The  Political  Influence  of  Horace 
Greeley  through  the  New  York  Tribune  dur- 
ing the  Civil  War. 

The  essays  should  contain  not  less  than 
fifteen  nor  more  than  twenty-five  thousand 
words.  All  essays  must  be  submitted  in  type- 
written form  to  Prof.  Allen  Johnson  not  later 
than  May  i,  1910.  The  competition  is  open 
to  Seniors  and  Juniors. 

The  Bennett  Prize  will  be  awarded  this 
year  for  the  best  essay  on  the  subject: 

City  Government  by  Commission. 

Essays  should  contain  not  less  than  five 
nor  more  than  ten  thousand  words;  and 
should  be  submitted  to  Prof.  Allen  Johnson 
not  later  than  May  i,  1910.  The  competition 
is  open  to  Seniors  and  Juniors. 

Those  who  intend  to  compete  for  these 
prizes  should  hand  their  names  to  Prof.  John- 
son before  selecting  a  subject. 


GOOD  GOVERNMENT  CLUB 

The  Good  Government  Club  met  Wednes- 
day in  the  History  room  in  Adams  Hall  and 
organized  for  the  year.  Robert  Hale,  '10,  was 
elected  President,  and  H.  Q.  Hawes,  Secretary 
and  Treasurer. 

The  purpose  of  the  club  is  to  promote 
ideals  of  good  government  and  from  time  to 
time  secure  speakers  of  national  reputation  to 
come  here  and  talk  before  the  club  or  the  col- 
lege on  matters  of  interest  to  students  of  gov- 
ernment. It  is  hoped  that  in  the  near  future 
the  club  will  be  able  to  secure  the  services  of 
Hon.  Asher  C.  Hinds,  the  parliamentarian  of 
Congress,  to  give  a  talk  in  Memorial  Hall 
upon  the  work  and  conduct  of  the  Congress 
of  the  United  States. 


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■  THE  Collegiate  Year 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,  igio  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  igii,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 

p.  B.  MORSS.  1910  J.  C.  ■WHITE.  1911 

THOMAS  OTIS.  1910  E.  'W.  SKELTON.  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON.  1910       W.  A.  McCORMICK.  1912 
■W.  A.  FULLER.  1912 


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J.  L.  CURTIS,  igii 


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Contributions  are  requested  from  all  undergradu 
ates,  alumni,  and  officers  of  instruction.  No  anony 
mous  manuscript  can   be  accepted. 

All  communications  regarding  subscriptions  should 
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Subscriptions,  $2.00  per  year,  in  advance.  Single 
copies,    I  0  cents 

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Journal  Printshop,  Lewiston 

Vol.  XXXIX.  OCTOBER    8,   1909  No.    12 


Topsham  Fair  next  week.     Don't  take  any 
bad  nickels. 


The   Freshman   Class   seems  to   be   "right 
there  with  the  bells  on." 


There  is  a  disposition  among  upper  class- 
men to  laugh  at  the  present  Freshman  head 
gear,  but  he  who  laughs  should  pause  and  look 
into  the  future.  The  time  is  coming  when  a 
baby  bonnet  won't  be  so  huge  a  joke. 


Dean  Alfred  E.  Burton,  '78,  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Institute  of  Technology,  speaks  at  the 
Christian  Association  meeting  next  Thursday 
evening.  Dean  Burton  has  given  two  worthy 
sons  to  the  college,  is  one  of  our  most  distin- 
guished and  enthusiastic  alumni,  and  deserves 
a  hearing-. 


Do  You  Know  How 
To  Talk  ? 


Henry  James  has  scored 
the  American  people  upon 
what  he  calls  their  news- 
paper English.  Surely  there  is  no  more  dis- 
tinguishing mark  of  refinement  than  correct 
use  of  the  mother  tongue,  and  conversely, 
nothing  stamps  a  man  an  ignoramus  as  surely 
as  incorrect  and  careless  speech.  It  is  not 
necessarily  the  person  who  uses  the  most 
Johnsonian  expressions,  or  who  makes  best 
use  of  our  old  friends,  unity,  mass  and  coher- 
ence, to  whom  we  look ,  for  good  English 
expression.  Attention  to  detail  and  accuracy 
in  small  things,  rather  than  bombast  and  ses- 
quipedaHanism,  are  the  true  marks  of  the  gen- 
tleman of  culture. 

There  seems  to  be  a  tendency  among  the 
students  of  Bowdoin  College  to  disregard  or 
forget  correct  forms  in  speaking,  or  as  a  vis- 
itor to  the  college  put  it,  "The  English  that 
you  Bowdoin  fellows  use  is  something  horri- 
ble." Such  expressions  as,  "It  was  me,"  "be- 
tween you  and  /,"  "he  helped  John  and  /," 
"'He  did  it  like  I  did,"  "I  like  John  best"  (of 
two),  "anyone  would  do  that,  wouldn't  they" 
and  innumerable  other  little  mistakes  of  every- 
day talk,  are  barbarisms  in  which  Bowdoin 
men  seem  to  revel.  There  are  undoubtedly  a 
great  many  men  .in  college  who  can  discourse, 
intelligently  upon  the  "Persistent  Problems  of 
Philosophy,"  read  German  and  French,  or 
ascertain  by  integral  calculus  just  how  many 
chickens  there  are  in  seven  soft  boiled  eggs, 
who  cannot  give  accurate  rules  for  the  use  of 
sit  and  set,  lay  and  lie,  or  shall  and  unll. 


The  purpose  of  the 
Communications  Orient  is  to  present  what- 
ever may  be  of  interest  to 
Bowdoin  men,  accurately,  readably,  and  com- 
pletely ;  to  uphold  the  established  traditions  of 
the  college ;  and  to  represent  the  best  senti- 
ment of  the  college  in  all  matters.  To  this 
end  the  co-operation  of  the  faculty,  the  class 
officers,  the  alumni  organizations,  and  every 
undergraduate  is  urged,  so  that  the  Orient 
may  represent  the  college  in  its  entirety.  The 
heads  of  undergraduate  activities  should  make 
it  a  part  of  their  business  to  see  to  it  that  their 
interests  receive  due  recognition  in  our  col- 
umns. The  box  near  the  bulletin  board  on  the 
front  of  the  chapel  is  for  the  use  of  persons 
who  wish  to  send  communications  to  the 
Orient.  The  name  of  the  writer  should  be 
.=igned  to  his  communication,    but    the    name 


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will  not  be  printed  unless  desired.  Copy  must 
be  left  in  the  Orient  box  before  8  o'clock  on 
Tuesday  evening  to  appear  in  the  issue  of 
Friday. 


Cross  country  work  was 
Cross  Country  begun  last  Wednesday  and 
the  squad  is  starting  from 
the  gym  at  four  o'clock  every  afternoon  now. 
The  work  at  present  consists  of  fairly  easy 
running  in  distances  of  two  and  three  miles 
and  Hare  and  Hound  races  will  be  run  off 
later  in  the  fall.  The  pnospects  for  a  strong 
team  are  good  as  all  of  last  year's  team  are 
still  in  college.  The  work  has  been  satisfac- 
tory except  that  the  number  of  men  out  has 
been  too  small.  Any  man  who  is  interested 
■in  running  ought  to  come  out  and  try  for  the 
team.  Cross  country  running  is  both  a  pleas- 
ure and  a  benefit  and  the  hare  and  hounds 
races  are  even  more  enjoyable.  Let  enough 
new  men  turn  out  this  week  to  make  a  large 
squad  and  add  to  the  chances  for  a  good  team. 


^  „       c  ■  -J.  Just   at   this   tmie   of   year 

College  Spirit  as      -'        ,  ^,  •'. 

»<  T  ^  J  •  c  •  we  hear  the  expression. 
Manifested  in  Service  «     ,,  •  •^.,     ^      ,     . 

college     spirit       used     m 

mass-meetings,  on  athletic  fields,  in  every 
department  of  college  life.  Bowdoin  gives  to 
every  man  who  enters  her  gates  a  history 
richer  in  traditions  than  any  other  college  of 
its  size  in  the  country  and  such  traditions  fur- 
nish the  very  best  material  out  of  which  to 
mould  college  spirit.  To  create  the  real  col- 
lege spirit  it  is  necessary  to  apply  a  force ;  that 
force  is  the  hard,  earnest  work  of  the  under- 
graduate. Without  this  work  college  spirit  is 
a  mere  empty  name. 

There  are  one  and  thirty  ways  for  a  man 
to  show  that  he  is  willing  to  work  for  his  col- 
lege. Athletics,  managerships,  literary  work, 
even  that  much  neglected  department  known 
as  the  curriculum,  all  furnish  opportunities  for 
the  undergraduate  to  take  a  hand.  Every 
man  who  comes  to  college  is  good  for  some- 
thing, and  the  opportunity  for  a  Freshman  to 
show  what  is  in  him  is  especially  good.  You 
who  are  Freshmen,  must  not  be  afraid  to  come 
out  and  work  in  any  branch  that  interests  you. 
Never  think  that  because  you  are  not  able  to 
display  skill  on  the  athletic  field,  you  cannot 
show  college  spirit.  The  priceless  traditions 
accumulated  by  generations  of  Bowdoin  men 
mark  you  as  displaying  the  very  best  kind  of 
college  spirit  when  you  work  for  the  common 
interests  of  Bowdoin  Collesre. 


CALENDAR 

SATURDAY,    OCTOBER   pTH 

2.30  Bowdoin  2d  vs.  Hebron  at  Hebron.  ' 
3.00  Bowdoin  vs.  Dartmouth  at  Hanover. 
4.00     Cross  country  squad  leaves  gymnasium. 

SUNDAY,    OCTOBER    lOTH 

10.45  Rev.  H.  p.  Woodin,  Pastor  of  the  High 
Street  Congregational  Church  of  Auburn, 
preaches  in  the  Church  on  the  Hill. 

5.00  Sunday  chapel.  Conducted  by  Prof.  H.  L. 
Chapman. 

MONDAY,    OCTOBER    IITH 

2.30-4.30     Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
3.30     Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
4.00     Cross  country  squad  leaves  gym. 
7.00     Meeting  of   Philosophical   Club   in   Psychology 
laboratory. 

TUESDAY,    OCTOBER    I2TH 

2.30-4.30     Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
3.30     Football    Practice   on   Whittier   Field. 
4.00     Cross  country  "squad"  leaves  "gymnasium." 
4.30     Band  rehearsal  in  band   room. 

WEDNESDAY,    OCTOBER     I3TH 

2.30-4.30     Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
3.30     Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
4.00     Cross  country  squad  leaves  gym. 

THURSDAY,    OCTOBER    I4TH 

2.30-4.30     Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

3.30     Football   Practice  on   Whittier  Field. 

4.30     Band  rehearsal  in  band  room. 

7.00  Meeting  of  Christian  Association  in  Associa- 
tion Rooms.  Dean  Alfred  E.  Burton,  of 
the  Masscahusetts  Institute  of  Technol- 
ogy will  speak. 

FRIDAY,    OCTOBER    ISTH 

2.30  to  4.30     Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
3.30     Football  Practice  on  Whittfer   Field. 
4.00     Cross  country  squad  leaves  gym. 

SATURDAY,    OCTOBER    i6th 

3.00     Bowdoin   vs   Exeter   on   Whittier   Field. 

SOME  LEADING   REVIEWS  ON   PROF.  JOHNSON'S 
"STEPHEN  A.  DOUGLAS" 

The  MacMillan  Company  has  recently 
issued  a  pamphlet  in  which  they  give  some 
leading  reviews  of  Prof.  Allen  Johnson's 
work  on  Stephen  A.  Douglas.  The  book 
was  used  at  Leland  Stanford  University  last 
year  as  a  text-book  for  a  course  in  American 
History.  Some  of  the  leading  commenters 
speak  as  follows : 

"The  volume,  aside  from  being  an  excel- 
lent interpretation  of  a  unique  personality  and 
a  great  character  and  narrative  of  an  excep- 
tionally interesting  career,  is  an  illuminating 
study  of  American  politics  during  the  contro- 
versial epoch  before  the  Civil  War,  written  in 


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a  manner  that  unfailingly  holds  the  interest  of 
the  reader." — Louisville  (Ky.)  Courier  Jour- 
nal. 

"The  stormy  career  of  the  'Little  Giant'  is 
portrayed  well  in  these  pages  and  the  defects 
as  well  as  the  virtues  of  the  man  are  shown. 
Dr.  Johnson  has  succeeded  in  this  book  in  giv- 
ing to  his  readers  what  has  long  been  needed, 
an  adequate  biography  of  the  great  rival  of 
Lincoln." — Boston  Transcript. 

"A  straightforward,  non-partisan  and  ex- 
tremely interesting  narrative." — Springfield 
(Mass.)   Republican. 

"Professor  Johnson  knows  the  West  in 
which  Douglas  moved.  He  has  made  careful  • 
and  fruitful  study  of  all  the  printed  sources, 
the  newspapers,  and  some  few  manuscripts. 
And  he  has  given  us  a  brilliant  and  well-bal- 
anced biography.  To  a  notable  degree  he  has 
succeeded  in  portraying  a  man  moving  in  his 
environment." — Independent  (N.  Y.) 

His  style  is  clear  and  pleasant,  and  he 
quotes  so  freely  from  his  authorities,  naming 
them  so  numerously,  that  his  book  will  be  one 
of  authority." — Times  (N.  Y.) 

"Mr.  Johnson's  biography,  in  effect,  is 
well-constructed,  well-written,  and  eminently 
sensible.  He  has  not  attempted  a  'vindica- 
tion' of  Douglas ;  he  has  been  content  to  paint 
a  sympathetic  but  thoroughly  frank  portrait." 
—Outlook  (N.  Y.) 

"A  fine  story  told  with  uncommon  power. 
No  significant  episode  of  the  'Little 
Giant's'  personal  or  political  career  is  left  un- 
touched .  .  .  Never  before  has  the 
account  of  the  generous  way  in  which  Doug- 
las came  to  Lincoln  in  the  darkest  hour  of  the 
Nation's  distress  been  so  effectively  pre- 
sented."— San  Francisco   Chronicle. 

"He  furnishes  us  the  fullest  and  most  vivid 
picture  of  Douglas's  remarkable,  almost  terri- 
ble, powers  as  a  debater.  .  .  .  With  ab- 
solute self-control,  thorough  knowledge  of  all 
the  main  facts,  and  a  very  superior  literary 
finish,  Professor  Johnson  gradually  lets  us  see 
that  Douglas's  greatness  was  as  a  politician 
who  can  win  support  and  exert  political  influ- 
ence for  personal  or  party  purposes. 
He  has  produced  a  study  in  American  politics 
that  has  all  the  life  and  realism  of  a  moving 
picture  in  which  Douglas  is  the  most  conspic- 
uous figure." — Nation  (N.  Y.). 

"Mr.  Johnson's  book  is  well  worth  reading. 
It  will  have  a  place  as  a  just  estimate  of  one 
of  the  great  party  leaders  of  a  former  day." — 
Chicago  Post. 


ART  BUILDING  NOTES 

A  case  of  antique  china,  two  old  brass  five- 
branch  candelabras  and  two  old  brass  Roman  lamps 
were  given  to  the  Art  Collection  of  the  college  by 
Mrs.  Bangs  of  Waterville  in  memory  of  her  son. 
Dennis  Bangs,  Class  of  '91,  who  died  this  summer. 

A  Lafayette  badge  was  given  by  Nat.  B.  T.  Bar- 
ker, M.D.,  '02,  which  was  worn  by  his  grand- 
mother, when  a  school  girl,  at  the  laying  of  the  cor- 
ner-stone of  the  Bunker  Hill  Monument  in   1825. 

Two  Roman  coins,  struck  about  144  and  154 
B.C.  respectively  were  presented  by  Miss  Alice 
Sewall  of  Bath. 


CollcGC  Botes 

Courses  under  Prof.  Files  have  begun  this  week. 

One  hundred  and  four  men  are  enrolled  in  Eco- 
nomics I. 

Ashley,  '12,  spent  Sunday  at  his  home  in  Leices- 
ter, Mass. 

Sullivan.  ex-'i2,  has  entered  the  Freshman  Class 
at  Princeton. 

W.  A.  McCormick,  '12,  is  editing  the  Orient 
calendar  this  year. 

Stuart  Brown,  '10,  returned  to  college  from 
Whitinsville,  Monday. 

Walter  Averill  Powers,  '06,  of  Brookline,  Mass., 
was  on  the  campus,  Monday. 

Harrington,  '12,  and  Andrews,  '12,  returned  to 
college  the  first  of  the  week. 

The  new  laboratories  for  the  use  of  men  in 
Chemistry  5  have  just  been  fitted  up. 

Dennis,  '11,  has  returned  to  college  after  a  sum- 
mer at  the  Poland  Spring  House. 

Sanford,  '11,  is  at  home,  ill  with  rheumatism,  but 
is  expected  to  return  to  college  soon. 

Prof.  Hustings  gave  adjourns  to  his  Mechanical 
Drawing  and  Surveying  Classes  this  week. 

Jim  McBain,  janitor  of  Maine,  has  bought  a 
house  in  Little  Village  and  is  now  living  there. 

H.  F.  Hanson,  '10,  who  has  been  at  the  Mt. 
Washington  House  this  summer,  has  returned  to 
college. 

In  place  of  Latin  A  and  B  the  faculty  are  offer- 
ing free  tutoring  to  students  deficient  in  advanced 
Latin  this  year. 

Prof.  Henry  Johnson  expects  to  begin  his  usual 
course  of  explanatory  lectures  on  the  Art  Building 
and  contents  next  week. 

Owing  to  the  fraternity  initiations  on  October 
19th,  the  debating  course  will  meet  Monday  evening 
instead  of  Tuesday  of  initiation  week. 

Austin  Cary  who  has  been  assistant  professor  of 
forestry  at  Harvard,  has  accepted  the  position  of 
superintendent  of   state   forests   in    New   York. 

The  annual  convention  of  the  Franco-Americans 
of  Maine  was  held  at  the  Town  Hall,  Brunswick, 
this  week.  One  hundred  and  seventy-five  delegates 
were  in  attendance,  many  of  whom  visited  the  col- 
lege during  their  stay  in  Brunswick. 


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Harrington,  '12,  returned  to  college,  Monday. 

Andrews,    '12,   returned   to   college,    Saturday. 

The  Bible  Study  classes  begin  work  next  Sunday. 

Wandtke,  '10,  is  assistant  in  the  French  depart- 
ment. 

Prof.  Burnett  gave  adjourns  in  his  courses, 
Thursday. 

H.  E.  Carney,  Medic,  '12,  has  entered  the  Sopho- 
more Class. 

D.  J.  Ready  has  been  on  the  campus  for  the  last 
few  days. 

Bryant,  '12,  is  working  in  the  Bruiiszvick  Record 
office,  Thursdays. 

Meserve,  '11,  and  Evans,  '10,  are  assistants  in 
Chemistry  this  year. 

A.  W.  Fiske,  ex-'o9,  has  returned  to  college,  and 
will  graduate  with   1910. 

C.  D.  Robbins,  '11,  is  attending  the  Hutchins 
School  at  Saxsville,  Conn. 

Dr.  Whittier  was  in  Boston  a  few  days  last  week 
and  attended  the  Harvard  game. 

Seward  J.  Marsh,  '12,  sprained  his  ankle  in  foot- 
y    ball  practice,   Tuesday   afternoon. 

Kimball,  '11,  who  was  obliged  to  leave  college 
last  February  because  of  ill  health,  has  returned. 

W.  Fletcher  Twombly,  of  Reading,  Mass.,  who 
has  been  selected  as  chapel  organist  this  year,  was 
heard  for  the  first  time,   Sunday. 

Announcement  was  made  on  September  15  of  the 
engagement  of  Miss  Sarah  Merriman  of  Bruns- 
wick, and  Wallace  M.  Powers,  '04,  of  New  York. 

Coach  Morrill  wants  more  men  to  come  out  for 
track.  Freshmen,  especially,  are  urged  to  turn  out; 
even  though  they  have  had  no  previous   experience. 

New  hymnals  have  been  purchased  for  the  col- 
lege chapel  and  it  is  expected  that  they  will  arrive 
some  time  next  week  and  will  be  in  use  by  a  week 
from   Sunday. 

President  Hyde,  Professor  Brown  and  Professor 
Burnett  were  at  Harvard  from  Tuesday  to  Thurs- 
day of  this  week  as  delegates  to  the  inauguration 
of  President  Lowell. 

The  topic  for  discussion  at  the  next  meeting  for 
informal  conference  on  philosophical  problems  will 
be :  The  most  fundamental  question  that  can  be 
asked.     The  next  meeting  will  be  October  11. 

A.  W.  Wandtke,  '10,  is  getting  out  the  college 
calendar  this  year.  The  front  page  will  be  of 
leather  and  the  principal  decoration  will  be  a  picture 
of  the  Walker  Art  Building.  The  calendar  will 
appear  just  before  the  Christmas  vacation. 

A  large  number  of  fellows  went  to  see  the  Bos- 
ton Americans  play  an  all-Maine  team  in  Portland, 
Tuesday  afternoon.  "Deacon"  Rawson,  who 
coached  the  Bowdoin  baseball  team  last  season, 
played  second  base  for  the  All-Maine.  The  score 
was  3  to  o  in  favor  of  Boston. 

A  little  item  in  the  Commencement  Number  of  the 
Orient  contained  a  bit  of  information  which  will  be 
of  interest  to  any  undergraduate  who  has  ever 
attended  a  dance  at  Memorial  Hall;  namely,  that 
the  governing  boards  of  the  college  voted  an  appro- 
priation for  the  laying  of  a  new  floor  in  that 
building. 


H.  W.  Slocum,  '10,  spent  Sunday  with  relatives 
in   Augusta. 

Clifford,  '11,  umpired  the  Freshman-Sophomore 
game,  Saturday. 

Kennedy,  '12,  is  principal  of  the  Albion  High 
School  this  year. 

Hovey,  '09,  has  gone  on  the  Boston  Herald  staff 
as  one  of  the  editors. 

Prof.  A.  W.  Anthony  of  Bates,  spoke  in  the 
Church  on  the  Hill,   Sunday. 

McFarland,  '11,  is  working  at  the  Poland  Spring 
House  and  will  not  return  to  college  until  Oct.  15. 

The  Sophomore-Freshman  game  called  out  more 
class  spirit  than  has  been  seen  for  a  number  of 
years. 

The  office  hours  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Faculty 
will  be  from  12.30  to  1.30  daily  except  Saturday. 
On  Monday  from  1.30  to  2.30,  and  Thursday  from 
2  to  3. 

Danold  MacMillan,  '97,  Commander  Peary's 
lieutenant,  while  in  Bowdoin  roomed  for  the  first 
two  years  in  32  Winthrop  and  for  the  last  two  years 
of  his  course  in  20  Appleton  Hall. 

The  Juniors  who  are  taking  American  History 
this  year  are  making  special  study  of  the  biogra- 
phies of  American  statesmen  and  their  writings  in 
connection  with  the  conference  work. 

About  sixteen  men  are  out  during  cross-country 
work  this  week.  The  squad  looks  promising ;  a 
good  bunch  of  old  men  are  back  and  some  good 
material  from  the  Freshman  Class  is  showing  up. 

Invitations  have  been  issued  to  the  marriage  of 
Miss  Gladys  Doten  to  Mr.  Philip  Freeland  Chap- 
man, '06,  at  Portland  on  Saturday  evening,  October 
the  twenty-third. 

President  Hyde  and  Prof.  Hutchins  will  go  to 
Hanover  on  the  fourteenth  of  October  to  attend  the 
inauguration  of  Ernest  Fox  Nichols  to  the  Presi- 
dency of  Dartmouth  College. 

Prof.  Robinson  gave  an  address  before  the  Bow- 
doin Club  of  Boston,  last  Friday  evening,  on  "The 
Human  Touch  in  College  Administration."  There 
was  a  record  attendance  of  the  members  and  at  the 
close  of  the  meeting  a  congratulatory  message  was 
sent  to  Commander  Peary. 

Charles  Follen  McKim,  who  received  an  honor- 
ary degree  from  Bowdoin  in  1894,  died  last  Sep- 
tember. The  Boston  Transcript  of  September  the 
fifteenth  calls  him  "the  acknowledged  leader  of  the 
profession  of  architecture  in  America  and  the  most 
eminent  American  architect  of  his  time."  The  long 
list  of  buildings  erected  by  the  firm  of  McKim, 
Mead,  and  White  includes  the  Walker  Art  Gallery 
of  Bowdoin  College. 

President  Hyde  will  be  away  from  Brunswick 
until  October  17th  to  attend  the  inauguration  of 
presidents  at  Harvard  and  Dartmouth,  During  the 
past  week  he  has  been  at  Harvard  in  company  with 
Profs.  Brown  and  Burnett.  Saturday  morning  he 
will  address  a  meeting  of  secondary  school  princi- 
pals of  New  York  City  and  vicinity  in  New  York, 
and  will  preach  Sunday  at  Mt.  Holyoke  College. 
Upon  Thursday  of  next  week  he  will  attend  the 
exercises  of  inauguration  at  Dartmouth  and  Satur- 
day a  meeting  of  the  trustees  of  Phillips-Exeter 
Academy_  at  Exeter,  N.  H.  Philosophy  I  will  not 
meet  again  until  October  18. 


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Hlumni  Department 

VACATION  NECROLOGY 

Since  the  last  issue  of  the  Orient,  death  has 
removed  several  beloved  and  distinguished 
graduates  from  the  roll  of  the  alumni.  The 
annual  catalogue  of  the  Medical  School  will 
no  longer  contain  the  names  of  two  professors 
who  occupied  their  chairs  with  distinction  for 
over  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Dr.  Stephen  H. 
Weeks,  LL.D.,  died  i  Sept.  1909,  at  Portland, 
and  Dr.  Charles  O.  Hunt,  July  24  at  Scar- 
borough. From  the  Class  of  1857  which  lost 
two  members  last  December,  two  others  were 
taken  in  June,  both  of  whom  had  distin- 
guished themselves  as  officers  in  the  Civil  War 
and  afterwards  as  lawyers  in  their  respective 
counties;  Major  Strickland  died  on  the  fifth 
and  Major  Belcher  on  the  tenth.  The  latter 
had  been  for  twenty  years  an  active  member 
of  the  Board  of  Overseers. 

Of  the  older  alumni  Col.  Jeremiah  H.  Gil- 
man,  '54,  died  Aug.  26,  at  Manhattan  Beach, 
N-  Y. ;  Abner  H.  Davis,  Esq.,  '60,  July  25,  at 
Portland;  Rev.  Webster  Woodbury,  '64,  Aug. 
24,  at  Framingham,  Mass.,  and  Dr.  I.  S.  Cur- 
tis, '67,  on  June  9,  at  Brunswick.  The  Class 
of  1876,  also  lost  two  prominent  members, 
Jere  M.  Hill  A.M.,  on  June  17,  at  Standish, 
Me.,  and  William  G.  Waite,  Esq.,  July  30,  at 
Dorchester,  Mass. 

Of  the  younger  alumni  Dennis  M.  Bangs, 
Esq.,  '91,  after  several  months  of  ill  health, 
died  at  Waterville,  July  20;  Dr.  Ernest  L. 
Hall,  '98,  died  unexpectedly  from  the  result  of 
a  surgical  operation  July  9  at  Oxford,  and 
Thomas  F.  Shehan,  '09,  whose  demise  had 
been  long  foreseen,  passed  away  at  his  home 
in  Portland,  Sept.  17. 

'■jj. — Commander  R.  E.  Peary  crowned 
over  two  score  years  given  to  Arctic  explora- 
tion by  planting  the  United  States  flag  at  the 
north  pole  on  April  6,  1909. 

'92. — Prof.  Henry  C.  Emery  of  Yale,  has 
been  appointed  by  President  Taft  chairman  of 
the  new  tariiT  commission,  one  of  the  highest 
honors  received  in  recent  years  by  the  younger 
alumni  and  widely  acknowledged  as  well  de- 
served. 

'98. — The  scientific  collections  and  obser- 
vation made  by  Prof.  Donald  B.  MacMillan  in 
the  recent  successful  expedition  to  the  North 
Pole  are  spoken  of  as  an  important  contribu- 
tion to  our  knowledge  of  the  Polar  regions. 


'00. — Henry  G.  Clement  has  resigned  the 
principalship  of  Bridgton  Academy  to  become 
principal  of  the  High  School  at  Redlands, 
Cal.,  whither  he  removed  with  his  family  in 
September. 

'00. — Albro  L.  Burnell,  United  States  vice- 
consul  at  Barranquilla,  Columbia,  paid  a  visit 
to  his  parents  at  Portland  last  August  and 
gave  an  account  of  a  short  lived  South  Amer- 
ican revolution  which  he  witnessed  at  his  sta- 
tion. 

'00. — Philip  L.  Pottle,  Superintendent  of 
the  International  Paper  Company's  mill  at 
Glen  Falls,  N.  Y.,  was  married  15  Sept.  1909, 
to  Miss  Nell  Thurston  Burgess  of  Rumford, 
Maine. 

'01. — Dr.  George  L.  Pratt  of  Farmington, 
Maine,  was  married  29  June,  1909,  to  Ethel 
Mae,  only  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  R. 
Staine  of  that  place. 

'01. — Clarence  B.  Rumery  of  Biddeford, 
was  married  14  July,  1909,  to  Carolyn  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  H.  H. 
Bragdon  of  Boston.  They  will  live  at  42 
Myrtle  Street,  Biddeford,  where  Mrs.  Rum- 
ery has  for  several  years  taught  music  in  the 
public  schools. 

'03. — ^W.  Morris  Houghton  of  the  stafif  of 
the  Nexv  York  Tribune,  was  married  i  Sept. 
1909,  to  Mary  Motte  Pringle,  daughter  of 
Mrs.  Edward  J.  Pringle  of  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
They  reside  at  542  West  147th  Street,  New 
York  City. 

'06. — Chester  C.  Tuttle  has  been  chosen 
principal  of  the  Caribou  High  School. 

'06. — On  the  twenty-fifth  of  August,  Mr. 
Geo.  Carroll  Soule,  '06,  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Miss  Mildred  Dennison  Loring,  at 
Yarmouthville.  They  are  at  home  now  at 
311  Ocean  Street,  South  Portland. 

RESOLUTIONS 

Hall  of  the  Kappa  of  Psi  Upsilon, 
October  6,  igog. 
Within  the  last  summer  death  has  removed  from 
our  number  a  beloved  and  respected  brother,  Abner 
Harrison  Davis  of  the  Class  of  i860,  a  man  of  ster- 
ling integrity  and  honorable  career  in  teaching  and 
legal  work.     Therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  we  express  our  own  sorrow  at 
the  death  of  this  honored  brother  and  extend  to  his 
bereaved  relatives  and  friends  our  sincerest  sym- 
pathy. 

Carlton  Whidden  Eaton, 
Charles  Boardman  Hawes, 
Walter  Atherton   Fuller, 

For  the   Chapter. 


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VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  OCTOBER   15,  1909 


NO.   13 


PRESIDENT  HYDE'S  LETTER  TO  ALUMNI 

BowDOiN    College,    Brunswick,    Me., 
October  5,  1909. 

To  the  Alumni  and  Friends  of  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege: 

You  have  been  so  generous  to  the  College, 
having  given  during  the  past  five  years  more 
than  a  million  dollars,  that,  in  addition  to  the 
thanks  already  individually  expressed,  you  are 
entitled  as  a  body  to  know  the  condition  in 
which  you  have  placed  the  College,  and  what 
it  is  doing  with  these  munificent  gifts. 

We  have  a  million  dollar  plant,  and,  count- 
ing income-producing  funds  held  in  trust  for 
us,  a  two  million  dollar  endowment.  This 
equipment  and  these  funds  would  be  sufficient 
to  conduct  the  College  for  some  time  to  come 
in  the  traditional  way:  but  the  traditional  way 
has  developed  serious  defects;  some  of  which 
your  gifts  will  enable  us  to  correct.  New  edu- 
cational ideals  have  been  recognized;  some  of 
which  your  gifts  will  enable  us  to  realize. 

An  educational  institution  is  at  its  maxi- 
mum efficiency  when  in  every  department  com- 
petent and  enthusiastic  teachers  are  in  such 
contact  with  well  prepared  and  earnest  stu- 
dents that  the  student  is  intensely  aware  of 
what  is  in  the  teacher's  mind ;  and,  what  is 
equally  important,  the  teacher  is  intensely 
aware  of  what  is  and  is  not  in  the  mind  of 
each  individual  student.  Accepting  this  as  the 
standard  of  efficiency,  everything  below  this ; 
— inefficient  teaching,  or  unprepared  students, 
or  large  lecture  courses  without  frequent  con- 
tact with  individuals  in  small  groups,  is  a  com- 
promise between  efficiency  and  economy  or 
something  worse. 

Laboratory  methods  in  science ;  individual 
appointments  in  English ;  recitation  methods 
with  small  divisions  in  subjects  like  mathemat- 
ics and  languages ;  all  help  to  bring  instruction 
up  to  its  maximum  efficiency. 

There  remains  a  group  of  subjects ;  his- 
tory, literature,   economics,   sociology,   philos- 


ophy, which  require  grasp,  insight  and  appre- 
ciation quite  as  much,  as  specific  answers  to 
specific  questions.  Here  the  preceptorial 
method  of  meeting  small  groups  at  frequent 
intervals,  in  informal  conference,  is  almost  a 
necessity  if  we  are  to  secure  that  contact  of 
individual  mind  with  individual  mind  which  is 
essential  to  real  teaching. 

Your  generous  gifts  have  made  possible 
the  maintenance  of  a  high  standard  of  admis- 
sion and  retention  for  students ;  a  substantial 
increase  in  salary  for  all  permanent  profes- 
sors ;  the  prompt  removal  of  all  temporary 
instructors  who  are  not  conspicuously  success- 
ful ;  the  retention  of  professors  called  to  other 
institutions ;  the  securing  in  competition  with 
other  institutions  of  an  able  group  of  young 
professors  and  instructors ;  the  division  of 
classes  in  mathematics  and  languages  into 
small  sections,  and  the  introduction  of  the  pre- 
ceptorial method  into  the  important  depart- 
ments of  history  and  political  science.  To 
promote  these  young  instructors  with  sufficient 
rapidity  to  retain  them ;  to  extend  the  precep- 
torial method  to  departments  that  need  it ;  to 
complete  our  plant  by  the  erection  of  a  new 
gymnasium ;  will  require  the  continuation  of 
the  generosity  which  has  marked  the  past  five 
years. 

This  letter,  however,  is  one  of  gratitude 
and  congratulation  not  of  solicita;tion :  and 
these  new  needs  are  only  mentioned'  to  show 
that  the  College  is  making  a  living  and  mov- 
ing, not  a  dead  and  stagnant  use  of  the  gifts 
already  received. 

The   college  opens   with  an  enrolment   of 
52  Seniors,  yy    Juniors,    81    Sophomores,    90  •  y^ 
Freshmen  (first  year),  33  Freshmen  (second, 
third  and  fourth  years)  9  Specials,  making  a 
total  of  342. 

Every  alumnus,  friend  and  officer  of  the 
College  rejoices  in  the  glorious  achievement 
of  Commander  Robert  E.  Peary,  of  the  Class 
of  1877,  ^'I'i  the  appointment,  as  Chairman  of 
the  Tariff  Board,  of  Professor  Henry  C. 
Emery,  of  the  Class  of  1892. 

With  renewed  thanks  and  congratulations, 

Very  truly  yours, 

William  DeWitt  Hyde. 


(06 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


DARTMOUTH  IS,  BOWDOIN  0 

Dartmouth  Scores  Two  Touchdowns  in  First  Half,  and 
Goal  From  Field  on  Free  Kick  in  Second 

After  an  eight-year  gridiron  truce  Bow- 
doin  and  Dartmouth  met  last  Saturday  at 
Hanover  in  a  well  played  and  speedy  contest 
in  which  the  spectacular  plays  pulled  off  at 
intervals  by  both  teams  kept  the  spectators  on 
•  edge  throughout.  Dartmouth  won,  15-0,  but 
she  was  forced  to  play  fast  football  to  turn  the 
trick.  Bowdoin's  line  had  difficulty  in  hold- 
ing her  opponent's  heavy  backs,  but  she 
braced  noticeably  whenever  her  goal  line  was 
threatened,  holding  four  times  on  the  four- 
yard  line.  Frank  Smith,  for  Bowdoin,  was 
again  the  star,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that 
he  has  for  the  two  weeks  been  suffering  from 
a  broken  finger.  He  made  two  narrowly 
missed  tries  at  goals  from  the  35-  and  4S-yard 
lines,  after  two  downs  had  failed  to  advance 
the  ball,  and  did  some  effective  line  plunging. 
Daly  blocked  a  third  trial  for  goal  from  the 
45-yard  line  and  ran  65  yards  for  a  spectacu- 
lar touchdown,  narrowly  eluding  Sullivan, 
who  trailed  him  the  entire  distance. 

Both  touchdowns  were  made  in  the  first 
half,  Dartmouth,  advancing  the  ball  from  the 
kick-off  straight  down  the  field,  sent  marks 
over  the  line  for  the  first  tally  of  the  game,  but 
thereafter  scoring  was  more  difficult.  Bow- 
doin now  held  the  heavy  green  attack  and  sel- 
dom permitted  them  to  make  long  games,  but 
through  it  all  she  had  the  ball  her  share  of  the 
time,  and  often  had  Dartmouth  guessing,  Sul- 
livan using  good  judgment  in  choosing  his 
plays.  In  the  second  half  Bowdoin  came 
iDack  strong  and  allowed  her  opponent  to  score 
but  once,  on  a  free  field  goal  from  the  35-yard 
line,  after  she  had  held  Dartmouth  on  the  four- 
yard  line  and  punted  out.  The  heat  affected 
both  teams  to  a  considerable  extent,  the  men 
being  again  and  again  obliged  to  remain  lying 
on  the  ground  after  the  whistle  had  blown. 
The  summary: 

Dartmouth  Bowdoin 

Daly,   l.e r.e.,   Hurley 

Cottrell,  I.e. 

Palmer,     l.t r.t.,     Crosby 

Rollins,  l.t. 

Tobin,    l.g r.g.,    Hastings 

Needham.    c c.   King 

Dingle,  c. 

Farnum,   r.g l.g.,   Pratt 

Lang,    r.t l.t.,    Newman 

Bankart,   r.e I.e.,  E.   Smith 

Dodge,   r.e I.e.,   Matthews 

Pishon,    q.b q.b.,    Sullivan 


Brady,  q.b. 

Greenwood,   l.h.b r.h.b..   Farnham 

H.  Smith,  l.h.b. 

Ryan,    r.h.b l.h.b.,   F.    Smith 

Lovejov,    r.h.b l.h.b.,    Ballard 

Marks,'    f.b f.b.,    Kern 

Dudley,  f.b. 

Score — Dartmouth,  15.  Touchdowns — Ryan, 
Daly.  Goals  from  touchdowns — Tobin  2.  Goal 
from  field,  Tobin.  Umpire — Ingalls  of  Brown. 
Referee — Dadmun  of  W.  P.  I.  Field  Judge — 
Clough  of  Dartmouth.  Linesman.  Storys  of  Dart- 
mouth.    Time — 20-  and  15-m.  periods. 


HEBRON  II,  BOWDOIN  2d  0 

The  second  team  took  its  customary  jour- 
ney to  Hebron  Saturday  and  sustained  its  cus- 
tomary defeat,  although  the  fast  prep,  school 
eleven  was  not  able  to  roll  up  as  large  a  score 
as  it  has  done  in  previous  years.  The  only 
event  that  marred  the  game  was  the  serious 
injury  to  Whitney  of  Hebron,  who  broke  his 
leg  in  the  first  half.     The  summary : 

Hebron  Bowdoin  2d 

O'Brien,    l.e r.e,,    Marston 

Lewis,     l.t r.t.,     Cowan 

Sperdig,    l.t. 

Gullrers,  l.g r.g.,  E.  Weeks 

Clemer.us,  l.g. 

Karl,   c c,    Sanborn 

Blake 

Carson,   r.g l.g.,    Simpson 

McGuire,    r.t l.t.,    Douglass 

Bessy. 

CoUey,   r.e I.e.,   D.   Weeks 

Kent,  r.e. 
Erswell,  r.e. 

Brown,   q.b q.b.,    Hawes 

q.b.,  Jones 

Curtis,    l.h.b r.h.b,     Stephens 

Fuller,    r.h.b l.h.b.,    Bosworth 

Rice,    r.h.b l.h.b..     Berry 

Whitney,    f.b f.b..    Wood 

Mason,  f.b. 

Score — ^Hebron  11.  Touchdowns — ^Curtis  2.  Goal 
from  touchdown — Curtis.  Umpire — Clifford.  Ref- 
eree— Joy.     Linesmen — Barker,  Wilson  and  Milliken. 


COMMANDER  PEARY  INVITED  TO  EXETER  GAME 

Manager  Otis  of  the  football  team  has 
extended  in  behalf  of  the  student  body,  an 
invitation  to  Commander  Peary  to  be  present 
at  the  Bovvdoin-Exeter  game,  Saturday.  Com- 
mander Peary  is  now  at  his  summer  home  at 
Eagle  Island,  about  five  miles  down  Casco  Bay 
from  South  Freeport,  and  up  to  the  time  of 
going  to  press  the  Orient  has  not  been  able 


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to  learn  whether  or  not  he  will  accept  the  invi- 
tation. Manager  Otis  sent  the  Commander 
six  complimentary  tickets  for  himself  and 
family,  which  the  college  sincerely  hopes  he 
will  see  fit  to  use.  Undoubtedly  the  presence 
of  Commander  Peary  and  his  family  in  the 
grand  stand  would  be  an  inspiration  to  the 
Bowdoin  team  to  play  the  game  for  all  there 
is  in  it. 


CROSS  COUNTRY  RACE  WITH  TUFTS 

If  the  negotiations  which  are  now  going 
on  with  the  Tufts  track  management  are  com- 
pleted as  they  are  expected  to  be,  the  cross- 
country run  between  Bowdoin  and  that  college 
will  take  place  on  the  afternoon  of  Friday, 
Nov.  19,  the  day  before  the  Tufts  football 
game.  Both  teams  are  'accustomed  to  running 
in  the  afternoon  and  will  be  more  at  home  then 
than  in  tlie  morning;  moreover,  the  men  will 
have  a  chance  to  rest  up  to  be  ready  to  go  into 
Portland  for  the  game  the  next  day.  The  race 
to  be  started  and  finished  with  a  turn  around 
the  track  and  the  band  will  be  on  hand  at  the 
field  when  a  slight  admission  is  to  be  charged. 


THE  COLLEGE  BAND 

The  college  band  under  leader  Newell,  '12, 
has  been  working  consistently  since  the  open- 
ing of  the  college  year,  and  will  make  its  first 
appearance  at  the  Mass  Meeting  to-night,  and 
at  the  Exeter  game  to-morrow  afternoon.  The 
band  has  not  worked  up  an  extensive  reper- 
toire, as  yet,  but  performs  creditably  what  it 
has  undertaken.  The  personnel  of  the  band 
is  as  follows:  Cornets,  Newell,  '12,  Gilbert, 
'13,  Holt,  "12,  Locke,  '12,  and  Dunn,  '13;  clar- 
inets. Prof.  Hutchins,  Kern,  '11,  Clarke,  '12, 
and  Purington,  '12;  piccolo,  Riggs,  '12;  bass, 
Weeks,  '10,  Knowles,  '12;  baritone,  Cressey, 
'12;  trombones,  Callahan,  '11,  Atwood,  '10, 
Wing,  '10;  altos,  Guptill,  '10,  Skillin,  '12, 
Greenleaf,  '12,  and  Dodge,  '13;  bass  drum, 
Sanborn,  '10;  cymbals,  Sanborn,"  '11;  tenor 
drum,  Perry,  '12,  Woodcock,  '12. 


SOPHOMORES  12,  FRESHMEN  S 

The  Sophomores  Won  a  second  victory  and 
the  series  from  the  Freshmen  in  baseball  last 
Thursday,  the  score  being  12  to  5.  The  game 
was  for  the  second  year  men  almost  from  the 
first.     Although  both   Holt  and  Means   were 


hit  quite  freely  by  the  Freshmen,  base-running 
and  consistent  hitting  at  critical  times  put  the 
game  on  ice  early  in  the  contest  and  there  it 
remained.  Davis  played  a  good  fielding  game 
for  the  Sophomores  and  O'Neil  did  some 
clever  base  running.  Tilton  and  Dole  showed 
up  well  for  the  Freshmen.  The  batting  order : 
1912  1913 

Davis,  2b 3b,,   Clancy 

O'Neil,   ss r.f .,  Greenwood,   Garden 

Holt,  p.  &  c.f c.f.,  Tilton 

Joy,    c lb.,    Alexander 

Means,  c.f.   &  p l.f.,   Gilbert 

Daniels,    3b ss.,    Childs 

Parcher,    l.f p.,    Lewis,    Skofield 

Purington-McCormick,    r.f 2b.,    Dole 

Woodcock,   lb c,  Tuttle,  Belknap,  Bell 


SOPHOMORE=FRESHMAN  MEET 

The  track  meet  between  the  Sophomores 
and  Freshmen  will  take  place  on  Saturday, 
Oct.  23,  if  the  weather  is  favorable.  The  meet 
is  to  be  run  as  a  regular  college  meet  with 
officials  and  good  preparations  instead  of  being 
a  farce  as  the  attempt  of  last  year  was.  While 
no  class  trophy  is  to  be  given,  there  will  be 
badges  for  the  winners  and  numerals  will  be 
awarded.  As  the  rivalry  between  the  classes 
is  especially  keen  this  year  and  both  have  good 
track  material  among  their  numbers,  the  meet 
should  be  a  good  one. 


ART  BUILDING  LECTURES 

Beginning  October  twenty-first  and  con- 
tinuing every  Thursday  up  to  the  Thanksgiv- 
ing recess.  Prof.  Johnson  will  give  informal 
'lectures  on  the  Walker  Art  Building  and  con- 
tents. These  lectures  are  to  be  given  at  11.30 
and  it  is  hoped  that  as  many  of  the  students 
as  possible  will  avail  themselves  of  this  oppor- 
tunity to  learn  something  concerning  the  Col- 
lege Art  Building  and  of  art  in  general.  While 
it  is  planned  to  arrange  the  hours  so  as  to  be 
particularly  convenient  for  the  Freshmen,  the 
lectures  themselves  will  be  of  interest  and 
profit  to  as  many  upperclassmen  as  can  attend. 

For  several  years  it  has  been  regretted  by 
the  students  that  the  college  offers  no  course 
in  the  History  of  Art.  Colby  and  Maine, 
both  with  art  collections  inferior  to  ours,  have 
systematized  courses  either  in  Art  or  Art  His- 
tory. Bowdoin,  pre-eminently  the  center  of 
culture  in  Maine,  has  no  such  a  course 
slthough  many  of  the  students  would  like  to 
take  it. 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,  1910  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  igii,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 

p.  B.  MORSS.  1910  J.  C.  WHITE.  1911 

"^HOMAS  OTIS.  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON,  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON.  1910      'W.  A.  McCORMICK,  1912 
•W.  A.  FULLER.  1912 


R.  D.  MORSS,  igio 
J.  L.  CURTIS,   1911 


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Vol.  XXXIX.           OCTOBER    15,   1909 

No.    13 

Latest    from    the    Dartmouth    game.     The 
perspiration  also  ran. 


"This  school  is  a  place  for  men  to  work 
and  not  for  boys  to  play." — President  Alder- 
son  to  Colorado  School  of  Mines  entering 
class. 


The  captain  of  the  Yale  nine,  who  is  also  a 
prominent  football  player,  is  one  of  the  first 
declared  honor  men  in  the  philosophical  list. 
Brawn  and  brain  pulling  in  harness. 


If  anything  could  be  offered  as  a  justifiable 
excuse  for  ducking  a  Freshman  in  the  bone- 
yard,  it  is  practice  of  wearing  high  school  pins, 
sweaters,  caps,  and  other  emblems  from  pre- 
paratory schools.  Aside  from  being  a  per- 
nicious habit,  it  stamps  a  man  as  being  more 
proud  of  his  past  record  than  he  is  loyal  to  his 
newly  chosen  Alma  Mater. — The  Tech. 


.„  i ,  .    ..        In  his  letter  to  the  alumni 

An  Appeal  to  the        ,  •  ,  ui-  i     • 

Alumni  which    we    publish    m    an- 

other column.  President 
Hyde  looks  a  pressing  issue  squarely  in  the 
face  when  he  says,  "To  complete  our  plant  by 
the  erection  of  a  new  gymnasium  will  require 
the  continuation  of  the  generosity  which  has 
marked  the  last  five  years."  In  making  this 
statement  President  Hyde  has  sounded  the 
keynote  of  undergraduate  sentiment  as  well 
as  that  of  the  administrative  officers  of  the  col- 
lege. A  new  gymnasium  for  Bowdoin  is  not 
a  luxury;  it  is  a  necessity  and  like  all  other 
good  things  must  come  from  the  alumni. 

In  an  address  at  the  centennial  exercises  of 
a  leading  Maine  preparatory  school,  Congress- 
man John  P.  Swasey  made  the  remark  that  all 
the  gymnasium  the  boys  had  when  he  went  to 
school  was  the  limb  of  a  neighboring  apple 
tree.  Here  at  Bowdoin  there  is  not  an  apple 
tree  near  enough  the  campus  to  furnish  enter- 
tainment so  the  fellows  have  to  put  up  with 
something  that  passed  for  a  gymnasium  twenty 
years  ago,  but  which  no  longer  meets  the 
requirements.  Last  year  the  Freshman  Class 
was  so  crowded  at  its  gymnasium  exercises 
that  only  a  part  of  the  men  could  see  the 
instructor,  and  this  year  1913  will  repeat  the 
experience.  In  contrast  with  swimming  pools 
in  use  at  colleges  not  as  modern  as  Bowdoin, 
we  have  a  place  called  a  shower  bath  where 
the  alternating  currents  of  hot  and  cold  water 
when  allowed  to  roam  at  will,  cause  more 
pernicious  profanity  than  four  years  of  com- 
pulsory chapel  can  eradicate.  The  progress  of 
both  our  track  and  baseball  teams  is  inhibited 
because  there  is  no  running  track  or  baseball 
cage  for  winter  practice. 

The  undergraduates  of  Bowdoin  College 
are  not  professional  kickers ;  the  cry  for  a  new 
gymnasium  is  not  the  appeal  of  men  who,  hav- 
ing everything  done  for  them,  want  still  more ; 
it  is  an  earnest  appeal  of  absolute  necessity. 
The  college  in  its  present  flourishing  condition 
cannot  get  along  with  the  old  gymnasium.  A 
visitor  to  the  college,  a  man  entirely  without 
prejudice,  remarked  to  the  writer  one  day' 
after  having  visited  the  Library,  the .  Art 
Building,  Memorial  Hall,  the  Science  Build- 
ing and  the  Chapel,  "You  have  a  fine  college 
here,  but  this  gymnasium  wouldn't  make  a 
good  hen  house  for  an  agricultural  college." 
Will  not  some  alumnus  make  his  name  immor- 
tal by  starting  a  fund  for  the  erection  of  a  new 
gymnasium?     Send  your  contributions  to  the 


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Gymnasium  Fund,  care  of  the  Bowdoin 
Orient.  We  will  accept  anything  above  ten 
cents. 


CALENDAR 

Friday,  October   15TH 
7.00    Mass  Meeting  in  Memorial  Hall. 

Saturday,  October  i6th 
■2.30-4.30    Track  practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
3.00     Bowdoin  vs.  Exeter  on  Whittier  Field. 
4.00     Cross  Country  squad  leaves  gym. 
8.00    Rose  Stalil  in  "The  Chorus  Lady."    Empire 
Theatre,  Lev^fiston. 

Sunday,  October  i/th 

10.4s  Rev.  Nacy  McGee  Waters,  D.D.,  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  College  preacher,  will  speak  in  the 
Church  on  the  Hill. 

5.00     Sunday  Chapel  conducted  by  Dr.  Waters. 

7.00  Questionnaire  in  Christian  Association 
Rooms. 

Monday,  October  i8th 

2.30-4.30     Track  practice    on   Whittier   Field. 

3.00     Football  practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

4.00    Cross   Country  squad  leaves  gym. 

Tuesday,  October  iqth 
2.30-4.30     Track  practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
3.00     Football  practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
4.00     Cross   Country   squad   leaves   gym. 
Fraternity  Initiations. 

Wednesday,  October  20th 
Adjourns  for  the  morning. 
2.30-4.30     Track  practice   on   Whittier   Field. 
3.00     Football  practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
4.00     Cross  Country  squad  leaves  gym. 

Thursday,  October  21  st 

11.30  Prof.  Henry  Johnson  will  give  a  talk  on 
the  Art  Building  and  its  Contents. 

2.30-4.30     Track  practice   on  Whittier   Field. 

3.00     Football   practice   on   Whittier   Field. 

7.00  Rev.  Raymond  E.  Calkins  of  Portland,  will 
speak  before  the  Christian  Association  on  "The 
Bowdoin  Mission  in  India." 

8.00  Meeting  of  Christian  Association  Cabinet 
at  Beta  Theta  Pi  House. 

Friday,  October  22d 

10.50     Football   Team  leaves   for   Worcester. 

2.30-4.30     Track  practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

4.00    Cross  Country  squad   leaves  gym. 

7.30  Hon.  Asher  C.  Hinds,  Parliamentary  Sec- 
retary of  Congress,  will  speak  in  Memorial  Hall 
under  the  auspices  of  Good  Government  Club. 

Saturday,  October  230 
3.00    Sophomore-Freshman  Track  Meet  on. Whit- 
tier Field. 

Bowdoin  vs.  Holy  Cross  at  Worcester. 


THE  INDIAN  MISSION  OF  MR.  HIWALE 

Every  Bowdoin  man  should  be  interested 
in  the  work  of  A,  S.  Hiwale,  '09,  who  has  gone 
back  to  India  to  work  among  his  own  people 
as  a  Bowdoin  missionary. 

He  is  to  be  connected  with  one  of  the 
largest  missions  in  India  under  the  leadership 
of  Dr.  Hume. 

Rev.  Raymond  E.  Calkins  of  Portland, 
Me.,  has  been  closely  connected  with  this  mis- 
sion through  his  church  which  has  largely 
supported  the  House.  Next  Thursday  even- 
ing, Oct.  21,  Mr.  Calkins  will  talk  before  the 
Christian  Association  about  the  conditions  of 
work  there  and  give  a  description  of  the  field. 


COLLEGE  PREACHER 

Rev.  Dr.  Nacy  McGee  Waters,  the  first  of 
the  college  preachers  for  this  year,  will  occupy 
the  pulpit  of  the  Church  on  the  Hill  next  Sun- 
day. He  is  the.  pastor  of  the  Tompkins  Ave- 
nue Congregational  Church  in  Brooklyn,  one 
of  the  largest  of  this  denomination  in  the 
country.  A  graduate  of  the  University  of 
Virginia  at  nineteen,  a  teacher  iDefore  he  be- 
came a  theological  student,  trained  in  the  the- 
ological seminary  of  Boston  University,  an 
admirer  and  a  personal  friend  of  Bishop 
Brooks,  he  has  had  a  remarkable  career  both 
as  a  pulpit  orator  and  as  a  pastor.  A  man 
in  the  prime  of  life,  interested  alike  in  athletics 
and  in  literature,  his  addresses  have  always 
appealed  strongly  to  men  whether  young 
or  old. 


HON.  ASHER  C.  HINDS  TO  SPEAK 

Parliamentarian  of  Congress,  and  Tliomas  B.  Reed's 
Secretary  to  be  Heard  in  Memorial  Hall 

Hon.  Asher  C.  Hinds,  the  Parliamentary 
Secretary  of  the  House  of  Representatives,  has 
signified  his  willingness  to  come  here  next 
Friday  evening  and  speak  in  Memorial  Hall 
on  the  work  of  the  Congress  of  the  United 
States.  Mr.  Hinds  comes  here  under  the  aus- 
pices of  the  Good  Government  Club  but  the 
lecture  will  be  open  to  the  public. 

Without  doulDt  Mr.  Hinds  will  be  one  of 
the  best  and  most  instructive  speakers  that  the 
college  will  hear  in  Memorial  Hall  this  year, 
because  his  position  as  Parliamentarian  of 
Congress  puts  him  closely  in  touch  with  the 
work  of  that  body.     In  fact,  there  is  no  man 


no 


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in  the  country  who  has  a  more  detailed  knowl- 
edge of  the  workings  of  the  government  of  the 
United  States  than  Mr.  Hinds.  He  is  the 
man  who  stands  by  the  side  of  Speaker  Can- 
non and  advises  him  upon  points  of  Parlia- 
mentary procedure,  so  is  on  the  inside  of 
affairs  at  Washington. 

During  Thomas  B.  Reed's  term  as  Speaker 
of  the  House  of  Representatives  Mr.  Hinds 
was  Mr.  Reed's  private  secretary.  Since  Mr. 
Reed's  death,  Mr.  Hinds  has  been  in  the  of- 
fice he  now  holds.  He  has  published  a  work 
called  Parliamentary  Procedure,  and  in  now  at 
work  on  a  Life  of  Thomas  B.  Reed.  He  is  a 
graduate  of  Colby  College.  No  man  in  college 
who  cares  to  know  anything  about  the  con- 
duct of  the  United  States  government  can 
afford  to  be  absent  from  this  lecture. 


DEUTSCHER  VEREIN 

The  Deutscher  Verein  will  begin  its  ses- 
sions the  first  week  in  November  and  the  com- 
mittee is  already  at  work  upon  the  program  to 
arrange  for  a  long  series  of  interesting  even- 
ings on  subjects  connected  with  German  liter- 
ature and  life.  The  exact  date  of  the  first 
meeting  will  be  announced  in  a  later  issue  of 
the  Orient,  also  the  names  of  the  speakers  for 
the  various  meetings.  For  the  first  time  in 
the  history  of  the  college,  courses  are  to  be 
offered  this  year  in  the  early  dialects  of  the 
Germanic  languages.  During  the  first  semes- 
ter, the  subject  to  be  studied  will  be  Gothic 
grammar  together  with  readings  from  the 
translation  of  the  Gothic  Bible  by  Ulfilas. 
During  the  second  semester,  the  class  will  con- 
tinue the  reading  of  Gothic  and  will  begin  the 
studies  of  Old  High  German.  These  courses 
are  intended  to  furnish  an  introduction  into 
the  university  work  in  Germanics  for  all  stu- 
dents who  purpose  to  begin  university  work 
after  igraduation  from  college. 


COLLEGE  PREACHERS  FOR  THE  YEAR 

Through  the  generosity  of  Professor  and 
Mrs.  Files,  the  college  is  again  to  have  the 
privilege  of  having  a  distinguished  list  of  col- 
lege preachers  during  this  winter.  The 
preachers  are  to  occupy  the  pulpit  at  the  col- 
lege church  at  10.45  Sunday  morning  and  are 
also  to  speak  at  chapel  in  the  afternoon.  The 
following  is  the  list : 

Oct.  17— Rev.  Nacy  MeGee  Waters,  D.D., 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


Nov.  14— Pres.  Albert  P.  Fitch,  D.D.,  of 
Andover  Seminary,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

March  20— Rev.  J.  G.  K.  Miller,  D.D.,  of 
the  McCormick  School,  Chicago,  111. 

April  17— Rt.  Rev.  W.  N.  McVickar,  D.D., 
Providence,  R.  I. 

May  15— Rev.  Rockwell  H.  Potter,  D.D., 
of  Hartford,  Conn. 


(Xollege  Botes 

MASS-MEETINQ  at  7  o'clock.       The  College  Band 
will  Furnish  Music 


Frost,  '04,  was  here  over  Sunday. 

Curtis,  '11,  preached  Sunday  at  Oxford. 

Arthur  Ham,  '08,  was  in  town,  Tuesday. 

Webber,  '07,  was_  on  the   campus,   Sunday. 

L.  S.  Pratt,  '12,  returned  to  college,  Saturday. 

Kent,  '12,  and  Purington,  '12,  spent  Sunday  at 
home. 

Prof.  Brown  gave  adjourns  in  French  I.  last 
week, 

Leon  S.  Larrabee,  ex-'04,  was  on  the  campus  over 
Sunday. 

Bert  Morrill  went  to  the  Dartmouth  game  with 
the  team,  Friday. 

The  Lisbon  Falls  team  defeated  the  Cabots,  4  to 
3.    on   the   Delta,   Saturday. 

Crossland,  '10,  is  pastor  of  the  Mechanic  Falls 
Congreational   Church  this  year. 

Professor  Mitchell  preached  at  the  Congrega- 
tional  Church   in   Richmond,   Sunday. 

Professor  Woodruff  occupied  the  pulpit  in  the 
Congregational    church   at   Woodfords,   Sunday. 

Bryant,  '12,  and  Maloney,  '12,  were  in  Boothbay 
and  vicinity,  Friday  and  Saturday  of  last  week. 

Donald  MacMillan,  '97,  Commander  Peary's 
lieutenant,   has  been   in  Freeport  the  last  few  days. 

An  instruction  car  of  the  Scranton  Correspond- 
ence School  has  been  at  the  station  during  the  last 
week. 

The  Bowdoin  College  Mandolin  and  Guitar  Club 
has  secured  the  services  of  S.  A.  Thompson  of  Port- 
land, as  coach  this  year. 

Roland  Waite,  '11,  who  has  been  seriously  ill  with 
typhoid  fever  at  his  home  in  Gardiner,  is  now  re- 
ported as  improving  in  health. 

Assistant  Manager  Berry  is  trying  to  arrange  a 
second  team  game  with  Kents  Hill  for  Oct.  23, 
when  the  'varsity  goes  to  Worcester. 

Prof.  Hutchins  gave  his  Physics  classes  ad- 
journs the  last  few  days  as  he  is  attending  the  in- 
auguration of  the  new  Dartmouth  president. 

Harvard  University  last  week  conferred  upon 
Edward  Bradford  Titchener,  Professor  of  Psychol- 
ogy of  Cornell,  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Science. 
Prof.  Titchener  is  the  author  of  the  text-book 
used  in  Psychology  I. 


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m 


Prof,  and  Mrs.  Fairchild  spent  Sunday  at  Mere 
Point. 

Lyde  Pratt,  '12,  returned  to  college  the  first  of  the 
week. 

D.  J.  Ready,  '10,  is  attending  Clark  University 
this  year. 

Goodspeed,  '09,  is  teaching  English  in  Worcester 
Academy. 

John  T.  Hale,  '12,  returned  to  college  the  first  of 
the  week. 

Wandtke,  '10,  spent  Sunday  visiting  friends  in 
Biddeford. 

Nickerson,  '10,  spent  Sunday  at  his  home  in 
Boothbay  Harbor. 

Harry  Merrill,  '09,  is  teaching  this  year  in  East- 
port  High  School. 

Pratt,  '12,  received  a  slight  injury  on  the  knee 
in  the  Dartmouth  game. 

Stone,  '10,  attended  the  Maine  Musical  Festival 
held  at  Bangor  last  week. 

Skillin,  '12,  is  playing  the  pipe  organ  at  the  Uni- 
versalist   Church,   Sundays. 

Members  of  the  Boothbay  Harbor  High  School 
visited   Bowdoin,   Saturday. 

There  will  be  a  meeting  of  the  Chemical  Club 
the  latter  part  of  next  week. 

Frank  White,  '08,  and  Ralph  Smith,  ex-'io,  expect 
to  attend  the  Exeter  game,  Saturday. 

Chancellor  McCormick  of  the  University  of 
Pittsburg,    visited    the    college,    Monday. 

Adjourns  were  granted  Thursday  afternoon  that 
the  students  might  attend  the  Topsham  Fair. 

Dr.  Copeland  is  giving  a  course  in  lectures  at 
the  Bangor  Theological   Seminary  on  Fridays. 

Owing  to  the  fraternity  initiations  next  Tuesday 
the    Government   conferences   will   be   omitted. 

John  Manter,  captain  of  last  year's  baseball  team, 
is  coaching  the  Cony  High  football  team  this  fall. 

Holt,  '12,  was  head  linesman  in  the  Portland 
High  School  Bridgton  Academy  game  in  Portland, 
Saturday. 

The  Hanover  trip  was  a  hard  one  for  the  football 
^      team.     It  included  travel  by  night  and  a  change  of 
trains  five  times  each  way. 

The  team  and  coach  report  a  better  showing  for 
Bowdoin  in  the  Dartmouth  game  than  the  Boston 
papers  gave  us. 

Wandtke,  '10,  Purington,  '11,  and  Weston,  '12, 
will  play  baseball  with  the  Mechanic  Falls  team 
against  the  All-Maine,  Saturday. 

Don  A.  H.  Powers,  '74>  of  Houlton  has  been  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  committee  in  charge  of  the 
enlargement  of  the  Maine  State  Capitol  Building. 

German  9  which  was  announced  in  an  earlier 
issue  of  the  Orient  as  being  omitted  for  the  year 
1909-10  will  be  continued  during  the  present  year. 

C.  E.  Files,  '08,  has  returned  from  a  season  of 
summer  baseball  with  the  Holyoke  team  in  Connec- 
ticut League,  and  is  now  coaching  the  Fryeburg 
Academy    football    team. 

Profs.  Mitchell,  Sills,  Allen  Johnson  and  Ham 
will  represent  the  college  at  the  meeting  of  the 
Maine  Association  of  Colleges  and  Schools  at  Lewis- 
ton,  Oct.  29  and  30. 


Arthur  Taylor  Parker,  '76,  was  on  the  cam- 
pus, Sunday. 

Commander  Peary  while  at  Bowdoin,  roomed  for 
the  first  part  of  his  course  at  the  corner  of  Page  and 
Union  streets  and  for  the  latter  part  at  6  Lincoln 
street. 

Prof.  Nixon  will  give  an  extra  course  in  Latin 
this  year  as  preparation  for  the  entrance  examina- 
tions in  Latin  for  those  having  conditions  in  that 
subject. 

The  oflScials  for  the  Exeter  game  will  be  Ingalls 
of  Brown,  and  Stevenson  of  Exeter.  The  game  will 
be  called  at  2.30. .  The  college  band  will  be  in  the 
grand  stand. 

Prof.  Robinson  leaves  for  Richmond,  Va.,  Fri- 
day, to  attend  the  meeting  of  the  American  Health 
Association.  He  goes  as  a  delegate  of  the  Maine 
Board  of  Health  and  will  read  a  paper  there. 

The  Freshman-Sophomore  Track  Meet  will  come 
ofif  Saturday,  Oct.  23.  No  man  will  be  allowed  to 
compete  who  has  not  had  two  weeks  training.  Rib- 
bons and  medals  will  be  awarded  to  those  getting 
first,  second,  or  third  place. 

Herbert  L.  Harris,  '72,  of  Portland,  has  just 
returned  from  Barcelona,  Spain,  where  he  was  sent 
as  one  of  the  delegates  from  the  United  States  to 
the  International  Esperanto  Congress.  He  will 
speak  at  the  Cony  High  School  Friday  evening  on 
Esperanto,  and  the  present  political  conditions  of 
Spain. 

The  cross-country  race  with  Tufts  will  come  off 
Friday,  Nov.  19.  A  large  number  of  men  are  urged 
to  come  out,  not  only  for  cross-country  work  but 
also  for  training  in  track.  It  must  be  remembered 
that  all  the  point  winners  in  the  New  England  Meet 
were  1910  men,  and  fellows  from  the  other  classes 
must  take  their  places. 

Jud,  the  barber,  wishes  to  give  notice  that  if  the 
football  team  wins  the  championship  he  will  give 
each  man  who  makes  his  B  a  shaving  mug  with  his  ^- 
name  and  class  upon  it.  William  F.  MacFadden, 
proprietor  of  Mac's  Tavern  also  wishes  to  announce 
that  he  will  take  the  team  to  the  Inn  if  the  state 
championship  comes  to  Bowdoin. 

The  football  team  reports  an  exceptionally  hos- 
pitable reception  at  Hanover  last  week.  During  the 
game  the  Dartmouth  fellows  frequently  cheered 
good  work  by  the  Bowdoin  team,  and  after  the  game 
members  of  the  college  and  professors  furnished  six 
automobiles  to  convey  the  fellows  to  White  River 
Junction  to  take  the  train.  On  the  way  up  the  team 
stopped  at  Newton  Inn,  Norwich,  Vt.,  and  on  the 
return  journey  at  the  Copley  Square  Hotel  in  Boston. 
Dr.  Whittlesey,  a  professor  at  Bowdoin  fronj 
1861  to  1865,  died  September  thirtieth.  He  was  born 
in  New  Britain,  Conn.,  May  14,  .1821.  He  entered 
Yale  University  four  years  later,  after  which  he  took 
up  a  course  in  theology  at  the  Andover  Thelogical 
Seminary.  The  honorary  degrees  of  Master  of  Arts 
and  Doctor  of  Laws  was  given  to  him  by  Yale.  He 
saw  military  service  under  General  Howard.  From 
1867  to  1874  he  was  a  professor  at  Howard  Univer- 
sity, from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Divinity.  For  a  number  of  years  Gen.  Whittlesey 
was  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Indian  Commissioners, 
to  which  he  was  appointed  by  Gen.  Grant  in  187-1. 
While  in  this  capacity  he  negotiated  several  impor- 
tant treaties  with  the  savage  tribes  of  the  West. 


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Hlumni  department 

'59. — Rev.  Henry  M.  King  of  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.,  is  the  author  of  the  new  biogra- 
phy of  Sir  Henry  Vane,  which  treats  especially 
of  his  valuable  service  in  the  struggle  for  free- 
dom of  conscience  in  England  and  New  Eng- 
land, of  his  brief  career  in  the  Massachusetts 
Bay  and  his  helpful  relation  to  the  Colony  of 
Roger  Williams. 

'64.- — ^Hon.  Charles  F.  Libby,  LL.D.,  was 
chosen  president  of  the  American  Bar  Asso- 
ciation at  its  annual  meeting  in  Detroit  last 
August. 

'75. — The  annual  address  before  the  Ala- 
bama State  Bar  Association  was  delivered  at 
Birmingham,  July  8th,  by  William  J.  Curtis, 
Esq.  His  subject  was:  "The  history  of  the 
purchase  by  the  United  States  of  the  Panama 
Canal ;  the  manner  of  payment ;  and  the  distri- 
bution of  the  proceeds  of  the  sale."  In  its 
printed  form  the  address  supplies  a  clear  and 
authentic  account  of  this  much  discussed 
transaction,  and  is  a  valuable  contribution  to 
historical  literature. 

'75. — William  E.  Hatch,  A.M.,  the  head  of 
the  textile  school  at  New  Bedford,  Mass.,  one 
of  the  best  equipped  of  modern  industrial 
schools,  spent  a  portion  of  his  summer  vaca- 
tion in  Brunswick. 

'95. — Dr.  Frank  Herbert  Mead,  of  Ban- 
gor, who  was  last  year  chosen  president  of  the 
Maine  Dental  Association,  married  Sept.  6, 
1909,  Miss  Hazel  Howe  Stewart  of  that  city. 

'98.— Ralph  L.  Wiggin,  A.M.,  lately  of 
Falmouth,  Mass.,  assumed  this  month  his 
duties  as  superintendent  of  the  public  schools 
of  Braintree,  Mass. 

'99. — Edgar  A.  Kaharl,  principal  of  the 
Brunswick  High  School,  is  receiving  congrat- 
ulations on  his  engagement  to  Miss  Carolyn 
Atwood  of  Boston. 

'99. — Dr.  H.  E.  Marston  has  settled  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  at  Pittsfield,  Me. 

'02. — William  E.  Wing,  lately  principal  of 
the  Presque  Isle  High  School,  is  this  year  at 
the  head  of  the  Department  of  Science  in  the 
Portland  High  School. 

'03. — Edward  A.  Dunlap  is  coaching  the 
football  team  at  Richmond  College,  Rich- 
mond, Va. 

'03. — Daniel  Colin  Monro  was  married  i 
Sept.  1909,  at  Utica,  N.  Y.,  to  Priscilla, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Frederick  G.  Chamberlain. 


'04. — Henry  E.  Beverage  married  at 
Thomaston,  Aug.  26,  1909,  Miss  Lena  Perry 
French. 

'04. — Alphonso  C.  Merryman  was  married 
24  Aug.  1909,  to  Miss  Annie  Skolfield  Har- 
rington, of  Brunswick.  They  will  reside  at 
Superior,  Wis.,  where  Mr.  Merryman  is 
engaged  in  teaching. 

'04. — The  engagement  is  announced  of 
Wallace  M.  Powers  of  New  York  City,  to 
Miss  Merriman  of  Brunswick,  now  a  student 
in  the  Leland  Powers  School  of  Oratory  at 
Boston. 

'05. — Morris  O'B.  Campbell  married  4 
Sept.  1909,  Miss  Martha  Wilson  of  Cherry- 
field,  Maine.  They  reside  in  Boston,  Mass., 
where  Mr.  Campbell  is  employed  as  a  claim 
agent  by  the  Boston  &  Albany  Railroad. 

'06. — George  C.  Soule  was  married  Aug. 
25,    1909,   to   Mildred  Dennison,   daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ansel  L.  Loring,  of  Yarmouth, 
Me.     They  will  reside  at  311   Ocean   Street,- 
South  Portland. 

'06. — Robert  T.  Woodruff  has  passed  the 
examinations  for  admittance  to  the  Masaschu- 
setts  bar  but  will  complete  the  full  course  at 
the  Harvard  Law  School  before  entering  upon 
his  profession. 

'06. — Rev.  Oscar  Peterson  resigned  in 
August  the  pastorate  of  the  Hillside  Church, 
in  Cornish,  and  the  same  month  became  prin- 
cipal of  the  North  Parsonsfield  Seminary. 

'06. — William  J.  McDougald  who  has  been 
teaching  at  Topsfield,  Mass.,  was  lately  chosen 
principal  of  the  high  school  at  Scituate,  Mass. 

'07. — ^Chester  S.  Kingsley  of  the  State 
Laboratory  of  Hygiene,  was  married  at 
Augusta,  October  7th,  to  Miss  Esthelle  Mae, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Howard  S.  Smiley. 

'07. — Neal  W.  Allen  was  married  to  Mar- 
garet L.,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  C. 
Stevens  of  Portland,  Me.,  19  June,  1909. 
They  reside  at  19  Craigie  Street. 

'07. — Asa  O.  Pike  was  married  by  Bishop 
Codman  at  St.  Luke's,  Portland,  30  June,  1909, 
to  Geraldine,  daughter  of  Mrs.  Mabel  E.  Fitz- 
gerald of  that  city.  They  reside  in  San- 
ford,  Me. 

'08. — Shipley  W.  Ricker  is  principal  of  the 
High  School  at  Shirley,  Mass. 

'08. — Russell  S.  Taylor  was  married  12 
Aug.  1909,  to  Miss  Carrie  A.  Davis  of  Flag- 
staff, Me.     They  will  reside  at  Freeport. 


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VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  OCTOBER  22,  1909 


NO.  14 


BOWDOIN  9,  EXETER  6 

Drop  Kicks  by  Farnham  Makes  Game  Safe  for 
Bowdoia 

Bowdoin  celebrated  her  return  to  home 
grounds  Saturday,  by  a  well-earned  victory 
over  Exeter,  and  that  she  did  not  roll  up  a 
larger  score  against  the  fast  prep  school 
eleven  was  due  largely  to  the  superb  long  dis- 
tance punting  of  Downing,  the  Exeter  cap- 
tain. Bowdoin  had  possession  of  the  ball  two- 
thirds  of  the  time,  and  made  her  gains  almost 
entirely  by  line  bucking,  Kern  and  Ballard 
doing  great  work  in  carrying  the  ball,  many 
times  with  half  the  Exeter  team  hanging  to 
them.  Kern's  work,  indeed,  had  a  great  deal 
to  do  with  Bowdoin's  victory.  Exeter  used 
the  new  football  most,  getting  off  two 
successful  forward  passes  out  of  three  at- 
tempts, one  of  which,  a  perfect  shot  straight 
into  the  arms  of  the  waiting  end  far  ahead, 
netted  25  yards.  She  could  not  gain  through 
Bowdoin's  line,  making  her  distance  mainly 
by  clever  end  runs,  aided  by  splendid  interfer- 
ence. All  scoring  was  done  in  the  first  half, 
Kern  carrying  the  ball  over  for  the  first 
touchdown  in  eight  minutes,  after  both  teams 
twice  had  held  and  been  obliged  to  relinquish 
possession  of  the  ball.  Large  factors  in  ob- 
taining this  score  were  Kern's  run  a  moment 
previous  for  40  yards,  and  an  onside  kick  net- 
ting 12  yards.  Exeter  then  braced  for  two 
downs  on  her  six-yard  line,  but  on  the  third 
try  Kern  was  jammed  over  for  the  score,  in 
the  furthest  corner  of  the  field.  Farnham 
kicked  out  to  Sullivan,  who  made  a  pretty 
catch  directly  in  front  of  the  goal  posts, 
whence  a  goal  by  Newman  was  easy. 

Exeter,  however,  evened  things  up  within 
the  next  five  minutes.  Bowdoin  received  the 
kick-off  but  was  unable  to  gain.  Exeter  took 
the  punt  and  by  big  gains,  in  which  two  per- 
fectly executed  forward  passes  for  25  and  15 
yards  helped  materially,  carried  the  ball  over 
and  a  moment  later  kicked  the  goal. 

On  the  kick-off  Exeter  could  not  gain,  and 
repeated  line  plunges  by  Bowdoin  carried  the 


ball  to  the  20-yard  line,  from  which  Farnham 
dropped  a  perfect  goal,  after  being  forced  to 
kick  hurriedly,  from  trouble  with  a  bad  pass. 
Thereafter  neither  scored,  the  half  ending 
soon  after  an  outside  kick  to  Hurley  gained  30 
yards  to  Bowdoin. 

Bowdoin  started  the  second  half  with  a 
rush,  Ballard  and  Kern  repeatedly  making 
six-yard  gains  through  Exeter's  line,  until  her 
steady  advance  down  the  field  was  stopped  by 
a  15-yard  penalty,  due  to  E.  Smith's  over- 
eagerness  in  recovering  an  onside  kick  before 
it  touched  the  ground.  The  ball  then  changed 
hands  often,  while  "Baldy"  Smith  began  to 
show  his  speed  by  rushing  in  and  throwing 
Exeter  men  for  big  losses  before  they  got 
started.  Then  Bowdoin  began  to  advance 
again.  Ballard  made  three  12-yard  gains, 
pulled  and  shoved  by  his  team-mates,  and 
Kern  wriggled  thru  centre  again  and  again. 
Exeter  finally  held  and  after  reeling  off  a  17- 
yard  end  run  was  penalized  15  yards  because 
a  forward  pass  was  allowed  to  drop  to  the 
ground  untouched.  She  then  punted,  but 
ISowdoin  could  not  make  first  down  more  than 
once  and  was  forced  in  turn  to  kick.  Soon 
after  Sullivan  allowed  one  of  Downing's  long 
punts  to  carry  over  his  head,  to  be  recovered 
by  an  Exeter  man  on  Bowdoin's  15-yard  line, 
but  the  blowing  of  the  whistle  prevented  fur- 
ther damage.  Frank  Smith  sat  on  the  side 
lines,  unable  to  play  because  of  injuries 
received  in  practice.     The  summary: 

Bowdoin  Exeter 

E.    Smith,    l.e I.e.,    Whiting 

Newman,    I.t l.t,    Holbrook 

Pratt,    l.g l.g.,    Kirkpatrick 

King,   c c,   Downing 

Hastings,    r.g r.g.,    Cooney 

Crosby,    r.t r..t.,  Mitchell 

Hurley,    r.e r..e,    Faulkner,    Crandall 

Sullivan,    q.b q.b.,    O'Brien 

Ballard,    l.h.b l.h.b.,    Purkile 

Farnham,    r.h.b r.h.b.,    Pearson 

Kern,    f .b f.b.,    Cornell,    Courtney 

Score:  Bowdoin,  9;  Exeter,  6.  Touchdowns, 
Kern,  Pearson.  Goals  from  touchdowns — 
Newman,  Downing.  Goal  from  field — Farnham. 
Umpire — Stephenson  of  Exeter.  Referee — Mac- 
readie  of  Portland  A.  A.  Head  Linesman — John 
D.  Clifford  of  Bowdoin.  Field  Judge — Ralph  W. 
Smith  of  Augusta.     Time — 20-minute  halves. 


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DARTMOUTH  CONFERS  DEGREE  OF  LL.D.  ON 
PRESIDENT  HYDE 

Dartmouth  conferred  the  honorary  degree 
of  LL.D.  upon  President  Hyde  last  week.  He 
had  formerly  received  the  degree  of  D.D. 
from  Bowdoin  and  from  Harvard  in  1886  and 
of  LL.D.  from  Syracuse  University  in  1897. 

The  recipient  of  these  honors  was  born  at 
VVinchendon,  Mass.,  September  23,  1858.  He 
was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips-Exeter 
Academy,  graduated  at  Harvard  in  1879, 
studied  at  Union  Theological  Seminary,  New 
ver  Theological  Seminary  in  1882.  After  a 
year  of  post-graduate  study  of  philosophy  at 
Andover  and  Harvard,  he  was  for  two  years 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Pater- 
son,  New  Jersey.  In  1885,  he  was  chosen  presi- 
dent of  Bowdoin  College,  a  position  which  he 
has  since  occupied  despite  repeated  invitations 
to  larger  institutions.  "Under  his  adminis- 
tration the  students,  the  faculty  and  the  en- 
dowment of  the  college  have  increased  two- 
fold, while  his  papers  and  addresses  on  educa- 
tional subjects  have  won  him  a  foremost  place 
among  the  college  presidents  of  the  country. 
A  series  of  successful  books  in  the  department 
of  ethics  and  religion  has  not  only  established 
his  reputation  as  a  clear  thinker,  and  forceful 
writer,  but  extended  his  influence  across  the 
water."  His  "Practical  Ethics"  appeared  in 
1892,  "Outlines  of  Social  Theology"  in  1895 ; 
"Practical  Idealism"  in  1897,  "God's  Educa- 
tion of  Man"  in  1899,  "'Jesus'  Way"  in  1902; 
"From  Epicurus  to  Christ"  in  1904;  "The 
College  Man  and  the  College  Woman,"  in 
1906;  and  "Abba  Father"  and  "Self-Meas- 
urement" in  1908.  Of  these  "Jesus'  Way"  has 
been  translated  into  French  and  several  others 
have  passed  through  repeated  editions. 


probability  is  that  the  meet  has  gone  into  the 
air  for  this  fjll,  because  the  Bowdoin-Colby 
football  game  will  make  it  almost  impossible 
to  hold  a  class  meet  on  Oct.  30. 


SOPHOMORE-FRESHMAN  MEET  CALLED  OFF 

The  Sophomore-Freshman  Meet  scheduled 
for  next  Saturday  will  not  take  place  because 
of  the  large  number  of  men  in  both  classes 
who  are  called  out  of  town  by  the  first  and 
second  team  football  games,  the  former  at 
Worcester,  Mass.,  with  Holy  Cross,  and  the 
latter  at  Portland  with  Westbrook  Seminary. 
Another  reason  for  calling  ofl:  the  meet  is  that 
there  are  so  few  men  out  for  both  teams.  In 
this  respect  the  Sophomores  have  been  the 
worst  offenders. 

Coach  Morrill  says  that  there  is  a  possibil- 
ity of  holding  the  meet   next    week,    but  ,the 


THE  RHODES  SCHOLARSHIP  EXAMINATIONS 

The  Rhodes'  Scholarship  contest  has 
caused  more  interest  to  be  manifested  this 
year  among  Maine  college  students  and  par- 
ticularly by  Bowdoin  men  than  any  year  since 
its  establishment.  This  may  be  due  in  part  to 
the  new  conditions  by  which  it  was  possible 
for  any  student  in  good  standing  in  a  Maine 
college  to  receive  the  honor.  Formerly  only 
one  college  in  a  year  was  allowed  the  privilege 
of  sending  a  man  to  Oxford.  There  is  al- 
ready one  man  from  the  state  at  Oxford  and 
ihe  vacancy  will  be  filled  next  October.  Bow- 
doin has  an  especially  strong  list  of  men  who 
took  the  examinations  held  last  Tuesday  at 
Augusta.  The  men  are  Robert  Hale,  '10,  H. 
G.  Hawes,  '10,  H.  W.  Slocum,  '10,  E.  W. 
Skelton,  '11,  and  W.  A.  Fuller,  '12,  and  they 
have  the  well  wishes  of  the  entire  college.  The 
examination  for  Greek  was  withheld  and  will 
have  to  be  taken  only  by  the  successful  candi- 
date. It  is  not  necessarily  the  man  who 
secures  the  highest  mark  on  the  several  papers 
who  will  receive  the  scholarship  but  the  man 
who  in  the  opinion  of  the  supervisors,  of  Pres- 
ident Hyde  of  Bowdoin,  President  Fellows  of 
Maine,  President  Roberts  of  Colby  and  Presi- 
dent Chase  of  Bates,  is  the  most  suitable  as  an 
all  around  man  to  take  the  honor.  Here  again 
is  an  expression  of  Bovvdoin's  motto,  "Fair 
Play  and  May  the  Be^t  Man  Win." 


DAVID  R.  PORTER,  '06,  TO  SPEAK  AT  CHRISTIAN 
ASSOCIATION  MEETING 

The  speaker  at  the  Christian  Association 
next  Thursday  evening  will  be  David  R.  Por- 
ter, '06,  who  is  national  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secretary 
for  High  Schools.  During  the  past  year  he 
has  visited  nearly  every  state  in  the  country, 
speaking  to  High  School  students,  and  has 
met  with  remarkable  success. 

Mr.  Porter  was  the  first  Rhodes  scholar, 
from  Maine,  spending  the  years  '04- '05  and 
'05-08  at  Oxford.  Few  Americans  have  made 
as  brilliant  a  record  there.  He  was  prominent 
in  athletics,  notably  cricket  and  tennis,  and 
was  a  member  of  social  clubs  that  have  never 
admitted  any  other  non-English  student. 


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While  at  Bowdoin  Mr.  Porter  was  prom- 
inent in  all  student  activities.  He  was  one  of 
the  'best  football  players  ever  seen  on  Whittier 
field  and  is  the  only  Bowdoin  man  who  has 
crossed  Harvard's  goal  line  during  the  past 
ten  years. 

While  here  Mr.  Porter  will  meet  with  all 
the  leaders  of  Bible  Study  classes  to  suggest 
aids  for  their  work,  and  with  the  Christian 
Association  Cabinet  to  discuss  plans  for  this 
year. 


SUNDAY  CHAPEL 

The  Rev.  Nacy  McGee  Waters  of  Brook- 
lyn, New  York,  was  the  college  preacher  last 
Sunday. 

The  main  point  of  his  talk  was  that  Faith, 
the  faith  inherited  from  our  fathers,  called 
Christianity,  is  one  of  the  religions  of  the 
world.  It  is  the  religion  that  was  lived  and 
taught  by  Jesus  to  men,  and  it  is  the  same 
religion  that  we  have  to-day.  This  religion 
is  a  relationship — a  relationship  of  God  to 
men  and  of  right  to  wrong.  Jesus  said  that 
every  man,  because  he  is  born  into  this  world, 
is  the  child  of  his  heavenly  father.  No  mat- 
ter what  happens  Right  can  only  rest  upon  a 
right  relationship.  The  man  that  lives  with- 
out this  relationship  is  a  sinner ;  is  losing  his 
life.  Any  man,  Jesus  taught,  who  goes  astray 
can  turn  back  to  his  Father  and  be  forgiven, 
even  as  in  the  parable  of  the  Prodigal  Son. 
There  is  something  in  life  after  all  more  than 
material  things.  We  go  back  to  Jesus  for 
real  life,  where  we  find  that  a  home  in  God 
means  affection,  trust  and  companionship.  In 
Him  we  find  one  who  stands  guard  day  and 
night  and  who  loves  us  when  all  the  world  is 
adverse. 


A  CALL  FOR  GLEE  CLUB  CANDIDATES 

Leader  Stone  of  the  Glee  Club  has  issued 
a  call  for  candidates  for  the  club  to  meet 
in  the  Christian  Association  room  next  Tues- 
day afternoon  at  five  o'clock.  Rehearsals 
will  then  be  held  regularly  three  times  a  week, 
on  Tuesday,  Wednesday  and  Friday  after- 
noons at  five  o'clock.  A  number  of  former 
members  of  the  Glee  Club  are  in  college  this 
year,  but  there  are  still  plenty  of  positions  open 
and  everybody  will  be  given  a  show.  The 
leader  has  a  lot  of  good  attractive  music,  some 
of  a  different  order  than  that  used  in  former 
years.     Prof.  Wass  of  Augusta  who  coached 


the  clubs  last  year,  and  who  is  now  in  charge 
of  the  vested  choir  at  the  Congregational 
Church,  has  been  engaged  to  drill  the  clubs 
this  year.  It  is  planned  to  make  the  final  selec- 
tion of  members  before  the  Thanksgiving 
recess. 

Manager  Weeks  of  the  Musical  Clubs  tells 
the  Orient  that  he  is  trying  to  arrange  for  a 
vacation  trip  through  New  York  state  and 
that  the  chances  for  such  a  trip  are  very  favor- 
able. In  case  the  trip  to  New  York  state  falls 
through,  the  clubs  will  take  the  usual  vacation 
trip  through  Massachusetts,  or  possibly  if 
everything  comes  on  favorably  the  manager 
will  give  concerts  in  both  states  during  the 
Easter  recess. 


CALENDAR 

Saturday^  October  23 
2.30.     Bowdoin  vs.  Holy  Cross  at  Worcester. 
Bowdoin  2d  vs.  Westbrook  Seminary  at  Portland. 
Colby   vs.   Bates  on   Garcelon   Field,   Lewiston. 

Sunday,  October  24 
10.45.     Rev.  Jesse   Hill   of  the  Williston   Church 
of  Portland,  will  preach  in  the  Church  on  the  Hill. 
5.00.     Sunday    Chapel.     Conducted    by    President 
Hyde. 

Monday,  October  25 
2  30-4.30.     Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
3.30.     Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
4.00.     Cross  Country  Squad  leaves  the  gym. 

Tuesday,   October  26 

2.30-4.30.     Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

3.30.     Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

4.00.     Cross  Country  Squad  leaves  the  gym. 

4.30.     Band   Rehearsal   in   Band   Room. 

5.00.     Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

Wednesday,  October  27 

2.30-4.30.     Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

3.30.     Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

4.00.     Cross  Country  Squad  leaves  the  gym. 

5.00.     Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

Thursday,  October  28 

2.30-4.30.     Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

3.30.     Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

4.30.     Band    Rehearsal   in    Band    Room. 

7.00.     David   R.   Porter,   '06,    will    speak    in    the 
Christian  Association  Room. 

8.00.     Meeting  of  the  Christian  Association  Cab- 
inet at  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  House. 

Friday,  October  29 
^■30-4.30.     Track   Practice   on   Whittier   Field. 
3.30.     Football   Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
4.00.     Cross   Country   Squad   leaves   the   gym. 
5.00.     Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

Saturday,  October  30 
8.00.     Football  Team  leaves  for  Waterville. 
2.30.     Bowdoin  vs.   Colby  at  Waterville. 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.    ATWOOD,  igio  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  igii,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 

p.  B.  MORSS,  1910  J.  C.  WHITE.  1911 

""HOMAS  OTIS.  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON,  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON.  1910      'W.  A.  McCORMICK.  1912 
W.  A.  FULLER.  1912 


R.  D.  MORSS,   igio 
J.  L.  CURTIS,  igii 


Business  Manager 
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Vol.  XXXIX.  OCTOBER  22,   1909  No.    14 


„.  „  ,.  ,  ..  Herbert  Spencer  has  clas- 
The  Function  of  ibe    -r    ■,    ■     .u        a        f  ^u  ;, 

„  11  sined,  in  the  order  of  their 

"  ^^^  importance,      the      leading 

kinds  of  activity  which  constitute  human  Hfe : 
They  may  be  arranged  naturally  into:  i. 
Those  activities  which  directly  minister  to 
self-preservation ;  2.  Those  activities  which 
by  securing  the  necessaries  of  life,  indirectly 
minister  to  self-preservation ;  3.  Those  activ- 
ities which  have  their  end  in  the  rearing  and 
discipline  of  offspring;  4.  Those  activities 
which  are  involved  in  the  proper  social  and 
political  relations;  5.  Those  miscellaneous 
activities  which  make  up  the  leisure  part  of 
life,  devoted  to  the  gratification  of  the  tastes 
and  feelings.  The  ideal  of  education  is  'com- 
plete preparation  in  all  these  divisions,  or  as 
Prof.  Robinson  put  it  at  the  mass-meeting  last 
Friday  evening,  "The  function  of  the  Ameri- 
can college  is  the  development  of  the  all 
around  man!' 

During  the  past  three  weeks  we  have  heard 
a  great  deal  about  the  function  of  the  Amer- 


ican college  and  the  concensus  of  opinion  has 
been  that  the  proper  function  of  the  college  is 
not  so  much  to  foster  the  acquisition  of  knowl- 
edge as  to  develop  power.  President  Lowell 
of  Harvard  said  in  his  inaugural,  "Surely  the 
college  can  give  a  freedom  of  thought,  a 
breadth  of  outlook,  a  training  for  citizenship 
which  neither  the  secondary  nor  the  profes- 
sional schools  can  equal."  In  his  farewell 
address  to  the  alumni  of  Dartmouth,  President 
Tucker  remarked  that,  "the  college  is  in  the 
educational  system  to  represent  the  spirit  of 
amateur  scholarship.  College  students  are 
amateurs,  not  professionals."  Or  as  Presi- 
dent Hadley  is  fond  of  putting  it,  "The  ideal 
college  education  seems  to  me  to  be  one  where 
the  student  learns  things  that  he  is  not  going 
to  use  in  after  life  by  methods  that  he  is  going 
to  use.  The  former  element  gives  the  breadth, 
the  latter  element  gives  the  training." 

To  take  the  matter  home  to  Bowdoin  we 
find  it  nowhere  better  expressed  than  by  Pres- 
ident Hyde  in  The  College  Man  and  the  Col- 
lege Woman,  when  he  says,  "To  be  at  home  in 
all  lands  and  in  all  ages ;  to  count  Nature  a 
a  familiar  acquaintance  and  Art  an  intimate 
friend ;  to  gain  a  standard  for  the  appreciation 
of  other  men's  work  and  the  criticism  of  your 
own ;  to  carry  the  keys  of  the  world's  library 
in  your  pocket,  and  to  feel  its  recourses  behind 
you  in  whatver  you  undertake;  to  make  hosts 
of  friends  among  the  men  who  are  the  leaders 
in  all  walks  of  life ;  to  lose  yourself  in  gener- 
ous enthusiasms  and  cooperate  with  others  for 
common  ends ;  to  learn  manners  from  students 
who  are  gentlemen,  and  form  characters 
under  professors  who  are  Christians, — this  is 
the  offer  of  the  college  for  the  best  four  years 
of  your  life." 


THE  MANDOLIN  CLUB 

The  prospects  of  the  Mandolin  Club  for 
this  year  are  exceedingly  good.  A  large  num- 
ber of  old  men  are  back  and  ready  for  busi- 
ness. Of  the  members  of  last  year's  club, 
there  are  still  in  college:  Crowell,  '10,  Peters, 
'10,  Weeks,  '10,  Brummett,  '11,  Pierce,  '11, 
Roberts,  '11,  Churchill,  '12,  P.  P.  Cole,  '12, 
R.  P.  King,  '12,  Gillin,  '12,  and  Parcher,  '12. 
The  Freshman  Class  is  unusually  blessed  with 
a  great  deal  of  material  and  there  is  no  reason 
why  the  club  should  not  be  one  of  the  best. 
Thompson  of  Portland,  will  coach  the  fellows, 
giving  much  individual  instruction.  Rehears- 
als begin  next  week. 


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FRATERNITY  INITIATIONS 

The  "Pledging  Season"  is  over  and  the 
various  candidate  were  initiated  into  the  eight 
fraternities  Tuesday  night,  Oct.  19.  During 
the  week,  the  Frshmen  have  been  performing 
various  stunts  as  preparation  for  the  ordeals, 
but,  now  that  all  have  survived  the  initiations, 
they  are  full-fledged  fraternity  men.  The  men 
initiated  are : 

Alpha  Delta  Phi 

1913 
Charles  Roy  Bull,  Monticello,  Me. 
John  Swasey  Childs,  Lewiston,  Me. 
Philip  Thoburn  Hazelton,  Portland,  Me. 
Verd  Russell  Leavitt,  Wilton,  Me. 
James  Everett  Philoon,  Auburn,  Me. 
Donald  Swanton  Sewall,  Bath,  Me. 
Lawrence  Willey  Smith,  Portland,  Me. 
Curtis  Tucker  Tuttle,  Colusa,  Cal. 

Kappa  Sigma 

1913 

Josiah  Steele  Brown,  Whitinsville,  Mass. 

John  Terence  Clancy,  New  York  City. 

George  Campbell  Duffey,  Jr.,  Medford, 
Mass. 

Stanley  Fuller  Dole,   Portland,   Me. 

Carlton   Greenwood,   Medford,  Mass. 

Leon  Everett  Jones,   Winthrop,   Mass. 

Ira  Benjamin  Knight,  Derry  Village,  N.  H. 

Bryant  Edward  Moulton,  Portland,  Me. 

Leo  Walter   Pratt,   Wilton,  Me. 

Alvah  Booker  Stetson,  Brunswick,  Me. 

Albert  Dyer  Tilton,  So.  Portland,  Me. 

Fred  Dixon  Wish,  Jr.,  Portland,  Me. 

Psi  Upsilon 

1910 

Fred  Patterson  Webster,  M.D.,  Portland, 
Me. 

1912 

Clarence  Long,  St.  Albans,  West  Virginia. 

1913 
Sanford  Burton  Comery,  Thomaston,  Me. 
James  A.  Creighton,  Thomaston,  Me. 
Albert  Percival  Cushman,   Bangor,  Me. 
Theodore  Evans  Emery,  Randolph,  Me. 
Charles  Richard   Farnham,  Bath,  Me. 
Ray  Eaton  Palmer,  Bath,  Me. 
Harry   Leavitt   Perham,  South  Ackworth, 
N.  H. 

Delta  Kappa  Efsilon 

1912 
William  Holt,  Bridgton,  Me. 

1913 

Edwin  Clarence   Burleigh,   Augusta,  Me. 
Reginald  Adell   Conant,   Portland,   Me. 


Lawrence  Alden  Crosby,  Bangor,  Me. 

George  Otis  Cummings,  Portland,  Me. 

Leon  Dodge,  Newcastle,  Me. 

Henry  Howes  Hall,  Sturbridge,  Mass. 

Charles  Blanchard  Haskell,  Jr.,  Pitts- 
field,  Me. 

Benjamin  Dyer  Holt,  Portland,  Me. 

Daniel    Saunders,    Lawrence,  •  Mass. 

Paul  Chapman  Savage,  Bangor,  Me. 

George  Lincoln  Skofield,  Jr.,  Brunswick, 
Me. 

William  Fletcher  Twombly,  Reading, 
Mass. 

Ralph  Averill  Powers,  Brookline,  Mass. 

Clair  Randolph  Marston,  Skowhegan,  Me. 

Zeta  Psi 

1912 

Thomas  Clark  Wyman,  Portland,  Me. 

1913 
Moses  Burpee  Alexander,  Houlton,  Me. 
Robert, Willis  Belknap,  Damariscotta,  Me. 
Cedric  Russell  Crowell,    Richmond    Hill, 
N.  Y. 

John  Lewis,  Skowhegan,  Me. 
Paul   Commett  Lunt,   Portland,   Me. 
Harold  William   Miller,   Lynn,  Mass. 
Almon  Lauchlin  Peters,  Maiden,  Mass. 

Delta  Upsilon 
1910 
Edward    Harlan     Webster,     Washington, 
D.  C. 

1913 

Edward  Oliver  Baker,  North  Adams, 
Mass. 

Manning  Hapgood  Busfield,  No.  Adams, 
Mass. 

John  Coleman  Carr,  Frankfort,  Me. 

Frank  Irving  Cowan,  Pittsfield,  Me. 

Vurner  Adrian  Craig,  Frankfort,  Me. 

Paul  Howard  Douglas,  Newport,  Me. 

Harold  Davis  Gilbert,  Farmington,  Me. 

James  Augustus  Norton,  Phillips,  Me. 

Clifton  Orville  Paige,  Bath,  Me. 

Sumner  Tucker  Pike,  Lubec,  Me. 

Lester  Borden  Shackford,  South  Poland, 
Me. 

Harold  Arthur  Tucker,  Farmington,  Me. 

Harry  Burton  Walker,  Biddeford,  Me. 

Beta  Theta  Pi 
1912 
George   Henry    Nichdls,    North    Grafton, 
Mass. 


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Walter  Faber  Eberhardt,  New  York  City. 

Daniel  Earl  Gardner,  Calais,  Me. 

Henry  Levenseller  Hall,  Camden,  Me. 

Douglas  Howard  McMurtie,  Woodfords, 
Me. 

Herbert  Frank  Gates,  Constantinople, 
Turkey. 

Theta  Delta  Chi 
1912 

William  Edward  Montgomery,  Wake- 
field, Mass. 

1913 

Harold  Davis  Archer,  Dorchester,  Mass. 

John  Edward  Dumphy,  Portland,  Me. 

Frederick  Trevenen  Edwards,  Milwaukee, 
Mass. 

Winthrop  Stephenson  Greene,  Worcester, 
Mass. 

Wilmot  Clyde  Lippincott,  Augusta,  Me. 

Willliam  Joseph  Nixon,  East  Rochester, 
N.  H. 

Albert  Elisha  Parkhurst,  Presque  Island, 
Me. 


College  Botes 

Fenley,  '97,   was  at  college  last  week. 
Bryant,  '12,  was  at  home  a  few  days  last  week. 
Kent,  '12,  and  Fisher,  '10,  were  in  Gorham,  Sun- 
day. 

C.  T.  Hawes,  '76,  visited  his  Alma  Mater,  Sat- 
urday. 

James  Philoon,  '13,  spent  Sunday  at  his  home  in 
Auburn. 

Sewall,  '13  entertained  his  brother,  Saturday  and 
Sunday. 

Adjourns  were  given  after  the  initiations, 
Wednesday. 

Hazleton,  '13,  entertained  his  sister  Saturday  of 
last  week. 

R.  W.  Smith  has  been  on  the  campus  a  few  days 
this  week. 

Oxnard,  '11,  was  the  guest  of  friends  in  Auburn 
over    Sunday. 

Coombs,  '00,  attended  the  Bowdoin-Exeter  game 
last   Saturday. 

John  Wentworth,  '09,  has  entered  the  Harvard 
Medical   School. 

Classes  from  the  Boothba"  schools  visited  the 
college,   Saturday. 

D.  J.  Ready  of  Clark  College,  attended  the  Exe- 
ter game,   Saturday. 

Pendleton,  'go,  refereed  the  Harvard-Maine  at 
Cambridge   last   Saturday. 

Fred  Wiggin,  '13,  entertained  his  father  and 
mother  Friday  of  last  week. 


Boynton,  '10,   returned  to  college  this  week  and 

reported   for   football  practice  Tuesday. 

Bryant  Moulton,  '13,  has  been  obliged  to  return 
home  on  account  of  a  bronchial  trouble. 

Byles,  '11,  occupied  the  pulpit  of  the  North 
Street   Baptist   church   of  Bath,    Sunday. 

W.  H.  Curtis,  '11,  preached  at  Phippsburg  Sun- 
day filling  the  pulpit  of  C.  L.   Stevens,  '09. 

Mrs.  Edward  Abbott  has  been  working  on  the 
Abbott  collection  in  the  library  this  week. 

The  first  recitation  on  Astronomy  I.  and  the 
first   observation   were    held    Monday   night. 

Commander  Peary  was  unable  to  attend  the  Exe- 
ter  game,  Saturday.     Mrs.  Peary  and  daughter  were  -^ 
at  the  game. 

McFarland,  '11,  returned  to  college  the  first  of 
the  week  and  will  resume  his  duties  as  Managing 
Editor  of  the  Orient  next  week. 

Hon.  Asher  Hinds  will  speak  in  Memorial  Hall, 
Friday  night,  on  the  House  of  Representatives,  under 
the   auspices   of   the   Good   Government   Club. 

The  football  team  left  this  morning  on  the  10.50 
for  Worcester  arriving  at  5.52  this  afternoon,  and 
are    quartered    at   the   Loring   Hotel. 

A  large  number  of  men  are  planning  to  take 
in  the  Bates-Colby  game  at  Lewiston  to-morrow  and 
thus  get  a  line  on  the  strength  of  the  two  teams. 

Prof,  and  Mrs.  Hutchins  gave  an  informal  recep- 
tion to  the  members  of  the  faculty  and  those  con- 
nected with  the  college  in  the  Physics  laboratory, 
Saturday   evening. 

The  Freshman-Sophomore  football  game  will  not 
be  played  as  usual  on  the  Saturday  before  Thanks- 
giving on  account  of  the  Tufts  game  at  Portland. 
The    date   will   be  announced   later. 

Coach  Ross  McClave  has  suggested  that  better 
football  would  be  the  result  of  moving  the  goal 
posts  back  15  j'ards  and  changing  the  scoring  of  a 
field  goal  from  3  back  to  4  points. 

The  first  mass-meeting  of  the  year  was  held  in 
Memorial  Hall,  Saturday  night,  for  the  Exeter 
game.  Profs.  Fairchild,  Ham,  and  Robinson, 
Coach    McCIave    and    Capt.    Newman    spoke. 

Harry  C.  Chapman,  '06,  a  former  captain  of  the 
football  team,  has  been  promoted  from  the  New 
England  Telephone  Office  at  Lewiston  to  a  responsi- 
ble position  in  the  Worcester,  Mass.,  District. 

The  officers  of  the  Musical  Clubs  this  year  are : 
Harold  E.  Weeks,  '10,  Manager;  J.  L.  Brummett, 
'11,  Assistant  Manager;  Alfred  Stone,  'lo,  leader 
of  the  Glee  Club;  and  Stanley  Pierce,  '11,  leader  of 
the    Mandolin    Club. 

Wandtke,  '10,  Purington,  '11,  Stanwood,  '08,  and 
Coach  Rawson  played  on  the  A-Iechanic  Falls'  base- 
ball team  Saturday,  against  the  All-Maine  team. 
The  game  was  played  at  Mechanic  Falls  and  resulted 
in  a  score  of  5-3  in  favor  of  the  home  team. 

William  J.  Curtis  of  the  Class  of  '75,  delivered 
the  annual  address  before  the  Alabama  State  Bar 
Association.  His  subject  was,  "The  History  of  the 
Purchase  by  the  United  States  of  the  Panama 
Canal;  the  Manner  of  the  Payment  and  Distribution 
of  the  Proceeds  of  the  Same."  The  article  is  the 
most  authentic  account  of  this  much  discussed 
transaction. 


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President  Hyde's  house  is  receiving  a  fresh  coat 
of  paint. 

At  Tufts  this  year  there  is  to  be  a  Freshman 
course  by  President  Hamilton  and  members  of  the 
faculty  for  the  purpose  of  instructing  students  on 
the  actual  meaning  and  work  of  the  various  profes- 
sions, and  what  is  necessary  in  preparation  for 
them. 

Bowdoin  men  may  be  interested  in  the  character- 
ization of  her  famous  alumnus,  Thomas  B.  Reed, 
'60,  given  by  E.  L.  Godkin  in  his  lately  published 
■'Life  and  Letters."  Writing  Nov.  19,  1899,  Godkin 
says :  "A  few  days  ago  I  dined  beside  Reed,  the 
Speaker  of  the  last  Congress  and  the  one  statesman 
remaining  in  Washington."  Again  Godkin  writes 
of  Reed,  "He  makes  a  distinct  impression  of  power 
and  is  full  of  sardonic  humor  which  suits  his  face 
very  well.  It  is  so  pleasant  to  meet  a  mature, 
rational  man." 

The  third  meeting  of  the  Freshman  Class  was 
held  in  the  gymnasium.  October  14th,  at  7  p.m.,  for 
the  purpose  of  nominating  the  officers  for  the  ensu- 
ing year.  This  meeting  was  presided  over  by  the 
temporary  chairman,  L  B.  Knight.  The  following 
is  the  list  of  nominations : 

President— L  B.  Knight,  P.  H.  Douglas. 

Vice-President — D.  E.  Gardner,  L.  E.  Jones,  S.  F. 
Dole. 

Secretary — C.  Greenwood,  M.  H.  Busfield,  P.  H. 
Emery,    E.    W.    McNealy. 

Treasurer — W.  J.  Nixon,  L.  B.  Shackford,  A.  B. 
Stetson. 

The  nominations  are  to  be  voted  on  October  21st. 


IN  MEMORIAM 

Hall  of  Thet.\  of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon, 
October  7,   1909. 

Whereas,  God  in  His  infinite  wisdom  has  seen  fit 
to  receive  unto  himself  the  spirit  of  our  loyal  friend 
and  brother,  Thomas  Francis  Shehan,  Jr.,  of  the 
Class  of  1909.  we  take  this  opportunity  to  voice  our 
own  keenest  grief  and  to  extend  to  the  members  of 
bis  bereaved  family  our  sincerest  sympathy. 

Alfred  Wheeler  Stone, 
Franz  Upham  Burkett, 


For  the  Chapter. 


In  the  death  of  Brother  George  Dudley  Martin 
of  the  Class  of  1904  Beta  Sigma  of  Beta  Theta  Pi 
sustains  a  great  loss.  During  his  short  life  he  was 
an  active  and  interested  worker  in  college  and  fra- 
tiernity  circles.  The  chapter  desires  this  brief  trib- 
ute to  show  in  part  the  deep  feeling  and  affection  in 
which  he  was  always  held. 

G.  Cony  Weston, 
J.  Leslie  Brummett, 
Lowell  S.  Foote, 

For  the  Chapter. 


REPORT  OF  TRACK  MANAGER  FOR  THE  SEASON 
OF  1908=1909 

Receipts. 
Balance  received  from  1907-1908  management,  $92  78 

Loan   from  Athletic   Council 62  00 

Back  Subscriptions  and  Athletic  Goods 12  00 

Tufts'  share  of  Cross  Country  expenses 24  50 

B.  A.  A.   Guarantee   50  00 

Board  of  Cross  Country  Men 23  25 

Indoor   Meet    235  88 

M.   I.  A.   A.   Dividend 73  60 

Interscholastic  Meet    142  71 

Unclassified     11  10 

Alumni    Subscriptions    284  oo 

Undergraduate    Subscriptions    568  25 

Athletic   Goods    92  87 

Total  Receipts    $1,672  94 

Expenditures. 

Back   bills    $108  12 

Cross   Country  trip 56  10 

Board   Track    S3  83 

Rubbing     '.  29  06 

Repayment  of  Loan    62  00 

M.  I.  A.  A.  Dues 15  00 

N.  E.  I.  A.  A.  Dues 15  00 

I.  C.  A.  A.  A.  A.  Dues 10  00 

Board     8600 

Liniment   and   Drugs 31  80 

Postage     4  27 

Printing     55  60 

Whittier   Field    5  07 

Express    8  OS 

Athletic    Goods    131  18 

Indoor    Meet    48  65 

Freshman    Relay    4  30 

Miscellaneous     37  S4 

B.   A.  A.  Trip yy  15 

M.    I.   A.   A.  Trip 188  50 

N.  .E.  I.  A.  A.  Trip 209  24 

I.  C.  A.  A.  A.  A.  Trip 73  05 

Interscholastic    Meet     70  10 

Coaching     2S3  00 

Total   Expenditures    $1,632  61 

Assets. 

Total  Receipts   $1,672  94 

Total   Expenditures    1,632  61 

Cash   Balance   on   hand $40  33 

Owed  for  Athletic  Goods  17  80 

Unpaid   Subscriptions  by  Undergraduates.  .        yy  25 

Total  owed  by  men  in  college $9S  OS 

Cash  on  hand   40  33 

Total   Assets    $135  38 

I  have  examined  the  books  and  accounts  of  the 
Manager  of  the  Track  Association  and  find  them 
correctly  kept  and  properly  vouched.  The  cash  bal- 
ance  is  $40.33. 

Barrett  Potter,  for  the  Auditors. 

October  7,  1909. 


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Hlumni  H)epartment 


'6 1. — Granville  Mellen  Thurlow  died  sud- 
denly of  heart  disease  at  the  residence  of  his 
brother  in  Brookline,  Mass.,  on  October  12th. 
Mr.  Thurlow  was  born  at  Poland,  Me.,  Oct. 
3,  1838,  was  prepared  for  college  at  the  Lew- 
iston  Falls  Academy  and  graduated  with  hon- 
ors. He  taught  for  two  years  in  the  Bath 
High  School  and  then  became  principal  of 
Lincoln  Academy,  a  position  he  held  for  sev- 
enteen years.  Resigning  to  attend  to  the  Set- 
tlement of  the  estate  of  his  father-in-law,  he 
entered  upon  a  business  career  and  was 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  elastic  web- 
bings at  Boston,  Mass.,  from  1881  to  1893  and 
subsequently  at  Newport,  Rhode  Island,  where 
the  closing  years  of  his  life  were  spent.  Mr. 
Thurlow  married  22  June,  1870,  at  Damaris- 
cotta,  Me.,  Abbie  F.,  daughter  of  Hon.  B.  D. 
Metcalf.  Their  only  child  is  Miss  Jennie 
Metcalf  Thurlow. 

'62. — A  recent  issue  of  the  Boston  Tran- 
script contains  a  notable  tribute  in  verse  to 
Commander  Peary  from  the  pen  of  Dr.  Isaac 
Bassett  Choate. 

'86. — Professor  Charles  A.  Davis  of  the  U. 
S.  Geological  Survey,  made  recently  a  special 
examination  of  the  peat  bog  in  Orrington, 
Me.,  where  efforts  are  now  being  made  to  pro- 
duce fuel  at  less  cost  than  coal. 

'97. — Rev.  Frederick  K.  Ellsworth  of  East 
Machias  has  accepted  a  call  to  the  Congre- 
gational Church  at  Wells,  Me. 

"97. — The  Secretary  of  the  alumni  is  desir- 
ous of  obtaining  the  present  address  of  Mr. 
Norman  C.  Shordan,  who  is  no  longer  at 
Polk,  Penn. 

'05. — Stuart  O.  Symonds,  while  engaged 
in  target  practice,  met  with  a  nearly  fatal  acci- 
dent September  14,  being  shot  in  the  head  by 
a  discharge  from  his  revolver. 

'06. — Philip  F.  Chapman  was  admitted  to 
the  Cumberland  County  bar  this  month  and 
will  practice  his  profession  in  Portland. 

'06. — Elmer  Perry  was  recently  admitted 
to  the  Cumberland  County  bar  and  will  prac- 
tice his   profession   in  his   native  city. 

'09. — Rev.  A.  S.  Hiwale  sails  for  Liver- 
pool from  Boston  on  Oct.  19th  and  after  a  few 
weeks  in  London,  will  proceed  directly  to 
India,  where  he  will  begin  his  labors  as  a  mis- 
sionary in  December. 


REPORT  OF  BASEBALL  MANAGER 

Receipts  for  Season  of  1909. 

Fall   Subscriptions    $203  10 

Minstrel   Show    231  90 

Princeton    Guarantee    loo  00 

Fordham    Guarantee 75  00 

New   York  University  Guarantee 40  00 

Brown   Guarantee    (rain) 50  00 

Andover    Guarantee    (rain) 32  So 

Amherst    Guarantee    80  00 

Pine  Tree  Gate  Receipts 81  00 

Tufts   Gate   Receipts 114  20 

Dartmouth    Guarantee    175  00 

Maine    Gate    Receipts 168  68 

Tufts    Guarantee     80  00 

Hebron    Guarantee     20  00 

Colby    Guarantee    50  00 

Maine   Guarantee    75  00 

Colby   Gate    Receipts 103  50 

Bates   Gate   Receipts 293  10 

Cony    High    Guarantee 25  00 

Ivy   Gate   Receipts 157  75 

Subscriptions     569  og 

$2,724  73 

E.XPENDITURES    FOR    SeaSOK    OF    I9O9. 

Back  bills    $I99  69 

Minstrel   Show    176  18 

New  York  Trip 485  09 

Andover  Trip    67  70 

Amherst  Trip    156  73 

Pine   Tree  Trip    27  35 

Tufts   Guarantee    80  00 

Dartmouth    Trip    199  70 

Work  on   Diamond 8  00 

Maine    Guarantee     75  00 

Tufts    Trip    8g  20 

Hebron  Trip    17  75 

Maine   Trip    75  05 

Colby   Trip    45  00 

Colby    Guarantee    . SO  00 

Bates    Trip    " 29  90 

Cony   High   Trip    20  35 

Printing     19  SO 

Athletic   Goods    193  30 

Coach's   board   and    room 63  00 

Coaching     505  50 

$2,583  99 

10  per  cent,  to  Athletic  Council $54  44 

Umpires     42  00 

Incidentals    44  3° 

$2,724  73 
Respectfully  submitted, 

S.  Sewall  Webster,  Mgr. 

Association    is    owed    (approximately) $25800 

Association  owes   (approximately)    240  00 

Bal.     (approx.) $18  00 

I  find  the  foregoing  report  of  the  Baseball  Man- 
ager is  correct,  and  properly  vouched. 

Barrett  Potter,  for  the  Auditors. 
September  28,  1909. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  OCTOBER  29,  1909 


NO.   15 


BOWDOIN  S,  HOLY  CROSS  0 

Bowdoin  evened  up  the  count  with  Holy 
Cross  last  Saturday  by  winning  from  her,  5 
to  o  in  one  of  the  roughest  and  most  desper- 
ately fought  games  in  which  the  team  has  ever 
participated.  It  was  the  first  defeat  sustained 
by  Holy  Cross  on  her  home  grounds  this 
season. 

Bowdoin  started  in  strong  and  after  Holy 
Cross  had  failed  to  gain  on  receiving  the  ball 
from  the  kick-off  the  dashing  work  of  the 
Bowdoin  backs  carried  the  pigskin  to  the  home 
team's  5-yard  line,  where,  however,  she 
braced  and  took  the  ball  on  downs.  But 
Bowdoin  was  not  to  be  denied.  Taking  Holy 
Cross'  punt,  and  beginning  again  a  steady 
succession  of  rapid  gains,  Smith,  Kern,  and 
Farnham  tore  through  the  line  and  circled  the 
ends  again  and  again,  and  by  the  aid  of  splen- 
did team  work  carried  the  ball  close  to  the 
line,  whence  Kern  took  it  over.  Smith  failed 
to  kick  the  goal  from  a  difficult  angle.  The 
half  ended  soon  after  with  the  ball  in  Bow- 
doin's  possession  on  Holy  Cross'  25-yard  line. 

Holy  Cross  came  back  for  the  second  half 
determined  to  win  at  any  cost  and  immediately 
started  to  use  rough  methods.  In  this  Bow- 
doin was  played  to  a  standstill,  but  not  once 
did  Holy  Cross  get  within  the  danger  zone, 
fumbling  at  critical  periods  or  losing  the  ball 
on  downs.  Neither  goal  was  threatened  in 
this   half. 

Bowdoin  relied  on  straight  football,  while 
Holy  Cross  succeeded  once  in  getting  oS  a 
sort  of  combination  double-forward  pass. 
Bowdoin  gained  twice  as  much  ground  as 
her  opponent,  and  showed  strong  team  work. 
Owing  to  disappointment  in  gate  receipts  the 
Bowdoin  management  lost  at  least  $150  by  the 
trip. 

The  summary : 
Bowdoin  Holy  Cross 

E.    Smith,    l.e r.e.,    Hegarty 

Newman,  l.t r.t.,  Krafts 

Pratt,   l.g r.g.,    Sweeney 

Jackson,   l.g. 

Boynton,   c c,   Monahan 

Hastings,    r.g l.g.,    Finn 

Houston,  r.g. 

l.t.,  Davitt 
l.t.,  Tobin 


Crosby,     r.t l.t.,    Collins 

Hurley,    r.e I.e.,    Daly 

I.e.,  Joy 

Wiggin,    q.b q.b,,    Mahoney 

F.    Smith,   l.h.b r.h.b.,   Dunn 

Ballard,   l.h.b r.h.b.,  Daly 

Farnham,    r.h.b l.h.b.,   Jones 

Kern,    f.b f.b.,   Tobin 

f.b.,  Moriarty 
f.b.,  Schied 
Score  :  Bowdoin — 5.  Touchdown — Kern.  Um- 
pire— Orr  of  Harvard.  Referee — Morse  of  Dart- 
mouth. Field  Judge — Potter  of  Williams.  Head 
Linesman — Butler  of  Worcester  High.  Time — 20m. 
halves. 


WESTBROOK  SEMINARY  16,  BOWDOIN  SECOND  0 

Westbrook  Seminary  sprang  a  surprise  last 
Saturday  by  defeating  Bowdoin  2d  on  the 
seminary  grounds,  16-0.  Bowdoin  started  in 
with  a  rush  and  by  steady  line  plunges,  chiefly 
by  Stevens,  worked  the  ball  to  within  a  yard 
of  Seni's  goal  and  were  there  held  for  downs. 
Then  the  Seminary  settled  down  to  business 
and  scored  three  touchdowns. 

Both  feams  used  open  play  a  good  deal, 
gaining  considerable  ground  by  fake  punts 
and  open  formations.  The  forward  pass  was 
also  worked  successfully  several  times. 

The  individual  star  for  Bowdoin  was  Capt. 
Stevens  whose  ofifensive  and  defensive  play 
was  one  of  the  features  of  the  game.  Doug- 
lass, Purington  and  Bosworth  also  played 
strongly.  Drew,  Walsh  and  Murphy  were 
conspicuous  for  the  Seminary. 

The  summary: 
Westbrook  Bowdoin 

Otis,    l.e r.e.,    D.   Weeks,    Marston 

Harmon,    l.t r.t.,   E.   Weeks 

Houghton,   l.g r.g.,   Sanborn 

Cook,    c c,     Simpson 

Doe,    r.g l.g..    Cowan 

Drew    (Capt.),   r.e l.t,   Douglass 

Lafifin,    r.e I.e.,    Wood 

Green,  q.b q.b.,  Brummett 

Murphy,   l.h.b r.h.b.,   Bosworth 

Walsh,    r.h.b l.h.b.,   Purington 

Wheeler,   f.b f.b.    (Capt.),   Stevens 

Score:  Westbrook,  16;  Bowdoin,  0.  Touch- 
downs— Drew,  Wheeler,  Walsh.  Goal  from  touch- 
down— Murphy.  Referee — Holmes  of  Westbrook. 
Umpire — Knight  of  Bowdoin.  Field  Judge — Leigh. 
Timers — Weir,  Portland,  Berry,  Bowdoin.  Lines- 
men— Howe,  Westbrook ;  Marsh,  Bowdoin.  Time — 
25-  and  20-minute  halves. 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


PROF.  FILES'  TRIP  TO  EUROPE 

During  the  past  summer  vacation.  Prof. 
Files  and  family  enjoyed  a  long  motor  trip 
through  England,  Scotland,  France,  Germany 
and  the  Alps.  The  trip  must  have  been  very 
delightful,  as  is  shown  by  the  interesting  itin- 
erary, which  Prof.  Files  has  kindly  given  to 
the  Orient. 

"Our  party  left  Liverpool  on  the  28th  of 
August  and  rode  northward  through  Preston 
and  Lancaster  to  Grasmere  in  the  English 
Lakes,  which  offers  a  convenient  center  for 
visiting  the  region.  Then  northward  again 
for  several  days  by  way  of  Keswick,  Penrith, 
and  Carlisle  to  Dumfries.  Here  one  begins  to 
travel  in  the  land  of  Burns  which  continues 
northward  through  Sanquhar,  Cumnock, 
Mauchlin  to  Ayr.  This  whole  region  is  inter- 
esting to  one  who  is  fond  of  the  Scotch  bard. 

From  this  place  the  road  leads  almost 
directly  north  to  Glasgow  and  along  the  banks 
of  the  Clyde  to  Dumbarton,  thence  along  the 
shore  of  Loch  Lomond,  over  the  high  land 
along  Loch  to  Aberfeldy  and  Pitlochry.  Here 
one  is  at  the  very  doorway  of  the  Scotch  high- 
lands which  offers  a  highway  over  the  Killi- 
crankie  and  Drumochter  Passes  to  Kingussie 
and  Inverness, — all  of  which  is  historic 
ground. 

From  Inverness  a  beautiful  road  leads  to 
Aberdeen,  Dundee  and  then  across  the  Firth 
of  Forth  to  Edinburgh.  From  Edinburgh  we 
rode  southward  through  Berwick  and  New 
Castle  to  the  cathedral  towns  of  Durham, 
York,  Lincoln  and  Peterborough.  From  the 
last  place  we  went  southward  to  Waltham 
Cross,  then  riding  to  the  east  of  London  in 
order  to  avoid  the  crowded  city  we  crossed 
the  Thames  at  Tilbury  Docks  and  went  by 
way  of  Canterbury  to  Folkestone.  Here  we 
took  the  car  by  boat  to  Boulogne  in  France. 

The  route  which  we  chose  in  France  in- 
cluded Normandy,  Brittany  and  the  chateaux 
region  of  the  Loire  and  included  the  cities  of 
Amiens,  Beuvais,  Rouen,  Honfleur  and  Caen. 
Thence  through  Bayeux,  St.  L6,  Avranches  to 
Mont  St.  Michel  and  St.  Malo ;  southward  to 
Vannes;  and  then  eastward  to  Nantes,  Angers 
and  Tours,  which  is  the  most  convenient  cen- 
ter for  visiting  the  Chateaux  of  the  Loire. 

From  this  point  our  route  led  us  direct  to 
Germany  by  way  of  Blois,  Orleans  and  Ver- 
dun to  Metz  in  Lorraine ;  then  north  to  Lux- 
emburg, Trier,  down  the  Mosel  river  to  Cob- 
lenz.  From  this  place  we  went  to  Wiesbaden, 
Frankfort  on  the  Main,  the  university  towns 


of  Marburg  and  Gottingen  and  still  farther  to 
the  north,  to  the  '  Harz  Mountains ;  thence 
eastward  to  Halle,  Leipzig  and  Dresden. 

Leaving  Dresden  our  road  led  us  through 
Bohemia  by  way  of  Prague,  Budweis  and 
Linz  to  Salzburg  which  is  the  eastern  gate- 
way of  the  Austrian  Tyrol  and  here  we  spent 
two  weeks  driving  through  the  beautiful  val- 
leys and  over  the  still  more  beautiful  passes. 
We  left  the  Tyrol  by  way  of  the  Arlberg  Pass 
which  is  6,000  feet  high  and  leads  out  into 
Germany  by  way  of  Bregenz  and  Lindau. 

From  Lindau  our  path  was  very  direct 
leading  over  the  Black  Forest  to  Strassburg 
and  Metz,  then  to  Paris  by  way  of  Verdun  and 
Chalons.  From  Paris  we  took  the  favorite 
motor  road  through  Beauvais,  Amiens  and 
Abbeville  to  Boulogne.  Crossing  the  English 
Channel  again  from  Boulogne  to  Folkestone 
we  rode  along  the  south  coast  of  England 
through  Hastings,  Brighton,  Portsmouth  to 
Exeter  in  Devon,  which  is  the  center  of  a  very 
beautiful  region. 

From  Exeter  we  went  northward  through 
Bristol,  Gloucester,  Tewkesbury,  Worcester  to 
Shrewsbury  (judging  from  the  names,  one 
could  easily  imagine  himself  in  Massachu- 
setts)' and  thence  through  Llangollen,  Bettws- 
y-coed  to  Carnavon.  Our  last  few  days  were 
spent  on  the  north  coast  of  Wales,  Chester 
and  Liverpool,  from  which  place  we  returned 
to  Boston  on  the  iSth  of  September. 

The  journey  covered  the  total  distance  of 
6,200  miles ;  and  with  what  good  fortune,  one 
may  judge  from  the  fact  that  no  part  of  our 
car  required  either  repairing  or  replacing. 
One  single  puncture  caused  by  a  horse  shoe 
nail  which  ran  into  one  of  our  forward  tires, 
constituted  the  total  damage  to  our  car  and 
the  only  delay  on  our  long  journey." 


BOWDOIN  MEDICAL  SCHOOL  OPENS 

The  Medical  School  of  Maine  began  its 
ninetieth  course  of  lectures  Thursday,  Oct.  21. 
The  school  has  better  clinical  facilities  this 
year  than  it  has  ever  had  before.  In  addition 
to  the  clinical  material  furnished  at  the  Maine 
General  Hospital,  other  instruction  will  be 
furnished  this  year  by  the  Maine  Eye  and  Ear 
Infirmary,  the  Portland  Charitable  Dispensary, 
the  Portland  Tuberculosis  class,  the  Children's 
Hospital,  Female  Orphan  Asylum,  the  Floly 
Innocents  Home,  and  the  Maine  School  for 
the  Deaf. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


t23 


New  instructors  have    been    secured    this 
year.     Their  names  are  : 

Philip  Pickering  Thompson  A.B.  M.D., 

Assistant  Demonstrator  in  Anatomy. 
Philip  Webb  Davis,  A.B.,  M.D., 

Clinical  Assistant  in  Surgery. 
William  Moran,  M.D., 

Clinical  Assistant  in  Diseases  of  the  Eye. 
Alfred  William  Haskell,  M.D., 

Clinical  Assistant  in  Surgery. 
Ernest  Woodbury  Files,  A.B.,  M.D., 

Clinical  Assistant  in  Medicine. 
Francis  Joseph  Welch,  A.B.,  M.D., 

Clinical  Assistant  in  Medicine. 

The  new  men  are : 

1913 
Harold  Carleton  Arey  A.B.,  Camden, 
Me. ;  Ezra  Ralph  Bridge,  A.B.,  Brunswick, 
Me. ;  William  Edgar  Buck,  Portland,  Me. ; 
Wyvern  Almon  Coombs,  Vinalhaven,  Me. ; 
Francis  Sherman  Echols,  Hartford,  Conn. ; 
Isaac  Louis  Gordon,  Lincoln,  Me. ;  Carlisle 
Royal  Gould,  Somersworth,  N.  H. ;  Ridgley 
Fernald  Hanscom,  New  London,  Conn. ; 
Reni  Ricker-Lafleche,  Caribou,  Me. ;  Wil- 
fred Nichols  McGilvery,  Lewiston,  Me. ; 
Harry  Daniel  McNeil,  Bangor,  Me. ;  Chesley 
Wilbur  Nelson,  A.B.,  West  Southport,  Me.; 
William  Bridgham  Nulty,  Buckfield,  Me. ; 
Edward  Warren  Paine,  Winslow,  Me. ;  Edward 
Russell  Roberts,  Portland  Me.;  Harold  Dan- 
forth  Ross,  Phillips,  Me. ;  Herbert  Charles 
Scribner,  Bangor,  Me. ;  Philip  Sheridan  Sul- 
livan, Biddeford,  Me. ;  Winfield  Benjamin 
Trickey,  East  Corinth,  Me. ;  Francis  David 
Walker,  Waterville,  Me. ;  Everett  Stevens 
Winslow,  Portland,  Me. ;  Harry  David  With- 
erill,  Cornish,  N.  H. ;  Samuel  Lee  Woodman, 
Winstock,  Me. 


ANNIE  TALBOT  COLE  LECTURES 

The  Annie  Talbot  Cole  Lectures  for  1909- 

1910  are  to  be  given   in   Memorial   Hall   on 

V    Nov.  4  and  Nov.    11   by    the    Hon.    Samuel 

'     McCall,  LL.D.,  of  Winchester,   Mass.     They 

begin  at  8  p.m.  and  all  alumni  and  friends  of 

the  college,  as  well  as  the  undergraduates,  are 

•invited  to  attend.     His  subjects  have  not  been 

announced  as  yet. 

Dr.  McCall  is  a    graduate    of    Dartmouth 
College  in  the  Class  of  1874  and  was  admitted 


to  the  bar  in  1876.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Massachusetts  House  of  Representatives  for 
three  years  and  since  1893  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  National  Congress.  Throughout 
his  congressional  career  he  has  been  a  promi- 
nent Republican  in  the  House  although  he  has 
been  distinguished  for  his  independent  views. 
He  was  highly  honored  recently  by  being 
offered  the  presidency  of  Dartmouth  College, 
an  office  which  he  declined.  His  popularity  in 
his  congressional  district  in  Massachusetts  is 
so  great  that  in  one  or  two  instances  he  has 
been  met  by  no  opposing  candidate. 


CALENDAR 

Saturday,  October  30 
8.00    Football  Team  leaves   for  Waterville. 
2.30    Bowdoin  vs.   Colby  on  Alumni  Field,  Wa- 
terville. 

Bates   vs.   University   of   Maine   at   Orono. 

Sunday,  October  31 

10.45  Rev.  J.  Langdon  Quimby,  D.D.,  of  Gardi- 
ner, will  preach  in  the  Church  on  the  Hill. 

S-OO  Sunday  Chapel.  Conducted  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Quiraby.    Music  by  the  double  quartette. 

Monday,  November   i 
2.30-4.30    Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
3.30    Football  Practice  on  Whibtier  Field. 
4.00     Cross  Country  Squad  leaves  gym, 

Tuesday,  November  2 
2.30-4.30    Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
3.30     Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
4.00     Cross  Country  Squad  leaves  gym. 

Wednesday,  November  3 

2.30-4.30    Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
3.30    Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
4.00    Cross  Country  Squad  leaves  gym. 

Thursday,  November  4 

2.30-4.30    Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

3.30     Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

7.00  Kenneth  Latourette,  Travelling  Secretary  of 
the  Student  Volunteer  Movement,  will  speak  in  the 
Christian  Association  Room. 

8.00  First  of  Annie  Talbot  Cole  Lectures  in 
Memorial  Hall. 

Friday,  November  S 

2.30-4.30    Track  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

3.30    Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

4.00     Cross  Country  Squad  leaves  gym. 

Saturday,  November  6 
2,30     Bowdoin  vs.  Bates  on  Garcelon  Field,  Lew- 
iston. 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


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OCTOBER  29,   1909 


.171.    D     J  ■    n        There  is  a  common  saying 

Why  Bowdoin  Does    .^j^^^  .^  .^  ^  ^-^^  ^^^  ^,^0 

Not  Want  a  Commons  j^^^^^  ^^^^  ^^  .^  ^^U  ^^ 

Every  little  while  somebody  comes  out  with 
■the  idea  that  Bowdoin  College  is  right  on  the 
"primrose  road  to  the  everlasting  bonfire," 
and  that  its  only  salvation  is  a  college  com- 
mons. The  argument  for  a  commons,  viz., 
that  it  would  tend  towards  a  more  perfect 
union,  is  good  as  far  as  it  goes  but  it  does  not 
go  to  any  great  depth,  and  is  entirely  eclipsed 
by  the  negative  side  of  the  question. 

Bowdoin  College  is  too  small  an  institu- 
tion to  support  a  commons,  and  does  not  want 
a  commons  for  two  reasons.  In  the  first  place 
it  would  not  be  a  financial  success  and  in  the 
second  place  the  students  would  not  be  satis- 
fied. These  are  rather  sweeping  statements  to 
make,  but  we  feel  that  they  can  be  verified  by 
the  experiences  of  other  institutions  and  after 
a  fairly  thorough  .investigation  of  the  com- 
mons question,  we  have  yet  to  find  a  single 


college  commons  which  is  a  financial  success 
or  which  gives  satisfaction. 

It  may  be  a  surprise  to  many  to  know  that 
Bowdoin  once  maintained  a  commons,  that  it 
was  a  financial  failure  and  was  abolished. 
Upon  the  records  on  file  at  the  Treaurer's  of- 
fice appear  the  following: 

Sept.  5,  1826.  Voted  to  erect  a  building 
to  be  used  as  a  college  commons  or  eating  club 
for  the  students,  and  to  apply  to  the  state  leg- 
islature for  aid. 

Sept.  2,  1829.  Voted  that  Joseph  H. 
McKeen  act  as  a  committee  to  procure  or  erect 
a  suitable  building  for  a  college  commons, 
$1,750.00  to  be  appropriated  for  the  same. 
(The  building  erected  is  the  low  brick  build- 
ing on  Bath  Street  now  used  as  the  carpen- 
ter shop.) 

Sept.  1834.  Voted  that  the  sum  of  $120.- 
00  be  payed  to  Joseph  H.  McKeen  in  full  for 
his  claim  on  the  college  for  losses  on  account 
of  college  commons. 

Sept.  1849.  Voted  that  for  the  next 
course  of  medical  lectures  the  commons  hall 
be  used  as  a  lecture  room. 

Bearing  on  this  question.  The  Tech,  the 
official  organ  of  The  Massachusetts  Institute 
of  Technology  publishes  the  following  edito- 
rial in  a  recent  issue : 

"The  fact  the  Union  dining  room  is  losing 
money  to  such  an  extent  that  there  is  a  possi- 
bility of  its  being  closed  will  doubtless  come 
as  a  surprise  to  many.  The  principal  reason 
for  this  state  of  affairs  seems  to  be  a  lack  of 
interest  on  the  part  of  the  students.  There 
are  some  men  who  have  not  even  tried  the 
Union  this  year  and  there  are  many  who  have 
condemned  it  because  of  the  fact  that  every- 
thing was  not  to  his  liking  at  the  beginning  of 
the  year." 

CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION  MEETING 

The  Christian  Association  Meeting  on 
Nov.  4  will  be  addressed  by  Kenneth  Latour- 
ette,  Yale,  '06,  Secretary  for  the  Student  Vol- 
unteer Movement  in  the  Eastern  colleges. 

"Ken"  Latourette  was  for  two  years  Bible 
Study  secretary  of  Yale,  where  he  had  charge 
of  1,000  Yale  men  engaged  in  this  work.  He 
is  now  under  an  appointment  to  a  Professor- 
ship in  Yale  College  in  China.  He  has 
spoken  in  nearly  every  college  in  New  Eng- 
land, although  he  now  comes  to  Bowdoin  for 
the  first  time. 


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SUNDAY  CHAPEL 

President  Hyde  conducted  Sunday  chapel, 
using  the  twelfth  chapter  of  Matthew  as  his 
text,  "Freely  as  ye  have  received,  freely  give." 
He  spoke  of  the  criticism  of  college  affairs 
that  has  been  made  at  the  recent  inaugura- 
tions of  two  college  presidents.  The  speakers 
have  criticized  the  administration  of  the  col- 
leges, the  teachers,  and  the  students.  The 
first  two  criticisms  were  not  of  so  much  conse- 
quence as  the  last.  For,  when  we  consider 
the  wealth  and  labor  expended,  and  the  staff 
employed,  it  does  not  seem  that  the  average 
student  embraces  his  opportunities  during  his 
four  years'  course. 

Three  remedies  were  proposed.  Presi- 
dent Lowell  proposes  competition.  "In 
America,  we  have  no  scrutinizing  and  exam- 
ining as  in  England,  a  kind  of  competition 
which  tends  to  raise  scholarship."  President 
Wilson  says,  "Do  for  your  college  intellectu- 
ally, what  you  would  do  physically."  Cherish 
and  foster  a  sentiment  that  it  is  unworthy  not 
to  do  the  best  intellectually."  President  Eliot 
says,  "Do  something  for  humanity."  There 
can  be  nothing  so  fatal  as  giving  without 
receiving,  or  receiving  without  giving.  As 
Jesus  expressed  it,  "Freely  ye  have  received, 
freely  give." 

The  relation  must  be  reciprocal.  In  the 
fraternities,  in  the  college,  and  in  life,  each 
man  receives  a  benefit,  which  he  must  return 
in  some  way.  If  we  take  these  privileges  as 
a  trust,  as  a  responsibility,  we  come  to  the 
religion  of  Jesus. The  scholar  is  a  lens,  whose 
duty  is  to  gather  and  focus  scattered  rays  of 
light  and  truth,  which  would  otherwise  be 
lost,  and  it  is  his  privilege  to  thus  train  the 
wisdom  of  the  ages  on  the  issues  of  the  times. 


SEVENTY-FIFTH  CONVENTION  OF  DELTA  UPSILON 

On  November  3d  the  75th  convention, 
"The  Diamond  Jubilee"  of  the  Delta  Upsilon 
Fraternity  will  be  called  to  order  at  the  Hotel 
Pirunswick  in  Boston. 

Without  doubt  it  will  be  the  greatest  con- 
vention thus  far  in  the  history  of  the  frater- 
nity. 

Elaborate  plans  have  been  made  for  the 
entertainment  of  the  delegates  by  the  Har- 
vard, Tech.  and  Tufts  Chapters  who  will  act 
as  hosts.  Every  chapter  will  be  represented 
by  large  delegations  of  active  members  and 
alumni.     Gov.    Hughes   of    New   York,    Pres. 


Faunce  of  Brown,  Rev.  Nehemiah  Boynton, 
William  Travers  Jerome  and  Holman  Day  are 
among  the  speakers  at  the  baiiquet,  Friday 
evening. 

The  program  includes  many  side  trips  in 
and  about  Boston,  the  presentation  of  Chap- 
man's "Al  Fooles"  by  the  Harvard  Chapter, 
with  reception  and  dance  following,  a  ban- 
quet at  the  Hotel  Somerset,  and  the  Cornell- 
Harvard  game,  Saturday. 

Wandtke,  '10,  and  Somes,  '11,  will  be  the 
official  delegates  from  the  Bowdoin  Chapter, 
besides  a  large  delegation  which  will  go 
merely  to  enjoy  the  convention. 


DRAMATIC  CLUB 


The  Dramatic  Club  held  a  meeting  Tuesday  night 
to  plan  work  for  the  year.  It  decided  to  organize 
into  a  permanent  association  under  the  name  of 
"Masque  and  Gown."  A  constitution  and  by-laws 
were  drawn  up  and  a  shingle  is  to  be  designed  for 
the  members.  A  person  once  making  the  club  is  to 
remain  a  member  throughout  his  college  course.  The 
club  is  planning  to  give  two  plays  durmg  the  year, 
one  to  take  on  trips,  and  for  a  benefit  performance 
in  Brunswick  to  aid  some  branch  of  athletics,  and 
another  to  play  on  a  larger  scale  at  Ivy  time.  The 
first  play  has  not  been  selected  definitely  yet,  but  will 
be  decided  by  the  end  of  the  week  and  a  call  for 
candidates  will  be  issued  next  Monday  or  Tuesday. 


REPORT  OF  TENNIS  MANAGER 

Receipts 

To  Subscriptions     $285  00 

Goods  bought  and  sold 83  73 

Express   on  goods i  20 

Entrance  fees,   College  tournament 300 

Total   receipts    $372  93 

Expenses. 

By  Trip    to    Waterville $3  OS 

M.  I.  L.  T.  A.  Assn.  Dues 5  00 

Express   on  goods 3  25 

Goods    purchased    130  SI 

Stamps  and  stationery   7  2S 

Trip    to    Portland i  20 

Expenses  to  Longwood SS  2S 

N.  E.  I.  L.  T.  Assn.  Entrance  fees S  00 

Expenses   to   Portland,    May  30th 870 

Mgr.  Amherst  Agricultural  College 12  00 

N.  E.  I.  L,  T.  Assn.  Dues 5  00 

Phone    calls    i  85 

M.  I.  L.  T.  Assn.  Tournament IS  IS 

M.  I.  L.  T.  Assn.  Entrance  fees 4  00 

Cash  balance  to  General  Assn iiS  72 

$372  93 
I  find   the  report   of  the  Tennis   Manager  to  be 
correct,  as  above,  and  properly  vouched.     Cash  bal- 
ance, $115.72. 

Barrett  Potter,  for  the  Auditors. 
September  30,    1909. 


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College  Botes 

Mass-Meeting  at  7  o'clock 

A  rousing  mass-meeting  which  it  is  hoped 
every  fellow  in  college  will  attend,  will  be  held 
at  seven  o'clock  to-night  in  Memorial  Hall. 
There  will  be  music  by  the  band  and  speeches 
by  several  prominent  men.    Everybody  out ! ! ! 

Smith,  '13,  spent  Sunday  in  Portland. 

Hanson  Webster,  '99,  was  on  the  campus,  Tuesday. 

C.  A.  Smith,  '10,  entertained  his  brother  this  week. 

Ira  MIkelsky,  Colby,  '13,  was  on  the  campus, 
Sunday. 

The  Zetes  play  the  Beta  Thetes  Saturday,  at 
football. 

One  hundred  and  five  students  are  enrolled  in 
Economics  I. 

Mr.  Richards  of  Providence  spent  Tuesday  with 
Hathaway,  '12. 

Remi  Lafleche,  Medic  '13,  spent  the  last  week 
with  Weeks,  '10. 

J.  A.  Smith  of  Yale,  has  been  visiting  at  the  Beta 
Theta  Pi  House. 

All  students  must  work  oflf  their  entrance  condi- 
tions before  January. 

Harold  Pratt,  Medic  '12,  is  selling  the  books  to 
medical  students  this  year. 

Several  Maine  men  have  been  visiting  friends  in 
college  during  the  past  week. 

E.  W.  Files,  '02,  is  assistant  professor  of  clinical 
surgery  at  the  Medical  School. 

Hathaway  and  Foss  are  doing  an  extensive  busi- 
ness selling  hot  frankforts  in  the  evening. 

Greenleaf,  '12,  was  usher  at  the  Weislander- 
Cleveland  wedding  at   Portland,  Wednesday. 

Foss,  R.  P.  King,  Gray,  and  Harrington,  are  try- 
ing for  the  football  assistant  managership  this  year. 

The  BrunsTJuick  Record  last  week  devoted  a  page 
to  pictures  of  members  of  the  Bowdoin  football  team. 

A.  W.  Wandtke,  '10,  attended  the  Bates-Colby 
game  at  Lewiston,  Saturday,  as  Coach  McClave's 
representative. 

Copeland  Philoon,  '05,  and  captain  of  the  Bow-- 
doin  Football  Team  in  '04,  is  now  assistant  coach 
at  West  Point. 

L.  B.  Leavitt,  '99,  was  on  the  campus,  Wednesday 
of  last  week.  Mr.  Leavitt  will  open  a  law  office  in 
Wilton  this  fall. 

Frank  Smith  injured  his  left  leg  in  the  Holy 
Cross  game,  but  not  seriously  enough  to  keep  him 
out  of  the  Maine  games. 

The  Brunswick  High  School  baseball  team  played 
the  Opals  on  the  Delta,  Saturday.  The  High  School 
team  won  by  a  score  of  13-6. 

Lyde  Pratt,  '12,  has  an  excellent  working  model 
of  a  Wright  aeroplane  which  can  be  seen  at  IS  South 
Maine.  The  inventor  will  make  a  demonstration 
flight  from  the  top  window  of  South  Maine  to  the 
ground  upon  application. 


There  will  be  Special  Rates  to 
Waterville  Tomorrow ;  $1.50  for  the 
Round  Trip. 

Wiggin,  '13,  spent  Sunday  at  his  home  in  Saco. 

Rowell,  '10,  is  tutoring  classes  in  Latin  this  year. 

Frank  E.  Nolia,  Medic  '12,  has  entered  the  col- 
lege. 

W.  B.  Nulty,  '10,  will  enter  the  Medical  School 
this  year. 

R.  D.  Morss,  '10,  has  been  confined  to  his  room 
this  week. 

Wiggin,  '13,  spent  Saturday  and  Sunday  at  his 
home  in  Saco. 

The  date  of  the  Indoor  Meet  has  been  decided 
upon  as  March  18. 

H.  C.  L.  Ashey,  '12,  was  confined  to  his  room 
last  week  with  the  grippe. 

Belknap,  '13,  and  Dodge,  '13,  spent  Sunday  at 
their  homes  in  Damariscotta. 

A  meeting  of  last  year's  dramatic  club  was  held 
in  23  North  Maine,  October  25th. 

An  account  of  the  work  of  Mr.  J.  L.  McConaughy 
appeared  in  the  Boston  Globe,  Sunday. 

A  large  number  of  students  attended  the  Bates- 
Colby  game  at  Lewiston  last  Saturday. 

C.  L.  Deming,  '10,  has  returned  to  college  and  will 
not  enter  the  Medical  School  as  at  first  reported. 

The  Clason  brothers  of  Gardiner  won  the  Bates 
Inter-Class  Tennis  Tournament  for  the  second  time. 

John  Leydon,  '07,  J.  S.  Simmons,  '09,  and  D.  J, 
Ready,  ex-'io,  attended  the  Holy  Cross  game,  Sat- 
urday. 

It  was  requested  that  the  material  for  themes  in 
English  I.  Saturday  be  drawn  from  Hon.  Asher 
Hinds'  lecture  at  Memorial  Hall. 

The  topic  for  discussion  at  the  informal  me'  ting 
on  philosophical  subject  Monday  evening  was:  "How 
shall  we  settle  a  topic  on  a  philosophical  question." 

At  the  third  annual  meeting  of  the  Maine  State 
Conference  of  Charities  and  Corrections  held  at 
Bangor,  Oct.  19,  President  Hyde  of  Bowdoin  was 
elected   president. 

Monday  morning  in  a  conference  held  at  the 
Eagle  Hotel  at  which  the  captain,  manager  and 
coaches  of  both  the  Bowdoin  and  Colby  teams  were 
in  attendance,  it  was  decided  to  refer  the  appointing 
of  the  officials  for  the  Bowdoin-Colby  game,  to  the 
Central    board. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Freshman  Class  Thursday, 
Oct.  21,  Douglass  was  elected  president;  Gardiner, 
vice-president,  and  Busfield,  secretary.  The  latter 
required  three  ballots.  The  vote  for  treasurer  was 
also  so  close  that  no  majority  was  obtained  and 
Pres.  Douglass  ordered  the  meeting  adjourned  until 
a  later  date. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Maine  Schools  and  Col- 
leges to  be  held  in  Lewiston,  Oct.  27-30,  Professor 
Mitchell  will  be  chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
English.  Prof.  Allen  Johnson  will  conduct  a  ques- 
tionaire  from  the  floor  on  historical  subjects. 
Charles  W.  Snow  will  speak  on  "The  Teaching  of 
Lycidas."  Prof.  R.  J.  Ham  will  speak  on  "Co-oper- 
ative Work  in  Bibliography." 


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127 


P.  W.  Mathews,  '12,  is  working  nights  in  Mac's 
restaurant. 

Prof.  Woodruff  gave  an  illustrated  lecture  in 
Greek    Literature    7,    Tuesday. 

Fogg.  Medic  '12,  is  a  nephew  of  Donald  McMil- 
lan, Commander  Peary's  lieutenant. 

David  T.  Parker,  '08,  has  been  appointed  an  extra 
teacher  in  Mathematics  in  Morse  High  School. 

Guy  Farrar.  ex-'io.  sailed  last  Friday  for  Porto 
Rico  where  he  will  teach  in  the  public  schools. 

The  college  band  held  outdoor  marching  prac- 
tice on  the  Athletic  Field,  Wednesday  afternoon. 

McDade,  captain  of  the  1908  football  team,  was 
linesman  for  Bowdoin  at  the  Holy  Cross  game. 

Addresses  are  to  be  given  at  the  Teachers'  Con- 
vention at  Lewiston  by  Professor  Chapman  and  Mr. 
Snow. 

The  much  dreaded  warnings  are  due  very  soon 
and  it  is  hoped  that  none  of  the  varsity  squad  will  be 
affected. 

Harrison  Atwood,  '09,  and  P.  G.  Bishop,  '09,  are 
working  for  the  New  York  Telephone  Co.  with 
headquarters    in    New   York    City. 

Harold  S.  Stetson,  '08,  now  in  the  employ  of  the 
Yokohama  Branch  of  the  International  Banking 
Company  was  married  to  Miss  Ethel  Day  in  Yoko- 
hama,  Oct.   15. 

The  I.  C.  A.  A.  A.  Cross  Country  is  to  be  held 
at  Brookline  on  November  20.  The  Bowdoin-Tufts 
race,  which  comes  on  the  19th,  prevents  Bowdoin 
from  entering. 

Frank  Smith,  Kern,  and  Hurley,  left  off  foot- 
ball practice  Tuesday,  long  enough  to  take  first 
place  in  their  respective  events  in  the  Freshman- 
Sophomore  Meet. 

From  now  out  football  practice  will  be  secret 
except  to  Bowdoin  men.  In  past  years  there  has 
been  cheering  at  practice  and  it  is  hoped  that  this 
year  will  not  be  an  exception. 

Knight,  '13.  has  been  declared  ineligible  for  var- 
sity football  on  account  of  a  technicality  brought  out 
by  the  Athletic  Council.  It  is  hoped  that  he  may 
be  reinstated  before  the  end  of  the  season. 

Everett  Winslow  of  Hebron  Academy  has  en- 
tered the  Medical  School.  He  is  a  star  back  and  is 
expected  to  furnish  fine  material  for  the  team.  He 
was  one  of  the  all-Maine  preparatory  school  backs 
last  year. 

Contrary  to  expectations  there  were  only  431  paid 

^     admissions   to    the   Bowdoin-Holy   Cross    game   last 

Saturday  and  the  receipts  were  not  sufficient  to  cover 

the     trip — and     Worcester     has     a     population     of 

145,000 ! ! ! 

Final  arrangements  for  the  Bowdoin-Tufts  Cross 
Country  Run  on  November  19,  have  been  completed. 
The  Tufts  cross-country  team  will  arrive  in  Bruns- 
wick, Thursday  night,  before  the  race  and  will  be 
quartered  at  the  various  fraternity  houses. 

The  first  of  the  informal  lectures  on  the  Art 
Building  and  its  contents  was  given  Thursday  by 
Professor  Henry  Johnson.  The  occasion  of  the 
erection  of  the  building  was  related ;  then  the  paint- 
ings in  Sculpture  Hall  were  explained.  Only  eight 
were  in  attendance.  The  Freshmen  cannot  afford  to 
miss  such   instructive  talks. 


Prof.  Chapman  attended  the  meeting  of  the 
Maine  Secondary  School  teachers  at  Lewiston, 
Thursday,   and  gave  adjourns   in  English   Lit.   3. 

The  Monday  Night  Club  composed  chiefly  of 
football  men,  attended  the  production  of  "The  Ser- 
vant in  the  House"  at  the  Jefferson  Theatre,  Port- 
land, last  Monday  evening. 

Prof.  Sills  was  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  last  Wednes- 
day and  Thursday  in  attendance  at  a  council  of  the 
Episcopalians  of  New  England  as  one  of  the  four 
lay   delegates    from    Maine. 

In  'the  football  game  between  Portland  High 
School  and  Bangor  High  School  last  Saturday  at 
Bangor,  Clifford,  '10,  was  referee.  Files,  '08,  umpired 
and   Cox,   '08,   was   head  linesman. 

Joe  Pendleton,  '90,  refereed  the  West  Point- 
Trinity  game.  He  will  referee  the  Yale-Princeton 
game  and  as  Harvard  and  Yale  haven't  picked  a  ref- 
eree yet  there's  a  chance  for  him  to  get  this  game 
also. 

It  is  understood  that  about  500  people  from  Ban- 
gor and  Augusta  will  attend  the  Bowdoin-  Colby 
game  at  Waterville  to-morrow.  A  large  delegation 
is  also  planning  to  come  from  Portland.  The  Maine 
Central  Railroad  has  given  reduced  rates. 

A.  W.  Wandtke,  '10,  and  Lyde  Pratt,  '12,  have  , 
been  given  a  room  in  the  Science  Building  by  Prof. 
Hutchins  in  which  to  build  a  model  of  a  Wright 
aeroplane.  The  model  upon  which  Messrs.  Wandtke 
and  Pratt  are  now  working  will  have  planes  nine 
feet  in  length  and  is  the  forerunner  of  a  working 
aeroplane  which  will  carry  two  men. 

After  a  short  conference  with  President  A.  J. 
Roberts,  Monday,  Oct.  26,  the  Sophomore  Class  of 
Colby  College  held  a  meeting  and  voted  to  abolish 
hazing  in  the  future.  President  Roberts  discussed 
hazing  with  the  Sophomores  and  then  left 
them  to  make  their  own  decision.  They  promptly 
voted  for  abolishing  Hazing  in  the  future.  All  the 
details  have  not  been  fully  settled  as  yet,  but  the  idea 
is  that  as  a  general  rule  there  shall  be  no  more  haz- 
ing at  Colby. 


IN  MEMORIAM 

Hall  or  Eta  of  Theta  Delta  Chi, 
October  18,  1909. 
Within  the  last  summer  death  has  removed 
from  our  number  two  beloved  and  respected  broth- 
ers. Rev.  Webster  Woodbury  of  the  Class  of  1864,  a 
man  whose  life  has  been  one  of  service  to  his  fellow- 
men,  and  Dr.  Ernest  L.  Hall  of  the  Class  of  1898,  a 
man  of  the  highest  integrity  and  rising  prominence 
in  his  professional  career.     Therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  we  express    our    sorrow    at    the 
death  of  these  brothers  and  extend  to  their  bereaved 
relatives  and  friends  our  sincerest  sympathy. 
Henry  Quinby  Hawes, 
Leon    Stanley   Lippincott, 
Alonzo  Garcelon  Dennis, 

For  the  Charge. 


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BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


Hlumni  department 

'52. — The  Lewiston  Journal  reminds  its 
readers  apropos  the  conservation  of  Maine's 
water-power,  that  the  work  to  that  end  now  in 
progress  was  suggested  by  Governor  Cham- 
berlain in  his  annual  message  of  1869.  Proba- 
bly he  was  not  even  then  the  actual  pioneer  of 
the  conservation  movement,  for  many  men  had 
seen  and  some  may  have  said  that  there  was 
a  great  waste  of  water-power  to  prevent 
which  the  State  should  interpose  its  authority 
by  regulation.  That  his  activity  forty  years 
ago  in  promoting  conservation  should  be  so 
nearly  forgotten  in  his  own  State  that  it  needs 
to  be  reminded  by  the  press  to  do  him  honor, 
is  a  circumstance  that  simply  shows  that  Gov- 
ernor Chamberlain  is  no  exception  to  the  rule 
that  the  last  worker  is  apt  to  gather  in  the 
applause  belonging  to  the  first  thinker.  A 
scholar  in  politics,  one  of  those  college  profes- 
sors who  put  off  the  gown  to  buckle  on  the 
sword,  it  might  be  expected  of  Governor  and 
General  Chamberlain  that  he  should  think 
ahead  of  his  time  and  to  the  point. 

'61. — Dr.  George  Eastman  Stubbs  died  at 
his  home  in  Merion,  a  suburb  of  Philadelphia, 
October  24,  of  apoplexy.  Dr.  Stubbs  was  the 
son  of  Hon.  Philip  M.  and  Julia  (Eastman) 
Stubbs  and  was  born  30  Dec.  1839,  at  Strong, 
Me.  He  received  his  early  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town  and  was  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Farniington  Academy. 
After  graduation  he  taught  in  the  High 
School  at  Strong  for  a  term  and  then  entered 
upon  the  study  of  medicine ;  he  attended 
courses  of  lectures  at  the  Medical  School  of 
Maine  and  the  Medical  School  of  Harvard  Uni- 
versity, where  he  received  his  degree  in  1863. 
In  May  of  that  year  he  was  appointed  an  Act- 
ing Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  army  and  served 
for  nearly  three  years,  being  promoted  to  be 
assistant  surgeon  in  1865  and  was  brevetted 
captain  in  1866.  He  spent  nearly  two  years 
in  professional  study  abroad  in  the  hospitals 
of  Vienna,  Berlin  and  Paris.  After  a  brief 
period  spent  in  Cincinnati,  he  settled  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Philadelphia  in 
1869.  Here  he  devoted  himself  with  great 
fidelity  and  success  to  his  chosen  profession 
for  over  thirty  years.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Medico-Chirurgical  College  of 
that  city,  in  which  he  was  professor  of  anat- 
omy and  clinical  surgery  for  five  years  and 
subsequently  of  surgical  pathology,  becoming 


professor  emeritus  in  1892.  During  this 
period  he  was  a  trustee  of  the  hospital  con- 
nected with  the  college  and  an  active  member 
of  its  staff.  The  closing  years  of  his  life  were 
saddened  by  a  slight  shock  of  apoplexy  which 
prevented  him  from  engaging  in  his  ordinary 
pursuits. 

'72. — At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  New 
England  Esperanto  Association  held  at  the 
Public  Library  in  Boston,  the  principal 
speaker  was  Herbert  Harris  of  Portland,  Me., 
who  attended  the  fifth  International  Esper- 
anto Congress  in  Barcelona,  Spain,  last 
month.  He  related  a  number  of  specific  in- 
instances  in  which  he  had  found  Esperanto  a 
convenient  medium  of  conversation.  All  the 
business  of  the  meeting  was  transacted  in 
Esperanto,  a  fine  of  five  cents  being  imposed 
upon  any  member  who  spoke  English. 

'87. — Rev.  Oliver  D.  Sewall  was  installed 
as  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Great  Barrington,  Mass.,  on  Oct.  7,  1909. 

'92. — Edward  H.  Wilson,  Esq.,  of  Port- 
land, was  married  Oct.  7,  1909,  to  Miss  Annie 
Laurie  Epley  of  Kingston,   Penn. 

'98. — John  A.  Scott,  Esq.,  is  now  principal 
of  IVIonson  Academy. 

'99. — Willard  T.  Libby,  who  has  been 
night  superintendent  at  the  mill  of  the  Pejep- 
scot  Paper  Company  for  several  years,  has 
accepted  a  position  as  superintendent  of 
the  International  Paper  Company's  mill  at 
Turner  Falls,  Mass.,  and  will  enter  upon  his 
new  position  the  first  of  November. 

'02. — Mr.  Harold  B.  Eastman  has  resigned 
his  position  on  the  United  States  Forestry 
Service  to  enter  into  business  with  his  father 
in  the  firm  of  Eastman  Bros.  &  Bancroft  at 
Portland. 

'03. — Jesse  D.  Wilson  has  been  promoted 
to  be  night  superintendent  of  the  paper  mill  of 
the  Bowdoin  Paper  Manufacturing  Company 
at  Pejepscot. 

'04. — Rev.  Charles  B.  Emerson  was  in- 
stalled pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church 
at  Saco,  Maine,  Oct.  21,  1909. 

'05. — Ernest  H.  R.  Burroughs,  Esq.,  of 
Boston,  was  married  Oct.  7,  1909,  to  Edna 
May,  daughter  of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Edgar  J.  Buck 
of  Warren,  Mass. 

'06. — Mr.  Harold  S.  Stetson  was  married 
15  Oct.  1909,  at  Yokohama,  Japan,  to  Miss 
Ethel  Wilson,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fes- 
senden  I.   Day  of  Lewiston,  Me. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  NOVEMBER  5,  1909 


NO.  16 


^  COLBY  12,  BOWDOIN  S 

Bowdoin  Loses  First  Game  of  Championship  Series  to 
Strong  Colby  Eleven 

Colby  and  Bowdoin  battled  desperately  to 
the  finish  in  Bowdoin's  first  championship 
game  played  at  Waterville  last  Saturday,  and 
when  the  dust  of  conflict  had  settled  Colby 
had  the  long  end  of  a  12-5  score.  The  game 
was  a  gruelling  contest  from  start  to  finish  and 
was  not  over  until  the  whistle  blew.  Penal- 
ties were  frequent,  because  of  holding  and  off- 
side playing,  due  to  over-eagerness,  Colby 
ofl:"ending  considerably  more  than  Bowdoin  in 
this  respect.  Colby  used  the  open  play  con- 
siderably more  than  Bowdoin,  succeeding  three 
times  with  forward  passes  while  not  once 
could  Bowdoin  get  one  off  satisfactorily. 
Ralph  Goode  was  the  individual  star.  Time 
and  again  he  made  lo-yard  gains  on  skin- 
tackle  plays,  brushing  aside  Bowdoin  tackles 
with  apparent  ease  and  twisting  himself  for- 
ward for  yards  even  while  being  brought  to 
the  ground.  In  tackling,  Bowdoin  showed  up 
rather  ineffectively,  altho  Kern  downed  his 
man  repeatedly  in  good  shape.  Bowdoin's 
onside  kicks  often  went  wrong,  and  she 
seemed  a  little  slow  in  recovering  loose  balls, 
often  allowing  a  Colby  man  to  snatch  the 
sphere  almost  out  of  an  opponent's  hands. 
Colby  moreover  provided  excellent  interfer- 
ence for  her  runners,  forcing  Hurley  especially 
to  his  utmost  in  breaking  up  plays  around  his 
end. 

Colby  had  decidedly  the  better  of  the  con- 
test in  the  first  half,  but  could  not  score  until 
near  the  end.  Roy  Goode  received  the  kickoff 
and  brought  it  in  10  yards.  Stacey  and  Ralph 
Goode  made  good  gains  and  then  Colby 
worked  a  successful  forward  pass.  After  two 
plunges  netting  6  yards  Stacey  found  a  hole 
thru  Bowdoin's  centre  for  25  yards.  Then 
Bowdoin  held.  But  she  found  the  Colby  line 
a  stone  wall  and  was  forced  to  exchange  the 
punt.  The  next  fifteen  minutes  were  full  of 
fumbling  penalties  and  poor  onside  kicks  with 
the  ball  changing  hands  in  quick  succession, 
but  then  Colby  settled  down  to  business  again. 
Stacey  was  pushed  thru  centre  for  4  yards. 
The  Goode  brothers  reeled  off  10  yards  each 


thru  opposite  sides  of  the  line,  and  Stacey 
again  made  a  gain  of  5  yards.  Then  came 
the  forward  pass  that  worked  Bowdoin's 
undoing,  Ervin  running  eight  yards  for  the 
first  touchdown.  Goode  caught  Welch's 
punt  out  and  the  latter  then  kicked  an  easy 
goal.  The  half  ended  soon  after  with  no  fur- 
ther   scoring. 

But  in  the  second  half  Bowdoin  showed  a 
complete  reversal  of  form.  Her  whirlwind 
attack  literally  carried  Colby  off  her  feet,  and 
Frank  Smith,  Kern  and  Farnham  tore  thru  the 
line  repeatedly  for  consistent  gains.  The 
Bowdoin  stands  were  rocking  with  enthusiasm 
and  the  Colby  'bleachers  were  desperately  pray- 
ing for  the  gray  to  hold.  And  to  hold  she 
tried,  on  her  one-yard  line,  but  on  the  third 
down  Kern  was  hugging  the  ball  just  beyond 
the  chalk  mark.  The  kickout  went  over  Wil- 
son's head  and  the  try  for  goal  was  denied. 

On  the  kickoff  Bowdoin  once  again  began 
to  sweep  down  the  field  and  victory  seemed  in 
sight.  Smith  made  a  30-yard  gain  on  a  fake 
punt,  and  with  a  steady  advance  Bowdoin 
reached  Colby's  30-yard  line  where,  however, 
she  was  held.  After  two  line  bucks  netting  5 
yards  Wilson  ordered  a  goal  from  placement. 
Frank  Smith  made  a  fine  attempt,  but  the  ball 
missed  the  goal  posts  by  inches.  Not  dis- 
heartened Bowdoin  struggled  hard  for  another 
touchdown,  but  could  not  gain  as  consistently 
as  before.  Colby  now  began  to  make  a  few 
first  downs  in  this  half,  but  would  not  have 
scored  again  had  not  Wilson  dropped  one  of 
Goode's  punts,  which  was  recovered  by  Tidd, 
who  ran  a  scant  ten  yards  for  a  touchdown. 
Welch  kicked  the  goal.  From  then  until  the 
end  of  the  half  the  ball  changed  hands  fre- 
quently but  neither  goal  line  was  threatened. 
Upwards  of  250  Bowdoin  men  attended  the 
game,  to  say  nothing  of  the  band,  which  did 
splendid  work,  both  during  the  game  and  in 
the  march  around  town  afterwards. 

The  summary : 
Colby  Bowdoin 

Mikelsky,    l.e r.e.,    Hurley 

Tidd.    l.t r.t,    Crosby 

Beach    (  C.    Soule),   l.g r.g.,   Hastings 

Hamilton,    c c,    King 

Rogers,     r.g l.g.,    Pratt 


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Greene,    r.t l.t.,    Newman 

Ervin,.  r.e I.e.,   E.    Smith 

Welch,   q.b q.b.,    Wilson    (Wiggin) 

Ralph  Good,  l.h.b r.h.b.,  Farnham   (Ballard) 

Roy  Good,  r.h.b l.h.b.,  F.  Smith 

Stacey,    f.b f.b.,    Kern 

Score :  Colby,  12 ;  Bowdoin,  5  Touchdowns — 
Ervin,  Tidd,  Kern.  Goals  from  touchdowns — 
Welch,  2.  Referee — O'Connell  of  Harvard.  Um- 
pire— Tyler  of  Princeton.  Field  Judge — Andrews 
of  Yale.  Head  linesman — Macreadie  of  Portland  A. 
C.  Linesmen — Keppel  of  Colby,  and  Smith  of  Bow- 
doin.    Time — 35-minute    halves. 


SOPHOMORES  WIN  TRACK  MEET 

The  Sophomore-Freshman  track  meet, 
which  was  held  on  Tuesday  and  Thursday  of 
last  week,  ended  in  a  victory  for  the  Sopho- 
mores with  a  total  of  67  points  to  32  for  the 
Freshmen.  Captain  Cole  of  the  Sophomore 
team  was  the  largest  point  winner  and  H.  H. 
Hall  and  Alexander  did  good  work  for  the  first 
year  men.     The  summary : 

Throwing  Hammer — Won  by  J.  L.  Hurley,  '12, 
107  feet  4  inches;  M.-  B.  Alexander,  '13,  2d;  W.  B. 
McMahon,  '13,  3d. 

Shot  Put— Won  by  G.  C.  Kern,  '12,  35  ft.  10  in. ; 
F.  B.  Simpson,  '12,  2d;  M.  B.  Alexander,  '13,  and 
L.   T.    Means,   '12,  tied   for  third. 

Throwing  Discus — Won  by  F.  A.  Smith,  '12,  III 
ft.  1-2  in. ;  L.  T.  Means,  '12,  2d ;  M.  B.  Alexander, 
'13.  3d. 

Pole  Vault— Won  by  R.  D.  Cole,  '12,  and  B.  D. 
Gardner,  '13,  tied,  8  ft.  6  in. ;  W.  A.  McCormick, 
'12,  3d. 

Running  High  Jump — Won  by  W.  S.  Green,  '13, 
5  ft.  4  1-2  in. ;  R.  D.  Cole,  '12,  and  G.  H.  Nichols,  '12, 
tied  for  2d  and  3d. 

Running  Broad  Jump — Won  by  W.  H.  McKen- 
ney.  '12,  18  ft.  I  in.;  W.  S.  Green,  '13,  2d;  R.  D. 
Cole,  '12,  3d. 

100- Yard  Dash— Won  by  R.  D.  Cole,  '12;  J.  H. 
McKenney,  '12,  2d;  H.  A.  Davis,  '12,  and  H.  E. 
Locke,  '12,  tied  for  3d.     Time — 10  4-5  sec. 

220- Yard  Dash— Won  by  R.  D.  Cole,  '12;  J.  H. 
McKenney,  '12,  2d ;  H.  E.  Locke,  '12,  3d.  Time — 23 
4-5  sec- 

880- Yard  Run— Won  by  H.  H.  Hall,  '13;  G.  F. 
Cressey,  '12,  2d;  M.  H.  Gray,  '12,  3d.  Time — 2  min. 
17  sec. 

440- Yard  Dash— Won  by  R.  D.  Cole,  '12;  H.  B. 
Walker,  '13,  2d;  M.  H.  Gray,  '12,  3d.  Time— 
57  2-5   sec. 

Mile  Run— Won  by  H.  H.  Hall,  '13;  M."  B.  Aus- 
tin, '12,  2d;  T.  E.  Emery,  '13,  3d.  Time — S  min.  25 
2-5  sec. 


'68  PRIZE  SPEAKING 

The  following  men  have  been  appointed 
from  the  Senior  Class  to  take  part  in  the  '68 
Prize  Speaking  Contest  which  will  be  held  in 
Memorial  Hall  on  the  evening  of  January  20, 


1910.  John  Leland  Crosby,  Robert  Hale, 
Henry  O nimby  Hawes,  Harold  Edwin  Rowell, 
Winston  Bryant  Stephens,  and  Alfred 
Wheeler  Stone. 


ANNIE  TALBOT  COLE  LECTURES 

The  Annie  Talbot  Cole  lectures  for  the 
year  1909-10  are  to  be  given  in  Memorial  Hall 
on  Nov.  II  and  18,  by  the  Hon.  Samuel  Mc- 
Call,  LL.D.,  of  Winchester,  Mass.  His  sub- 
ject for  the  evening  of  Nov.  11,  will  be  "Some 
Responsibilities  of  a  Citizen."  On  the  even- 
ing of  Nov.  18,  he  will  speak  on  "Lessening 
the  Military  Burden." 


ECONOMIC  PRIZES 

The  opportunity  to  compete  for  the  Eco- 
nomic Prizes  offered  by  Hart  Schaffner  & 
Marx  has  been  brought  to  the  attention  of 
students  of  Bowdoin  College  by  Professor  J. 
Laurence  Laughlin  of  the  University  of  Chi- 
cago, who  is  chairman  of  the  committee  in 
charge   of   the   contest. 

Papers  for  the  prizes  are  to  be  submitted 
before  June  i,  1910.  There  are  five  prizes, 
totalling  $2,000.  The  contestants  are  divided 
into  three  classes,  fuller  details  of  which  may 
be  had  from  the  head  of  the  department  of 
political  economy.  The  prizes  are  divided  as 
follows : 

Class  "A,"  first  prize,  $600;  second  prize, 
$400. 

Class  "B,"  first  prize,  $300;  second  prize, 
$200. 


Class  "C,"  one  prize, 

Classes  "A"  and  "B"  refer  particularly  to 
college  graduates  and  undergraduates,  and  the 
following  subjects  have  been  suggested  by 
Professor  Laughlin's  committee : 

1.  The  effect  of  labor  unions  on  interna- 
tional trade. 

2.  The  best  means  of  raising  the  wages 
of  the  unskilled. 

3.  A  comparison  between  the  theory  and 
the  actual  practice  of  protectionism  in  the 
United  States. 

4.  A  scheme  for  an  ideal  monetary  sys- 
tem for  the  United" States. 

5.  The  true  relation  of  the  central  gov- 
ernment  to  trusts. 

6.  How  much  of  J.  S.  Mills'  economic 
system  survives  ? 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT 


i3i 


7.  A  central  bank  as  a  factor  in  a  financial 
crisis. 

The  members  of  the  committee,  aside  from 
Professor    Laughlin,    are : 

Professor  J.  B.  Clark,  Columbia  Univer- 
sity ;  Professor  Henry  C.  Adams,  University 
of  Michigan ;  Horace  White,  Esq.,  New  York 
City,  and  Edwin  F.  Gay,  Harvard  University. 


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"DAVE"  PORTER,   06,  ADDRESSES  THE  Y.M.C.  A. 

On  the  evening  of  Oct.  25th,  "Dave"  Por- 
ter, '06,  International  Secretary  for  Prepara- 
tory Schools,  delivered  a  most  interesting 
address  on  "The  Power  Behind  Bowdoin 
Spirit,"  before  a  large  audience  in  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  room. 

It  was  a  timely  topic  and  the  concensus  of 
opinion  was  that  Mr.  Porter  presented  the 
facts  of  the  case  in  their  true  lig'ht. 

He  believes  that  the  Christian  Association 
is  in  a  large  degree  responsible  for  college 
spirit  and  to  prove  this  quoted  several  inter- 
esting cases  which  have  come  under  his  ob- 
servation. Furthermore,  behind  every  good 
college  spirit  two  things  are  always  found. 
First,  an  intellectual  activity,  and  second,  a 
faculty  made  up  of  Christian  men  who  believe 
in  the  spiritual  values  of  life. 

The  three  elements  of  true  college  spirit 
are : 

The  element  of  self-sacrifice  on  the  part  of 
the  individual. 

There  shall  be  a  strong  fraternal  (not  fra- 
ternity)   spirit  among  the  men  in  college. 

There  shall  be  an  atmosphere  of  intellect- 
ual activity  and  aggressiveness  about  the  col- 
lege. 

Mr.  Porter  then  showed  how  these  ele- 
ments can  be  incorporated  thru  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
which,  thru  stalwart  leadership,  should  direct 
the  spirit  of  the  college. 


NO  MORE  BONNETS 

Undergraduate  Council  Rules  that  in  Future  Freshmen 

Wear  Black  Sklill  Cap  with  White  Button, 

Throughout  Year 

The  Undergraduate  Council  met  last 
Thursday  evening  and  voted  that  in  the  future 
Freshman  classes  wear  throughout  their 
Freshman  year  a  black  skull  cap  with  a  white 
button  in  place  of    the    ludicrous    head    gear 


which  has  been  imposed  upon  them  during  the 
last  few  years. 

This  vote  of  the  Council  will  meet  with 
general  approval  throughout  the  college,  for 
there  has  been  a  feeling  that  the  head  gear 
for  Freshmen  has  been  a  little  over  done  in 
years   past   and   particularly  this   year. 

Among  other  things  the  Council  discussed 
the  matter  of  wearing  class  numerals  and  a 
suggestion  was  made  that  certificates  accom- 
pany the  award  of  a  B.  But  no  action  was 
taken  and  these  matters  will  come  up  at  the 
next  meeting  to  be  held  Nov.  4. 

CALENDAR 

Saturday^  November  6 

11.00    Football  Team   leaves   for  Lewiston. 

2.30  Bowdoin  vs.  Bates  on  Garcelon  Field,  Lew- 
iston. 

Colby  vs.   University   of   Maine   at   Orono. 

8.00  Bowdoin-Bates  night  at  the  Empire,  Lew- 
iston.    Frank   Lalor   in   'The   Candy    Shop." 

Sunday^   November   7 

10.4s  Rev.  John  A.  Quint  of  Rockland,  begins 
his  duties  as  pastor  of  the  Church  on  the  Hill. 

5.00  Sunday  chapel,  conducted  by  President 
Hyde.  Music  by  double  quartette ;  violin  solo  by 
Kendrie,  '10. 

Monday,   November  8 

3.30     Football  Practice  on   Whittier  Field. 

3.30-6.00  Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial 
Hall. 

4.00     Cross  Country  Squad  leaves  gym. 

7.00  Meeting  of  Philosophical  Club.  The  dis- 
cussion will  be  on  "Fatalism." 

Tuesday^  November  9 
3.30     Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
4.00     Cross  Country  Squad  leaves  gym. 

Wednesday,   November   10 
3.30    Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
4.00     Cross  Country  Squad  leaves  gym. 

Thursd,\y,  November  ii 

3.30     Football  Practice   on   Whittier   Field. 

4.00     Cross  Country  Trials. 

7.00  Dr.  F.  N.  Whittier  will  speak  on  "Clean 
Athletics"   in  the  Christian  Association  Room. 

8.00  First  of  Annie  Talbot  Cole  Lectures  in 
Memorial  Hall. 

Friday,    Nov.    12 

3.30     Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

4.00     Cross  Country  Team  leaves  gym. 

Saturday,   November  13 
2.30     Bowdoin  vs.  University  of  Maine  on  Whit- 
tier Field. 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,   1910  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  1911,  Managing  Editbr 

Associate  Editors 

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W.  E.  ROBINSON.  1910      W.  A.  McCORMICK.  1912 
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Journal  Peintshop,  Lewiston 

Vol.  XXXIX.           NOVEMBER  5,   1909 

No.    16 

The   great  figures   on  the 
Qen.  0.  0.  Howard    stage    of    the    Civil    War, 

those  to  whom  the  eyes  of 
the  Union  and  the  Confederacy  were  turned 
either  during  the  entire  struggle  or  for  one  of 
its  great  episodes,  have  passed  to  their  rest. 
There  are  still  living  those  who  commanded 
brigades  and  divisions,  but  of  those  who  com- 
manded "armies,"  General  O.  O.  Howard  is 
the  last. 

The  late  General  Howard  was  equally  in- 
teresting as  a  man  and  as  an  officer.  Of  a 
deep  religious  nature,  earnestly  active  in  all 
movements  for  the  moral  uplift  of  the  army 
and  the  community,  of  dauntless  personal 
courage,  full  of  kind  and  helpful  impulses,  he 
has  been  called  the  "American  Havelock." 
General  Howard  graduated  from  Bowdoin  in 
the  Class  of  1850  and  went  to  West  Point  in 
the  days  when  a  cadet  with  a  bachelor's  de- 
gree was  an  object  of  curiosity  to  his  class- 
mates.    As  an  officer  General  Howard  would 


not  be  called  great;  he  stands  with  Sedgwick 
and  other  efficient  officers  who  were  good 
lieutenants.  He  was  by  no  means  the  only 
brave  officer  who  had  seen  his  soldiers  run 
away  from  him,  and  better  material  than  he 
had  at  Chancellorsville,  has  yielded  to  blows 
struck  by  men  of  the  Stonewall  Jackson  stamp. 
The  making  of  history  is  a  series  of  revisions 
of  judgment  and  long  before  he  died  General 
Howard  had  received  the  benefit  of  this 
pi"0cess. 


More  Bowdoin  and    \"  °"^  °^  ^''  essays,  Joseph 

Less  Foolishness     ^'^%'°l  ."'^"^     *,^     '^- 
mark  that  every  nation  is 

distinguished  by  productions  that  are  peculiar 
to  it ;  and  so  Bowdoin  College  has  become  dis- 
tinguished of  late  by  productions,  or  may  we 
not  call  them  creations,  in  the  way  of  Fresh- 
man head  gear.  It  has  always  been  a  pernicious 
custom  which  requires  college  men  to  make 
themselves  unduly  prominent  to  the  detriment 
of  the  fair  name  of  the  college,  and  we  are  to 
be  congratulated  that  the  Undergraduate 
Council  has  taken  steps  which  will  result  in  a 
more  modest  display  of  millinery.  It  is 
entirely  to  the  credit  of  this  body  that  they 
start  the  work  of  the  year  with  a  reform  so 
vital.  It  seems  to  be  the  concensus  of  opin- 
ion that  a  Freshman  should  be  marked  in 
some  way,  altho  we  fail  to  see  the  necessity  of 
it,  but  since  this  is  the  case,  it  is  fitting  and 
proper  that  a  modest  black  skull  cap  with  a 
button  of  Bowdoin  white  should  be  the  char- 
acteristic mark. 


. ...,  .  f  r  II  In  a  recent  article  in 
Men  to  \mT  *^  CongregationaHst,'Rsv. 
Men  to  Religion  Herbert  A.  Jump,  for 
seven  years  pastor  of  the  college  church  at 
Brunswick,  has  summed  up  his  impressions 
of  the  attitude  of  college  men  to  religion.  He 
also  listed  a  number  of  representative  ques- 
tions which  have  been  asked  the  other  clergy- 
men, besides  himself,  who  have  preached  at 
Bowdoin  in  recent  years.  Here  are  some  of 
them : 

What  do  you  regard  •  as  the  kernel  of 
Christianity?  Can  a  modern  man  believe  in 
the  supernatural?  What  is  the  strongest 
proof  that  there  is  a  God  ?  Is  belief  in  Christ 
essential  to  salvation?  In  what  sense  was 
Christ  divine?  What  is  the  Church?  Is  the 
Bible  the  inspired  word  in  some  magic  sense 
or    just    the    same    as   any   historical    record? 


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Does  the  soul  exist  after  death,  and  if  so, 
where?  Where  can  a  fellow  find  a  solid 
basis  of  authority  to-day  for  belief  or  con- 
duct? Are  there  any  practical  ways  for  car- 
rying through  the  week  the  good  resolutions 
made  on  Sunday? 

As  to  the  present  drift  of  student  thot 
Mr.  Jump  says  that  for  one  question  dealing 
with  the  world  to  come  there  are  a  dozen  deal- 
ing with  the  present  world,  and  his  general 
conclusion  is  thus  expressed : 

"Robert  E.  Speer,  than  whom  no  one 
knows  the  American  college  more  thoroly, 
says  that  for  a  young  man  of  college  age  there 
is  no  place  to-day  as  morally  safe  as  a  college 
campus.  Such  questions  as  I  have  here  re- 
produced go  to  substantiate  this  friendly  ap- 
praisal. There  is  a  strange  brand  of  hypoc- 
risy abroad  in  our  student  communities,  a  sort 
of  "Pharisaism  turned  inside  out,"  which 
makes  the  young  men  desirous  of  being  taken 
for  worse  than  they  are.  It  is  as  though  they 
were  a  trifle  ashamed  of  their  virtues,  their 
honesties,  their  convictions.  And  yet  the 
deeper  life  exists,  and  it  is  increasingly  foster- 
ing a  staunch  moral  idealism  among  our  col- 
lege undergraduates  and  framing  for  itself  a 
modern  religious  expression  marked  by  vigoi', 
masculinity  and  reality." 


SUNDAY  CHAPEL 

Rev.  J.  Langdon  Ouimby,  D.D.,  of  Gardi- 
ner, conducted  Sunday  chapel  using  as  his 
text  Psalm  84.2,  "My  heart  and  my  soul  crieth 
for  the  living  God."  At  moments,  this  hun- 
ger and  thirst  of  both  mind  and  body  should 
be  supreme.  This  want  becomes  supreme 
when  man  in  his  deepest  and  most  enduring 
nature  cries  out  for  it. 

He  needs  a  clear  vision  of  God  for  three 
especial  reasons.  First,  he  requires  it  to  meet 
doubt  and  questions  of  need.  This  doubt 
should  be  courageous.  It  should  be  of  that 
kind  which  leads  man  to  defy  everything  if 
necessary.  Secondly,  he  needs  it  to  satisfy 
his  own  nature.  If  he  is  to  find  richest  satis- 
faction from  nature,  he  learns  to  thirst  and 
hunger  for  God.  Man  as  child  of  God  pos- 
sesses those  divine  intuitions  and  so  needs  God. 
Thirdly,  he  needs  it  to  give  direction  to  his 
life.  To  be  successful  in  his  life,  a  man  must 
recognize  and  possess  a  clear  vision  of  God. 
The  Japanese  in  their  recent  war  with  Russia 
must  have  realized  the  need  of  God  and,  ac- 
cordingly, asked  for  aid  and  assistance. 


From  the  consideration  of  these  three 
needs  for  God,  we  learn  the  true  value  of  man- 
hood. Manhood  appeals  to  the  students  say- 
ing, "Whatever  you  do,  begin  with  God." 


TOMORROW'S  FOOTBALL  GAMES 

Amherst  vs.   University   of  Vermont. 
Bowdoin  vs.  Bates. 
Colby  vs.   Maine. 
Colgate  vs.  Rochester. 
Cornell  vs.  Harvard. 
Dartmouth  vs.  Princeton. 
Lafayette  vs.  Pennsylvania. 
Northwestern   vs.    Chicago. 
Syracuse  vs.   Tufts. 
Williaans  vs.   Wesleyan. 
Yale  vs.  Brown. 
Exeter  vs.  Andover. 


ColleGe  Botes 


THE  FARE  TO  LEWISTON  TOMORROW  IS  FIFTY 
CENTS  ROUND  TRIP.  EVERYBODY  TAKES  EITHER 
THE  11.00  OR  1.30  TRAIN. 

Pratt,  '09,  is  assistant  in  Zoology  this  year. 

Bartlett,  '06,  was  on  the  campus  last  week. 

Prof,  Sills  was  in  Skowhegan  over  Saturday. 

The   Christian  Association  handbooks   are   out. 

Haley,  '11,  is  coaching  the  second  football  team. 

West  Point  will  have  no  more  football  this  year. 

Leavitt,  '13,  spent  Sunday  at  his  home  in  Wilton. 

The  new  chapel  hymnals  have  been  put  into  use. 

Frank  Evans,  '10,  entertained  his  father,  Thurs- 
day. 

Five  clerks  are  being  employed  at  the  office  this 
year. 

Ridgley  C.  Clarke,  '08,  was  on  the  campus  last 
week. 

Dr.  Whittier  and  Mr.  Snow  attended  the  Colby 
game. 

Prof.  Files  gave  adjourns  in  German  3,  Sat- 
urday. 

Sayward,  ex-'i2,  is  attending  the  Lowell  Textile 
School. 

Leon  Lippincott,  '10,  has  entered  the  Medical 
School. 

The  new  catalogue  will  be  ready  in  about  five 
weeks. 

Walton,  '12,  is  doing  an  extensive  picture  busi- 
ness. 

Kenneth  Latourette,  Traveling  Secretary  of  the 
Student  Volunteer  Movement,  will  speak  in  the 
Christian  Association  room,  Thursday,  Nov.  4. 


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Kent,  'i2,  and  Genthner,  'ii,  were  home  over 
Sunday. 

Emery,  '12,  and  McNally,  '13,  were  home  over 
Sunday. 

Clifford,  '10,  is  coaching  the  Brunswick  High 
football  team. 

David  R.  Porter,  '06,  is  lecturing  in  Eastern  Can- 
ada this  week. 

The  Mandolin  Club  commenced  rehearsals,  Mon- 
day afternoon. 

Mr.  Hale  of  Providence  spent  Sunday  with 
Hathaway,  '12. 

Fifty-two  students,  or  half  the  class,  cut  Eco- 
nomics, Saturday. 

Bryant,  '12,  and  Cressey,  '12,  have  been  sick  dur- 
ing the  past  week. 

Ventilators  have  been  installed  in  the  basement 
of  Appleton  Hall. 

Timberlake,  '12,  and  Tuttle,  '10,  are  assistants  in 
the  library  this  year. 

R.  D.  Morss,  '10,  is  just  recovering  from  an 
attack  of  appendicitis. 

President  Hyde  preached  at  Wellesley  College 
last  Sunday,  Oct.  31. 

Tom  Henderson,  '05,  is  now  located  at  Guadal- 
ajara, Jalesco,   Mexico. 

Lyman  Cousins  of  Portland,  visited  friends  on 
the  campus,  Wednesday. 

Prof.  Files  gave  adjourns  in  German  3,  Saturday, 
on  account  of  the  game. 

Clifford,  '10,  was  head  linesman  at  the  Portland- 
Waltham  game,    Saturday. 

About  ten  men  went  to  Portland  Saturday  to  see 
the  "Servant  in  the  House." 

Col.  Plummer  of  Bath,  spent  Friday  afternoon 
with   friends   on  the  campus. 

Isaiah  Morrill's  bull  terrier  is  proving  a  rival  to 
"Dooley"  in  attending  chapel. 

The  trials  for  the  Cross  Country  Squad  are  to 
come  a  week   from   Thursday. 

James  Sturtevant,  '09,  has  been  on  the  campus 
since    Sunday,   visiting   friends. 

The  entrances  and  stairways  of  Memorial  Hall 
have  been   repainted  this   year. 

About  220  tickets  to  the  Colby  game  were  sold 
at  the   station,   Saturday  morning. 

"Nick"  Carter,  '09,  played  with  the  Psi  U's  in 
the  game  against  the  Theta  Delts. 

Conferences  are  held  every  two  weeks  for  stu- 
dents in  English  HI.  and  History. 

The  services  Sunday  will  be  in  honor  of  the 
memory  of  Gen.  O.  O  Howard,  '50. 

Twenty-three  dollars  was  taken  in  the  subscrip- 
tion for  the  band  at  the  rally  last  week. 

During  the  past  week  or  more,  workmen  have 
been  burning  the  leaves  on  the  campus. 

The  Christian  Association  officers  entertained 
David  Porter  at  the  Inn,  Thursday  evening. 

Leigh,  '12,  Maloney,  '12,  and  Skelton,  '11,  are 
working  in   the  registrar's  office  this  year. 

George  Gardner,  '00,  visited  at  the  Beta  House 
last  week  and  took  in  the  game  at  Waterville. 


The  Glee  Club  commenced  rehearsals  Tuesday 
afternoon,  under  the  direction  of  Prof.   Wass. 

Philosophical  Conference  next  Monday  in  the 
Psychological    Laboratory.     Subject,    "Fatalism." 

Robinson,  '11,  will  not  be  able  to  enter  the  cross- 
country run  this  year  on  account  of  heart  trouble. 

Raymond  Atwood  of  Lewiston,  the  brother  of 
Harrison  Atwood,  '09,  was  on  the  campus  last  week. 

The  Deutscher  Verein  will  hold  its  first  meeting 
this  week  and  decide  as  to  the  meetings  for  this  year. 

George  C.  Purington,  '04,  was  on  the  campus  last 
week,  and  attended  the  Bowdoin-Colby  game,  Sat- 
urday. 

Rehearsals  of  the  Glee  Club  are  being  very  well 
attended  and  great  progress  is  being  made  under 
Prof.  Wass. 

Ralph  Brewster,  '09,  Princinal  of  Castine  High 
School  was  about  college  last  week  and  attended  the 
Colby  game. 

From  now  on  there  will  be  a  mass-meeting  every 
Friday  night  in  Memorial  Hall  until  the  close  of  the 
football   season. 

Fourteen  major  warnings  and  twenty-five  minor 
warnings  were  issued,  after  the  review  of  first-year 
men   on   Monday. 

Freshmen  candidates  for  Assistant  Track  Man- 
ager have  commenced  work  rubbing  the  squad  out 
for  cross-country. 

Several  undergraduates  are  planning  to  attend 
the  performance  of  "The  Candy  Shop"  at  Lewiston 
after  the  Bates  game. 

Prof.  H.  L.  Chapman  and  Miss  Chapman  at- 
tended the  Chapman-Doten  wedding  in  Portland, 
Saturday  evening,   Oct.   23. 

A  new  and  more  practical  system  of  rank  cards 
has  been  devised  by  Dr.  Burnett  and  will  be  -put 
into    effect    this    semester. 

David  R.  Porter,  '06,  spoke  before  the  Christian 
Fraternity  at  Phillips-Exeter  Sunday  evening,  and 
Monday  morning  of  this  week. 

Commander  and  Mrs.  Peary  have  accepted  invi- 
tations from  the  faculty  to  be  guests  Wednesday  and 
Thursday   of  commencement   week. 

Donald  McMillan,  '98,  will  give  an  address  with 
illustrated  pictures  before  the  Bowdoin  Club  at  the 
University  Club   of  Boston,   Saturday  evening. 

S.  A.  Thompson,  of  Portland,  is  instructing  the 
candidates  for  the  Mandolin  Club.  About  25  men 
are  out,  and  the  prospects  indicate  a  successful 
season. 

William  C.  Sparks,  ex-'og,  who  several  years  ago 
pitched  on  the  Bowdoin  baseball  team,  has  accepted 
the  position  of  physical  director  at  Hobart  College, 
Geneva,   N.   Y. 

At  the  banquet  given  to  Mr.  E.  H.  Crawford 
before  his  departure  from  Brunswick  to  California 
last  week.  Profs.  Chapman,  Files,  and  Robinson 
were  present  and  spoke. 

The  Rally  Friday  night  in  Memorial  Hall  was 
not  lacking  in  enthusiasm  and  good  speeches.  The 
sneakers  were :  Dr.  Whittier,  Professor  Hastings, 
Professor  Robinson,  Col.  E.  C.  Plummer,  '76,  of 
Bath,  and  Coach  McClave.  The  band  furnished 
music  and  a  collection  was  taken  to  send  the  band 
to  Waterville  to  the  Colby  game. 


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On  January  ii,  1910,  the  South  Congregational 
Church  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  will  celebrate  the  golden 
anniversary  of  the  installation  of  Rev.  Edwin  P. 
Parker,   D.D.,  '56,   as  pastor. 

Martin,  '10,  Webster,  '10,  Weston,  '10,  and 
Macomber,  '11,  of  Augusta,  made  the  trip  from 
Augusta  to  Waterville  Saturday  by  automobile,  and 
afterwards  headed  the  Bowdoin  procession  to  the 
Elmwood    Hotel. 

R.  L.  Thomspon,  '10,  W.  E.  Atwood,  '10,  and 
Lawrence  McFarland,  '11,  are  attending  the  7Sth 
convention  of  Delta  Upsilon  at  Boston,  this  week. 
The  delegates  from  the  chapter  are  A.  W.  Wandtke, 
'10,  and  A.  J.   Somes,  '11. 

In  the  memorial  services  held  in  the  Pine  street 
Congregational  Church  last  week,  Prof.  H.  L. 
Chapman  spoke  on  the  character  of  Prof.  G.  C. 
Purington.  late  professor  of  Farmington  Normal 
School. 

Kate  Douglass  Wiggin's  "Rebecca  of  Sunny- 
brook  Farm"  will  be  dramatized  in  the  Jefferson 
Theatre,  Portland,  for  a  week  beginning  Nov.  29. 
It  will  also  be  given  in  the  Empire,  Lewiston,  Dec. 
10  and  II. 

Boyd  Bartlett,  '83,  has  been  added  to  the  teach- 
ing staff  of  Boston  Latin  School.  In  college,  he 
was  the  first  scholar  of  his  class,  winner  of  the 
Latin,  mathematical,  and  speaking  prizes  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  championship  football  team. 

Rev.  J.  H.  Quint,  '97,  the  new  pastor  of  the 
Church  on  the  Hill,  will  commence  his  work  Sun- 
day morning.  He  has  been  pastor  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church  of  Rockland  for  several  years  and 
comes  from  there  to  Brunswick  very  highly  recom- 
mended. 

Prof.  Sills  is  to  form  a  class  in  Latin  Prose  Com- 
position to  meet  one  hour  a  week.  The  class  is 
open  to  Freshmen  in  good  standing  and  other  stu- 
dents who  wish  a  more  thorough  knowledge  with 
Latin.  The  course  does  not  count  toward  a  degree 
but  does  toward  honors. 

Students  desiring  to  consult  the  Registrar  per- 
sonally will  find  him  at  the  college  office  Tuesday, 
Thursday  and  Friday  from  1.30  to  2.30.  Any  ques- 
tion concerning  the  general  business  of  the  office 
can  be  referred  at  any  time  during  the  office  hours 
to   the   Assistant   Registrar,    Mrs.   Little. 

Mr.  W.  B.  Snow  had  a  paper  on  "The  Teaching 
of  Lycidas"  at  a  meeting  of  the  English  Department 
of  the  Maine  Association  of  Colleges  and  Prepara- 
tory Scliools,  in  Lewiston  last  Friday.  At  the  same 
meeting  Lucien  P.  Libby,  '99,  read  a,  paper  on  "Aims 
and  Methods  in  the  Teaching  of  Literature." 

Willard  T.  Libby,  '99,  has  resigned  his  position 
at  the  Pejepscot  Paper  Mills  and  left  Saturday  for 
Turner  Falls,  where  he  has  accepted  the  position  of 
Superintendent  of  the  International  Paper  Company. 
Jesse  D.  Wilson,  '03,  who  has  been  at  Lisbon  Falls, 
will  come  to  Brunswick  to  accept  Mr.  Libby's  posi- 
tion. 

Dr.  Whittier  made  the  following  statement  Sun- 
day to  the  Associated  Press  regarding  the  West 
Point  football  accident ;  "Accidents  are  liable  to 
happen  in  sports  of  all  kinds.  I, do  not  think  that 
the  accident  will  have  any  permanent  effect  upon  the 
game  generally.  The  accident  may  have  a  tempo- 
rary effect,  especially  upon  the  parents." 


There  are  270,000  fraternity  men  in  the  colleges 
of  the  United  States. 

Stuart  F.  Brown,  '10,  went  to  Burlington,  Ver- 
mont, last  week  as  a  delegate  to  Alpha  Lambda 
Chapter  of  Kappa  Sigma  on  the  night  of  initiation 
at  the  University  of  Vermont. 

A  student  male  quartet  consisting  of  Tibbetts, 
'12,  A.  W.  Johnson,  '11,  Davis,  '12,  and  Stephens, 
'10,  is  furnishing  music  at  both  morning  and  even- 
ing services  at  St.  Paul's   Church. 

In  accordance  with  a  vote  of  the  students  of  the 
University  of  Maine  at  a  mass-meeting  held  Thurs- 
day afternoon  they  returned  to  their  studies  Friday 
after  a  week's  absence  from  their  work.  At  chapel 
exercises  President  Fellows  dwelt  lightly  upon  the 
situation  and  expressed  the  desire  for  harmonious 
proceedings  in  future.  By  terms  stipulated  by 
the  faculty  last  week  the  eight  suspended  students 
who  were  implicated  in  the  so-called  hazing 
incident  on  the  night  of  October  6,  will  be 
allowed  to  remain  on  the  campus  and  have 
access  to  the  library  and  will  be  allowed  to  continue 
their  work  under  private  tutors.  As  to  the  expense 
of  this  it  has  been  arranged  to  be  taken  care  of  sat- 
isfactorily to  all  parties  concerned. 

The  Massachusetts  Club  is  made  up  this  year  as 
follows : 

1910,  Brown,  Edwards,  Hamburger,  McGlone,  P. 
B.  Morss,  R.  D.  Morss,  Otis,  Robinson,  C.  A.  Smith. 

1911,  Brummett,  Cole,  Dennis,  H.  K.  Hine,  R.  P. 
Hine,  Kellogg,  Sullivan,  ■  Wiggin,  Oxnard,  Redfern, 
Spurling,  Stephens. 

1912,  Ashey,  Brooks,  Burlingame,  Churchill, 
Daniels,  Davis,  Hurley,  Joy.  McCormick,  Morss, 
Nichols,    Reynolds,    Rowell,    Torrey,    Bosworth. 

1913,  Baker,  Brown,  Busfield,  Duffey,  Fuller,  W. 
S.  Greene,  Greenwood,  H.  H.  Hall,  Jones,  Miller, 
Saunders,  Twombley. 

Specials    (1913)    Montgomery. 
The   Club   will  meet  for  the  first  time  after  the 
Thanksgiving  recess. 


IN  MEMORIAM 

Hall  of  the  Kappa  of  Psi  Upsilon^ 
November  I,   1909. 

In  the  death  on  Sunday  last  of  Brother  George 
Tingley  Sewall  of  the  Class  of  1867,  the  Kappa 
Chapter  of  Psi  Upsilon  loses  a  beloved  and  re- 
spected member  from  its  ranks.  He  was  highly 
honored  in  his  home  town  and  was  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Penobscot  bar.  A  gentleman  of  the 
old  school,  he  was  an  honor  to  his  fraternity  and  to 
his  profession.     Therefore  be  it 

Resolved,  That  we  express  our  sorrow  at  his 
death  and  extend  our  sincere  sympathy  to  those 
bound  closer  to  him  by  ties  of  friendship  and  family. 

Clinton   Noyes   Peters, 
Arthur   Harrison   Cole, 
Walter   Atherton   Fuller, 


For  the  Chapter. 


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BOWDOIN    ORIENT 


Hlumni  department 


'50. — Gen.  Oliver  O.  Howard  died  sud- 
denly of  heart  disease  at  his  home  in  Burling- 
ton, Vt.,  Oct.  26,  1909.  He  was  the  son  of 
Rowland  Bailey  and  Eliza  (Otis)  Howard 
and  was  born  8  Nov.  1830,  at  Leeds,  Me.  His 
uncle,  Hon.  John  Otis,  graduated  in  1823  and 
his  three  brothers  followed  him  to  Bowdoin. 
He  was  prepared  for  college  in  the  academies 
at  Monmouth  and  Yarmouth.  On  completing 
the  college  course  when  only  nineteen,  he 
received  an  appointment  to  West  Point.  Here 
he  graduated  fourth  in  his  class  in  1854  and 
became  a  second  lieutenant  in  the  ordnance 
department.  He  was  on  duty  in  the  arsenal 
at  Watervliet,  N.  Y.,  and  in  that  at  Augusta, 
Me.,  1854-6,  was  chief  of  ordnance  in  the 
Seminole  War  in  1857,  and  the  same  year  was 
detailed  as  assistant  professor  of  mathematics 
in  the  U.  S.  Military  Academy.  At  the' out- 
break of  the  war,  his  request  to  be  relieved  of 
his  appointment  and  sent  to  the  front  not  hav- 
ing been  granted,  he  resigned  and  became  col- 
onel of  the  third  Maine  volunteers,  he  com- 
manded a  brigade  at  the  first  battle  of  Bull 
Run  and  was  promoted  to  be  brigadier  general 
in  September,  1861.  He  took  part  in  the 
Peninsular  campaign,  and  at  Fair  Oaks  had 
two  horses  shot  beneath  him  and  was  wounded 
in  the  right  arm  so  severely  as  to  require  its 
amputation.  Returning  to  the  army  after  an 
absence  of  less  than  three  months,  he  partici- 
pated in  the  Maryland  campaign,  succeeding 
Gen.  Sedgwick  in  the  command  of  the  second 
division  when  the  latter  was  wounded  at 
Antietam,  and  taking  a  prominent  part  at 
Fredericksburg.  He  was  appointed  major- 
general  of  volunteers,  29  November,  1862,  and 
was  in  command  of  the  eleventh  corps  at 
Chancellorsville.  With  the  same  corps  he 
won  great  credit  at  Gettysburg,  holding  a 
superior  force  in  check  on  the  first  day  and  as 
commanding  oificer  for  a  brief  period  after  the 
death  of  Gen.  Reynolds,  selecting  the  field  on 
which  the  famous  battle  was  completed.  In 
October,  1863,  he  joined  the  Army  of  the 
Cumberland  and  took  part  in  the  operations 
about  Chattanooga.  The  next  spring  he  had 
command  of  the  fourth  army  corps,  and  after 
the  death  of  Gen.  McPherson  was  put  in  com- 
mand of  the  Army  of  Tennessee.  He  com- 
manded the  right  wing  in  Gen.  Sherman's 
march  to  the  sea,  and  after  the  capture  of 
Savannah  engaged  in  the  invasion  of  the  Car- 


olinas.  In  Dec,  1864,  he  was  made  a  brigadier- 
general  in  the  regular  army  and  in  March, 
1865,  was  brevetted  major-general  for  gallan- 
try at  the  battle  of  Ezra  Church.  From  May, 
1865,  to  June,  1872,  he  was  Commissioner  of 
the  Bureau  of  Refugees,  and  accomplished 
much  for  the  relief  of  the  freedmen  and  for 
their  industrial  and  educational  welfare,  tak- 
ing an  active  part  in  the  establishment  of  sev- 
eral permanent  institutions,  one  of  which, 
Howard  University,  was  named  in  his  honor. 
He  was  in  command  of  the  Department  of  the 
Columbia  from  1874  to  1880,  and  while  there 
conducted  successfully  two  wars  with  hostile 
Indians.  For  two  years  he  was  Superintend- 
ent of  the  United  States  Military  Academy 
and  then  in  command  of  the  Department  of 
the  Platte  till  March,  1886,  when  he  was  pro- 
moted to  be  major-general.  During  most  of 
the  period  till  his  retirement  by  law  on  Nov. 
8,  1894,  he  was  in  command  of  the  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  East  with  his  headquarters  at  Gov- 
ernor's Island,  N.  Y.  Since  his  retirement  his 
legal  residence  has  been  at  Burlington,  Vt.,  but 
his  labors  in  connection  with  the  organization 
and  establishment  of  the  Lincoln  Memorial 
University  at  Cumberland  Gap,  Tenn.,  and  the 
demands  for  public  addresses  have  taken  him 
to  all  parts  of  the  country. 

Gen.  Howard  received  the  decoration  of 
the  French  Legion  of  Honor  in  1884,  the 
thanks  of  Congress  for  his  service  at  Gettys- 
burg", and  the  degree  of  doctor  of  laws  from 
his  Alma  Mater,  and  several  other  institutions 
of  learning.  He  was  the  author  of  several 
historical  and  biographical  books  and  his  auto- 
biography published  in  two  volumes  in  1907 
had  a  large  sale. 

Gen.  Howard  served  as  a  trustee  of  Bow- 
doin College  from  1892  till  his  death.  He 
served  her  most  by  his  well-deserved  fame  as 
a  brave  soldier  and  a  devout  Christian. 

'08. — Thomas  E.  Gay  has  been  chosen 
principal  of  the  High  School  at  Mechanics- 
ville,  New  York. 

'09. — Harrison  Atwood  has  a  position 
with   the   New   York  Telephone   Company. 

'09. — Ralph  O.  Brewster  is  principal  of 
the   High   School   at    Castine. 

"09. — Jasper  J.  Stahl  is  studying  in  Gottin- 
gen,  Gemiany.  His  address  is  9,  I  Goss- 
lerstrasse. 

'09. — Rev.  Fred  V.  Stanley  has  accepted 
a  call  to  be  the  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church   at   Kingston,   N.   H. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  NOVEMBER  12,  1909 


VOL.  XXXIX 


NO.   17 


BOWDOIN  vs.  MAINE 

To-morrow  will  see  the  finish  of  the  Maine 
Intercollegiate  Football  games  for  the  year 
1909.  Colby  is  champion  and  Bates  is  at  the 
foot  of  the  list.  Only  two  halves  of  what 
should  prove  to  be  a  gruelling  contest  will 
determine  who  shall  occupy  second  and  third 
places.  Comparative  weight  and  scores  make 
it  appear  that  Bowdoin  and  Maine  are  evenly 
matched. 

Maine  prophets  are  assured  that  Coach 
Schildmiller's  men  have  something  up  their 
sleeve  yet,  while  Bowdoin,  stimulated  by  the 
presence  and  coaching  of  "Cope"  Philoon  are 
full  of  confidence.  It  will  be  a  contest  well 
worth  watching. 


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BOWDOIN  6,  BATES  0 
Bowdoin  Line  Backers  Win  Out 

In  her  second  game  of  the  championship 
series  Bowdoin  defeated  Bates  in  a  hard  game 
at  Lewiston,  Saturday,  thereby  relegating 
Bates  to  the  Booby  prize  and  giving  herself  a 
fighting  chance  for  second  place  with  Maine 
next  Saturday. 

It  was  a  hard  fought  game  with  the  honors 
pretty  even  until  Bowdoin  scored  her  only 
touchdown  after  sixty  minutes  of  play,  and 
Frank  Smith  kicked  a  goal,  making  the  vic- 
tory read  6  to  o. 

Evenly  matched  as  the  teams  were,  Bow- 
doin excelled  easily  in  offensive  playing  and  to 
this  was  due  her  victory.  Her  superiority  in 
this  respect,  however,  does  not  show  to  its 
full  value  in  the  score,  for  repeatedly  she  car- 
ried the  ball  dangerously  near  the  Bates  goal 
only  to  lose  it  at  the'  critical  mcnnent  and  allow 
Bates  to  boot  it  back  up  the  field.  Bowdoin 
was  also  penalized  heavier  than  Bates,  twice 
late  in'  the  second  half  for  alleged  delay  of  the 
game. 

Bates,  in  the  first  half,  took  every  advan- 
tage of  the  wind  and  punted  repeatedly.    Dur- 


ing the  game  she  punted  400  yards  against 
Bowdoin's  scant  200.  Bates'  scheme  of  punt- 
ing with  the  wind  worked  Bowdoin's  backs 
hard  in  line  bucking  to  make  up  lost  ground. 

The  ball  was  weaving  up  and  down  the 
field  during  the  whole  game  and  it  was  only 
by  a  characteristic  Bowdoin  rally  late  in  the 
game  that  it  was  finally  pushed  over  the  Bates 
line. 

The  last  fifteen  minutes  of  play  was  full 
of  sensations.  Keaney  kicked  from  his  46- 
yard  line  to  Wilson  who  was  downed  on  his 
30.  Kern  then  took  the  ball  and  went  into  the 
line  for  first  down  in  two  smashes.  Wilson 
next  made  a  twenty-yard  gain  on  an  end  run 
and  then  Crosby  picked  up  an  onside  kick  and 
dug  20  yards  nearer  the  line.  In  three  line 
charges  Bowdoin  put  the  ball  within ,  10  yards 
of  the  line  and  looked  good  for  a  score  when 
Bates  rushed  once,  punted  back  into  the  center 
of  the  field  and  the  fun  began  all  over  again. 
Pretty  soon,  however,  Farnham  made  a  for- 
ward pass  to  "Baldy"  Smith  who  dug  back  to 
the  lo-yard  line  again  before  he  fell.  Farn- 
ham and  Smith  went  into  the  line  for  eight 
and  the  whole  team  got  down  and  boosted 
Kern  over  with  the  ball  for  a  touchdown. 

Early  in  the  game  Frank  Smith  made  a 
sensational  50-yard  dash  through  the  whole 
Bates  team  and  made  a  tackle. 

Both  college  bands  were  out  and  grand 
stand  and  bleachers  were  filled.  Practically 
the  whole  of  the  student  body  went  up  from 
Bowdoin. 

Bowdoin.  Bates. 

Crosby,  E.  Smith,  l.e I.e.,  Carroll,  Bishop 

Newman    (Capt.),  l.t l.t.,  W.  Andrews 

Pratt,   l.g l.g.,   Shepard,   Ham 

Boynton,    c c,    Dorman 

Hastings,  King,   r.g r.g.,  Jecusco 

King,  Crosby,  r.t r.t.,  D.  Andrews,  Dacey 

Hurley,   r.e r.e..   Dacey,   McAlister 

Wilson,   q.b q.b.,   Keaney,    Remmert 

F.   Smith,  l.h.b l.h.b.,  Conklin,  Dennis 

Farnham   r.h.b r.h.b.,   Dennis,   Keaney 

Kern,   f.b f.b.,   Lovely 

Summary :  Score — Bowdoin  6,  Bates  o.  Touch- 
down— Kern.  Goal  from  touchdown — F.  Smith. 
Umpire — Farmer,  Dartmouth.  Referee — Walbridge, 
Cornell.  Head  linesman — Rawson.  Time  of  halves 
— 35   minutes. 


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BOWDOIN    ORIENT 


BOWDOIN  GETS  $100,000  GIFT 

John  Steward  Kennedy,  one  of  America's 
comparatively  little  known  rich  men  who  died 
in  his  New  York  home  last  week,  left  bequests 
of  more  than  $25,000,000  to  religious,  char- 
itable and  educational  institutions,  including  a 
gift  of  $100,000.00  to  Bowdoin  College. 

The  $25,000,000  gift  is  the  largest  be- 
quest of  its  kind  ever  made,  and  the  beneficiar- 
ies include  educational  and  church  institutions 
North,  South,  East  and  West  in  this  country 
and  several  abroad,  60  in  all.  Nearly  half  the 
$25,000,000  goes  to  institutions  connected 
with  the  Presbyterian  church  of  which  Mr. 
Kennedy  has  been  an  active  member  for  many 
years.  Aside  from  these  gifts  Mr.  Kennedy 
left  approximately  $35,000,000  to  his  wife, 
his  relatives,  and  a  great  number  of  friends 
and  employes. 

The  charitable,  religious  and  educational 
institutions  which  receive  the  largest  bequests 
are  to  share  the  residue  of  the  estate  left  after 
definite  gifts  of  approximately  $12,000,000 
have  been  paid  out.  Their  shares  are  esti- 
mated by  counsel  for  the  executors  as  follows : 

Presbyterian  board  of  foreign  missions  $2,250,- 
000. 

Presbyterian  board  of  home  missions,  $2,250,000. 

Presbyterian    church    extension    fund,    $2,250,000. 

Presbyterian    Hospital,    New    York,    $2,250,000. 

Robert  College,   Constantinople,  $1,500,000. 

Presbyterian  board  of  aid   for  colleges,  $750,000. 

Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art,  New  York, 
$2,250,000. 

New  York  Public  Library,  $2,250,000. 

Columbia  University,  $2,250,000. 

United  Charities,  New  York,  $1,500,000. 

American    Bible    Society,   $750,000. 

Charity  Organization  Society,  New  York, 
$750,000. 

The  smaller,  gifts,  made  by  specific  bequest,  are 
as  follows : 

Yale   University,   $100,000. 

Amherst    College,    $100,000. 

Williams    College,    $100,000. 

Dartmouth   College,   $100,000. 

Bowdoin   College,  $100,000. 

Hamilton  College,  $100,000. 

University  of  Glasgow,  Scotland  ("where  from 
my  infancy  I  resided  until  I  came  to  this  country"), 
$100,000. 

Hampton  Normal  School  and  Agricultural  Insti- 
tute, $100,000. 

Lafayette  College,  Easton,  Pa.,  $50,000. 

Oberlin  College,  Oberlin,  O.,  $50,000. 

Wellesley  College,  $50,000. 

Barnard   College,  $50,000. 

Teachers'  College  (Columbia  University), $50,000. 

Elmira  College  for  Women,  Elmira,  N.  Y., 
$50,000. 

Northfield    Seminary,   Northfield,   Mass.,   $50,000. 


Mount  Hermon  boys'  school,  Gill,  Mass., 
$50,000. 

Anatolic   College,   Marsovan,   Turkey,  $50,000. 

Syrian  Protestant  College,  Beirut,  Syria,  $25,000. 

American  school  at  Smyrna,  Turkey,  now  under 
the  care  of  the  Rev.  Alexander  MacLachlan, 
$20,000. 

Lake  Forest  University,  Lake  Forest,  111.,  $25,000. 

Center  College,  Kentucky,  $50,000. 

Berea  College,  Kentucky,  $50,000. 

Cooper   Union.   New  York,  $20,000. 

National  Academy  of  Design,  New  York,  $20,- 
000. 

Presbyterian  Board  of  Relief  for  Disabled  Min- 
isters at  Perth  Amboy,  N.  J.,  $10,000. 

Presbyterian  Home  for  Aged  Women,  New 
York,  $10,000. 

Presbyterian  Board  of  Missions  for  Freedmen, 
$10,000. 

Bible  House  of  Constantinople,  $10,000. 

New  York  Bible   Society,  $10,000. 

Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of  New 
York,  $10,000. 

Young  Women's  Christian  Association  of  New 
York,  $10,000. 

New  York  Infirmary  for  Women  and  Children, 
$25,000. 

Bar  Harbor  Medical  and  Surgical  Hospital,  Bar 
Harbor,  $5,000. 

St.  Andrews  Society  of  the  State  of  New  York, 
$20,000. 

New  York  City  Mission  and  Tract  Society, 
$20,000. 

The  sum  of  $10,000  is  given  to  each  of  the  fol- 
lowing : 

Manhattan  Eye  and  Ear  Hospital,  New  York; 
New  York  OrthopEedic  Dispensary ;  Home  for  Incur- 
able, Fordham,  N.  Y. ;  New  Yorl:  Society  for  the 
Relief  of  the  Ruptured  and  Crippled ;  New  York 
Charity  Organization ;  New  York  Association  for 
Improving  the  Condition  of  the  Poor;  New  York 
Children's  Aid  Society;  New  York  State  Charities 
Aid  Association ;  Alumni  Association  of  Nurses ; 
Presbyterian   Hospital,    New   York. 


BOWDOIN  HAS  A  CARNEGIE  HERO 

Linwood  E.  Clark,  '11,  of  Wilton,  has 
been  awarded  a  bronze  medal  and  $2,000  to 
defray  the  expenses  of  his  education  for  saving 
the  life  of  Edgar  V.  Bump,  aged  7,  on  Dec. 
23,  1908.  The  award  is  made  by  the  Carne- 
gie Hero  Fund  Commission.  Clark  was 
working  in  a  store  in  Wilton,  Me.,  when  a  fire 
broke  out  on  the  second  floor  where  several 
children  were  playing.  All  had  been  rescued 
save  Bump  who,  frightened  by  the  smoke  and 
flame,  had  hidden  under  a  counter,  from 
whence  he  was  rescued  by  Clark. 

Clark  has  made  no  mention  of  the  affair  to 
any  one  in  colleg^e,  so  that  his  good  fortune 
comes  as  a  surprise  to  Bowdoin  men  who 
extend  to  him  their  heartiest  congratulations 
for  this  well-deserved  recognition. 


BOWDOIN    ORIENT 


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ISAIAH  H.  SIMPSON  DEAD 

Isaiah  H.  Simpson,  for  many  years  superintend- 
ent of  grounds  and  buildings  at  Bowdoin  College, 
died  suddenly  early  Monday  morning  of  pneumo- 
nia. Friday  he  was  at  the  college,  but  was  taken  ill 
and  had  to  be  assisted  to  his  home.  Sunday  it  was 
found  that  he  had  pneumonia. 

Mr.  Simpson,  who  was  54  years  old,  was  the  son 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Elbridge  Simpson  of  this  town. 
When  a  young  man  he  spent  several  years  in  Cali- 
fornia and  then  returned  and  entered  the  coal  busi- 
ness with  his  father.  When  the  Pejepscot  Water 
Co.  was  organized  Mr.  Simpson  became  its  superin- 
tendent and  for  a  number  of  years  served  in  that 
capacity  not  only  for  the  Pejepscot  Company  but 
also  for  the  Maine  Water  Company  which  suc- 
ceeded it.  For  a  short  time  he  was  in  business  for 
himself  as  a  machinist.  He  then  accepted  this  posi- 
tion at  Bowdoin  College  which  he  held  until  about 
a  year  ago  when  he  retired  from  active  work  on 
account  of  ill  health. 

While  employed  at  the  college  Mr.  Simpson  was 
of  great  assistant  in  the  physics  department,  help- 
ing Prof.  Charles  C.  Hutchins.  Mr.  Simpson  prac- 
tically had  charge  of  the  shop  work  of  the  physics 
department  and  under  his  direction  the  students 
made  much  of  their  apparatus. 

He  was  an  inventor,  making  several  inventions 
of  note,  the  most  recent  of  which  was  a  spark-coil 
for  which  he  received  a  big  price  within  a  short 
time.  He  also  invented  a  machine  for  thawing 
frozen  water  pipes  which  is  in  general  use. 

He  is  survived  by  a  widow  and  two  sisters,  Mrs. 
Caarl  Von  Rydingsvard  of  New  York,  and  Mrs. 
Fred  Townsend  of  Portland.  He  belongs  to  the 
United  Lodge  of  Masons. 


THIRD  LECTURE   BY  PROFESSOR  JOHNSON  ON 
WALKER  ART  BUILDING 

Professor  Johnson  in  the  third  of  his  series 
of  "perapatetic"  lectures  on  the  paintings  in 
the  Walker  Art  Gallery  Thursday,  November 
4,  spoke  of  the  works  in  the  Sophia  Walker 
Memorial  Gallery.  To  call  these  weekly  gath- 
erings lectures,  seems  hardly  fair,  for  they  are 
more  like  familiar  talks,  and  have  the  pecul- 
iarly delightful  characteristic  of  being  im- 
promptu. 

Professor  Johnson  spoke  first  of  the  valua- 
ble collection  of  antique  glass  that  is  in  the 
first  cabinet,  on  the  right  side  of  the  door  as 
one  enters  the  gallery,  and  of  the  two  Grecian 
vases,  the  smaller  one  he  said,  is  a  beautiful 
and  well  proportioned  example  of  Greek  pot- 
tery. Of  the  paintings  he  spoke  more  fully, 
particularly  of  the  landscape  by  Corot,  and  its 
delicate  atmospheric  treatment,  also  of  Dau- 
bigny's  subdued  facile  technique.  The  paint- 
ing of  Two  Lion  Cubs,  by  Rosa  Bonheur,  he 
said  was  a  very  praiseworthy  approximation 
of  the  artist's  ability  as  a  painter  of  animals, 


and  if  anyone  were  to  take  a  painting  from 
the  gallery  for  his  home,  the  choice  would 
probably  fall  on  the  Rosa  Bonheur  painting. 
The  wrought  iron  hinges  and  door  locks,  with 
the  delicate  traceries,  came  in  for  their  share 
of  discussion,  also  the  valuable  collection  of 
china  and  Japanese  hand-carved  ivories. 

The  most  delightful  feature  of  Professor 
Johnson's  talks  is  the  spirit  of  genuine 
aesthetic  appreciation  he  tries  to  awaken  in 
each  man,  the  capacity  to  see  the  beautiful 
curve  in  a  vase,  to  feel  the  worth  of  a  paint- 
ing. For  if  a  man  does  not  try  to  open  the 
artistic  side  of  his  nature  he  loses  a  little  of 
the  pure  joy  of  life  and  the  acquaintance  with 
the  truly  refined. 


REV.  JOHN  H.  QUINT 


Rev.  John  H.  Quint,  '97,  commenced  his 
duties  as  pastor  of  the  First  Parish  Church  on 
Sunday  morning  by  conducting  the  morning 
exercises.  Mr.  Quint  graduated  from  the 
Bangor  Theological  Seminary  in  1896  and 
from  Bowdoin  in  1897.  His  first  pastorate 
was  at  Falmouth,  Mass.  From  there  he  went 
to  Rockland,  Me.,  where  he  won  the  esteem 
of  all  who  met  him.  His  coming  to  Bruns- 
wick will  be  welcomed  especially  by  the  stu- 
dents, for  he  is  a  graduate  of  the  college  and  is 
much  interested  in  student  aft'airs. 

He  spoke  Sunday  morning  on  Christ's  mis- 
sion to  the  world  and  the  consequent  inter- 
pretation of  true  and  rational  Christianity.  He 
used  for  his  text  Matthew  5-17:  "Think  ye 
that  I  came  to  destroy  the  law  or  the  proph- 
ets :  I  came  not  to  destroy,  but  to  fulfill."  He 
showed  that  a  rational  Christianity  is  not  the 
destroying  but  the  fulfilling  of  all  joys  and 
pleasures.  For  Christ's  moral  law  is  health, 
and  a  good  healthy  religion  furnishes  life 
abundantly.  To  the  service  of  God  in  this 
way,  all  are  called. 


ART  BUILDING  NOTES 

Mrs.  Henry  Douglas  Bacon  has  loaned  to 
the  college  a  full-size  portrait  of  her  father. 
Professor  William  Dennis  Marks,  done  by 
Thomas  Eakins.  The  painting  has  taken 
prizes  and  medals  at  various  art  exhibits  and 
expositions.  It  was  awarded  a  gold  medal  at 
the  Chicago  World's  Exposition.  The  paint- 
ing has  been  hung  in  the  Boyd  gallery  in  the 
Art  Building. 


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Vol.  XXXIX.  NOVEMBER   12,    1909  No.    17 


John  Steward 
Kennedy 


Mr.  John  Steward  Ken- 
nedy by  whose  will  Bow- 
doin  gets  a  gift  of  one 
hundred  thousand  dollars,  was  one  of  the 
philanthropists  whose  gifts,  altho  measured  in 
millions,  were  made  with  as  little  publicity  as 
possible.  As  he  gave  quietly  so  he  lived  unos- 
tentatiously. Besides  being  a  banker  he  was 
one  of  the  country's  chief  builders  of  railroads, 
and  in  his  own  unobtrusive  way,  one  of  New 
York's  foremost  advocates  of  scientifically 
organized  charity. 

His  name  obtained  a  fleeting  public  men- 
tion a  short  time  ago  when  the  publication  of 
lists  showing  the  principal  shareholders  of 
American  railways  gave  him  as  the  owner  of 
$10,000,000  of  Northern  Pacific  and  $7,000,- 
000  of  Great  Northern.  On  Wall  Street  Mr. 
Kennedy  had   the  reputation   of   keeping  the 


largest  cash  balance  in  his  bank  accounts  of 
any  New  York  financier.  As  banker  and  in- 
vestor, he  always  showed  great  interest  in  the 
development  of  the  Northwest.  He  was  iden- 
tified with  J.  Pierpont  Morgan  and  James  J. 
Hill  in  the  Northern  Pacific  and  Great  North- 
ern railway  companies  for  many  years,  and 
was  a  director  in  many  railroads,  life  insurance 
companies  and  banking  institutions. 

Born  near  Glasgow,  in  1830,  Mr.  Ken- 
nedy came  to  America  in  1850  as  agent  for  an 
English  iron  and  metal  concern.  In  1857  he 
joined  the  New  York  banking  firm  of  M.  K. 
Jesup  &  Co.,  and  about  11  years  later  estab- 
lished the  house  of  Kennedy  &  Co.  He  retired 


A  More  Beautiful 
Campus 


We  once  heard  a  gentle- 
man who  has  attained 
some  prominence  in  the 
state,  say  that  a  certain  part  of  Bowdoin's 
campus  "looks  like  a  hen  yard."  He  referred 
to  the  land  back  of  the  dormitories  where  the 
Gymnasium  and  Observatory  lie  between  ten- 
nis courts  with  their  unsightly  chicken  wire 
shields.  Behind  the  library,  too,  are  plots  of 
ground  where  the  grass  is  never  mowed  in  the 
spring,  nor  the  leaves  raked  in  the  fall.  To 
be  sure  this  land  is  the  back  yard  of  the  col- 
lege ;  but  even  the  back  yard  should  be  kept 
clean.  These  are  defects  which  the  Superin- 
tendent of  Grounds  and  Buildings  can  remedy, 
but  there  are  others  just  as  obvious  which  the 
members  of  the  institution  can  prevent.  If 
you  wish  the  campus  to  look  well,  do  not  throw 
waste  paper  from  the  dormitory  windows.  It 
is  a  pernicious  practice  which  if  persisted  in 
will  do  more  to  mar  the  beauty  of  the  campus 
than  all  the  chicken  wire  and  tall  grass  in  our 
back  yard. 


FACULTY  CLUB  MEETS 

The  Faculty  Club  held  its  first  meeting  in 
the  library  Monday  evening,  Nov.  8.  The 
committee  of  arrangements  for  this  year  will 
consist  of  President  Hyde,  Prof.  Sills,  Prof. 
Henry  Johnson,  Prof.  Chapman,  and  Dr. 
Cram.  A  series  of  eight  meetings  will  be 
devoted  to  discussion  of  various  forms  of  lit- 
erature. In  former  years,  biography  has  been 
the  topic,  but  the  various  forms  of  the  drama 
will  probably  be  considered  this  year. 


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CALENDAR 

Friday,  November  12 

7.00    Mass-Meeting  in  Memorial  Hall. 
Saturday,  November  13 

2.30  Bowdoin  vs.  University  of  Maine  on  Whit- 
tier  Field. 

Sunday,  November  14 

10.45  College  Preacher.  Professor  Albert  P. 
Fitch,  D.D.,  of  Andover  Seminary,  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  will  speak  in  the  Church  on  the  Hill. 

5.00  Sunday  Chapel,  conducted  by  President 
Albert  P.  Fitch. 

Music  by  the  double  quartette;  tenor  solo  by 
Tibbetts,  '12. 

7.00  Dr.  A.  P.  Fitch  will  speak  in  the  Christian 
Association    Room. 

Monday,  November  is 

3.30-6.00  Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial 
Hall. 

3.30    Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

Freshman  Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

4.00    Cross  Country  Team  leaves  gym. 
Tuesday,  November  16 

3.30    Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

Freshman  Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

4.00    Cross  Country  Team  leaves  gym. 

5.00    Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Association  Room. 

8.00  "The  Garden  Party"  to  be  given  in  the 
Town  Hall  under  the  auspices  of  the  Episcopal 
Church. 

Wednesday,  November   17 

3.30    Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

Freshman  Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

4.00    Cross  Country  Team  leaves  gym. 

8.30    Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Association  Room. 

Thursday,  November  18 

3.30     Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

Freshman  Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 

4.00     Cross  Country  Team  leaves  gym. 

7.00  Address  in  Christian  Association  Room  by 
Rev.  C.  H.  Cutler,  D.D.,  '81,  of  Bangor.  "Your 
Level   Best." 

8.00  Second  Annie  Talbot  Cole  Lecture  in 
Memorial  Hall. 

9.00  Meeting  of  the  Christian  Association  Cabi- 
net at  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  House. 

Friday,  November  ig 
3.00    Cross    Country    Race.     Bowdoin   vs.    Tufts 
over  the  Bowdoin  course. 

3.30    Football   Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
Freshman  Football  Practice  on  Whittier  Field. 
5.00    Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Association  Room. 
7.00    Mass-Meeting  in  Memorial  Hall. 

Saturday,  November  20 
2.30    Bowdoin  vs.  Tufts  on  Pine  Tree  Grounds, 
Portland. 


ROCHESTER  MISSIONARY  CONVENTION 

At  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  from  December  29  to  Jan- 
uary 2,  will  be  held  the  Fifth  Student  Volunteer 
Convention  for  all  the  colleges  in  the  United  States 
and  Canada.  Over  1,000  institutions  will  be  repre- 
sented, and  it  is  expected  that  the  number  of  dele- 
gates will  exceed  5,000.     Colleges  as  far  distant  as 


the  University  of  Texas  and  the  University  of  Col- 
orado will  send  representatives.  It  can  safely  be 
said  that  it  will  be  the  most  important  college  gath- 
ering of  its  kind  ever  held. 

The  object  of  the  convention  is  to  assemble  to- 
gether representatives  of  our  colleges  to  discuss 
problems  of  missionary  interest.  Probably  half  the 
delegates  will  be  planning  to  become  missionaries. 
The  remainder  will  be  those  most  interested  in  home 
support  of  foreign  missions,  and  the  increase  of  mis- 
sionary interest  in  colleges.  The  speakers  will  be 
the  acknowledged  leaders  in  these  subjects,  and 
among  them  may  be  mentioned  Robert  E.  Speer, 
always  prominent  at  the  Northfield  Conference  and 
John  R.  Mott,  who  has  just  returned  from  a  visit 
to  the  colleges  of  ten  European  nations. 

Missionary  interest  was  never  so  keen  through- 
out the  country  as  it  is  this  year.  The  recent  gift  of 
live  million  dollars  to  Presbyterian  missions  indi- 
cates this  aroused  interest.  This  winter  the  Lay- 
men's Missionary  Movement  will  hold  conventions 
in  every  large  city  in  the  country — Portland's  will 
be  held  this  month — culminating  in  a  convention  of 
5,000  delegates  at  Chicago  in  the  spring,  when  Pres- 
ident Taft  will  be  a  prominent  speaker. 

Missionary  interest  is  also  on  the  increase  here 
ut  Bowdoin.  Hiwale,  '09,  will  be  partly  supported 
as  Bowdoin's  special  missionary  in  India.  During 
the  second  semester  Mission  Study  classes  will  be 
held  throughout  the  college.  Accordingly  it  is  wise 
that  Bowdoin  send  a  full  delegation  to  this  Roch- 
ester Convention,  so  that  our  work  here  may  be 
improved  by  suggestions  from  similar  work  in  other 
colleges.  Four  5'ears  ago,  at  Nashville,  Tenn., 
Bowdoin  was  unrepresented,  but  this  time  five  dele- 
gates will  be  sent.  Because  of  the  limited  size  of 
the  Convention  Hall,  this  is  all  that  Bowdoin  is  al- 
lowed. At  the  last  meeting  of  the  Christian  Asso- 
ciation the  following  delegates  were  elected : 
Professor  Kenneth  M.  Sills,  Harold  W.  Slocum, 
'10,  William  C.  Allen,  '11,  Frank  A.  Smith,  '12,  and 
Mr.  James  L.  McConaughy. 


KENNETH  LATOURETTE  ADDRESSES  THE 
Y.  M.  C.  A. 

The  Christian  Association  last  Thursday  was 
addressed  by  Kenneth  Latourette,  Yale,  '06,  Secre- 
tary for  the  Student  Volunteer  Movement  in  the 
Eastern  Colleges,  who  spoke  on  "Missions."  He 
began  by  saying  that  the  great  fault  of  American 
colleges  is  provincialism.  They  do  not  realize  the 
significance  of  the  great  world  movements  which  are 
going  on  at  the  present  time.  The  missionary  move- 
ment is  one  of  the  greatest.  This  movement  has 
now  reached  a  critical  stage,  it  has  great  opportuni- 
ties for  extension  now  which  if  not  seized  will  be 
forever  lost.  He  urged  every  fellow  to  get  in  touch 
with  this  great  movement  and  give  for  its  success 
himself  or  at  least  his  material  support. 

After  the  meeting  delegates  were  elected  to  the 
annual  convention  of  the  Student  Volunteer  Move- 
ment to  be  held  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  29  to  Jan. 
2.  The  following  men  were  selected :  Prof.  K.  C. 
M.  Sills,  H.  W.  Slocum,  '10,  W.  C.  Allen,  '11,  F.  A. 
Smith,  '12. 


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College  Botes 

Mass-Meeting  Tonight  at  7  o  'clock 

Belknap,  '13,  was  home  over  Sunday. 

Prof.  Foster  is  in  town  for  a  few  days. 

Harlow,  '09,  was  on  the  campus,  Monday. 

The  college  organ  was  tuned  last  month. 

William  Harris,  '09,  was  on  the  campus,  Monday. 

Archie  Dunn,  Medic  '12,  was  home  over  Sunday. 

Davis,  '11;  Foote,  '12;  Churchill,  '12;  Hart,  '12; 
and  Eberhardt,  '13,  hiked  to  Lewiston,  Saturday. 

Harrington,  '12,  entertained  his  father  at  the 
Bates  game. 

Professor  Whittier  gave  an  adjourn  in  Hygiene 
Thursday  of  last  week. 

Clifford,  '10,  refereed  the  Hebron-Kent's  Hill 
game  at  Kent's  Hill,  Saturday. 

Tuttle,  '13,  went  to  Exeter  Saturday  to  see  the 
Exeter-Andover  game. 

P.  B.  Morss,  '10,  went  to  Houlton,  Monday,  for 
a  week's  visit. 

Conant,  '13,  went  to  Portland,  Saturday,  to  see 
the  Portland-Bangor  game. 

Joe  Pendleton,  '90,  refereed  the  Dartmouth- 
Princeton  game  last   Saturday. 

M.  A.  Gould,  ex-'ii,  is  coaching  the  Ellsworth 
High    School   football   team. 

Both  the  Maine  and  Bowdoin  teams  average  17s 
lbs.   in  weight  per  man. 

James  P.  Baxter,  '81,  has  announced  his  willing- 
ness to  run  as  a  candidate  for  mayor  of  Portland. 

Edward  Sewall,  ex- '09,  is  attending  Tufts  Medi- 
cal School. 

Prof.  Robinson  gave  adjourns  in  Medical  Chem- 
istry, Thursday. 

The  candidates  for  the  Mandolin  Club  have  been 
given  sheet  music  with  which  to  practice. 

Weston,  '08,  and  Fairclough,  '08,  attended  the 
Bates  game. 

Prof.  Files  gave  adjourns  in  German  15,  Mon- 
day evening. 

Bickmore,  '11,  spent  Sunday  at  his  home  in 
Augusta. 

Bryant,  '12.  was  home  over  Saturday  and  Sun- 
day. 

The  Bangor  High  football  team  stayed  in  Bruns- 
wick Friday  night  and  attended  the  mass-meeting. 

Profs.  Sills,  Snow,  MacConaughy,  Files.  Whit- 
tier, and  Hutchins   attended  the  Bates  game. 

Laboratory  work  in  Physics  I.  commenced 
Friday. 

Prof.  F.  S.  Libby  of  the  Berlin  High  School 
of  New  Hampshire,  spent  Sunday  with  Torsney,  '11. 

Copeland  Philoon,  captain  of  the  '04  football 
team,  was  present  at  the  final  practice  before  the 
Bates  game. 

Brummett,  '11,  attended  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  initia- 
tion at  Boston  University  last  Thursday  as  delegate 
of  the  Beta  Sigma  Chapter. 


"The  Fair  Co-ed"  with  Elsie  Janis,  is  coming  to 

the  Empire  Theatre  in  Lewiston  soon. 

An  account  of  J.  L.  MacConaughy's  work 
appeared  in  the  Daily  Kennebec  Journal  Monday. 

Martin,  '10,  and  Hendee,  Medic,  took  an  auto 
tri"  from  Augusta  to  Lewiston  for  the  Bates  game 

Sanford,  '11,  has  returned  to  college  much  im- 
proved in  health. 

The  old  Edison  lamps  on  the  campus  have  been 
replaced  with  "Tungstens,"  thus  lighting  the  cam- 
pus  more   efficiently. 

Sam  Dana,  '04,  has  been  in  California  for  the 
past  few  months  on  an  educational  campaign  for  the 
United  States  Forestry  Service. 

McDevitt,  Dartmouth,  '06,  and  coach  of  Colby, 
this  year,  will  coach  Newton  High  the  remainder  of 
the  fall. 

Manager  Otis  has  returned  from  a  trip  to 
Augusta  and  Lewiston  where  he  has  been  distrib- 
uting posters  for  the  game  to-morrow. 

Frank  Bradbury,  '96,  is  now  located  at  808-810 
William  Lawrence  Building,  85  Devonshire  Street, 
Boston. 

Ensign  Otis,  '08,  was  on  the  campus  last  week 
and  attended  the  game  at  Bates  in  the  interest  of 
his  father's  paper,  the  Rockland  Opinion. 

William  S.  Norton,  '05,  has  the  leading  article 
in  last  week's  Outlook.  The  title  is  "Chief  Kohler 
and  His   Golden  Rule   in   Cleveland." 

Robie  Stevens,  '06,  has  been  promoted  from  the 
Mexican  office  of  the  International  Banking  Com- 
pany to  their  office  in  London. 

Maloney,  '12,  and  Rodick,  '12,  walked  to  East 
Harps  well  and  back  Friday,  a  distance  of  thirty 
miles   or   more. 

Dr.  Copeland  is  enlarging  the  collection  of  exhib- 
its in  the  Biological  Museum  and  would  be  pleased 
to  receive  any  exhibit  offered. 

Harry  L.  Childs,  '06,  of  Lewiston,  and  Miss 
Gladys  Burgess  Spear  of  the  same  city,  were  mar- 
ried Oct.  27. 

Announcements  have  been  made  of  the  engage- 
ment of  Mabelle  Doughty  to  James  A.  C.  Milliken, 
Medic  '10. 

Prof.  R.  J.  Ham  has  been  elected  vice-president 
of  the  Maine  Schoolmasters'  Club.  Dr.  Daniel  Dale 
has  been  elected  auditor  of  the  association. 

K.  S.  Latourete,  Ph.D.,  of  Yale,  who  spoke  before 
the  Christian  Association  last  week  spoke  before 
the  Y.   M.   C.   A.   of  Boston  University,   Friday. 

Genthner,  '11,  has  taken  out  an  agency  for  ban- 
ners from  a  large  New  England  banner  manufac- 
turing  concern. 

H.  D.  Evans,  director  of  the  State  Laboratory  of 
Hygiene  says  that  the  analysis  of  the  Brunswick 
water  shows  it  to  be  in  its  usual  first-class  condition. 

Rev.  P.  E.  Miller,  '11,  has  accepted  a  position  as 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  South  Free- 
port,  and  began  his  pastorate   there  last  Sunday. 

Hobbs,  '10,  attended  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  initiation 
at  U.  of  M..  Saturday,  as  delegate  of  the  Beta 
Sigma  Chapter.  He  was  present  also  at  the  Maine 
Night  celebration  and  the  Colby-Maine  game. 


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Sub-Master  Hannin  and  Roland  Larason  of  Hig- 
gms  Classical  Institute  attended  the  Bowdoin-Bates 
game. 

The  Maine  Central  has  granted  the  following 
rates  for  the  game  to-morrow:  $i.oo  round  trip 
from  Portland,  $2.00  round  trip  from  Orono. 

Oscar  Peterson,  '07,  Principal  of  Parsonsfield 
Academy,  lectured  at  Fryeburg  Thursday  evening, 
on  "The  Land  of  the  Midnight  Sun." 

The  National  Geographic  Society  has  endorsed 
Peary's  claims  to  having  reached  the  Pole  and  has 
awarded  him  a  gold  medal  in  recognition  of  his 
services. 

Tufts  is  planning  to  send  a  large  number  of  fel- 
lows down  to  the  cross-country  run  and  football 
game.  The  Tufts  team  will  probably  be  made  up  of 
the  same  fellows  who  ran  last  year. 

Kendrie,  '10,  has  a  Lewiston  studio  in  Room  2>T> 
Journal  Building.  He  is  giving  fifteen  lessons  there 
on  Saturdays  and  is  also  leading  Payne  &  Plummer's 
Orchestra. 

Joe  Pendleton,  '90,  will  be  field  judge  at  the 
Harvard-Yale  game.  Langford  of  Trinity,  will  ref- 
eree and  E.  K.  Hall  of  Dartmouth  will  be  head 
linesman. 

One  of  the  members  of  last  year's  fencing  team 
will  be  at  the  gymnasium  every  afternoon  at  4 
o'clock  to  give  instruction  in  fencing  to  any  who 
care  to  take  it. 

Cheering  Section  seats  for  the  Bowdoin-Maine 
game  went  on  sale  Tuesday  evening,  bleacher  seats 
Wednesday  evening.  The  advance  sale  has  been 
remarkably  large  and  good  seats  are  at  a  premium. 

Waite,  '12,  who  has  recovered  from  a  severe 
attack  of  typhoid  fever  has  been  on  the  campus  a 
few  days  this  week,  making  arrangements  for  his 
permanent  return  which  will  be  after  the  Thanks- 
giving vacation. 

The  cross-country  run  this  year  will  start  from 
the  campus,  go  down  McKeen  Street,  then  go  out 
around  the  golf  links,  return  by  way  of  Pleasant 
Street,  and  finish  with  one  lap  around  the  track  at 
the   athletic   field. 

The  laugh  is  on  Capt.  Newman  this  week.  In  a 
rash  moment  he  bet  with  "String"  Hansen  on  the 
Andover-Exeter  football  game,  and  as  a  result  is 
wheeling  Hansen  to  and  from  the  athletic  field  in  a 
wheelbarrow. 

Read  of  Princeton  and  Marks  of  Dartmouth, 
have  scored  six  touchdowns  each  this  year.  Hutch- 
inson of  Pennsylvania,  Philbin  of  Yale,  and  High  of 
Brown,  have  made  s  each,  while  Minot  and  P.  D. 
Smith  of  Harvard,  have  four  each. 

Coach  Schildmiller  and  Manager  Johnson  of  the 
Maine  team  and  Capt.  Newman,  Coaches  McClave 
and  Philoon  and  Manager  Otis  of  Bowdoin  held 
a  conference  at  the  Eagle  Hotel,  Tuesday  evening, 
regarding  the  choice  of  officials  for  the  Bowdoin- 
Maine  game. 

Reports  from  Tufts  track  squad  are  to  the  effect 
that  the  team  is  working  hard  under  Capt.  Charles 
G.  Prentice  who  was  recently  elected.  Tufts 
expects  a  hard  contest  with  Bowdoin  in  the  meet 
at  Brunswick  next  Friday.  Their  star  man, 
Williams,  is  back  this  year  and  they  expect  him  to 
make  a  strong  bid  for  first  place. 


Frank  Elmer  Nolia,  '12,  and  Elmer  Henry  King, 
'11.  were  initiated  into  the  Zeta  Psi  fraternity, 
Thursday  night,   November  4. 

Fully  200  Bowdoin  men  attended  the  Bowdoin- 
Bates  game  at  Lewiston  last  Saturday.  After  the 
contest  a  procession  headed  by  the  band  paraded 
through  the  streets  to  the  DeWitt  Hotel  where  the 
team   was  cheered  individually  and  collectively. 

The  weekly  Mass-Meeting  was  well  attended 
Friday  night,  and  was  not  lacking  in  enthusiasm. 
Professor  Hutchins,  Professor  Nixon,  Professor 
Sills,  and  Professor  Files  were  the  speakers.  Music 
was  furnished  by  the  band  and  a  collection  was 
taken  to  send  them  to  Lewiston,  Saturday. 

Last  week  occurred  the  death  of  Francis 
Lathrop.  He  painted  the  "Moses"  in  the  chapel. 
This  was  a  design  of  his  own.  The  "St.  Paul  at 
Athens,"  "Gate  Beautiful"  and  "The  Ascension"  _  in 
the  chapel  were  all  done  by  him  also,  being  copied 
from  Raphael. 

A  squad  of  about  25  promising  candidates  an- 
swered Capt.  Lewis'  call  for  the  Freshman  team, 
Monday,  and  have  been  working  hard  all  the  week. 
Practice  is  held  at  Whittier  Field  where  the  men 
receive  the  attention  of  Coach  McClave  and  get 
good  points  in  a  scrimmage.  , 

About  75  of  the  fellows  occupied  seats  at  the 
performance  of  "The  Candy  Shop"  at  the  Empire 
Theatre,  Lewiston,  after  the  game.  Between  the 
acts  members  of  the  chorus  sang  "Phi  Chi"  and 
"Bowdoin  Beata"  and  were  answered  by  cheers  from 
the    fellows. 

Clarence  Burleigh,  A.M.,  '87,  has  presented  to  the 
library  a  copy  of  his  latest  book  "With  Pickpole 
and  Peavey."  Burleigh  is  a  writer  of  boys'  books 
among  which  he  wrote,  "The  Camp  of  Letter  K," 
"Raymond  Benson  at  Krampton,"  "The  Kenton 
Pines,"  and  "All  Among  the  Loggers." 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Freshman  Class  held  Thurs- 
day evening,  November  5th,  Stetson  was  elected 
Treasurer  for  the  ensuing  year.  Then  followed  the 
election  of  the  Captain  and  Manager  of  the  class 
football  team.  The  former  required  two  ballots  and 
on  the  second  Lewis  was  elected  captain ;  as  there 
were  only  two  candidates  for  managership  Jones 
was  elected  on  the  first  ballot. 

"Cope"  Philoon,  captain  of  the  '04  football  team, 
arrived  here  Monday  morning  to  assist  Coach  Mc- 
Clave in  getting  the  team  into  condition  for  the 
Maine  game,  Saturday.  Philoon  was  captain  of 
last  year's  team  at  West  Point  and  has  been  assist- 
ant coach  there  until  the  abolishment  of  football 
there  for  the  rest  of  the  year.  He  knows  the  game 
thoroly  and  will  be  of  great  assistance  in  preparing 
the  team  for  the  last  of  the  series.  He  leaves  for 
the  Philippines  next  week. 

At  Brown  University,  Prof.  W.  H.  Munro's  his- 
tory class  composed  of  Juniors  and  Seniors  could 
not  give  correctly  the  name  of  the  President  of  the 
United  States,  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  the 
Governor  of  Rhode  Island,  a  justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Rhode  Island  and  the  Mayor  of  Provi- 
dence when  the  questions  were  put  to  them  as  a  test. 
Two  knew  only  the  last  name  of  the  President, 
none  knew  the  name  of  a  justice  and  seventeen  were 
only  partly  correct.  What  kind  of  a  showing  would 
Prof.  Johnson's  class  make  on  a  similar  test? 


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Hlumni  2)epartment 

'55. — The  library  has  recently  received  a 
printed  copy  of  a  discourse  delivered  at  Con- 
stantinople October  14,  1909,  by  Rev.  Joseph 
K.  Greene,  setting  forth  the  progress  of  the 
Kingdom  of  God  in  the  Turkish  Empire  dur- 
ing the  half  century  in  which  he  has  labored 
there. 

'61. — The  following  letter  of  the  class  sec- 
retary announcing  the  death  of  Grenville  M. 
Thurlow  will  be  of  interest  to  college  mates. 

"For  the  second  time  within  the  year  we 
mourn  the  loss  of  a  classmate.  His  death 
raises  the  number  of  those  who  have  gone  to 
thirty  and  leaves  but  twenty-two  survivors. 
We  all  loved  "Gem"  Thurlow — ^the  sweet 
singer — for  his  gentle  nature  and  admired  his 
sturdy  character.  Although  circumstances 
prevented  his  meeting  with  us  at  our  reunions, 
he  was  never  forgotten  and  will  never  be  for- 
gotten. ■> 

'67. — ^George  Tingley  Sewall,  Esq.,  died 
after  a  long  illness  at  his  home  in  Oldtown, 
October  31,  1909.  Mr.  Sewall,  the  eldest  son 
of  Hon.  George  Popham  and  Sydney  Ellen 
(Wingate)  Sewall,  was  born  19  July,  1844,  at 
Oldtown,  Me.  He  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  schools  of  his  native  place,  com- 
pleting his  preparation  for  college  at  Union 
Academy.  After  graduating  with  the  highest 
honors,  he  studied  law  with  his  father,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  Penobscot  County  bar  in 
October,  1869.  He  practiced  his  profession 
at  Oldtown  for  forty  years,  giving  especial 
attention  to  probate  and  realty  law.  He 
served  upon  the  school  committee  1871-1887; 
was  chairman  of  the  board  of  selectmen,  1877- 
1885 ;  a  representative  to  the  state  legislature, 
1885-6;  and  city  attorney  in  1892-3,  1896-1900 
and  1905.  He  drafted  the  municipal  charter 
when  Oldtown  became  a  city,  and  declined  an 
appointment  as  judge  of  the  local  court. 
Widely  esteemed  throughout  the  county,  he 
was  repeatedly  the  candidate  of  his  party, 
which  was  in  a  minority,  for  the  higher  polit- 
ical offices. 

Mr.  Sewall  was  a  prominent  member  of 
the  St.  James  Episcopal  Church,  serving  as 
warden  and  as  superintendent  of  its  Sunday 
School  for  many  years,  and  in  1898  was  dele- 
gate from  Maine  to  the  General  Convention 
at  Washington.  Possessed  of  a  pleasing  per- 
sonality he  showed  the  unfailing  courtesy  of  a 
gentleman  of  the  old  school  to  all  with  whom 


he  came  in  contact.  He  never  married,  his 
nearest  living  relatives  being  two  sisters  and  a 
nephew,  James  W.  Sewall   (Bowdoin,  '06). 

'70. — The  third  volume  of  Hon.  D.  S. 
Alexander's  Political  History  of  the  State  of 
New  York  has  been  published  by  Messrs. 
Henry  Holt  &  Co.  It  covers  the  twenty  years 
from  1 86 1  to  1882  and  is  sure  to  prove  an 
interesting  continuation  of  a  work  that  has 
already  been  accepted  as  the  standard  book  of 
reference  on  that  subject. 

'75. — Rev.  Charles  W.  Hill,  for  many 
years  pastor  at  Hilo,  Hawaii,  has  accepted  a 
call  to  the  church  at  Green  Valley,  Cal. 

'89. — ^George  Thwing,  Esq.,  formerly  in 
the  practice  of  law  at  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  is 
now  located  at  Le  Beau,  South  Dakota. 

'94. — Frederic  W.  Pickard,  Esq.,  assistant 
western  manager  of  the  E.  I.  Du  Pont  de 
Nemours  Powder  Company  at  Denver,  has 
been  transferred  to  the  Pittsburgh  office,  1209 
May  Building. 

'03. — Paul  Preble,  Jr.,  was  born  to  Mrs. 
and  Dr.  Paul  Preble  at  Washington,  D.  C, 
Oct.  29,  1909. 

'04. — Bernard  Archibald,  Esq.,  of  Houl- 
ton,  was  married  Nov.  10,  1909,  to  Miss 
Emma  Ruth,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert 
T.  Putnam  of  Houlton. 

'05. — Stanley  P.  Chase,  A.M.,  is  continu- 
ing post  graduate  studies  at  Harvard  Uni- 
versity. 

'05. — Walter  S.  Gushing  has  been  obliged 
by  ill  health,  to  resign  his  position  at  Yoko- 
hama with  the  International  Banking  Com- 
pany and  is  now  at  San  Mateo,  Cal. 

'05. — ^The  leading  article  in  The  Outlook 
of  November  sixth  is  written  by  William  J. 
Norton,  on  a  new  departure  in  the  manage- 
ment of  the  police  department  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

'06. — Dura  B.  Andrews,  after  spending 
two  years  in  the  mining  regions  of  Mexico,  is 
now  with  the  International  Paper  Company 
at  Berlin,  N.  H. 

'09. — Arthur  M.  Hughes  is  with  the  West- 
ern Electrical  Co.,   Chicago,  111. 

'09. — Harry  J.  Newton  is  pursuing  post- 
graduate  study   at   Yale   University. 

'09. — Rev.  M.  O.  Baltzer  has  accepted  a 
call  to  be  pastors  assistant  in  the  First  Trini- 
tarian Church  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  while  he  is 
continuing  post  graduate  studies  at  Andover 
Seminary  at  Harvard  College. 


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BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  NOVEMBER  19,  1909 


VOL.  XXXIX 


NO.  18 


BOWDOIN  VS.  TUFTS 

To-morrow  Bowdoin  plays  Tufts  at  the 
Pine  Tree  Athletic  Field  in  Portland.  Every 
man  in  Bowdoin  who  can  possibly  be  on  hand 
should  be  there  to  cheer  for  the  white.  Both 
teams  have  won  from  Bates  and  Maine  and 
both  have  been  defeated  by  Colby.  A  dry, 
cool  day  is  all  that  is  needed  to  make  it  the 
fastest  and  most  exciting  of  games  seen  in 
the  State  this  year,  for  it  is  the  final  game  on 
both  team's'  schedules.  Both  teams  have  shown 
wonderful  improvement  in  the  past  two 
weeks  and  both  teams  will  be  backed  by  the 
biggest  part  of  their  fellow-students. 

At  the  request  of  the  management  of  the 
Bowdoin  and  Tufts  teams,  Chairman  Babbit 
of  the  Central  Board,  has  appointed  the  fol- 
lowing officials  for  the  game  to-morrow :  Carl 
Marshall  of  Harvard,  referee ;  Harry  Dad- 
mun  of  Dartmouth,  umpire ;  Burleigh  of  Har- 
vard, field  judge;  Morse  of  Dartmouth,  head 
linesman. 


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BOWDOIN  22,  MAINE  0 


Bowdoin  Clinches  Second  Place  in  Maine  Cham- 
pionship Series 

The  result  of  the'  Maine  game  Saturday, 
played  before  3,000  on  Whittier  Feld,  was  a 
walk-over  for  Bowdoin  with  a  score  of  22-0. 
This  gives  Bowdoin  second  place  and  Maine 
third  in  the  state  championship  series. 

From  the  start  Maine  was  outplayed  and 
never  threatened  seriously  to  score  on  Bow- 
doin, the  ball  being  in  Maine  territory  practi- 
cally all  of  the  time.  Bowdoin  showed  won- 
derful improvement  over  any  previous  play- 
ing. So  great  improvement,  indeed,  that 
Boston  papers  credit  her  with  the  best  team 
ever  produced  by  a  Maine  college  and  there 
are  good  reasons  for  believing  that  the  result 
of  the  Colby  game  might  have  been  different 
if  it  had  come  a  fortnight  later.  Greatest 
improvement  was  shown  in  offensive  playing. 
The  line  was  stiff  and  quick,  the  backs  did 
things  with  a  polish  and  the  plays  went  off 
with  a  snap  not  equalled  before.     Wilson  in 


particular  showed  great  improvement  in  run- 
ning the  team  and  in  his  individual  playing. 
His  end  runs  netted  a  good  amount  of  gain. 

"Farmer"  Kern  played  a  great  game  and 
Hurley  was  a  star,  repeatedly  making  spec- 
tacular plays  in  one  of  which  he  pulled  Saw- 
yer down  after  he  had  made  30  yards  with  a 
ball  recovered  from  a  punt.  The  three  backs 
played  a  great  game  and  Ballard,  who  got 
into  play  in  the  second  half,  made  good  gains. 
Farnham  did  a  good  job  at  punting  and  "Pus" 
Newman,  after  Farnham  left  the  game,  was 
not  far  behind  in  this  work. 

In  spite  of  the  odds  against  her,  Maine  put 
up  a  desperate  fight  with  occasional  brilliant 
rallies.  Parker  was  her  best  ground  gainer 
and  Smiley  did  good  work  at  punting.  Pratt 
played  a  good  game  and  Captain  Cook  did  a 
good  job  at  left  end,  tho  he  was  never  suc- 
cessful in  gaining  a  clear  field. 

In  the  first  half,  Bowdoin  made  first  down 
12  times  to  Maine  twice  and  in  the  second  11 
to  Maine  seven.  Bowdoin  was  penalized  five 
times  with  a  total  loss  of  65  yards  against 
Maine's  one  penalty  of  15  yards.  There  was 
not  much  choice  in  the  matter  of  punting,  the 
trick  being  well  done  on  both  sides.  Bowdoin 
kicked  to  Maine  who  could  not  rush  the  ball. 

First  Half 
After  the  first  three  minutes  of  play.  King 
blocked  a  punt  and  Smith  of  Maine  went  back 
for  a  safety.  Maine  in  scrimmage  on  her  25- 
yard  line  failed  to  gain,  and  Smiley  punted. 
Bowdoin  made  35  yards  in  three  downs  and 
Frank  Smith  kicked  a  goal  from  the  field. 
Soon  after  Wilson  made  the  first  sensational 
play  by  a  30-yard  run  up  the  field.  Hurley 
then  got  the  ball  on  a  25-yard  onside  kick. 
Farnham  got  15  yards  on  an  end  run  and 
Crosby  took  the  ball  within  striking  distance 
of  the  goal.  Kern  went  over  for  a  touch- 
down, Farnham  punted  out  to  Wilson  and 
Frank  Smith  kicked  goal.  Maine  then 
made  first  down  twice  and  Bowdoin  forced 
Smiley  to  punt  to  Bowdoin's  46-yard  line. 
Frank  Smith,  with  excellent  interference, 
went  around  Maine's  end  for  40  yards  and 
another  touchdown  with  no  goal  soon  fol- 
lowed.    The  ball  now  changed  hands  several 


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times  on  small  margins,  and  punting  was  fre- 
quent until  the  end  of  the  half. 
Second  Half 
On  the  kick-off  Crosby  brought  the  ball  in 
to  the  38-yard  line  but  fumbled  it  and  Maine 
had  the  ball  on  Bowdoin's  40-yard  line. 
Maine  failed  to  gain  and  punted.  Bowdoin 
was  forced  to  do  the  same  thing  and  Hurley 
made  a  spectacular  play  by  recovering  the  ball 
on  Maine's  41-yard  line  with  a  gain  of  40 
yards  on  the  play.  In  the  next  play,  an  onside 
kick.  Hurley  also  recovered  the  ball  with  a 
good  gain.  Then  Kern  took  the  ball  twice 
and  went  over  for  a  touchdown.  Frank 
Smith  kicked  the  goal.  From  then  on  there 
was  a  steady  line  of  men  going  out  from  the 
dressing  rooms  under  the  stand  until  the  close 
of  play  when  Bowdoin  had  only  three  regular 
men  left  on  the  team:  Newman,  Boynton  and 
Crosby. 

Maine  worked  to  Bowdoin's  40-yard  line 
and  then  Bowdoin  got  the  ball  on  Maine's  34- 
yard  line  in  an  uncompleted  forward  pass  and 
Newman  tried  for  a  field  goal  but  failed. 
Hurley  stopped  the  Maine  backs  twice  after 
they  had  made  first  down  and  Wiggin  recov- 
ered a  forward  pass  on  Maine's  50-yard  line. 
Here,  Hurley  got  in  his  grand-stand  tackle  on 
Sawyer  who  had  made  30  yards  with  a  ball 
gathered  in  from  a  punt  and  had  almost  a 
clear  field  to  the  Bowdoin  goal.  Maine  tried 
a  forward  pass,  which  failed,  and  Bowdoin 
crept  within  striking  distance  of  Maine's  goal. 
Newman  tried  for  another  field  goal  but 
missed  it  and  time  was  called. 
The  line-up : 

Bowdoin  Maine 

E.  B.  Smith,  Matthews,  l.e I.e.,  Cook  (Capt.) 

King,    Pratt,    l.t l.t,    Ray 

Newman    (Capt.),    l.g l.g..    Sawyer 

Boynton,    c c.,    Eales 

Hastings,   Houston,    r.g r.g.,  Wright,   Derby 

Crosby,    r.t r.t.,    Bigelow,    Conologue 

Hurley,  Bosworth,  r.e r.e..  Buck,  Webster 

Wilson,  Wiggin,   Sullivan,  q.b.,  q.b..   Smith,   Cleaves 

F.  Smith,  Ballard,  l.h.b l.h.b..  Smiley,  Hosmer 

Farnham,   Wiggin,   r.h.b r.h.b.,    Parker,   Carleton 

Kern,    Purington,    f .b f.b.,    Pratt,    Batty 

Score :  Bowdoin  22,  Maine  o.  Touchdowns' — 
Kern,  3.  Goals  from  touchdowns — F.  Smith,  2. 
Goal  from  field — F.  Smith.  Safety — Maine.  Um- 
pire— Murphy  of  Brown.  Referee — Marshall  of 
Harvard.  Field  Judge — MacCreadie  of  Portland. 
Head  linesman — Goode  of  Colby.  Time — 35- 
mintite  halves. 


BOWDOIN-TUFTS  CROSS-COUNTRY  RUN 

Friday  witnesses  the  struggle  for  suprem- 
acy between  Capt.  Colbath  and  his  team  of 
long  distance  men  and  the  Tufts  cross- 
countn,'  team. 

The  following  men  will  run  for  Bowdoin : 
Colbath,  Slocum,  Robinson,  Carey  and  Emery 
with  Auten  as  alternate.  The  start  will  be 
made  at  3.00  p.m.  on  Whittier  field  where  a 


Captain  Colbath  of  the  Cross-Country  Team 

small  entrance  fee  will  be  charged.  The  finish 
will  take  place  in  front  of  the  Grand  Stand, 
the  last  quarter  of  the  race  consisting  of  a  lap 
around  the  track. 

Manager  Emerson  gave  out  the  following 
list  of  officials : 

Starter — Burton  C.  Morrill. 

Timers— Dr.  F.  N.  Whittier,  Col.  Wing, 
S.  B.  Furbish. 

Judges  at  the  Finish — ^Walter  F.  Gray, 
Manager  Tufts  Track  Team;  Capt.  Jack 
Williams,  Bates  Track  Team;  Walter  N. 
Emerson. 

At  the  turning  points  of  the  course  Fresh- 
men will  be  stationed  with  marking  flags. 


ANNIE  TALBOT  COLE  LECTURE 

On  the  evening  of  Thursday,  Nov.  11, 
Hon.  Samuel  McCall,  LL.D.,  of  Winchester, 
Mass.,  gave  the  first  of  the  Annie  Talbot  Cole 
Lectures   for  the  year   1909-10.     His   subject 


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was  "Some  Responsibilities  of  a  Citizen." 
Dr.  McCall  began  liis  lecture  by  paying  a 
high  tribute  to  Thomas  B.  Reedy  whom  he 
called  the  greatest  man  intellectually  who  was 
ever  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 
The  lecturer  then  went  on  to  discuss  the  duties 
of  the  educated  man  as  a  citizen.  He  said 
in  part: 

The  educated  man  must  study  carefully 
the  present  situation  in  American  political  life 
and  should  always  be  slow  to  decide  his 
course. He  will  probably  be  called  a  pessimist 
because  he  does  not  rush  into  every  new 
scheme  proposed  but  he  will  find  true  optim- 
ism often  conservative.  Citizenship  is  an 
opportunity  to  bear  responsibility.  The  state 
exists  for  man,  but  he  must  do  his  part  to  sus- 
tain it.  The  rule  of  kings  depended  on  igno- 
rance while  that  of  the  state  relies  on  educa- 
tion. The  American  Constitution  unshackled 
the  human  intellect  and  made  possible  the 
great  progress  of  the  United  States. 

So  great  has  been  the  growth  of  the 
country  that  it  has  resulted  in  unusual  condi- 
tions and  perplexing  problems.  There  is 
sure  to  be  great  diversity  of  opinion  about 
public  affairs  and  many  foolish  measures  are 
proposed.  The  well-educated  man  should  be 
able  to  judge  just  what  measures  are  best  for 
the  country.  Nothing  save  deep  and  long 
thought  is  a  fit  preparation  for  the  settling  of 
important  public  questions.  It  is  a  mistake  to 
allow  every  ignoramus' who  gets  his  informa- 
tion from  the  sensational  papers. 

The  educated  man  should  be  the  conserv- 
ing element  of  the  state.  He  should  oppose  in- 
novation which  he  considers  attacks  his 
rights.  One  of  the  most  dangerous  tenden- 
cies in  American  politics  to-day  is  that  toward 
Executive  government  in  the  place  of  Parlia- 
mentary which  is  gaining  abroad.  We  are 
tending  too  much  to  combine  the  power  in 
the  President.  While  such  executive  govern- 
ment is  popular  and  simple,  it  is  not  so  repre- 
sentative. 

The  American  citizen  thinks  less  on  politi- 
cal matters  to-day  than  ever  before.  He  de- 
pends too  much  on  the  newspaper.  Such  a 
condition  the  educated  man  must  fight.  Every 
man  mav  know  and  think  about  the  general 
trend  of  government  at  least.  It  is  the  duty 
of  the  educated  man  to  depend  on  his  own 
judgment  to  a  large  extent  and  become  im- 
bued wifh  the  spirit  of  government. 


SUNDAY  CHAPEL 

Professor  Albert  P.  Fitch,  D.D.,  con- 
ducted Sunday  chapel.  He  read  the  story  of 
the  prodigal  son  found  in  Luke  15,  11  to  32, 
and  showed  thereby  that  the  service  of  Jesus 
is  to  make  people  become  themselves.  For  the 
youth  in  the  parable  had  degenerated  until  he 
was  a  mere  relic  and  shadow  of  what  he  had 
been.  Finally  he  began  to  revive  and  think 
about  going  home;  he  began  to  be  more  like 
himself.  When  he  said  he  would  go  home, 
he  became  his  true  self. 

God  had  exerted  such  a  powerful  influ- 
ence upon  him  spiritually  that  he  became  real. 
The  boy  learned  that  to  be  his  real  self,  he 
must  become  good  and  forsake  the  bad.  For, 
with  anyone  when  their  spiritual  realization 
is  highest,  they  come  to  self-consciousness.  A 
man  can  bring  himself  to  his  highest  state 
only  by  bringing  himself  to  God.  A  man  is 
best  helped  to  become  good  by  his  friends.  In 
truth,  the  precious  office  of  a  friend  is  bring- 
ing a  person  back  to  himself.  True  friends 
are  touchstones. 

It  is  striking  to  see  how,  through  the  gos- 
pel of  Jesus,  men  come  to  themselves.  Jesus 
gives  people  visions  of  their  true  selves.  As 
we  bring  our  lives  back  to  him  who  made  us, 
we  see  ourselves  as  we  are,  perfected.  Only 
as  we  do  that  are  we  aware  of  our  destiny. 
Religion  is  simply  the  attitude  of  man  towards 
God.  No  man  can  ever  have  life  unless  he 
has  religion  or  relation  with  Jesus.  Relig- 
ion is  not  an  external  set  of  laws,  but  a 
supreme  relation  with  God.  By  bringing  our- 
selves to  God,  we  find  our  God. 


JUNIOR  CLASS  ELECTIONS 

The  Junior  Class  held  their  elections  Monday 
night  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  rooms  and  elected  the  fol- 
lowing officers : 

President — H.   L.   Robinson. 

Vice-President — Lawrence   McFarland. 

Secretary — Lawrence    Davis. 

Treasurer — G.   W.   Howe. 

Marshal — J.    L.    Brummett. 

Chaplain — C.    H.    Byles. 

Orator— J.   C.  White. 

Poet — G.  A.  Torsney. 

Popular   Man — E.   B.    Smith. 

Ivy  Committee— S.  W.  Pierce,  H.  M.  Berry,  S. 
H.   Hussey,  J.   B.  Allen,   G.  H.   Macomber. 

Assembly  Committee — L.  P.  Parkman,  A.  H. 
Cole,  F.  C.  Black,  R.  M.  Lawlis,  A.  G.  Dennis. 


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Vol.  XXXIX.  NOVEMBER  19,   1909  No.   18 

Some  members  of  the 
Heroic  Philanthropy  undergraduate  body,  when 
they  learned  that  Bowdoin 
had  received  a  $100,000  gift  by  the  will  of  the 
late  John  Steward  Kennedy,  at  once  assumed 
that  this  sum  would  go  into  a  new  gymnasium. 
Those  who  labor  under  this  delusion  should 
at  once  undeceive  themselves,  for  to  spend 
money  given  for  general  purposes  in  this  way 
would  be  the  height  of  folly.  As  much  as  we 
desire  a  new  gymnasium,  the  Orient  takes  a 
firm  stand  against  using  Mr.  Kennedy's 
money  for  its  erection. 

The  trend  of  college  philanthropy  is 
toward  the  spectacular.  Rich  men  who  give 
money  to  colleges  usually  give  it  in  such  a 
way  that  the  result  obtained  therefrom  stands 
as  a  monument  to  the  donor,  but  the  name  of 
John  Steward  Kennedy  will  be  perpetuated 
only  in  the  memories  of  Bowdoin  men  and 
alumni  of  other  colleges  that  have  come  in  for 


a  share  of  Mr.  Kennedy's  generosity.  It  is 
an  heroic  thing  for  a  man  to  give  the  greater 
part  of  his  fortune  for  "general  purposes," 
realizing  that  in  so  doing,  he  stands  in  danger 
of  oblivion.  With  such  a  gift  as  Mr.  Ken- 
nedy's there  is  no  promise  of  what  the  poet 
Horace  meant  when  he  said,  "I  have  com- 
pleted a  monument  more  lasting  than  brass, 
and  more  sublime  than  the  regal  elevation  of 
the  pyramids,  which  neither  the  wasting 
shower,  the  unavailing  north  wind,  nor  an  in- 
numerable succession  of  years,  and  the  flight 
of  seasons  shall  be  able  to  demolish." 

Mr.  Kennedy's  generosity  will  find  its  ulti- 
mate resting  place  in  better  paid  college 
professors.  With  the  income  of  $100,000  at 
her  disposal,  Bowdoin  can  doubly  insure  her- 
self against  the  loss  of  her  most  efficient 
teachers.  To  this  end  Mr.  Kennedy's  gift 
should  and  will  be  directed,  in  preference  to 
the  erection  of  a  new  g}'mnasium.  The  gym- 
nasium will  come  later,  but  $100,000  without 
any  red  tape  attached,  may  never  come  again. 


PHILOSOPHICAL  CLUB  MEETING 

The  Philosophical  Club  will  meet  in  the 
Psychology  Laboratory  at  7.00  o'clock  Mon- 
day evening,  Nov.  22.     Subject:  "Fatalism."    ■ 


1913  ELECTS  OFFICERS 


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At  a  meeting  of  the  Sophomore  Class  in 
the  Gym  Monday  evening,  the  following  class 
officers  were  elected :  President,  Charles  F. 
Adams  of  Auburn;  Vice-President,  George 
F.  Cressey  of  Portland;  Secretary,  Eugene  F. 
Bradford  of  Bangor;  Treasurer,  Walter  A. 
Fuller  of  Southwest  Harbor. 


THANKSGIVING   RECESS 


The  Thanksgiving  recess  this  year  begins 
at  12.30  P.M.  on  Wednesday,  November  24th, 
and  extends  until  8.20  Monday  morning, 
November  29th.  It  will  be  impossible  for  stu- 
dents to  obtain  leave  of  absence  on  days  im- 
mediately preceding  or  following  the  recess, 
except  that  students  living  in  towns  where 
there  are  no  Sunday  trains,  may  have  per- 
mission to  return  on  the  first  train  Monday 
morning,  by  leaving  their  names  with  the  Sec- 
retary. All  other  absences  entail  PROBA- 
TION. 

K.  C.  M.  Sills,  Secretary. 


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ORIENT  ALL=MAINE  TEAM 

The  Orient  picks  the  following  men  for  the  All- 
Maine  team  and  second  eleven. 
All  Maine.  Second  Eleven. 

Hurley,  Bowdoin,  r.e r.e.,  Ervin,  Colby 

Crosby,  Bowdoin,  r.t r.t.,  Tidd,  Colby 

Hastings,    Bowdoin,   r.g r.g.,    Rogers,    Colby 

Hamilton,    Colby,    c c,    Boynton,    Bowdoin 

Capt.   Newman,  Bowdoin,  l.g. ...l.g..  Sawyer,  Maine 

Ray,   Maine,   l.t., l.t,   W.   Andrews,   Bates 

Mikelsky,  Colby,  l.e I.e.,  Smith,  Bowdoin 

Welch,   Colby,  q.b q.b.,  Wilson,   Bowdoin 

F.  Smith,  Bowdoin,  r.h.b r.h.b.,  Keaney,  Bates 

Parker,  Maine 
Ralph  Goode,  Colby,  l.h.b.,  l.h.b.,  Farnham,  Bowdoin 
Kern,   Bowdoin,   f .b f .b.,   Stacey,   Colby 


DR.  WHITTIER  SPEAKS    AT    Y.  M.  C.  A.  MEETING 

Thursday  evening,  Nov.  ii,  Doctor  Whit- 
tier  gave  a  very  interesting  talk  in  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  rooms  on  "Clean  Athletics." 

Doctor  Whittier  began  with  a  brief  discus- 
sion of  the  growth  of  athletics  in  which  at  the 
present  day  an  amount  equal  to  the  national 
debt  is  involved.  However,  the  expenditure 
is  justified  by  the  moral  value  to  the  youth 
of  the  nation.  The  old  adage  of  a  sound  mind 
in  a  sound  body  was  quoted.  Bodily  cleanli- 
ness and  mental  cleanliness  are  also  derived 
from  indulgence  in  athletics  but  the  greatest 
benefit  comes  in  the  moral  sense,  for  if  en- 
tered into  cleanly  and  honestly  there  is  noth- 
ing more  uplifting  than  athletics. 

A  few  years 'ago  English  athletics  used  to 
be  much  cleaner  and  freer  from  professional- 
ism than  x'Vmerican  sports.  However,  the  lat- 
ter evil  has  been  practically  stamped  out  at  the 
present  day  in  this  country  which  now  is  on 
a  par  with  England. 

Dr.  Whittier  mentioned  such  men  as  Mac- 
Millan,  Porter,  Philoon  and  Dr.  Sargent  as 
examples  of  true,  clean  athletes  who  have 
done  a  great  deal  to  uplift  Bowdoin.  -To 
Gen.  Hubbard,  '57,  a  famous  athlete  in  his 
day,  however,  we  are  chiefly  indebted,  for 
thru  his  loyalty  to  his  Alma  Mater,  several  of 
our  finest  buildings  are  due.  Gen.  Hubbard 
once  did  a  friend  a  great  service  and  when 
asked  to  name  a  suitable  reward  would  take 
nothing  for  himself  and  suggested  that  Bow- 
doin College  needed  a  science  building.  The 
result  was  the  magnificent  Searles  Science 
Building. 

In  closing  Dr.  Whittier  quoted  the  pre- 
sentation speech  made  at  the  dedication  of 
Hubbard  Grandstand  as  a  summary  of  the 
evening's  talk. 


CALENDAR 

Friday,   November   19 
7.00     Mass-Meeting   in   Memorial   Hall. 

Saturday,    November   20 
10.50    Football   Team   leaves    for    Portland. 
2.30    Bowdoin  vs.  Tufts  on  Pine  Tree  Grounds, 
Portland. 

8.00    Reception  to  Rev.  and  Mrs.  John  H.  Quint 
will  be  held  in  the  vestry  of  the  Church  on  the  Hill. 
Sunday,  November  21 
10.4s     Morning   service   in    The    Church    on    the 
Hill,  conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Quint. 

S.oo     Sunday    Chapel,    conducted    by    President 
Hyde.     Music  by  the  double  quartette. 
Monday,  November  22 
3.30    Freshman    Football    Practice    on    Whittier 
Field. 

Sophomore  Football  Practice  on  the  Delta. 
Trials  for  the  Dramatic  Club  in  Christian  Asso- 
ciation Room. 

3.30-6.00    Mandolin    Club    Rehearsal    in    Memo- 
rial Hall. 

7.00    Meeting  of  the  Philosophical  Club  in  Psy- 
chology Room. 

8.00    Saturday    Club.     Concert    by    the    Boston 
Philharmonic  Sextette  in  Memorial  Hall. 
Tuesday,  November  23 
3.30    Freshman    Football    Practice    on    Whittier 
Field. 

Sophomore  Football  Practice  on  the  Delta. 
5,00    Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

Wednesday,   November  24 
12.30     Thanksgiving  Recess  begins. 


PROFESSOR  JOHNSON'S  LAST  ART  BUILDING 
LECTURE 

Professor  Johnson's  fourth  Thursday 
morning  talk  was  in  the  Boyd  Gallery.  The 
selection  of  art  works  here  is  noticeably  more 
catholic  than  those  in  the  other  two  galleries, 
for  it  ranges  from  an  ancient  Hebrew  scroll, 
and  gigantic  Chinese  musket,  Egyptian  funer- 
ary images  to  an  exquisite  and  vital  por- 
trait of  a  young  man  painted  by  an  unknown 
artist.  This  portrait,  a  half  profile  of  a  dark- 
haired  youth  in  lace  collar,  is  done  in  warm 
browns,  and  commands  attention  because  of 
the  masterly  sureness  of  its  handling.  It  is 
without  a  doubt  one  of  the  best  works  in  the 
gallery.  Beside  this  portrait,  hangs  a  de- 
tailed and  colorful  painting  of  a  Russian  peas- 
ant and  child  by  Harlanofif.  On  the  same 
wall  is  a  painting  of  a  "Girl  and  Kid"  by  Wil- 
liam M.  Hunt,  a  well-known  American  artist 
who  fell  under  the  influence  of  Millet  and 
Corot.  The  simple  directness  of  the  treatment 
is  very  pleasing. 

In  closing.  Professor  Johnson  said  that  he 
would  be  available  at  all  times  to  any  man 
who  might  care  to  inquire  about  anything  in 
the  gallery. 


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MASQUE  AND  GOWN 

The  dub  has  decided  to  present  "The 
Importance  of  Being  Earnest"  for  the  coming 
winter.  The  play  is  written  by  Oscar  Wilde, 
an  English  playwright  of  well-known  ability. 
The  selection  of  this  play  follows  out  the  pol- 
icy of  Masque  and  Gown  to  produce  plays  off 
the  beaten  theatrical  track.  We  can  confi- 
dently affirm  that  this  play  will  prove  a  dis- 
tinct relief  from  our  customary  indigestible 
footlight  concoctions  of  the  past  few  years. 
If  the  cast  acts  capably  there  will  be  no  ques- 
tion as  to  the  play's  satisfactory  reception. 
In  the  inanity  of  its  situations  it  would  be  dif- 
ficult to  outdo  it.  These  situations  are  actu- 
ally witty  and  do  not  consort  with  such  flimsy 
coarseness  as  we  have  begun  to  deem  inevit- 
able on  our  stage. 

The  plot  turns  on  the  activities  of  a  young 
man  named  Jack  who  lives  in  the  country. 
Jack  is  the  guardian  of  a  pretty  young  girl, 
and  in  order  to  go  to  the  city  for  a  good  time 
says  that  he  has  a  brother  in  the  city  named 
Ernest,  who  leads  rather  a  wild  life,  and  he 
must  go  in  to  straighten  him  out.  When  in 
the  city  he  goes  under  the  name  of  Ernest,  and 
he  meets  with  many  difficulties  in  explain- 
ing his  brother  in  the  country.  Finally  he  is 
forced  to  acknowledge  that  he  has  no  brother 
at  all,  and  the  names  are  straightened  out. 

The  play  has  nine  characters,  and  all  are 
excellent  chances  for  good  acting.  Miss 
Emily  Curtis  of  Brunswick,  will  be  the  coach 
again  this  season.  The  first  call  for  candidates 
was  made  Friday  evening  just  after  the  mass- 
meeting.  Books  of  the  play  were  then  given 
out.  A  man  who  shows  sufficient  dramatic 
ability  may  make  Masque  and  Gown  without 
necessarily  getting  a  part  in  the  first  play. 
The  men  already  out  are:  Chapin,  'ii,  Ox- 
nard,  'ii,  Emerson,  '12,  Foote,  '12,  Alexan- 
der, '13,  Crowell,  '13,  Greenwood,  '13,  Jones, 
'13,  Knight,  '13,  Morss,  '12,  Weston,  '12, 
Pratt,  '12,  Cole,  '11,  Welch,  '12,  Edwards, 
'11,  Eberhardt,  '13,  Timherlake,  '13. 


CHURCH  NOTES 


Dr.  A.  P.  Fitch  spoke  in  the  Church  on  the 
Hill,  Sunday  morning,  using  for  his  text, 
Matthew  7.14:  "Straight  is  the  gate,  and  nar- 
row the  way  which  leadeth  unto  life ;  and  few 
there  be  that  find  it."  The  twentieth  century 
is  one  of  pleasure  and  ease  and  is,  in  fact,  to 
be  commended.  But  the  only  path  of  right- 
eousness and  escape  from  destruction  is  one 


of  restraint  and  controlled  desire.  Such  a 
life  is  the  more  fitting  and,  in  fact,  the  only 
one  a  student  can  lead  in  safety. 

The  First  Parish  Church  will  give  a  re- 
ception on  Saturday  evening  from  8  to  10  to 
tlie  new  pastor.  Rev.  John  H.  Quint,  '97.  The 
students  are  especially  invited  to  attend  the 
reception.  Mr.  Quint's  Brunswick  address 
after  this  week  will  be  17  Lincoln  Street. 

College  Botes 

Mass-Meeting  at  7.00  Tonight 
Band — Music — Speeches 


The  train  for  the  game  leaves  at  10.50  a.m.  to- 
morrow.    Fare   $1.00   round  trip. 

Headquarters  of  the  team  will  be  at  "The 
Rathskeller"  on  Brown  Street,  Portland.  Special 
music  and  other  features  have  been  provided  by  the 
manager  of  the  Rathskeller. 


John  Hale,  '12,  was  home  over   Sunday. 

Prof.   Scott  was  in  New  York  last  week. 

Ira  Mikelsky,  Colby,  '13,  was  on  the  campus, 
Sunday. 

About  500  Portland  people  were  down  to  the 
game,   Saturday. 

Joe  Pendleton,  '90,  refereed  the  Harvard-Dart- 
mouth game,  Saturday. 

P.  T.  Nickerson,  '10,  and  S.  B.  Genthner,  '11, 
were  home   over   Sunday. 

M.  A.  Gould,  ex-'ii,  attended  the  Bowdoin- 
Maine   game   last    Saturday. 

Augustus  Snow,  the  brother  of  Prof.  Snow, 
was  on  the  campus  last  week. 

There  is  to  be  a  meeting  of  the  Bugle  Board, 
Monday   evening,   at  8  o'clock   in   Hubbard  Hall. 

J.  L.  Simmons,  '09,  D.  J.  Ready,  ex-'io,  and  R. 
J.   Smith,  ex-'io,  were  back  to  the  game,   Saturday.- 

Rev.  Edgar  Crossland,  '10,  occupied  the  Bruns- 
wick Methodist  pulpit  Sunday  forenoon  and  even- 
ing. 

The  Saturday  Club  will  present  in  Memorial 
Hall,  Monday,  Nov.  22,  the  Boston  Philharmonic 
Sextette. 

New  York  University  has  started  a  school  of 
journalism  with  several  experienced  newspaper  men 
as   instructors. 

There  will  be  an  important  meeting  of  the  Ath- 
letic Council  in  Dr.  Whittier's  office  at  S  p.m.,  Mon- 
day, Nov.  22. 

Several  college  students  took  part  in  the  prodac-    .,/ 
tion    of    "The    Garden    Party"    at   the    Town    Hall, 
Tuesday  evening. 

Wakefield,  '09,  Newman,  '10,  Howe,  '11,  and 
Cressey,  '12,  visited  Shiloh,  Sunday,  and  went  thru 
the  entire  settlement. 

Dr.  Daniel  A.  Barrell,  Medic,  'oo,  and  Miss  Mar- 
tha McFarland,  both  of  Auburn,  were  married  Sat- 
urday  evening,    Nov.   6. 


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John  Clifford,  'lO,  refereed  and  Eddie  Files,  '08, 
was  head  linesman  of  the  Portland  High-Hebron 
game  at  Portland,  Saturday. 

A  rehearsal  of  the  Mandolin  Club  is  called  for 
Monday  evening  in  Memorial  Hall  from  4-6  o'clock. 
S.  A.  Thompson,  the  coach,  will  be  present. 

Thursday,  Nov.  18,  Prof.  Sills  gave  a  talk  to  his 
Latin  classes  on  the  classical  objects  in  the  Art 
Building,  of  which  the  college  has  a  large  number  of 
originals. 

Donald  MacMillan,  '97,  spoke  before  the  Emer- 
son School  of  Oratory  Thursday  evening  in  Chick- 
ering  Hall  with  lantern  slides,  on  his  dash  to  the 
pole. 

All  the  members  of  the  Freshman  English  Class 
were  requested  to  attend  Dr.  McCall's  second  lec- 
ture, Thursday  evening,  and  to  outline  his  address 
for  practice. 

Maine's  elephant  attracted  considerable  attention 
before  the  game.  ~  As  the  game  progressed  it  be- 
came a  sort  of  "White  Elephant"  on  the  hands  of 
the   Maine   rooters. 

A  number  of  fellows  have  handed  in  their  names 
as  signifying  their  intention  of  trying  for  reader  of 
the  Musical  Clubs.  The  trials  take  place  after  the 
Thanksgiving  recess. 

The  final  trials  for  the  Glee  Club  have  been 
made  the  past  week  under  Prof.  Wass  and  by  the 
Thanksgiving  recess  the  permanent  members  of  the 
club  will  have  been  picked. 

Harry  E.  Andrews,  '94,  a  former  instructor  in 
English,  Col.  Henry  A.  Wing,  '80,  E.  F.  Abbott,  '93, 
F.  J.  C.  Little,_  '89,  and  F.  G.  Marshall,  '03,  princi- 
pal of  Cony  High,  were  at  the  game,  Saturday. 

The  Beta  Sigma  Chapter  of  Beta  Theta  Pi  en- 
tertained the  Maine  Chapter  at  the  game  Saturday. 
The  following  Bowdoin  alumni  were  also  guests : 
Phillips,  '03 ;  Robinson,  '05 ;  Evans,  '01 ;  Johnson, 
'06;  Linnell,  '07;  Weston,  '08;  Bagley,  ex-'oS. 

The  borrowing  of  the  Maine  elephant  by  a  num- 
ber of  Bowdoin  students  promised  for  a  time  to 
add  considerable  excitement  to  the  celebration,  Sat- 
urday. The  elephant  was  returned,  however,  after 
having  been  paraded  feet  upward  along  the  station 
platform. 

Commander  Peary  lectured  Thursday  night  be- 
fore the  Peary  Arctic  Club.  Later  he  was  enter- 
tained at  a  formal  dinner.  On  Friday,  he  showed 
for  the  first  time  the  75  pictures  of  his  dash  to  the 
pole.  Next  October,  he  will  be  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  captain. 

An  attempt  is  being  made  to  form  a  Hexagonal 
Debating  League  between  Amherst,  Dartmouth, 
Brown,  Bowdoin  and  Wesleyan  to  be  a  permanent 
institution. 

Hyde,  '08,  of  the  Harvard  Law  School  will  rep- 
resent Bowdoin  in  forming  the  league. 

During  this  week,  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  all  over  the 
country  is  holding  a  week  of  prayer.  Here  at 
Bowdoin  a  similar  service  is  being  held.  Prof. 
Chapman  conducted  Monday  prayers.  Rev.  J.  H. 
Quint  Tuesday  and  Prof.  Henry  Johnson,  Wednes- 
day. Thursday  prayers  were  held  in  the  evening, 
when  Rev.  C.  H.  Cutler.  D.D.,  '81,  spoke  to  the 
Christian  Association.  Friday  Mr.  MacConaughy 
led  prayers.  The  prayers  were  held  from  i.io  to 
1.30  in  the  afternoon. 


A  co-ed,  the  only  one  present  at  a  class  at  Ohio 
State  University,  presided  over  the  meeting  at  which 
the  annual  cane  rush  was  planned. 

A  new  rule  has  been  put  into  practice  at  Syra- 
cuse, whereby  all  Freshmen  and  Sophomores  must 
learn  to  swim. 

The  reader  for  the  musical  clubs  will  be  chosen 
directly  after  Thanksgiving.  All  desiring  to  compete 
for  the  position  should  hand  in  their  names  to  H.  E. 
Weeks  immediately.  The  members  of  the  Glee 
Club  will   be   chosen   next   week. 

Thomas  J.  Burrage,  demonstrator  of  Histology 
in  the  Medical  School,  will  give  an  informal  address 
on  tuberculosis  work  in  Portland,  on  Monday  fore- 
noon at  9.30  in  Hubbard  Hall,  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Brunswick  Circle  of  the  Red  Cross  of  which 
Prof.  K.  C.  M.  Sills  is  president. 

There  was  more  spirit  shown  at  the  mass-meet- 
ing before  the  Maine  game  than  has  been  displayed 
this  season.  The  speeches  by  Professors  Mitchell, 
McConaughy,  and  Chapman  and  Coach  Philoon 
were  just  the  kind  to  arouse  enthusiasm.  The 
playing  of  the  band  also  showed  marked  improve- 
ment. 

Professor  Robinson  has  recently  returned  from 
installation  of  the  new  president  of  Wesleyan  Col- 
lege. He  reports  that  there  is  a  very  friendly  feel- 
ing between  Wesleyan  and  Bowdoin  and  that  they 
resemble  us  in  many  ways.  He  also  noticed  the 
number  and  quality  of  their  songs  which  impressed 
him  favorably.  The  students  there  practice  the 
songs   of  other   colleges   as   well   as   their   own. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Sophomore  Class  Seward  J.  v 
Marsh  was  elected  captain  of  the  class  football 
team  and  Loring  Pratt  manager.  In  response  to  a 
call  for  candidates  by  Captain  Marsh  the  follow- 
ing 1913  men  turned  out  for  practice :  Marsh, 
Bailey,  White,  O'Neill,  Long,  Timberlake,  Gillin, 
Holt,  Gordon,  Daniels,  King,  Woodcock,  Cole, 
Means,  Hughes,  Houston,  Simpson,  Weeks.  H.  A. 
Davis  of  Portland  is  the  most  promising  candidate 
for  quarterback.  The  other  positions  are  unde- 
cided  and   only   short  practice   was   held   to-day. 

INTERCOLLEGIATE  ITEMS 

The  debating  society  at  Colby  College  has  been 
resurrected  after   two  years   of   idleness. 

The  enrollment  at  the  University  of  Illinois  is 
approximately  S,ooo,  making  it  the  largest  State  uni- 
versity   in    America. 

Three  co-eds  have  established  a  precedent  at  the 
University  of  Minnesota  by  entering  the  trials  for 
the  Freshmen-Sophomore   debate. 

The  Pennsylvanian  has  instituted  a  system  of 
bulletins  whereby  all  the  important  happenings  at 
the  University  may  be  seen  in  windows  of  the 
paper's   editorial  rooms. 

Basketball  has  been  dropped  at  Holy  Cross  and 
Colby,  owing  to  lack  of  interest  among  the  under- 
graduates. They  will  devote  more  time  to  devel- 
opment  of   strong   track   teams. 

The  Right  Honorable  James  E.  Bryce,  British 
ambassador  to  the  United  States,  has  been  appointed 
a  special  lecturer  at  Amherst  College  this  year  in 
the  department  of  history,  modern  government  and 
political  economy. 


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Hlumni  department 

'85. — After  seventeen  years  of  service  as 
sub-master  in  the  Chelsea  High  School,  Mr. 
Boyd  Bartlett  has  received  well-earned  pro- 
motion by  an  appointment  on  the  teaching 
force  of  the  Boston  Latin  School. 

'91. — The  semi-centennial  of  the  Congre- 
gational Church  at  Island  Falls,  Maine,  was 
recently  observed  with  appropriate  exercises. 
Its  first  pastor.  Rev.  Rowland  B.  Howard, 
graduated  at  Bowdoin  in  1856  and  its  present 
pastor.  Rev.  Henry  H.  Noyes,  has  filled  its 
pulpit  for  over  a  fifth  of  the  intervening 
period. 

'92. — Dr.  Ernest  B.  Young  was  recently 
chosen  vice-president  of  the  Boston  Medical 
Library. 

'04. — Dr.  Harold  J.  Everett  will  be  a  can- 
didate for  the  position  of  city  physician  of 
Portland  for  the  next  municipal  year.  Since 
his  graduation  from  the  Medical  School  of 
Maine,  he  has  been  one  of  the  physicians  at 
the  Maine  General  Hospital.  At  the  close  of 
his  appointment  there,  he  was  for  six  months 
connected  with  the  Boston  maternity  hospital 
on  McLean  Street.  He  later  served  a  term 
as  one  of  the  surgeons  at  the  Boston  Emer- 
gency Hospital,  dividing  his  time  between  the 
out  patient  department  of  the  Boston  City 
Hospital  and  the  Children's  Hospital. 

'98. — The  following  extracts  are  taken 
from  a  recent  lecture  by  Mr.  Donald  B.  Mac- 
millan  in  Boston: 

"The  Arctic  night  was  not  long  enough  for 
us.  Why,  I  am  doing  work  to-day  which  I 
did  not  have  time  to  do  during  the  months 
which  we  spent  in  winter  quarters.  The  Eski- 
mos were  quite  happy,  too,  and  spent  the  long 
night  singing,  when  they  were  not  hunting. 
One  of  our  hunters  was  given  sixteen  cart- 
ridges and  a  rifle  on  one  occasion,  and  when  he 
returned  from  his  hunt  he  had  shot  sixty-four 
Arctic  hares.  This  he  had  been  able  to  accom- 
plish by  herding  the  hares  together  and  then 
lying  on  the  ground  and  shooting  five  and  six 
with  one  bullet." 

Mr.  McMillan  said  he  was  surprised  at  the 
artistic  ability  of  the  Eskimos  with  pencils,  an 
implement  that  they  had  never  seen  before 
until  provided  with  it  by  the  Peary  party. 
"They  have  the  Japanese  trick  of  imitation, 
and  with  a  little  practice  I  think  that  they 
would  become  very  good  artists."  Com- 
mander Peary's  stove,  a  new  invention,  was 


described  by  the  lecturer.  It  is  of  cylindrical 
form  and  when  filled  with  ice  at  a  temperature 
of  60  degrees  below  zero  and  heated  with  six 
ounces  of  alcohol,  will  furnish  a  gallon  of 
boiling  tea  in  ten  minutes.  This  is  a  decided 
improvement  in  Arctic  cookery,  for  explorers 
in  the  past  have  often  been  compelled  to  wait 
as  much  as  an  hour  for  their  hot  water. 

One  of  the  pictures  showed  a  cairn  erected 
by  a  British  expedition,  which,  when  made, 
was  the  most  northern  point  ever  reached  by 
man.  "This  point,"  said  Mr.  McMillan,  "was 
the  limit  of  the  endurance  of  the  men  who 
went  on  that  expedition,  and  yet  because  of 
Commander  Peary's  equipment,  and  his  abil- 
ity to  tell  us  what  was  best  to  do  on  the  trip, 
we  felt  like  a  party  on  a  Saturday  afternoon 
picnic  at  a  point  where  a  British  expedition 
was  obliged  to  give  up  and  turn  back." 

The  cleverness  of  the  musk-ox  herds,  when 
repelling  an  attack  by  their  enemies,  was 
illustrated.  "They  fall  into  a  regular  forma- 
tion, with  the  calves  and  females  in  the  center 
of  a  square,"  said  the  lecturer,  "and  if  a  bull 
leaves  the  formation  for  a  short  time  to  fight  a 
dog  or  bear,  he  immediately  falls  back  into 
line  again  like  a  well  drilled  soldier.  Dogs 
and  bears  cannot  do  them  harm  when  they  get 
into  this  formation,  and  it  takes  a  man  and  his 
rifle  to  kill  them." 

"As  far  as  I  could  discover  the  Esquimaux 
have  six  songs,  which  they  sing  as  chants. 
These  songs  are  all  about  animals.  For 
instance,  one  of  them  goes  something  like  this : 
One  raven  asks  of  another.  What  have  you 
got  in  your  mouth?  The  thighbone  of  an 
Eskimo.  Is  it  sweet?  Yes,  very  sweet!' 
While  singing,  the  Eskimos  work  themselves 
up  into  a  frenzy.  They  sing  by  twos,  and 
looking  each  other  in  the  eyes  the  couple  sing 
by  the  hour.  They  have  no  musical  instru- 
ments except  a  sort  of  tambourine  which  they 
strike  as  an  accompaniment  to  the  songs. 

"Their  language  is  one  of  many  fine  dis- 
tinctions. For  example,  they  have  different 
words  for  a  man's  uncle  and  his  wife's  uncle, 
and  if  you  lose  anything  in  the  house,  you 
describe  your  loss  with  a  dififerent  word  than 
if  you  had  lost  the  article  out  of  the  house.  I 
remember  one  day  that  I  learned  one  of  their 
words  for  "hole."  When  I  tore  a  hole  in  one 
of  my  bearskin  trousers,  I  asked  one  of  the 
women  to  sew  it  up.  She  laughed  at  my  re- 
quest and  asked  me  if  I  knew  what  I  had  said. 
I  found  that  I  had  requested  her  to  sew  up  the 
snow-hole  in  the  roof  which  was  in  the  leg  of 
my  bearskin  pants." 


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VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  DECEMBER  3,  1909 


NO.   19 


BOWDOIN  DEFEATS  TUFTS  6=0  IN  THE  FINAL 
GAME  OF  THE  SEASON 

The  Bowdoin  football  season  closed  at 
Portland  Saturday,  November  20th,  with  a 
hard-earned  victory  over  Tufts.  The  score 
of  the  game  was  6 — o.  The  battle  was  hard- 
fought  with  Bowdoin  showing  wonderful 
staying  qualities  at  critical  moments  and  the 
result  of  the  game  proved  beyond  doubt  that 
Bowdoin  closed  the  season  with  a  remarkably 
strong  team.  Tufts  played  open  football, 
being  unable  to  strike  through  the  stiff  Bow- 
doin line,  while  Bowdoin,  with  the  exception 
of  a  few  forced  punts  from  the  neighborhood 
of  her  own  goal,  plowed  doggedly  straight 
ahead  thru  the  Tufts  line.  The  ball  was 
in  Bowdoin  territory  most  of  the  time,  but  the 
nearer  Tufts  got  to  the  Bowdoin  line  the 
harder  team  they  found  themselves  up  against. 
Once  the  crowd  thought  Tufts  'had  scored,  but 
the  officials  declared  an  illegal  pass. 

Mountfort,  Tufts'  right  guard,  dislocated 
his  shoulder  and  was  taken  from  the  game. 

Nearly  four  thousand  people  saw  the  game 
at  the  Pine  Tre6  grounds  and  both  colleges 
had  their  bands  in  the  cheering  section.  After 
the  game  the  Bowdoin  band  headed  the  cheer- 
ers  in  a  march  to  Monument  Square  where  a 
band  concert  was  given  along  with  lusty 
cheers  for  the  team. 

First  Half 
The  game  opened  with  a  kick-off  by 
Frank  Smith  which  went  to  the  15-yard  line 
but  was  brought  back  to  the  33-yard  line. 
Tufts  at  once  started  her  characteristic  play- 
ing of  the  day  with  a  40-yard  punt  to 
Wilson  who  twisted  and  turned  his  way 
back  up  the  field  to  the  center  of  the  grid- 
iron. Farnham  took  the  ball  and  went 
through  the  Tufts  line  for  seven  yards  and 
Kern  followed  him  twice,  making  first  down. 
Wilson  then  lost  a  yard  on  a  quarterback 
run  and  in  the  next  play  Bowdoin  lost  15 
yards  for  holding.  Here  Farnham  got  off  an 
on-side  kick  which  resulted  in  a  bad  scare  for 
Bowdoin,  for  a  Tufts  man  got  the  ball  and 
tore  down  the  field  like  a  runaway,  but 
Kern    got     across     lots     and     headed     him 


off  the  field  at  the  20-yard  line.  Tufts 
now  got  six  yards  in  two  downs  and  Henry 
tried  a  drop  kick  which  Hastings  blocked  and 
a  Tufts  man  got  the  ball  on  Bowdoin's  seven- 
yard  line.  Tufts  bucked  the  line  hard  for 
three  downs  and  unpiled  to  find  the  ball  on 
Bowdoin's  one-yard  line.  All  of  this  had 
happened  during  the  first  eight  minutes'  play. 
Capt.  Newman  now  punted  but  the  ball  went 
outside  on  the  lo-yard  line  and  things  began 
to  look  serious  again.  However,  Tufts  fum- 
bled and  Bowdoin  got  the  ball  on  the  ii-yard 
line.  Newman  tried  another  punt  but  with 
little  better  success  and  Tufts  got  the  ball 
from  outside  the  field  at  the  25-yard  line. 
Tufts  tried  three-line  plunges  and  a  forward 
pass  without  success  and  Bowdoin  got  the 
ball  again.  Wilson  took  the  ball  15  yards 
around  left  end  and  after  a  six-yard  gain 
through  the  line  by  Frank  Smith  and 
Kern,  Newman  finally  got  off  a  successful 
punt  for  30  yards.  Tufts  made  two  yards 
through  the  line,  14  yards  around  Bowdoin's 
left  end  and  then  was  thrown  back  for  a  five- 
yard  loss.  In  the  next  play  she  made  up  two 
of  these  and  Henry  punted  30  yards  to  Frank 
Smiih  on  the  35-yard  line.  Farnham  and 
Frank  Smith  now  tried  line  bucking  but  New- 
man was  forced  to  punt  and  got  the  ball  off 
for  30  yards.  Tufts  ran  two  line  plays 
and  a  forward  pass.  Wilson  got  the 
ball  on  Bowdoin's  45-yard  line.  Tufts  got 
hold  of  the  ball  from  an  on-side  kick  into  the 
center  of  the  field  and  made  several  short  gains 
when  Bowdoin  got  the  ball  again  on  a  for- 
ward pass.  Frank  Smith  struck  off  with  a  13- 
yard  run  and  Wilson  got  three  when  Bow- 
doin got  another  15-vard  penalty.  Newman 
now  punted  and  Tufts  ran  the  ball  in  30  yards 
but  a  15-yard  penalty  for  holding  took  them 
back  into  the  center  of  the  field.  Tufts  next 
got  five  yards  on  a  line  play  and  25  yards  on 
a  forward  pass  but  another  attempted  forward 
pass  failed.  Then  Henry  tried  to  punt  but 
was  blocked  by  King  and  Tufts  got  a  fifteen- 
yard  penalty  for  holding  which  sent  her  back 
to  her  25-yard  line.  Henry  got  off  a  40-yard 
punt  to  Wilson  who  ran  it  in  15  yards.  Bow- 
doin fumbled  and  Henry  and  Wilson  re- 
peated  their  play.     Bowdoin   then  made  two 


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short  gains  and  Newman  punted  from  his 
45-yard  line,  the  ball  going  to  Tufts.  Bow- 
doin  held  for  downs  and  after  two  rushes 
Newman  punted  again.  Tufts  tried  twice  to 
gain  and  then  Henry  punted  30  yards  to 
Wilson  who  came  in  five  yards  to  the  cen- 
ter of  the  field.  Here  the  ball  stayed,  chang- 
ing hands  twice,  till  the  half  closed. 

Second  Half 

Tufts  kicked  to  Wilson,  who  came  to  the 
33-yard  line.  Ivern  made  a  short  gain  and 
Farnham  punted  to  the  center  of  the  field. 
Tufts  got  five  yards  for  off-side  play.  In  the 
next  play  Tufts  lost  three  yards  and  Henry 
punted  to  Wilson  who  came  in  30  yards  by 
pretty  work.  Two  scrimmages  followed  and 
then  Frank  Smith  got  off  an  on-side  kick  to  a 
Tufts  man  on  his  2S-yard  line.  Henry  punted 
30  yards  and  Frank  Smith  took  the  ball  in 
five.  Wilson  tried  a  forward  pass  which 
failed  but  Bowdoin  kept  the  ball  on  her  own 
50-yard  line.  Farnham  got  off  a  40-yard  punt 
and  after  two  rushes  Henry  punted  back  for 
30  yards.  Bowdoin  made  one  short  gain  and 
worked  an  onside  kick  which  was  recovered 
by  Hurley  on  the  Tufts'  five-yard  line. 
Kern  now  took  the  ball  and  in  two 
plunges  went  over  for  a  touchdown.  Frank 
Smith  kicked  the  goal. 

Tufts  then  kicked  off  to  Frank  Smith  on 
Bowdoin's  15-yard  line  and  he  came  in  17 
yards.  Farnham  punted  30  yards  and  Bow- 
doin recovered  the  ball.  Then  Farnham, 
after  one  rush,  punted  again  and  Henry  came 
back  with  a  55-yard  punt  which  Wilson  ran  in 
10  yards.  After  several  scrimmages  with  lit- 
tle gain  and  a  15-yard  penalty  for  Bowdoin, 
Tufts  got  off  an  illegal  forward  pass  which 
looked  to  the  crowd  like  a  touchdown  until 
the  officials  carried  the  ball  back  up  the  field. 
After  a  few  scrimmages,  Tufts  worked  another 
forward  pass  to  Bowdoin's  six-yard  line. 
Three  line  plunges  brought  Tufts  to  Bow- 
doin's one-yard  line  when  they  lost  the  ball  on 
downs.  Farnham  punted  30  yards  and  the 
excitement  was  over.  Only  a  few  minutes  re- 
mained to  play  and  the  ball  stayed  in  the  cen- 
ter of  the  field.  When  time  was  called,  Bow- 
doin had  the  ball  on  her  20-yard  line. 

The  line-up : 
Bowdoin  Tufts 

E.    B.    Smith,   l.e r.e.,    Porter 

King,    l.t r.t.,     Weber 

Newman,    l.g r.g.,    Mountf ort,   Russell 

Boynton,    c c-,    Ireland 


Hastings,    r.g l.g.,    Burt 

Crosby,    r.t It,,    Merrill 

Hurley,    r.e. I.e.,    Dunn 

Wilson,     q.b q.b.,     Bohlin 

Farnham,    l.h.b r.h.b.,    Wallace 

F.    Smith,    r.h.b l.h.b-,   Dittrick 

Kern,    f.b f.b.,    Henry 

Score — Bowdoin  6,  Tufts  o.  Touchdown — ■ 
Kern.  Goal  from  touchdown — F.  Smith.  Umpire 
— Dadmun  of  Brown.  Referee — Washburn  of  Am- 
herst. Field  Judge — Tom  Murphy  of  Harvard. 
Head  linesman — Morse  of  Dartmouth.  Time — 35- 
and  30-minute  halves. 


BOWDOIN  WINS  THE  CROSS=COUNTRY  RACE  FROM 
TUFTS  WITH  A  PERFECT  SCORE 

On  the  third  annual  cross  country  run  held 
at  Brtmswick  Nov.  19,  Bowdoin  won  de- 
cisively from  Tufts  by  a  perfect  score.  Two 
of  the  Tufts  runners.  Prentice  and  Marshall, 
were  badly  used  up,  the  former  being  seized 
with  cramps  and  the  later  sustaining  a  bad 
fall.  All  the  Bowdoin  men  finished  in  good 
condition.  The  men  finished  in  the  follow- 
ing order:  First,  H.  W.  Slocum  and  J.  W. 
Colbath  (tied)  37  min.  47  sec;  3d,  Gary,  Bow- 
doin ;  4th,  H.  L.  Robinson,  Bowdoin ;  5th, 
Emery,  Bowdoin ;  6th,  C.  H.  Williams,  Tufts ; 
7th,  Marshall,  Tufts;  8th,  E.  M.  Fownes;  9th, 
R.  W.  Atwood,  Tufts ;  loth,  C.  G.  Prentiss, 
Tufts.     Score — Bowdoin  15;  Tufts  40. 

At  the  mass-meeting  held  the  same  even- 
ing the  Tufts  manager  made  a  speech  in 
which  he  declared  that  the  best  team  had  won 
and  thanked  Bowdoin  men  for  their  hospital- 
ity. 


FOOTBALL  AND  TRACK  B'S  AWARDED 

A  meeting  of  the  Athletic  Gouncil  was 
held  at  Dr.  Whittier's  office  Nov.  23.  It  was 
voted  to  drop  Holy  Gross  from  the  Bowdoin 
football  schedule  and  if  possible  to  arrrange  a 
game  to  be  played  with  Wesleyan  at  Portland. 
The  report  of  Manager  Thomas  Otis  of  the 
football  team  was  read  and  accepted.  The 
following  men  were  awarded  football  B's : 
Gapt.  W.  P.  Newman,  '10;  J.  L.  Crosby,  '10; 
G.  A.  Boynton,  '10;  H.  W.  Hastings,  '11 ;  E. 
H.  King,  '11;  E.  B.  Smith,  '11;  F.  A.  Smith, 
'12;  G.  G.  Kern,  '12;  G.  F.  Wilson,  '12;  J.  L. 
Hurley,  '12;  L.  W.  Pratt,  '13;  C.  R.  Farnum, 
'13;  Manager  Thomas  Otis,  '10.  The  follow- 
ing track  B's  were  awarded :  Gapt.  H.  J.  Gol- 
bath,  '10;  H.  W.  Slocum,  '10;  G.  A.  Garey, 
'10;  H.  L.  Robinson,  '11 ;  T.  E.  Emery,  '13. 


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SATURDAY  CLUB  PLAY 

This  evening  comes  the  Sarah  Orne  Jewett 
Dramas  in  Town  Hall,  "The  Guests  of  Mrs. 
Timms"  (from  "the  Life  of  Nancy")  and 
"The  Quest  of  Mr.  Teaby"  (from  "Strangers 
and  Wayfarers") .     The  cast  is  as  follows : 

THE   GUESTS   OF   MRS.   TIMMS 

Mrs.  Timms Mrs.   F.   C.   Robinson 

Mrs.   Flagg Mrs.   Henry   Johnson 

Miss  Pickett Mrs.   L.   D.   Snow 

A  Fellow-traveller Miss  C.  T.   Robinson 

THE  QUEST  OF  MR.  TEABY 

Mr.   Teaby James  A.   Bartlett,  '06 

Mrs.    Pinkham Miss    Mary    Oilman 

Miss  Perkins,  a  traveller Miss  Rachel  Little 

Mr.  Bartlett  was  the  organizer  and  first 
President  of  the  Dramatic  Club  in  Bowdoin 
and  is  regarded  as  Bowdon's  Star  Actor.  He 
ought  to  bring  out  a  large  number  of  college 
fellows. 

There  will  be  music  by  a  country  orchestra 
and  old  songs  by  Miss  Rideout  and  Mr. 
Brackett.  It  is  also  expected  that  the  "Octopus 
Octet"  from  the  College  Faculty  will  render 
"John  Peel." 


GLEE  CLUB  PICKED 

The  Glee  Club  has  been  picked  for  the 
coming  season  and  rehearsals  are  now  going 
on  in  earnest.  It  is  understood  that  a  New 
York  trip  has  been  arranged  to  be  taken  dur- 
ing the  Easter  vacation.  The  following  men 
will  compose  the  club:  First  tenors.  Hill,  '10, 
A.  W.  Johnson,  '11,  Tibbetts,  '12,  F.  A.  Smith, 
'12,  Weeks,  '10;  second  tenors,  J.  L.  Johnson, 
'11,  McGlone,  '10,  Kelloesr,  '11,  Ross,  '10; 
first  bass.  Cole,  '12,  Crowell,  '10.  Crosby,  '10, 
Davis,  '12;  second  bass,  Churchill,  '12,  Park- 
man  '11,  Stephens,  '10,  Stone,  '10,  Webster, 
'10.  Alternates,  L.  W.  Smith,  'it,,  Hussey, 
'11,  Alexander,  'i.^,  Sanborn,  '10. 


CLASSICAL  CLUB  MEETINGS 

The  Classical  Club,  organized  in  1908,  will 
hold  the  first  meeting  of  the  year  on  Dec.  9  at 
Professor  Woodruff's  house.  It  has  been  de- 
cided to  hold  six  meetings  at  intervals  of  two 
weeks  thruout  the  year.  The  topic  of  dis- 
cussion will  be  the  antiquities  of  Athens  and 


Rome  in  their  relation  to  literature.  There  is 
a  great  deal  of  interest  manifested  in  the  club 
which  is  open  to  all  students  taking  Latin  or 
Greek  beyond  the  Freshman  year,  or  to  those 
who  were  eligible  last  year.  The  officers  of 
the  club  are:  Professor  Woodruff,  president; 
C.  B.  Hawes,  '11,  secretary  and  the  executive 
committee  composed  of  the  president,  secre- 
tary and  Edward  Skelton,  '11.  These  meet- 
ings will  be  of  particular  value  to  those  who 
desire  a  more  thorough  acquaintance  with 
ancient   art   and   literature. 


RIFLE  SHOOTING  IN  UNIVERSITIES  AND 
COLLEGES 

With  the  opening  of  the  schools  and  col- 
leges the  National  Rifle  Association  of  Amer- 
ica from  its  offices  in  Washington,  D.  C,  has 
begun  an  active  campaign  to  organize  rifle 
clubs  in  institutions  of  learning  throughout 
the  country.  During  the  past  year  it  has  been 
the  recipient  of  several  trophies  for  student 
competition  which  during  the  winter  will  be 
put   in  competition. 

Circular  letters  have  been  addressed  to  all 
colleges  and  universities  urging  the  organiza- 
tion of  rifle  clubs  so  as  to  be  in  position  to 
train  and  select  teams  later  for  the  intercolle- 
giate matches.  The  practice  of  these  college 
clubs,  when  no  range  is  available  in  the  insti- 
tution, is  in  most  cases  being  carried  on  at  the 
local  National  Guard  range  where  facilities  are 
always  gladly  offered  and  in  some  cases  the 
rifles  also  are  loaned  to  the  college  riflemen. 

Although  rifle  shooting  is  a  new  depart- 
ure of  college  sport  it  is  nevertheless  growing 
in  popularity  as  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  sev- 
enteen colleges  now  have  active  and  flourish- 
ing clubs.  These  institutions  are:  Yale,  Har- 
vard, Cornell,  California,  Columbia,  Idaho, 
Pennsylvania,  Iowa,  Nevada  and  George 
Washington ;  Massachusetts  Agricultural  Col- 
lege, Utah  Agricultural  College,  Michigan 
Agricultural  College,  Washington  State  Col- 
lege, Delaware  College  and  Massachusetts 
Institute  of  Technology. 

Full  information  concerning  the  organiza- 
tion of  college  clubs  may  be  secured  from 
Lieut.  Albert  S.  Jones,  Secretary  of  the 
National  Rifle  Association  of  America,  Hibbs 
Building,  Washington,  D.  C. 


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LA\A^RENCE  McFARLAND,  igii.  Managing  Editor 

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p.  B.  MORSS.  1910  J.  C.  ■WHITE.  1911 

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Vol.  XXXIX.  DECEMBER  3,   1909  No.    19 


.„..,,        Now  that  football   is  over 
A  Revival  of  Ice     ^-^^  ^^^   ^^   basketball    is 


Hockey 


on  the  black  list,  the  stu- 


dent naturally  turns  his  attention  to  the  find- 
ing of  some  means  to  break  the  monotony  of 
compulsory  gym.  Winter  sports  are  few  and 
far  between  but  one  of  them  stands  out  prom- 
inently, ice-hockey.  A  few  can  hie  back  to 
the  halcyon  days  of  their  Freshman  year  when 
this  sport  flourished ;  others  can  recall  several 
other  attempts  to  re-establish  the  game.  It 
seems  too  bad  that  the  initiative  should  be 
lacking  to  arouse  interest  enough  to  once  more 
renew  ice  hockey.  Dr.  Whittier  has  been 
interviewed  and  he  says  that  the  matter  rests 
entirely  with  the  student  body.  If  this  be  so 
it  seems  high  time  that  the  student  body  be 
aroused  from  their  slumber  of  indiflference. 
Active  steps  have  already  been  taken  towards 
forming  a  four-cornered  league.  Is  it  possi- 
ble that  such  a  movement  will  fail  owing  to 


lack  of  interest  in  the  student  body  here  at 
Bowdoin. 

A  hurried  canvass  has  shown  that  we  have 
over  twenty  men  with  ice  hockey  experience, 
so  material  will  not  be  lacking.  During  the 
remainder  of  the  term  let  every  one  talk,  eat 
and  sleep  ice  hockey  and  see  if  we  cannot 
once  more  bring  so  glorious  a  sport  back  to 
Bowdoin. 

MUSICALE  UNDER  AUSPICES  OF  SATURDAY  CLUB 

The  first  of  the  musical  entertainments  of 
the  Saturday  Club  was  given  in  Memorial 
Hall,  November  22,  and  proved  a  rare  treat. 
The  Boston  Philharmonic  Sextette  composed 
of  William  F.  Krafift,  ist  violin;  Placido  Fin- 
mara,  2d  violin ;  John  Muldly,  viola ;  Ludwig 
Nast,  'cello ;  Max  Kunze,  contra  bass ;  and 
Arthur  Brooke,  flute;  rendered  several 
pleasing  selections  and  Miss  Jeannie  Trecar- 
tin,  soprano,  was  the  soloist  of  the  evening. 
All  of  the  artists  received  deserved  encores. 
Bowdoin  men  highly  appreciate  the  courtesy 
of  the  Saturday  Club  in  making  them  their 
aruests. 


SUNDAY  CHAPEL 

President  Hyde  snoke  Sunday  of  the  prosperity 
of  the  college,  using  as  his  text  a  verse  from  Isaiah: 
"The  Lord  is  the  portion  of  the  inheritance  of  my 
father."  This  year,  he  said,  there  have  been  more 
reasons  for  rejoicing  at  Bowdoin  than  ever  before. 
Many  rich  men,  feeling  that  this  college  was  one 
worthy  of  note,  have  given  part  of  their  wealth  as 
an  endowment  for  Bowdoin- 

The  reason  for  this  excellence  of  reputation  is 
to  be  found  in  the  work  of  the  faculty.  Thru  their 
efforts,  they  have  brought  the  college  to  the  notice 
of   the   entire   country. 

In  addition,  during  the  present  term,  the  in- 
structors have  been  so  supported  by  the  student 
body  that  in  no  case  has  discipline  been  necessary. 
Surely  there  is  cause  for  thanksgiving  in  the  unity 
of  purpose  that  is  everywhere  evident,  the  unity  and 
harmony  that  can  come  only  thru  our  common  her- 
itage, the  love  and  devotion  of  Jesus  Christ. 


PROFESSOR  SILLS  GIVES  LAST  TALK  IN  ART 
BUILDING 

At  the  last  talk  in  the  Art  Building  series. 
Professor  Sills  gave  an  explanation  of  the  classic 
objects  in  the  collections.  He  stated  that  on  ac- 
count of  the  large  attendance  he  was  unable  to  give 
each  man  as  much  attention  as  he  could  wish,  but 
announced  that  he  desired  later  to  look  over  the  col- 
lections  with   small  groups   of  students. 

The  following  objects  were  touched  upon  in  brief 
explanations  during  the  hour's  talk:  the  terra  cotta 


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images  and  the  collections  of  coins  and  mosaics  in 
the  Bo}'d  Gallery,  the  copies  of  classic  statues  in  the 
main  hall,  the  paintings  dealing  with  classic  sub- 
jects in  the  Bowdoin  Gallery,  and  two  Grecian 
vases  displayed  in  the  Walker  Gallery. 


10.     Leon   Dodge,    Newcastle ;   Lincoln  Academy. 
Total   strength  535.5  kilos. =1654.9  lbs. 

Total    development  561.2 

Condition  -1-174.3 


TEN  STRONG  MEN  IN  1913 

The  following  is  the  list  of  the  ten  strong  men  in 
1913: 

I.     M.    B.    Alexander,  Houlton;    Houlton    High 
School. 

Total    strength  853.3  kilos. ^1921  lbs. 

Total    development  546.4 


Condition 


-306.9 


2.     Josiah     Steele     Brown,     Whitinsville,     Mass. ; 
Northbridge   High    School. 

Total    strength  800     kilos.^  1800.3  lbs. 

Total    development  533 


Condition 


266.1 


3.     Mark    Langdon  Hagan,    Bath;    Morse    High 
School. 

Total   strength  776     kilos.  ^1746  lbs. 

Total    development  511-9 


Condition 


-(-264. 1 

4.     George  Lincoln  Skolfield,  Brunswick ;   Bruns- 
wick   High    School. 

Total    strength  798.8  kilos. =1797.3  lbs. 

Total    development  535.9 


Condition 


-I-262.9 

5.     Carlton   Greenwood,  Medford,   Mass. ;   M.   H. 
S.  and  Yarmouth  Academy. 

Total    strength'  787.1  kilos. :^I77I  lbs. 

Total    development  S25.8 


Condition 


-^  261.3 


6.     Henry    Levensaller  Hall,    Camden ;    Camden 
High  School. 

Total  strength  817.5  kilos.^1839.4  lbs. 

Total    development  558.9 


Condition 


-4-258.6 


7.     Aaron    Marden,  Farmington ;      Farraington 
High   School. 

Total    strength  753. 5  kilos. ^1695.4  lbs. 

Development  520.6 


Condition 


-(-232.9 

8.     Clifton     Orville  Page,    Bath;     Morse     High 
School. 

Total    strength  517.8  kilos.^1558.5  lbs. 

Total  development  219.3 


Condition  -I-219.3 

9-     Ray      Eaton     Palmer,      Bath;      Morse     High 
School. 

Total   strength  741.5  kilos.  =  1668.4  lbs. 

Total    development  526.4 


Condition 


4-215.1 


ZETA  PSl  DANCE 

An  informal  dance  was  given  at  the  Zete  house, 
Monday  evening,  Nov.  22,  by  the  members  of  the 
Junior  delegation.  Music  was  furnished  by  Ken- 
drie's  Orchestra.  The  patronesses  were  Mrs.  Hart- 
ley C.  Baxter,  Mrs.  Henry  Johnson,  and  Mrs. 
William  T.  Foster  of  Brunswick,  and  Mrs.  G.  E. 
Pray  of  Waterville.  The  committee  in  charge  con- 
sisted of  S.  H.  Hussey,  G.  A.  Torsney,  and  F.  C. 
Black. 

Those  present  were:  Miss  Marion  Cobb,  Miss 
Elizabeth  Fuller,  Miss  Hazel  Perry  of  Rockland; 
Miss  Nellie  Hodgdon  of  Bath ;  Miss  Marion 
Wheeler,  Miss  Rose  Tyler  of  Portland;  Miss  Helen 
Nichols  of  Damariscotta ;  Miss  Alfaretta  Graves, 
Miss  Bertha  Stetson,  Miss  Helen  Merriman,  Miss 
Margaret  Day  of  Brunswick;  Miss  Wilhelmina 
Butterfield  of  Waterville,  and  Miss  Margaret  Kim- 
ble of  Alfred,  Me. 


THANKSQIVINO  DANCE  OF  BETA  THETA  PI 

The  Thanksgiving  dance  of  Beta  Sigma  of  Beta 
Theta  Pi  was  held  at  the  chapter  house,  Tuesday 
evening.  The  patronesses  were  Mrs.  Frank  E. 
Roberts  of  Brunswick  and  Mrs.  Stephen  Gardner 
of  Calais.  Among  those  present  were  Professor  and 
Mrs.  Paul  Nixon,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Algernon  Chand- 
ler, Professor  and  Miss  Snow,  Mrs.  E.  T.  Little, 
and  the  Misses  Helen  Richardson,  Lula  Barber, 
Portland ;  Pauline  Litchfield,  Winniferd  McKee, 
Mary  Bliss,  Marian  Lowell,  Lewiston ;  Ethel  Haw- 
ley,  Virginia  Pingree,  Bath ;  Frances  Little.  Mabel 
Davis,  Brunswick;  Therese  Newbert,  Caroline 
Sparks,  Augusta.  The  committee  in  charge  con- 
sisted of  G.  C-  Weston,  '10,  Aug;usta ;  J.  L.  Brum- 
mett,  '11,  Roxbury ;  and  L.  Davis,  '11,  Cambridge, 
Mass.  Music  for  the  sixteen  dances  was  furnished 
bv   Kendrie's   Orchestra. 


ALPHA  KAPPA  KAPPA  INITIATION 

The  Alpha  Kappa  Kappa  fraternity  of  the 
Maine  Medical  School  held  its  annual  initiation  at 
Riverton  Nov.  20,  following  which  was  a  banquet 
and  speech-making  by  members.  The  seven  ini- 
tiates, all  members  of  the  Class  of  1913,  are  Leon  S. 
Lippincott  of  Augusta,  H.  B.  Wetherell  of  Cornish, 
R.  R.  Lefleche  of  Caribou,  Edward  W.  Paine  of 
Waterville,  Edward  Roberts,  Everett  S.  Winslow 
and  William  Buck  of  Portland. 

.'\t  a  business  session  held  during  the  evening, 
plans  were  made  for  the  annual  convention  to  be 
held  in  Portland  Dec.  29,  30  and  31,  which  will  be 
attended  by  delegates  from  all  over  the  country  and 
Canada.  Millard  C.  Webber  was  chosen  to  repre- 
sent the  local  fraternity  as  delegate.  Thirty-five 
chapters   will  be   represented  at  the   convention. 


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SECOND  ANNIE  TALBOT  COLE  LECTURE 

On  Thursday,  Nov.  i8,  Dr.  McCall  gave  the 
second  of  the  Annie  Talbot  Cole  lectures  for  igog- 
10,  his  subject  being  "Lessening  the  Military  Bur- 
den." Dr.  McCall's  long  experience  in  public  affairs 
gives  his  words  the  weight  of  a  man  who  knows 
whereof  he   speaks.     He   said   in   part: 

The  present  age  is  one  of  great  international 
rivalry  in  the  matter  of  increasing  military  power. 
E^ch  country  feels  that  it  must  continue  this  arming 
to  keep  its  place  among  the  nations.  If  England 
builds  great  battleships,  so  must  the  United  States. 
More  money  is  spent  for  warshijps  than  for  colleges 
and  all  the  nations  are  groaning  under  military 
burdens.  Far  from  seeing  the  end  of  war,  the  new 
century  has  seen  war  in  its  most  devastating  form_. 

The  golden  age  of  peace  is  always  looked  for  in 
the  past  or  the  future  and  never  in  the  present. 
Yet  there  are  certain  tendencies  even  in  our  war- 
like age  which  point  towards  peace.  As  the  individ- 
ual has  passed  under  justice,  so  may  the  nation. 
Many  international  disputes  which,  not  many  years 
ago.  would  have  caused  wars,  are  now  settled  by 
arbitration.  The  great  growth  of  international  com- 
merce and  the  great  and  increasing  exoense  of  mak- 
ing war  are  ever  growing  more  powerful  as  argu- 
ments  for  peace. 

The  stock  assertion  of  those  who  promote  mili- 
tary increase  has  been  that  preparation  for  war  is 
the  best  assurance  of  peace.  Adherence  to  this 
theory  has  led  to  a  race  in  building  navies  which  has 
become  merely  a  war  of  wealth.  But  belief  in  this 
theory  seems  to  be  no  just  cause  for  the  immense 
military  outlay  of  the  United  States.  We  need  it 
neither  for  defence  nor  offence  and  its  only  reason 
for  existence  is  in  showing  off  as  a  great  nation. 
The  upholding  of  the  Monroe  Doctrine,  which  has 
been  often  given  as  an  excuse  for  great  armament, 
has  never  caused  us  any  trouble  nor  is  it  ever  likely 
to  do  so,  as  long  as  we  do  not  exceed  our  rights. 
But  all  this  show  of  war  seems  vain.  The  two 
greatest  nations  of  the  world  have  shared  in  com- 
mon the  waters  of  the  Great  Lakes  and  neither  has 
patrolled  them  with  a  single  warship.  If  this  has 
been  done  on  those  immense  inland  waterways,  why 
may  it  not  be  done  by  international  agreement  on 
the  broad  seas? 

The  greatest  power  against  war  will  be  an  edu- 
cated public  opinion  which  will  realize  that  war  is 
essentially  savage;  that  the  glory  of  nations  is  not 
in  fightmg  each  other  but  in  uniting  to  fight  a  com- 
mon enemy ;  that  the  truly  heroic  may  be  fovmd^  in 
the  common  walks  of  life ;  and  that  far  more  lasting 
than  the  pomp  of  war  is  the  fame  of  science,  arts, 
literature  and   service  to  mankind. . 


MUSICAL  CLUB  TRIPS 

Manager  Weeks  has  given  out  the  provisional 
schedule  of  the  Bowdoin  Musical  Club  in  its  Maine 
trips.  The  first  two,  one  in  Richmond,  and  one  in 
Freeport,  will  be  rehearsal  concerts.  The  first  trip 
will  include  six  days,  during  which  time  concerts 
will  be  given  in  Foxcroft.  Dexter,  Oldtown,  Bangor, 
Fairfield,  and  Augusta.  Separate  trips  to  Bath  and 
Lewiston,  and  to  Rockland  and  Camden  will  be 
taken   in  March.    A   Massachusetts   trip   during  the 


Easter  vacation  is  being  arranged  and  will  undoubt- 
edly be  taken.  The  New  York  trip  has  not  been 
fully  decided  upon.  The  dates  for  the  Maine  trips 
are : 

January    14 — Richmond. 

February    II — Freeport. 

February   17 — Brunswick. 

February   21 — Foxcroft. 

February   22 — Dexter. 

February  23 — Oldtown. 

February  24 — Bangor. 

February  25 — Fairfield. 

February  26 — Augusta. 

March     4 — Bath. 

March  11 — Lewiston. 

March   18 — ^Camden. 

March  19 — Rockland. 


Y.  M.  C.  A.  NOTES 

College  men  will  be  interested  to  know  that  the 
sum  of  $26.75  was  realized  in  the  collection  taken  up 
after  chapel  the  morning  college  closed  for  the 
Thanksgiving  recess.  With  this,  dinners  were  pro- 
vided for  ten  needy  families  and  in  one  case  a  half 
ton  of  coal  was  supplied. 

On  Dec.  9th,  Edward  Stanwood,  '61,  Litt.D., 
editor  of  the  Youth's  Companion,  will  speak  before 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  His  subject  will  be  "College  Com- 
petitors." 

The  next  meeting  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Cabinet 
will  be  held  at  the  Delta  Upsilon  House  at  8.00 
P.M.   Thursdav,   Dec.   pth. 


CALENDAR 

Friday,  December  3 
3.30     Freshman    Football    Practice     on     Whittier 
Field. 

Sophomore  Football  Practice  on  Delta. 
5.15     Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in   Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

Saturday,  December  4 
2.30     Sophomore-Freshman   Football      Game     on 
Delta. 

Sunday,   December  5 
10.45     Morning    Service    in    the    Church    on    the 
Hill,  conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Quint. 

■5.00  Sunday  Chapel,  conducted  by  President 
Hyde.  Music  by  the  double  quartette;  solo  by 
Stone,    '10. 

Monday,   December  6 
4.00-6     Mandolin   Club  Rehearsal     in     Memorial 
Hall. 

8.00  Elsie  Janis  in  the  "Fair  Co-ed"  at  the  Em- 
pire  Theatre,    Lewiston. 

Tuesday,  December  7 
3.00-5     Mandolin   Club    Rehearsal    in     Memorial 
Hall. 

5.15  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion  Room. 

Wednesday,    December   8 
5.15     Glee  Club   Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 


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Thursday^   December  g 

3.00-5  Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial 
Hall. 

5.15  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

8.00  Address  by  Edward  Stanwood,  '61,  Litt.D., 
Editor  of  The  Youth's  Companion,  Boston.  "Col- 
lege Competitors."     In  Christian  Association  Room. 

8.00  Meeting  of  the  Classical  Club  at  Profes- 
sor Woodruff's   house. 

"Rebecca  of  Sunnybrook  Farm"  at  the  Empire 
Theatre,    Lewiston. 

FridaYj  December  id 

5.15  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

8.00  "Rebecca  of  Sunnybrook  Farm"  at  the  Em- 
pire Theatre,   Lewiston. 


College  Botes 


A.  L.  Laferriere,  'or,  was  on  the  campus,  Mon- 
day. 

Edward  S.  Bagley,  ex-'o8,  is  to  return  to  college 
soon, 
y  The  gate  receipts  of  the  Maine  game  were  over 

$1,000. 

Professor  McConaughy  conducted  the  recitation 
in  English   I,  Tuesday. 

The  Gentlemen's  Club  was  entertained  by  Prof. 
Robinson   last   week. 

Donald  McMillan,  '98,  intends  to  explore  still 
more   in    the   North   soon. 

The  board  running  track  was  repaired  during 
the   Thanksgiving   recess. 

Coach  Burton  C.  'Morrill  spent  the  Thanksgiving 
holidays    in    Augusta    and    Boston. 

The  Intercollegiate  Cross  Country  was  captured 
after  a  hard  struggle  by   Cornell. 

Phipps,  ex-'ii,  attended  the  Tufts  game  and 
spent  Sunday  with  friends  on  the  campus. 

Bernard  Archibald,  '04,  of  Houlton,  was  married 
on  Nov.  ID  to  Miss  Emma  Putnam  of  Houlton. 

Bull,  '13,  entertained  his  brother,  who  is  attend- 
ing Worcester  Academy,  for  a  few  days  last  week. 

Nearly  all  the  Tufts  rooters  left  Portland  on  the 
7.00  boat  for  Boston  after  the  defeat  of  their  team. 

Scammon,  '09,  has  been  engaged  as  an  assistant 
teacher  in  the  Brunswick  Evening"  School,  of  which 
Henry  Johnson,  Medic  '12,  is  principal. 

When  Ross  McClave  left  Portland  for  New 
York  at  i.oo  o'clock  Sunday  morning,  the  boys  gave 
him  a  cheer  that  will  long  echo  in  his  ears. 

Several  Bowdoin  students,  including  most  of  the 
football  team,  attended  a  private  skating  party  at 
the  Roll-Away  in  Portland,  Saturday,  following  the 
Tufts  game. 

Bowdoin  men  occupied  one  hundred  and  fifty 
seats  at  the  Jefferson  Theatre,  Portland,  after  the 
trip  Saturday.  The  play  was  rather  uninteresting, 
but  the  cheers  and  songs  given  by  the  boys  kept 
everyone  amused. 


J.  B.  Pendleton,  Bowdoin  '90,  was  head  linesman 
at  the  Harvard- Yale  game  this  year. 

Gardner,  '13,  spent  the  recess  with  friends  in 
Camden. 

The  date  of  the  B.  A.  A.  Meet  has  been  an- 
nounced officially  as  February   12. 

The  All-Maine  picked  by  the  Boston  Globe,  gives 
Bowdoin  Capt.  Newman,  Crosby,  Frank  Smith  and 
Kern. 

Galen  W.  Hill,  '04,  is  a  member  of  the  Senior 
Class  at  the  New  York  State  Library  School  at 
Albany. 

Prof.  Hastings  has  recently  been  elected  to  junior 
membership  in  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engi- 
neers. 

On  Thanksgiving  Day,  the  members  of  the 
faculty  entertained  the  students  who  stayed  in 
Brunswick  during  the  recess. 

C.  B.  Hawes.  '11,  E.  B.  Smith,  '11,  G.  T.  Tors- 
ney,  '11,  J.  L.  Crosby,  '10,  and  H.  W.  Slocum,  '10. 
were  elected  to  the  Coffee  Club  last  week. 

Dr.  Burrage  spoke  in  Hubbard  Hall,  Monday 
morning,  Nov.  29,  on  Tuberculosis  Extermination 
and  the  methods  used  in  accomplishing  this  work. 

E.  O.  Leigh,  '12,  and  his  brother,  C.  T.  Leigh, 
Worcester.  '11,  spent  the  Thanksgiving  recess  with 
Stewart  Brown,  '10,  at  his  home  at  Whitinsville, 
Mass. 

The  trials  for  the  reader  in  the  Musical  Club 
were  held  in  the  Christian  Association  room, 
Wednesday  afternoon.  W.  B.  Stephens,  '10,  was 
chosen  to  accompany  the  club  this  year  as  reader. 

The  presence  of  the  band  at  the  Cross  Country 
Run,  Friday,  increased  the  interest  in  the  race  and 
kept  the  crowd  interested  while  the  competitors  were 
battling   out   on   the   course. 

The  Board  of  Superintendents  of  the  New  York 
City  schools  has  voted  to  abolish  interscholastic 
football ;  it  is  feared  by  the  students  that  the  Board 
of  Education  will  sustain  this  action. 

Dr  Whittier  had  an  interview  published  in  the 
Boston  Herald,  Sunday,  on  the  future  of  football. 
The  majority  of  college  officers  interviewed  by  the 
Herald  was  of  the  opinion  that  the  game  would  not 
be  abolished. 

The  Kennebec  Journal  for  Monday,  Nov.  29,  con- 
tained a  long  article  concerning  the  Freshman  Class 
here  at  Bowdoin.  The  work  done  in  the  college 
activities  by  them  and  the  statistics  of  each  fellow 
before  entering  college  were  given. 

Among  the  Portland  dances  during  the  recess  was 
that  given  by  the  Class  of  1910,  Deering  High 
School,  which  is  raising  a  fund  for  a  trip  to  Wash- 
ington. The  following  Bowdoin  men  were  present : 
Ludwig,  '10,  Eastman,  '10,  Devine,  '11,  E.  E.  Kern, 
'11,  McFarland,  '11,  Hanson,  '11,  G.  C.  Kern,  '12, 
Means,  '12,  Wyman,   '12,  and   McMurtrie,  '13. 

At  the  last  mass-meeting  of  the  football  season, 
Professors  Robinson.  Hutchins,  McConaughy,  and 
Snow,  and  Trainer  Nickerson  succeeded  in  arous- 
ing more  enthusiasm  over  the  Tufts  game  than  has 
been  shown  this  season.  The  ovation  given  the  last 
speaker.  Coach  McClave,  lasted  several  minutes. 
An  interesting  feature  of  the  evening's  program  was 
a  word  of  appreciation  from  the  manager  of  the 
Tufts  Track   'Team,   Walter   N.   Gray. 


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Hlumni  IDepartment 

'56. — It  is  expected  that  on  January  11, 
1910,  the  South  Congregational  Church  of 
Hartford,  Conn.,  will  celebrate  the  golden  an- 
niversary of  the  ceremony  of  installation  of 
Rev.  Edwin  Pond  Parker,  D.D.,  as  pastor. 

The  day  when  the  young  cleric  was  in- 
ducted to  pastoral  relations  is  so  far  in  the 
past  that  but  few  who  were  present  are  now 
living,  but  Dr.  Parker  still  enjoys  the  gifts  of 
years  and  the  respect  of  his  parishioners. 

At  the  first  communion  service  celebrated 
in  the  church  by  Dr.  Parker,  the  closing 
hymn  was  Dr.  Dwight's  "I  love  Thy  Kingdom, 
Lord."  This  has  been  uniformly  sung  at  the 
communion  service  during  Dr.  Parker's  fifty 
years  in  the  pastorate.  The  hymn,  "Just  as  I 
Am  Without  One  Plea,"  by  Charlotte  Elliott, 
has  been  used  at  the  admission  of  members  on 
profession  of  faith.  Dr.  Parker  is  the  author 
of  a  number  of  hymns,  onS  of  the  most  noted 
being,  "The  New  Magdalene."  He  is  a  musi- 
cian of  decided  ability  and  a  composer  of 
church  music  of  great  merit.  He  has  made 
the  South  Church  the  exponent  of  worship  in 
the  city  of  Hartford. 

'72. — The  last  issue  of  the  .  Orient  for 
October  contained  an  account  of  a  meeting  of 
the  New  England  Esperanto  Association  held 
in  the  Boston  Public  Library.  This  account, 
copied  from  a  Boston  newspaper,  was  so  erro- 
neous that  in  justice  to  Herbert  Harris,  Esq., 
who  was  the  chief  speaker,  the  following  cor- 
rections are  now  made. 

"The  business  of  the  meeting  was  not 
transacted  in  Esperanto,  in  fact,  no  business 
was  done  except  the  appointment  of  a  commit- 
tee. No  fine  of  five  cents  was  imposed.  Mr. 
Plarris'  address  was  wholly  in  English,  at  the 
request  of  the  officers  of  the  society,  because 
the  audience  was  composed  in  part  of  non- 
Esperantists.  Nor  did  the  speaker  relate 
instances  in  which  he  had  found  Esperanto  a 
convenient  medium  of  conversation,  for  all  the 
Esperantists  present  were  already  aware  of 
that  fact.  He  did  tell  of  a  number  of  cases 
when  he  had  made  very  practical  use  of  the 
language  and  had  received  much  assistance  by 
its  means  in  several  cities  of  France  and 
Spain.  The  extent  to  which  the  language  is 
now  used  in 'many  parts  of  Europe  is  rather 
surprising  to  a  traveler  from  the  United 
States." 


'yj. — It  is  said  that  no  finer  display  of  tulips 
can  be  found  in  Maine  than  in  the  gardens 
maintained  by  Curtis  A.  Perry,  Esq.,  and  his 
friend,  Mr.  Charles  L.  Fox,  at  their  summer 
home  on  the  Upper  Ridge  at  Bridgton.  Seven 
thousand  and  seven  hundred  bulbs  were 
planted  this  fall  and  with  those  left  over  from 
last  there  will  be  a  total  of  at  least  ten  thou- 
sand blooming  plants  for  next  seasons's  show. 
These  gardens  by  the  roadside  are  visited  by 
large  numbers  of  strangers  and  tourists  and 
the  extensive  bed  of  scarlet  salvia  which  blos- 
somed profusely  till  cut  clown  by  frost  was  re- 
ported to  be  superior  to  those  in  the  botanical 
gardens  in  the  neighborhood  of  Boston. 

'02. — Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frederick  Snare  of 
Ehglewood,  N.  J.,  announce  the  engagement 
of  their  daughter,  Jeannette,  to  Dr.  Frederic 
A.  Stanwood  of  434  Marlborough  Street,  Bos- 
ton, Mass. 

'02. — Mr.  Richard  B.  Dole,  who  has  been 
stationed  for  the  past  six  months  at  Quito, 
Ecuador,  as  agent  in  charge  of  the  United 
States  government  exhibit  at  the  National 
Ecuadorian  exposition,  has  just  returned  to 
his  home  at  Washington,  D.  C. 

'06. — The  current  issue  of  the  Quarterly 
Journal  of  Economics  contains  an  article  by 
Melvin  T.  Copeland. 

'08. — Mr.  Joseph  M.  Boyce  is  now  at  Sil- 
ver Cliff,  Colorado,  representing  certain  Port- 
land mining  interests  in  that  locality. 

"08. — Mr.  E.  T.  Sanborn  is  now  engaged 
in  lumbering  at  East  Andover,  N.  H.  His 
address  remains,  however.  East  Machias,  Me. 

"09. — William  C.  Sparks  is  director  of  the 
new  gymnasium  at  Hobart  College,  Geneva, 
N.  Y. 


The  Portland  Sunday  Telegram  contained  an 
interesting  account  of  Prof,  Robinson's  discovery  of 
a  metliod  of  purifying  water  by  means  of  bleaching 
powder. 


"New  York,  Nov.  18. — .A.niid'  trophies  of  the  Far 
North,  including  heads  of  Polar  and  musk  ox  and 
skins  of  walrus  and  seal,  the  Aldine  Association 
entertained  Commander  Robert  E.  Peary  and  Cap- 
tain Bartlett  of  the  Arctic  steamer  Roosevelt  at 
dinner  in  their  club  rooms  on  Fifth  Avenue.  The 
association  dined  Commander  Peary  just  before  his 
departure  for  the  North  and  at  that  time  its  mem- 
bers expressed  confidence  that  the  explorer  would 
this  time  reach  the  goal  of  his  ambition.  Five 
hundred  sat  down  to  the  dinner.  President 
Frank  Presbrey  presided.  Dr.  Lyman  Abbott,  Rear 
Admiral  Colby  N.  Chester  and  T.  P.  O'Connor, 
M.P.,  were  among  those  present." 


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VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  DECEMBER  lo,  1909 


NO.  20 


FOOTBALL  CAPTAIN  ELECTED 

At  a  meeting  of  the  B  men  of  the  football 
%  team  Monday  afternoon,  Frank  Smith,  1912, 
of  Calais,  Me.,  left  halfback  on  the  'varsity, 
was  elected  captain  for  the  season  of  1910. 
The  election  was  held  at  Webber's  studio 
directly  after  the  team  sat  for  their  pictures. 
Smith  entered  Bowdoin  after  preparing  at 
Coburn  Classical  Institute  and  Kent's  Hill 
Seminary,  where  he  made  enviable  records. 
Both  last  year  and  this  he  has  been  unani- 
mously awarded  a  place  on  the  "All-Maine" 
team.  He  is  a  brilliant  player,  a  natural 
leader,  and  extremely  popular  thruout  college. 
With  such  a  man  as  leader,  Bowdoin  may  well 
anticipate  a  successful  season  for  the  year 
1910. 


1913,  13;    1912,  0 
Freshmea  Capture  the  Annual  Class  Game 

Nineteen  Thirteen  won  the  game  against 
the  Sophomores  on  the  Delta,  Saturday,  by 
scoring  a  safety;  two  touchdowns,  and  one 
goal  from  a  touchdown,  in  the  second  half. 

In  the  first  period  of  the  game,  the  teams 
seemed  evenly  matched,  Gordon  for  the 
Sophomores  making  greater  distances  in  line 
rushes,  and  Clancy  for  the  Freshmen  excelling 
in  punting. 

Soon  after  the  opening  of  the  second  half, 
191 3  scored  on  a  safety,  following  a  punt 
blocked  by  McMahDn.  The  Freshmen  then 
started  after  a  touchdown  by  line  plunging, 
and  finally  pushed  Crosby  over  the  line.  The 
kickout  failed.  When  the  half  had  nearly 
ended,  Clancy  sent  a  long  punt  toward  the 
Sophomores'  goal  posts.  Tucker  recovered 
the  ball,  getting  across  the  line  before  he  was 
stopped.     Clancy  kicked  the  goal. 

The  line-up  was  as  follows : 

Dole,   Tucker,   l.e r.e.,    Davis 

Wood,   l.t r.t,    Weeks 

Collins,    l.g r.g.,    Maloney 

McMahon,    c c,    McCormick 

Douglas,    r.g l.g.,    Houston 

Sewall,   Coombs,   r.t l.t.,    Means 

Page,   Peters,    r.e I.e.,    Pratt 

Bull,    q.b q.b.,    Marsh 


Clancy,    r.h.b ." r.h.b.,    Holt 

Brown,    Lewis,    l.h..b l.h.b.,    Daniels 

Crosby,    f .b f .b.,    Gordon 

Score:  1913,  13;  1912,  0.  Safety,  1913.  Touch- 
down, Clancy.  Referee,  Newman ;  umpire,  Crosby ; 
iield  judge,  Matthews.     Time — two  20-minute  halves. 


MONDAY  CLUB  ORGANIZES 

Some  three  weeks  ago.  Captain  Newman, 
'10,  Crosby,  '10,  and  Coach  McClave  formed 
a  club  to  be  known  a:s  the  Monday  Club,  to 
meet  every  Monday  evening  during  the  foot- 
ball season  and  the  first  Monday  of  each 
month  during  the  rest  of  the  year.  Its  object 
is  to  further  the  interests  of  Bowdoin  in  gen- 
eral, but  of  football  in  particular  by  getting 
hold  of  first  and  second  year  men  in  prep, 
schools  and  encouraging  them  to  elect  Latin 
and  other  Bowdoin  requirements  so  that  they 
can  enter  college  without  conditions.  The 
club  will  also  entertain  sub-Freshmen  at  the 
college. 

Monday  night  the  second  meeting  of  the 
club  was  held,  new  members  taken  in  and  a 
constitution  adopted.  Hereafter  the  new 
members  will  be  taken  from  the  B  men  exclu- 
sively. The  Captain  of  the  football  team  will 
be  president.  Farnham  has  been  elected  Sec- 
retary for  this  year. 

The  membership  is  now  as  follows :  New- 
man, '10,  Crosby,  '10,  Coach  McClave,  Mr. 
Kaharl,  '98,  Otis,  '10,  Boynton,  '10,  Wandtke, 
'10,  Smith,  '11,  Hastings,  '11,  Kern,  '12,  Wil- 
son, '12,  Hurley,  '12,  King,  '12,  Farnham,  '13, 
and  Pratt,  '13. 


STUDENT  COUNCIL  MEETS 

The  third  meeting  of  this  year  of  the 
Undergraduate  Council  was  held  December  2, 
at  7.00  P.M.  in  the  Deutscher  V'erein  Room. 
All  members  were  present.  It  was  voted  that 
a  recommendation  be  sent  to  the  Athletic 
Council  advising  that  schools  outside  the  state 
be  asked  to  take  part  in  the  Bowdoin  Inter- 
scholastic  Track  Meet.  It  was  also  voted  to 
hold  a  Christmas  Smoker  in  Memorial  Hall 
December  20th,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Cus- 
toms Committee. 


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The  awarding  of  football  B's  to  Seniors 
who  have  been  out  for  the  team  for  four  years 
was  discussed  but  no  action  was  taken. 

There  has  been  complaint  to  the  council 
over  the  custom  of  sending  fraternity  dele- 
gates to  dances  and  house-parties.  This  was 
taken  up  by  the  council  but  was  dismissed 
without  action. 


CHOOSING  A  LIFE  WORK 

Thursday  evening,  December  2d,  Hon.  C. 
E.  Milliken  of  Island  Falls,  Me.,  spoke  at  the 
Christian  Association  meeting  on  Business, 
the  second  subject  of  the  theme,  "Choosing  a 
Life  Work."  Mr.  -Milliken  did  not  enumerate 
the  qualifications  of  a- good  business  man,  but 
suggested  that  business  as  a  profession  is 
worth  aiming  at  and  should  not  be  regarded 
as  something  to  fall  back  upon  when  other 
vocations  fail. 

If  a  young  man  wants  to  have  an  active 
part  in  solving  some  of  the  great  problems 
confronting  society,  nothing  offers  greater 
opportunities  than  business.  Mr.  Milliken 
cited  figures  showing  the  enormous  and  rapid 
increase  in  wealth  ii"i  the  United  States  and 
stated  that  at  present,  every  three  months'  in- 
crement is  more  than  the  total  wealth  in  1820. 
This  tremendous  increase  is  giving  rise  to 
very  serious  economic  questions  and  Mr.  Mil- 
liken believes  that  these  problems  will,  in  the 
main,  be  solved,  not  by  lawyers,  by  ministers 
or  by  legislators,  but  by  business  men. 

Mr.  Milliken  emphasized  the  fact  that  stu- 
dents will  be  very  likely  to  become  in  life  what 
what  they  have  been  in  college,  and  that  they 
should  avoid  the  mistake  of  regarding  their 
college  course  as  a  period  of  life  distinct  from 
what  is  to  follow. 

In  closing,  Mr.  Milliken  gave  a  few  valua- 
ble rules  to  be  applied  to  business.  They  were 
as  follows :  "Keep  small  promises."  "Don't 
doubt."  "If  you  have  a  decision  to  make, 
make  it."  "Don't  quit."  Don't  miss  oppor- 
tunities to  get  acquainted  in  college."  "Be 
able  to  pick  and  to  persuade  men."  "Be  your 
own  boss  in  college."  "In  life  you  are  asked, 
not  what  you  know,  but  what  you  can  do." 


FACULTY  CLUB  PROGRAM 

The  Faculty  Club  has  arranged  the  follow- 
ing program  to  be  followed  this  winter.  It 
will  be  noted  that  the  program  is  not  confined 


to  literature,  as  usual,  but  covers  a  wide  range 
of  subjects. 

Petroleum,  by  Prof.  M.  B.  Cram,  Dec.  7. 

Ibsen,  with  the  reading  of  Hedda  Gabler 
by  members  of  the  Club,  Prof.  G.  T.  Files, 
Dec.  20. 

Social  Philosophy,  by  President  Hyde  and 
Prof.  Burnett,  Jan.  10. 

It  Never  Can  Happen  Again,  William  de 
Morgan,  by  Charles  W.  Snow,  Feb.  7. 

Aristophanes,  with  the  readingof  the  Frogs 
by  the  members  of  the  Club,  Prof.  Paul 
Nixon,  Feb.  21. 

The  Present  Status  of  the  Doctrine  of  Or- 
ganic Evolution,  Prof.  Mantin  Copeland, 
March  7. 


INITIATION  OF  FRIARS 

The  Friars'  Club,  having  for  its  purpose 
the  promotion  of  college  spirit  between  the 
various  fraternities,  held  its  annual  dinner  at 
Riverton,  Saturday  evening.  The  following 
new  members  from  the'class  of  191 1  were  re- 
ceived :  Alonzo  Dennis,  Harrison  Cole,  Joseph 
White,  Leslie  Brummett,  Stanley  Pierce,  and 
Harry  Wiggin. 

Besides  the  new  members,  those  present 
were:  Neal  Cox,  '08,  Harold  Davie,  '10, 
Henry  Colbath,  Harry  McLaughlin,  Her- 
bert Warren,  Robert  Morss,  Sumner 
Edwards,  E.  Curtis  Matthews,  Harry  Wood- 
ward, and  Robert  Hale,  all  of  1910,  and  Geo. 
Howes,  E.  Baldwin  Smith,  and  Harrison  Rob- 
inson of  191 1. 


SUNDAY  CHAPEL 

President  Hyde  who  spoke  in  chapel  last 
Sunday,  used  as  his  text  .the  parable  of  the 
Pharisee  and  Publican.  He  said  in  opening 
his  talk:  "As  the  winter  comes  on  us  we 
ought  to  turn  our  minds  from  outward  things, 
and  think  of  the  spiritual  things.''  About 
one-half  of  us  consider  ourselves  Christians, 
and  less  than  half  stand  outside  tlie  church. 

Some  of  these  that  do  not  consider  them- 
selves Christians  have  the  wrong  ideas  of 
what  a  Christian  is.  They  think  that  a  Christ- 
ian must  go  to  church ;  must  take  an  active 
part  in  religious  meetings ;  and  must  do  many 
things  that  are  unpleasant  for  them  to  do. 
These  men  are  thinking  of  the  Pharisee  not 
of  a  Christian. 

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one  that  thanks  God  that  he  is  not  as  other 
men,  but  is  better  and  above  them.  If  one  is 
a  Christian,  he  will,  in  the  end,  work  out  the 
right  things  and  not  do  the  wrong  things.  He 
measures  his  life  by  a  perfect  standard.  He 
takes  goodness  and  love, —  a  translation  of 
Christ — and  compares  it  with  his  own  life. 
Measuring  himself  by  that  standard  there  is 
no  consciousness  of  superiority  but  of  inferior- 
ity. Again,  Christianity  is  ackowledging  a 
perfection  not  our  own  but  for  which  we 
strive.  Not  that  we  are  perfect,  or  even  good, 
but  the  realization  that,  measured  by  Christ's 
standard  we  fall  short.  If  we  realize  our  own 
inferiority,  we  will  try  to  overcome  some  of 
our  wrong  ways  and  gradually  take  up  some 
good  ways.  Being  a  Christian,  then,  is  not 
arriving  at  Perfection,  but  rather  being  on  the 
road  and  striving-  for  it. 


"      MASQUE  AND  QOWN  PICKED 

Before  a  committee  composed  of  Prof. 
Brown,  Mr.  Stone  and  'Miss  Curtis,  the  coach 
of  the  club,  the  try-outs  for  Masque  and 
Gown  were  held  Nov.  30,  and  the  following 
men  chosen:  Alexander,  '13;  Bull,  '13;  P.  P. 
Cole,  '12;  C.  R.  Crowell,  '13;  Edwards,  '13; 
Gillin,  '12;  Hurley,  '12;  Jones,  '13;  Mac- 
Laughlin,  '10;  Pratt,  '12;  Smith,  '13; 
Stephens,  '10;  Matthews,  '10;  Oxnard,  '11. 
Rehearsals  are  being  held  three  times  a  week 
on  Monday,  Wednesday  and  Friday  at  8 
o'clock. 


REVIEW  OF  THE  OCTOBER  QUILL 

There  are  times  when  one  forms  an  opinion 
of  a  person  or  an  object  at  first  sight.  This 
method  is  avowedly  not  infallible,  but  is  at 
least  unique. 

Such  is  the  attitude  we  have  taken  in  read- 
ing the  first  issue  of  the  "new  college  year"  of 
the  Quill. 

''The  Hawthorne  Prize  Story''  even 
though  it  were  not  so  labeled  is  a  very  com- 
mendable piece  of  work.  It  leaves  the  im- 
pression that  the  writer's  style,  though  still 
in  the  formulative  stage,  has  lucidity,  direct- 
ness and  ease,  characteristics  that  tell  of  more 
than  normal  skill. 


"One  Phase  of  Poe's  Religious  Develop- 
ment" is  an  interesting  attitude  taken  in  view- 
ing the  art  of  a  man  who  struggled  indefati- 
gably  for  perfection  of  form,  and  who  was 
convinced  that  beauty  needed  no  other  justifi- 
cation than  itself.  But  if  we  admit  that  Poe 
was  acquiring  a  deeper  faith  in  immortality 
we  can  hardly  acquiesce  to  the  suggestion  that 
Poe  or  any  other  man  acquires  so  gigantic  a 
force  in  life  as  faith  unconsciously — but  with 
a  struggle.  However,  the  article  is  placed 
before  the  reader  so  tentatively  that  he  can 
hardly  offer  a  criticism. 

"The  White  Cat"  recalls  in  places  the  sen- 
suous and  thrilling  beauty  of  Theophile  Gau- 
tier's  stories  of  the  Orient.  The  writer  fails 
to  tell  us,  however,  how  the  experience  of 
Irving  became  known.  It  seems  too  bad  that 
such  promising  stories  have  to  end  in  a  rather 
unnecessarily  tragic  fashion. 

''Swamping,"  a  short  two-stanza  poem,  has 
a  genuineness  of  feeling  for  nature,  and  a 
suggestion  of  the  picturesque  that  is  decidedly 
pleasing.  The  wreck  is  as  tragic  as  its  title 
implies,  nevertheless  the  thought  is  carried 
without  break  to  the  finish.  We  might  ques- 
tion somewhat  the  expression  "heath  a. 
sigh—" 

Taken  as  an  entirety  the  Qtdll  has  com- 
menced the  year  with  a  commendably  repre- 
sentative collection  of  work  and  we  wish  it  all 
the  success  that  plentiful  subscription  and  con- 
scientious contributions  can  bring. 

X. 


SENIOR  CLASS  ELECTIONS 

Wednesday  evening,  Dec.  i,  the  Class  of  1910 
elected  the  following  class  officers : 

President,  Sumner  Edwards  of  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Vice-President,  Chester  A.  Boynton  of  North 
Whitefield,  Me. 

Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Harold  E.  Rowell  of 
Skowhegan,  Me.   (for  life). 

Marshal,   John   L.   Crosby  of   Bangor,   Me. 

Orator,  John  D.   Clififord  of  Lewiston,   Me. 

Poet,   Robert  Hale   of   Portland,    Me. 

Opening  Address,  Henry  Colbath  of  Dexter,  Me. 

Historian,  Warren  Robinson  of  Arlington,  Mass. 

Chaplain,  Harold  W.  Slocum  of  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Closing   Address,    Alfred   Wandtke   of   Lewiston, 

Class  Cheer  Leader,  Harlan  M.  Hausler  of 
Portland. 

Class  Day  Committee,  James  F.  Hamburger  of 
Hyde  Park,  Mass. ;  R.  D.  Morss  of  Medford,  Mass. ; 
E.  Curtis  Matthews  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H. ;  Rodney 
E.  Ross  of  Kennebunk,  Me.,  W.  P.  Newman  of 
Bar  Harbor,  Me. 


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BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,   igio  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  igii,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 

p.  B.  MORSS.  1910  J.  C.  WHITE.  1911 

THOMAS  OTIS,  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON,  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON.  1910      W.  A.  McCORMICK.   1912 
W.  A.  FULLER.  1912 


R.  D.  MORSS,  igio 
J.  L.  CURTIS,  igii 


Business  Manager 
Asst.   Business   Manager 


Contributions  are  requested  from  all  undergradu- 
ates, alunnnl,  and  officers  of  instruction.  No  anony 
mous  nfianuscript  can  be  accepted. 

All  communications  regarding  subscriptions  should 
be  addressed  to  the   Business   Manager. 

Subscriptions,  $2.00  per  year,  in  advance.  Single 
copies,    10  cents 

Entered  at  Post-Office  at  Brunswick  as  Second-Class  Mail  Matter 
Journal  Printshop,  Lewiston 

Vol.  XXXIX.  DECEMBER    10,   1909  No.  20 


„,    ,  .      _  It  is  a  tradition   in    France 

Wanted  :   Some      ^j^^^  Napoleon  was  able  to 

College  Songs       ^^^  j^j^  ^^^^^  ^^^^  ^^^  ^jp^ 

solely  by  the  power  of  music.  As  the  soldiers 
dragging  the  heavy  guns  over  the  snow-clad 
passes  became  worn  out  by  fatigue  and  expo- 
sure, they  began  to  drop  by  the  wayside.  Napo- 
leon seeing  failure  for  his  expedition,  met  the 
situation  by  mounting  his  regiment  bands  at 
the  top  of  the  pass,  and  causing  them  to  burst 
forth  in  unison  with  the  strains  of  the  French 
national  anthem.  La  Marsellaise.  The  drum- 
mers beat  a  charge,  and  35,000  men  catching 
up  the  words  of  the  inspiring  air,  dashed  for- 
ward as  if  storming  the  enemy's  works,  and 
up  went  the  guns. 

This  incident  is  one  of  the  most  flattering 
tributes  ever  paid  to  the  power  of  music.  Here 
at  Bowdoin  one  of  our  most  pressing  needs  is 
college  songs,  a  need  which  has  been  recog- 
nized and  discussed,  but  never  remedied.     We 


would  not  presume  that  Bowdoin  men  have 
less  ability  than  men  of  other  colleges  of  the 
same  size  and  standing,  who  have  good, 
snappy  songs  and  plenty  of  them,  but  would 
rather  suggest  that  the  ability  is  latent,  and 
should  be  brought  out  into  the  daylight.  Last 
spring  the  Orient  called  attention  to  the  ad- 
mirable custom  in  practice  at  Williams  by 
which  each  class  competes  in  writing  new 
songs.  It  becomes  as  much  the  duty  of  each 
class  to  furnish  a  new  college  song,  as  here  at 
Bowdoin  it  is  the  duty  of  each  class  to  com- 
pete in  the  Indoor  Meet.  The  Student  Coun- 
cil has  announced  a  smoker  for  the  week  be- 
fore Christmas,  and  will  not  some  undergrad- 
uate or  alumnus  bring  glory  to  his  class  and 
immortality  to  himself,  by  writing  a  Bowdoin 
song  with  some  snap  to  it,  to  be  sung  for  the 
first  time  at  that  occasion. 


An  Old  Enemy 
Returned 


The  policy  of  the  Orient 
under  the  present  admin- 
istration has  been  to  re- 
frain from  what  has  been  so  aptly  called, 
"knocking."  However,  the  time  seems  to  be 
at  hand  when  it  is  necessary  to  say  some 
unpleasant  things  about  some  members  of  the 
undergraduate  body.  The  baseball  manage- 
ment is  high  and  dry  on  the  beach,  because 
some  members  of  the  college  have  not  paid 
their  last  year's  subscriptions. 

Manager  Wiggin  has  in  his  possession  a  list 
of  the  names  of  all  men  whose  subscriptions 
were  defaulted  during  the  seasons  of  1908- 
1909.  The  sum  total  of  these  subscriptions 
amounts  to  approximately  $200.00. 

He  also  has  outstanding  bills  tq  the  amount 
of  $225.00. 

The  situation  explains  itself. 

The  athletic  council  is  impregnable  in  the 
stand  it  has  taken  regarding  the  sanctioning 
of  all  schedules.  In  other  words,  Bowdoin 
will  have  no  baseball  schedule  for  the  season 
of  1910  till  Manager  Wiggin  is  able  to  settle 
the  outstanding  bills.  He,  or  his  assistant, 
will  see  before  Christmas  every  man  in  col- 
lege whose  subscription  for  1908  or  1909  is 
still  unpaid.  Unless  he  obtains  satisfaction 
there  will  "be  something  doing"  as  the  saying 
goes.  The  student  body  is  only  too  anxious 
to  know  who  is  holding  up  the  baseball  man- 
agement, and  it  will  have  an  opportunity  to 
know  thru  the  columns  of  the  Orient,  unless 
an  immediate  change  is  seen  in  the  complex- 
ion of  Manager  Wiggin's  balance  sheet.     To 


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quote  George  Ade,  some  members  of  this  col- 
lege "will  be  getting  themselves  disliked 
around  here." 


MEETINGS  OF  SECTIONAL  CLUBS 

The  sectional  clubs  in  college  are  planning  to 
make  the  present  year  the  most  prosperous  of  any 
since  their  organization.  The  clubs  will  hold  their 
first  meeting  shortly  and  outline  their  work  for  the 
year.  Most  of  the  clubs  plan  to  meet  in  the  va- 
rious fraternity  houses,  where  they  will  have 
speeches  by  the  members  and  short  entertainments. 
The  members   in  the  various   clubs  are : 

Massachusetts  Club 

1910 — Brown,  Edwards,  Hamburger,  McGlone, 
P.  B.  Morss,  R.  D.  Morss,  Otis,  Robinson,  C.  A. 
Smith. 

1911 — Brummett,  Cole,  Dennis,  H.  K.  Hine,  R. 
P.  Hine,  Kellogg,  Sullivan,  Wiggin,  Oxnard,  Red- 
fern,  Spurling,   Stephens. 

1912 — Ashey,  Brooks,  Burlingame,  Churchill, 
Daniels,  Davis,  Hurley,  Joy,  McCormick,  Morss, 
Nichols,   Reynolds,   Rowell,  Torrey,   Bosworth. 

1913 — Baker,  Brown,  Busfield,  Duffy,  Fuller,  W. 
S.  Greene,  Greenwood,  H.  H.  Hall,  Jones,  Miller, 
Saunders,   Twombley. 

York    County    Club 

1910 — ^Grace,   Hill,   Hobbs,   Kendrie,   Ross. 
191 1 — Chapin,   DeF.  Weeks. 
1912 — C.   O.   Warren,  E.   E.   Weeks. 
1913 — Walker,    Wiggin   and    P.    Sullivan. 

Thornton    Club 

1910 — Grace,  Kendrie. 

191 1 — Chapin,  Fred  Wiggin. 

Washington    County   Club 

1910 — Gary,   Eaton. 

1911 — Horsman. 

1912 — Matthews,  F.  Smith. 

1913 — Pike,  Gardner,  Hinch. 

Aroostook  County  Club 
1910 — Bailey,   Eastman,    Ludwig. 
191 1 — Hussey,  J.  Johnson,  Lawliss. 
1913 — Parkhurst,    Bull,    Alexander. 

Augusta  Club 

1910 — Webster,  C.  Weston,  Morrill,  Lippincott, 
Martin. 

1911 — Bickmore,  J.  Johnson,  Hichborn,  Macom- 
ber. 

1912 — Locke,  Knowles. 

1913 — Burley,    M.    Lippincott. 

«  Penobscot  County  Club 

1910— J.  L.  Crosby,  R.  S.  Crowell,  A.  W.  Stone, 
Colbath. 

191 1— L.  Davis,  F.  T.  Donnelly,  W.  N.  Emer- 
son, A.  T.  Gibson,  C.  B.  Hawes,  H.  L.  Robinson, 
J.  C.  White. 

1912 — Bradford,  Simpson,  Gordon,  H.  A,  White, 
Woodcock,  Fuller. 

1913 — Crosby,  Savage. 


CALENDAR 

Friday,   December   10 
6.55     Band  Rehearsal  in  Band  Room. 
8.00     "Rebecca  of  Sunnybrook  Farm"  at  the  Em- 
pire Theatre,   Lewiston. 

Saturday,   December  ii 
7.30     Meeting   of  the   York   County   Club   at   the 
Kappa   Sigma  House. 

Sunday,  December  12 

10.45  Morning  service  in  the  Church  on  the  Hill, 
conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Quint. 

S.oo  Sunday  Chapel,  conducted  by  President 
Hyde,  music  by  the  double  quartette ;  violin  solo  by 
Kendrie,  '10. 

Monday,  December  13 
2.30    Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

4  to  6  Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Meinorial 
Hall. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 
9.15     King  Mike  will  spring    a     cake     in     South 
Appleton. 

Tuesday,  December  14 

5  to  6  Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial 
Hall. 

5.10  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

Wednesday,  December  15 

2.30     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

5. 10  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion room. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

Thursday,    December    16 

2.30    Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

S  to  6  Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial 
Hall. 

5.10  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion  Room. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

7.00  Address  by  D.  Stanley  Evans,  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
Secretary  for  the  Boston  &  Maine  and  Maine  Cen- 
tral Railroads.  "Work  Among  the  Railroad  Men." 
In   Christian   Association   Room. 

Friday,   December   17 

2.30    Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

S.io  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion  Room. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

8.30     Informal  dance  at  Delta  Upsilon  House. 

8.30  Alpha  Delta  Phi  House  Party  in  Pythian 
Hall. 


MANDOLIN  CLUB  PICKED 

Leader  Pierce  of  the  Mandolin  Club  has  an- 
nounced the  following  men  to  represent  the  college 
this  year:  First  mandolin, Roberts, Hawes, Brummett, 
Scholfield,  and  Creighton.  Second  mandolins.  Sav- 
age, Conant,  Nichols,  Warren  and  McKenney.  Man- 
dolas,  Weatherill  and  Peters.  Mando-chello,  P.  P. 
Cole.  Guitars,  Parcher,  Churchill,  and  White. 
Banjo,  H.  E.  Weeks.  The  clubs  are  receiving  spe- 
cial instruction  from  Mr.  Thompson  of  Portland, 
and  aim  to  be  the  best  ever  produced  by  the  college. 


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College  flotes 

College  eloses  at  4.30  P.M.  Thursday,  instead  of 
Wednesday  as  announeed  in  the  Christian  Associa- 
tion Book. 

R.   C.   Bisbee,  '01,   visited  college  over  Sunday. 

Kellogg,  '11,  rendered  a  violin  selection  in  chapel, 
Sunday. 

The  Alpha  Delta  Phi  house  has  been  recently 
painted. 

Red  Cross  stamps  for  Christmas  are  on  sale  at 
Slocum's. 

All  of  the  fraternities  have  voted  for  hockey 
this  winter. 

H.  V.  Bickmore,  '11,  has  taken  the  agency  for 
the  War  Cry. 

Ventilators  have  been  installed  in  the  basement 
of  Maine  Hall. 

All  the  gym.  classes  take  running  on  the  out-door 
track  this  year. 

The  Brunswick  Golf  Club  held  a  business  meet- 
ing this  week. 

The  first  skating  of  the  year  was  on  Coffin's 
Pond,  Tuesday. 

Crowell,  '13,  has  a  line  of  pictures  of  the  campus 
on  sale  this  week. 

Mr.  MacConaughy  conducted  one  division  of 
English  3,  Saturday. 

The  hours  for  gym.  make-up  this  year  come  on 
Tuesday  and   Saturday. 

The  pictures  of  the  Cross  Country  Team  were 
taken  at  Webber's,   Friday. 

The  out-door  running  track  caught  fire,  Wednes- 
day, but  was  not  badly  burned. 

Sumner  Jackson,  Medic,  '12,  has  left  the  Medical 
School   to   work   in  Philadelphia. 

Bosworth,  '12,  and  Belknap,  '13,  were  in  Dam- 
ariscotta,    Saturday   and    Sunday. 

Kendrie,  '10,  played  a  violin  solo  at  the  Univer- 
salist    Church,    Lewiston,    Sunday. 

"Nick"  was  the  head  linesman  at  the  Freshman- 
Sophomore   football   game,    Saturday. 

Harrington,  '12,  is  teaching  in  the  New* 
Gloucester    High   School   for   December. 

Prof.  Allen  W.  Johnson  recently  lectured  before 
the  New   Century  Club  of  Maiden,  Mass. 

Brummett,  '11,  entertained  W.  C.  Graham,  edi- 
tor-in-chief of  the  Bates  Student,   Sunday. 

King  Mike  is  going  to  spring  a  cake  in  South 
Appleton  Hall  next  Monday  evening  at  9.15. 


P.  B.  Morss,  '10,  spent  Sunday  with  his  father  in 
Portland. 

Stuart  F.  Brown,  '10,  spent  several  days  in  Gardi- 
ner   last    week. 

J.  B.  Pendleton,  '90,  refereed  the  Somerville- 
Everett  game,   Saturday. 

Adjourns  were  given  by  Professor  Files,  Satur- 
day, in  German  i  and  3. 

The  Glee  and  Mandolin  Club  pictures  were 
taken  .  Thursday  by  Webber. 

Douglass,  '13,  received  a  sprained  wrist  in  the 
Freshman-Sophomore  game,  Saturday. 

Kendrie,  '10,  has  a  Brunswick  studio  at  178 
Maine  Street,  giving  lessons  there  on  Fridays. 

A  large  delegation  of  Bowdoin  students  went  to 
"The   Fair   Co-ed'  'in  Lewiston,   Monday  night. 

During  the  past  two  weeks,  the  Brunswick  Record 
has  been  devoting  its  front  page  to  accounts  of  Prof. 
Robinson   and   the   Longfellow   house. 

Harry  Varney  has  lived  up  to  his  reputation  of 
former  years  and  has  got  up  an  attractive  book- 
let  with   pictures    of   the    football   team. 

The  Theta  Delta  Chi,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon, 
Kappa  Sigma  and  Beta  Theta  Pi  fraternities  will 
give   Christmas   dances   at  their  houses. 

John  T.  Clancey,  '13,  will  go  to  New  York,  Sat- 
urday, where  he  has  a  position  as  electrical  decora- 
tor in   the   Plaza  Hotel   during  the  holidays. 

Harold  B.  Ballard,  '10,  attended  initiation  at  New 
Hampshire  State  College,  December  3d,  as  a  dele- 
gate to  Beta  Kappa  Chapter  of  Kappa  Sigma. 

Members  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  have  been  doing 
settlement  work  at  Pejepscot  on  Tuesdays  and  Fri- 
days  for  the  past  few  weeks. 

The  first  college  smoker  for  this  year  comes  a 
week  from  Monday  night.  It  is  expected  that  one 
of  the  best  smokers   of  the  year  will  be  given. 

Edward  P.  Mitchell,  a  Bowdoin  graduate,  has 
been  elected  president  of  the  New  York  Sun  Pub- 
lishing Company  to  succeed  the  late  William  Laffan. 

Brunswick  is  to  be  visited  Saturday  by  a  theat- 
rical company  for  the  first  time  in  six  months.  "The 
Final  Settlement"  is  to  be  produced  at  the  Town 
Hall. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  fencing  squad,  W.  E.  Robin- 
son, '10,  was  elected  manager  of  the  team  and  it  was 
decided  to  choose  as  the  captain  the  winner  of  a* 
series  of  bouts. 

Edwin  U.  Curtis,  '82,  has  been  appointed  Col- 
lector of  the  Customs  of  the  port  of  Boston.  He 
was  a  great  oarsman,  being  one  of  those  who  took 
part  in  the  great  race  on  Lake  George.  He  is,  at 
present,  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Overseers. 


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Several  Massachusetts  men  met  at  Wirth's  in 
Boston  during  the  holidays  for  an  informal  good 
time. 

The  Freshmen  proved  in  the  class  game,  Satur- 
day, that  there  is  coming  football  material  in  their 
number.  Clancy,  in  particular,  showed  up  well  in 
punting  and  rushing  the  ball. 

A  Harvard  Aeronautical  Society  has  ■  been 
formed  with  500  charter  members.  During  the  win- 
ter the  society  will  study  models  of  air-ships  by 
lecture  and  airships.  A  similar  society  has  been 
formed  at  Tech. 

M.  T.  Copeland,  '06,  who  held  the  Charles  Everett 
Scholarship  for  graduate  study  and  who  is  now  in- 
structor in  the  Harvard  Business  Administration, 
has  an  article  in  the  Quarterly  Journal  of  Economics 
for  November  on  "The  Technical  Development  in 
Cotton   since   1861." 

Prof.  Hudson  B.  Hastings  had  a  long  article  in 
last  Friday's  Neiv  York  Sun  in  which  he  argued 
that  Dr.  Cook  had  insufficient  provisions  with  which 
to  have  made  the  polar  journey  he  claims  to  have 
made.  Prof.  Hastings  bases  his  arguments  chiefly 
upon  Dr.  Cook's   statements. 

Princeton  has  this  year  instituted  a  Senior  Coun- 
cil, which  provides  places  of  refuge  for  harassed 
underclassmen.  No  hazing  is  allowed  in  or  near 
University  buildings,  in  the  rooms  of  a  Sophomore 
or  a  Freshman,  or  until  one  hour  after  the  close  of 
the  formal  opening  exercises  of  the  University. 

Twice  imprisoned  as  a  suspicious  character  by 
the  Russian  government,  and  at  present  carrying  a 
suspended  sentence  of  exilation  to  Siberia,  if  she 
returns  to  her  native  country  within  two  years  from 
the  time  of  her  expulsion.  Miss  Anna  Kitzen,  a 
native  Russian,  has  entered  Syracuse  University  for 
a  Ph.D.  degree. 

The  New  York  Bowdoin  Alumni  Association  din- 
ner will  be  held  on  Friday  January  14,  igio.  Com- 
mander Peary,  Governor  Quinby  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, Professor  Harry  C.  Emery,  Professor  Donald 
B.  McMillan  and  ex-Congressman  Littlefield  have 
accepted  the  secretary's  invitation  to  be  present,  so 
that  the  dinner  will  be  a  notable   one. 

Gym  work  under  Instructor  Morrill  is  now  well 
started  for  the  winter.  Several  men  also  have  been 
chosen  by  Capt.  Clifford  to  substitute  baseball  for 
squad  work.  It  is  understood  that  but  few  men 
chiefly  B  men,  will  be  permitted  to  take  track  work 
as  it  is  considered  that  when  the  best  fellows  are 
picked  it  leaves  gym.  work  to  an  awkward  squad 
and  interest  is  lost.  Morss,  '10,  is  acting  as  assist- 
ant. 


The  Portland  Evening  Express  has  this  to  say 
concerning  the  choice  of  a  football  coach  for  next 
season :  "As  successor  to  Ross  McClave  for  coach 
at  Bowdoin  next  fall,  it  is  likely  that  George  Levene, 
the  old  Pennslyvania  end,  will  be  elected  by  the 
college  football  authorities.  Levene  has  been  at  the 
University  of  Tennessee  for  the  past  two  years 
and  has  been  highly  recommended  for  the  place  at 
Bowdoin   by    Trainer    M.    C.    Murphy    of    Pennsyl- 


ANAND  SIDOBA  HIWALE 

Amid  otir  busy  college  life,  most  of  us 
have  probably  forgotten  one  of  our  fellow 
Bowdoin  men  who  has  gone  to  carry  the  name 
of  his  Alma  Mater  into  his  own  far  country. 
A  little  less  than  two  months  ago,  Hiwale,  '09, 
sailed  from  Boston  for  India.  His  purpose  is 
to  bring  to  the  down-trodden,  ignorant  people 
of  his  native  land  the  message  of  Christianity 
which  he  has  been  learning  during  his  five 
years  in  this  country.  What  is  more,  as  he 
told  his  friends  here  at  Bowdoin  last  spring, 
he  will  carry  the  message  with  the  Bow- 
doin spirit,  which  means,  not  only  with  all  the 
courage  and  determination  to  stand  against  all 
odds,  but  also  with  a  rational,  unfanatical  ap- 
peal. Because  it  is  to  his  own  people  he  is 
going,  he  will  be  able  to  understand  their 
ideals  and  weaknesses,  but  because  he  comes 
from  a  student  life  in  the  United  States  and 
especially  one  at  Bowdoin,  he  will  be  able  to 
bring  to  bear  on  his  work  the  practical  train- 
ing of  the  American  college  man. 

The  Christian  Association  promised  Hi- 
wale that  it  would  do  all  it  could  to  help  sup- 
port him  in  his  work,  that  he  may  found  a 
true  Bowdoin  Mission.  Other  American  col- 
leges have  missions  in  the  foreign  field.  We 
are  just  beginning  ours.  The  Orient  will 
publish  from  time  to  time  letters  from  Bow- 
doin's  missionary  in  order  that  we  may  know 
how  his  work  progresses.  We  are  proud  of 
having  had  Peary  at  the  Pole;  we  should  be 
equally  proud  of  another  Bowdoin  man,  who, 
along  a  less  prominent,  but  yet  difficult  path, 
follows  the  high  call  of  duty. 


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Hlumni  department 

'39. — Mrs.  Ruth  Morse  Allen,  widow  of 
Rev.  Dr.  Charles  F.  Allen,  formerly  president 
of  the  University  of  Maine,  died  28  Novem- 
ber, 1909,  at  the  home  of  her  daughter,  Mrs. 
Edwin  F.  Brown,  at  Pasadena,  California. 

'51. — Rev.  Dr.  William  Alfred  Packard, 
professor  emeritus  of  Latin  in  Princeton  Uni- 
versity, died  suddenly  of  disease  of  the  heart 
at  his  home  in  Princeton  2  Dec.  1909.  Dr. 
Packard  was  born  at  Brunswick,  Maine,  26 
Aug.  1830,  the  second  son  of  Professor 
Alpheus  S.  and  Frances  E.  (Appleton)  Pack- 
ard. He  was  prepared  for  college  at  Phillips 
Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  graduated 
with  high  honors  at  Bowdoin,  where  one 
brother  had  preceded  and  two  were  to  follow 
him.  After  three  years  spent  in  teaching  at 
Phillips  Academy  and  as  a  tutor  in  his  Alma 
Mater,  he  pursued  the  regular  course  of  study 
at  Andover  Theological  Seminary.  This  was 
followed  by  two  years  of  post-graduate  study 
at  the  Universities  at  Berlin  and  Gottingen. 
On  his  return  he  became  professor  of  modern 
languages  at  Dartmouth.  He  was  transferred 
in  1863  to  the  chair  of  Greek  which  he  filled 
until  1870.  In  that  year  he  was  called  to 
Princeton  as  Professor  of  Latin  and  the 
Science  of  Languages,  a  position  he  held  till 
1905  when  he  accepted  a  retiring  allowance 
from  the  Carnegie  Foundation.  Dr.  Packard 
was  one  of  the  best  known  and  highly  hon- 
ored of  the  older  classical  scholars  in  the 
country.  A  member  of  the  principal  philolog- 
ical societies,  he  was  also  a  valued  contributor 
to  several  of  the  leading  reviews.  He  re- 
ceived the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Philosophy  from  Hamilton  College  in  1868, 
and  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  his  Alma 
Mater  in  1894. 

Dr.  Packard  married  Susan  Breese, 
daughter  of  Rev.  Thomas  Gallagher  of 
Bloomfield,  N.  J.,  who  died  in  December, 
1886.  Their  only  child,  a  daughter,  died  in 
1882. 

'65. — Charles  Fuller,  son  of  Hon.  Timothy 
and  Deborah  E.  (Baker)  Fuller,  was  born  19 
June,  1843,  at  Lincoln,  Me.  He  attended 
school  for  four  years  at  Greenwood,  Mass.,  at 
Mattanawcook  Academy,  Lincoln,  two  years, 
and  was  a  member  of  Antioch  College,  Ohio, 
for  one  year.  He  then  entered  Bowdoin,  and 
graduated  with  honor  in  1865.  After  spend- 
ing a  year  at  Meadville  Theological  Seminary, 


Pennsylvania,  as  a  tutor  in  Latin  and  Greek, 
he  entered  upon  the  study  of  medicine,  at- 
tended two  courses  of  lectures  at  the  Medical 
School  of  Maine,  and  received  his  degree  in 
1869.  After  practicing  his  profession  for 
somewhat  more  than  two  years  at  Hampden, 
Maine,  he  settled  in  his  native  town  of  Lin- 
coln, where  he  continued  in  active  practice  for 
over  a  quarter  of  a  century.  He  was  regarded 
throughout  the  county  as  an  exceptionally  well 
read  and  capable  physician.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Maine  Medical  Association,  and  for 
several  years  was  United  States  Examining 
Surgeon.  About  seven  years  ago,  he  removed 
to  Dorchester,  Mass.,  where  he  has  since 
resided,  and  where  he  died  22  November, 
1909,  from  cerebro  meningitis. 

Dr.  Fuller  married  in  August,  1867,  Char- 
lotte W.,  daughter  of  John  M.  Rice  of  Hamp- 
den, Me.,  who  survives  him.  Their  chil- 
dren, beside  two  who  died  in  early  life,  are 
Dr.  Herbert  L.  Fuller  of  Bangor,  Louis  N. 
and  Timothy  Fuller  of  Dorchester,  Mass., 
Mrs.  Catherine  R.,  wife  of  Harold  Shaw  of 
Somerville,  Mass.,  Miss  Mildred  and  Miss 
Carrol  E.  Fuller  and  Willard  C.  Fuller  of 
Dorchester,  Mass. 

'71. — Edward  P.  Mitchell,  for  many  years 
on  the  editorial  staff  of  the  Neiv  York  Sun, 
has  been  elected  president  of  the  Sun  Print- 
ing and  Publishing  Association,  succeeding 
the  late  William  M.  Laffen. 

'yy. — Mrs.  Sarah  E.,  wife  of  William  C. 
Greene,  Esq.,  of  Sag  Harbor,  N.  Y.,  died  sud- 
denly at  her  home  Nov.  30,  1909. 

'82. — Hon.  Edwin  U.  Curtis  has  been 
appointed  U.  S.  Collector  of  Customs  for  the 
Port  of  Boston. 

'95. — Mr.  Abner  A.  Badger  is  supervising 
principal  of  the  grammar  school  at  Long 
Branch,  New  Jersey. 

'95. — The  engagement  iis  announced  of 
County  Attorney  Arthur  H.  Stetson  of  Bath, 
to  Miss  Kathryn  V.  Eliot  of  Boston. 

'98. — Professor  Donald  B.  Macmillan,  who 
spent  the  Thanksgiving  Day  recess  with  his 
sister,  Mrs.  W.  C.  Fogg  of  Freeport,  has  re- 
cently made  public  announcement  of  his  pur- 
pose to  continue  in  polar  exploration  for  which 
he  has  shown  himself  so  well  fitted.  He  ex- 
pects to  leave  this  country  in  July  next  to 
undertake  the  exploration  of  Crockett's  Land, 
the  territory  discovered  by  Commander  Peary 
in  his  dash  for  the  pole.  No  details  of  the 
expedition  have  been  announced.    . 


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BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,"  DECEMBER   17,  1909 


VOL.  XXXIX 


NO.  21 


SOIREE  AND  POP  CORN=CERT 

First  Smoker  of  Year  to  be  Held  Monday  Evening — 
Under  Auspices  of  Student  Council 

The  First  Bowdoin  Soiree  and  Pop  Corn- 
cert  is  the  name  of  it.  On  Monday  evening 
Memorial  Hall  will  be  the  scene  of  the  first 
Bowdoin  get-together  of  the  year,  and  there 
will  be  smoke,  music,  punch,  and  something 
good  to  eat.  The  members  of  the  Student 
Council  have  been  dusting  their  brains  for  two 
weeks  past  to  provide  a  good  time  for  Mon- 
day evening  and  they  have  something  up  their 
sleeves  which  will  provide  amusement,  enter- 
tainment and  pleasure  for  all.  In  fact,  it  bids 
fair  to  rival  a  three-ringed  circus.  To  defray 
the  expense  of  refreshments  and  entertain- 
ment, the  committee  will  charge  the  small  sum 
of  ten  cents  admission.  The  song  wagon  will 
start  at  7.30  and  every  undergraduate  will 
regret  it,  if  he  neglects  to  get  his  dime  and 
climb  aboard. 


two  being  absent.  The  Council  therefore 
recommends  to  the  baseball  manager  that  the 
minstrel  show  be  held  this  year  as  usual. 


STUDENT  COUNCIL  ACTS  ON  BASEBALL  SITUATION 

Names  of  Men  who  are  in  Arrears  to  be  Published 

January  18 — Council  Recommends  that  the 

Minstrel  Show  be  Given  this  Year 

The  Student  Council  met  Tuesday  evening 
and  took  action  on  the  baseball  situation  to 
the  effect  that  names  of  all  men  who  have  not 
paid  their  baseball  subscriptions  for  the 
seasons  of  1908  and  1909,  before  January  18, 
1910,  be  published  in  the  Orient  of  that  week. 
This  means  that  the  Orient  will,  with  the 
consent  of  the  baseball  manager,  publish  in  its 
columns  the  names  of  the  men  who  are  in 
arrears  at  that  time.  Men  who  are  behind 
have  until  January  18  to  make  good  their 
deficiency,  but  all  who  neglect  to  settle  up 
before  that  date  will  have  their  names  made 
public. 

There  has  been  some  talk  about  college  of 
late  relative  to  doing  away  with  the  minstrel 
show,  and  the  putting  a  performance  by  the 
Dramatic  Club  in  its  place.  The  Council  dis- 
cussed this  matter  at  some  length  and  finally 
took  a  vote  on  it,  in  which  the  minstrel  show 
won  out  4  to  2,  one  member  not  voting  and 


DEATH  OF  FRANCIS  B.  SPURLINQ 

The  death  of  Francis  B.  Spurling  of  the 
Class  of  1910  occurred  Tuesday,  December  14, 
at  Kent's  Hill,  Me.  Mr.  Spurling  left  college 
early  last  spring,  having  been  in  poor  health 
for  some  time,  and  for  several  months  sought 
relief  at  the  Hebron  Sanitarium.  Failing  to 
secure  the  desired  benefit  here  he  was  taken  by 
his  parents  to  Kent's  Hill,  where  he  had  spent 
his  pleasant  prep,  school  days.  Here  in  spite 
of  all  that  could  be  done  he  failed  rapidly  and 
Tuesday  succumbed  to  tuberculosis. 

Francis  Benjamin  Spurling,  the  son  of 
Capt.  and  Ad^rs.  F.  G.  Spurling,  was  born  June 
12,  1888,  at  Northeast  Harbor,  Me.  Here  he 
received  his  early  education,  later  entering  the 
Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary  at  Kent's  Hill.  In 
the  fall  of  1906  after  graduating  from  this 
academy  he  entered  Bowdoin,  becoming  a 
member  of  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Fraternity. 
Spurling  was  ever  a  friend  to  everybody  and 
his  genial,  generous  spirit  will  be  sorely  missed. 


RESULT  OF  THE  RHODES  SCHOLARSHIP  EXAM= 
INATIONS 

On  December  loth,  President  Hyde  an- 
nounced in  chapel  the  result  of  the  Rhodes 
Scholarship  examinations  given  at  the  State 
House  in  Augusta,  October  i8th.  Bowdoin 
had  three  candidates,  Robert  Hale,  '10,  of 
Portland,  Charles  Boardman  Hawes,  '11,  of 
Bangor,  and  Edward  Warren  Skelton,  '11,  of 
West  Brooksville.  All  three  passed  the  ex- 
aminations and  they  were  the  only  students  in 
Maine  to  pass.  Hale  passed  in  Greek  but  the 
other  two  did  not  attempt  the  Greek.  By  a 
recent  concession  of  the  Oxford  authorities, 
Greek    is    not     necessary    until     the     student 


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reaches  the  University.  At  the  next  faculty 
meeting  the  recipient  of  the  scholarship  will 
be  chosen. 


MASSACHUSETTS   CLUB  MEETS 

Prof.  Hastings  Vindicates  Peary  and  Discredits 
Dr.  Cook 

The  first  meeting  of  the  Massachusetts 
Club  this  year  was  held  at  the  Beta  Theta  Pi 
house  last  Saturday  evening.  There  was  a 
large  attendance  of  members  and  thirteen  new 
men  were  admitted.  Mr.  McConaughy  was 
elected  to  honorary  membership.  It  was  de- 
cided to  raise  the  dues  to  $2.00.  It  was  also 
determined  to  repeat  the  successful  banquet 
of  last  year  held  at  the  Rathskeller  in  Boston 
and  followed  by  a  theatre  party.  A  commit- 
tee composed  of  Edwards,  '10,  Brummett, 
'11,  and  Wiggin,  '11,  was  appointed  to  make 
arrangements. 

The  speaker  of  the  evening  was  Professor 
Hastings,  who  gave  a  very  interesting  talk  on 
"The  Peary-Cook  Controversy."  Professor 
Hastings  has  interviewed  Commander  Peary 
since  the  latter's  return  from  the  Pole  and  is 
thoroly  convinced  of  Dr.  Cook's  insincerity. 
First  of  all  Dr.  Cook  started  out  with  about 
1,100  lbs.  of  provisions  which  were  not  suf- 
ficient to  feed  his  party  and  the  dogs,  for  the 
minimum  amount  on  which  a  human  being 
can  survive  is  30  ounces  a  day,  and  a  dog 
requires  at  least  a  pound  a  day.  By  consider- 
ing the  length  of  time  he  was  gone.  Dr.  Cook 
must  have  lived  for  a  month  on  about  9 
ounces  a  day  which  is  impossible.  Again  Dr. 
Cook  used  only  two  sledges  of  very  light  de- 
sign whereas  Commander  Peary  started  with 
about  thirty  and  returned  with  only  twelve, 
his  being  of  the  strongest  possible  consitruc- 
tion.  Dr.  Cook  claims  that  on  April  3,  he 
saw  the  midnight  sun  for  the  first  time.  He 
states  that  at  that  time  he  was  in  the  vicinity 
of  the  87th  degree,  north  latitude.  By  com- 
paratively simple  reckoning,  it  has  been  deter- 
mined that  Dr.  Cook  was  some  250  miles 
south  of  where  he  said  he  was  at  that  date, 
which  is  within  20  miles  of  where  the  Esqui- 
maux boys  reported  him  to  have  been.  Dr. 
Cook's  photographs  all  show  smooth  ice  in 
what  background  there  is.  Peary,  however, 
reports  that  after  leaving  land,  he  found  ice 
rising  in  great  crags  to  the  height  of  many  feet 
and  that  there  was  practically  no  smooth  ice. 
Another  picture  taken  of  an  igloo  which  Dr. 


Cook  states  was  made  near  the  Pole,  has  been 

proven  a  fake.  By  measuring  the  height  of 
the  igloo  and  the  length  of  its  shadow  it  .is 
plainly  determined  that  the  location  was  not 
much  north  of  Etah.  Cook's  statement  that 
Peary  stole  his  provisions isalsotmtrue.  Peary 
found  Cook's  goods  in  such  a  condition  that 
they  would  have  spoiled  before  spring.  He 
left  Murphy  and  Prichard  at  the  igloo  with 
instructions  to  use  Cook's  provisions  first  but 
if  the  latter  returned  to  fit  him  out  with 
Peary's  own  supplies.  These  instructions 
were  followed  out  to  the  letter  and  Cook  wrote 
out  a  receipt  for  the  amount  received.  Any 
one  of  these  arguments  is  in  itself  sufficient  to 
prove  the  falsity  of  Dr.  Cooks'  statements  and 
makes  his  case  look  rather  dubious. 

At  the  close  of  the  talk  light  refreshments 
were  served  and  a  social  hour  was  enjoyed. 


ALPHA  DELTA  PHI  HOUSE  PARTY 

The  annual  house  party  and  dance  of  the 
Alpha  Delta  Phi  fraternity  takes  place  this 
evening  in  Phythian  Hall.  The  patronesses 
are  Mrs.  Hutchin's,  Mrs.  Robinson,  Mrs. 
Moody,  Airs.  Cram  and  Miss  Chapman.  The 
committee  in  charge  of  the  dance  consists  of 
Pierce,  '11,  Chapman,  '10,  Grant,  '12,  and' 
Sewall,  '13.  A.  L.  Grant  of  Lewiston  will  fur- 
nish refreshments.  The  music  is  to  be  fur- 
nished by  the  Brunswick  Ladies'  Orchestra. 
The  delegates  from  the  various  fraternities 
are: 

Ross,  '10,  Psi  Upsilon. 

Colbath,  '10,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon. 

Hansen,  '10,  Theta  Delta  Chi. 

Thompson,  '10,  Delta  Upsilon. 

Eastman,  '10,  Zeta  Psi. 

Leigh,  '12,  Kappa  Sigma. 

L.  Davis,  '11,  Beta  Theta  Pi. 

Among  those  present  are :  Miss  May  Clark, 
Miss  Ethel  Hawley,  Miss  Anna  Percy,  of 
Bath;  Miss  Alice  Dennis,  Miss  Louise  Clif- 
ford, Miss  Hazel  Howard,  .Miss  Dorothy 
Lowell,  Miss  Margaret  Ham  of  Lewiston ; 
Miss  Lillian  Perry  of  Montclair,  N.  J. ;  Miss 
Irma  Tainter,  of  Auburn;  Miss  Lida  Baker  of 
Boston ;  Miss  Gertrude  Thomas  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. ;  Miss  Ruth  Fletcher  of  Melrose, 
Mass. ;  Miss  Helen  Jones  of  Washington,  D. 
C. ;  Miss  Muriel  Triggs  of  BrookUne,  Mass. ; 
Miss  Pauline  Savage ;  Aliss  Marion  White  of 
Bangor ;  Miss  Gertrude  Fellows  of  Hartford, 
Conn. ;  Miss  Blanche  Smith  of  Providence,  R. 


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I. ;  Miss  Frances  Smith,  Miss  Frances  Skol- 
field,  Miss  Helen  Sargent,  Mrs.  H.  W.  Rich 
of  Portland;  Miss  Elizabeth  Hawkes  of 
Evanston,  111. ;  Miss  Isabel  Forsaith,  Miss 
Virginia  Woodbury,  Miss  Mildred  Fides, 
Miss  Ellen  Baxter,  Miss  Anne  Johnson,  Miss 
Sarah  Baxter,  Miss  Ruth  Little,  Miss  Frances 
Skolfield  of  Brunswick ;  Miss  Mary  Hastings 
of  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

The  chapter  house  and  hall  have  been  artis- 
tically decorated. 


SUNDAY  CHAPEL 

Sunday  chapel  was  conducted  on  Dec.  12th 
by  President  Hyde,  who  used  as  his  text  He- 
brews 12:6,  "For  whom  the  Lord  loveth  he 
chasteneth." 

In  opening,  he  quoted  a  story  told  by  Pres- 
ident Garfield  of  Williams  concerning  a  for- 
mer professor  at  that  college  who  was  hated 
by  all  Freshmen  and  loved  by  all  Seniors.  The 
two  words  which  summarized  his  character 
were  "thoroness"  and  "justness."  President 
Garfield  said  that  he  took  his  entrance  examina- 
tions to  the  college  at  the  time  when  his  father 
was  lying  wounded  and  naturally  his  mind 
was  divided  between  his  examination  and  his 
father.  As  a  result  he  failed  to  do  full  jus- 
tice to  himself  in  the  examination,  but  this 
professor  would  make  no  allowance  for  the 
circumstances  and  gave  him  a  condition.  Yet 
that  was  an  act  ,of  kindness  and  President 
Garfield  said  that  he  honored  him  the  more. 

If  Bowdoin  treats  you  with  kindness  it  will 
condemn  everything  lacking  generousness  and 
thoroness.  If  the  faculty  allowed  the  copy- 
ing of  work  of  any  knd  it  would  be  reducing 
its  courses  to  merely  a  course  in  penmanship. 
A  single  line  of  work  not  obtained  honestly  is 
worthless,  and  reproof,  correction  and  pun- 
ishment for  such  things  are  the  truest  kind- 
ness. 

Plato  says  that  there  are  three  conditions 
in  life.  The  best  one  of  these  is  not  to  sin  and 
not  to  be  punished,  the  second  best  of  the  three 
is  to  sin  and  receive  punishment,  and  the 
worst  condition  is  to  sin  and  attempt  escape 
from  punishment. 


was  some  fifty  years  ago.  At  that  day  schol- 
arship was  the  chief  aim  of  every  college  man 
and  was  constantly  kept  at  the  front  by  the 
annual  exhibitions  both  of  the  Junior  and 
Senior   classes. 

To-day,  in  striking  contrast,  scholarship  is 
no  longer  the  chief  aim  of  most  of  the  stu- 
dents. This  is  not  because  scholarship  has 
itself  been  lowered,  for  the  standard  is  much 
higher  than  it  ever  was  before.  It  is  more 
because  athletics  have  taken  up  the  interests 
formerly  centered  about  learning.  We  can- 
not, however,  condemn  athletics,  for  they  not 
only  aid  in  physical  development  but  also 
influence  the  creating  of  college  spirit. 

As  a  suggestion  to  turn  the  student's  at- 
tention more  upon  his  studies,  Mr.  Stanwood 
advanced  a  scheme  in  which  the  men  of  high 
scholarship  in  each  class  would  be  awarded  a 
button  bearing  a  "B."  The  "B"  has  proved  a 
great  incentive  in  calling  out  large  numbers 
for  athletic  teams  and  there  is  no  reason  for 
thinking  that  it  would  not  likewise  arouse  in- 
terest in  scholarship.  Present  conditions 
are  excellent  at  Bowdoin  and  the  average  of 
scholarship  here  is  higher  than  ever  before, 
but  we  should  try  to  raise  it  still  higher.  Let 
the  man  who  wins  honor  for  his  college  in 
scholarship  enjoy  some  such  reward  and  pres- 
tige as  does  the  athlete. 


COLLEGE  COMPETITIONS 

Edward  Stanwood,  '61,  Editor  of  The 
Youth's  Companion,  in  his  address  before  the 
Christian  Association,  Thursday  evening, 
Dec.  9,  first  showed  what  college  competition 


STUDENT  VOLUNTEER   CONVENTION   IN   ROCH= 
ESTER  DURING   HOLIDAYS 

As  already  announced,  Bowdoin  will  be 
represented  by  a  delegation  of  six  at  the  Col- 
lege Missionary  Convention  which  will  be  held 
in  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  from  December  29  to 
January  2.  Nearly  5,000  delegates  will  be 
present,  including  representatives  from  the 
four  Maine  colleges.  Special  informal  meet- 
ings for  the  Maine  delegates  will  probably  be 
held  while  the  convention  is  in  session. 

Our  delegates  go  to  represent  the  entire  col- 
lege, and,  in  order  that  all  may  hear  reports  of- 
the  meetings,  an  informal  meeting  will  be  held 
on  Sunday  evening,  January  9,  at  which  they 
will  give  their  impressions  of  the  gathering. 
It  is  hoped  that  in  this  way  the  Mission  Study 
here  and  the  support  of  Mr.  Hiwale  will  be 
greatly  helped.  The  Bowdoin  delegates  are: 
Slocum,  '10;  Allen,  '11;  F,  Smith,  '12;  Prof. 
Sills  and  Mr.  McConaughy. 


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1.    XXXIX. 

DECEMBER   17 

,   1909 

No.   21 

President  Taft's  Mes=  At  Brown  University, 
sage  to  Congress  and  members  of  Prof.  W.  H. 
its  Relation  to  Bow=  Munro's  history  class, 
doin  College  composed    of   Juniors    and 

Seniors,  could  not  give  correctly  the  names  of 
the  President  of  the  United  States,  a  Justice 
of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  names  of  some 
local  state  and  city  officials.  This  is  no  reflec- 
tion upon  Brown,  but  rather  upon  what  the 
philosopher  Fischte  calls  "the  propensity  to 
non-existence"  prevalent  among  college  men 
everywhere. 

On  Tuesday  of  last  week  Presdent  Taft 
sent  his  annual  message  to  Congress.  It  would 
be  interesting  to  know  how  many  Bowdoin 
undergraduates  have  read  the  message  or  are 
at  all  familiar  with  its  substance.  Altho  there 
is  a  Bowdoin  man  upon  the  tariff  commission, 
how  many  Bowdoin  undergraduates  have  any 
detailed  knowledge  of  the  problems  which  con- 
front that  commission?     What  percentage  of 


the  undergraduates  have  formed  opinions  up- 
on such  questions  as  publicity  of  political  con- 
tributions in  elections  of  members  to  Con- 
gress, civil  pensions,  a  higher  rate  of  postage 
upon  periodicals  and  magazines,  a  national 
bureau  of  health,  civil  control  of  the  light- 
house board,  consolidation  of  the  bureaus  of 
manufactures  and  statistics  in  the  department 
of  commerce  and  labor,  and  many  other  ques- 
tions all  suggested  by  the  President's  mes- 
sage? It  is  a  crime  that  college  bred  men  are 
not  more  in  touch  with  current  events.  We 
do  not  hesitate  to  make  the  assertion  that  a 
person  could  get  more  information  about  what 
is  going  on  at  the  national  capital,  among  the 
farmers  of  Maine  than  he  could  from  the 
average  college  undergraduate,  unless  the  un- 
dergraduate is  taking  a  debating  course  which 
requires  his  attention  to  current  questions. 

Supposing  you  have  not  followed  these 
things  as  closely  as  you  should  have;  how  are 
you  going  to  get  into  touch?  We  recommend 
the  editorial  pages  of  The  Boston  Transcript, 
The  Boston  Herald  or  The  New  York  Sun,  as 
fruitful  reading  for  a  man  who  wishes  to  see 
these  questions  threshed  out  day  by  day. 
Among  weekly  journals  the  most  reliable  in- 
formation put  in  the  most  readable  and  concise 
form  is  to  be  found  in  such  papers  as  The  Na- 
tion, The  Outlook,  The  Independent,  Harper's 
and  Collie/s  Weeklies,  and  others  to  be 
found  in  the  reading  room  at  the  library. 

If  anyone  wishes  to  take  these  things 
seriously,  and  honestly  attempt  to  keep  in 
touch  with  afifairs  at  Washington,  now  is  the 
time  to  begin.  The  President  has  brought  up 
questions  which  will  be  discussed  thruout  this 
session  of  Congress,  and  the  only  way  to  un- 
derstand them  is  to  get  in  line  at  the  beginning 
and  follow  them  thru  the  various  stages  of 
debate  and  amendment.  Any  man  worthy  of 
the  name  "college  man"  must  think  on  these 
thing's. 


The  Interscholastic   X'?^  O'^^'^^J  '"'.f'^'  *°  ^'""^^ 
Meet  opportunity     to     ex- 

press its  satisfaction  at  the 
recommendation  which  the  Student  Council  has 
made  relative  to  inviting  schools  from  outside 
the  state  to  participate  in  the  Interscholastic 
Meet,  and  to  give  expression  to  the  hope  that 
the  Athletic  Council  will  see  fit  to  adopt  this 
suggestion.  Narrowness  of  interest  has  been 
a  just  criticism  of  the  college  in  the  past,  and 
to    send    invitations    for    the    Interscholastic 


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Meet  outside  of  Maine  is  a  progressive  policy. 
Such  an  action  would  not  only  increase  the 
prestige  of  Bowdoin  College  among  New 
England  preparatory  schools,  but  would  also 
materially  add  to  the  interest  in  the  meet 
which  has  been  of  late  too  much  of  a  cut  and 
dried  contest. 


the  mandolin  club  trips  in  place  of  a  selection 
by  the  mandolin  club  and  at  the  Minstrel  Show. 
At  the  first  trial  for  reader  for  the  musical 
club,  Welch,  '12,  and  Stevens,  '10,  were 
selected  for  the  final  trials.  The  final  trials 
were  held  Friday,  Dec.  17,  and  the  result  has 
not  yet  been  given  out. 


CALENDAR 

FridaYj  December  17 

8.30  Alpha  Delta  Phi  House  Party  in  Pythian 
Hall. 

8.30     Informal  dance  at  Delta  Upsilon  House. 

Sunday,  December  19 

10.4s  Morning  service  in  the  Church  on  the  Hill, 
conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Quint. 

3.00  The  Christian  Association  will  give  an  en- 
tertainment in  the  schoolhouse  at  Pejepscot. 

5.00  Sunday  Chapel,  conducted  by  President 
Hyde.     Music  by  the  double  quartette. 

Monday,  December  20 

2.30     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

4.00-6  Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial 
Hall. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

7.00  Meeting  of  the  Philosophical  Club  in  Psy- 
chology Room. 

7.30     Christmas  Smoker  in  Memorial  Hall. 

Tuesday,  December  21 

5.00  to  6  Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memo- 
rial Hall. 

5.10  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 


8.30 

House. 

8.30 


2.30 
S.io 


Informal    Dance    at    the    Theta    Delta    Chi 

Informal  Dance  at  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  House. 

Wednesday,  December  22 
Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 


Glee   Club  Rehearsal   in   Christian   Associa- 
tion Room. 

5. 15    Track  Practice  in  the  gy°m. 

7.30     Dramatic  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial  Hall. 

Informal  Dance  at  the  Zeta  Psi  House. 

Informal  Dance  at  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 


8.30 

8.30 

House. 


Thursday,  December  23 
2.30     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 
4.30     Christmas    vacation    begins. 
8.30     Informal  Dance  at  the  Kappa  Sigma  House. 


MUSICAL  CLUBS 

The  concert  at  Richmond,  Me.,  formerly 
announced  for  Jan.  14,  will  be  given  Jan.  21. 
A  sextette,  composed  of  Pierce,  '11,  first  man- 
dolin; Roberts,  '11,  second  mandolin;  Weth- 
erill,  '11,  mandola ;  Weeks,  '10,  banjo; 
Churchill,  '12,  guitar,  and  P.  Cole,  '12,  man- 
docello,  has  been  formed.     It  will  also  play  on 


SOMERSET  COUNTY  CLUB 

Monday  evening,  Dec.  13,  the  Somerset 
County  Club  was  organized  at  the  Zete  House 
with  the  following  members:  Bailey,  '10, 
Rowell,  '10;  Weeks,  '10;  Merrill,  '11;  Chap- 
man, '12;  Foss,  '12;  Nolin,  '12;  M.  Greene, 
'13;  Cowan,  '13;  Lewis,  13;  Marston,  '13; 
Haskell,  '13;  Scammon.'oQ,  Medic,  '12. 

The  officers  for  this  year  are :  Pres.,  H.  E. 
Rowell,  '10,  of  Skowhegan,  Me.;  Vice-Pres., 
W.  F.  Merrill,  '11,  of  Skowhegan,  Me.;  Sec. 
and  Treas.,  F.  E.  Nolin,  '12,  of  Skowhegan, 
Me. ;  Executive  Committee,  Bailey,  Greene, 
and  Cowan. 


CHEMICAL  CLUB  ORGANIZES 

The  Chemical  Club  has  organized  for  the 
year  and  elected  the  following  officers :  Presi- 
dent, Frank  C.  Evans,  1910;  Vice-President, 
Charles  A.  Smith,  1910;  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer, Clyde  L.  Deming,  1910;  Executive  Com- 
mittee, Albert  W.  Moulton,  '09 ;  Sumner  Ed- 
wards, '10,  and  C.  L.  Deming,  '10.  The  club 
this  year  will  comprise  about  25  men. 


YORK  COUNTY  CLUB 

The  York  County  Club  held  its  initial 
meeting  of  the  year '  at  the  Kappa  Sigma 
House  Saturday  evening.  Five  new  men, 
Emery,  Gould,  Walker,  Wiggin  and  P.  Sulli- 
van, all  of  1913,  were  elected  to  membership. 
The  election  of  officers  for  the  ensuing  year 
was  held.  Rodney  Ross,  '10,  was  chosen  presi- 
dent;  DeForest  Weeks,  '11,  Vice-President, 
and  E.  E.  Weeks,  '12,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer. Plans  were  discussed  for  interesting 
preparatory  school  men  from  York  County,  in 
Bowdoin.  Prof.  Ham  spoke  very  interest- 
ingly on  "What  a  College  Education  Should 
Stand  For  and  What  College  Should  Mean  to 
a  Man." 


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CLASSICAL  CLUB 

The  Classical  Club  was  entertained  by 
Professor  Woodruff,  December  9th.  Eighteen 
members  were  present.  Professor  Woodruff 
gave  a  lecture  on  the  subject,  "Athens  in  Lit- 
erature." One  more  meeting  will  be  devoted 
to  this  subject. 

After  the  lecture,  Mrs.  Woodruff,  Miss 
Woodruff  and  Mrs.  Nixon  served  a  dainty- 
course  of  refreshments. 

The  next  meeting  will  be  held  January  20, 
with  Professor  Sills. 


AROOSTOOK  COUNTY  CLUB 

The  Aroostook  County  Club  met  at  the 
New  Ivan  house  Saturday  evening,  and 
elected  the  following  officers  for  the  ensuing- 
year:  Lg.wliss,  '11,  Pres. ;  J.  L.  Johnson,  '11, 
Vice-Pres. ;  Bull,  '13,  Sec.  and  Treas.  Mikel- 
sky,  '10,  was  elected  to  honorary  membership. 


THETA  NU  EPSILON  INITIATION  AND  BANQUET 

The  Delta  Kappa  Chapter  of  Theta  Nu  Epsilon 
held  a  successful  initiation  and  banquet  at  the  Raths- 
keller in  Portland  last  week.  Nearly  all  the  active 
members,  and  a  large  delegation  of  alumni  were 
present. 


DELTA  UPSILON  DANCE 

The  first  of  the  informal  dances  given  by  the 
Bowdoin  Chapter  of  Delta  Upsilon  this  year,  takes 
place  this  evening. 

The  patronesses  will  be  Mrs.  S.  S.  Thompson. 
Mrs.  H.  B.  Hastings  and  Mrs.  F.  W.  Brown. 

The  committee  in  charge  are:  McFarland,  '11; 
Marsh,  '12;  and  Tucker,  '13.  The  following  guests 
will  be  present:  Prof,  and  Mrs.  F.  W.  Brown;  Prof, 
and  Mrs.  H.  B.  Hastings,  Prof.  C.  T.  Burnett,  Prof. 
K.  C.  M.  Sills,  Mr.  S.  F.  Scott,  Wm.  P.  Newman. 
Misses  Gladys  Berry,  Ruth  Robinson,  Ethel  Blair  of 
Gardiner;  Misses  Agnes  Green,  Dorothy  Abbott, 
Lena  Flaharty,  Blanche  Lennon  of  Portland ;  Misses 
Helen  York,  Ethel  Libby,  of  Augusta;  Miss  Viola 
Dixon,  Freeport;  Miss  Josephine  Thompson,  King- 
field;  Miss  Emme  Harris,  Lisbon  Falls;  Miss  Ethel 
Withee,  Farmington,  Me. ;  Miss  Gertrude  Sadler, 
Harpswell ;  Miss  Ida  Smith,  Brunswick;  Miss  Helen 
Haines,  Hallowell,  Me. ;  Miss  Hazel  Lothrop  of  Au- 
burn. 

Kendrie's  Orchestra  will  furnish  music. 


CoUcQC  Botes 

Emery,  '13,   is  selling  Coast  Survey  Maps. 

J.  B.  Draper,  ex-'io,  was  on  the  campus  Sunday. 

Frank  Mikelsky,  Medic,  '10,  was  in  Brunswick, 
Sunday. 

Hurley,  '12,  is  teaching  in  the  Brunswick  Night 
School. 

Black,  '11,  and  Hussey,  '11,  were  in  Rockland 
over  Sunday. 

Burns,  '11,  is  to  open  a  "ping-pong"  picture  studio 
down  street  soon. 

Kendrie,  '10,  rendered  a  violin  selection  in  chapel, 
Sunday. 

During  last  week  the  class  ivies  were  banked  and 
fi.xed  for  the  winter. 

Barbour,  '12,  was  the  guest  of  friends  in  Phipps- 
burg  over  Sunday. 

Old  and  rotten  trees  have  been  cut  out  of  the 
Pines   during   the   week. 

Bridge,  Medic.  '13,  is  running  a  boarding  table  at 
Mrs.  Pennell's,  this  winter. 

A  number  of  the  students  have  been  skating  on 
Coffin's  Pond  during  the  week. 

The  band  is  practicing  evenings  for  the  coming 
smoker  next  Monday  evening. 

The  skating  rink  is  to  be  on  the  Delta  this  win- 
ter instead  of  on  the  Athletic  Field  as  usual. 

Some  students  interested  in  starting  a  hockey 
team  have   been  practicing  at  Merrymeeting  Bay. 

W.  C.  Allen,  '11,  was  called  to  his  home  in  St. 
Paul,  Minn.,  last  week  by  the  illness  of  his  mother. 

Zeta  Psi  Sophomores  will  give  an  informal  dance 
Wednesday  night,  before  the  Christmas  vacation  at 
the  Zeta  house. 

When  Peary  addresses  the  Colony  Club  of  New 
York  early  this  month,  Kate  Douglas  Wiggin  will 
introduce  him. 

Professor  Sills  attended  the  performance  of  Eu- 
ripides Medea  given  by  the  Bryn  Mawr  Club  of  Bos- 
ton, Dec.  nth. 

Grace,  '10,  leaves 'Monday  for  his  home  in  Saco, 
where  he  will  work  for  a  week  with  the  American 
Express  Company. 

After  the  Christmas  vacation,  relay  practice  will 
begin.  The  B.  A.  A.  meet  comes  off  Feb.  12  and 
Bowdoin  will  run  against  Tufts  at  this  meet. 

The  Portland  Advertiser  says:  "Bergin,  the 
Princeton  quarterback,  has  been  recommended  by 
Ross  McClave  as  a  good  man  for  Bowdoin's  football 
coach  next  year." 

The  Boston  Sunday  Globe  recently  published  the 
story  of  the  life  work  of  Prof.  Parker  Cleaveland, 
the  "father  of  mineralogy."  and  printed  cuts  of  Mas- 
sachusetts Hall  and  some  of  its  relics. 

In  order  that  New  Yorkers  might  be  given  an 
idea  of  Canadian  football,  the  Herald  had  a  game 
played  at  Van  Cortland  Park  between  the  Hamil- 
tons  and  Torontos.  Among  the  football  men  pres- 
ent were  several  members  of  the  rules  committee, 
Coy,  Roper,  Coach  Houghton  of  Harvard,  and  J.  B. 
Pendleton  of  Bowdoin. 


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Emerson,  '04,  was  on  the  campus,   Mondaj'. 

President  Hyde  gave  an  adjourn  in  Philosophy  I, 
Friday. 

R.  D.  Morss,  '10,  entertained  his  father,  Saturday 
and  Sunday. 

Prof.  Burnett  has  started  his  laboratory  work  in 
Psychology   I. 

The  Coffee  Club  met  Tuesday  evening,  Dec.  14, 
at  2  Federal  Street. 

A.  W.  Stone,  '10,  was  home  during  the  past  week 
on  account  of  sickness. 

Prof.  Chapman  gave  adjourns  in  English  Liter- 
ature I  and  3,  last  Friday. 

Hyler  '11,  who  has  been  at  home  since  Thanks- 
giving, returned  to  college,  Tuesday. 

Purington.  '11,  and  Purington,  '12,  entertained 
their  father   Saturday  and   Sunday. 

H.  P.  Marsh,  U.  of  M.,  '09,  and  Pennsylvania,  has 
been  visiting  at  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  house. 

E.  H.  Webster,  '10,  is  at  his  home  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  and  will  return  to  college  next  term. 

The  various  fraternities  have  been  having  the  fra- 
ternity  pictures   taken   during   the   past   week. 

Juniors  are  requested  by  the  Bugle  Board  to  have 
their  pictures  taken  before  the  Christmas  vacation. 

Hall,  '13,  met  with  a  serious  accident  Saturday 
night.  As  he  was  going  into  the  dormitory  he  fell 
and  cut  his  head  on  the  stone  steps. 

"Cope"  Philoon,  '05,  was  in  town,  Monday.  He 
is  to  leave  Maine  the  20th  of  this  month  for  the  fort 
located  at  Mesulta,  Montana,  where  he  will  be  sta- 
tioned. 

The  following  names  of  members  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Club  were  omitted  last  week :  McGlaughflin, 
'10;  Morrell,  '10;  Thompson,  '10;  Sanford,  '11;  Gib- 
son, '11;  Abbott.  '12;  j\Iontgomery,  '12;  White,  R. 
F.,  '12;  Archer.  '13;,  Peters,  '13.  The  club  numbers 
sixty-two  including  six  members  of  the  faculty. 

Mr.  C.  W.  Snow  lectured  on  "Tennyson,"  before 
the  Tyrocinic  Adelphi  Society  of  Hebron  Academy, 
Saturday,  Dec.  4th. 

The  annual  initiation  and  banquet  of  the  Gamma 
Gamma  Chapter  of  the  Phi  Chi,  Medical  Fraternity, 
will  be  held  at  the  Congress  Square  Hotel  in  Port- 
land this  evening. 

The  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  fraternity  under  the 
auspices  of  the  New  York  Association  will  give  a 
dinner  to  Commander  Robert  E.  Peary  at  the  Astor 
Hotel  on  Saturday,  the  eighteenth  of  December. 

Mr.  J.  H.  Winchester  who  has  recently  been  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  library  commission  of 
Maine,  spent  Saturday  forenoon  in  an  examination 
of  Hubbard  Hall  and  in  a  conference  with  the  libra- 
rians. 

The  New  York  City  Board  of  Education  may  al- 
low football  next  year  if  the  colleges  modify  the 
game  sufficiently,  but  henceforth  all  athletics  are  to 
be  supervised  by  a  committee  of  the  very  conserva- 
tive board. 

Herbert  A.  Jump,  former  pastor  of  the  Church 
on  the  Hill,  was  installed  pastor  of  the  South  Con- 
gregational Church  of  New  Britain,  Conn.,  Tues- 
day evening,  Nov.  30.  During  the  past  summer,  he 
has  been  traveling  in  Europe. 


A  joint  banquet  of  the  Zeta  Psi  chapters  of  Bow- 
doin  and  Colby  will  be  held  in  Augusta  in  the  near 
future. 

It  has  been  officially  annuounced  that  Bowdoin 
will  run  against  Tufts  in  the  relay  race  at  the  B. 
A.  A.  Meet. 

Prof.  Robinson  gave  an  adjourn  in  Medical 
Chemistry  2  last  Thursday  and  in  Chemistry  3  and 
Medical   Chemistry  i,  Friday. 

Monday  evening,  Dec.  20,  all  students  from  Lin- 
coln County  are  requested  to  meet  at  the  Zete  house 
and  organize  a   county  club. 

One  of  the  American  Express  Company's  horses, 
ran  away  across  the  campus  Tuesday  forenoon. 
The  wagon  was  damaged  but  little,  and  the  horse  was 
caught  on  Maine  Street. 

The    Washington    County    Club    has    elected    the       / 
following   officers   for   the   year :    President,    Charles 
C.   Cary,  '10;  Vice-President,  Stanley  J.  Hinch,  '12; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Willard  H.  Curtis,  'ir. 

Mr.  Stone  took  the  leading  part  in  the  presenta- 
tion of  "A  Pair  of  Idiots"  at  the  Congregational 
Church  for  the  benefit  of  the  Pejepscot  settlement 
work  of  the  Christian  Association,  Tuesday  evening. 

Prof.  Fairchild  has  announced  his  courses  for 
next  semester  as  follows :  "A  History  of  Political 
Economy,"  mainly  a  lecture  course,  supplemented  by 
text-book  work  if  possible ;  second,  "Physical  and 
Commercial  Geography,"  taught  by  the  same  method 
as   Political  Economy  i. 

Bowdoin  is  more  cosmopolitan  than  ever  this  year. 
Twenty  states  in  the  United  States,  and  one  foreign 
country,  Turkey,  are  represented.  Fifteen  states,  \_^ 
Vermont,  Connecticut,  Colorado,  Minnesota,  Illinois, 
Michigan,  District  of  Columbia,  South  Dakota, 
Washington,  West  Virginia,  Alabama,  Nebraska, 
Wisconsin,  Ohio  and  California  are  represented  by 
one    man    each. 


A  PAIR  OF  IDIOTS 

The  comedy,  "A  Pair  of  Idiots,"  which  was  played 
Tuesday  evening  under  the  auspices  of  the  Bowdoin 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  the  Madisses  Club,  drew  a  good 
audience  and  was  very  much  enjoyed.  The  cast  of 
characters  was  as   follows : 

Col.  Archibald  Bradley Ralph  B.  Stone 

Peter  Jennings Winston  B.  Stevens 

Dr.  George  Genthner H.  B.  McLaughlin 

Miss  Lucretia  Bradley Miss  Crawford 

Miss  Jean  Bradley '.  .  .Miss  Sutherland 

Miss  Winifred  Lester Miss  Ruth  Little 

The  proceeds  of  the  entertainment  are  to  be  used 
for  giving  the  boys  and  girls  of  Pejepscot  Mills  a 
real   Christmas. 

At  Pejepscot  Mills  the  college  Y.  M.  C.  A.  has 
organized  a  club  of  about  fifteen  boys  from  eight  to 
sixteen  years  in  age.  The  club  meets  on  Tuesday 
and  Friday  evenings.  A  short  business  meeting  is 
held,  after  which  the  boys  play  games.  A  small 
library  has  been  started.  This  work  is  valuable  not 
only  to  the- Pejepscot  boys  but  also  the  college  men 
who  undertake  it  for  it  gives  them  a  chance  to  unite 
with  the  strictly  academic  life,  something  of  the  real 
Ufe  outside  of  the  college  campus. 


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Hlumni  IDepartment 

'38. — In  the  death  of  Edward  Henry 
Daveis,  Esq.,  which  occurred  at  his  home  in 
Portland,  Dec.  12,  1909,  Bowdoin  loses  her 
oldest  graduate  and  the  last  of  those  who 
received  diplomas  from  President  William 
Allen,  the  third  president  of  the  institution. 
Mr.  Daveis  was  born  in  Portland  3  April, 
1818,  of  a  distinguished  family  and  one 
closely  connected  with  the  college.  His  grand- 
father. Captain  Ebenezer  Daveis,  served  with 
distinction  during  the  whole  of  the  War  of  the 
Revolution.  His  grandmother,  left  a  widow 
with  limited  means,  refused  a  government 
pension  on  the  ground  that  she  was  capable  of 
caring  for  herself  and  that  others  needed  the 
money  more.  His  father,  Hon.  Charles  Stew- 
art Daveis,  an  early  graduate  of  the  college, 
was  of  marked  literary  tastes,  prominent  as  a 
lawyer  and  diplomat,  and  a  member  of  the 
governing  boards  of  Bowdoin  College  for 
nearly  half  a  century.  His  mother,  Elizabeth 
Taylor  Oilman,  was  the  daughter  of  Governor 
John  Taylor  Gilman  of  New  Hampshire  and 
the  sister-in-law  by  marriage  of  two  promi- 
nent trustees  of  the  college.  Mr.  Daveis  was 
prepared  for  college  at  Phillips  Academy  at 
Exeter,  and  after  graduation  at  Bowdoin, 
went  to  the  Harvard  Law  School  where  he 
received  his  diploma  in  1841.  Entering  upon 
his  chosen  profession  at  Portland  he  was 
associated  with  his  father  in  practice,  made 
his  specialties  equity  and  mercantile  law,  and 
won  a  large  and  influential  clientele.  He 
found  time  to  edit  Daveis's  United  States  Dis- 
trict Court  reports  and  the  second  edition  of 
Ware's  reports.  In  i860  he  gave  up  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  and  became  president  of 
the  Portland  Gas  Light  Company  of  which  he 
was  one  of  the  active  promoters  on  its  organ- 
ization in  1848.  On  retiring  from  the  presi- 
dency in  1906,  his  successor,  Col.  F.  N.  Dow, 
spoke  of  his  official  service  as  "unique  in  its 
length,  unexcelled  in  its  efficiency,  and  rarely, 
if  ever,  surpassed  in  its  satisfactory  results." 
Mr.  Daveis  was  also  president  for  nearly 
twenty  years  of  the  Portland  Locomotive 
Company  where  his  ability  and  influence 
repeatedly  saved  the  enterprise  from  disaster. 
For  many  years  a  director  of  the  Casco 
National  Bank  and  a  trustee  of  the  Portland 
Savings  Bank,  his  well-known  financial  ability 
and  judgment  were  sought  for  and  obtained  in 
several  business  enterprises. 


Mr.  Daveis  was  a  Unitarian  in  religious 
convictions,  from  his  boyhood  a  member  of 
the  First  Parish  church,  and  a  constant  attend- 
ant upon  its  services  until  prevented  by  the 
infirmities  of  old  age.  During  his  long  and 
active  career,  he  has  enjoyed  the  unqualified 
respect  and  regard  of  the  community  and  has 
stood  among  the  most  prominent  and  influen- 
tial of  its  citizens. 

'65. — Edward  J.  Millay,  Esq.,  who  for 
many  years  was. in  practice  at  Bath  but  left 
Maine  twenty-two  years  ago  on  account  of 
the  health  of  his  wife,  received  a  hearty  greet- 
ing from  his  former  friends  in  that  city  last 
week.  He  practiced  his  profession  for  sev- 
eral years  at  Pittsburg,  Penn.,  but  for  a  long 
period  resided  at  Pasadena,  Cal.  He  says, 
"Although  I  have  been  all  over  this  country 
and  Canada,  I  have  found  no  place  that  suits 
me  better  than  Maine,  especially  Sagadahoc 
County." 

'70. — A  unique  feature  of  the  eleventh 
International  Congress  of  Ophthalmology 
which  was  held  at  Naples  in  April  and  was 
attended  by  over  five  hundred  oculists  from  all 
parts  of  the  world,  was  the  announcement  that 
prizes,  in  the  form  of  medals  would  be 
awarded  for  the  best  and  the  most  important 
communications.  One  of  these  medals  has 
recently  been  received  by  Dr.  Lucien  Howe  of 
Buffalo,  to  whom  the  award  was  made  for  a 
paper  on  "The  Measurement  of  the  Lifting 
Power  of  the  Adductors  and  of  the  Abduct- 
ors." This  investigation  was  undertaken  in 
connection  with  a  work  in  two  volumes,  on 
the  muscles  of  the  eye,  recently  published  by 
the  same  author.  By  means  of  a  simple  appli- 
ance it  has  become  possible  to  measure  the 
actual  strength  ,of  the  muscles  which  turn  an 
eye  in  or  out,  and  thus  decide  in  a  given  case 
of  strabismus,  the  very  important  question 
whether  to  make  a  tenotomy  of  one  muscle  or 
the  advancement  of  its  opponent. 

'75. — Governor  Draper  has  appointed 
William  E.  Hatch  of  New  Bedford,  to  be 
trustee  (on  behalf  of  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts)  of  the  New  Bedford  Textile 
School,  vice  Joseph  F.  Knowles,  deceased. 

William  E.  Hatch  is  a  resident  of  New 
Bedford  and  president  of  the  corporation  of 
the  New  Bedford  Textile  School.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  council,  and  president  of  the 
New  England  Association  of  School  Superin- 
tendents, vice-president  of  the  American  In- 
stitute of  Instruction,  and  a  member  of  the 
Bristol  County  Teachers'  Association. 


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VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  JANUARY  7,   1910 


NO.  22 


COMMANDER  AND  MRS.  PEARY  TO  BE  COM= 
MENCEMENT  QUESTS 

At  the  chapel  exercises  on  the  last  day  of 
the  fall  term  President  Hyde  spoke  as  follows : 

"Among  the  many  reasons  for  congratula- 
tion at  the  close  of  this  present  term,  not  the 
least  is  the  complete  vindication  which  has 
come  to  our  distinguished  alumnus,  Com- 
mander Robert  E.  Peary.  As  long  as  many 
people  honestly  believed  that  his  remarks  on 
his  return  from  the  Pole  were  dictated  by 
jealousy  of  his  more  fortunate  rival,  there  was 
some  ground  for  the  criticism  which  they 
passed  upon  him.  Now  that  all  the  world 
knows  what  he  knew  ithen,  criticism  of  severity 
is  giving  place  to  admiration  for  his  marvel- 
ous self-restraint. 

The  strictest  code  of  etiquette  does  not  re- 
quire one  to  speak  in  complimentary  terms  of 
a  liar  and  an  impostor.  Commander  Peary 
said  as  little  as  anyone  possibly  could  say  who 
is  in  full  possession  of  the  facts  and  felt  in 
duty  bound  to  protect  his  fellow-ocuntrymen 
from  making  a  raistake  which  was  already  be- 
ing made  abroad. 

Bowdoin  College  has  never  had  a  moment's 
doubt  of  either  the  genuineness  of  his  achieve- 
ment or  the  justice  of  his  judgment.  When 
public  sentiment  was  most  strongly  in  favor  of 
the  rival  claimant,  the  college  extended  to 
Commander  and  Mrs.  Peary  and  they  gener- 
ously accepted  an  invitation  to  be  the  guest  of 
the  college  on  Wednesday  and  Thursday  of 
Commencement  Week. 

The  college  year  will  close  with  a  celebra- 
tion of  this  supreme  achievement  of  our  distin- 
guished alumnus.  The  opening  chapter  of  his 
story  in  certain  passages  is  as  pure  and  lofty 
an  expression  of  idealism  as  literature  con- 
tains. It  is  one  more  illustration  of  the  truth 
that  the  idealist  is  the  man  who  does  things." 


THE  COLLEGE  CATALOG 

The  Bowdoin  College  catalog  1909-1910 
issued  last  Saturday  shows  a  total  enrollment 
of  419  against  420  last  year.     Both  branches 


show  a  slight  falling  off,  there  being  346  regis- 
tered in  the  academic  department  against  348 
a  year  ago,  and  74  in  the  medical  department, 
against  81.  The  loss  in  the  academic  depart- 
ment comes  through  a  smaller  freshman  class. 

The  loss  in  the  medical  department  is 
mainly  due  to  the  fact  that  only  one  academic 
•student  is  combining  the  work  of  his  senior 
year  with  that  of  the  first  year  in  the  medical 
department,  while  last  year  there  were  nine. 

The  catalog  contains  138  pages  against  134 
last  year.  The  list  of  trustees  is  the  same,  al- 
though a  star  against  the  name  of  Gen.  Oliver 
Otis  Howard  shows  that  he  died  Oct.  26.  Five 
new  names  appear  in  the  list  of  overseers :  Er- 
nest Boyen  Young,  A.B.,  M.D.,  of  Boston, 
Frederick  Odell  Conant,  A.M.,  of  Portland, 
Thomas  Jefferson  Emery,  A.M.,  of  Boston, 
and  Alpheus  Sanford,  A.B.,  of  Boston. 

The  summary  of  instructors  and  students 
shows  that  there  are  26  in  the  academical 
faculty  and  41  in  the  medical  faculty,  a  total 
of  67.     Four  professors  serve  both  faculties. 

The  419  students  are  divided  as  follows: 
Academical  department,  seniors  57,  juniors  69, 
sophomores  88,  freshmen  93,  seniors,  juniors 
and  sophomores  having  freshman  standing  30, 
special  students  9 ;  medical  school,  fourth  year 
21,  third  year  14,  second  year  15,  first  year  24. 

The  new  scholarships  are  announced,  the 
Edward  Henry  Newbegin  scholarship  of  $1,- 
000,  given  by  Henry  Newbegin  of  the  class  of 
1857  in  memory  of  his  son.  Rev.  Edward 
Henry  Newbegin  of  the  class  of  1891 ;  the  Jo- 
seph E.  Merrill  scholarships,  $4,000  per  year, 
from  the  income  of  the  Joseph  E.  Merrill  fund 
to  assist  needy  and  deserving  American-bom 
young  men,  preference  being  given  to  those 
born  in  the  state  of  Maine,  in  securing  an  edu- 
cation in  Bowdoin  College. 

A  new  alumni  association  reported  in  the 
catalogue  for  the  first  time  is  the  association 
of  Aroostook  county,  whose  president  is  Hon. 
Frederick  Alton  Powers  of  Houlton,  with  Ro- 
land Eugene  Clark,  esq.,  of  Houlton  as  secre- 
tary. 


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Robert  Hale 

ROBERT  HALE  AWARDED  RHODES  SCHOLARSHIP 

At  the  faculty  meeting  held  Dec.  20,  Rob- 
ert Hale,  '10,  of  Portland,  was  chosen  as  the 
next  Rhodes  scholar  to  represent  the  State  of 
Maine.  Mr.  Hale  will  go  to  Oxford  in  the 
fall  of  1910  to  enter  upon  a  three  years'  course 
there  under  the  provisions  of  the  Rhodes 
foundation. 

Robert  Hale  is  a  member  of  one  of  the 
best  known  families  in  the  State,  being  a  son 
of  Judge  Clarence  Hale  of  Portland,  and  a 
nephew  of  Senator  Eugene  Hale  of  Ellsworth. 
He  was  a  graduate  of  Portland  High  School 
in  the  Class  of  1906  and  entered  Bowdoin  in 
the  fall  of  that  year.  He  was  class  odist  at  the 
Freshman  banquet  and  a  member  of  the  Cercle 
Francais  the  same  year.  In  literary  lines  he 
has  always  been  prominent,  being  chairman  of 
the  Quill  Board  and  Editor-in-Chief  of  the 
Bugle.  In  scholarship  he  has  stood  in  the 
front  ranks  of  the  class,  winning  the  Brown 
Memorial  Scholarship  his  first  three  years  and 
the  Class  of  1875  Prize  in  American  History 
Junior  year  and  making  Phi  Beta  Kappa  at 
the  close  of  that  year.  Junior  year  he  was 
also  a  Friar  and  a  member    of    the   classical 


club.  Senior  year  he  is  president  of  the  Good 
Government  Club  and  of  the  Ibis  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Student  Council.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Psi  Upsilon  Fraternity. 


THE  NEW  QUILL  BOARD 

The  new  Quill  Board  for  the  ensuing  year 
has  been  elected  with  the  following  editors: 

Chairman,  Geo.  A.  Torsney,  '11,  of  Berlin, 
N.  H. ;  Chas.  Boardman  Hawes,  '11,  Bangor, 
Me. ;  Mark  Westcott  Burlingame,  '12,  of  Win- 
throp,  Mass.;  E.  Baldwin  Smith, '11, of  Bruns- 
wick, Me;  William  Folsom  Merrill,  '11,  of 
Skowhegan,  Me. ;  Eugene  Francis  Bradford, 
"12,  Bangor,  Me.;  and  Edward  Oliver  Baker, 
'13,  North  Adams,  Mass. 

Business  Manager,  Philip  Weston  Meserve, 
'11,  of  Portland;  Assist.  Business  Manager, 
Percy  W.  Matthews,  '12,  of  Lubec,  Me. 


BOWDOIN  COLLEGE  NEW  YORK  ALUMNI  DINNER 

It  has  been  ofiicially  announced  by  Joseph 
B.  Roberts,  Secretary  of  the  Bowdoin  College 
Alumni  Association  of  New  York  City,  that 
the  Fortieth  annual  meeting  and  banquet  will 
be  held  at  the  Hotel  Gotham  on  Friday  even- 
ing, January  14,  1909,  at  6.30  o'clock.  Presi- 
dent William  DeWitt  Hyde  of  the  College, 
Commander  Robert  E.  Peary,  'yy,  Governor 
Plenry  B.  Ouinby,  '69,  of  New  Hampshire,  ex- 
Congressman  Charles  E.  Littlefield,  Professor 
Henry  C.  Emery,  '92,  head  of  the  new  Tariff 
Commission  and  Donald  B.  McMillan,  '98,  of 
the  Peary  Expedition  will  speak  at  the  dinner. 
It  is  also  hoped  that  ex-Governor  William  T. 
Cobb,  'y/,  of  Maine,  and  Captain  Bartlett  of 
the  Roosevelt  will  be  present. 

A  memorial  of  the  late  General  Oliver  Otis 
Ploward,  '50,  one  of  Bowdoin's  most  illus- 
trious sons,  is  contemplated  by  some  of  his 
friends  in  the  form  of  a  life-size  portrait  of  the 
General  which  was  completed  just  before  his 
death.  The  painting  has  been  kindly  loaned 
and  will  be  on  exhibition  the  night  of  the 
dinner. 


THE  BRUNSWICK  EVENING  SCHOOL 

Through  the  services  of  Mr.  Eaton  of  the 
Cabot  Mills  and  the  townspeople,  an  evening 
school  has  been  organized  in  the  town  for  the 
mill  hands.  Regular  meetings  lasting  from  7 
to  9  P.M.  are  held    during     the    week.      Mr. 


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Henry  Johnson,  Medic  '12,  has  been  chosen 
principal.  Hurley,  '12,  acts  as  assistant.  The 
work  taken  up  is  introductory  consisting  only 
of  Arithmetic,  Reading,  and  Spelling.  The 
meetings  are  held  in  the  High  School  Build- 
ing and  are  entirely  free  for  the  members  of 
the  classes. 


DONALD  B.  McMillan  to  lecture 

Donald  B.  McMillan,  '98,  associate  and 
lieutenant  of  Commander  Robert  E.  Peary, 
yj.  on  his  trip  to  the  North  Pole,  has  been 
engaged  by  the  Ibis  to  lecture  to  the  students 
X^  of  Bowdoin  College  and  the  people  of  Bruns- 
wick in  Memorial  Hall  on  Jan.  24.  Mr.  Mc- 
Millan's subject  will  be,  "With  Peary  in  the 
Arctic."  Admission  is  free  to  students  of  the 
college  and  fifty  cents  to  townspeople. 

The  members  of  the  Ibis  under  whose  aus- 
pices the  lecture  is  'held  are,  Robert  Hale,  '10, 
H.  W.  Slocum,  '10,  P.  T.  Nickerson,  '10,  John 
L.  Crosby,  '10,  H.  J.  Colbath,  '10,  R.  D.  Morss, 
'10,  Rodney  E.  Ross,  '10,  and  Sumner  Ed- 
wards, '10. 


A  ROUSING  SMOKER 

Monday  night  before  Christmas,  Memorial 
Hall  was  the  scene  of  the  first  Christmas 
smoker  ever  held  g,t  Bowdoin.  It  was  the  best 
rally  ever  held  in  Old  Memorial,  and  set  a 
precedent  for  others  to  follow. 

The  entire  student  body,  Brunswick  alum- 
ni and  friends  of  the  college  were  there  and 
shouted  themselves  hoarse.  Everybody  was 
given  a  clay  pipe  and  all  the  tobacco  he  could 
smoke  and  more,  too.  Candy,  apples,  and  pea- 
nuts were  provided  by  the  barrelful  and  H2  O 
was  on  tap  for  everybody.  Music,  speaking, 
and  other  entertainments  were  going  off  con- 
ually.  With  the  band  and  piano  going,  some- 
thing was  doing  all  the  time.  Hurley,  '12, 
and  Burlingame,  '12,  were  there  with  their 
fiddles,  Stone,  '10,  and  Welch,  '12,  gave  read- 
ings until  they  were  hoarse,  and  songs  were 
sung  by  everybody. 

A  capital  feature  of  the  evening  was  the 
new  college  song  by  Newell,  '12: 

Fair  Bowdoin. 
Air  :  Officer  of  the  Day. 
We'll  sing  now  to  dear  Old  Bowdoin, 
The   fairest  of  the  fair. 
The  college  of  good  fellows, 
With  cheers  we'll  rend  the  air, 


Fair  play  and  may  the  best  man  win,  boys, 

This  motto  we  display, 

So  off  with  hats  for  Bowdoin  dear, 

And  may  she  live  for  aye. 

On    gridiron,    track    and    diamond. 

Old   Bowdoin's   sons   excel, 

Urged  on  by  Bowdoin  spirit, 

They  do  their  work  right  well, 

And  when  it  comes   right  to  a  ^inch  boys. 

You'll    always    find    them   there. 

They  hit  the  line  and  hit  it  hard, 

But  always  do  it  fair. 

May  Bowdoin  ever  in  the  future, 

Uphold  her   standard  white, 

And  strive  for  greater   honors, 

By  valor,   truth,  and  right, 

Fair  play  and  may  the  best  man  win,  boys. 

This  motto  we  display. 

So   off   with   hats   for   Bowdoin   dear, 

And  may  she  live  for  aye. 

J.  H.  Newell,  '12. 


SUNDAY  CHAPEL 

President  Hyde  conducted  Sunday  chapel 
using  as  his  Christmas  text  Luke  i  ■.46:  "Mary 
said,  my  soul  doth  magnify  the  Lord."  In 
this  chapter  from  which  the  text  is  chosen,  the 
great  message  of  democracy  is  summed  up, 
birth,  rank,  and  learning  are  as  nothing,  but 
spirit  and  character  are  as  everything.  The 
hungry  are  filled  with  good  things,  but  the 
rich  are  sent  away  empty. 

We  also  find  a  reversal  of  values  in  this 
lesson.  For  the  changing  of  the  genuine  for 
the  counterfeit  and  humiliation  for  superiority 
has  been  the  message  of  all  prophets,  such  as 
Carlyle  and  Walt  Whitman.  The  advantage 
of  appreciating  the  simple  and  avoiding  a  sense 
of  superiority  is  well  shown  by  the  experience 
of  a  Harvard  professor,  traveling  on  the  St. 
Lawrence.  He  necessarily  met  many  ignorant 
and  simple  people  and  only  by  not  showing 
any  sense  of  superiority  over  them  was  he  able 
to  enjoy  his  journey.  As  he  afterward  said, 
he  counted  those  brave,  stern  faces  he  met  in 
the  St.  Lawrence  as  the  best  teachers  of  his 
life.  He  thereby  solved  the  problem  of  deal- 
ing with  human  qualities  advantageously. 

In  like  manner,  a  student  can  only  enjoy 
his  Christmas  at  home  by  avoiding  all  sense  of 
superiority.  If  he  fails  to  do  this,  he  has 
missed  the  spirit  of  Christmas.  Accordingly, 
the  student  in  returning  home  should  do  so 
with  a  genuine  spirit  and  a  feeling  of  humility, 
instead  of  a  sense  of  superiority,  to  obtain  the 
most  enjoyment  from  Christmas. 


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EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.  ATWOOD,  1910  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  1911,  Managing  Editor 


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thru  the  ages,  linked  with  Ananias,  J.  Iscariot, 
Benedict  Arnold,  and  other  gentlemen  whose 
popularity  is  on  the  wane. 


Associate  Editors 

p.  B.  MORSS,  1910  J.  C.  WHITE.  1911 

THOMAS  OTIS.  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON.  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON.  1910      W.  A.  McCORMICK.  1912 
W.  A.  FULLER.  1912 


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J.  L.  CURTIS,  191 1 


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Vol.  XXXIX. 


JANUARY  7,   1910 


Are  You  a  Friend 
to  Ananias  ? 


Nearly  everybody  is  back 
from  vacation  now,  and 
presumably  each  one 
comes  from  his  home  better  supplied  with  this 
world's  goods  than  when  he  went  away.  The 
present  is  the  proper  time  to  pay  up  athletic 
subscriptions  for  which  the  manager  has  been 
hounding  you  for  a  year.  The  Orient  wishes 
especially  to  remind  those  men  who  are  in 
arrears  with  their  baseball  subscriptions  that 
January  18,  less  than  two  weeks  away,  is  the 
date  set  by  the  Student  Council  for  publica- 
tion of  the  names  of  those  who  have  not  set- 
tled their  accounts.  Manager  Wiggin  will  see 
every  man  personally,  so  that  when  the  time 
comes,  no  man  who  was  not  given  timely 
warning  will  find  his  name  on  the  blacklist.  If 
you  have  not  paid  your  baseball  subscription, 
remember  that  but  eleven  days  remain  in 
which  ;to  do  so.  Use  the  money  you  brought 
from  home  to  save  the  family  name  from  dis- 


The  English  pride  them- 
Our  Possessions     selves   upon   the   fact  that 

the  sun  never  sets  upon  the 
British  Empire.  They  should  not  forget, 
however,  that  the  sun  shines  for  six  months 
at  a  stretch  upon  the  possessions  of  the  United 
States  (and  Bowdoin  College). 


CALENDAR 

Saturday,  January  8 
4.00    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

Sunday,  January  9 

10.4s  Morning  service  in  the  Church  on  the  Hill, 
conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Quint. 

5.00  Sunday  Chapel,  conducted  by  President 
Hyde.  Music  by  double  quartette ;  violin  solo  by 
Kendrie,   'lO. 

Monday,  January  10 
2.30    Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 
4.00    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 
4.30    Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial  Hall. 
5.15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

Tuesday,  January  ii 

4,00    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

5.10  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tian  Room. 

Wednesday,  January  12 

2.30    Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

4.00    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

5.00    Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial  Hall. 

5.10  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion  Room. 

Thursday,  January  13 

2.30    Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

4.00    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

S.io  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion  Room. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

7.00  Address  by  Hon.  Herbert  M.  Heath,  '72, 
Augusta,  Me.  Choosing  a  Life  Work,  Law.  In 
Christian  Association  Room. 

Friday,  January  14 

2.30    Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

4.00    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


at 


S.oo    Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial  Hall. 
5.10     Glee   Club   Rehearsal   in  Christian  Associa- 
tion  Room. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

8.00     First  Junior  Assembly  in  Memorial  Hall. 

Saturday,  January  i^; 
4.00    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 


Y,  M.  C.  A.  NOTES 

On  Sunday  evening,  Jan.  Sth,  there  will  be 
a  special  informal  meeting  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
room  at  which  those  present  will  have  the 
pleasure  of  listening  to  the  reports  of  the  Bow- 
doin  delegates  present  at  the  recent  convention 
at  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

The  delegates  have  assured  the  Orient 
that  they  derived  a  great  deal  of  inspiration 
and  experience  from  this  convention  which 
they  hope  to  impart  as  far  as  possible  to  the 
men  of  the  college. 

On  next  Thursday  evening  the  college  will 
have  the  privilege  of  listening  to  Hon.  Herbert 
M.  Heath,  '72,  who  will  deliver  an  address  on 
"Law  as  a  Life  Work." 


NOTICE 

Members  of  the  Senior  Class  who  wish  to 
be  considered  as  candidates  for  the  Longfel- 
low or  Everett  scholarships  should  make  appli- 
cation to  the  President  in  writing,  stating  the 
use  they  would  make  of  the  scholarships,  be- 
fore the  close  of  the  present  semester. 


DEBATING  MEDALS 

The  alumnus  who  has  given  medals  to  the 
Intercollegiate  Debating  Team  for  several 
years  past,  has  kindly  renewed  his  gift  this 
year  on  the  same  terms — gold  medals  if  they 
win,  silver  if  they  lose.  The  doner  does  not 
wish  his  name  made  public. 


ZETA  PSI  DANCE 

An  informal  dance  was  given  at  the  Zeta  Psi 
house,  Wednesday  evening,  Dec.  22,  by  the  members 
of  the  Sophomore  delegation.  Music  for  sixteen 
dances  was  furnished  by  Kendrie's  Orchestra.  The 
patronesses  were  Mrs.  Hartley  C.  Baxter,  Mrs. 
Henry  Johnson,  Mrs.  Williarn  T.  Foster,  and  Mad- 
am Schmidt.  The  committee  in  charge  was  com- 
posed of  Raymond  W.  Hathaway,  Clyde  R.  Chap- 
man, and  John   L.   Hurley. 

Those  present  were :  Miss  Anne  Johnson,  Miss 
Margaret  Day,   Miss  Helen  Merriman,   Miss   Sadie 


Merriman,  Miss  Sarah  Baxter,  Miss  Ellen  Baxter  of 
Brunswick ;  Miss  Florence  Andrews,  Miss  Florence 
Slocum,  Miss  Madeline  Clifford,  Miss  Nellie  Hodg- 
don  of  Bath;  Miss  Pauline  Litchfield  of  Lewiston; 
Miss  Hazel  Perry,  Miss  Helen  Wise  of  Rockland; 
Miss  Doris  Hussey  of  Damariscotta ;  Miss  Sadie 
Williams  of  Fairfield;  Miss  Dunn  of  Auburn;  and 
Miss  Bertha  Merrill  of  Skowhegan.  Mr.  A.  W. 
Dunn  of  Auburn,  and  Mr.  A.  F.  Knight  of  Provi- 
dence,  R.   I.,  were   also  present. 


KAPPA  SIGMA  DANCE 

On  the  evening  of  December  23.  igop.  Alpha  Rho 
Chapter  of  Kappa  Sigma  held  the  first  of  its  in- 
formal dances  of  the  year  at  the  chapter  house.  The 
paronesses  were  Mrs.  Frank  M.  Stetson  and  Mrs. 
Albert  W.  Townsend  of  Brunswick.  The  com- 
mittee in  charge  consisted  of  S.  F.  Brown,  '10,  E  W 
Skelton,  'u,  and  C.  L.  Clarke,  '12.  The  house  was 
prettily  decorated  with  evergreen  and  hemlock 
boughs.  The  music  was  in  charge  of  Pettengill  of 
Lewiston.  The  following  guests  were  in  attendance : 
Miss  Rose  M.  Tyler,  Miss  Helen  Smith,  Miss  Dor- 
othy Abbott,  Miss  Bessie  Coneen,  Miss  Marion  Co- 
neen,  of  Portland,  Miss  Olga  Beloff  of  Amesbury, 
Mass. ;  Miss  Frances  Barrett  of  Westbrook,  Miss 
Kathleen  Duffy  of  Gardiner,  Miss  Emma  Knight, 
Miss  Mae  Smith,  Derry,  N.  H.,  Miss  Irene  Hayden 
Miss   Mildred   Mace  of  Portland. 


DELTA  KAPPA  EPSILON  DANCE 

The  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  Fraternity  gave  a 
Christmas  Tree  and  Dance  at  their  chapter  house, 
Wednesday  evening,  December  22d.  The  Commit- 
tee in  charge  consisted  of  Devine,  '11,  and  Cole,  '12. 
The  patronesses  were :  Mrs.  Lewis  Parsons  and  Mrs. 
Roscoe  J.  Ham.  Among  the  guests  were:  Miss 
Clara  Goodwin  and  Miss  Madeline  Lord  of  Augusta; 
Miss  Dorothy  Abbot,  Miss  Marjorie  Bradford,  Miss 
Irene  Hayden,  Miss  Carleton  and  Miss  Thompson 
of  Portland;  Miss  Brittamont  Emerson,  Miss  Helen 
Miller.  Miss  Margaret  Crosby,  Miss  Eldridge  and 
Miss  Savage  of  Bangor;  Miss  Beatrice  Henley  of 
Brunswick;  Miss  Harriet  Hatch  of  West  Medford 
and  Miss  Elizabeth  Woodward  of  Colorado  Springs, 
Colorado. 


THETA  DELTA  CHI  DANCE 

The  Theta  Delta  Chi  Fraternity  gave  a  Christmas 
dance  at  their  chapter  house,  Tuesday  evening, 
December  2rst.  The  house  was  prettily  decorated 
with  evergreen  and  streamers  in  the  fraternity  col- 
ors, black,  white  and  blue.  Christmas  gilt  and  tin- 
sel upon  the  evergreen  trees  in  each  corner  gave 
a  pretty  effect. 

The  committee  in  charge  consisted  of  Newman, 
'10,  Howe,  '11,  and  Cressey,  '12.  The  patronesses 
were:  Mrs.  Wilmot-  B.  Mitchell,  Mrs.  Frank  E. 
Woodruff  and  Mrs.  Roscoe  J.  Ham.  Among  the 
guests  present  were:  Miss  Ellie  Hawes  and  Miss 
Marion  Dana  of  Westbrook ;  Miss  Emily  Felt  and 
Miss  Ruth  Little  of  Brunswick ;  Miss  Alice  Dennis 
of  Medford,  Mass. ;  Miss  Elizabeth  Wyer,  Miss  Mar- 
garet Starbird,  Miss  Lena  Carr,  Miss  Irene  Hayden, 


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Miss  Dorothy  Abbott,  Miss  Mildred  Mace  and  Miss 
Mildred  Meriweather  of  Portland ;  Miss  Gertrude 
Soper  of  Bar  Harbor ;  Miss  Marion  Herrick  of 
Bethel ;  Miss  Caroline  Mitchell  of  Freeport,  and 
Miss   Bessie   Murray  of  Bath. 

Stetson's   orchestra  of  Brunswick  furnished  mu- 


BETA  THETA  PI  DANCE 

The  Christmas  Dance  of  Beta  Sigma  Chapter 
of  Beta  Theta  Pi  was  held  Tuesday  evening,  Dec.  21, 
at  the  Chapter  House,  which  was  decorated  for  the 
occasion  with  evergreen  and  poinsettia.  The  pa- 
tronesses were  Mrs.  W.  T.  Foster,  Mrs.  Alice  Lit- 
tle, and  Mrs.  F.  W.  Roberts.  Among  the  guests 
were  Prof,  and  Mrs.  Nixon,  Prof.  Burnett,  Prof. 
Sills,  Mr.  Stone,  Dr.  Copeland,  Mr.  Snow,  and  the 
Alisses  Therese  Newbert,  Marguerite  Lowell,  Mary 
Stinson,  Augusta ;  Gertrude  Oak,  Harriet  Gorham, 
Bangor;  Etta  Miller,  Genvieve  Dwinal,  Auburn; 
Agnes  Green,  Portland;  Emma  Bliss,  Lewiston; 
Beatrice  Henley,  Boston ;  Beatrice  Hacker,  Margaret 
Day,  Iza  Hutchinson,  Frances  Skolfield,  Frances 
Little,  Mildred  Fides,  and  Mabel  Davis.  Brunswick. 
The  committee  in  charge :  Seveno  S.  Webster,  Au- 
gusta ;  John  E.  Cartland,  Lisbon  Falls ;  Lowell  S. 
Foote,  Dover,  N.  H.  Music  was  furnished  by  Ken- 
drie's  Orchestra. 


PHI  CHI  INITIATION 


The  annual  banquet  of  the  Gamma  Gamma  Chap- 
ter of  the  Phi  Chi  Medical  Fraternity  was  held 
at  the  Congress  Square  Hotel,  Portland,  on  Friday 
evening,  December  17.  The  speaker  of  the  evening 
was  Dr.  Elliott  J.  Joslin  of  Boston  and  his  subject 
"will  be  "A  Hitherto  Hopeless  Disease."  Previous  to 
the  banquet  the  following  men  were  initiated :  Harry 
Daniel  McNeil,  Bangor;  Herbert  Charles  Scribner, 
Bangor ;  Carlisle  Royal  Gould,  Somersworth,  N.  H. ; 
Harold  Carlton  Arey.  A.B.,  Camden,  Me.;  Wilfred 
Nichols  McGilvery,  Lewiston,  Me.;  Francis  Sher- 
man Echols,  Hartford,  Conn.;  Wyvern  Almon 
Coombs,  Vinalhaven,  Me. ;  Harold  Danforth  Ross, 
Phillips,  Me. ;  Ridgely  Fernald  Hanscomb,  New  Lon- 
don, Conn. ;  Chestley  Wilbur  Nelson,  A.B.,  South- 
port,  Me. ;  Samuel  Lee  Woodman.  Winthrop ;  Fran- 
cis David  Walker,  Waterville,  Me. ;  Philip  Sheridan 
Sullivan,  Biddeford,  Me.;  Albert  Willis  Moulton, 
A.B.,  Portland,  Me. 


GYMNASIUM  INSTRUCTORS 

Burton  C.  Morrill,  Listructor. 

Seniors:  Bridge,  '09,  leader;  Stephens,  '10;  P. 
B.   Morss,  '10. 

Juniors:  Lippincott,  'lo,  leader;  P.  B.  Morss, 
'10;  Fisher,  '10;  E.  L.  Wing,  '10;  Guptill,  '10;  L.  E. 
Clark,  '11. 

Sophomores:  Buck,  '09,  leader;  P.  B.  _  Morss, 
'10;  R.  D.  Morss,  '10;  Fisher,  '10;  Guptill,  '10; 
Lord,  '11. 

Freshmen:  P.  B.  Morss,  '10,  leader;  R.  D.  Morss, 
'10;  Marsh,  '12;  P.  C.  Cole,  '12. 

Baseball  Squad:  B.  C.  Morrill,  leader;  Capt. 
Clifford,  '11. 

Track  Squad:  B.  C.  Morrill,  leader;  R.  D. 
Morss,  '10. 


College  flotes 

There  is  talk  of  forming  a  Knox  County  Club. 

Brummett,  '11,  is  ill  at  his  home  with  scarlet 
fever. 

A.  W:  Stone,  '10,  will  not  return  to  college  for 
a  few  weeks. 

P.  G.  Bishop,  '09,  is  teaching  school  at  Juana 
Diaz,  Porto  Rico. 

E.  H.  Webster,  '10,  has  returned  to  college  after 
a  month's  absence. 

E.  E.  Kern,  '11,  and  G.  C.  Kern,  '12,  spent  the 
recess  at  Earmington. 

Gilpatrick  of  Hebron,  was  with  Ludwig,  '10, 
Tuesday  of  this  week. 

George  C.  Duffey,  Jr.,  '13,  is  dangerously  ill  at 
his  home  in  Medford,  Mass. 

Prof.  Henry  L.  Chapman  has  been  reappointed  as 
a  trustee  of  Normal  schools. 

Stevens,  '10,  was  chosen  reader  of  the  Musical 
Club  at   the   final   trial,   Friday  night. 

Aaron  Marden,  Jr.,  '13.  will  not  return  to  college 
this  term  because  of  trouble  with  his  eyes. 

Christmas  trees  were  held  in  many  of  the  frater- 
nity houses  just  before  the   Christmas  recess. 

Harrington,  '12,  has  returned  to  college  after 
teaching  at  New  Gloucester  during  December. 

Weeks,  '10,  was  in  Boston  during  the  Christmas 
vacation  arranging  for  the  Easter  trip  of  the  musi- 
cal club. 

Robert  Hale,  '10,  spent  the  Christmas  recess  in 
Washington  as  the  guest  of  his  uncle,  Senator  Eu- 
gene Hale. 

Harold  A.  Tucker,  '13,  has  decided  to  give  up  his 
college  course  and  is  attending  the  Shaw  Business 
College  at  Portland. 

Prof.  Donald  McMillan  spoke  in  Rockland,  Mon- 
day night,  Jan.  3,  on  his  work  in  the  polar  expedi- 
tion of  Commander   Peary. 

Some  of  the  students  studying  "Die  Ehre"  in  Ger- 
man II  saw  the  English  version  of  the  play  at 
Keith's  Theatre,   Portland,  recently. 

The  Bowdoin  students  living  in  Brunswick  gave 
a  dance  at  Pythian  Hall  on  December  29,  under  the 
direction  of  Arthur  L.  Robinson,  '08. 

A  large  number  of  Bowdoin  students  who  were 
in  Portland,  Monday  night,  attended  Commander 
Peary's  lecture  on  his  winning  of  the  pole. 

The  Orient  has  received  word  of  the  birth  of  a 
son  to  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Herbert  A.  Jump  of  New 
Britan.  Conn.     He  has  been  named  Ellis  Burnett. 

Mr.  Eaton  wishes  it  explained  that  the  name  of 
his  dog  is  not  "Dooley,"  as  it  was  printed  in  a  late 
number  of  the  Orient,  but  is,  rather,  "Mr.  Dooley." 

About  a  dozen  members  of  the  Massachusetts 
Club  enjoyed  a  dinner  at  the  Rathskellar  and  the  per- 
formance of  the  "Follies  of  1909"  at  the  Tremont 
Tlicatre,   Boston,   during  the   recess. 

President  Hyde  had  an  article  in  a  recent  Out- 
look on  "The  Abolition  of  the  American  House  of 
Lords,"  in  which  he  set  forth  his  views  on  the  tariff 
and  stated  the  conditions  of  the  present  Republican 
party. 


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t83 


Rev.  and  Mrs.  John  Quint  and  daughter  spent 
Christmas  in  Saco. 

Walton,  'i2,  has  pictures  of  the  coronation  of 
King  Mike  on  sale. 

Prof.  Sills  was  in  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  during  Christ- 
mas, visiting  relatives. 

R.  E.  Stetson,  '09,  has  been  on  the  campus  visit- 
ing friends  this  week. 

Prof.  Mitchell  supplied  the  pulpit  in  the  First 
Baptist   Church,    Sunday. 

Monday  night  the  Faculty  Club  was  addressed 
by  Prof.  Files  on  Hedda  Gabler. 

President  Hyde  attended  a  meeting  of  the  trus- 
tees of  Exeter  Academy  this  week. 

The  new  lights  at  the  entrances  of  the  library 
have  arrived  and  will  be  put  up  soon. 

A.  F.  Knight  of  the  Epsilon  Chapter  of  Zeta  Psi 
was  the  guest  of  Hathaway,  Christmas  week. 

The  members  of  the  Faculty  Tennis  Club  bowl 
in  the  Park  alleys  once  every  fortnight  during  this 
winter. 

Theresa  McKinley  and  William  K.  Harris,  '09, 
principal  of  the  Mexico  High  School,  are  to  be 
married  soon. 

George  P.  Hyde,  Robert  Woodruff,  and  Arthur 
L.  Robinson  were  home  from  Harvard  Law  School 
during  the  holidays. 

Clement  Scholfield,  '06,  who  has  been  engaged  in 
steamboat  traffic  on  the  Great  Lakes,  is  spending 
this  winter  at  his  home  in  North  Harpswell. 

Phillip  O.  Coffin,  '03,  of  Philadelphia,  was  home 
Christmas  in  Brunswick.  Coffin  is  employed  by  the 
American  Bell  Telephone  Co. 

The  Monday  Club  'has  very  novel  pins  this  year, 
consisting  of  a  gold  foodball  in  miniature  with  a 
raised   B   on   the   front. 

Commander  Peary  was  given  a  reception  and 
dinner  in  New  York  Monday  night  by  the  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  fraternity  of  which  he  is  a  member. 

During  the  Christmas  recess  R.  D.  Morss,  '10, 
underwent  an  operation  for  appendicitis.  He  is  re- 
covering rapidly  and  expects  to  be  back  in  another 
week. 

Prof.-  Moody  plans  to  give  a  course  in  Advanced 
Algebra  next  fall.  The  course  will  include  deter- 
minants, theory  of  equations,  and  selected  topics  to 
be  given  three  times  a  week. 

The  relay  team  commences  work  for  the  B.  A. 
A.  this  week.  Two  old  men,  Cole  and  Colbath,  are 
back  to  run  this  year  and  so  there  is  a  good  chance 
for  new  material  Lo  snow  up  and  work  for  places. 

Samuel  B.  Furbish  was  presented  with  a  past 
commander's  jewel  at  the  meeting  of  Dunlap  Com- 
.nandery  on  Christmas  Day,  the  presentation  being 
made  bv  Eminent  Commander  Edward  W.  Wheeler. 
'  The  World's  Work  for  this  month  contains  the 
first  installment  of  the  article  to  be  published  by 
Elihu  Vedder  on  "Reminiscences  of  an  American 
Painter,"  in  which  he  tells  of  his  life  as  an  artist, 
Mr.  Vedder,  whose  home  is  in  Rome,  painted  the 
picture  representing  Rome  in  the  Dome  of  Sculpture 
Hall. 


Professor  W.  E.  Spillman,  Department  of  Agri- 
culture, Washington,  spoke  on  the  commercial  ad- 
vantages of  Esperanto,  Jan.  6,  by  invitation  of  the 
Portland  Board  of  Trade  at  their  rooms  on  Ex- 
change Street.  He  is  a  fine  speaker,  an  ardent  Es- 
perantist  and  the  President  of  the  Washingon  Esper- 
anto Society,  besides  being  a  close  friend  of  Herbert 
Harris. 

Among  the  Bowdoin  men  who  lunched  aboard 
the  schooner  Wyoming  at  Bath,  Wednesday,  were : 
C.  N.  Peters.  '10;  Newman,  '10;  W.  H.  Sanborn, 
'10;  H.  Q.  Hawes,  '10;  Hamburger,  '10;  O.  T.  San- 
born, '11;  Joy,  '12;  P.  P.  Cole,  '12;  F.  W.  Davis, 
'12;  Fuller,  '12;  Loring  Pratt,  '12;  P.  W.  Rowell, 
'12;  Daniels,  '12;  H.  F.  King,  '13;  Palmer,  '13;  and 
Farnham,   '13. 


RESOLUTIONS 

In  the  untimely  death  of  Francis  Benjamin  Spur- 
ling,  the  Class  of  1910  has  met  with  a  deep  and 
irreparable  loss.  His  unassuming  character  and 
companionable  temperament  were  qualities  which  en- 
deared him  to  his  classmates  and  made  his  presence 
amongst  them  truly  valuable.  His  personality  will 
ever  be  held  in  affectionate  memory  and  his  silent 
influence  will  be  joined  with  that  of  his  classmates 
who  have  gone  before  him.  But  the  class  cannot 
forget  those  whose  bereavement  must  be  even 
greater  than  its  own.     And  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  the  Class  of  1910  extend  to  the 
family  of  their  dead  classmate  in  its  overwhelm- 
ing grief  their  sincerest  and  most  heart-felt  sym- 
pathy. 

John  L.  Crosby, 
Robert  D.  Morss, 
Robert  Hale. 


Hall  op  Theta  of  D.  K.  E., 
Dec.  20,  1909. 
JVhcrcas,  It  has  pleased  God,  in  His  infinite  wis- 
dom, to  take  from  us  our  beloved  brother,  Francis 
Benjamin  Spurling,  of  the  Class  of  1910;  be  it 

Resolved,  That  we,  the  members  of  Theta  Chap- 
ter of  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon,  express  our  deep  grief 
at  the  loss  of  an  honored  and  loyal  brother,  and  that 
we  extend  our  heart-felt  sympathy  to  the  bereaved 
family. 

Alfred  Wheeler  Stone, 
Franz   Upham   Burkett, 

For  the  Chapter. 


Hall  of  Delta  Upsilon, 
Bowdoin   College. 

Whereas,  In  view  of  the  great  loss  we  have  sus- 
tained in  the  death  of  our  brother  and  friend,  Henry 
Charles  Clary,  and  of  the  still  greater  loss  of  those 
nearest  and  dearest  to  him ;  therefore  be  it 

Resolved,  That  we,  the  members  of  the  Bowdoin 
Chapter  of  Delta  Upsilon,  make  known  our  grief  to 
the  relatives  of  the  deceased;  and  further  be  it 

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  be 
published  in  the  Bowdoin  Orient. 


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Hlumni  ^Department 


"45. — The  following  extracts  from  a  pri- 
vate letter  of  one  of  our  oldest  alumni,  Charles 
P.  Roberts,  Esq.,  sole  survivor  of  the  Class  of 
1845,  will  be  of  general  interest: 

"It  is  particularly  gratifying  to  the  older 
graduates  to  note  the  good  fortune  of  Bow- 
doin  in  recent  years, — in  its  general  recogni- 
tion as  in  the  forefront  of  the  smaller  colleges 
and  in  the  favors  it  has  received  from  the 
hands  of  wealth-distributors  from  without  the 
State,  notably  the  $100,000  plum  from  the 
Kennedy  accumulation.  I  have  vivid  remem- 
brance of  the  straightened  situation  of  the  col- 
lege in  my  undergraduate  days.  But  though 
its  income  was  comparable  to  the  barren  sands 
of  the  campus  fringed  with  Balm  of  Gilead 
trees  (still  fragrant  in  my  memory),  it  was  rich 
in  the  lives,  and  devotion  of  its  faculty  of  six, 
and  of  the  college  treasurer,  Joseph  McKeen. 
The  aggregate  of  their  service,  earnest  and 
faithful,  was  nearly  three  hundred  years. 

"The  student  body  shared  in  the  impecuni- 
osity  of  the  times.  Clubs  of  a  dozen  arrang- 
ing with  some  widow  for  dining-room  and 
cooking,  squeezed  the  weekly  board  down  to 
seventy-five  cents.  Board  at  the  'House  of 
Commons'  was  $1.50.  Some  well-to-do  stu- 
dents boarded  at  genteel  houses  at  $2.00  a 
week  and  were  considered  aristocrats.  In  my 
little  book  of  expenditures  and  receipts,  which 
I  have  preserved  along  with  my  college  pipe,  I 
find  I  earned  over  $43.00  in  sawing  wood  in 
the  college  wood-yard.  The  gymnasium  was 
on  par  with  otiher  things.  Out  of  doors  near 
the  wood-yard  were  parallel  bars,  a  horizontal 
ladder  and  a  gallows  frame  higher  than 
Haman  was  hanged  on.  From  the  cross  beam 
a  large-sized  rope  hung  down  three  or  four 
feet  from  the  ground.  The  gymnasts,  run- 
ning from  a  considerable  distance,  caught  on  to 
this  rope  swinging  to  the  farthest  limit  and 
then  with  violent  contortions  seeking  to  make 
a  record  in  the  final  landing.  Their  anatomy 
was  put  to  the  test  and  involved  a  tearing  apart 
at  the  midriff.  My  class  was  graduated  while 
the  chapel  walls  were  rising  and  the  interior 
scafifolding  still  held  the  new  college  church. 
This  building  the  conservative  Cleaveland  de- 
clared could  be  bowed  down  to  without  sin, 
since  it  was  not  like  anything  on  the  earth,  in 
the  heavens  above,  or  the  waters  under  the 
earth. 


"Several  years  ago,  on  my  way  to  visit  my 
native  Bangor,  in  the  forty  minutes  interim 
between  trains,  I  rushed  up  the  hill  to  the  col- 
lege grounds  and  the  quadrangle  just  enclosed 
by  the  munificent  library,  gift  of  an  alumnus 
worthily  wearing  the  name  of  an  early  gov- 
ernor of  Maine.  Among  the  recent  adorn- 
ments of  the  campus  and  its  environment,  so 
contrasting  with  my  first  acquaintance  in  1841, 
I  experienced  a  thrill  of  delight  and  felt  like 
dropping  on  my  knees  in  thanks  to  Heaven 
that  'Tempora  mutantur  et  nos  mutamur  in 
illis." 

"And  now  another  Bowdoin  son,  after 
years  of  heroic  and  persistent  struggle,  re- 
turns with  the  trophy  of  the  North  Pole  on  his 
shoulder!" 


'95. — County  Attorney  Arthur  E.  Stetson 
of  Bath,  Me.,  and  Miss  Kathryn  V.  Eliot  were 
married  in  Boston,  Dec.  3,  1909. 

'97. — Rev.  Benjamin  John  Fitz  died  i  Jan. 
1910,  at  Chicago,  111.,  while  on  a  journey  to 
Denver,  Col  Mr.  Fitz  was  the  son  of  Rev. 
Arthur  Green  Fitz,  for  many  years  a  Congre- 
gational clergyman  in  Maine,  and  was  born  at 
Stafford,  Conn.,  i  Aug.  1876.  He  was  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Bridgton  Academy.  He 
was  obliged  to  leave  Brunswick  on  account  of 
his  health  in  his  Junior  year,  but  completed 
the  course  at  Colorado  College  in  1897,  ''■'''d 
subsequently  received  the  degree  of  A.B.  ad 
eundem  from  Bowdoin.  While  studying  the- 
ology at  Denver,  Colorado,  he  was  an  in- 
structor in  the  University  of  Colorado  where 
he  received  the  degree  of  A.M.  in  1900.  After 
taking  orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church  he  held 
a  pastorate  for  several  years  at  Lincoln,  Neb., 
He  then  entered  the  service  of  the  Holy  Cross 
Mission  in  New  York  City  and  spent  four 
years  among  the  East  Side  poor.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1908,  he  married  Mrs.  Josephine  Kind  of 
Lincoln,  Neb.,  who  suryives  him.  In  August, 
1909,  he  removed  to  Greenwich,  where  he  had 
been  appointed  on  the  staff  of  the  Brunswick 
School  and  assistant  rector  at  Christ  Church. 
Late  in  November  what  was  apparently  a  tem- 
porary indisposition  led  to  tuberculosis.  He 
left  Greenwich  with  his  wife  only  two  days  be- 
fore his  death. 

'98. — Mr.  J.  Meldon  Loring  is  now  teach- 
ing at  WaterlDury,  Conn. 

'01. — Alonzo  H.  Garcelon,  Esq.,  has 
formed  a  partnership  with  R.  D.  H.  Emerson, 
Esq.,  for  the  practice  of  law  in  Boston.  Their 
office  is  at  24  Milk  Street. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  JANUARY  14,  1910 


NO.  23 


B.  A.  A.  TEAM 

Coach  Morrill  and  Captain  Colbath  are 
daily  giving  the  B.  A.  A.  squad  practice  for 
the  relay  race  with  Tufts  in  Boston,  Feb.  12. 
Several  of  the  men  are  experienced  runners 
and  with  the  hard,  consistent  practice  they  are 
now  receiving,  Bowdoin  should  have  a  fast  re- 
lay team  this  year.  Among  the  candidates 
for  the  team  are:  Captain  Colbath,  '10;  E.  B. 
Smith,  '11;  H.  K.  Hine,  '11;  Robinson,  '11; 
L.  McFarland,  '11;  R.  D.  Cole,  '12;  C.  B. 
Timberlake,  '12;  Maurice  Gray,  '12;  Miller, 
'13;  Leon  Dodge,  '13;  Leon  Jones,  '13; 
Walker,  '13;  Curtis  Tuttle,  '13. 


ALPHA  KAPPA  KAPPA  CONVENTION 

The  Fifteenth  General  International  Con- 
vention of  the  Alpha  Kappa  Kappa  Fraternity 
at  which  the  Theta  Chapter  of  the  Medical 
School  of  Maine  will  be  hosts,  will  be  held  in 
Portland  within  a  short  time.  It  was  to  have 
been  held  during  the  Christmas  recess,  but  was 
postponed.  The  Headquarters  of  the  frater- 
nity during  the  convention  in  Portland  will  be 
at  the  Lafayette  Hotel,  when  a  banquet  will  be 
given.  At  this  banquet,  there  will  be  the 
Grand  Ofificers  of  the  Fraternity,  Doctor 
Charles  P.  Thayer  of  Boston,  George  Cook  of 
Concord,  N.  H.,  James  Brew  of  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  John  P.  Sprague  and  Edward  L. 
Heintz  of  Chicago,  and  Edward  R.  Pfarre  of 
New  York  City,  delegates  from  the  thirty-five 
chapters,  and  many  prominent  members  of  the 
medical  profession.  Theta  Chapter  is  to  be 
represented  by  M.  A.  Webber.  The  active 
members  of  the  chapter  at  Portland  and 
Brunswick  have  for  a  long  time  been  hard  at 
.work  on  the  plans  for  the  entertainment  of  the 
convention,  and  are  receiving  the  hearty  co- 
operation of  the  alumni  and  honorary  mem- 
bers. 


RECEPTION  TO  COMMANDER  PEARY 

At  the  conclusion  of  his  lecture  in  Augusta 
Tuesday  evening.  Commander  Peary  was 
given  a  reception  by  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon 
Chapter  of  whic'h  he  is  a  member.     Speeches 


were  made  at  the  reception  by  Governor  Fer- 
nald.  Professor  George  T.  Little,  Rev.  Cyrus 
F.  Stinson  of  Waterville,  from  Colby,  and 
Commander  Peary.  Commander  Peary  al- 
luded to  the  fact  that  he  placed  under  the 
stars  and  stripes  a  D.  K.  E.  banner  at  the 
North  Pole.  Members  were  present  from 
Augusta,  Gardiner,  Waterville,  Bangor,  Pitts- 
field,  Lewiston,  Wilton,  and  Winthrop. 


THE  FENCING  TEAM 

Under  the  direction  of  Charles  White  of 
the  Pianelli  Fencing  Team  of  Augusta,  the 
regular  fencing  season  commenced  Saturday 
night  in  the  gymnasium  and  will  be  continued 
until  the  Indoor  Meet  in  March.  Manager 
Robinson,  '10,  is  trying  to  arrange  bouts  with 
Harvard,  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technol- 
ogy and  the  Fenway  Fencing  Club  of  Boston. 

Among  those  out  for  the  team  are  the  three 
members  of  last  year's  team :  Ralph  E.  Bridge, 
Medic,  '13;  Winston  B.  Stevens,  '10;  Philip  B. 
Morss ;  the  others  are:  Henry  G.  Howes,  '10; 
Leon  S.  Lippincott,  '10;  Warren  E.  Robinson, 
'10;  Alton  S.  Pope,  '11;  Ralph  S.  Thompson, 
'10;  Earl  L.  Wright,  '10;  Ernest  G.  Fiefield, 
'11;  Verd  R.  Leavitt,  '11;  Frederick  S.  Wig- 


MUSICAL  CLUBS 

Manager  Weeks  announces  that  the  Dover 
and  Foxcroft  trips  of  the  Musical  Clubs  have 
been  cancelled.  Trips  to  Newport  and  Pitts- 
field  will  be  substituted  in  their  places.  Dur- 
ing the  last  week,  Manager  Weeks  was  in 
Bangor  arranging  for  the  club  and  the  enter- 
tainments in  that  vicinity. 

The  Mandolin  Club  will  not  be  picked  for 
the  trips  until  just  before  the  first  trip  to 
Richmond.  The  Mandolin  and  Glee  Clubs  are 
receiving  constant  help  and  are  given  re- 
hearsals throughout  the  week.  The  man- 
agers and  leaders  are  working  hard  to  make 
the  trips  this  year  decided  successes  and  im- 
provements over  those  of  previous  years. 


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COLBY  PROFESSOR  TO  LECTURE  IN  HUBBARD 
HALL 

The  Classical  Department  has  arranged  a 
course  of  three  exchange  lectures  with  the 
other  colleges  of  the  state,  the  first  of  which 
will  be  given  by  Prof.  Clarence  H.  White  of 
Colby  College  in  Hubbard  Hall,  Monday  even- 
ing, January  17,  at  8  o'clock.  Prof.  White's 
subject,  "The  Mimes  of  Herondas,"  combines 
freshness  with  intrinsic  interest.  Both  stu- 
dents and  friends  of  the  college  who  wish  to 
know  more  about  classic  literature  are  cor- 
dially invited  to  attend. 


SUNDAY  CHAPEL 

The  first  Sunday  Chapel  of  the  New  Year 
was  conducted  by  President  Hyde  who  used  as 
his  text  n.  Corinthians  5  :io,  "For  we  must  all 
appear  before  the  judgment  seat  of  Christ; 
that  every  one  may  receive  the  things  done  in 
his  body,  according  to  that  he  hath  done, 
whether  it  be  good  or  bad." 

He  said  that  altho  the  year  is  some  few 
days  old,  this  Sunday  Chapel  may  be  consid- 
ered a  New  Year's  service.  There  are  things 
about  every  one  of  us  in  act  and  habit  that  we 
are  ashamed  of,  and  these  things  make  it  im- 
possible for  us  to  think  complacently  of  God's 
judgment.  They  drag  us  down,  but  if  we  act- 
ually want  to  rid  ourselves  of  them  there  is  no 
need  of  dragging  them  about  with  us.  The 
Gospel  message  is  to  put  these  things  behind 
us  and  to  let  God  make  us  new  creatures. 
"Try  then!" 

Would  any  one  of  you  condemn  a  man 
who  was  ashamed  of  certain  acts  and  habits 
and  who  was  honestly  endeavoring  to  free 
himself  of  them?  Not  one  of  you.  If  you 
have  a  genuine  repentance  every  new  year  and 
every  new  day  and  a  desire  to  put  certain 
things  behind  you,  not  for  the  purpose  of 
evading  the  penalty,  and  an  honest  desire 
to  put  in  their  place  the  better  things  of  Christ 
a  marked  improvement  in  character  will  be 
seen. 

Then  there  is  the  problem  "How  to  get  it." 
It  is  no  new  thing  and  there  are  plenty  of  ways 
ahho  two  are  of  especial  importance. 

(i)  "Learn  more  of  it."  Love  the  Book 
and  read  it  diligently,  seize  every  opportunity 
to  commune  with  Him  and  seek  the  encour- 
agement and  fellowship  of  others  who  are  try- 
ing to  live  in  this  way. 


(2)  "Public  Worship."  This  chapel  ser- 
vice is  not  a  substitute  for  dignified  public 
worship  or  the  weekly  service  because  it  is  too 
brief  and  narrow.  This  town  is  fortunate  in 
its  number  of  churches  and  if  you  go  to  any 
of  them  with  the  desire  of  receiving  help  you 
will  secure  that  which  you  desire.  If  you  only 
do  this  week  by  week  the  year  1910  will  mark 
in  all  of  us  a  change  from  the  things  we  are 
ashamed  of  to  the  better  things  of  Christ. 


CHOOSING  A  LIFE  WORK 

Tlie  third  talk  in  the  Christian  Associa- 
tion's series,  "Choosing  a  Life  Work,"  was 
given  Thursday  evening,  January  6,  by  Prof. 
Chapman,  on  the  subject,  "Teaching."  The 
profession  of  teaching,  said  Prof.  Chapman, 
has  no  brilliant  rewards  to  offer  its  followers, 
such  as  fame,  wealth,  or  great  power,  though 
it  might  to  the  teacher  as  a  scholar  or  an  ad- 
ministrator offer  these.  The  rewards  of 
teaching  are  deeper,  and  of  a  nature  that  gives 
more  real  happiness.  The  teacher  may  be 
almost  sure  of  a  comfortable,  moderate  life  and 
a  simple  satisfaction  of  being  of  vital  service 
to  mankind. 

Though  teaching  is  not  always  taken  up 
deliberately  as  a  life  work  and  is  often  drifted 
into,  as  is  the  case  of  many  a  student  who  takes 
up  teaching  to  work  his  way  through  college, 
it  requires,  nevertheless,  certain  qualities. 
There  have  been  those,  who,  because  they  were 
lovers  of  books,  thought  they  would  make 
good  teachers.  They  were  mistaken,  however, 
for  a  teacher  must  have  more  than  a  love  for 
books,  he  must  have  primarily  an  ability  to  im- 
part knowledge.  He  must  have  the  four  fun- 
damental qualities,  summed  up  in  one  of 
George  Herbert  Palmer's  books  something 
like  this: 

1.  Aptitude  for  vicariousness. 

2.  Already  accumulated  knowledge. 

3.  Ability  to  make  his  subjects  full  of  life. 

4.  Readiness  to  be  forgotten. 

With  these  four  qualities  he  may  fear  no 
failure ;  without  them  he  can  expect  no  success. 


THE  NOVEMBER  QUILL 

The  old  plot  of  mistaken  identity,  ending  in 
humorous  fashion,  is  given  an  attractive  set- 
ting in  "The  Miracle  of  the  Abbott  of  Beau- 
clerf."  The  story  is  entertainingly  told,  and 
comes  to  a  close  at  the  correct  moment.     The 


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conversation,  however,  is  forced.  We  would 
urge  the  writer  to  study  his  Howells  more 
assiduously  for  conversational  hints. 

"Kipling  in  his  American  Home"  is  inter- 
esting in  that  it  shows  us  something  of  the 
home  life  of  an  author  who  is  a  great  favorite 
with  college  men.  Many  of  the  gossipy  details 
of  Kipling's  Brattleboro  life  seem  hitherto  to 
have  escaped  the  biograj^hers.  Since  the  un- 
published Kipling  verse  which  concludes  the 
essay  addresses  itself  to  two  different  types  of 
beings,  without  any  dropping  of  the  curtain 
between,  we  imagine  its  publication  gives  more 
pleasure  to  us  than  it  would  to  him.  It  is,  per- 
haps, a  fact  not  without  signifiance  that  Kip- 
ling is  more  happy  in  the  section  of  the  poem 
addressed  to  men  than  he  is  in  the  section  ad- 
dressed to  the  muses. 

"The  Life  Raft"  evinces  a  firmness  of  sen- 
tence structure  not  commonly  found  in  the 
writings  of  Sophomores.  But  the  subject 
matter  is  a  bit  too  romantic.  Undergraduates 
insist  on  writing  about  the  unknown  in  prefer- 
ence to  the  known;  (did  not  the  author  of 
"The  Miracle  of  the  Abbott"  do  the  same?) 
and  we  might  as  well  submit  gracefully  and 
read. 

The  first  stanza  of  "Autumn"  displays  a 
genuine  feeling  for  nature.  The  last  stanza 
displays  the  ease  with  which  a  poet  in  his  in- 
fancy can  find  a  God.  The  poem,  as  a  whole, 
is  characterized  by  weak  lines  and  forced 
rhymes ;  but  the  true  nature  feeling  in  the  first 
stanza  is  promising. 

"The  Dawn  Will  Soon  be  Breaking"  should 
interest  both  the  student  of  Provencal  and  the 
general  reader.  The  intimacy  of  relationship 
between  the  two  comrades  is  puzzling  to  the 
"dark  and  true  and  tender"  people  of  a  more 
northern  clime;  but  even  we  who  live  in  New 
England  can  appreciate  the  poetry  which  the 
situation  calls  forth.  If  the  translation  is  a 
free  one,  so  much  more  credit  is  due  the  trans- 
lator for  the  grace  he  has  infused  into  the 
lines. 

The  sonnet  entitled  "Friends"  is  far  better 
in  conception  than  in  execution.  The  strug- 
gle for  technique  in  the  Petrarchan  sonnet 
form  has  proved  too  severe  for  the  writer. 
The  result  of  this  attempt,  we  hope,  will  lead 
future  Quill  poets  to  rest  content  with  the  sim- 
ple quatrain,  and  to  avoid  entirely  the  difficult 
poetic  forms  which  can  be  done  well  only  after 
long  and  arduous  secret  practice. 

The  Editor's  plea  for  quality  might  well  be 
taken  to  heart  by  some  of  the  contributors  of 
the  present  issue.     Ye  Postman  is  written  by  a 


man  who  can  say  pleasant  things  in  a  pleasant 
way.  Why  does  he  not  turn  his  talent  into 
"Gray  Goose"  form  and  revive  that  depart- 
ment so  dear  to  the  editors  of  by-gone  days? 

Taken  in  its  entirety  the  November  Quill 
maintains  commendably  the  standard  of  our 
loved  periodical ;  and  its  pages  show  that  Bow- 
doin  undergraduates  are  still  alive  to  the  fasci- 
nating subject  of  creative  literature. 

C.  W.  S. 


THE  MINSTREL  SHOW  ^ 

Preparations  for  the  annual  Bowdoin  Minstrel 
Show  are  being  pushed  rapidly  by  "Bob"  Tooth- 
aker,  who  is  coaching  the  ends  and  chorus,  and  by 
Manager  Wiggin,  who  is  engineering  the  financial 
part  of  the  undertaking. 

^  The  Orient  is  confident  that  this  year's  show 
will  be  one  of  the  best  ever.  The  music  is  especially 
catchy — the  interlocutor  and  ends  are  a  whole  show 
in  themselves,  the  chorus  is  large  and  composed  of 
good  singers  and  the  jokes  are  winners. 

The  baseball  management  is  in  desperate  need  of 
funds.     Come  and  bring   your  friends. 


NOTES  ON  THE  ROCHESTER  CONVENTION 

Those  men  who  attended  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  meet- 
ing last  Sunday  evening  came  away  realizing  that 
the  average  Bowdoin  man  knows  but  little  of  the 
magnitude  of  the  Foreign  Missions  Movement,  and 
that  Bowdoin  plays  a  relatively  small  part  in  this 
field. 

The  reports  of  the  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  convention, 
given  by  the  delegates,  Messrs.  McConaghy,  Slo- 
cum,  Hinch,  F.  A.  Smith  and  Prof.  Sills,  were 
brief,  yet  comprehensive  enough  to  show  how  the 
convention  was  arranged,  how  the  4500  delegates 
were  entertained,  who  the  speakers  were,  and  the 
importance  and  scope  of  the  work. 

Among  the  celebrated  speakers  was  Ambassador 
Bryce  of  England. 

About  700  schools  and  colleges  were  represented. 

AH  the  speakers  emphasized  the  fact  that  Bow- 
doin, being  considerably  removed  from  the  center  of 
this  activity,  has  done  but  little  toward  the  support 
of  Foreign  Missions,  either  financially  or  through  its 
graduates  becoming  missionaries. 

At  present,  however,  we  have  several  graduates 
in  mission  fields,  among  whom  is  Mr.  Hiwale, 
who  has  just  entered  upon  his  labors  in  India. 

Every  effort  will  be  made  to  support  him,  $600.00 
per  year  being  the  amount  needed.  The  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
will  endeavor  to  raise  $300.00 — the  other  half  being 
pledged  elsewhere.  Every  Bowdoin  man  should  feel 
it  his  duty  to  contribute  all  he  can. 

On  next  Thursday  the  college  will  have  the  op- 
portunity of  listening  to  an  address  by  W.  A.  Dun- 
more,  the  State  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Army  Secretary.  He 
will  speak  on  "Experiences  at  the  Army  Posts  of 
Maine." 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,   1910  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  1911,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 

p.  B.  MORSS,  1910  J.  C.  WHITE.  1911 

THOMAS  OTIS,  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON.  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON.  1910      W.  A.  McCORMICK.  1912 
W.  A.  FULLER.  1912 


R.  D.  MORSS,   1910 
J.  L.  CURTIS,  1911 


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Vol.  XXXIX. 


JANUARY   14,   1910 


No.  23 


In  the  present  issue,  •  the 
A  Quill  Criticism  Orient  prints  a  Quill 
criticism',  by  which  we  are 
reminded  that  a  little  Quill  criticism  on  our 
own  part,  might  not  be  out  of  order.  During 
the  three  and  one-half  years  that  the  Class  of 
1910  has  been  on  the  campus,  no  member  of 
that  class  can  recall  that  a  single  story  dealing 
with  life  at  Bowdoin,  has  been  published  in  the 
Quill.  Quill  writers  may  have  a  more  inti- 
mate knowledge  of  the  subjects  with  which 
they  deal  than  they  do  of  college  life,  but  we 
doubt  it.  From  what  source  are  future  vol- 
umes of  Bowdoin  Stories  to  come,  if  the  pres- 
ent tendency  is  permitted  to  go  on  uninter- 
rupted ?  The  dearth  of  Bowdoin  stories  in  the 
last  four  volumes  of  the  Quill  should  be  a 
means  of  stimulating  the  expiring  spark  of 
life,  to  the  end  that  both  undergraduate  and 
alumni  contributors  to  the  Quill,  will  be  more 
prolific  in  a  vein  which  is  very  near  and  dear 
to  every  son  of  Bowdoin. 


Following  the  announce- 
Power  of  Student  ment  by  President  Hyde  of 
Council  Usurped  a  faculty  committee  on  fra- 
ternity houses,  a  number 
of  men  representing  different  fraternities 
were  called  together  in  a  sort  of  indig- 
nation meeting  for  the  purpose  of  pro- 
testing against  faculty  interference  with  fra- 
ternities. Setting  aside  altogether  the  ques- 
tion of  the  so-called  faculty  intrusion,  such  a 
meeting  as  above  described  was,  according  to 
the  strict  definition  of  the  word,  a  revolution 
against  the  Student  Council.  The  Student 
Council  is  the  only  body  authorized  to  consider 
questions  of  college  policy,  and  such  a  gather- 
ing as  that  of  last  week  is  not  only  a  waste  of 
wind,  but  if  persisted  in,  would  cheapen  the 
prestige  of  the  Student  Council.  The  meeting 
called  last  week  was  an  act  of  thoughtlessness, 
but  should  not  be  repeated.  If  you  are  not  sat- 
isfied with  the  way  the  faculty  runs  the  college, 
or  have  any  suggestions  to  make,  bring  your 
grievances  or  suggestions  to  the  attention  of 
the  Council  where  they  will  be  given  a  sane 
consideration,  and  recommendation  made  ac- 
cordingly. 

HONOR  LIST  OF  1909  FOOTBALL 

In  the  January  Outing  Walter  Camp  gives  the 
following  Honor  List  of  1909  Football  and  tells  why 
the  men  belong  on  this  roll.  This  is  a  departure 
from  the  usual  All-America  Team  published  at  this 
time  of  the  year. 

Yale — ^Coy,  fullback ;  Kilpatrick,  right  end ;  Phil- 
bin  left  halfback ;  Andros,  left  guard ;  Hobbs,  left 
tackle;  Cooney,  center;  Howe,  quarterback. 

Pennsylvania — Braddock,  left  end ;  Miller,  right 
end ;  Pike,  right  guard ;  Hutchinson,  quarterback. 

Harvard — Fish,  right  tackle ;  Minot,  fullback ; 
Corbett,  left  halfback;  McKay,  left  tackle. 

Dartmouth — Marks,  fullback ;  Tobin,  left  guard ; 
Ingersoll,  left  halfback;  Bankhart,  right  end. 

Lafayette — Blaicker,  left  end;  McCaa,,  fullback; 
Irmecbler,  right  halfback. 

Princeton — Siegling,  left  tackle ;  Bergen,  quar- 
terback; Cunningham,  right  halfback. 

FoRDHAM — McCaffery,  right  end  ;  Barrett,  center  ; 
McCarthy,  right  halfback. 

Minnesota — McGovern,  quarterback;  Rosen- 
wald,    halfback;    Walker,    tackle;    Farnam,   center. 

Brown — Regnier,  right  end;  Sprackling,  quarter- 
back ;  Ayler,  left  guard. 

Chicago — Page,  quarterback;  Worthwine,  half- 
back. 

Michigan — Benbrook,  left  guard;  Magidsohn, 
left  halfback;  Allerdice,  right  halfback;  Casey,  left 
tackle  ;  Smith,  center  ;  Wasmund.  quarterback. 

Notre  Dame — Miller,  left  halfback;  Vaughn,  full- 
back; Edwards,  tackle. 

Wisconsin — Anderson,  quarterback. 


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COMMUNICATION 

To   the  Editor  of   the   Orient: 

In  a  conversation  with  a  somewhat  prominent 
public  man  not  so  very  long  ago,  he  advanced  the 
belief  that  if  the  college  man  could  be  induced  to 
take  more  interest  in  popular  government,  conditions 
in  our  cities  would  be  much  better  than  they  are  at 
the  present  time.  A  college  man  himself,  he  scored 
the  colleges  of  the  country  for  their  seeming  failure 
to  send  out  men,  serious-minded  enough  to  do  their 
duty  as  citizens,  to  vote  at  primaries  and  elections, 
to  know  who  is  running  for  office  and  to  know  who 
the  public  officials  are  and  how  they  conduct  their 
offices.  A  short  time  ago  at  an  examination  at 
Brown  only  a  very  small  percentage  of  the  class 
could  name  the  men  in  President  Taft's  cabinet.  How 
many  Bowdoin  students  could  name  all  the  Senators 
and  Representatives  from  Maine  who  go  to  Wash- 
ington? 

You  fellows  from  Bowdoin  who  are  coming  down 
here  to  New  York  next  year  to  work  know  nothing 
about  New  York  City  government  and  it  is  the  big- 
gest city  in  the  country.  Will  you  make  yourselves 
felt  when  you  do  come.  You  probably  have  mighty 
little  idea  what  a  lot  of  effective  work  a  few  earnest 
fellows  can  do  in  the  interests  of  good  government. 

Politics  in  our  cities,  no  matter  what  party  is  in 
power,  is  more  or  less  rotten  and  far  from  being 
ideal.  I  have  often  wondered  why;  and  for  lack  of 
any  other  good  reason  I  have  answered  the  ques- 
tion to  my  ovirn  satisfaction  at  least  by  becoming  con- 
vinced that  the  fault  lies  with  the  schools  and  the 
churches. 

We  have  churches  galore.  For  the  most  part 
they  are  poorly  attended.  There  is  nothing  vital  and 
practical  about  most  of  them.  They  too  often 
preach  a  dead  theology  to  dead  audiences.  Too  many 
people  go  to  church  simply  as  a  matter  of  course, 
anyway. 

If  the  churches  had  the  influence  they  should 
have  in  a  community,  we  would  have  less  corruption 
in  public  life.  Too  many  clergymen  are  afraid  of 
dirtying  their  hands  by  taking  a  stand  in  their  pulpits 
on  moral  questions  of  the  day  or  on  such  an  impor- 
tant matter  as  a  corrupt  and  unfit  candidate  for  of- 
fice. They  seem  to  consider  it  wise  to  side-step 
trouble  by  talking  about  Moses  while  Charlie  Mur- 
phy is  never  mentioned.  They  seem  to  fear  giving 
offence  to  some  one  in  their  audience  whose  money 
secures  for  such  an  one  an  immunity  bath  and  that, 
too,  at  the  hands  of  those  who  should  be  leaders  of 
the  people. 

A  minister  has  no  business  attempting  to  influ- 
ence his  people  from  the  pulpit  on  purely  political- 
economic  questions  but  when  the  moral  issue  comes 
ifi  as  between  a  fit  or  unfit  candidate,  or  a  question 
of  criminal  neglect  to  enforce  certain  laws,  he  should 
make   his   influence    felt   and   strongly. 

Politics  is  at  such  a  stage  that  it  is  difficult  to 
arouse  the  ordinary  citizen  even  to  vote  unless  he  is 
interested  in  the  patronage  to  be  handed  out  after- 
ward, and  it  is  usually  those  who  are  so  interested 
who  work  hard  to  get  out  the  vote  on  election  day. 
The  rest  seem  to  be  indifferent  how  the  laws  are 
enforced  or  what  laws  are  passed  so  long  as  their 
peace  and  comfort  are  not  disturbed. 

Such  citizens  delegate  all  such  matters  to  others 
and  while  they  may  hear  and  even  believe  that  many 
of  these  delegates  are  unfit,  still  they  do  nothing  but 


throw  up  their  hands  and  cry  "What's  the  use?"  and 
the  same  bad  conditions  continue. 

The  average  college  man  unless  he  be  a  lawyer, 
takes  no  interest  in  political  duties.  It  is  hard  even 
to  get  him  out  to  vote.  This  is  largely  the  fault  of 
his  college  training.  He  learns  about  the  "Tweed 
ring"  from  his  "Bryce"  and  absorbs  a  lot  of  hot  air 
concerning  the  iniquities  of  a  protective  tariff,  but 
of  the  science  of  government,  the  actual  conditions  in 
modern  municipal  government,  he  gets  little  or  noth- 
ing; and  so  later  on  he  is  imbued  with  no  incentive 
to  pitch  in  and  do  his  duty  as  a  good  citizen. 

From  actual  work  in  a  district  containing  10,000 
voters  I  know  how  hard  it  is  to  wake  people  up  to 
their  condition  of  dependence  upon  some  self-ap- 
pointed boss  for  their  candidates,  their  laws  and  the 
enforcement  of  laws ;  and  the  college  man  is  the 
hardest  to  arouse.  To  him  it  is  all  a  huge  joke — and 
the  more  recently  he  is  out  of  college  the  bigger  the 
joke  seems  to  him. 

If  the  colleges  were  doing  their  duty  in  teaching 
the  duties  of  citizenship,  and  the  churches  their  duty 
in  keeping  people  up  to  the  mark,  the  people  of  this 
country  would  long  since  have  emancipated  them- 
selves from  that  strict  and  almost  religious  adher- 
ence to  party  which  makes  itself  felt  in  every  little 
town  election  when  the  only  issue  at  stake  is  to 
secure  honest  and  intelligent  government.  Most 
people,  anyway,  are  democrats  or  republicans  be- 
cause their  fathers   were  before  them. 

Why  don't  the  colleges  take  the  lead  in  the 
reformation  of  our  political  life  so  ably  begun  by 
Theodore  Roosevelt  and  so  well  carried  on  by  such 
men  as  Hughes  of  New  York.  LaFollette  of  Wiscon- 
sin, Colby  of  New  Jersey  and  a  few  others? 

American  Colleges  and  Universities  ought  to  be 
doing  for  the  political  life  of  this  country  what  the 
English  Universities  once  did  for  England  and  what 
the  Russian  Universities  are  doing  to-day  for  that 
distracted  country.  They  ought  to  make  their  influ- 
ence felt  in  our  political  life  so  that  after  a  few 
years  every  college  man  with  any  spirit  would  be 
a  strong,  active  force  for  commonsense  govern- 
ment. This  present  time  of  political  unrest  all  over 
the  coimtry  is  an  excellent  time  for  them  to  begin 
a  movement  of  this  sort. 

We  need  less  of  the  theoretical  and  abstract  and 
passive,  and  more  of  the  practical  and  active,  in  both 
church  and  college. 

A.  T.  Shorey,  1905. 


While  considering  the  feat  from  which  Peary  has 
returned,  it  is  interesting  to  note  that  Sir  Ernest  H. 
Shackleton,  who  holds  the  record  for  "farthest 
South,"  announces  another  expedition  to  attempt  to 
reach  the  South  Pole. 

Two  interesting  prizes  have  just  been  estab- 
lished at  Columbia — one  of  an  annual  value  of  about 
$50  as  a  memorial  to  the  late  Charles  M.  Rolker  of 
the  Class  of  1906,  to  be  awarded  to  the  member  of 
the  graduating  class  who,  in  the  judgment  of  his 
classmates,  shall  have  proved  himself  worthy  of  spe- 
cial distinction  either  because  of  industry  and  suc- 
cess as  a  scholar,  or  helpful  particpation  in  student 
athletics,  or  pre-eminence  in  athletic  sports,  or  any 
combination  of  these;  the  second,  an  athletic  prize 
of  the  same  amount,  to  be  known  as  The  Hudson- 
Fulton  Prize,  to  be  awarded  in  athletics  under  the 
direction  of  the  College  Alumni  Association. 


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READING  BY  MR.  JAMES  P.  WEBBER,  '00 

Last  Thursday  evening,  before  one  of  the  largest 
audiences  which  has  gathered  in  Memorial  Hall  this 
season,  Mr.  James  P.  Webber,  'oo,  gave  a  reading 
from  "Macbeth."  Mr.  Webber  was  formerly  a 
teacher  in  the  Bath  public  schools,  and  is  now  in- 
structor in  English  in  Phillips-Exeter  Academy.  He 
appeared  under  the  auspices  of  the  Ibis,  gaining 
great  applause  for  his  excellent  presentation  of  the 
play.  The  reading  included  the  essential  scenes  with 
a  synopsis  of  each  portion  omitted.  Mr.  Webber's 
work  was  characterized  by  vigor  and  clearness  of 
enunciation  and  by  a  pleasing  interpretation  of  the 
various  parts.  The  porter  scene,  the  banquet  scene, 
and  the  sleep-walking  scene  were  especially  well 
done.  Mr.  Webber  and  the  Ibis  should  have  the 
thanks  of  every  student  for  the  entertainment. 


PRESIDENT  HYDE  ON  EDUCATIONAL  METHODS 

President  Hyde  addressed  the  meeting  of  the 
Twentieth  Century  Club  of  Bangor  a  t  the  Ban- 
gor House,  Friday  night,  Jan.  8,  1910.  The  subject 
President  Hyde  had  been  asked  to  speak  upon  was 
"The  Moral  Aims  of  Education  at  the  Several 
Stages"  and  he  treated  of  the  attitude  a  teacher 
should  assume  with  the  pupils  in  the  primary  de- 
partment, the  grammar  grades,  the  high  school,  the 
college  and  the  university.  The  Bangor  Commercial 
says,  "The  paper  was  a  brilliant  one  and  the  interest 
of  the  men  present  in  it  was  most  marked." 

At  one  point  in  his  speech  President  Hyde  cited 
the  case  of  a  prominent  man  who,  when  asked  why 
he  had  sent  all  four  of  his  boys  to  Harvard  College, 
said  that  in  the  light  of  his  broad  experience  the 
college  men  occupied  the  first,  the  choicest  places  in 
the  business  world  because  they  were  best  fitted  for 
them.  "Once  I  talked  about  this  thing  with  Former 
President  Pritchett  of  the  Massachusetts  Institute 
of  Technology,"  said  President  Hyde,  "and  ^  he 
agreed  with  me  that  while  his  technically  trained 
men  received  more  pay  when  they  first  went  into 
the  world  than  my  college  men,  yet  at  the  end  of  ten 
years  they  did  not  receive  as  much."  This  state- 
ment by  the  former  head  of  one  of  the  greatest  tech- 
nical schools  of  the  country  should  be  of  interest  to 
Bowdoin  men. 

During  the  course  of  his  address.  President  Hyde 
paid  a  glowing  tribute  to  a  former  Principal  of  Ban- 
gor High  School,  Henry  K.  White,  '74.  who  is  well- 
known  to  many  of  the  undergraduates.  He  said 
that  Principal  White  had  been  at  the  head  of  sev- 
eral preparatory  schools  in  Maine,  and  that  from 
whatever  school  he  had  been  in  charge  of  there  had 
come  to  college  a  steady  stream  of  men  as  admira- 
bly fitted  for  the  advanced  work  in  every  way  as 
could  be  desired. 


MEETING  OF  THE  MONDAY  CLUB 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Monday  Club  held  at  the 
Alpha  Delta  Phi  house  Monday  evening,  the  club 
elected  a  committee  to  visit  Hebron  Academy  for  the 
purpose  of  getting  on  track  of  desirable  athletes  who 
intend  to  go  to  college.  It  was  left  with  the  Presi- 
dent to  appoint  similar  committees  to  visit  Portland 
High  School  and  Westbrook  Seminary. 


The  club  voted  to  adopt  a  football  with  a  raised 
"B"  for  a  pin  design. 

Among  other  discussions  there  was  a  general  in- 
formal talk  in  regard  to  a  football  coach. 

The  next  meeting  of  the  club  will  be  held  at  the 
Zeta  Psi  House,  the  first  Monday  in  February. 


CALENDAR 

Friday,  January  14 
8.00     First  Junior  Assembly  in  Memorial  Hall. 

Saturday,  January  15 
2.30     Make-up  gym. 
4.00    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

Sunday,  January   16 

10.45  Morning  service  in  the  Church  on  the 
Hill,  conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Quint. 

5.00  Sunday  chapel,  conducted  by  President 
Hyde.  Music  by  double  quartette,  vocal  solo  by 
Parkman,  '11. 

Monday,  January  17 

2.30    Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

4.00    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

4.30     Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial  Hall. 

5. 15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

8.00  Under  the  auspices  of  the  Classical  Depart- 
ment, Prof.  H.  White  of  Colby  College  will  lecture 
in  Hubbard  Hall  on  "The  Mimes  of  Herondas." 
Meeting  of  Classical  Club  at  close  of  lecture. 

Tuesday,  January  18 

3.30    Make-up  gym. 

4.00     Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

5.10  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

8.00  John  Drew  in  "Inconstant  George"  at  the 
Empire  Theatre,  Lewiston. 

Wednesday,  January  ig 

2.30     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

4.00    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

S.oo  Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial 
Hall. 

5.10  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

5. IS    Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

Thursday,  January  20 

2.30    Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

4.00    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

5.10  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

S.15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

7.00  Address  by  W.  A.  Dunmore,  State  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  Army  Secretary,  on  "Experiences  at  the  Army 
Posts  of  Maine,"  in  Christian  Association  Room. 

Friday,  January  21 

2.30    Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

4.00    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

5.00  Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial 
Hall. 

S.io  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

7.30  Meeting  of  Deutscher  Verein  at  the  Delta 
Upsilon  House. 

Saturday,  January  22 

2.30    Make-up  gym. 

4.00    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 


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i9i 


(Tollege  Botes 

Burgh,   'ii,  preached   at   Wiscasset,    Sunday. 

Lunt,  '13,  was  home  in  Portland  over  Sunday. 

Fred  H.  Dole,  '97,  was  on  the  campus  last  week. 

H.  E.  Rowell,  '10,  returned  from  home,  Sunday. 

Willard  Curtis,  '11,  preached  at  Cornish,  Sunday. 

The  Psi  Upsilon  fraternity  picture  was  taken 
Tuesday.  • 

Renie  Lafleche,  Medic.  '13,  is  sick  at  his  home  in 
Caribou. 

Moulton,  '13,  visted  friends  in  South  Portland, 
Sunday. 

The  Quill  Board  picture  was  taken  Tuesday  at 
Webber's. 

Ludwig,  'id,  was  in  Hebron  Thursday  and  Fri- 
day of  last  week. 

Whittier,  '13,  is  the  new  Freshman  monitor  in 
the  absence  of   Harden. 

C.  A.  Smith,  '10,  and  F.  V.  Black,  '11,  returned 
to  college  Monday  of  this  week. 

A  number  of  fellows  take'  in  the  Saturday  night 
roller-polo  games  at  Bath  each  week. 

Tungsten  burners  have  been  installed  in  the 
gym.   for  the  benefit  of  the  fencing  squad. 

Prof.  Mitchell  spoke  in  Thomaston  last  week  on 
a  subject  relative  to  the  teaching  of  English. 

President  Hyde  addressed  the  meeting  of  the 
Faculty  Club  Monday  evening  on  "School  Philoso- 
phy." 

W.  J.  Curtis,  '11,  entertained  J.  Garfield  Jen- 
kins, the  new  Physical  Instructor  of  Bath  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  last  week. 

Mr.  White  of  Aifgusta  will  be  at  the  gym.  every 
Saturday  night  for  the  purpose  of  giving  instruc- 
tions  in  fencing. 

C.  F.  Robinson,  '03,  had  an  article  in  the  Decem- 
ber Political  Science  Monthly  on  "State  Taxation 
and  Forest  Lands." 

Brown,  '10,  Leigh,  '12,  Weston,  '12,  Abbott,  '12, 
Clark,  '12,  and  Greenwood,  '13,  enjoyed  a  sleighride 
to  Mere   Point,   Sunday. 

The  candidates  for  Assistant  Baseball  Manager 
are  asked  to  give  their  names  to  either  E.  O.  Leigh, 
'12,  or  A.  L.  Wiggin,  '11. 

Chadbourne,  '07,  who  has  been  with  the  Inter- 
national Banking  Company,  has  returned  from  Lon- 
don  and   started   for   Mexico   City. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Washington  County  Club 
at  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  House,  Tuesday  evening, 
Mr.  Herbert  Harris  of  Portland,  spoke  on  Esper- 
anto. 

Examinations  for  entrance  conditions  in  Latin 
were  held  Wednesday  and  Thursday,  for  Greek  con- 
ditions Friday,  and  for  Algebra  conditions,  Saturday. 

The  Boston  American  of  Sunday,  January  ninth, 
also  the  Boston  Herald  of  the  same  date,  have  arti- 
cles_  on  the  Clarke  family  of  Damariscotta  Mills, 
Maine.  The  family  is  made  up  of  seven  brothers, 
all  of  whom  have  been  athletes.  Three  of  these 
brothers,  Albert,  James,  and  Walter,  have  been  cap- 
tains of  Bowdoin  baseball  and  football  teams. 


"Bill"    Crowley,  '08,  was  on  the  campus,   Sunday. 

Dr.  Copeland  gave  adjourns  in  all  his  courses 
last  week. 

Kimball,  '11,  has  gone  home  because  of  an  at- 
tack of  measles. 

Mr.  Hitchcock,  Cornell,  '01,  visited  friends  on  the 
campus,  Sunday. 

"Mack,"  janitor  in  Appleton  Hall,  has  been  sick 
during  the  week. 

Ralph  Smith,  ex-'io,  has  been  on  the  campus  dur- 
ing the  past  week. 

P.  T.  Nickerson,  '10,  is  planning  to  work  on  the 
census  report  this  year. 

Bowdoin  opens  Brown's  baseball  schedule  by  a 
game,  April  2,  at  Providence. 

Frank  Smith,  '12,  and  S.  J.  Hinch,  '13,  returned 
from  New  York  last  Saturday. 

Duffy,  '13,  is  reported  as  much  improved  in 
health  and  is  now  out  of  danger. 

The  picture  of  the  Football  Team  was  printed 
in  a  late  issue  of  the  Lewiston  Journal. 

Prof.  Chapman  gave  adjourns  in  English  Liter- 
ature I  and  3  on  Tuesday  and  Wednesday. 

Prof.  W.  B.  Mitchell  is  the  delegate  to  the  meet- 
ing of  the  Washington  Alumni  Association. 

Several  students  attended  the  Chapman-Alexan- 
der   revival   meeting   in   Portland,    Saturday. 

Prof.  Robinson  gave  an  adjourn  in  Chemistry  i, 
Monday,  to  attend  a  meeting  of  the  Medical  Faculty 
at  Portland. 

R.  D.  Morss,  '10,  returned  to  college,  Monday. 
During  the  Christmas  recess  he  underwent  an  oper- 
ation   for    appendicitis. 

In  addition  to  the  list  of  gymnasium  assistants 
given  in  the  last  issue,  there  have  been  appointed 
Bickmore,  '11,  and  Perry,  '13. 

Maloney,  '12,  will  debate  next  Tuesday  night  in 
English  5  in  place  of  Brummet,  '11,  who  is  sick  at 
home  with  scarlet  fever. 

A  light  has  been  placed  at  the  back  entrance  to 
•the  library.  An  attempt  is  now  being  made  to  secure 
suitable  lights   for  the   front  entrance. 

Freshmen  desiring  to  try  for  the  Assistant  Man- 
agership of  the  Quill,  are  requested  to  hand  their 
names  to  either  Meserve,   '11,   or   Matthews,   '12. 

In  an  article  in  the  current  "World's  Work"  on 
the  work  of  the  artist,  Elihu  Vedder,  is  a  photo- 
graph of  Vedder's  painting  in  the  Art  Building, 
taken  by  Prof.  Hutchins. 

After     the     entertainment,      Thursday     evening, 
given  by  Webber,  1900,  a  reception  was  tendered  to         / 
him  by   the   Alpha   Delta  Phi     fraternity     at     their 
Chapter  House.     The  reception  was  in  charge  of  P. 
B.   Morss,   '10. 

Ridgley  C.  Clark,  '08,  Principal  of  Fryeburg 
Academy,  visited  the  college  for  a  few  days  last 
week.  During  the  short  time  that  Clark  has  been  at 
the  head  of  this  Academy  the  enrollment  has 
doubled. 

The  new  catalogue  of  Colby  College  is  just  out. 
The  number  of  students  is  298,  the  largest  in  the 
history  of  the  institution.  The  faculty  numbers  21, 
four  more  than  last  year.  The  library  has  47,000 
volumes  and  20,000  pamphlets,  1300  volumes  more 
than  last  year. 


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Hluntni  IDepartment 

'50. — An  interesting  sketch  of  Hon. 
William  P.  Frye,  LL.D.,  who  has  now  com- 
pleted forty  years  of  service  in  the  Congress 
of  the  United  States,  twelve  in  fhe  House  of 
Representatives  and  twenty-eight  in  the  Sen- 
ate, appeared  in  the  Independent  of  December 
30,  1909.  It  contains  a  recent  likeness  of  the 
Senator  and  was  written  by  Hon.  D.  S.  Alex- 
ander, LL.D.,  of  the  Class  of  1870. 

'54. — A  recent  number  of  the  Farmington 
Chronicle  gives  an  interesting  account  of  the 
miliary  career  of  Gen.  Henry  Clay  Wood,  U. 
S.  A.,  who,  after  a  half  century  of  service  in 
army,  is  spending  the  winter  in  that  village. 
He  is  one  of  the  few  Bowdoin  men  to  whom 
the  medal  of  honor,  whidh  corresponds  to  the 
Victoria  Cross  in  England,  was  awarded  dur- 
ing the  Civil  War  for  distinguished  gallantry 
in  action. 

'61. — Miss  Florence,  youngest  daughter 
of  Frank  L.  Dingley,  Litt.D.,' of  Auburn,  Me., 
was  married  6  Jan.  1910,  at  her  parents'  resi- 
dence, to  Mr.  Hartley  Little  Lord,  agent  of 
the  Bates  Manufacturing  Company  of  Lew- 
iston. 

'71. — Annie  Sewall,  wife  of  Edward  P. 
Mitchell,  editor  of  the  Nezv  York  Sun,  died  at 
her  home  at  Glen  Ridge,  New  Jersey,  13  Dec. 
1909. 

'yy. — Hon.  Edward  H.  Blake  of  Bangor, 
has  been  appointed  lecturer  on  admiralty  law 
in  the  Law  School  of  the  University  of  Maine. 

'yy. — Commander  Peary  lectured  last 
week  to  crowded  audiences  at  Portland,  Au- 
gusta and  Bangor.  He  remarked  near  the 
beginning  of  his  address  that  "the  eye  is  the 
only  instant  avenue  to  the  most  intelligent 
brain."  Later  on  he  showed  two  sets  of  pic- 
tures that  seemed  to  prove  his  assertion. 
Nothing  in  the  Commander's  lecture  sug- 
gested the  fierce  endeavor  of  the  long,  trying 
journey  over  the  ice  pack  as  did  those  lantern 
slides.  The  pictures  might  have  been  labelled 
"before  and  after  taking  the  pole."  But  there 
was  no  joke  about  them.  The  first  series 
showed  two  of  the  Eskimos  who  accompanied 
Peary  to  the  pole.  They  were  taken  on  board 
the  Roosevelt  before  the   journey   began  and 


showed  the  round  blubbery  faced  Eskimo 
made  familiar  in  many  pictures.  The  second 
series  was  of  the  same  men  after  their  return. 
The  contrast  was  remarkable.  In  place  of  the 
round,  and  to  civilized  eyes,  characterless, 
countenances,  there  flashed  out  on  the  screen 
the  faces  of  two  men  showing  forcefulness, 
quiet  determination  and  resourcefulness  in 
every  line. 

These  pictures  brought  the  story  of  the 
struggle  home  to  the  audience  and  after  a 
moment  of  silence  there  followed  applause 
greater  than  that  accorded  to  the  picture  of 
the  goal  itself.  The  tension  didn't  relax  until 
Commander  Peary  told  how  he  had  overheard 
the  Eskimos  after  the  return  to  land  tell  each 
other  that  certainly  the  devil  must  have  been 
asleep  or  engaged  in  a  family  quarrel  with  his 
wife  since  they  had  escaped  so  easily. 

'99. — Rev.  Fred  R.  Marsh  is  pastor  of  the 
First  Congregational  Church  at  Houston, 
Texas.  A  recent  sermon  of  his  on  the 
Progress  of  the  World  was  printed  entire  in 
the  leading  newspaper  of  that  city. 

'03. — A  valuable  article  on  State  Taxation 
and  Forest  Lands  by  Clement  F.  Robinson, 
appears  in  the  December  number  of  the  Polit- 
ical Science  Quarterly. 

'04. — Henry  Charles  Clary,  who  was  a 
member  of  this  class  during  Freshman  year, 
but  completed  his  course  at  Dartmouth,  died 
suddenly  of  tuberculosis  at  Hallowell  31  Dec. 
1909. 

'05. — Louis  Dwight  Harvell  Weld,  Ph.D., 
was  married  in  New  York  City  23  Dec.  1909, 
to  Florence  Barbara  Applegate,  of  that  city. 
They  will  reside  at  5123  Ivingseeing  Ave., 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

'06. — Currier  C.  Holman,  Esq.,  has  been 
appointed  by  Governor  Fernald  as  municipal 
judge  at  Farmington,  Me. 

'07. — Ammie  B.  Roberts  is  instructor  in 
English  and  Argumentation  at  the  University 
of  Utah,  at  Salt  Lake  City. 

'o7.-^Harry  E.  Mitchell,  Esq.,  was  married 
Jan.  I,  1910,  to  Laura  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Mrs.  Nancy  Livermore  Reed,  at  Brunswick, 
Me.     They  will  reside  at  i  Federal  Street. 

'08. — Albert  Trowbridge  Gould  of  the  Har- 
vard Law  School,  was  married  23  Dec.  1909, 
at  Thomaston,  Me.,  to  Miss  Emilie,  daughter 
of  John  C.  Creighton,  Esq.,  of  that  town. 


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VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  JANUARY  21,  1910 


NO.  24 


ALL  OUT  FOR  THE  MINSTREL  SHOW 

Are  you  going  to  the  minstrel  show  ?  No  ? 
Then  you're  going  to  miss  the  best  chance  you 
ever  had  to  spend  fifty  cents  for  high  class 
comedy.  On  Saturday  night'  an  all-star 
bunch  of  "coons"  will  open  a  gilt-edged  pro- 
duction. Among  the  good  ones  due  to 
brighten  things  up  are  "Bill"  Clifford," 
"Puss"  Newman,  "Nemo"  Perry,  "Artie" 
Welch,  "Mat"  Matthews  and  "Mark"  Bur- 
lingame,  the  soaring  tenor.  These  and  a 
goodly  crew  of  loud-lunged  gentlemen  to  join 
in  on  the  chorus  are  good  enough  to  suit  any 
one's  taste.  Be  sure  to  be  on  hand  Saturday 
night  at  the  town  hall  to  listen  to  this 
aggregation  and  help  along  the  baseball  team  ! 


BOWDOIN  ALUMNI  CHEER  PEARY 

Commander  Peary,  '77,  Qen.  Hubbard,  '57,  Governor 

Quinby,  Prof.  Emery,  '92,  Prof.  McMillan,  '98, 

John  W.  Frost,  '04,  and  President 

Hyde,  the  Speakers 

Bowdoin  men  of  New  York  gathered  150 
strong  at  the  Hotel  Gotham,  Friday  night,  for 
their  fortieth  annual  banquet  which  proved  to 
be  the  most  successful  ever  held  in  connection 
with  the  college.  The  entire  white  popula- 
tion of  the  north  pole  attended  and  Nature 
furnished  the  local  Arctic  color. 

Commander  Peary,  '"j"],  was  the  guest  of 
honor  and  the  men  of  Bowdoin  made  him  feel 
considerably  at  home  by  sending  for  his  sledge 
and  a  few  caribou  skins  and  by  opening  the 
window  now  and  then  and  letting  him  see 
how  nicely  the  snow  was  piling  up  in  Fifth 
Avenue.  They  had  several  songs,  written  es- 
pecially for  the  occasion  and  in  commemora- 
tion of  Peary's  great  discovery,  and  the  fre- 
quent use  of  these  prevented  the  dinner  lack- 
ing enthusiasm. 

Dr.  Frederick  H.  Dillingham,  ^yj,  presi- 
dent of  the  Alumni  Association,  was  in  the 
toastmaster's  chair  and  on  either  side  of  him 
sat  the  speakers.  President  Flyde,  Gen.  Thos. 
H.  Hubbard,  '57 ;     Commander    Peary,     'jy ; 


Governor  Henry  B.  Quinby  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, '69;  ex-Congressman  Littlefield;  Profes- 
sor Henry  C  Emery,  '92 ;  Professor  Donald 
B.  McMillan,  '98 ;  and  John  W.  Frost,  '04. 

President  Hyde  spoke  in  behalf  of  the  col- 
lege and  was  followed  by  Gen.  Thomas  H. 
Hubbard,  who  delivered  a  memorial  to  the 
late  Gen.  Oliver  O.  Howard.  He  said  that 
Gen.  Howard's  services  at  Gettysburg  were 
so  important  that  not  only  Meade's  army  was 
saved  from  rout  on  the  second  day,  but  the 
Union  was  preserved.  "He  was  a  perfect 
soldier  and  the  man  who  gave  the  decisive 
turn  to  the  great  civil  war."  Gen.  Howard 
was  one  who  did  splendid  work  for  his 
country  both  in  military  and  civil  life,  said 
Gen.  Hubbard,  and  tho  he  was  grossly  ma- 
ligned few  men  of  his  time  accomplished  more 
valuable  results  for  the  nation.  Gen.  Hub- 
bard spoke  of  his  work  as  the  head  of  the 
Freedmen's  Bureau,  and  said  that  Gen.  How- 
ard should  have  the  credit  of  inaugurating  the 
movement  to  educate  the  negroes  of  the 
South. 

A  portrait  of  Gen.  Howard,  painted  by 
Mme.  de  Bourbon  shortly  before  his  death, 
was  seen  for  the  first  time  Friday  night.  It 
was  his  wish  that  this  likeness  should  take  the 
place  of  the  one  ,now  hanging  in  Memorial 
Hall. 

There  was  little  chance  for  the  toast-mas- 
ter to  introduce  Peary,  '"^"j.  The  alumni  were 
on  their  feet  shouting  the  instant  Gen.  Hub- 
bard ceased  talking.  The  gathering  rose  as 
one  man  and  cheered  and  sang  for  "Bob" 
Peary  of  the  Class  of  1877.  At  the  close  of 
Commander  Peary's  speech  a  group  of  the 
vounger  alumni  made  a  circuit  of  the  hall, 
bearing  on  their  shoulders  the  sledge  which 
made  the  successful  trip  to  the  pole,  while  the 
alumni  sang  to  the  tune  of  "Marching 
Through  Georgia"  this  stirring  ditty: 

The  Pole  Is  Found  at  Last  ! 

Swing   out   the   flag   of   Bowdoin,   boys,   the  pole   is 

found  at  last ; 
Bring  out  the  wine  in  plenty — a  toast  in  every  glass; 
Bring  out  the   sturdy  sledges  that  have  served  him 

in  the  past 
For  Peary's  in  his  new-found  glory. 


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Chorus : 
Hurrah!  Hurrah!  Hurrah!   for  Bob  and  Dan; 
Hurrah!  Hurrah!  each  one  a  Bovvdoin  man; 
They  suffered,  struggled  on,  and  made — the  pole,  an 
"also  ran" 

Bowdoin-Americans  in  glory. 

No  mother  earth  beneath  him,  a   snowdrift  for  his 

bed, 
The  icy  cold  around  him  and  a    hummock    for    his 

head ; 
But  these  were  only  pleasures  when  he  saw  the  pole 

ahead — 
And  Peary's  in  his  new-found  glory. 

Chorus — Hurrah  !   Hurrah  !  etc. 

Old  Bowdoin's  given  the  greatest  men  America  has 

known ; 
She's  nursed   the  greatest  writers  and  statesmen  of 

renown ; 
But  the  greatest  thing  in  modern  days  was  when  the 
pole  went  down — 

With  Peary  and  his  new-found  glory. 
Chorus — Hurrah  !   Hurrah  !  etc. 

C.  F.  Carter,  '09. 

Commander  I^eary  said  that  it  was  ex- 
tremely enjoyable  for  him  to  be  present  at  this 
occasion.  "For  the  last  eighteen  months  I 
have  been  living  a  life  which  has  been  a  strug- 
gle of  mind  against  matter  in  its  most  prime- 
val form — the  chaos  of  the  Arctic  regions.  He 
said  that  Bowdoin  deserves  more  credit  than 
any  other  institution  for  the  discovery  of  the 
pole.  "Three  Bowdoin  alumni  made  it  possi- 
ble and  there  were  twenty  years  between  each 
one  of  these  members.  Gen.  Hubbard  was  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  '57,  my  class  was  '"]"/, 
and  Prof.  McMillan,  '98." 

There  was  no  limit  to  the  applause  for 
Prof.  Emery,  the  youthful  chairman  of  the 
National  Tariff  Board.  Then  followed 
speeches  by  ex-Congressman  Littlefield,  Gov. 
Quinby  of  N.  H.,  and  an  account  of  many  in- 
cidents of  the  polar  trip  by  "Don"  McMillan. 
The  last  speaker  was  John  W.  Frost,  '04. 

There  was  also  a  song  by  Mrs.  Joseph  B. 
Roberts,- wife  of  the  secretary  of  the  associa- 
tion, which  hailed  Peary  as  "King  of  the 
frozen  north,"  which  the  Orient  was  unable 
to  obtain. 


PUBLICATION  OF  DEBTORS  ILLEGAL 

It  has  been  announced  that  the  Orient 
would,  in  this  issue,  publish  the  names  of  those 
men  who  still  owed  inoney  to  last  year's  base- 
ball manager,  but  it  will  be  impossible  to  do 
this  because  it  is  illegal.  In  the  Revised  Stat- 
utes of  Maine,  Chap.  130,  Sect.  7  an  act  en- 


titled, "An  act  to  prohibit  publication  of  lists 
of  debtors"  makes  the  Orient  liable  in  an 
action  of  debt  to  a  penalty  not  exceeding  one 
hundred  dollars  and  not  less  than  twenty-five 
to  each  person  whose  name  appears  on  such  a 
list. 


AN  ORATORICAL  LEAGUE 

Amherst,  Bowdoin,  Browa,  Wesleyan  and  Williams, 

the  Members — Second  College  Smoker  to 

be  Held  February  7th 

The  Student  Council  held  its  regular  Jan- 
uary meeting  last  week.  The  first  question 
brought  up  for  discussion  was  relative  to  mem- 
bership in  a  proposed  Oratorical  League  with 
Amherst,  Brown,  Wesleyan  and  Williams. 
Prof.  Mitchell  is  in  receipt  of  correspondence 
from  the  colleges  mentioned  telling  of  the 
formation  of  a  league  for  the  purpose  of  hold- 
ing an  anntial  public  speaking  contest  similar 
to  our  Class  of  1868  Prize  Speaking,  and  in- 
viting Bowdoin  to  enter.  Each  college  would 
be  represented  by  one  speaker  who  would  de- 
liver an  original  essay,  and  the  place  of  meet- 
ing would  rotate  from  college  to  college,  com- 
ing here  once  in  five  years.  It  was  the  senti- 
ment of  the  Council  that  Bowdoin  enter  this 
league. 

It  was  also  decided  to  have  a  second  college 
smoker  on  Feb.  7. 


THE  DECEMBER  QUILL 

A  substantial  essay,  covering  eleven  of  the 
thirty-two  pages,  a  story  of  merit,  a  pleasing 
idyl  in  prose,  together  with  no  less  than  six 
pieces  of  verse,  besides  the  valedictory  of  the 
retiring  editors,  and  the  brief  review  of  ex- 
changes, make  up  a  sufficiently  varied  and  in- 
teresting number. 

"David  Garrick  as  a  Stage  Manager" shows 
intelligent  study  and  sensible  reflection.  The 
subject  involves  so  much  literary  and  social 
history  that,  in  a  brief  essay,  the  problem  of 
selection  is  a  difficult  one.  Garrick,  the  won- 
derful actor,  the  versatile  and  fascinating  per- 
sonality, prominent  in  a  brilliant  circle  of  au- 
thors and  wits,  might  easily  tempt  to  discur- 
sive treatment.  This,  the  essayist  has  avoided 
carefully  and  has  confined  his  view — perhaps 
too  closely — ito  Garrick  the  stage  manager. 
Sidelights,  setting,,  background — whatever 
iTieaphor  fits  the  case — add  much  interest  and 
also,  when  skilfully  used,  emphasize  unity  of 


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treatment.  The  piece  is  well  expressed, 
though  the  tendency  to  long  sentences  is  rather 
marked.  One  or  two  verbal  matters  should  be 
mentioned:  On  Page  244,  the  sentence  begin- 
ning, "Nausea'Ied  by,"  illustrates  the  undesir- 
able "Hanging  Participle;"  on  Page  245,  12 
lines  from  bottom,  "Price"  is  vaguely  used;  on 
Page  253,  in  the  sentence,  "Goldsmith,  we  are 
told,"  etc.,  a  relative  pronoun  and  possibly 
other  words  appear  to  have  dropped  out. 

There  is  much  life  and  strength  in  the 
story,  "Clarissa  Pendexter."  The  descriptive 
parts  are  good,  and  the  dialogue  is  quite  free 
and  natural.  There  is  humor  as  well  as  pathos, 
although  the  main  theme  is  a  sad  one.  The 
author  is  referred  to  "Ye  Postman"  of  this 
number,  who  "finds  to  his  sorrow  that  the 
death-rate  among  the  heroes  and  heroines  of 
college  stories  is  still  on  the  increase."  A  com- 
mendable feature  of  this  story  is  the  effective 
management  of  detail.  The  'hens,  however, 
that  "scratched  about  for  grasshoppers"  ought 
to  have  known  the  ways  of  the  "Green  little 
vaulter  of  the  sunny  grass"  rather  better. 

The  prose  idyl,  "On  Ivikelhahn,"  the  son- 
net, "The  Chapel,  Holyrood  Palace,"  and  the 
verses  entitled  "A  Christmas  Thought,"  being 
graduate  contributions,  may  be  accepted  with 
thanks  without  dental  inspection,  as  pleasing 
tokens  of  continued  regard  for  the  literary  in- 
terests of  the  college  on  the  part  of  alumni. 
The  author  of  the  sonnet  especially  deserves 
well  of  all  Bowdoin  men,  as  the  dhairman  of 
the  first  Quill  Board,  and  as  one  who  did  much 
to  establish  the  Qitill. 

Four  pieces  of  verse  by  undergraduates 
would  indicate  that  Longfellow's  Alma  Mater 
is  still  a  haunt  of  the  Muses.  In  all  of  these 
efforts,  a  feeling  for  rhythm  and  a  facility  of 
rhyme  are  noticeable,  and  pleasing  imagery  is 
not  lacking.  Lines  must  "scan"  and  rhyme 
correctly  and  run  smoothly,  as  do  almost  all  of 
these.  Considerable  art  is  here  involved,  even 
'though  it  be  the  art  of  mechanism;  but  this  is 
by  no  means  the  wihole  matter.  Given  the 
beautiful  thought — ^the  gift  divine — to  clothe 
this  in  perfectly  fitting  and  beautiful  phrase, 
which  still  shall  satisfy  the  demands  of  meter 
and  rhyme — this  is  the  poet's  complex  task, 
which  even  the  greatest  have  not  always  per- 
formed successfully.  In  the  work  of  begin- 
ners, it  would  be  surprising  were  there  not  fre- 
quent instances  of  lines  padded  out  or  crowded 
up,  for  the  sake  of  the  rhyme  or  the  meter.  The 
writers  of  the  verses  here  considered  would  do 
well  to  read  again  with  care  much  of  Horace's 


Ars  Poetica,  particularly  the  short  passage, 
lines  23  to  31,  continuing  also  to  line  59.  And 
it  is  to  be  remembered  that  while  Horace  had 
to  deal  with  sufficiently  varied  and  complicated 
quantities  and  meters,  he  was  happily  spared 
the  modern  handicap  of  rhyme.  Without  en- 
larging further  on  this  fruitful  topic,  or  taking 
up  these  verses  in  detail,  I  would  recommend 
that  the  writers  go  carefully  through  the 
pieces,  line  by  line,  challenging  each  word  and 
phrase  with  such  ques'tions  as,  is  it  true  to  life? 
Necessary  to  the  sense?  Clear?  Trite?  Ade- 
quate?    Turgid?     Prosaic? 

As  to  handicap,  the  'brief  experiment  of 
line  for  line  rendering  of  Vergil  is  performed 
under  illogical  restrictions,  seeing  that  the 
original  'hexameters  are  a  foot  longer  than  the 
English  blank  verse,  and  have  the  brevity  and 
terseness  of  classical  Latin  poetry  as  well. 
Dryden  turns  these  eleven  lines  into  sixteen 
rhyming  pentameters  ;  Cranch,  into  twelve  and 
a  half  blank  verses ;  Rhoades,  into  thirteen. 
Crane  and  Ballard  have  eleven  verses,  but 
these  are  hexameters. 

The  farewell  remarks  of  the  retiring  board, 
suggest  a  very  natural  weariness,  after  a  year 
of  labor  under  the  difficulties  that  editors  of 
college  publications  have  to  contend  with.  Yet 
the  Quill  oi  1909  as,  probably,  its  editors  are 
aware,  compares  well  with  that  of  former 
years.  The  thirteen  volumes  now  completed 
have  been  a  valuable  means  of  training  for 
undergraduates,  who  at  the  same  time,  by 
creditable  work,  have  added  to  the  good  name 
of  Bowdoin. 

William  A.  Houghton. 


PRESS  CLUB  ORGANIZES 

Arrangements  have  been  made  for  the  formation 
of  a  permanent  press  club  at  Bowdoin,  to  be  known 
as  the  Bowdoin  Press  Club,  organized  for  the  pur- 
pose of  co-operation  and  getting  news  in  advance  to 
be  released  only  on  the  day  of  the  event's  occur- 
rence. Among  the  papers  represented  are  the  Bos- 
ton Evening  Traveler,  Boston  Evening  Record.  Bos- 
ton American,  Christian  Science  Monitor,  Boston 
Herald.  Portland  Evening  Express  and  Advertiser, 
Daily  Eastern  Argus,  Lezuiston  Sun.  Bangor  Com- 
mercial, Daily  Kennebec  Journal.  Bowdoin  Orient, 
Intercollegiate,  and  Brunswick  Record. 

The  members  of  the  club  are : — 

President,  Arthur  D.  Welsh,  '12,  Portland. 

Vice-President,  Harold  D.  Archer,  '13,  Dorches- 
ter, Mass. 

Secretary,   Leon   S.   Lippincott,    '10,   Augusta. 

Lee  Mikelsky,  '10,  Bath ;  Harold  E.  Carney,  '12, 
Portland ;  Frank  D.  Townsend,  '10.  Brunswick ; 
William  E.  Atwood,  '10,  Paris;  Edward  W.  Skelton, 
'11,  West  Brooksville;  John  L.   Crosby,  '10,  Bangor. 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,   1910  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  1911,  Managing  Editor 

ASSOCIATE  Editors 

p.  B.  MORSS.  1910  J.  C.  WHITE.  1911 

THOMAS  OTIS,  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON,  1911 

•W.  E.  ROBINSON.  1910      'W.  A.  McCORMICK.  1912 
W.  A.  FULLER.  1912 


R.  D.  MORSS,  igio 
J.  L.  CURTIS,  igii 


Business  Manager 
Asst.   Business   Manager 


Contributions  are  requested  from  all  undergradu 
a*es,  alumni,  and  officers  of  instruction.  No  anony 
mous   manuscript  can   be   accepted. 

All  communications  regarding  subscriptions  should 
be  addressed  to  the   Business   Manager. 

Subscriptions,  $2.00  per  year,  in  advance.  Single 
copies,    I  0  cents 


Entered  at  Post-Office  at  Brunswick  as 

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Vol.  XXXIX.            JANUARY  21, 

,    1910 

No.  24 

The  Duties  of 
Citizenship 


Mr.  A.  T.  Shorey,  '05,  of 
the  Nezv  York  World, 
from  whose  pen  we  had  a 
communication  printed  in  last  week's  issue, 
scores  the  colleges  of  the  country  for  their 
seeming  failure  to  send  out  men  serious- 
minded  enough  to  do  their  duty  as  citizens. 
Mr.  Shorey  made  his  observations  from  con- 
ditions in  New  York,  but  he  need  not  have 
gone  ofif  the  Bowdoin  campus  to  find  examples 
of  the  most  flagrant  selfishness,  and  lack  of 
appreciation  on  the  part  of  the  college  man  for 
his  duty  as  a  citizen.  There  are  citizens  of 
Bowdoin  College  who  refuse  to  carry  their 
proportional  part  of  the  general  burden;  men 
so  inexorably  bound  up  in  their  own  littleness 
that  they  cannot  see  their  duty  as  citizens 
clearly  enough  to  pay  their  taxes,  and  the  pity 


of  it  is  that  the  managers  of  teams  are  denied 
by  the  law  of  the  State  of  Maine,  that  means 
of  forcing  payment  which  town  tax  collectors 
have.  In  the  state,  the  tax  collector  is  per- 
mitted to  publicly  advertise  for  sale  enough  of 
the  property  of  the  debtor  to  make  good  his 
indebtedness,  but  here  at  college  the  collector 
of  money  can  do  nothing  except  hound  the  of- 
fender. It  is  the  sort  of  man  who  signs  for  a 
subscription  and  does  not  pay  it,  that  later 
brings  the  name  "college  man"  into  disrepute. 
A  man  who  is  not  a  desirable  citizen  of  the 
college  community  will  not  be  a  desirable  cit- 
izen of  the  state. 


...  ,  .,.        ,  In  the    life    of    a    college 

Vio  ation  of  a  -.  ,   • 

„    ^  community      certain      cus- 

Custom  ,  , 

toms  and  practices  are  es- 
tablished by  long  usage.  At  Bowdoin  it  is 
both  a  custom  and  a  rule  that  those  who  do 
not  get  into  the  chapel  before  the  door  closes 
shall  stay  out.  We  have  noticed  of  late  that 
some  Freshmen  have  entered  the  chapel  after 
the  door  has  been  closed  and  the  service  be- 
gun, and  beg  to  remind  the  men  who  have 
done  this  that  continuance  of  this  practice  may 
lead  to  unpleasant  results.  If  you  do  not  get 
in  before  the  door  closes,  you  are  not  entitled 
to  enter,  and  must  not  disturb  the  chapel  ser- 
vice by  inflicting  your  presence  upon  it.  The 
late  bird  who  catches  the  worm,  does  so  in 
defiance  of  the  laws  of  nature,  and  at  his  own 
risk. 


-.11.  .11.    To    the    great    satisfaction 

Co-operation  with  the  ^f  ^j^^   Orient,   the    Press 

Press  Club  q^^^  j^^^  ^^  j^^  ^^^  ^^^^^.^ 

agreed  not  to  allow  the  daily  papers  to  "scoop" 
the  Orient.  A  large  part  of  the  time  the 
Orient  is  harassed  by  unscrupulous  newspa- 
per reporters,  who  get  a  good  piece  of  news 
from  the  college  and  spread  it  broadcast  in 
the  daily  papers  before  the  Orient  had  a 
chance  at  it.  The  Press  Club  has  courteously 
agreed  to  give  the  Orient  first  claim  upon  the 
news  of  the  college,  and  to  work  upon  a  sys- 
tem of  co-operation.  In  future  the  Secretary 
of  the  Press  Club  will  be  given  access  to  the 
Orient's  copy,  on  Wednesday  evening  of 
each  week,  when  the  Orient  goes  to  press. 
He  will  distribute  the  news  among  the  several 
undergraduate  newspaper  correspondents,  and 
it  will  be  released  for  the  morning  papers  on 
Saturday. 


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CALENDAR 

Saturday,  January  22 
2.30     Make-up  gym. 

4.30     Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 
8.00     Minstrel    Show   in  the   Town   Hall. 

Sunday',  January   23 
10.45     Morning  service  in  the  Church  on  the  Hill, 
conducted  by  Rev.  John   H.   Quint. 

5.00  Sunday  chapel,  conducted  by  President 
Hyde.     Music  by  double  quartette. 

Monday,  January  24 

2.30     Track    Practice   in   the   gym. 

4.30     Relay   Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

4.30     Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial  Hall. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

8.00  Donald  B.  McMillan,  '98,  will  lecture  in 
Memorial  Hall.  His  subject  will  be  "With  Peary 
in  the  Arctic." 

Tuesday,  January  25 

3.30     Make-up  gym. 

4.30    Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

5.10  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

Wednesday,  January  26 
2.3a     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 
4.30     Relay    Practice   on  Outdoor  Track. 
5.00     Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Memorial  Plall. 
5.10     Glee   Club   Rehearsal  in   Christian  Associa- 
tion  Room. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

Thursday,  January  27 
8.30     Semester   Exams,   begin. 


LAW  AS  A  LIFE  WORK 

Last  Thursday  evening  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  rooms 
Hon.  Herbert  M.  Heath  of  Augusta,  delivered  the 
fourth  address  in  the  series  on  Choosing  a  Life 
Work,   his  subject  being  "Law." 

Mr.  Heath  corrected  a  statement  made  that  he 
was  chairman  of  the  State  Committee  and  inci- 
dentally said  that  law  and  politics  do  not  mix.  If  a 
man  thinks  of  going  into  law  as  a  stepping-stone 
to  politics  let  him  keep  out.     He  will  fail  in  both. 

Next  to  a  jury,  Mr.  Heath  said  he  feared  facing 
a  body  of  college  students  and  especially  on  such  a 
subject  as  choosing  a  life  work.  By  a  life  work  or 
profession  we  mean  that  to  which  we  consecrate  our 
lives  and  in  this  capacity  law  is  second  to  none,  for 
in  it  we  fulfill  the  responsibility  of  life  by  doing 
something.  Law  should  not  be  undertaken  for  the 
money  there  is  in  it  nor  for  the  opportunity  it  offers 
for  bringing  one  before  public  notice,  but  only  when 
he  feels  it  is  his  life's  duty.  If  fitted  to  it,  the 
noblest  work  is  the  ministry  but  close  to  it  comes 
the  law.  Both  search  for  truth,  both  uplift,  and 
require  self-sacrifice,  abnegation  and  duty  to  others. 

The  all-important  question  regarding  law  is : 
Have  I  the  aptitude?  Am  I  fitted  physically,  men- 
tally and  morally  for  this  work?  No  occupation 
known  to  man  requires  such  physical  powers,  nerves 
and  endurance  as  does  the  law.  It  requires  the 
hardest  kind  of  mental  labor  known,  more  hours  of 
concentration  and     more     enduring     strength.    The 


mental  deficiencies  can  be  made  up  in  the  course  of 
a  lifetime  but  physical  strength,  the  capacity  to  do 
twenty-four  hours'  work  in  six  with  but  little  rest 
is  necessary  unless  the  man  be  content  with  medi- 
ocrity. 

The  mental  draft  is  equally  telling.  In  other  call- 
ings time  is  given  for  thought.  Not  so  in  law.  Often- 
times the  choosing  of  the  right  word  in  the  brief  in- 
terval in  a  cross-examination  between  the  answer  of 
the  witness  and  the  putting  of  the  next  question 
spells  victory  or  defeat.  In  this  warfare  of  words 
Latin  and  Greek  with  the  mental  training  required 
are  invaluable.  Pure,  plain  English,  short  effective 
words  are  the  kind  to  be  addressed  to  the  jury  about 
a  fifth  of  whose  limited  vocabulary  is  monosyllables. 
Colleges  should  instruct  in  the  vernacular  of  the 
plain  people.  Mr.  Heath  himself  after  having  been 
in  the  profession  twenty-two  years,  collected  all  the 
words  he  could  think  of  and  then  wrote  synonyms 
for  them  in  the  language  of  the  every-man  man.  The 
training  was  strengthening,  the  experience  invalua- 
ble. Hon.  Thomas  B.  Reed  told  Mr.  Heath  how  in 
like  manner  when  Speaker  of  the  House,  he  learned 
and  became  a  critic  in  French  and  Italian.  As  is 
well  known,  his  style  was  marvelous  in  its  effective- 
ness. 

A  moral  aptitude  is  of  prime  importance  Law 
is  a  science  where  every  man  gets  his  due  and  in  no 
other  profession  is  a  man  of  low  morals  so  quickly 
detected. 

There  are  many  alluring  things  about  law,  for  by 
our  defeats  we  learn,  and  from  our  victories  we  de- 
rive much  pleasure.  If  you  can  give  all  your  work 
and  powers,  mental,  moral  and  physical,  then  the 
law  is  for  you. 


FIRST  JUNIOR  ASSEMBLY 

The  first  of  the  Junior  Assemblies,  given  in 
Memorial  Hall  last  Friday  evening,  by  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Junior  Class,  was  attended  by  a  some- 
what smaller  number  than  usual,  but  the  order  of 
fourteen  dances  were  greatly  enjoyed  by  all  present. 
Owing  to  the  fact  that  dancing  is  allowed  only  until 
midnight,  the  commitee  decided  to  shorten  the  order 
from  the  usual  twenty  to  fourteen,  thus  permitting 
plenty  of  time  for  each  dance  and  not  making  it 
necessary  to  shorten  the  last  few  dances  to  only  a 
few  minutes.  The  committee  in  charge  consisted  of 
Lawlis,   Cole,   Black,   Dennis  and   Parkman. 

The  patronesses  were  Mrs.  Franklin  C.  Robin- 
son, Mrs.  Henry  Johnson,  Mrs.  George  T.  Little  and 
Mrs.  Roscoe  Ham.  Among  those  present  were 
Miss  Evelyn  Stetson,  Miss  Lucy  Stetson, 
Miss  Sue  Winchell,  Miss  Frances  Little,  Miss 
Marguerite  Hutchins,  Miss  Emily  Felt  of 
Brunswick,  Miss  Janette  Peters,  Miss  Dorothy  Ab- 
bott, Miss  Irene  Hayden.  Miss  Frances  Skolfield, 
Miss  Mildred  Mace,  Mrs.  C.  T.  Peters,  Miss  Mar- 
jorie  Bradbury  of  Portland,  Miss  Lina  Andrews, 
Miss  Ethel  Hawley,  Miss  Florence  Slocum  of  Bath, 
Mrs.  Thomas  R.  Winchell  of  Houlton,  Miss  Clara 
Goodwin,  Miss  Mary  Stinson  of  Augusta,  Miss 
Edith  Dennis,  Miss  Alice  Dennis  of  Melrose,  Mass., 
Miss  Helen  Miller,  Miss  Margaret  Crosby  of  Bangor, 
Miss  Viola  Dixon  of  Freeport,  Miss  Edith  Dunn  of 
Lewiston,  j\Iiss  Tessie  O'Brien  of  Oldtown,  Mrs. 
Allen  Johnson,  Mrs.  Louis  A.  Parsons  of  Bruns- 
wick. 


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THE  MIMES  OF  HERONDAS 

^Monday  evening,  Professor  Clarence  H.  White  of 
Colby  College,  lectured  in  Hubbard  Hall  upon  the 
subject,  "The  Mimes  of  Herondas."  Only  one 
printed  English  translation  of  the  mimes  exists  and 
Professor  White  read  from  his  own  translation, 
which  is  written  in  very  common,  conversational 
language.  Professor  White's  reading  proved  his 
statement  that  the  Greeks'  appreciation  of  comedy 
was  very  keen. 

In  speaking  of  the  origin  of  the  mimes,  Profes- 
sor White  said,  that  up  to  about  twenty  years  ago, 
only  a  few  lines  in  the  form  of  mimes  from  Thucy- 
dides  enisted,  but  at  that  time  excavations  brought 
out  a  roll  containing  seven  of  Herondas'  mimes 
fairly  complete  and  parts  of  others.  They  were 
readily  recognized  as  the  mimes  of  Herondas  from 
the  fact  that  parts  of  them  agreed  exactly  with  the 
few  lines  already  known.  The  original  roll  is  in  the 
possession  of  the   British  Royal   Society. 

The  mimes  of  the  Greeks  have  undoubtedly  had 
considerable  influence  upon  literature.  Indeed, 
there  can  be  found  traces  of  their  influence  extending 
down  through  Tibullus,   Propertius  and  Ovid. 

The  mimes  translated  in  part  by  Professor  White 
in  his  lecture,  were  the  following: 

1.  The   Procuress. 

2.  The   Brothel  Keeper. 

3.  The  School   Master. 

4.  Women  making  offerings  and  sacrifices  to 
Aescelapus. 

5  and  6.     Omitted. 

7.  A   Jealous   Woman. 

8.  The  Shoe  Maker. 

After  the  lecture  the  Classical  Club  held  a  meet- 
ing in  Classical  Room. 

The  following  schedule  of  exchange  lectures  has 
been  arranged  by  the  Classical  faculty  for  the  rest  of 
the  year.  March  (date  not  set)  Professor  Nixon 
will  speak  at  Colby  upon  the  subject,  "Modern 
Aspects  of  Roman  Wit."  March  8,  Professor  Wood- 
ruff will  speak  at  University  of  Maine  upon  the  sub- 
ject, "Athens."  March  10,  Professor  Sills  will 
speak  at  Bates  upon  the  subject,  "Virgil  and  Ten- 
nyson." March  14,  Professor  Chase  of  Maine  will 
speak  here  upon  a  subject  not  yet  announced.  Feb- 
ruary 14,  Professor  Knapp  of  Bates  will  speak  here 
upon   the   subject,   "Martial." 


FIRST  COLLEGE  TEA 

The  first  of  the  Bowdoin  College  teas,  held  in 
Alumni  Room,  Hubbard  Hall,  Friday  afternoon,  was 
a  very  enjoyable  occasion  and  afforded  an  excellent 
opportunity  for  the  students,  especially  the  Fresh- 
men to  become  acquainted  with  the  ladies  of  Bruns- 
wick and  a  large  number  of  the  younger  set.  There 
were  many  visitors  present,  including  many  young 
ladies  who  were  in  town  to  attend  the  Junior  Assem- 
bly in  the  evening.  Alumni  Hall  was  tastefully  dec- 
orated  with   red   carnations,    smilax   and   ferns. 

In  the  receiving  line  were  Mrs.  Frank  E.  Wood- 
ruff, Mrs.  Franklin  C.  Robinson,  Mrs.  George  T. 
Little,  Mrs.  Geo.  T.  Files,  Mrs.  Wilmot  B.  Mitchell 
and  Mrs.  Henry  P.  Fairchild.  A  new  feature  of  the 
tea  was  the  welcoming  committee,  consisting  of  Prof. 
Frank   E.   Woodruff,    Prof.   Franklin    C.    Robinson, 


Prof.  George  T.  Little,  Prof.  George  T.  Files,  and 
Prof.  Henry  P.  Fairchild,  whose  duties  it  was  to 
introduce   the    students    to    the    visitors   present. 

Refreshments  of  punch,  tea,  coffee,  fancy  crack- 
ers and  candies  were  served.  Mrs.  Charles  C. 
Hutchins  presided  at  the  coffee  table.  Mrs.  Hudson 
B.  Hastings  and  Mrs.  Allen  Johnson  at  the  tea  tables 
and  Mrs.  William  A.  Moody  and  Mrs.  Roscoe  Ham 
at  the  punch  table.  They  were  assisted  in  serving 
by  Miss  Caroline  Robinson,  Miss  Helen  Eaton,  Miss 
Rachel  Little,  Miss  Thesea  McKinley,  Miss  Mar- 
garet Sutherland,  Miss  Sarah  Pennell,  Miss  Edith 
Woodruff,  Miss  Cecil  Houghton,  Miss  Sue  Winchell, 
Miss  Anna  Snow,  Miss  Ethel  Webb. 

The  ushers  were  Warren  E.  Robinson,  '10,  of 
Arlington,  Mass.,  Alpha  Delta  Phi ;  Ernest  G.  Fi- 
field,  '11,  of  Conway,  N.  H.,  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon ; 
Philip  A.  Cole,  '12,  of  Bath,  Theta  Delta  Chi ;  Gar- 
diner W.  Cole,  '10,  of  East  Raymond.  Zeta  Psi ; 
Abraham  J.  Somes,  Mt.  Desert,  Delta  Upsilon ;  Ed- 
ward W.  Skelton,  '11,  of  East  Brooksfield,  Kappa 
Sigma;  Oliver  T.  Sanborn,  '11.  of  Portland.  Psi 
LIpsilon;  John  L.  Curtis.  '11,  of  Camden,  Beta  Theta 
Pi;  John  L.  Roberts.  '11,  of  Brunswick,  non-frater- 
nity; Harry  H.  Lente,  Med.  '12,  of  Franklin,  Mass., 
Phi  Chi,  and  Archibald  W.  Dunn,  Med.  '12,  of 
Auburn,  Alpha  Kappa  Kappa. 


CONCERT  AT  RICHMOND 

To-night  the  musical  clubs  give  their  first  con- 
cert of  the  year  at  Richmond.  The  clubs  will  not  be 
definitely  picked  until  after  this  Semester  but  this 
concert  gives  the  leaders  and  directors  a  chance  to 
find  out  what  the  clubs  can  do  and  where  they  should 
be  improved.  A  definite  program  for  the  big  trips 
has  not  been  made  out.  Following  is  the  program 
of  the  concert  at  Richmond : 

1.  Opening  Song — We'll  Sing  to  Old  Bowdoin 

Fogg,  '02 
Glee  and   Mandolin    Clubs 

2.  Carmena  Wilson 

Glee  Clubs 

3.  The  Quilting  Party  Thoinfison 

Mandolin   Club 

4.  Les   Adieux  DcLarasate 

C.  E.  Kellogg 

5.  Rosary  Nevin 

Glee  Club 

6.  Reading  Selected 

Welsh 

7.  Heart  Murmurs  Rolfe 

Mandolin    Club 
.  8.     Traumerei  Scliumann 

Pierce,  Roberts,  Weeks,  Churchill,  Cole 
9.     Swords   Out  for  Charlie  Billiard 

Stone 
ID.     Reading — Selected 

Stephens 

11.  On  Board  the  Derelict  Campbell 

Glee  Club 

12.  Bowdoin  Beata  Pierce,  '96 
Phi  Chi  Anon 

Glee   and   Mandolin    Clubs 


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199 


College  Botes 


THERE  WILL  BE  NO  MEETING  OF  THE  WEEK 
END  LEAGUE  THIS  WEEK.  THE  MEMBERS  WILL 
STAY  IN  TOWN  AND  GO  TO  THE  MINSTREL  SHOW 
SATURDAY  EVENING. 

Wyman,  '12,  returned  to  college  Tuesday. 

White,  '03.  was  on  the  campus  Thursday. 

Adjourns  were  given  in  Chemistry  I.  Friday. 

Kendrie,  '10,   played  at  Damariscotta,  Thursday. 

A.  W.   Stone,  '10,   returned  to  college  last  week. 

Faculty  notices   were   sent   out   during  the   week. 

P.  B.  Morss,  '10,  entertained  his  father  over  Sun- 
day. 

The  Orient  Board  sat  for  its  picture  Wednesday 
noon. 

A  meeting  of  the  Bugle  Board  was  held  Monday 
evening. 

Professor  Johnson  gave  adjourns  in  Government 
Monday. 

Renie  Lafleche,  Medic.  '13,  returned  to  college 
last  week. 

W.  H.  Curtis.  '11,  has  accepted  a  regular  pastor- 
ate at  Cornish. 

Boynton,  '10,  has  just  recovered  from  a  severe 
attack  of  the  measles. 

Professor  Copeland  gave  a  one-hour  exam,  in 
Biology  I.  Wednesday. 

Rowell,  '10,  has  been  obliged  to  leave  college  on 
account  of  a  nervous  breakdown. 

The  class  in  Greek  History  has  been  reading  one 
of  Aristophanes'  plaij's,  "The  Frogs." 

Hall,  '13,  sprained  his  ankle  quite  badly  while 
running  on  the  outdoor  track  last  week. 

Cole,  '10,  has  been  appointed  proctor  in  South 
Maine  during  the  absence  of  Rowell,  '10. 

The  Boston  Alumni  Association  will  have  its  an- 
nual banquet  February  10,  at  the  Hotel  Somerset. 

Wiggin.  '13,  Saunders,  '13,  Pike,  '13,  and  Cush- 
man,  '13,  are  out  for  assistant  baseball  managership. 

John  Drew  appeared  in  "Inconstant  George"  at 
the  Empire  Theatre,  Lewiston,  Tuesday  of  this 
week, 

Pullen,  Macomber,  Moore  and  Washburn  of  the 
Phi  Chapter  of  Zeta  Psi  were  at  the  Zete  House, 
Sunday. 

Commander  Robert  Peary  is  to  be  the  guest  of 
honor  at  the  Washington  Alumni  Association 
Meeting. 

A  number  of  students  who  graduated  from 
Hebron  are  planning  to  visit  the  Academy  between 
semesters. 

Prof.  White  of  Colby,  was  entertained  at  the 
Beta  Theta  Pi  House  with  Prof.  Sills  after  the 
lecture,  Monday  evening. 

Many  sub-Freshmen  are  to  visit  the  college  at 
the  time  of  the  Minstrel  Show.  They  will  be  enter- 
tained by  the  various  fraternities. 


The  clay  model  of  the  statue  of  Thomas  B.  Reed 
which  is  to  be  erected  in  Portland,  has  been  com- 
pleted in  Paris  by  Burr  C.  Miller. 

Brown,  '10,  Spinney,  '12,  Clarke,  '12,  Pratt,  '13, 
and  Greenwood,  '13,  and  Mr.  Mclntyre,  enjoyed  a 
sleigh-ride  and  dinner  at  Bowdoinham,   Sunday. 

Mr.  White  of  Augusta,  was  in  the  gym.  Satur- 
day night  for  the  purpose  of  instructing  students  in 
fencing.     This  week  he  will  be  here,  Friday  evening. 

A  large  number  of  students  and  members  of  the 
faculty  attended  the  readings  given  in  the  Town 
Hall  last  Thursday  night  by  Miss  Katherine  Jewell 
Evarts. 

Prof.  Henry  Chapman  heard  Dr.  Crothers  and 
Dr.  Sheldon  speak  Tuesday,  Jan.  '11,  at  the  convo- 
cation exercises  held  at  the  Bangor  Theological 
Seminary. 

Crossland,  '10,  and  Burgh,  '11,  were  in  Bangor 
from  Tuesday  to  Thursday  of  last  week,  attending 
the  convocation  exercises  held  at  the  Bangor  Theo- 
logical Seminary. 

Consternation  prevails  among  the  one  hundred  or 
more  students  of  Tulane  College,  following  the  ex- 
amination of  every  student  for  hookworms.  It  is 
announced  that  more  than  a  third  of  the  members, 
robust  specimens  of  mankind,  are  found  to  be  in- 
fected. 


CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION  MEETING 

There  will  be  an  exceptionally  important  meeting 
of  the  Christian  Association  on  February  loth.  On 
that  date  the  proposed  constitution  for  the  associa- 
tion will  be  voted  on.  The  proposed  constitution  is 
modeled  after  those  of  other  colleges.  It  has  passed 
the  executive  committee  and  cabinet  which  assured 
the  college  that  it  is  needed  as  a  working  basis.  ■ 
Three  of  the  provisions  are  of  special  interest. 
They   are   as   follows : 

1.  A  provision  to  change  the  name  of  the  organ- 
ization from  the  "Christian  Association"  to  the 
"Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of  Bowdoin 
College." 

2.  A  provision  for  the  election  of  an  alumni 
advisory  committee.  The  value  of  such  a  committee 
is  obvious.  It  will  give  stability  to  the  organization 
and  be  of  great  service  in  aiding  the  officers  in  the 
direction  of  the  policies  of  the  Association  and  the 
extension  of  its  work.  Is  power  is  to  be  merely 
advisory. 

3.  A  provision  for  the  securing  of  a  better 
method  of  raising  money  for  the  support  of  Mr. 
Hiwale,   '09. 

The  adoption  of  the  constitution  will  be  a  decided 
step  in  advance  and  it  is  hoped  that  there  will  be  a 
large  representation  of  the  student  body  present  to 
consider  its  provisions  and  vote  on  them. 

Before  the  business  meeting  of  the  evening.  Dr. 
D.  A.  Robinson,  '73.  of  Bangor,  will  give  the  fifth 
address  in  the  series  on  "Choosing  a  Life  Work." 
His  subject  will  be  "Medicine." 


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Hluinni  ^Department 


'46. — Stetson  L.  Hill,  Esq.,  for  three  years 
a  member  of  the  Class  of  1846,  died  18  Dec. 
1909,  at  Riverside,  Cal.  Mr.  Hill  was  the  first 
register  of  probate  of  Androscoggin  County 
and  for  many  years  a  prominent  lawyer  at 
Webster,  Me. 

'56. — The  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  settle- 
ment of  Rev.  Edwin  Pond  Parker,  D.D.,  as 
pastor  of  the  Second  Church  in  Hartford, 
Conn.,  was  celebrated  with  great  eclat  on  the 
afternoon  and  evening  of  January  eleventh. 
President  Taft  was  one  of  the  many  distin- 
guished men  who  tendered  personal  apprecia- 
tions of  this  able  and  devoted  pastorate  of  half 
a  century. 

'57. — George  Washington  Pierce,  son  of 
Hon.  Josiah  Pierce  (Bowdoin,  1818),  and 
Evelina  (Lewis)  Pierce  was  born  i  July, 
1836,  at  Gorham,  Maine.  After  graduation 
he  studied  law  with  his  father  for  a  time,  but 
then  entered  upon  civil  engineering  as  his  life 
work.  For  many  years  he  resided  at  West 
Baldwin,  Me.,  where  he  died  after  a  brief  ill- 
ness of  pneumonia  9  Jan.  1910.  "He  was  a 
man  of  marked  intellectual  powers,  of  great 
literary  attainments  and  of  a  personality  that 
endeared  him  to  a  wide  circle  of  friends." 

'76. — Mr.  Horace  Russell  Sturgis  was  mar- 
ried 12  Jan.  1910,  to  Miss  Annie  Lorene  Con- 
nick  at  Riverside,  Me. 

'84. — The  University  of  Chicago  Press  has 
issued  this  month  a  scholarly  octavo  of  362 
pages  entitled  Ezra  Studies,  in  which  Profes- 
sor Charles  C.  Torrey  of  Yale  University,  sets 
forth  fully  and  constructively  new  views  re- 
specting the  authorship  and  character  of  cer- 
tain books  of  the  Old  Testament. 

'89. — James  L.  Doherty  has  recently  been 
appointed  city  solicitor  of  Springfield,  Mass. 
Says  the  Springfield  Republican: 

"The  appointment  by  Mayor  Lothrop  of 
James  L.  Doherty  as  city  solicitor  is  a  popu- 
lar one.     It  is   generally   conceded    that   Mr. 


Doherty  is  one  of  the  most  capable  lawyers  in 
Western  Massachusetts.  His  honesty,  thor- 
oughness and  carefulness  should  make  him 
one  of  the  best  city  solicitors  Springfield  ever 
had.  He  will  have  to  deal  with  some  impor- 
tant questions,  as  the  year  that  now  is  will 
probably  witness  interesting  developments  in 
the  river  front  situation,  and  there  are  other 
matters  coming  up  that  will  need  a  lawyer  of 
Mr.  Doherty's  stamp. 

"Mr-  Doherty  was  born  in  Canterbury 
parish.  New  Brunswick,  March  24,  1865,  the 
son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  E.  Doherty.  He 
was  the  third  of  a  family  of  seven  children,  all 
of  whom  were  raised  on  a  farm.  When  he 
was  a  boy  Mr.  Doherty's  parents  removed  to 
Houlton,  Me.,  where  he  received  his  early  edu- 
cation. He  entered  Bowdoin  College,  being 
graduated  in  the  Class  of  1889.  Mr.  Doherty 
was  admitted  to  the  Maine  bar  in  1891  and  for 
three  years  he  practiced  law  in  Oldtown,  Me. 
Pie  came  to  Springfield  in  1895  and  took  up  the 
practice  of  law.  He  is  a  member  of  the  law 
firm  of  Doherty  &  Brownson,  with  offices  in 
the  Court  Square  theatre  building." 

'89. — Dr-  Verdeil  Oberon  White  of  East 
Dixfield,  Me.,  and  Miss  Lottie  Marie  Smith, 
were  married  on  Wednesday,  Dec.  29,  1909,  at 
Oakland,  Me.  They  will  be  "at  home"  after 
Feb.  I  at  East  Dixfield,  where  the  bridegroom 
is  a  successful  practicing  physician. 

'99. — ^It  is  announced!  that  Director 
Durand  of  the  United  States  Census  Bureau 
has  selected  Leon  B.  Leavitt,  '99,  to  have 
charge  of  the  collection  of  statistics  of  manu- 
factures in  this  state. 

00. — A  daughter,  Jean  Putnam,  was  born 
to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Islay  F.  McCormick  of  Rox- 
bury,  Mass.,  Dec.  2,  1909. 

'03. — Donald  E-  McCormick  and  Miss 
Helen  E.  Avery  of  South  Framingham,  Mass., 
were  married  Dec.  28,   1909. 

'03. — James  B.  Perkins  and  Miss  Fannie 
Orne  of  Boothbay  Harbor,  were  married  Jan. 
2,  1910. 

'05.' — ^Lieutenant  Harold  E.  Marr,  Field 
Artillery,  U.  S.  A.,  has  been  transferred  from 
Fort  D-  A.  Russell,  Wyoming,  to  Vancouver 
Barracks,  Washington. 


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BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  FEBRUARY   ii,  1910 


VOL.  XXXIX 


NO.  25 


RELAY  TEAM  TRIALS 

The  final  trials  of  the  relay  team  were  held  on 
the  out-door  board  track  last  Saturday  afternoon. 
Each  man  ran  390  yards,  the  distance  each  man 
on  the  team  will  run  at  the  B.  A.  A.  games  to-morr 
row  night.  Following  is  the  time  of  each  man  who 
ran : 

Capt.  Col'bath,  '10,  47  sec. 
Edwards,  '10,  48  sec. 
Tuttle,  '13,  49  2-5  sec. 
Robinson,   'ii,  49  3-5   sec. 
Deming,  '10,  49  4-5  sec. 
^McFarland,  '11,  51  i-S  sec. 
Anderson   (Medic),  51   1-5  sec. 
Emery,  '13,  51  4-5  sec. 
Timberlake,  '13,  52  sec. 
Walker,   '13,   53   sec. 

Bob  Cole  did  not  run  on  account  of  strained  ten- 
don. The  team  will  line  up  as  follows :  Captain  Col- 
bath,  Cole,  Edwards,  with  either  Tuttle  or  Robin- 
son for  fourth  man.  Besides  these  men,  Bowdoin 
will  enter  McKenney,  '12,  in  the  40-yard  dash  and 
Burlingame,   '12,  in  the  high  jump. 


LECTURE  BY  PROF.  DONALD  B.  McMlLLAN 
Bowdoin  Men  Hear  the  Story  of  Peary's  Dash  to  Pole 

On  Monday  evening,  January  24th,  Bow- 
doin men  had  the  opportunity  to  listen  to  the 
story  of  the  conquest  of  the  Pole  from  the  lips 
of  the  Bowdoin  man  who  accompanied  him. 
Right  royally  was  Prof.  McMillan  greeted. 
To  realize  that  Bowdoin  men  urged  by  Bow- 
doin spirit  had  accomplished  the  feat  that  has 
baffled  the  world's  greatest  explorers  for  three 
centuries  was  enough  to  stir  the  blood  in  the 
veins  of  every   Bowdoin  man  present. 

Prof.  McMillan's  lecture  was  given  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Ibis.  Memorial  Hah  was 
crowded  with  students  and  townspeople. 
Many  came  from  distant  towns  and  cities. 
The  speaker  was  introduced  by  Robert  Hale, 
president  of  the  Ibis. 

The  lecture  consisted  of  a  brief  talk  on 
Arctic  history,  anecdotes  and  interesting  expe- 
rience of  Prof.  McMillan's  life  among  the 
Eskimos  followed  by  about  130  colored  slides 
illustrating  the  trip  from  New  York  to  the 
Polar  Sea  and  return.     The  slides  dealt  with 


every  phase  of  life  in  the  Arctic;  midnight 
sun,  Eskimos  hunting  walrus,  deer,  musk 
oxen,  narwhal,  hare  and  seal;  the  Roosevelt 
smashing  thru  ice;  winter  quarters;  dash  for 
the  Pole;  rough  ice  of  Polar  sea;  dogs  drag- 
ging sledges  over  high  pressure  ridges;  cross- 
ing leads  of  water  on  ice  cakes ;  sledging  along 
the  shore  of  Greenland  to  the  most  northern 
point  of  land  in  the  world;  finding  of  large, 
herds  of  musk-oxen;  finding  of  Greeley  relics 
at  Fort  Conger;  return  to  Etah;  leaving  the 
Eskimos  at  their  home;  landing  in  Labrador; 
from  there  to  Sidney  and  thence  to  New  York. 

Prof.  McMillan  was  asked  many  questions 
about  points  suggested  by  his  lecture  and  an- 
swered all  with  a  frankness  that  made  a  deep 
impression.  His  modesty  in  telling  of  the  part 
he  took  and  exploiting  the  work  of  others  was 
also  noticeable.  / 

Cook's  name  was    not    mentioned    in    the     /\ 
lecture. 

A  reception  was  given  Prof.  McMillan  at 
the  Theta  Delta  Chi  house  after  the  lecture. 

Besides  the  happy  recollection  of  the 
lecture  of  Prof.  Donald  B.  McMillan  on 
"With  Peary  at  the  Pole,"  Monday  evening, 
Bowdoin  students  will  always  have  something 
by  which  to  remember  the  evening  and  at  the 
same  time  remind  them  that  two  Bowdoin  men 
will  always  be  associated  with  the  greatest 
achievement  of  the  age. 

It  is  a  Theta  Delta  Chi  flag  which  Prof. 
McMillan  presented  to  the  Bowdoin  chapter  of 
of  that  fraternity  after  his  lecture.  The  flag 
was  made  by  Prof.  McMillan  in  the  Arctics 
and  was  raised  by  him  on  a  pole  with  the  Bow- 
doin and  Yale  flags  and  Stars  and  Stripes  at 
the  point  farthest  north  reached  by  him. 

Thoughts  of  his  fraternity  and  Alma  Ma- 
ter were  uppermost  in  his  mind  at  that  impor- 
tant moment  in  his  life.  Hence  the  Bowdoin 
and  Theta  Delta  Chi  flags.  Love  for  his 
friend,  Borup,  a  Yale  man,  the  official 
photographer  of  the  party  and  for  his  country 
account  for  the  other  two  flags. 

The  flag  is  made  from  a  piece  of  red  flan- 
nel shirt  on  which  appear  the  Greek  letters  in 
deer  skin  representing  the  fraternity.  The 
chapter  will  have  the  flag  framed  and  will 
treasure  it  as  one  of  their  most  valued  prizes. 


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WASHINGTON  ALUMNI  BANQUET 

The  28th  Annual  Banquet  of  the  Bowdoin 
Akmini  Association  of  the  District  of  Colum- 
bia was  held  at  the  Hotel  Raleigh,  Thursday 
evening,  Jan.  20,  1910.  The  attendance  was 
uncommonly  large,  numbering  about  fifty,  and 
representing  classes  from  1843  down  to  1907. 
Among  the  distinguished  men  present  were 
Commander  Peary,  Senator  Frye,  Governor 
Quinby  of  New  Hampshire,  Representative 
Alexander,  H.  C.  Emery,  President  of  the 
National  Tariff  Board,  and  Reprsentative  S. 
W.  McCall  of  Massachusetts.  Prof.  Wilmot 
B.   Mitchell  represented  the  college. 

Senator  Frye  acted  as  Toast-master.  In 
introducing  Commander  Peary  he  called  him 
"a  patient,  bold  and  successful  hunter  for  the 
North  Pole,  and  the  only  one  in  the  world 
who  ever  got  there."  Hearty  applause  greeted 
this  statement.  Commander  Peary  made  a 
very  modest  speech,  for  a  man  who  has 
achieved  so  much.  He  said  that  the  keynote 
of  his  success  was  experience,  and  that  the 
winning  of  the  Pole  stood  for  the  inevitable 
victory  of  patience  and  persistence. 

President  Emery  of  the  Tariff  Board  made 
a  most  impressive  speech,  the  literary  finish  of 
which  was  worthy  of  a  master.  He  congrat- 
ulated Commander  Peary  upon  his  success, 
and  the  college  upon  the  loftiness  of  her 
ideals.  Representative  McCall,  who  had  been 
introduced  by  D.  S.  Alexander,  as  "the  man 
who  dared  decline  the  Presidency  of  Dart- 
mouth College,"  said  that  he  admired  the  inti- 
mate relations  existing  at  Bowdoin  between 
the  students  and  members  of  the  faculty,  and 
contrasted  it  in  this  respect  with  Harvard  Uni- 
versity where  so  many  students  never  have  an 
opportunity  to  speak  to  the  President.  He 
remarked  on  the  poets,  statesmen,  jurists  and 
scholars  Bowdoin  had  given  to  the  world,  and 
said  that  in  addition  to  all  her  other  trophies 
she  could  now  store  away  the  North  Pole. 

Governor  Quinby  spoke  of  his  deep  inter- 
est in  the  college,  saying  that  his  grandfather 
graduated  from  Bowdoin  in  1806.  Turning 
to  a  humorous  vein  he  told  of  his  efforts  in 
college  to  bring  up  in  the  way  they  should  go 
various  underclassmen  who  have  since  become 
prominent. 

Professor  Mitchell  brought  a  cheerful 
message  from  the  college,  saying  that  it  was 
never  so  prosperous  nor  its  future  so  bright  as 


it  is  to-day.  He  spoke  of  the  need  of  a  new 
gymnasium,  and  dwelt  at  some  length  on  the 
important  parts  that  go  to  make  up  a  real  col- 
lege. Fine  buildings  and  a  strong  faculty  are 
not  alone  sufficient,  said  he,  but  the  college  is 
judged  largely  by  the  character  and  abilily  of 
its  alumni  and  especially  by  its  student  body. 
He  emphasized  the  fact  that  the  student  body 
must  be  strong,  earnest,  broad-minded,  and  of 
high  ideals.  His  speech  was  finished,  and  gave 
the  impression  of  coming  from  the  heart;  it 
was  the  subject  of  most  favorable  general  com- 
ment. 

Throughout  the  banquet  the  utmost  good- 
fellowship  prevailed,  and  the  oldest  men  were 
as  young  as  the  youngest.  Many  Bowdoin 
songs  were  sung  including  Bowdoin  Beata 
and  Phi  Chi.  The  old  officers  were  re-elected, 
and  a  committee  of  five  was  appointed  to  solicit 
subscriptions  among  the  Washington  .A.lumni 
toward  the  purchase  of  a  portrait  of  Gen.  O. 
O.  Howard,  which  he  desired  should  be  pre- 
sented to  the  college. 


BOWDOIN=WESLEVAN  DEBATE 

After  several  weeks  of  preliminary  nego- 
tiation, the  following  question  has  been 
adopted    for   the    Bowdoin- Wesleyan    debate : 

"Resolved,  That  the  United  States  should 
adopt  a  central  bank  similar  to  the  Imperial 
Bank  of  Germany."  The  date  of  this  debate 
has  not  been  as  yet  definitely  settled,  but  it  is 
expected  that  it  will  be  set  in  the  middle  of 
April. 

This  question  is  also  to  be  discussed  in  the 
Bradbury  Prize  Debate,  which  will  occur 
about  the  first  of  March.  The  trials  for  the 
Bradbury  are  on  Tuesday,  Feb.  15,  in  the 
debating  room  and  are  open  to  all  students  in 
college.  The  speeches  are  to  be  seven  min- 
utes. All  members  of  English  VII.  will  be 
required  to  speak  at  the. trials  as  a  part  of  the 
regular  work  in  the  course. 

The  central  bank  question  is  an  especially 
appropriate  one  at  present.  A  bill  providing 
for  one  is  now  before  Congress  and  the  pro- 
posal has  the  open  advocacy  of  Senator  Al- 
drich  and  President  Taft.  The  matter  is  be- 
ing widely  discussed  in  journals  and  maga- 
zines, particularly  those  relating  to  financial 
affairs.  The  question  is  one  of  comparatively 
recent  date  and  has  not  yet  been  debated  by 
colleges  of  prominence. 


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THE  NEXT  COLLEGE  PREACHER 

Next  Sunday  Bowdoin  will  have  an  oppor- 
tunity to  "get  in  line"  with  other  New  Eng- 
land colleges  by  showing  her  interest  in  Mis- 
sions. Nearly  every  other  college  in  the 
country  now  conducts  Mission  Study  courses, 
and  aims  to  interest  the  students  in  intelligent 
support  of  Missions.  In  order  that  this  may 
be  done  here,  Rev.  J.  P.  Jones,  D.D.,  of  India, 
and  Kenneth  Latourette,  Ph.D.,  under  ap- 
pointment to  the  Gale  Mission  in  China,  will 
speak  on  Sunda)^. 

Dr.  Jones  is  one  of  the  most  prominent 
missionaries  in  all  India,  as  he  went  out  in 
1878  as  one  of  the  earliest  missionaries.  Pie  is 
located  at  Pasumalai,  which  is  in  the  general 
district  in  which  A.  S.  Hiwale,  1909,  is  now 
working.  Dr.  Jones  has  developed  the  edu- 
cational system  of  the  province,  established 
schools  of  all  sorts,  and  is  dean  of  the  large 
Theological  Seminary  at  Pasumalai.  Last 
year  he  received  the  Viceroy's  Medal  in  recog- 
nition of  his  work  for  India.  He  is  the  au- 
thor of  many  well-known  books  on  India.  Dr. 
Jones  was  a  prominent  speaker  at  the  recent 
convention  in  Rochester,  and  his  furlough  has 
been  extended  in  order  that  he  may  speak  at 
the  big  Laymen's  Missionary  Meetings  which 
are  being  held  in  the  70  largest  cities  in  the 
country.  He  recently  spoke  for  two  successive 
Sundays  at  Williams  College,  where  he  was 
very  well  liked  by  the  students.  He  will 
speak  in  the  "Church  on  the  Hill"  in  tlie  morn- 
ing, at  the  College  Chapel  in  the  afternoon, 
and  at  the  Christian  Association  meeting  at  7 
in  the  evening. 

Mr.  Latourette,  who  will  also  speak  at  the 
evening  meeting,  is  one  of  the  Student  Volun- 
teer Secretaries  this  year,  in  which  capacity  he 
visited  Bowdoin  last  fall.  He  has  been  closely 
connected  with  the  religious  and  missionary 
work  at  Yale  for  four  years,  and  goes  this 
summer  to  the  new  Yale  College  in  China. 
During  his  visit  here  he  will  be  entertained  at 
a  number  of  the  Fraternity  houses.  At  Dart- 
mouth and  the  University  of  Vermont,  re- 
cently, he  was  warmly  received  at  nearly  every 
House,  where,  by  informal  conversation  with 
him,  the  men  became  much  interested  in  mis- 
sionary progress. 

Next  week  the  five  weeks'  course  in  Mis- 
sion Study  will  begin  with  over  15  groups  led 
by  different  students.     The  course  will  be  on 


India,  particular  attention  being  paid  to  the 
work  of  Mr.  Hiwale,  the  Bowdoin  missionary. 
During  the  month  subscriptions  for  his  work 
will  be  received,  and  it  is  hoped  that  at  least 
hslf  of  his  support,  which  is  $600  a  year,  may 
be  raised  here  in  collee:e. 


COLLEGE  SMOKER 

Bowdoin  students  began  the  second  semes- 
ter with  a  rousing  get-together  at  a  smoker 
under  the  auspices  of  the  student  council  in 
Memorial  Hall,  Monday  evening.  After  a 
hard  two  weeks  of  mid-year  exams,  which 
ended  Friday  they  felt  like  celebrating  and 
entered  into  the  evening's  program  with  more 
than  ordinary  spirit.  Practically  every  stu- 
dent besides  many  guests,  was  present. 

The  program  included  selections  by  the 
Bowdoin  band ;  readings  by  G.  W.  Cole ;  vio- 
lin solo  by  William  Callahan,  who  is  a  Lewis- 
ton  boy,  dancing  and  popular  songs.  It  closed 
with  singing  of  college  songs  and  giving  of 
class  and  college  yells.  Mr.  Scruton,  Bates, 
'13,  played  the  piano  accompaniment  for  Cal- 
lahan's solo.  Twombley,  '13,  played  the  piano 
accompaniment  for  the  songs. 

Souvenir  pipes  were  given  away  with  to- 
bacco for  the  evening.  Fruit  and  popcorn 
were  served. 


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ATHLETIC  COUNCIL  MEETS 

Several  Important  Measures  Passed 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Athletic  Council  held  just 
before  the  beginning  of  the  mid-year  examinations, 
the  following  measures  were  passed : 

1.  It  was  voted  not  to  invite  preparatory  schools 
from  without  the  State  to  participate  in  the  annual        ^ 
Bowdoin   Interscholastic  Meet  to  be  held  here  May 

28,   1910. 

2.  It  was  voted  to  abandon  the  New  York  base-i        ^ 
ball  trip  this  year.     The  reason  for  this  action  was 
because   the    trip     cannot    be    made     self-supporting 

and  the  Athletic  Association  Treasury  is  depleted. 

3.  The  following  recommmendation  of  the  Stu- 
dent Council  was  adopted :  "The  Student  Council 
recommends  that  numeral  sweaters  showing  class 
colors  be  abolished,  and  that  in  their  places  shall  be 
substituted   white   sweaters   with   black  numerals." 

4.  The  matter  of  awarding  "B's"  and  class 
numerals  was  discussed  and  notice  is  hereby  given 
to  the  student  body  that  hereafter  no  student  shall 
wear  a  college  letter  of  any  kind  or  class  numerals 
until  the  same  have  been  officially  awarded  him  by 
the  secretary  of  the  Athletic  Council. 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


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The  following  editorial  en- 
As  Others  See  Us     titled  "The    Ideal    College 

Man,"  taken  from  the  col- 
umns of  a  Western  college  paper,  speaks  for 
itself: 

"An  ideal  college  man  is  a  clean,  well- 
bred,  ordinarily  studious  and  athletically  in- 
clined fellow.  Of  course  as  with  other  ideals, 
no  two  persons  will  have  the  same  conception 
of  this  ideal,  and  different  localities  and  col- 
leges will  demand  different  ideals  of  men.  For 
instance  in  the  East,  a  man  to.  come  up  to  the 
general  standard  must  be  pretty  well  endowed 
with  money,  must  have  social  standing,  and  in 
general  must  be  a  man  of  the  world.  In  the 
West  and  Middle  West  these  conditions  do 
not  necessarily  exist  and  we  find  men  with  lit- 
tle money  behind  them  and  from  obscure  fami- 
lies taking  a  leading  part  in  the  affairs  of  the 
college.  A  man's  money  is  no  hindrance  to 
him  as  we  find  numberless  men,  who  while 


immensely  wealthy,  take  prominent  positions 
in  the  various  universities.  But  in  the  West 
this  is  not  on  account  of  their  money,  but 
because  they  have  the  other  qualifications  men- 
tioned the  ideal  college  man  should  possess," 
etc.,  for  a  column. 

We  trust  that  after  reading  the  above,  our 
bloated  plutocratic  leaders  in  college  activities 
here  at  Bowdoin  will  never  again  give  expres- 
sion to  the  old  saying:  "Ain't  it  hell  to  be 
poor." 

Look  Forward,  For  p ra  c  t  i  c  a_l  purposes 

•  Not  Backward  advancement  in  life 
means  becoming  conspicu- 
ous in  life — obtaining  a  position  which  shall  be 
acknowledge  by  others  to  be  respectable  and 
honorable.  In  such  a  conspicuous  position  has 
stood  Bowdoin's  baseball  team  during  the  last 
three  years,  with  games  in  New  York,  and 
New  Jersey.  It  is  with  a  feeling  of  sincere 
regret  that  we  have  in  the  present  issue  of  the 
Orient  to  announce  that  the  Athletic  Council 
has  instructed  the  baseball  manager  to  omit 
the  New  York  trip,  but  regret  linked  with 
commendation  for. the  wisdom  of  the  Council. 
If  an  institution  cannot  become  self-support- 
ing, it  must  be  done  away  with,  and  in  view  of 
the  fact  that  the  New  York  trip  has  brought 
financial  disaster  upon  three  baseball  man- 
agers, it  is  altogether  fitting  and  proper  that  it 
be  discontinued  until  such  time  as  it  will  be- 
come a  paying  proposition,  or  at  least  a  self- 
supporting  proposition.  However,  it  only  re- 
mains to  look  forward  and  not  backward ;  for- 
ward to  the  time  when  increased  prosperity  of 
the  college  will  allow  her  to  again  send  her 
teams  outside  of  New  England. 


Millions  for 


In    no    other    year      since 

'  i"'      ,.         the  world  began  were  such 
Education  ,  ? 

vast  sums  of  money  given 

for  education  and  charity  as  in  the  year  1909. 
They  amount  to  almost  $135,000,000  in  this 
country  alone.  This  is  $75,000,000  more  than 
the  great  sums  given  in  1908. 

The  largest  giver  was  John  Stewart  Ken- 
nedy, the  banker,  who  left  $30,000,000  for 
educational  and  charitable  purposes.  Second 
in  the  list  is  John  D.  Rockefeller,  who 
during  the  year  gave  $13,702,000.  The 
third  is  Andrew  Carnegie,  $6,392,000, 
$2,000,000  of  which  is  to  build  and 
furnish  a  school  of  applied  science  in  Pitts- 
burg, Pa.     The  same  city  gets  from  the  C.  L. 


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205 


Magee  estate  $5,000,000  to  build  a  hospital  for 
women.  James  Milliken  of  Decatur,  III,  left 
$2,400,000  to  his  native  city  for  hospitals  and 
other  insttutions,  and  Mrs.  Russell  Sage  gave 
$1,965,000  for  various  good  purposes.  There 
were  many  smaller  givers. 


The  readers  of  the  Orient 
A  Live  Issue  are  doubtless  aware  that 
the  columns  of  the  Orient 
have,  for  several  numbers,  contained  notices 
relative  to  "Foreign  Missions  and  Mission 
Study."  "There's  a  reason" — and  it's  just 
this. 

The  Foreign  Mission  Movement  is  one  of 
the  great  sociological  movements  of  the  age. 
All  students  who  have  taken  Sociology  V. 
know  this,  as  do  all  who  have  talked  with  the 
Bowdoin  delegates  to  the  Rochester  Conven- 
tion last  Christmas  time. 

The  movement  is  gaining  strength  every 
day.  The  scope  of  its  work  is  tremendous  and 
its  success  lies  wholly  in  the  hands  of  the  men 
who  take  up  Foreign  Missions  for  a  life  work. 
The  ideal  man  for  the  work  is  the  college  man 
of  to-day. 

Are  you  interested?  You  should  be,  even 
tho  you  may  not  contemplate  mission  work  as 
a  life  vocation. 

It  will  pay  every  man  in  college  to  do  three 
things : 

1.  Go  to  hear  Dr.  Jones  and  Mr.  Latour- 
ette  next  Sunday. 

2.  Enroll  in  a  Mission  Study  group. 

3.  Subscribe  something  towards  the  sup- 
port of  Hiwale,  '09,  who  is  now  working 
actively  at  the  "Bowdoin"  Mission  in  India. 


The  sum  total  of  human 
The  Minstrel  Show  effort  to  appeal  to  the  aes- 
thetic in  man  is  composed 
of  two  factors ;  a  production  is  either  artistic 
or  non-artistic.  All  competent  critics,  and  the 
majority  of  the  incompetent  would  place  the 
Bowdoin  Minstrel  Show  in  the  category  of 
non-artistic  productions.  Before  the  Show 
was  staged  this  year,  the  Orient  tried  with- 
out publicity  to  make  possible  te  substitution 
of  something  more  in  keeping  with  the  colle- 
giate atmosphere,  but  for  alleged  financial 
reasons,  the  Show  was  put  on  this  year  in 
spite  of  the  general  sentiment  against  it.  Now 
that  it  is  over,  we  do  not  intend  to  mince  mat- 
ters, and  wish  to  state  publicly  that  "bum  com- 
edy" is  not  the  logical  production  of  a  college 


like  Bowdofn.  The  Minstrel  Show  would  un- 
doubtedly have  made  a  great  hit  with  the 
people  of  lower  Maine  Street,  if  presented  as 
a  vaudeville  feature  at  the  moving  picture 
theatre,  or  would  have  passed  hook  night  at 
the  Columbia  theatre  in  Boston,  but  it  failed  to 
meet  the  requirements  of  a  college  community. 
The  college  is  capable  of  something  better  and 
in  future  will  demand  something  better. 

There  are  two  sources  from  which  it  is  pos- 
sible to  take  the  substitute  for  the  college  Min- 
strels— drama  and  opera ;  preferably  the  latter. 
A  good  snappy  comic  opera,  written  if  possible 
by  a  Bowdoin  man,  would  leave  a  far  better 
taste  in  the  mouth  than  the  spectacle  we  have 
witnessed  during  the  past  few  vears.  There 
seems  to  be  a  feeling  in  college  that  what  has 
been  done  in  the  past  must  always  continue  in 
the  future,  but  the  college  is  awakening  from 
this  lethargic  condition  to  realize  that  stagna- 
tion, like  the  hook  worm,  is  the  parasite  which 
is  gnawing  at  its  vitals.  The  Minstrel  Show- 
is  a  relic  of  barbarism  which  in  the  logical  evo- 
lution of  events  must  give  place  to  a  more 
worthy  cause,  and  the  tme  for  the  transform- 
ation is  the  present. 


CHANGE  IN  IVY  DAY  SPEAKERS 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Junior  Class  held  Tues- 
day afternoon,  George  A.  Torsney  of  Berlin, 
N.  H.,  resigned  as  Ivy  Day  poet,  as  he  is  to 
leave  Bowdoin  and  enter  Dartmouth,  and 
William  C.  Allen  of  Minneapolis  resigned  as  a 
member  of  the  Ivy  Day  Committee,  owing  to  a 
recent  death  in  his  family.  Charles  B.  Hawes 
of  Bangor  was  elected  class  poet,  and  Harry 
L.  Wiggin  of  Boston  to  the  vacancy  on  the 
Ivy  Day  Committee. 

Lawrence  McFarland  of  Portland,  was 
elected  class  track  captain  and  Paul  R.  Hine 
of  Dedham,  Mass.,  was  elected  class  pianist. 


ROBERT  F.  WING 

The  funeral  of  Robert  F.  Wing,  a  former 
member  of  the  Class  of  1910,  was  held  Jan.  22, 
from  his  home  at  Wells  Beach,  the  services 
being  conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Quint.  The 
Class  of  1910  was  represented  by  Charles  A. 
Cary  and  Harold  W.  Slocum,  and  a  very  beau- 
tiful floral  tribute  was  sent  by  the  class.  Mr. 
Wing's  death  occurred  on  Wednesday,  Jan. 
19,  from  illness  with  which  he  has  been  long 
afflicted.     His  age  was  20  years. 


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BOWDOIN    ORIENT 


PORTLAND  ALUMNI  ASSOCIATION  BANQUET 

About  fifty  members  of  the  Bowdoin  Alumni 
Association  with  invited  guests  were  Saturday  even- 
ing at  the  annual  dinner  of  the  Association,  held  in 
the  State  of  Maine  room  of  the  Falmouth  Hotel, 
Portland. 

Augustus  F.  Moulton,  'y^,  was  elected  President 
of  the  Association,  and  Franklin  C.  Payson,  '76, 
Vice-President.  The  guests  were  President  Hyde, 
Prof.  Ham,  and  Prof.  Sills.  At  the  postprandial 
exercises,  Hon.  A.  F.  Moulton,  '73,  presided  as 
toast-master  and  speeches  were  made  by  President 
Hyde,  Virgil  C.  Wilson,  E.  'B.  Freeman,  Hon. 
William  iVI.  Ingraham,  Prof.  Ham,  and  George  E. 
Fogg,  Esq. 

Those  present  were:  P.  C.  Baxter,  '98;  Philip 
W.  Davis,  '97;  F.  C.  Payson,  '76;  William  L.  Put- 
nam, '75 ;  Pres.  Hyde,  A.  F.  Moulton,  '73,  F.  L.  Ger- 
rish,  '66,  David  W.  Snow,  '73.  Seth  L.  Larrabee, 
'75,  C.  A.  Baker,  '73,  W.  M.  Ingraham,  '95,  Joseph 
B.  Reed,  '83,  Elias  Thomas,  Jr.,  '94,  C.  L.  Hutchin- 
son, '90,  A.  W.  Merrill,  '87,  F.  J.  Welch,  '03,  W.  L. 
Watson,  '02,  S.  W.  Noyes,  '02,  Ben  Barker,  '02,  E.  B. 
Freeman,  '8s.  Philip  Dana,  '96,  H.  L.  Berry,  '01, 
Prof.  Sills,  '01,  A.  P.  Cook,  '97,  E.  S.  Anthoine,  '02, 
H.  C.  Trott,  '04,  Prof.  Ham.  Luther  Dana,  '03,  G.  E. 
Fogg,  '02,  H.  A.  Jones,  '03,  Alfred  Mitchell,  Jr.,  '95, 
O.  L.  Rideout,  '89,  F.  H.  Haskell,  '95,  S.  T.  B.  Jack- 
son, '83,  V.  C.  Wilson,  '80,  C.  L.  Baxter,  '81,  C.  H. 
Gilman,  '82,  F.  O.  Conant,  '89,  J.  A.  Clarke,  '07, 
Frank  Mikelsky,  '05,  E.  L.  Bodge,  '97,  and  R. 
Ives,  '98. 


CLASSICAL  CLUB  LECTURE 

The  second  lecture  in  the  exchange  course  ar- 
ranged by  the  Classical  Department  will  be  given  in 
Hubbard  Hall,  Monday  evening,  February  four- 
teenth, at  eight  o'clcok  by  Prof.  Kiiapp  of  Bates  Col- 
lege. Subject,  "Martial  and  Some  of  His  Epi- 
grams."    The  public  is  cordially  invited. 


MUSICAL  CLUB  CONCERTS 

The  Musical  Clubs  gave  a  concert  in  Woodfords 
Wednesday  under  the  auspices  of  the  Congregational 
Church  of  that  city.  Practically  all  of  the  men  were 
able  to  go  as  the  Clubs  suffered  but  little  by  the 
Semester  examinations.  About  three  hundred  and 
fifty  people  enjoyed  the  program  which  went  off 
with  the  usual  success.  The  program  was  the  same 
as  the  Richmond  program  which  was  given  in  the 
last  number  of  the  Orient. 

The  Brunswick  concert  of  the  Musical  Clubs  will 
take  place  at  Memorial  Hall,  Feb.  17.  In  the  past, 
college  men  have  not  attended  the  concert  in  as  large 
numbers  as  they  should.  This  year  it  is  hoped  that 
the  hall  will  be  packed.  In  other  colleges  the  Clubs 
take  trips  to  distant  parts  of  the  New  England 
States,  but  this  is  impossible  in  Bowdoin  unless  the 
fellows  will  support  the  Clubs  to  the  extent  of  pay- 
ing at  least  a  quarter  to  see  the  concert. 


LECTURE  ON  LONGFELLOW 

Through  the  Alpha  Chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  v 
a  lecture  will  be  given  by  William  Winter  of  New  '^ 
York,  on  the  Monday  evening  following  the  anni- 
versary of  Longfellow's  birth,  Feb.  28,  at  8  o'clock. 
His  subject  will  be,  "Some  Reminiscences  of  Long- 
fellow." The  lecture  will  be  in  Memorial  Hall  and 
will  be  open  to  everybody.  Following  the  lecture,  a 
receptiqn  will  be  given  to  Mr.  Winter.  The  commit- 
tee in  charge  consists  of  Prof.  Little,  '77,  chairman, 
Samuel  V.  Cole,  '74,  Chas.  H.  Cutler,  '81,  Charles 
C.  Torrey,   '84.   and   Prof.   Sills  '01. 


CALENDAR 

Friday,  February  ii 
3.30     College  Tea  in     Alumni     Room,     Hubbard 
Hall. 

8.00     Second  Junior  Assembly  in  Memorial  Hall. 

Saturday,  February  12 

B.  A.  A.  Meet  in  Mechanics  Hall,  Boston. 

Bowdoin  Relay  vs.  Tufts. 

7.30  A'leeting  of  the  Massachusetts  Club  at  Psi 
Upsilon   House.     Prof.    Ham   will   speak. 

10.4s  Morning  service  in  the  Church  on  the  Hill, 
conducted  by  Dr.  J.   P.  Jones  of  India. 

5.00  Sunday  chapel,  conducted  by  Dr.  J.  P. 
Jones.     Music   by  double   quartette. 

7.00  Missionary  meeting  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room.  Dr.  J.  P.  Jones  of  India  and  Kenneth 
S.  Latourette  of  the  Yale  Mission,  will  speak. 

Monday,  February  14 
2.30     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 
3.30     Mandolin     Club     Rehearsal     in     Christian 
Association   Room. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym, 
7.00     Meeting   of    the     Monday     Night     Club     at 
Zeta  Psi  House. 

Tuesday,  February  15 

3.30     Make-up  gym. 

5.10  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

Wednesday,  February  16 

2.30    Track   Practice  in  the  gym. 

4.30  Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian 
Association  Room. 

5.10  Glee  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian  Associa- 
tion Room. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

Thursday,  February  17 

2.30     Track  Practice  in  the  gym. 

5. IS     Track  Practice   in  the  gym. 

7.00  Meeting  of  Christian  Association.  Address 
bv  Rev.  J.  F.  Albion,  D.D.,  of  Portland. 

8.00     Glee  Club  Concert  in  Memorial  Hall. 

8.00  Meeting  of  the  Classical  Club  at  the  Beta 
Theta  Pi  House. 

Friday,   February    18 

2.30    Track  Practice   in   gym. 

4.30  Mandolin  Club  Rehearsal  in  Christian 
Association   Room. 


BOWbOIN  ORiENt 


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Colleoe  IRotes 


Torsney,   'ii,   is   to  enter  Dartmouth. 

Warren,   '12,   has   been   sick  with   the   measles. 

John  Slocum  has  entered  college  as  a  special  stu- 
dent. 

Robert  Bradford,  '11,  returns  to  college  this 
semester. 

Professor  Robinson  has  been  ill  during  the 
last  week. 

P.  B.  Morss,  '10,  went  to  Augusta,  Thursday,  on 
a  business  trip. 

Sumner  Jackson,  Medic  '12,  visted  friends  in 
college  last  week. 

C.  A.  Smith.  '10,  has  been  sick  with'  diphtheria 
for  several  weeks. 

Duffy,  '13,  has  returned  to  college  after  a  severe 
attack  of  pneumonia. 

Ashey,  '12,  has  been  spending  several  days  with 
friends  in  Massachusetts. 

Shackford,  '13,  spent  several  days  in  Farming- 
ton,  visiting  Gilbert,  '13. 

Pratt,  '13,  entertained  several  friends  at  his  home 
in  Wilton   over   Sunday. 

J.  O.  Faulkner  of  the  Lewiston  lotirnal  attended 
the  Smoker,  Monday  night. 

Several  college  men  took  examinations  for  cen- 
sus enumerators  last  Saturday. 

Candidates  for  the  Freshman-Sophomore  relay 
squads   will   be  called   out   soon. 

P.  T.  Nickerson,  '10,  completed  his  college  course 
at  the  end  of  the  first  semester. 

Afton  Farrin,  formerly  of  the  Class  of  1910,  has 
returned   to    college   this    semester. 

Callahan,  '11,  led  the  orchestra  at  the  Empire 
Theatre,  Lewiston,  last  Tuesday  evening. 

A  large  number  of  students  have  been  afflicted 
with  the  mumps  during  the   Semester  examinations. 

Leavitt,  '13,  returned  to  his  home  in  Wilton, 
where  he  will  spend  a  few  days  recovering  from  an 
attack  of  the  mumps. 

President  Hyde  has  an  article  on  the  Conference 
System  here  in  college  in  the  Nation  for  Febru- 
ary 3. 

Prof.  Little  and  Barrett  Potter  took  a  trip  to  Mt. 
Washington  last  week.  They  ascended  Mt.  Clinton 
during  the  trip. 

H.  E.  Rowell,  '10,  returned  to  college  this  week 
after  a  month's  vacation,  during  which  he  has  recu- 
perated  from   his   recent   illness. 


Mr.  Edward  H.  Beloff,  New,  Hampshire  State 
College,  '13,  visited  Brown,  '10,  last  week. 

Prof.  Snow  gave  an  interesting  criticism  of  De 
Morgan's,  "It  Will  Never  Happen  Again"  before 
the  Faculty  Club,  Monday  evening. 

President  Hyde  entertained  the  Gentleman's  Club 
at   Hotel   Eagle,     Jan.  21.  R.  W.   Eaton  read  a 

paper   on   "Wasting  Our   Resources." 

The  February  issue  of  the  Yale  Review  contains 
an  article  on  "American  Budget-Making,"  which 
Prof.  Allen  Johnson  read  before  the  Men's  Club  of 
Brunswick  some  weeks  before. 

The  following  written  on  a  post  card  has  been 
received  by  the  Orient:  Born  to  the  wife  of  James 
Mitchell  Chandler  (Bowdoin,  ex-'o8),  at  Jamaica 
Plain,  Mass.,  January  19,  1910,  at  9.28  p.m.,  an 
eight-pound  boy,  Russell  Robb  Chandler.  Will  en- 
ter  Bowdoin   with    Class   of  '30. 


OBITUARY 

For  the  death  of  another  classmate,  Robert  Fes- 
senden  Wing,  the  Class  of  1910  must  again  express 
its  sorrow.  Although  our  comrade  was  with  us  but 
two  short  years,  his  death  brings  us  a  sense  of 
immediate  loss.  His  ready  comradeship  while  he 
was  with  us,  makes  his  death  seem  more  grievous, 
and  our  loss  more  real.    And  therefore  be  it 

Resolved,  That  the   Class  of  1910  with  this   ex- 
pression of  its  grief  at  the  loss  of  a  classmate,  also 
extend  to  the  bereaved  family  the  deepest  sympathy. 
Stuart    F.    Brown, 
H.  Q.  Hawes, 
Rodney    Ross, 

For  the  Class. 


Hall  of  Eta  of  Theta  Delta  Chi, 
February  8,  1910. 

Whereas,  It  has  pleased  God,  in  His  infinite  wis- 
dom, to  take  from  us  our  beloved  brother,  Benja- 
min John  Fitz  of  the  Class  of  '97;  be  it 

Resolved,  That  we,  the  members  of  Eta  Charge 
of  Theta  Delta  Chi,  express  our  deep  grief  at  the 
loss  of  an  honored  and  loyal  brother,  and  that  we 
extend  our  heart-felt  sympathy  to  the  bereaved 
family. 

Clyde  L.  Deming, 
Harold  P.  Marston, 
Arthur  D.  Welch, 

For  the  Charge. 


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Hlumni  department 

'56. — Judge  William  Gaslin  died  at  his 
home  in  Alma,  Neb.,  14  Jan.  1910.  He  was  the 
son  of  William  and  Jerusha  C.  (Nason)  Gas- 
lin and  was  born  29  July,  1829,  at  China,  Me. 
Thrown  upon  his  own  resources  at  an  early- 
age,  much  of  his  youth  was  passed  at  sea  as  a 
sailor,  and  the  claims  of  his  mother  and  her 
younger  children  prevented  him  from  carry- 
ing out  a  long  cherished  desire  for  a  college 
education  until  he  had  passed  his  majority. 
He  was  prepared  at  Waterville  Academy 
under  Dr.  J.  H.  Hanson.  During  his  college 
course  as  well  as  previously,  he  taught 
school  for  several  terms.  After  grad- 
uation he  began  the  study  of  law  at  Augusta 
which  had  been  his  home  for  many  years,  in 
the  office  of  Hon.  Samuel  Titcomb  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1858.  He  at  once 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession. 
During  his  residence  in  Augusta  he  served  for 
four  years  as  member  of  the  school  committee 
and  as  city  clerk,  was  city  solicitor  one  year, 
councilman  one  year  and  alderman  two  years. 
In  1866  he  removed  to  the  west  and  the  fol- 
lowing year  settled  in  Omaha,  Nebraska, 
where  he  practiced  law  for  two  or  three  years. 
In  1873  he  resumed  practice  at  Lowell,  Kear- 
ney County,  Nebraska,  and  continued  the  fol- 
lowing year  at  Boomington,  Franklin  County. 
In  October,  1875,  he  was  chosen  judge  of  the 
fifth  judicial  district  of  Nebraska,  a  position 
which  he  held  for  sixteen  years,  being  thrice 
selected  without  opposition.  His  district  at 
first  covered  more  than  one-half  the  area  of 
the  state  and  was  infested  with  horse  thieves, 
desperadoes  and  outlaws.  Under  his. jurisdic- 
tion came  the  unorganized  territory  with  its 
bands  of  organized  criminals.  He  had  not 
only  to  mete  out  justice  but  see  that  it  was 
executed.  He  "made  the  law  to  fit  the  crime'' 
and  his  methods  struck  terror  into  the  hearts 
of  law-breakers  and  brought  comfort  to  law- 
abiding  citizens.  Utterly  fearless,  regardless 
of  conseciuences  to  himself,  he  dealt  out  jus- 
tice, as  he  saw  it,  to  all.  While  the  higher 
courts  would  occasionally  reverse  his  decis- 
ions, his  sense  of  equity  was  such  that  they 
were  rarely  questioned  by  the  bar  or  by  the 
people.  On  retiring  from  the  bench  in  1891, 
he  resumed  practice  at  Kearney,  Neb.,  and 
was  actively  engaged  in  professional  labors 
until  he  had  passed  three  score  and  fifteen.  In 
recent  years  he  has  several    times    spent    the 


summer  in  Maine  with  his  relatives  and  was 
present  at  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  his  grad- 
uation. 

'69. — Among  the  important  contributions 
to  scientific  literature  the  past  year,  Dr. 
Marshman  E.  Wadsworth's  Manual  of  Crys- 
tallography holds  a  high  place. 

'70. — The  Literary  Digest  places  Hon.  D. 
S.  Alexander's  Political  History  of  the  State 
of  New  York  in  its  list  of  fifty  of  the  best 
books  published  in  the  United  States  during 
the  year. 

'72. — George  M.  Whitaker,  former  editor 
of  the  New  England  Farmer  and  for  several 
years  connected  with  the  Dairy  Bureau  of  the 
Department  of  Agriculture,  has  just  been  pro- 
moted to  be  chief  of  the  Division  in  Charge  of 
Market  Milk  Investigation.  Mr.  Whitaker  is 
one  of  the  leading  authorities  in  the  country 
on  the  subject  of  milk.  Much  of  his  time 
•  since  hi's  connection  with  the  Department  has 
been  spent  in  investigation  of  milk  supplies  of 
the  various  cities,  in  the  prosecution  of  which 
he  has  travelled  extensively.  In  his  new  of- 
fice he  will  remain  more  in  Washngton.  Mr. 
Whitaker  succeeds  Chief  C.  P.  Lane,  a  grad- 
uate of  the  Massachusetts  Agricultural  Col- 
lege, who,  like  many  another  good  man  in  the 
service,  is  taken  by  a  private  concern  which 
will  pay  him  twice  the  salary  he  received  from 
the  government. 

As  editor  of  the  staid  old  New  England 
Farmer  and  agent  of  the  State  Dairy  Bureau, 
thus  a  local  authority  on  agriculture,  and  as  a 
leading  member  of  the  Boston  Press  Club  Mr. 
Whitaker  was  one  of  the  best-known  citizens 
of  Massachusetts.  The  story  of  his  connection 
with  the  Massachusetts  Dairy  Bureau  and  the 
peculiar  circumstances  under  which  he  came 
to  Washington  always  has  been  an  interesting 
reminiscence  with  his  newspaper  friends.  His 
removal  from  office  in  Massachusetts  was  a 
matter  of  extended  comment  at  the  time,  while 
his  official  relation  to  one  of  the  secretaries  of 
the  State  Board  of  Agriculture  was  a  standing 
joke  all  the  time  he  drew  the  State  pay. 

'75. — Frederic  Hilborn  Hall,  only  son  of 
Professor  Edwin  H.  Hall,  died  of  pneumonia 
at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  January  14,  1910.  Mr. 
Hall,  who  was  twenty  years  of  age,  was  a 
member  of  the  Harvard  Dramatic  Club  and 
would  have  graduated  this  year. 

'03. — Mr.  Thomas  C.  White  has  lately  re- 
moved from  Cambridge,  Mass.,  to  Lewis- 
ton,  Me. 


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BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  FEBRUARY  i8,  1910 


VOL.  XXXIX 


NO.  26 


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BOWDOIN  WINS  RELAY  RACE  FROM  TUFTS 
TIME,  3. IS 

From  the  crack  of  the  starter's  pistol  the 
Bowdoin-Tufts  relay  race  at  the  B.  A.  A. 
games  last  Saturday  night  was  never  in  doubt. 
Altho  Tufts  drew  the  pole,  Capt.  Colbath,  with 
a  splendid  spur't  from  scratch,  took  the  lead  at 
the  first  corner  and  then  proceeded  to  run 
rings  around  his  man,  gaining  nearly  a  lap. 
Cole  then  took  the  tag-off  and  'twas  easy  going 
for  Bowdoin  thereafter,  Edwards  and  Tuttle 
finishing  in  the  order  named,  the  last  Tufts 
runner  being  three-quarters  of  a  lap  behind. 

Each  man  on  the  Bowdoin  team  received  a 
large  silver  and  copper  loving  cup. 

McKenney  did  himself  proud  in  the  40- 
yard  dash,  winning  his  trial  heat  and  forcing 
the  flyers  from  elsewhere  to  their  utmost  to 
shut  him  out  in  the  semi-finals. 


DELTA  KAPPA  EPSILON  HOUSE  PARTY 

The  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  House  party, 
reception  and  dance,  takes  place  to-day  at  the 
chapler  house  on  Maine  Street.  The  decora- 
tions are  most  tasteful,  the  house  being  fes- 
tooned with  evergreen  and  smilax  interspersed 
with  cut  plants  and  palms.  The  patronesses 
are  Mrs.  Geo.  T.  Little  and  Mrs.  Allen  John- 
son of  Brunswick;  Mrs.  E.  C.  Matthews  of 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  and  Mrs.  Geo.  S.  Hatch 
of  Medford,  Mass.  Those  serving  at  the  re- 
ception this  afternoon  were  Mrs.  Nathaniel 
Whittier,  Mrs.  Geo.  T.  Files,  Mrs.  Wm.  M. 
Pennell,  and  Mrs.  Percival  White  of  Bruns- 
wick.    Cordes  of  Portland,  was  the  caterer. 

This  evening  dancing  will  be  enjoyed,  be- 
ginning at  8.30,  music  to  be  furnished  by  Ken- 
drie's  Orchestra.  The  delegates  from  the 
other  fraternities  are:  Tames  F.  Hamburger, 
of  Hyde  Park,  Mass.,  theta  Delta  Chi ;  Rob- 
ert Hale,  of  Portland,  Psi  Upsilon ;  Lawrence 
P.  Parkman,  of  Portland,  Alpha  Delta  Phi; 
Sluart  F.  Brown  of  Whitingsville,  Mass., 
Kappa  Sigma;  Earl  F.  Wing,  of  Kingfield, 
Delta  Upsilon;  G.  Cony  Weston  of  Augusta, 
Beta  Theta  Pi ;  and  R.  A.  Hathaway  of  Provi- 
dence, R.  L,  Zeta  Psi. 

The  committee  in  charge  consists  of  Harry 
W.   Woodward,   '10,    of    Colorado    Springs, 


Colorado;  E.  Curtis  Matthews,  Jr.,  '10,  of 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  and  Harry  L.  Wiggin, 
"11,  of  Boston,  Mass. 

The  young  ladies  present  for  the  dance  are : 
Misses  Hazel  Savage,  Helen  L.  Miller,  Mar- 
garet Crosby,  Helen  Jones  and  Helen  Christ- 
ian of  Bangor;  Anna  Milliken,  Dorothy  Holt, 
Cara  D.  Baxter,  Lyda  Chenery,  and  Dorothy 
Abbott  of  Portland;  Olivia  Bagley  and  Har- 
riet Mayberry  of  Woodfords;  Katherine  Ran- 
dall, Barbara  Johnson,  and  Mary  Stinson  of 
Augusta ;  Alice  Bradley  of  Bath ;  Margaret 
Day  of  Brunswick;  Adelaide  M.  Smith  of 
Waterville ;  Helen  Gray  of  Oldtown ;  Grace 
Stetson  of  Damariscotta ;  Gladys  Robinson  of 
Bridgton;  Sarah  L.  Grinnell  of  Searsport; 
Ruth  Edwards  and  Helen  Fox  of  Roxbury, 
Mass. ;  Ida  Graustein  of  Cambridge ;  Imogene 
Bennett  of  Northampton,  Mass. ;  Harriet  Hatch 
of  Medford,  Mass. ;  Rachel  Smith  of  Reading, 
Mass. ;  Adrienne  L.  Dunbar  of  Boston ;  Jennie 
Means  of  Orleans,  Neb. ;  Elizabeth  Woodward 
of  Colorado  Springs,  Colo. ;  Mildred  Sawyer 
of  Rye  Beach,  N.  H. ;  Marcia  L.  Stinson  of 
Woolwich ;  and  Elsie  Haskell  of  Pittsfield. 
Among  the  alumni  present  are  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
H.  Harvey  Winslow,  '06 ;  D.  Bradford  An- 
drews, '06 ;  Joseph  Drummond,  '07,  of  Por^t- 
land ;  and  Dr.  Myles  Standish,  '75,  of  Boston, 
Mass. 


PROF.  ROBINSON  TO  HAVE  EXTENDED  VACATION      X 

Prof.  Robinson,  head  of  the  Department  of 
Chemistry,  has  been  advised  by  his  physicians 
to  take  a  much  needed  rest.  During  the  past 
semester,  he  has  been  in  poor  health  and  has 
been  unable  to  conduct  his  courses  as  satisfac- 
torily as  he  wished.  He  has,  therefore,  decided 
to  give  up  his  classes  this  year  until  he  is  fully 
rested  and  able  to  continue  his  work  with  satis- 
faction to  himself.  If  possible,  he  intends  to 
remain  in  Brunswick. 

Dr.  Cram,  the  present  instructor  in  miner- 
alogy and  assistant  in  Chemistry,  will  conduct 
Prof.  Robinson's  courses  in  Chemistry  2  and  4 
during  his  absence.  A  graduate  of  Bowdoin 
in  1904  and  from  Johns  Hopkins  University  in 
1908,  Dr.  Cram  is  well  prepared  to  continue 
Prof.  Robinson's  work. 


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BOSTON  BOWDOIN  ALUMNI  MEET 
More  Than  Hundred  Alumni  at  Boston  Banquet 

That  a  high  regard  for  Commander  Peary 
is  one  of  the  outstanding  characteristics  of 
Bowdoin  graduates  was  well  shown  at  the 
forty-second  annual  dinner  of  the  alumni 
in  Boston  and  vicinity,  held  at  the  Somerset 
last  Thursday  evening,  Feb.  lo,  with  more 
than  loo  members  of  the  organization  in  at- 
tendance. 

The  speakers  were  President  William  De- 
Witt  Hyde  and  Professor  Henry  Leland  Chap- 
man of  Bowdoin  College,  Professor  Eugene 
Wampough  of  the  Harvard  Law  School,  and 
David  Snedden,  commissioner  of  education  for 
Massachusetts.  During  the  evening  parodies 
on  three  popular  songs  were  given,  in  each  of 
which  the  praises  of  Commander  Peary  were 
sung,  and  all  sorts  of  fun  poked  at  Dr.  Cook. 

Two  Old  Alumni  There. 

The  oldest  alumni  present  were  Anson  G. 
Stanchfield  of  the  Class  of  1847  and  Gilford  E. 
Newcombe  of  the  Class  of  1848.  At  the  close 
of  the  evening's  program  the  following  officers 
were  announced  for  the  ensuing  year: 

President — Professor  D.  O.  S.  Lowell,  '74. 

First  Vice-President — Dr.  Myles  Standish, 

"75- 

Second  Vice-President — Thomas  J.  Emery, 

'68. 

Treasurer — Stephen  E.  Young,  '98. 
Secretary — Alfred  B.  White,  '98. 

Assistant  Secretary — T.  L.  Pierce,  '98. 

The  executive  committee  announced  is  as 
follows :  Dr.  A.  S.  Whitmore,  '75 ;  Ellis  Spear, 
'98;  John  C.  Minot,  '96;  J.  Everett  Hicks, 
'95;  W.  L  Cole,  '81,  and  E.  M.  Coding,  '91. 

One  of  the  parodies  which  met  with  much  favor 
is  the  following: 

Air: — "My  Wife's  Gone  to  the  Country." 
A  hundred  years  and  more,  sir,  down  in  the  woods 

of  Maine, 
They  thought  they'd  start  a  college,  the  young  idea 

to  train, 
They  cut  away  some  pine  trees  and  planted  there  an 

oak. 
And  drew  up  a  curriculum,  that  surely  was  no  joke 

Chorus 
Then  here's  a  health  to  Bowdoin.  Hurray!  Hurray i 
She  is  the  best  from  east  to  west,  or  any  other  way ! 
And  all  stand  up  for  Bowdoin.     Hurray!    Hurray! 
Let  everybody  raise  his  voice,  for  Bowdoin,  to-day! 

And  then  this  little  college  began  to  turn  out  men, 
And  lots  of  them  have  made  their  marks,  with  sword 
or  voice  or  pen. 


.\nd  just  to  .show  the  world,  sir,  the  breed  has  not 

gone  back. 
.\  plucl<y  son  of  Bowdoin's  got  the  North  Pole  in  his 

pack. 

Chorus 


.\iR : — Rings  on  my  fingers,  bells  on  my  toes. 
Once  there  was  a   Bowdoin  man,   went  hunting  for 

the  Pole, 
For  twenty  years  he  pegged  away,  wit^h  all  his  heart 

and   soul, 
.-\t  last  he  said,   "More  Bowdoin  blood   is  the  only 

thing  I  need," 
So  with  Hubbard  at  his  back,  he  took  the  Northern 

track, 
.And    to    make    his    chances    strong,    McMillan    went 

along. 

Chorus. 
Then  he  had,  Rings  on  his  fingers,  bells  on  his  toes, 
Smooth   as   silk   his   sledges   slipped  up  through  the 

Arctic   snows, 
Until  at  last  he  raised  his  flag  upon  the  Pole  one  day, 
Oh,  Peary,  he's  our  deary,  give  him  a  cheer.  Hurray ! 

Old  Doc  Cook  came  out  of  the  North,  and  he  had  a 

tale  to  tell. 
And  while  there  was  a  dollar  in  sight,  he  stuck  to  it 

right  well. 
But  Mr.  Peary  knew  a  trick  worth  two  or  three  of 

that. 
He  laid  the  Doc  out  flat,  and  sent  him  to  the  mat. 
The  Danes  agreed,  begob,  that  the  Pole  belonged  to 

Bob ! 

Chorus. 


BOWDOIN  KENNEBEC  ALUMNI  BANQUET 

The  twelfth  annual  banquet  of  the  Kenne- 
bec Alumni  Association  was  held  in  Augusta 
at  the  Augusta  House,  Friday  evening.  New 
officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year  as 
follows :  President,  Dr.  Oscar  C.  S.  Davies, 
■79 ;  Vice-President,  Frank  E.  Smith,  '81 ;  Sec- 
retary and  Treasurer,  Blaine  S.  Viles,  '03. 
The  president  of  the  association,  Dr.  William 
S.  Thompson,  '75,  acted  as  toast-master  at  the 
post-prandial  exercises.  The  principal  speaker 
of  the  evening  was  Prof.  Hudson  B.  Hastings, 
whose  talk"  on,  "The  Relation  of  Surveying 
and  Drawing  to  other  College  Subjects,"  was 
most  entertainng.  Rev.  Henry  E.  Dunnack, 
'97,  C.  A.  Knight,  "96,  Emery  O.  Beane,  '04, 
and  Frank  L.  Dutton,  '99,  also  spoke.  Their 
speeches  revived  the  old  college  spirit  and 
showed  that  it  was  still  strong  in  the  grad- 
uates. 

Those  present  were  Prof.  Fludson 
B.  Hastings ;  Dr.  William  L.  Thompson,  '75 ! 
Dr.  Oscar  C.  S.  Davies,  '79 ;  Frank  E.  Smith, 
'81;  Anson  M.  Goddard,  '82;  Melvin  S.  Hol- 
way,  '82 ;  John  R.  GouJd,  '85  ;  Joseph  William- 


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son,  '88 ;  F.  J.  Little,  '89 ;  R.  W.  Leighton,  '96 ; 
Rev.  H.  E.  Dunnack,  '97;  Dr.  R.  H.  Stubbs, 
'98 ;  F.  L.  Dutton,  '99 ;  H.  D.  Evans,  '01 ;  R. 
H.  Bodwell,  '01;  F.  G.  Marshall,  '03;  B.  S. 
Viles,  "03 ;  W.  M,  Sanborn,  '05 ;  C.  S.  Kings- 
ley,  '07;  E.  W.  Johnson,  '09;  Ralph  Smith, 
ex-'io;  C.  A.  Knight,  '96;  Dr.  C.  E.  H.  Beane, 
'00;  E.  O.  Beane,  '04;  and  E.  C.  Pope,  '07. 


KAPPA  SIGMA  CONCLAVE 

The  Annual  District  Conclave  of  District 
I.  of  the  Kappa  Sigma  Fraternity  will  be  held 
in  Boston,  February  21st  and  22d. 

The  program  will  begin  Monday  evening, 
the  2 1  St,  with  a  dinner  followed  by  a  smoker 
and  vaudeville  entertainment  at  the  Harvard 
Chapter  House  in  Cambridge.  Tuesday  morn- 
ing the  22d,  at  nine  o'clock  a  business  meeting 
will  be  held  at  200  Huntington  Avenue.  In 
the  afternoon  there  will  be  a  model  initiation 
by  the  Boston  Alumni  Chapter  at  their  rooms, 
for  the  purpose  of  encouraging  attention  to 
details  in  all  chapter  initiations.  At  nine 
o'clock  in  the  evening  the  program  will  close 
with  the  annual  Conclave  banquet  at  the  Hotel 
Lenox. 


CHARLES  CARROLL  EVERETT  AND  HENRY  W. 
LONGFELLOW  SCHOLARSHIPS  AWARDED 

The  Charles  Carroll  Everett  and  Henry  W. 
Longfellow  Scholarships  have  been  awarded 
by  the  faculty.  Mr.  H.  Q.  Hawes,  '10,  is  the 
recipient  of  the  former  and  Mr.  Stanley  Per- 
kins Chase,  '05,  of  the  latter. 

The  Everett  Scholarship  will  enable  Mr. 
Hawes  to  take  a  post  graduate  course  at  Bow- 
doin  or  some  other  institution.'  Mr.  Hawes  is 
a  worthy  recipient  of  the  prize  which  is 
awarded  for  general  excellence.  He  has  been 
prominent  in  many  college  activities  having 
won  the  Smythe  Mathematical  Prize  of  $300  in 
1908,  was  elected  to  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Junior 
year,  is  a  member  of  the  Deutscher  Verein 
Good  Government  Club,  and  was  one  of  the 
three  Bowdoin  men  to  pass  the  Rhodes  Schol- 
arship examination  last  fall. 

He  was  a  member  of  the  Bowdoin  Wes- 
leyan  debating  team  in  1909,  was  a  Bradbury 
prize  debater  in  1909-1910  and  this  year  was 
one  of  the  '68  prize  speakers.  He  also  played 
on  his  class  football  team,  the  second  football 
team,  and  his  class  track  team. 

Mr.  Hawes  is  a  member  of  Theta  Delta 
Chi. 


Stanley  Perkins  Chase,  '05,  is  the  recipient 
of  the  Henry  W.  Longfellow  Scholarship. 
The  scholarship  is  the  income  of  $10,000  given 
by  Miss  Alice  Longfellow,  Mrs.  Edith  L. 
Dana,  and  Mrs.  Annie  L.  Thorp.  Mr.  Chase 
can  study,  here  or  abroad,  English  or  general 
literature,  the  field  to  be  as  large  as  possible. 
He  is  selected  because  he  has  shown  real  ability 
and  will  be  capable  of  profiting  by  an  extended 
course.  For  the  past  two  years  he  has  been 
teaching  at  Northwestern  University,  follow- 
ing a  course  as  graduate  student  at  Harvard. 

While  in  college  Mr.  Chase  received  many 
honors. 

He  won  the  Brown  Memorial  Scholarship 
each  year,  was  winner  of  the  '68  Prize,  the 
second  prize  for  extemporaneous  composition, 
was  author  of  the  Quill  prize  story,  editor-in- 
chief  of  the  Bugle,  member  of  the  Quill  board, 
the  Ibis,  the  Economic  Club,  Ivy  Day  poet,  and 
a  commencement  speaker. 

He  was  a  member  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  and 
Delta  Kappa  Epsilon  fraternities. 


BRADBURY  PRIZE  DEBATERS  CHOSEN 

The  debaters  for  the  Bradbury  Prize  Debate  to 
be  held  March  8  were  chosen  at  the  trials  held  in 
Memorial  Hall,  Tuesday  evening.  The  six  men 
chosen  were:  E.  F.  Maloney,  '12,  W.  F.  Merrill,  '11, 
B.  C.  Rodick,  '12,  C.  F.  Adams,  '12,  H.  G.  Hawes, 
'10,  and  E.  G.  Fifield,  '11.  The  first  three  of  the 
above  men  will  uphold  the  negative  of  the  question, 
"Resolved,  That  the  United  States  should  establish 
a  central  bank  similar  to  the  Imperial  Bank  of  Ger- 
many," while  the  last  three  named  will  support  the 
affirmative.  The  alternate  for  the  affirmative  is  W. 
H.  Callahan,  '11,  and  the  alternate  for  the  negative 
is  John  L.  Curtis,  '11. 

The  judges  for  the  trials  were:  Charles  Wilburt 
Snow,  Professor  Roscoe  J.  Ham,  and  James  L. 
McConaughy  of  the  faculty  and  Samuel  Forsaith  and 
G.  Allen  Howe,  Esq.,  of  Brunswick. 


JWASSACHUSETTS  CLUB  MEETING 

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Massachusetts  Club 
held  Saturday  evening  at  the  Psi  U.  house  Prof. 
Ham  snoke  on  Germany.  In  relating  his  experiences 
while  traveling  in  that  country,  he  discussed  the  Ger- 
man army  and  German  government.  In  consider- 
ing their  temperament,  he  said  that  a  German  has 
such  extraordinary  views  that  in  traveling  in 
this  country  he  would  probably  find  fault  with  every- 
thing. Likewise,  an  American  would  be  dissatisfied 
with  the   German  life. 

The  meeting  closed  with  singing  college  and  pop- 
ular songs  and  giving  the  college  and  class  yells. 
The  place  of  the  next  meeting  has  not  been  decided 
upon. 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,   1910  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  ign,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 

p.  b.  morss.  1910  j.  c.  white,  1911 

thomas  otis,  1910        e.  "w.  skelton,  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON,  1910      W.  A.  McCORMICK.   1912 
W^.  A.  FULLER,  1912 


R.  D.  MORSS,  igio 
J.  L.  CURTIS,  1911 


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Vol.  XXXIX.          FEBRUARY   18,   1910 

No.  26 

In  the  Nation  for  Feb.  3, 

The  Conference       President    Hyde     has     an 

System  article    entitled    "A    New 

Standard  of  College 
Teaching,"  in  which  he  discusses  the  precepto- 
rial system  of  Princeton  as  it  has  been  applied 
at  Bowdoin  by  Prof.  Allen  Johnson.  The 
president  quotes  Prof.  Johnson's  report  of  the 
working  of  the  conference  system  after  eight 
weeks  of  trial  and  comments  upon  it  in  a  way 
which  is  particularly  flattering  to  the  depart- 
ment of  history  and  political  science. 

From  the  point  of  view  of  the  undergrad- 
uate the  conferenceorpreceptorialsystemseems 
a  perfectly  practical  and  successful  method.  It 
has  the  advantage  of  introducing  the  library 
to  those  who  are  not  in  the  habit  of  using  it, 
and  tends  to  quicken  a  latent  love  for  reading. 
Furthermore,  it  brings  the  undergraduate  into 
touch  with  the  head  of  the  department  in  a 
way  which  has  never  before  been    attained; 


the  conference  is  a  man  to  man  talk  upon  the 
reading  done,  and  in  no  sense  a  quiz.  As 
Prof.  Johnson  likes  to  express  it,  "It  gives  me 
a  chance  to  do  some  teaching  as  well  as  lec- 
turing." Bowdoin  is  particularly  fortunate 
in  being  a  college  small  enough  to  successfully 
work  the  conference  system.  At  Princeton  a 
large  special  fund  is  wholly  devoted  to  mak- 
ing possible  the  small  group  teaching,  but 
Bowdoin  is  small  enough  to  afford  out  of  its 
regular  funds  to  give  classes  this  costly  kind 
of  teaching.  The  conference  is  not  a  new 
education,  but  a  new  standard  of  education 
and  Bowdoin  having  attained  it  in  one  depart- 
ment would  do  well  to  extend  it  to  the  other 
great  humanities — economics,  sociology,  liter- 
ature, and  philosophy. 

The  only  unfortunate  feature  of  the  con- 
ference system  thus  far  noted  is  that  the  read- 
ing has  to  be  done  from  library  books.  Where 
readings  are  to  be  discussed  in  an  informal 
way,  there  is  a  certain  advantage  to  be  gained 
from  underlining  the  text  and  making  mar- 
ginal and  fly-leaf  annotation,  which  is  of 
course  impossible  unless  the  book  is  the  prop- 
erty of  the  reader. 


A  Call  for  Track      ^^  ^^  TKT^.^^i^  /".  *''^ 
Athlete  ^^^^         think  about  track 

work,  for  while  the  fore- 
cast for  this  season  is  favorable  to  Bowdoin,  a 
look  into  the  more  distant  future  brings  to 
light  facts  which  are  truly  appalling.  When 
the  Class  of  1910  leaves  college  it  will  take 
away  36  points  from  the  Maine  Intercollegi- 
ate Meet,  reckoned  by  the  showing  made  last 
season.  Bowdoin  made  68  points  in  the 
Maine  meet  last  year,  and  of  these  36  were 
)nade  by  members  of  the  present  Senior  Class 
as  follows : 


Deming, 

Warren, 

Crosby, 

Newman, 

Clififord, 

Slocum, 

Edwards, 

Colbath, 

Morss, 


36 


Add  to  this  the  fact  that  of  the  2o|  points 
taken  last  year  at  the  New  England  Intercol- 
legiate Meet,  i8-J-  were  taken  by  members  of 


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the  Class  of  1910  (the  other  two  were  won  by 
Capt.  Harry  Atwood  of  1909)  and  it  causes  a 
man  to  wonder  what  is  going  to  happen  to 
Bowdoin  in   191 1. 

What  will  probably  happen  is  that  Bowdoin 
will,  as  usual,  get  out  a  winning  team,  but  it 
will  be  thru  the  efforts  of  her  good  men,  and 
ncft  as  some  of  our  rivals  try  to  make  it  out, 
thru  luck  or  chance  or  the  fates.  Bowdoin 
spirit  will  take  every  man  who  is  not  either 
lame  or  halt  or  blind  out  to  the  track  this 
spring  to  add  his  individual  mite  towards  the 
common  welfare.  Bowdoin's  only  chance  for 
191 1  is  to  develop  a  great  deal  of  material  this 
year,  and  whether  or  not  she  develops  it  will 
depend  upon  the  number  of  men  who  get  out 
and  work.  Are  you  going  to  put  your 
shoulder  to  the  wheel  and  help  Bowdoin 
out  of  a  hard  hole?  Remember  this ;  you  don't 
know  what  you  can  do  in  track  worl^  until  you 
try.     Have  you  tried? 


BOWDOIN  IN  THE  EAST 

Now  that  Bowdoin  is  beginning  to  take  an  inter- 
est in  the  work  of  Foreign  Missions,  as  other  Amer- 
ican colleges  are  doing,  now  that  she  is  starting  Mis- 
sion Study  and  undertaking  the  partial  support  of 
one  of  her  own  alumni,  Hiwale,  '09,  in  the  foreign 
field,  it  may  be  of  interest  to  her  undergraduates  to 
know  what  other  Bowdoin  men  have  done  in  the 
past  to  help  the  work  of  Missions. 

Here,  briefly  stated,  are  the  records  of  a  few  of 
these  brave  men.  Words  do  not  tell  adequately  what 
they  have  done.  Asa  Dodge,,  '27,  went  to  Syria  as  a 
missionary  and  physician  in  1832 ;  three  years  later 
he  died  of  fever  in  Jerusalem,  because  he  had  hurried 
too  fast  to  the  bedside  of  a  sick  man.  Samuel 
Munson,  '29,  went  to  the  East  Indies  in  1833  and  the 
next  year  was  killed  by  cannibals.  Horatio  South- 
gate,  '32,  devoted  the  fifteen  best  years  of  his  life  to 
mission  work  in  Turkey  and  Persia.  Daniel  Dole,  a 
fine  teacher,  went  to  the  Sandwich  Islands  in  1841, 
took  charge  of  a  school  and  later  was  President  of 
Oahu  College.  Elias  Bond,  '37,  went  to  the  Sand- 
wich Islands  and  Hawaii  in  1841  and  gave  forty 
years  of  his  life  to  the  work  there,  in  that  time  tak- 
ing a  vacation  of  tzvo  weeks  in  1869.  Crosby  H. 
Wheeler,  '47,  was  sent  to  Harpoot  in  East  Turkey  in 
1855  and  there  founded  Armenia  College.  B.  G. 
Snow,  '46,  was  assigned  to  the  Island  of  Kuaie  in 
Micronesia  in  1852.  He  was  the  first  to  reduce  the 
island  language  to  a  written  form.  He  issued  in  it 
a  primer,  spelling  books,  readers,  a  hymn  book,  and 
translations  of  the  Gospels,  Acts  and  some  of  the 
Epistles,  and  a  church  manual.  James  S.  Phillips, 
'60,  was  the  son  of  a  missionary,  born  in  India,  and 
gave  himself  to  the  work  in  that  country.  Perhaps 
the  most  famous  of  Bowdoin's  missionaries  was 
Cyrus  Hamlin,  '34,  whose  model  steam  engine  is  now 
in  the  Physics  laboratory.  He  went  out  to  Turkey 
in  1839.  His  skill  was  tried  many  times  as  he  had  to 
thwart  Jesuit  and  French  intrigues.     It  is  a  matter 


of  history  how  he  improved  the  sanitary  condition  of 
the  military  hospitals  during  the  Crimean  War,  how, 
to  provide  employment  for  poor  Protestant  Arme- 
nians, he  started  a  bakery  and  supplied  the  whole 
British  army  in  Armenia  with  bread.  He  turned 
over  the  profits  of  this  enterprise,  $25,000,  to  the 
Missionary  Board.  His  greatest  work  was  the  es- 
tablishment of  Robert  College  in  Constantinople, 
which  he  accomplished  after  a  hard  conflict  of  skill 
and  diplomacy.  The  magnificent  site  and  buildings 
and  grounds  of  the  college  constitute  a  splendid 
monument  to  the  energy  and  foresight  of  this  Bow- 
doin alumnus. 

At  present  there  are  living  four  Bowdoin  mis- 
sionaries. ■  Joseph  K.  Greene,  '55,  is  still  in  Con- 
stantinople, just  now  in  charge  of  the  publication  of 
periodicals  in  Armenian  and  Turkish  in  the  Arme- 
nian alphabet,  and  Turkish  in  the  Greek  alphabet, 
after  fifty  years  of  service,  from  1859  to  1909.  Amer- 
icus  Fuller,  '59,  who  went  to  Aintab,  Turkey,  in  1874, 
who  has  taught  in  Central,  Turkey  College  and  who 
has  been  President  of  Euphrates  College,  has  but 
recently  retired  from  active  work.  Dr.  Charles  S.  F. 
Lincoln,  '91,  is  at  the  present  day  a  useful  Medical 
Missionary  at  St.  John's  College,  Shanghai,  China. 
Last  and  best  known  to  undergraduates  is  A.  S. 
Hiwale,  '09.  He  has  returned  to  his  native  district 
of  Ahmednagar  in  India,  some  150  miles  from  Bom- 
bay, and,  under  the  direction  of  Rev.  R.  A.  Hume,  is 
trying  to  give  his  fellow-countrymen  something  of 
what  he  has  learned  in  this  country  of  civilization 
and  Christianity. 

This  semester  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  is  to  open  a 
course  in  Mission  Study.  It  will  be  brief  and 
interesting,  one  hour  in  the  afternoon  on  each 
of  the  five  Sundays  before  spring  vacation,  begin- 
ning on  February  20.  It  is  believed  that  most  of  the 
men  in  college  will  want  to  know  something  of  this 
missionary  movement,  which  is  coming  to  be  recog- 
nized as  a  world  force,  and  especially  about  mis- 
sions in  India  where  Hiwale  is  founding  a  Bowdoin 
Mission.  All  are  asked  to  join  a  Mission  Study 
group,  to  take  part  in  the  discussion  and  learn  for 
themselves  what  the  mission  movement  is  and  why  it 
means  so  much  in  the  world  to-day. 

The  undergraduates  of  Bowdoin  are  also  going 
to  help  support  their  representative  in  the  field. 
Other  organizations  are  also  assisting  him.  Our 
share  is  only  three  hundred  dollars,  less  than  half 
the  amount  necessary  to  support  him  a  year.  Next 
week  you  will  be  asked  to  give  what  you  can  to  help 
him  and   the  Bowdoin  Mission. 

Don't  join  a  Mission  Study  group,  if  you  are  not 
interested  in  Missions,  but  come  into  a  group  some 
day,  just  to  be  sure  you  know  what  it  is  you  are  noi 
interested  in.  At  all  events  do  what  you  can  to  help 
our  fellow  Bowdoin  man  in  distant  India.  Then 
perhaps  you  will  join  a  group  to  learn  what  becomes 
of  your  subscription ! 


SECOND  COLLEGE  TEA  AND  JUNIOR  ASSEMBLY 

The  second  tea  in  the  annual  series  of  College 
Teas  given  by  the  faculty  of  Bowdoin  College  was 
held  in  Hubbard  Hall,  Friday  afternoon.  Decora- 
tions, in  fact  the  entire  spirit  of  the  reception  was  in 
the  nature  of  a  pre-celebration  of  Saint  Valentine's 
Day.  Red  and  white  were  the  prevaiHng  colors.   The 


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table  linen  was  ornamented  with  strings  of  red 
hearts  and  the  idea  was  even  carried  out  in  the  cen- 
ter pieces  and  the  boutonniers  of  the  ushers. 

At  the  reception  were  about  two  hundred  of  the. 
college  men,  a  great  number  of  townspeople  and 
many  visitors  from  Portland  and  other  places  in  the 
State,  as  well  as  the  faculty  and  their  wives  who 
acted  as  hosts. 

The  committee  in  charge  who  also  formed  the 
receiving  line  were  Mrs.  Charles  Clifford  Hutchins, 
chairman;  Mrs.  William  Albion  Moody,  Mrs.  Allen 
Johnson,  Mrs.  Roscoe  James  Ham  and  Mrs.  Freder- 
ick WiUis  Brown. 

The  feature  introduced  at  the  last  College  Tea  of 
having  a  Hospitality  Committee  consisting  of  mem- 
bers of  the  faculty  to  act  as  "mixers,"  was  again  suc- 
cessful. This  committee  consisted  of  Professors 
Charles  C.  Hutchins,  William  A.  Moody,  Allen  John- 
son, Roscoe  J.   Ham  and  Frederic  Brown. 

Mrs.  Frank  Nathaniel  Whittier  and  Mrs.  William 
Trufant  Foster  poured  coffee,  assisted  in  serving  by 
Miss  Belle  Smith,  Miss  Rachael  Little  and  Miss 
Grace  Crawford.  Miss  Helen  Chapman  poured 
tea  and  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  Gerald  Wilder  and 
Miss  Margaret  Swett.  Mrs.  Henry  Johnson  and 
Mrs.  Paul  Nixon  dipped  punch,  assisted  by  Miss  Kate 
Pletts,  Miss  Helen  Snow,  Miss  Katherine  Melcher 
and  Miss  Annie  Coffin. 

The  ushers  chosen  from  t;he  undergraduate  body 
were  James  Furbish  Hamburger,  'lo,  of  Hyde  Park, 
Mass.,  from  Theta  Delta  Chi ;  Robert  Dillingham 
Morss,  'lo,  of  Medford,  Mass.,  from  Alpha  Delta 
Phi;  William  Harrison  Sanborn,  'lo,  of  Portland, 
from  Psi  Upsilon ;  Harry  Lawrence  Wiggin,  of  Bos- 
ton ,  from  Delta  Kappa  Epsilon ;  Gardiner  Wilson 
Cole,  'lo,  of  East  Raymond  of  Zeta  Psi;  Lowell  San- 
born Foote,  'i2,  of  Dover,  N.  H.,  from  Beta  Theta 
Phi;  Seward  Joseph  Marsh,  '12,  of  Farmington  from 
Delta  Upsilon ;  Wm.  Guptill,  '10,  from  Kappa  Sig- 
ma;  Palmer  Straw,  '11,  of  Portland,  from  the  non- 
fraternity  men  and  Ezra  Ralph  Bridge,  Medic,  '13, 
of  Brunswick,  from  the  Medical  School. 

In  the  evening,  the  second  Junior  Assembly  was 
held  in  Memorial  Hall.  The  Class  of  191 1  again 
acted  as  host  to  the  other  classes  and  to  the  pretty 
debutantes  from  all  parts  of  New  England.  The 
hall  was  decorated  with  the  class  colors  of  red  and 
white  and  with  various  fraternity  and  other  college 
banners.  A  dance  order  of  16  dances,  for  which 
Kendrie's  Orchestra  furnished  music,  lasted  until 
midnight,  when  all  returned  to  the  various  fraternity 
houses.  Refreshments  were  served  by  Morton  of 
Brunswick. 

The  patronesses  were:  Mrs.  George  T.  Little, 
Mrs.  George  T.  Files,  Mrs.  H.  P.  Fairchild,  and  Mrs. 
Paul    Nixon. 

The  committee  in  charge  consisted  of  F.  C.  Black 
of  Rockland,  A.  H.  Cole,  Haverhill;  A.  G.  Dennis  of 
Medford;  L.  P.  Parkman  of  Portland,  and  R.  W. 
Lawliss  of  Houlton.  Among  those  present  were : 
Miss  Elizabeth  Wyer,  Portland ;  Miss  Marguerite 
Gage.  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Miss  Mildred  Mace,  Miss 
Mildred  Merriweather,  Miss  Adelaide  Mitchell  of 
Portland;  Miss  Louise  Newman,  Bar  Harbor;  Miss 
Alice  Dennis,  Medford,  Mass.;  Miss  Lillian  Fogg, 
Miss  Edna  C.  Dennison,  Freeport ;  Miss  Bessie  Mur- 
ray, Bath ;  Miss  Hazel  Lewis,  Miss  Elizabeth  O'Con- 
nor, Miss  Helen  York,  Augusta;  Miss  Gladys  Berry, 
Miss  Margaret  Swift,  Gardiner;  Miss  Dorothy  Ab- 
bott, Portland;  Miss  Hazel  Lothrop,  Auburn;  Miss 


Lou  Woodward,  Brunswick;  Miss  Florence  Slo- 
combe,  Bath;  Miss  Helen  Sargent,  Portland;  Miss 
Helen  Todd,  Lewiston ;  Miss  Frances  Skolfield, 
Brunswick;  Miss  Irma  Tainter,  Auburn;  Miss  Lil- 
lian Houland,  New  London,  Conn. ;  Miss  Frances 
Little,  Miss  Isabel  Forsaith,  Miss  Sue  Winchell,  Miss 
Emily  Felt,  Brunswick;  Miss  Florence  Andrews, 
Miss  Lina  Andrews,  Bath ;  Miss  Emily  Frost,  El- 
mira,  N.  Y. ;  Miss  Enid  Roberts,  Portland;  Miss 
Madeline  Bird,  Rockland;  Miss  Genevieve  Dwinal, 
Auburn;  Miss  Margaret  Swett,  Brunswick;  Mrs. 
Cyrus  Wakefield  of  Wakefield,  Mass.";  Miss  Frances 
Little,  Miss  Beatrice  Hacker,  Brunswick;  Miss  Mar- 
garet Graham,  Maiden,  Mass. ;  Miss  Ruth  Sweetser, 
Auburn;  Miss  Lulu  Barbour,  Portland;  Miss  Marion 
Wheeler,  Miss  Helen  Barbour,  Miss  Lyda  Chenery, 
Portland ;  Miss  Helen  Merriman  of  Brunswick ;  Miss 
Rose  Hyler,  Portland;  Miss  Madeline  Clifford,  Miss 
Margeurite  Goodman,  Miss  Nellie  Hodgdon,  Bath; 
Miss  Marie  Caldwell,  Waterville ;  Miss  Hazel  Perry, 
RocMand;  Miss  Margaret  Day,  Brunswick;  Mrs. 
George  Pratt,  Waterville. 


Y,  M.  C,  A.  NOTES 


A  large  audience  turned  out  to  hear  Dr.  Robin- 
son's address  on  "Choosing  Medicine  as  a  Life 
Work"  last  Thursday  evening.  After  the  regular 
meeting  had  adjourned  a  short  business  meeting  was 
held  at  which  the  proposed  constitution  was  adopted. 

The  Second  Maine  Intercollegiate  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
conference  is  to  be  held  in  Waterville  on  March  4, 
5,  and  6.  Bowdoin  will  be  represented  by  fifteen 
delegates. 

Slocum,  '10,  addressed  a  boys'  meeting  at  Free- 
port  last  Sunday  afternoon.  Cole,  '10,  spoke  before 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  Rockport,  Me.,  at  the  same  time. 
The  Pejepscot  Boys'  Club,  instituted  by  the  Bow- 
doin Y.  M.  C.  A.,  will  be  reoresented  by  two  dele- 
gates at  the  coming  boys'  conference  at  Augusta. 
Mr.  McConaughy  will  also  attend  this  conference. 

Gen.  Joshua  L.  Chamberlain  will  be  the  speaker 
at  the  regular  Y.  M.  C.  A.  meeting  next  Thursday. 
His  subject  has  not  yet  been  announced  but  Gen. 
Chamberlain's  popularity  with  Bowdoin  men  assures 
him  a  large  audience. 


PROF.  KNAPP  OF  BATES  GIVES  TALK  ON 
MARTIAL 

Monday  evening.  Professor  Knapp  of  Bates  Col- 
lege, lectured  in  Hubbard  Hall  under  the  auspices  of 
the  Classical  Department,  upon  the  subject,  "The 
Poet  Martial  and  Some  of  His  Epigrams."  Profes- 
sor Knapp,  after  outlining  the  life  of  Martial,  trans- 
lated a  few  of  his  epigrams  as  types  of  his  work. 

Martial  was  born  in  Spain  in  40  A.  D.  In  64  A. 
D.  when  he  was  twenty-four  years  of  age,  he  went  to 
Rome.  Nero  was  then  Emperor  and  Martial  reached 
Rome  in  the  year  of  the  great  fire.  Of  the  first  six- 
teen years  of  the  poet's  life  while  at  Rome,  little  is 
known,  but  he  must  have  lived  an  adventurous  life, 


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well  suited  to  fit  him  for  his  later  work.  His  epi- 
grams were  published  during  the  last  eighteen  years 
of  his  life.  He  died  in  his  native  town  in  Spain  in 
102  A.  D.  Martial  wrote,  during  his  life,  fifteen 
hundred  and  fifty  epigrams  which  were  published  in 
fifteen  books. 


CLASSICAL  CLUB  MEETING 

The  second  regular  meeting  of  the  Classical  Club 
for  the  college  year,  was  held  Thursday  evening, 
February  loth,  at  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  House.  Sev- 
enteen members  were  present.  Papers  were  read  on 
assigned  topics  as  follows ;  The  Walls  of  Athens, 
Bragdon,  '12;  The  Parthenon,  Byles,  '11;  Coloring 
in  Ancient  Architecture  and  Sculpture,  Fuller,  '12; 
The  Erechtheum,  Hawes,  '11;  The  Stadium,  Means, 
'12;  The  Private  Houses  of  the  Athenians,  Kel- 
logg, '11. 

Open  discussion  of  all  topics  was  held  and  during 
the  social  hour  which  followed  ice-cream,  fancy 
crackers  and  cocoa  were  served. 

The  next  meeting  will  be  held  March  1st,  at  the 
Psi  Upsilon  House,  when  the  club  will  consider  the 
subject,  "Rome  in  Connection  with  Ancient  Litera- 
ture." Papers  on  assigned  topics  will  also  be  a 
feature  of  this   meeting. 


CoiicQC  Botes 


Bowdoin  Loses  36  Points  ia  Track  with  the  Class 
of  1910.  Come  out  for  Track  this  Spring  and  surprise 
yourself  by  finding  that  you  can  become  a  Track 
Athlete. 


Snow-shoeing  is  in  vogue  now. 

Frank  Mikelsky  was  on  the  campus.  Saturday. 

Tilton,  '13,  who  has  been  sick  at  his  home,  has 
returned  to  college. 

Paul  L.  Chapman,  Brown  University,  '08,  visited 
friends  at  the  college,   Monday. 

Hussey,  '11,  is  coaching  the  Cony  High  debaters 
for  the  annual  interscholastic  debate. 

Maloney,  '12,  returned  Tuesday  from  a  trip  to 
ehe  Hotchkiss   School,   Lakeville,    Conn. 

Hon.  Herbert  M.  Heath,  '72,  of  Augusta,  is  to 
deliver  the  Memorial  Day  address  in  Houlton. 

The  Brunswick  Record  for  Feb.  11  contains  an  in- 
teresting article  by  Prof.  Files  on  "Our  New 
Roads." 

Crossland,  '10,  is  planning  to  attend  the  presenta- 
tion of  the  Passion  Play  at  Oberammergau  this 
summer. 

To-night  the  Zeta  Psi  chapters  of  Colby  and  Bow- 
doin hold  a  joint  banquet  at  the  Augusta  House  at 
Augusta. 

Carrigan  who  will  coach  the  baseball  team  during 
indoor  practice,  commenced  his  work  with  the  can- 
didates. Saturday  afternoon. 


Friday,  Feb.  11,  was  the  77th  birthday  anniver- 
sary of  Chief  Justice  Melville  W.  Fuller  of  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  the  United  States. 

P.  J.  Newman,  '09,  is  working  this  winter  in  the 
northern  part  of  Maine  on  the  Allegash  river,  seal- 
ling  logs  for  the  Coe-Pingree  Lumber  Co. 

Gage,  Turner,  and  MacDonald,  debaters  on  the 
Cony  High  debating  team,  were  on  the  campus,  Mon- 
day, receiving  instructions  from  Hussey,  their  coach. 

Dr.  Myles  Standish,  '75,  of  Boston,  a  member  of 
the  Harvard  Medical  School  Examining  Board,  has 
been  entertained  by  friends  at  the  Delta  Kappa  Epsi- 
lon   house  this   week. 

Skelton,  '11,  Oxnard,  '11,  Brown,  '10,  Ballard,  '10, 
Otis,  '10,  Pratt,  '13,  Abbott,  '12,  and  Clarke,  '12,  will 
attend  the  district  conclave  of  Kappa  Sigma  Frater- 
nity in  Boston,  February  22d. 

English  4  is  divided  into  two  divisions  this  semes- 
ter. One  division  giving  special  attention  to  poetry 
is  conducted  by  Mr.  McConaughy^  the  other  taking  up 
the  study  of  the  English  essay  and  prose  is  directed 
by   Mr.  Snow. 

Dr.  J.  P.  Jones  of  India,  who  preached  at  the 
college  church  last  Sunday,  was  entertained  at  the 
Delta  Upsilon  House,  Sunday  evening.  Dr.  Jones, 
who  is  a  member  of  Delta  Upsilon  is  a  graduate  of 
Northwestern  University  in  the  Class  of  1875.  j)/ 

"WASHINGTON,  Feb.  10.— A  bill  making  Com- 
mander Robert  E.  Peary,  U.  S.  N.,  discoverer  of  the 
north  pole,  a  rear  admiral,  was  passed  by  the  Senate 
yesterday.  Indications  are  that  the  measure  will  also 
receive  the  approval  of  the  House." 

"WASHINGTON,  Feb.  12.— A  medal  of  honor 
instead  of  promotion  to  rear  admiral  for  Com- 
mander Robert  E.  Peary,  discoverer  of  the  north 
pole,  is  proposed  by  a  sub-committee  of  the  House 
Committee  on  naval  affairs.  The  sub-committee 
yesterday  unanimously  disapproved  the  bill  passed  by 
the   Senate  making  Peary  a  rear  admiral." 

"NEW  YORK,  Feb.  9. — Before  an  audience  of 
more  than  4,000  persons  in  the  Metropolitan  Opera 
House  last  night.  Commander  Robert  E.  Peary,  dis- 
coverer of  the  North  Pole,  was  presented  with  a 
$10,000  check  on  behalf  of  the  citizens  of  New  York, 
but  instead  of  retaining  it  for  himself  the  com- 
mander announced  immediately  that  he  would  con- 
tribute it  towards  the  South  Pole  expedition  as 
planned  by  the  National  Geographical   Society." 

Lovers  of  Longfellow  will  note  with  pleasure  that 
there  is  a  movement  on  foot  to  make  Longfellow  day 
an  annual  event  in  the  public  schools  of  this  State. 
It  is  not  meant  to  make  this  occasion  a  public  holi- 
day, but  to  set  aside  the  afternoon  of  Feb.  27  each 
year  for  the  observance  of  Longfellow  day.  Mr.  and 
"Mrs.  George  Thornton  Edwards  of  Portland  are  the 
originators  of  the  movement  which  is  heartily  en- 
dorsed by  Gov.  Fernald  and  Mr.  Payson  Smith,  State 
Supt.  of  Schools.  As  the  poet's  birthday  falls  on 
Sunday  this  year,  Longfellow  day  will  be  observed 
on  the  afternoon  of  Feb.  28. 


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'38. — Edward  H.  Daveis,  Esq.,  died  at  his 
home  in  Portland,  Me.,  Sunday,  December  12, 
in  his  92d  year. 

Mr.  Daveis  graduated  in  the  Class  of  1838. 
He  received  his  diploma  from  the  Harvard 
Law  School  in  1841.  He  then  entered  upon 
the  active  practice  of  law  in  Portland,  having 
a  large  and  influential  clientele.  He  was  in- 
terested in  the  Portland  Gas  Company  and  the 
Portland  Locomotive  Company,  then  one  of 
the  largest  manufacturing  establishments  in 
the  Eastern  states.  He  was  also  identified 
with  banks  and  other  business  enterprises.  On 
Jime  8,  1853,  Mr.  Daveis  married  Miss  Susan 
W.  Bridge.  She  survives  him  as  do  two 
daughters,  Mary  Oilman  and  Mabel  Stewart. 

'47. — Major  .  Henry  Donald  Whitcomb 
died  of  apoplexy  26  January,  1910,  at  Rich- 
mond, Virginia.  Major  Whitcomb,  son  of 
Captain  John  and  Abigail  (Clapp)  Whitcomb, 
was  born  19  February,  1826.  "Upon  gradua- 
tion he  entered  upon  his  life  work  of  a  civil 
engineer.  In  1849  he  moved  to  Richmond, 
and  for  twenty-five  years  was  in  the  employ 
of  the  Chesapeake  &  Ohio  Railway,  which  he 
constructed  through  the  Virginia  and  West 
Virginia  mountains.  In  1854  he  was  made 
superintendent  of  transportation  and  the  fol- 
lowing year  chief  engineer  of  the  system.  In 
1861  he  was  made  general  superintendent  as 
well,  a  position  he  held  until  1870. 

During  the  war  he  was  in  charge  of  trans- 
portation of  troops  and  supplies  over  the 
Chesapeake  and  Ohio,  holding  the  rank  of 
major  in  the  Confederate  service. 

In  1870  he  resigned  the  superintendency 
of  the  road  to  devote  his  attention  to  its  ex- 
tension through  the  Alleghanies  from  the 
headwaters  of  the  James  to  the  Kanawha,  and 
finally  on  to  the  Ohio  River,  a  work  which 
was  accomplished  under  his  direct  supervision 
as  chief  engineer,  and  completed  in  1873.  The 
following  year  he  was  appointed  by  President 
Grant  a  member  of  the  United  States  Com- 
mission to  examine  the  waterways  of  Europe 
and  report  a  plan  for  improving  the  mouth  of 
the  Mississippi,  which  report  was  adopted  and 
carried  out  under  the  supervision  of  Capt.  J. 
B.  Eads. 

At  the  same  time  Major  Whitcomb  was  in 
charge  of  the  government  work  in  the  im- 
provement of  the  James  River.  He  resigned 
that  position  in  1880  to  return  to  railroad  con- 


struction and  built  the  Kanawha  and  Michigan 
Railroad,  in  West  Virginia,  now  a  part  of  the 
Hocking  Valley  system.  In  1893  he  again 
took  charge  of  the  James  River  work  for  the 
United  States  government,  and  continued 
until  his  retirement  to  private  life  in  1900. 

Major  Whitcomb  was  a  member  and  at 
one  time  a  director  of  the  American  Society 
of  Civil  Engineers  ,and  also  a  member  of 
Dove  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.  His  wife  died 
in  1887.  He  is  survived  by  four  children : 
Mrs.  Hugh  M.  Taylor  and  Mrs.  Edgar  D. 
Taylor,  of  Richmond,  Va. ;  Mrs.  G.  L.  Nicol- 
son,  of  Washingfton,  and  H.  D.  Whitcomb,  Jr., 
of  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

"55. — Rev.  Flavins  V.  Norcross  died  30 
January,  1910,  at  Newcastle.  Mr.  Norcross 
was  born  29  April,  1829,  at  Dixfield,  Maine. 
After  graduation  he  immediately  entered  Ban- 
gor Theological  Seminary  and  graduated  in 
1858.  He  was  ordained  at  Union  in  i860, 
continuing  there  as  pastor  for  a  period  of 
thirty  years.  Thence  he  went  to  Andover 
where  he  was  pastor  for  six  years.  After- 
wards he  was  employed  as  a  missionary  of 
the  Bible  Society  of  Maine.  He  established 
his  home  in  Newcastle  about  fourteen  years 
ago  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  the 
time  of  his  death,  preaching  as  his  health  and 
opportunity  would  permit. 

During  the  years  of  his  retirement  he  re- 
mained helpful  to  the  churches  of  Lincoln 
Conference  of  Congregational  Churches,  and 
particularly  to  the  church  at  Newcastle.  For 
twenty  or  more  years  of  his  life  he  was  town 
superintendent  of  schools,  and  closely  identi- 
fied with  local  educational  interests. 

I\Ir.  Norcross  was  twice  married.  The 
death  of  his  second  wife,  with  whom  he  had 
lived  thirty-one  years,  took  place  less  than 
three  months  before  his  own.  His  tender 
sympathies  and  Christian  spirit  won  for  him 
a  wide  circle  of  friends  who  mourn  his  loss. 

'92. — Rev^  Harry  W.  Kimball  has  resigned 
his  charge  at  South  Weymouth,  Mass.,  to 
become  field  secretary  for  savings  bank  insur- 
ance under  the  direction  of  the  League  formed 
a  few  years  since  for  the  promotion  of  this  ob- 
ject. He  will  also  co-operate  with  the  Wage 
Earners  Committee  of  the  Boston  Chamber  of 
Commerce. 

'04. — Mr.  Fred  Lysander  Putnam  was 
married  19  January,  1910,  to  Mary  Alice, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Pearce  of 
Fort  Fairfield,  Me.  , 


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VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  FEBRUARY  25,  1910 


NO.  27 


WILLIAM  WINTER  TO  SPEAK    ON   LONGFELLOW 

"Dean  of  American  Dramatic  Critics,"  Personal  Friend 
of  Longfellow,  Associate  of  Horace  Greeley,  Forty= 
Four  Years  America's  Leading  Dramatic  Critic 

William  Winter,  author,  poet  and  dramatic 
critic  will  lecture  in  Memorial  Hall  next  Mon- 
day evening  upon  the  subject,  "Longfellow  and 
American  Letters,"  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Alpha  Chapter  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  giving  not 
only  to  those  interested  in  literature,  but  to  all 
Bowdoin  men  a  chance  to  avail  themselves  of 
very  unusual  opportunity  to  hear  a  very 
unusual  man. 

In  the  current  number  of  the  Munsey  Mr. 
Walter  Prichard  Eaton  has  an  article  on  the 
life  of  William  Winter,  which  we  commend  to 
the  reading  of  every  Bowdoin  man  who  does 
not  know  much  about  William  Winter  and 
who  wants  to  know  more  before  hearing  him 
lecture.  The  purposes  of  the  Orient  can  best 
be  served  by  quoting  a  few  snatches  here  and 
there  from  the  March  Munsey. 

"In  the  month  of  August,  1909,  William 
Winter,  'the  dean  of  American  dramatic  crit- 
ics,' and  almost  the  last  link  between  the  lit- 
erary Americali  of  the  mid-A^ictorian  epoch 
and  the  bustling  present,  resigned  his  post  on 
the  New  York  Tribune,  which  he  had  adorned 
for  almost  half  a  century,  and  which  he  had 
filled  with  untiring  zeal  and  unflagging  devo- 
tion to  what  he  deemed  the  best  ideals  of  jour- 
nalism. Everyone  who  is  seriously  interested 
in  the  stage  in  America  is  more  or  less  famil- 
liar  of  course  with  Mr.  Winter's  writings 
about  it  and  knows  how  those  writings  dis- 
close a  curious  blend  of  the  Puritan  and  senti- 
mentalist. William  Winter  was  a  Puritan  by 
environment  and  sentimentalist  by  nature — 
and  the  two  went  hand  in  hand.  He  was  born 
in  Gloucester,  Mass.,  in  1836,  and  his  boyhood 
years  were  spent  in  Boston  where  he  moved 
amid  the  stirring  events,  literary  and  political 
and  spiritual,  which  marked  the  period  of  Bos- 
ton's golden  age  of  American  leadership. 

Mr.  Winter  at  eighteen  went  to  the  Har- 
vard Law  School.  There,  not  only  the  Puri- 
tan peace  of  Cambridge,  but  the  Puritan  peace 
of  Longfellow,  ivho  made  a  friend  of  the 
young  man,  must  have  had  a  great    influence 


upon  him.  On  graduation  he  was  admitted 
to  the  Suffolk  bar  and  even  practiced  for  a 
time.  But  he  was  also  a  sentimentalist.  A 
man  of  passionate  friendships  and  equally  pas- 
sionate dislikes,  a  hero  worshipper  of  Long- 
fellow, poetry  was  one  of  his  loves — so 
strong  a  one  that  it  seemed  to  him  a  greater 
interest  than  politics  or  law  or  reform.  His 
place  by  temperament  was  in  speech  rather 
than  in  action,  in  literature  rather  than  in  life. 

In  1865  Mr.  Winter  became  dramatic  critic 
of  the  New  York  Tribune,  then  edited  by  Hor- 
ace Greeley,  and  he  has  occupied  that  post 
from  that  date  until  1909.  During  that  time 
Mr.  Winter  has  numbered  among  his  friends, 
George  William  Curtis,  Bayard  Taylor,  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes,  Edmund  Clarence  Stedman, 
Richard  Henry  Stoddard,  Wilkie  Collins, 
Donald  B.  Mitchell  and  Artemus  Ward.  But 
it  was  among  actors  perhaps  that  his  warmest 
friendships  lay.  Pie  was  the  intimate  friend 
and  adviser  of  Booth  and  Barrett,  of  Jefferson 
and  Irving,  of  Augustin  Daly  and  Miss 
Rehan. 

But  after  all,  it  is  not  his  bond  of  friend- 
ship with  the  great  figures  in  our  literature  and 
on  our  stage  twenty-five  or  fifty  years  ago, 
that  makes  him  most  significant  and  interest- 
ing. It  is  the  fact  that  as  a  critic  of  the 
drama,  he  wrote  about  a  fine  art,  finely.  So 
few  have  done  that  in  this  country,  so  few  are 
doing  it  to-day  that  WilHam  Winter  stands 
almost  unique." 

William  Winter,  now  a  man  of  74  years,  is 
to  honor  Bowdoin  '  by  speaking  in  Memorial 
Hall  about  his  personal  friend,  Henry  W. 
Longfellow,   '25. 


PROGRAM  SECOND  MAINE  INTERCOLLEGIATE 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  CONFERENCE 

Colby  College,  Waterville,  March  4,  5,  6 

Friday  Evening — Reception  to  delegates 
by  Colby  Y.  M.  C  A.  Addresses  of  Wel- 
come by  Pres.  A.  J.  Roberts  of  Colby,  and  G. 
W.  Vail,  Pres.  Colby  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Re- 
sponses from  Prof.  C.  M.  Clark  of  Bangor 
Seminary  and  J.   L.  McConaughy,  for  Bow- 


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doin.     Address  by  Prof.  A.  W.   Anthony,  of 
Bates. 

Saturday  Morning — Bible  Study.  H. 
W.  Slocum,  Bowdoin,  presiding.  Devotional 
exercises,  C.  M."  Daggett  (Colby),  former 
Maine  Students  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secretary.  "The 
Development  of  Bible  Study,"  Ross  H.  Had- 
ley,  of  New  York,  Sec.  of  Bible  Study  Dept. 
of  International  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Committee. 
Brief   Talks. 

"Daily  Bible  Study,"  Delbert  Andrews, 
Bates. 

"Fraternity  Bible  Classes,"  A.  S.  Atwood, 
Maine. 

"Value  of  the  Normal  Class,".  A.  W. 
Stone,  Bowdoin.  Discussion  led  by  E.  C. 
Worman  (Yale),  Student  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secre- 
tary for  Massachusetts  and   Rhode   Island. 

Business  Session. 

Conference  Photograph. 


Afternoon — Social    Service. 

Address  by  Prof.  Robert  J.  Sprague,  of 
Maine.  Discussion  of  the  work  done  by  Asso- 
ciations   represented. 

Saturday  Evening. 

E.  M.  Storer,  Maine,  presiding.  Song 
Service.  "Bible  Study  as  a  World  Power :" 
In  the  Home  Field,  E.  C.  Worman.  In  For- 
eign Fields,  R.  H.  Hadley  (under  appoint- 
ment as  Bible  Study  Secretary  for  all  India.) 

Sunday  Morning. 

The  conference  speakers  will  occupy  the 
pulpits   of  Waterville. 

Sunday  Afternoon. 

Men's  meeting.  "World  Wide  Interest  in 
Missions,"  Rev.  J.  Lowell  Murray,  Educa- 
tional Secretary,  Student  Volunteer  Move- 
ment. 

Sunday  Evening. 

7.30.  Mass-meeting  in  City  Hall.  "Mis- 
sions and  the  Everyday  Man,"  Rev.  J.  Lovell 
Murray. 

9  P.M.  Closing  meeting  for  delegates  only. 

Bangor  Seminary,  Bates,  Bowdoin,  and 
University  of  Maine  will  each  send  15  dele- 
gates who  will  be  entertaind  by  the  Colby  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  In  addition,  delegates  will  be  pres- 
ent from  the  10  largest  Maine  Preparatory 
Schools.  It  is  also  expected  that  if  more  than 
15  men  desire  to  go  from  Bowdoin — as  is 
hoped — they  will  be  entertained  Saturday  and 
Sunday.  The  Maine  Central  Railroad  has 
granted  a  special  rate — a  third  Round  Trip 
fare. 


ZETA  PSI  HOLDS  JOINT  BANQUET 

The  Chi  (Colby)  and  Lambda  (Bowdoin) 
chapters  of  Zeta  Psi  held  a  joint  banquet  at 
the  Augusta  House  in  Augusta  last  Friday 
evening,  the  first  one  of  its  kind  held  since 
1894.  In  the  future,  however,  the  two  chap- 
ters plan  to  make  the  affairs  annual.  More 
than  70  members  of  the  fraternity,  consisting 
of  graduates  and  undergraduates  of  the  two 
colleges  were  present.  The  committees  for 
the 'banquet  were:  Edward  G.  Stacey,  '11, 
chairman;  Stanley  F.  Brown,  '10,  and  Bernard 
B.  Tibbetts,  '11,  from  the  Chi  Chapter;  Harold 
E.  Weeks,  '10,  chairman;  W.  Folsom  Merrill, 
'11,  and  Mark  W.  Burlingame,  '12,  from  the 
Lambda. 

At  the  post  prandial  exercises,  John  Ed- 
ward Nelson,  Chi,  '98,  of  Waterville,  was 
toastmaster.  The  speakers  for  the  evening 
were :  Lucien  Howe,  Lambda,  '70,  of  Buffalo, 
N.  Y. ;  Lawrence  Gorham  Ludwig,  Lambda, 
'10,  of  Houlton;  Herbert  Milton  Heath, 
Lambda,  '72,  of  Augusta ;  Robert  Betts  Aus- 
tin, Chi  "99,  of  New  York;  Edward  Folsom 
Merrill,  Lambda  '03,  of  Skowhegan ;  Oliver 
Leigh  Hall,  Chi  "93,  of  Bangor ;  Lyman  Ab- 
bott Cousens,  Lambda,  "02,  of  Portland ; 
Henry  Britt  Moor,  Chi  '10,  of  Waterville;  and 
Guy  Augustine  Hildreth,  Kappa,  '00,  of  Gar- 
diner. 


PEARY  GOING  ABROAD 

Commander  Robert  E.  Peary  will  visit  his 
home  on  Eagle  Island  early  in  April  and  will 
return  to  New  York  so  as  to  sail  April  26  or 
27  for  London.  On  May  4,  he  is  scheduled  to 
lecture  before  the  Royal  Geographical  Society. 
The  exact  dates  for  his  lectures  on  the  conti- 
nent are  not  settled,  but  he  will  speak  some 
time  during  the  early  summer  before  geo- 
graphical and  scientific  societies  in  Paris,  Ber- 
lin, Brussels,  and  Vienna  and  in  Rome  and  St. 
Petersburg  if  he  has  time.  He  will  then  re- 
turn to  Great  Britain  and  speak  at  Edinburgh. 
He  will  then  sail  for  home  so  as  to  arrive 
about  June  18,  in  order  to  be  here  at  the  Com- 
mencement exercises. 


THE  ABBOTT  COLLECTION 

The  room  set  aside  as  an  "Abbott  Memo- 
rial" in  the  tower  of  Hubbard  Hall  is  now 
ready  to  be  shown  to  the  many  visitors  who 
come  to  the  college.  It  is  furnished  in  accord- 
ance with  the  plan  and  co-operation  of  the  late 


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Dr.  Edward  Abbott  of  Cambridge.  The  room 
contains  pictures,  books  and  interesting  and 
valuable  souvenirs  of  the  five  Abbott  writers 
who  graduated  from  Bowdoin :  Jacob  Abbott, 
all  of  whose  "Rollo"  manuscripts  are  here, 
John  S.  C.  Abbott,  Gorham  D.  Abbott,  Charles 
E.,  and  Samuel  P.  Abbott.  A  life-size  oil  por- 
trait of  Dr.  Edward  Abbott  has  recently  been 
added  bv  Mrs.  Abbott. 


MR,  SCOTT  QOINQ  TO  CHICAGO  UNIVERSITY 

The  many  friends  of  Mr.  Jonathan  F. 
Scott  will  regret  exceedingly  to  learn  that  he 
is  to  leave  Bowdoin  nex't  year  to  become  in- 
structor in  the  History  of  Education  at  the 
University  of  Chicago.  Mr.  Scott  has  been  at 
Bowdoin  in  the  capacity  of  instructor  in  His- 
tory but  little  over  half  a  year  and  in  that  time, 
to  use  an  unders'raduate  expression  he  has 
"made  good."  During  his  stay  here  Mr. 
Scott  has  shown  an  ability  as  a  teacher  second 
only  to  his  ability  to  make  friends — two  quali- 
fications for  which  he  will  be  greatly  missed 
by   Bowdoin   men. 

Mr.  Scott  graduated  from  Rutgers  in  1902, 
and  for  some  time  thereafter  did  secondary 
school  teaching.  He  then  went  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Wisconsin  where  for  three  years  he 
gave  a  course  and  did  work  of  a  graduate  stu- 
dent in  the  History  of  Education.  Last  fall 
he  came  to  IJowdoin  where  he  is  giving  a 
course  in  European  history,  ranging  from  the 
Peace  of  Westphalia  to  the  present  time. 

It  is  understood  that  the  university  which 
has  grown  up  so  wonderfully  in  the  past  few 
years  in  the  south  side  of  Chicago  has  made 
some  very  flattering  offers  to  the  popular 
Bowdoin  instructor.  His  work,  it  is  under- 
stood, will  be  mostly  lectures  delivered  upon 
the  subject  for  which  he  is  so  well  fitted  and 
for  which  he  has  been  chosen.  His  work  will 
for  the  most  part  be  concerned  with  seniors 
and  graduate  students,  and  since  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago  pays  particular  attention  to 
graduate  work  the  honor  is  regarded  as  all 
the  greater.  '  There  are  but  few  weeks  in  the 
year  in  which  the  university  closes  its  doors 
and  Mr.  Scott  will  begin  his  lectures  in 
Chicago  a  few  days  after  the  end  of  the  Bow- 
doin semester  and  at  the  beginning  of  the 
Chicago  summer  term.  Mr.  Scott  is  one  of  the 
most  pleasing  class  room  lecturers  on  the 
Bowdoin  faculty  and  the  college  wishes  him 
the  success  which  he  will  be  sure  to  gain  in  his 
new  field. 


THE  FEBRUARY  QUILL 

The  February  Quill,  a  rather  larger  issue 
than  is  customary,  contains  a  number  of  inter- 
esting contributions.     Among  them : 

The  Durability  of  Stevenson,  which  was 
awarded  the  '68  Prize,  stands  first.  Thruout 
the  essay  is  a  feeling  of  genuine  afifection  for 
Stevenson's  works.  This  quality  of  sincerity 
is  apt  to  be  lacking  in  the  work  of  undergrad- 
uates, and  when  svich  a  piece  of  work  as  this 
is  brought  forward  we  are  inclined  to  feel  that 
its  strong  appeal  lies  in  the  simplicity  of  its  dic- 
tion. The  style,  too,  is  easy,  and  the  numerous 
quotations  are  moulded  into  the  work  with 
quite  deft  skill. 

In  the  Dark,  describes  a  rather  serious  ad- 
venture of  a  young  fisherman.  The  work 
would  gain  in  effectiveness  if  more  considera- 
tion had  been  given  to  the  method  of  expres- 
sion, for  the  sentences  slip  one  into  another 
with  apparent  effort,  and  the  paragraphs  seem 
unusually  short.  Such  phrases  as  '.'inky  black- 
ness" and  *'pitch  darkness"  might  be  advan- 
tageously omitted.  However,  the  work  seems 
sincere. 

The  Prayer  of  the  Priest,  is  a  unique  Chal- 
dean story.  Some  of  the  pictures,  such  as 
Abusharein  and  his  brother,  squatting  before 
the  hut  door  and  the  description  of  Abusharein 
going  into  his  hut  to  rekindle  his  fire,  altho  not 
new,  are  well  done.  The  reiteration  of  the 
priest's  prayer  and  its  effect  upon  Abu  are  sug- 
gestively handled. 

There  is  the  usual  installment  of  poetry. 
The  Home  of  Song,  by  a  graduate,  shows  that 
he  still  is  interested  in  the  literary  activities  of 
the  college,  and  is  willing  to  give  his  aid. 

A  Nezv  Englander  on  Broadiuay  is  a  sus- 
tained piece  of  work.  The  rhyming  scheme 
seems  very  spontaneous  and  unaffected,  and  the 
metrical  construction  is  impeccable. 

Other  pieces  are  A  Song,  Lahore  Est  Orare, 
and  A  Translation  from  the  Tzvelfth  Cathe- 
merinon  of  Prndentius.  As  we  look  over  the 
poetry  that  appears  each  month  we  wish  that 
the  superficial  tone  might  be  dropped,  for  the 
contributions  seem  to  ring  rather  emptily  and 
to  strive  for  effect.  Flaubert  said,  in  speak- 
ing of  poetry,  "I  should  rather  read  musical 
nonsense  than  unmusical  sense."  We  can 
hardly  concur  with  him,  but  will  say,  "If  the 
spirit  of  the  poem  can  be  sincere,  we  are  will- 
ing to  overlook  a  faulty  foot." 


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EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.   E.   ATWOOD,  igio  Editor-in-Chief 

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Associate  Kditors 

p.  B.  MORSS,  1910  J.  C.  WHITE,  1911 

THOMAS  OTIS.  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON,  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON,  1910      W.  A.  McCORMICK,  1912 
"W.  A.  FULLER,  1912 


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A  Waste  of 


Just  at  this  time  when  so 
,         _  much  is  being   said    about 

, ,  "  ,  esources       conservation  of  national  re- 

sources, it  miglit  be  well  to  call  attention  to  a 
wanton  waste  of  one  of  our  most  prized  re- 
sources which  is  going  on  right  here  at  Bow- 
doin  college — the  heat  and  light  in  the  ends. 

The  college  provides  heat  lavishly,  at  times 
too  lavishly,  with  the  result  that  the  fellows  in 
the  ends  open  their  windows  and  the  college 
tries  to  heat  all  of  out  doors  a  part  of  the  time. 
Instead  of  turning  off  the  heat  to  cool  ofif  the 
room  many  fellows  will  leave  the  radiator  wide 
open  and  the  window  wide  open,  and  the  col- 
lege pays  the  bills.  The  result  affects  the  indi- 
vidual student  only  indirectly,  but  nevertheless 
the  carelessness  of  one  man  in  this  regard  has 
its  effect  upon  the  entire  community,  for  what- 
ever money  goes  into  buying  coal  for  the 
power  house,  will  not  go  into  scholarships  and 
improvements. 


Many  men  take  the  attitude  that  they  want 
to  get  their  money's  worth  out  of  the  electric 
lights,  so  leave  them  burning  whether  or  not 
they  are  in  the  room,  and  thruout  the  whole 
night.  Of  course  the  college  is  financially  able 
to  run  its  lighting  plant  at  top  speed,  but  the 
money  which  pays  for  it  will  not  build  a  new 
gvmnasium.  Even  from  the  point  of  view  of 
the  individual  student  there  is  a  waste,  for  the 
life  of  an  incandescent  lamp  is  about6oohours, 
and  with  constant  use  the  lamp  soon  burns  out. 
The  habit  of  turning  off  the  heat  and  lights  is 
a  good  one  to  form,  for  it  may  be  useful  later 
when  you  have  to  buy  the  coal  and  read  the 
meter. 


Universities  as 
Publishers 


It  is  a  sign  of  the  times 
that  publishers  thruout  the 
country  will  note  with 
especial  care,  that  Yale  University  is  pressing 
upon  members  of  its  faculty  and  its  alumni 
the  advantage  to  themselves  and  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  issuing  their  books  with  the  im- 
print of  Yale  University  Press,  a  new  depart- 
ment of  the  University  which  has  established 
cooperating  relations  with  the  Oxford  Univer- 
sity Press,  London,  and  which  is  prepared  to 
send  forth  books,  here  and  abroad,  with  the 
sanction  of  the  University.  Chicago  Univer- 
sity set  the  example  in  this  field,  and  if  other 
institutions  follow,  it  will  create  an  interesting 
situation  for  publishers,  who  now  enlist  so 
many  of  their  authors  of  serious  books  from 
university  and  college  scholars  and  moulders 
of  public  opinion. — Boston  Herald. 


The  Referendum 
at  Bowdoin 


From  recent  devdopments 
it  seems  that  the  great 
Swiss  institution  of  gov- 
ernment, the  referendum,  is  to  be  put  in  prac- 
tice at  Bowdoin.  The  question  which  is  to  be 
submitted  to  the  college  is,  "Shall  preparatory 
schools  from  outside  the  Slate  of  Maine  be  in- 
vited to  participate  in  the  Interscholastic 
Meet?"  The  Student  Council  has  recom- 
mended that  out  of  the  state  schools  be  invited, 
and  the  Athletic  Council,  which  has  the  final 
decision  of  the  matter  has  by  a  majority  of  one 
vote,  declared  against  it.  The  Student  Coun- 
cil, unwilling  to  see  the  matter  drop  without 
farther  discussion,  has  decided  to  secure  a  vote 
of  the  college  upon  this  question  at  the  next 
mass-meeting.  A  vote  of  the  student  body 
will  have  no  legal  bearing  upon  the  question, 
except  to  show  the  sentiment  of  the  college,  as 


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the  power  to  decide  questions  relating  to  ath- 
letics lies  solely  and  wholly  with  the  Athletic 
/  Council. 
-/  To  the  question,  "Shall  preparatory  schools 

from  outside  the  State  of  Maine  be  invited  to 
participate  in  the  Interscholastic  Meet?"  the 
Student  Council  answers  in  the  affirmative  and 
the  Athletic  Council  in  the  negative.  The 
respective  positions  of  the  two  bodies  are  sub- 
stantiated in  brief  by  the  following  arguments  : 
The  Student  Council  argues  for  inviting 
out  of  state  preparatory  schools, 

1.  Because  the  influence  of  the  college 
outside  the  state  would  be  increased. 

2.  Because  the  Interscholastic  Meet  would 
be  more  closely  contested  than  in  recent  years. 

The  Athletic  Council  argues  that  out-of- 
the-State  preparatory  schools  should  not  be  in- 
vited to  the  Interscholastic  Meet, 

1.  Because  Bowdoin  would  lose  favor  with 
the  Maine  preparatory  schools. 

2.  Because  Bowdoin  is  so  far  from  the 
center  of  population  and  the  expense  incurred 
in  getting  teams  here  is  so  great  that  only  the 
largest  schools  would  send  teams,  and  if  in- 
vited would  send  teams  only  when  victory 
seemed  practically  certain. 

3.  Because  some  of  the  larger  preparatory 
schools  might  send  a  team  of  three  or  four 
"school  boy  wonders"  who  would  win  the 
meet.  ' 

4.  Because  the  larger  preparatory  schools 
would  use  the  Bowdoin  Interscholastic  Meet  as 
a  practice  meet  to  some  of  the  meets  nearer 
home,  as  for  instance  the  Harvard  or  Dart- 
mouth Interscholastic. 


V   M   r    A    A  ♦"  Believing  that  Mr.  Hiwale's 

■„,■    ;,         *  cause  in  India    is    a    good 
Illegally  ■  *'    , 

*     '  one,  we  are  very  anxious  to 

see  the  college  raise  the  $300  for  which  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  is  circulating  a  subscription  paper, 
but  we  are  equally  anxious  that  for  the  sake  of 
precedent,  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  raise  the  $300  in 
the  proper  way.  Last  year  the  Student  Coun- 
cil passed  a  rule  that  no  subscription  paper  be 
circulated  about  college  without  the  sanction  of 
the  Student  Council,  yet  last  week,  in  direct 
violation  of  that  act,  a  committee  of  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  started  a  subscription  for  Mr.  Hiwale. 
It  was,  of  course,  thru  ignorance  or  forgetful- 
ness  that  the  committee  allowed  this  paper  to 
be  passed  before  the  sanction  of  the  Council 
was  secured,  but  we  beg  to  remind  them  that 


the  State  and  Federal  courts  of  the  United 
States  do  not  recognize  ignorance  of  the  law 
as  an  excuse  for  crime. 

COMMUNICATION  V 

To  the  Editor  of  the  Boivdoin  Orient:  \ 

From  time  to  time  vague  rumors  have  been 
circulated  about  the  campus  regarding  the 
admission  of  Mass.  Prep.  Schools  to  our  In- 
terscholastc  Track  Meet.  These  took  definite 
shape  when  we  noticed  that  the  Student 
Council  had  at  last  shown  itself  a  worthy  or- 
ganization by  recommending  to  the  Athletic 
Council  that  these  Massachusetts  Schools  be 
admitted.  In  last  week's  issue  of  the  Orient 
we  noticed  that  the  Student  Council's  recom- 
mendation had  fallen  flat.  By  careful  ques- 
tioning the  reason  for  the  Athletic  Council's 
action  was  found  to  be  that  the  athletic  situa- 
tion and  growth  of  the  college  had  not  as  yet 
reached  a  point  where  this  action  was  per- 
missible ;  that  Bowdoin  is  an  Eastern  college 
and  the  men  of  Massachusetts  look  West  in- 
stead of  East,  that  we  must  cater  to  our  Maine 
schools  in  order  to  draw  the  men  interested  in 
athletics     to  Bowdoin. 

Let  us  look  this  matter  squarely  in  the 
face  and  see  the  soundness  of  these  arguments. 
The  greater  part  of  our  athletes  and  students 
must  come  from  our  Maine  schools.  Granted. 
But  does  the  interscholastic  track  aspect  play 
such  an  important  part  in  bringing  athletes 
and  students  to  Bowdoin.  The  meet,  as  every- 
one knows,  has  been  a  runaway  match  for 
Hebron.  Their  only  ambition  has  been  to  see 
how  many  more  points  this  year's  team  could 
score  than  last  year's.  Now  what  became  of 
their  athletes.  By  a  consultation  of  the  records 
we  find  that  not  one  has  put  in  appearance, 
but  the  majority  went  to  a  college  where  no 
interscholastic  meet  is  held.  Portland  has 
won  second  place  the  last  few  years.  She  has 
done  better,  however,  by  sending  us  two  or 
three  men,  but  these  men  even  from  the  earli- 
est days  of  their  childhood,  had  been  schooled 
to  be  Bowdoin  men.  Now  where  do  our  ath- 
letes come  from?  The  men  in  college  to-day 
who  are  our  most  consistent  point  winners 
come  from  schools  whose  .loyalty  to  Bowdoin 
has  been  the  only  cause  for  their  sending  a 
hopeless  squad  to  our  meet  or  from  schools 
whose  nearest  approach  to  track  athletics  was 
chasing  the  cow  home  from  pasture  nights. 
So  much  for  point  number  i. 


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Number  2  is  that  Massachusetts  schools 
look  West  instead  of  East.  This  point  from  a 
superficial  aspect  seems  to  have  considerable 
strength.  The  question  which  naturally  arises 
is  why  do  they  look  West.  The  answer  is  ob- 
vious. They  must  look  West  because  they 
know  nothing  of  the  Eastern  colleges.  But 
can  this  be  so?  Has  not  Bowdoin  by  her  per- 
formances in  the  past  few  years  gained  recog- 
nition in  the  public  eye?  Time  and  time 
again  have  Massachusetts  schools  eagerly 
snatched  at  the  opportunity  to  meet  our  Maine 
schools  more  than  half  way.  Not  a  school  of 
standing  in  the  state  has  been  passed  by  un- 
noticed, but  all  have  received  ofifers  and  in- 
ducements to  meet  upon  the  diamond  and 
gridiron  these  schools  in  Massachusetts. 
Should  track  be  opened  to  them  not  only 
would  they  be  able  to  at  last  gratify  their 
hearts'  desires  but  also  take  back  with  them 
the  enlightening  news  that  one  Maine  college, 
at  least,  is  not  so  far  behind  the  times. 

Point  No.  3.  That  our  athletic  situation 
and  growth  has  not  yet  reached  the  desired 
height  of  prosperity.  By  reviewing  Bow- 
doin's  triumphs  on  the  track  the  peculiar  fact 
comes  to  the  surface  that  not  Maine  men  but 
out  of  State  men  have  helped  most  to  swell 
our  points  at  the  N.  E.  Meet.  As  for  the  stu- 
dent body,  surely  the  reputation  of  Bowdoin 
and  all  of  her  alumni  must  be  sufficient  to  keep 
our  numbers  within  the  limits  of  faculty  reg- 
ulation, but  out  of  State  men  must  be  induced 
and  why  not  do  it  the  easiest  way  which  is  to 
open  up  our  Interscholastic  Meet  to  out-of- 
State  teams. 

Undergr.\duate. 


CALENDAR 

Friday,  February  25 
Musical   Clubs  play   at   Waterville. 

Saurday,  February  26 
Musical   Clubs   play  at  Augusta. 
9.00     Fencing   practice   in   the   Gymnasium. 

Sunday^  February  27 

10.30  Special  service  for  college  students  at  St. 
Paul's,  by  Rev.  L.  F.  Parsons. 

10.4s  Morning  service  in  the  Church  on  the  Hill 
conducted  by  Rev.  J.   H.  Quint. 

S.oo  P.M.  Sunday  Chapel  conducted  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Edwards   of  Brunswick.     Music  by  double  quartet. 

Monday,  February  28 
Maud  Adams  in  "What  Every  Woman  Knows," 
at   Empire   Theatre,   Lewiston. 


8.00  William  Winter  will  lecture  in  Memorial 
Hall  under  the  auspices  of  the  Alpha  Chapter  of 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  on  Longfellow  and  American 
Letters. 

Tuesday.  March  i 

3.30     Make-up    gym. 

Maude  Adams  in  "What  Every  Woman  Knows," 

7.30     Senior  Squad  practice  in  gym. 

8.30     Junior  Squad  practice  in  gym.. 

9.30     Sophomore   Squad  practice   in  gym. 
10.30     Freshman    Squad   practice   in   gym. 

.    Wednesday,   March   2 
Maude  Adams  at  Jefferson  Theatre,  Portland. 
Y.   M.   C.   A.   room. 

7.30     Senior  Squad  practice  in  gym. 
8.30     Junior  Squad  practice  in  gym.. 
9.30     Sophomore   Squad  practice   in  gym. 
10.30     Freshman    Squad   practice   in   gym. 

Thursday,   March    3 
7.00     Y.    M.    C.    A.    Meeting.     Prof.   A.   W.    An- 
thony of  Bates   will   speak. 

7.30     Senior  Squad  practice  in  gym. 
8.30     Junior  Squad  practice  in  gym.. 
g.30     Sophomore   Squad   practice   in  gym. 
10.30     Freshman    Squad   practice   in   gym. 

Friday,   March  4 
President  Taft  has  been   in   office  one  year. 
Opening   of   Maine    Intercollegiate    Y.    M.    C.    A. 
Conference  at  Waterville. 

8.00    Reception  to  delegates  by  Colby  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
7.30     Senior  Squad  practice  in  gym. 
8.30     Junior  Squad  practice  in  gym.. 
9.30     Sophomore  Squad  practice  in  gym. 
10.30     Freshman    Squad   practice  in   gym. 


MUSICAL  CLUBS  ON  TOUR 

The  Bowdoin  Musical  Clubs  left  Bruns- 
wick at  2  o'clock  Tuesday  afternoon  for  their 
annual  up-state  tour,  giving  the  first  concert 
at  Vassalboro  before  the  students  of  Oak 
Grove  Seminary  on  Tuesday  evening.  On 
Wednesday  the  dubs  moved  on  to  Oldtown, 
and  on  Thursday  evening  the  annual  Bangor 
concert  was  the  event.  Friday  evening  Water- 
ville is  the  city  which  will  be  favored  with  the 
Bowdoin  musical  clubs.  Returning  home  the 
clubs  will  play  at  Augusta  on  Saturday.  In 
the  first  four  concerts,  Kellogg,  '11,  will  act  as 
violin  soloist,  because  Kendrie,  "10,  is  obliged 
to  play  at  Lewiston  on  Thursday  evening,  but 
on  Saturday  evening  at  Augusta  Kendrie  will 
be  a  feature  of  the  concert. 


ART  BUILDING  NOTES 

A  copy  of  a  detail  of  the  Sistine  Madonna  after 
Raphael  has  been  loaned  to  the  college  and  placed  in 
the  Boyd  Gallery.  A  mourning  ring  of  Samuel 
Moody,  who  died"  28  Aug.  1803,  aged  72,  has  been 
given  to  the  college  and  placed  in  the  Boyd  Gallery. 

Mr,  Moore  of  Portland  is  at  work  on  the  paint- 
ings, giving  them  a  careful  cleaning  and  repairing. 


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(ZoiiCQC  Botes 

Do  you  remember  what  Sherman  said  about  war? 
That  is  what  every  able'-bodied  Freshman  who  doesn't 
come  out  for  Track  this  spring  will  get.  Bowdoin 
loses  36  points  when  1910  graduates. 

Timberlake,  'i2,  is  sick  with  the  mumps. 

H.  L.  Hall,  '13,  has  entered  Bates  College. 

The  pins  of  the  Monday  Club  have  arrived. 

The  football  sweaters  have  been  given  out. 

Harris,  '09,  has  been  visiting  friends  at  the 
college. 

Perry,  ex-'i3.  has  entered  Dartmouth  this 
semester. 

Willard  H.  Curtis.  '11,  has  joined  the  Delta  Upsi- 
lon  fraternity. 

C.  J.  Hatch  of  Dartmouth,  visited  friends  at  the 
college,  Monday. 

Foote,  '12.  is  teaching  in  the  South  Windham 
Grammar  School. 

Mr.  McConaughy  attended  the  Boys'  Conference 
in  Augusta,  Saturday. 

The  next  meeting  of  the  Deutscher  Verein  will  be 
held  at  the  Psi  Upsilon  House. 

E.  H.  Webster,  '10,  made  a  business  trip  to  New 
York  over  Washington's  Birthday. 

W.  T.  Johnson,  '06,  E.  C.  Pope,  '07,  and  N.  S. 
Weston,  '08,  were  on  the  campus  over  Sunday. 

P.  W.  Mathews,  '12,  has  been  elected  Business 
Manager  of  the  Quill  to  succeed  Meserve,  '11.  who 
has  resigned. 

Brummett,  '11,  who  has  been  ill  at  his  home 
since  the  December  vacation,  is  expected  to  return  to 
college  this  week. 

Maude  Adams  is  to  play  at  the  Empire  Theatre 
in  Lewiston,  Feb.  28,  and  at  the  Jefferson  in  Port- 
land on  March  i. 

The  delegates  and  representatives  from  the 
various  Y.  M.  C.  A.'s  in  the  state  have  been  visiting 
friends   in   college   during   the   past   two   days. 

Prof.  Files  is  to  show  the  members  of  German  4 
some  stereopticon  pictures  of  the  William  Tell  re- 
gion in   Switzerland,  next  Tuesday  evening. 

In  the  March  number  of  Munsey  there  appears 
an  interesting  character  sketch  of  William  Winter, 
who  is  to  speak  in  Memorial  Hall,  Monday  evening. 

Sumner  Edwards,  '10,  has  been  attending  the 
national  convention  of  Theta  Delta  Chi  fraternity  at 
Chicago,  during  the  past  week,  as  delegate  from  the 
Eta   Charge. 

Prof.  Allen  Johnson  entertained  the  Gentlemen's 
Club  at  Hotel  Eagle  last  Friday  evening.  Prof.  W. 
B.  Mitchell  gave  an  address  on  "The  Destruction  of 
Life  in  America." 

Prof.  Allen  Johnson  has  announced  that  the  com- 
petitors for  the  Philo  Sherman  Bennett  prize,  which 
was  established  by  Wm.  J.  Bryan  from  the  trust 
funds  of  the  estate  of  the  late  Philo  S.  Bennett  of 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  will  be  required  to  write  an 
essay  on  "City  Government  by  Commission,"  the 
essay  to  'be  from  5,000  to  10,000  words  in  length. 


The  ushers  at  the  William  Winter  lecture  will  be 
the  undergraduate  members  of  the  Alpha  Chapter  of 
Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Messrs.  H.  Q.  Hawes,  Rodney 
Ross,  Robert  Hale,  W.  E.  Robinson,  and  H.  E. 
Rowell. 

"Bob"  Fowler,  a  topnotcher  among  American 
Marathon  runners,  gave  an  account  of  his  trip  to 
Athens  in  1906  and  of  his  experiences  in  athletics 
before  an  interested  group  of  listeners  in  the  Christ- 
ian  Association  Room.  Thursday  afternoon. 

Prof.  Dudley  Sargent,  at  the  dinner  of  the  Bow- 
doin alumni,  condemned  the  present  attitude  toward 
college  athletics  as  copying  too  much  the  spectacu- 
lar standards  of  the  Roman  amphitheatre,  indicating 
that  the  college  man  became  an  athlete  first,  and  was 
an  educated  man  in  a  secondary  sense. Prof.  Wam- 
paugh,  of  the  Harvard  law  school,  took  the  view  that 
athletics  played  their  part  in  making  boys  go  to  col- 
lege and  so  reduced  the  number  of  unintellectual 
people  in  the  world. 

Rev.  J.  P.  Jones,  who  was  here  recently,  spoke  of 
the  importance  which  Hiwale's  work  could  not  fail 
to  have.  He  is  the  only  member  of  his  race  who 
has  ever  graduated  from  a  Theological  Seminary 
and  a  college  in  this  part  of  the  country.  This  he 
has  done  in  five  years,  though  he  had  to  overcome 
all  the  difficulties  due  to  residence  in  a  strange  land 
and  speaking  a  foreign  language.  He  is  now  mar- 
ried and  has  become  one  of  the  little  centers  of  civ- 
ilization and  Christianity  in  his  own  native  country. 
Sometime  in  (he  near  future,  the  Orient  hopes  to  be 
able  to  publish  a  letter  from  him,  telling  of  his  start 
in  his  work  and  the  prospect  before  the  Bowdoin 
Mission  in   India. 


CHEMICAL  CLUB  ELECTS  OFFICERS 

The  Chemical  Club  has  organized  for  this 
year  with  a  very  large  membership.  The  fol- 
lowing officers  have  been  elected :  F.  C.  Evans, 
'lo,  Pres. ;  C.  A.  Smith,  '10,  Vice-Pres. ;  C.  L. 
Deming,  '10,  Sec.  and  Treas.  The  members 
of  the  club  are :  Grace,  Evans,  Ballard,  Nulty, 
P.  B.  Morss,  Boynton,  L.  S.  Lippincott,  Ham- 
burger, C.  A.  Smith,  Newman,  Edwards,  Dem- 
ing, S.  S.  Webster,  H.  Q.  Hawes,  Hobbs, 
Crovvell.  R.  Tuttle,  and  Woodward  from 
1910;  Elmer  King,  Dennis,  and  Meserve  from 
[911  ;  and  G.  C.  Kern,  Foote,  and  G.  F.  Wil- 
son from  1912.  The  club  met  at  Webber's 
Wednesday  for  its  picture. 


LINCOLN  COUNTY  CLUB 

The  Lincoln  County  Club  was  organized  Wednes- 
day evening,  Feb.  16,  with  the  following  member- 
ship:  Boynton,  '10,  Nickerson,'io,  Burns,  '11,  Genth- 
ner,  '11,  Oram,  '11,  Farrin,  '11,  Kent,  '12,  Bryant, 
'12,  Vannah,  '12,  Dodge,  '13,  and  Belknap,  '13.  The 
officers  for  this  year  are :  Boynton,  '10,  Pres. ;  Nick- 
erson,  '10,  Vice-President;  Genthner,  '11,  Sec.  and 
Treas.;  Executive  Committee,  Burns,  '11,  Bryant, 
'12.  and  Belknap,  '13. 


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Hlumni  department 

'6i. — Dr.  William  Winslow  Eaton,  who 
died  suddenly  at  his  home  in  Danvers, 
Mass.,  31  January,  1910,  was  a  native  of 
Webster,  Maine,  where  he  was  born  May 
20,  1836.  His  parents  were  Martin 
and  Phoebe  (Winslow)  Eaton.  He  was 
graduated  from  Bowdoin  in  1861,  receiving 
his  A.M.  degree  four  years  later.  While  in 
college  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  which 
was  interrupted  by  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
War,  in  which  he  enlisted  from  Brunswick, 
Me.  He  was  appointed  to  the  hospital  service 
and  was  promoted  from  assistant  surgeon  to 
surgeon  with  the  rank  of  major. 

While  the  army  was  in  winter  quarters  Mr. 
Eaton  was  given  leave  of  absence  by  Secretary 
Stanton,  which  was  improved  to  complete  his 
medical  studies  in  New  York,  where  he  re- 
ceived his  degree  from  New  York  University 
March  4,  1864.  Surgeon  Eaton  served 
throughout  -the  war.  At  Gettysburg  he  select- 
ed the  Lutheran  Church  for  the  hospital. 

Dr.  Eaton  became  a  member  of  Army 
Lodge,  No.  8,  F.  and  A.  M.,  which  was  organ- 
ized in  1864,  at  the  front.  He  was  aiifiliated 
with  Amity  Lodge  of  Danvers;  was  a  charter 
member  and  pastmaster  of  Mosaic  Lodge  of 
Danvers;  was  a  charter  member  of  Holten 
Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  of  Danvers ;  also  member 
of  Salem  Council,  R.  S.  M. ;  Winslow  Lewis 
Commandery,  No.  18,  K.  T.,  of  Salem,  of 
which  he  was  prelate,  serving  for  seventeen 
years,  until  his  death.  He  also  was  a  member 
of  Sutton  Lodge  of  Perfection  of  Salem  and 
Aleppo  Temple  of  Boston. 

Dr.  Eaton  served  as  trustee  of  Peabody  In- 
stitute and  for  twenty-two  years  had  been 
trustee  and  president  of  the  Walnut  Grove 
Cemetery  Corporation.  He  was  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  Danvers  Improvement  Soci- 
ety and  had  served  as  president  for  the  past 
eighteen  years.  Since  June,  1889,  Dr.  Eaton 
had  been  a  member  of  the  United  States  Pen- 
sion Board. 

Dr.  Eaton  married  Agnes  Hirst  Magoon  of 
Brunswick,  Me.,  on  June  25,  1865.  She  died 
in  Danvers  July  14,  1904.  He  is  survived  by 
two  daughters,  Susan  W.  Eaton  and  Marion 
A.  Eaton,  both  of  Danvers. 

'74. — Ira  S.  Locke,  Esq.,  died  at  his  resi- 
dence on  Pleasant  Avenue,  Woodfords,  28 
January,  1910,  from  Bright's  disease. 

Mr.  Locke  was  born  in  Biddeford  Feb.  4, 


1853,  a  son  of  'the  late  Stephen  and  Lucinda 
(Clark)  Locke.  After  graduation  he  studied 
law  and  was  admitted  to  the  Cumberland 
county  bar  in  1876  but  on  account  of  feeble 
health  did  not  take  up  the  active  practice  of 
his  profession  until  1880  when  he  fonned 
a  partnership  with  his  brother,  the  late 
Hon.  Joseph  A.  Locke  (Bowdoin,  1865) 
under  the  firm  name  of  Locke  &  Locke. 
For  twenty-five  years  they  were  engaged 
in  a  large  and  extensive  practice  with 
offices  on  Middle  near  Exchange  Street. 
Soon  after  the  death  of  the  senior  member  of 
the  firm,  Mr.  Locke  withdrew  from  practice, 
his  own  health  having  become  affected. 

Mr.  Locke  is  survived  by  a  wife  whose 
maiden  name  was  Ellen  P.  Wright.  He  was 
one  of  the  most  active  members  and  support- 
ers of  the  Clark  Memorial  Methodist  Church 
of  Woodfords  and  prominent  in  his  denomina- 
tion throughout  the  State.  He  was  always  a 
very  devout  as  well  as  a  consistent  Christian. 

Many  of  the  leading  men  of  the  church 
called  him  the  best  equipped  in  the  country  to 
deal  with  what  might  be  termed  ecclesiastical 
jurisprudence.  He  lived  the  life  he  professed, 
completely,  and  his  career  was  like  an  open 
book  in  every  respect.  He  was  a  strong  tem- 
perance man  and  at  one  time  took  a  prominent 
part  in  politics. 

'76.— O.  C.  Evans,  A.M.,  of  South  Port- 
land, has  been  appointed  Superintendent  of 
Schools  in  the  Turner  and  Canton  district  in 
this  state. 

'76. — Charles  D.  Jameson,  Esq.,  Consult- 
ing Engineer  for  the  Chinese  Government,  has 
been  visiting  his  mother  at  Bangor  and  the 
press  of  the  State  has  recently  published  inter- 
esting paragraphs  giving  his  views  in  regard 
to  the  construction  of  railroads  in  China. 

'94. — A  son,  Harris  Merrill  Plaisted,  was 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ralph  P.  Plaisted  of 
Bangor,  Jan.  21,  1910. 

'97. — Dr.  Robert  L.  Hull,  formerly  the  city 
physician  of  Portland,  and  for  several  years 
successfully  located  at  Woodfords,  has  ac- 
cepted the  position  of  house  surgeon  at  the 
hospital  for  ruptured  and  crippled,  New  York 
City. 

'05. — Charles  J.  Donnell,  who  has  been  in 
the  employ  of  the  International  Banking  Cor- 
poration at  Manila  the  past  two  years,  has  re- 
cently been  transferred  to  Cebu  on  the  island 
of  that  name. 


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VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  MARCH  4,  1910 


NO.  28 


LONGFELLOW  AND  AMERICAN  LETTERS 
Address  by  William  Winter 

"Longfellow  and  American  Letters"  was 
the  subject  of  an  unusually  fine  lecture,  given 
in  Memorial  Hall  on  last  Monday  evening  by 
the  dean  of  Ainerican  dramatic  critics, 
William  Winter.  The  lecture  was  given  under 
the  auspices  of  the  literary  committee  of  the 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society.  It  has  tlie  distinction 
of  being  the  first  so  given  for  over  twenty-one 
years. 

Mr.  Winter  is  well  known  in  this  country, 
both  as  a  poet  and  dramatic  critic.  For  forty- 
four  years  he  was  the  dramatic  critic  of  the 
New  York  Tribune.  As  one  of  the  three  or 
four  living  intimates  of  Longfellow  he  has  a 
special  aptitude  for  speaking  of  the  great  poet. 

He  was  introduced  by  President  Hyde  who 
spoke  briefly  of  Mr.  Winter's  connection  with 
Bowdoin  men  thru  his  friendship  with  Long- 
fellow and  also  thru  his  recent  editing  of  the 
work  of  William  Law  Symonds  of  the  Class 
of  1854.  President  Hyde  closed  with  a  trib- 
ute to  the  sterling  character  of  the  speaker  as 
a  man  who  had  "kept  his  rudder  true." 

Mr.  Winter,  as  he  came  forward  to  speak, 
showed  his  age  in  the  white  hair  and  slightly 
bent  figure.  His  voice  was  firm  but  low  and 
lacking  in  volume.  It  is  scarcely  possible  to 
do  justice  to  his  address  by  attempting  to  give 
an  abstract  and  only  a  few  points  may  be 
mentioned. 

He  began  by  sketching  certain  tendencies 
in  the  life  and  literature  of  the  American 
people  to-day.  Their  life  he  condemned  as 
sordid  and  materialistic ;  their  literature  as 
original  at  the  expense  of  harmony  and 
beauty.  He  mentioned  also  the  over-devel- 
oped sense  of  humor,  which  makes  the  char- 
acteristic note  of  to-day  "the  horse-laugh." 

As  an  example  of  the  older  and  to  his 
mind  better  type,  he  took  Longfellow,  who 
looked  on  the  world  with  the  kindly  smile.  He 
gave  a  notable  description  of  the  Cambridge  of 
the  fifties,  then  a  mere  hamlet  with  stage 
coach  and  shady  street.  Well  suited  to  such 
an  atmosphere  was  the  literary  circle  of 
which  Longfellow  was  a  leading  member.  In 
a  few  vigorous  sentences  Mr.  Winter  sketched 


the  leading  characteristics  of  the  men  who 
made  up  that  circle.  Of  his  own  meeting  and 
friendship  with  Longfellow  he  spoke  in  a  per- 
sonal manner.  He  told  of  Longfellow  at  his 
fireside  where  he  loved  to  be ;  of  Longfellow  in 
sorrow;  of  Longfellow  in  the  attacks  of  his 
opponents,  generously  forgiving.  In  speaking 
of  Longfellow  he  mentioned  others,  in  partic- 
ular Edgar  Allan  Poe,  and  read  the  eulogy 
which  he  had  himself  written  on  the  Southern 
poet. 

Some  had  heard  in  a  vague  way  of  the 
power  of  Mr.  Winter's  invective;  during  the 
address  they  had  ample  opportunity  to  judge 
of  it.  In  his  indictment  of  American  life  and 
the  present  tendencies  of  the  drama  of  Ibsen, 
Shaw,  Walter  Maeterlinck  and  others,  the 
audience  heard  choice  specimens  of  the  pol- 
ished invective.  It  was,  perhaps,  the  strongest 
kind  of  invective,  that  of  the  well-chosen  ad- 
jective. 

Toward  the  close  of  the  lecture  Mr.  Win- 
ter read  a  poem  of  his  own  on  Longfellow  and 
closed  with  an  appeal  for  the  adoption  of  those 
ideals  of  literature  and  life  for  which  Long- 
fellow stood. 

After  the  lecture  a  reception  was  held  in 
Hubbard  Hall  at  which  Mr.  Winter  was 
assisted  in  receiving  by  Judge  Symonds  of 
Portland,  and  Prof.  Chapman.  The  affair 
was  much  enjoyed  by  all  present,  among 
whom  were  many  from  out  of  town. 

The  literai-y  committee  of  the  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  Society,  under  whose  auspices  the 
lecture  was  given,  is  composed  of  the  follow- 
ing: Prof.  Geo.  T.  Little,  'yy;  Rev.  Samuel  V. 
Cole,  'yj,  of  Norton,  Mass.;  Rev.  Charles  H. 
Cutler,  '81,  of  Bangor,  Me. ;  Prof.  Charles  C. 
Torrey,  '84,  of  New  Haven;  and  Prof.  Ken- 
neth C.  M.  Sills. 

The  ushers  were  the  following  who  com- 
prise the  undergraduate  members  of  the  soci- 
ety: Robert  Hale,  Henry  Quimby  Hawes, 
Warren  Eastman  Robinson,  Rodney  Elsmore 
Ross,  Llarold  Edwin  Rowell. 

Among  those  who  came  in  from  Portland 
to  the  lecture  were  the  following: 

Judge  J.  W.  Symonds,  Henry  Deering,  A. 
L.  Moulton,  Miss  Charlotte  Thomas,  Nathan 
Goold,  Thomas  H.  Eaton,     W.    G.     Wilbur, 


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Judge  and  Mrs.  Clarence  Hale,  L.  W.  Forbes, 
E.  C.  Wilson,  Miss  Symonds,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ridge,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  David  Snow,  Fred  Cook, 
Leland  Walker,  George  E.  Fogg,  Lyman 
Cousins,  Miss  Maud  Washburn,  Miss  Brad- 
ley, Miss  Goold,  Miss  May  Davis,  Mrs.  Marri- 
cott,  Misses  Marricott,  Mrs.  Siders. 


COMMUNICATION 

Portland,  Me.,  Feb.  25,   1910. 
To  the  Editor  of  the  Botvdoin  Orient: 

Dear  Sir — I  desire  the  kind  offices  of  your 
paper  to  express  my  appreciation  of  the  cour- 
tesies so  generously  shown  me  by  the  students 
of  Bowdoin  College  on  the  occasion  of  my  ad- 
dress before  the  Christian  Association  of  the 
College  on  Thursday  evening. 

Very  respectfully  yours, 
(Signed)         Joshua  L.  Chamberlain. 


PROF.  HASTINGS  TO  GIVE  UP  TEACHING 

Professor  Hastings,  head  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Surveying  and  Drawing,  is  to  com- 
plete his  work  at  Bowdoin  this  spring.  He 
has  decided  to  give  up  teaching  and  enter  an- 
other branch  of  his  work  in  the  employ  of  the 
firm  of  John  Dreyfus  and  Sons,  a  Chicago  con- 
cern. Professor  Hastings'  many  friends  re- 
gret his  giving  up  his  work  of  teaching  and 
leaving  Brunswick. 

Professor  Hastings  fitted  at  Phillips-Exe- 
ter Academy  before  entering  the  Massachu- 
setts Institute  of  Technology,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1907.  From  1907-1908,  he 
held  the  position  of  Instructor  of  the  newly 
developed  Department  of  Surveying  and 
Drawing.  In  1908,  he  was  elected  Assistant 
Professor  of  the  Department,  and  in  1909  was 
given  the  chair  of  Professor.  During  his  work 
in  this  course.  Professor  Hastings  has  per- 
fected its  operation  and  so  conducted  it  with 
such  a  high  standard  of  instruction  that  he  has 
made  his  new  department  successful  in  every 
detail. 


RROF.  FAIRCHILD  TO  GO  TO  YALE 

At  the  meeting  of  the  corporation  of  Yale 
University,  Monday  evening  of  last  week. 
Prof.  Henry  Pratt  Fairchild  of  Bowdoin  was 
appointed  assistant  professor  of  political  econ- 


omy. Prof.  Fairchild  will  accept  the  appoint- 
ment and  begin  his  work  there  next  fall.  This 
news  of  Prof.  Fairchild's  leaving  Bowdoin  is 
received  with  regret  by  his  many  friends  here 
among  the  students  and  townspeople. 

Prof.  Fairchild  has  shown  that  he  is  cer- 
tainly fitted  for  his  new  position  by  his  work 
both  here  in  Bowdoin  and  also  before  coming 
here.  During  his  professorship  here,  he  has 
held  the  position  of  the  Fayerweather  Profes- 
sor of  Economics 'and  Sociology,  and  has  dis- 
played in  this  deparbnent  his  equal  ability  as  a 
lecturer  and  as  an  instructor.  He  is  a  gradu- 
ate of  Doane  College  in  1900,  where  he  was 
Secretary  of  State,  1903-1906,  and  a  recipient 
of  a  Ph.D.  degree  from  Yale,  where  he  spent 
three  years  of  post-graduate  work  before  com- 
ing to  Bowdoin. 

From  1900  to  1903  he  was  a  teacher  at  the 
International   College,   Smyrna,  Turkey. 

Prof.  Fairchild  has  won  scores  of  admirers 
and  friends  during  his  short  stay  here.  Of  a 
pleasing  personality  and  a  ready  disposition, 
he  has  made  friends  of  his  students  and  the 
townspeople. 


SIXTH  ANNUAL  DISTRICT  CONCLAVE  OF 
KAPPA  SIGMA 

More  than  seventy-five  enthusiastic  Kappa 
Sigmas  from  all  parts  of  New  England  cele- 
brated the  termination  of  the  two-day  session 
of  the  sixth  Annual  Conclave  of  District  I.  of 
that  fraternity  by  their  twelfth  Annual  Ban- 
quet held  at  the  Hotel  Lenox,  Boston,  on  the 
evening  of  Washington's  Birthday.  The  toast- 
master  was  Dr.  Lawrence  J.  Rhea,  a  graduate 
of  the  University  of  Texas  and  professor  in 
the  Harvard  Medical  School.  Responses  to 
toasts  were  given  by  Prof.  J.  L.  Hills  of  the 
University  of  Vermont,  Prof.  Richard  Woris- 
key  of  New  Flampshire  State  College,  P.  J. 
Wickser  of  the  Harvard  Law  School,  Jesse 
Waid,  captain  of  the  Harvard  'Varsity  Crew, 
and  Jessie  Carpenter  of  M.  A.  C. 

The  Conclave  began  Monday  evening  with  a 
smoker  given  at  the  Harvard  Chapter  House, 
at  which  considerable  local  talent  was  exhib- 
ited through  songs,  sleight-of-hand  perform- 
ances, jugglery,  feats  of  hypnotism  and  a  mel- 
odrama written  especially  for  the  occasion. 

Tuesday  morning  at  9.30  a  business  meet- 
ing was  held  at  Legion  of  Honor  Hall,  200 
Huntington  Avenue,  at  which  ninety  members 
were  present.     Albert  P.  Everts  of  Harvard, 


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delivered  the  address  of  welcome,  to  which 
Harold  B.  Ballard  of  Bowdoin,  responded. 
Prof.  Whoriskey  read  an  article  on  "The  Value 
of  the  Fraternity  to  the  College,"  which  was 
very  ethusiastically  received. 

At  five  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  a  model  ini- 
tiation was  given  by  the  Boston  Alumni 
Chapter. 

J.  E.  Hicks,  Bowdoin,  "95,  is  head  of  the 
First   District,   having   been   twice   re-elected. 

Alpha  Rho  of  Bowdoin  was  represented  by 
the  following  men:  Otis,  '10  (delegate),  Bal- 
lard, '10;  Brown,  '10;  Oxnard,  '11;  Skelton, 
'11;  Abbott,  '12;  Clarke,  '12. 


ATHLETIC  COUNCIL  MEETS 

A  meeting  of  the  athletic  council  was  held 
in  Dr.  Whittier's  office  at  4.30  p.m.  last  Tues- 
day. Football,  baseball  and  track  matters  were 
discussed  generally  but  no  important  measures 
were  passed. 

Nominations  were  made  for  manager  and 
assistant  manager  of  the  1910  football  team: 

For  Manager — Harrison  M.  Berry,  '11, 
Harold  S.  White,  '11. 

For  Assistant  Manager — Robert  P.  King, 
'12,  Maurice  H.  Grey,  '12.  Reginald  Foss, 
'12,  alternate. 

It  was  voted  to  make  an  exception  in 
awarding  class  numerals  in  the  case  of  class 
squads.  Under  the  present  ruling  no  man  is 
eligible  to  wear,  his  class  numerals  unless  he 
has  played  certain  parts  of  class  games,  has 
won  a  point  in  track  oti  his  class  team,  or  has 
been  a  member  of  a  winning  class  squad  or 
relay  team.  Henceforth  every  man  who  is 
elected  to  a  class  drill  squad  will  be  awarded 
his  numerals  whether  or  not  his  squad  wins 
the  drill. 


PSI  UPSILON  ENTERTAINS  CLASSICAL  CLUB 

The  Classical  Club  held  a  very  entertain- 
ing and  instructive  meeting  at  the  Psi  Upsilon 
House  last  Tuesday  evening,  at  which  the  topic 
of  discussion  was,  "Rome  in  Connection  with 
Latin  Literature."  Professor  Sills  opened  the 
meeting  with  a  very  interesting  resume  of  all 
Latin  literature  in  connection  with  Rome. 
There  followed  comment  on  (the  attitude 
toward  Rome  which  is  found  characteristic  of 
the  writings  of  many  important  Roman 
writers. 

Informal  reports  were  made  on  the  follow- 
Uiakim  ™&  topics :  Rome  in  Vergil's  Aeneid,  eighth 


book,  Skelton,  '11;  Rome  in  Cicero,  E.  Wil- 
son, '12;  Rome  in  Horace,  Purington,  '12; 
Rome  in  Juvenal,  Professor  Sills;  Rome  in 
Pliny,  Hawes,  '11;  Rome  in  Martial,  Profes- 
sor Nixon. 

The  next  meeting  will  be  held  with  Profes- 
sor Nixon  on  March  24th.  The  topic  will  be 
"Outlines  of  Roman  Topography." 

March  14th.  Professor  George  D.  Chase 
of  the  University  of  Maine  will  lecture  here 
on  the  topic,  "Thucydides  the  Father  of  His- 
tory." 


M.  L  A.  A.  ELECTS  OFFICERS 

The  Annual  Convention  of  the  Maine  In- 
tercollegiate Athletic  Association  was  held 
Saturday,  Feb.  26,  at  the  Elmwood,  Water- 
ville.  Me. 

The  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  Presi- 
dent Haskell.  Each  of  the  four  colleges  of 
Maine  was  represented  by  two  undergradu- 
ates. After  the  routine  business  was  con- 
cluded, the  matter  of  allowing  Blanchard  of 
Bates  a  medal  for  lowering  the  hurdle  record 
at  last  year's  meet  was  discussed  and  it  was 
voted  that  since  in  the  judgment  of  the  meet- 
ing his  time  had  not  been  made  under  the  con- 
ditions specified  in  the  hand  book  he  be  given 
no  medal. 

It  will  be  remembered  that  in  the  race  in 
question  Blanchard  knocked  down  every  hur- 
dle in  his  string,  apparently  jumping  straight 
into  them  instead  of  attempting  to  clear  the 
obstructions. 

In  order  that  no  further  dispute  of  this 
nature  might  arise  the  wording  of  the  N.  E.  I. 
A.  A.  in  this  matter  was  adopted :  "No  record 
shall  be  made  in  a  hurdle  race  unless  the  com- 
petitor leaves  every  hurdle  standing  after 
jumping  ,the  same." 

The  matter  of  the  adoption  by  the  Associa- 
tion of  the  so-called  A.  A.  U.  or  Greek  Discus 
was  then  brought  up  and  it  was  voted  that 
each  college  send  to  the  President  of  the  Asso- 
ciation its  vote  on  this  matter  within  two 
weeks.  The  sentiment  seemed  to  be  unani- 
mously in  favor  of  the  adoption  of  the  new 
discus,  which  was  this  year  adopted  by  the 
N.  E.  I.  A.  A.  and  is  now  in  general  use  thru 
the  country. 

After  election  of  the  following  officers  the 
meeting  was  adjourned : 

Walter  J.  Emerson,  Bowdoin,  President. 

M.  R.  Sumner,  Maine,  Vice-President. 

J.  Garfield  Bishop,  Bates,  Treasurer. 

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WM.  E.   ATWOOD,  igio  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  igii,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 

p.  B.  MORSS,  1910  J.  C.  WHITE.  1911 

THOMAS  OTIS,  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON,  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON,  1910      'W.  A.  McCORMICK,  1912 
^«f.  A.  FULLER,  1912 


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J.  L.  CURTIS,  igii 


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Vol.  XXXIX. 


MARCH   4,    1910 


Voices  Out  of 

the  Past 


Out  of  a  week  of  drizzle 
over  head  and  worse  than 
drizzle  under  foot,  like 
Portia's  good  deed  in  a  naughty  world,  shine 
two  events,  of  moment  to  Bowdoin  College. 
Gen.  Joshua  L.  Chamberlain  and  Mr.  William 
Winter,  each  with  the  dignity  of  age  upon 
him,  and  each  easily  first  in  his  walk  of  life, 
have  been  heard  at  the  college.  These  gentle- 
men in  a  sense,  come  to  us  out  of  the  past, 
for  they  represent  a  generation  which  is  real 
to  us  only  as  we  read  of  it  in  history  or  as  has 
been  our  experience  this  week,  we  see  its  living 
embodiment  before  us.  To  us  of  the  later 
generation  Gen.  Chamberlain  suggests  the  now 
historical  scenes  of  the  great  struggle  between 
North  and  South,  and  the  earlier  and  less 
prosperous  days  of  the  college.  Mr.  William 
Winter  seems  to  take  us  still  further  into  the 
dim  recesses  of  the  past  by  talking  of  personal 
acquaintance  with  Longfellow.     Gen.    Cham- 


berlain is  a  type  of  the  old-time  scholar,  states- 
man and  soldier;  Mr.  Winter  is  a  type  of  the 
mid-Victorian  man  of  letters,  thoroughly  out 
of  touch  with  modern  tendencies,  but  sincere 
in  his  belief  that  nothing  good  exists  in  liter- 
ature except  it  be  taken  out  of  the  past.  Both 
gentlemen  are  artists  for,  says  Stevenson, 
"The  best  artist  is  not  the  man  who  fixes  his 
eye  on  posterity,  but  the  one  who  loves  the 
practice  of  his  art." 


The  year  1910  sees  Bow- 
A  Sign  of  Prosperity  doin  College  give  away 
more  money  in  the  form  of 
scholarships  than  any  other  year  in  its  history. 
Last  week  the  college  gave  away  in  scholar- 
ships, exclusive  of  the  Charles  Carroll  Everett 
and  the  Longfellow  scholarships  of  $500  each, 
the  sum  of  $9815  which  is  $1372.39  more  than 
it  ever  gave  before.  The  growth  of  the  schol- 
arship fund  has  been  remarkable  during  the 
past  five  years,  and  especially  during  the  last 
two  years  in  which  $4,290  has  been  added  to 
the  total  amount  of  scholarships  given  away, 
or  in  other  words  the  college  now  gives  al- 
most twice  as  much  in  scholarships  as  it  did 
in  1907. 

The  amount  given  to  students  each  year 
during  the  past  five  years  is  recorded  below, 
showing  the  immense  growth  in  the  last  two 
years : 

1906  $5,332  50 

1907  5,360  00 

1908  5,525  00 

1909  8,443  61 

1910  9,815  00 


M.  I.  A.  A.  ELECTS  OFFICERS 

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Thomas  P.  Packard,  Colby,  Secretary. 

The  date  for  the  Meet  is  not  at  the  discre- 
tion of  the  meeting  but  is  fixed  by  the  Consti- 
tution for  the  Saturday  preceding  the  N.  E.  I. 
A.  A.  Meet.  It  will  be  held  this  year  at  Lew- 
iston on  May  14.  The  officials  will  be  practi- 
cally the  same  as  those  of  last  year. 


CALENDAR 

Friday,   March  4 
Musical  Clubs  play  at  Bath. 

Opening  of  Maine  Intercollegiate    Y.    M.    C.    A. 
Conference  at  Waterville. 

8.00    Reception  to  delegates  by  Colby  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
7.00     Senior  Squad  practice  in  gym. 


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8.00     Junior  Squad  practice  in  gym. 
g.oo    Sophomore    Squad    practice    in    gym. 
10.00     Fresliman  Squad  practice  in  gym. 

Saturday,   March  s 
Meetings   of   Maine  Intercollegiate   Y.   M.   C.   A. 
Conference   at    Waterville. 
2.30     Make-up  gym. 
9.00     Fencing   practice   in   gym. 

Sunday,  March  6 

Last  day  of  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Conference  at  Waterville. 

10.4s  Morning  service  in  the  Church  on  the  Hill, 
conducted  by  Rev.  J.  H.  Quint. 

5.00  Sunday  chapel  conducted  by  President 
Hyde.     Music  by  double  quartette. 

Monday,  March  7 

2.30     Track  Practice  in  gym. 

4.00    Freshman   Relay   Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

4.30  Sophomore  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor 
Track. 

Junior  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  gym. 

7.00     Senior  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

7.30  Meeting  of  the  Monday  Night  Club  at  the 
D.  U.  House. 

8.00    Junior  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

9.00     Sophomore   Squad  Practice  in  gym. 
10.00     Freshman  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

Tuesday,  March  8 
3.30     Make-up   gym. 

4.00    Freshman   Relay   Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 
4,30     Sophomore     Relay    Practice     on     Outdoor 
Track. 

Junior  Relay   Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 
7.00     Senior  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 
8.00     Bradbury  Prize  Debate  in  Memorial  Hall. 
8.00    Junior  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 
9.00     Sophomore   Squad   Practice  in  gym. 
10.00     Freshman  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

Wednesday,  March  9 

l.oo   Lenten  Service.  Rev.  L.  W.  Parsons,  leader. 

2.30    Track  Practice  in  gym. 

4.00    Freshman   Relay   Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

4.30  Sophomore  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor 
Track. 

Junior  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Trcak. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  gym. 

8.00     Senior   Squad   Practice  in  gym. 

9.00    Junior  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 
10.00     Sophomore  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 
11.00     Freshman  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

Thursday,  March  10 

2.30    Track  Practice  in  gym. 

4.00     Freshman   Relay   Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

4.30  Sophomore  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor 
Track. 

Junior  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 

5.15     Track  Practice  in  gym. 

7.00  Meeting  of  the  Student  Council  in  the 
Deutscher  Verein  Room. 

Address  by  Rev.  Chester  B.  Emerson,  '04,  of 
Saco,  Me.  Choosing  a  Life  Work,  Ministry.  In  Y. 
M.  C.  A.  Room. 

Senior  Squad  practice  in  gym. 

8.00    Junior  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 


9.00    Sophomore  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 
10.00     Freshman  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

Friday,  March   ii 
2.30     Track  Practice  in  gym. 
4.00    Freshman   Relay   Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 
4.30     Sophomore   Relay     Practice     on     Outdoor 
Track. 

Junior  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor  Track. 
5.15     Track  Practice  in  gym. 
7.00     Senior  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 
8.00     Musical  Clubs  play  at  Lewiston. 
Junior   Squad  Practice  in  gym. 
8.00     Informal  Dance  at  the  Delta  Upsilon  House. 
9.00     Sophomore   Squad  Practice   in  gym. 
10.00     Freshman  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

Saturday,  March  12 
2.30    Make-up  gym. 


I.  A.  A.  A.  A.  ELECTS  OFFICERS 

The  new  officers  chosen  at  the  Annual  Con- 
vention of  the  Intercollegiate  Association  of 
Amateur  Athletes  of  America,  held  at  the 
Waldorf  Astoria,  Saturday,  February  26,  are 
as  follows : 

President — Hugh  K.  Oilman  of  Princeton. 

Secretary — Southerland  G.  Taylor,  Jr.,  of 
New  York  University. 

Treasurer — Edward  H.  McKenzie  of  Co- 
lumbia. 

First  Vice-President — G.  B.  Burnett  of 
Amherst. 

Second  Vice-President — C.  B.  Boynton  of 
Michigan. 

Colgate,  Wesleyan,  Rutgers  and  Pennsyl- 
vania State  College  were  admitted  to  the  Asso- 
ciation and  Johns  Hopkins  was  dropped  from 
membership,  at  the  meeting. 

The  place  for  next  year's  meet  was  decided 
upon  as  Franklin  .Field,  Philadelphia,  and  the 
date  will  be  May  28. 

Bowdoin  was  represented  at  the  meeting 
by  J.  B.  Pendleton,  '90. 


Y.  M.  C.  A.  NOTES 

The  sixth  and  last  address  in  the  "Life  Work" 
series  will  be  given  next  Thursday  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
rooms.  The  speaker  will  be  Rev.  Chester  B.  Emer- 
son, '04,  and  his  subject  will  be  ''The  Ministry."  Mr. 
Emerson  is  a  graduate  of  the  college  in  the  class 
of  1904  and  of  Union  Theological  Seminary  in  1908. 
Since  then  he  has  occupied  a  pastorate  in  Saco,  Me. 

There  will  be  a  meeting  of  the  cabinet  at  the 
Kappa  Sigma  house  at  the  close  of  the  regular  meet- 
ing next  Thursday. 

The  Lenten  service  for  next  week  will  be  held  in 
the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  rooms  at  1.00  p.m.  Wednesday.  Rev. 
L.  F.  Parsons  will  be  the  leader 


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SUNDAY  CHAPEL 

Rev.  Mr.  Edwards  of  Brunswick,  con- 
ducted Sunday 'chapel,  showing  how  the  Bible, 
divided  as  it  is  into  an  account  of  a  scientific 
creation  and  a  theme  of  redemption,  is  to  be 
applied  to  our  life.  The  first  chapter  in  Gen- 
esis concludes  the  scientific  part  of  the  Bible, 
the  remainder  of  it  telling  the  story  of  saving 
lives  for  heaven.  The  choice  between  a  scien- 
tific absolute  search  for  knowledge,  and  the 
willing  sacrifices  for  humanity's  sake  is  shown 
in  Mark  8,  35 :  "Whosoever  will  save  his  life 
shall  lose  it;  but  whosoever  shall  lose  his  life 
for  my  sake  and  the  gospel's,  the  same  shall 
save  it,"  which  Mr.  Edwards  took  for  his  text. 

Science  demands  knowledge  and  seeks  to 
attain  to  greater  wisdom  and  learning,  and  is 
thereby  opposed  to  the  aid  of  the  other  fellow 
and  the  good  of  the  poor  and  humble.  Science 
or  wide  knowledge  endeavors  to  find  out  some- 
thing that  will  save  man  from  trouble  and  aid 
him  in  meeting  worldly  difficulties;  religion, 
however,  gives  its  efforts  to  saving  the  individ- 
ual from  misfortune  and  leading  him  to  a 
higher  and  more  exalted  life,  which  is  fol- 
lowed by  existence  in  eternity.  Therefore, 
the  student  should  set  the  alternatives  before 
himself  carefully  and  choose  wisely,  always 
remembering  the  above  admonition  of  the 
Lord  to  his  disciples  and  its  results. 


CLASS  SQUAD  LEADERS  ELECTED 

The  squad  leaders  and  class  pianists  for  the 
indoor  meet  were  elected  at  meetings  of  the  four 
classes  this  week.     The  following  men  were  elected : 

1910 — Squad  Leader,  P.  B.  Morss. 

Class    Pianist,   J.    L.    Crosby. 
191 1 — Squad  Leader,   H.    S.  White. 

Class  Pianist,  H.  K.  Hine. 
1912 — Squad  Leader,  Allan  Woodcock. 

Class  Pianist,  C.  F.  Adams. 
1913 — Squad  Leader,  F.  S.  Wiggin. 

Class  Pianist,  W.  F.  Twombly. 


RELATIVE  SIZE  AND  GROWTH  OF  SOME 
AMERICAN  COLLEGES 

Institution                          1909  1908  1904 

Amherst     526  528  412 

Bowdoin     419  420  363 

Brown    974  993  988 

Bryn   Mawr    412  393  441 

Dartmouth    1,197  1.233  926 

Haverford     IS7  160  146 

Lafayette    468  455  422 

Lehigh   667  662  609 


Massachusetts  Inst,  of  Tech 1,480  1,462  1,561 

Mount   Holyoke    752  748  674 

Oberlin    (college   only) 953  855  652 

Purdue    1,682  1,717  1,359 

Smith    1,609  I,S66  1,067 

Tufts    (college    only) 428  434  375 

University   of   Maine , 850  884  563 

Vassar   1,039  1.014  979 

Wellesley   1,319  1.282  1,050 

Wesleyan    343  322  305 

Williams    528  487  443 


ColleGC  Botes 

Brummett,  '11,  has   returned  to   college. 

Wyman,  '12,  returned  to  college,  Tuesday. 

Timberlake,    '12,    is    sick    with   the    mumps. 

Weeks,  '12,  has  taken  up  the  candy  business. 

Frank  Mikelsky  was  on  the  campus,   Sunday. 

Bickmore,  '11,  has  been  ill  at  his  home  this  .week. 

Adjourns  were  given  in  Physics  II.,  Wednesday. 

Practice  in  the  squad  drills  commenced  Tuesday. 

Prof.  Johnson  gave  an  adjourn  in  French  4, 
Monday. 

Prof.  Brown  gave  an  adojurn  in  French  2, 
Wednesday. 

Colby  and  Bates  hold  their  dual  meet  May  4  in 
Waterville. 

President  Hyde  gave  adjourns  in  Ethics, 
Wednesday. 

Maloney,  '10,  is  to  coach  the  Wilton  Academy  de- 
bating team. 

Adjourns  were  given  in  Zoology  II.  Monday  and 
Wednesday. 

The  distance  men  of  the  track  team  have  com- 
menced practice. 

The  gasolene  tank  near  the  Science  Building  was 
filled  last  week. 

Bailey,  '10.  and  Eastman,  '10,  were  in  Hanover, 
N.  H.,  last  week. 

"Bill"  Carriagn  is  giving  the  baseball  team  prac- 
tice Saturdays  in  the  cage. 

The  first  debate   in  English  7  was  held  Tuesday 
evening  in  Hubbard  Hall. 

Edwards,  '13,  is  the  son  of  Rev.  Mr.  Edwards, 
who  spoke  in  chapel,  Sunday. 

The  meeting  was  held  Monday  night  in  town  for 
organizing  a  local   Y.   M.   C.   A. 

Earl  Coyle,  '08,  returned  from  the  Pacific  coast 
Tuesday,  and  is  visiting  on  the  Campus. 

The  track  squads  from  the  classes  reported  for 
relay  work  Monday  on  the  board  track. 

Mincher,  'o7i  sub-master  in  Cony  High  School, 
Augusta,  was  on  the  camnus  over  Sunday. 

In  English  IV.  Tuesday,  Mr.  Winter's  lecture 
was  discussed  by  the  members  of  the  class. 

Roland  Waite,  ex-'ii,  of  Gardiner,  and  Chapin, 
ex-'ii   of  Saco,  visited  the  college    last  week. 

Charles  L.  Stevens,  '09,  attended  the  lecture  Mon- 
day evening,  and  spent  Tuesday  on  the  campus. 


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It  is  expected  that  the  college  will  receive  a  por- 
trait of  Gen.  Howard  to  be  placed  in  Memorial  Hall. 

The  Y.  M.  C.  A.  cabinet  pictures  which  were 
to  be  taken  Monday,  were  postponed,  on  account  of 
the  fog. 

Kendrie,  'lo,  played  in  Augusta,  Wednesday,  and 
in  Portland  before  the  Rossini  Club,  Thursday 
morning. 

Sumner  Edwards,  'lo,  has  been  attending  the  an- 
nual convention  of  Theta  Delta  Chi  in  Chicago  as 
a  delegate. 

The  attendance  at  the  talk  by  Gen.  Chamberlain 
was  so  large  Thursday  evening  that  the  meeting  was 
held  in  the  chapel. 

A  large  number  of  students  saw  Maude  Adams 
in  "What  Every  Woman  Knows"  in  Lewiston  and 
Portland  this  week. 

The  extra-heavy  weights,  Horseman  and  Rob- 
erts, are  taking  a  few  laps  around  the  board  track 
each  evening  in  the  hope  of  reducing  their  weight. 

The  other  institutions  concerned  in  the  plan  are 
Boston  University,  Technology,  Simmons  College, 
Tufts.  Wellesley,  Boston  College  and  the  Boston 
Museum  of  Fine  Arts. 

The  Beta  Sigma  Chapter  of  Beta  Theta  Pi  was 
represented  at  the  New  England  Convention  in  Bos- 
ton to-day  by  Evans,  Hobbs,  Kendrie,  Robinson, 
Webster,  and  Weston,  1910;  Davis,  '11;  and 
Foote,  '12. 

A  club  consisting  of  several  men  not  belonging  to 
any  Greek  letter  fraternity  has  been  formed  and  has 
secured  rooms  in  one  of  the  new  Merrill  houses  on 
Harpswell  street  as  its  headquarters.  Among  its 
members  are:  Locke,  '12,  Hagar,  '13,  Knowles,  '12, 
Russell,  '12,  Carney,  '12,  and  Henry,  '12. 

Harvard  University  will  unite  with  seven  other 
of  the  great  educational  institutions  near  Boston  to 
offer  to  young  men  and  women  of  the  city  who  have 
not  the  opportunity  to  go  to  college  a  university 
education.  The  decision  was  reached  by  the  board 
of  overseers  of  the  university  at  their  last  meeting, 
and  a  new  department  was  created  for  the  purpose, 
the  Department  of  University  Extension,  of  which 
Professor  J.  H.  Ropes  has  been  appointed  dean. 

The  Glee  and  Mandolin  Clubs  returned  from  the 
Maine  trip,  Saturday  night.  During  its  trip,  the 
Club  gave  an  excellent  program,  and  was  rewarded 
with  large,  appreciative  audiences.  All  reported  a 
most  enjoyable  time  and  successful  entertainments. 
A  feature  of  the  concerts  were  the  selections  given 
by  the  sextette  composed  of  Pierce,  '11,  first  man- 
dolin; Roberts,  '11,  second  mandolin;  Wetherill,  '11, 
mandola;  Weeks,  '10,  banjo;  Churchill,  '12,  guitar, 
and  P.  P.  Cole,  '12,  mandocello. 

"The  discussion  about  Commander  Robert  E. 
Peary  still  continues  at  Washington.  From  all 
press  reports  it  appears  that  certain  naval  authori- 
ties are  trying  to  balk  the  bill  to  make  Peary  a  Rear 
Admiral.  This  bickering  over  his  reward  does  not 
have  its  foundation  in  popular  opinion.  Its  source 
seems  to  be  the  jealousy  of  certain  members  of  the 
navy.  It  has  been  the  fate  of  the  world's  greatest 
discoverers  to  be  sufficiently  honored  only  after 
death.     Newton,    Galileo,    Darwin,    et    al — none    of 


these  men  received  the  praise  that  was  their  due  un- 
til long  years  had  passed  after  their  achievements. 
It  is  hoped  that  popular  opinion — arising  from  all 
the  nations  of  the  earth,  which  give  full  credit  to 
this  great  accomplishment — ^will  induce  Congress 
to  lay  aside  for  the  moment  prejudice  and  bestow 
the  rank  of  Rear  Admiral  upon  Commander  Robert 
E.  Peary,  U.  S.  N.,  a  man  well  worthy  of  the 
honor."— M.   /.   T.   "Tech." 


AN  OPEN  LETTER 

Last  fall,  President  Hyde  received  the  following 
letter,  which  explains  itself. 

Rio  PiEDRAS,  Porto  Rico,  Oct.  16,  1909. 
To  the  President,  Bowdoin  College: 

Dear  Sir — The  Hawthorne  School  in  this  town 
is  anxious  to  know  the  colors  of  your  college,  to 
adopt  them  as  the  colors  of  the  school.  This  is  my 
first  year  as  a  teacher  here  and  they  tell  me  that  a 
letter  similar  to  this  one  was  written  some  time  ago, 
but  all  have  forgotten,  I  am  anxious  to  acquaint  the 
older  grades  with  as  much  of  Hawthorne's  life  as 
possible.  If  you  have  anything  of  especial  interest 
to  send,  together  with  an  inexpensive  flag  of  Bow- 
doin, I  shall  be  glad  to  defray  the  expense  incurred 
in  so  doing,  if  you  will  be  kind  enough  to  tell  me 
of  it. 

The  young  people  of  the  school  are  most  worthy. 
They  are  bright  and  interesting  and  it  is  a  pleasure 
to  work  for  them.     They  will  be  appreciative,  too. 

Thanking  you  in  advance  for  any  effort  you  may 
put  forth  in  their  behalf,  believe  me. 

Most  sincerely, 
(Signed),  (Miss)  Lucia  Hubbard  Cilley. 

In  reply  to  this  letter  President  Hyde  wrote  Miss 
Cilley,  sending  her  pamphlets  on  the  life  of  Haw- 
thorne and  also  a  Bowdoin  Banner.  Recently,  he 
has  received  the  following  communication  in  appre- 
ciation of  his  kindness. 

Hawthorne  School,  Rio  Piedras,  P.  R. 

Wm.   DeWitt  Hyde,     President    Bowdoin    College, 
Brunswick,  Maine: 

Dear  Dr.  Hyde — We,  the  members  of  the  sixth 
and  seventh  grades  in  the  above  school,  wish  to  ex- 
press our  thanks  to  you  for  your  interest  in  us  and 
in  our  school.  We  thank  you  most  heartily  for  the 
beautiful  little  banner  and  for  the  pamphlets  relating 
to  Hawthorne.  We  hope  to  have  the  banner  framed 
and  hung  near  our  new  picture  of  Hawthorne.  We 
expect  to  have  some  appropriate  exercises  when  we 
give  the  picture  to  the  school.  We  shall  send  you  an 
invitation  and  program  when  the  date  has  been  set. 

Most  sincerely  yours, 
Signed  by  twenty-five  pupils  of  the  school. 


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Hlumni  Bepattment 

'52. — Gen.  Joshua  L.  Chamberlain  of  Bruns- 
wick has  just  received  from  the  War  Depart- 
ment the  original  letter  sent  hy  Gen.  Grant  to 
Secretary  Stanton,  June  20,  1864,  confirming 
his  telegram  of  two  days  before  when  he  pro- 
moted Col.  Chamberlain  to  be  brigadier  gen- 
eral, and  asking  the  secretary  of  war  to  have 
President  Lincoln  send  his  name  to  the  Senate 
at  once  for  confirmation.  The  promotion  was 
made  on  the  field  after  Gen.  Chamberlain  had 
led  a  desperate  charge  against  the  Confederate 
lines,  and  received  what  was  then  supposed  to 
have  been  a  mortal  wound.-  Gen.  Chamber- 
lain was  given  *up  and  the  report  of  his  death 
appeared  in  all  the  Northern  papers.  Presi- 
dent Lincoln  acted  at  once  on  the  suggestion 
made  by  Gen.  Grant  by  sending  the  name  of 
Gen.  Chamberlain  to  the  Senate  and  March 
29,  1865,  he  was  given  the  brevet  of  major 
general  "for  conspicuous  gallantry"  at  the 
opening  fight  on  the  Quaker  road. 

'61. — Capt.  Augustus  N.  Lufkin  died  at 
Charleston,  Maine,  14  January,  1910.  He  was 
the  eldest  of  the  six  children  of  Nathaniel  and 
Jane  (Merrill)  Lufkin  and  was  born  2  June, 
1837,  at  Orrington,  Maine.  He  was  prepared 
for  college  at  Hampden  Academy  under  the 
tuition  of  Thomas  Tash  (Bowdoin,  1842). 
After  graduation,  he  taught  school  for  a  few 
months  and  then  entered  the  Second  Maine 
Regiment  as  a  private  and  served  till  the  close 
of  the  war.  He  was  transferred  to  the  Twen- 
tieth Maine  and  June  20,  1864,  was  commis- 
sioned captain  in  the  Forty-fifth  Regiment  of 
U.  S.  Colored  Troops.  On  leaving  the  army 
he  was  for  six  years  station  agent  on  the  Kan- 
sas Pacific  Railway.  Returning  to  Maine  to 
care  for  his  parents  he  was  engaged  in  teach- 
ing and  in  farming  at  Orrington  during  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  He  served  his  town  as 
selectman,  supervisor  of  schools  and  represen- 
tative to  the  state  legislature.  Of  him  a  class- 
mate writes: "Possessed  of  qualities  that  would 
have  distinguished  him  in  professional  life,  he 
gave  himself  unreservedly  to  the  home  duties 
that  lay  before  him." 

'61. — Rev.  Albert  DeForest  Palmer  died 
at  Plaistow,  N.  H.,  27  Jan.  1910.  Mr.  Palmer 
was  the  eldest  son  of  Dr.  Isaac  Palmer  (Bow- 
doin, 1833)  and  Sarah  (Blossom)  Palmer, 
and  was  born  12  March,  1839,  at  North  An- 


son, Me.  He  was  prepared  for  college  at 
Anson  Academy.  After  graduating  with  hon- 
ors, he  studied  at  Newton  Theological  Insti- 
tute. In  1865  he  was  ordained  to  the  minis- 
try of  the  Baptist  Church  at  Dover,  Me.  His 
subsequent  pastorates  were  at  West  Water- 
ville,  Maine,  at  Tewksbury,  Mass.,  at  Chico- 
pee,  Mass.,  at  North  Berwick,  Me.,  at  Middle- 
bury,  Vt.,  and  at  Plaistow,  N.H.,  where  he  re- 
tired from  pastoral  work  in  1896.  In  several 
of  these  towns  he  served  upon  the  school  com- 
mittee and  in  all  of  them  he  left  the  reputation 
of  a  devoted  and  earnest  clergyman,  a  trusty 
and  helpful  friend. 

'64. — Rev.  Dr.  George  Lewis  died  after  a 
long  illness  at  his  home  in  South  Berwick,  16 
Feb.  1910.  He  was  born  21  Jan.  1839,  in 
Bridgton,  Maine,  the  son  of  Lothrop  and  Mary 
(Jones)  Lewis.  He  received  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools,  was  prepared  for  col- 
lege at  Bridgton  Academy,  and  entered  the 
Class  of  1864.  Ill  health  prevented  him  from 
continuing  the  college  course  but  on  the  thir- 
tieth anniversary  of  the  graduation  of  his 
class,  he  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Divinity  from  Bowdoin.  He  studied  theology 
at  Bangor  Seminary  and  was  ordained  as  pas- 
tor of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Bedford, 
Mass.,  13  Dec.  1865.  After  two  years  his 
health  forced  him  to  resign  and  spend  a  winter 
in  the  South.  Then  followed  brief  pastorates 
at  Alfred,  Maine,  and  Jersey  City,  N.  J.  In 
January  of  1874  he  was  installed  over  the 
church  in  South  Berwick,  Maine.  His  pastor- 
ate of  thirty-six  years  here  was  one  of  un- 
broken and  unmarred  success.  He  was  liberal 
and  broad-minded  in  his  views  and  expressed 
them  without  fear  or  favor,  but  in  a  manner 
which  did  not  arouse  antagonism  in  those  with 
whom  he  differed.  Rev.  Dr.  Lewis  married 
28  Nov.  1865,  Katharine  B.  L.,  daughter  of 
Col.  Hugh  D.  and  Elizabeth  P.  McLellan,  who 
survives  him  with  their  three  sons,  Hugh 
McL.  Lewis  (B.  C.  E.  Univ.  of  Maine,  1893) 
of  Brunswick,  Philip  P.  Lewis  (M.D.,  Bow- 
doin, 1898)  of  Gorham,  and  George  L.  Lewis 
(Bowdoin,  1901)   of  Westfield,  Mass. 

'01. — The  engagement  of  Mr.  Ben  Barker 
to  Miss  Lillian  B.,  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Charles  Frederic  Morse  of  Portland,  was  re- 
cently announced. 

'07. — Leon  D.  Mincher  has  resigned  his 
position  with  the  International  Banking  Cor- 
poration and  become  instructor  in  Science  in 
the  Cony  High  School  at  Augusta. 


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VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  MARCH   ii,  1910 


NO.  29 


TAKE  NOTICE! 

Indoor  Meet  Ticket  Sale ! 

The  tickets  for  the  Indoor  Meet  of  March 
iS,  will  go  on  sale  at  Chandler's  at  7  p.m.  on 
Tuesday,  March  15.  There  will  be  no  "place 
number"  system  and  each  man  may  buy  ten 

TICKETS. 


BRADBURY   PRIZE  DEBATE 

The  Bradbury  Prize  Debate  was  held  in 
Memorial  Hall  Tuesday  evening  at  8.15.  The 
question  for  debate  was :  "Resolved,  That  the 
United  States  should  establish  a  central  bank 
similar  to  the  Imperial  Bank  of  Germany." 
The  speakers  were  as  follows  and  argued  in 
the  order  given.  For  the  affirmative:  Ernest 
G.  Fifield,  '11 ;  Henry  O.  Hawes,  '10;  Charles 
F.  Adams,  '12.  For  the  negative:  Burleigh  C. 
Rodick,  '12;  Earl  F.  Maloney,  '12;  W.  Folsom 
Merrill,  '11.  Alternates,  affirmative,  William 
H.  Callahan,  '11 ;  negative,  John  L.  Curtis,  '11. 
Rebuttal :  Afifirmatve,  Fifield,  Hawes,  Adams. 
Negative,  Rodick,  Maloney,  Merrill.  Professor 
Henry  L.  Chapman  presided  and  the  judges 
were  as  follows :  President  Hyde,  Professor 
Mi'tchell,  Professor  Flastings,  Professor  Fair- 
child  and  Professor  Snow. 

Fifield,  speaking  first  for  the  affirmative, 
outlined  the  question  and  pointed  out  the  evils 
of  our  present  banking  system,  arguing  that 
these  evils  are  due  to  disorganization.  Rodick, 
first  speaker  on  the  negative,  admitted  the  evils 
pointed  out  by  Fifield,  but  argued  that  the 
establishment  of  a  central  bank  like  that  of 
Germany,  would  be  economically  and  politi- 
cally impracticable  owing  to  the  difference  in 
conditions  in  Germany  and  the  United  States. 
Hawes  continued  the  argument  of  the  affirma- 
tive by  showing  that  the  establishment  of  the 
advised  bank  would  prevent  financial  crises 
and  protect  our  reserve.  Maloney  for  the  neg- 
ative, continued  the  argument  that  German 
banking  systems  will  not  meet  the  conditions 
peculiar  to  this  country.  Adams,  the  last 
speaker  for  the  affinmative,  showed  that  the 
adoption  of  the  prescribed  bank  was  'the  easiest 
and  most  advisable  way  of  meeting  the  condi- 
tion now  existing.     Merrill,  the  last  speaker  in 


direct  argument,  offered  a  plan  of  government 
issue  of  emereency  currency  as  a  substitute  for 
the  central  -bank. 

The  decision  was  unanimously  in  favor  of 
the  affirmative. 

The  following  team  was  selected  to  meet 
Wesleyan  in  the  annual  debate  here  at  Bow- 
doin  in  April :  Adams,  Hawes,  Merrill.  Alter- 
nate, Fifield. 


SECOND  MAINE  INTERCOLLEGIATE  Y.  M.  C.  A. 
CONFERENCE  AT  WATERVILLE 

Bowdoin  Well  Represenled 

The  Second  Maine  Intercollegiate  Y.  M. 
C.  x^V.  Conference  was  held  in  Waterville  last 
Friday,  Saturday,  and  Sunday.  It  was  at- 
tended by  a  large  number  of  delegates  from 
the  four  Maine  colleges  and  several  of  the 
larger  preparatory  schools.  The  delegates 
were  most  hospitably  entertained  by  the  va- 
rious fraternities  and  by  the  townspeople  who 
took  a  keen  interest  in  the  proceedings  as  was 
voiced  by  their  large  attendance  at  the  public 
meetings.  Some  of  the  problems  presented  by 
the  several  speakers  were  discussed  by  the 
various  papers  of  the  city. 

The  whole  keynote  of  the  conference  was 
the  aim  to  make  college  y.  m.  c.  a.  work  as 
pr.\ctical  as  possible. 

Some  of  the  problems  considered  were 
"What  can  the  college  Y.  M.  C.  A.  do 
towards : 

1.  Abolishing  'Cribbing' 

2.  Making  clean  athletics 

3.  Discouraging  harmful  college  customs, 
hazing,  etc." 

The  program  as  printed  in  the  Orient  for 
Feb.  25,  was  carried  out  most  successfully. 
The  speakers  were  all  strong  men.  The  prob- 
lems presented  were  most  interesting  and  the 
many  delegates  came  away  feeling  that  they 
had  derived  much  benefit. 

The  date  for  the  next  conference  was  set 
for  Feb.  17,  18,  19,  191 1,  and  will  be  held  in 
Lewiston,  Me.,  with  Bates  College  as  host.  It 
is  expected  that  two  hundred  college  and  prep, 
school  men  will  be  present. 


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The  Bowdoin  delegates  were : 
A.  F.  Stone,  'lo;  P.  B.  Morss,  "lo;  H.  W. 
Slocum,  "lo;  C.  L.  Deming,  'lo;  Lawrence 
McFarland,  'lo;  C.  L.  Oxnard,  'ii;  W.  T. 
Skillin,  "ii;  E.  G.  Fifield,  'ii;  R.  P.  Hine, 
"ii;  J.  B.  Allen,  '12;  W.  A.  McCormick,  P. 
W.  Mathews,  '12;  Kenneth  Churchill,  '12;  H. 
L.  Bryant,  '12;  F.  A.  Smith,  '12;  C.  O.  War- 
ren, '12;  P.  H.  Douglas,  '13;  C.  R.  Crowell, 
'13;  W.  S.  Greene,  '13,  and  James  L.  McCon- 
aghy.  General  Secretary. 


JOHN  KENDRICK    BANGS  LECTURES  ON   "SALU= 
BRITIES  I  HAVE  MET" 

John  Kendrick  Bangs,  one  of  the  foremost 
authors  and  humorists  of  the  present  time, 
lectured  in  Memorial  Hall,  Thursday  evening, 
on,  "Salubrities  I  Have  Met,"  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  Saturday  Club.  Mr.  Bangs'  com- 
bined humor  and  pathos  in  his  talk  in  a  most 
successful  and  emphatic  manner.  Anecdotes 
dealing  with  the  personal  experiences,  Mr. 
Bangs  has  had  with  the  "Salubrities"  he  has 
met  were  told  in  a  very  vivid  and  realistic  way. 
Mr.  Bangs  has  met  such  "Salubrities"  as  Rich- 
ard Harding  Davis,  George  Ade,  Lady  Stan- 
ley, Dr.  Watson,  Conan  Doyle,  and  Theodore 
Roosevelt,  who,  Mr.  Bangs  said,  is  the  great- 
est salubrity  we  now  have.  All  of  these 
"Salubrities"  are  of  the  highest  type  and 
sketches  of  them  in  their  most  interesting 
moods  were  drawn.  In  describing  Mr.  Roose- 
velt, Mr.  Bangs  read  a  story  he  once  contrib- 
uted to  a  New  York  paper  concerning  a  day 
with  our  President  at  his  home  at  Oyster  Bay. 
In  this  story,  Mr.  Bangs  displayed  his  humor 
and  vividness  in  a  marked  degree.  At  no 
time  did  Mr.  Bangs  fail  to  have  the  complete 
attention  of  his  audience.  His  vigor  and 
excellence  of  description  were  completely  fas- 
cinating. After  his  lecture,  Mr.  Bangs  was 
given  a  reception  by  the  Psi  Upsilon  fraternity 
of  which  he  is  a  member,  at  the  Psi  Upsilon 
House.  The  members  of  the  Saturday  Club 
were  invited  to  the  reception. 


HARRISON    M.   BERRY,    10,    ELECTED   FOOTBALL 
MANAGER  FOR  1910 

Bowdoin's  football  team  for  1910  will  be 
managed  by  Harrison  M.  Berry,  '11,  of  Gar- 
diner, Maine,  who  was  unanimously  elected  at 
the  mass-meeting  held  in  Memorial  Hall  last 
Friday  evening. 


Berry  has  served  in  the  capacity  of  assist- 
ant manager  during  the  past  season  and  has 
proven  himself .  to  be  an  energetic  and  con- 
scientious worker,  and  the  college  feels 
assured  that  its  football  interests  will  be  well 
managed  during  the  coming  season. 

The  contest  for  assistant  managership  was 
closely  contested  between  R.  P.  King,  '12,  of 
Ellsworth,  Me.,  and  M.  H.  Grey,  '12,  of  Old- 
town,  Me.,  the  former  winning  by  two  votes. 

The  question  of  admitting  out  of  state  pre- 
paratory schools  to  the  Bowdoin  Interscholas- 
tic  Meet  was  referred  to  the  student  body, 
which  showed  its  sentiment  by  a  vote  of  icy 

to   17  in  FAVOR  OF  ADMITTING  SUCH  SCHOOLS. 


SIXTY=SECOND  NATIONAL  CONVENTION  OF 
THETA  DELTA  CHI 

The  sixty-second  Annual  Convention  of 
Theta  Delta  Chi  was  held  in  Chicago  from 
February  19  to  22,  at  the  Congress  Hotel  and 
Annex.  The  following  program  was  ar- 
ranged for  the  300  members  of  the  fraternity 
present : 

Saturday,  February  19 

Business  sessions,  Charge  dinners  at  Uni- 
versity Club,  and  a  reception  to  the  Grand 
Lodge  under  the  auspices  of  the  Central  Grad- 
uate Association  and  nearby  Charges. 

Sunday 
Memorial  Service   at    Grace    Church,    the 
Rev.  W.  O.  Walters  officiating. 

Monday 
Business  sessions ;  Theater    Party    at    the 
"Globe,"  Norman  Hackett,  Gamma  Deuteron, 
'98,  in  "Classmates." 

Tuesday 
Business  sessions  and  Convention  Banquet. 
Eta  Charge  of  Bowdoin  was   represented  by 
P.  F.  Marston,  '88 ;  Clarence  Rogers,  '06 ;  and 
Sumner  Edwards,  '10  (delegate). 


THETA  DELTA  CHI  INITIATION 

Theta  Delta  Chi  held  an  initiation  at  the 
fraternity  house  last  Saturday  evening.  The 
following  men  were  admitted  to  membership : 
Stanley  Fuller  Dole,  '13,  of  Portland;  Earle 
Blanchard  Tuttle  of  Freeport,  '13,  and  John 
Albert  Slocum,  special,  of  Albany,  N.  Y. 


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BETA  THETA  PI  DISTRICT  CONVENTION 

The  twenty-ninth  Annual  Convention  of 
District  I.  of  Beta  Theta  Pi  was  held  last  Fri- 
day at  the  American  House,  Boston,  with  150 
in  attendance.  The  business  meeting  of  del- 
egates from  Amherst,  Boston,  Bowdoin, 
Brown,  Dartmouth,  and  Maine  began  at  2.00 
P.M.;  the  annual  banquet  was  enjoyed  at  7.30. 
During  the  course  of  the  evening  a  pleasing 
violin  solo  was  rendered  by  F.  E.  Kendrie. 
The  following  Bowdoin  members  were  pres- 
ent :  White,  '03 ;  Damren,  '05 ;  Copeland,  '06 ; 
Evans,  Hobbs,  Kendrie,  Robinson,  Webster, 
and  Weston,  '10;  Davis,  '11;  and  Foote,  '12. 


SUNDAY  CHAPEL 

Dr.  C.  F.  Gates,  president  of  Roberts  Col- 
lege of  Constantinople,  Turkey,  was  the 
speaker  at  chapel  exercises  last  Sunday.  Dr. 
Gates  has  been  one  of  the  foremost  educa- 
tional workers  in  Turkey  and,  as  president  of 
a  college  founded  by  a  Bowdoin  man,  has  pro- 
duced wonderful  results. 

Dr.  Gates'  talk  was  on  the  changes  which 
have  taken  place  in  Turkey  since  the  coming 
to  power  of  the  Young  Turk  party.  He  said 
that  three  countries,  Russia,  Persia  and  Tur- 
key, which  for  centuries  have  been  hot-beds  of 
despotism,  are  now  beginning  to  strike  for 
freedom.  The  results  in  the  latter  nation  are  to 
a  certain  extent  rather  distasteful  to  the  tour- 
ist. The  country  which  was  once  delightfully 
oriental,  has  become  very  -much  up-to-date. 
Political  parties  post  bills  and  write  advertise- 
ments in  the  newspapers  concerning  their  sev- 
eral platforms,  and  tliere  is  an  air  of  hustle 
and  excitement  very  foreign  to  the  Turkey  of 
twenty-five  years  ago. 

Then  there  are  moral  changes  even  more 
radical.  Formerly,  the  government  was  the 
government  of  the  spy.  Now,  only  a  passport 
is  necessary  to  give  one  the  freedom  of  the 
city.  The  legislators,  who  up  to  this  time 
have  been  existing  in  a  torpor,  have  shaken 
off  their  lethargy  and  are  begining  to  discuss 
affairs  as  live  men  should.  The  enthusiasm  is 
furthered  to  a  great  extent  by  the  return  of 
the  exiles,  the  men  of  brain  and  intelligence 
who  were  dangerous  to  the  despotic  govern- 
ment. They  are  bringing  with  them  new  and 
valuable  ideas  and  their  influence  thrills  the 
people.  They  bring  a  spirit  of  kindness  and 
brotherhood  and  are  active  instigators  of  free- 
dom in  religion.     They  are  alive  to  the  fact 


that  Turkey  has  been  non-progressive  and  are 
doing  their  best  to  make  amends. 

The  young  Turks  are  advocating  liberty, 
equality,  fraternity,  and  justice  to  all,  as  their 
motto.  The  new  Sultan  has  sent  out  an  edict 
that  the  rights  of  Christians  shall  be  recog- 
nized. They  realize  that  the  Christians  are 
the  enlightened  people  of  the  world  yet  they 
still  adhere  to  their  own  religion,  the  founda- 
tion of  which  is :  "There  is  no  God  but  God — 
and  Mohammed  is  the  Apostle  of  God." 
These  potent  forces  are  working  a  great  efifect. 
The  only  question  is,  can  the  new  regime 
endure  ?  Is  this  people,  for  so  many  years  op- 
pressed, able  to  govern  itself?  One  thing  is 
certain,  they  are  in  earnest  and  therefore  we 
should  respect  them. 

Education  in  Turky  has  become  very  in- 
teresting. In  direct  contrast  to  the  hostile  at- 
titude of  the  old  regime,  teachers  are  wel- 
comed with  open  arms.  The  great  trouble 
comes  from  the  dearth  of  men.  Christ  has 
said :  "If  I  be  lifted  up,  I  will  draw  all  men 
unto  me."  It  is  our  mission  to  spread  Christ- 
ian ideas  wider  and  to  drive  them  deeper  into 
the  hearts  of  men. 


MONDAY  NIGHT  CLUB  MEETS  AT  THE  DELTA 
UPSILON  HOUSE 

Monday  evening,  the  Monday  Night  Club  met  at 
the  Delta  Upsilon  House  as  guests  of  Wandtke,  '10. 
About  fifteen  members  were  present.  After  the 
transaction  of  the  business  coming  before  the  meet- 
ing, refreshments  of  hot  coffee,  sandwiches,  apples, 
cigars  and  cigarettes  were  served  and  a  pleasant 
hour  was  spent  singing  and  discussing  college  poli- 
cies in  general. 

Harrison  Berry,  recently  elected  football  man- 
ager, was  initiated  into  the  club. 

A  committee  was  appointed  to  determine  the  ad- 
visability of  adopting  a  system  in  use  in  the  football 
department  at  West  Point.  Information  regarding 
this  system  was  sent  on  by  Philoon,  '05.  It  pro- 
vides for  an  annual  record  of  defense  and  attack, 
physical  condition,  weight,  etc.,  of  both  the  home 
team  and  their  opponents.  This  system,  perfected 
at  West  Point,  where  it  had  its  birth,  is  also  used 
at  Yale  and  Williams. 

Mr.  Caharl,  reporting  for  the  ways  and  means 
committee,  advised  the  club  that  he  has  secured  one 
large  subscription  and  the  promise  of  a  smaller  one 
which  will  enable  the  club  to  send  representatives 
away  to  the  preparatory  schools  to  talk  up  Bowdoin 
to  sub-Freshmen. 

It  was  decided  that  Saturday  morning  after  the 
Meet,  the  sub-Freshmen  entertained  by  the  club 
should  be  taken  to  visit  each  fraternity  house  to  give 
them  a  better  idea  of  college  life  here. 

The  next  meeting  will  be  held  with  Otis,  '10,  at 
the  Kappa  Sigma  House  on  the  first  Monday  in 
April. 


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THE  BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


BOWDOIN    COLLEGE 


EDITORIAL    BOARD 


WM.  E.   ATWOOD,   igio  Editor-in-Chief 

LAWRENCE  McFARLAND,  igii,  Managing  Editor 

Associate  Editors 

p.  B.  MORSS.  1910  J.  C.  WHITE.  1911 

THOMAS  OTIS,  1910  E.  W.  SKELTON,  1911 

W.  E.  ROBINSON,  1910      W.  A.  McCORMICK,   1912 
W.  A.  FULLER,  1912 


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J.  L.  CURTIS,  igii 


Business  Manager 
Asst.   Business  Manager 


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mous  manuscript  can   be  accepted. 

All  communications  regarding  subscriptions  should 
be  addressed  to  the   Business   Manager. 

Subscriptions,  $2.00  per  year,  in  advance.  Single 
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Vol.  XXXIX.  MARCH    I  I,    1910  No.  29 


Mr.       William      Winter's 

A  Course  in  American  lecture  on  Longfellow  and 

Literature  American   Letters   calls   to 

mind  the  fact  that  Bow- 
doin  College,  the  Alma  Mater  of  Longfellow 
and  the  home  of  Hawthorne's  student  days, 
offers  no  course  in  American  Literature.  Pos- 
sibly we  who  spend  our  college  days  upon  the 
same  campus  that  has  been  honored  by  the 
presence  of  the  most  beloved  American  poet 
and  the  greatest  American  novelist,  know  and 
hear  so  much  about  these  famous  men  that  we 
have  no  need  of  a  course  in  American  Litera- 
tui-e,  or  it  may  be  that  America  in  its  compar- 
atively short  life,  has  not  produced  a  great  lit- 
erature.To  the  first  proposition  the  majority  of 
Bowdoin  College  students  would  reply  that 
they  already  know  much  of  American  litera- 
ture, but  wish  to  be  guided  thru  the  field  by 
the  experienced  hand  of  a  college  instructor, 
and  the  second  proposition  every  intelligent 
American  would  deny. 


L'pon  looking  over  the  available  ground,  it 
seems  to  us  that  English  4  could  most  profit- 
ably be  turned  into  a  course  in  American  Lit- 
erature. The  writer  is  not  able  to  say  just 
what  ground  tliis  course  covers  this  year,  but 
two  years  ago  it  was  a  course  in  English  Liter- 
ature from  Chaucer  to  the  present  time  includ- 
ing readings  from  HawChorne  and  Emerson. 
A  man  who  takes  English  4  and  later  takes 
Prof.  Chapman's  English  Literature  courses 
finds  that  he  is  repeating  at  least  a  part  of  the 
material  studied  in  English  4.  In  view  of  the 
fact  that  Bowdoin  shares  with  Harvard  the 
title  of  mother  of  American  letters,  we  are  so 
bold  as  to  suggest  'that  next  year  the  college 
put  in  a  course  in  American  Literature  and 
allow  Prof.  Chapman  the  field  of  English  Lit- 
erature undisputed.  We  would  suggest  that 
such  a  course  supersede  English  4. 


That  men  have  to  be 
Some  Sidelights  on  chosen  for  public  office  by 
the  Football  Election  majority  vote  is  one  of  the 

unfortunate  aspects  of 
democracy  and  the  degree  of  misfortune  in- 
creases as  the  line  of  cleavage  between  two 
factions  approaches  the  center.  A  concrete 
application  of  this  discrepancy  in  popular  elec- 
tion was  seen  at  the  election  of  Asst.  Football 
Manager  last  Friday  evening,  when  Mr.  King- 
received  64  votes  and  Mr.  Gray  62.  Such 
equality  of  division  in  forces  bears  testimony 
that  both  candidates  are  good  men,  but  leaves 
a  large  element  of  dissatisfaction. 

But  this  is  not  the  significant  point  of  the 
election.  The  significant  point  is  that  some 
misguided  members  of  the  undergraduate 
body,  evidently  bent  upon  socialistic  intent  and 
laboring  under  tlie  unfortunate  hallucination 
that  justice  had  not  been  done,  in  direct  defi- 
ance and  contempt  of  law  and  order,  cast  their 
ballots  for  a  man  who  was  not  nominated  by 
the  Athletic  Council.  How  much  more  satis- 
factory from  all  points  of  view  it  would  have 
been,  had  those  men  who  threw  away  their 
ballots,  cast  them  legally  for  one  party  or  the 
other,  thereby  swelling  the  majority  of  the 
winning  candidate  to  a  point  somewhere  out- 
side the  central  zone.  The  insurgents,  as  we 
choose  to  call  those  men  who  voted  for  the 
unnominated  candidate,  occupy  somewhat  the 
same  position  that  the  Southern  States  occu- 
pied during  the  Civil  War.  Those  states  hav- 
ing entered  into  a  Union  which  was  inde- 
structible,   presumed   to   withdraw    from   that 


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Union.  So  these  men,  having  elected  an  Ath- 
letic Council  and  a  Student  Council,-  presume 
to  take  the  government  of  the  college  upon 
themselves,  and  have  thereby  proved  them- 
selves  rebels  and   secessionists. 

From  subsecjuent  conversation  with  some 
members  of  the  insurgent  forces  we  learn  that 
it  was  their  desire  to  elect  Mr.  Foss  if  possi- 
ble, and  if  not  to  elect  Mr.  King.  How  near 
they  came  to  defeating  their  own  second 
choice,  is  seen  by  the  closeness  of  the  vote. 
Had  the  insurgents  persuaded  three  more  King 
men  to  vote  with  them  in  the  effort  to  start  a 
demonstration  for  Mr.  Foss,  not  only  would 
Mr.  Foss  have  been  defeated,  but  also  Mr. 
King  who  was,  we  understand,  the  first  choice 
of  the  Athletic  Council.  Thereby  hangs  the 
moral  that  small  boys  who  play  with  fire  are 
liable  to  burn  their  fingers. 

The  insurgents  were  all,  or  nearly  all. 
Freshmen. 


Coach  McClave   (salary)    1,025  00 

Trainer   Nickerson    100  00 

H.    Partridge    Co.    (suits)     403  66 

$3,647  86 
Balance  in  bank,  237  68 

$3,88S  54 
Assets 

Cash   $237  68 

Subscriptions     157  50 

$395  18 
Liabilities 

Sweaters   (about)    $75  00 

Dr.  ^lurphy,  offieial    (unsettled) 3250 


(Signed), 


107  50 
THOMAS  OTIS,  Manager. 


I  have  examined  the  books  and  accounts  of  the 
manager  of  the  Football  Association,  and  find  the 
above  statement  correct  and  properly  vouched.  Cash 
balance,  $239.68. 

(Signed),  Barrett  'PotteRj   Auditor. 


RELAY  TEAM  AWARDED  B'S 

The  following  men  were  awarded  Track 
B's  at  the  meeting  of  the  Athletic  Council  last 
Monday:  Capt.  H.  J.  Colbath,  '10;  Sumner 
Edwards,  '10;  R.  D.  Cole,  '12;  Curtis  Tuttle, 
'13.  This  team  defeated  Tufts  in  the  annual 
relav  race  at  the  B.  A.  A.  games  Feb.  12. 


REPORT  OF  FOOTBALL  ASSOCIATION— SEASON 
OF  1909 

Receipts 

Prom  J.    S.    Simmons,   Mgr $134  73 

Subscriptions     i,340  45 

Fort    McKinley     (gate) 82  50 

Harvard  guarantee   275  00 

Dartmouth   guarantee    350  00 

Exeter  game    (gate)    141  45 

Holy  Cross   (one-half  gate) 120  25 

Colby   guarantee    75  00 

Bates  game,  one-half  net  gate 293  90 

Maine    game,    net 307  31 

Tufts    game     742  35 

Miscellaneous     22  60 

$3,885  54 

E.XPENDITURES 

1908     Bills      $476  22 

Miscellaneous  expenses    331  79 

Fort    McKinley     43  25 

Harvard    Trip    185  65 

Dartmouth    Trip     385  20 

Exeter     12604 

Holy   Cross   Trip    231  50 

Colby    Trip    166  95 

Training   Table    172  60 


PROVISIONAL  COMMENCEMENT  APPOINTMENTS 

The  provisional  Commencement  appointments 
have  been  announced  as  follows ;  C.  A.  Cary,  H.  J, 
Colbath,  J.  L.  Crosby,  E.  Crossland.  S.  H.  Dreear,  C 
W.  Eaton,  Stfmner  Edwards,  F.  C.  Evans,  R.  B 
Grace.  Robert  Hale,  H.  Q.  Hawes,  M.  C.  Hill,  W, 
B.  Nulty,  I.  B.  Robinson,  W.  E.  Robinson,  R.  E 
Ross,  H,  E.  Rowell,  L.  H.  Smith,  W.  B.  Stephens, 
A.  W.  Stone,  R.  L.  Thompson,  and  R.  A.  Tuttle 


INFORMAL  DANCE  AT  DELTA  UPSILON  HOUSE 

There  will  be  an  informal  dance  at  the  Delta 
Upsilon  house  on  Main  Street  this  evening.  The 
patronesses  are  Mrs.  F.  W.  Brown,  Mrs.  Samuel 
Furbush  and  Mrs.  S.  S.  Thompson.  The  committee 
in  charge  are  C.  L.  Morton,  1910;  W.  T.  SkilKn, 
191 1 ;  J.  H.  Mifflin,  1912.  Music  will  be  furnished  by 
Kendrie's  Orchestra.  Among  the  guests  present  are : 
Mrs.  H.  S.  Wing,  Kingfield,  Me.;  Mrs.  D.  C.  Skil- 
lin,  Hallowell,  Me. ;  Mrs.  C.  S.  York,  Augusta,  Me. ; 
Miss  Emma  Harris,  Lisbon  Falls,  Me.;  Miss  Hazel 
Lothrop,  Auburn.  Me. ;  Miss  Elbe  Foss,  Woodfords, 
Me.  ;  Sliss  Louise  Buzzell,  Waterville,  Me. ;  Miss 
Sadie  Wandtke,  Lewiston,  Me. ;  Miss  Doris  Wilkins, 
Kingfield,  Me. ;  Miss  Viola  Dixon,  Freeport,  Me. ; 
Miss  Dorothy  Abbott,  Portland,  Me.;  Miss  Mildred 
Merriweather,  Portland,  Me. ;  Miss  Olive  Eastman, 
Portland,  Me. ;  Miss  Helen  York,  Augusta,  Me. ; 
Miss  Alice  Bradlee,  Bath,  Me. ;  Miss  Marguerite 
Webber,  Waterville,  Me. ;  Miss  Myrta  Hall,  Lewis- 
ton,  Me. ;  Miss  Helen  M.  Stackpole,  Woodfords, 
Me. ;  Miss  Eorsaith,  Brunswick,  Me. ;  Miss  Bertha 
Wood,  Bath,  Me. ;  Prof.  F.  W.  Brown ;  Prof.  Mars- 
ton  Copeland:  Mr.  R.  B.  Stone;  Mr.  J.  F.  Scott;  Mr. 
J.  L.  iVIcConaughy ;  G.  Allan  Hovi^e,  Brunswick,  Me. 


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NEW  ENGLAND  ORATORICAL  LEAGUE 

The  following  constitution  has  been  adopted  by 
the  New  England  Oratorical  League  of  which  Bow- 
doin  is  a  member. 

CONSTITUTION 

Art.  I.  The  name  of  this  organization  shall  be 
the  New  England  Intercollegiate  Oratorical  League. 

Art.  2.  The  purpose  of  this  league  is  to  develop 
interest  and  proficiencj'  in  oratory  in  the  colleges 
which  are  members,  by  instituting  an  annual  inter- 
collegiate contest. 

Art.  3.  The  membership  of  the  league  shall  con- 
sist of  Amherst,  Bowdoin,  Brown,  Wesleyan  and 
Williams. 

Art.  4.  New  members  may  be  admitted  upon 
majority  vote  of  the  members  of  the  league,  as  rep- 
resented by  their  delegates. 

Art.  5.  Each  member  of  the  league  is  entitled  to 
one  official  delegate  at  all  meetings.  This  delegate 
shall  be  an  undergraduate,  not  a  senior,  nor  a  con- 
testant  of   that  year. 

Art.  6.  Regular  meetings  shall  be  held  annually 
on  the  afternoon  of  and  at  the  place  of  the  contest. 
The  first  business  of  the  annual  meeting  shall  be  to 
elect  officers  for  the  following  year.  Special  meet- 
ings may  be  called  at  any  tiine  at  the  request  of  a 
majority  of  the  members. 

Art.  7.  The  officers  of  the  league  shall  be  a 
President,  a  Vice-President  and  Secretary-Treas- 
urer ;  the  last-named  to  be  the  delegate  from  that 
college  at  which  the  contest  will  be  held  on  the  fol- 
lowing year. 

The  delegate  of  that  college  which  held  the  pres- 
idency during  the  preceding  year  shall  act  as  chair- 
man pro  tem.  The  Secretary-Treasurer  of  the  pre- 
ceding year  shall  be  present  and  submit  his  ac- 
counts  for  approval. 

Art.  8.  All  expenses  of  the  league  shall  be  borne 
equally  by  all  the  members.  Travelling  expenses  of 
the  visiting  delegates  and  contestants  shall  be  borne 
by  their  respective  colleges. 

Art.  9.  The  annual  contest  s'hall  be  held  on  the 
first  Thursday  evening  in  May  at  8  p.m. 

Art.  10.  The  contest  shall  be  held  at  each  col- 
lege  in   rotation  by   alphabetical   order. 

Art.  II.  Each  college  shall  send  one  representa- 
tive to  the  annual  contest.  The  manner  of  selecting 
representatives  shall  be  left  to  the  individual  col- 
leges. 

Art.  12.  Each  contestant  shall  deliver  an  origi- 
nal oration  not  to  exceed  1,800  words  in  length. 

Art.  13.  There  shall  be  five  judges  of  the  con- 
test, none  of  whom  shall  be  an  alumnus  of,  or  of- 
ficially connected  with,  any  of  the  colleges  concerned. 

Art.  14.  Ten  nominees  for  judges  shall  be  pre- 
sented at  the  annual  meeting  by  each  of  the  dele- 
gates. These  names  shall  be  subject  to  challenge 
at  any  time  up  to  Jan.  ist,  and  from  the  remaining 
unchallenged  names  the  president  shall  invite  five 
to  act  as  judges,  selecting  if  possible  one  nominee 
of  each  college. 

Art.  15.  At  the  close  of  the  contest  the  secre- 
tary-treasurer of  the  past  year,  and  the  newly- 
elected  president  and  secretary-treasurer  shall  take 
the  percentage  grades  of  all  the  judges  for  each  con- 
testant. The  orators  shall  be  ranked  I,  2,  3,  etc.,  by 
each   judge — the   orator   having  the  highest  percent- 


age grade  to  be  ranked  i,  the  nexit  highest  percent- 
age 2,  etc.  The  total  number  of  ranks  of  all  the 
judges  shall  be  added,  and  the  orator  whose  grand 
total  is  smallest  shall  be  declared  first,  the  next  sec- 
ond, etc.  If,  however,  any  orator  shall  receive  a 
majority  of  first  ranks,  he  shall  be  declared  first, 
irrespective  of  his  total  rank;  and  the  remaining 
orators  shall  be  ranked  second,  third,  etc.,  accord- 
ing to  their  grand  totals  as  heretofore  provided. 
As  soon  as  each  speaker  has  finished,  each  judge 
shall  grade  him  by  per  cent.,  giving  but  one  mark 
which,  however,  shall  take  into  consideration 
thought,  composition  and  delivery.  After  the  last 
speaker  has  finished  the  judges  shall  hand  the  per- 
centage grades  in  order  of  rank  to  the  above-men- 
tioned officers   without  consultation. 

In  case  of  a  tie,  the  orator  receiving  the  highest 
grand   total   per   cent,    shall   be   declared   first. 

Art.  16.  A  gold  medal  shall  be  awarded  to  the 
prize-winner,  struck  from  the  official  die. 

Art.  17.  This  constitution  may  be  amended  by 
a  majority  vote. 


CALENDAR 

Friday,  March   ii 

7.00  Senior  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

8.00  Junior  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

8.00  Informal  Dance  at  the  Delta  Upsilon 
House. 

8.00  Informal  Dance  at  the  Zeta  Psi  House. 

9.00  Sophomore  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

10.00  Freshman  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

Saturday,  March  12 
2.30     Make-up   gym. 
3.30     Trials  for  Indoor  Meet  in  gym, 
9.00     Fencing  practice  in  gym. 

Sunday,    March    13 

10.45  Morning  service  in  the  Church  on  the 
Hill,  conducted  by  Rev.  J.  H.  Quint. 

5.00  Sunday  chapel  conducted  by  President 
Hyde.     Music  by  double  quartette. 

MoND.^Y,  March  14 

2.30  Track  Practice  in  gym. 

4.00  Freshman  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor 
Track. 

4.30  Sophomore  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor 
Track. 

5.00  Junior   Relay   Practice   on   Outdoor   Track. 

5.15  Track  Practice  in  gym. 

7.00  Senior  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

8.00  Junior  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

8.00  Lecture  by  Prof.  Chase  of  the  University  of 
Maine  in   Hubbard  Hall. 

9.00  Sophomore  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

10.00  Freshman  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

Tuesday,  March   15 

3.30  Make-up    gym. 

4.00  Freshman  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor 
Track. 

4.30  Sophomore  Rela"  Practice  on  Outdoor 
Track. 

5.00  Junior   Relay    Practice   on   Outdoor   Track. 

7.00  Senior  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

8.00  Junior  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 


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9.00  Sophomore  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

10.00  Freshman  Squad  Practice  in  gym. 

Wednesd.ay,  March  16 

1. 00  Lenten  Service  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Room.  Rev. 
Frederick  Edwards,  of  Milwaukee,  Leader. 

2.30  Track  Practice  in  gym. 

4.00  Freshman  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor 
Track. 

4.30  Sophomore  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor 
Track. 

5.00  Junior   Relay    Practice   on   Outdoor   Track. 

5.15  Track  Practice   in  gym. 

8.00  Senior  Squad  Practice,  Town  Hall. 

9.00  Junior  Squad  Practice,  Town  Hall. 

10.00  Sophomore  Squad  Practice,  Town  Hall. 

11.00  Freshman  Squad  Practice,  Town  Hall. 

Thursday,  March   17 

2.30  Track  Practice  in  gym. 

4.00  Freshman  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor 
Track. 

4.30  Sophomore  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor 
Track. 

5.00  Junior  Relay   Practice   on   Outdoor   Track. 

5.15  Track  Practice   in  gym. 

7.00  Address  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Room  by  Rev.  H. 
E.  Dunnack,  '97,  of  Augusta,  Me. 

7.00  Senior  Squad  Practice .  Town  Hall. 

8.00  Junior  Squad  Practice,  Town  Hall. 

9.00  Sophomore  Squad  Practice,  Town  Hall. 

10.00  Freshman  Squad  Practice,  Town  Hall. 

Friday^  March   18 

2.30  Track  Practice  in  gym. 

4.00  Freshman  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor 
Track. 

4.30  Sophomore  Relay  Practice  on  Outdoor 
Track. 

5.00  Junior   Relay   Practice   on   Outdoor   Track. 

5.15  Track  Practice  in  gym. 

7.30  Indoor  Meet  in  Town  Hall. 


College  IFlotes 


Bickmore,  '11,  has  returned  to  college. 

Leavitt,   '13,   returned  to  college,   Tuesday. 

White,  '04,  was  on  the  campus,  Wednesday. 

Davis,  '12,  rendered  a  vocal  solo  in  Sunday 
Chapel. 

Kendrie,  '10,  plays  at  a  recital  in  Portland  next 
Tuesday. 

A  meeting  of  the  Bugle  Board  was  held  Wednes- 
day at  4.30. 

Kellogg,  '11,  played  a  violin  solo  in  Chapel,  Sun- 
day evening. 

The  picture  of  the  Dramatic  Club  was  taken 
Tuesday  by  Webber. 

The  annual  reception  and  dance  of  Beta  Theta 
Pi   are  to  be  given  April  22. 

Purington,  '12,  returned  to  college  the  Srst  of  the 
week,  after  a  short  illness  at  his  home  in  Mechanic 
Falls. 

Squad  practice  is  progressing  rapidly  and  from 
present  indications  all  classes  will  be  well  repre- 
sented.    The  first  cuts  were  made  Monday. 


Mikelsky,  '13,  of  Colby,  was  on  the  campus, 
Tuesday. 

Grace,  '10,  has  been  home  for  a  few  days  the 
past  week. 

Otis,  '10,  has  returned  to  college  after  a  two 
weeks'  illness. 

C.  A.  Smith,  '10,  has  fully  recovered  from  his 
attack  of  diphtheria. 

The  Junior  Class  had  its  picture  taken  on  the 
chapel    steps,    Wednesday    noon. 

A  number  of  students  who  live  in  adjacent 
towns,  went  home  Monday  for  election. 

Adjourns  were  given  in  nearly  all  courses  Mon- 
day afternoon  on  account  of  town  meeting. 

Nickerson,  '10,  has  begun  work  as  a  Special 
Agent  in  the  Manufactures  census  of  this  State. 

Prof.  Chapman  was  in  New  York  last  week  to 
attend  a  meeting  of  the  Senate  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
Fraternity. 

The  clubs  and  jerseys  for  the  Freshman  squad 
have  been  ordered  and  are  expected  to  arrive  within 
a  few  days. 

Bert  Morrill  and  H.  J.  Colbath  are  among  the 
officials  for  the  Bates  Indoor  Meet,  which  is  to  be 
held  March  14.  Coach  Morrill  serves  as  starter,  and 
Colbath  as  one  of  the  timers. 

Morss,  '10,  Robinson,  '10,  Clifford,  '10,  Chapman, 
'10,  Robinson,  '11,  Ashey,  '12,  Bailey,  '12,  Gillin,  '12, 
and  Smith,  '13,  returned  Monday,  from  New  Haven, 
where  they  were  delegates  to  the  Alpha  Delta  Phi 
Convention. 

The  Freshman  squad  was  reduced  to  twenty  men 
Monday  night  by  Leader  Wiggin.  The  following 
men  were  retained :  Belknap,  Buck,  Busfield,  Com- 
ery.  Cowan,  Crosby,  Crowell,  Cummings,  Cushman, 
Gilbert,  Haskell,  Lippincott,  McMahon,  Moulton, 
Nixon,  Norton,  Palmer,  Parkhurst,  Shackford  and 
Tuttle. 

Gates,  '13,  has  been  entertaining  his  parents  this 
week.  His  father,  the  Rev.  C.  F.  Gates,  D.D.,  LL.D., 
is  President  of  Robert  College,  Constantinople,  and 
is  a  Beloit,  '77,  graduate.  He  is  at  the  head  of  an 
institution  founded  by  a  Bowdoin  man,  Cyrus  Ham- 
lin. Dr.  Gates  spoke  in  chapel,  Sunday,  and  at- 
tended  a   Faculty   Club   meeting,   Monday  evening. 


ZETA  PSI  DANCE 

An  informal  dance  is  given  at  the  Zeta  Psi  house 
this  evening,  March  II,  by  the  members  of  the 
Senior  delegation.  Music  for  sixteen  dances  is  fur- 
nished by  Kendrie's  Orchestra.  The  patronesses 
are  Mrs.  Roscoe  J.  Ham,  Mrs.  Paul  Nixon,  and 
Mrs.  Hartley  C.  Baxter.  The  committee  in  charge 
is  composed  of  Richard  R.  Eastman,  Lawrence  G. 
Ludwig,    and    Gardner    W.    Cole. 

The  guests  in  attendance  are :  Miss  Elizabeth 
Fuller  and  Miss  Hazel  Perry  of  Rockland;  Miss 
Marion  Wheeler,  Miss  Rose  Tyler,  and  Miss  Ethel 
Nash  of  Portland;  Miss  Helen  Merriman  and  Miss 
Margaret  Day  of  Brunswick ;  Miss  Mary  Houlton 
of  Boothbay  Harbor;  Miss  Marguerite  Page  of 
Newcastle ;  Miss  Margaret  S.  Goodwin  of  Bath ; 
Miss  Helen  Weeks  of  Fairfield ;  Miss  Gladys  L. 
Umberhind  of  Topsham ;  and  Miss  Nellie  Hodgson 
of  Bath. 


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Hlumni  2)epartment 

'J2i- — Former  Judge  Francis  M.  Hatch  of 
Honolulu,  a  graduate  of  Bowdoin,  well  known 
to  many  Maine  people,  is  in  Washington  for 
the  winter.  He  represents  the  Hawaiian 
Sugar  Planters  in  Washington  and  spends  his 
summers  generally  in  Honolulu.  He  attend- 
ed the  recent  dinner  of  the  Bowdoin  Alumni 
Association  of  Washington  and  was  at  the  din- 
ner given  by  the  Carabao  Society,  comprising 
officers  of  the  army  and  the  navy  who  served 
in  the  Philippines. 

'75. — Stephen  C.  Whitmore,  Esq.,  died  at 
Portland,  21  Feb.  1910,  after  a  brief  illness. 
He  was  born  in  Bowdoinham  19  July,  1850, 
and  was  prepared  for  college  at  Kent's  Hill. 
After  graduation  he  studied  law,  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1876,  and  settled  in  Gardiner, 
Maine,  where  much  of  his  youth  had  been 
spent.  "He  took  an  active  part  in  municipal 
politics,  was  a  member  of  the  city  government 
for  eight  years  and  secretary  of  the  Republi- 
can County  Committee  for  ten  years.  From 
1892  to  1895  he  was  engaged  in  the  real  estate 
business  at  Superior,  Wis.  He  then  returned 
to  Maine,  purchased  the  coal  business  estab- 
lished by  his  brother,  and  successfully  con- 
ducted it  for  a  number  of  years.  He  later 
organized  the  Brunswick  Paper  Box  Co.  and 
built  up  a  large  business.  In  1906  he  retired 
from  business  and  since  that  time  has  devoted 
himself  to  the  practice  of  his  profession.  For 
a  number  of  years  he  was  recorder  of  the 
Brunswick  Municipal  Court.  He  represented 
the  town  in  the  State  legislature  and  served 
on  the  Brunswick  school  committee.  He  is 
survived  by  a  son,  L.  Cecil  Whitmore  of  Boon- 
ton,  N.  J.,  and  a  daughter.  Miss  Louise  Whit- 
more. 

'81. — Dr.  William  King  died  at  Augusta, 
Maine,  15  Feb.  1910.  He  was  the  son  of 
Major  Cyrus  William  and  Sarah  Oakman 
(Jameson)  King,  and  both  the  grandson  and 
the  last  representative  of  Hon.  William  King, 
the  first  governor  of  Maine.  He  was  born  18 
July,  1857,  at  Portland,  Maine,  but  received 
his  early  education  in  Brunswick,  where  he 
was  prepared  for  college  under  private  tuition. 
After  graduation  he  was  employed  as  a  book- 
keeper in  Boston  for  somewhat  over  a  year. 
He  Avas  then  engaged  as  a  civil  engineer  for  a 
similar  perio'd.  In  1884  he  began  the  study  of 
medicine,  attended  lectures  at  the  Medical 
School  of  Maine,  and  received  his  degree  in 


1887.  He  practiced  his  profession  for  a  few 
years  at  Brunswick,  but  the  malady  with 
which  he  was  affected,  epilepsy,  soon  began  to 
aft'ect  his  mind.  In  February,  1905,  his  con- 
dition became  so  alarming  that  he  was  com- 
mitted to  the  hospital  for  the  insane  at  Au- 
gusta. The  long  period  of  weakening  mental 
powers  'did  not  lessen  in  any  degree  Dr. 
King's  enthusiastic  interest  in  everything 
relating  to  the  college,  and  it  is  a  satisfaction 
to  his  friends  that  the  closing  years  of  his  sad 
life  were  attended  by  pleasant  hallucinations. 

'92. — The  new  field  secretary  for  savings 
bank  life  insurance,  Rev.  Harry  W.  Kimball 
of  South  Weymouth,  Mass.,  assumed  the 
duties  of  his  position  March  ist.  Mr.  Kim- 
ball has  already  done  important  sociological 
work.  He  was  one  of  the  original  vice-presi- 
dents of  the  Massachusetts  Savings  Insurance 
League  and  has  from  the  outset  been  enthusi- 
astically in  favor  of  this  scheme  of  non-com- 
mercial wage  earners'  insurance.  He  will 
have  general  charge  of  the  savings  insurance 
propaganda,  interesting  manufacturers  and 
others  in  its  advantages. 

'01. — Mr.  John  H.  White  has  resigned  as 
Superintendent  of  the  Edwards  Cotton  Mills 
at  Augusta,  Maine. 

'03. — The  February  number  of  the  Amer' 
icon  Political  Science  Review  contains  a  sum- 
mary of  recent  tax  legislation  in  Maine  by 
Clement    F.    Robinson. 

'05. — Lieut.  Wallace  C.  Philoon,  U.  S.  A., 
is  now  stationed  at  Fort  Missoula,  Montana. 

'05. — Dr.  George  H.  Stone  is  settled  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  at  Clinton,  Mass. 

'07. — R.  A.  Cony,  private  secretary  of  Con- 
gressman Burleigh,  is  attending  lectures  at 
the  Law  School  of  Georgetown  University  at 
Washington,   D.    C. 

'07. — William  S.  Linnell,  who  holds  a 
clerkship  in  the  Census  Office,  is  a  law  stu- 
dent at  the  George  Washington  University 
Law  School. 

'07. — Roscoe  LI.  Hupper  of  the  Congres- 
sional law  library,  will  graduate  this  year  from 
the  Law  School  of  the  George  Washington 
University. 

FACULTY  CLUB  MEETING 

At  tlie  meeting  of  tlie  Faculty  Club,  Monday 
evening,  Dr. '  Copeland  read  an  excellent  paper  on 
tlie  "Present  State  of  the  Doctrine  of  Organic  Evo- 
lution," President  Gates  of  Robert  College,  Con- 
stantinople, and  Mrs.  Gates,  were  guests  of  the  club. 


BOWDOIN  ORIENT 


VOL.  XXXIX 


BRUNSWICK,  MAINE,  MARCH    i8,   1910 


NO.   30 


ANNUAL  BUSINESS  MEETING  OF  THE  V.  M.  C.  A. 

The  annual  business  meeting  of  the  Y.  M. 
C.  A.  will  be  held  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  room  on 
next  Thursday  evening.  Brief  numerical  re- 
ports for  the  year's  work  will  be  submitted  by 
the  heads  of  the  several  departments,  after 
which  the  officers  of  the  coming  year  will  be 
elected.  The  nominations  for  these  offices  is 
printed  below  and  it  is  hoped  that  the  meeting 
will  be  largely  attended  in  order  that  a  vote 
sufficiently  large  to  represent  the  choice  of  the 
college  may  be  taken. 

The  Y.  M.  C.  A.  has  received  a  new  im- 
pulse this  year  under  the  able  leadership  of 
Air.  McConaghy,  the  general  secretary,  and 
plans  are  being  formulated  which  will  en- 
hance the  success  of  the  association  during 
the  coming  year.  It  is  for  the  best  interest 
of  the  college  to  elect  the  strongest  men  to  the 
association  offices,  ^s  for  any  offices  in  college 
held  by  students,  and  it  is  therefore  urged  that 
every  member  of  the  association  turn  out  at 
this  meeting.     ' 

The  nominations  for  the  several  offices  are 
printed  below. 

The  last  Lenten  service  will  be  held  in  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  room  next  Wednesday  from  i  to 
1.30  P.M.  Prof.  Henry  Chapman  will  con- 
duct the  services. 


Nominees  for  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Officers,  1910=1911 

President  William  C.  Allen,  Ernest  G.  Fi- 
field,  Lawrence  McFarland. 

Vice-President,  John  R.  Hailey,  Frank  A. 
Smith. 

Corresponding  Secretary,  K  e  n  n  e  t  h 
Churchill,  George  F.  Cressey. 

Treasurer,  Herbert  L.  Bryant,  William  A. 
AlcCormick. 

Recording  Secretary,  Cedric  R.  Crowell, 
Harry  L.  Perham. 

Alumni  Advisory  Committee :  P.  F.  Chap- 
man, '06,  Portland;  Prof.  Wilmot  B.  Mitchell, 
'91  ;  David  R.  Porter,  '06,  New  York ;  Prof. 
Kenneth  C.  M.  Sills,  '01,  Leon  F.  Timberlake, 
09,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 


BOWDOIN  FRESHMEN  DEFEAT  BATES  FRESHMEN 
IN  ANNUAL  RELAY  RACE  AT  LEWISTON 

Bowdoin,  1913,  succeeded  in  nosing  out  a 
victory  from  the  Bates,  1913,  relay  team  at  the 
annual  Bates  Interclass  Meet  held  at  City 
Hall,  Lewiston,  last  Monday  evening.  The 
time  was  the  second  fastest  of  the  evening,  i 
minute,  15  1-5  seconds. 

Tuttle  who  started  the  race  for  Bowdoin 
gained  a  slight  lead  over  Dennis,  Bates'  first 
runner.  This  lead  was  maintained  by  Skol- 
field  and  Gardner  of  Bowdoin.  Holden,  how- 
ever, the  last  runner  for  Bates  started  off  for  a 
whirlwind  finish.  He  recovered  the  distance 
lost  by  Bates  and  the  race  became  nip-and-tuck 
between  him  and  Emery,  for  the  tape.  With- 
in five  feet  of  the  tape  Holden  fell  and  before 
he  could  recover  himself  Emery  had  crossed 
the  line. 

Bowdoin  was  well  represented  by  a  band 
of  rooters,  who  supported  the  team  with  the 
college  cheers. 

Coach  Morrill  served  as  starter  in  all  the 
races,  and  Captain  Colbath  as  timer. 


UNDERGRADUATE  COUNCIL  MEETS 
Date  for  Annual  Bowdoin  Rally  to  be  April  ISth 

The  Undergraduate  Council  met  in  the 
Classical  Room  in-  Hubbard  Hall,  Thursday 
evening,  the  tenth.  All  members  were  present 
except  Wandtke. 

H.  E.  Warren,  '10,  presented  a  petition 
fsking  that  it  be  recommended  to  the  Athletic 
Council  that  the  sixteen  pound  shot  be  changed 
to  a  twelve  pound  shot  in  the  interscholastic 
meet.  It  was  voted  to  refer  the  petition  to  the 
.\thletic  Council  as  coming  properly  under  its 
jurisdiction. 

Interfraternity  baseball  was  discussed. 
Hale,  '10,  speaking  for  it  and  Crosby,  '10, 
speaking  against  it.     No  action  was  taken. 

.\  vote  to  recommend  to  the  Athletic  Coun- 
cil thst  more  games  be  scheduled  for  the  sec- 
ond' baseball  team  was  afterward  rescinded 
and  a  vote  taken  to  appoint  a  committee  to  in- 
vestigate the  cause  of  a  lack  of  interest  in  the 
second  team. 


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It  was  voted  to  hold  the  annual  college 
ra!l_v  April  fifteenth.  A  motion  appointing  a 
committee  of  three  to  have  charge  of  the  rally 
was  lost  and,  a  motion  carried  providing  for  a 
committee  of  five  was  afterward  rescinded 
and  a  vote  taken  to  pkce  the  rally  in  charge  of 
the  president,  allowing  him  to  appoint  such 
committees  as  he  sees, fit,  to  aid  him. 

It  was  voted  to  establish  a  custom  of  hang- 
ing council  group  pictures  in  the  Verein  room 
each  year. 


COLLEGE  TEA 

The  third  and  last  of  the  college  teas  given 
by  the  members  of  the  faculty  was  held  in 
Hubbard  Hall  last  Friday  afterncon.  It  was 
given  especially  for  guests  from  Augusta, 
Bangor,  Hallowe'll,  Gardiner  and  central  and 
northern  Maine.  The  presence  of  the  young 
ladies  who  were  entertained  at  the  Delta  Up- 
silon  and  Zeta  Psi  dances  Friday  evening, 
made  the  affairs  all  the  more  enjoyable. 

The  committee  in  charge  were :  Mrs.  Frank  N. 
Whittier  (chairman).  Miss  Chapman,  Mrs.  Henry 
Johnson,  Mrs.  W.  T.  Foster,  and  -\Irs.  Paul  Nixon. 

The  hospitality  committee  consisted  of:  Dr. 
Frank  X.  VVhitticr,  Professor  Henrv  L.  Chapman, 
Professor  Henry  Johnson,  and  Professor  Paul 
Ni.xon. 

Mrs.  Frank  E.  Woodruff  presided  at  the  tea 
table  and  was  assisted  by  Miss  Alice  Eaton  and  Miss 
Lena  Knight.  Mrs.  Charles  C.  Hutchins  poured  cof- 
fee assisted  by  Miss  Alice  Knight,  Miss  Mabel 
Davis,  and  Miss  Virginia  Woodbury.  The  punch 
tables  were  in  charge  of  Mrs.  George  T.  Files  and 
Mrs.  W.  B.  Mitchell.  Mrs.  Files  was  assisted  by 
^'frs.  Thomas  Winchell,  Miss  Frances  Skolfield,  and 
Mrs.  Mitchell  Ijy  Miss  Bessie  Smith  and  Miss  Ber- 
tha Stetson. 

The  ushers  were  Philin  B.  Morss  'lo,  of  Med- 
ford,  .^loha  Delta  Phi;  William  H.  Sanborn,  'lo,  of 
Po-t'and.  Psi  Upsilon ;  Thomas  W.  Williams,  'lo,  of 
Houlton,  Delta  Kappa  Eosilon ;  William  P.  New- 
n-an.  'to  of  Bar  Harbor,  Theta  Delta  Chi;  Clyde  R- 
Chapman,  'i'.  of  Fairfield  Zeta  Psi;  Ha-rison  M. 
Berry.  'i2,  of  Gardiner,  Delta  Upsilon  ;  William  S. 
GuDtill,  'lo,  of  Gorham  Kappa  Sigma;  Walter  N. 
Fnierson  'ii.  of  Bangor,  Beta  Theta  Pi;  Frank  D. 
'ro-vnsen'l.  'lo.  of  Brunswick,  non-fraternity  men; 
Xeil  .'\.  Fogg.  Medic.  't2  of  Freeport,  .Mpha  Kappa 
Kapoa:  and  .Mliert  W.  Moulton,  Medic,  'i.?,nf  Po-t- 
land.   Phi  Chi. 


the  club  under  essentially  the  same  conditions 
and  for  the  same  purposes  as  those  for  which 
it  was  established  two  years  ago.  Its  member- 
ship wil!  normally  consist  of  twelve,  a  Round 
Table,  who  will  meet  fortnightly  to  discuss 
informally  and  voluntarily  any  general  topics 
of  interest  in  connection  with  the  low  countries 
of  Europe.  The  field  is  to  be  very  broad  and 
no  member  is  expected  to  remain  in  the  club 
who  does  not  derive  real  enjoyment  and  in- 
struction through  it.  Applications  for  mem- 
bership should  be  handed  to  Secretary  H.  W. 
Slccum,  'id,  in  writing,  but  with  the  under- 
standing that  application  will  not  necessarily 
result  in  election.  The  charter  members  of 
the  club  are  Professor  Henry  Johnson,  Profes- 
sor F.  W.  Brown  and  eleven  undergraduates ; 
H.  W.  Slocum.  'lo  (Secretary)  ;  H.  E.  Rowell,, 
'lo:  R.  L.  Thompson,  'lo;  E.  B.  Smith,  'ii; 
E.  W.  Skelton,  'ii;  W.  C.  Allen,  'ii;  R.  P, 
Hine,  'i  i  :  C,  E.  Kellogg,  'ii ;  and  also  W.  B. 
.Stephens,  'lo;  F.  E.  Kendrie,  'lo;  and  A.  W. 
Wand'tke,  'lo,  who  were  out  of  town  the  night 
of  the  meeting. 

The  next  meeting  will  be  held  on  Wednes- 
day, March  23d,  at  8,45  p,m.  at  the  Delta 
Kappa  Epsilon  House. 


ROMANIA  REORGANIZES 

A  meeting  to  reorganize  the  Romania  was 
held  last  Wednesday  evening,  iNIarch  9th,  at 
Professor  Henry  Johnson's  home,  at  which 
definite  arrangements  were  made  to  continue 


JOSE?H  C.  PEARSON,  '00,  COMPLETES  IMPORTANT 
WORK  FOR  CARNEGIE  INSTITUTION 

Joseph  C.  Pearson,  '00,  of  Brunswick,  for- 
merly a  member  of  the  Bowdoin  College 
faca'lty,  who  for  more  than  two  years  has  been 
engag'ed  in  sc.entific  work  for  the  Carnegie 
Institution,  department  of  terrestrial  magnet- 
ism, in  Persij,  Arabia.  Turkey  and  Russia,  is 
expec:ed  to  return  home  some  time  next 
month.  He  is  now  in  Austria  and  on  his  way 
home.  The  annual  report  of  the  director  of 
the  department  of  terrestrial  magnetism  of  the 
Carnegie  Institi:ti(. n  contains  the  followhig 
description  of  Mr,  Pearson's  work:  ''Mr.  J.  C. 
Pearson  continued  the  work  placed  in  his 
charge  in  1908  in  these  countries  ( Persia, 
r);il.;chistan,.  .\rabia,  Turkey  in  Asia,  Russia 
ill  .\sir,  Russia  in  Europe),  and  up  to  (October 
31,  1909,  had  added  51  stations  to  his  ]:)rcvi(nis 
list — 13  in  Persia,  at  Gwadur.  IJaluchistan  ;  4 
in  ,\rabia.  at  Basra,  Asia  Minor,  near  Constan- 
t  nop'.e,  Turkey ;  20  in  Asiatic  Russia ;  11  in 
E  n-opean  Russia,  At  several  of  the  places  re- 
sults for  secular  variation  were  derived,  -A.t 
the  beginning  of  the  new  fiscal  year  Mr.  Pear- 
son is  at  work  along  the  southern  coast  of  the 


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Black  Sea,  in  Turkey  in  Asia.  His  instru- 
mental outfit  was  again  compared  with  the 
Tiflis  Magnetic  Observatory  standards,  and 
also  with  those  of  the  Tashkent  Magnetic 
Obsei-vatory.  Owing  to  the  unsettled  condi- 
tion of  countries  first  traversed  by  Mr.  Pear- 
son he  encountered  many  difficulties  in  travel, 
which  he  successfully  overcame,  very  largely 
thru  the  special  courtesies  shown  him  by  the 
representatives  of  the  Persian,  Russian,  Eng- 
lish and  American  governments.  Acknowl- 
edgement must  also  be  made  of  the  substantial 
assistance  rendered  the  department,  in  the 
execution  of  the  work  in  Asiatic  Russia,  by 
General  M.  Rykatcheff,  and  Director  Hlasek 
of  the  Tiflis  Observatory.  The  work  of  the 
two  expeditions — those  of  Messrs.  Sowers  and 
Pearson — will  furnish  by  the  end  of  1910  a 
series  of  magnetic  stations  between  parallels  30 
and  40  north  across  the  whole  continent  of 
Asia." 


BOWDOIN  INTERSCnOLASTIC  BASEBALL  LEAGUE 
OFFICERS  MEET— CONSTITUTION  ADOPTED 

The  Bowdoin  Interscholastic  Baseball 
League  began  preparations  -for  the  coming 
season,  last  Saturday  afternoon,  by  a  meeting 
of  captains  and  managers  with  Assistant  Man- 
ager Leigh  of  the  Bowdoin  Baseball  Associa- 
tion in  Banister  Hall  at  3.30. 

A  constitution  drawn  up  by  Mr.  Leigh, 
which  is  really  a  modification  of  existing  cus- 
toms and  agreements  of  previous  years,  was 
adopted  in  the  hope  of  putting  the  league  upon 
a  more  definite  foundation  and  of  eliminating 
causes  of  disagreement  which  has  to  some 
extent  characterized  the  league  in  the  past. 

New  features  of  this  year's  rules  are  an 
approved  list  of  umpires  selected  by  the 
schools,  an  entrance  fee  of  two  dollars  for  each 
team  and  a  requirement  of  the  signature  of 
either  the  principal  or  head-master  of  each 
school  to  the  constitution. 

Cony  High  School  of  Augusta,  and  Port- 
land High  School,  former  members  of  the 
league,  will  not  enter  this  year. 

At  the  meeting,  all  schools  in  the  league 
with  the  exception  of  Leavitt  Institute,  were 
represented.  Mr.  Leigh  will  manage  the 
leaafue. 


A  WORD  FROM  BOWDOIN'S  MISSIONARY 

A.  S.  HiwALE,  '09 

All  Bowdoin  men  will  be  glad  to  learn  how 
A.  S.  Hiwale,  '09,  is  succeeding  in  his  chosen 
work  of  carrying  the  Christian  message  to  his 
fellow-countrymen.  We  print  the  substance 
of  letters  from  Rev.  R.  A.  Hume,  head  of  the 
whole  American  Marathi  Mission,  from  Rev. 
T.  S.  Lee,  with  whom  Hiwale  is  to  be  at  first, 
as  an  assistant,  and  from  Hiwale  himself. 

He  arrived  in  Bombay,  the  seaport  for  a 
large  area  on  the  western  side  of  India,  on 
December  3,  1909.  He  went  into  the  interior 
after  a  day  or  two,  to  his  home  at  Ahmedna- 
gar,  where  is  the  central  station  of  the  Mara- 
thi Mission.  On  January  12th  he  was  married 
to  Miss  Taibai  Patole,  to  whom  he  had  been 
engaged  before  he  came  to  this  country.  He 
incurred  some  criticism  from  some  of  his  old- 
fashioned  friends  and  relatives  because  he 
would  not  conform  to  some  of  the  Indian  mar- 
riage customs  which  are  both  foolish  and 
expensive.  He  has  the  approval  of  all  the  mis- 
sionaries and  native  Christians  in  his  course. 
The  marriage  ceremony  was  performed  by  an 
Indian  clergyman,  assisted  by  Dr.  Hume.  A 
large  number  of  missionaries  and  still  more 
Indian  Christians  were  present.  The  festivi- 
ties ended  with  an  Indian  dinner  at  the  bride's 
home.  The  next  day  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hiwale 
went  for  a  short  wedding  trip  to  Bombay  to 
buy  some  furnishings  for  their  home  and  then 
went  to  Satara  where  Hiwale  is  now  engaged 
in  missionary  work. 

Many  stations  were  eager  to  have  Hiwale 
located  in  their  districts,  but  it  was  thought 
advisable  that  he  should  make  his  headquar- 
ters in  Satara  city  and  do  personal  work  in 
the  surrounding  country.  Satara  is  a  city  of 
40,000  inhabitants,  150  miles  southwest  of  Ah- 
mednagar.  The  climate  is  excellent  and  the 
people  of  the  district  are  considered  among 
the  most  intelligent  and  industrious  in  West- 
ern India.  Mission  work  in  that  district  has 
not  been  adequately  pushed  for  lack  of  work- 
ers. The  missionaries  and  Indian  Christians 
there  are  much  encouraged  by  the  coming  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hiwale.  Hiwale  is  to  be  under 
the  direction  of  Rev.  T.  S.  Lee  at  Satara  until 
he  is  familiar  with  the  work,  when  he  will 
probably  be  given  helpers  and  later  be 
placed  in  charge  of  all  the  work  in  a  district. 
His  associate,  Mr.  Lee,  speaks  in  the  highest 
terms  of  Hiwale's  enthusiasm  and  efficiency. 
The  fact  that  the  language  of  the  people  he  is 

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old Perry  X'annah,  '12;  William  Riley  Spin- 
ney, '12;  Leon  Everett  Jones,  "13;  Verd  Rus- 
sell Leavitt,  "13,  and  Douglas  Howard  Mc- 
Murtrie,  '13. 


■One  of  the  most  pertinent 
Hats  Off  to  the       criticisms   brought    against 
Monday  Night  Club   Bowdoin    College    is    that 
there  is  too  great  a  tend- 
ency among  its  students  to  magnify  fraternity 
interests   at   the   expense  of  college   interests. 
It  has  been  undoubtedly  true  in  the  past  and 
may  be  true  at  the  present  time,  that  Bowdoin 
undergraduates     have     talked      fraternity     to 
prospective  Freshmen  before  talking  Bowdoin 
to   them. 

Realizing  this  discrepancy,  the  Monday 
Xight  Club  has  taken  a  step  which  will  tend 
to  discourage  this  malicious  practice.  Mem- 
bers of  that  organization  will  see  to  it  that 
every  prep,  soliool  man  who  visits  us  at  the 
Indoor  Meet  visits  every  fraternity  house  on 
th  campus.  We  heartily  commend  this  action 
for  we  believe  anything  which  will  discourage 
this  pernicious  habit  of  isolating-  a  sub- Fresh- 
man in  a  fraternity  house  and  leading  him  to 
believe  that  all  the  good  men  in  college  belong 
to  the  ]>articular  fraternity  by  which  he  is 
entertained,  is  a  healthy  custom  to  inaugurate. 
We  stand  ready  to  take  off  our  hat  to  the 
members  of  the  Monday  Night  Club  col- 
lectively and  individually,  believing  that  men 
who  have  the  moral  courage  to  put  the  com- 
mon welfare  before  personal  interest  are 
worthy  of  our  respect  and  admiration. 


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245 


Concerning  Our 
Communication 


The  Communication  pub- 
lished herewith  deserves 
some  comment  because  of 
its  misleading  tone.  The  writer  seems  to  have 
entirely  misconstrued  our  meaning  when  we 
said  that  majority  vote  is  one  of  the  unfortu- 
nate aspects  of  democracy.  He  has  changed 
the  words  unfortunate  aspects  to  evils,  an  idea 
which  we  had  not  intended  to  convey.  How- 
ever, since  he  has  so  interpreted  it,  we  would 
suggest  for  his  reading  Chapter  LXXXV.  of 
Bryce's  American  Commonwealth,  a  chapter 
entitled  The  Tyranny  of  the  Majority,  trust- 
ing that  he  will  not  presume  to  take  issue  with 
so  eminent  an  authorit)^  as  Ambassador  Bryce. 
Our  correspondent  has  again  gone  wrong 
when  he  suggests  that  the  so-called  insurgents 
were  only  following  a  precedent  in  voting  for 
an  unnominated  candidate.  We  beg  to  call 
to  his  attention  the  fact  that  last  year  when 
his  so-called  precedent  was  created  there  was 
no  Student  Council  to  deal  with  such  matters. 
The  precedent  created  was  to  refer  the  matter 
to  the  Student  Council,  rather  than  to  start  a 
popular  demonstration. 

In  the  last  paragraph  of  the  communica- 
tion we  heartily  concur.  There  should  be  a 
book  of  college  customs  and  we  suggest  that 
our  correspondent  seize  this  opportunity  to 
perpetuate  his  name  to  posterity,  by  issuing 
such  a   work. 


A  WORD  FROM  BOWDOIN'S  MISSIONARY 

L  Continued  from  page  243.I 

trying  to  reach  is  his  own  mother  tongue, 
makes  him  most  valuable  in  every  way.  The 
best  expression  of  the  spirit  in  which  he  is  be- 
ginning his  labors  is  found  in  a  letter  which  he 
recently  wrote  to  President  Hyde.  He  speaks 
as  we  should  expect  a  Bowdoin  man  to  speak. 
"I  have  chosen  Satara  district  to  begin  my  life- 
work  and  in  a  way  it  is  a  very  hard  and  diffi- 
cult field,  but  Bowdoin  men  like  to  tackle  hard 
riiings." 


'  COMMUNICATION 

I  trust  the  Orient  will  be  magnanimous 
enough  to  print  this  little  expression  of  disa- 
greement with  the  tone  and  most  of  the 
thought  of  the  second  editorial  in  the  last 
issue. 

In  the  first  place  I  believe  that  elections  by 
majority  vote  are  not  an  evil  and  I  do  not 
think  that  the  evil  grows  greater  as  the  vote 


becomes  closer.  The  author  of  the  editorial 
said  that  the  vote  in  the  election  of  Assistant 
Football  Manager  showed  that  both  candi- 
dates were  good  men.  How  can  election  by  a 
majority  vote  introduce  any  larger  element 
of  dissatisfaction  than  would  be  felt  if  the 
choice  were  made  in  some  other  way?  Is  it 
not,  rather,  a  matter  for  congratulation  that 
there  were  f'a'o  good  men  as  candidates,  so 
that  the  footbsll  team  need  not  be  the  loser, 
whatever  the  outcome  ? 

The  most  serious  fault  of  the  editorial, 
however,  seems  to  me  to  be  the  tone  of  the  last 
part.  If  the  so-called  "insurgents"  were 
mostly  Freshmen,  which,  indeed,  seems 
strange  to  me,  they  must  have  offended 
through  ignorance  or  because  someone  told 
them  of  a  similar  incident  in  the  correspond- 
ing election  last  year.  The  writer  seems  to 
forget  that  fact  and  that  last  year  the  "insur- 
gents'" won  their  point  and  were  even  praised 
for  taking  the  first  steps  toward  what  was 
generally  agreed  to  be  a  needed  reform.  That 
he  should  have  admonished  them,  I  agree,  for 
I  do  not  approve  their  course,  but  it  seems  to 
me  that  his  Sophoraoric  attitude  was  tactless, 
to  say  the  least,  when  they  were  only  follow- 
ing precedent. 

The  root  of  the  evil  seems  to  me  to  lie  in 
the  fact  that  we  have  no  hand-book  which 
gives  information  about  college  customs  and 
traditions.  There  is  nothing  in  circulation 
among  the  undergraduates  which  tells  how 
letters  are  awarded,  how  elections  are  held, 
what  things  are  in  accordance  with  college  eti- 
quette and  what  are  not.  Here  is  a  chance  for 
someone  to  fill  a  long-felt  want.  Perhaps  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.,  when  better  off  financially,  can 
do  it.  Let  me  leave  the  suggestion  that  some 
man  or  some  organization  publish  a  book  of 
Bowdoin  customs. 

W.  E.  Robinson. 


CLASSICAL  DEPARTMENT  LECTURE  BY  PROF. 
CHASE  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  MAINE 

In  the  Lecture  Room  of  Hubbard  Hall  on  last 
Monday  night  a  lecture  was  given  on  Thucydides. 
the  Father  of  History,  by  Professor  Chase  of  the 
University  of  Maine.  This  lecture  was  the  third  and 
last  of  a  series  of  three  exchange  lectures  with  the 
otlier  colleges  of  the  State,  given  under  the  auspices 
of  the   Classical  Department. 

Prof.  Chase,  in  opening,  gave  a  definition  of  his- 
tory as  an  unprejudiced  recital  of  facts,  made  for 
the  sake  of  preserving  truth.  He  mentioned  Homer 
as  the  first  great  narrator  of  events  and  then  turned 
to   Herodotus.     While  history  owes  a  great  debt  to 


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Herodotus  as  the  first  great  prose  writer,  he  wrote 
liis  work  with  an  ulterior  purpose  in  mind — the 
glorification  of  Greece.  He  cannot,  then,  under  the 
above  definition,  be  called  a  true  historian.  To  find 
the  father  of  true  history  we  must  turn  to  Thucy- 
dides.  He  was  the  first  to  study  causes  and  effects 
from  an  unprejudiced  point  of  view  and  to  seek  to 
find   the   truth. 

In  closing  Prof.  Chase  read  several  selections 
from  Thucydides,  notably  parts  of  the  Funeral  Ora- 
tion of  Peicles  and  paid  a  high  compliment  to  the 
historian  as  an  orator  and  master  of  style. 

After  the  lecture  light  refreshments  were  served 
with  ]Mrs.  Paul  Nixon  at  the  punch  bowl. 


TWO  NEW  BOWDOIN  SONGS 

The  following  songs  have  been  handed  to 
the  Orient  by  a  friend  of  the  college  for  ptib- 
lication.  The  music  to  "Bowdoin  Uncon- 
quered"  is  original  and  will  be  obtainable  at  a 
later  date.  " 

BowDoiN  Unconquered 
We've  played  the  game  with  all  our  might 

And  sung  until  we're  hoarse. 
We've  flung   our  banners   gaily  out 
And   shouted  till  we're   worse. 

But  since  they  now  declare  that  we 

Are   on   a  losing  course,  you   see 

It's  time,  my  boys,  to  raise  another  cheer. 

Hi  Hi!   Hi! 
Cheer  for  our  lads.  They  have  fought  a  valiant  game. 

But  cheer  as  loudly  for  our  lusty  foe. 
Cheer   for  our  friends.    They'd  be  friends  whatever 
came. 
But  there's  another  cheer  to  give  before  you  go. 

Chorus 
For  you  must 
Cheer,  cheer,  cheer  for  old  Bowdoin. 

Hers  the  spotless  white,  boys, 

'Tis   our   altar   bright. 
She  can  wear  the  laurel  and  be  generous  the  while. 
She  can  face  defeat,  boys,  ready  with  a  smile. 
Cheer,  cheer,  cheer  for  old  Bowdoin. 

Strong  from  every   fate,   boys. 

She  will  rise  elate. 
Cheer,  cheer,  cheer,  boys,  give  a  ringing  cheer 
For  Bowdoin,  college  mater,   mother  dear. 

And  what  do  you  say  to  the  writers  twain 

With   soul  of  magic  and  golden  pen, 
Who   'mid   these  halls   read   wisdom's   page? 

Their   glory  ours,   as   I'll   engage. 
And  how  is  it,  then,  with  the  statesmen  keen. 

The  soldier  bold,  the  sage  serene? 

Their  fair  renown  our  s'o,  I  ween. 
Su  you  must  love  these  old  gentlemen  well. 

Old   Goveenor   Bowdoin 
(Time:  The  Leather  Bottle) 
Have  you  heard  of  old  Governor  Bowdoin,  boys, 
Who  sat  on  the  lid  'mid  the  dreadful  noise 
Our   fathers    made   'round    Boston    town 
In  chasing  the  red-coats  up  and  down  ? 
He  sat  so  tight  that  he  won  great  fame, 


As    faithful   liistory    now    doth    claim. 
And  to  this  worthy  we  owe  our  name. 
So  you  must  love  this  old  gentleman  well. 

-\nd  what  do  you  think  of  his  son?     Now  he 
As   faithful  histories  all  agree. 
Was   minister  plenipoten.   to   Spain 
And    extra    ambassador    somewhere    then. 
He   looked  on   the  college  and  loved  it  true, 
He  gave  it  a  hundred  of  pictures  or  two. 
He  gave  it  his  books  and  ducats  a  few. 
So  yon  must  love  this  old  gentleman  well. 


INDOOR  MEET  OFFICIALS 

Manager  Emerson  has  announced  the  following 
list  of  officials  for  the  Indoor  Meet,  to-night. 

Referee— Dr.  W.  W.  Bolster. 

Starter — Berton    C.    Morrill. 

Judges  of  Drills— Dr.  M.  P.  Copeland.  Prof. 
Hutchins,  Col.   li.   A.  Wing. 

fudges  of  Floor  and  Track  Events — S.  B  Furbish, 
R.  D.  Purington.  Mr.  J.  F.   Scott. 

Timers — Dr  Whittier,  P.  P.  Thompson,  J.  L. 
Williams. 

Measurers— H.  W.  Slocum,  H.  M.  Berry,  W.  E. 
Robinson. 

Scorei* — C.  A.  Gary. 

Announcer — W.    N.    Emerson, 

Clerk  of  Course — R.  D.  Morss. 

Assistant  Clerks  of  Course — H.  K.  Mine,  H,  L. 
Robinson. 


CALENDAR 

Friday,  March   i8 
7.30     Indoor  Meet  in  Town  Hall. 
Saturday,   March    i9 
2.30     Make-up  gym. 

7.30  Meeting  of  Mass.  Club  at  the  Kappa  Sigma 
House. 

Sunday,  March  20 

10.45  Morning  service  in  the  Church  on  the  Hill, 
conducted  by  Rev.  J.  H.  Quint- 

5.00  Sunday  chapel,  conducted  by  President 
Hyde.     Music  by  double  quartette. 

Monday,  March  21 
2.30     Track  Practice  in  gym. 
4,30     Make-up  gym. 
5.15    Track  Practice  in  gym. 

Tuesday,  March  22 
4.30     Make-up  gym. 

Wednesday,  March  23 

1. 00  Lenten  Services  in  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Room,  Prof. 
Henry  L.  Chapman,  D.D.,  Leader. 

2.30    Track  Practice  in  gym. 

4.30    Make-up  gym. 

.S.is     Track  practice  in  gym. 

8.4s  Meeting  of  the  Romania  at  the  Delta  Kappa 
Epsilon   House. 

Thursday,  March  24 
2.30     Track  practice  in  gym. 
4.,30     Make-up  gym. 


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5.15     Track  practice  in  g.vm. 

7.00     Business    meeting   in    Y.    M.    C.    A.    Room. 
Annual  election  of  officers. 

8.00     Classical   Club  meets  with   Prof.   Nixon, 

Frid.-\y,   M.vrch   25 
4.30     Spring  recess  begins. 


Collcoe  notes 

S.  T.  Pike  is  teaching  in  Lubec  High  School. 

C.  E.  Files,  '08.  was  on  the  campus,  Wednesday. 

H.  A.  Tucker,  ex-'i3,  is  visiting  on  the  campus 
this  week. 

Kendrick  Burns,  ex-' 12,  is  in  town  for  the  In- 
door Meet. 

R.  W.  Smith,  ex-'i,o,  attended  the  Zeta  Psi  dance 
last   week. 

Dole,  '13,  has  moved  from  North  Maine  to  North 
Appleton   Hall. 

C.  W.  Johnson,  '11,  will  sing  a  cantata  at  Bath 
Easter   Sunday. 

Stone,  '10,  rendered  a  solo  at  the  Church  on  the 
Hill  last  Sunday. 

J.  S.  Simmons.  '09,  visited  friends  at  the  Zete 
House  last  Friday. 

Hussey,  '11,  was  in  Augusta  last  week,  coaching 
the  Cony  High  debaters. 

Maloney,  '12.  was  in  Wilton  last  week,  coaching 
the   Wilton  Academy  debaters. 

Black,  'ii,  has  reutrned  home  from  where  he  has 
been  spending  the  past  week. 

Harry  Merrill,  '09,  is  serving  temporarily  as  sub- 
master  of  Farmington  High  School. 

H.  B.  Walker,  who  sustained  a  sprained  ankle  on 
the  board  track  last  week,  is  much  improved. 

Professor  Woodruff  spoke  at  the  University  of 
Maine,  March  8th,  on  the  subject  "Athens," 

The  Athletic  Field  is  practically  all  dried  off  and 
ready  for  the   baseball   team   to   commence  practice. 

The  Massachusetts  Club  will  meet  at  the  Kappa 
Sigma  House  to-morrow  evening.  Dr.  Whittier 
will  speak. 

The  members  of  the  Zeta  Psi  fraternity  have  pur- 
chased a  baby  grand  piano  for  their  fraternity 
house. 

E.  E.  Kern,  '11,  has  been  elected  manager  of  the 
college  band  in  place  of  W.  E.  Atwood,  '10,  re- 
signed. 

G.  F.  Tibbetts,  '12,  will  sing  in  Steinert's  Crucifix- 
ion which  will  be  presented  at  the  Universalist 
Church   Good    Friday    evening. 

H.  D.  Taft,  Yale  '83.  brother  of  President  Taft 
.■Mid  head-master  of  the  Taft  School,  Watertown, 
Conn.,  was  on  the  campus  last  Wednesday. 

On  next  Wednesday  evening  a  Schumann  recital 
to  which  the  members  of  the  faculty  and  several 
to.ynspeople  are  invited,  will  be  given  at  the  Delta 
Upsilon    House. 

Hathaway,  '12,  is  taking  a  week's  vacation  at  his 
home  in  Providence  before  returning  to  college  to 
take  up  his  duties  as  caretaker  of  the  Athletic  Field. 


The  first  installment  of  Bovvdoin's  undergraduate 
contribution  toward  the  work  of  Hiwale,  '09,  her 
missionary  in  India,  was  sent  Monday.  It  amounted 
to  one  hundred  dollars. 

Leigh,  '12,  entertained  the  managers  and  captains 
of  the  Bowdoin  Interscholastic  Baseball  League,  and 
Dr.  Chapin,  principal  of  Levviston  High  School,  at 
the  Kappa  Sigifta  House.  Saturday. 

Maurice  Pierce  Hill,  ex-'ii,  who  has  been  in 
Detroit,  Michigan,  for  the  past  nine  months,  attend- 
ing the  Lewis  School  for  the  Cure  of  Stammering, 
has  returned  home  much  benefited.  He  will  con- 
tinue his  courses  here  at  college  next  fall. 

One  of  the  inost  significant  recent  developments 
in  aviation  is  the  effort,  led  b\'  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania,  to  organize  an  Intercollegiate  Aero- 
plane Association,  a  sport  which  at  Yale,  Princeton 
and  Cornell  already  has  gained  some  zealous  pro- 
moters, and  that  is  likely  to  be  encouraged  by  other 
institutions,  especially  those  in  which  there  are  well 
estalilished  technical  and  scientific  departments, 
professors  and  pupils  of  which  can  be  enlisted  in 
construction  of  machines  and  in  carrying  on  of  ex- 
periments- 
Seniors  attended  their  last  "gym."  exercises  on 
Wednesday  afternoon.  At  the  close  a  pajama 
parade  was  held.  The  entire  class  under  the  direc- 
tion of  "Stung"  Hansen,  the  official  cheer  leader  of 
the  class  who  was  gorgeously  arrayed  in  a  suit  of 
blue  pajamas,  crowned  with  a  tall  hat,  and  armed 
with  a  large  sword,  marched  around  the  campus 
cheering  the  halls  and  eliciting  speeches  from  any 
of  the  faculty  who  could  be  located.  Music  was 
furnished  by  the  college  band. 


FACULTY  NOTES 

Professor  Robinson  is  at  the  Poland  Spring 
House  for  a  fortnight. 

Professor  Sills  lectured  at  Bates  last  week  on 
"Virgil  and  Tennyson." 

Pror.  Hutchins  was  recently  elected  a  fellow  of 
the  American  Association  for  the  advancement  of 
science. 


OBITUARY  NOTICE 


On  Wednesday,  March  9,  occurred  the  sudden 
death  in  Ellsworth,  Maine,  of  the  Honorable  John 
Bakeman  Redman  of  the  Class  of  1870.  By  his 
death  the  Kappa  Chapter  of  Psi  Upsilon  loses  an  hon- 
ored and  respected  brother.  He  has  ever  shown 
a  keen  personal  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the  chap- 
ter and  has  been  intimately  associated  with  its 
growth.  As  a  lawyer  he  has  been  highly  respected 
and  as  a  citizen  and  friend  deeply  loved.  There- 
fore, be  it 

Rcsuk'cd,  That  we,  the  Kappa  Chapter  of  Psi 
L'nsilon,  express  our  grief  at  the  death  of  this  hon- 
ored brother  and  extend  our  sympathy  to  those 
bound  closer  to  him  by  ties  of  friendship  and  family. 

Caeleton    Whidden    Eaton, 
Charles    Boaedman    HaweSj 
Waltee  Atherton   Fuller^ 
For  the  Chapter. 


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Hluinni  IDepautment 

'70. — Hon.  John  B.  Redman  died  suddenly 
of  heart  disease  at  Ellsworth,  Maine,  9  March, 
1910.  Judge  Redman,  the  son  of  Erastus  and 
Sarah  A.  Redman,  was  born  11  June,  1848,  at 
Brooksville,  Maine.  His  parents  removed  to 
Ellsworth  in  his  infancy  and  he  received  his 
early  education  in  that  city  which  continued  to 
be  his  home  throughout  his  life.  He  was  pre- 
pared for  college  at  Phillips  Academy,  Ando- 
ver.  During  his  college  course  he  taught  at 
Orono  and  Cherryfield,  and  was  principal  of 
Bluehill  Academy  during  the  year  following 
his  graduation.  He  then  studied  law  with 
Arno  Wiswell,  Esq.  (Bowdoin,  1841),  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  October,  1873.  He 
entered  immediately  upon  the  practice  of  his 
profession  at  Ellsworth  and  took  a  leading  part 
in  its  municipal  affairs.  He  served  upon  the 
superintending  school  committee,  and  for 
three  years  was  supervisor  of  schools.  In  1876 
he  was  chosen  city  solicitor  and  in  May,  1887, 
was  appointed  judge  of  the  municipal  court,  a 
position  he  held  for  four  years.  In  1884  and 
1885  he  was  elected  mayor.  He  was  also  inter- 
ested in  national  politics  and  for  many  years 
was  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  Democratic  party 
in  Maine.  A  delegate  to  national  conventions  of 
1880  and  1884,  and  an  able  public  speaker,  he 
participated  effectively  in  the  campaign  of  the 
latter  yes.r  in  which  he  was  the  candidate  of 
his  party  for  governor.  By  President  Cleve- 
land he  was  appointed  United  States  Collector 
of  Internal  Revenue  for  Maine,  and  subse- 
quently United  States  Collector  of  Customs 
for  the  District  of  Frenchman's  Bay,  a  position 
he  held  till  1898.  During  the  closing  years  of 
his  life,  he  was  affiliated  with  the  Republican 
party  in  politics  and  served  at  Washington 
from  1905  to  1907  as  a  member  of  the  Board 
of  Pension  Appeals  in  the  Department  of  the 
Interior.  Resuming  practice  at  Ellsworth  he 
was  again  appointed  judge  of  the  municipal 
court.  Judge  Redman  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Overseers  since  1888  and  his 
social  qualities  as  well  as  his  professional  abil- 
ity will  be  missed  in  the  wide  circle  in  which  he 
was  known  and  esteemed.  Pie  never  married. 
His  brother,  Erastus  F.  Redman  (Bowdoin, 
1870)  and  his  nephew,  Fulton  J.  Redman 
(Bowdoin,  1907)  are  his  nearest  surviving  rel- 
atives. 

"92. — The  Boston  Transcript  summarizes  as 
follows  the  difficult  task  which  President  Taft 


has  assigned  to  Professor  H.  C.  Emery  in  his 
recent  visit  to  Ottawa  : 

"Canada  would  like,  in  return  for  her  lift- 
ing of  the  embargo  on  the  exportation  of 
Crown  pulp  wood,  the  free  admission  to  the 
Cnited  States  of  her  paper,  cardboard,  etc. 
She  realizes  that  the  United  States  oft'ers  the 
best  market  for  her  wood  products,  but  she 
knows  also  that  she  can  put  a  good  many 
American  paper  mills  out  of  business  or,  what 
is  better,  transfer  them  to  Canadian  soil,  by 
checking  the  export  of  pulp  wood ;  and  as  the 
United  States  practically,  although  not  admit- 
tedly, legislated  directly  against  the  great 
Canadian  lumber  industry  in  the  Dingley  Act, 
and  never  has  cared,  judging  from  its  tariff 
acts,  what  harm  it  might  do  to  Canadian  pro- 
ducers, the  Dominion  statesmen  are  said  to  see 
no  special  reason  why  they  should  be  solic- 
itous for  American  interests.  The  Canadian 
statesmen  are  too  gOod  business  men  to  let  lit- 
tle matters  of  pique  stand  too  much  in  the  wa) 
of  making  profitable  trade  agreements,  but 
when  they  ask  the  American  commissioners 
what  concessions  the  United  States  will  give  in 
return  for  those  asked,  the  only  answer  the 
American  possibly  can  make  is,  'We  will  give 
you  just  what  you  are  getting  now.' 

This  is  the  Canadian  situation  in  a  nutshell ; 
and  if  Professor  Emery  and  his  associates  can 
straighten  it  out  and  thus  avoid  a  tariff"  war 
with  Canada,  it  will  be  one  of  the  greatest  feats 
in  the  diplomatic  history  of  the  United  States." 

'00. — Joseph  C.  Pearson,  who  for  more 
than  two  years  has  been  engaged  in  scientific 
work  fer  the  Carnegie  Institution,  department 
of  terrestrial  magnetism,  in  Persia,  Arabia, 
Turkey  and  Russia,  is  expected  to  return  home 
some  time  next  month.  He  is  now  in  .\ustria 
and  on  his  way  home.  The  annual  report  of 
the  director  of  the  department  of  terrestrial 
nifgnetism  of  the  Carnegie  Institution  contains 
the  following  description  of  Mr.  Pearson's 
work:  "Mr.  J.  C.  Pearson  continued  the  work 
placed  in  his  charge  in  1908  in  these  countries 
(  Persia,  Baluchistan,  Arabia,  Turkey  in  Asia, 
Russia  in  .\sia,  Russia  in  Europe),  and  up  to 
October  31,  1909,  had  added  51  stations  to  his 
]irevious  list — 13  in  Persia,  at  Gwadur,  Bal- 
uchist.-n;  4  in  Arabia,  at  liasra,  Asia  Minor, 
near  Constantinople,  Turkey ;  20  in  Asiatic 
Russia  ;  1 1  in  European  Russia.  At  several  of 
the  places  results  for  secular  variation  were 
derived.  At  the  beginning  of  the  new  fiscal 
year  Mr.  Pearson  is  at  work  along  the  south- 
ern coast  of  the  Black  Sea,  in  Turkey  in  Asia.