BOWDOIN ORIENT
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VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, APRIL 7, 191 1
NO. I
BOWDOIN VS. WESLEYAN
Bowdoin meets Wesleyan in debate this
evening at Middletown, Conn., and will sup-
port the affirmative side of the question,
"Ri&solved, that, constitutionality being
waived, a graduated income tax should form
a part of the Federal revenue system." The
agreement provides that the debate shall be
amateur in all respects. This provision has
been observed rigidly by the Bowdoin men.
They worked together in Brunswick during
the recess and had speaking practice daily
during the final days of the preparation. The
team is composed of Charles F. Adams, Jr.,
'12; Ernest G. Fifield, '11; Burleigh C.
Rodick, '12; and Earl F. Maloney, '12, alter-
nate. Professor Davis accompanied the team
to Middletown.
T
IBIS LECTURER— PROF. SANTAVANA
The undergraduates, faculty, and friends
of the College are particularly fertunate in
having the opportunity to hear Professor
George Santayana of Harvard University,
who speaks to-night under the auspices of the
Ibis upon the subject of "Shelley: the Influ-
ence of His Opinions upon His Writings."
Professor Santayana is an eminent student of
English literature and also a gifted speaker.
The lecture is to be held in Memorial Hall at
eight o'clock.
PRINCETON, 11; BOWDOIN, 1
The Bowdoin team opened the season of
191 1, March 28, by a defeat at the hands of
Princeton on the grounds of the latter. The
score was 11 to i. The weather conditions
were very unfavorable, as it was a cold, raw
day with a high wind blowing. Woodcock
was not very effective and allowed 14 passes.
Grant, who succeeded him, showed up well.
The fielding feature of the game was a diving
catch of a fly by Purington. For Princeton,
Sterrett played well in the field and clouted the
ball in great shape.
The score:
Bowdoin
ab r h po a e
Weatherill, 3b 4 o i 2 3 0
Lawlis, 2b 3 o o 2 2 o
Wilson, c 4 o I 7 5 o
Clifford, lb 4 o i 8 o 2
Brooks, l.f 3 0 o o o o
Purington, c.f 4 I 2 3 I I
Skolfield, r.f 401000
O'Neil, ss 3 o I 2 2 I
Woodcock, p 2 o 0 o I I
Grant, p i o o o i o
Totals 25 I 7 24 IS s
Princeton
ab r h po a e
Bard, r.f I I 0 I o o
Carter, c.f I 2 o o o 0
Rheem, c.f I o o I o o
White, 3b 4 I I o 2 0
Sterrett, l.f 523500
Prescott, 2b 2 i o i 4 i
Winnants, ib 4 2 i 9 o o
Taylor, c 200730
Worthington, ss .3 i o 3 i o
Rogers, p 2 i o 2 o o
Totals 25 II S 27 12 I
Summary: Three-base hit — Winnants; sacrifice
hits — Bard, Prescott (2), Worthington. Stolen
bases — Sterrett, Prescott, Winnants, Taylor, Wilson,
Purington, Skolfield. Base on balls— off Rogers, i;
off Woodcock, 14; off Grant, i. Hits— off Wood-
cock, 4; off Grant, I. Struck out— By Rogers, 6;
by Woodcock, 3; by Grant, i. Hit by pitcher —
Carter, Lawlis. Time — 2 hours 10 minutes. Um-
pire— ^Johnston.
PRINCETON, 7; BOWDOIN, 0
The second game with Princeton was
played in the rain and had to be called at the
end of the fourth inning. Means was in the
box for Capt. Lawlis' men and his lack of con-
trol at critical moments was disastrous. Pur-
ington was kept out of the game by a sprained
ankle and Grant took his place in the field.
The score:
Bowdoin
ab r h po a e
Weatherill, 3b 3 o o 2 i o
Lawlis, 2b 3 o i 0 i i
Wilson, c 2 o o 3 I I
Clifford, lb i o 0 S 0 i
Brooks, l.f 202100
Skolfield, r.f i o o o O o
Grant, c.f i o 0 i o 0
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O'Neil, ss 2
Means, p 2
Totals 17
Princeton
Bard, r.f 2
Carter, c.f I
White, 3b 2
Sterrett, l.f 2
Prescott, 2b 3
Winnants, lb 3
Woodle, p 3
Worthington, ss I
Taylor, c I
Totals 18
7 7 IS 4 I
Summary: Three-base hits, Winnants, Sterrett;
two-base hit, Prescott. Base on balls, off Means S,
off Woodle, 3. Struck out, by Means 2; by Woodle
7. Stolen bases, Sterrett, Prescott. Umpire, John-
ston.
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, 13; BOWDOIN, 5
In the third game of the series, Bowdoin
was defeated by St. John's College, Brooklyn,
by a score of 13 to 5. Both pitchers were
touched up rather freely, Bowdoin getting
fourteen hits and St. John's, 10.
Grant for Bowdoin showed good pitching
form, but blew up in the sixth inning, when
the Catholic college scored seven runs. Wil-
son had a good day with the stick, registering
three safeties.
The game was played on an emergency
field not suitable for baseball purposes, and as
a result there were a number of errors on both
sides. The weather was chilly and a high
wind handicapped the players.
The score :
Bowdoin
ab r i-i po a e
Weatherill, 3b 5 2 i i i
Lawlis, 2b 4 o i i i
Wilson, c S o 3 9 I
Cliflford, lb S i 2 8 o
Brooks, If S o , 2 i o
Purington, cf 3 o I 3 o
Skolfield, rf 4 I 2 i I
O'Neil, ss 5 I I I 4
Woodcock, p 0 o o 0 I
Grant, p 4 o i 0 2
Totals 40
14 24 ID
St. John's College
ab r h po a e
Creeny, l.f 3 3 2 0 0 o
Jallon, c.f 5 I o I o 0
Burchill, 3b 5 2 2 3 i 2
Tracey, ss 5 2 i i 3 3
Dwyer, 2b 4 i i i 3 i
Dempsey, c 5 o o 8 i 0
Driscoll, r.f 41 1000
Keenan, ib 4 2 2 2 o o
Quigley, p 4 i i o 6 o
Totals 39 13 10 26 14 6
Summary : Two-base hits — Creeny, Dwyer. Base
on balls, off Woodcock ^, off Grant I, off Quigley 2.
Struck out, bv Grant 8, bv Quigley 7. Hit b" pitcher,
Weatherill. Time of game — 2 hours.
BROWN, 6; BOWDOIN, 2
In the best game of the trip. Brown de-
feated Bowdoin, April i, on Andrews Field,
by a score of 6 to 2.
Means pitched the whole game for the
White and showed very good form. He
allowed only six hits, but these came at criti-
cal times and resulted in scores. Clifford at
first base was the star of the infield and exe-
cuted a number of very difficult catches. Wil-
son played a steady game behind the bat. The
team kept up their batting streak and made as
many safeties as their opponents.
Brown's infield played in mid-season form
and the whole team put up an excellent game.
Reilly and Nash were their stars. '
The weather continued cold and raw for
this last game of the series, and, by agreement
of the managers, was called at the end of the
seventh inning.
The score :
Bowdoin
H PO A E
Weatherill, 3b 2 o 0 0
Lawlis, 2b i i .0 o
Wilson, c I 2 7 I
Clifford, lb o 12 o 0
Brooks, If ••••.. 1200
Purington, c.f o I o o
Skolfield, r.f o 0 o o
O'Neil, ss I o o i
Means, p o o 5 o
Totals 6 18 12 2
Brown
H PO A E
W. Nash, ss I 2 3 0
Dukette, 2b i 2 i i
Giles, lb o 6 I I
Staff, l.f 0000
Reilly, 3b i o 0 0
Witherow, r.f 2 I o 0
R. Nash, c.f I 3 0 0
Snell, c o 7 3 2
Warner, p 0 0 3 0
Conzelman, p 0 o 2 o
*Clark 0 0 o 0
Tota.ls 6 21 13 4
. "'Batted for Warner in fourth.
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SCORE EY INNINGS
Bowdoin o
Brown o
34567
30021 — 6
Summarjf : Runs made by, K. Nash, Dukette,
Giles, Staff, Witherow, R. Nash, Skolfield, Means.
Two-base hits, Witherow, Wilson ; three base hit,
R. Nash. Base on balls, off Warner 2, off Conzel-
man 4, off Means 3. Struck out, by Warner S, by
Conzelman 2. Sacrifice hits, Giles, R. Nash, War-
ner (2). Left on bases, Brown 8, Bowdoin 6. Hit
by pitched ball, Staff. Passed balls, Snell 2.
pire, Rudderham. Time — I hour, 45 minutes,
tendance, 300.
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Um-
At-
Coach 'Walter H. Nortoo
The results of the games as indicated by
the scores, are, indeed such as not to inspire
optimism concerning this year's baseball aspira-
tions ; but considering the conditions, the show-
ing made by the team was creditable. The
weather throughout the trip was cold and
windy, and did not allow the practice which
the manager had planned for in New York
City. The first time the team stepped on an
outdoor field this year was the warming up
before the first Princeton game.
The team batted much better than usually
is the case, during the trip, and the weak
point seemed to be in base running. This
weakness can soon be remedied when Coach
Norton gets his charges working out on the
Delta. The infield worked well together for
early season and Weatherill ,the new man at
third, seemed to fit in well. O'Neil at short
played up to form. Cliflrord at first did some
sensational work. Wilson behind the bat was
very steady and compared very well with the
opposing catchers. The outfield did not play
up to the form of the infield, but batted fairly
well.
Of the pitchers. Means showed up very
well in the Brown game. Grant did good box
work in the St. John's game aside from one
bad inning, and may round into a winner.
Woodcock was very erratic, but this may be
expected of a southpaw at the first of the
season.
The team reported excellent treatment
throughout their visits at the various colleges.
In New York they stopped at the Hotel York.
A number of Bowdoin grads were at the St.
John's game, and met the team elsewhere.
Strict training rules were observed.
Coach Norton got his first line on his
charges during the trip and while not entirely
pleased with the showing made, believes that
the chances for a winning team are not at all
discouraging.
Those to make the trip were Capt. Law-
lis, Clifford, Brooks, Wilson, O'Neil, Means,
Purington, Grant, Woodcock, Skolfield,
Weatherill, Norton, Coach, and Leigh, man-
FRESHMAN=SOPHOMORE DEBATE
Preparations are now being made for the
Freshman-Sophomore debate, which will be
held about April 28. The class teams have
already been selected, and L. A. Crosby, P.
H. Douglas and M. W. Greene, with C. B.
Haskell as alternate, will speak for 1913,
while the Freshmen debaters will be E. C.
Gage, A. E. Gray and A. W. Newcombe, with
R. E. Simpson as alternate. The question
for discussion is, "Resolved, That United
States senators should be elected by direct
vote of the people." The Freshmen, who
will be coached by Callahan, '11, will uphold
the affirmative side of the question, and the
Sophomores, whose coach is Marston, '11,
will defend the negative.
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THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WALTER A. FULLER, 1912 Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
Associate Editors
W. A. MacCORMICK, 1912 F. D. WISH. Jr., 1913
L. E. JONES. 1913 F. K. ALLING, 1914
V. R. LEAVITT. 1913 R. D. LEIGH. 1914
K. A. ROBINSON. 1914
H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
H. B. WALKER, 1913
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Vol. XLI. APRIL 7, 1911 No. I
The new Orient Board
The New Orient takes up its work with a
feeHng of regret that it
must face its task with so httle experience.
The short span of college life makes it neces-
sary that one board of editors shall be replaced
by another just as it is beginning to profit by
its year's labor. The new board can only
partly profit by the experience of the old and
must traverse somewhat the- same path. While
this is true we may gain much from the many
good qualities of the work of the old board
and realize that many of its errors were of our
making and therefore a part of our own expe-
rience.
It is impossible to speak of an Orient pol-
icy as a fixed and definite set of plans. Each
incoming board must introduce its own ideas
and must endeavor to carry them out honestly.
But in a broader sense there should be an
Orient policy which can be identified with
what is best in the Bowdoin spirit. In this
sense we feel that we share a common bond
with past editors. We feel that each has
endeavored to do his utmost toward a better
Bowdoin. In this spirit we, too, wish to act.
That we shall make mistakes in so doing is
inevitable. Not only do we lack the mature
judgment of manhood, but we have as yet not
even attained the dignity of Seniors. With
this in mind we ask only that criticism be
offered in the same spirit in which we will
strive to do our work in the year to come, a
true love for old Bowdoin.
The baseball team has re-
To the Team turned from its trip with a
record of defeats, but its
record of work is by no means so bad as might
appear. Coach Norton reports that the men
have done well under the circumstances.
Without a day of outdoor practice they had
to make a very hard trip and in one game at
least played very good ball. It is no time for
criticism but rather for encouragement. This
the Orient extends to a team which has
worked and is working at its best.
The New
Baseball Coach
The Orient extends a
hearty welcome to Coach
Norton. As yet he has
hardly been seen on the campus, but his
atractive personality has won him the loyalty
of all the men who made the trip in his charge.
A scholar as well as an athlete, he is an admir-
able man to coach a team which shall well rep-
resent the White.
INDOOR MEET
/
The annual indoor interclass meet, held in
the Town Hall, Friday, March 17th, was won
by the Juniors with 41 1-3 points. The Sen-
iors, Sophomores and Freshmen finished in the
order named, with 22, 19 and 16 2-3 points
respectively. Three events, the 780-yard run,
the mile run, and the 45-yard low hurdles, were
run on the outdoor track. The winner of the
780 was no surprise, but many were mildly
astonished at the fine race run by Russell. He
was an easy second with Gray third. The re-
sult of the 45-yard low hurdles upset the dope-
ster's sheet, McKenney's speed overcoming the
form of the others, although McKenney was
not altogether crude in the latter respect. Mc-
Farland was second and Wiggin third. The
mile was run in slow time, especially the first
few laps. Hall won with Howe a good second
and Skillin third.
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The indoor events in tlie evening were run
off in good shape with the help of "Nick," who
was right in his element. The shot-put was
won by G. Kern with 35 ft. 1-2 in. Frank
Smith was second and Simpson third. Kern's
and Simpson's puts were made in the trials.
The Juniors scored every point in this event.
The high jump was won by Green with 5 ft. 5
in. L. T. Brown did well in spite of a lame
foot, taking second. Pierce was third. In
the 25-yard hurdles, Wiggin and McFarland
were again nosed out, this time by Frank
Smith. Wiggin was given second and Mc-
Farland third. The pole vault was won easily
by Hubbard. Kern, A. S. Merrill and Mason
were tied for second and third places, and
divided the four points among them. The 20-
yard dash had more contestants than any other
event and it was necessary to run several heats.
McKenney finally won it with Purington sec-
ond, and Skolfield third.
The relay races were close and exciting.
The Juniors beat the Freshmen and the Soph-
omoi-es beat the Seniors. In the finals the
Juniors and Freshmen won. The judges
awarded the drill to the Juniors, with the
Seniors second and the Freshmen third.
The relay race between Bates, 1914, and
Bowdoin, 1914, was won by Bates.
The High School relay was won by Bruns-
wick.
780-YARD Run — 1st, Emery, '13; 2d, Russell, '14;
3d, Gray, '12. Time — i min. 51 sec.
4S-YAED Low Hurdles — ist, McKenney, '12; 2d,
McFarland, '11; 3d, Wiggin, '11. Time — 5.6 sec.
Mile Run — ist, Hall, '13; 2d, Howe, '11; 3d, W.
Skillin, '11. Time — S min.
Shot Put — ist, G. Kern, '12, 2d, Smith, '12; 3d,
Simpson, '12. 35 ft. 1-2 in.
Running High Jump — ist, W. Green, '13; 2d,
L. T. Brown, '14; 3d, Pierce, 11. S ft. 5 in.
25- Yard Hurdles — ist. Smith, '12; 2d, Wiggin,
'11; 3d, McFarland, 11. Time — 4 sec.
Pole Vault — ist, Hubbard, '14; tied for second;
Kern, '12; A. S. Merrill, '14; Mason, '14. 8 ft. 9 in.
20-Yard Dash — ist, McKenney, '12; 2d, Puring-
ton, '11; 3d, Skolfield, '13. Time — 2 4-5 sec.
Class Relay Races — ist, 1912; 2d, 1913 ; 3d,
1914.
Class Drills — ist, 1912; 2d, 1911; 3d, 1914.
School relay races won by Brunswick High.
Time — 21.2 sec.
Relay RACE^Bates 1914 vs. Bowdoin 1914. Won
by Bates. Time — 21.3 sec.
Officials — Referee, Dr. W. W. Bolster of Lewis-
ton ; Judges of Drills, Dr. Copeland, Prof. Hutch-
ins, Col. H. A. Wing; Judges of Floor and Track
Events, Prof Nixon, Mr. Alvord, R. D. Puring-
ton; Timers, Dr. Whittier, S. B. Furbish, H. K.
Hine ; Measurers, J. L. McConaughy, H. M. Berry,
E. O. Leigh; Starter, B. C. Morrill; Scorer, E. G.
Fifield ; Announcer, W. N. Emerson ; Clerk of
Course, H. L. Robinson ; Assistant Clerks of Course,
T. W. Daniels, E. L. Morss.
CONFERENCE OF PREPARATORY SCHOOL
PRINCIPALS
To-morrow is to be held a conference of
principals and school superintendents of the
preparatory schools of the State to consider
the matter of college entrance requirements,
and relations between the college and the
schools. The first session will be held in the
morning- in Hubbard Hall. At noon the vis-
itors will be guests of the Faculty at the Eagle
Hotel, after which an afternoon session will be
held. The agitation is along the lines of the
movement started at Harvard, and the idea of
the conference is to see if the schools feel the
need of changes. The principal schools will
be represented.
DEATH OF ANOTHER OF THE OVERSEERS
In the death of Oliver Crocker Stevens, '74,
the College has suffered the loss of another of
its Overseers as well as of a loyal and devoted
son. Mr. Stevens died in California and was
buried in St. Albans, Vermont. Professor
Johnson represented the Faculty at the
funeral.
Y. M. C. A. ELECTION
At a meeting attended by more than 70
members of the Christian Association, on
March 23, reports were made by the officers
and committee chairman and the following
officers were chosen for the new year :
President, W. A. MacCormick, '12; Vice-
President, J. L. Hurley, '12; Corresponding
Secretary, C. O. Warren, '12; Treasurer, C.
R. Crowell, '13; Recording Secretary, A. S.
Merrill, '14; members of Alumni Advisory
Committee for one year, P. F. Chapman, '06;
and H. H. Burton, '09.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
The College Preacher on Sunday, March
nineteenth, was Samuel McChord Crothers,
Litt.D., of Cambridge, Mass. He is the
author of "The Gentle Reader" and "By the
Christmas Fire." Dr. Crothers spoke simply,
but with a direct appeal, upon the relation be-
BOWDOtN ORIENT
tween work and worship, taking his text from
Chronicles I. He said, "the King appointed
singers unto the Lord to lead the hosts with
song and praise," and showed how necessary
spiritual inspiratioia was, and how it glorified
the work of the world. Dr. Crothers spoke
also in the "Church on the Hill" at the morn-
VESPER SERVICE
The speaker at the Vesper Service on Sunday
will be Mr. J. O. Robbins, who has recently been a
missionary in the Philippines. Mr. Robbins will
speak of his impressions of his work there, upon the
subject: "America's Opportunity in the Philippines."
Mr. Robbins is a Secretary of the Student Volun-
teer Movement, in which capacity he has recently
visited many of the largest American Universities.
Last year he spoke in many cities before large
audiences under the auspices of the Laymen's Mis-
sionary Movement. After graduating from Brown
he was a mining engineer in Alaska for some time,
before leaving for the Philippines. In the evening,
Mr, Robbins will talk very informally at the Delta
Kappa Epsilon House about the life in the Philip-
pines and the opportunities for college men pre-
sented there. The leaders of Missionary Study
Classes and collectors for Mr. Hiwale are specially
urged to be present.
Brunswick ; Misses Helen Cooper and Hazel Perry
of Rockland ; Misses lone Lackee, Florence Home,
and Doris Powers of Portland ; Miss' Mildred
Lamb of Sangerville ; Miss Caro Chapman of Fair-
field ; Miss Golda Gushee of Farmington ; Misses
Eleanor and Katherine Leydon of Bath ; Miss
Marion Greene of Madison and Miss Estelle A.
Sweet of Augusta.
CALENDAR
Friday, April 7
8.00 Lecture under auspices of the Ibis. Professor
G. Santayana, of Harvard, on "Shelley."
Memorial Hall.
8.00 Bowdoin-Wesleyan Debate at Middletown.
"Resolved, That constitutionality being waived,
a graduated income tax should form a part of
our federal revenue system." Bowdoin will
support the affirmative.
Saturday, April 8
8.15 "Three Twins" at the Jefferson Theatre.
Portland.
Sunday, April 9
10.4s Morning service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
5.00 Chapel, conducted by Mr. J. O. Robbins, Sec-
retary of the Student Volunteer Movement.
"America's Opportunity in the Philippines."
7.1S Informal talk by Mr. Robbins at the D. K. E.
House.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES
The Pejepscot Sunday School and Boys' Club
opened again this week. They have been closed for
some time because of sickness of the pupils.
The Gym Class for Grammar School Boys, con-
ducted by the Y. M. C. A., is meeting Saturday
mornings with Bert Morrill as leader.
The box of clothing for Dr. Grenfell will be sent
on the first ship this spring for Labrador. _ More
clothing, or magazines for the Sailors' Mission in
Gloucester, will be gladly received by the Social Ser-
vice Committee.
Bishop Codman will hold a conformation ser-
vice at the Episcopal Church, Sunday evening, to
which all Episcopal students are welcomed.
ZETA PSI DANCE
The Senior Delegation of the Zeta Psi Fraternity
entertained with a dance at the Chapter House,
Friday evening, March 24th. Mrs. Cooper, of Rock-
land, served as chaperon. The patronesses were
Mrs. Henry Johnson, Mrs. Roscoe J. Ham, and Mrs.
Hartley C. Baxter, of Brunswick. Lovell's Orches-
tra, of Brunswick, played for the order of twenty
dances. The committee of arrangements consisted
of Fred C. Black, '11, of Rockland; Frank H.
Burns, '11, of Bristol Mills, and D. Scribner Hyler,
'11, of Rockland.
Among the guests were Misses Margaret
Hutchins, Sarah Baxter, Helen Baxter, Margaret
Day, Helen Merriman, and Alfretta Graves of
College Botes
The mid-term review of classes will take place,
Monday.
Burns, '11, broke a finger in baseball practice,
Tuesday afternoon.
Brummett, '11, Wiggin, '11, and Duffey, '14, at-
tended the Brown game.
The baseball men had their first outdoor home
practice, Tuesday afternoon, on the Delta.
The date for the Minstrel Show has been set as
April 22, the Saturday after the Rally.
D. K. Merrill, '14, has been chosen president of a
grammar school baseball league in Portland.
The Bowdoin debaters, who meet Wesleyan to-
day, stayed at the Copley Square Hotel, Boston, last
evening.
Herr Leutge, German Exchange Professor at
Exeter, will address the Deutscher Verein on
April 13.
Sewall, '13, stopped a runaway horse attached to
a grocery wagon, on Maine Street, one afternoon
before college closed for the recess.
The candidates for assistant manager of baseball
have been busy the last few afternoons clearing snow
from the diamond on Whittier Field.
Professors Woodruff, Sills and Nixon attended
the meeting of the New England Classical Associa-
tioa at Exeter, N. H., March 31 and April i.
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A Pop Concert for the benefit of the town
library is to be held in the Town Hall on May i.
The orchestra will be led by F. E. Kendrie, 'lo,
and the program will include many college songs.
Debaters representing Portland and Lewiston
High Schools will meet in Brunswick, Saturday,
April 15, to decide the winner of the Bowdoin Inter-
scholastic Debating League.
AT THE ART BUILDING
A copy of Vuillefroy's "Return to the Herd" by
Mrs. Annette Estelle Saunders has been added to
the art collection. The original hangs in the Luxem-
bourg.
LIBRARY NOTES
The Library has recently received, through the
courtesy of the Inter-Collegiate Association of Ama-
teur Athletes of America, a set of three books, depict-
ing in text and photographs the last three annual
track and field meets of that Association.
The first book has for its subject the Intercolle-
giate chamoionships of igoS which were held on
Franklin Field of the University of Pennsylvania.
The second volume treats in the same way the 34th
annual meeting at Soldiers' Field, Harvard Univer-
sity, igog, and the third volume deals with the 35th
annual meeting at Philadelphia in igio.
These books are unusually well illustrated with
photographs showing all the events, most of them
being action pictures. In each book the photographs
are accompanied with a full textual and statistical
description of the meet. In fact, the books contain
for each year a complete record of every performer,
including all who were eliminated in the preliminary
trials. The same detail is extended to the first and
second cross country runs which were held at Prince-
ton in November, 1908, and at Boston in igog.
Another feature of great value is the compila-
tion of a set of statistics showing every point win-
ner and his performance for every meet from 1876,
the date of the Association's organization, to the
present. These statistics were secured after long
search by the editor and are found in no other book.
Edward R. Bushnell, of the University of Penn-
sylvania, edited the books for the Association. The
Committee on Publication consists of Gustavus T.
Kirby, Columbia ; Thornton Gerrish, Harvard, and
Romeyn Berry, Cornell.
The Library has just received, through the kind-
ness of Gen. T. H. Hubbard, the special edition de
luxe of Admiral Peary's "North Pole," together
with a number of other valuable books relating to
Arctic exploration.
INTERCOLLEGIATE NOTES
The choice of a successor to Dr. Woodrow
Wilson, as President of Princeton University, has
been narrowed down by a process of elimination, to
John H. Finley of the City College of New York
and John Grier Hibben, now occupying the chair of
logic at Princeton.
Many well known university professors will
deliver addresses at the Second Annual Conference
of Instructors of Public Speaking in the colleges of
the North Atlantic States. The meetings will be
held at the City College, New York, on April 14
and 15.
The eighteenth annual indoor gymnastic exhi-
bition and track meet was held at Bates on the
evening of April 3rd.
Preliminary trials are being held in several
colleges in preparation for the New England Inter-
collegiate Oratorical contest to be held here May
4th.
An item in the report of Dean Hurlbut of Har-
vard states that the 2308 undergraduates of Harvard
had to their credit, or discredit, a trifle over 75,000
inexcusable cuts during the last college year.
A new tabulation of students at the University of
Minnesota shows that the total attendance is 5641.
An eight weeks' course in embalming has been
established temporarily at the University of Michi-
gan.
The authorities at Oberlin College have decided
to eliminate* algebra and trigonometry from the list
of required subjects in Freshman year, contending
that a type of mind capable of profiting by mathe-
matical training may receive the necessary develop-
ment from the classics.
The students of Columbia University are to
present to the trustees a petition asking that a $10
athletic assessment be added to the tuition fee.
At Princeton, 65 undergraduates failed to sur-
vive the mid-year examinations.
Nearly a thousand students at the University of
Illinois are earning their own way.
Yale will probably not follow Harvard in allow-
ing partial certification for entrance examinations by
preparatory schools, including the public high
schools.
The Wisconsin law which exempts from taxation
all property owned by colleges, has been declared
imconstitutional.
Of the 4go members of Congress, 297, or about
sixty per cent., are college men. Nearly one hun-
dred colleges- or universities are represented in this
number.
Conferences similar to that scheduled for to-
morrow, between the preparatory school principals
and the members of the Faculty, were held recently
at the University of Cincinnati and the University
of Michigan. The movement for the co-operation
of colleges and preparatory schools on the subject
of entrance requirements seems to be thriving.
Harvard has established a Bureau of Research in
Municipal Government.
Fearing the establishment of compulsory chapel
at the University of Pennsylvania, the students in
each dormitory have appointed one of their number
to serve as a "human alarm clock" each morning.
The University of Pennsylvania has established a
course in wireless telegraphy and has equipped a
complete laboratory to afford practical instruction.
The new University of the Philippines located in
Manila, of which Rev. Dr. Murray Bartlett has been
appointed President, is meeting with splendid suc-
cess. Its School of Fine Arts has almost 800 en-
rolled.
The Cosmopolitan Club of Yale is making a col-
lection for the benefit of famine victims in China.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
Hlumni department
'57. — Hampden Fairfield died at his home
in Saco, Wednesday evening, March 16, after
a long and painful illness, dating back some
few years. Mr. Fairfield was born in Saco,
December 8, 1835, the son of Hon. John
Fairfield, Governor of Maine in 1839, '42,
and '43. Mr. Fairfield secured his common
and high school education in Saco. After
completing his college course he studied law
with Mr. Moses Emery of Saco, and was
admitted to the York county bar in January,
i860. In November, 1870, Mr. Fairfield
came to Saco to practice his profession and
lived there ever since. In 1859, Mr. Fairfield
married Miss Ellen Perkins, daughter of Cap-
tain Hovey Perkins, at Kennebunk, Me. He
is survived by his wife and five children.
The greater part of Mr. Fairfield's life was
given to the practice of law. He was signally
successful in his work and built up an exten-
sive business. In politics he was a Democrat,
giving to his party .his aid and help at all
times. In his social relations, Mr. Fairfield
was liked and respected by all who knew him.
As a citizen, Mr. Fairfield was true to his
principles and aided every cause for his city.
'67. — Winfield S. Hutchinson, lawyer, and
one of the best known residents of Newton,
Mass., succumbed to heart trouble March 20,
191 1, in Newton. Mr. Hutchinson was born
in Buckfield, Me., May 27, 1845. He
Elttended Paris Hill and Hebron academies
and was graduated from Bowdoin in the Class
of 1867. He graduated from the Harvard
Law School in 1873. He had been identified
with the American Bell Telephone Company
since 1892. He was a director in this com-
pany, as well as in the Central Union Tele-
graph Company, and was formerly vice-presi-
dent of the Western Telephone and Tele-
graph Companies. He was a member of the
Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa frater-
nities, the Masons and the Boston City Club.
'76. — Oliver Crocker Stevens, a Boston
lawyer, died at Pasadena, Cal., Saturday,
March 25, born June 3, 1855. Mr. Stevens
secured his preparatory education in the Bos-
ton grammar and Latin schools and gradu-
ated from Bowdoin in 1876. In 1884, Bow-
doin conferred upon him the degree of A.M.
In June, 1879, he graduated from the Boston
University Law School with the degree of
LL.B. Mr. Stevens had been a member of
the Board of Overseers of Bowdoin and at
one time was president of the Bowdoin
Alumni Association of Boston. He is sur-
vived by his wife, Mrs. Julia Burnett Smith
Stevens, and a brother.
'80.— Hon. D. J. McGillicuddy, '81, of
Lewiston, has appointed Col. H. A. Wing of
Lewiston, as his private secretary. Col. Wing
is a well-known Maine newspaper man. In
1892, he started the Lezviston Sun. In 1896,
Mr. Wing became correspondent from Maine
for the Boston Herald, a position he held until
the change of management in 1910. Since
then he has been State correspondent for the
Portland Evening Express. Col. Wing is a
member of the present Athletic Council.
'93. — Mr. J. W. Lambert is superintend-
ent of schools for the district of Kennebunk
and Kennebunkport, Me.
'99. — Dr. Frederick H. Files died at Mad-
ison, South Dakota, on March i, after an ill-
ness of pneumonia. Dr. Files was born in
Gorham and was a graduate of Bowdoin and
of the Medical School in 1899. Dr. Files was
active in fraternal circles, being at one time
grand master of the Masonic order in South
Dakota.
'00. — Harold P. West of Auburn, died
suddenly in the Bellevue hospital in New
York City, Saturday afternoon, March 26,
191 1. His illness had been but brief, begin-
ning with rheumatic fever, complicated with
the grip. Mr. West has been a private tutor
in French and German in New York this
winter and has been a most successful
teacher. Mr. West was only 33 years of age
at the time of his death. After graduating
from Bowdoin, he studied at the Columbian
University at Washington. Later he attended
several European schools, including the Sor-
bonne in Paris.
'06. — George Parcher, M.D., has been ap-
pointed assistant surgeon in the United States
public health and marine hospital service at
Ellis Island, New York Harbor.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The Ninety-first Annual Course of Lectures will begin
Thursday, 0(5tober 13, 1910, and continue to June 21, igil.
Four courses of lecftures are required of all who matricu-
late as first-course students.
The courses are graded and cover Ledtures, Recitatioiib,
Laboratory Work and Clinical Instrutflion.
The third and fourth year classes will receive their entire
instruflion at Portland, where excellent clinical facilities will
be afforded at the Maine General Hospital.
For catalogue, apply to
ALFRED MITCHELL, M.D., Dtan.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLl
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, APRIL 14, 191 1
NO. 2
NEW QYM RALLY
"The best yet" is the promise of the Stu-
dent Council for the big Spring Rally which
occurs next Friday evening, April 21, in
Memorial Hall. The members of the Council
are working hard in preparation for the big
event, but are saying nothing. Judging, how-
ever, from the high standard of success of
every enterprise the 191 1 Council has under-
taken, the night will be one to be long remem-
bered by Bowdoin undergraduates.
The slogan of the big affair will be the
"new gym" and this subject which is so close
to the students' interests will be given a large
share of attention in the speeches. The list of
speakers is not yet to be given out, but it will
absolutely be the best, the most carefully
selected and most enthusiastic collection of
orators ever gathered together in old iVIemo-
rial.
In addition to the speeches and the uncork-
ing of enthusiasm for the new gym, there will
be the band in full force with some new pieces
and lots of harmonized noise. There will also
be a souvenir for each one there and this will
be something original and appropriate, and
there will be refreshments and plenty of the
necessaries with which to smoke.
A large number of alumni will be back to
"sing to old Bowdoin" once more and every
student is urged to do his best to secure as
large a number of sub-freshmen as possible.
Remember and prepare for the date, one
week from to-night. Memorial Hall can nicely
accommodate 338 Bowdoin students, in addi-
tion to a large number of alumni and friends.
The question is, can the roof stand all those
outbursts of enthusiasm.
The faculty will turn out, alumni from
miles around are going to turn out, surely
every student will be there.
MINSTREL SHOW
April 22 has been set positively as the date
for the annual baseball Minstrel Show. This
is the night following the big Spring Rally
and a large number of alumni will stay over
for the black-face entertainment. Those who
are entertaining sub-freshmen will also do well
to keep them over for the show.
R. H. Toothaker, who has been director of
the minstrels since the establishment of the
yearly event, is at the head of this year's pro-
duction and is being assisted by Mr. Kaharl.
Under their tutelage the chorus and princi-
pals have been working for more than a month
and the results of their efforts will be seen on
the 22d in the most finished and professional
black-face performance ever put on by the
students.
Frank Smith will start those "funny, funny
jokes" at centre and at the extreme ends will
be seen those old-time favorites and side-split-
ters, "Mistah William Clifford and Mistah
Arthuh Welch." Callahan, L. Brown, Wood-
cock, and King will also occupy wing posi-
tions and assist in the festivities.
The first part of the show will contain a
number of new features beside Artie Welch's
voice and Bill Clifford's mouth which will be
surprises to the audience. The olio, however,
will contain an innovation in Brunswick the-
atrical circles. It will be in the line of a re-
turn to the old southern plantation life and
melodies. Old Black Joe will be rendered in
a way to make Prof. Baker turn green with
envy and the lighting effects bid fair to rival
the most startling novelties offered at the
"Pastime." From curtain to curtain the show
is bound to please and amuse the audience,
from the seniors in the bald-headed row to the
small boy in the top gallery.
Tickets for the performance will be placed
on sale at Chandler's and the date for pur-
chasing them will be announced later.
RESULT OF BALLOT ON INTERFRATERNITY
BASEBALL
At the fraternity meetings, Wednesday
evening, a ballot was taken on the subject of
interfraternity baseball with the following
results : Psi Upsilon, Theta Delta Chi, Delta
Upsilon, and Beta Theta Pi voted in favor of
the games, while Zeta Psi and Kappa Sigma
opposed them. Delta Kappa Epsilon voted in
favor of games providing that they be played
at 6 A.M. or at 5 p.m., so as not to interfere
with track and baseball practice. The vote
of Alpha Delta Phi was not received.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
DEBATE WON BY WESLEYAN
Judges Give Decision Against Bowdoin by Two to
One Vote
Wesleyan won the intercollegiate debate
from Bowdoin last Friday night by a divided
vote of the judges. It will be recalled that
Bowdoin won by a similar decision in Bruns-
wick last year, and that Wesleyan was victo-
rious in the first debate held between the two
colleges two years ago.
Each of the teams this year, after having
failed to anticipate correctly the line of argu-
ment selected by the other side, succeeded
poorly in readjusting its case to meet that of
its opponents. Moreover, Bowdoin was ob-
viously at some disadvantage in having to sup-
port a graduated income tax ; one of the judges
stated that the team performed this difficult
task "magnificently." This statement should
in no way discredit, however, the victory of
the Wesleyan debaters, who succeeded ■ in
establishing a reasonable presumption against
the tax as a part of our federal revenue sys-
tem. Both teams showed good form.
Burleigh C. Rodick spoke first for the
affirmative and endeavored to show that the
tax was necessary to restore equilibrium to
our present tax system since attempts to reach
personalty have failed; and for the additional
reason that the tariff bears too heavily on the
less well-to-do.
This argument was admitted by C. M.
Panunzio, the first speaker for Wesleyan. He
worked out several practical difficulties, how-
ever, in the administration of the tax and said
the tax would drive capital from the country.
E. G. Fifield, speaking second for Bowdoin,
described the practical working of a tax mod-
eled on that in use in England.
G. T. Buck spoke second for Wesleyan and
said that we should not try to use England's
tax because the economic and social conditions
of the two countries differ.- He held the
English method of collection and the idea of
graduation to be incompatible. If we adopted
the tax the officers of its administration could
not or would not be selected by civil service
and corruption would result.
C. F. Adams, the last speaker for Bowdoin,
endeavored to prove that no tax now existing
in the United States taxed wealth according
to the theory of "ability to pay." He tried
also to show the fiscal necessity for the income
tax and held that if more money is to be raised
by the Federal government the income tax
should be used. An income tax, he said, was
necessary to tend to curb governmental ex-
travagance and for the reform of our bud-
getory system.
W. R. Montgomery closed the main
speeches of the negative. He said that if our
tax system was defective we should reform
our budgetory system. England, he held, does
not have a graduated tax. The system, he
said, is founded on a flat rate.
Comparing the two teams, one might call
them about ecjual in form. In rebuttal, neither
side was remarkable. There was much repeti-
tion of things already proved or admitted by
the other side. Some points were made which
were too remote from the point at issue and
several mis-statements were made. The most
sufficient reason why Bowdoin lost was that
she did not meet the practical objections
thrown up by the negative.
After the debate a college smoker was held
in the Chi Psi lodge in honor of the visiting
team.
LECTURE BY PROFESSOR SANTAYANA
V
Professor Santayana of Harvard Univer-
sity spoke in Memorial Hall last Friday even-
ing upon the subject of "Shelley" under the
auspices of the Ibis. Professor Santayana
lectured fully upon the philosophy of Shelley
without considering the text and import
of his writings except as they reflected
the opinions of their author. The idealism of
this great poet was the particular theme of the
lecture. Professor Santayana showed com-
pletely that the extremes to which this philos-
ophy carried Shelley are not essentially dis-
couraging. Likewise, he also showed that
the poet's works are famous even though he
did not put his whole mind into them, a cir-
cumstance quite contrary to the usual rule.
Considering this special element of ideal-
ism in detail. Professor Santayana carefully
displayed the excess of passion and the
extreme freedom of spirit that so particularly
characterize Shelley. The fact that this poet
believed that man could himself expel evil
from his nature proclaims his lack of under-
standing nature. Shelley was also extremely
variable in ideas, consequently he could form
no fixed idea of the universe. His failure to
realize that freedom of spirit cannot produce
freedom of action consequently led Shelley on
to more distant and likewise insecure heights
of idealism.
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A poet, then, having such an excessively
idealistic temperament must then exhibit his
nature in his books and poems. In fact,
Shelley cares for none of his poems unless
they really emanate from his heart. His
change from aetheism to pantheism only
followed as a result of his changing imagina-
tion. Although he wrote upon such varying
and such fragile principles, he, nevertheless,
has won fame and renown from his writings
through their excellence. Marvellous he is in
his nature, marvellous his works are in their
elegances.
PROFESSOR DUNCALF RESIGNS
Assistant Professor Frederick Duncalf of
the History Department, at a meeting of the
Faculty held Tuesday, tendered his resigna-
tion. Professor Duncalf will go next year
to the University of Texas, where he will be
Professor of Mediaeval History, ranking
second in the History Department.
RESULTS OF CONFERENCE OF PRINCIPALS
Although no definite action was taken at
the meeting of preparatory school principals
held here last Saturday, the conference was
productive of many valuable suggestions.
After President Hyde had welcomed the vis-
itors, an informal discussion of entrance re-
quirements was started, during which Dean
Sills answered the questions of the delegates
in behalf of the Faculty. The discussion was
continued at the afternoon session, and it
developed that there was a considerable sen-
timent among the principals in opposition to
the present requirements in Latin. It is prob-
able that no change in entrance requirements
will be made before the fall of 1912.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
At chapel last Sunday, Mr. J. O. Robbins,
Secretary of the Student Volunteer Move-
ment, spoke on "America's Opportunity in the
Philippines." In his talk, he gave interesting
illustrations in the daily life of a missionary in
the East. The men who are endeavoring to
win the Orient for Christianity are not merely
ministers with Bibles under their arms; they
are strong influences in the moral and social
uplifting of the region. From the untiring
efforts of the missionaries and the improve-
ments that have resulted from American gov-
ernment and industry, the Philippines have
experienced a marvelous change for the better.
There, where the people are waking up to the
benefits of Christianity, is the chance for
young American men to render wonderful
service to their country and to mankind.
Indeed, the opportunities are plentiful for
those who wish to live not merely for them-
selves but for humanity.
NEW BOOKS BY FORMER BOWDOIN PROFESSORS
Two new books have recently been pub-
lished which are of especial interest to Bow-
doin men. One is a book dealing with col-
lege administration and written by former
professor William T. Foster while the other is
a poem, entitled "The Pond," by William A.
Houghton, former professor of Latin.
Professor Foster's book deals with life
problems such as those met by every modern
educator, and especially the matter of the use
of the elective system. It is the result of a
deal of research work on the part of the
author and is carefully written. It is divided
into two parts : the first taking up the histori-
cal study of college administration, and the
second dealing with the critical study of the
methods of the present day. An especially
interesting chapter is that one dealing with the
relation between college studies and success in
real life. The book is published by the
Houghton-Mifflin Co.
The poem by Professor Houghton is three
hundred and fifty lines in length and is very
artistically bormd and illustrated. It is an
idyl of boyhood presenting a picture of the
water sports of boys of fifty years ago. The
verse is smooth and clear and the reader is
pleasingly led through the varying scenes of
boyhood life. The book is issued by the
Brunswick Publishing Co.
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In another column will be
Bowdoin at Northfield found an account of the
Student Conference held
annually at Northfield. Bowdoin should be
represented by a good delegation this year, in-
stead of one of the smallest as in the past. It
may be that this lack of interest has been due
to a misunderstanding of the objects of the
Conference. It is distinctly not a conference
purely for those who are intending to enter
the ministry or some similar work. While the
primary purpose of the Conference is relig-
ious and its spirit is deeply earnest, it stands
for the broad type of Christianity which the
college man should take with him into his
daily life, his home, his professional or busi-
ness world. At the Conference itself the social
and athletic side of life is not neglected by the
students, with their fraternity gatherings and
athletic events. Here at Bowdoin we know
what the influence of a great personality like
that of President Fitch may effect. His name
stands with those of others of equal ability
and international reputation upon the list
of speakers. At such a conference, moreover,
the student is thrown into contact with that
larger college world of which his is but a part
and has the chance to discuss timely problems
with vigorous men from other colleges. A
representative Bowdoin delegation would in-
fluence many preparatory school men who are
there toward choosing Bowdoin for their
college.
All these facts should serve to make every
Bowdoin man who is interested in the further-
ance of a broad and manly Christianity, give
the matter of going to Northfield careful con-
sideration.
I , , . .. .Shall or shall we not have
„ h tl ^'^ inter-fraternity baseball
league here at Bowdoin
this spring? This is the question which the
Student Council is at present trying to solve.
At the request of the council the several fra-
ternities put the matter to vote last Wednes-
day evening. The result of the voting is seen
in a separate article published in this issue.
Unless a more general interest is shown,
Bowdoin cannot maintain such a league this
season. That this is the case is a matter of
considerable regret, for there is no better
means of drawing the fraternities together in
friendly rivalry, and the presence of such a
league insures a larger number of men becom-
ing actively interested in a popular sport.
The main objections to the league seem to
be a fear that interest therein will detract
interest from the 'varsity baseball and track
teams. This should not prove true for the
poor showing made by candidates for the sec-
ond baseball team last spring after the inter-
fraternity league had been given up for this
same reason proved rather conclusively that
this objection was not well grounded.
With regard to the track team, every man
in college knows that if he is to be a member
of the track squad he can have nothing to do
with his fraternity team. Now the Orient
assumes that the best interests of Bowdoin
always come before those of the fraternity and
for this reason it does not seem plausible to
believe that any man in college who is of ser-
vice to either the baseball team or the track
team will allow himself, or be allowed by his
fraternity men, to take part in fraternity base-
ball when he should be down on Whittier
Field working for the college. Why not have
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. a league similar to that which has been so suc-
cessful at Brown? There the games are
played at 6.00 a.m., and all members of 'var-
sity squads of the sports in season are de-
barred from participation.
Seven inning games can easily be played
and the Orient believes that if this sort of a
league is once started it will prove most suc-
cessful. Are we to let our laziness or our
bad judgment stand between us and a prop-
osition which will result in a whole lot of good
for those who are actively interested, for the
organization represented by the teams, and
for the colleare as a whole?
A census on the liquor question in Social
Science 2 at Brown University last week, re-
sulted in eighteen total abstainers, ten occa-
sional drinkers and two moderate drinkers.
'Rah for Prohibition !
Some of the robins on the campus, Sun-
day, could give us all a good lesson on making
best out of a bad situation. The day wasn't
exactly what they expected, but they didn't
mind. They made for the only dark plot of
ground on the campus, the nan-ow line above
the steam pipes and got right down to busi-
ness. While we were watching for about a
minute we saw three good-sized worms picked
out. We call that getting busy.
X BOWDOIN 'S STRONG MEN
Dr. Whittier has just prenared a list of the men
who have passed the highest tests of strength in the
physical examinations which are given to every man
who attends Bowdoin in the academic department.
The examinations are the same as those given at
Harvard under the direction of Dr. Dudley A. Sar-
gent. Dr. Sargent is himself a graduate of Bowdoin
in the Class of 1875 ^"d was for six years physical
director of the college. It was while serving in this
capacity that Dr. Sargent worked out much of his
system of physical education which has since become
famous the world over.
The list includes the first two highest records in
each of the strength tests given and also the records
of the two men who have passed the highest total
strength tests since 1888, when Dr. Whittier began
his service at Bowdoin. The strength tests are given
in kilograms. The ages and residences given are
those when the tests were taken. The records are as
follows :
Total Strength: 1st, Edward Rawson Godfrey,
'99; Strength of Lungs, 18; Back, 342; Legs, 717;
Upper Arms, 476.1 ; Fore Arms, 163 ; Total Strength
1716.1; Age 19; Weight 180.6 pounds. At the time
this was taken it was a collegiate record.
2d, Walter Bradley Clarke, '99; Strength of
Lungs, 27; Back, 270; Legs, 550; Upper Arms, 558.4;
tore Arms, 145; total 1520.4; Age, 20; Weight, 155.3
pounds.
Strength of Lungs : ist, George Craigin Kern, '12,
Woodfords, Me., Age 19, — 36; 2d, Joseph Perley
Dodge, Medical School, '99, Portland Me. Age, 24 —
23-5-
Strength of Back: ist, Edward Rawson Godfrey,
'99, Bangor, Me., Age 19, — 342; 2d, Horace Eugene
Glidden 1900, Age 22, Sebec, Me., — 325.
Strength of Legs: ist, Edward Rawson Godfrey, "a?
'99. — 717; 2d, Edward Augustus Dunlap, '95-, Rich- '^
mond, Va., Age 18,-592.
Strength of Upper Arms : 1st, Walter Bradley
Clarke, '99, Portland, Me., Age 20, Triceps, 37 ; Bi-
ceps, 43 ; Total 558.4 ; 2d, Edward Rawson Godfrey,
'99, — Age 21, Triceps, 36; Biceps, 22; Total 494.4.
Strength of Fore Arms : ist, Edward Rawson
Godfrey, '99,— Right, 82; Left, 81; Total, 163; 2d,
Waher Bradley Clarke, '99, Right, 73; Left, 72;
Total, 145.
THE FRIAR DANCE
On Monday evening was held the first dance given
by the Junior Society, the Friars. The entertainment
took place at Riverton Casino, Portland, with dinner
at 6.30 and dancing at 8.00. About fifteen couples
enjoyed an order of dances for which music was fur-
nished by Miss Bernadette Moreau's Orchestra of
Portland. The patronesses were Mrs. Neal Cox and
Mrs, Carl B. Smith of Portland. Among the guests
were the Misses Eleanor Strickland, Marion White,
and Hazel Savage of Bangor ; Misses Margaret
Starbird, Evelyn Edwards, Rose Tyler, Alberta Rob-
inson, Olivia Baglej', and Martha O'Brien of Port-
land; Miss EHzabeth Fuller of Rockland; Miss Ra-
chel Smith of Reading, Mass. ; Miss Lida Baker of
Boston; Miss Marion Swazey of Standish ; and
Misses Lina Andrews and Margaret Sewall of Bath.
The active members of the society are Bradford,
Brooks, Cressey, Gray, Hurley, G. C Kern, McKen-
ney, Newell, F. A. Smith, Welch, and H. A. White,
1912.
The members from 191 1 are Brummett, Cole,
Dennis, Howe, Pierce, Robinson, E. B. Smith, J. C.
White, and Wiggin.
NORTHFIELD STUDENT CONFERENCE
The twenty-fifth session of the Northfield Co
ence meets this year June 23 to July 2. From six
to eight hundred men will be present, representing
over 100 institutions. It is hoped that there will be
fifty delegates from Maine, including twelve to
fifteen from Bowdoin.
The cost will be about eleven dollars for board
and tent, and five dollars for conference fee, which
the Association hopes to be able to pay. Reduced
railway rates will be granted. Any men who apply
early may secure waiterships, which makes the total
cost only about five dollars.
Among the speakers will be : John R. Mott,
chairman of the Conference. Secretary World's Stu-
dent Christian Federation. Secretary, Student Y. M.
C. A. of America, presided at Edinburgh World's
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Missionary Conference in 1910, Cornell, 1888, Edin-
burgh, LL.D., 1910.
Robert E. Speer, Secretary Presbyterian Board of
Missions. Popular College Preacher, Author. Prince-
ton, 1889, Edinburgh, D.D., 1910.
Henry Sloan Coffin, Pastor, Madison Avenue
Presbyterian Church, New York. Speaker at North-
field for many years. Graduate of Gale and Union
Seminary.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, Pastor, Baptist Church,
Montclair. Prominent in civic affairs, and labor re-
form. Graduate of Colgate and Union.
E. T. Colton, Secretary, International Commit-
tee Y. M. C. A., addressed students of South Amer-
ica last year. Graduate of North Dakota.
John R. Mott and Robert E. Speer
Bishop Artliur S. Lloyd, D.D., Secretary and
President, Epsicopal Board of Missions, Graduate of
University of Virginia.
President A. P. Fitch, of Andover Seminary. Col-
lege Preacher, Bowdoin ; Maine Student Conference,
Harvard, 1900, Union Seminary, 1904.
H. Roswell Bates will be one of the mission
study leaders.
Bowdoin is one of the few New England colleges
that has never been adequately represented at North-
field ; the first delegation went in 1904, the largest
was 8, and last year's was only two. David R. Por-
ter, 1906, the first delegate thus answers the question :
"Why should Bowdoin men go to Northfield?"
"When I first saw the delegations at Northfield
numbering from five to a hundred from other eastern
colleges and universities I said to myself, "What a
pity that more Bowdoin men do not realize the im-
portance of this conference." We first delegates
vowed that we would endeavor to make more men
see the rare enjoyment and healthy inspiration of
this great gathering. We also saw that to the two
hundred preparatory school boys there, we could ad-
vertise the best side of the college. I hope you will
have this year enough grace and endurance to per-
suade even some who are nearing provincialism that
Northfield has become a great intercollegiate event.
Every undergraduate should go there at least once.
Bowdoin should have at least fifteen men there this
year."
President Fitch writes :
"As a student I thought of Northfield as an ultra-
pious place which promoted an emotional abnormal,
and provincial religious life. When I finally went I
discovered that there was a free, joyous, single-
hearted atmosphere throughout the conference. The
men from the various schools and colleges were a
selected group of fine vigorous spirits, frankly and
earnestly religious, but also normally and attractively
so. The speaking was for the most part excellent.
WEST POINT
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West Point Delegation
there was plenty of sport and recreation mingled
with the Bible study and devotional meetings. I
think every man who was there was glad that he
had come and was the better and bigger for it. For
my own part I look forward immensely to going
up to this year's conference."
Diary of a Bowdoin Delegate
Left Portland Friday with seven other fellows on
the Boston boat. Got to Northfield next noon — •
quiet old elm shaded streets, old Colonial houses,
on banks of Connecticut. Conference meeting on
Northfield Seminary campus. Our tent is on high
bluff, fine view up the river into three states. Ate
like bears with 300 other shirt sleeved college fel-
lows, who gave their yells between every mouthful !
Opening meeting in big Auditorium, then Bowdoin
men met in one of our tents for a "talk around."
We all like the Conference. Gave Bowdoin cheer
for other college delegations tenting near us, and
turned in, tired and happy.
Sunday. Rather warm. Fine address by Colton
in morning, over 2000 there. Delegates all wore
white shirts and flannels. Took a long walk in
afternoon with Bob on hills behind river. Great
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view. We talked about some of the things that have
been spoken of here ; were both impressed with the
saneness of the religion represented, and the strength
of its appeal. Conference gives one a great chance
to rub elbows with fellows from other colleges, with
other view points. A fellow ought to be a better
alround college man for coming to Northfield. Sun-
set meeting on Round Top most impressive. Sat
near grave of founder of this Conference, D. L.
iMoodv, and watched sun set behind foothills of
Green Mountains. Helpful talk on "Unselfish ser-
vice after College." Evening service in Sage Chape!
— delegates only, most impressive service I ever
attended. Wish we could get Mr. Speer as a college
nreacher at Bowdoin.
Tuesday. Started off with four sets of tennis
before breakfast. In afternoon the Maine delegates
baseball team beat the Williams team, but later Yale
licked us — no wonder, they had three 'Varsity men
playing. Their delegation fills one whole buildings
over 120. West Point men threw one of their men
in pond for fussing girls at Hotel Northfield, — loud
cheers by crowd !
Thursday. Usual morning program, with Bible
study before breakfast — wonderful sunrise today —
and Bible class at 9, led by Dartmouth man, with
five different colleges represented in it. Had fine
discussion this morning on the college man's attitude
toward the Bible. Dropped in to Mission Study
Class at ten — heard about Confucianism and Hindu-
ism, Hiwale told about latter. At eleven heard out-
of-doors conference on ministry — do we need more
ministers, or merely more big, fully capable ones?
Speer and Mott spoke at Auditorium. Maine men
gave an ice cream feed in Glen in afternoon — Brown
quartette, members of Athletic Committee of Cadets,
etc., present. Dave Porter spoke at our "Goodnight"
meeting.
Friday. Fourth of July Track Meet. Big crowd,
townspeople, visitors, girls, etc. All kinds of events,
from potato race to mile-run. Last event was an
obstacle race through the pond, under nets, over back
stop, etc. ! Dartmouth won the meet, Yale second.
Bowdoin won nothing ! hope to take part next year.
Grand celebration in evening; auditorium packed;
every delegation has costumes, etc. We marched in
behind Hiwale, in his native costume, each wearing
a sheet with one letter of B-o-w-d-o-i-n. Gave song
and cheer — along with 100 other colleges. Good pa-
triotic address, not too long, and then we all cele-
brated around a 60-foot bonfire. Sang college songs
until 11.30. Great celebration.
Sunday. Conference is over. Speer gave final
addresses. Going home to live it all out; "end of
the conference is the beginning of the campaign."
Glad I came — hope to have dozen Bowdoin dele-
gates next year."
Come to the Northfield meeting next Thursday
evening and hear from the men who have been there.
Y. M. C. A. room, 7 o'clock.
CollcQc Botes
FACULTY NOTE
During the Easter Recess, Dr. Whittier visited
Columbia, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Lawrenceville
School, Haverford, Rutgers, New York University,
and Springfield Training School in search of sug-
gestions for the proposed new gymnasium.
Mid-semester warnings were issued this week.
The next baseball game is April 22, with Bates at
Lewiston.
Tuttle, '14, is coaching the Freeport High School
baseball team.
As usual many sub-freshmen will be invited to
attend the Rally, April 21.
The Hubbard grand stand has been prepared for
the spring athletic season, this week.
Arthur Llewellyn Pratt, 1914, was initiated into
Alpha Delta Phi on Wednesday evening.
D. K. Merrill, '14, has been confined to his home
at Portland by illness during the past week.
The annual reception and dance of Beta Theta
Pi will be held at the chapter house on April 28.
Herr Leutge, German Exchange Professor at
Exeter, spoke before the Deutscher Verein, Thurs-
day.
W. A. MacCormick, '12, attended the Conference
of Eastern College Y. M. C. A. Presidents at Am-
herst, last week.
The candidates for Assistant Track Manager have
been busy at Whittier Field, where they have dug
a jumping pit.
H. L. Robinson, '11, C. O. Page, '13, and W.
Brown, '14, were officials at the Morse High School
Interclass Meet held at Bath, Friday.
Paul H. Emery, '13, is to leave for Dixfield, Me.,
the first of next week, where he is to teach in the
high school for the remainder of the year.
Dr. Loy, Professor of Chemistry at Simmons
College, read a paper on Welsbach burners before
the Chemical Club at the Beta House, Saturday
evening.
The baseball team has had hard luck in finding
suitable grounds for practice the past week. The
candidates for Assistant Manager, however, have -^
been working on Whittier Field, which will soon be
in condition.
Professor Allen Johnson is writing several arti-
cles for the new "Cyclopedia of American Govern-
ment," to be published this year under the editorship
of Professors McLaughlin of Chicago, and Hart of
Harvard. — Yale Daily News.
A meeting of the Augusta Club was held Mon-
day. The new ofiScers elected were the following :
President, Locke, '12; Vice-President, Burleigh, '13;
Secretary and Treasurer, McCargo, '14. It was voted
to hold a meeting on the first Tuesday of every
month.
An article of local interest appears in McCIure's
Magazine for April. It is written by the son and
the grandson of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles y<
Edward Stowe and Lyman Beecher Stowe, and
describes how she obtained the inspiration for
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" in the Church on the Hill and
wrote the book at her Federal Street home.
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Hlumni Department
'55. — Rev. Edward Hawes, D.D., died in
Washington, March 14, at the age of seventy-
seven. He was born in Topsham, Me., grad-
uated from Bowdoin in 1855, and Bangor
Seminary in 1858. During his life, he held
pastorates varying in length from six to fif-
teen years in Waterville, Me., Philadelphia,
New Haven, and Burlington, Vermont. He
was a delegate to the International Council in
London in 1891 and represented his denomi-
nation at a meeting of the Congregational
Union in Canada. For a number of years
after he left Burlington, Dr. Hawes was field
secretary of the Board of Ministerial Relief.
He gave his heart as well as his time to this
important undertaking and wrote and spoke
effectively in its behalf. A man of scholarly
instincts and quiet dignity, devoted to his call-
ing, he was a good representative of the older
school of New England clergymen.
'71. — William Sullivan Pattee, dean of the
College of Law of the University of Minne-
sota, died at his home in Minneapolis, April
4, 191 1. Prof. Pattee was born in Jackson,
Me., Sept. 19, 1846, and graduated from col-
lege in 1871. He was admitted to the bar in
1878 and was placed at the head of the uni-
versity law school in 1888. Dean Pattee was
the author of several text-books on law, chief
among which was the volume published in
1909, entitled, "The Essential Nature of Law,
or Ethical Basis of Jurisprudence."
'89.— Judge Sanford L. Fogg and family
of Bath will soon move to Monmouth, where
the judge has purchased a farm. Wednes-
day evening, April 5, they were tendered a
farewell party at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil Payne, when they were presented a sil-
ver water pitcher.
'96. — George T. Ordway^has recently be-
come Vice-President of the Engineering
Securities Corporation at 43-49 Exchange
Street, New York City.
'02. — Daniel Irving Gross, who has held a
pastorate at Marshfield, Mass., from 1907-
191 1, has accepted a call to the pastorate at
Nashua, N. H. Mr. Gross was educated in
Thornton Academy, University of Colorado,
and at Bowdoin, where he was elected to the
Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. He then attended
the Harvard Law School two years and Ando-
ver Seminary three years. He is the author of
a book of poems, "What, Saxon !"
CALENDAR
Saturday, April is
Bowdoin Interscholastic Debating League — Portland
High School vs. Lewiston High School.
Sunday, April 16
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 quartette.
7.30 Special Easter Service at Episcopal Church.
Tuesday, April 18
Theta Delta Chi House Party.
Wednesday, April 19
Patriots' Day : a holiday.
Thursday, April 20
7.00 Y. M. C. A. Northfield meeting.
Friday, April 21
8.00 Rally, Memorial Hall.
RESOLUTIONS
Hall of the Kappa of Psi Upsilon,
April II, 1911.
The Kappa Chapter is called upon to record the
death of Brother Oliver Crocker Stevens of the
Class of 1876. A distinguished member of the legal
profession in the City of Boston, he vvas always
loyal to his college and served her in various capac-
ities. By his death the Kappa Chapter loses a loyal
and honored brother. 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.
Arthur Harrison Cole,
Walter Atherton Fuller,
Albert Percival Cushman,
For the Chapter.
Hall of the Kappa of Psi Upsilon.
April II, 1911,
In the death of Brother Edward Hawes of the
Class of i8S5. the Kappa Chapter of Psi Upsilon
loses one of its oldest and most respected alumni.
He had spent a life of service in the ministry and
had gained high honor in his calling. By his death
the Kappa Chapter loses a loyal and respected elder
brother. 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.
Arthur Harrison Cole,
Walter Atherton Fuller,
Albert Percival Cushman,
For the Chapter.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The Ninety-first Annual Course of Le(51:ures will begin
Thursday, Oaober 13, igio, and continue to June 21, 191 1.
Four courses of lecftures are required of all who matricu-
late as first-course students.
The courses are graded and cover Ledtures, Recitations,
Laboratory Work and Clinical Instru(5tion.
The third and fourth year classes will receive their entire
instruaion at Portland, where excellent clinical facilities will
be afforded at the Maine General Hospital.
For catalogue, apply to
ALFRED MITCHELL, M.D., Dean.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, APRIL 21, 1911
NO. 3
ALL OUT FOR THE RALLY!
The biggest Rally within the memory of
the present college generation is to be held at
7.30 to-night in Memorial Hall. It has been
distinctively labelled the "New Gym Rally"
and will make good its title as the following
list of speakers will convince you :
President William DeW. Hyde.
Mr. Charles T. Hawes, '76, of Bangor.
Professor George T. Files, '89.
Principal William E. Sargent, '78, of
Hebron.
Dr. Frank N. Whittier, '85.
Mr. John Clair Minot, '96, of Augusta.
Other attractions will be the Band with
new pieces, something unique in souvenirs,
and something satisfying in refreshments.
Everybody out !
^ MINSTREL SHOW
The annual Baseball Minstrel Show will be
held to-morrow evening at the Town Hall.
All those who have not yet secured seats may
purchase them now at Chandler's. The gen-
eral admission is $.50 and $.35 for reserved
seats. The Baseball Association needs the
money and the entertainment will be good. It
is especially urged that those who are enter-
taining sub-Freshmen invite them to stay over
for the show. Remember that the production
is not all "coon songs" and dancing. There
will be ballads sung by the well-known Glee
Club favorites, Tibbetts, Parkman and Davis.
The Quartet will also be heard, and Loring
Pratt will be seen in an artistic female imper-
sonation. You can't afford to miss it.
BOWDOIN VS. BATES
The first Maine college game will be held
to-morrow afternoon, April 22, when Bowdoin
meets Bates at Lewiston. This contest will not,
however, count in the Maine college series,
but is merely an exhibition game. This should
not detract from the interest in it, as it will
afiford a chance to get a line on both teams,
especially the new pitchers whom both aggre-
gations will use. The game will be on Gar-
celon Field, at 2.30 p.m.
Those to make the trip will be Capt. Law-
lis, Wilson, Clifford, O'Neil, Weatherill,
Smith, Purington, Russell, Tilton, Brooks,
Daniels, Grant, Woodcock, Dodge, Leigh,
manager, and Brady, coach. Grant, Dodge or
Woodcock will be used in the box.
BOWDOIN, 7; MAINE CENTRALS, 6
On Patriots' Day in a well played game on
the Forest Avenue Grounds, the 'varsity de-
feated the Maine Centrals of Portland by a
score of 7 to 6. Dodge started the game and
showed up well for a new man. He was re-
placed by Means in the 5th who held his oppo-
nents to two hits. Several new men were tried
by Acting Coach Brady. Tilton showed that
he was handy with the stick as did Russell.
Daniels was used for an inning but had no
opportunity to exhibit his fielding ability.
Taken all in all, the team made a very credit-
able showing. Their base running has always
been weak but shows some improvement.
About the same team will be used in the line-
up against Bates on Saturday next.
The score :
Bowdoin
ab r _h pc a e
Weatherill, ss S o I o 2 o
Smith, l.f 5 I 3 I o I
Wilson, c 5 o o 9 o o
Clifford, lb s o o 12 0 o
Lawlis, 3b 4 2 2 I I o
Purington, c.f 4 2 2 I o I
O'Neil, 2b '... 4 o 02 6 o
Daniels, 2b 0 o o o o 0
Russell, r.f 3 o i 0 o 0
Tilton, r.f 2 i I 0 o 0
Dodge, p o o 0 o o o
Means, p 2 i o i I o
39 7 10 27 10 2
Maine Centrals
AB R H PC a E
Bradbury, ss 5 o 2 i 2 2
Ridlon, lb 4 I i ~ 6 o
Thomas, 3b 4 i I 0 4 I
Pumphrey, ib S i i 14 I o
Lappin, c 3 I i 6 i 0
Scringer, l.f 4 I I i o 0
Walsh, c.f 3 o o 3 o o
Lane, r.f., p 4 i I o 0 o
Woodbury, p 3 o o 0 2 o
Iliggins, r.f I o 0 0 o i
36 6 8 27 16 4
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
Summary : Bases on balls off Dodge, 3 ; off
Woodbury, 6. Hits off Dodge in 4 1-2 innings, 6;
off Means in 4 1-2 ininngs, 2 ; off Woodbury in 7
innings, 7 ; off Lane in 2 innings, 3. Struck out — By
Dodge, i; by Means, 6; by Woodbury, 4; by Lane,
2. Home run — Springer. Two-base hits — Pumphrey,
Lane, Weatherill. Time^2 hrs. 10 min. Umpire —
James Hassett.
NEW HAMPSH1RE=VERM0NT TRIP
The baseball team will leave Sunday morn-
ing on the Dartmouth trip. Two games will
be played with that institution, on April 25th
and 26th and two games with the University
of Vermont at Burlington, on April 28th and
29th. The team will return on the 30th. The
list of those taking the trip has not been given
out yet, but probably will include the same in-
field which made the spring trip, and an out-
field chosen from Smith, Purington, Russell
and Tilton. The pitching stafiE is still a very
doubtful quantity, and will be chosen from
those who make a good showing in this week's
TRIALS FOR ORATORICAL LEAGUE CONTEST
The trials to determine the Bowdoin repre-
sentation in the New England Oratorical
League contest, which is to be held here May
4, took place in Hubbard Hall on Monday
afternoon at 2.45. The speakers and their
subjects were as follows :
Arthur H. Cole, '11, "Poe's Incomplete-
ness."
Earl Baldwin Smith, '11, "The New Aris-
tocracy."
Ernest Gibson Fifield, '11, "Citizens or
Criminals."
Burleigh C. Rodick, '12, "International
Peace."
Chas. B. Haskell, Jr., '13, "American Wor-
ship of Mammon."
E. B. Smith was chosen representative and
A. H. Cole alternate. The judges were Profes-
sors Mitchell, Sills, Davis, and McConaughy.
MEETING OF THE STUDENT COUNCIL
The Student Council voted Monday after-
noon to organize interfraternity baseball under
the control of a board of managers of the
teams. An additional requirement is that the
captain, coach, and manager of the baseball
and track teams shall decide what men are to
be excluded from the games on account of
training for the college teams.
It was also voted that the Freshmen shall
wear their white caps initil Ivy Day.
NEW REGULATION FOR GRADUATION HONORS
It has been deemed advisable, in order that
the terms may mean more, to alter the rules
for honors at graduation. Accordingly the
following rules will go into effect, but proba-
bly not this year : "Summa cum laude," seven-
eighths A's; "magna cum laude," three-fourths
A's, and another eighth B's ; "cum laude"
seven-eighths A's or B's. No student shall
receive any of the above unless he has com-
pleted three years' work in the college.
MEETING OF M. I. A. A.
The Executive Committee of the Maine
Intercollegiate Athletic Association held a
special meeting last Saturday afternoon at the
Penobscot Exchange, Bangor. The business
of the meeting consisted in acting on the
amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws
of the Association. It was voted to revise the
constitution as a whole making the articles
more definite in form and meaning. The
Rules governing the meet were made to con-
form almost wholly with those of the New
England Intercollegiate Association.
A list of officials for the Maine Meet to be
held "at Waterville, May 13, was presented by
Secretary W. A. MacCormick of Bowdoin,
and approved by the Committee. A. W. Buck,
'12, Manager of the Bates Track Team, and
W. A. MacCormick, '12, of Bowdoin, were ap-
pointed as a committee to compile and publish
the new constitution. It will probably be
ready for publication by May i.
Plans were made for carrying on the meet
at Colby and the committee decided that all
entries should be sent in to the Secretary as
early as the first of May.
TThe Executive Committee of the Associa-
tion who will have charge of the Maine Meet
this year, is composed of, W. McDonald, '12,
University of Maine, President ; A. W. Buck,
'12, Bates, Vice-President; W. G. Chapman,
Jr., '12, Colby, Treasurer; W. A. MacCor-
mick, '12, Bowdoin, Secretary.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
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THETA DELTA CHI HOUSE PARTY
The Eta Charge of Theta Delta Chi held
its annual reception and dance Tuesday after-
noon and evening at the Chapter House. The
reception was held from three until five
o'clock and was attended by many of the
townspeople, faculty, and students. Cut flow-
ers, pinks, daffodils, and smilax formed the
decorations for the occasion. On the recep-
tion committee were Mrs. Herbert E. Cole of
Bath, Mrs. Wilmot B. Mitchell, Mrs. Frank
E. VVoodruff, and Mrs. William H. Davis of
Brunswick. During the afternoon, refresh-
ments of ice-cream, cake and punch were
served by Caterer Given. At nine began an
order of 22 dances for which music was fur-
nished by Kendrie's Orchestra of Brunswick.
The ladies of the reception committee, Mrs.
Cole, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Woodruff, and Mrs.
Davis, acted as patronesses.
Among the :guests were the Misses Helen
Sherman and Dorothy Grant of Bar Harbor;
Misses Margaret Sewall, Louise Harriman,
Margaret Torrey, and Gertrude Dillon of
Bath ; Miss Edna Dennison of Freeport ;
Misses Evelyn Edwards, Helen Schonland,
Elizabeth Ware, Helen Richardson, Edith
Monroe, and Elizabeth Payson of Portland;
Miss Inez Mace of Aurora; Miss Marjorie
Burns of Maiden, Mass. ; Miss Louise Water-
man of Roxbury, Mass. ; Miss Ruth Edwards
of Cambridge, Mass. ; Miss Helen Yorke of
Augusta ; and Miss Helen Percival of Auburn.
The delegates from the other fraternities
were Hugh Warren Hastings, 191 1, Alpha
Delta Phi; Arthur Harrison Cole, 191 1, Psi
Upsilon; Philip Herman Hanson, 191 1, Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Stetson Harlowe Plussey,
191 1, Zeta Psi; Seward Joseph Marsh, 1912,
Delta Upsilon; Walter Nelson Emerson, 191 1,
Beta Theta Pi.
The committee in charge of the reception
and dance: John Henry Joy, '12, of Roxbury,
Mass.; Philip P. Cole, '12, of Bath; John Ed-
ward Dunphy, '13, of Portland; Albert Elisha
Parkhurst, '13, of Presque Isle; and I-Iorace
Allen Barton, '14, of Grenwich, Conn.
EASTERN COLLEGE METHODS OF SUPPORTING
ATHLETICS
A letter containing questions with regard to
the management of athletics was sent to au-
thorities in several of the most important east-
ern colleges by Secretary McFarland of the
Student Council just before the Christmas re-
cess. Certain of these questions pertained to
the mode of financial support of athletics and
the answers to these questions should be of in-
terest to every thoughtful Bowdoin man. In
the editorial column further comment is made
upon the present situation in this matter with
reference to the facts here stated. Letters
were sent to the following colleges : Amherst,
Brown, Dartmouth, M. I. T., New York Uni-
versity, Tufts, Union, Wesleyan, and Williams.
With regard to subscriptions — subscrip-
tions as understood here at Bowdoin being vol-
untary payments made to the managers of the
various teams for which no definite return such
as a season ticket is given — not one of these
colleges reports their use in the support of
athletics.
The other important question was in re-
gard to the so-called "blanket tax," as to its
amount, returns given for it, its method of col-
lection, whether by the college through the
term bill or by the student body through its
athletic association and finally its apportion-
ment among the branches of athletics. The
"blanket tax" implies the collection of money
from the student body in one assessment for
which direct return may or may not be given.
As the systems in each college differed to suit
individual circumstances they are given in
some detail so that their usefulness in meeting
Bowdoin conditions may be better adjudged.
At Amherst for the last two years a gen-
eral athletic ticket, costing $10, has been used,
admitting to all games under the control of the
Athletic Board. The tickets are sold by com-
petitors for the various Athletic Association
offices and the money turned in to the Treas-
urer of the Athletic Board. The apportion-
ments to the various teams are made by this
Board. This method has been very successful
for two years.
Brown has recently adopted a "blanket tax"
providing for a $9 payment per year giving
membership in the Athletic Association, Ten-
nis Association, and season tickets for all home
games ; this is to be collected by officials of the
student body.
Dartmouth issues season tickets selling for
$10.00 which admit to all home games, and
sold by officials of the Athletic Association.
Tech issues a season ticket selling for $3.00
admitting to all home games, and sold by offi-
cials of the Athletic Association.
New York University reports a tax of $5
Continued on page 21
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WALTER A. FULLER, 1912 Editor-in-Ch.ef
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
Ass. jciATE Editors
W. A. MacCORMICK, 1912 F. D. 'WISH. Jr., 1913
L. E. JONES. 1913 F. K. ALLING. 1914
V. R. LEAVITT. 1913 R. D. LEIGH. 1914
K. A. ROBINSON. 1914
H. C, L. ASHEY, 1912
H. B. WALKER, 1913
Business Manager
Asst. Business Manager
Contributions are requested from all undergradu-
a*es alunnni, and officers of instruction. No anony-
oious 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 Second-Class Mail Matter
Journal Printshop, Lewiston
Vol. XL!.
APRIL 21, 1911
The vague discussion about
The New Gym Rally the new gym which has
been current for some
years, has at last crystallized into definite
action. The appeal for funds has been made
to the alumni and Dr. Whittier has spent
much time and eifort in getting the best ideas
along lines of construction from the most prom-
inent eastern colleges. So it is entirely fitting
that this, the eighth annual Bowdoin Rally,
should be called the "New Gym Rally." We
have heard occasional references to the new
gym in past Rallies, but this year those two
words are to be its keynote. The Student
Council has spared no effort to make this Rally
excel all those in the past. To-night will be
gathered in Memorial Hall a body of men to
pay honor to old Bowdoin ; part of them will
he friends ; part those who look forward with
eagerness to the day when they shall be Bow-
doin men ; part those who see Bowdoin about
them a living present ; and part those who look
on her with the eyes of happy memories. The
spirit of love for Bowdoin which they display
is, after all, the real heart of the value and
success of this New Gym Rally.
In another column may be
An Obsolete System found a resume of the
systems at present in oper-
ation in several of the more prominent eastern
colleges, for the financing of athletics. The
inquiry was made in behalf of the Student
Council because it was felt that there was an
undergraduate sentiment in favor of some
reformation of the present system. The
Orient now wishes to throw the matter open
for thorough and careful discussion among
undergraduates and alumni. Inquiry this
spring has revealed a more decided sentiment
of dissatisfaction with the present method of
subscriptions.
Familiarity with this present method must,
in our opinion, breed contempt. A dozen
managers and their henchmen spend much
valuable time in ingloriously trotting up and
down stairs in pursuit of money to support the
teams of Bowdoin College. The thoughtful
student locks his door, dodges across the hall
or into the cellar; his thoughtless brother is
trapped, explains at great length why he
doesn't sign, or else signs with the air of a
martyr to custom. The manager goes his
way to meet the same experiences again and
again.
Such a haphazard way of carrying on a
financial matter, the annual figures of which
mount into the thousands, is manifestly un-
businesslike. Anywhere outside of college
walls it might well be counted absurd. In the
first place it is not economical. It is a decided
waste of tirjie to the men engaged in collecting.
The time so spent might be much more profit-
ably used in college activities or studies.
Moreover, what little business experience there
may be for a manager in unbusinesslike pur-
suit of individual men would be at least bal-
anced by the adoption of methods of collection
and disbursement as in many colleges to-day,
which are businesslike.
The chief charge which can be brought
against this present system is its unfairness.
An examination of the manager's books reveals
the fact that in a great many cases the poorer
student gives as much support to the teams as
another much better able to spare the money.
Further examination shows that nearly the
same list of men have unpaid subscriptions
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from last year on the manager's books ; and
that the majority of these men are amply able
to pay, if we may judge by their expenditures
in other lines. We have even heard such men
openly boast of the fact that their names were
so left. It is unfair to the student who signs
and pays each year to punish such carelessness.
The support of college athletics should be,
above all else, manifestly fair.
Other arguments might be cited against the
system, such as the carelessness of many men
in signing in for a certain date with the words
"I promise to pay" and then deliberately break-
ing such promise. Poor as it is, this method
has supported with greater or less success the
athletics of Bowdoin College in the past. But
we feel that there is a real and a serious un-
dergraduate sentiment in favor of a change.
As to just what this change shall be neither
the Orient nor the Student Council has any
definite plan. Whatever plan may be later
brought up should be carefully examined and
criticized by the student body. No change
could be effectively made which did not have
the hearty support of the college. That the
student body may be familiar with the meth-
ods of other institutions in the east the Orient
publishes the resume of these methods. No
special one could be advocated for Bowdoin,
at least not until further study of conditions
here. But it is significant that all of these col-
leges have dropped the subscription system.
All of them provide for a compactness of man-
agement which is impossible with subscrip-
tions for individual branches. It is worthy of
note also that in addition to these colleges,
many colleges smaller than Bowdoin, and even
preparatory schools, have methods which are
more compact and unified.
In closing the Orient asks for a careful
and thoughtful consideration of the matter
by every undergraduate, for it is for him
primarily that the matter is of importance.
We would welcome any communication from
undergraduates, alumni, or members of the
faculty, whether in criticism of our attitude
towards the present plan, or in advocacy
of some improvement. We feel that all of us
should strive to have the most economical and
the fairest possible management of Bowdoin.
While we believe that the
By Way of Postscript subscription method has
the faults we have outlined
above we also wish to remind the college that
it is at present in operation. The managers
report greater difficulty than ever before in
getting support for their teams. ' However
much dissatisfaction there may be with sub-
scriptions, the Bowdoin College teams need
support 1WW. Let every man meet his share
squarely.
EASTERN COLLEGE METHODS OF SUPPORTING
ATHLETICS
Continued from page 19
per year, placed on the term bill and collected
through the college office. The University
Treasurer turns it over to the Athletic Asso-
ciation which apportions it among the different
branches.
At Tufts $5 per year is placed on the term
bill, this being purely a tax and not including
admission to any games. The funds are in the
custody of the Athletic Association for distri-
bution.
At Union a campus tax of $i i is levied by
the college office. This tax includes admis-
sion to all home games. The Athletic Board
distributes the money among the different
branches.
The system in vogue at Wesleyan is of
especial interest to Bowdoin because the con-
ditions are much the same in the two colleges.
Every undergraduate (unless excepted as pro-
vided below) must pay an annual campus tax
of fifteen dollars. This tax covers all athletic
sports and entitles the man to admission to all
games on the field and gymnasium floor except
the Interscholastic games. It also provides
tennis nets and keeps the courts in order, and
provides for the expenses of the undergradu-
ate body such as debating, representation by
undergraduates at Alumni banquets, etc. The
tax is collected as follows : On or before the
first Saturday in the fall term $8; winter term
$4 ; spring term $3. Any undergraduate who
cannot pay the tax may appear before a com-
mittee consisting of the Financial Secretary of
the Athletic Council, the undergraduate Sec-
retary-Treasurer, and another member of the
faculty elected by the undergraduate body.
This ijoard of Relief investigates the case and
remits the whole or a part of the tax. The tax
is collected by the competitors for assistant
managerships and is credited on their competi-
tion. Any undergraduate who does not pay
the tax ,or such part of it as the Board of
Relief requires, is posted on the second Satur-
day of the term on the undergraduate bulletin
board, and is excluded from all participation
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in undergraduate affairs, athletic and other-
wise. Tlie college authorities have nothing
to do with the tax and are absolutely neutral
with regard to it, regarding it as much an un-
dergraduate affair as the administration of
any undergraduate funds would be. The
Athletic Council makes the apportionment of
the funds on the basis of budgets handed in
by the managers. The accounts of the man-
agers are audited weekly during the season.
At Williams the men are expected to pay
an assessment based on the budgets of
the managers and divided among the stu-
dents on the basis of a percentage of the
room- rents, such rents being of wider range
than at Bowdoin and being a fairly good esti-
mate of a man's ability to pay. Every student
is admitted to all home games and it is entirely
a matter of honor with him whether he pays
or not. There are very few cases of non-pay-
ment. Men working their way through col-
lege are not assessed and scholarship men
have their assessment reduced by 1-4 of the
average assessment. All men who have made
their 'varsity letter in major sports are allowed
a reduction of 1-4 the assesment for each one.
In summary it may be said that all these
colleges have dropped the system of subscrip-
tions as in vogue at present at Bowdoin.
Three, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Technology,
have season tickets, the purchase of which is
entirely voluntary as far as the statistics sent
show. One, Williams, has a sort of honor
system, making payment a matter of personal
honor. Three, New York University, Tufts,
and Union, have an athletic tax placed on the
term bill and collected by the college treasurer.
Two, Brown and Wesleyan, have a tax laid
and collected by the student body and aimed
to include practically every student in college,
with compulsory measures in the case of Wes-
leyan.
ALPHA DELTA PHI BANQUET
The Bowdoin Chapter of the Alpha Delta
Phi fraternity held its third annual banquet at
Riverton Wednesday evening, April 12th. The
tables were most artistically arranged so as to
show prominently the green and white colors
of the fraternity. Music was furnished by an
orchestra from Portland. After one of Mr.
Smith's best dinners, which was thoroughly
appreciated, Parkman '11, as toastmaster,
called upon Clifford, '11; Pierce, '11; Morss,
'12; and Smith, '13, for speeches.
TRACK NOTES
In response to the daily calls of Coach "Burt"
Morrill, over ninety men have reported during the
past week for track practice. There is still room on
Whittier Field for ninety mpre men to practice and
it is very essential that every man who can do any-
thing should come out. The Maine Meet is only a
little over three weeks away and before the end of
that time a team must be picked to represent Bow-
doin in the State.
If suitable conditions are found a training table
for track men will be started next week.
NEW PLAN FOR PUBLISHING COLLEGE CALENDAR
The Student Council has approved a plan for
publishing the college calendar which is designed to
place the work on a firmer business basis and at the
same time insure a high grade calendar. The plan
is to choose this year a member of the Class of 1912
and a member of 1913 who shall have the right to
publish the calendar in 1911-1912. Next year a mem-
ber of 1914 will be chosen to assist in the year fol-
lowing.
This will give each man two years' experience
on the calendar and tend to make its publication a
more profitable venture. Applications from 1912
and 1913 should be handed at once to McFarland,
'11, Secretary of the Council.
A CORRECTION
In the article headed "Bowdoin's Strong Men"
in the issue of April 14, it was stated that Edward
Augustus Dunlap was a member of the Class of
189s and a resident of Richmond, Va. Mr. Dunlap
was a member of the Class of 1903, and at the time
the strength test was taken, was a resident of
Brunswick.
y^
DEBATING COUNCIL MEETS
The Bowdoin Debating Council held a meeting
last Monday evening, April 17, at which officers for
the ensuing year were elected as follows :
President— Burleigh C. Rodick, '12.
Vice-President — Charles Francis Adams, '12.
Secretary-Treasurer — Seward J. Marsh, '12.
Manager of Teams — Carl B. Timberlake, '12.
The matter of more than one intercollegiate de-
bate ne.xt year was discussed and was favorably re-
ceived. From present indications, at least two out-
side debates will be undertaken hereafter. Cor-
respondence was authorized with Williams College,
Wesleyan University, and the University of Virginia.
The council decided to hold a banquet and for
that purpose Retiring President WiUiam Folsom
Merrill, '11, appointed the following committee:
Burleigh C. Rodick, '12; Earle L. Russell, '12; and
A. Donald Weston, '12.
The report of the Treasurer shows a deficit of
$70.00 which must be met by this year's organization
before further work may be carried on. Most of '
this debit comes from the expenses of the Bowdoin
Interscholastic Debating League. A committee con-
sisting of Earl F. Maloney, '12; Charles F. Adams,
'12, and Ernest G. Fifield, '11, was appointed to con-
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suit the faculty as to the advisability of continuing
the existence of this league.
The year's work of the Council will close with
the Interclass Debate April 28. The outlook for next
year's team is very brigjit. Of this year's team and
the Bradbury debaters, but one member will be lost
by graduation, Ernest G. Fifield. The two lower
classes, according to Prof. Davis, have some excel-
lent speakers who will develop into intercollegiate
timber next season.
CollcGe IFlotes
Don't Miss the Big New Cym
Rally To-night at 7.30 in Memo-
rial Hall. Minstrel Show To-mor-
row Night.
y The baseball team began practice this week on
■ Whittier Field.
About thirty-five new pictures have arrived for
the Classical Room.
The Cabots defeated a team from Lewiston, on
the Delta, Patriot's Day.
Patriot's E)ay, the first year "Medics" defeated
the second year team, 12-8.
Raymond Kingsley Hagar, 1913, was initiated into
Kappa Sigma, Monday evening.
A handicap track meet will probably be held on
April 29, two weeks before the Maine Meet.
In the Library is a set of pictures taken from
scenes at Northfield, which will be of interest to any
thinking of attending the conference there this year.
Twenty-five members of the Massachusetts Club
attended the monthly meeting at the D. K. E. House
Saturday evening, and enjoyed a talk by Mr. Mc-
Conaughy on Kipling's Hfe and works'. Plans were
discussed for getting more Massachusetts men to
Bowdoin.
At a meeting of the Penobscot County Club held
last week at the Delta Kappa Epsilon House, the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the ensuing year :
President, Charles B. Hawes '11; Secretary, Eu-
gene F. Bradford, '12; Treasurer, Maurice H. Gray,
'12. Plans were made for a banquet to be held
sometime in the future.
The Senior Class will hold an informal smoker in
the second floor of Massachusetts Hall next Thurs-
day evening at 7.30. Informal talks will be given
y- by Hon. Herbert M. Heath, '72, of Augusta, and
Mayor Emery O. Beane, '04, of Hallowell, on the
ways in which college graduates can be of service
to the community through politics, etc.
The following Freshmen are trying for assistant
managerships of the various athletic teams :
Baseball: Francis X. Callahan, Arthur S. Mer-
rill, Dana K. Merrill, Edgar R. Payson, Kenneth A.
Robinson, and Richard E. Simpson.
Track: Alan R. Cole, Warren D. Eddy, Robert
G. Severance.
Tennis : Brainerd L. Adams, Pearl S. Bordeaux,
Paul E. Donahue.
CALENDAR
Friday, April 21
7.30 Rally, Memorial Hall.
Saturday, April 22
2.30 Bowdoin vs. Bates at Lewiston.
8.00 Baseball Minstrel Show, Town Hall.
Sunday, April 23
10.4s Morning service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
5.00 Sunday chapel, conducted by President Hyde.
Tuesday, April 25
Bowdoin vs. Dartmouth at Hanover.
Wednesday, April 26
Bowdoin vs. Dartmouth at Hanover.
Thursday, April 27
7.30 Senior Smoker in Massachusetts Hall.
7.30 Cabinet Meeting at D. U. House.
Friday, April 28
Bowdoin vs. Vermont at Burlington.
8.00 Freshman-Sophomore Debate : Resolved, That
United States Senators should be elected by
direct vote of the people.
Beta Theta Pi House Party.
RESOLUTIONS
Hall of Lambda of Zeta Psl
On March I, 191 1, death removed from our
number a beloved and respected brother, Frederick
Thomas Files, Class of 1883, a man of sterling in-
tegrity and with an honorable career. 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 sympa-
thy.-
Raymond W. Hathaway,
John L. Hurley,
George F. Wilson,
For the Chapter.
Brunswick, Maine, April 20, 191 1.
The Bowdoin Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi has
suffered heavily of late in the death of three of its
most honored brothers, —
Rev. James Holwell Kidder, '53, on March 17th.
Winfield Scott Hutchinson, '67, on March 20th.
William Sullivan Pattee, '71, on April 4th.
Brother Kidder has been for the past forty-three
years Rector of St. Paul's Church at Owego, New
York, where he died.
Brother Hutchinson, besides being prominent as
a lawyer, has been a director of the American Bell
Telephone Company, and of the Central Union Tel-
egraph Company.
Brother Pattee went west within a year after
graduating from Bowdoin, and held an instructor-
ship in Greek at Lake Forest University from 1872
to 1874. Then he taught in Northfield High School,
meanwhile studying law. He was admitted to the
bar at Fairbault, Minnesota, in 1878, began practice
at Northfield, and was sent to the state legislature
from Rice County in 1884. In the spring of 1888,
Continued on page 24, second column
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Hlumni Department
'8i. — Edgar O. Achorn, LL.D., is deliver-
ing a course of lectures on "The Growth and
Development of Law" at Lincoln Memorial
University. Mr. Achorn is a member of the
firm of Achorn and Bates, attorneys and coun-
sellors-at-law, at i8 Tremont Street, Boston,
Mass.
'88. — Joseph Williamson has been ap-"
pointed County Attorney of Kennebec County.
'oo. — Charles G. Willard, who graduated
from the Harvard Law School last June, suc-
cessfully passed his examinations for admis-
sion to the Massachusetts Bar in January. Mr.
Willard is at present sub-master at Punchard
High School, Andover, Mass.
'02. — Harrison K. McCann, who has been
for four years the Advertising Manager of the
New York Telephone Company, has accepted
the position of Advertising Manager of. the
Standard Oil Company, and entered upon his
new duties. Mr. McCann has served the
New York Telephone Company most ably and
conscientiously. By the use of well-prepared
advertisements he has created a good feeling
between the telephone users of the metropoli-
tan district and the monopoly that controlled
the service. There is thus reason to believe
that he will equally well serve the Standard
Oil Company.
'03. — Governor Plaisted has announced the
nomination of Harrie L. Webber as judge of
the Auburn municipal court. Mr. Webber
was born in Lisbon, June 20, 1880. His
parents moving to Auburn when he was two
years old, he received his education in the pub-
lic schools in that city, graduating from Ed-
ward Little High School in 1899. He was
graduated from Bowdoin with honors in 1903.
He was very popular in college, winning first
prizes for Freshman and Sophomore declama-
tions, and being very successful as reader for
the musical clubs.
Mr. Webber shortly began reading law in
the office of his brother, George C. Webber,
Esq. In February, 1908, he was admitted to
the bar, since when he has been a member of
the law firm, G. C. and H. L. Webber. Mr.
Webber is a Mason, an Elk and a member of
the Delta Upsilon fraternity.
'04. — Rev. John F. Schneider, pastor at
Danville, V't., has been given an increase of
salary of $100, besides a gift of $100 for an
extended vacation.
'03. — S. O. Martin, who has been at work
for the Government at Washington in the
Bureau of Corporations, is at present in South
America making personal investigations of
business methods in several South American
countries. On his return he is to become a
professor in the Business Administration
Course at Harvard University.
'03. — The marriage of Robert C. Bisbee to
Elizabeth Edwards Andrews at Lawrence,
Mass., on March 18, is announced.
'05. — There was exhibited at the 86th An-
nual Exhibition of the National Academy of
Design, held this winter by the winter acad-
emy, a landscape by Charles Bayley Cook,
which has received much praise and favorable
comment, it being one of the three best land-
scapes displayed.
'06. — Cards have been received announcing
the wedding at Hong Kong, China, on Feb. 7,
of Ralph Grant Webber, now located in the
Philippines, and Delia Delight Rice, formerly
of Columbus, Ohio.
'08. — Karl B. Kilborn completes his studies
this June at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
RESOLUTIONS
ContlDued from page 23
the legislature granted an appropriation for a law
school in connection with the state university. Pat-
tee was chosen to take charge of the new school,
which opened in 1888. He has remained Dean ever
since, and has been dearly beloved by all his stu-
dents and his colleagues.
The chapter takes this opportunity of recording
its deep grief and its reverence for the memory of
these brothers, who have so long brought honor to
the fraternity in their lives.
C. E. Kellogg, 'ii
E. S. PuRiNGTON, '12,
J. E. Philoon, '13
For the Chapter.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The Ninety-first Annual Course of Lecffures will begin
Thursday, 0(5lober 13, 1910, and continue to June 21, 191 1.
P'our courses of lectures are required of all who matricu-
late as first-course students.
The courses are graded and cover Ledlures, Recitations,
Laboratory Work and Clinical Instrudlion.
The third and fourth year classes will receive their entire
instruction at Portland, where excellent clinical facilities will
be afforded at the Maine General Hospital.
For catalogue, apply to
ALFRED MITCHELL, M.D., Dean.
Brunswick, Maine, 1910.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, APRIL 28, 191 1
NO. 4
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BOWDOIN AND WHO'S WHO
Investigations carried on by the Library
Department show that the names of ninety-
nine Bowdoin graduates appear in "Who's
Who in America." Among the professions
represented are 27 lawyers, 38 educators, 8
pastors, 4 physicians, 4 manufacturers, and a
variety of other professions including military
service, government service, U. S. Life Sav-
ing Service, journalism, literature, mechanical
engineering, consular service and finance. Of
the educators by far the greater percentage are
instructors in colleges or universities. The
list includes two U. S. senators, three who
have been or are state governors, five college
presidents, and one Arctic explorer.
BATES, 10; BOWDOIN, 9
Bowdoin and Bates met on Garcelon Field, Lew-
iston, Saturday, April 22, in an exhibition game. It
was sad to be beaten, but aside from that part, it
was funny. The game put up by both teams was too
poor to be considered a fair indication of their re-
spective merits or how well either can play. It was
simply an off day for everyone.
There were just one or two redeeming features
of the "exhibition :" namely, "Squanto" Wilson's
catching and the Bowdoin batting rally in the ninth.
Duvey, the Bates pitcher seemed new at the
game, and does not look like a very formidable
opponent in the State series. Grant and Woodcock
both pitched good ball, were steady in pinches, and
with good support would have won the game. A
number of Bowdoin students went up with the team.
Bowdoin
ab b bh pc a e
Weatherill, ss 4 o o 0 2 o
Smith, l.f 5 2 2 I I 0
Wilson, c 5 I 3 7 6 o
Clifford, lb 5 i I 8 2 3
Lawlis, 3b 2 I o 2 2 I
Purington, c.f 4 2 2 i o 0
Russell, r.f 2 o I I o I
Tilton, r.f 3 I o o 0 o
O'Neil, 2b S I I 3 0 I
*Grant, p 3 o o i o 0
Woodcock, p I o o 0 I I
Totals 40 9 14 24 14 7
♦Brooks (batted for
Grant) i 0 I 0 o o
Bates
ab b bh po a e
Mayo, c.f 5 I 2 i 0 0
Danahy, r.f 4 2 o o 0 o
Damon, ib 4 i i 11 2 0
Griffin, c 5 2 2 6 2 0
Linehan, l.f 4 I I o o o
Cody, 3b 4 2 2 2 2 I
Reagan, 2b 4 o i 2 0 i
Keaney. ss 4 i i 4 2 o
Duvey, p 4 0 2 i 5 i
Totals 38 10 12 27 13 3
Innings i 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Bowdoin o i o o i 2 i o 4 — 9
Bates 2 o o 2 3 3 o o o — 10
Earned runs — Bates 3, Bowdoin 5. Two-base
hits— Wilson. Three-base hits— O'Neil, Clifford.
Home runs — Smith, Cody. Stolen bases — Mayo,
Danahy, Damon, Lineham, Smith, Wilson (2), Law-
lis, Purington, Russell. Hits — Off Grant, 10 in S
innings; off Woodcock, 2 in 3 innings. 1st Base on
Called Balls— Off Duvey 4, Woodcock i. Left on
bases — Bates 6, Bowdoin 10. Hit by pitched ball —
Damon, Weatherill, Lawlis. Struck out — By Duvey
5, Grant 2, Woodcock 3. Passed balls — By Grif-
lin, I. Double plays — Keaney to Damon to Grif-
fin; Griffin to Damon to Cody. Time — 2 h. 15 m.
Umpire — Daly.
BASEBALL NEWS
Results of games of Maine colleges to date are :
April 19 — Colby 13, Maine 12 (exhibition).
April 19 — Exeter g, Bates i.
April 22 — Colby 12, Hebron Academy 5.
April 22 — Bates 10, Bowdoin 9 (exhibition).
The Bowdoin Interscholastic Baseball League
opened in whirlwind style last Saturday afternoon
on Whittier Field, when Brunswick High defeated
their old rivals, Morse High of Bath, by a score of
6 to o. Capt. Leonard for the locals pitched a re-
markable game, allowing no hits. Only four Morse
High men reached the first sack and three of these
forlorn hopes got there by errors. The Brunswick
boys bunched their hits in the sixth and seventh and
brought in the winning runs. Quite a large crowd
turned out for the game.
The team which is making the Dartmouth trip,
consists of the following : Wilson, c. ; Clifford, I b. ;
O'Neil, 2 b. ; Weatherill, ss. ; LawUs (Capt.), 3 b. ;
Smith, l.f.; Purington, c.f.; Tilton, r.f.; Means,
Woodcock, Urquhart and Grant, pitchers.
Coach Norton has recovered from his attack of ■^
the measles and is accompanying the team on ^ the
Dartmouth trip. Acting Coach Brady, or "King"
Brady, as he was familiarly called at Dartmouth,
while here only a short time, by his pleasing and
unassuming manner, has made a large number of
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friends. Brady was well fitted to take Norton's
place as they were team-mates for two years at
Hanover. He was one of the few men who ever
made his three "D's." Aside from playing baseball
he was captain of the basketball team and a forward
for four years, considered one of the best basketball
men the Green ever turned out, and was also quar-
terback on the football team his Senior year.
A full report of the games played on the New
Hampshire-Vermont trip will be published in the
next issue.
THE NEW GYM AT LAST
The New Gym Rally has come and gone and we
are going to have a New Gym.
If this is the last of the Spring Rallies that will
be held in Memorial Hall it certainly was a fitting
climax to the series and one which will stand as a
memorial to the new gymnasium.
To begin with, the band was there in full force
and enlivened things considerably. The Student
Council presented every one with a neat souvenir in
the form of a "B" ash tray, and ice cream cones and
cigarettes were distributed during the evening.
President E. B. Smith of the Council opened the
meeting and struck the key-note of the rally by say-
ing, first, that we should have the new gym, and
then that it was the duty of the undergraduates to
show the alumni by the work on Track, Field and
Diamond this spring that we deserve the new gym.
President Hyde, the first speaker, reviewed the
process usually employed for raising money for
Bowdoin improvements, especially considering the
Sargent gymnasium fund, and then stated the pres-
ent condition of the subscriptions for the new gym-
nasium. He brought out the answer raised by a
number of the older alumni to the request for sub-
scriptions : "This is a young man's enterprise ; let
the young fellows show whether they want it or
not." He then launched the proposition of a stu-
dent subscription, to indicate to the friends of the
college how earnest we are about it. He stated that
the outlook was very bright, and that if the student
subscription was a success, the gymnasium was
assured. In closing he paid a graceful tribute to the
unfailing devotion and the character of Dr. Whit-
tier.
Mr. Charles T. Hawes, '76, of Bangor, the next
speaker, told about the conditions at Bowdoin when
the gymnasium was held in any available space. He
outlined the development of the gymnasium faciU-
ties from the old carpenter shop, to Memorial Hall,
to South Maine Hall and finally the building of the
Sargent gymnasium. He told of the keen interest
taken in athletics in the old days and mentioned the
famous crews of '83 and '85, the former having on
it Prof. Moody, and on the latter, Dr. Whittier. He
then emphasized the point brought out earlier that
the students should show, this spring, in athletics,
that they deserve the new Gym. In closing, he
assured the students that the "alumni and friends
of Bowdoin will not stop until the building is
built and equipped and paid for and turned over to
the college."
Prof. Wm. E. Sargent, '78, of Plebron Academy,
followed Mr. Hawes with some reminiscences of
Bowdoin as he knew it as a student, of its teachers
and its spirit. He also told of the impetus Dr.
Sargent gave to Bowdoin athletics. He then turned
to the subject of the spirit of the college and con-
cluded with a tribute to President Hyde.
Dr. Whittier was the next speaker on the plat-
form, and received an ovation which lasted several
minutes. After a review of the work done on plans
for the gymnasium, he proceeded to tell "Where,
When, and Why?" As the plans have been
brought before the students elsewhere we will omit
them here. He told how the money was raised for
Whittier Field and then how the result of the stu-
dent subscription in that case was the donation of
Hubbard grandstand. In conclusion he said, "Men
of Bowdoin, it is up to you to do what they did fif-
teen years ago. The result of your student sub-
scription will spell the success or failure of the
project."
J. C. Minot, '96, was the last of the alumni
speakers. He dwelt upon the fact that Bowdoin
should, this spring, in her athletics prove to the
alumni that she is deserving of a new gymnasium,
and show them that the old fighting spirit is still here.
As his concluding thought, he pointed around the
Hall to the honored alumni whose memory lingers
there, to the men of Bowdoin's past and said "there
are Bowdoin's traditions. Something of what those
men were and did will come to us here, we feel its
presence in the hall and we see it on the campus.
Yours is the priceless heritage to be one with those
alumni, and yours is the place and duty to live so as
to be worthy to be ranked with them as Bowdoin's
sons."
Capt. Lawlis of the baseball team and Capt.
Lawrence McFarland of the Track Team, made
short speeches outlining -the conditions and prob-
lems confronting this year's teams and asked for the
support of the entire student body in building up
the squads.
The Rally closed with yells and Bowdoin Beata.
It was a rally where there was plenty of enthusiasm
and noise and Bowdoin spirit, and it was a Rally
which accomplished something, which will go down
in college annals as a memorable affair. Every stu-
dent there came away a better Bowdoin man.
BETA THETA PI HOUSE PARTY
The Beta Sigma Chapter of Beta Theta Pi holds
its annual reception and dance at the Chapter
House to-day. The reception was held from four
until six this afternoon and was enjoyed by about
250 guests, Mrs. Henry Johnson, Mrs. Frank E.
Woodruff, of Brunswick, Mrs. Fred H. Davis of
Cambridge, Mass., and Mrs. Edward T. Little of
Brunswick, received. Mrs. Copeland and Mrs. Ham
poured tea, Mrs. Baxter and Mrs. Nixon poured
coffee, Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Parsons served punch.
Mrs. Chandler, Mrs. W. H. Davis, and Miss Mason
floated. The catering for the occasion is done by
Mrs. R. L. Townes. An order of 24 dances begins
at nine, for which music will be furnished by Ken-
drie's Orchestra. Several alumni are present for
the reception and dance.
Among the guests present are the Misses
Frances Little, Frances Skolfield, and Grace Lunt of
Brunswick; Misses Frances A. Skolfield, Lydia
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Skolfield, Olive Barnes, Annie Brown, and Kather-
ine Johnson of Portland ; Miss Alice Brummett of
Dorchester, Mass. ; Miss Susan Downing of Ja-
maica Plain, Mass. ; Miss Grace Hine of Dedham,
Mass. ; Miss Georgia Young of Winchester, Mass. ;
Misses Rose Davis and Dorothy Bird of Rockland ;
Miss Lula Barber of Yarmouth; Miss Blanche
Usher of New York' City; Miss Inez Giles of
Providence. R. I. ; Miss Pearl Davis of Bridgton ;
Miss Molly Hutchins of Fryeburg; Miss Vodisa
Greenwood of Farmington ; Misses Genevieve
Dwinal, Iva Record, Etta Miller, Katherine Jen-
kins, and Ruth Jenkins of Auburn.
The delegates from the other fraternities : Ed-
ward Hacker Weatherill, 191 1, Alpha Delta Phi;
Fred Raymond Lord, 1911, Psi Upsilon ; Harry
Lawrence Wiggin, 1911, Delta Kappa Epsilon;
Alonzo Garcelon Dennis, 1911, Theta Delta Chi;
Fred Charles Black, 1911, Zeta Psi; Meredith Bo-
dine Auten, 1912, Delta Upsilon; and Benjamin
Hinckley Riggs, 1912, Kappa Sigma, Delegate from
Beta Eta Chapter of the University of Maine : Ben-
jamin Otis Warren, 191 1, of Fryeburg.
The committee in charge of the reception and
dance is composed of Lawrence Davis, '11, of Brad-
ford; Edward Eugene Kern, '11, of Woodfords ;
Lowell Sanborn Foote, '12, of Dover, N. H. ; Joseph
Henry Newell, '12, of Richmond ; and Daniel Earl
Gardner, '13, of Calais.
INTERCLASS DEBATE TO=NIQHT
■ The Sophomore-Freshman debate is to be held at
8.00 o'clock this evening. The affirmative of the
question: "Resolved, That United States Senators
should be elected by direct vote of the people," will
be upheld by the Freshman team, consisting of E.
C. Gage, A. E. Gray and A. W. Newcombe, with R.
E. Simpson as alternate. The negative will be sup-
ported by the Sophomores, who are L. A. Crosby,
P. H. Douglas and M. W. Greene, Coaches Marston,
'11, and Callahan, '11, have been devoting much
time to the Sophomore and Freshman teams, re-
spectively, and a debate that will justify a large at-
tendance is expected.
>
THE MINSTREL SHOW
The Minstrel Show held last Saturday evening,
April 22, in the Town Hall, was voted by the audi-
ence to be the best in years. Under the skilful
direction of Mr. Toothaker and Mr. Kaharl, the
baseball management put on a show well worth at-
tending.
The "Bones" were Welch, '12, King, '12, and
Callahan, '14, while the "Tambos" were : Clifford,
'11, Woodcock, '12, and L. Brown, '14. The Quar-
tet consisting of Tibbetts, '12, Wilson, '14, Davis, '12,
and Parkman, '11, assisted the ends and chorus.
Frank Smith, '12, was interlocuter, and L. Pratt, '12,
and Eaton, '14, appeared in the Overture.
The Olio featured a plantation scene which gave
opportunity for an exhibition of fancy rifle shooting
by Mr. Hill and Mr. Brandon of Portland, and also
for southern melodies and some sketches by "Artie"
Welch. L. Smith, '13, Hastings, '11, and Parkman,
'11, took prominent parts.
THE JWARCH QUILL
The last two numbers of the Quill, if we may
judge from the fact that only one contribution (not
counting the "pen pictures") from a lower classman
has been deemed worthy of acceptance, seem to
show that the editor's appeal for heartier undergrad-
uate support has not yet met with a satisfactory re-
sponse. If any Sophomore or Freshman feels the
stirrings of literary ambition, here is an opportunity
to do a quiet service for the college quite as sub-
stantial as any athletic performance and perhaps
even more profitable to himself.
The editors, however, must assume some part
of the responsibility for the comparative weakness
of their March number. Why have the "Silhouettes"
lately disappeared altogether? Under thoughtful
management, this department might be one of the
most profitable in the Quill, exerting a censorship
over those aspects of the literary and social life of
the college in which the editors are, presumably,
more closely interested than their Oriental brethren.
Surely, brief causeries on topics of live interest are
preferable to an exchange column made up of com-
ments on articles which no Qttill reader except the
"Postman" has seen — comments, moreover, that sel-
dom find their way back to the writers with whose
work they deal. In the present case the Postman's
column is written with judicious care; but I entirely
agree with Dean Sills that the main function of this
department should be to present a selection from
the best verse of the other magazines.
The Postman had a prophetic warning of the
March Gray Goose Tracks when he remarked that
"humor of the highest type seems to be lacking in
college magazines." It may be radical to advocate
the abolishing or revamping of two departments of
the Qtiill; but if the Gander Club can be made to
yield nothing but inanities, "O, reform it altogether."
Certainly there should be some provision for such a
bracing and human thing as genuine satire, but per-
haps it is a mistake so rigidly to prescribe the ma-
chinery.
Mr. White's Diary, the longest article m this
number, is the sort of record that any cheerful and
observant youth, returning from Europe, might be
glad to show his affectionate mates; but it would
appear to better advantage as part of a fraternity
program than in the pages of the Quill. It has the
interest which attaches to even the most_ im-
promptu transcript of a vivid experience, but this in-
terest is not literary. Here are the raw materials
of a Qttill article, not the finished product. My cen-
sure reflects less on the writer of the diary than on
an undergraduate body which compels the editors of
its literary journal to fill up their pages with un-
suitable matter. Mr. White has an eye for the con-
tour, color, and movement of things marine, and a
zest in noting the amiable folhes of his fellow-
travellers. These qualities, supplemented by an un-
sparing criticism of himself, would serve him well in
literary work. His interest in the eccentricities of
character suggests that he might profitably try some-
thing in the vein of O. Henry or of Leonard Mer-
rick.
Mr. Eberhardt's story, "The Greater Glory,
shows an admirable firmness of plot ^ for a mere
sketch, revealing character through action and^ mak-
ing its point distinctly. The movement is rapid but
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WALTER A. FULLER, 1912 Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
Associate Editors
W. A. MacCORMICK, 1912 F. D. WISH, Jr., 1913
L. E. JONES. 1913 F. K. ALLING, 1914
V. R. LEAVITT, 1913 R. D. LEIGH. 1914
K. A. ROBINSON, 1914
H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
H. B. WALKER, 1913
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.
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copies, I 0 cents
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Vol. XLI.
APRIL 28, 1911
At the Minstrel Show last
A Reminder Saturday night 350 out of
800 tickets were sold. A
goodly share of these were to outsiders. The
management went to a great deal of pains, and
amidst adverse criticism put on a creditable
performance. It was worth the money. We
do not here plead for the show as a per-
manent institution at Bowdoin, in fact, we
Cjuestion if it represents the best Bowdoin can
do in that line, — but as long as we have a
show, let us support it properly, and relieve
baseball of its annual debt.
Bowdoin and
Who's Wlio
In another column we
print the results of an in-
vestigation with regard to
the Bowdoin men in Who's Who. Its results
are very gratifying. It shows that Bowdoin's
men have been prominent not alone in the past,
but in the present.
The Yale Daily News published a list of
men from important colleges listed in Who's
Who as follows: First, Harvard, with 813;
second, Yale, 681 ; third, Michigan, 271 ;
fourth, Columbia, 261; fifth, Princeton, 210;
sixth, Amherst, 205 ; seventh, Pennsylvania,
200; eighth, Cornell, 167; ninth, Williams,
123; tenth, Virginia, 122; eleventh, Wesleyan,
121; twelfth, Chicago, 88; thirteenth, M. I.
T., 52, and fourteenth, R. P I.. 17.
In this list Bowdoin was entirely omitted,
l)ut her list of ninety-nine names gives her the
twelfth place in the list in actual numbers. In
percentage of living graduates she stands
much higher. With about 1800 living
academic alumni her percentage is about 5.5.
Judging from the figures of the Yale News
and the statistics of living alumni given the
last World's Almanac, only two of these col-
leges won higher, Amherst with 6.3 per cent,
and Wesleyan with 6 per cent.
"It's up to you." With
The New Gym such words Dr. Whittier
addressed the Bowdoin
men gathered at the New Gym Rally last Fri-
day night. The real college demand for a
new gymnasium as expressed by other means
than speeches and cheers was the question of
paramount importance. Since that night five
days have elapsed. In that time what have
the Bowdoin undergraduates done to answer
that question?
The Orient is proud to report that they
have subscribed up to Wednesday night under
the conditions outlined by President Hyde, the
SLim of eight thousand dollars. Since there is
a goodly percentage of men who have not yet
subscribed, this sum will be augmented to nine
or ten thousand. We understand that a thous-
and dollars has also been raised by the first
and second year students in the medical
school. The greater part of all these pledges,
moreover, has been raised from the two upper
classes and its payment will fall on them and
net on their parents. Do the Bowdoin men of
to-day want a new gymnasium? Such a re-
sponse to the appeal for money must answer
most emphatically. Yes.
On Wednesday night the college cele-
brated a baseball victory over Dartmouth.
Such a victory adds strength to the appeal of
the college for a new gymnasium. Bowdoin
has had teams in the past and has teams to-
day which well represent her against any east-
ern college. Her men are out working hard
to give her a high place in athletic sports.
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That they are so working is added proof of the
real want of adequate gymnasium facilities to
train men for their best.
With such a response from the undergrad-
uate body the Orient turns confidently to the
Alumni with the request that they back up- the
enterprise with the same spirit that has been
shown by the students in the past week. While
the amount raised for the work may be only
a small part of the whole, it is a telling argu-
ment that the undergraduates feel a real and
pressing need for the new gymnasium. We
can only appeal to the Alumni to meet this
need by rounding out the sum needed to turn
the present plans into a reality.
THE MARCH QUILL
Continued from page 27
not confused, and the style is lather spirited; alto-
gether, a promising piece of work. One or two
stylistic errors may be noted. "Leave" as an in-
transitive verb meaning "to go away" (p. 85) is a
colloquialism. "Little could be said concerning
their description" (p. 83) is an awkward sentence
which adds nothing to the picture. "Domine" (p. 86,
last line, is probably a misprint for domini." In-
stead of "It was Captain LeBlanc, the bravado, who
replied," (p. 84) it would be simpler to say "The
bravado replied." The story ends with a sentence
broken off in the middle. As the writer learns his
technique, he will grow to dislike this obvious kind
of rhetorical flourish, for he will find that sug-
gestiveness of language is entirely compatible with
grammatical completeness.
The first "pen picture" is a lively monologue,
consisting of the sounds emitted by one college Ajax
during the Sophomore-Freshman rush. It gives
dramatically a clear idea of the fortunes of the bat-
tle, and conveys a sharp impression of the scurry
of feet, the quick intaking of breath, the thud and
impact of a hundred tough young bodies. "The In-
finite Past," although not free from the conventional,
states the tragedy of a life-history tersely. These
sketches, whose brevity forces the writers into a
wholesome objectivity, give admirable practice in
directness and condensation.
We are glad that Dr. Choate's stirring verses are
•reserved for us in this number of the Quill.
Mr. Baker's poem, "The Dreamer," shows that
the writer is susceptible to delicate impressions and
has considerable feeling for the values of words.
But his mastery of the technique of verse, as well as
his power of visualization, is still imperfect. Indi-
vidually his lines are smooth enough ; but the reader
does not feel a unifying rhythm running through
the poem ; the author seems to have thought it
through by lines, not by a larger unit. He needs
also to look out for his adjectives, which sometimes
give the effect of mere padding, — as, for instance,
"his drear and dusty frock," "each toilsome task so
grim ;" and sometimes savor of "preciousness," — as
"sentient breezes," "muted grace." I am a little
doubtful whether "motey sunbeam" is permissible
English. Surely it was the necessity of rhyme
which made the sound of the bell "stray" upon the
breezes. The split infinitive might be avoided, with
metrical advantage, by an inversion, — "wholly to
lose." These defects are worth pointing out in de-
tail, since sometimes the writer visualizes clearly
and ohrases happily, as in the line
"And smiled to see the lucid fern-bound pool."
Judged by undergraduate standards, Mr. Baker's
performance is distinctly creditable.
The theme of this poem — the sensuous appeal to a
recluse of a placid bit of natural scenery — is one
peculiarly characteristic of undergraduate verse.
The sensitiveness of our college poets to the charms
of external nature is often fine, but one is struck by
the tenuous and pallid quality of the sentiment. In
place of anything approaching passion, we have gen-
tle, slightly aimless revery. The mood of the pres-
ent poem, notwithstanding the dreamer's "ecstacy"
and throbbing pulses, is somewhat faint and lan-
guid. Why do we so seldom find expressions of that
more imperious mood of youth which cries,
"O my life, have we not had seasons
That only said. Live and rejoice?
That asked not for causes and reasons.
But made us all feeling and voice?
When we went with the winds in their blowing.
When Nature and we were peers.
And we seemed to share in the flowing
Of the inexhaustible years?"
I hope that some of our undergraduate poets
read the excellent article (in the Nation for Nov. 3,
1910) by Professor H. S. Canby on the Yale prize
poems for the last dozen years. After highly com-
mending the seriousness of purpose and the regard
for form which these poems show. Professor Canby
seeks to state the reason for the vague disappoint-
ment which a reading of them leaves, and he finds
it to be a lack of intensity — "again and again, cor-
rectness, calm, or at most a timid romance, in place
of the daring self-expression, the warm sensuous-
ness, the impetuous liberty which were associated,
in the last great poetic period, with youth." I shall
take the liberty of quoting, in conclusion, two para-
graphs from this article, which, however, should be
read in its full form.
"I do not wish to be misunderstood. It is not
Sturm und Drang, not emotionalism or sentimental-
ity that I seek. Young men of our generation
neither weep nor rave — even in private ; why, then,
should they do so in verse? But the pecuHarly in-
tense relations of youth with the world are no less
vivid in the experience because, outwardly at
least, we take them more calmly. In many respects
we are more impressionable at twenty-one than were
our great-grandfathers. Such things as beauty,
heroism, the inspiration of great books, friendship,
and love must move us, as them, strongly in the
time of youth. And, therefore, in reading these
poems one is more surprised that intensity is ever
absent than impressed by an occasional passionate
appeal. Has budding love so little color that a
young poet can afford to write with coldness on
other themes? Or, if the old fires have lost their
heat, has the death-struggle of our faith little sig-
nificance, for of it — except for an excellent sermon
in verse — one hears only a few weak and wandering
cries ! Does the grip upon power mean little for a
youth entering upon a world where there was never
before so much to conquer? It is well enough to
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say, 'I cannot compare with an old man in skill, in
poise, in restraint; but if youth writes poetry at all
it should spring from passion. It should express his
mind if he has one; it should at all costs speak from
his burning heart.
". . . Surely, until there is passion flinging
from the heart it is scarcely time to give counsel
as to subject or form. There is such passion in
Americans, though, save for Whitman, we have
been so ignorant of ourselves, or so heavy of speech,
that it has seldom found vent. Much of this fire
of our life burns in our universities. It spurts with
jets of passing flame in many quaint and many
excellent fashions — at the games, in friendship, in
loyalty to the college which gave us our social and
intellectual birth. But the American in college is
shy in the presence of his emotions and leticent be-
yond the reticence of a none too expressive world
outside. All forms of sentiment but the athletic he
distrusts and hides aesthetic speculation with his
prayers and his mother's picture in his inmost cham-
ber. He reads far more poetry than he confesses ; he
thinks far more, but seldom dares declare it his own.
It is for the poet to give this frozen world relief.
It is for the poet to speak out with passion if there
is fire at the heart of our colleges. He may blun-
der, but if his need to speak is strong the proper
means of expression will be grasped by him more
readily than by another."
S. P. C, 'OS.
SUNDAY EVENING MUSICAL SERVICE
A special musical service has been arranged for
Sunday evening chapel at 7.30. Those who are to
take part will be Mr. Kendrie, '10, now at the Har-
vard School of Music, viohnist; Mrs, Davis, soloist;
Mr. Newell, '12, cornetist ; and Mr. Twombly, '13.
organist. President Hyde will preside at the service.
ZETA PSI CONVENTION
Fred C. Black, '11, and Paul C. Lunt, '13, with
Frank H. Burns, '11, as chairman, were the delegates
from the Lambda Chapter of Bowdoin at the Six-
ty-fourth Annual Convention of the Zeta Psi Fra-
ternity which was held under the auspices of the
Eta Chapter of Yale, April 19, 20, 21, with its head-
quarters at the Astor Hotel, New York City. Be-
sides the above delegates, about twenty alumni of
the Lambda Chapter were present.
After the transaction of business at the head-
quarters, April 19th, the three hundred and fifty
who were attending the convention left for New
Haven, where they were taken around the Yale
grounds.
The convention picture was taken on the steps of
Woolsley Hall, after which was given a delightful
organ recital by Professor Harry B. Jepson of
Yale. Following supper in the Commons Dining
Hall, the members were entertained at a play at the
Eta Chapter House, returning to New York that
night.
On the twentieth, after the business meeting,
sight-seeing autos left the Hotel for the houses of
the Phi Chapter of New York University and the
Alpha Chapter of Columbia University.
At eight-thirty in the evening of the twentieth,
a smoker and minstrel at the Grand Central Pal-
ace in New York, engaged the attention of the del-
egates.
The climax came April twenty-first, when the
banquet was held on the roof garden of the Hotel
Astoria, with four hundred and fifty members of
the Fraternity present.
KAPPA SIGMA BANQUET
The Bowdoin and Maine chapters of Kappa
Sigma held their first joint banquet, Tuesday
evening, April 18, at the Elmwood Hotel, Waterville.
Nearly the entire number of undergraduate mem-
bers of both chapters and a large number of alumni
from throughout the State were present.
J. Everett Hicks, Bowdoin, '93, New England D.
G. M. of the fraternity, presided at the head of the
table and after a talk on "Scholarship" called on
Edward O. Leigh, Bowdoin, '12, for response to the
toast. Alpha Rho. Other speakers and toasts were
as follows: Karl D. Woodward. Maine, '12, Psi;
Ashton H. Hart, Maine, '11, Kappa Sigma; Ernest
L. Goodspeed, Bowdoin '09, Alumni ; Earle L. Rus-
sell, Bowdoin, '12, Kappa Sigma Spirit. .
The committee in charge of the affair consisted of
Karl D. Woodward and Maurice McCash, of Maine ;
and Wm. H. Callahan, '11; George Duffey, Jr., '13,
and Earle Russell, '12, chairman, of Bowdoin. About
seventy-five attended the banquet.
CALENDAR
Friday, April 28
8.00 Freshman-Sophomore Debate: R e s olv c d,
That United States Senators should be
elected by direct vote of the people.
Beta Theta Pi House Party.
Saturday, April 29
Bowdoin vs. Vermont at Burlington.
Handicap Track Meet, Whittier Field.
Sunday, April 30
10.45 Morning service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
S.oo Sunday Chapel, conducted by President Hyde.
7.30 Special musical service, chapel.
Monday, May i
Tennis Tournament begins.
Wednesday, May 3
Bowdoin vs. Tufts at Medford.
Thursday, May 4
Bowdoin vs. Harvard at Cambridge.
8.00 New England Oratorical League Contest,
Memorial Hall.
Friday, May S
Delta Upsilon House Party.
7.30 Musical Service at Chapel.
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College flotes
When the news arrived that Bovvdoin won over
Dartmouth, 9 to 4, Wednesday, the Band was mar-
shalled instantly in front of chapel to lead the crowd
on a snake dance down town and a march to the
houses of various Faculty members. The keynote
of the responses was that Bowdoih must land the
State Championship this spring. A bonfire in front
of chapel completed the celebration.
Leavitt, '13, has taken the agency for Borup's
new book, "A Tenderfoot with Peary."
The Pop Concert at the Town Hall on May I
will be attended by every rne who is interested in the
welfare of the Town Library.
The Second Year Class of the Medical School
has subscribed $235 for the new Gym.
The baseball team will return from the New
Hampshire trip, Sunday.
D. K. Merrill, '14, has returned to college after
three weeks' absence on account of illness.
Professor Johnson delivered a lecture on the
contents of the Art Building, Thursday morning.
Whittier Field has been closed to baseball prac-
tice during the New Hampshire trip of the team.
The first home game of the season will be played
with Maine on Whittier Field, a week from Satur-
day.
A conference of the captains and managers of the
fraternity baseball teams was held Wednesday
afternoon.
President Hyde spoke at the banquet given in
connection with the Webber hospital campaign, at
Biddeford, Monday night.
The subscription Usts for the new gymnasium
'r have been circulated at the various fraternity houses
this week and the results are promising.
Mr. Charles G. Wheeler, '76, has recently com-
pleted a book entitled "A Shorter Course in Wood-
working: A Practical Manual for Home and
School."
At the dedication of the Sweat Memorial Art
Museum in Portland, April 22, Prof. Henry L. Chap-
man charmed his audience by an address on The
Relation of Art to Nature.
A twenty-dollar prize has been offered by the
Ibis for the best college song written by an under-
gradiiate. The judges are the Faculty members of
^the Ibis : Professors Chapman, Johnson, Sills, and
Cram.
ART BUILDING NOTES
Several antique dishes have been loaned to the
Art Building by Miss Harriett Shaw. The most of
them are of Spode porcelain, an old English ware
of the eighteenth century. Of the others, four are
of the Italian Ginori ware, and one of the Lowestoft.
A carved ivory card-case and fan, together with
a jewel box of shell, adorned by silver mountings
from Miss Susan Carey, of Bath, have been placed
in the building.
Among the money on exhibition are two mod-
ern Italian coins procured by Prof. Cram, a Confed-
erate bill and old bill of State currency.
RESOLUTIONS
Hall of Delta Upsilon.
Whereas, It has pleased a divine Providence to
take from this life our alumnus and brother, Harold
Preston West of the Class of 1900, be it
Resolved, That we express the deep sense of
loss felt by the fraternity at the death of a brother
who during his life at Bowdoin was true to the best
ideals of our fraternity both as a friend and as a fel-
low-worker, and who carried the same spirit with
him in his later life.
Resolved, That we extend our sincere sympathy
to those who through relationship were bound even
closer to him, and who cannot but feel a yet deeper
loss.
Willis E. Dodge,
E. Emmons Tufts,
Lester L. Bragdon,
For the Chapter.
Brunswick, April twelfth, 191 1.
MISSION NOTES
The annual American Marathi Mission Report
contains the following which should be of interest
to every Bowdoin man :
"The greatest permanent gain for the Satara
work this year was the coming of Rev. and Mrs. A.
S. Hiwale. After five years of study in America Mr.
Hiwale has entered upon his work with the spirit
and devotion of a foreign missionary and he is also
free from the physical and linguistic disabilities
which handicap the foreign-born all his days."
Satara, the city in which Mr. Hiwale is working,
is an old Hindu capital, eighty miles south of Bom-
bay. _ The city has a population of 22,000 and is a
political district of over a million and a half. The
Satara station has long felt the depressing effect of
a lack of funds for maintaining work, but it has a
church of over 100 members and a station school,
and work is developing in the village against de-
creasing opposition.
Following is the Hiwale Report of the Bowdoin
Y. M. C. A. for 1910:
$297,00
187.50
83.00
83.00
54.00
f 324- 50
Students pledged
Students paid.
Faculty and friends pledged,
Faculty and friends paid.
From Class of 1909,
Total amount sent to Mr. Hiwale, 191 1,
LIBRARY NOTE
One of the notable additions to the library this
year consist* of a series of finely bound periodicals
relating to applied electricity, given by Charles L.
Clarke, esq., of the Class of 187S, a prominent elec-
trical engineer of New York City. This collection
of over one hundred volumes contains a practically
complete set of the Electrical World and also of the
London Telegraph Journal and Eleetrical Reviezv.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
Hlunini department
'97. — Rev. H. E. Dunnack was reappointed
pastor of the Augusta Methodist church for
his eleventh year, thereby breaking the record
of length of service in one place in the Maine
conference, at the eighty-seventh annual con-
ference just completed at Biddeford.
'99. — The trustees of the Free Public Li-
brary of Somerville have announced that they
have secured Drew B. Hall of the Millicent
library at Fairhaven as a new librarian of the
Somerville library.
'00. — Philip M. Palmer, formerly Profes-
sor of Modern Languages, has become Profes-
sor of German at Lehigh.
'03. — Clement F. Robinson, counsellor-at-
law, has located at 120 Exchange Street,
where he has taken an office with Woodman
and Whitehouse.
'04. — William E. Lunt, holding a Sheldon
travelling fellowship from Harvard, is study-
ing at the British Museum in England this
spring. Mr. Lunt was last year instructor in
history at the University of Wisconsin.
'04. — Philip M. Clark has fonned a part-
nership with J. Duke Smith for the practice of
law under the name of Smith and Clark. They
occupy offices at 402-403 India Building, 84
State Street, Boston.
'05. — Lieut. H. E. Marr is stationed at the
Vancouver Barracks in Washington.
'05. — Herbert J. Dudley was recently
elected mayor of Calais. Mr. Dudley was
born in Pembroke in 1871, where he re-
ceived his early education before entering col-
lege. He studied law with the late General
B. B. Murray of Calais, and was admitted to
the Washington County Bar in 1899. Be-
sides holding many offices in the city govern-
ment of Calais, he has served as a Republican
attorney of Washington County since Septem-
ber, 1910. Mr. Dudley is very popular in his
city, being a Mason, Red Man, and a member
of the St. Croix Club.
'08. — Thursday evening, Sewall W. Percy
of Bath, was married to Miss Virginia Pin-
gree of Bath. The ceremony was performed
at Portsmouth, N. H., at the North Congre-
gational church by Rev. Lucius H. Thayer.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy leave this week for
Akron, Ohio, where they will make their
home.
'09. — Henry W. Lancey is Superintendent
of the Somerset Woolen Company, Monson,
Mass.
'10. — William E. Atwood is located at Dix-
field. Me., with the Dixfield Toothpick Co.
ex-'ii. — Charles D. Robbins is with the
firm of William P. Bonbright and Co., Bank-
ers, 24 Broad Street, New York.
'10. — Ralph S. Crowell of Bangor, has ac-
cepted the appointment as cashier of the Ban-
gor office of the Eastern Steamship Company.
Several Bowdoin men are active in the
business of publishing text-books. Among
them are : G. B. Chandler, '90, with the
American Book Company in Connecticut; W.
D. Gilpatrick, '89, with Little, Brown and
Company, in the Boston office ; M. A. Bryant,
"04, Philadelphia representative for Ginn and
Company; Millard F. Chase, '04, New Eng-
land manager of Dodd, Mead and Company;
George C. Purington, '04, with Longmans,
Green and Company in New England; J. S.
Simmons, '09, with Parker S. Simmons Com-
pany ; and P. J. Newman, '09, with Little,
Brown and Company, in Chicago.
It will be interesting for many to learn that
the following Bowdoin alumni are principals
of secondary schools in Maine. At the head
of academies are: J. F. Moody, '71, Bridgton;
Ridgley C. Clark, '08, Fryeburg; W. E. Sar-
gent, '78, Hebron ; H. K. White, '74, Lincoln ;
J. A. Scott, '98, Monson; F. H. Dole, '97,
North Yarmouth ; Ernest R. Woodbury, '95,
Thornton ; Ralph S. Smith, '04, Washington.
At the head of high schools are : G. H. Larra-
bee, '88, Bangor ; H. E. Cole, '83, Bath ; Clar-
ence W. Proctor, '98, Belfast; A. F. Cowan,
"01, Biddeford; Edgar Kaharl, '99, Bruns-
wick ; E. L. Bartlett, '90, Buxton ; George R.
Gardner, "01, Camden; C. E. Richardson, '09,
Danforth : Russell Taylor, '08, Freeport; Chas.
C. Shaw, '03, Gorham ; W. K. Hilton, '84, Liv-
ermore Falls ; J. A. Hamlin, '00, Oldtown ; S.
M. Hamlin, '00, South Portland; Ralph S.
Robinson, '05, Thomaston; Frank D. Rowe,
'06, Warren.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The Ninety-first Annua! Course of Leftures will begin
Thursday, Odlober 13, ig-io, and continue to June 21, 191 1.
Four courses of lectures are required of all who matricu-
late as first-course students.
The courses are graded and cover Ledtures, Recitations,
Laboratory Work and Clinical Instrudlion.
The third and fourth year classes will receive their entire
instrudlion at Portland, where excellent clinical facilities will
be afforded at the Maine General Hospital.
For catalogue, apply to
ALFRED MITCHELL, M.D., Dean.
Brunswick, Maine, 1910.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLl
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MAY 5, 191 1
NO. 5
THE MAINE GAME
The first game of the Maine State Base-
ball series will be played to-morrow when
Bowdoin crosses bats with the University of
Maine on Whittier Field. The team from
Orono will be accompanied by a band of
rooters and with Ryan in the box are confident
of victory. Leland Means will do the pitch-
ing for Bowdoin and the form he has dis-
played throughout the early season games is
an assurance that that department will not be
weak. The team is commencing to work like
a machine now and with any kind of luck will
put up an exhibition such as the followers of
the white may well be proud of. The band
will be there and every student should also be
there to support the team's first home appear-
ance. The management has not yet an-
nounced who will be secured to pitch the first
ball of the season, but it is assured that some
one of no little prominence will officiate.
The game will be started promptly at 2.30
P.M. and the admission is 35 cents, 15 cents
extra for the grand stand.
Remember that in rooting for the team
this year we are not only making a State
championship possible, but giving support to
the cause of the New Gym. So all out to-mor-
row to cheer for Capt. Lawlis' New Gym.
Baseball Team. The line-up will be as fol-
lows:
Bowdoin Maine
Weatherill, ss c, Smith
Smith, l.f r.f ., Scales
Wilson, c c.f ., Fulton
Clifford, lb 3b., F. Cobb
Lawlis, 3b lb., Beane
Purington, c.f • ■ . . 2b., Abbott
Brooks, r.f p., Ryan
O'Neil, 2b l.f., McCarthy
Means, p ss., H. Cobb
ORATORICAL LEAGUE CONTEST
The second annual oratorical contest un-
der the plan of the New England Intercolle-
giate Oratorical League was held Thursday
evening in Memorial Hall. The league is
composed of Amherst, Bowdoin, Brown,
Wesleyan and Williams, and it is planned to
hold the contest at each college in alphabetical
order. The representative of each college
delivers an original oration before a commit-
tee of five judges, composed this year of Prof.
L L. Winter of Harvard, Prof. J. A. Tufts of
Exeter, Prof. W. B. Munro of Harvard,
Judge Arthur P. Stone of Boston, and Dr. C.
E. Meloney, assistant superintendent of
schools in New York. The contestants this
year and their subjects were as follows:
"The Jewish Spirit," Morris Jacob Wessel
of Brown.
"A New Aristocracy," E. Baldwin Smith
of Bowdoin.
"Beecher in England," Francis M. Fallon
of Williams.
"China's Progress — America's Prejudice,"
Henry Smith Leiper of Amherst.
"The Hope of Democracy," W. R. Mont-
gomery of Wesleyan.
The business organ of the league held a
meeting the afternoon of the contest. The
officers for this year are F. M. Fallon, Presi-
dent, and E. B. Smith, Secretary-Treasurer.
At the contest in the evening President Hyde
presided and afterwards a reception was held
at the D. K. E. House.
BOWDOIN 2; DARTMOUTH, 4— APRIL 25
Dartmouth defeated Bowdoin in a pitcher's
game, on Alumni Oval, Hanover. Both teams
fielded well and the Green won by Eckstrom's
fine work in the box. He allowed the White
only two scattered hits. Means pitched a fair
game and aside from a little batting bee in the
fourth held his opponents safe. Bowdoin's
runs were made in the fourth, also. Smith,
the first man up, hit safe and was advanced on
an error and a sacrifice by Clifford ; Wilson
reached first on an error; was advanced by
Clifford's sacrifice; both men scoring on an-
other error by Donahue. The fielding feature
of the game was a fast double play, Weath-
erill to Clifford.
Bowdoin
AB
Weatherill, ss 4
Smith, l.f 4
Wilson, c 4
Clifford, lb 3
R
BH
PO
0
0
2
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I
I
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0
7
0
I
9
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
Lavvlis, 3b 2 0 o 2 I o
Purington, c.f 300000
Tilton, r.f 3 0 o i 0 o
O'Neil, 2b 3 o o i 4 i
Means, p 3 o o i 3 0
Total 29 2 2 24 10 I
Dartmouth
ab e bh po a e
Morey, 2b 2 i o 0 3 0
Daley, r.f 4 i 2 i o 0
Emerson, l.f 312200
Donahue, ss 3 i I 0 I I
Hoban, ib 4 o 2 14 o o
Luhman, c.f 400100
Rollins, 3b 4 0 I 0 I 0
Eckstrom, p 4 o i i 4 o
Steen, c 4 o 0 8 i o
Total 32 4 9 27 10 I
Innings i 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9
Bowdoin 0 o o 2 o o o o 0 — 2
Dartmouth o o o 3 i 0 0 o 0 — 4
Earned runs — Dartmouth i. Runs — made by
Smith, Wilson, Morey 4, Daley, Emerson 2, Dona-
hue. Stolen bases — Morey.. Sacrifice hits — Clif-
ford. Two-base hits — Hoban, Clifford, Dalev.
Double Plays— Weatherill to Clifford. Hits— Off
Means 9, off Eckstrom, 2. Struck out — By Eck-
strom, 7; by Means, 6. Base on balls — Off Eck-
strom I, off Means 3. Wild pitch — Means. Hit by
pitcher — Donahue. Passed ball — Wilson. Left on
base — Bowdoin i, Dartmouth 8. Time of game — 2
hours. Umpire — Pulsifer.
BOWDOIN, 9 ; DARTMOUTH, 4— APRIL 26
The proteges of Coach Norton came back
in the second Dartmouth game and trounced
his former teammates to the tune of 9 to 4.
Everybody on the team hit the ball hard and
touched up Gammons and Olsen for a total of
15 safe ones.- Lawlis, Purington, Wilson and
Urquhart got three baggers and Smith a two-
bagger. Besides these men Clifford and
Weatherill got two hits apiece. Urquhart
pitched a steady game and had it not been for
errors the Green would have tallied only one
run. He allowed only five hits and struck out
9 men. This was exceptionally good work,
as he put on a suit that afternoon for the lirst
time in two weeks.
Bowdoin
ab e bh po a e
Weatherill, ss 5 i 2 i 3 o
Smith, l.f 6 3 2 0 0 I
Wilson, c 4 2 2 9 3 o
Clifford, lb 5 i 2 16 0 i
Lawlis, 3b s o 2 0 0 I
Purington, c.f 412000
Tilton, r.f 300000
O'Neil, 2b 5 o i 0 2 0
Urquhart, p 5 i 2 i 6 I
Totals 42 9 IS 27 14 4
Daetmouth
ab e bh po a e
Morey, 2b 5 0 o 2 2 I
Daley, r.f 511000
Emerson, l.f 4 o i i o i
Donahue, ss 2 2 0 l 3 o
Hoban, ib 4 i i 13 o i
Luhman, c.f i o 0 o 0 i
Twitchell, c.f 300210
Rollins, 3b 4 0 I I 2 0
Gammons, p i o o 0 i 0
Olsen, p 3 o o 0 s 0
Steen, c 3 0 i 7 0 0
*Alcock I o o o 0 o
Totals 36 4 5 27 14 4
*Batted for Steen in ninth.
Innings I 2 3 4 S 6 8 9
Bowdoin 2 o 3 2 o 0 0 2 o — 9
Dartmouth 2 o o o o o o 2 o — 4
Earned Runs — Bowdoin 4, Dartmouth i. Two-
Base Hits — Smith, Hoban. Three-Base Hits —
LawUs, Purington, Wilson, Urquhart. Home Runs
— Daley. Stolen Bases — Wilson, Donahue. Left on
Bases — Bowdoin S, Dartmouth 4. Sacrifice Hits —
Tilton. Hits — Off Gammon, 5 in 3 innings ; off Ol-
sen, 10 in 6 innings, ist Base on Called Balls — Off
Gammons i, Olsen i, Urquhart. Hit by pitched
Ball — Donahue, Purington. Struck Out — By Gam-
mons, 3 in 3 innings ; Olsen, 3 in 6 innings ; Urqu-
hart, 9. Wild Pitches — By Urquhart, 2. Time — i
h. 55 m. Umpire — Pulsifer.
BOWDOIN, 2 ; VERMONT, 8— APRIL 28
Lawlis' sluggers couldn't seem to unbend
the curves of Malcolm, the Vermont Fresh-
man pitcher, and were defeated by the Green
Mountain Boys by a score of 8 to 2. Means
was not as efifective as in the Dartmouth
game and inexcusable errors by the infield
helped to swell the score. Weatherill, the
first man up in the first inning, drew a pass
and scored on Wilson's drive. With this
slight lead things looked good for Bowdoin
until the third, when Vermont made two tal-
lies. Bowdoin scored again in the sixth, Ver-
mont getting her other runs in the fifth, sixth
and eighth. The game was played on Cen-
tennial Field before a large crowd.
Bowdoin
AB I
Weatherill, ss 2
Smith, l.f 4
Wilson, c 2
Clifford, lb 3
BH PO
0 3
BOWDOIN ORIENT
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Lawlis, 3t> 3 o I i i 2
Purington, l.f 300201
Tilton, r.f 3 o o 2 o 0
O'Neil, 2b ...2 o 0 i 4 o
Means, p 3 o o i 5 o
*Grant i o o 0 o o
tUrquhart i o o 0 0 o
Totals 26 2 3 23 14 5
*Batted for Tilton in ninth,
t Batted for Means in ninth.
University of Vermont
ab r bh po a e
O'Dea, 2b 2 i i 2 i o
Holstein, l.f 401200
McDonald, c.f 413200
Williams, 3b 3 I i o i o
Dutton, lb 3 I I 6 0 o
Flahert}', r.f 3 0 I 0 0 I
Stephens, ss 3 0 i 0 0 i
Berry, c 3 2 I 14 2 o
Malcolm, p 3 i 0 I I °
Total 28 8 10 27 5 2
Innings i 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9
Bovvdoin i o o 0 o i 0 o 0 — 2
Vermont o 0 2 o 3 2 0 i — 8
Earned Runs— Vermont, 3. Runs— Made by
Weatherill Wilson, O'Dea 2, McDonald, Williams,
Dutton, Berry 2, Malcolm. Stolen bases — Wilson,
Weatherill, O'Dea, Dutton. Flaherty. Sacrifice hits
—Wilson, Clifford, O'Dea, Halstein, Malcolm.
Stolen bases— Wilson, Weatherill, O'Dea, Dutton,
Flaherty. Sacrifice hits— Wilson, Clifford, O'Dea,
Halstein, Malcolm. Two-base Hits — Stephens.
Three-base Hits— McDonald. Hits— Off Means 10,
off Malcolm 3. Struck out— By Means 3, by Mal-
colm 13. Base on balls— Off Means 3, Malcolm 3.
Hit by pitcher — McDonald, Flaherty. Left on bases
— Bowdoin 6, Vermont 6. Time of game — 2 hrs. 30
min. Umpire — J. J. O'Brien.
Lawlis, 3b 4 o o 0 0 3
Purington, c.f 400210
Tilton, r.f 400100
O'Neil, 2b 3 o 0 2 3 2
Urquhart, p 3 0 0 o 5 2
Totals 32 0 4 24 II 10
University of Vermont
ab r bh po a e
O'Dea, 2b 5 i i i 3 o
Halstein, l.f 4 2 2 4 o 0
McDonald, c.f 400201
Williams, 3b S o i 2 I 4
Dutton, lb 4 o 0 8 o 0
Flaherty, r.f 4 1 1000
Stephens, ss 4 o o i i 0
Berry, c 4 2 0 6 2 0
Winkler, p 402010
Totals 38 6 7 24 8 5
Innings i 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9
Bowdoin 0 0 o o o o o o o — o
Vermont I I 0 o o 2 i I — 6
Earned Runs — ^Vermont i. Runs — Made by
O'Dea, Halstein 2, Flaherty, Berry 2. Stolen bases
— Halstein, Dutton, Flaherty, Stephens, Purington.
Sacrifice Hits^Wilson, Halstein, McDonald. Two-
base Hits— Flaherty. Three-base Hits— Weatherill.
Double Play— Berry to Stephens. Hits— Off Urqu-
hart 7, off Winkler 4. Struck out — By Urquhart 4,
by Winkler 5. Base on balls— Off Urquhart, i.
Wild pitch — Urquhart. Hit by pitcher— Clifford.
Left on bases — Bowdoin 5, Vermont 8. Time of
game — 2 hrs. 25 min. Umpires — Hayes and Win-
ters.
The team returned home, Sunday after-
noon, April 30. They reported excellent treat-
ment at the hands of both colleges. At Dart-
mouth they stopped at the Hanover Inn and
at the Van Ness House in Burlington.
BOWDOIN, 0 ; VERMONT, 0— APRIL 29
The second game with the Vermont team
was held in conjunction with the Maine-Ver-
mont dual track meet. The contest was re-
plete with errors on both sides and only the
excellent boxwork of Winkler prevented Bow-
doin from scoring. Urquhart pitched a steady
game, allowing only seven hits. Weatherill
got two clean hits, one of them a three-bag-
ger. This, with the two bingoes of Wilson
and Clifford, was all of the hitting Bowdoin
did. Winkler played an all-around star game
for Vermont, getting two hits.
Bowdoin
,ab r bh po a e
Weatherill, ss 4 0 2 0 2 2
Smith, l.f 4 o o 2 0 0
Wilson, c 3 o I 6 o 0
Clifford, lb 3 o i 11 0 i
M. I. A. A. MEET
The seventh Annual Meet of the M. I. A.
A. will be held at Waterville, May 13, only
one week from to-morrow. Provision has
been made with the M. C. R. R. to carry at
least two hundred students from Brunswick on
the 8 o'clock train, Saturday morning. It is
hoped that this number of fellows will accom-
pany the team to a meet which promises to be
the closest ever held in the State. Reduced
rates of $1.80 round trip have been obtained
and the railroad tickets will be good from Sat-
urday morning until the following Monday.
The trials will be run ofiE in the morning
at ten o'clock and the finals will begin at two
in the afternoon. Let a lot of fellows take
advantage of the low rates and back up the
team ! !
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THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WALTER A. FULLER, 1912 Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
Associate Editors
W. A. MacCORMICK, 1912 F. D. WISH, Jr., 1913
L. E. JONES. 1913 F. K. ALLING. 1914
V. R. LEAVITT. 1913 R. D. LEIGH, 1914
K. A. ROBINSON, 1914
H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
H. B. WALKER, 1913
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No.
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Now that the plans for
A Word of Tribute Bowdoin's new gymnasium
have assumed a definite
aspect we feel that we should pay high tribute
for the student body to the one man who has
done most to work out those plans — Dr. Whit-
tier. He has seen the idea of a gymnasium
grow from a vague future dream to a definite
present reality.
Two years ago he described vaguely in fig-
ures of speech our beautiful new gym out by
the pines ; two weeks ago he pointed out plans
and figured in dollars and cents. Such a result
has been to a great extent the result of his
earnest work in every way. He has talked
the plan for years ; this spring he spent much
valuable time in finding out what was best for
the new gym ; when he had found out he acted
and we have seen the results. In behalf of
Bowdoin men we wish to pay this slight trib-
ute to the earnestness and unselfishness which
has made the planning of the new gymnasium
a more lasting honor to Dr. Whittier.
At its meeting this week
.Musical Club "B" the Student Council took
action on the matter of in-
signia on hats and caps by refusing to allow
members of the Band and Glee Club to wear
the initials of their organization with the B
on hats or caps in the future. With this action
we heartily agree, not because we wish to dep-
recate the good work which is being done by
both of these organizations, but because we
wish the B on the hat to be a distinctive mark
of a "B" man. The only value of such insig-
nia lies in its distinctiveness, which is immedi-
ately lost in the case of such general use.
There have been several instances where men
who have been to a few rehearsals of the band
or made one or two glee club trips have iirune-
diately taken it upon themselves to buy a hat
bearing the M. B. A. Such men do not
merit such a privilege, but as there seems to
have been not specified requirements to be met
in order to earn this right, every man who has
had any connection with the two organiza-
tions has been his own judge as to his claim
to such an honor. While the services of both
the above mentioned organizations are of
great value, their insignia, if any, should not
encroach upon that worn by B men. As it is
now, the "B" is too common. The action of
the Student Council is to be coinmended
heartily for its effect in making the "B" more
highly prized.
DELTA UPSILON HOUSE DANCE
The Bowdoin Chapter of Delta Upsilon is
holding its annual house dance at the chapter
house, to-night. The aflfair is in charge of
the following committee : Harrison M. Berry,
1911; Lawrence McFarland, 1911 ; Theodore
W. Daniels, 1912; Edward O. Baker, 1913;
Samuel W. Chase, 19 14. The patronesses
are Mrs. F. W. Brown, Brunswick; Mrs. W.
H. Davis, Brunswick; Mrs. S. S. Thompson,
Brunswick; Mrs. W. A. Hill, Rockland; Mrs.
Jennie Bird, Rockland.
Among the guests present are Mrs. R. H.
McFarland, Portland; Mrs. B. M. Harmon,
Portland; Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hill, Rock-
land; Mrs. Jennie Bird, Rockland;
Mrs. George T. Green, Jr., Warren, R.
I. ; Mr. and Mrs. Chester Kingsley, Augusta ;
Mr. Walter Hendee, Augusta; Professor and
Mrs. W. H. Davis, Brunswick; Professor and
Mrs. F. W. Brown, Brunswick; Mrs. S. S.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
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Thompson, Brunswick; Mr. William E. At-
wood, 1910, Dixfield; Mr. A. W. Wandtke,
1910, Augusta; Mr. Earl L. Wing, 1910,
Kingfield ; Misses Madeline Bird, Dorothy
Bird, Helen Wise, Vivian Bilhngs, Marie
Gurdy, Rockland; Misses Mabel Hughes,
Margaret Day, Alfretta Graves, Sue Win-
chell, Brunswick; Misses Gladys Berry,
Marion Swift, Gardiner; Miss Emily Wilbur,
Warren, R. I.; Miss Dorothy Palmer, Bath;
Miss Katie Maxim, Wayne; Miss Helen
Stackpole, Biddeford ; Misses Ethel Withee,
Nellie Lander, Luella Russell, Farmington ;
Miss Viola Dixon, Freeport ; Miss Hazel
Webb, Hallowell; Miss Margaret Burns,
Saco; Miss Katherine Carr, Frankfort;
Misses Abbie Harris, Henrietta Crosman,
Portland; Miss Helen Carmen, Los Angeles,
Gal.; Miss Ethel Palmanter, Oakland, Cal.
The delegates from the other fraternities
are Ernest G. Fifield, 191 1, Delta Kappa
Epsilon; Fred R. Lord, 1911, Psi Upsilon;
Charles L. Oxnard, 191 1, Kappa Sigma;
Frank H. Burns, 191 1, Zeta Psi; Harold K.
Hine, 191 1, Beta Theta Pi; Arthur C. Gibson,
1911, Alpha Delta Phi; George W. Howe,
191 1, Theta Delta Chi.
Music is furnished by Stetson's Orchestra
and Morton is the caterer. The guests will
attend the Maine game to-morrow.
NOMINATIONS FOR THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS
In order to fill the vacancies caused by the
death of two members of the Board of Over-
seers of the college. Dr. George T. Little,
Secretary of the Alumni Committee on Over-
seers, has written to the alumni for nomina-
tions and has received the following list of
candidates to be voted upon before June loth
by the alumni: Herbert M. Heath, '72, A.M.,
of Augusta; Augustus F. Moulton, A.M., of
Portland; William Edgar Rice, '75, A.B.,
M.D., of Bath; John Andrew Peters '85,
A.M., of Ellsworth ; Frederick Lincoln
Smith, '86, A.M., of Philadelphia; Wilbert
Grant Mallett, '91, A.B., of Farmington;
Frederick Howard Dole, '97, A.M., of Yar-
mouth; Reuel Washburn Smith, '97, LL.B.,
of Auburn.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
At Sunday chapel. President Hyde showed
how Love is not easily provoked and how
many troubles it avoids on that account. A
bad temper is one of the worst mischief-
makers in the world. Since it gets us into a
lot of trouble, we must do all in our power to
prevent an outburst of wrath. Every time we
yield to bad temper, we lose friends and make
enemies. In the professional world of to-day,
such a temper is a luxury, in which no man
can afford to indulge.
Righteous indignation, however, is justi-
fied. The Scripture does not assert that Love
and Charity are never provoked, but that they
do not fly into moods of anger. They
always consider the other person first.
SOPHOMOREoFRESHMAN DEBATE
At a debate between the Freshman and Sopho-
more classes, held last Friday evening in Hubbard
Hall the freshmen won the decision by a unanimous
vote. The question for debate was: Resolved, That
United States Senators Should Be Elected by a
Direct Vote of the People. The winning side
defended the affirmative and the losers.the negative.
The speakers for 1913 in their order : Merton
William Greeh, Paul Howard Douglass and Laur-
ence Alden Crosby. In rebuttal, Douglass led the
team, being followed by Crosby and Green, and in an
especially strong speech closed the case. For the
freshmen, the speakers in order were : Alfred Watts
Newcombe, Alfred Everett Gray and Elwin Collins
Gage. These men spoke in the same order in their
rebuttal and Gage in his rebuttal speech is con-
sidered to have won the debate for his side. The
alternates who acted as time keepers were : Charles
B. Haskell, Jr., for the sophomores, and Richard E.
Simpson for the freshmen.
Prof. Davis presided and the judges were : Prof.
F. E. Woodruff, Prof. C. T. Burnett and Rev. J. H.
Quint.
Much credit is due to the coaches of the compet-
ing teams, William H. Callahan for the freshmen,
and Harold P. Marston for the Sophomores. The
members of the Debating Council in charge of the
arrangements for this contest were : A. Donald
Weston, '12, Carl B. Timberlake, '12 and Harold P.
Marston, '11.
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FOOD FOR THE FANS
Maine Series
May 6 — Bowdoin vs. Maine, Brunswick.
May 6 — Bates vs. Colby, Waterville.
May 10 — Bowdoin vs. Colby, Brunswick.
May 10 — Bates vs. Maine, Lewiston.
May 17 — Maine vs. Colby, Waterville.
May 20 — Bowdoin vs. Colby, Waterville.
May 20 — Maine vs. Bates, Orono.
May 24 — Maine vs. Bowdoin, Orono.
May 27 — Maine vs. Colby, Orono.
May 30 — Bowdoin vs. Bates, Lewiston.
June 2 — Bowdoin vs. Bates, Brunswick.
June 7 — Bates vs. Colby, Lewiston.
The last out-of-State trip of the 191 1 baseball
team was taken this week, when Bowdoin met Tufts
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and Harvard on their own grounds. A full account
of these games will be printed in next week's
Orient. The following men took the trip : Lawlis,
Capt., Wilson, Clifford, O'Neil, Weatherill, Smith,
Purington, Brooks, iMeans and Urquhart.
The baseball teams of Bowdoin, Bates, Maine
and Colby present a puzzle to the person who at-
tempts to forecast the State championship. All four
seem to have the same strength and weakness ;
namely, strength in batting and weakness in the
pitching staff. In the games played to date the only
-'tchers who have shown themselves capable of
winning a pitcher's battle, are means of Bowdoin
and Ryan of Maine.
Means, although only winning one of the five
games he has pitched, has not been hit hard. He
let down the sluggers of Brown University with only
six hits and averages eight hits a game, to date. The
other pitchers for Bowdoin are doubtful quantities.
Grant is a good, steady man and with good support
can be counted upon to pull the team out with the
long end of the score. Urquhart, who pitched bril-
liant ball on the Vermont trip, is ineligible for the
State series, and Means and Grant will probably do
all the pitching against Bowdoin's Maine rivals.
Ryan of Maine will be remembered for his excel-
lent work two years ago when he won his game
against Harvard. He nearly duplicated this per-
formance last week when the Crimson won from the
boys from Orono by the close score of 5 to 4. In
this game Ryan allowed but five hits and struck out
seven men. The other members of Maine's pitching
staff are doubtful quantities and as yet have not
shown winning form. Ryan will be probably op-
posed to Means in the game to-morrow and a line
on their respective ability can be gained at that time.
Bates has had to develop new pitchers this year.
Linquist has made the best record for them, pitch-
ing good ball against the Pilgrims, a Lewiston local
aggregation. His try-out in that game, however,
was not sufficient to get a good line on his ability.
Stinson, the pitcher used against Harvard, was hit
for 12 safeties in that game, although he showed that
he has some puzzlers by striking out 8 Harvard
men. Duvey, the man who pitched against Bow-
doin in the exhibition game, was touched up for
fourteen hits.
McDougall and Taylor will probably do the box
work for Colby this spring. Harvard connected with
Taylor's offering for 18 hits last week, and he was
also hit freely in the Maine-Colby exhibition game.
McDougall pitched against Boston College but
showed no exceptional form. Colby looks rather
weak in the twirling department just at present.
Behind the bat Wilson of Bowdoin has the un-
disputed reputation as the best catcher in the State
and is better than ever this year. Smith, Maine's
backstop and captain, is above the average of col-
lege catchers.
The infields of all four colleges can hardly be
compared as yet. None of them have shown excep-
tional form, but a snap judgment would be that
Bowdoin and Colby have the best supporting sack-
men. The vulnerable point of the four infields
seems to be the keystone sack, and shifts have been
made in this position on two of the four teams since
the beginning of the season.
Colby and Bates have heavy hitting outfields,
while Bowdoin has a trio of as speedy and sure men
in the outer gardens as she has had in many a day.
Maine's outfield is average.
The comparative batting of the teams cannot yet
be ascertained, but all are capable of piling up a big
score against an easy pitcher.
By way of summary, then, there seems to be a
scarcity of strike-out pitchers and plenty of good
hitters. Unless Ryan and Means develop, it is a
safe bet that there will be no shut-out games in the
series. Bowdoin's chances for winning the cham-
pionship look as good as any of her Maine rivals.
The White will at least figure in the final games,
and with better student support than is usually
given the team, is likely to carry away the pennant.
But baseball at best is an uncertain game ; base-
ball with heavy batting teams is especially uncer-
tain; the most careful of forecasts is liable to be up-
set ; and the only safe thing to predict is that the
Maine series of 191 1 will be one of the most inter-
esting, most well-matched and hard-fought contests
in years. And remember, Bowdoin will be in it all
the time with a hard-working team worthy of the
college's heartiest support.
INTERFRATERNITY BASEBALL STARTS
Two divisions of the teams are made in the
schedule of the inter-fraternity league. The first
section contains Beta Theta Pi, Delta Kappa Epsi-
lon, Zeta Psi, Alpha Kappa Kappa, and Theta Delta
Chi, while in the second section are Delta Upsilon,
Phi Chi, Alpha Delta Phi, Kappa Sigma, and the
non-fraternity nine. The complete schedule follows:
Saturday, April 29 — Alpha Delta Phi vs. Kappa
Sigma.
Monday, May i — Zeta Psi vs. Theta Delta Chi.
Tuesday, May 2 — Phi Chi vs. Delta Upsilon, Kap-
pa Sigma vs. Non-Fraternity.
Wednesday, May 3 — Delta Kappa Epsilon vs.
Beta Theta Pi.
Thursday, May 4 — Alpha Kappa Kappa vs. Zeta
Psi, Delta Upsilon vs. Non-Fraternity.
Friday, May 5— Phi Chi vs. Alpha Delta Phi.
Monday, May 8— Theta Delta Chi vs. Alpha
Kappa Kappa.
Tuesday, May 9 — Kappa Sigma vs. Delta Upsilon,
Alpha Delta Phi vs. Non-Fraternity.
Thursday, May 11 — Zeta Psi vs. Beta Theta Pi.
Friday, IVlay 12 — Delta Kappa Epsilon vs. Alpha
Kappa Kappa.
Monday, May 15 — Kappa Sigma vs. Phi Chi.
Wednesday, May 17 — Zeta Psi vs. Delta Kappa
Epsilon.
Thursday, May 18— Alpha Delta Phi vs. Delta
Upsilon, Phi Chi vs. Non-Fraternity.
Friday, May 19— Theta Delta Chi vs. Beta Theta
Pi.
Monday, May 22 — Alpha Kappa Kappa vs. Beta
Theta Pi.
Tuesday, May 23— Theta Delta Chi vs. Delta
Kappa Epsilon,
The opening game in the inter-fraternity league
was played on the Delta, Saturday afternoon, when
Kappa Sigma defeated Alpha Delta Phi, 8 to 2. The
line-ups :
Kappa Sigma— C, Byles ; p., J. L. Barbour; ib..
Snow; 2b., Minott; 3b., Weston; ss., Duffey; If.,
Torrey; c.f., Sylvester; r.f., Skelton.
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Alpha Delta Phi— C, F. S. Wiggin ; p.. A. L.
Pratt; ib., Winslow; 2b., Bull; 3b., Towle; ss., C.
Tuttle; l.f, Hastings, Smith; c.f., E. S. Purington ;
r.f.. Parkman.
Score by innings :
R H E
Kappa Sigma 2 3 3 0 o o 0 — 8 12 i
Alpha Delta Phi 0 o i o 0 i o — 2 s 9
Theta Delta Chi defeated Zeta Psi, Monday
afternoon, 10 to 2. The line-ups :
Theta Delta Chi— C, E. B. Tuttle; p.. Dole; ib.,
Wood; 2b., N. Tuttle; 3b., Brown; ss., Joy; l.f.,
Barton ; c.f., G. W. Howe ; r.f., Nixon.
Zeta Psi — C, Burns; p., Lewis; lb., Kennedy;
2b., Badger; 3b., LaCasce; ss., Black; l.f., Bickford;
c.f., Hussey; r.f., Merrill, Kent.
Score by innings :
R H E
Theta Delta Chi 200500 3 — 10 8 3
Zeta Psi i 0 0 o 0 o I — 2 2 5
Kappa Sigma trounced the Non-Fraternity out-
fit, 14 to 3, in an ante-breakfast game, Tuesday
morning. The line-ups :
Kappa Sigma — C, Byles ; p., J. L. Barbour ; ib..
Snow; 2b., Minott; 3b., Weston; ss., Oxnard ; l.f.,
Fox; c.f., Sylvester; r.f., Torrey.
Non-Fraternity — C, Hubbard ; p., Mitchell ; ib.,
Maloney; 2b., Schwey; 3b., Tupper ; ss., Verrill ; If.,
Keating; c.f.. Coombs; r.f., Knowles.
Score by innings :
Kappa Sigma 3 3 i I 4 2 — 14
Non-Fraternity i o 2 0 0 0 — 3
Delta Upsilon overwhelmed Phi Chi, Tuesday
afternoon, to the tune of 27 to 13. The line-ups :
Delta Upsilon — C, E. Weeks, Marsh ; p.. Page,
Tufts, L. S. Pratt; ib., Bodurtha; 2b., Busfield ; 3b.,
Berry; ss., Pratt; l.f., Gilbert; c.f.. Weeks; r.f.,
Shackford.
Phi Chi— C, McNeil; p., Hendee; ib., Regan;
2b., Sullivan; 3b., Woodman: l.f., Scribner; c.f., Per-
kins, Bickmore ; r.f., Walker, Perkins.
Score by innings :
Delta Upsilon i 7 3 4 9 3—2/
Phi Chi o 0 3 I 8 i— 13
Beta Theta Pi defeated Delta Kappa Epsilon, 4
to 2, Wednesday afternoon. The summary :
Beta Theta Pi— CC, Brummett; p., H. L. Hall;
lb., Hart; 2b., Ailing; 3b., Gardner; ss., L. T.
Brown; l.f., Parcher ; c.f., H. K. Hine; r.f., Nason.
Delta Kappa Epsilon — C, Crosby; p.. Savage;
lb., Devine; 2b., Hichborn ; 3b., Holt; ss., Hughes;
If., Allen ; cf., Cunlifife ; rf., Saunders.
CALENDAR
Friday, May s
8.30 Delta Upsilon House Dance.
Saturday, May 6
2.30 Bowdoin vs. Maine, Whittier Field.
Sunday, May 7
10.45 Morning service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
5.00 Sunday Chapel, conducted by President Hyde.
Monday, May 8
4.00 Interfraternity Baseball — Theta Delta Chi vs.
Alpha Kappa Kappa.
7.00 Address by F. P. Valentine : Opportunities for
College Men in Public Service Corporations,
Hubbard Hall.
Tuesday, May 9
Interfraternity Baseball.
6.00 Alpha Delta Phi vs. Non-Fraternity.
4.00 Kappa Sigma vs. Delta Upsilon,
Wednesday, May 10
4.00 Bowdoin vs. Colby, Whittier Field.
Thursday, May ii
4.00 Interfraternity Baseball — Zeta Psi vs. Beta
Theta Pi.
Friday, May 12
4.00 Delta Kappa Epsilon vs. Alpha Kappa Kappa.
dollcQC IFlotes
The Massachusetts Club is planning an outing
down the bay some time late this month. A base-
ball game and a clambake will be among the attrac-
tions, and it is hoped that several out-of-state sub-
freshmen will attend.
Mr. McConaughy is to speak at the Abbott School,
Farmington, Sunday.
Coach Norton has recovered from his illness and
is with the team again.
Many from college were present at the Pop Con-
cert given for the Town Library, Monday night.
A large band left the campus to go to the Bangor v^
fire on the midnight Sunday, and returned Monday
morning.
Wednesday, the Examining Conimittee of the
Boards of Trustees and Overseers visited the col-
lege.
The students are glad to hear that none of the
Bangor fellows here suflfered the loss of his home in
the big fire.
May 17 and 18 there will be a meeting of promi-
nent deans and administrative officers here. Dean
Fenn, of Princeton, will be the principal speaker.
The Library has recently added a contemporary
copy of the "Acts and Laws" of the General Court
of Massachusetts, in which the charter of Bowdoin
College is given.
Mr. F. P. Valentine, General Traffic Manager of
the New England Tel. & Tel. Co., will give an v,
address in Hubbard Hall, at seven o'clock on Mon-
day evening. May 8th, on "Opportunities for College
Men in Public Service Corporations."
The committee to hear the trials of the Alexan-
der Prize Speaking is made up of the following
men of the faculty; Prof. Mitchell, Prof. Davis
and Mr. Stone. Prof. Mcllwain, Prof. Nixon and
Mr. Evans have been chosen to hear the Commence-
ment parts.
From the following men, who will speak Friday,
the Freshman Class is to choose ten to compete in
the trials of the Alexander Prize Speaking Contest:
C. A. Brown, R. L. Buell, W. H. Cunliffe, Jr., G. F.
Eaton, W. H. Farrar, E. C. Gage, F. T. Garland, A.
E. Gray, M. W. Hamblen, R. D. Leigh, P. D.
Mitchell, R. A. Munroe, A. W. Newcombe, H. A.
Nichols, C. L. Russell, R. E. Simpson, E. H. Snow,
and E. Sylvester.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
Hlumni Bepattment
'6i. — The Class of 1861 has lost a loyal
classmate and staunch friend in the death of
Gen. Stephen H. Manning, who died at his
Lewiston home, Wednesday, April 27. Not
only have his classmates suffered a great
loss, but the many friends of this ardent sup-
porter of the Union must also undergo a great
misfortune.
Gen. Manning was born in Lewiston in
1834, the son of Samuel and Susannah Man-
ning, two of the early settlers of the city. He
was prepared for college at the Lewiston Falls
Academy, entering Tufts College in 1857. At
the completion of his Sophomore year, he
joined the Junior Class at Bowdoin, thence
graduating in 1861. The call to arms reached
the college before graduation, but Gen. Man-
ning secured leave to enlist as a volunteer, at
the same time receiving his degree.
The career of Gen. Manning in the army
was one marked by renown and distinction.
Enlisting as a private in tlie spring of 1861,
he was mustered out with the rank of Briga-
dier-General, October 5, 1866. During his
service, he was rapidly promoted as a reward
for his bravery and ability. His conduct of
the quartermaster's department won the com-
mendation of the superior officers with the ul-
timate honor of rank as General.
After being mustered out of the service at
his desire. Gen. Manning entered business first
in Baltimore and later in Wilmington, N. C.
Here he made a host of friends in spite of the
fact that the last traces of the rebellion were
not yet removed from these Southerners.
Nevertheless, he was esteemed so highly in
the county of Hanover, in which the city of
Wilmington is located, that for sixteen years
he, a Northerner, was sheriff, an office jeal-
ously guarded and sought for by Southerners.
At the end of sixteen years of worthy ser-
vice in this position, Gen. Manning returned
to Lewiston to live comfortably and peace-
fully during his old age. Gen. Manning
married Miss Sarah Walker of Rumford, and
the union was one of harmony and happiness
during her life, her death occurring fourteen
years ago. With the eminent courage that
marked his public career, he bore his public
grief like the hero he was in all vicissitudes.
The surviving Maine heroes of the war
will miss Gen. Manning greatly, so well was
he known and so much was he loved. At the
annual meetings of the 5th Maine Regiment
at Peak's Island each summer, he was always
affairs of the regiment. He was a member
of the Custer post of Lewiston, and has
served as its commander. Gen. Manning was
also a leading figure in the Loyal Legion.
"General Manning was a favorite in and
out of his class. His social qualities, his
genius of good fellowship, his unblemished
character and his quaint habit of thought and
expression made him an unforgettable and
lovable factor in undergraduate life."
'89. — William Morrell Emery, city editor
of the Fall River News, is a candidate for the
office of librarian of the Mllicent free library
of Fairhaven. The position of librarian has
JList been made vacant by the resignation of
Drew B. Hall, '99, who has been appointed
librarian of the SomerviUe Free Public
Library. Mr. Emery has been reporter and
editor on Lowell, Providence, and New Bed-
ford papers, besides contributing to various
weekly publications. Mr. Emery is consid-
ered by his friends to be especially fitted by
education and training for the position of
librarian. In 1892, he received the degree of
M.A. from Bowdoin.
Gift for New Athletic Building
A single donor has given ^25,000 to erect
an athletic building in memory of Gen. Thomas
W. Hyde to be called the Gen. Thomas W.
Hyde Athletic Building. This building will be
connected with, and for practical purposes, be
a part of, the new gymnasium. Of the $100,000
required for the combined gymnasium and
athletic building the following sums are already
assured :
For the Gen. Thomas W. Hyde Athletic
Building $25,000
From Mr. George F. Bowdoin 10,000
From Alumni and friends 12,000
From Students of the College 8,000
From Students of the Medical School 1,000
Total
$56,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The Ninety-first Annual Course of Leiftures will begin
Thursday, October 13, 1910, and continue to June 21, igii.
Four courses of lecftures are required of all who matricu-
late as first-course students.
The courses are graded and cover Ledlures, Recitations,
Laboratory Work and Clinical Instru(5lion.
The third and fourth year classes will receive their entire
instruftion at Portland, where excellent clinical facilities will
be afforded at the Maine (ieneral Hospital.
For catalogue, apply to
ALFRED MITCHELL, M.D., Dean.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLl
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MAY 12, 191 1
NO. 6
EVERYBODY UP TO WATER VILLE
To-morrow morning at 8 o'clock a track
team composed of thirty men will go to Water-
ville to represent Bowdoin in the annual State
Meet. In order to make the fight which is
necessary to win the meet this year, such a
team must be backed up by every Bowdoin
man. The faculty have granted a holiday and
since the last issue of the Orient, lower rail-
road rates have been obtained. A rate of $1.50
round trip will be charged, the tickets being
good for Saturday only, and the rate of $1.80
round trip tickets being good from Saturday
until the following Monday. Under such con-
ditions not a man can afford to miss a meet
which promises to be the best ever held. So.
everybody take it upon himself to board the
morning train and journey to Waterville to
push the team on to victory for Bowdoin.
BOWDOIN, S; TUFTS, 3— MAY 3
In a game featured by the good work of
the opposing pitchers, Means and Smith, Bow-
doin defeated Tufts by a magnificent batting
rally in the seventh and eighth innings. The
game was played with a gale blowing across
the diamond and with the temperature several
degrees below baseball weather. This fact
accounts for the numerous errors charged to
both teams.
Means allowed only three scattered hits,
none of them counting in the score and pulled
out of several bad holes caused by errors be-
hind him. Smith of Tufts pitched a fine
game, also, and allowed only six hits. Both
pitchers had good strike-out records. Means
retiring 12 Medford men in this way, and
Smith, 14 Bowdoin batters. Bowdoin's hits
were bunched well, all but one being made
in the seventh and eighth. The game was
played on the Tufts athletic field at Medford.
Weatherill, ss 5
Smith, l.f 4
Wilson, c 4
Clifford, lb 4
Lawlis, 3b 4
Purington, c.f 4
Brooks, r.f 4
O'Neil, 2b 4 0 0 1 o o
Means, p 4 o o i 7 o
Totals 27 5 7 *26 11 6
*Martin out for bunting on 3d strike.
Tufts
ab r bh pc a e
Quakers, 3b 5 o i o o 0
Roberts, 2b 4 o o 2 4 0
E. Martin, c.f 2 3 o i 0 o
Hooper, l.f 000000
H. Martin, l.f ^4 0 i i 0 0
McKenna, ib 3 i o 7 0 i
R. Smith, p 4 o I 0 0 o
Dickinson, r.f 3001 10
Bennett, c 4 o 0 15 0 o
Proctor, ss 4 o 0 0 o i
Totals 22 3 3 27 5 2
Innings i 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Bowdoin 0 o 0 o o 0 3 2 0 — 5
Tufts I o o 0 0 0 0 2 0 — 3
Earned Runs — Bowdoin, 2. Two-base hits —
Smith, Wilson. Stolen bases— Weatherill, Clifford,
Purington 2, E. Martin 3, Hooper, Bennett. Sacri-
fice hits — Quakers, Roberts, Dickinson. Base on
balls — Off Means 4. Struck out — By Means 12, by
Smith 14. Umpire— O'Reilly. Time— 2 hrs.
BOWDOIN, 0 ; HARVARD, 3— MAY 4
Bowdoin's inability to hit Capt. McLaugh-
lin of Harvard, resulted in a shut-out game at
Cambridge last week. Harvard's three runs
were made by comhinations of hits and errors
in the second, third, and eighth innings.
Urquhart worked steadily throughout the
game and was not hit hard by the Crimson
batsmen. The infield played good ball and
executed a fast double play, O'Neil to Lawlis.
Aside from the scoring innings the Harvard
batsmen were retired almost in order. The
contest was held on Soldiers' Field, Cam-
bridge.
Bowdoin
ab r bh po a e
Weatherill, ss 3 o i o i 2
Smith, l.f 3 0 o I 0 o
Wilson, c 3 o 0 7 0 0
Clifford, lb 4 0 i 5 i i
Lawlis, 3b 3 o I 2 0 0
Purington, c.f 200001
Brooks, r.f 300400
O'Neil, 2b 3 0 o 2 3 0
LTrquhart, p 3 o o 2 i o
Totals 27 0 3 *23 6 4
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
Harvard
ab r bh po a e
Rogers, r.f 402200
Desha, ss 4 i 2 i 2 o
Potter, 2b 4 0 o S 2 0
McLaughlin, p 401020
R. CHfford, c.f 4 I o 0 0 o
Wigglesworth, l.f 300220
Hann, ib 2 0 i 7 o 0
Coon, 3b 2 o I 3 2 I
Reeves, c 3 i o 7 3 0
Totals 30 3 7 27 13 I
*WiggIesworth out for crossmg batter's box.
Score by innings... 123456789
Bowdoin o o o o o o 0 0 0 — 0
Harvard 0 i i 0 o 0 0 i x — 3
Earned Runs — Harvard i. Stolen bases — Desha,
McLaughlin, Clifford, Coon. Sacrifice Hits— Hann.
Base on balls— Off Urquhart i, off McLaughlin 3.
Struck out — By Urquhart 6, by McLaughUn 6.
Double plays— O'Neil, Lawlis ; Wigglesworth, Potter ;
Desha, Potter, Ham. Hit by pitcher— Purington.
Wigglesworth. Umpire — King. Time — 2 hrs.
BOWDOIN, 7; U. OF M., 6— MAY 6
In one of the most exciting games ever
pulled off on Whittier Field, Bowdoin shoved
the winning run over in the last half of the
ninth inning last Saturday, and sent Maine
home defeated by a score of 7 to 6. Both
pitchers were effective, but Bowdoin's scores
came as a result of bunching of hits.
"Pewt" Purington was the hero of the day
and by two beautiful drives to deep left, one in
the first, and one in the eighth, brought in five
runs. Clifford also was able to solve Ryan's
puzzlers, getting two hits.
The Maine infield worked very smoothly
and Ryan in the box, aside from the unlucky
innings, retired his opponents in I, 2, 3 order.
Means pitched a good game, despite his injury
of the day before, and steadied down in the
eighth and ninth innings and kept the Orono
lads from getting away with the game.
Bowdoin started things with a rush in the
first inning when Wilson walked, stole second
and came home on Clift'ord's single to centre.
Ryan hit Lawlis, the next man up, and then
Bowdoin's "Tris Speaker" cleared the bases
with a two-bagger, making the score 3 to o.
In the third after Scales was thrown out at
the plate on a frustrated attempt at a double
steal, Fulton who had reached first on an error
and was advanced to second, on Scales' at-
tempt to steal, came in on F. Cobb's single. In
the sixth, Maine made two more runs on
Daniels' wild throw to third, and in the same
inning took the lead when Ryan's two-bagger
scored Abbott.
Again in the seventh, a three-base hit by
Scales and a sacrifice fly by Fulton, gave the
visitors another tally.
But Capt. Lawlis' men earned the title of a
fighting team when in the eighth with two men
out and one on base, Clifford hit safe, Lawlis
walked and Purington laced out his second
timely drive which emptied the bases and gave
Bowdoin the lead 6 to 5. But after the game
was thus stowed away for the second time,
Maine evened things up in the ninth when Bob
Weatherill misjudged an infield fly and
Scales came home.
With the last of the batting order up, Bow-
doin supporters were settling down to watch
an extra inning contest ; but Daniels, who
made his debut in a Bowdoin uniform that
afternoon, the first man up, hit a nice single
over third. He was advanced to second on a
fielder's choice which placed Means- on first.
Weatherill, next man up, laid down a nice
bunt which put Daniels on third. Smith hit
a grounder to Abbott and Daniels with a
pretty slide, beat the ball to the plate and the
game was won.
Wilson and Smith put up an excellent exhi-
bition behind the bat and held the runners
close to the bases. Wilson filched the only
base of the contest. Daniels fitted in well in
O'Neil's place at second. The team's weak-
ness in base-running seems to be remedied and
the main trouble was with the infield fielding.
With a few shifts. Coach Norton plans to fix
this matter up, however.
A fair-sized crowd was present, including
the band and the cheering was good.
Bowdoin
ab r bh po a e
Weatherill. ss 4 o o 3 2 i
F. Smith, l.f 210200
Wilson, c 4 I 0 6 2 0
Clifford, lb 4 2 2 12 i 0
Lawlis, 3 b 2 2 o I I 2
Purington, c.f 402000
Russell, r.f 4 o o i 0 0
Daniels, 2 b 4 i i 2 3 I
Means, p 4 o o 0 4 0
Totals 32 7 5 27 13 4
University of Maine
ab r bh po a e
R. Smith, c 5 o i 5 i 0
Scales, r.f 4 i 2 o 0 0
Fulton, c.f 3 2 0 I 0 o
F. Cobb, 3 b 5 i 2 3 2 i
.'\bbott, 2 b 5 I I I 5 0
Bearce, ib 4 0 I 11 o o
Ryan, p 4 0. 2 " i 0
BOWDOIN ORIENT
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Phillips, l.f 4
H. Cobb, ss 4
Totals 38 6 II *2S II 2
* Winning run made with one out.
Score by Innings 123456789
Bowdoin 30000003 i — 7
Univ. of Maine 00100310 I — 6
Earned runs — Bowdoin 3, Maine 2. Two base
hits — Purington, Ryan, Scales. Three base hits —
Scales. Purington. Stolen bases — Wilson. Sacrifice
hits — Weatherill, Scales, Fulton. Base on balls — off
Means i, off Ryan 3. Struck out — by Means 5, by
Ryan 5. Hit by pitcher — Lawlis. Umpire — John
O'Brien. Time — i hr. co min.
BOWDOIN, 4; COLBY, 0— MAY 10
Bowdoin won the second game of the State
series, Wednesday afternoon, when Colby was
shut out by a score of 4 to o. From a Bow-
doin standpoint it was the most satisfactory
game of the season thus far. Woodcock, a
twirler wlio heretofore had not been reckoned
with, pitched a nice game, allowing only six
hits and having excellent control. The team
fielded behind him in fine shape, playing fast,
inside baseball, the errors being all the results
of difficult chances. At the bat the team hit
well and consistently and had it not been for
poor work on the bases would have scored
more than four tallies.
Colby started the game with MacDougall
in the box, but he was replaced by Burroughs
in the fifth. The "White" sluggers were be-
ginning to take kindly to his curves when he
was injured. While receiving a throw at first,
standing on the base line, Purington, the run-
ner, ran into him and sprained his ankle. Mac-
Dougall finished the game in the box. The
fielding of the visitors was ragged and extra
bases were repeatedly the results of careless
throwing on their part.
Bowdoin's runs were made in the third and
fourth. Daniels laced out a two-bagger with
one down in the third and came in on error by
the third baseman. In the fourth, Squanto hit
safe, stole second, went to third on a passed
ball and came home on a wild pitch. In the
same inning with one out, Lawlis drew a pass
and raced home on Purington's two-bagger.
"Pewt" stole third and came in on Russell's
single. Daniels flied out and Woodcock got a
single. Weatherill ended the inning with a
fiy to Sturtevant in deep left.
In the eighth with one out, Lafleur reached
first on a hard grounder which Bob Weatherill
failed to handle. Sturtevant followed with a
single. Bowker, the next man up, hit to left.
Russell threw to the plate and Squanto receiv-
ing the throw ran out to third, tagged Sturte-
vant who was forcing Lafleur off third and
then threw to Clifford at the plate, catching
Lafleur easily. This was one of the fielding
features of the game and showed what
"heady" ball Coach Norton's men are playing
now. In the ninth another one of the fastest
plays ever pulled off on Whittier Field, was
executed with a man on third and first. Wil-
son threw to Weatherill on the second bag and
with a quick return Good was caught at the
plate. Lawlis made a neat pick-up stop of a
grounder in the fifth.
O'Brien did good work with the indicator
with a number of close decisions. A good
mid-week crowd was present and the day was
all that could be desired.
BOWDOIN
AB R BH PO A E
Weatherill, ss 3 o o 2 4 i
Smith, l.f 3 0 I o o 0
Wilson, c 4 I 2 7 4 I
Clifford, lb 4 o 0 13 0 0
Lawlis, 3b 3 I I 2 2 I
Purington, cf 3 i 2 2 i 0
Russell, rf 3 0 2 i i i
Daniels, 2b 4 i i o I 0
VV oodcock, p 3 o I o 3 0
30 4 10 27 16 4
Colby
ab r bh pc a e
Sturtevant, If., c 4 o i 2 0 2
Bowker, 3b 3 o i 3 2 4
Good, c, p ..4 o I I 2 o
Reed, lb 4 o i 9 3 0
Vail, rf 4 o I 2 0 0
*MacDougall, p i 0 0 0 o 0
Burroughs, cf 3 o 4 4 i 0
Harlow, ss 3 o i i 2 0
Clukey, cf 2 o 0 2 o 0
MacDougall, p i 0 o 0 0 0
Lafleur, 2b 3 0 o o 3 I
32 0 6 24 13 7
*Went in to pitch after being replaced by Bur-
roughs.
Innings i 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Bowdoin o o i 3 o o o o 0 — 4
Colby o 0 0 0 0 o 0 o 0 — 0
Two-base hits — Daniels, Purington. Three-base
hit — Wilson, Sacrifice hits — Purington, Russell,
Burroughs. Stolen bases — Weatherill, Smith, Wil-
son (2). Double plays — Purington, Wilson and
LawHs; Russell, Wilson and Clifford; Reed, Bur-
roughs and Bowker. Left on bases — Bowdoin 7,
Colby 6. Hits — Off MacDougal, 6 in 4 innings; off
Burroughs, 3 in 3 2-3 innings ; off Good i in 1-3
inning. Base on balls — Off MacDougal. 2. Struck
out — By Woodcock. 6. Hit by pitched ball — Bowker,
Smith. Wild pitch— McDougall. Passed ball-
Good I. Umpire — John O'Brien. Time — i hr. 35
min.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
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Vol. XLI. MAY 12, 1911
No. 6
,,, . ., „ . . The makers of the "dope
ine ineei ^^^^^ results of the meet at
Waterville to-morrow. So far as we can see
their results are bound up in "ifs" and Bow-
doin goes up with no unequal chance for the
meet. Two months ago we heard everywhere
that we had no track team at all, while to-day
we have thirty good men and true, not famed
champions to be sure, but hard-working Bow-
doin fighters. When we sent a team to Water-
ville four years ago with all the odds on paper
against us, we lost by a fraction. Let every
Bowdoin man be on hand there to-morrow to
back up a team which has the Bowdoin grit to
turn a paper defeat into an actual victory.
_ ^. ^, The primitive man delights
Decorating the -^ ^^-^^^ ^^^^^^_ ^^he
Campus j^Qj.^j^ American arrayed
himself for battle with an embellishment of
gaudy paints. The savages of Australia and
Africa, the barbarian races of the world from
time immemorial, have sold their birthrights
for messes of flaming dies and staring stuffs.
And so to-day we who are termed the young
barbarians of the land, as we linger in the
stage between imbecility of infancy and the
civilization of maturity, gain a rare pleasure
from the artistic tastes of our managers and
advertising agents. We rejoice to see posters
of brilliant hues and startling messages nailed
to the campus trees. We greet them glee-
fully as we rush to breakfast in the morning.
Our fond gaze falls upon them as we issue
from chapel, and as we pass to and fro intent
upon the labors of the day ; and at eventide, as
the long shadows of the chapel towers fall up-
on the observatory and the pines beyond,
regretfully we mark them fading into the twi-
light. They are indeed a source of much joy
to us who are undergraduates. But it is pos-
sible that our alumni, our faculty, and our
friends who visit us here, may not take a sim-
ilar pleasure in those bright productions. It
is also possible that bulletin boards were meant
to present such art treasures to the gaze of an
admiring world.
We have a Student Council, which has been
diligently seeking immortality by the original-
ity of its ways, and which is deserving of the
veneration of all of us. Yet we dare to think
that it could strengthen its position even more,
and we would suggest that in making its last
wild grasp at fame it publish an edict relegat-
ing all posters to the bulletin boards, which
edict shall be unchangeable as the laws of the
Medes and Persians. Then in pace requiescat.
RESULTS OF TENNIS TOURNAMENT
For the last two weeks the tennis tourna-
ment to determine the members of this year's
team, has been in progress. The two men who
reached the finals made the team, the winner
being second man and the loser third man. The
fourth man was decided by matches between
the players previously defeated by the players
in the final round.
In the preliminary round McCormick beat
Tuttle 6-1, 6-1; Nixon beat Fifield 6-2, 6-3;
Curtis beat Burleigh 6-2, 6-0; Briggs beat Tor-
rey 6-1, 6-0; Dole beat Burns 6-4, 10-8.
In the first round Hichborn beat Haskell
6-1, 6-2; Merrill beat Gardner 6-4, 6-4;
Hastings beat Slocum 13-11, 2-6, 8-6; McCor-
mick beat Nixon 6-1, 6-0; Curtis beat Nichols
6-4, 6-1 ; Partridge beat Greene 6-1, 6-1 ;
BOWDOIN ORIENT
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Brummett beat Wilson 6-0, 6-2 ; Briggs beat
Dole 7-5, 6-3.
In the second round Hichborn beat Mer-
rill 3-6, 6-0, 6-0 ; McCormick beat Hastings
6-2, 6-2; Partridge beat Curtis 6-1, 6-2; Briggs
beat Brummett 8-6, 1-6, 7-5.
In the semi-finals McCormick beat Hich-
born, 2-6, 9-8, 7-5 ; Partridge beat Briggs 6-2,
7-5-
In the finals McCormick beat Partridge
10-8, 6-4, 5-7, 1-6, 8-6.
M. I. A. A. MEET
The seventh Annual Track Meet of the M. I. A.
A. opens to-morrow morning at Waterville under
conditions that bid fair to make the meet the closest
track contest that has ever been held in the State.
For the first time in history the outcome of the- meet
is absolutely in doubt ; no one college seems to have
any decided advantage. Maine and Colby both go
into the meet confident of victory. The records of
their dual meet last Saturday only strengthen their
confidence. Bates, with a well balanced team and the
remarkable showing of last season to encourage
them, forms a factor that must be reckoned with,
while Bowdoin, with no stars and no brilliant pre-
season records will send to Waterville a team of
thirty hard-working, hard-playing men, filled with
the spirit that has accomplished so much in the past.
The most notable figure in the sprints, perhaps,
is Captain Nardini, of Colby. In last Saturday's
dual meet Nardini captured first place in both the
100 and 220 yard dashes. Bowdoin's principal entry
in the century is McKenney, while Mayo, of Bates,
and Deering, of Maine, must be reckoned with. In
the 220, Nardini's time of 23 seconds in Saturday's
meet looks good. Bowdoin, however, puts forward
a hard man to defeat in E. B. Smith, and Duvey,
of Bates, a relay star, may upset calculations.
The quarter mile is regarded as a toss-up be-
tween Walker, of Maine (last year's M. I. A. A.
winner) and Holden, of Bates (if the latter runs).
Haskell, of Bowdoin, has done the distance in good
time. The 880-yard race is generally conceded to
Holden, of Bates, who established a record of 1.56
at last year's state meet. Emery, of Bowdoin, Gates,
of Colby, and Morris, of Maine (first and second in
last Saturday's dual meet) will divide the other
points.
In the distance runs we have Houghton, of
Maine, Hall, Emery, and Skillin, of Bowdoin, and
Holden, of Bates. The two-mile looks like Maine
with two such men as Powers and Houghton,
although Bowdoin e.xpects much of Hall. Powers
won the event Saturday with a time of 10 minutes
and 3 seconds.
Bates looks to Blanchard for two firsts in the
hurdles. Blanchard took first in the high hurdles
last year and second in the low event. The other
probable point winners are Vail, of Colby, Smith
and Hammond, of Maine, and Wiggin and Jones,
of Bowdoin.
The pole vault and high jump appear to lie be-
tween Maine and Colby, the broad jump seems to be
between Bowdoin and Bates, Rogers, of Maine,
with a record of 11 ft. 7 in., leads the field of com-
petitors in the vault. Herrick, of Colby, who took
lirst in the high jump last year, still looks good,
although Bowdoin expects Greene and Pierce to be
in the running. Greene won the event in the Indoor
Meet and Pierce took second in the State Meet last
year. Woodman, of Bates, and St. Onge, of Maine,
are other good men in this event. The broad jump
brings out such men as McFarland, of Bowdoin, last
year's winner with a jump of 21 ft. 9 8-10 inches
and Holden, of Bates, who actually defeated Mc-
Farland, but was disqualified. Nardini, of Colby, is
also formidable in the event, Thompson, of Bates,
is looked upon as a dark horse in the jump. He
has done 21 ft. 9 in.
Of the weight-throwers Maine confidently expects
Shepherd to outshine everyone. Flis new record of
121 ft. 9 in. in the discus, which was established
last Saturday, certainly seems hard to touch, but
stranger things have happened. Gove, of Bates, has
thrown the discus 120 feet, and F. Smith and Tib-
betts (Colby) are strong in this department. The
shot-put seems to be between Gove and Shepherd,
who have each put it over 39 feet. Kern, of Bow-
doin, and Welch, of Colby, will probably also ,figure
strongly in this. Of the hammer throwers, Hast-
ings, of Bowdoin, if in form, will make a strong
bid for first, Hastings, in times past, has thrown
over 121 feet. Welch, of Colby, Andrews, of Bates,
and Bearce, of Maine, are the other dangerous men
in this event.
BOWDOIN'S VICTORY IN ORATORICAL LEAGUE
CONTEST
A large audience filled Memorial Hall on Thurs-
day evening. May 4, to hear the five orators who
took part in the second annual contest of the New
England Intercollegiate Oratorical League. Seldom
does one have the opportunity to listen to such
clear, straightforward, and effective speaking as was
given during the evening. Each man who spoke in
the contest was a carefully trained and accom-
plished orator who brought great credit to the col-
lege which he represented. E. Baldwin Smith, 'li.
was the winner of the contest and was presented
with a gold medal ; and W. R. Montgomery of Wes-
leyan received honorable mention.
The order of speaking was determined by lot im-
mediately before the contest, and first place fell to
Mr. Montgomery. His subject was "The Hope of
Democracy" and his oration appealed strongly to
the audience. He showed how our government is
changing from a representative to a more demo-
cratic form of government, and pointed out the need
of educating the people, and especially the children,
under this form. The widespread establishment
of playgrounds, the speaker argued, would meet this
need.
The second speaker was Morris Jacob Wessel
of Brown, who spoke on "The Jewish Spirit." He
discussed the spirit of the Jewish people, past, pres-
ent, and future, and asserted that both Jews and
Christians should do all that they can to bring them-
selves into closer relationship with each other. Mr.
Wessel was a very attractive speaker.
The third oration was given by Mr. Smith, the
winner of the contest. His subject was "A New
Aristocracy." The theme of his oration was the
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
obligation college trained men ought to feel to make
their country better. His speaking was very sin-
cere and effective. One felt he meant every word
he said.
Francis M. Fallon followed Mr. Smith. "Beecher
in England" was his subject. He explained how the
great Beecher kept back the English people from
giving aid to the Confederate States during the
Civil War.
The contest ended with the oration of Henry
Smith Leiper of Amherst, who spoke on "China's
Progress — America's Prejudice." Mr. Leiper's per-
sonality was most pleasing. He spoke with fervor
and conviction. His oration was an admirable pre-
sentation of China's wonderful advance to the front.
The speaker asserted that the Chinese nation is
greatly misunderstood. He criticised America's at-
titude toward the yellow man, and advocated closer
and more sympathetic relations on the part of the
United States with this great commercial power
of the East.
LEAGUE ELECTED OFFICERS
The New England Intercollegiate Oratorical
League elected the following officers for next year,
at a meeting held here last week : Geo. L. Buck,
Wesleyan, '13, President; Eugene F. Bradford, Bow-
doin, '12, Vice-President ; D. H. Kulp, Brown, '13,
Secretary-Treasurer.
MEETING OF COLLEGE OFFICERS
The College Association of Officers, which is
composed of the administrative officers of Amherst,
Bowdoin, Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, Tufts, Uni-
versity of Maine, Williams, and Yale, is to hold a
meeting here May 17 and 18. At the meeting,
which will be informal and the proceedings of
which will not be accessible to the public, there will
be a discussion of college policy. Among those in
attendance will be Dean Hurlbut or Assistant Dean
Castle, of Harvard ; Dean Jones, of Yale ; Dean
Emerson, Dartmouth; Dean Olds. Amherst; Dean
Ferry, Williams ; Dean Stevens, U. of Maine ; Dean
Wren, Tufts ; Prof. Hayden, Registrar of Tufts, and
Dean Sills, of Bowdoin.
Prof. Nichols, of Wesleyan, is president, and
Prof. Burnett, of Bowdoin, secretary of the asso-
ciation.
INTERFRATERNITY BASEBALL
Interest in the fraternity series has not wavered
a bit since the schedule was opened. Each nine is
putting forth all possible efforts to strengthen its
personnel, and each contest has its full share of
spectators.
Thursday morning, May 4, Delta Upsilon
trimmed the non-fraternity men, 19 to 7. The line-
ups :
Delta Upsilon — C, E. Weeks ; p., MacCormick,
Page; ib., Bodurtha; 2b., Busfield ; 3b., Berry; ss.,
L. S. Pratt; l.f., Gilbert; c.f., D. Weeks; r.f..
Marsh.
Non-Fraternity — C, Hubbard ; p., Verrill ; ib.,
Maloney; 2b., Schwey; 3b., Tupper ; ss., Locke; If.,
Keating; c.f.. Coombs; r.f., Knowles, Fuller.
Innings :
R H E
Delta Upsilon i 0 i 6ii x — ig 14 8
Xon-Fraternity o i 0 3 2 i — 7 8 10
Zeta Psi won its first game in the infraternity
league, Thursday afternoon. May 4, defeating Alpha
Kappa Kappa, 14 to 8. The line-ups :
Zeta Psi — C, Burns ; p., Lewis ; lb., Kennedy ;
2b., Bickford; 3b., LaCasce ; ss.. Black; l.f,, Kent;
c.f.. Badger; r.f., Wright, W- F. Merrill.
Alpha Kappa Kappa — C, Buck; p., G. Johnson,
Faulkingham ; ib., Paine; 2b., Roberts; 3b., J. John-
son ; ss., Goddard ; l.f.. Gray ; c.f., H. Johnson, A.
Johnson ; r.f., A. Johnson, Faulkingham.
Innings ;
Zeta Psi 14 o 2 i 0 o x — 17
Alpha Kappa Kappa 001600 0 — 7
Phi Chi defeated Alpha Delta Phi, 20 to 7, Friday
afternoon. May 5. The line-ups :
Phi Chi— C, McNeil; p., Hendee; ib., Regan;
2b., Sullivan;, 3b., Woodman; ss., Moulton ; If.,
Scribner; cf., Perkins; rf.. Walker.
Alpha Delta Phi— C, Wiggin; p., Pratt; ib.,
Winslow ; 2b., Bull ; 3b., Towle ; ss., Sewall ; If.,
Hastings ; cf., Purington ; rf., Parkman.
Theta Delta Chi took another game Monday
afternoon, trouncing Alpha Kappa Kappa, 12 to 3.
The line-ups :
Theta Delta Chi— C, E. Tuttle; p.. Dole; ib.,
Howe; 2b., Barton; 3b., Brown; ss., Joy; l.f., Buell;
c.f., Nixon ; r.f., Dunphy.
Alpha Kappa Kappa — C, Buck ; p., G. Johnson ;
lb., A. Johnson; 2b., Roberts; 3b., J. Johnson; ss.,
Goddard; l.f.. Gray; c.f., Paine; r.f., Faulkingham.
Innings :
R H E
Theta Delta Chi 202044 x — 12 3 4
Alpha Kappa Kappa. 000300 o — 367
Last Tuesday's games were between Alpha Delta
Phi and Non-Fraternitv in the morning, and Kappa
Sigma and Delta Upsilon in the afternoon. The
-\lpha Delts won, 10 to 2. The line-ups ;
Alpha Delta Phi— C, Wiggin, Bull; p., Pratt;
lb., Bull, Wiggin; 2b., Towle; ss., Sewall; l.f.. Park-
man; c.f., Purington; r.f., Morse.
Non-Fraternity — C, Hubbard; p., Verrill; ib.,
Genthner ; 2b., Schwey ; 3b., Tupper ; ss., Mitchell ;
l.f., Knowles; c.f.. Coombs; r.f., Hagar.
Innings :
Alpha Delta Phi 5 0 0 i 2 2—10
Non-Fraternity i 0 0 i 0 0 — 2
Delta Upsilon was the victor in a close game by
the score of 5 to 3. The line-ups :
Delta Upsilon— C, E. Weeks; p., Pratt; ib., Bo-
durtha; 2b., Busfield; 3b., Berry; ss., Page; l.f., Gil-
bert; c.f., D. Weeks; r.f.. Marsh, Shackford.
Kappa Sigma — C, Byles ; p., Barbour; ib.. Snow;
2b., Minott; 3b., Clarke; ss., Oxnard; l.f., Weston;
c.f.. Greenwood; r.f., Torrey, Sylvester.
■ Innings : i
R H E I
Delta Upsilon 2 o 0 o 2 i 0 — 5 6 6 "
Kappa Sigma o 0 I i I 0 0 — 3 4 5
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INTERFRATERNITY LEAGUE STANDING
Division A
Won. Lost.
Theta Delta Chi 2 o
Beta Theta Pi i 0
Zeta Psi i i
Delta Kappa Epsilon 0 i
Alpha Kappa Kappa o 2
Division B
Won. Lost.
Delta Upsilon 3 o
Kappa Sigma 2 i
Phi Chi I I
Aloha Delta Phi i 2
Non-Fraternity 0 3
P.C.
1. 000
1. 000
.500
.000
.000
P.C.
1. 000
.667
.500
■333
.000
FOOD FOR THE FANS
No stolen bases on "Squant" in the State games
so far. Guess Bowdoin's brilliant backstop has
taught the other base-runners the eighth command-
ment.
Colby's six left-handed batters looked easy for
Woodcock. He pitched a steady game throughout.
"Pewt" Purington has three extra baggers in two
games to his credit. The outfields will have to back
up some to get his drives.
Daniels is getting better every game and is hit-
ting nicely. Russell is also hitting well.
"Big Bill" Clifford is right in the game every
minute. That was a pretty play when he covered
home in the Colby game and caught Roy Good.
The accident to Burroughs in the Colby game is
one of a type often misunderstood in the grand
stand. Purington could not stop to get out of the
pitcher's way. A runner always has right to the
base lines. It was not unfair tactics ; it was baseball.
As stated in the Orient. Linquist is developing
rapidly as Bates' star twirler. The Lewiston institu-
tion is looming up in the pennant race.
Watch Wilson run the bases. He cuts them per-
fectly, and has pilfered three in the last two games.
Nine Years of Maine State Championships
1902 — Bowdoin Establishment of State series.
1903 — Bowdoin 1906 — Colby
igo4 — Colby 1907 — Bowdoin
igos — Bowdoin 1908 — Bowdoin
1909 — All 4 colleges tied
1910 — Maine
1911 — ?
Standing of Clubs
Won Lost Percentage
Bowdoin 2 o 1000
Bates 2 0 1000
Maine o 2 000
Colbv 0 2 000
DRAMATIC CLUB TRIP
PROGRAM FOR COMMENCEMENT WEEK
Sunday^ June 18
The Baccalaureate Sermon by President Hyde,
in the Congregational Church at 4 p.m.
Monday^ June 19
The Alexander Prize Speaking in Memorial Hall
at 8 P.M.
Tuesday, June 20
The Class Day Exercises of the Graduating
Class in Memorial Hall at 10 a.m., and under the
Thorndike Oak at 3 p.m. Senior Dance in Memo-
rial Hall at 9 P.M.
The Trustees will meet in the Classical Room,
Hubbard Hall, at 2 p.m.
The Overseers will meet in the Lecture Room,
Hubbard Hall, at 7 p.m.
The annual meeting of the Maine Historical
Society, in the Lecture Room, Hubbard Hall, at 2
P.M.
Wednesday, June 21
The Graduation Exercises of the Medical School
of Maine, in the Congregational Church at 9.30 a.m.
Address by Franklin C. Payson, A.M., of Portland.
The annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Fra-
ternity, Alpha of Maine, in the Alumni Room, Hub-
bard Hall, at II A.M.
1 1 to 12.30, Tennis matches between teams rep-
resenting the alumni, faculty and undergraduates.
The annual meeting of the Alumni Association,
with buffet lunch, in the Sargent Gymnasium at
12.30 p.m.
Out-door presentation of scenes from Twelfth
Night, by the Bowdoin Dramatic Club, at 3 p.m.
Illumination of the Campus, and Band Concert
at 7.30 p.m.
Reception by the President and Mrs. Hyde in
Hubbard Hall from 8 to 11 p.m.
Thursday, June 22
The Commencement Exercises in the Congrega-
tional Church at 10.30 a.m., followed by Commence-
ment Dinner in Memorial Hall.
The Reunion Trophy, presented by David
William Snow, Esq., '73, and now held by the Class
of 1885, will be awarded to the class that secures
the attendance of the largest percentage of its mem-
bers.
The Bowdoin Dramatic Club returned this morn-
ing from a three days' trip, under the management
of William Holt. Thev presented their play, "Sweet
Lavender," at Ellsworth, Tuesday; Bar Harbor,
Wednesday; and Dexter, Thursday.
CALENDAR
Friday, May 12
7.30 Rally, Memorial Hall.
Saturday, May' 13
8.03 Train leaves for Waterville.
10 a.m. M. I. A. A. Trials, Waterville.
2.00 M. I. A. A. Meet Finals, Waterville.
Sunday, May 14
10.4s Morning Service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
5.00 Sunday Chapel conducted by President Hyde.
Monday, May 15
4.00 Interfraternity Baseball — Phi Chi vs. Kappa
Sigma.
Joint cabinet meeting, Y. M. C. A.
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Tuesday, May i6
Bowdoin vs. New Hampshire State, Whittier
Field.
Wednesday, May 17
4.00 Interfraternity Baseball — Delta Kappa Epsilon
vs. Zeta Psi.
Thursday, May 18
Interfraternity Baseball.
6.00 A.M. Phi Chi vs. Non-Fraternity.
4.00 Delta Upsilon vs. Alpha Delta Phi.
Track team leaves for Springfield.
Friday, May 19
N. E. I. A. A. Trials, Springfield. ^ .yC,
4.00 Interfraternity Baseball — Theta Delta Chi vs.'.
Beta Theta Pi.
Hamblin, Leigh, Munroe, Newcombe, Russell,
Simpson.
Mr. Elon G. Borton, National Traveling Secre-
tary of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association,
spoke briefly in chapel yesterday morning and gave
an informal talk in the Y. M. C. A. Room in the
evening.
Mr. F. P. Valentine, general manager of the New
England Tel. and Tel. Company, spoke in Hub-
bard Hall, Monday evening, on the opportunities
open to college men in the public service corpor-
ations.
Thursday evening Dr. H. P. Little, of Colby
College, sometime Fellow of The Johns Hopkins
University, who has been with the U. S. G. S. in
field work in the West, gave an illustrated talk
upon "Glaciers" before the Chemical Club.
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Track Rally in Memorial Hall at
7.30 Tonight; Train Leaves for
Waterville Tomorrow at 8.03 A.M.
Round Trip, $1.50.
S. C. W. Simpson, '03, visited the campus over
Sunday.
Mitchell, '14. plays the violin for the Methodist
Church, Sundays.
A. H. Cole, '11, has spent the past week visit-
ing friends in Bowdoinham.
Dr. Whittier will be present at a meeting of the
athletic officers of New England colleges on May 19.
Prof. Sills will attend a meeting of the New
England College Entrance Board on Friday and
Saturday.
Many of the fellows attended the plays presented
by the Knickerbocker Stock Company and Toby
Lyons recently.
A joint concert is to be given by the Bates and
Bowdoin Musical Clubs in the City Hall, Lewiston,
on Tuesday, May i6th.
The joint cabinet meeting of the Christian Asso-
ciation will be held Monday evening. The place
has not yet been decided upon.
Joe O'Neil's leg, which was so injured in prac-
tice as to render him unable to play in the Maine or
Colby games, is gradually improving.
The faculty voted that Saturday be a half-holiday
in appreciation of the money that has been raised by
the undergraduates for the new gymnasium.
On the librarian's desk in Hubbard Library is a
picture containing the members of the Class of 1875
who attended the Thirty-fifth Reunion held at the
Domhegan House, Brunswick, last year.
The ringing of the college bell at seven a.m. is to
be discontinued, in accordance with a vote of the
faculty. Also, the bell is henceforth to be rung on
standard time rather than by the college clock.
The Freshmen chosen to take part in the trial
competition for the Alexander Prize Speaking are:
C. A. Brown, Buell, Cunliffe, Eaton, Farrar, Gray,
Hlumni Department
'yy. — Mr. George W. Tillson, formerly
chief engineer of the bureau of highways of
Manhattan, has been appointed consulting
engineer for Brooklyn, with a salary of $8,000.
'80. — Emery W. Bartlett, Esq., is editor of
the Los Angeles Examiner, at Los Angeles,
Cal.
'02. — A reception was tendered by the
various organizations of the men and women
of the Pilgrim Congregational parish, Nashua,
N. H., Thursday evening of last week, to the
new pastor. Rev. Daniel I. Gross, and Mrs.
Gross. Besides the members of the congrega-
tion, the pastors of every Protestant church of
Nashua, and scores of church people of other
denominations attended. The reception was
held in the chapel of the church which was
elaborately decorated.
While a licentiate, Mr. Gross preached at
Beverly, Mass., but since ordination, he has
been at Marshfield, Mass., until he began his
Nashua pastorate last Easter Sunday.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The Ninety-first Annual Course of Leiflures will begin
Thursday, Oftober 13, 1910, and continue to June 21, 1911.
P'our courses of lectures are required of all who matricu-
late as first-course students.
The courses are graded and cover I^edtures, Reoitationa,
Laboratory Work and Clinical Instru(5tion.
The third and fourth year classes will receive their entire
instru(ftion at Portland, where excellent clinical facilities will
be afforded at the Maine General Hospital.
For catalogue, apply to
ALFRED MITCHELL, M.D., Dtan.
Brunswick Maine, 1910.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MAY 19, 191 1
NO. 7
NEW ENGLAND MEET
The twenty-fifth annual meet of the New
England Intercollegiate Association will be
held to-morrow at Pratt Field, Springfield,
Mass. The trials were run off this afternoon
and the finals of the meet will take place to-
morrow. Bowdoin is represented this year by
a team of six men who left Thursday morning
on the eight o'clock train. The men who took
the trip are: Capt. McFarland, '11, who will
compete in the broad jump; T. E. Emery, '13,
who will run the mile; H. W. Hastings, '11,
who will compete in the hammer throw ; H.
H. Hall, '13, who is entered in the two-mile;
J. H. McKenney, '12, who is entered in the
hundred yard dash ; and C. H. Stevens,
Medic, who will compete in the discus throw.
The team was accompanied by Coach B. C.
Morrill, Manager W. A. MacCormick, '12, and
Asssistant Manager C. R. Crowell, '13. While
in Springfield the men will stop at the Clinton
Hall Hotel.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
The New England tennis tournament at
the Longwood Cricket Club courts in Brook-
line begins May 22. Bowdoin will be repre-
sented by Captain Black and W. A. MacCor-
mick, '12, in the singles, and Captain Black
and B. W. Partridge, Jr., '11, as the doubles
team.
The Maine Tournament begins here on
Thursday, May 24. Captain Black, MacCor-
mick, Partridge, and Hichborn, '11, will enter
the singles with Black and Partridge, and Mac-
Cormick and Hichborn as doubles teams.
BOWDOIN, 6; NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE, 1— MAY 16
With Urquhart in the box and good sup-
port behind him, Bowdoin defeated New
Hampshire State, Tuesday, by a score of 6 to
I. It was the first home appearance of the
lanky Freshman twirler and he did himself
proud, allowing only five scattered hits, strik-
ing out 8 men and allowing no passes. San-
born for the visitors weakened in the last part
of the game and allowed a number of costly
hits and passes. Brackett, the first man up for
the visitors, hit safe for two bases, stole third,
and scored on Wilson's wild throw to Lawlis.
This was all the scoring done by the New
Hampshire boys. In the 5th Jones came near
scoring on a combination of bad throws, but
was put out at the plate by Clififord.
Al. Grant distinguished himself both at the
bat and in the field. He made four pretty
catches in right, two of which looked like hits.
He also drove in two runs by nice singles.
Squanto hit the ball hard, getting three safe
bingoes out of three times up, one a two-bag-
ger. The fielding feature for the visitors was
made by Brackett in the eighth. He made a
sensational stop of a grounder by Weatherill,
touched second and threw to first, catching the
runner. Urquhart fielded his position in good
shape and ended the game with seven assists
to his credit. It was fine baseball weather, but
there was only a small attendance.
Bowdoin
ab r bh po a e
Weatherill, ss 5 o o o o o
Smith. If 3 I o 2 I 0
Wilson, c 3 2 3 g i 2
Clifford, lb .-■■ 3 I i n o o
Lawlis, 3b 4 i i i 0 o
Purington, cf 4 0 i 0 o i
Daniels, 2b 3 i i 0 i 0
Grant, rf 3 0 2 4 0 o
Urquhart, p 4 o 4 o 7 0
Total 32 6 9 27 10 3
New Hampshire State
ab r bh po a e
Brackett, ss 4 4 I 3 2 I
Kemp, cf ••4 o 0 3 o o
Swasey, ib 4 0 o 11 o 0
Welch, c 4 o I 3 I o
Mixer, rf 3 o o i 0 o
Reardon, If 3 o i 0 0 0
Jones, 3b I 0 I 2 I o
Yates, 2b 3 0 o i 2 0
Sanborn, p 3 o i o 4 i
Total 29 I 5 24 10 2
Innings I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 g
Bowdoin o o 0 3 o i 2 o x — 6
N. H. State i 0 o o o o o 0 0 — i
Earned Runs — Bowdoin i. Two-base Hits — Wil-
son, Brackett, Welch, Reardon. Sacrifice Hits-
Clifford, Jones. Stolen Bases— Wilson 2, Clifford,
Lawlis, Purington, Daniels 2, Brackett, Jones.
Double Play— Brackett to Swasey. Left on Bases—
Bowdoin, 7; N. H. State, 3. Base on Balls— Off
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Sanborn, 4. Struck out — By Urquhart, 8; Sanborn,
2. Umpire — John O'Brien. Time — i hr. 35 min.
Bowdoin plays Colby to-morrow at Water-
ville. The same line-up will be used as in the
New Hampshire game and Woodcock will do
the slab work. Next Tuesday Capt. Lawlis'
men will journey to Orono to play the second
game with the U. of Maine. Means and Ryan
will oppose each other in the box and the con-
test promises to be a good one.
THE TUFTS GAME
The big out-of-state baseball game occurs
one week from to-morrow when Bowdoin
crosses bats with Tufts in Portland. From all
advance reports this should be one of the fast-
est college games pulled off in the State of
Maine this year. In the box for Tufts will be
Harry Martin, their prize twirler, and consid-
ered by experts one of the best college pitchers
in the country this spring. To back up that
statement is the fact that he has already signed
a contract with "Connie" Mack to join the
squad of the world's "champs" at the close of
college. Urquhart will do the slab work for
the White and will attempt to duplicate the
trick of Means a few weeks ago when he let
down the Medford boys with three hits. These
two box artists alone should be a big drawing
card. Tufts is coming to Portland primed to
wipe out their early season defeat and Lawlis'
men can be counted on to play the game every
minute from gong to gong. The management
has made arrangements with the Maine Cen-
tral for a $.95 round trip fare and the students
ought to turn out in a body to see the contest.
It will be gilt-edged college ball. Don't miss it.
M. I. A. A. MEET
Maine 41, Bates 39, Colby 30, Bowdoin 16,
is the story of the Seventeenth Maine Inter-
collegiate Track Meet. Maine's well balanced
team was not sure of its victory till the last
event when Rogers who won the pole vault,
besides determining the outcome of the meet,
broke the state record in that event, clearing
the bar at 11.20 feet. Two other records were
broken. In the 440-yard dash Holden of Bates
won from Walker of Maine in the prettiest
race of the day in 51 3-5 seconds. Walker
ran a beautiful race.
In the discus throwing some rare form was
seen, the record throw from the 7-foot circle
being 120.50 feet by Gove of Bates. In the
trials Gove made one beautiful cast of 130 feet,
but slipped out of the circle, thereby disquali-
fying the throw.
From the spectators' point of view it was
the most interesting meet ever held in the his-
tory of the association, for every event was
hotly contested and the total number of points
was more evenly divided than ever before. It
was the universal comment, however, that the
performances would have been much better if
they had been run on a better field. It is the
opinion of the Orient that the Maine meet
should never be held again on the Colby field
till a 220-yard straightaway has been built
there and the track put in better shape.
However, no one team suffered any worse
than the others with regard to the condition
of the field. Added to this is the nuisance of the
smoke from the locomotives in the Maine Cen-
tral yards which, rolling in clouds across the
field, obscured the view of the events, choked
the contestants, and dirtied the spectators.
Nardini of Colby, was easily the star of the
meet, winning three firsts : The lOO-yard
dash ; 220-yard dash ; and the broad jump. He
will be heard from at the New England this
week.
Bowdoin made a lamentably poor showing
compared with the past. Bowdoin's best was
not enough to win this year.
In the lOO-yard dash McKenney of Bow-
doin drew the outside lane in the finals. It was
a wretched place to run and he did well to take
third. Hastings took Bowdoin's only first — in
the hammer throw which he won easily.
The only second places won were by Cap-
tain McFarland, who took second in the broad
jump, and Emery who ran second to Strout
of Maine in the mile. Captain McFarland
surprised himself and every one else for, on
account of the injury which he sustained at the
indoor meet in March when he broke a muscle
in his leg, he did not expect to place.
Emery ran a strong race and with two more
years ahead of him should be a top-notcher
before he graduates.
Five thirds fell to Bowdoin: Wilson took
third in the 880-yard run, Stevens in the dis-
cus, W. Green in the high jump, McKenney in
the loo-yard dash, and Hall in the two-mile.
With more experience every one of these men
will be able to better his performance consid-
erably.
The sentiment about the college is that
Coach Morrill has done all that could be done
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with the material he had and that every man
did his best. The past is secure, the future is
what Bowdoin men and spirit will make it.
Below is a summary of the events:
220 Yard Dash — Nardini, Colby, first; Duvey,
Bates, second; Shrumpf, Maine, third. 231-5 sec-
onds.
220 Yard Hurdles — Blanchard, Bates, first; Smith,
Maine, second ; Phillips, Maine, third. 26 2-5 sec-
onds.
Broad Jump — Nardini, Colby, first; McFarland,
Bowdoin, second; Holden, Bates, third. 20.15 f^et.
Discus Throw — Gove, Bates, first ; Shepard, Bates,
second; Stevens, Bowdoin, third. 120.54 feet.
Shot Put — Shepard, Maine, first; Gove, Bates,
second; Shepard, Bates, third. 39.04 feet.
Pole Vault — Rogers, Maine, first; Herrick, Colby,
second; Johnson, Bates, third. 11.20 feet.
One Mile Run — Houghton, Maine, first ; Emery,
Bowdoin, second; Towner, Maine, third. Four
minutes, 39 1-5 seconds.
440 Yard Dash — ^Holden, Bates, first; Walker,
Maine, second; Bowen, Colby, 51 3-5 seconds. (New
Record.)
100 Yard Dash — Nardini, Colby, first; Deering,
Maine, second; McKenney, Bowdoin, 10 1-5 seconds.
120-Yard Hurdles — Blanchard, Bates, first ; Smith,
Maine, second; Woodman, Bates, third; third, 17 3-5
seconds.
Half-Mile Run— Gates, Colby, first; Holden,
Bates, second ; E. Wilson, Bowdoin, third, 2 minutes
3 4-5 seconds.
High Jump — Herrick, Colby, first; Kempton,
Bates, second; Green, Bowdoin, third. Height, 5 feet.
5 inches.
Hammer Throw; — Hastings, Bowdoin, first;
Bearce, Maine, second; Welch, Colby, third. Dis-
tance, 118.9s feet.
Two-Mile Run — Power, Maine, first; Whitney,
Maine, second; H. H. Hall, Bowdoin, third. Time,
10 minutes, 11 1-5 seconds.
SIGN FOR YOUR "BUGLES" NOW
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subscription book for the 1912 BUGLE.
THE BEST YET ; coming Ivy Day. The edi-
tion is limited this year, so don't get caught Ivy
Day without your books. New and unique
cover — better "grinds" and more of them ; the
whole book a finished product. Every man
wants one as a book of memories and pictures.
So sign now J and have your book delivered to
you Ivy Day morning! ! $1.50 a copy.
y MASSACHUSETTS CLUB OUTING
The members of the Massachusetts Club will
take the 2.10 train for Bath to-morrow. May 20.
From Bath a launch will be taken for Southport,
an eight-mile sail down the bay. On arriving in
Southport a ball game will be in order to furnish a
good appetite for the clam bake that is to be pro-
vided by Capt. F. H. McKown. It will be a good
time all the way and it is hoped that all the mem-
bers will turn out.
INTERFRATERNITY BASEBALL
Since Wednesday, May to, three games have
been played in the interfraternity series. By trim-
ming Zeta Psi, 9 to 6, Beta Theta Pi keeps her slate
clean and is tied for first place in Division A wtth
Theta Delta Chi. Kappa Sigma added another vic-
tory to her credit by defeating Phi Chi, 6 to i. Last
Wednesday afternoon Delta Kappa Epsilon lost a
close, hard-fought game to Zeta Psi by the score of
9 to 8,
The game between Beta Theta Pi and Zeta Psi
was played Thursday afternoon, May 11. The sum-
mary :
Beta Theta Pi — C, Brummett; p.. Archer; ib.,
Burnham; 2b., Ailing; 3b., Gardner; ss., L. Brown;
If., Hart ; cf.. Hall ; rf., Nason.
Zeta Psi — C, Burns, LaCasce; p., Lewis; lb.,
Kennedy; 2b., Bickford ; 3b., LaCasce, Burns; ss..
Black, Badger; If., Kent; cf., Badger, Black; rf.,
Wright.
Innings :
Beta Theta Pi 5 4 o o o — 9
Zeta Psi 0 0 i 3 2 — 6
Kappa Sigma and Phi Chi played Monday after-
noon. The line-ups :
Kappa Sigma — C, Byles ; p., Barbour ; ib..
Snow; 2b., Clarke; 3b., Duffey ; ss., Oxnard ; If.,
Weston ; cf., Greeenwood ; rf., R. Leigh.
Phi Chi— C, McNeil, Gould; p., Woodman; ib.,
Sullivan ; 2b., Moulton ; 3b., Hendee ; ss., Gould ;
Scribner; If., Regan; cf., Scribner, Bickmore; rf.,
Perkins.
Kappa Sigma o i o o 0 5 o — 6
Phi Chi o o I 0 o o 0 — -I
The Zete-Deke contest proved to be a hard strug-
gle. The Dekes pushed two men around the circuit
in the seventh and lost by one run. The summary ;
Zeta Psi — C, LaCasce; p., Lewis; ib., Kent;
2b., Badger; 3b., Burns; ss., Bickford; If., Hussey;
cf., Oram, Black; rf., Merrill, Oram.
Delta Kappa Epsilon — C, Holt, Crosby; p., Sav-
age ; lb., Devine ; 2b., Hichborn ; 3b., Wiggin ; ss.,
Holt, Hughes; If., Allen; cf., Haskell, CunUflfe; rf.,
Standish, Hughes.
Innings ;
Zeta Psi I 5 0 2 0 I 0 — g
Delta Kappa Epsilon 010500 2 — 8
The Delta Kappa Epsilon-Alpha Kappa Kappa
game, which was booked for Friday, May 12, has
been postponed.
INTERFRATERNITY LEAGUE STANDING
Division A
Won Lost
Theta Delta Chi 2 o
Beta Theta Pi 2 o
Zeta Psi -2 2
Delta Kappa Epsilon o 2
Alpha Kappa Kappa o 2
Division B
Won Lost
Delta Upsilon 3 0
Kappa Sigma 3 I
Phi Chi I 2
Alpha Delta Phi i 2
Non-Fraternity 0 3
P.C.
1. 000
1. 000
.500
.000
.000
P.C.
1.000
•750
■333
■333
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BOW0OIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
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Vol. XLI. MAY 19, 1911
No. 7
The Seniors have assumed
"i"^ Caps and Gowns the cap and gown for the
rest of the year. It seems
to us an admirable custom to be well carried
out. We have been glad to note that nearly
every man in the class has appeared in Senior
garb at chapel and trust to see the number in-
crease rather than decrease. If half the class
grow lax in keeping up the custom for the
next two weeks, the whole efifect is lost. To
see gowns here and sweaters there in the
Senior form would be no compliment to the
dignity of the class.
The account of the track
Petty Theft meet of last Saturday in
one of the state papers was
cut out on last Monday from the copy in the
periodical room of the library. We have
noticed other instances of the same sort
recently which show that this method of petty
theft is not entirely past. It seems absurd that
college men should stoop to clip out an article
from a paper which could be bought for two
or three cents. If it has been done thought-
lessly such carelessness is unpardonable. Arti-
cles from all save two or three papers will be
gladly clipped out by the attendant at the libra-
rian's desk, after they are a day old. Let us
see no more mutilation of the current news-
papers.
THE FEBRUARY QUILL
The February Quill presents one more bit of
evidence that there is now going on in our literary
circles a rehabilitation of the Eighteenth Century.
Two of the three articles in the number indicate
that the fervor of romanticism is passing; and the
third article may be designated not unfairly as typi-
cal undergraduate realism.
The author of "The Blue Stockings and Eliza-
beth Montagu" has gone to the l8th century for
his materials. In such a gossipy sketch we would
wish for greater individuality of style as a compen-
sation for the trivial details related. Aside from
this we are glad to have so many interesting anec-
dotes, and to have them in such a convenient form.
"The Bowdoin Tomb," written in the eighteenth
century couplet, is a finished piece of verse that
will appeal peculiarly to Bowdoin men. In addition
to its value as a poem it supplies us with historical
information which many of us are glad to know.
That a drinking bout looms big in undergradu-
ate imagination is evidenced by "The Downfall of
Finnegan." The writer has not yet learned how to
handle the Irish dialect, and he does wisely to
subordinate the conversation to the straightforward
narrative. The narrative portion is vigorous and
holds our attention to the end.
The presence of only one undergraduate article
in this number is regrettable. Something is needed
to stir the dry pens of undergraduates. For the
Quill belongs primarily to the undergraduates; and
there are men on the campus who are thoroughly
capable of adorning its pages. The Quill has its
friends as well as its critics; and these friends are
anxious that it retain its place among the first of
the college magazines.
C. W. S., '07.
THE APRIL QUILL
The April number of the Quill, like its immedi-
ate predecessors, is filled largely with contributions
from other than undergraduate sources, and, how-
ever great the inherent interest and literary excel-
lence of alumni and faculty contributions, their pre-
dominance gives the reader of a publication like the
Quill a sense of something lacking. The first article
by Professor Davis is a clear call to the men of the
college to remedy this condition, to develop a more
creditable literary activity and to improve the excep-
tional opportunities which lie in their grasp. His
suggestions (page 100) are eminently practical, and
his answer in the following pages to those who ask
"What shall I write?" is ample justification for the
article. „
The same author, in "The Haunt of Pomola,
gives us a well-executed pen picture of the moun-
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53
tain monarch of the Maine wilderness. Those are
to be pitied who can climb Katahdin, or see it from
a distance, and still scoff at the old Indian belief as
absurd. Pomola is far more real than many things
which nobody thinks of disputing.
A poem from Isaac Bassett Choate of '62, is al-
ways welcome, and in the graceful lines of "The
Singer's Share," he shows us a glimpse of the poetic
spirit which has consecrated his life and work.
The dramatic effort "Romance" is a somewhat
pretentious piece of work. Perhaps a reader here
and there will have a little honest doubt as to just
what it pretends to be, but that is probably the fault
of the reader. The excellent bit of writing which
begins at the bottom of page 107 makes the whole
allegory worth while.
The sonnet by Mr. Baker is marred by several
errors of punctuation and lack of punctuation, and
by obvious verbal carelessness. The expressions
"thou. .. .have" and "thou. .. .grow" are not Eng-
lish. In its conception, however, the sonnet is ad-
mirable, and some of its lines are most happily
phrased. The technique of the sonnet is not to be
mastered in a few trials.
The pen pictures are vivid sketches, and the un-
dergraduates who can do so well where brevity and
condensation are required, should not be content to
stop there. It would be of interest to know if Mr.
Greene's swamp experiences resulted in pneumonia,
and how many trout Mr. King caught and how he
cooked them at the camp fire. The verses "A Lum-
ber Camp" may well be grouped with the pen pic-
tures, since they admirably fill the requirements of
that class of work.
Like earlier reviewers I feel that the Postman
could make his department of more interest to his
readers if he filled it with well chosen verse from
other college literary magazines rather than with
comment on articles and stories which the Quill
readers do not see. I heartily agree with the
Ganders in their conclusions regarding a Freshman
dormitory at Bowdoin, but feel that their comment
on the subject could better have been made in the
style of the "Silhouettes," a department which was
particularly well conducted in the Quill of former
years.
It is a bit startling to note that the Quill is now
in its fifteenth volume. So short a time ago it seems
that the writer, as editor of the Orient, was earnest-
ly urging the^ establishment of such a literary
monthly — -"trying to start something," as Orient
editors have been doing for forty years. The boys
of '98, notably Baxter and Young, who founded the
Quill made a splendid beginning, and through the
years the successive boards have rarely allowed a
number to fall below the high standard of the early
years. If the reviewers appear to dwell chiefly upon
the occasional stylistic error or faulty rhyme, it is
because the general excellence of the whole goes
without saying, and because that is the traditional
way with critics and criticism. The Quill is a credit
to Bowdoin, and has nothing to fear from compari-
son with the other publications of the college world
which have a similar aim.
J. C. M., '96.
JOINT CABINET MEETING
Monday evening, the joint meeting of the old and
new Y, M. C. A. Cabinets was held at the New
Ivan Inn. After supper came the business meeting,
over which ex-President Allen presided. Mr. Allen
heard the reports from the chairmen of the outgoing
committees and the tentative plans of the chairmen
for next year. A discussion of the -ast and future
work ensued.
In his talk, Mr. McConaughy emphasized three
things which should be looked after carefully,
namely, college activities, town activities, and the
community at large. At the college, the Y. M. C. A.
should provide for more frequent smokers and musi-
cal entertainments, and establish closer intimacy be-
tween the fraternity and non-fraternity students In
the town, more attention should be given to gymna-
sium work and to the Sunday School activities. In
regard to the community at large, Mr. McConaughy
recommended more deputations to surrounding
towns for the purpose of religious and social im-
provement. •
As Secretary of the Y. M. C, A. for the coming
year, Mr. Fifield will have charge of the Employ-
ment Bureau.
At the close of the meeting, Mr. McCormick, the
new President, took the chair and outlined his plan
for the future.
FACULTY NOTES
The different members of the faculty will spend
the summer months in the following places: Presi-
dent Hyde will be at Jaffrey, N. H.; Prof. Chap-
man will be in Brunswick the greater part of the
time; Prof. Woodruff will teach at the summer
school at the University of Vermont for a part of
the time, and will spend the rest of the time in
Brunswick; Prof. Johnson will be at Industry,
Maine; Prof. Little will spend the summer months
at Mere Point; Prof. Moody will be in Brunswick;
Prof. Files will go to Mere Point for the summer;
Dr. Whittier will be in Brunswick most of the time •
Prof. Mcllwain, Dr. Cram, Prof. Mitchell, and Prof'.
Davis will go abroad for the summer; Dr. Copeland
will be at Woods Hole, Mass., for several weeks;
Prof. Brown will study at Cambridge; Prof. Sills
will be at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, during July
and August, and in Brunswick after the first of Sep-
tember; Prof. Hutchins, Prof. Ham and Prof. Nixon
will remain in Brunswick; Prof. Catlin will study at
the University of Columbia; Mr. McConaughy will
make a trip to the Pacific coast; Prof. Duncalf will
he at the University of Wisconsin; and Mr. Evans
will spend the summer in Camden, Maine. Before
sailing for England and Scotland, Prof. Davis will
be at the University of Columbia, where he will
teach English Speech and Interpretative Reading.
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^ DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW GYM
The following is based on the letter which is be-
ing sent out by the Committee on the New Gymna-
sium to the alumni of the college.
The new gymnasium fund has now reached $58,-
oco, leaving $42,000 to be raised. The committee
hopes that the graduates will respond promptly so
that the entire sum may be raised by Commence-
ment.
Dr. Whittier has studied the best athletic build-
ings in the country and the building planned will be
X"
THE WIRELESS STATION
Bowdoin students, especially those studying elec-
tricity, were much interested in a description recently
published of Tech's wireless apparatus.
In this respect, Bowdoin, altho not a scienific
school, feels that Tech has no advantage, for she also
has a successful wireless station. This apparatus is
in the hands of Prof. Charles C. Hutchins, who be-
gan to set it up about a year ago. The station,
although somewhat incomplete, was in operation dur-
ing the last part of last year, but additions have been
made to it little by little until now the outfit is com-
plete in every way.
thoroughly up-to-date in all respects. It is planned
to place it back of the Chapel and Maine Hall, fac-
ing the quadrangle as shown in the accompanying
cut.
There will be two connected buildings, the gym-
nasium proper and the General Thomas W. Hyde
Athletic Building. The gymnasium proper will be
140 ft. by 80 ft. The first floor, which will be level
with the ground, will contain lockers, showers, two
bowling alleys, a room for the athletic managers,
rooms for fencing, boxing, squash, and handball, and
a storage room. The second floor will be taken up
principally by the main exercising room, 107 feet by
^^ feet. There will also be two offices and a special
exercising room ; and on the floor above, a visitors'
gallery and trophy room.
The athletic building will be 140 ft. by 112 ft. It
will be steel framed and the floor will be of screened
gravel subsoil. It will be large enough for a full-
sized baseball diamond. There will be room to kick
40-yard goals in football practice or to lay out two
tennis courts. A portion near the gymnasium will be
set aside for track, being screened off by a net. It is
also planned to have an elevated running track ten
feet wide, also screened by a net, and measuring 14
laps to the mile. . .
It is not planned to build a swimming pool (indi-
cated by the dotted line in the cut) at this time, as
the belief is growing that it is better to have the same
in a connected building; and it is hoped that at some
future time one may be provided.
This station is in reach of practically every send-
ing station because it has an unusually suitable tun-
ing coil. This instrument can be tuned to receive
any message of wave length from 175 to 4000 meters.
Messages are received from far down the coast about
every evening. Messages have been received from as
far south as Washington, and the trans-atlantic
steamers are frequently heard from. The press dis-
patches from the Wellfleet station on Cape Cod from
which the news is sent to the steamers which are at
sea, can be easily taken down, so distinct do they
come in. From the nearer stations, such as the Cape
Elizabeth Naval Station, Portsmouth, or the Boston
Navy Yard, messages are frequently received. _ Occa-
sionally messages are received from the stations at
Newport, the Capes of Delaware and Washington.
It also frequently hears from Mr. Rogers of Portland.
The sending part of the apparatus has never been
fully tried out but it is known that its messages come
in strong at Portland.
The aerial is located on top of Memorial Hall
at an altitude of eigbty-five feet, and the apparatus
is installed in a room in the physics end of the
Science Building. This room was originally
intended for a room with a constant temperature and
is equipped with double doors, double windows and
double walls. Thus it is an ideal room for the re-
ceiving of messages as no outside noises can pene-
trate to disturb the operator. The current^ for the
work is taken from the town circuit and is trans-
formed by a large one kilowatt transformer.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
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CoUcQC IRotes
L};man Cousins, '03, visited the campus, Wednes-
day.
The campus has been put in excellent condition
for Ivy Day and Commencement.
Dr. Raymond Calkins of Portland, is to be the
college preacher for next Sunday.
Belknap, '13, is being detained at his home in
Damariscotta on account of illness in his family.
Wednesday evening, a reception was tendered
to the visiting administrative officers of other col-
leges, in Hubbard Hall.
The track department is busv arranging the list of
entries for the Interscholastic Meet, which is to be
held here a week from Saturday.
The members of the New Hampshire State Base-
ball Team spent Tuesday night at the various houses,
before going to Lewiston, Wednesday, where they
played Bates.
Prof. G. T. Little left this week for Pasadena,
California, where he is to attend the conference of
the American Library Association, held from May
i8th to the 24th.
The men selected for the Alexander Prize Speak-
ing Contest, June 19th, are: Crowell. '13; Douglas,
'13; Dunphy, '13; Eaton, '14; M. W, Greene. '13;
Hurley, '12; Leigh, '14; Loring Pratt, '12; Welch,
'12. The alternates are (i) Rodick, '12; (2) Baker,
'13; (3) Buell, '14.
President Francis Callahan of the Freshman
Class, has named the committees to arrange for the
class banquet and the class canes. The banquet com-
mittee is made up of Callahan, chairman ; Cunliffe,
Fowler, LaCasce, D. K. Merrill and A. L. Pratt. On
the cane committee are Lappin, Mason and Shepherd.
The class yell was composed by Gibson.
E. G. Barbour, '12, has been re-elected president
of the North Yarmouth Acadeiny Alumni Associa-
tion. E. L. Russell, '12, was chosen vice-president of
this association, and P. E. Donahue a member of the
executive committee. Russell, Lunt, '13, and L. A.
Donahue, '14, were selected to serve on a new com-
mittee which aims to strengthen athletics at the
academy.
MISSIONARY EXPOSITION
An event of interest to Y. M. C. A. men is the
first great Missionary Exposition held in America,
which is being given in Mechanics' Building, Boston,
closing to-morrow. It has been named "The
World in Boston" and amply justifies _ its title
since it comprises exhibits of everything from
Home Missionary work among the immigrants at
Ellis Island to Foreign Missions in India and
Japan. The three-fold purpose of the Exposition is
to picture the lands in which missions are main-
tained, the conditions under which the missionaries
work and the progress being made towards realiz-
ing the ideal of a Christianized world. An idea of
the scale upon which the Exposition is carried out
may be had when it is stated that ten thousand per-
sons take part as guides and impersonators of
natives in the foreign scenes. Several New England
Colleges were represented by large delegations.
CALENDAR
Saturday, May 20
N. E. I. A. A. Meet, Springfield.
Bowdoin vs. Colby at Waterville.
Sunday, May 21
10.4s Morning service in the Church on the Hill
conducted by Raymond Calkins, D.D., Port-
land.
S.oo Sunday chapel conducted by Dr. Calkins.
Monday, May 22
N. E. Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament be-
gins at Longwood.
Tuesday, May 23
N. E. I. Tennis Tournament at Longwood.
Wednesday, May 24
Bowdoin vs. Maine, at Orono.
N. E. I. Tennis Tournament at Longwood.
• Friday, May 26
Track Team leaves for Cambridge.
IfntercoUegiate Botes
A Colorado ranchman has paid for his college
education at Colorado College by discovering some
footprints of prehistoric dinosaurs and selling them
to the Field Museum of Chicago.
During the first half-year of the University ex-
tension courses at Harvard, 606 students were reg-
istered. Eleven courses were given, the most popu-
lar being that in English Literature and Composi-
tion.
Cornell has extended the campus boundary to
include a new tract of land upon which a $300,000
dormitory will be erected.
President David Starr Jordan of Stanford has
issued an order that the committee on athletics abol-
ish intercollegiate baseball at the University. He
witnessed a game between Stanford and the Uni-
versity of California recently and became highly in-
dignant at what he termed "systematic muckerism"
as manifested by the raucous joshing of pitchers and
other players from the grandstand, the bleachers,
and even the field itself.
More than a hundred Eastern college boys have
already inquired of Chas. Harris, director of the
Kansas Free Employment Bureau, as to the pros-
pects for employment in the Kansas wheat fields
during the coming summer.
Dr. Samuel H. MurUn has been installed as Pres-
ident of Boston University as successor to President
Huntington.
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Hlumni Department
Ex-'48. — Lafayette Grover, a most influen-
tial citizen of Portland, Oregon, died at his
home in that city May lo, of last week. Mr.
Grover attended Bowdoin two years, from
1844 to 1846, but did not graduate. From
1 846- 1 850, he was a teacher and law student
at Philadelphia. Upon the completion of his
studies in 1850, he was admitted to the Penn-
sylvania Bar. In 185 1, Mr. Grover began the
practice of law in Oregon.
During his long residence of over 60 years
in Oregon, Mr. Grover has been a respected
and admired citizen. He has served his city
and state and country in most worthy and
patriotic works. As a lawyer, he has been
eminently successful. As an office-holder in
his state, he has served justly and properly the
interests of all. As a member of the National
Congress, he has proved his worth and ability
frequently and won esteem and respect widely.
Immediately upon entering into his work as
a lawyer at Oregon, Mr. Grover was elected
Prosecuting Attorney and Auditor of Public
Accounts, which ofifice he ably filled. From
1853-1856, he was a member of the Legislative
Assembly of Oregon, and became Speaker in
1856 for one year. Mr. Grover immediately
affiliated himself with others in the interests of
education, becoming Trustee of Willamette
University in 1853 and serving efficiently and
well for seventeen years. In 1854, he was
awarded the degree of Master of Arts by Del-
aware College.
Meanwhile, Mr. Grover had served in the
Indian Wars of 1853 and 1B55-56. At^ the
close of these uprisings, he was appointed
United States Commissioner to audit the Spo-
liation Claims of the Roque Indian War of
1853 and the Indian War Claims for the years
1857-1858.
Upon the completion of these services he
was elected to the House of Representatives
from Oregon for the year 1858-1869 in recog-
nition of his ability and value which he had so
well shown in his previous services. Mr.
Grover entered Congress as the first member
of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity to serve
in that judicial body. As an even greater tri-
umph and honor, he was elected Governor of
Oregon in 1870. For seven consecutive years,
he served his state most excellently in this
capacity. From 1877 to 1883, he was a mem-
ber of Congress as Senator from Oregon.
In all these various capacities, Mr. Grover
has been a proper and able man. His worth
was early recognized by his fellow-citizens and
rewarded by the rapid advancement in office
which was offered him. He held positions of
honor which but few attain so soon and hold so
long. As an alumnus from Bowdoin in the
West, Mr. Grover has been a well-known and
firm supporter of his college. As a member of
the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Mr.
Grover was one of the oldest surviving mem-
bers.
"97. — Charles B. Lamb of Saco, has ac-
cepted the position of principal of the High
School of Leominster, Mass., and will immedi-
ately enter upon his work. For the last two
years, he has been superintendent of schools
for the towns of Gray, Windham and New
Gloucester. Mr. Lamb prepared for college at
Saco High and Thornton Academy. After
graduation from college, Mr. Lamb entered the
Methodist ministry. Owing to ill health,
he did not continue this work, and has been for
the last few years engaged in teaching school
in and around Old Orchard.
'10. — R. E. Fisher is principal of the Sa-
battus grammar school and assistant in the
High School.
'10. — Richard R. Eastman is working for
the New England Telephone Company with
headquarters in Boston.
'07. — John W. Leydon, Instructor in Mod-
ern Languages at Worcester Academy, has
been appointed Exchange Teacher to Germany
by the Carnegie Foundation and a year's leave
of absence has been granted him by Worcester
Academy. Mr. Leyden will leave this country
during the coming summer and will spend the
year in Berlin or Frankfort on Main, returning
to Worcester during the following summer.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The Ninety-first Annual Course of Leilures will begin
Thursday, Ocftober 13, 1910, and continue to June 2i, igii.
Four courses of ledtures are required of all who matricu-
late as first-course students.
The courses are graded and cover Lectures, Recitatiori»,
Laboratory Work and Clinical Instrudtion.
The third and fourth year classes will receive their entire
instru(5lion at Portland, where excellent clinical facilities will
be afforded at the Maine General Hospital.
For catalogue, apply to
ALFRED MITCHELL, M.D., Dean.
Brunswick Maine, 1910.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MAY 26, 191 1
NO. 3
Bowdoin Plays Tufts To-morrow
in Portland with Urquhart in the
box against Martin.
I. C. A. A. A. A. MEET
Bowdoin will be represented at the Eastern
Intercollegiate Meet at the Harvard Stadium,
Cambridge, to-morrow, by E. Wilson, '12, G.
C. Kern, '12, and W. S. Greene, '13, who
will be accompanied by Coach Morrill. Capt.
McFarland will not accompany the team, the
Athletic Council having excused him on ac-
count of his having accepted a position which
necessitates his leaving college on May 27.
7^ BOWDOIN, 9 ; COLBY, 2— MAY 20
Bowdoin won the second game with Colby
last Saturday on Alumni Field, Waterville, by
a score of 9 to 2. The up-State team hit the
ball well but lost through poor base running
and fielding. Woodcock pitched a steady
game and pulled out of a bad hole in the
eighth in nice shape. Lawlis' men were fast
on the bases, making 7 steals and bunched
their hits. In the field Bowdoin played their
best game of the season, only one error and
that a difficult chance, being charged against
them. Wilson held the Colby base runners
close to the bags and not a single attempt at a
steal was made. Woodcock and Wilson each
got two hits and Purington continued to main-
tain his good batting average. The speedy
centrefielder sprained his ankle in a slide to
second in the eighth and was replaced by Rus-
sell. The fielding feature of the contest was
Harlow's spearing of a fly in deep short after
a long run with his back to the plate. A high
wind blowing across the field marred the
work of the players and the clouds of dust
slackened considerably the speed of both
teams.
Bowdoin
ab r bh po a e
Weatherill, ss 4 i i i 5 0
Smith, l.f 5 I 0 3 I 0
Wilson, c '. 5 2 2 10 I o
Clififord, lb 4 i 0 11 i 0
Lawlis, 3b S I I I I I
Russell, rf i o o o o o
Purington, cf 3 2 1 0 0 o
Daniels, 2b 4 i 0 i 3 o
Grant, rf 3 o i o 0 o
Woodcock, p 4 o 2 o 2 o
Total 38 9 8 27 14 1
Colby
ab r bh po a e
Sturtevant, If 5 o 0 3 o 0
Bowker, 3b 4 i 2 2 o 2
Clukey, cf i o o 0 0 o
Tibbetts, cf 3 0 3 i 0 0
Good, c 4 o I 6 I I
Reed, ib 4 0 i 13 4 o
Vail, rf 2 o o i 0 o
Warren, rf 2 o o o o 0
LaFleur, 2b 4 o o 0 2 i
Washburn, p 3 i i o i 0
Gilpatrick, p i o o o 0 o
Harlow, ss 4 o I I 4 3
Total 37 2 9 27 12 7
Innings I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Bowdoin 0 2 i I o 2 i o 2 — 9
Colby o o I 0 0 I 0 0 0 — 2
Earned Runs — Bowdoin 2, Colby i. Two-base
hits — Tibbetts, Good. Sacrifice hits — Clifford, Grant.
Stolen bases — Smith, Wilson 2, Clifford, Purington 3.
Left on bases — Bowdoin 6, Colby 7. Hits off —
Washburn 7 in 8 inings, Gilpatrick i in i inning.
Bases on balls — Off Washburn i. Struck out — By
Woodcock 5. by Washburn 6. Hit by pitched ball — ■
Weatherill. Wild pitch — Woodcock. Passed ball-
Good. Umpire — John Carrigan. Time — i hr. 45
min.
ATHLETIC COUNCIL AWARDS TRACK B'S
At a meeting of the Athletic Council, Mon-
day night, the following men were awarded
their B's: McFarland, '11, Hastings, '11,
Emery, '13, and McCormick, "12, manager.
The track captain for 1912 will be Robert
Danforth Cole, 1912, of Arlington Heights,
Mass., who was elected at a meeting of the
track men, Wednesday morning.
INTERSCHOLASTIC MEET
The annual Interscholastic Meet will be
held on Whittier Field to-morrow, beginning
at 10 A.M., when the preliminary heats will be
run. The finals will be called at 2 p.m. En-
tries have been received from twelve prepara-
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tory schools, as follows : Portland High
School, Hebron, Bearing High School, Ban-
gor High School, Biddeford High School,
Edward Little High School, Lewiston High
School, Maine Central Institute, Mexico High
School, Thornton Academy, Westbrook Sem-
inary, Leavitt Institute. The meet is believed
to be between Hebron and Westbrook Semi-
nary, with the odds in favor of the former.
Hebron won the Dartmouth Interscholastic
two weeks ago while Westbrook took first
honors at the Maine schoolboys' meet last Sat-
urday. Portland High, so strong in years
past, is rather an unknown factor this season
and appears somewhat weaker than usual.
The other schools can be counted upon to make
things interesting. The pole vaulting of
Belcher of Hebron will be watched with par-
ticular interest. Belcher did ii feet 8 without
trouble at Hanover and has exceeded this
mark in practice. It is believed that with
favorable weather conditions to-morrow the
Hebron athlete will make a new world's inter-
scholastic record. As usual, the various
schools will send large bodies of rooters to
support their teams.
.<
THE NEW ENGLAND MEET
N. E. I. L T. A. TOURNAMENT
Bowdoin was represented at the Long-
wood Tennis Tournament in Boston the first
of the week by Capt. Black and MacCormick.
Partridge was declared ineligible on Sunday
and so was not allowed to compete.
In the first round of the singles MacCor-
mick drew R. C. Hay of Vermont. After a
close first set won by Hay 10-8, MacCormick
lost the second 6-3. McCoUister of Tufts de-
faulted to Captain Black in the first round.
In the second Parker of Tech., one of the first
four men last year, defeated Capt. Black, 6-3,
6-3.
In the doubles Black and MacCormick
drew the best team entered, that of Dart-
mouth, Harris and Nelson, who won the
match, 6-1, 6-0.
In the singles Johnston of Amherst, seems
the best man, and in doubles Harris and Nel-
son of Dartmouth.
At a meeting of the Association at the
Brunswick, Tuesday night, Johnston of Am-
herst, was elected President ; Nelson of Dart-
mouth, Vice-President, and Conyer of Will-
iams, Secretary and Treasurer. Bowdoin was
represented by Manager Fuller.
Although Bowdoin's best at the New Eng-
land I. C. A. A. Meet last Saturday was to
qualify only one man, Captain McFarland, in
the broad jump, the team fought its hardest
and stuck it out till the last. The team was
met at the Springfield Station by Henry P.
Chapman, '06, captain of the '05 football team,
and was quartered at Clinton Hall. Friday
forenoon the men visited the Springfield
Country Club as guests of Mr. Harry B.
Johnson.
The meet itself was the fastest in the his-
tory of the Association, seven records being
smashed. There was a heavy rain Friday,
but Saturday was clear and warm and favora-
ble in every way for the record-breaking per-
formances. The accommodations were of the
best, with spacious quarters for the contest-
ants, a wide, fast track, and plenty of room
for the spectators. About 5,000 were in at-
tendance.
The Bowdoin team did its utmost to figure
in the summary presented below :
16-Pound Shot Put— Won by A. E. Bartlett,
Brown, distance 43 ft. 2^ in. ; second, C. C. Clough,
W. P. I., 42 ft. 2p in.; third, L. S. Lovejoy, Dart-
mouth, 41 ft. 8J4 in- ; fourth, T. D. Shepard, Maine,
39 ft. 5^ in.
100-Yard Dash — First trial heat won by D. B.
Young, Amherst ; second, J. F. Boland, Holy Cross.
Time — 10 2-Ss. Second trial heat won by A. Lyman,
Williams; second, W. E. Robson, Wesleyan. Time
— ID 2-5S. Third trial heat won by — R. V. Snow,
Williams; second J. S. Russell, Dartmouth. Time —
10 2-Ss. Fourth trial heat won by Nardini, Colby;
second, W. Wilkins, Dartmouth. Time — 10 2-Ss.
120- Yard High Hurdles — First heat won by J.
Dewey, Williams ; second, V. S. Blanchard, Bates.
Time — 16 2-Ss. Second heat won by N. E. Smith.
Maine; second, I. Fish, Williams. Time — 16 2-53.
Final Heat, I2Q-Yard High Hurdles — Won by N.
E. Smith, Maine ; second, V. S. Blanchard, Bates ;
third, J. Dewey, Williams; fourth, I. Fish, Williams.
Time — 16 1-5S.
Heat for Second Men— Won by J. S. S. Russell,
Dartmouth ; second, J. F. Boland, Holy Cross.
Time — 10 2-s seconds.
One Mile Run— Won by R. L. Keith, W. P. I.;
second, F. I. Newton, Williams ; third, G. Simpson,
Williams; fourth, N. S. Taber, Brown. Time — 4
minutes 24 2-5 seconds. A new association record.
440 Yard Dash — Won by J. D. Lester, Williams ;
second, L. R. Wood, Wesleyan; third, J. H. Mc-
Loughlin, Holy Cross; fourth, E. T. Walker, Maine.
Time — 49 3-Ss. A new record.
Hammer Throw — Won by A. H. Tilley, Dart-
mouth, distance 146 ft. 6>4 in. (new record) ; sec-
ond. H. E. Harden, Dartmouth, distance 146 ft. sVi
in. ; third, L. G. Metcalf, Tech, distance 130 ft. 67-g
in. ; fourth, R. E. Lewis, Dartmouth, 129 ft. 3 in.
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100- Yard Dash — Final heat won by D. B. Young,
Amherst; second, Nardini, Colby; third, A. Lyman,
Williams; fourth, R. V. Snow, Williams. Time^
10 2-5S.
Running Broad Jump Won by Gutterson, Vt. — ■
Distance 23 ft. i 3-8 in. ; second, E. Bartlett, Will-
iams, distance 22 ft. ys in. ; third, Nardini, Colby,
distance, 20 ft. 8J4 in. ; fourth, E. M. Roberts, Am-
herst, 20 ft. 4}^ in.
High Jump — Tie for first place between H. B.
Enright of Dartmouth and P. W. Dalyaple, M. I.
T., height S ft. 11 in.; third, A. L. Gutterson,
Vt., height S ft. wji in.; fourth, H. M. Rosenberg,
Brown, height 5 ft. 9 in.
200-Yard Dash — Won by Young, Amherst; sec-
ond, R. V. Snow, Williams ; third, W. E. Robson,
Wesleyan ; fourth, J. D. Lester, Williams. Time —
22 i-S seconds.
Discus Throw — Won by O. V. Chamberlain, M.
I. T., distance 121 feet $74 inches ; second, L. E.
Lovejoy, Dartmouth, distance 119 feet 6 inches;
third, A. E. Bartlett, Brown, distance 118 feet lo^^
inches; fourth, G. A. Gove, Bates, distance, 117 feet
ioJ4 inches.
880 Yards Run— Won by H. W. Holden, Bates;
second, W. R. Bylund, M. L T. ; third, C. Cook;
Williams ; fourth, R. S. Thompson, Wesleyan.
Time: — I min. 57 3-5 sec. A new record.
Two-Mile Run — Won by F. L Newton, WilUams ;
second, R. A. Power, Maine ; third, G. C. Shedd,
Tech. ; fourth, H. T. French, Dartmouth. Time —
g min. 48 2-5 sec.
220- Yard Low Hurdles — First trial heat won by
Gutterson, Vermont ; second. Smith, Maine ; time,
-5 3-5 seconds. Second trial heat won by V. S.
Blanchard, Bates ; second, H. W. Smith, Dart-
mouth ; time, 25 3-5 seconds.
Final heat won by Gutterson, Vermont; second.
Smith, Dartmouth; third, N. E. Smith, Maine;
fourth, V. S. Blanchard, Bates ; time, 24 3-5 seconds
(a new record).
Pole Vault — Won by P. Maxon, Trinity, 11 ft.
9J{I in. (record) ; L. B. Rogers, Maine, W. C. SaHs-
bury. Tech., O. E. Holdman, Dartmouth, tied for
second place; height, 11 ft. 6 in.
PSI UPSILON CONVENTION
The 78th annual National Convention of
Psi Upsilon convened at Portland, Wednes-
day afternoon, May 24, under the auspices of
the Kappa Chapter of Bowdoin. The con-
vention has called delegates from 22 colleges
and universities of America, extending from
Maine to California, together with large
numbers of undergraduate and alumni mem-
bers, the following colleges being represented:
Union, University of New York, Yale, Brown,
Amherst, Dartmouth, Columbia, Bowdoin,
Hamilton, Wesleyan, University of Roches-
ter, Kenyon, University of Michigan, Syra-
cuse, Cornell, Trinity, Lehigh, University of
Pennsylvania, University of Minnesota, Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, University of Chicago,
University of California.
The convention opened at the Falmouth
Hotel, Wednesday evening, with a smoker at
which speeches were made by various distin-
guished members of the fraternity. Thurs-
day morning the annual business session of
the convention was held, after which the dele-
gates left for Brunswick on a special train.
Late in the afternoon President Hyde received
the delegates at the house of the Kappa chap-
ter, and after a dinner at New Meadows Inn
the party returned to Portland for a skating
party at the Rollaway. To-day's programme
includes a sail down the bay, a clambake at
Long Island, and a ball game between the
Eastern and the Western delegates. The con-
vention closes to-night with a banquet at the
Falmouth. The speakers at the banquet will
include ex-Governor Quimby of New Hamp-
shire, toastmaster ; Chief Justice Emery, of the
Maine Supreme Court ; Judge Joseph W.
Symonds of Portland; George S. Coleman of
New York, chairman of the executive council
of Psi Upsilon; Professor Homer E. Keyes of
Dartmouth; and George E. Fogg of Portland.
The members of the committee in charge
are George E. Fogg, '02, alumni adviser ; Earl
Baldwin Smith, '11, chairman; Oliver T. San-
born, '11, Philip W. Meserve, '11, Loring
Pra,tt, '12, Arthur H. Cole, '11, Robert P.
King, '12.
FACULTY NOTES
President Hyde is to deliver the Baccalau-
reate Sermon at Phillips-Andover Academy,
June nth.
A meeting of the classical teachers of the
State is to be held at Bates College, May 26th
and 27th. Prof. Woodruff will have a paper
of readings from Lucian. At the evening
meeting. Dean Sills will lecture on "The Ideal
of Universal Peace in the Works of Virgil
and Dante."
Dean Sills is to attend a meeting of the
representatives of Maine colleges at the office
of State Superintendent of Schools Smith
next Saturday. The discussion will be on the
relations between the schools and colleges in
Maine.
Prof. Mitchell spoke at the Teachers'
Meeting, in Searsport, last Friday, on "Read-
ing and Rectitude."
The Visiting Committee of the College
Boards, which is composed of Rev. S. V. Cole,
of Norton, Mass. ; ex-Gov. W. T. Cobb, of
Rockland, Judge F. A. Powers, of Houlton,
and Mr. F. O. Conant, of Portland, visited
the college, Wednesday.
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THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WALTER A. FULLER, 1912 Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
ASSOCIATE Editors
W. A. MacCORMICK. 1912 F. D. ^^ISH, Jr., 1913
L. E. JONES. 1913 F. K. ALLING. 1914
V. R. LEAVITT. 1913 R. D. LEIGH. 1914
K. A. ROBINSON, 1914
H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
H. B. WALKER, 1913
Business Manager
Asst. Business Manager
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.
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copies, 10 cents
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Vol. XLI. MAY 26, 1911 No. 8
^ ... .^ . .. , To the delegates of the
To the Delegates of g^j^ j^^^^^^^ Convention
Psi Upsilon Qf pgj upsilon, who have
been the guests of the college for the past few
days, the Orient extends sincere and hearty
greetings in behalf of the college. Bowdoin
takes great pleasure in entertaining the dele-
gates of a fraternity whose members have
made its name known throughout the land
and which numbers among its ranks the
Nation's Highest Executive. And to the
officers of the fraternity who have selected
Kappa Chapter as the host for the convention
the college signifies its appreciation of their
choice.
At this season each day brings
Opportunities the opportunity for the under-
for graduates to show their loyalty
Concrete Loyalty to the college. This is espec-
ially true of the coming week.
The game with Tufts tomorrow should call
forth a large attendance to encourage a hard
working team when they are playing one of
their hardest games. At the same time, the
rest of the college should so entertain their
guests at the Interscholastic Meet that they
will be imbued with the determination to make
Bowdoin their Alma Mater. And next week
the finish of the struggle for the State Cham-
pionship brings another opportunity. Bowdoin
can win it by winning one game. But let us
have a clean slate and the united support of
the student body.
STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING
At the Student Council Meeting last Mon-
day afternoon, several important matters were
taken up for consideration. There has been
some talk about college relative to the advis-
ability of lowering the standard of awarding
track "B's." According to the present method
a man must take either a first or second in the
Maine Intercollegiate Meet in order to win a
B. The arguments against this are that the
time has now come when it is harder to win a
third place in the Maine Meet than it was to
win a second a few years ago, and already two
of the colleges in the state have adopted the
proposed standard. The council unanimously
disapproved of the proposed plan.
The date for the mass-meeting for the
election of the 1911-1912 Student Council
was set for Tuesday evening, June 6th. At
that time the track arid baseball managers, to-
gether with their assistants and a cheer leader
next year, will also be elected. Printed bal-
lots will be distributed for voting, the Austral-
ian system being used.
The council earnestly desires more men to
hand in their names as candidates for the posi-
tion of calendar publishers. On the evening
of the mass-meeting the council will an-
nounce the names of the Junior and Sopho-
more who have been selected. As yet only
three Sophomores have handed in their names ■
to Secretary McFarland, and not a single I
Junior has appeared in the field. ■
The matter of continuing the custom of
sending delegates to fraternity dances was
also discussed, but no action was taken as it
was deemed advisable to learn the sentiment
of the fraternities not represented in the coun-
cil. A meeting will be held later to which
delegates from the latter chapters will be in-
vited.
The sentiment of the council was strongly
in favor of having a Junior Week at some
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time during the year and holding all the house
parties at one time. The present system
breaks in upon college work altogether too
much. It is thought that there is a possibility
of having the mid-year examination period
begin three days earlier so as to end on a
Wednesday, leaving three days for a "Junior
week."
SUNDAY CHAPEL
Rev. Raymond Calkins, of Portland, spoke
at Sunday chapel on the practical side of
Christianity. The gist of his talk was the
value of Christians as the fishers of men, liv-
ing men who devote their energies to amelio-
rating whatever conditions they find need im-
provement. He refuted Robert Ingersoll's
statement that "fishers of men" was a fitting
term for Christians, in that their religion takes
them out of the natural element of mankind
and makes them sufifer in the life they are
forced to live. True Christians, however, find
intense pleasure in helping out their fellow-
beings. But it must be borne in mind that
such Christians and not those who seclude
themselves from the world are the only ones
which are of practical value. Once there was
a New York clubman who gave up all his
society pleasures and business, after he was
converted, and became a hermit. That man
could have done much more good for human-
ity had he remained in his former activities,
purifying society and elevating business prin-
ciples. Thus we see that active, practical men
constitute the need of modern Christianity.
AT THE ART BUILDING
In the north end of the Art Building is an
interesting array of photographs which W. C.
Allen, 'ii, obtained while traveling in Eng-
land and Scotland. They comprise photo-
graphs of paintings from galleries and of
architecture, especially of the famous cathe-
drals. The pictures will remain on exhibition
until Ivy Day.
DON'T GET LEFT IVY DAY
Last week Manager Morss signed in over
two-thirds of the 1912 Bugle Edition. If you
want any copies, sign up at once. Have your
copies delivered to you Ivy Day morning at
your fraternity house. Don't wait till Ivy
Day to get your Bugles, sign up now and make
sure. Every man in college should have a
Bugle. It's a record of the past year in prose,
verse and picture. Jokes and grinds never
equalled, and that cover design is a feature.
A unic|ue and brand-new idea. See for your-
self on Ivy Day. $1.50 a copy.
INTERFRATERNITY BASEBALL
The most important event in the interfraternity
league in the last week was the Deke victory over
Theta Delt by the score of 11 to 6. This defeat
pulls Theta Delta Chi down into second place, and
gives the Betas a clean slate with three wins. Delta
Upsilon finished her schedule with a triumph over
Alpha Delta Phi, 8 to 3, Thursday afternoon, May
18. The Alpha Kappa Kappa-Beta Theta Pi game
was forfeited to the later, while the contest booked
between Phi Chi and Non-Fraternity for Thursday
morning, May 18, was postponed. This makes the
second game set ahead, the other being the Deke-
A. K. K. argument. The date of the Theta Delt-
Beta game was changed from Friday afternoon,
May 19, to yesterday afternoon.
Theta Delta Chi lost her first game of the season,
to Delta Kappa Epsilon, 11 to 6, Tuesday afternoon.
The line-ups :
Delta Kappa Epsilon — C, Crosby ; p.. Savage ;
lb., Devine;- 2b., Haskell; 3b., Wiggin ; ss., W. Holt;
If., Burleigh ; cf., Hughes ; rf., Cunliiife.
Theta Delta Chi— C, E. Tuttle; p.. Dole; ib..
Wood; 2b., N. Tuttle; 3b., Brown; ss., Joy; If.,
Barton, Nixon ; cf., Howe, Buell ; rf., Nixon, Bar-
ton.
Innings :
Delta Kappa Epsilon 3 S 3 0 0 o x — 1 1
Theta Delta Chi 0 0 I 0 0 2 3 — 6
The summary of the Delta Upsilon-Alpha Delta
Phi game follows :
Delta Upsilon— C, E. Weeks; p., Pratt; lb.,
Bodurtha; 2b., Busfield; 3b., Berry; ss.. Marsh; If.,
Shackford; cf., D. Weeks; rf., Gilbert.
Alpha Delta Phi— C, Wiggin; p., Pratt; lb.,
Bull; 2b., Winslow; 3b., Tuttle; ss., Towle ; If.,
Mason ; cf., Purington ; rf., Parkman.
Innings :
Delta Upsilon 0 I 3 o 3 i x — 8
Alpha Delta Phi 000201 0 — 3
INTERFRATERNITY LEAGUE STANDING
Division A
Won Lost
Beta Theta Pi 3 0
Theta Delta Chi 2 i
Zeta Psi 2 2
Delta Kappa Epsilon i 2
Alpha Kappa Kappa o 3
Division B
Won Lost
Delta Upsilon 4 o
Kappa Sigma 3 I
Phi Chi I 2
Alpha Delta Phi i | 3
Non-Fraternity . . o ? 3
P. C.
I.OOO
.667
.500
.333
.000
P. C.
1. 000
.750
.333
.250
.000
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M. I. L. T. A. TOURNAMENT
The teams entered in the Maine Tennis Tourna-
ment, being held here this week, are as follows :
Bates : C. R. Clason, captain ; Bly, manager.
Doubles : C. R. Clason and Woodman.
F. P. Clason and Tomblin.
Singles : C. R. Clason, Woodman.
BowDOiN : F. C. Black, captain ; W. A. Fuller, man-
ager.
Doubles : Black and McCormick.
Hichborn and Hastings.
Singles : Black, McCormick.
Colby: Isaac Higginbotham, manager and acting
captain.
Doubles: Morse and Griswold.
Hill and Joy.
Singles : Morse, Griswold.
Maine: Bird, captain; McKeen, manager.
Doubles : Bird and Jackson.
Towner and Smiley.
Singles : Bird, Jackson.
CALENDAR
Friday, May 26
8.00 Psi Upsilon National Convention Banquet,
Hotel Falmouth, Portland.
Saturday^, May 27
10,00 Preliminary Heats, Interscholastic Meet,
Whittier Field.
2.00 Finals, Interscholastic Meet.
2.30 Bowdoin vs. Tufts, Portland.
I. C. A. A. A. A. Meet, Cambridge.
Sunday, May 28
10.45 Morning service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
5.00 Sunday chapel, conducted by President Hyde.
Tuesday, May 30
Memorial Day, a holiday.
Bowdoin vs. Bates at Lewiston.
Wednesday, May 31
3.00 Zeta Psi House Party — Reception.
8.30 Zeta Psi House Party — Dance.
8.30 Kappa Sigma Dance, Pythian Hall.
Thursday, June i
Zeta Psi House Party — Excursion.
8.00 Masque and Gowns presents "Sweet Laven-
der," Town Hall.
Friday, June 2
Ivy Day.
10.00 Bowdoin vs. Bates, Whittier Field.
Ivy Day Exercises.
4.30 Seniors' Last Chapel.
Evening— Ivy Ball, Memorial Hall.
STANDING OF TEAMS— MAINE STATE SERIES
Won Lost Percentage
Bowdoin 4 o i-0°°
Bates 2 I .067
Maine 2 3 -400
Colbv 0 4 000
(TolleGe IRotes
The lawns at Whittier Field are being put in good
condition.
The Zeta Psi house party is to be held June 1st,
2d, and 3d.
The Band played at a lawn party near Pejepscot,
Tuesday night.
Purington's ankle, which was injured in the
Colby game, is improving.
The Monday Night Club held a meeting at the
Zeta Psi House this week.
L. W. Pratt, '13, has been confined to his room
with the German measles.
Brooks, who has been sick for some time, re-
sumed baseball practice, Monday.
The Freshman banquet is to be held at the Fal-
mouth Hotel in Portland, June loth.
Gray, '14, has been obliged to go to his home in
Portsmouth, N. H., being threatened with rheumatic
fever.
Rodick, '12, who has been at home sick with the
German measles, returned to college the first of the
week.
From the appearance of the reserve inen, it
seemis as though next year's baseball team will be a
good one,
Prof. Woodruff attended the wedding of his son,
Robert Thomson Woodruff, in Wellesley, Mass.,
Wednesday.
Monday afternoon and evening the Theta Delta
Chi Fraternity enjoyed a set-up furnished by their
Freshmen at the Gurnet,
The following men have been selected to speak
on Commencement Day: John Leslie Brummett,
Arthur Harrison Cole, Charles Boardman Hawes,
Chester Elijah Kellogg, William Folsom Merrill,
Earl Baldwin Smith.
1[ntercol(eGiate IRotes
Harvard has arranged an annual exchange of
teachers with four well known small colleges of the
West— Colorado, Grinnell College of Grinnell, Iowa,
Knox, and Beloit. Every year Harvard will send a
professor who will spend an equal portion of half
an academic year with each of the four colleges. In
return, the colleges will each send a young instructor
to serve as an assistant in some Harvard course for
half a year. It is understood that the first Har-
vard professor to take part in the exchange will be
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of the Department
of History.
Statistics gathered at Princeton show that 40 per
cent, of the students are working their way through
college, in some degree.
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The University of California has added to its
curriculum a course in scoutcraft. The course in-
cludes a study of woodcraft and camping,
Brown will next year revise her curriculum from ,
the three-term to the two semester system. Special
work in economics is also planned.
Hazing has been abolished at the University of
Pennsylvania. The undergraduate committee and
the Senior Sphinx Society, after a series of meet-
ings, have issued this announcement. The move-
ment has come from the student body alone and
was influenced in no way by the Faculty or Trus-
tees. There will be a committee of fifteen, five
from each of the three upper classes, to enforce the
rule.
Dr. Guy Potter Benton, president of Miami Uni-
versity, Oxford, Ohio, will be the next president of
the University of Vermont. Dr. Benton was offered
the presidency of Boston University.
The Columbia tennis team is, as yet, unbeaten,
having won seven straight victories.
A new "travelling fellowship" of $25,000, estab-
lished by Alfred Kahn of Paris, will soon be
awarded to some educator, preferably from a south-
ern or western college. Mr. Kahn has established
like fellowships in France, Germany, England and
other countries. The appointee is to travel in, to
live in, unknown lands, to receive the broadening
influences available and returning to give his pupils
the benefit of this influence.
Harvard is to have a new school for advanced
instruction in medicine. It will begin next fall, and
will take the place of the present Summer School of
Medicine.
Stevens Institute of Technology celebrated its
fortieth anniversary May 27th. That date also
marked the acquisition of the famous Stevens Cas-
tle, a landmark on the Hudson. The castle will be
slightly remodelled to serve as a dormitory.
RESOLUTIONS
Hall of Theta of Delta ICappa Epsilon,
May 22, 191 1.
"Whereas, It has pleased God, in his in-
finite wisdom, to take from us our beloved
'brother, Lafayette Grover, of the Class of
1848; be it
Resolved, That we of the Theta Chapter of
Delta Kappa Epsilon, extend our heart-felt
sympathy to his family in this time of bereave-
ment; and be it
Resolved, That in his death the Chapter
loses a faithful and earnest member, and the
Fraternity, a loyal brother."
Robert D. Cole, '12,
Laurence A. Crosby, '13,
Alfred E. Gray, '14,
For the Chapter.
Hluinni Bepartment
'57. — Gen. Charles Haixilin, son of the for-
mer Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin, died at
his home in Bangor, May 15, 191 1. Gen.
Hamlin has lived in Bangor since 1865, and
conducted a successful law business. He has
been a most prominent citizen and one of the
most respected men in the state. His nature
was such that he drew to himself hosts of
friends and won the esteem of all.
Gen. Hamlin was born at Hampden, Me.,
September 13, 1837. He received his early
education in the Hampden, Bridgton, and
Bethel academies. He graduated from Bow-
doin in the Class of 1857. Following his
graduation from college, he read law with his
father, and was admitted to the bar in 1858.
He began the practice of law in Orland, near
Bucksport.
In the summer of 1862, he assisted in rais-
ing the 1 8th Maine Infantry, a regiment
famous for its active fighting strength, after-
wards re-organized as the First Maine Heavy
Artillery, in which he served as Major at the
defence of Washington until 1863, when he
resigned to enter the field in more active ser-
vice, having been appointed Assistant Adju-
tant General upon the staff of Major-General
Hiram G. Berry.
Major Hamlin remained with this division
until. February, 1864, when it was consolidated
with the second corps and participated in the
battle of Gettysburg and the subsequent cam-
paigns including Kelley's Ford, Locust Grove,
and other engagements. For his service in
the field of Gettysburg, he received the official
thanks of Major-General Humphrey, com-
manding the division. In February, 1864, he
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was assigned to duty with General A. P. Howe
as inspector of artillery, and served at Har-
per's Ferry with that general during Early's
Raid in the following summer. After the
war closed, he tendered his resignation in Sep-
tember, 1865, having been brevetted Brigadier-
General of Volunteers. Gen. Hamlin then
resumed his law practice in Bangor, where he
has lived ever since.
Gen. Hamlin has served in various official
positions for his city and state, among his
various offices being those of city solicitor, of
register for bankruptcy, and as reporter of the
decisions of the Supreme Court of Maine from
1888 to 1904. He was United States Com-
missioner at the time of his death, having held
that office for over twenty years. In 1883 and
1885, he was a member of the Maine Legisla-
ture, having been Speaker of the House of
Representatives in the latter year. From his
work as register of bankruptcy, he obtained
abundant material for the extensive work
which he published, entitled, "The Insolvent
Laws of Maine."
Gen. Hamlin was a firm believer in Loan
and Building Associations, having organized
many during his life and compiled a set of
laws to govern their operation. He was also
a trustee of the Bangor Savings Bank, having
held this office since its establishment. Gen.
Hamlin was also interested in the Gettysburg
Memorial, being chairman of the committee
from Maine and securing the first appropria-
tion from the state for that purpose. He was
a member of the Loyal Legion.
In Gen. Hamlin's death, Bangor has lost a
popular citizen and a staunch supporter of its
progress. His patriotism was great, and in-
spired itself in others with whom he came in
contact. His influence for good was far-
reaching and powerful. The friends of this
esteemed man have suffered a great loss in his
death.
'03. — The engagement is announced of
Miss Irene Montgomery, eldest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Montgomery of Bangor,
Me., to Haraden Spofford Pearl, son of Hon.
and Mrs. Charles S. Pearl of Bangor, Maine.
'06. — At Wellesley, Mass., on the evening
of May 24th took place the marriage reception
of Miss Alice Doty Sanborn, daughter of Mr.
Benjamin Hyde Sanborn, the president of the
well-known Boston text-book company, and
Mr. Robert Thomson Woodruff, son of Prof,
and Mrs. F. E. Woodruff, of Brunswick.
Mr. Woodruff graduated from Bowdoin
College in 1906, and later from the Harvard
Law School. Since he was admitted to the
bar, he has had a successful career in Lynn,
Mass.
'06. — Cards have been received announcing
the wedding of Mr. Edward Russell Hale and
Miss Ethel May Mitchell on the evening of
Thursday, the 25th day of May, at Kittery
Point, Maine. Mr. Hale is a graduate of the
Harvard Law School, now practicing law at
Haverhill.
'07. — Ensign Otis, nominated by Gov.
Plaisted for coroner in Knox County, will be
the youngest man in the state holding that
office when his commission is issued.
'07. — John W. Leydon, instructor in
French and German in Worcester Academy
since his graduation, has been appointed by the
Carnegie Foundation as exchange teacher to
Prussia. After the registration season at
Worcester Academy, he will leave for Ger-
many in late August.
'08. — William R. Crowley is representing
Longmans, Green and Company in the Long
Island Territory.
'08. — The engagement of Miss Marian
Lowell of Lewiston, to Nathan C. Weston, is
announced.
NOTICE TO ALUMNI
If you are interested in the events of the
college in the past year, have a Bugle sent to
your address. Copies will be ready for mail-
ing June 2d. A book worth having as a record
of your Alma Mater! $1.50 a copy. Make
checks payable to Edward L. Morss, Manager.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The Ninety-first Annual Course of Ledlures will begin
Thursday, 0<5lober 13, 1 9 10, and continue to June 21, 191 1.
Four courses of leiflures are required of all who matricu-
late as first-course students.
The courses are graded and cover Ledlures, Recitations,
Laboratory Work and Clinical Instrudlion.
The third and fourth year classes will receive their entire
instruiflion at Portland, where excellent clinical facilities will
be afforded at the Maine General Hospital.
For catalogue, apply to
ALFRED MITCHELL, M.D., Dean.
Brunswick Maine, 1910.
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NO. 9
IVY DAY
With the approach of the end of another
college year, the members of the Class of 1912
commemorate their last week as Juniors by the
ceremonies of Ivy Day, which mark for them
the completion of three pleasant years at old
Bowdoin.
The annual Ivy Day baseball game was
played with Bates this morning, and while
Bowdoin's victory over Bates last Tuesda}'
assured her the State championship, interest in
the game was nevertheless as intense as if the
championship were still in doubt. This after-
noon the customary literary exercises were
held in Memorial Hall. These consisted of
the oration, the poem, and presentations. The
planting of the Ivy by the walls of Hubbard
Hall followed the exercises. Shortly after
came Seniors' last chapel, conducted by Presi-
dent Hyde. The Ivy Hop this evening marks
the close of the exercises of the day.
Frank Arthur Smith of Calais, the presi-
dent of the class, presided at the exercises in
Memorial Hall and made the presentations.
. The class was led in marching by Edward
; Oliver Leigh of Seattle, Washington ; while at
the beginning of the exercises, prayer was
ofifered by the chaplain, Kenneth Churchill of
Newtonville, Mass. The oration was deliv-
ered by Charles Francis Adams of Auburn,
and the pcem by Eugene Francis Bradford of
' Bangor. The committee in charge of the
exercises for the day consists of George
Fabyan Cressey, of Portland, chairman ;
George Clark Brooks of Reading, Mass. ; Ray-
mond White Hathaway of Providence, R. I. ;
Arthur Deehan Welch of Portland ; and
Geora:e Frank Wilson of Albion.
yc Ivy Oration
Delivered by Chaeles Francis Adams
IBSEN
The prose dramas of Henrik Ibsen from the time
of their presentation have been the subject of con-
troversy : a controversy as to whether Ibsen marks
the birth of a new drama, drama that is modern and
vigorous and true to life, or whether Ibsen marks
the final steps in the decadence of the art of play-
writing.
This controversy has not been free from bitter-
ness. Ibsen is at the head of that school of play-
writers, so-called reaHsts, men who explore the
nethermost regions of society and who on gaining
access to light and air, paint, for the playgoing pub-
lic, the things that they saw there. The controversy
continues because few can read Ibsen without being
moved either by admiration or deep disgust. The
most vigorous of those who censure Ibsen is the
venerable William Winter. Mr. Winter's denuncia-
tion of Ibsenism is so marvellously scatching as to
induce us to break the bonds of respectful silence and
laugh at his words. Ibsen has never lacked defend-
ers and expositors, some of whom are at one with
Winter in going to extremes.
If we are not Ibsenites, and, as William Winter
said, are one of a long file marching lockstep behind
the great Norwegian, we shall hold that the dramas
of the master tend to uplift mankind ; that they lay
bare to the bone the weaknesses of men ; that they
revolt against the conventional ethics of our "shal-
low, callous, and material civilization ;" and that they
set up a new moral system ; that they are realistic ;
and that they tell the truth. Those of us who are
not Ibsenites will hold that the characters of, Ibsen
are sick, melancholical, unnatural ; that the plays are
morbid, and their influence unhealthful.
It may not be out of place to retell here the story
of one of his more interesting dramas, that entitled
"Ghosts." Two of the characters in this play are
Mrs. Aveling, whose husband is dead, and her son
Oswald, an artist, who has just returned home after
an absence of two years. In memory of her late
husband, who it is made evident, was in Hfe an
extremely dissipated man, though he contrived to
conceal the fact from the eyes of the world, in mem-
ory of her husband she determines to build an or-
phanage. Among her counsellors in this project is a
minister of the gospel, Pastor Manders, who is
bound by tradition, possesses little or no common
sense, and who is quite incapable of personal sym-
pathy, though sincere in his beliefs. Just before the
dedication of the orphanage, Mrs, Aveling is talk-
ing the matter over with Manders when they dis-
cover Oswald drinking wine and making love to his
mother's maid-servant, an illicit daughter of a car-
penter who is building the orphanage. When Mrs.
Aveling believes that she has intimations that Os-
wald is following in the footsteps of her husband,
she whispers to Manders in a horror-stricken tone,
"Ghosts," and the curtain falls on the first act. In
the rest of the play the orphanage burns down and
is held to be symbolical of the ruined life of Mr.
Aveling. Oswald and the servant Regina cease their
love-making with little inconvenience and Oswald is
left alone with his mother, whereupon he discloses
to her that he is inflicted with a gradual mental
breakdown, destined finally to become complete
dementia. It is, he explains, a disease inherited
from his father. He asks his mother, who is now
beside herself with anguish, to give him morphine
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when he reaches the final stage of his mania. Mrs.
Aveling rushes with wild h.vsteria about the room
and as the curtain drops on the last act, stands be-
fore Oswald, her hands twisted in her hair, speech-
less with terror, while the latter sits motionless be-
fore her saying, "the sun, the sun."
Now from the portrayal of such scenes of horror,
there may come some beneficent influence. But it is
by such. scenes that the opposition of certain healthy-
minded persons has been aroused. I do not think it
is unfair to say that the tone and temper of
"Ghosts" is characteristic of Ibsen's sociological
dramas. In all of them cripples abound, afflicted
with diseases spinal, mental, and moral. There are
beings who are selfish to the last degree. Nearly all
of the characters act in a manner both immaterial
and silly; persons of disordered wills who neither
talk nor act sanely.
A Mr. Huneker, who holds the position of dra-
matic critic on the New York Sun and who has
been called the leading expositor of the present
dramatic school, has this to say on the charge
of morbidity in Ibsen : "Touching on this accusation
of morbidity and sickness, may there not be gleaned
from Shakespeare and Goethe many half-made and
brain-sick men and women?" This is quite true.
Mr. Huneker is not wrong. But it is equally certain
that in almost every "Shakespearian drama, there
can be found some beautiful character, a Portia, a
Desdemona, to set off those characters who are in-
tensely evil. In Macbeth, it is true, not many indi-
viduals can be found who are to be admired for
beauty of character. But wherein all the plays of
Ibsen can there be found a Portia or a CordeHa. Is
not the contrast necessary in drama or in any work
of art. It is very easy to see that vice is made terri-
ble. It is easy to admit that the plays of Ibsen move
us deeply. But is it not a cheap device to fill the
stage with unmitigated gloom and horror. The
thrills we gain are childish. Shocks and horrors are
easily contrived, hence the abundance of bowie
knives, revolvers, and circular saws in modern melo-
drama. But the excellence of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Ilydc as played by Mansfield, lay quite as much in the
actor's interpretation of the sad and gentle doctor as
in the impersonation of the fiend, Edward Hyde.
With the Ibsenites a strong plav seems to be Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Dr. Jekyll left out.
The before-mentioned Mr. Huneker in an article
on the drama Ghosts admits in a curious way the
gloom of Ibsen. Speaking of that last conversation
between Mrs. Aveling and her son Oswald, not yet
entirely mad, he says: "I know of few more touch-
ing scenes than the conversation between mother and
son and the horrible confession which follows. It is
like a blast from a charnel-house." And in a similar
article on the play Hcdda Gablcr: "As in a dream
(he writes) we divine the past of the humans he sets
strutting before us and we leave the theatre as if
obsessed by an ugly nightmare."
The final reoinder of the apostles of gloom is
simply: It's all true, isn't it? We believe in paint-
ing things as we see them. Ghosts is realistic. It is
real life. Ibsen, we are informed, holds truth to be
more essential than beauty, assuming that that is not
a confusion of terms. Mr. Winter quotes Ibsen as
saying substantially : "I go down into the sewers, I
explore, I bring forth the things that I find there and
hold them up for inspection." Mr. Ibsen apparently
saw through a glass darkly, and while we can well
doubt whether his eyes were not dimmed and his
vision obscured by an innate cynicism, it is pertinent
to inquire, again to quote Winter, whether the
product of an exploration of the s,t\\tT% is fit for the
stage. That cannot be fairly called the truth which
is but a half truth. Mr. Ibsen may have reasons for
not exposing the noble side of human nature, but he
has no reason for assuming that the picture of base-
ness that he presents is a true reproduction of human
nature. There is more of good than of bad in the
world. It is as wrong to picture the world as all bad
as all good. Sensible persons have no desire for
either extreme. We are frank to admit that the
characters of Shakespeare may often strut in doublets
and hose as one Ibsenite puts it, and that they often
talk more like gods than men, but in their passions,
emotions, and in_ their actions, they are as true to
human nature as is possible, ibsen is not the first
reahst ; men have preceded him who may fairly lay
claim to having portrayed life more truly than has
the Norwegian.
I have spoken of certain of Ibsen's works as so-
ciological dramas. I referred to his later plays,
Hcdda Gablcr, Ghosts, Little Eyolf, A Doll's House.
These are so-called because they are supposed to
deal with the problems of society. The problem of a
play would naturally be the meaning of the play as a
whole. Ibsen has seen the evil in human nature, and
now writes plays to question mankind concerning it.
In the illsutration of his meaning, he has used what
are known as symbols. The symbol is an object in
the play; it may be an orphanage, a wild duck, or a
horse pistol. When, after the play has proceeded
to some length, we take the symbol and apply it as a
touchstone to the whole play, the meaning of every-
thing is supposed to become perfectly lucid. It is this
use of symbol that has caused the charge against
Ibsen of obscurity of meaning. Indeed, a small vol-
ume has been written by the Professor of English in
Smith College to explain the very symbols. Ed-
mund Gosse, a friend of Ibsen's, said : ''Ibsen's ex-
act meaning in the detail of these symbolical plays
will long be discussed," though he added that they re-
pay the closest study. But after all, if in its_ pre-
sentation to an audience, the whole point of the
play is lost in mystery, if the mean side of life is de-
picted without the reason for it being apparent until
we read a treatise on the subect, the ennoblement
resulting from the play is quite as problematical as
its meaning.
It is, therefore, not surprising that Ibsen's mean-
ing is often misconstrued. It is often laughable be-
cause some find meanings and problems in Ibsen's
plays that he had no intention of inserting. In A
Doll's House, the heroine is a woman who has been
brought up like a doll. Indeed she has never had
an original thought of importance. It is altogether
accurate to sav that her husband treats her more as
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he would a canary bird or pet squirrel than a human
being at par intellectual with himself. After eight years
of married life she awakens to the fact and leaves the
house at midnight. The reverberation of the door down-
stairs as she departs, intensely tragic to some, strikes
the chord of approval in the hearts of those interested in
women's rights. Says Mr. Huneker, a bit apologetically,
"The play seems a trifle outmoded today — not because
its main problem will ever grow stale but because of the
many and conflicting meanings read into it by the
apostles of feminine supremacy. Ibsen declared in one
of his few public speeches that he had no intention of
representing the conventional emancipated woman."
So much for the problems of Ibsen. It is question
able whether the stage is suited to setting forth of
problems, especially when the value of the play depends
on the discernment by the audience of what the problem
really is. The stage is to picture life, it is to set life
before our vision that we may see it. What is pictured
and the way it is done depends on the skill of the
dramatist. But first of all the audience gathers in what
it sees and what it hears. We can easily suppose it be-
yond the power of the audience and beyond its inclina-
rion to determine by symbols the ulterior meaning of the
play which is hidden in mysticism. And the audience
is not to be blamed if it prefer simple words and actions
to watching an actress sit in the middle of the stage, and
think hard in an effort to analyze her sub-conscious self.
Nor do social problems seem to lend themselves to writ-
ing of noble drama. Is not the stage for art .'' Is not
art, beauty .' To dwell on social problems is not to
make one happier or better. For anyone continually to
dissect the pathological side of human beings must tend
to make him melancholical.
The melaucological and the morbid is not the tragic.
Shakespeare wrote his tradegies and they are intensely
sad; They are never sick. Tragedy may be healthy, it
may be strong, it may be virile. But the normal healthy
human mind does not dwell upon and has not patience
with what Mr. Huneker calls the "exteriorization of
emotional states." The melancholical man, he who dwells
upon his sins is driven from our company. This man
has the "blues." We avoid him. '1 he most life-giving
philosophy is to recognize one's sins and then to walk
away with firm step and resolve not to sin any more.
Why repent ninety-nine times for the same identical sin?
Why set two hapless puppets upon the stage, man and
wife, as in "Little Eyolf" and for a whole act have the
air fogged with bitter recriminations, self-analyses of sin,
and accusations of faithlessness first by Punch and then
by Judy. Pity such disordered minds for not having a
spiritual fount from which to draw strength, but let us
bar them from becoming a public spectacle. The public
was sated with such scenes as the details of the infam-
ous Thaw trial.
Ibsen has accomplished nothing new. He has pict-
ured the race as naught but "gas and gaiters," but he is
not original in that ignoble thought. Dean Swift has
done it before him. Hamlet expressed in a sentence the
substance of the same philosophy. Whatever may be
the truth in point of mind, it is degrading. The human
race never has and never will thrive on a philosophy
that teaches them they are but vainties.
Ivy Ode
Words by James Bailey Allen
Air: Fair Harvard
'With joy and with sorrow permingled, we
meet
At last on this long looked-for day,
Yet e'en tho our sadness is not without cause
Let it net o'er our spirits gain sway ;
For altho now three years have so pleasantly
passed
And but one more looms now into view,
Yet with fond recollection throughout our
whole lives
We shall cherish their memories true.
'To our dear Alma Mater, we tenderly plant
By these walls green ivy so fair
As a token of love and affection so firm
Which to Bowdoin, Our Mother, we bear.
As its rootlets spread deep and tenaciously
cling
Pressing deeper each year.
Even so may our love for Old Bowdoin grow
firm
And ne'er become withered and sere."
Presentations
The closing event of tlie literary exercises
in Memorial Flail this afternoon, was the pre-
sentation of appropriate gifts to several mem-
bers of the Class of 1912. The presentation
was made by Class President Frank A. Smith,
who bestowed these gifts :
Alderman — B. C. Rodick, Waistcoat.
Recluse — C. R. Chapman, Prayerbook.
Thief (of time)— A. D. Welch, Alarm
Clock.
Charmer — R. D. Cole, Snake.
Popular Man — J. L. Hurley, Wooden
Spoon.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
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Vol. XLI. JUNE 2, 1911 No. 9
The 1912 Bugle
The 1912 Bugle comes out to-day on time
and is well tip to the standard of other vol-
umes. As is customary, it has been dedicated
to a prominent graduate of the college, this
year to Edward Stanwood, Litt.D., the editor
of the Youth's Companion and a loyal worker
for Bcwdoin. The cover of the book is dis-
tinctive and unusual, being done in white with
black decorations. The design is a simple one
with the seal of the Bowdoin family as its cen-
ter. Another new feature is the photogravure
frontispiece of the Art Building. Through-
out the book the press work is well done, the
drawings being well defined.
In subject matter this issue is, of course, of
much the same make-up as previous Bugles.
There are the usual pages of statistics of
Faculty, Class, Fraternity, Society, Clubs, and
Athletics, with the grinds at the end. The
drawings illustrating these departments are
unusually good and compare favorably with
the high mark set last year. The issue is also
unusually well supplied with snap shots which
help to make it interesting.
All in all, it is a Bugle which is among the
Isest. Every man in college should have one
to serve as a remembrance of a happy year.
The Ivy Hop
The patronesses for the Ivy Hop this evening are
Mrs. Henry Johnson, Mrs. George T. Little, Mrs.
Charles C. Hutchins, Mrs. George T. Files, Mrs.
Roscoe J. Ham, Mrs. Wilmot B. ' Mitchell, Mrs.
Frank E. Woodruff, Miss Helen Chapman, Mrs. Paul
Nixon, Mrs. Frederick W. Brown, Mrs. William H.
Davis, Mrs. Frank N. Whittier, Mrs. Manton Cope-
land, Mrs. Hartley C. Baxter, Mrs. Baird, and Mrs.
Louis Parsons.
The members of the Junior Committee in charge
are George F. Cressey, George C. Brooks, Raymond
W. Hathaway, Arthur D. Welch, and George F.
Wilson. Kendrie's Orchestra will furnish music for
an order of twenty-six dances.
MASQUE AND GOWN PRESENTS "SWEET y.
LAVENDER"
The cast of characters for the Masque and Gown
play, "Sweet Lavender," which was given before a
large audience in the Town Hall last evening, was as
follows :
Richard Phenyl Arthur D. Welch, 1912
Clement Hale John L. Hurley, 1912
Dr. Delayne John E. Dunphy, 1913
A'lr. Bulger Philip H. Pope, 1914
Geoffrey Wedderburn Merton W. Greene, 1913
Horace Bream Lawrence W. Smith, 1913
Lavender William J. Nixon, 1913
Ruth Holt ....Philip P. Cole, 1912
Minnie Gillillian W. Fletcher Twombley, 1913
Mrs. Gilfilhan Cedric R. Crowell, 1913
Mr. Maw Charles F. Adams, 1912
BOWDOIN, 4 ; MAINE, 2— MAY 24
In the most exciting and stubbornly fought game
of the series, Bowdoin defeated Maine on Alumni
Field, Orono, by the score of 4 to 2. Means was at
his best and his terrific speed was especially effective.
JX
F. A. SMITH
President
(ifftrrrs
E. O. LEIGH
MvsKal
J. L. HURLEY
Popular Man
C. F. ADAMS Jr
E. F. BRADFORD
Poet
G. F CRESSEY
Clmirnian Ivy Commltt,
Slug
A D. WELCH
Ivy Comimtfee
G C. BROOKS
Ivy Committee
R. W. HATHAWAY
Ivy Committee
G. F. WILSON
Ivy Committee
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owing to the condition of the atmosphere. He struck
out i6 men and held his opponents safe in pinches.
Wilson had a hard job cut out for him, stopping the
speedy shoots of Bowdoin's twirler ; -but he was
more than equal to the occasion, for no passed balls
were recorded against him, and he allowed no stolen
bases.
Maine's runs came in the sixth with no outs on
a combination of hits and errors. Means steadied
down after these tallies, however, and fanned the
next three men. Weatherill and Smith were the big
hitters for Bowdoin, while Scales of Maine got three
of Maine's five bingoes. Grant distinguished him-
self by another sensational catch in right and drove
in a run in the eighth with a nice drive to centre.
The support given Means was good, and all in all,
the team played the best game of the series thus far.
BOWDOIN
AB R IB PO A E
Weatherill. ss 4 i 3 i 2 0
Smith, If 5 I 2 o o o
Wilson, c 5 o I 17 I 0
Clifford, lb 4 i i 5 0 I
Lawlis, 3b 4 0 0 I o o
Grant, rf 4 i i i 0 0
Daniels, 2b 3 o i i i 0
Russell, cf 4 o o 0 0 I
Means, p 4 o o i 2 0
Total 37 4 g 27 6 2
U. OF Maine
AB R IB PO A K
Smith, c 4 0 o 8 3 o
Scales, rf 4 o 3 0 o 0
Fulton, cf 2 I I 2 o I
F. Cobb, 3b 3 I I I 2 2
Abbott, 2b 4 o o 2 2 o
Beavce, ib 4 o 0 10 o o
Ryan, p 4 o o 0 2 i
Phillips, If 3 0 0 I 0 o
H. Cobb, ss 3 0 o 2 o I
*Libby I 0 o o 0 o
Total 32 2 5 t26 9 S
*Batted for Phillips in ninth.
fDaniels out, hit by batted ball.
Innings i 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9
Bowdoin o o 2 o o i o i 0 — 4
Maine o 0 o o 0 0 2 0 o — 2
Earned Runs — Bowdoin I. Two-base hits — Dan-
iels. Sacrifice hits — Daniels. Stolen bases — Weath-
erill 2, Wilson, Clifford. Left on bases, Bowdoin 6,
Maine 4. First base on errors — Bowdoin 4, Maine I.
Base on balls — Off Means 4, off Ryan I. Struck out
— By Means l5, by Ryan 8. Wild pitches — Means 2.
Passed balls — Smith I. Umpire — John O'Brien.
Time — 2 hrs. 10 min.
BOWDOIN, 3; TUFTS, 4-MAY 27
In a well-played game, before a large
crowd. Tufts defeated Bowdoin on the Forest
Avenue Grounds, Portland, last Saturday, by
a score of 4 to 3. Martin of Tufts gave a fine
exhibition of pitching, striking out 12 men and
holding his opponents safe in pinches. Urqu-
hart, after the first inning, pitched a steady
game and had it not been for errors behind
him, would have won it. The game came near
being tied in the ninth when Lawlis drew a
pass and Grant reached first on Kelly's error.
Daniels reached first on a fielder's choice on
which play Lawlis was tagged out between
third and home. Purington batted for Tilton
and fanned. Urquhart, next man up, knocked
a slow grounder to Kelly who fumbled it badly
and Grant and Daniels scored. Weatherill
walked and with one run needed to tie the
score and two men on bases, Frank Smith
was struck out by the Medford twirler. Grant
played a star game in right making four put-
outs and keeping Tufts from a score in the
eighth by a pretty throw to the plate.
Bowdoin
Weatherill, ss 4 0 i i 3
Smith, If 4 0 I o 0
Wilson, c 4 0 o 8 i
Clifford, lb...' 4 0 I 11 o
La vvlis, 3b 3 o o o 2
Grant, rf 3 2 0 4 i
Daniels, 2b 4 i o 2 3
Tilton, cf 3 o I I o
Urquhart, p 4 0 i 0 3
*Purington i o o o 0
Totals 34 3 5 27 13
*Batted for Tilton in ninth.
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Tufts
Hooper, 3b 4 i
Dickinson, rf 5 i
E. Martin, cf 4 o
H. IMartin, p 4 I
Hall, lb 3 o
McKenna, If 4 I
Kelley, 2b 4 o
Bennett, c 4 0
Proctor, ss 4 o
Totals 36 4
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>
Innings
Bovvdoin
Tufts
34567
0000
I 0 o I
8 9
o 2—3
o 0—4
Two base hits — Tilton. Sacrifice hits — Hall.
Stolen bases — Wilson, Hooper, McKenna. Double
plays — Grant to Clifford. Base on balls — off Martin
3, off Urquhart I. Struck out — by Martin 12, by
Urquhart, 5. Hit by pitched ball. Grant. Wild pitches
— Martin 2. Passed ball — Bennett. Umpire —
O'Reilly. Time — 2 hrs.
How They Stand
Won Lost Percentage
-/ Bowdoin (champs) 5 o 1000
Bates 2 2 500
Maine 2 4 333
Colby I 4 200
By shutting out Bates on Garcelon Field,
Memorial Day, the Bowdoin team won the un-
disputed title to the Maine State Champion-
ship for the season of 191 1. Whether Lawlis'
champs came out of the series with a per-
fect percentage was decided this morning on
Whittier Field. At the first of the season,
after the unpromising spring trip, few sup-
porters of the White credited their team with
more than a fighting chance for the pennant.
But under Coach Norton's careful training, to
whom much of the credit for the team's show-
ing is due, and hard work of the whole base-
ball squad, a team was evolved which demon-
strated its undoubted superiority over the other
Maine State aggregations.
Ex-Capt. "Bill" Clifford at first, Capt. Bob
Lawlis at third, and "Pewt" Purington in cen-
tre, played their last game in a Bowdoin uni-
form this morning and, although there are
some first-class reserves on the sc[uad, the loss
of these men, especially in hitting, will be felt
keenly next year.
Means and Wilson make up the best bat-
tery Bowdoin has had in years and in the out-
field Grant, Smith, Tilton, and Purington are
able to rcb the opposing batters of more than
one hit. Daniels and Weatherill have done
excellent work around the keystone sack.
The season has been a great success from
all points of view. Li the managing end E.
Leigh has carried through a long, varied
schedule with great credit to the college and
himself.
ft is to be hoped that "Jack" Norton can be
secured as baseball mentor for next year's
team. Under him with material now available
the chamjjs should repeat the trick next year.
BOWDOIN WINS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
Bowdoin, 4; Bates, o — May 30
The White took the fifth straight game in
the State series on Memorial Day by shutting
out Bates with no hits in an errorless game. It
was a beautiful game to watch ; fine day, fine
crowd and both teams playiiig fast ball. Bates
only made one fielding error but to win was
out of the question with Means pitching such
ball. Not even a scratch hit was made on him
and he fanned 10 men. It was by far the best
exhibition of twirling in the State games this
year. Aside from his work in the box, Means
entered the batting column in the seventh with
a long drive which would have beenahome run
if the big pitcher had not slipped and fallen on
third. As it was it brought in Tilton, and he
scored later on Weatherill's double to left.
Bowdoin's first run came in the first inning,
when Smith reached first on an error, stole
second and scored on Wilson's Texas-leaguer
over second. In the eighth, Wilson passed,
stole second, was advanced to third by Clif-
ford's sacrifice and scored on Lawlis' hit.
Wilson caught a good game, and got two nice
hits. Daniels at second accepted six chances
without an error and got a nice hit. Tilton in
centre got two clean drives also and gobbled
three flies in nice fashion. The record of
Means is the best made by Maine twirlers since
the days of Jack Coombs, now with the big
leagues. The kind of ball the team played last
Tuesday is unbeatable on most any college
diamond.
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BOWDOIN
AB R BH PO A E
Weatherill, ss 4 o i i i o
Smith, If 4 I o 0 o o
Wilson, c 3 I 2 II o 0
Clifford, lb 3 0 o 10 o 0
Lawlis, 3b 4 0 I I I 0
Grant, rf 4 o 0 i o 0
Daniels, 2b 4 o i 0 6 o
Tilton, cf 4 I 2 3 o o
Means, p 4 i i o 2 0
Totals 34 4 8 27 ID 0
Bates
ab r bh po a e
-Mayo, cf 4 o 0 4 0 i
*Regan, 2b 3 0 o 3 i 0
Basset, If 3 o 0 2 o o
Griffin, c 2 o o 7 i o
Shepard, rf 3 o 0 i 0 0
Cody, 3b 2 0 o I 2 o
Damon, ib 2 o o 8 i o
Keaney, ss 3 o o i i o
Stinson, p 3 o 0 o 3 o
Duvey i o 0 0 0 0
Totals 26 0 0 27 9 I
*Shepard and Griffin ran for Regan in ninth.
Innings I 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9
Bowdoin I o 0 o o o 2 i 0 — 4
Bates 0 o 0 o 0 0 0 o 0 — 0
Earned Runs — Bowdoin 2. Two base Hits —
Weatherill. Three-base hits — Means. Sacrifice hits
— Clifford, Shepard. Stolen bases — Smith, Wilson 2.
Double Piay — Cody, Daman, Regan. Left on Bases
Bowdoin 5, Bates 5. Base on Balls — Off Means 4,
off Stinson i. Struck out — By Means 10, by Stinson
8. Hit by pitcher — Regan. Wild pitches — Means i,
Stinson i. Passed ball — Wilson. Umpire — Cody.
Time — i hr. 45 min.
KAPPA SIGMA DANCE
Alpha Rho Chapter of Kappa Sigma en-
joyed their annual dance in Pythian Hall,
Wednesday evening, May 31. Preliminary- to
the dance the fraternity with their guests
dined at the Hotel Eagle, and from there went
to the hall. The ball room was tastefully
decorated with palms, ferns, college and fra-
ternity banners and pillows, with a large cres-
cent and star, the emblem of the fraternity, in
electric lights as a feature.
The patronesses were : Mrs. Roscoe J. Ham
of Brunswick, Airs. Frank M. Stetson of
Brunswick, Mrs. Alexander N. Snow of Bel-
fast, and Mrs. Charles P. Greenleaf of Port-
land. Music was furnished by the college or-
chestra and an order of twenty-four dances
was enjoyed. At intermission fruit salads, and
ices were served. The favors were little billi-
kens with the letters of the fraternity engraved
on them.
The delegates from the other fraternities
were: Alpha Delta Phi, Chester E. Kellogg,
"11; Delta Kappa Epsilon, William C. Allen,
'11 ; Theta Delta Chi, Harold P. Marston, '11 ;
Delta Upsilon, Lawrence McFarland, '11;
Beta Theta Pi, George C. Kern, '12; Alpha
Kappa Kappa, Alfred W. Johnson; Phi Chi,
Hudson R. Miller.
Among the guests were noticed : Miss Rena
M. Greenwood of Medford, Masachusetts ;
Miss Florence Carll of Waterville, Miss Har-
riet Estes, Miss Anna Snow, Miss Katherine
McMahon, Miss Lucy Stetson, Miss Alice
McKinley of Brunswick; Miss Florence War-
ren of Gorham ; Miss Gertrude Callahan of
Lewiston ; Miss Winona Norcross of Augusta ;
Miss Lida West of Mechanic Falls; Miss
Frances Pollard of Oldtown, Miss Sara
Palmer of Bangor, Miss Kathleen Duffey of
Gardiner, and Miss Audrey Duffey of Med-
ford.
The committee in charge was composed of :
Edward W. Skelton, '11, Carlton Greenwood,
"13, and Walter J. Greenleaf, '12.
ALPHA DELTA PHI RECEPTION
The Annual Reception of the Bowdoin Chapter
of Alpha Delta Phi was held Thursday at the chap-
ter house. In the receiving line were Miss Helen
Chapman, Mrs. Charles C. Hutchins, Mrs. Gard-
ner Cram, Mrs. H. G. Parkman of Portland, and
Mrs. J. Curtis Swain of Jamaica Plain, Mass. Tea,
coffee, and punch were served by Mrs. C. W. Tut-
tle, Mrs. Alice Little, Mrs. Edgar Kaharl, and Mrs.
Frank P. Weatherill of Brunswick, Mrs. J. D. Clif-
ford of Lewiston, Mrs. Mark Sewall of Bath, and
Mrs. Frederick H. White of Bangor, assisted by
Mrs. Thomas H. Riley, Jr., Mrs. John W. Riley,
Miss Sue Winchell, Miss Edith Weatherill, Miss
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Ethel Webb, Miss Frances Little, and Miss Virginia
Woodbury of Brunswick, Mrs. Thomas R. Winched
of Stockholm, and Mrs. Clement F. Robinson of
Portland.
A feature of the decorations, which were in green
and white, was the arbor of evergreen on the lawn
where refreshments were served.
ZETA PSI HOUSE PARTY
The Zeta Psi Fraternity held its annual house
parly on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. At
the reception and dance on Wednesday, the patron-
esses were Mrs. Henry Johnson, Mrs. Charles C.
Hutchins, Mrs. Hartley C. Baxter, Mrs. Frederick
W. Brown, Mrs. Paul Nixon of Brunswick, and]
Mrs. Alfred S. Black of Rockland. The chaperones
were Mrs. George W. Smith of Rockland, and Mrs.
W. H. Davis of Brunswick. An order of twent}'-
four dances was enjoyed, for which music was fur-
nished by Kendrie's Orchestra. On Thursday the
guests were entertained at dinner at the Gurnet.
Among the guests present were the Misses lone
Lackee, Doris Powers, and Martha O'Brien of
Portland; Misses Hazel Perry, Helen Cooper, and
Elizabeth Fuller of Rockland ; Misses Margaret Day,
Al'fretta Graves, Helen Merriman, Gertrude Sadler,
Anne Johnson, Leona Thompson, Gladys Umberhind,
and Emily Felt of Brunswick; Miss Marian Greene
of Madison ; Miss Marian Crowell of Richmond Hill,
N. Y. ; Miss Grace Sweet of Providence, N. Y. ; Miss
Mildred Lamb of Sangerville; and Miss Marguerite
Paige of Damariscotta.
The delegates from the other fraternities were
William H. Clifford, 'il. Alpha Delta Phi; Fred R.
Lord, 'II, Psi Upsilon ; Robert M. Lawlis, 'ii ; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Arthur D. Welch, '12, Theta Delta
Chi; Harrison M. Berry, '11, Delta Upsilon; John
L. Curtis, 'II, Beta Theta Pi; Leon S. Lippincott, '13,
Alpha Kappa Kappa; and Walter W. Hendee, '13,
Phi Chi. .^ ,
The committee in charge of the house party: Fred
C. Black, 'ti. of Rockland; Stetson H. Hussey, '11,
of Blaine; Reginald E. Foss, '12, of Skowhegan ;
Paul C. Lunt, '13, of Portland; and Richard E.
Simpson, '14, of Portland.
THE FRIAR INITIATION
The annual initiation and banquet of the Friars
was held at Riverton Casino, Portland, on Saturday,
May 27. The initiates were Lawrence A. Crosby of
Bangor, John Lewis of Skowhegan, and Philip S.
Wood of Car Harbor, members of the Class of I9I3-
The members of the society from 191 1 are J. L.
Brummett, A. H. Cole, A. G. Dennis, G. W. Flowe,
S. W. Pierce, H. L. Robinson, E. B. Smith, and H.
L. Wiggin.
The active members from 1912 are E. F. Brad-
ford, G. C. Brooks, G. F. Crcssey, M. H. Gray, J.
L. Hurley, G. C. Kern, J. H. McKenney, J. H.
Newell, F. A. Smith, A. D. Welch, and FL A.
White.
B, each having an unsmirched record of four victo-
ries. These two nines will now battle for the final
championship and cup.
In the last game of the first division the Betas
trimmed the Theta Delts. The Deke-A. K. K. game
has been forfeited to the former team. The Phi
Chi-Non-Fraternity game, which was postponed in-
definitely, is not included in the accompanying final
standing.
INTERFRATERNITY BASEBALL
Each of the divisions of the interfraternity
league has finished its schedule. Beta Theta Pi
leads Division A, and Delta Upsilon heads Division
INTERFRATERNITY LEAGUE STANDING
Division A
Won. Lost. P. C.
Beta Theta Pi ' 4 o i.ooo
Theta Delta Chi 2 2 .500
Zeta Psi 2 2 .500
Delia Kappa Epsilon 2 2 .500
Alpha Kappa Kappa o 4 .000
Division B
Won, Lost. P. C.
Delta Upsilon 4 o i.ooo
Ivappa Sigma 3 I -750
Phi Chi I 2- .333
Alpha Delta Phi i 3 -250
Non-Fraternity 0 3 -ooo
FRESHMAN BANQUET SPEAKERS |
The Freshman banquet committee has named the
toast-master and men to have responses at the ban-
quet. C. A. Brown will be toast-master, and the
men who will respond with toasts are Weatherill,
Ailing, Buell, Payson, Chase, Heywood, Newcomb,
Fox and Schwey.
RESULTS OF M. I. L. T. A. TOURNAMENT ■
In the finals of the intercollegiate tennis match
held Saturday, F. C. Black, '11, won the champion-
ship of the singles, and H. A. Woodman and C. R. _
Clason of Bates, won the doubles championship. In
both cases the winners were competing against rep-
resentatives of their own colleges. The matches in
detail were:
F. C. Black of Bowdoin defeated W. A. Mac-
Cormick of Bowdoin, 6-1, 8-6, 6-8, 6-4.
C. R. Clason and H. A. Woodman of Bates, de-
feated F. P. Clason and R. L. Tomblen of Bates,
6-2, 6-1, 6-3. ■
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The Ninety-first Annual Course of Leflures will begin
Thursday, October 13, 1910, and continue to June 21, 1911.
Four courses of leisures are required of all who matricu-
late as first-course students.
The courses are graded and cover Leflures, Recitations,
Laboratory Work and Clinical Instrudion.
The third and fourth year classes will receive their entire
inslruaion at Portland, where excellent cHnical facilities will
be afforded at the Maine General Hospital.
For catalogue, apply to
ALFRED MITCHELL, M.D., ^ean.
Brunswick Maine, 1910.
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VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JUNE 23, 191 1
NO. 10
One Hundred and Sixth Gommencement
Sunday, June 18
y Baccalaureate Sermon
The first event of Commencement week
was the Baccalaureate Sermon delivered by-
President Hyde in the Church on the Hill.
The Class of 191 1 marched to their seats in
the front of the church, led by the marshal,
Robert M. Lawlis.
The following is in substance President
Hyde's sermon on The Larger Righteousness,
from the text of Matthew v:20: "For I say
unto you that except your righteousness shall
exceed the righteousness of the scribes and
Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the
kingdom of heaven."
A Columbia Sophomore writing in the Atlantic,
says, "not personal salvation, but social, is our inter-
est and concern." It is true everywhere. In our
new gymnasium we shall give more floor or ground
space to the social or athletic than to the mdividual
or gymnastic side of physical training. Men will do
twenty times as much cheerfully for the group, as
they will give grudgingly to individual development.
In study the brilliant individual recitation, as an
end in itself, has gone never to return ; and interest
in the subject studied and its social significance, are
coming to take its place.
In temperance we are getting beyond the fear of
becoming drunkards ourselves as a motive ; and
opposing the saloon as a social nuisance.
The social evil can never be rooted out by appeals
to the individual to avoid disease. A recent reliable
report shows that the cost of that evil is five thous-
and -women's lives a year in a single city, with bit-
terness and shame to thousands more of broken-
hearted fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters of
both the five thousand girls who die each year and
the many more who five on in disgrace and degrada-
tion. That fact calls on every man who has a parti-
cle of honor or chivalry to refuse to be a partner in
such wholesale human murder. Multiply the num-
bers in that single city by all the cities in the
country, and you will see that more persons are
made miserable in life and driven to dishonored
death by white slavery to-day than there were by
black slavery fifty years ago : that the battle against
white slavery is to be the moral battle of the oncom-
ing generation ; and that every individual must de-
termine his personal conduct by the side of this
great social issue on which he wants to be counted.
The business man who merely makes money for
himself and his associates within the letter of the
law, skinning industrial enterprises, manipulating
securities, paying excessive salaries, granting favor-
able contracts, misusing inside information so as to
rob the public of reasonable service, the employee
of decent wages, the stockholders of fair profit; is
now well understood to be the thief and public
plunderer he is. To be an honorable and honored
business man, one must rise to the larger right-
eousness, which serves the public economically and
efficiently, treats employees justly and generously,
and deals with investors and creditors openly and
fairly.
In politics we are just beginning to understand
that the man who votes for or against a tariff; for
or against a reciprocity treaty; for or against work-
ingmen's compensation ; for or against a public util-
ities commission, according as it affects his business,
or his profits, or his class, or his locality, and not
according to what he believes to be best for the
country and the public as a whole — and there are
thousands of such business, professional and public
men among us — that man does all that is possible
for a man to do in these times of prosperity and
peace to put himself in the class with Benedict
Arnold as a man who puts his individual interests
above the interests of the public; or who is, in plain
words, a traitor.
Good and evil were doubtless mixed in Tom
Johnson much as they are in us all. But when he
spoke and voted as Congressman and as Mayor to
reduce the tariffs, franchises and fares by which he
had made his millions, in order that neither he nor
others like him might have further opportunity to
plunder the pubHc and filch unearned pennies from
the pockets of the poor; he gave us a fine example
of what the larger righteousness demands of men in
public life.
Monday, June 19
Each train brought back a number of
alumni and by evening the campus had
assumed the true commencement week appear-
ance.
Alexander Prize Speaking
Monday evening nine men chosen by elimi-
nation trials, competed in Memorial Hall for
the Alexander Prizes of twenty and ten dol-
lars for excellence in public speaking.
The judges were Alpheus Sanford, Esq.,
'76, of Boston; Rev. Malcolm Dana of Hallo-
well ; and Principal Harlan M. Bisbee, '98, of
Exeter, N. H. First prize was awarded to
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Arthur Deehan Welch,
to Robert Devore Leigh,
is given elsewhere.
'12; second prize
'14. The program
Tuesday, June 20
Class Day
Tuesday was given over completely to the
graduating class. The exercises were held in
Memorial Hall in the morning and in the
afternoon under the Thorndike Oak.
^ The Class President, E. Baldwin Smith,
presided over the exercises ; Robert M. Lawlis
'• acted as marshal ; and the committee in charge
consisted of Stanley W. Pierce, Harrison M.
Berry, George H. Macomber, Stetson H. Hus-
sey, and John J. Devine. At the exercises in
the morning, prayer was offered by the class
-* chaplain, Willard H. Curtis. The oration
-■-was given by Joseph C. White, and the poem
•r by Carl B. Hawes. Music was furnished by
Chandler's Orchestra of Portland.
The oration in shortened form and the
poem are given below :
The Oration
THE VALUE OF A COLLEGE EDUCATION
Another Commencement Week has come and
another class stands ready to graduate from Bow-
doin. A smiling world, an indulgently smiling world,
offers a test for the value of devoting to a college
J. C. Wliite, Orator
education these four of a man's best years. The
value of a college education is a question that is
often before us. The high school boy has to decide
whether he shall spend four years and considerable
money on something that does not seem to be directly
connected with his future life or whether he shall
go directly to work or to some specialized technical
school, where he can earn a living or gain knowl-
edge which he can apply directly to earning a liv-
ing. The same question affects all who are con-
nected with the care or education of youth and
hence is a broadly interesting subject of discussion.
No man could hope to give an answer applicable to
all cases but this seems to be a pecuUarly fitting
time and place to consider'some of the advantages
of a college course.
In order to understand the fundamental charac-
ter of these advantages and the value of devoting
four years to activity which has so little direct con-
nection with life, let us look at some cases wherein
men have failed, and let us see in what way a col-
lege education would have bettered their condition.
Miss Jane Addams, a social worker of Chicago, in
her book on "Democracy and Social Ethics" cites
the case of an alderman in one of the lower wards
of Chicago. He worked upon the ignorance of the
foreigners who were his constituents and gave them
an absolutely incorrect idea of the aims of the
American democracy. In their lack of experience,
they judged the government by the few manifesta-
tions which they saw. This alderman was a min-
iature Tweed, Croker, or Barnes. They, too, owned
their constituents, but since their activities covered
a great city and state, their work of autocratic rul-
ing was more difficult. The voters who supported
them were not all ignorant foreigners, and conse-
quently they had to take advantage of other deficien-
cies which college remedies. One of these deficien-
cies is inability to think in large terms, to deal with
large concepts. Many men who have had experi-
ence are still unable to think of things as wholes.
This inability to think in large terms is well illus-
trated in men's voting. Constantly we hear the com-
plaint that a man always votes a straight party
ticket or that he is a mugwump. But neither of
these lines of conduct is wrong. The man who sup-
ports the candidates of one party or the man who
supports those candidates whom he thinks best, irre-
spective of party, has the sanction of great example ;
he is following in the footsteps of men whom history
has judged great. But how can these two opposite
modes of procedure be both good? If a man votes
a straight party ticket because he believes that he is
serving best his country, he is doing well, or if a
man is an independent voter because he believes that
as such he can best serve his country, he also is
doing well. But the man who supports one party
because he wants that party to win or to attain his
own ends is doing ill and the man who is independ-
ent because it is easier than assuming the responsi-
bility of shaping party policy is also doing ill. The
selfish political boss, the corrupt voter, and the man
who chooses his candidates independently rather
than take the trouble of entering into the work of
party nominations are all making political mis-
takes. Often these mistakes are due to an inability
to deal with large concepts. The State, the Nation,
Society, mean little to men whose minds have not
been trained to think in such terms. We cannot
censure such men, but we can educate them to see
the relationship between their small particular activ-
ities and the great universal ends for which they
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were designed. But some men of great experience,
able to deal with gigantic concepts, are still social
failures and not in harmony with their fellow-men.
The leaders in the Standard Oil Company and the
American Tobacco Company have had such experi-
ence as comes to but few men, and think in terms
immeasurably greater than those of the average cit-
izen. Substances which we buy by the gallon or
ounce, they handle by the reservoir or ton, but the
adverse decisions of the Supreme Court show that
there is something wrong. They do not use their
great experience and minds for the best interests of
society.
Now we have considered three cases wherein
men have failed in their relationships to their fel-
low-men ; wherein their social activities have been
marked with friction. First was the case of the
crassly ignorant foreigners who have so completely
lacked experience that they were hoodwinked and
robbed by petty political tricksters. Next was the
case of the blindly voting man who was unable to
see his political acts and their true relationship to
great ends. Finally we had the case of men, who,
although they had great experience and were able
to see particulars in the light of great ends, were
unable to choose the best ends. All these failures
are due to a single fault, the lack of breadth of
mind. It is to overcome this fault that college
training is designed. A college trains a man to
meet his fellow-man at every point and does away
with the friction incident to poorly rounded char-
acters or misapplied activity.
But how can a college that takes a man for four
years away from the world train him for life in the
world? How can a man at college gain the expe-
rience we have found so necessary ?
The answer to this last question depends upon
the definition of the word "experience." We may
experience a thing indirectly or vicariously as well
as directly. For instance, if a man wishes to be-
come an architect he goes where he may learn from
the experience of others or from carefully planned
experiments, those facts which it is necessary for an
architect to know. So it is with all men. We are
bound to live in a social environment, but to Uve
harmoniously with men we must know them. As in
the case of the architect, this necessary knowledge
might be gained by direct experience and desultory
reading, but how little a man could learn in this way !
College, through its curriculum and its numer-
ous activities, furnishes a man with much of the
experience necessary for success. But we have seen
that a man also needs the ability to fit his small
particular acts into the great purpose of his life.
College trains a man so to do. In the studies pre-
scribed for an A.B. degree, the student is constantly
dealing with large, complex concepts. Above all,
college endeavors to show men the goal of life. It
shows what activities are worth while and what
activities are not. The great trust magnates were
not in harmony with the aims of society. They
took a narrow, selfish, rather than a broad, social
aim. College courses are designed to give the stu-
dent the broadest possible outlook. Possibly these
strongest ethical teachings come not from college
courses, but from college traditions. As has been
well said, "moral ideas must be dramatized before
they reach the mass of men." The biographies of
the saints have been the main guide to the stumbling
feet of thousands to whom the Credo has been but
mysterious words. It is the lives of great men that
remind us rather than the abstract ethical teachings.
A man is inspired to raise himself to a higher level
when he is surrounded for four years with notable
traditions and the memories of men who have made
their lives sublime.
Bowdoin is peculiarly fortunate in her tradi-
tions. Her history, running back for more than
a century, has always been shaped by the high-
est ideals and adorned with the names of great
sons. This hall stands as a Memorial to her great
service in the Civil War, the memories of such men
as Reed, Fuller, Howard, Hawthorne, Longfellow,
live and shall always live in the hearts of her sons
and a company of graduates is now filling the place
in our country's history left vacant by these older
men. Surrounded by such teachers and such exam-
ples, no man could live for four years at Bowdoin
without having his ideals raised and broadened.
And so we have the completed man. The col-
lege man has, by means of his studies and under-
graduate activity, been through many and varied
experiences; he has been accustomed to think in
terms commensurate with the problems of this great
country; and finally he has been given, in the ethi-
cal teachings and traditions of his college, compass
and charts, by means of which he can keep true his
course of life. That a college education will assure
the success of a man is proved untrue by numer-
ous examples and that a college education is abso-
lutely necessary is also untrue, but college does
offer the inestimably great opportunities that we
have considered, which, if seized by the young man,
will become the greatest asset of his life.
The Poem
The new is ever peopled by the old,
By fantasy and vision of the past ;
We who are here to-day are not alone :
The years long gone are hov'ring phantom-winged
About us still. I)im olden memories
And potent legends of an earlier day
Are ours. An hundred fleeting years have sped
Since out from Bowdoin's halls they went who were
Her earliest class. Their fames and fortunes linked
With ours remain, for she whom we have hailed
The fost'ring mother of our youthful years
Watched them departing in the fading glow
Of eventide. Fair spirit of the pines.
The first has gone, the last shall never come !
Each class in turn is hers to guard and keep ;
Each from her loving charge goes forth to hold
Its place against the warfare of the world.
She knows and loves them all. Grave men and sad,
Mere boys who laughed and died, she bade them go.
To welcome them again. Her fond eyes watched
Their every step; their honors all are hers.
The echoed names of Bowdoin's sons have rung
From arch to arch adown the vaulted halls
Of fame. The sea of time shall sound those names.
Swirling against the jutting crags that rise
To-morrow and to-morrow from that shore
Futurity, that looms beyond untried.
The singer and the teller of fair tales
Went from her shrine. She watched and waited till
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BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WALTER A. FULLER, 1912 Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
Associate Editors
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L. E. JONES, 1913 F. K. ALLING, 1914
V. R. LEAVITT, 1913 R. D. LEIGH, 1914
K. A. ROBINSON, 1914
H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
H. B. WALKER, 1913
Business Manager
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ates alumni, and officers of instruction. No anony-
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JUNE 23, 1911
As the college year closes
Retrospection it may be well to look back
over the course we have
traced as a student body and recount our
various achievements. Surely it has been a
fruitful year.
Never have student activities been more
keenly pursued, and never has the moral tone
of the college been better. To those who
complain that the college spirit is dying we
would but point to the subscriptions made
toward the new gymnasium by the student
body. Does the amount subscribed indicate
that Bowdoin undergraduates are showing
lack of spirit and loyalty.
And are there those who feel that scholar-
ship has lowered? We point to the four men
who successfully passed the Rhodes scholar-
ship examinations, a larger number than from
the three other colleges in the state combined;
and to the election of Mr. Kern as the next
representative from Maine. Have our ath-
letics been of an inferior grade? Does the
state championship in football and the state
championship in base ball won by six straight
games, indicate any falling off in those depart-
ments ?
True, the track team was the poorest ever
put upon the field by the college, but with the
graduation of such a host of stars as were
enrolled in 1910, coupled with the lack of mate-
rial left in college and the injuries suffered by
nearly every old "B" man from Captain Mc-
Farland down, there is no cause for criticism
save for the gameness displayed by those who
competed.
In tennis we share the honors with Bates.
Does the splendid growth of the Y. M. C. A.
during the year indicate anything but good?
Does the work of the dramatic and musical
clubs deserve other than the heartiest com-
mendation ? Have those who have been our
guests at our social functions been impressed
by any laxness in that phase of college life?
Surely it has been a year of marked
progress in every direction and to each and
every man, from President Hyde down, who
has had a part in this splendid development
and in these splendid achievements, the
Orient offers its congratulations.
_. _„ .. Another commencement
"Time Rolls its , , . ij
- , „ ,, has come and gone at old
Ceaseless Course t-, , • ixr-ii, v u
Bowdom. With it has
come the visit of many of her faithful alumni,
and with it another class of men has gone out
to take up the duties of that life which lies
beyond the campus. To the former we ex-
tend our heartiest welcome and to the latter,
our sincerest congratulations and good wishes.
To our other guests and friends the Orient
also extends a hearty welcome in behalf of the
college. To-day we have seen another Senior
class pass from the midst of our student life.
May the busy world feel the influence of their
presence as our little college world has felt it.
Always striving for the best interests of their
Alma Mater the present class may surely feel
that their influence upon college policies, col-
lege traditions, and college government will be
missed. May the future hold all good things
in store for them.
Next fall another Senior class will appear
to take up the leadership in college life laid
down by 191 1. To these men the Orient
extends a hand of greeting, for we feel that
the calibre of the men of 1912 is such as to
assure a continuation of the clean, sincere.
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harmonious relations that have existed
throughout the college during the past year.
To Our Departing
Professors
To each and every one of
our faculty members who
depart for new fields at the
close of this year, the Orient extends the
best of good wishes. May your experiences
here have been such as to create a warm spot
in your heart for our old Maine college and
may the sun of prosperity shine upon you as
you journey from us.
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They came again. The heart of one who held
The nation's helm was hers. When war's dim
shroud
Had shadowed all the land, and mothers mourned
Their lost, Fair Bowdoin sorrowed for her slain.
When rank by rank the weary files came back.
She welcomed men who wore Fame's laurel wreath,
C. B. Hawes. Poet
Howard, the hero of an empty sleeve,
And Appomattox' warrior chivalrous —
The soldiers of a nation's need, who knew
The_ mother of us all, and called her theirs —
Their names innumerable are. To us
They seem a shadowed throng, a saintly, dim
Unreal host departed. We have seen
Them here and known them; wondered at their
names;
Yet hard it was for us to realize
That they had fought on bloody fields and raised
The Union from a worse than death. As mist
The visions come and go. The past is like
A mighty cloud that towers against the West
And bears the glory of the setting sun ;
The subtile masses hold a glancing fire;
Supreme each phase — ^more glorious than the last
The light turns gold and purple, dies away.
And rises on a splendor far more great.
A pinnacle of dreams, a fairyland
That comes and goes. The living light shall shine
Forever, nevermore to fade nor dim.
For in the glory of the morrow shall
The past transcended be. The retrospect
Is hidden by the dawn — all hail the morn!
To-day the fostering mother sits above
Her winding paths, her towered walls, and white
Still spires that reach and touch the arching blue.
The brooding genius of the pines, she looks
Upon the vision of the fleeting years.
What hidden thoughts are hers we may not know.
Her penetrating glance has pierced the haze
Of time; her sibyl mind has marked the days
To come. Age ; old and ever young, she reigns
The mistress of a many-honored shrine,
Whereon repose fair gifts and fairer deeds
Wrought from the life-blood of her sons. These
walls,
Inscribed with sacred names that fire the soul,
Are hers. A monument more lasting still
Of song and tale is hers. But greater far
And dearer is that heritage of deeds
Unsung, of honor, faith, and trust, bequeathed
By them who toil against the face of odds.
Whose labors knew no rest, but who uprose
From failure and discouragement, who bore
Their banners ever high, who marched and fought
With honor to the end. Them too she watched,
For they, too, were her sons.
And now she still
Is sitting by the pines to mourn the lost,
To welcome home her children from the world.
She holds the many treasures of the past,
Bequeathed her by her sons of then and now
As does a mother, when her child is gone
Hold mem'ries of an idle day, stray thoughts
And pictures fair, wee garments, broken toys,
The sweet, sad solace of .the passing years.
Now smiling with a gladness near to grief,
She looks upon her youngest sons, who leave
The shelter of her arm. Up then, unbar
The gates ! Fling forth soul-whole into the morn
That bursts with golden streams of light from out
The burning flood-gates of the East! We go!
The exercises in the afternoon under the
Thorndike Oak consisted of the Opening
Address by Lawrence McFarland;the History,
by William H. Clifford ; and the Closing
Address by Arthur H. Cole.
The Opening Address
Mr. McFarland said in part:
To-day's exercises, friends, mark the end of the
college career of the class of igii. To-morrow we
pass out into Hfe to prove our worth. It is a time
when feelings of sadness are mingled with those of
joy.
The going out suggests a picture which hangs in
a certain Massachusetts gallery. It is a homely New
England scene but quite true to life. It is at dawn,
as the golden light behind the hills on the horizon
shows. In the distance lies a long road winding
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down through the misty valley to appear beyond on
the hilUop. On this hilltop stands a young man
with a packet hung over his shoulder. He has
paused at the end of his climb up the hill and turns
to take one more look at the old home which can be
seen in the valley. It is a typical old Maine farm
with a long well-sweep in the yard, a weather-
beaten house from whose chimney a thin column of
Mater, Old Bowdoin, is watching the departure of
another class of sons who, after a four years' climb
up the hill of college life, stand at the top with
sunshine of opportunity breaking upon thera. And
just as the little brother is left behind, so we are
leaving behind our younger brothers, the under-
classmen.
But shall such sad thought displace all joy? By
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smoke is seen rising in the damp morning air. It
is Springtime, too, as is shown by the fresh green
leaves and the roses climbing over the doorway,
and in the doorway there stands a mother, with her
hand shading her eyes as she watches her boy dis-
appear over the hilltoo. And by her side there
stands a little barefoot boy who clings to her skirts
and' rubs the tears from his eyes with his grimy
hand.
Just so to-day our common mother, our Alma
no means. For truly joy is ours — the joy which
comes from an accomplished purpose, and with just
the same spirit of joy with which that old mother
will welcome her boy on his return home, so we the
members of the class of 1911, welcome our guests
to-day, — you who have made possible the privileges
we have enjoyed; you who have guided our steps
while we have been here; and you who by your
interest in us have spurred us on. To all of you
we extend a hearty and joyous welcome.
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> Extract of Class History
Mr. Clifford said in part:
History repeats itself and class histories in par-
ticular must be to some extent repetitions of the pre-
ceding ones, even that of our illustrious class. It
would be an easy task to thrust fame upon every
member of this class but the necessity of an expur-
gated edition was quickly perceived. An effort has
been made here to have our personal anecdotes both
interesting and intelligible to our assembled guests.
Freshman year seems to have been the most
eventful of the four, perhaps because of the large
number in the class then, but more probably because
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a large majority were green and fresh in those days
and prone to do the sort of thing for which fresh-
men are noted. The freshman class, being the
largest in the history of the college, attracted much
attention the first morning we marched into chapel.
After the chapel rush this attention turned to deep
respect.
In about a week we began to appear in large
straw hats of various colors and shapes. The base-
ball series with the sophomores came along soon
and we were defeated, but later managed to tie our
heavy opponents of 1910 in the football game.
The most important events of the rest of this
year were the numerous razoos on which we were
taken by our friends of 1910. The year closed with
a very successful banquet in the Lafayette in Port-
land.
_ Sophomore year we established a precedent by
raising the freshman class without the use of the
paddle.The task could not have been assigned to
more competent hands. The year closed with our
Sophomore banquet in Lewiston.
We came back junior year after a long vacation
to take more active interest in the affairs of the
college. The experience which everyone had under-
gone the first two years began to be of value. The
year was full of incidents which must be left out
because of lack of time. It was a busy year for
everyone.
Senior year opened quietly indeed. This year
furnishes little material for history. Most of the
class have acted with a becoming dignity which
concludes the frivolous story of our college life.
Let us be serious for a moment, for with all the
relief we feel, on getting through there is an under-
tone of seriousness to all our gaiety. We entered col-
lege with about a hundred; we graduate with about
seventy. Let us think on this Class Day of those
former classmates who, for various reasons, are not
here to take part in the exercises. All of them are
thinking of this day and wishing, as we do, that they
were with us.
What has 191 1 done for Bowdoin? We do not
boast, but say simply that we have tried to do our
best. In athletics, altho we have not attained such
remarkable success as 1910, our record is good. In
scholarship and undergraduate activities we have
done our share. We leave our Alma Mater feehng
that she is none the worse for our stay in her halls.
There is better interfraternity feeling than when we
entered, college politics are cleaner, and college
morals higher now than then. Whatever we have
done to bring this about, whatever services of ours
have benefited Bowdoin, have been done gladly. We
claim no credit for them ; to have done less would
have been to shirk our duty. We entrust the under-
graduate life of the college to succeeding classes,
knowing that they, too, will prove themselves
worthy of the responsibility and that old Bowdoin
will continue to prosper. And we hereby pledge that
when the years have passed and we are doing our
part in the world's work, when this season of the
year comes round, our thoughts and our footsteps
will often turn hither. And we vow that in the
fullness of time:
"We'll send our sons to Bowdoin in the fall."
A/c?
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Parting Address
Mr. President, Classmates, and Friends of 1911:
In 627, a company of monks, with Paulinus at
their head, pierced the wilderness in the north of
England and reached the court of Edwin, King of
LTmbria. He was a just and conscientious king and
listened with interest to the teachings of the holy
men in the little company, who, as they spoke, cre-
ated intense excitement among the people, for some .
favored and some reviled them. So the king called
a great council to meet on the seashore where he
would submit the question to all his subjects, "Shall
we or shall we not embrace this new and strange
religion?" On the day appointed the people gath-
ered. The beach was crowded. Suddenly a hush
rang over the throng for an elderman, old, hoary-
bearded, and far-famed for his wisdom, rose and
addressed the people in the strong and refined
language of his race and time, "Life is Uke a spar-
row's flight through a banquet hall ; he enters at one
door and flies across to disappear through a door
on the opposite side. If these monks can tell us
aught of whence he comes or whither he goes, let
us follow them."
These keen words of the old heathen sage might
well express the questionings of the modern man
of the college life as it exists to-day. We come
and go, class close-treading on the heels of class
and the men to whom the college life is unknown,
might well inquire, "You enter and pass out. You
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gather together and disperse, to be lost in the
world. Why come you and what becomes of you
when you have gone? What relation exists between
the life you now lead and that which comes after?"
The college is a peculiar institution but stands
justly for a good deal in American life. Here we
are placed for four years, removed, for the most
part, from the turmoil and excitement of the world.
To the casual observer it might seem we did little
but roam about our spare time, engage in petty
businesses and boyish games, talk, and stare at
books. Even to the more careful observer it might
appear we did little but learn out of many volumes
and grow healthy from many sports. But a deeper
mission stimulates the college and keeps it alive,
and a richer gain than facts and muscle comes to
A. H. Cole. Closing Address
the college man. We go from college wealthier,
more than wiser, for as one cannot stay in the
bracing air of the mountains without acquiring that
feeling of physical well being, so one cannot abide in
the atmosphere of the college without gaining those
ideals which live in him and inspire him with the
emotion of moral health. Free from the contact
of pressing circumstances, we can calmly consider
the outside life and plot the true relation which we
should bear to it when we break our sequestration,
cast our eyes forward to the rough weather ahead
and plan our course.
The university may yield a richer harvest of
knowledge and quite naturally, for that is its
province, but it cannot breathe on a man and fill
him with those clear-cut ideals which the college
freely offers and we notice not as we acquire.
When one enters into the life of an institution Hke
Bowdoin, he comes into close relationship with
men a little older than himself, and, as we might
expect, comes to emulate them, who in their course
had mixed with men a little older than themselves
for a year or so, had learned from and by them,
and finally seen them leave. And so the chain
extends. Gradually as a cycle of stories gathers
around a noble character like King Arthur or
Jeanne D'Arc, a set of ideals comes to cluster about
a college, and each entering class catching the fiery
cross from the hand of the departing, carries it
onward till at length the spirit of the college
becomes imbued with that set of ideals and no one
can come within the borders of its influence without
being uplifted and inspired. Such has been the
glorious career of Bowdoin and as knights in their
vigil before the morrow's conflict, we here have
lingered before the shrine and breathed in its
divine spirit.
Yet one may well ask what merit have these
ideals when we are in the rough and practical life
of the world. In answer, I would say, they are the
standards by which we measure our motives and
actions, the concept to which we may endeavor to
make the "muddy particulars" attain. As the
scientist from time to time must return to the
standard of measures of length and capacity that he
may keep his own measures as nearly exact as pos-
sible, so we must revert at times to those ideals,
plotted when we were outside the complexities and
entanglements of the world, that we may hold our
lives as true to our best purposes as we can.
Class after class reaches its senior year and goes
forth, and Bowdoin remains. But each class before
it parts might well look back and question itself,
"Have we added anything to Bowdoin's high ideals?
If so, what?" We today are looking back on our
course, and what do we find? Every class can
boast of a virility in athletic pursuits and con-
sciousness in scholastic endeavors ; but we need not
chronicle these. 191 1 has lived out a higher ideal.
When she gathered together nearly four years
ago, she was composed of individuals who stood
apart from one another, but now she is one whole.
And why? Because the class has lived out, each
member by himself, that ideal, sincerity : which,
being translated into men's relationships, means
frankness and honesty, true considerateness. If the
undergraduates can find little in our lives here
to emulate, we beg of them to catch this spirit and
hold it clear of taint.
Because of that open-mindedness which each
man has preserved toward his fellow, never, I believe
has a class gone through with better feeling reigning
between its members. At our Junior exercises we
broke away from the system of combines and dirty
politics and established an artificial method of nom-
inations which we hoped would bring with some
measure of surety the ofiices to the most deserving
men. In the Senior elections, there was voiced some
dissatisfaction with the scheme because it lacked pro-
vision for minority representation. Therefore the
method was abandoned by a general compromise but
the elections went through with no combines and no
attempt at unfair methods. In the interfraternity or-
ganizations. Student Council, Athletic Council, Ibis,
Deutscher Verein, and other clubs, absolute sin-
cerity has been maintained as to the nomination
and election of new members. Each man was
brought up and considered on his own merits
regardless of his fraternity affiliations. Such a
spirit of fairness and honesty has facilitated the work
of the year and made it one of the most delightful
possible as far as the internal life of the college
was concerned.
. But today we not only ghould be looking behind
us over the back trail but forward over the sands
we have as yet untrodden. So it behooves us to
gather this ideal firmly into our grasp and see what
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it means shall be our attitude when we go to try
our strength on new paths, what relation does hold
between the college life and the life beyond the door.
Since we have been thinking of the expression of
sincerity in the politics of college, we naturally turn
to its expression in the larger and more strenuous
politics of the outer world. College men through
their contemplations of the evils of the outside
political life from their sequestered corner and the
abilities they have acquired to analyze and pass
judgment on the merits of the political questions,
have a power within them for good in whatever
community they find themselves placed. That
power they should neither neglect nor when
used, turn in the wrong direction. With their
power to see the right they ought not to cover their
eyes with one hand and loosen the other to mis-
chief. President Roosevelt has said : "We never
can afford to forget that the most important factor
in the success of this country is the factor of indi-
vidual citizenship. I do not care if you had the
most perfect laws that could be devised by the wit
of men or the wit of angels they would not amount
tp anything if the average man were not a pretty
decent fellow. * * * Nothing can take the place
qi the individual factor, of the average man's
quality of character, his industry, his energy, his
decency, his determination to be * * a good citizen
|n his relations to the state." Only as each member
of 191 1, and, indeed, each Bowdoin man who has in
his turn felt this spirit within him, keeps himself
above the blind party allegiance and determined to
vote for the right as he is given power to see the
right, above dirty politics and bound to help to put
the best man in the position he is contending for,
above the mean coercion of the less fortunate voters
and striving at all times to bring about the awak-
ening of a powerful public conscience : — only thus
will he be living true to that ideal which Bowdoin
has instilled in his heart. Only by using our powers
for the best in our political relations, will we be
translating into our lives to come that ideal, sincer-
ity, which has stimulated and directed our lives
while we have been undergraduates at Bowdoin.
As we have been reflecting upon the past and
hoping for the future, the present hardly welcome,
has almost faded from our view. Today we, as a
class, formally break the ties which have bound us
so closely to our Alma Mater; to-day we stand as
the gladiators of Rome, ready and girt for the con-
flict to which we go, and to her who has fostered us
and whom we can almost feel will watch us as we
strive, it is most fitting that we give our parting
salutation. We go but we shall not forget; and, as
we go, we raise our faces to Bowdoin. veiled but
not unknown, and hail her, — Ambituri Salutamus."
The class then seated themselves in a circle
on the grass in front of Memorial Hall,
smoked the Pipe of Peace, and sang the Fare-
well Ode, of which the words and music were
written by Chester E. Kellogg.
Farewell Ode
Farewell, O Altna Mater,
Farewell to tower and hall.
Thy memory ever tender
We'll cherish one and all,
With fondest hopes we gathered
In answer to thy call,
Now all too soon we're scattered
To prosper or to fall.
Then let the smoke go curling
In token of our love.
And may the breeze come sighing
In sympathy above —
Wherever duty's calling
However far we rove
Thy memory ever-glowing
Our hearts to tears shall move.
After marching about the campus, cheer-
ing all the college buildings, ending with Bow-
doin cheers in front of the chapel, the class
shook hands all around, and each man said
good-bye to every one of his classmates.
Commencement Hop
The festivities on Tuesday were brought to
a close by the Commencement Hop. At nine
o'clock began an order of twenty-four dances
for which music was furnished by Chandler's
Orchestra of Portland. The patronesses were
Mrs. William DeW. Hyde, Mrs. George C.
Riggs, Mrs. Henry Johnson, Mrs. Charles C.
Hutchins, Mrs. Roscoe J. Ham, and Mrs.
William H. Davis.
Wednesday, June 21
Phi Beta Kappa
The annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa
Fraternity was held on Wednesday, June 21,
at II A.M. The following new members were
initiated: From 1911, John Libby Curtis, Rod-
erick Paul Hine, William Folsom Merrill,
John Leonard Roberts, and Earl Baldwin
Smith. From 1912, Lester Lodge Bragdon,
Ellison Smullen Purington, Harold Perry
Vannah and Richard Frazer White.
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DRAMATIC CLUB ENTERTAINMENT
The Dramatic Club entertainment was given at 3
o'clock and comprised the "Comedy of Malvolio"
from "Twelfth Night" and scenes from the "Pied
Piper of HamHn."
CAST
MALVOLIO, steward to Olivia, C. R. CROWELL
SIR TOBY BELCH, uncle to Olivia,
J. L. HURLEY
SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK, W. S. GREENE
CLOWN, servant to Olivia, A. D. WELCH
OLIVIA, a rich countess, W. F. TWOMBLY
MARIA, Olivia's woman, C, L. OXNARD
Scenes from the "Pied Piper of Hamlin" were
also given. A. D. Welch, '12, impersonated the
Piper, and L. S. Foote, '12, took the part of Veron-
ika. About thirty Brunswick school children
assisted.
The honorary appointments :
Summa Cum Laude
Ernest Gibson Fifield, Chester Elijah Kellogg,
Edward Eugene Kern, Edward Warren Skelton.
Magna Cum Laude
John Libby Curtis, Roderick Paul Hine, William
Folsom Merrill, John Leonard Roberts, Earl Bald-
win Smith.
Cum Laude
Arthur Harrison Cole, Willard Hallowell Cur-
tis, Walter Nelson Emerson, Charles Boardman
Hawes, Harold Kirkham Hine, Lawrence McFar-
land, George Herbert Macomber, Charles Lewis
Oxnard, Stanley Woodward Pierce, Frank Humph-
rey Purington, Abraham Jacob Somes, Richard
Wesley Sullivan, DeForest Weeks, Joseph Curtis
White.
PRESIDENTS RECEPTION
In the evening from eight until eleven o'clock
was held the President's Reception in Hubbard
Hall. The receiving line : President Hyde, Profes-
sor and Mrs. Henry Johnson, Professor and Mrs.
Frank N. Whittier.
The ushers were Jesse H. McKenney, George
L. Skolfield, Jr., Curtis Tuttle, Robert T. Weather-
ill, and Edward H. Snow.
Thursday, June 22
Commencement Day
At 10.30 this morning the Commencement
Exercises were held in the Church on the Hill.
The Commencement speakers appointed and
their subjects:
John Leslie Brummett,*
Scientific Management.
Arthur Harrison Cole,
The Short Story of the 19th Century.
Charles Boardman Hawes,
A Peasant and His Song.
Chester Elijah Kellogg,
Bowdoin and Its Power.
William Folsom Merrill,
The First Era in American History.
Earl Baldwin Smith,
Savonarola.
*Excused.
Awards
The following is a partial list of the
awards of prizes for the year 1910-1911, the
best list obtainable at the time the Orient
went to press :
Goodwin Commencement Prize,
C. B. Hawes, Class of 1911
Class of 1868 Prize, A. H. Cole, Class of 191 1
Pray English Prize, C. B. Hawes, Class of 1911
Alexander Prize Speaking :
A. D. Welch, Class of 1912, first prize
R. D. Leigh, Class of 1914, second prize
Sewall Latin Prize, W. E. Dodge, Class of 1913
Sewall Greek Prize, No award
Goodwin French Prize, A. E. Gray, Class of 1914
Noyes Political Economy Prize,
P, H. Douglas, Class of 1913
Smyth Mathematical Prize,
D. H. McMurtrie, Class of 1913
Class of 1875 Prize in American History,
B. C. Rodick, Class of 1912
Philo Sherman Bennett Prize,
W. H. Callahan, Class of 1911
Hawthorne Prize, C. B. Hawes, Class of 191 1
Brown Memorial Scholarships:
P. W. Meserve, 191 1 ; R. D. Cole, 1912; L. E.
Jones, 1913; R. E. Simpson, 1914.
Almon Goodwin Prize,
E. S. Purington, Class of 1912
Hiland Lockwood Fairbanks Prize for Excellence in
Debating, B. C. Rodick
Graduate Scholarships :
Charles Carroll Everett Scholarship,
Earl Baldwin Smith, 19H
Henry W. Longfellow Scholarship,
Charles Boardman Hawes, 1911
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Commencement Dinner
The annual Commencement Dinner will be
held in Memorial Hall at noon. Although the
list of speakers has not been announced, it is
certain that the speeches will be of a very
interesting character. Some announcement of
the subscription for the new gymnasium is
possible.
THE NEW BUGLE BOARD
At a meeting of the Class of 1913 held
June 7, the Bugle Board for next year's issue
was chosen as follows: Charles E. Bull, Lau-
rence A. Crosby, Albert P. Cushman, John E.
Dunphy, Edward O. Baker, Leon E. Jones,
D. Earl Gardner. Frederick T. Edwards
was elected Art Editor.
At a later meeting, L. A. Crosby was
elected editor-in-chief and A. P. Cushman
business manager.
y NEW MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY
There will be four new members of the
Faculty next year.
W. E. Lunt, Ph.D., Bowdoin, '04, comes
from the University of Wisconsin to take the
position of professor of history and political
science in place of Prof. Charles H. Mcllwain,
who goes to Harvard.
Orren C. Hormell, A.B., a graduate of the
University of Indiana and recently an instruc-
tor in history in Clark University ,takes the
place of Assistant Professor Duncalf in the
department of history. Mr. Duncalf returns
to the University of Texas as professor of
history.
N. E. Loomis, S.B., M.S., Ph.D., Beloit,
'08, is to assume the position of instructor in
chemistry in the college and medical school
and instructor in geology. Mr. Evans of the
department of chemistry is to study at the
University of Wisconsin.
E. G. Fifield, A.B., Bowdoin, 191 1, takes
up the work of Mr. McConaughy as instructor
in English and secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
Mr. McConaughy has been given a year's
leave of absence to study at the University of
Columbia.
Mr. Stone leaves next year to continue his
studies at Harvard. His courses will be
taken by Mr. Alvord.
STUDENT ELECTION
At the spring elections held Tuesday, June
6, in Memorial Hall, the following officers
were elected :
President Athletic Association — John L.
Hurley, '12.
Secretary Athletic Association — Phillip
Shaw Wood, '13.
Vice-'President Athletic Association —
Frank A. Smith, '12.
Junior Member Athletic Council — Theo-
dore E. Emery, '13.
Sophomore Member Athletic Council —
Robert T. Weatherill, '14.
Cheer Leader — Seward J. Marsh, '12.
Asst. Cheer Leader — William J. Nixon,
'13-
Student Council — John L. Hurley, Presi-
dent ; Frank A. Smith, Secretary ; Robert D.
Cole, William A. McCormick, George F. Wil-
son, Edward O. Leigh, Joseph H. Newell,
George E. Kern, Arthur D. Welch, George F.
Cressey.
Track Manager — Cedric R. Crowell, '13.
Baseball Manager — Fred S. Wiggin, '13.
Tennis Manager — George O. Cummings,
'13-
Fencing Manager — Sumner T. Pike, '13.
Asst. Baseball Manager — Francis X. Cal-
lahan, '14.
Asst. Track Manager — Alan R. Cole, '14.
1912 Calendar Manager — Harold C. L.
Ashey, '12. (Elected by the Student Coun-
cil.)
Asst. 1912 Calendar Manager — Douglas
H. McMurtrie, '13.
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Asst. Tennis Manager — Postponed until
fall.
The election was held in record time due
to the fact that voting was done by a printed
ballot system.
ATHLETIC CAPTAINS ELECTED
"T' George Frank Wilson, 1912, has been
elected captain of the baseball team for next
year. "Squanto" has been one of the main-
stays of the team for three years.
William Alexander MacCormick, 1912, has
been elected captain of the tennis team. He
played a steady game in the tournament this
spring.
The election of John Lawrence Hurley,
1912, to the position of football captain and
that of Robert Danforth Cole, 1912, to the
position of track captain, has already been
given notice.
THE IBIS
At the annual initiation of the Ibis, which
was held at New Meadows Inn on June 3, the
following men of the class of 1912 were
admitted to membership: Charles F. Adams,
Eugene F. Bradford, R. D. Cole, George F.
Cressey, John L. Hurley and William A. Mac-
Cormick.
THE NEW BOARD OF PROCTORS
The proctors for next year are John L. Hurley of
Maiden, Mass.; Frank A. Smith of Calais; William
A. MacCormick of South Framingham, Mass. ;
Charles F. Adams of Auburn ; Edward L. Morss of
Medford, Mass. ; and George F. Wilson of Albion.
TREASURER'S REPORT
June 13, 1911.
C. C. HuTCHiNS, in accotint with Bowdoin Athletic
Council :
Dr.
Balance June 26, 1910,
Receipts to date,
Expended,
Cash on hand,
Cr.
$722 06
1,286 96
$2,009 02
$844 71
1,164 31
$2,009 02
Of the cash on hand $518.46 is of the ten per
cent, fund, and $645.85 of the General Treasury.
The funds are deposited :
$629.58 in the Union National Bank, and
$53473 in the Brunswick Savings Institution.
I have examined the books, accounts and vouch-
ers of the Treasurer of the Athletic Council, and
the foregoing is an accurate summary thereof.
Barrett Potter,
For the Auditors.
June 14, 191 1.
REPORT OF WALTER A. FULLER,
MANAGER
OF TENNIS, 1911
Receipts
To Subscriptions,
$208 50
Sale of Balls,
21 7S
Rebate from Boston Trip,
2 50
$232 yS
Expenses
By Trips to Waterville and Bangor
(M.
I.
L. T A.),
$8 14
M. I. L. T. A. Dues,
5 00
Goods purchased.
80 81
Express on goods.
I so
Stamps and Stationery,
62s
Trips to Portland,
3 75
N E. I. L. T. A. Dues and Fees,
15 00
Expenses to Longwood,
89 66
Expenses to Portland May 30,
9 10
Telephone,
50
M. I. L. T. A. Entrance Fees,
4 GO
Sweaters,
9 04
$232 75
I find the report of the Tennis Manager to be
correct, as above, and properly vouched. Uncol-
lected subscriptions, $21.00.
For the Auditors
Barrett Potter,
FINANCIAL REPORT OF BOWDOIN TRACK
ASSOCIATION, 1910^1911
Receipts
1909-1910 Subscriptions, $31 50
1910-1911 Subscriptions, 412 00
B. A. A. Guarantee, 5° 00
Indoor Meet Receipts, 243 73
N. E. I. A. A. Dividend, 29 92
M. I. A. A. 1910 Dividend, 138 89
M. I. A. A. 191 1 Dividend, loi 08
Interscholastic Meet, 144 23
Miscellaneous Receipts, 31 92
Total Receipts, $1,183 27
E.xpenditures
Coaching, $300 00
Interscholastic, 70 97
M. I. A. A. Meet, 67 15
N. E.J. a. a. Meet, 170 36
BOWDOIN ORIENT
85
I. C. A. A. A. A.,
B. A. A. Meet,
M. I. A. A. Dues,
N. E. I. A. A. Dues,
I. C. A. A. A. A. Dues,
Indoor Meet,
Printing,
Wright & Ditson,
Rubbing,
1909-1910 Bills,
Supplies, shoes, etc..
Delegate to N. Y.,
Incidentals, postage,
Sweaters, track and relay men,
express.
Total Expenditures,
Total Receipts,
Total Expenditures,
^ Cash balance,
45
10
III
28
15
00
IS
00
10
00
59 65
59
S5
43 25
27
SO
20
ID
32
59
19 93
20
27
54
75
$1,142
75
$1,183
27
1,142 75
$40
52
PROGRAM OF ALEXANDER PRIZE SPEAKING
$140 so
Unpaid Subscriptions,
Respectfully submitted,
W. A. MacCormick, Manager.
I have examined the books, accounts and vouch-
ers of the Track Manager, and the foregoing is an
accurate summary thereof. Cash balance, $40.52.
Barrett Potter, Auditor.
June 19, 191 1.
V MEDICAL SCHOOL GRADUATION
The graduating exercises of the Medical School
of Maine, Class of 191 1, took place Wednesday, June
21. The class, headed by Chandler's Band of Port-
land and the Faculty of the School, and followed by
the alumni according to classes, formed a procession
at Adams Hall, the Medical School Building, and
marched from there to King Chapel and thence to
the "Church on the Hill" where the exercises were
held. The program:
Music
Prayer
Music
t Address by Franklin C. Payson of Portland
Music
Conferring of Degrees
Music
President Hyde presided and awarded the
degrees.
Those to receive degrees were Albert Kilburn
Baldwin, A.B., Taunton, Mass. ; James Donald
Clement, Belfast ; Frank Stephen Dolley, A.B.,
Claremont, Cal. ; Everett C. Higgins, A.B., Clinton ;
Elmer Herbert Jackson, JeiTerson ; Charles Jewell
Nason, Hampden; Carl Hervey Stevens, Northport;
Cornelius John Taylor, Bangor; Malford Wilcox
Thewlis, Wakefield, R. I. ; Francis Howe Webster,
B.S., Bucksport; Charles Green Wharton, B.S. ;
Tulare, Cal. ; Charles Moore Wilson, Waterford ;
Gustaf Fritz Robert WoUin, Ystad, Sweden.
The Spell of the Yukon (Adapted)
Service
R. D. Leigh
The Monroe Doctrine
Thurston
G. F. Eaton
The Final Scene of "Manfred"
Byron
C. R. Crowell
Music
The Whip-poor-will
J. L. Hurley
The Duty of the American Scholar
Curtis
P. H. Douglas
Shamus O'Brien
J. E. DUNPHY
Le Fanu
Music
From "Henry the Eighth"
Shakespeare
A. D. Welch
Spartacus to the Roman Envoys
Sargent
LoRiNG Pratt
The Explorer
M. W. Greene
Kipling
Music
Announcement of Judge's Decision
Alternates
B. C. Rodick
R. L. Buell
E.
0. Baker
BOWDOIN KEEPS CLEAN SLATE
Bowdoin, 4; Bates, 3 — Ivy Day, June 2
In a game full of sensational plays and surprises
which took eleven innings to decide the winner,
Bowdoin broke the Ivy game hoodoo and defeated
Bates by the close score of 4 to 3.
Bates took an early lead by scoring two runs in
the second on a combination of errors. Bowdoin
followed them, however, with one run in the third
when Weatherill hit safe, stole second and came in
on a single by Squanto. In the fourth Bates scored
another on fielder's error. Until the seventh, things
looked good for the Garnet, but in this lucky inning,
Daniels lined out a three-bagger and with two out
Means hit a safe one over short, scoring Daniels and
was brought home by Weatherill's single. Smith
also hit safe, but Wilson lost the chance for a lead
by striking out. The score was tied up tight from
then until the eleventh when Grant got a hit. Dan-
iels and Tilton both flied out and then Lee Means
who already had tied the score earlier in the session,
with two strikes on him, landed on one for a long
two-bagger to left which brought in Grant and broke
up the game.
Means pitched a good game and allowed only five
scattered hits, only one of which counted in the
scoring. With the bat the big pitcher was easily the
star of the game. Lindquist was wild at times and,
although he gave the left-handed batters some
trouble, was hit rather freely. Mayo in centre field
for Bates played a star game. Owing to a mistake
in transmission of a telegram the umpire failed to
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appear and Bassett of Bates and O'Neil officiated
and did very well. The usual large Ivy crowd was
present.
BOWDOIN
Weatherill, ss 3
Smith, If 5
Wilson, c 5
Clifford, lb 5
Lawlis, 3b 4
Grant, rf 4
Daniels, 2b 5
Tilton, cf S
Means, p 4
Totals 40 4 II *32
*Damon out, hit by batted ball.
. Bates
Mayo, cf S
Regan, 2b 5
Duvey, If 5
Griffin, € 3
Shepard, rf 4
Cody, 3b 4
Damon, ib 4
Keaney, ss 4
Lindquist, p 4
Total 38 3 5*32 12 I
*2 out when winning run was made.
Innings I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Bowdoin 00 10002000 i — 4
Bates o 2 o i 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 — 3
Earned Runs — Bowdoin, 3. Two-base Hit —
Means. Three-base hit — Daniels. Stolen bases —
Weatherill 2, Smith 2, Clifford, Lawlis. Double
play — Regan to Damon. Let on bases — Bowdoin
9, Bates 3. Base on balls — off Lindquist 4. Struck
out — by Means 6, by Lindquist 7. Hit by pitched
ball — Griffin. Umpires — Bassett and O'Neil. Time
— 2 hours.
George F. (Squanto) Wilson was unannnously
elected captain of the baseball team for next year.
Wilson has caught for Bowdoin for three years and
is the logical man for the position. He probably
knows more about inside baseball than any other
college player in Maine. With him directing it,
next year's team should be a fast one.
FINAL STANDING MAINE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
FOR 191 1
Bowdoin
Bates
Maine
Colby
on
Lost Percentage
b
0 1. 000
2
4 -333
2
4 -333
2
4 -333
Hlumni S)epartment
"94. — Alfred V. Bliss, pastor of the
Plymouth Congregational Church of Utica,
N. Y., until May, 1908, has been travelling in
Europe during the last two years for his
health. Mr. Bliss is planning to resume his
work again this fall.
"94. — Charles A. Flagg, secretary of the
Class of 1894, is at work in the Catalogue
Division of the Library of Congress at Wash-
ington, D. C.
'94. — Francis A. Frost has been engaged
in special work with several newspapers since
his return from Paris in 1909. He has also
been a frequent contributor to many maga-
zines.
'94. — H. L. Horsman has spent the past
year at the New York Post Graduate School
and Hospital, doing special work on the eye,
ear, nose, and throat.
'94. — Philip H. Moore is practicing medi-
cine in Philadelphia, Penn. Dr. Moore is also
an instructor in Opthalmology in Jefferson
Medical College, and the Opthalmologist in
charge of the Methodist Hospital of Phiadel-
pha.
'94. — Frederick J. Libby, pastor of the
Congregational Church of agnolia, Mass., has
resigned his pastorate, to take effect in Octo-
ber, when he plans to start on a year's trip
around the world.
'94. — Albert J. Lord, pastor of the First
Congregational Church of Meriden, Conn.,
has spent a great part of the year in Florida
and the Mediterranean region since January,
1910, for his health.
Ex-'94. — James L. Lombard has been pas-
tor of the First Methodist Church at Scranton,
Iowa, since May, 191 1.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The Ninety-first Annual Course of Ledtures will begin
Thursday, Oiflober 13, 1910, and continue to June 21, 19H.
Four courses of lecftures are required of all who matricu-
late as first-course students.
The courses are graded and cover Ledtures, Recitations,
Laboratory Work and Clinical Instru(5lion.
The third and fourth year classes will receive their entire
instruftion at Portland, where excellent clinical facilities will
be afforded at the Maine General Hospital.
For catalogue, apply to
ALFRED MITCHELL, M.D., Dean.
Brunswick Maine, 1910.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLl
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, OCTOBER 6, 1911
NO. 11
OLD YET NEW
The college begins its iiotli collegiate year
with many attractions of great interest to Bow-
^doin men. In regard to registration, 326 —
twelve less than last year — have registered in
the academic department. Of the 78 Fresh-
men who have registered only 10 have signed
in for the course granting a B.S. degree.
Three of these men are entered for the special
course introduced for those who wish to take
one year in the academic department before
entering the Medical Scbool. The reason
why so few men have entered the scientific
course is probably because men in secondary
schools had picked their college course before
the new course offered at Bowdoin was
- adopted.
Of greatest future interest to Bowdoin
undergraduates and alumni alike is the new
gymnasium. During the summer the work
has gone on smoothly and steadily. Many
changes in the plans have been made but these
changes are in no way radical. Several sets
of plans have been submitted to the Gymna-
sium Committee, but the latest set will proba-
bly not be submitted before the end of this
week. When definite plans have met with the
approval of the Committee the next step will be
to put the job up to some contractor. The R.
D. Kimball Co. of Boston which had charge
of the heating and ventilating of the new gym-
nasiums at the Springfield Training School
and at Dartmouth, has presented plans for
this branch of the work in the Bowdoin Gym-
nasium.
Y The feature of the whole building will be
the Thomas W. Hyde Athletic Building, the
plans of which call for an athletic building sur-
passed by none in the colleges of New Eng-
land. This Athletic Building will contain a
regulation ball diamond, a section for track
and field athletics, and a running track which
measures twelve laps to the mile. The base-
ball section will be separated from the track
section so that there will be no danger of con-
flict from the two sports.
BOWDOIN WINS FROM FORT IWcKINLEV
Bowdoin opened her 191 1 season on Whit-
tier Field, last Saturday afternoon, and de-
feated Fort McKinley, 14 to o. The way the
eleven worked on its initial appearance was
gratifying to the supporters of the White.
The game with the soldiers each year is con-
sidered more or less of a minor contest, but
the battle is important in that it affords the
candidates first trying out of the season. Gen-
erally, the line held well, and forced McKin-
ley to punt. The backfield was strong and
made good onslaughts against the fort's de-
fence. The only department in which Bow-
doin was admittedly weak was in the hand-
ling of forward passes. The rest of the work
was good.
Kern made both touchdowns. The first
came in the second period, after the stocky
fullback had zigzagged through a broken
field for 35 yards. LaCasce kicked a graceful
goal. The second touchdown was scored in
the last quarter, when Kern carried the ball
over in two rushes from the 20-yard mark.
Previous to both tallies Bowdoin profited in
scrimmages and exchange of kicks. In the
fourth period also, Dole scored a drop kick
from the 18-yard line.
For the soldiers Lehner and McGillen
booted the ball in good fashion, and Linehan,
Lehner and McGillen showed up nicely.
Captain Taylor at quarterback managed his
team well.
The summary:
Bowdoin. Fort McKinley.
J. S. Brown, Walker, Shackford, I.e.
r.e., Bergman, Lehner, Davitt, Henson.
Wood, l.t r.t., Linehan
Pratt, Pike, l.g r.g., Mullins, Godfrey
Douglas, McMahon, c c. Tapper, Zink
Burns, Simpson, r.g l.g.. Underwood
Hinch, Parkhurst, r.t l.t. Hale, Ohestler
Hurley (Capt.), Wing, E. F. Wilson, r.e.
I.e.. Henson, Asher
Crosby, Dole, q.b q.b., Taylor (Capt.)
Weatherill, W. Holt, l.h.b r.h.b., Matthews, Maher
LaCasce, Abbott, r.h.b l.h.b., Dwyer, Maher
Kern, W. Holt, A. S. Merrill, f.b.
f.b., McGillen, Lehner
Score: Bowdoin, 14; Fort McKinley, o. Touch-
downs, Kern, 2. Goals from field (drop kick). Dole.
Goal from touchdown, LaCasce. Referee — John D.
Clifford. Umpire — Elmer H. King. Field judge —
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Ralph W. Smith. Head linesman— Frank A. Smith.
Time — lo-minute quarters.
The training table for the football men has been
established this year at the Park Hotel.
Elmer King, 'ii, and Medic, is medical attendant
of the football team this year.
Barton, C. A. Brown, Cunliffe, and Leigh from
the Class of 1914, are out for the position of assist-
ant manager of football.
With the Fort McKinley and Dartmouth
games already played the 191 1 football season
is fairly launched. Although a large number
of last year's team graduated or did not return
this Fall, a squad of forty-two new men and
last year's substitutes is out every afternoon
and with a lot of hard work there is a good
chance of Coach Bergin's turning out a win-
ning aggregation.
Of last year's team there are Capt. Hur-
ley, Wood, and Burns to take their old posi-
tions in the line. Pratt, a member of the
1909 team who was ineligible last year, is out
again for ithe line and Douglas and Hinch of
last year's squad are playing regularly with the
first team forwards. Behind the line Kern and
Weatherill are back for their old positions
at fullback and halfback respectively. La-
Casce, who played a star game in the inter-
class contest last fall is making a strong bid
for the other half, and Dole and Crosby, both
new men, are fighting it out for quarter. J.
Brown and Wing, both new men, are playing
the end position and are beginning to show
form. Cross, a Freshman from Shattuck
School, Minnesota, is showing up well behind
the line. Faulkner from Exeter, and Web-
ster from Andover, both ends, were out for
the first time this week and when they get in-
to shape will probably be seen in the line-up.
LaCasce is doing the kicking for the team this
year and is perfonning creditably in this de-
partment. Other men who are showing up
well on the squad are Holt, Abbott, McMa-
hon, Dodge, Walker, and Simpson.
Coach Bergin is driving the men hard now
and giving the squad plenty of scrimmage
work. This scrimmage practice is especially
needed to give the two green candidates for
quarterback valuable practice in generalship.
No prediction can be made yet as to the out-
come of the Maine State games, but Bovvdoin
chances depend on the developing of a new
team to meet the other three teams composed,
for the most part, of veterans.
Schedule
Wednesday, October 4 — Dartmouth, Han-
over.
Saturday, October 14 — Brown, Providence.
Saturday, October 21 — Norwich Univer-
sity, Brunswick.
Saturday, October 28 — Colby, Waterville.
Saturday November 4 — Bates, Lewiston.
Saturday, November 11 — Maine, Bruns-
wick.
Saturday, November 18 — Tufts, Portland.
NEW MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY
The college welcomes four new members
of the Faculty this fall to take the places of
Professor Mcllwain, Mr. Duncalf, Mr.
Evans, and Mr. McConaughy. Professor
Mcllwain goes to Harvard, Assistant Profes-
sor Duncalf goes to the University of Texas,
Mr. Evans is to study at the University of
Wisconsin, and Mr. McConaughy is to take a
sabbatical year at Columbia University.
The position vacated by Professor Mcll-
wain will be filled by William Edward Lunt of
the Class of 1904. Prof. Lunt was born at
Lisbon Falls and prepared for college at Ed-
ward Little High school. He entered Bow-
doin in 1900, graduating four years later.
After leaving Bowdoin he spent four years at
Harvard Graduate School. While there he was
assistant in Government for two years and in
his last year held a traveling fellowship which
took him to England and Italy. As a result
of his work in this school Mr. Lunt received
the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. On leaving
Harvard, Mr. Lunt spent two years at the
University of Wisconsin as instructor in his-
tory. Last January he was awarded the Shel-
don Traveling Fellowship, and in February
went to England where he spent six months.
Mr. Duncalf's place will be filled by Orren
Chalmer Hormell, A.M. Mr. Hormell is a
graduate of the University of Indiana where
he entered after preparing at the high school
of his native town, Wingate, Ind. After
graduating from college in 1904, he did
graduate work there and received the degree
of A.M. in 1905, and also received the same
degree from Harvard in 1909. Mr. Hormell
was assistant in History and Government at
his Alma Mater in 1904-1905 and was teacher
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of History in tlie Crawfordsville (Indiana)
High School for the following three years.
He then did graduate work at Harvard dur-
ing the year of 1908-09 and was the Thayer
scholar in the following year. During this
year he was also assistant in American Colo-
nial History at the college and was assistant
in History at the Harvard Summer School in
1910. During the past year Mr. Hormell has
been an Instructor in History and Government
at Clark College. Mr. Hormell is married and
has one child.
To fill Mr. Evans' position the college has
obtained Nathaniel Everett Loomis, A.M.,
Ph.D. Dr. Loomis graduated from Windsor
High School and Rochester Academy, both
schools in his home State of Wisconsin. He
then graduated from Beloit College in 1908
and was an assistant in Chemistry at Syracuse
University in the following year receiving the
degree of A.M. in 1909. From there he went
to Johns Hopkins University where he has
spent the past two years and he received the
degree of Ph.D. last June. Dr. Loomis has
written an article on "Lead Silicates" which
was published in the American Chemical
Journal in the fall of 1909. The work which
he wrote in the course of obtaining his Ph.D.
will be published this fall and deals with "The
Hydrogen Electrode and the Calomel Elec-
trode." Dr. Loomis will have charge of the
first year medical course in Chemistry, the
general quantitative work and a one semester
course in geology.
In place of Mr. McConaughy, Mr. Ernest
G. Fifield of the Class of 191 1, becomes Assist-
ant in English and General Secretary of the
Y.M.C.A. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa
in his Junior year competed in the Bradbury
Prize Debate for the past two years, and was
a member of the 'varsity debating team which
met Wesleyan last year. Mr. Fifield was also
a member of the Quill Board and Bugle Board.
In addition to the new men who have been
mentioned, three members of the Faculty have
new titles this year. Paul Nixon becomes
Professor of the Classics and History. Mar-
shall Perley Cram has been advanced to the
position of Professor of Chemistry and Min-
eralogy and the Josiah Little Professor of
Natural Science. Henry Bissell Alvord be-
comes assistant professor of Surveying, Me-
chanical Drawing and Astronomy.
ANNIE TALBOT COLE LECTURER ANNOUNCED
The Annie Talbot Cole Lecturer this year
will be Prof. Bliss Perry, Litt.D., editor of the
Atlantic Monthly and Professor of English at
Harvard. Prof. Perry, who received the de-
gree of Litt.D. from Bowdoin, was lecturer
at the Hawthorne Centennial celebration in
1904.
PRESIDENT HYDE SPEAKS ON THE DEATH OF
SENATOR FRYE
President Hyde took for the subject of his
talk in chapel, Sunday, the career of William
Pierce Frye, LL.D., of the Class of 1850, who
died on the eighth of August in the eighty-
first year of his age.
After graduation in 1850, Senator Frye
studied and practiced law ; was a member of
the State Legislature in 1861, 1862, and 1867;
was mayor of the city of Lewiston, in 1866
and 1867; was attorney general of the State of
Maine in 1867, 1868, 1872 and re-elected in
1876 and 1880; was elected a trustee of Bow-
doin College in June, 1880; received the de-
gree of LL.D. from Bates College in July,
1881, and the same degree from Bowdoin Col-
lege in 1889; was a presidential elector in
1864; was a delegate to the Republican State
Committee of Maine in place of Hon. James
G. Blaine, resigned, in November, 1881 ; was
elected a Representative in the Forty-second,
Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-
sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses ; was
elected March 15, 1881, to the United States
Senate to fill the vacancy occasioned by the
resignation of James G. Blaine, and took his
seat March 18, 1881 ; was re-elected in 1883,
in 1889, in 1895, in 1901, and again in 1907;
was elected President pro tempore of the
Senate, February 7, 1896, and re-elected
March 7,1901, and December 5, 1907; was a
member of the commission which met in
Paris, September, 1898, to adjust terms of
peace between the United States and Spain.
Senator Frye was repeatedly offered op-
portunities to make money in ways which many
persons would have thought legitimate, by
following suggestions about investments
made by persons intensely interested in legis-
lation, to whom he might be considered under
obligation, if he profited by their advice. All
such opportunities he persistently declined.
A railroad magnate, who had many favors
to ask of Congress, remarked that he had
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EDITORIAL BOARD
WILLIAM A. MacCORMICK, 1912, Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
ASSOCIATE Editors
L. E. JONES. 1913 F. K. ALLING. 1914
V. R. LEAVITT. 1913 R. D. LEIGH, 1914
F. D. WISH, Jr., 1913 K. A. ROBINSON. 1914
H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
H. B. WALKER, 1913
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Vol. XLI. OCTOBER 6, 1911
No. 1 1
With the first publication
Greetings ^^ ^^^ college year the
Orient extends a hearty welcome to the enter-
ing class of Bowdoin. It urges every man to
get into at once the spirit which characterizes
the college made famous by her noted alumni.
The active college man begins to do things at
the start. The time to begin to live is during
the freshman year. It is then that a man either
"makes good" or fails to do so and if he fails
he usually has a chance to take Freshman year
over again. Certain traditions and customs
prevail in every college and like others Bow-
doin has hers. These are respected and lived
up to by all who are true to the name of the
college. So in extending its greetings the
Orient Board welcomes each man to the hap-
piest four years of his life.
To the new members of the faculty as well
as to those of the undergraduate body does the
Orient express its welcome. Naturally the
college will miss those men who have left us to
go elsewhere this year, but it wishes them
good fortune. On the other hand it feels that
the vacancies made by them have been well
filled and that the younger members of the
faculty will "make good" with the student
body.
It was especially gratify-
Spirit That Wins ing to those who have the
football interests at heart
this fall to see the way in which the student
body turned out to the opening game of the
year. Although the game held no champion-
ship importance, it meant much to the cap-
tain, coach, and every man on the team to
know that the student body was behind them
from the start. The cheering and spirit in
general which was made manifest in the
grandstand is worthy of commendation.
With every man — player and spectator alike —
doing his share at the games, Bowdoin men
may look forward to only victorious results.
Quite important with the
The First Payment question of the new gym-
nasium is the matter of the
student subscriptions. One undergraduate
has the honor of being the first to pay the full
amount of his pledge to the fund. This pay-
ment was made on the' opening day of college.
Such a spirit of promptness in the payment
of one's obligations is exemplary. 'If ,the
same spirit is manifested throughout the stu-
dent body, Bowdoin's greatest need will soon
be realized.
Freshman competition for the Orient
Board begins at once. Within two weeks rules
and regulations governing the legislation of
the Board, will be published. In the mean-
time, however, every Freshman who wishes
to try for the Board should hand his name to
either the Editor or the Managing Editor.
Now is the time to get busy, so hand in your
name at once and begin work.
President Hyde Speaks on the Death of Senator Frye
Continued from page 89
found in all his acquaintance with public men
no other to be compared with Senator Frye in
his unswerving honesty. Said this railroad
magnate, "I repeatedly put large opportuni-
ties in the way of Senator Frye for gaining
wealth in a perfectly legitimate manner in
connection with great business enterprises ;
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91
but he always firmly replied: 'I must decline.
I cannot for my own gain be suspected by any
man of subordinating public interests to my
private welfare.'
To you young men who for the next fifty
years are to be trustees, directors, representa-
tives of the interests of others, let me com-
mend the example of this stalwart son of
Bowdoin and of Maine, who for the past fifty
years has stood in high places where tempta-
tion to mix personal and private interests is
subtle and urgent, yet never let the hand that
earned his living owe a cent of obligation to
the hand that cast his vote.
He was indefatigable in the support of
American shipping and fisheries, the protec-
tive tariff, the welfare of the colored race, and
honorable foreign relations.
He was eloquent, able, sincere, cour-
ageous, kindly, charitable ; true to what he
believed; loyal to what he represented. Out
of his many services and virtues, let us select
one for our emulation on this first Sabbath
service since his death, in the chapel of the
College which he loved.
In the complex life of to-day there is just
one test of a man's honesty that really counts,
compared with which all other tests and
temptations are mere child's play. That is the
power to draw a clear, sharp line between
one's personal interests as an individual and
one's social obligations as a business or politi-
cal representative of the interests of others,
Every man in business, professional or pub-
lic life, stands in that double relation and the
test of character is the power to do that
double work with a single eye.
Y. M. C. A. RECEPTION
'^ The annual reception to the Class of 19 15
under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. was held
in Hubbard Hall on the first evening of the
term, Thursday, Sept. 28. There was a larger
crowd than usual present and the Freshmen
were given a hearty welcome to the college.
The program of speaking in the debating
room was as follows:
The Chairman, W. A. MacCormick, '12
The College, Pres. Hyde, Prof. Chapman
The Student Council, J. L. Hurley, '12
Athletics, Coach Bergin
The Undergraduates, F. A. Smith, '12
TheY. M. C. A., E. G. Fifield, '11
After smging Bowdoin Beata, refresh-
ments, consisting of ice cream, fancy crackers,
and punch, were served in the Alumni Room.
The committee in charge were J. L. Hurley,
'12, Chairman; E. O. Leigh, '12, L. G. Means,
'12, G. C. Kern, J. H. Newell, '12.
A copy of the 1911-12 Handbook, revised
and improved by the addition of a folding
map of Brunswick, was given to everyone
present.
ART BUILDING NOTES
Mrs. George Lippitt Andrews has pre-
sented a silver goblet given to James Olcutt
Brown, Bowdoin, '56, on his twenty-first birth-
day by his father, J- B. Brown, Esq.
"Racing Home," a painting done by Philip
Little, of Salem, at MacMahan's Island this
summer, has been loaned by W. C. Allen, '11,
of Boston.
Stanley P. Chase, '05, has loaned a Bow-
doin Bronze Medal, which he won at Harvard.
ATHLETIC COUNCIL ORGANIZES
The Athletic Council held a meeting in Dr. Whit-
tier's office Saturday evening. The Athletic Com-
mittee is to consist of Chas. T. Hawes, Chairman,
Prof. Copeland, treasurer; Barrett Potter, Esq., and
J. L. Hurley, auditors ; Football Committee, Prof.
Copeland, chairman, F. A. Smith; Track Commit-
tee, Col. Wing, Crowell, R. D. Cole; Baseball Com-
mittee, Barrett Potter, F. S. Wiggin.
This year recommendations are to be subject to
the approval of the faculty. It was decided to have
a Sophomore-Freshman Track Meet and Cross
Country Run. A two years' contract with the Uni-
versity of Vermont for Cross Country Run was
agreed upon.
OTHER STATE GAMES
The following is a schedule of the games to be
played by the football teams of the other Maine col-
leges, this fall :
Sept. 23— Bates vs. New Hampshire at Durham,
N. H.; Colby vs. Hebron at Waterville; Maine vs.
Fort McKinley at Orono.
Sept. 30 — Bates vs. Harvard at Cambridge, Mass.
Colby vs. Kent's Hill at Waterville. Maine vs.
Rhode Island State at Orono.
October 7— Bates vs. Fort McKinley at Lewiston ;
Colby vs. Dartmouth at Hanover, N. H.; Maine vs.
New Hampshire at Orono.
Oct. 14— Bates vs. Exeter at Exeter; Colby vs.
Boston College at Waterville; Maine vs. Tufts at
Medford.
Oct. 21 — Bates vs. Colby at Lewiston; Maine vs.
Vermont at Orono.
Oct. 28 — Bowdoin vs. Colby at Waterville; Bates
vs. Maine at Orono.
Nov. 4 — Bowdoin vs. Bates at Lewiston.
Nov. II — Bowdoin vs. Maine at Brunswick; Colby
vs. Holy Cross at Worcester, Mass.
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THE LIST OF NEW UNDERGRADUATES
Men admitted to advanced standing:
Admitted to 1912: Milton V. McAlister, Wool-
wich, Me.; Malcolm MacKay, Pittston, Me.; R. A.
Hoit. " , „ ,,r
1913: Alfred H. Sweet, Jackman, Me.; R. W.
Merrill, Hinsdale, 111. ^ „ ,^ r- 1
1914: Frank R. Loeffler, Lisbon Falls, Me.; Carl
B Stevens M.D., Northport, Me.; C. A. Tapley,
Ellsworth, Me. ; R. H. Colby, Wellesley, Mass. ; Paul
L. White, Indianapolis, Ind.
Class of 1915
Alden Augustus Elihu, Portland; Allen, Charles
Edward, Freeport; Allen, Harry Everett, Bruns-
wick- Austin, Elden Hiram, Dexter; Bacon, George
William, Groton, Vt. ; Bacon, Everett Warren,
Skowhegan; Bisbee, Ernest Franklin, North Bethel;
Card Philip Livingstone, Portland; Chatto, Harry
Murray South Brooksville; Coffin, Robert Peter,
Brunswick; Coxe, Fred Walter, Woodfords; Dem-
mons, Paul Douglas, East Machias; Dow, Leon
French, Livermore Falls; Dunton, Robert Manson,
Bath; Eastman, Roger Kimball, Lowell, Mass.;
Eaton, Albion Keith, Calais; Elwell, Edward Rich-
ardson, East Orange, N. J. ; Emerson, Prescott,Hyde
Park Mass.; Evans, Robert Joseph, Shirley, Mass.;
Faulkner, Harry Peter; Fessenden, Joseph Coombs,
Lisbon Falls; Field, Charles William Wallace, No.
Windham; Fish, Arthur Raymond, Hallowell ;
Floyd Gordon Pierce, Woodfords ; Grierson, George
Douglas, South Portland; Hall, George Albert, Jr.,
Houlton; Hastings, Maynard A., Warren; Hough-
ton, Charles Frederick, Portland; Hyler, Aaron
Winohenbach, Gushing; Jones, Otto Rockfeller Fol-
som, Skowhegan; Keegan, William Owen, Lewis-
ton ; Knowlton, Frank Earle, Farmmgton ; Koughan,
Paul J, Bath; Kuhn, Maynard Henderson, Waldo-
boro; Lewis, Herbert Alton, North Haven: Lewis,
James Abram, North Haven ; Little, George Tappan,
Brunswick; Livingston, William Towle, Bridgton;
Loring, Kimball Atherton, Reading, Mass.; Mac-
Cormick, Austin Harbutt, Boothbay Harbor; Mac-
Donald, Joseph Cony. Bangor; McKenney, Francis
Paul, Brunswick; McKinnon, Max Verne, Calais;
McWilliams, George Arthur, Bangor; Mannix. Dan-
iel Maurice, Portland; Melcher, Stanwood Alexan-
der, Mt. Holly, N. J.; Merrill, Ivan Colson, Law-
rence, Mass.; Morrill, Stewart Pingree, South
Portland; Moulton, Manning, Portland; Perkins,
Clifford Thompson, Ogunquit ; Porritt, Philip Webb,
Hartford, Conn.; Prescott, Harold Milton, Portland;
Putnam, Roger Ashurst, York Village; Ramsay,
Kenneth Elmer, Saco; Richardson, Gordon Dana,
Reading, Mass. ; Ricker, George Worcester, Port-
land; Roberts, Frank Stanwood. Brunswick; Robin-
son, Clarence Eugene, Thomaston ; Rodick, Daniel
Weston, South Portland; Rollins, John Fox, Ban-
gor; Rubin, Joseph; Smith, Philip S}'dney, Leicester,
Mass.; Somers, Harold McNeil, Portland; Soule,
Reuel Blaine, Augusta; Stetson, Alvah Booker,
Brunswick; Stetson, Leslie Nathaniel, Brunswick;
Stone, Ellsworth Allen, Lynn, Mass.; Stowell, El-
wood Harrison, Freeport; Talbot, George Henry,
S. Portland; Thompson, George Cummings, Augusta;
Thurston, Verrill Carlton, Chesterville ; Verrill,
Harold Everett, Portland; Weintz, Jacob Frederick,
Evansville, Ihd. ; West, Samuel, Boston, Mass.;
Willett, Fred P., Orono; Williamson, William
Burrell, Augusta; Woodbury, Vernon Pierce, Leo-
minster, Mass.
ASSISTANTS AND PROCTORS
The following undergraduates have been ap-
pointed as assistants in the various courses :
Chemistry: Neil A. Fogg, '13, of Freeport, Doug-
las H. McMurtrie, '13, of Woodfords, Sumner T.
Pike, '13, of Lubec.
Psychology: Harold C. L. Ashey, '12, of Leices-
ter, Mass.
German : Lester L. Bragdon of Wells.
Biology: Harold V. Bickraore, Medic, '14, of Au-
gusta.
English: Edward O. Baker, '13, of North Adams,
Mass.
Economics : Paul H. Douglas of Newport.
History: Earle L. Russell, '12, of Portland.
Mathematics : Carle O. Warren, '12, of Gorham.
The board of proctors for the year is as follows :
South Appleton, Frank A. Smith; North Ap-
pleton, Charles F. Adams ; South Maine, William A.
MacCorraick : North Maine, John L. Hurley ; South
Winthrop, Edward L. Morss; North Winthrop,
Seward J. Marsh.
College Botes
At a meeting of the Orient Board last Friday,
William A. MacCormick, 1912, of South Framing-
ham, Mass., was elected Editor-in-Chief in place of /
Walter A. Fuller, who has entered Harvard Uni- A-
versity.
Wyman, ex-'i2, has returned to college.
Cooley, ex-' 14, has returned to college.
Wm. Spinney, '12, has returned to college.
LesUe Stetson, ex-'i4, has returned to college.
Coach Morrill will enter the Medical School this
fall.
Thompson, ex-'i4, and Williamson, ex-'i4, have
returned to college.
Walter A. Fuller and F. Warren Davis, both '12,
have entered Harvard.
A class of about 40 Freshmen is expected at the
Medical School this fall.
Hathaway, '12, has returned to Providence, R. I.,
where he has employment.
James A. Creighton, '13, has entered Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology.
The first game of the Freshman-Sophomore base-
ball series will be played to-morrow.
"Jim" McBain is now head janitor of all the o
buildings on the campus except Hubbard Hall.
Physical examinations are being held at Dr. Whit-
tier's office each evening for Freshmen and candi-
dates of the teams.
At a meeting of the Junior Class this week, D.
H. McMurtrie was elected Art Editor of the 1913
Bugle in place of F. T. Edwards, who has entered
the University of Wisconsin.
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O. H. Stanley, '09, was on the campus Tuesday.
B. O. Warren, Maine, '11, visited friends on the
campus, Sunday.
Simpson, '03, spent two days at Bowdoin with his
brother, Simpson, '14.
The normal class in Bible Study commenced the
three courses, Monday night.
The plans for the new ''Gym" may be seen any
time at Dr. Whittier's office.
A Y. M. C. A. cabinet meeting was held Thurs-
day at the Delta Upsilon House.
Among the 191 1 men registering at the Harvard
Law School were Lawlis and Hussey.
Fall practice of the 'varsity baseball team is held
regularly on the Delta every afternoon.
Tennis candidates were called for Tuesday. The
elimination tournament commences Thursday.
About a dozen men turned out for cross country
work Tuesday. They were given a two-mile jog as
a starter.
Many friends of "Squanto" Wilson were glad to
see him in Boston at the last series of the Boston
and Detroit teams.
The candidates for the Freshman-Sophomore
Track squad reported to Coach Morrill on 'Tuesday.
About twenty men were out.
Dr. Burnett visited friends in Berkeley, Cal.,
Portland, Ore., and Chicago, and also went through
Yellowstone Park, this summer.
Smith, '12, Woodcock, '12, McFarland, '11, Kern,
'12, Bradford, '12, Parcher, '12, Lombard, '13, Tib-
betts, '12, are going "Medic" this fall.
Freshman baseball practice commenced Tuesday.
A squad of about eighteen men reported to com-
mence work under Coach Means and Captain Mc-
Kenney.
The following men have been appointed assist-
ants in the Library : From 1912 : Newell, Bragdon,
Keating, Torrey, Timberlake. From 1913 : Cowan,
Comery. From 1914: Fox. From 1915 ; Ramsay,
West.
The Freshmen held their first class meeting in
the Gym. Monday. The meeting was called to order
by^ G. W. Bacon and presided over by G. A. Mac-
Williams. F. P. McKenney of Brunswick was elected
baseball captain and J. A. Lewis of Northhaven,
manager.
The Y. M. C. A. will conduct its membership plan
on a different basis this year. Every man in college
is requested to join the Association and then if he de-
sires, aid it by a voluntary subscription. Heretofore
members have had to pay one dollar in signifying
their intention to join the Association.
The following men left on the Dartmouth trip
Tuesday morning : Coach Bergin, Manager King,
Trainer Nickerson, Kern, '12, Weeks, '12, Hurley,
'12, Douglas, '13, Hinch, '13, Brown, '13, Crosby, '13,
Dodge, '13, McMahon, '13, Abbott, '13, Pike, '13,
Wood, '13, Burns, '13, Pratt, '14, Wing, '14, LaCasce,
'14, Weatherill, '14.
Among the alumni back last week were "Jack"
Minot, '96, Simpson, '03, DeForest Weeks, '10, S. W.
Pierce, S. H. Hussey, J. L. Brummett, Lawrence Da-
vis, R. M. Lawlis, G. H. Macoraber, M. G. L. Bailey,
P. W. Meserve, H. V. Bickmore, L. P. Parkman, and
E. E. Kern, A. J. Somes, L. McFarland, E. S. Pur-
ington, and B. W. Partridge, 191 1.
The Class of 1914 held a meeting in the gym-
nasium Monday night and elected Clifford L. Rus-
sell of Portland captain of the class baseball team,
and John L. Barbour, of Brown City, Mich., man-
ager. The following men were chosen for the
proclamation committee: Earle S. Thompson, John
Heywood, Ralph L. Buell, Elwyn C. Gage, Kenneth
A. Robinson, Edward H. Snow, Robert G. Sever-
ance, and Henry C. Dixon, with Francis X. Calla-
han chairman of the committee.
JFacult^ Motes
Professor Little attended the thirty-third an-
nual conference of the American Library Association
which was held in Pasadena, Cal., May 18 to 24.
The association numbers over two thousand libra-
rians and there was an attendance of 582. The libra-
rian of Bowdoin, who has attended nineteen of these
conventions and for many years has been a member
of the Council of the Association was the only rep-
resentative from Maine. After the close of the
meeting he visited many of the public libraries of
the Pacific Coast and examined particularly those
of Leiand Stanford, Jr., University, and of the Uni-
versity of California. The impressive building of the
latter is one of the first university libraries to be
planned and constructed with reference to a great
enlargement of its capacity in the future without in-
terference with the facade or the leading architect-
ural features of the present structure. Returning by
the^ Canadian Pacific Railway, he took occasion to
revisit the Canadian Rockies about Laggaw where
in 1896 and 1901 he had spent several weeks in
mountain climbing with his associates of the Ameri-
can Alpine Club. The Topographical Survey of the
Dominion had honored members of his first party
by giving their names to several peaks then climbed
for the first time. On June 15 of this year he had
the pleasure of climbing the mountain that bears his
own name in the company of two Swiss guides who
regularly spend their summers in this region.
Though not of great height, 10,300 feet, Mt. Little
is distinctly an Alpine peak, rising from an immense
snow field, and offering the usual difficulties to the
climber of precipitous cliffs, crumbling rock and
snow cornices. Owing to danger from avalanches
due to a fall of snow the previous week, the guides
insisted on approaching the mountain by a cir-
cuitous route that involved crossing the crest of
the continent twice. For this is one of the Ten
Peaks that help form the water shed between Brit-
ish Columbia and Alberta ; melting snow from one
side goes to the Pacific, from the other to Hudson
Bay and the Atlantic. The ascent, therefore, was
rather laborious and occupied fourteen hours from
the temporary camp, during nearly all of which time
the party was roped together.
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Hlumni department
'50. — Mrs. Oliver O. Howard, widow of
Major General Oliver O. Howard, the famous
Civil War veteran, died at Burlington, Vt.,
Aug. I, of a paralytic stroke suffered several
days previous.
'54. — Hon. Franklin A. Wilson died at his
home in Bangor, July 2, from a prolonged ill-
ness and confinement to his bed. Mr. Wilson
■was one of the oldest members of the Penob-
scot bar and had long been prominent in the
railroad and financial circles of Maine and
New England. His valuable advice in the
conduct of the various enterprises in which he
held so many prominent positions will be
missed greatly; among his many friends his
loss will also be widely felt. He is survived
by his wife and four children — Mrs. George
Cutler of Brookline, Mass.; Mr. Charles S.
Wilson, second secretary of the American em-
bassy to Rome ; Mr. Hayward Wilson of Bos-
ton, and Mr. John Wilson of Bangor.
Mr. Wilson was born in Bangor and has
always made that city his home. He was
graduated from Bowdoin in 1854, studied law
with Albert W. Paine and John A. Peters and
for a time was associated with the latter in
practice, afterward fonning a partnership with
Charles F. Woodward, which continued until
the latter's death in 1906. In the course of
his active career he held many positions of
trust and was connected with many institu-
tions and corporations.
He was a director of the old Piscataquis
railroad ; president of the European and North
American Company; President of the Penob-
scot Savings Bank; Director of the First Na-
tional Bank; Member of the Board of Trus-
tees of the Public Library; Director of the
Union Insurance Co. ; Director and at one
time President of the Maine Central Railroad ;
and President of the Penobscot Bar Associa-
tion. Shortly before his death he resigned
from all public and corporate offices.
'56. — Rev. Edwin Pond Parker, D.D., has
resigned after a pastorate of 51 years at Sec-
ond Church, Hartford, Conn. During all this
time, his influence has been great in the entire
city, due to the clear cut quality of his char-
acter in all its parts.
'89. — An address, entitled "The Minister
and the Peace Question," delivered by Rev. C.
F. Hersey before the Pastors' Union, has been
published by the Peace Association of the
Friends in America.
'92. — Dr. Percy Bartlett of the Dartmouth
Medical School, has been elected a Trustee
of the Mary Hitchcock Hospital at Hanover to
succeed Prof. Charles F. Richardson. Dr.
Bartlett for five years was in charge of the
Boston Relief Hospital before becoming a
member of the Dartmouth Medical Faculty.
He graduated from Bowdoin in '92 and from
the Dartmouth Medical School in 1900.
'00. — Rev. Harry A. Beadle of Franklin,
Conn., has accepted a call to Pomfret, Conn.
'00. — Prof. Simon A. Hamlin has accepted
a position as Principal of Bridgton Academy
and has already begun his work there. For
ten years. Prof. Hamlin has been principal of
South Portland High School. Under his
leadership, the number of scholars has in-
creased from 98 to 220 and the standing of
the school has greatly increased.
'03. — Mr. and Mrs. John Newton Williams
of Newton, Mass., announce the engagement
of their daughter, Florence Alice, to Mr. S. C.
W. Simpson of Portland. Mr. Simpson was a
Senate Official in 1903 and 1905, and during
the years of 1907 and 1909 held the desirable
position of Assistant Secretary of the Senate
of the State of Maine. Mr. Simpson is now
Secretary of the publishing firm of Benj. H.
Sanborn & Co. of Boston. Mr. Simpson is a
member of the Zeta Psi and Phi Beta Kappa
Fraternities.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The Ninety-first Annual Course of Leiflures will begin
Thursday, 0(51:ober 13, 1910, and continue to June 21, 191 1.
Four courses of ledtures are required of all who matricu-
late as first-course students.
The courses are graded and cover Ledlures, Recitatiotia,
Laboratory Work and Clinical Instrudlion.
The third and fourth year classes will receive their entire
instruflion at Portland, where excellent clinical facilities will
be afforded at the Maine General Hospital.
For catalogue, apply to
ALFRED MITCHELL, M.D., Dtan.
Brunsvi'ick Maine, 1910.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, OCTOBER 13, 1911
NO. 12
BOWDOIN MEETS BROWN TOMORROW AT
PROVIDENCE
Coach Bergin's men left this morning for
Providence where they will line up to-morrow
against the strong Brown University team.
Brown has been going at a fast clip this season
and has not lost a game as yet. The Bowdoin
team is determined, however, to make a good
showing against the Brunonians in this, the
first contest in a number of years.
The line-up for to-morrow is not yet an-
nounced, but there will undoubtedly be a num-
ber of changes in it. Faulkner, the Freshman,
will probably appear and Simpson may get a
chance at guard. It is doubtful who will
start the game at quarterback. The team is
in better shape than it has been before this
season and may be counted on to give a good
account of itself.
— Barends, Hogsett, Englehorn. Referee— Tufts
Worcester. Umpire — McGrath, Boston College.
Field judge — Bragg, Wesleyan. Head linesman —
Whitney, Dartmouth. Time — lo-minute quarters.
BOWDOIN, 0; DARTMOUTH, 23
Bowdoin played her second game of the
season, Wednesday, Oct. 4, at Hanover, and
lost to Dartmouth, 23 to o. The visitors were
greatly outweighed and were also at a further
disadvantage in working against a better or-
ganized machine. The lighter eleven, how-
ever, played brilliantly until Dartmouth's re-
lentless attack forced the playing continually
into Bowdoin's territory. Only once did the
White get the ball on her opponent's land, and
then she was forced to kick.
Bowdoin's attack was directed mainly at
Dartmouth's flanks, while the Green played a
more varied system, onside kicks and forward
passes being frequently used.
Dartmouth Bowdoin
Daly ( Capt.) , Margeson, l.e r.e., Wing
Elcock, Bennett, l.t r.t.. Wood
Whitmore, l.g r.g., Pratt
Bennett, Beer, c c, Douglas
Dunbar, r.g l.g., Burns
Barends, r.t l.t., Hinch
Estep, Llewellyn, r.e r.e., Hurley (Capt.)
Pishon, q.b q.b., Dole
Hogsett, Morey, l.h.b r.h.b., Weatherill
Dana, Dudley, r.h.b l.h.b., LaCasce
Snow, f .b f.b., Kern
Score — Dartmouth 23 ; Bowdoin, o. Touchdowns
— ^Hogsett 2, Morey, Dana. Goals from touchdown
1914 WINS THE FIRST CLASS QAME
In the first baseball game of the series, the
Sophomores defeated the Freshmen by the
score of 8 to 2. Hall's pitching for 1914,
especially in the fourth and sixth innings,
when he twirled his team out of difficulty, was
a principal feature of the game. Near the
close of the contest. Hall was put out of the
game on account of batting out of turn
through a misunderstanding. La Casce in
right field made a brilliant catch with his
hands crossed. For the Freshmen, Badger
did star work.
The summary :
CLASS OF 1914
AB R BH PC A E
Barbour, lb., p 4 i o 6
Minott, 2b 5 o I i
Snow, c 4 I I 14
Cooley, ss 3 I I i
Russell, l.f. (Capt.) 3210
Tuttle, 3b 2 o o o
Weatherill, 3b I I o I
Coombs, c.f o I o 0
La Casce, c.f., r.f i i o 2
Hall, p 3 o o I
Bodurtha, ib I 0 I I
Pratt, r.f 2 o o O
Bickford, r.f 1000
Barton, c.f o o o o
Totals 30 8 S 27 8 3
CLASS OF 1915
AB R BH PO A E
Kuhn, 3b 4 O I O 2 I
Mannix, ss 3 o 0 2 2 2
Grierson, lb 2 0 0 13 o 0
Keagan, 2b 3 o o o 0 o
Allen, c.f 3 O o 0 O I
Willet, c.f I I I o o 0
McKenney, l.f 3 O 0 I 0 o
MacCormick, l.f i o 0 0 o 0
Somers, r.f 3 o O 2 0 0
Prescott, r.f I o o 0 o o
Badger, c. 4 i i 2 o i
Eaton, p 3 0 i 2 7 o
Totals 31 2 4 22 II 5
Innings :
1914
1915
00010003 X — 8
ooiooooo I — 2
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Two-base hits — Cooley, Ku'hn, Badger. Stolen
bases — Barbour, Snow, Cooley, 2 ; Kuhn, Keagan, 3 ;
Willet, I. Base on balls— By Hall, 3; Eaton, 5.
Struck out — By Hall, 12 ; Barbour ; Eaton, 2. Sacri-
fice hits — Gierson. Hits — Off Hall, 3; off Barbour;
Eaton, 5. Hit by pitched ball — Weatherell, La
Casce. Wild pitches — Eaton. Passed balls — Badger
2. Umpire — Means. Time — 2.10.
CROSS COUNTRY RACE ARRANGED WITH VERMONT
The faculty has voted to approve the form-
ation of contract with the University of Ver-
mont for cross country races this Fall and
next Fall. The races are to be run by teams
of five men from each college. The victory
will be reckoned by a system of points, the
finishing position of each man counting so
many points, respectively. One race will be
run at Brunswick and the other at Burlington,
but the place and exact date of this year's race
has not yet been definitely decided, although
the first contest will probably be held the first
of November.
The cross country squad has now been
working over a week. Owing to the fact that
Bowdoin did not compete in such a race last
year, it is difficult to judge the possibilities of
the team. Among the candidates are: Hall,
'13; Auten, '12; Timberlake, '12; Wish, '13;
Tuttle, '13; Tufts, '13; Tarbox, '14; Melcher,
'15; Bacon, '15, and others.
An interclass track meet will be held on
Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 18 and 19, at Whit-
tier Field. The list of events includes ;
600-Yard Run.
330-Yard Run.
120- Yard Dash.
70-Yard Dash.
55- Yard High Hurdle.
120-Yard Low Hurdle.
Shot-Put.
Hammer Throw.
Discus Throw.
Pole Vault.
Broad Jump.
High Jump.
As the success of the college track team in the
Maine Meet next spring depends largely upon the
interest shown in this interclass meet, it is necessary
for every Senior, Junior, Sophomore and Freshman
to turn out.
Coach Morrill will be at the field every afternoon
to train the men from 3.30 to 5.30. All entries
should be handed as soon as possible to Captain
Cole, Coach Morrill or Manager Crowell.
SECOND TEAM LOSES TO WESTBROOK SEMINARY
The Bowdoin second team lost to West-
brook Seminary, 21 to o, last Saturday after-
noon at Portland. The seminarians outplayed
the collegians in every department of modern
football. The feature of the game was a triple
forward pass worked by Tyler, Purington and
Wheeler of the Seminary. Abbott was the
best ground-gainer for Bowdoin.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
The annual fall tennis tournament was be-
gun this week with thirty-two competitors en-
tered. This tournament will bring before the
attention of the management the new men
who will be likely candidates for the positions
to be filled next spring. During the next two
weeks an attempt will be made to get a match
tournament with the faculty team.
DEATH OF REV. JOHN S. SEWALL, D.D., 'SO
The Rev. John Smith Sewall, D.D., vice-
president of the board of trustees of Bowdoin
College, died at his home in Bangor, Wednes-
day morning. He had been critically ill since
Sept. 24.
Professor Sewall was born in Newcastle,
March 20, 1830. He visited Japan as a mem-
ber of Commodore Perry's expedition, and
afterwards entered Bangor Theological Sem-
inay, from which he was graduated in 1858.
He was graduated from Bowdoin in 1850 and
received the degree of Master of Arts in 1855,
of Doctor of Divinity in 1878. He was chap-
lain of the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment
during the Civil War, and was professor of
rhetoric, oratory and English Literature from
1867 to 1875. He was professor of homiletics
in Bangor Theological Seminary from 1875
to 1903. Since then he had been professor
emeritus and had engaged in literary work. ' J
Dr. Sewall was chaplain of the Maine Com- I
mandery of the Loyal Legion at the time of "
his death and a member of the Hannibal Ham-
lin Post, G. A. R., of Bangor. He was a mem-
ber of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity.
DELTA UPSILON CONVENTION
The 77th Annual Convention of the Frater-
nity of Delta Upsilon is being held this week,
October 12, 13 and 14 under the auspices of
the Rutgers Chapter at New Brunswick, N. J.
The delegates from the Bowdoin Chapter
of Delta Upsilon are Seward J. Marsh, '12, of
Farmington, and James A. Norton, '13, of
Phillips, Me.
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NEW MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL FACULTY
The following is a list of the new members
of the Medical Faculty: Alfred King, A.M.,
M.D., of Portland, Lecturer in Surgery; Wil-
ham Wheeler Bolster, A.B., M.D., of Lewis-
ton, Instructor in Physiology; Ambrose Her-
bert Weeks, M.D., of Portland, Instructor in
Internal Medicine; Thomas Jayne Burrage,
A.M., M.D., of Portland, Instructor in Inter-
nal Medicine ; Edwin Motley Fuller, Jr., A.B.,
M.D., of Bath, Instructor in Pathology and
Bacteriology ; Carl Hervey Stevens, M.D., of
Brunswick, Instructor in Pathology and Bac-
teriology; Elmer Henry King, A.B., of Port-
land, Demonstrator of Histology; Oramel
Elisha Keaney, M.D., of Portland, Clinical
Assistant in Surgery; Lucinda Blake Hatch,
M.D., of Portland, Clinical Assistant in Ob-
stetrics; Harold Josselyn Everett, A.B., M.D.,
of Portland, Clinical Assistant in Obstetrics;
Roland Banks Moore, M.D., of Portland, Clin-
ical Assistant in Obstetrics.
3f acuity IFlotes
Dean Sills left last Friday morning for
Boston. There on Friday night he repre-
sented the college at the meeting of the Bos-
ton Bowdoin Alumni Club, and spoke at the
post-prandial exercises, giving to the alumni
a brief report of the present affairs and con-
dition of the College.
The Bowdoin faculty will be largely repre-
sented and will take an important part in the
annual meeting of the Maine Teachers' Asso-
ciation, which is to be held this year at Au-
gusta on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
Oct. 25, 26, and 27. Dean Sills is chairman
of the Association Department of Classics.
Professor Mitchell is chairman of the Depart-
ment of History, and Professor Files is sec-
retary of the Department of Modern Lan-
guages. Professor Cram will read a paper on
"Co-ordination of Chemistry Courses" before
the Department of Science, Friday afternoon,
and sometime during the session Professor
Nixon will read before the Department of
Classics scenes from the "Menaechini" of
Plautus, together with original metrical trans-
lations.
Professor Ham delivered an address before
the Twentieth Century Club of Bangor on
Tuesday, October 3, on Municipal Govern-
ment in Germany.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
At Sunday Chapel, President Hyde com-
mented upon an essay, entitled "Fundamental
Education," which he had once seen. The
theme dealt altogether with the question of
play, which is best defined as the enlistment
of the entire personality in a coveted end. An
important part of every college man's educa-
tion should be to play some game, — football,
baseball, golf, or tennis. The man who, in this
way, learns to play acquires health, a by-product
of play. It next remains for him to carry the
spirit of play into his work. If a person en-
ters upon his tasks in that spirit, he will per-
form them in an eager, passionate, and enthu-
siastic manner. Only the man who pursues a
study in that spirit can become a scholar. One
should adopt the same attitude of play towards
life as a whole, treating his chances for kind-
ness and service as parts of a great game.
When a man endeavors to follow God's will
in this spirit, he is a Christian.
ANNIVERSARY ODE
Class of 1861
Commencement 1911: Fiftieth Anniversary
"We're half-way through." So sang our odist when
The years gone by, like those to come, were twain,
And chose the happy phrase as fit refrain
To tell of years that ne'er should come again.
Since then we've more than halved the century;
But what of that? There's still no dearth of time.
Nor will be while the patient aeons climb
Toward the top-round of eternity.
Nay, what of that or this? A hundred years.
It will be all the same to you and me,
Whether we pledge the passing century
In aqua pura or the cup that cheers ;
For years will go, and lives will multiply.
With earth below and overhead the sky.
We've reached the goal where all ambitions cease;
And now mid shadows lengthening like our days,
A paean to this year of Jubilee we raise,
And sit us down in idleness and ease.
Life's duties done, henceforth perennial peace
Is ours; and though not all our brows with bays
Are crowned, we fear not on the west to gaze,
Nor apples pluck of the Hesperides.
Since sad allusions hath our scribe forbade.
All sadness to the shades we'll relegate,
And laugh amain, like him of old, whose mad
Guffaw, for all life's ills was anodyne.
Whilst this long looked-for day we consecrate
With oft oblations of a classmate's wine.
— Fabius M. Ray.
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THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
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OCTOBER 13, 1911
Class spirit ran high among the two lower
classes in their annual baseball game on the
Delta. The men of the Freshman class exhib-
ited marked signs of loyalty to their numerals.
If class spirit of this kind is fostered and
checked sufficiently, true coHege spirit is sure
to result. It is weh to remember, 1915, that
one class is only one part of the college and
the spirit of the former should never supplant
the spirit of the latter.
For the last two years the
Time to Act fall track meet between the
two lower classes has been
called off because enough men have not turned
out. Such spirit as this will never pull the
Bowdoin track team from last place in the
Maine Intercollegiate Meet to a front position.
If the defeats in track which Bowdoin suffered
last spring mean anything to the undergradu-
ates it is up to them to wipe out defeats this
year. Now is the time for every man who has
any track ability at all to show real college
spirit. A championship team cannot be devel-
oped in the short time available in the spring.
The time to begin to do so is this fall. It is up
to every single man to help put Bowdoin up in
track athletics where she rightfully belongs.
Those who can't go out on the field and work
can at least urge others to do so. You men
who do not know whether you have any ability
or not should make a point to find out. The
coming Interclass Meet affords a fine oppor-
tunity to lay the foundations for a good team
next spring.
It seems only fair to at-
Thoughtlessness tribute any form of irrev-
erence in chapel exercises
to thoughtlessness on the part of the offender.
By irreverence we do not mean "wooding" the
the men as they come in on the morning of
some athletic contest. This is a feature which
concerns the fellows in their relations with
each other. But disrespect in any form, es-
pecially of low talking and laughing during
the Scripture reading and prayer is brought
directly to the one who is conducting the ser-
vice. It is not a matter of religion but of gen-
tlemanliness. The fellow who doesn't think
may not only show his disrespect towards the
leader but he may deprive "the other fellow"
of the benefits which he gets from the devo-
tional services. Such a spectacle which can
often be seen in the daily chapel services would
only give a chance visitor the impression that
Bowdoin men are more thoughtless than rev-
erent.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES
The first Y. M. C. A. meeting of the year was
held last Thursday evening, Oct. S, and was a Bible
Study Rally. There was a large crowd out to listen
to the inspiring address of David R. Porter, '06, on
"College Men and the Bible."
Mr. Porter began by calling attention to the re-
markable extent of Bible Study in the colleges to-
day, saying that there were more men studying the
Bible in the colleges of North America than there
were men on the athletic teams of^ all the institu-
tions, that more men were enrolled in voluntary Bi-
ble Study than there are members of all the college
fraternities. It would have been heralded as a re-
markable event if two-thirds of the Freshman class
at Princeton had gone out for the football team but
that number had entered Bible Study classes and
nothing was heard of.
He then made a comparison between the under-
graduate spirit at Harvard and Yale which shows
two contrasted types. Yale is a demorcracy. There
seems to be a common level which the spirit of the
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college demands that the students shall keep. No
one is allowed to fall below this level morally, in-
tellectually, or socially, or, on the other hand, is he
allowed to rise above it. The result is that the in-
dividual is lost in the type. Harvard, on the other
hand, is not so democratic. There is the "Gold
Coast" which has but little to do with the rest of
the college. It is every man for himself. Whatever
a man does is looked upon as his own business and
the college pays no attention to it. The result is
that, while weak men succumb, strong individuals
are developed, men who really have an individuality
of their own. The spirit of Bowdoin should be a
combination of these two. There is no danger that
Bowdoin will cease to be undemocratic but there is
a danger that it will neglect the development of the
individual.
In the realm of religion where the fundamental
facts of life are to be discovered there is danger
that we will take the opinions of the crowd around
us and not think things out for ourselves. Bible
Study is an opportunity for us to discover for our-
selves the truth in the matter, to see for ourselvec
what Christianity is, and to decide our own relation
to it.
The Bible Study classes of the Y. M. C. A.
started this week on the same plan as that followed
last year. They meet in small groups of S to lo
men led by a student leader. Twenty-two groups
have been formed. Every fraternity is represented
and all are urged to enroll in one of the courses. The
courses are Social Significance of (he Teachings of
Jesus, open to Seniors and Juniors, Normal Class
leader, Prof. Davis; Life of Christ, Sophomores and
Freshmen, Normal Class leader, Mr. Fifield; Men
of the Old Testament, Normal Class leader, Prof.
Woodruff.
The speaker at the next Y. M. C. A. meeting,
Thursday, Oct. 19, will be Rev. John H. Nolin,
Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Lewiston, Me.
He is a speaker of great ability and a good audi-
ence should turn out to hear him.
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
The revised Commencement Program for June 22
last was as follows :
Music
Prayer
Music
"One Such Citizen"
Eael Baldwin Smith
The First Era of American History
William Folsom Merrill
The 19th Century and the Short Story
Arthur Harrison Cole
Music
A Peasant and His Song
Charles Boardman Hawes
Scientific Management*
John Leslie Brummett
Psychology 5 : An Appreciation
Chester Elijah Kellogg
Music
Conferring of Degrees
Prayer
Benediction
♦Excused.
LIBRARY ACCESSIONS
Of the numerous gifts to the Library during the
last three months, the most prominent are : "Classi-
cal Journal, 1908-9 and 1909-10," from Prof. F. E.
Woodruff, "Bibliotheca Philologica Classica, 1907-
09," from Prof. Woodruff; C. Ferguson's "Uni-
versity Militant" F. Palmer's "Winning of Immor-
taUty," J. H. Snowden's "World as a Spiritual Sys-
tem," and H. Calderwood's Handbook of Moral
Philosophy, all from President Hyde ; "Report of
the Sec. of U. S. Agricultural Department of Appala-
chian Region," from Charles L. Clarke, Class of
1875.
Quarterly Statements for 1909 and 1910 of the
Palestine Exploration Fund, given by Prof. G. T.
Little, Litt.D., Journal of Industrial and Engineering
Chemistry for 1909 and 1910, from Prof. M. P.
Cram; Journal of the American Chemical Society,
1909 and 1910, and chemical abstracts, from Mrs. F.
C. Robinson, Notes on Equitation and Horse Train-
ing, from the United States Government; Frank
Parsons's "Legal Doctrine and Social Progress,"
from the Co-Workers Fraternity of Boston ; Mrs. M.
M. King's "New Astronomy," from Wm. S. Black,
Class of 1888; Sidgwick's "Tragoediae of Aeschy-
lus," from R. W. Pettengill, Ph.D., Class of 1905;
W. Crookes' "Practical Handbook of Dyeing and
CaHco Printing," from Mrs. Robinson; Chemical
News for 1908 and 1909, from Mrs. F. C. Robinson;
W. Jerusalem's "Introductions to Philosohy," trans-
lated by Sanders, from President Hyde ; F. B. Dex-
ter's "Biographical Sketches, 1792-1805," from Yale
University Library ; L. P. Ayres' "Open Air
Schools," from Prof. I. B. Choate, Litt.D., Class of
1862 ; 1910 Yearbook of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, from the late Senator Wm. P. Frye;
W. D. Moriarty's "Function of Suspense," from
University of Michigan Library.
The Library has furthermore received many in-
teresting reports and notes from the U. S. Govern-
ment.
It has also acquired Bullfinch's "Age of Chivalry"
by exchange.
Among its recent purchases the Library has
Cryler Maude's "Life of Tostoy" in two volumes,
The Holy Bible, facsimile of authorftative version
of 161 1, Drawings by E. A. Abbey in three volumes,
R. W. Gilder's "Grover Cleveland," Ward and Wal-
ler's "Cambridge History of English Literature," W.
Thompson's "Dictionary of Banking," E. C. Sem-
ple's "Influences- of Geographical Environment,"
Henri de Tourville's "Growth of Modern Nations,"
F. J. Snell's "Customs of Old England," J. B. Per-
kins' "France in the American Revolution," H. J,
Ford's "Cost of Our National Government," S. L.
Bensnan's "Home Life in Spain," D. S. Meldrum's
"Home Life in Holland," A. W. Pollard's "Records
of the English Bible," E. A. Poe's Complete Poems"
by Whitty, Percy Ashley's "Local and Central Gov-
ernment," S. B. Leacock's "Elements of Political
Science," Gustavus Myers' "History of the Great
American Fortunes," C. J. Mendelssohn's "Word
Play in Plautus", C. A. Elwood's "Sociology and
Modern Social Problems," Joseph Wright's "Gram-
mar of the Gothic Language," H. K. Webster's "The
Girl in the Other Seat," "Early Spanish Voyages to
the St. of Magellan," R. H. Lewis's "Captain Mack-
lin," "Lion and the Unicorn," "Gallagher and Other
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Stories," and the "King's Jackal," W. W. Fowler's
"Religious Experience of the Roman People," F. F.
Miller's "Portrait Life of Lincoln," R. B. Richard-
son's "History of Greek Sculpture," A. Fairbanks'
"Handbook of Greek Religion," Murray's "Oedipus,
King of Thebes, by Sophocles," H. P. Taylor's "The
Mediaeval Mind," Bywater's "Aristotle on the Art
of Poetry," S. A. Eliot's "World Atlas of Christian
Missions."
A LETTER FROM AN ALUMNUS OF FIFTY YEARS
Stockholm, Sweden, June 14, 1911.
Dear President Hyde:
You may recollect perhaps, that I told the Alumni
at last Commencement that the "Class of '60" were
by no means mummies, that the good red blood still
flowed thro' our veins, that we were as young as
ever we were.
Well, I thought I would prove my faith by my
works, in my favorite manly sport, so I took my gun
and went afield.
The result I give you in the "Record of Game"
shot by me in 1910, herewith enclosed.
I beg to add that this is also the record of my
life made 50 years after my graduation at Old Bow-
doin.
A record in a sport where the eye must be true
and the muscles firm and nimble.
Very sincerely yours.
W. W. Thomas.
The "Record of Game" shows a total of 666
water fowl, 471 land birds, and 64 fur, making a
grand total of 1,201.
CALENDAR
Saturday, October 14
2.30 Bowdoin vs. Brown at Providence.
Bates vs. Exeter at Exeter.
Colby vs. Boston College at Waterville.
Maine vs. Tufts at Medford.
2.00 Zelda Sears in "The Nest Egg" at the Empire
Theatre, Lewiston.
Louis Mann in "Elevating a Husband" at the
Jefferson Theatre, Portland.
Sunday, October 15
10.45 Morning service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rabbi Charles Fleischer, Cam-
bridge, Mass.
5.00 Sunday Chapel conducted by Rabbi Charles
Fleischer. Music by quartette.
7.00 Cabinet meeting, Zeta Psi House.
Monday, October 16
3.30 Football Practice on Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Squad leaves gymnasium.
8.00 Maine Music Festival, Portland. Alma Gluck,
soprano.
Tuesday, October 17
3.30 Football Practice on Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross country squad leaves gymnasium.
8.00 Second night of Maine Music Festival: Ex-
cerpts from Grand Opera : Lois Elwell, so-
prano, and Lilla Ormond, contralto.
Wednesday, October 18
3.30 Football Practice on Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross country squad leaves gymnasium.
8.00 Last night of Maine Music Festival.
Mary Garden in scenes from "Thais," "Nato-
ma," and "Faust."
Thursday, October 19
3.30 Football Practice on Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross country squad leaves gymnasium.
7.00 Y. M. C. A. Meeting led by Rev. John H. No-
lin, Lewiston.
THE NEXT COLLEGE PREACHER
This year an exceptionally strong list of College
Preachers has been provided and the first one on the
list is Rabbi Charles Fleischer of Boston, who will
be here next Sunday, Oct. 15. Rabbi Fleischer was
born in Breslau, Germany, in 1871, and came to
America with his parents in 1880. He received the
degree of A.B. from New York City College in 1888,
Litt.B. from the University of Cincinnati in 1893, and
in 1894 he became Rabbi of Temple Adath Israel of
Boston. In addition to being a successful preacher
he is also a well-known lecturer. Some of the sub-
jects of his famous lectures are Democracy and
Women, Aristocracy, Individuality, Facts and Fic-
tions about the Jews, Human Nature, My Discov-
ery of America.
He will speak in the Congregational Church in
the morning at 10.45, conduct chapel service in the
afternoon, and in the evening meet informally any
students who may care to make his acquaintance.
ART BUILDING NOTES
"Sante," a painting done by Alger V. Currier, has
been presented to the College by the widow of the
artist, who gave instruction in drawing soon after
the opening of the Art Building, from 1896 to 1900.
The picture, which has always been a great favorite,
was here at the time of the artist's teaching and
afterwards. It represents an old man of pleasing
and innocent expression who is just tasting a bev-
erage.
A Mexican Card Receiver and Box, the Box be-
ing painted by the daughter of Lafayette, are exhib-
ited in the Boyd Gallery, the present of Mr. and
Mrs. C. A. Robbins.
An embroidered work bag, exhibited in the same
case, has been presented by Mrs. Lucy E. R. Purnell.
The Boyd Gallery has been partially rehung dur-
ing the summer.
The portraits of Wm. Bowdoin and Dr. McSpar-
ren have been loaned to the Metropolitan Museum
for an exhibition of Colonial Paintings.
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College flotes
At the meeting of the class in English 6 next
Tuesday evening, there will be a discussion of the
pledging system at Bowdoin. All students are in-
vited to attend the meeting.
Simpson, '14 has returned to college.
Craig, '13, returned to college, Tuesday.
W. T. Johnson, '06, was on the campus, Tuesday.
H. A. Davis, ex-'i2, viras on the campus, Monday.
The faculty is holding a fall tennis tournament on
the faculty court.
Frank Smith, '12, is coaching the Brunswick High
School football team.
Captain Hurley witnessed the Brown-Massachu-
setts "Aggie" game, Saturday.
A meeting of the Board of Proctors was held at
the Hotel Eagle last Monday night.
■^ The Topsham Fair has claimed the usual big
<L crowd of Bowdoin fellows this year.
■^ In the Detroit- St. Louis game Saturday,
"Sqanto" Wilson got one hit and one run.
Alfred Grey, '14, while watching the Freshman-
Sophomore baseball game last Saturday, was struck
by a foul ball and is suffering from a fractured nose.
"Squanto" Wilson, '12, returned to College Tues-
day, after a season with the Detroit-American team.
In the Brunswick Golf Club tournament being
held this week, President Hyde defeated Dean Sills,
thus gaining a place in the semi-final round.
A number of students attended the reception
given to Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Quint in the Church on
the Hill, last Tuesday evening.
The results of the games played Saturday by the
Maine college elevens were as follows : University
of Maine, 12; New Hampshire, 0. Colby, o; Dart-
mouth, 12. Bates, 18; Ft. McKinley, o.
James G. Lathrop, formerly coach of the Bow-
doin Track Team, has been secured to coach Bates
for the coming season.
Prof. Woodruff, who is an alumnus of the Uni-
versity of Vermont, represented Bowdoin at the re-
cent inauguration of President Benton.
The following men are candidates for Assistant
Football Manager: H. A. Barton, C. A. Brown, W.
H. CunUffe, Jr., and R. D. Leigh.
At a meeting last week, the Student Council ap-
■^ proved the Sophomore proclamations and decided
that the Freshmen should wear a regulation cap of
black with a white button. October 24 was set as
the date for fraternity initiations.
Just before the opening of the fall term the
Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Maine Library
Association was held for the second time in Hub-
bard Hall. About fifty Hbrarians were present who
expressed themselves pleased. No formal papers
were presented but discussions were held on various
literary subjects.
In an article on college debating in the October
issue of The Century Magazine, reference is made to
Bowdoin, and particular emphasis is laid on the fact
that several members of her debating squads have
been men of athletic ability. The statement about
Bowdoin follows :
"It is not generally true that debating is restricted
'to the socially ostracised and physically unfit,' as is
said of some eastern universities. On one Bowdoin
debating-squad, for instance, were the captain of the
track team, the quarterback of the football team,
and the pitcher of the college nine. Another team
of the same college included the best long-distance
runner, the champion tennis-player, and the editor of
the college daily."
The article also says that Bowdoin College has
won over fifty per cent, of her contests with Am-
herst, Wesleyan, Clark, Vermont, Syracuse, and Cor-
nell. The author is Rollo L. Lyman, who is asso-
ciate professor of rhetoric and oratory at the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin.
During the summer vacation Professor and Mrs.
Mitchell traveled through England and Scotland.
Landing at Liverpool they went slowly through the
midland counties visiting Lichfield, Rugby, Coventry,
Kenilworth, Warwick, Stratford, and Oxford. At
London they spent ten days and were here joined
by Professor and Mrs. Davis who had come to Lon-
don by the way of Plymouth, Wells, Glastonbury,
Warwick, Stratford, and Oxford. From London
they went to Edinburgh stopping en route at Cam-
bridge, Lincoln, and York. After a stay at Edin-
burgh during which they visited Abbotsford and
Melrose Abbey, they proceeded throug'h the Tros-
sachs to Glasgow, thence to Ayr, Dumfries, Craig-
enputtock, Ecclefechan, and other places made fa-
mous by Robert Burns and Thomas C^rlyle. From
the_ Burns country they went down to the Lake Re-
gion, visiting Keswick, for forty years the home of
Southey, Grasmere, where Wordsworth spent a
large part of his life, Ambleside, and Coniston Lake,
near which is Brantwood, for twenty-five years the
home of John Ruskin. Sailing from Liverpool on
the Canadian, Saturday, September 16, they reached
home on the 26th. They report a trip full of in-
teresting sights and enjoyable experiences.
RESOLUTIONS
Hall of Delta Upsilon.
Whereas, It has pleased a divine Providence to
take from this life our brother, Leo Edgar Haiford,
formerly of the Class of 1909, be it
Resolved, That we express the deep sense of loss
felt by the fraternity at the death of a brother who
during his life at Bowdoin was true to the best ideals
of our fraternity both as a friend and as a fellow-
worker, and who carried the same spirit with him in
his later life.
Resolved, That we extend our sincere sympathy
to those who through relationship were bound even
closer to him, and who cannot but feel a yet deeper
loss.
Clifton O. Page,
Robert E. Boduetha,
Kenneth A. Robinson,
For the Chapter.
Brunswick, October ninth, 1911.
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Hlumni 2)epartment
'69. — The School of Mines of the Univer-
sity of Pittsburg, located in that city, is now-
enjoying a most prosperous year under the
guidance of Dr. M. E. Wadsworth, dean of the
school since 1907. During the past three
years, through the untiring efforts of Dean
Wadsworth, this school has been coming for-
ward with leaps and bounds, until to-day it is
regarded as one of the leading institutions for
instruction in mining in the United States.
Dean Wadsworth has introduced an elective
system and in connection with this plan holds
personal conferences with each man whereby
he can develop the students along the lines of
their greatest capabilities.
Previous to his election to the University
of Pittsburg, Dr. Wadsworth was Instructor
in Mathematics, Mineralogy, and Geology at
Harvard University from 1873 to 1885, was
President of Michigan College of Mines from
1887 to 1899, and became Dean of the Penn-
sylvania State College of Mines in 1901. He
is the author of about 200 books and pamphlets
on .subjects related to Geology, Mining Geol-
ogy and Education. Notable among these are
his works, entitled, "Crystallography," "Lith-
ological Studies," "The Azoic System," and
"Geology of the Iron and Copper Districts of
Lake Superior."
'96. — Harry Oakes is now engaged in min-
ing in New Zealand, he having gone to that
country immediately after being graduated
from college. He has 'been spending his vaca-
tion at his home in Foxcroft during the past
summer.
'97. — F. H. Dole, formerly principal of
North Yarmouth Academy, is now teaching in
■ the Boston Latin School this year.
During the past summer the following
marriages have occurred among the alumni
and undergraduates of the college:
'94.— Charles E. Merritt of Manchester, N.
H., and Miss Amy Palmer Bacon of Allston,
Mass., Radcliffe, '04, on June 20 at Allston,
Mass.
'00. — Mr. Clifford A. Bragdon of Spring-
field, Mass., and Miss Florence Wilkins of
West Hartford, Conn., on July i at West
Hartford, Conn.
'00. — Mr. Henry Woodbury Cobb of Bath,
Me., and Miss Mabel Harlan Benner of Med-
ford, Mass., on Aug. 17 at Dorchester, Mass.
'03. — Dr. Malcolm S. Woodbury and Miss
Stella Baker of Kansas City, Mo., on Aug. 16
at Kansas City, Mo.
'05. — Mr. Frank E. Seavey of Boston,
Mass., and Miss Georgia M. Duncan of Bath,
Me., on Aug. i at Sabino, Me.
'07. — Mr. Edward A. Duffy and Miss Alice
F. McCarthy of Portland Me., on Aug. 30 at
Portland, Me.
'03. — Mr. Samuel Braley Gray and Miss
Bessie Pendleton Benson of Bangor Me., on
Sept. 14 art; Bangor, Me.
'09. — Mr. William M. Harris and Miss
Theresa McKinley of Brunswick Me., on Aug.
30 at Portland, Me.
'10. — Mr. Ralph Edwin Gilmore Bailey oi
Granby, Mass., and Miss Mary Eleanor
Kateon of Bath, Me., on Aug. 4 at Granby,
Mass.
'10. — Mr. Ralph S. Crowell of Bangor,
Me., and Miss Helen L. Miller of Bangor,
Me., on June 17 at Bangor, Maine.
'11. — Rev. Paris Miller and Miss Stella
Soule of Freeport, Me., on Sept. 20 at Free-
port, Me.
'12. — Mr. Raymond W. Hathaway of
Providence, R. I., and Miss Grace M. Swett
of Providence, R. I., on Aug. 16 at Provi-
dence, R. I.
'12. — Mr. George C. Brooks of Reading,
Mass., and Miss Rachel Smith at Reading,
Mass., on Aug. 16.
'12. — Mr. Earle F. Maloney of Thomaston,
Me., and Miss Stella Cram of Liberty, Me., on
June 27 at Liberty, Me.
Ex-'i3. — Mr. Charles R. Farnham of Bath,
Me., and Miss Ruth Haskell of Bath, Me., on
Sept. 4 at Bath, Me.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
The Ninety-first Annual Course of Ledlures will begin
Thursday, Oif1;ober 13, 1910, and continue to June 21, igil.
P'our courses of ledtures are required of all who matricu-
late as first-course students.
The courses are graded and cover Ledtures, Recitationa,
Laboratory Work and Clinical Instruftion.
The third and fourth year classes will receive their entire
instru(5tion at Portland, where e.xcellent clinical facilities will
be afforded at the Maine General Hospital.
For catalogue, apply to
ALFRED MITCHELL, M.D., Dean.
Brunsvi^ick Maine, igio.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, OCTOBER 20, 1911
NO. 13
NO GAME WITH NORWICH
Owing to the fact that the management of
the Norwich University football team because
of lack of finances, has cancelled the game
which was to be played to-morrow afternoon on
Whittier Field, Bowdoin is left with an open
date for this week. Manager King, as soon as
he received word from Norwich last Monday
that they would be unable to fulfill their con-
tract, spent his time for two or three days try-
ing to arrange a game with some other team,
but without avail, as all possible institutions
have scheduled games for the date. The next
contest will be Bowdoin's first game in the
Maine series, Colby at Waterville one week
from to-morrow, Oct. 28. The team has been
practising hard all this week and hopes to pre-
sent the strongest line-up of the season thus
far against the up-State rival. It is hoped that
Douglas and Weatherill will 'be in shape to
play this game, although it is doubtful whether
this will be the case. A large delegation
should make the trip to Waterville to see the
game and give the team the support they need
and deserve. Announcement of the excur-
sion will be given later.
BOWDOIN, 0; BROWN, 3i
Bowdoin fell before Brown, 33 to O, on
Andrews Field, Providence, Saturday, Oct. 14.
Although the Brunonians were not in proper
form and showed only intermittent flashes of
their real ability, they succeeded in scoring five
touchdowns and a field goal, largely through
the long runs by Sprackling and Crowther.
The Bowdoin men made first down sev-
eral times through the Brown line, but were
unable to bunch their gains and at no time
were dangerous. Practically all of the play
was in Bowdoin's territory, except, as hap-
pened several times. Brown lost the ball
through fumbles. Bowdoin's nearest ap-
proach to the Brown goal was in the second
period, when the White recovered the ball
after Crowther had fumbled on Brown's 40-
yard line. Weatherill tried for a field goal,
and although his direction was perfect, there
was not enough steam in the boot, and the ball
fell short of the posts.
Kern was a veritable whirlwind on the
field, and both his ofifensive and defensive
work kept the eyes of the spectators riveted
upon him. Several times he was through the
line and making a tackle that was clean and
hard, while with the ball he was the hardest
kind of a runner to stop. Weatherill and
Faulkner also played a strong game, and Hur-
ley on the right wing showed up well.
Sprackling, Crowther and Bean were the
particular stars for Brown. Crowther and
Sprackling each made two touchdowns, the
latter reeling off several runs, one of 75 yards
through a broken field for a score. Crowther
made consistent gains on plunges through
Bowdoin's line and returned one kick 65
yards before Kern nailed him on Bowdoin's
lO-yard line. Bean got away for one run of
55 yards and a score, besides making numer-
ous smaller gains.
The summary :
Brown Bowdoin
Adams, Shipley, Brereton, l.e r.e., Hurley
Kratz, l.it. . .' r.t., Hinch
Goldberg, l.g r.g., Burns
Mitchell, Bohl, c c.,c., Douglas, McMahon
Gottstein, r.g l.g., Pratt
Murphy, Hazard, r.t l.t, Wood, Simpson
Ashbaugh, Stafif, r.e I.e., LaCasce
Sprackling, Crowther, q.b q.b., Dole
Marble, Crowther, Wentworth, l.h.b.
r.h.b., Weatherill
Tenney, Bean, Rosenberg, r.h.b.
l.h.b., Faulkner, Wing
Jones, Snell, Repko, f.b f.b., Kern
Score — Brown, 33 ; Bowdoin, o. Touchdowns —
Sprackling 2, Bean, Crowther 2. Goal from field —
Sprackling. Goals from touchdown — Ashbaugh 4,
Kratz. Referee — Marshall of Harvard. Umpire —
Murphy of Harvard. Field judge — Morse of Dart-
mouth. Head linesman — Beytes of Brown. Time —
two ii-minute and two i2Hminute periods.
SECOND TEAM LOSES TO HEBRON
The Bowdoin second team did not fare
much better than the 'varsity last Saturday,
for they lost to Hebron Academy, 19 to o, in
a game in which they were outplayed. From
start to finish the Hebronians kept the ball in
their opponent's territory, and time after time
the prep school players worked the forward
pass and other plays for good gains. Bow-
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doin was unable to cope with the Hebron for-
mations, and twice did the whistle prevent
Hebron's scoring another touchdown. Penal-
ties were frequent.
The summary:
Hebron Bowdoin Second
Brown, l.e r-e-. Cross
Allen, l.t r.t., Marr
Bennett, l.g r.g., Austin
Richmond, c c.. Badger
Getchell, Purington, r.g l-g, Rodick
Parsons, r.t l-t-, Parker
Hutton, r.e I.e., Wilson, Shackford
Donegan, q.b Q-b-, Bull
Nadeau, Campbell, l.h.b r.h.b., Cooley (Capt.)
Fuller (Capt), Bartlett, r.h.b l.h.b., A. Merrill
Carll, Fuller, lb f-b., Walker
Score — Hebron, 19; Bowdoin Second, 0. Touch-
downs—Fuller, Brown, Donegan. Goal from field-
Fuller. Goal from touchdown— Fuller. Referee-
Lieut. Frank of Fort McKinley. Umpire— Joy.
Field judge— Fitzgerald. Head linesman— Barrows.
Time — ten-minute quarters.
1914 WINS SECOND GAME
Altho the Freshmen made a good showing,
Thursday, they were defeated by the Sopho-
mores in the second and decisive game of the
baseball series by the score, 6-3. The work of
both teams showed a marked improvement
over that of last Saturday.
Barbour's pitching for 1914 was first-class.
"Lew" Brown put up a good game at short-
stop, and Snow and Minott showed up well.
For the Freshmen, Allen made himself con-
spicuous by hitting a home-run. On third
base, Kuhn did excellent work.
CLASS OF 1914
AB R BH PO A E
Minott, 2b I I I I I o
Barbour, p 3 0 o i 3 i
L. T. Brown, ss 3 i i i 5 o
Russell, l.f 3 o I I o o
Snow, c 5 2 2 10 o o
N. Tuttle, 3b 4 2 I 2 I o
Bodurtha, ib 5 0 i 9 0 o
Bickford, r.f 201000
Shepherd, r.f 2 o i 0 o o
Sylvester, c.f 200100
Coombs, c.f 300100
Totals 33 6 9 27 10 I
CLASS OF 191S
AB R BH PO A E
Kuhn, 3b 5 o I 4 5 i
Grierson, ib 3 o 2 9 o o
Willett, r.f 2 o o o o o
Somers, r.f i o o o o o
MacCormick, r.f o o 0 o 0 0
Prescott, r.f o 0 o 0 o o
Keagan, 2b 3 o 0 i i i
Eaton, p 3 0 o O 0 o
Stetson, p I o 0 o o o
Allen, c.f 4 I 2 o I I
McKenney, l.f 3 I I I o 0
Mannix, ss 4 o o I 3 o
Badger, c 4 i i ii 2 3
Totals 33 3 7 27 12 6
Innings :
Sophomores o o i o o 2 2 I 0 — 6
Freshmen o o o 0 o o 2 I 0 — ^3
Two-base hit — Shepherd. Home run — Allen.
Stolen bases — Minott, 2. Barbour, L. T. Brown 2,
Snow, McKenney, Bodurtha, Bickford, Shepherd,
Kuhn, Grierson, Willet 2. Sacrifice hits — Grierson,
Russell. First base on balls — Off Barbour, 3; off
Eaton. 4; off Stetson, 5. Struck out — By Barbour,
9 ; by Eaton, 7 ; by Stetson, 2. Wild pitch— By Stet-
son. Time — 1.49. Umpire — G. F. Wilson, '12.
MEDICAL SCHOOL OPENS
The Medical School of Maine opened
Thursday for registration. The year marks
the beginning of the ninety-second course of
lectures given by this school. There are nu-
merous changes in the officers and faculty this
year, and a large number of new instructors
has been secured.
Perhaps the most essential change in the
curriculum consists in providing for instruc-
tion of third-year students in three specialties
which were formerly given only to students of
the fourth year. These specialties are the dis-
eases of the eye and ear, of the nose and
throat, and genito-urinary diseases. After the
current year this plan will give the fourth-year
student more time for purely clinical work.
Another change will be a provision for
prolonged and systematic clinical training of
third-year men in the making of physical ex-
aminations. Increase of practical clinical
work is the keynote in the changes in the
courses of both the third and fourth years.
The number of hours of instruction has also
been materially increased.
It is expected that 35 or more men will -J
have registered by Monday, making the largest
entering class in years.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
During the past week the annual fall tour-
nament has progressed to the final round.
This match will be played by Merrill, '13, and
Gardner, '13. Many close and interesting
BOWDOIN ORIENT
105
matches have been played and the new men
have shown up well. The most closely con-
tested matches were played by Merrill, '13,
and Savage, '13, in the second round when the
former won, 0-6, 6-3, 15-13 ;by Nixon, '13, and
Card, '15, in the same round when Nixon won,
7-5, 12-10; and by Gardner, '13, and Eaton,
'15, in the semi-finals when Gardner forced
his way to the final round by winning, 10-8,
3-6, 7-S-
A partial summary of the matches follows :
Second Round
Auten, '12, defeated W. S. Greene, 13: 6-2, 3-6,
6-1; Merrill, '13, defeated Torrey, '12: 9-7, 6-4;
Gardner, '13, defeated Nixon, '13: 7-5, 7-5; Eaton,
'is, defeated Means, '12: 6-4, 6-8, 6-4.
Semi-Finals
Merrill, '13, defeated Auten, '12: 6-4, 6-3.
Gardner, '13, defeated Eaton, '15: 10-8, 3-6, 7-5.
NOTICE FROM THE DEAN
Commencing with the next semester, no
student will be allowed to take six courses, un-
less at least one-half of his grades for the pre-
ceding semester, are B or better.
(Signed), Kenneth C. M. Sills, Dean.
A LETTER FROM THE QUILL BOARD
To the Alumni and Undergraduates of Bow-
doin College:
Gentlemen : The Bowdoin Quill is be-
ginning its sixteenth volume this year facing a
financial crisis. The Quill has for years been
a distinct literary success. Financially it has
hitherto been a failure, because of the indiffer-
ence of the alumni and the student body. This
indifference, coupled with influences beyond
our power to control, has driven the paper in-
to debt to the extent of $250. It is the senti-
ment of the Quill Board that if this debt can-
not be wiped out or at least materially reduced
this year the publication of the Quill must
cease. Literary excellence can never justify
unpaid bills.
In this letter we mean simply to state facts
that loyal Bowdoin men should know. We are
grateful to those who have helped to support
the Quill in the past, but we must have a
longer and more loyal subscription list. If
you wish Bowdoin College to edit a literary
monthly in a creditable, business-like way, will
you kindly see that your name is on our sub-
scription list and that your subscription is
promptly paid?
We will spare no effort to make the Qitill
an honor to the College we all love.
Respectfully yours,
Laurence A. Crosby, Manager,
For the Board.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
The first college preacher this year, Rabbi
Charles Fleischer, of Cambridge, Mass., spoke
in the Church on the Hill and in chapel last
Sunday. In the morning his text was "Love
Thy Neighbor as Thyself" and his subject was
"Practical Religion." At afternoon chapel he
spoke on the same subject. He emphasized
the importance of self-respect and said that
life is a fine art. "The masterful personality
is best. Too many of us are dead to the
world. It is never too late to learn and to be-
come a doer of deeds, a poet of life."
Rabbi Fleischer was entertained at the Zeta
Psi House Sunday evening where he met
many of the college men for an informal talk.
Y. M. C. A. SPEAKER
The speaker at the Y. M. C. A. meeting on
Thursday, October 26, will be Hon. Augustus
F. Moulton, '73, of Portland, Judge of
the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge
Moulton has practised law in Portland since
1876. Before being called to the Bench he
was prominent in politics, having been several
times a member of the House of Representa-
tives, Mayor of Deering, President of the
Board of Aldermen in Portland, and success-
ful campaign speaker. He is a member of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa fra-
ternities.
The subject is the first in the series of
"Practical Applications of Christianity" and
one on which Judge Moulton is especially
qualified to speak, "Christian Principles Ap-
plied to Law."
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BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WILLIAM A. MacCORMICK, 1912, Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
ASSOCIATE Editors
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H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
H. B. WALKER, 1913
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copies, 10 cents
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Vol. XLI.
OCTOBER 20, 1911
At a meeting of the Board Tuesday after-
noon, Dana K. Merrill and Richard E. Simp-
son of Portland, were elected members
from the Class of 1914.
Now that the second foot-
The Second Team ball eleven has completed
its short schedule we feel
obliged to ask the question : "Does such a
schedule of games help the college?" From
the standpoint of men in secondary schools
this question is answered by a clipping taken
froin the Portland Evening Express shortly
after the Westbrook Seminary game. It reads
as follows:
"'Capt. Wheeler of the Seminary team is
quite right in his stand regarding a game with
a college second team. Such a team has no
standing in athletic circles, as it does not even
represent its college and goes into a game
more for the fun than anything else. There
is little satisfaction in defeating a team made
up of second-rate men, and there is nothing on
the other hand, to spur a preparatory school
team to great effort if it is being outplayed.
The best that can 'be said of such a game is
that it gives the school some practice, at the
risk of being crippled by injuries due to oppos-
ing a heavier eleven."
It is quite true that Bowdoin's second
teams have not in the past few years repre-
sented the college as they ought. In this asser-
tion we do not mean to say that the college
has suffered a great deal on account of a string
of defeats to its second elevens. It is well
argued by the authorities that the games are
played to reward the fellows for the way in
which they have worked during the fall to help
the first team. Such an argument is perfectly
just and reasonable, but it is weakened by the
very fact that men who are on the so-called
second eleven had rather cancel a game than
play on a team which does not properly repre-
sent the college. Evidently these men are the
only ones concerned with the results of the
games. If, then, they are the first to realize
that the games ought not to be played we are
forced to believe that the practice of holding
second team games under the existing condi-
tions, is wrong.
Every college man realizes what a strong
advertisement an athletic team is to the col-
lege. When a college sends a team to a sec-
ondary school it must expect to have the team
— made up of college men — watched and even
criticised. If the team is not up to the stand-
ard then we infer that the college has been
poorly represented. What effect does this
have? From the above clipping we should
think that the effect is far from bene-
ficial. If secondary schools regard college
competition as "second-rate" it is the business
of the college to raise the standard of its rep-
resentatives even in athletic departments.
o, .. „, tr In regard to the situation
Shf WeKeep ^^ ^ Bowdoin QuHl
tbe yuiiij- ^j^j^j^ jg g^^^gj jj^ ^j^g jg^^gj.
printed in this issue, we can only emphasize
all that it connotes. The question is one
which must and ought to be settled by the un-
dergraduates and alumni as a whole. When
we consider that only a few over one hundred
undergraduates were subscribers to the Quill
last year, we readily see that this body has not
done its duty. Certain individuals have been
generous in contributions to this literary publi-
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cation which compares well with that of any
other college. One undergraduate made it
possible last year to publish the Commence-
ment number of the Quill through his own
generosity. We all appreciate and admire the
individual who has such loyalty. The time
has come this fall when we must defend more
loyally and truly the literary name which
Longfellow and Hawthorne have given to our
college. If we as undergraduates let the
Quill be discontinued on account of failure to
subscribe to it we give up our only means of
preserving such a name. To keep the Quill
as Bowdoin's literary publication every stu-
dent in Bowdoin must support it.
Due to the forgetfulness of some fellow or
his desire to play a joke on the student body,
the music at chapel last Friday morning was
necessarily omitted. The door leading up to
the choir loft had been securely nailed evi-
dently to keep the Freshmen from the bell-
rope the day before. Whoever made condi-
tions such might well be informed that as a
practical joke the affair was unappreciated.
REGULATIONS FOR ORIENT BOARD
At a meeting of the Orient Board, Tuesday, the
following regulations regarding the make-up of the
board were passed. ,
Regulations
The Orient Board shall consist of an editor-in-
chief, managing editor, alumni editor, eight associate
editors, business manager and assistant business
manager.
At the annual elections, held the third Monday
in March, an editor-in-chief shall be elected from
among the junior members of the board, an alumni
editor shall be elected from among the Junior mem-
bers of the board, and a managing editor shall be
elected from among the Sophomore members of the
board. The business manager shall be a Junior,
preference being shown to one who has held the
office of assistant business manager. The assistant
business manager shall be elected by the board, from
the Sophomore candidates. His fitness to serve
shall be determined by the quality and quantity of
the work done in competition.
The associate editors shall be elected in the fol-
lowing manner. Three Freshmen and one Sopho-
more shall be elected to the board annually, their
fitness to serve being determined by the quality and
quantity of the work submitted in competition.
When the editor-in-chief, alumni editor, or man-
aging editor, shall have been absent from college
during three consecutive issues of the Orient, the
board shall immediately elect a successor from
among the members of the board in the absent edi-
tor's class. Provided the absent editor returns
within one college year he shall re-assume his po-
sition.
An associate editor who is absent from college
one college year shall forfeit his membership on the
board, and the board shall vote his position vacant.
When an associate editor shall have been absent
from college three consecutive months 'his name shall
not appear on the list of members of the board pub-
lished in each issue of the Orient. Upon his return
his name shall again appear on the published list,
provided he shall not have been absent one college
year.
When the business manager shall be absent from
college his duties shall be assumed pro tern, by the
assistant business manager. Upon his return the
manager shall re-assume his duties. Shall the assist-
ant manager be absent more than one-half of a col-
lege year he shall forfeit his position and the
vacancy shall be filled by an associate editor of the
assistant manager's class.
In case of the absence of both business manager
and assistant business manager, associate editors of
the respective manager's classes, shall fill the vacan-
cies for one-half year, and at the end of that time,
if the vacancies continue, shall at a meeting of the
board become business manager and assistant busi-
ness manager, respectively.
When a vacancy shall occur among the associate
editors the position or positions shall remain unoc-
cupied until the next annual election, at which time
the vacancy or vacancies shall be filled from among
the Sophomore or Freshman candidates, preference
being given to the former.
The rules governing eligibility to other college
activities shall apply to the Orient elections.
JFacult^ Botes
During the past summer Prof. Lunt spent sev-
eral months in England, engaged in historical re-
search. He put in a considerable amount of his
time in London at the Public Record Office, where
the National manuscripts are recorded as far back
as the English government records go, and at the
British Museum. He also spent much time in look-
ing over Cathedral archives.
He traveled through Chichester, Winchester,
Canterbury, Norwich, Ely, Lichfield, Peterborough
and Lincoln. He also passed several weeks in the
university and college libraries at Cambridge and
Oxford.
The cathedral towns are naturally the towns
which are least progressive and retain many of the
almost medieval customs. In these towns he
staj'ed at inns which had been running from four to
six hundred years.
All told it was a very pleasant and profitable trip
as he obtained much valuable material.
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CALENDAR
Saturday, October 21
2.30 Bates vs. Colby at Lewiston.
Maine vs. Vermont at Orono.
Sunday, October 22
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 quartette.
Monday, October 23
Systematic instruction begins in the Medical
School of Maine.
3.30 Football Practice on Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Squad leaves gymnasium.
Reception to medical students.
Tuesday, October 24
3.30 Football Practice on Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Squad leaves gymnasium.
Fraternity Initiations.
Wednesday, October 25
3.30 Football Practice on Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Squad leaves gymnasium.
Thursday, October 26
3.30 Football Practice on Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country squad leaves gymnasium.
7.00 Y. M. C. A. Meeting. Hon. Augustus F.
Moulton, Portland, Me., "Christian Principles
Applied to Law." In a Series on Practical
Applications of Christianity.
Friday, October 27
8.00 Rally, Memorial Hall.
CollCQC Botes
King, ex-'i2, is teaching at Houlton.
Mannix, '15, is out for track manager.
The cross country trials take place next vi^eek.
Trials for the Glee Club were held Tuesday even-
ing.
H. N. Burnham, '11, is teaching school at Bridg-
ton.
W. J. Bird, Maine '14, was on the campus, Sun-
day.
Sanborn, '10, was Superintendent of tickets and
had charge of the grandstand at Topsham Fair.
Prof. K. C. M. Sills has been elected President of
the Brunswick Chapter of the American Red Cross
Society.
Prof. Henry L. Chapman gave a lecture on
"Skipper Ireson" before the Kennebec Historical
Society at Augusta on Tuesday evening.
Seward J. Marsh, '12, and James A. Norton, '13,
have returned from the 77th Annual Convention of
Delta Upsilon, held under the auspices of Rutgers
Chapter.
The first regular band rehearsal was held Tues-
day night. A large number are out for positions.
The events in the interclass track meet which
were to have been run off Wednesday, were post-
poned on account of rain.
The Glee Club held its first rehearsal in the Y.
M. C. A, room Tuesday at S p.m., under Prof. Wass.
There were twenty-three men out.
Y. M. C. A. Pejepscot Social Service work com-
mences to-day. Later gymnasium work will be
given in connection with the social work.
Thursday night, the Rev. John H. Nolin, pastor
of the Episcopal Church in Lewiston, spoke at the
Y. M. C. A. meeting. L. S. Foote, '12, led the meet-
ing.
In the tournament between members of the
Faculty and members of the student body Tuesday
afternoon, MacCormick, '12, defeated Prof. Nixon,
6-4, 8-6, and Shepherd, '14, defeated Prof. Lunt, 1-6,
6-4, 6-4.
An informal Bowdoin Dinner will be held
Tuesday, October 24, at Kalil's Restaurant in New
York. The committee in charge consists of: George
R. Walker, '02, J. W. Frost, '04, Wallace M. Pow-
ers, '04, F. J. Redman, '07, and Harrison Atwood, '09.
Prof. Henry Johnson represented Bowdoin at
the inauguration of Miss Ellen F. Pendleton as
President of Wellesley College yesterday. He
is also to be Bowdoin's delegate at the inauguration
of Dr. Lemuel H. Murlin as President of Boston
University to-day. Men prominent in educa-
tional circles all over the country will be present
at these inaugurations.
ITntetcolleGiate Botes
Constant increase in the number of students at-
tending Dartmouth from the South and West has
compelled the corporation to lengthen the Christ-
mas vacation to eighteen days.
Plans for a $2,000,000 Library building at Har-
vard are now complete.
The new dormitory at Colby is fast Hearing com-
pletion. "Roberts Hall," as the students have
christened it, is three stories high, with outside
dimensions 45 by 90 feet. Its cost will be $20,000.
The figures of enrolment of the Freshman Class
at Harvard give some interesting information as to
where the men come from. Out of 635 enrolled,
Massachusetts leads with 435 ; New York is second
with 45 ; New Hampshire third with 41 ; and Con-
necticut fourth with 20. The foreign countries rep-
resented are Canada, England, Germany and
Switzerland.
A new system of examinations has been adopted
to make it easier for men to get in from High
Schools not preparing especially for Harvard exam-
inations. Out of 83 admitted under the new plan,
47 are from outside Massachusetts, and 70 out of the
83 are from High Schools.
There has not been one Freshman hazed at the
Oregon Agricultural College this year so far, a sig-
nal victory for the system of student self-govern-
ment established last year.
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When Tech is moved to its new location, the
Alumni will be asked to "pay the freight." The cost
will be $3,000,000, one million of which is already
at hand.
The Commons at University of Maine, formerly
used as a dining hall, has been remodeled for the
use of the English Department.
A decrease of one-third in cut allowances has
been made at Wesleyan this year.
Credit in gymnasium work at Cornell can be
secured by taking long walks three days a week.
The Marquis of Queensbury, in an address to
3,000 students at the University of Illinois, advised
them to be "laughing, jolly, good old sporting
Christians."
RESOLUTIONS
Hall of Theta^ Delta Kappa Epsilon.
By the death of Brother Irving Wilson Nutter,
which occurred at his home in Bangor on July 12,
1911, Theta Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon lost an
honored and well-loved alumnus.
Brother Nutter was born in Bangor, October 6,
1880, and was graduated from Bowdoin in 1903.
While in college he maintained high rank, being an
honor man. During his Senior year he was Cap-
tain of the track team and manager of the football
team. He was universallj^ popular at college, as
well as in his native city, where he was a member of
several clubs and of the Chamber of Commerce. At
the time of his death Brother Nutter was engaged in
business with the Noyes and Nutter Manufactur-
ing Company.
Hardly two month before his death Brother Nut-
ter had been married to Miss Bertha Burnham Pem-
ber of Bangor, and to her and to his other relatives
we extend our sincere sympathy.
Robert D. Cole,
Laurence A. Crosby,
Alfred E. Gray,
For the Chapter.
Brunswick, October 16, 191 1.
Hall of the Kappa of Psi Upsilon.
It is with deep regret that the Kappa Chapter
of Psi Upsilon is called upon to record at its first
opportunity the death on August the eighth of one
of its oldest alumni, the Hon. William Pierce Frye
of the Class of 1850.
His extended and distinguished career as a law-
yer and legislator ; his loyalty to his college and his
fraternity; his devotion to his family and his
country, and his sterling and unimpeachable integ-
rity in everything will long serve as an inspiration.
Realizing our loss we have, therefore
Resolved, That we express our sorrow at his
death and extend our sincere sympathy to those
bound closer to him by ties of family and friendship.
LoEiNG Pratt,
Theodore E. Emery,
Edgar R. Payson, Jr.,
For the Chapter.
Hlumni Bepartment
'75- — Dr. Woodbury Pulsifer is private
secretary to the President of the Erie Railroad.
'82. — Wallace E. Mason, formerly Super-
intendent of Schools in North Andover, Mass.,
is now principal of the State Normal School
at Keene, N. H.
Ex.-'94. — Archie G. Axtell has been, since
September, 1910, Principal of the Blanche
Kellogg Institute, an institution under the
auspices of the American Missionary Associa-
tion at Santurce, a suburb of San Juan, Porto
Rico.
'95. — Dr. Walter A. S. Kimball, first assist-
ant at Togus, finished his duties there Thurs-
day, and went to his former home in Port-
land to open practice for himself. Dr. Kim-
ball was on the staff of the Maine General
Hospital in Portland before going to the
Home at Togus in June, 1899.
'95- — Capt. Webber, 3d Company, C. A. C.,
N. G. S. M., of Auburn, makes known his in-
tention to resign after three most successful
years of service with his company. To the
members of his company, his resignation
comes not only as a surprise but also as a great
loss on their part.
'98. — Donald MacMillan returned to his
home in Freeport Oct. 13, from a four months
trip to Labrador, where he has been studying
the Eskimos and Indians.
'03. — Dr. William E. Youland has been
elected interne at the New Webber Hospital
in Biddeford. Dr. Youland is now in New
York, where, awaiting the opening of the Hos-
pital, he is pursuing a course in electro-chem-
istry and the use of the Roentgen ray in com-
batting illness and injuries.
'03. — Irving W. Nutter, superintendent of
the foundry of the Noyes & Nutter Manufac-
turing Co., died July 12 after an acute case of
Bright's disease. Mr. Nutter was exceedingly
popular in his home city, Bangor, and will be
missed by his many social and business
friends. He is survived by a widow.
'04. — A daughter, Susan, was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Wallace M. Powers on Monday,
September 25, in New York City. Mrs. Pow-
ers was before her marriage, Miss Sarah Mer-
riman of Brunswick.
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'06. — Chester C. Turtle of Buckfield, is now
principal of the Biddeford High School. Mr.
Tuttle was graduated from the Edward Little
High School in Auburn, and from Bowdoin.
He began teaching at the age of 17 years, and
has taught in Buckfield, was principal of the
High School at Bryant's Pond for two years,
and principal of the Caribou High School in
1909-1910. The past year he did post-grad-
uate work at Harvard.
'07. — Dwight S. Robinson, who for four
years has been connected with the E. I. Du
Pont de Nemours Powder Co., has recently
been transferred from Woodbury, N. J., to
Washburn, Wisconsin. In his new place, Mr.
Robinson will be second assistant superintend-
ent, and will have full charge of half the plant.
'08. — Frederick Pennell, Attorney-at-Law,
has offices at 85 Exchange St., Portland, Me.
'08. — Ensign Otis and Miss Elizabeth A.
Farwell were married at the bride's residence
in Rockland Tuesday, Oct. 9. The couple will
reside at 21 Lindsey Street, Rockland. Mr.
Otis is a prominent young newspaper man.
He is coroner for Knox county and is also
trustee for the state juvenile institutions.
'08. — Charles Edward Files is Athletic In-
structor at Portland High School this year.
'09. — Jasper J. Stahl is Instructor of Mod-
ern Languages at Reed College, Portland,
Oregon. This new college of the West is un-
der the direction of President Foster, formerly
Professor in Education at Bowdoin. Next
year Prof. Stahl will be at the head of the Ger-
man Department and thus will be given the
rare opportunity of opening a Language De-
partment in America's newest College.
As an undergraduate while at Bowdoin,
Mr. Stahl was president of the Debating
Council, a member of the intercollegiate debat-
ing team, a member of the Board of Proctors
and of the Student Council. He was an edi-
tor of both the Orient and the Quill. In his
Junior year, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa,
and was awarded the Goodwin prize for the
highest scholarship standing at the end of his
third year. In his Senior year, he was an In-
structor in German. He was then awarded
the Henry W. Longfellow fellowship for gen-
eral excellence in belles lettres. Mr. Stahl was
a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity.
Since July, 1909, Mr. Stahl has been carry-
ing on special work in Germanic philology and
literature at the University of Munich and at
the University of Berlin. He was a member
of the Germanic Seminar at the University of
Berlin, and of the International Studenten
Verein. While on tke continent, he traveled
in Italy, Switzerland, Tyrol, Austria, and Bo-
hemia.
'10. — Harold E. Rowell is principal of the
East Jaffrey High School. Last year he was
instructor in the Chauncy Hall School in Bos-
ton.
'10. — The engagement of Miss Viola M.
Dixon of Freeport, and William E. Atwood of
Auburn, is announced.
'10. — Gardner W. Cole is principal of Fox-
croft Academy this fall.
'10. — Henry Q. Hawes is principal of the
new Mechanics' Institute at Rumford, an in-
stitution just supplied that town by the gen-
erosity of Hugh Chisholm and other influen-
tial men of Rumford.
'10. — Merrill C. Hill is Instructor in Ger-
man at Lafayette College at Easton, Pa., for
the year 1911-1912.
'11.— Rev. Paris E. Miller, Who for the
past three years has been pastor of the Con-
gegational Church of Freeport, Me., has gone
to Agawam, Mass., where he has accepted the
pastorate of the Congregational Church.
Medical School o! Maine
B0WI>0IN COLLEGE
Addison S. Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, OCTOBER 27, 1911
NO. 14
BOWDOIN VS. COLBY AT WATERVILLE
Bowdoin will play her first game of the
Maine series at Waterville to-morrow, where
she will meet the fast Colby team. This is
considered to be one of the hardest games of
the season, as Colby showed by her over-
whelming defeat of Bates last Saturday that
she will make a strong bid for the champion-
ship. The Bowdoin team has had an en-
forced rest for two weeks owing to the can-
cellation of the Norwich game, but those have
been two weeks of the hardest kind of prac-
tice.
The members of the squad are all in first-
class condition with the exception of Weather-
ill, the speedy half-back and his place will prob-
ably be filled by La Casce who has been show-
ping up especially well in practice during the
last week.
The team will go into the game with Capt.
Jack Hurley at right end, which assures us
that that position will be well cared for. Next
to him will be Hall, '14, or Pike, both of whom
are sure to make good. At right guard will
be the old veteran "Brosie" Burns, whose abil-
ity has often been felt for the last two seasons.
In Douglas at center, we are sure of one of
the best defensive players in the state, and
Badger and McMahon will be right there in
case anything happens to Douglas. At left
guard, with Simpson as sub guard, will be Leo
Pratt, who played such fine ball in 1909, and
next to him will be Wood, recognized as one
of the best men in the line. Left end will be
cared for by either Hinch, Page, Wing, or Joe
Brown.
In the backfield, Crosby and Dole will be
seen at quarter, both of whom are known to be
able to run the team to good advantage. At
right half Henry Faulkner, the speedy "find"
of the season will be seen and that he will
make the Waterville boys go some to stop him
or get by him is certain. His running mate
will be LaCasce, who has shown such fine
ability at booting the ball, and who is also a
good ground gainer. At fullback will be the
old reliable "Farmer" Kern of whose ability
nothing need be said.
Although judging from the comparative
scores Colby has a little the advantage, it is
needless to say that comparative scores are de-
ceptive and that Bowdoin Spirit will be shown
by every man's fighting his best until the whis-
tle blows.
However, to help the team, a lot of Bow-
doin Spirit will be needed on the side lines.
Manager King has made arrangements for
especially low rates and it is hoped that every
undergraduate will be seen at Waterville
cheering: for the White.
MERRILL WINS IN TENNIS FINALS
R. W. Merrill, 1913, of Hillsdale, III, de-
feated D. E. Gardner, 1913, of Calais, by the
score 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 14-12, in the finals of the
fall tennis tournament, Wednesday afternoon.
Merrill gradually wore down his opponent but
was held off, in the deciding set, for twenty-
five games. The tournament served its pur-
pose by bringing out new men, since none of
those at the head of the list have appeared be-
fore as likely candidates for the team.
INTERCLASS TRACK MEET
The Interclass Track Meet, which was
held on Whittier Field Thursday and Fri-
day, accomplished its object by bringing to the
notice of the captain and coach new men who
promise to be factors in the Maine Intercol-
legiate Track Meet.
Captain Cole, '12, by winning seventeen
points, showed that he is in good condition to
lead the team to which we pin our hopes.
Smith, '15, showed up exceedingly well as did
Faulkner, '15, and Lewis, '15. Smith won two
events, finished second in two others and took
third place in the 7S-Yard Dash; Faulkner
won the Shot Put with 41' 5" and Lewis won
the Hammer Throw with 124' 3". The closely
contested ij Mile Run called forth much ap-
plause from the spectators.
The classes finished in the following order :
1912—47
191 S— 34
1913 — 20
1914 — 16
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
The summary of events :
Shot Put — Won by Faulkner, '15, 41 ft. 5 in. ;
2d, Kern, '12, 39 ft .8 in. ; 3d, A. Lewis, 'i.q, 38 ft. 3 in.
Hammer Throw — Won by A. Lewis, '15, 124 ft.
3 in.; 2d, H. Hall, '14, 11 ft. 7 in.; 3d, Wood, '13,
105 ft. 2 in.
Discus Throw — Won by Stevens, '14, 99 ft. 7 in.;
2d, F. Smith, '12, 91 ft. ; 3d, Wood, '13, 84 ft. 8 in.
Pole Vault — Won by Smith, 'is, 8 ft. 6 in. ; 2d,
Merrill, '14, 8 ft. 3 in.; 3d, Cole, 12 ft. 8 in.
Broad Jump — Won by Smith, '15, 19 ft. 7 in. ; 2d,
Floyd, 'is, 19 ft. 6 in. ; 3d, Cole, '12, 18 ft. 4 in.
7S-YARD High Hurdles — Won by Cole, '12; 2d,
Smith, 'is ; 3d, Donahue, '14. Time — 8 l-S sec.
75- Yard Dash — Won by Cole, '12; 2d, McKenney,
'12; 3d, Smith, 'iS- Time — 8 1-5 sec.
120- Yard Low Hurdles — Won by McKenney, '12;
2d, Jones, '13; 3d, Donahue, '14. Time — is sec.
330- Yard Run — Won by Cole, '12; 2d, tie between
Hall, '13, and Stone, '15. Time — 38 4-s sec.
120- Yard Dash — Won by McKenney, '12; 2d,
Smith, '15; 3d, Roberts, 'is. Time — 13 sec.
66o-Yard Run — Won by Wilson, '12; 2d, Has-
kell, '13; 3d, Hughes, '12. Time — i min. 33 1-5 sec.
I 1-2-M1LE Run — Won by Hall, '13; 2d, Timber-
lake, '12; Auten, '12. Time-— 8 min. 5 2-S sec.
High Jump — Won by Greene, '13; 2d, L. Brown,
'14; 3d, Nichols, '12. Height — 5 ft. 2 in.
QOLF CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST
The scores of matches played thus far in
the Bowdoin Golf Club Championship contest
for the cup offered by Dean Sills, are as fol-
lows:
R. F. White, '12, Loring, '15, won by
White, 3 up and 2 to play.
Twombly, '13, C. Tuttle, '13, won by Tut-
tle, 6 up and 5 to play.
Trottier, '14, P. E. Donahue, '14, won by
Donahue, 2 up.
M. W. Greene, '13, L. A. Donahue, '14,
won by Donahue, 6 up and 5 to play.
Elwell, '15, Joy, '12, won by Joy, i up.
Brooks, '12, Skolfield, '13, won by Skol-
field, 6 up and 5 to play.
Mason, '14, P. S. Smith, '15, won by
Smith, 3 up and 2 to play.
MEDICAL CLASS OF 1915
The list of students registering in the Class
of 1915 in the Medical School, is as follows:
Linwood Hill Johnson, Portland.
George Craigin Kern, Portland.
William Bushman Melaugh, Portland.
Berton Charles Morrill, Augusta.
Sidney Collingwood Dalrymple, Medford,
Mass.
Ralph Lester Barrett, East Sumner.
Philip Albert Kimball, Tamworth, N. H.
Lawrence McFarland, Portland.
Herbert Francis Hale, New Sharon.
Robert Cole Pletts, Brunwick.
Carl George Dennett, Saco.
Harold Linwood Doten, Lewiston. •
Holland George Hamilton, Brunswick.
William Dehue Anderson, Portland.
Arthur Hale Parcher, Ellsworth.
William Satterlee Leavenworth, Qales
Ferry, Conn.
Eugene Leshe Hutchins, North New Port-
land.
George Alton Tibbetts, Brunswick.
Herbert Luther Lombard, Bridgton.
Nahum Roy Pillsbury, Biddeford.
William John Connor, Augusta.
Wendell Otis Philbrook, Greene.
Cornelius James DriscoU, Woodfords.
Raymond Willis Clark, Egypt, Me.
Chilborne R. Sylbert, Geneva, Switzerland.
Ralph Ellis Nutter, Alfred.
Gard Wilson Twaddle, Bethel.
Fred Lincoln Kateon, Bath.
Charles Wesley Kingham, Yarmouthville.
Burleigh Burton Mansfield, South Hope.
Allan Woodcock, Bangor.
Frank Arthur Smith, Calais. -jn,
Augustus Elihu Alden, Portland.
An interesting circumstance in connection
with the registration is the fact that several
men prominent in athletic circles in the state,
have enrolled in this class. Among the num-
ber are "Bert" Morrill, Frank Smith, "Farm-
er" Kern, Lawrence McFarland and Allan
Woodcock, who have been conspicuous on
Bowdoin teams, and Twaddle of Hebron, Dris-
coU of Westbrook Seminary, and Connor of
Augusta.
MEDICAL SCHOOL RECEPTION
On Monday evening, Oct. 23, the second
ann«al reception was given to the men of the
Medical School by the Y. M. C. A. A large
number of Medical men were present. The
speakers were introduced by President Mac-
Cormick who outlined the work of the Y. M.
C. A. and invited them to take part in all its
branches. President Hyde then welcomed
them to the college and urged them to get into
touch with religious work while here as the
many temptations of a doctor's life made it
necessary. Dean Thayer explained the pur-
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113
pose and work of the school. Dr. Tobie
warned the men of the difficulties that they
would meet, but said that they were necessary
to secure a good medical knowledge. R. D.
Cole welcomed them on behalf of the Academic
men and urged them to take part in some of
the athletics and other activities of the college.
Refreshments were served.
The committee in charge were H. V. Bick-
more, Medic, '14, Chairman; C. E. Fogg, M.
'14, J. H. Moulton, M. '14, W. D. Skillin,
M. '14.
FRATERNITY INITIATIONS
Sixty-seven men 'became members of fra-
ternities at the annual initiations, Tuesday
evening. The usual large number of alumni
returned for the occasion, nearly a hundred be-
ing on the campus Tuesday and Wednesday.
Following is the list of initiates :
Alpha Delta Phi
1915
Philip Livingstone Card, Portland.
Robert Manson Dunton, Bath.
George Arthur MacWilliams, Bangor.
Kenneth Elmer Ramsay, Saco.
Philip Sydney Smith, Leicester, Mass.
Harold Everett Verrill, Portland.
Samuel West, Boston, Mass.
Psi Upsilon
1914
Clarence H. Tapley, Ellsworth.
191S
Albion Keith Eaton, Calais.
Aaron Winchenbach Hyler, Cushing.
Delta Kj^ppa Epsilon
1914
Carl Hervey Stevens, M.D., Northport.
1915
Harry Murray Chatto, South Brooksville.
Fred Walter Coxe, Woodfords.
Harry Gustave Cross, Red Wing, Minn.
Roger Kimball Eastman, Lowell, Mass.
George Albert Hall, Jr., Houlton.
George Tappan Little, Brunswick.
Joseph Cony MacDonald, Bangor.
Stanwood Alexander Melcher, Mt. Holly,
N. J.
Philip Webb Porritt, Hartford, Ct.
George Cummings Thompson, Augusta.
Jacob Frederick Weintz, Evansville, Ind.
Theta Delta Chi
191S
Edward Richardson Elwell, East Orange,
N.J.
Prescott Emerson, Hyde Park, Mass.
Charles William Wallace Field, Brunswick.
William Towle Livingston, Bridgton.
Kimball Atherton Loring, Reading, Mass.
Gordon Dana Richardson, Reading, Mass.
Zeta Psi
1915
Guy Wellman Badger, Skowhegan.
Otto Rockefeller Folsom-Jones, Skowhe-
gan.
Maynard Henderson Kuhn, Waldoboro.
Charles Carr Morrison, Bar Harbor.
George Worcester Ricker, Portland.
John Fox Rollins, Bangor.
Reuel Blaine Soule, Augusta.
Ellsworth Allen Stone, Lynn, Mass.
Delta Upsilon
1914
Percy Downing Mitchell, Biddeford.
Edward Alfred Trottier, Newmarket,
N. H.
1915
Harry Everett Allen, Brunswick.
Arthur Raymond Fish, Hallowell.
Frank Earle Knowlton, Farmington.
Austin H. MacCormick, Boothbay Harbor.
Clifford Thompson Perkins, Ogunquit.
Harold Milton Prescott, Portland.
Joseph Rubin, Redlands, Cal.
Verrill Carleton Thurston, Chesterville.
Kappa Sigma
1915
Gordon Pierce Floyd, Portland.
William Owen Keegan, Lewiston.
Daniel Maurice Mannix, Portland.
Manning Cole Moulton, Portland.
Roger Ashurst Putnam, York Village.
Harold McNeil Somers, Portland.
Elwood Harrison Stowell, Freeport.
George Henry Talbot, South Portland.
Fred Willett, Orono.
Beta Theta Pi
1913
Alfred Henry Sweet, Portland.
1915
Charles Edward Allen, Freeport.
Eldin Hiram Austin, Dexter.
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BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WILLIAM A. MacCORMICK, igi2, Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
Associate Editors
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OCTOBER 27, 191 I
In her first championship
To Waterville game of the year Bowdoin
will meet Colby on Alumni
Field at Waterville, to-morrow afternoon.
With the team's record for the season to look
back upon it is only a matter of conjecture as
to what Bowdoin men can look for to-morrow.
The team has had hard games and played in
exceedingly fast company but it has not played
poor football. The fact that we have lost all
our important scheduled games this season
does not mean that we have not a team this
year to depend upon. Nor does it mean that
our responsibility is at all lessened. On the
other hand every man who can beg, borrow or
steal the necessary cash should find himself
in Waterville when that game is called. Dur-
ing the past two weeks the team has been
working afternoons and evenings to get into
the best possible condition for these State
games. We have very little reason to feel
over-confident but we have every reason to
know that the men who represent the White
on the field in to-morrow's game will work for
a victory. Let the same spirit of fight and
determination be shown in the bleachers and
whether we lose or win every Bowdoin man
will have done his best.
Fraternity
Conditions
At a recent meeting of the
course in English 6 which
was largely attended by
representative men of the college outside the
course, the fraternity pledging system, or lack
of system, at Bowdoin, was disucssed with a
view to inquiring into present conditions and
suggesting possible improvements. It was a
discussion worth while. It probably brought
out a true picture of conditions as they are.
If that is so, Bowdoin should congratulate
herself upon the discovery that she has no
fraternity question. She ought to be proud
to learn that her eight fraternities and her non-
fraternity students, who are by virtue of cir-
cumstances, in efifect a ninth member in the
fraternity group, live side by side in absolute
harmony, with a courteous consideration and
respect for each other which is an inspiration
to behold.
The writer, by the advantage of a more or
less active fraternity interest for some time
which has led to his visiting several New
England colleges on fraternity business, would
not think of comparing interfraternity rela-
tions at Bowdoin with interfraternity relations
as he has observed them in other New England
colleges where elaborate codes of rules exist
for the shaping of interfraternity interests.
We believe that Bowdoin ought, by right,
to congratulate herself. But she should do
more than that. It is imperative that she keep
steadily on to the perfection of a system which
is potent with good or evil accordingly as it is
wisely used or selfishly abused, cognizant of
the fact that our present happy conditions and
prosperous outlook for the future are due to
the high ethical standards voluntarily main-
tained by the fraternities in their relations
with each other and to the unselfish devotion
of these smaller units to the best interests of
the college, without which they could not exist.
Fraternity Initiations
Continued from page 113
George William Bacon, Groton, Vt.
Ernest Franklin Bisbee, North Bethel.
Robert Joseph Evans, Shirley, Mass.
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Paul Joseph Koughan, Bath.
Herbert Ahon Lewis, North Haven.
Francis Paul McKenney, Brunswick.
Max Verne McKinnon, Calais.
Frank Stanwood Roberts, Brunswick.
Vernon Pierce Woodbury, Leominster,
Mass.
MEETING OF THE STUDENT COUNCIL
The Student Council held its first regular
meeting of the year last Thursday in the
Deutscher Verein room in Hubbard Hall. It
voted to accept the resignations of Ashey, '12,
and McMurtrie, '13, as publishers of the col-
lege calendar. Also to allow the management
of the college band to circulate a subscription.
It was further voted that a member of the
Student Council should take charge of the
Freshmen class elections this fall.
The Council will hold during the yeai
weekly meetings on Monday evenings at eight
o'clock in the Deutscher Verein room. At these
meetings all matters relating to the under-
graduate life will be discussed and acted upon.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES
On Friday, Oct. 20, the work was started
at Pejepscot by an entertainment in the school-
house. Those who took part were Adams,
'12, Eaton, '14, Card, '15, Hall, '15, and
Weintz, '15. The Sunday School was opened
on Sunday and it is planned to start the Boys'
Club this week. The committee in charge this
year is C. Brown, '14, Chairman; Gray, '14,
and Crosby, '13. This work offers an oppor-
tunity for helping the boys up there to have a
good time and teaching them something that
is worth while. The committee would be glad
to know the names of any who would like to
take part in this work.
iFacult^ Botes
President Hyde spoke Wednesday night in
Cambridge at the dedication of the new build-
ings of Andover Theological Seminary.
On Friday night President Hyde was at
Phillips-Exeter Academy, where, as one of the
trustees, he accepted for the school a memo-
rial library.
Many of the members of the Faculty were
present at the meetings of the Maine Teachers'
Association, held at Augusta on Thursday and
Friday.
REVISED PLANS FOR THE NEW GYM
The plans and specifications are nearly
ready for submission to contractors for bids for
constructing the new gymnasium and athletic
building. Last June, after President Hyde
had announced the subscription of more than
enough money for the building, the gymna-
sium committee at once engaged as architects,
Allen & Collens of Boston, with which firm is
associated Felix A. Burton, Bowdoin, '07.
Since then the architects have been working to
prepare satisfactory plans for the building,
taking as a basis for their work the plans
given in the president's report of last June. In
all, eight sets of plans have been prepared, sev-
eral changes have been made, and every effort
has been made to get the best possible facilities
for physical training and indoor athletics for
the college.
Dr. F. N. Whittier, chairman of the com-
mittee, has visited some of the finest gymna-
siums in the East, in order to study the ideas
of construction in these buildings and to avoid
mistakes in arrangement which have been
made at other institutions. Mr. Collens of the
architects accompanied Dr. Whittier to Hano-
ver to study the new Dartmouth gymnasium.
The latest set of plans, with full specifica-
tions for building, were considered by the
committee at a recent meeting. Two members
of the committee were not able to present at
this meeting, but copies of the plans and speci-
fications have been sent to them, and unless
they or the other members who are now con-
sidering the plans suggest changes, the bids
for construction will be called for in a short
time.
The building, as now planned, is to be
erected between the Sargent gymnasium and
the observatory, the entrance facing the quad-
rangle between King Chapel and Maine Hall.
The connecting building between the gymna-
sium and the Thomas W. Hyde athletic build-
ing has been done away with, and the struct-
ures will be erected with a single wall between.
The gymnasium proper will measure 140 by
80 feet, and the athletic building 160 by 120
feet. The building will be of brick with rough
stone trimmings. In addition to the light fur-
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nished by the windows in the walls, each build-
ing will be topped with monitors, which will
give a better quality of light for indoor athlet-
ics than skylights would give. A light grade
and stone steps will lead to the entrance of
the gymnasium proper, and from the hallways
stairs will lead down to the first floor, which
will be at ground level, and another flight of
stairs will lead to the second floor.
A corridor will run the length of the first
floor of the gymnasium building. To the left
of this will he an office for the managers of the
various teams, where each will have a desk.
This room will be 24 by 23 feet. Next this,
on the left, will be office, 12x24, for the ath-
letic instructor ; a room for boxing, 28x32 ; a
room for fencing, 29x32; a hand-ball court,
25x32; a hallway with stairs leading to the
floor above, and an entrance to the athletic
biailding for baseball men. On the right will
be a locker room for the faculty and visiting
athletic teams, containing showers, closets,
bowls, etc. ; a large section containing lockers
for 500 men, a bathroom with seven showers,
a small bathroom with tubs ; a room for rub-
bing, and a toilet room. At the right end of the
corridor will be two storage rooms, 11 by 32
feet.
The second floor of the gymnasium build-
ing will be reached by two stairways, one lead-
ing directly from the entrance and one from
the other end of the building near the locker
room. This floor will have the main exercis-
ing room, 112x76; a special exercising room,
23x24, for the carrying out of the exercises
prescribed for students to correct physical de-
fects; and two offices which would also be
used for physical examinations.
Above the offices and the special exercis-
ing room will be a trophy room, reached from
the hallway of the second floor. It is planned
to keep there all athletic trophies, including
cups, footballs, baseballs, and pennants won by
Bowdoin teams. The trophies of former years
are being collected by Dr. Whittier and will be
put in order as soon as the building is ready.
Arranged in the trophy room will be oak tab-
lets, on which will be inscribed the names of
all who have contributed for the construction
of the building, the alumni and the students
arranged according to classes, and the friends
of the college arranged in order. The trophy
room will be open on the side toward the
gymnasium floor and will serve as a visitors'
gallery.
ATHLETIC BUILDINQ
The General Thomas W. Hyde athletic
building will be surpassed by none in New
England. The frame of the building will be
of steel, and the floor of screened gravel sub-
soil. It will be reached from the locker room
by two doors, one for the baseball men and
one for the track men. The outside entrance
will be large enough for a two-horse team.
The building will serve for indoor practice for
all of the outdoor sports now in vogue at Bow-
doin. There will be an excellent opportunity
for football practice when the squad cannot
get out of doors. Goal posts can be erected
at one end so as to give opportunity for prac-
tice in kicking 40-yard goals. There will be
room for a full-sized diamond, with 15 feet on
the outside of each of the baselines, to give op-
portunity to overrun bases. Tennis courts
may be marked out when desired. A portion
of the building next the gymnasium proper
will be netted off for track athletics, giving a
space 120 feet by 40 feet for practicing the
shot put, high jump, broad jump, pole vault,
short dashes, hurdles, and other events. Thir-
ten feet above the floor around the building
will be a running track, 12 laps to the mile,
with the corners raised three and one-half feet.
The track will be reached from the gymnasi-
um floor and by spiral stairways from each
corner of the building next the gymnasium.
The track will be separated from the diamond
by a net. This building will be a welcome asset
to the equipment of Bowdoin athletics, as track
and baseball work can be carried on through-
out the entire winter months. The annual in-
door meet and athletic exhibition will, in the
future, be held in this building.
Special attention will be paid to the venti-
lation of the buildings. Fresh air will be
taken from the Hyde building into the gym-
nasium building through two ducts, with out-
lets under the radiators and in the ceiling. A
blower will change the air, and when the
blower is not in use, the air will be carried up
by gravity by means of a steam coil placed high
in the vent between the two structures. In
the athletic building the radiators will be
placed under the running track seven feet
from the floor. By means of fans the air in
the main exercising room can be changed in
twenty minutes.
The new building will probably be ready
for use by next Fall, and the last work in the
Sargent gymnasium will probably be held this
winter.
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GUESTS AT INITIATIONS
The following is a list of the alumni and
delegates who attended the fraternity initia-
tions, Tuesday evening:
Alpha Delta Phi entertained the following grad-
uates: Prof. Henry L. Chapman, '66; Prof. WilUam
A. Moody, '82; Prof. Charles C. Hutchins, '83; Jo-
seph B. Roberts, '95 ; Hugh Quinn, '01 ; Thomas C.
White, '03; Marshall P. Cram, '04; George C. Pur-
ington, Jr., '04 ; William F. Coan, '04 ; Donald C.
White, '05; Edwin T. Johnson, '09; Irving L. Rich,
'09 William B. Nulty, '10; C. A. Boynton, '10; and
Joseph C. Pearson, '00.
The members of the Psi Upsilon and Theta Delta
Chi fraternities entertained their usual number of
loyal alumni and delegates from other chapters, but
nothing definite could be obtained concerning them.
At the Delta Kappa Epsilon House the follow-
ing old grads were back : George L. Thompson, JT,
of Brunswick; John Clair Minot, '96, of Boston;
Harlan M. Bisbee, '98, of Exeter, N. H. ; Harvey P.
Winslow, '06, of Portland; K. C. M. Sills, '01, of
Brunswick; Robert K. Eaton, '05, of Brunswick;
Harold S. Elder, '06, of Portland, and Ernest G. Fi-
field, '11, of Brunswick. In addition to these Ernest
N. Cole, Colby, '12, as representative of Xi Chapter,
and Bradley T. Ross, M. I. T., '12, of Rensselaer,
Ind., as delegate from Sigma Tan Chapter, were
present.
The Zeta Psi graduates who returned to their
chapter for this occasion were : Prof. Henry L.
Johnson, '74 ; Harry C. Wilbur, '94 ; Lyman A. Cous-
ins, '02; Henry A. Peabody, '03; Harold W. Files,
'03; H. J. Everett, '04; Prof. William E. Lunt, '04;
E. J. Bradbury, '05; J. A. Clark, '05; J. S. Simmons,
'09; Ralph W. Smith, '10. The delegates from the
sister chapters were : Ralph J. Faulkingham, Colby,
'12, from Chi Chapter, and Walter J. Rideout, Colby,
'12, from the same chapter.
The graduates of Delta Upsilon were: Samuel
W. Pearson, '60; Joseph S. Stetson, '97; Guy C.
Howard, '98; George S. Wheeler, '01; Harrie Web-
ber, '03; Farnsworth G. Marshall, '03; Emery O.
Beane, '04; Thomas Walker, '06; Alfred W.
Wandtke, '10; Lawrence McFarland, '11; Waldo T.
Skillin, '11 ; and DeForest Weeks, '11. The Colby
Chapter was represented by Maurice Lord, '12.
Graduates from other chapters were Prof. Frederic
W. Brown, Harvard, '97; Samuel B. Furbish, Am-
herst, '97 ; Prof. William Hawley Davis, Harvard, '05.
Kappa Sigma entertained the following: J. Ever-
ett Hicks, '95; M. E. Clough, '00; H. P. Ballard, '10;
Edward T. Fenley, '01 ; R. W. Smith, '97. The
other chapters in New England were represented as
follows: Psi Chapter, C. W. Wescott, '12, of Uni-
versity of Maine; Alpha Lambda, B. F. Andrews,
'12, of University of Vermont; Gamma Epsilon, M.
T. Tirrell, '12, of Dartmouth; Beta Kappa, J. B.
Pettingill, '12, of New Hampshire State College;
Gamma Eta, H. V. Baill of Harvard.
Beta Theta Pi had the following graduates back:
H. H. Randall, '00; G. R. Gardner, '01; H. D.
Evans, '01 ; R. C. Bisbee, '03 ; G. H. Morrill, '07 ; W
S. Lmnell, '07; E. C. Pope, '07; W. B. Roberts, '07;
D. F. Koughan, '09; E. H. Hobbs, '10; A. S. Pope,
10; S. S. Webster, '10; M. G. L. Bailey, '10 • H
V. Bickmore, '11; J. E. Cartland, '11; and G. H
Macomber, '11. From other chapters were E. A.
White, Amherst, '89; S. P. Hitchcock, Cornell, '01;
B. A. Bearce, University of Maine, '11; B. O. War-
ren, University of Maine, '11; R. S. Hopkinson,
University of Maine, '12 ; F. A. Knight, Boston Uni-
versity, '13 ; R. H. Trott, Dartmouth, '14.
NOTICE
For the benefit of those who wish to bring any
matters to the attention of the Student Council, that
body announces that it will meet each week on Mon-
day evening in the Deutscher Verein Room in Hub-
bard Hall. Communications to the Council may be
handed to any of its members or deposited in the
Orient's mail box in South Maine.
The Council must appoint at once the men who
will have charge of publishing the college calendar
this year. All who wish to try for the job should
hand in their names now. One man will be chosen
from the senior class and one from the junior class.
Action will probably be taken at the next meeting so
all names must be in by Monday night.
STUDENT MASS MEETING
On next Thursday evening there will be a
Students' meeting in the Y. M. C. A. room at
which college problems will be discussed by
prominent men in college. The speakers will
be J. L. Hurley, '12, "Centralization of Ath-
letics"; R. D. Cole, '12, "College Spirit"; C.
F. Adams, '12, "Cribbing"; F. A. Smith, '12,
"College Ideals." These are things which
every man is interested in and it will be worth
while to see what these fellows have to say on
them.
CALENDAR
Friday, October 27
8.00 Rally, Memorial Hall.
Saturday, October 28
2.30 Bowdoin vs. Colby, Waterville.
Maine vs. Bates, Orono.
Sunday, October 29
10.4s Morning service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
S.oo Sunday chapel, conducted by President Hyde.
Music by quartette.
Monday, October 30
3.30 Football Practice on Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Squad leaves gymnasium.
7.30 Meeting of Normal Class in Bible Study.
Tuesday, October 31
3-30 Football Practice on Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Squad leaves gymnasium.
Wednesday, November i
3.30 Football Practice on Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Squad leaves gymnasium.
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Thursday, November 2
3.30 Football Practice on Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Squad leaves gymnasium.
7.00 Student Meeting, Y. M. C. A.
Friday, November 3
3.30 Football Practice on W'hittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Squad leaves gymnasium.
8.00 Rally, Memorial Hall.
(ZollcQC Botes
All out for the Mass Meeting in
Memorial Hall at 8 o'clock Tonight
Most of the team attended the Bates-Colby game
at Levifiston, Saturday.
R. D. Cole, '12, attended the initiation of the Tech
Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.
Frank Smith was one of the officials at the West-
brook Seminary-Hebron game, Saturday.
Mr. James Lathrop, former track coach at Bow-
doin and now in the same capacity at Bates, visited
friends on the campus, Sunday.
W. A. MacCormick, '12, President of the Y. M.
C. A., spoke Sunday to the Sunday School of the
Congregational Church at Hallowell.
The manager of the 1913 Bugle desires to call
attention to the fact that all Juniors must have their
pictures taken by the Thanksgiving recess.
William Muir of Brunswick, who died October
IS, was well known to graduates of the last two
decades as a contractor who took part in important
building operations. He built the Whittier Athletic
Field and also the athletic fields of Bates and Maine.
IFutercoUeGtate Botes
The McGill Daily of Montreal, Canada,
states that of fourteen men chosen for the
new Canadian cabinet, eleven are college men.
Motion pictures have invaded Cornell,
where sets of them have been taken showing
campus scenes between recitations as well as
the athletic teams in practice.
No fraternity rushing will begin at Dart-
mouth until the first of November.
The editor of the Daily Californian thinks
that Rugby will eventually replace the Ameri-
can game of football.
Official announcement has been made that
the Army-Navy game will be played on No-
vember 25. The selection of this date makes
a conflict with the Yale-Harvard game which
takes place on the same day.
Hlumni department
The College is anxious to receive informa-
tion about any of its graduates who may be
engaged in teaching, and will be greatly
obliged if the names of such graduates, with
the positions that they at present occupy, are
sent in to the Dean of the College.
'62.- — Rev. Charles Henry Pope, an accom-
plished Boston genealogist, has completed his
work upon the genealogy of the Prouty fam-
ily, and now publishes it as the "Prouty Gen-
ealogy." The "Register" of the New Eng-
land Historic Genealogical Society for April,
191 1, contains the following notice concerning
Mr. Pope's ability, "The Prouty Genealogy is
arranged after the system used in the Regis-
ter, and Mr. Pope's work is so well known
that his name on the title-page is a sufficient
guaranty for the excellence of the book."
'72. — At the recent session of the Farmers'
National Congress, held at Columbus, Ohio,
Oct. 16, George M. Whitaker of Washington,
D. C, was elevated to the position of Presi-
dent. His work as National Secretary has
been so successful that the Congress gave
him the new office by way of promotion. Mr.
Whitaker has been a prominent journalist, and
has always had a deep interest in farmers'
affairs. He is now one of the valuable men
located in the dairy division of the department
of agriculture.
'06. — Romilly Johnson is now singing to
crowded houses, grand opera in Italy. His
debut was made a few months ago as Conte
Rodolfo in La Sonnarnbula and so success-
fully both for singing and acting that he was
at once offered the position of leading bass in
the company which is now touring the north
Italian cities. Mr. Johnson's name also lends
itself readily to operatic uses, and he appears
before the public as Giovanni Romilli.
Medical School of Maine
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Addison S. Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, NOVEMBER 3, 1911
NO. 15
BOWDOIN VS. BATES AT LEWISTON
One year ago to-day the football team rep-
resenting Bates, after a decisive victory over
Maine journeyed down to Brunswick and
fought all the afternoon with the scrappy team
representing the White and at the end the
score was a tie. To-morrow that same insti-
tution is to meet Bowdoin on the gridiron at
Garcelon Field, Lewiston, having again sent
Maine home vanquished one week previous.
Needless to say, both teams are determined
that this year there will be a decision as to
which is the better team and needless to say,
both teams will play as only Bates and Bow-
doin do play when they meet in their annual
gridiron struggle. Since 1904 the winner of
this annual contest has not made a greater
score than a touchdown and goal. To-mor-
row either team will be satisfied if they can
win by that margin.
The mere fact that it is Bowdoin vs. Bates,
should mean that every man that treads the
paths of our campus will take the trip up to
Lewiston to-morrow, but with conditions as
they are, it is imperative. If Bowdoin wins
to-morrow it will be in line for the State
championship, and this thing we want and
must have. From the large crowd that took the
trip to Waterville and the enthusiasm dis-
played during the game, we are inclined to be
optimistic and believe that there will be such
an exodus from our gates to-morrow as hap-
pens only during vacations.
Weatherill will probably be seen again in
the backfield, as his ankle is now in fairly good
shape. Leo Pratt who broke a bone in his
hand in the third scrimmage of the Colby game
last Saturday and with that handicap played
a remarkable defensive game will be out with
his injury, and either Simpson, Pike or Weeks
will play his position. Douglas is in bad shape
after his gruelling game at Waterville, but will
probably be seen in the line-up at his old posi-
tion. Aside from these changes the team will
present the usual line-up. Bates seems to be
playing a very open game this year, relying a
great deal on the forward pass, and it is a
question whether Coach Bergin will rely on his
strong defense and straight football to win the
game or whether he will meet Bates' open play
with a varied and open attack. At any rate
the game will be an interesting one to watch
and sensations in the line of passes and long
runs will be features. All aboard for Lewis-
ton!
BOWDOIN, 0; COLBY, 0
"The best Maine State game I ever saw,"
was the verdict of nearly every football fan, as
he left Alumni Field, Waterville, last Satur-
day, after he had watched Bowdoin and Colby
use every effort and last bit of strength and en-
durance in vain efforts to put the elusive pig-
skin over the last white chalk mark or boot it
between the upright standards which meant
victory. The weather was perfect, the field
was never in better shape and both grand-
stands were filled to overflowing with defend-
ers of the White and the Blue and Gray. Time
and again it looked as if one or the other team
was to win and alternately the rooters thought
they would soon be counting the score, but
when the hour of struggle was over the su-
premacy of either of the two teams was as far
from being decided as if they had never played,
as far as the score settles that question.
It was a case of a heavy, powerful team
with a brilliant offense, against a hitherto un-
known and unheralded aggregation, with a
magnificently stubborn defence and an offense
which showed brilliant flashes of fonn, but
could not carry the ball for a touchdown. The
offensive work of the two Freshmen, Harry
Faulkner for Bowdoin and Fraser for Colby
was of an order seldom seen on Maine grid-
irons and the punting of the two was also very
good. In offensive work Wood and Kern for
Bowdoin and Good for Colby all did the great-
est share of the work. In backfield work, es-
pecially in the receiving of punts, Crosby and
LaCasce surprised everyone by the clean man-
ner in which they caught and ran back the
spirals from Fraser's toe.
In defensive work there were no stars.
Every member of the eleven fought with
grit and determination that can only be ex-
plained by the Bowdoin spirit. Time and
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again they were called upon to defend their
goal when under its very shadow and the score
tells how well they did their task. The centre
trio, Burns, Douglas and Pratt, outweighed
nearly twenty pounds to the man, fought like
demons, Douglas especially with a sore arm
and game leg fought with a spirit which was
an inspiration to his team-mates.
Wood was a tower of strength on both de-
fense and offense and Hall played a remarka-
ble game for his first intercollegiate contest.
"Stan" Hinch and "Jack" Hurley on the ends
had lots of work to do and came through in
fine shape.
. The feature of the game came at the end
of the second period, when Harry Faulkner
intercepted a forward pass on Bowdoin's fif-
teen-yard line and dashed down the field for
what seemed to be a sure touchdown, but was
hauled down on Colby's 8-yard line by the fleet
Roy Good. Bowdoin's chance to score was
lost by the call of time before a scrimmage
could be started. Twice Colby came within
kicking distance of Bowdoin's goal, but on
both attempts the ball went wide of the mark.
Colby made use of the forward pass for sub-
stantial gains and worked their shift play to
good advantage during the second half.
Although both teams had a well-developed
offense, the stronger defense created an exhibi-
tion, for the most part, of defensive playing.
In the third period both teams resorted to the
kicking game, and again in the fourth period
a punting duel ensued. There were a number
of penalties on both sides, but the game was
not marred by this feature. The work of the
officials was very satisfactory.
The game in detail was as follows :
At the beginning of the first period Colby
kicked off to Bowdoin, the ball being received
by Wood who was downed on Bowdoin's 30-
yard line. Faulkner circled right end for 4
yards and on the next play fumbled the pass
and the ball went to Colby. On their first at-
tempt to gain, Soule was thrown for a 4-yard
loss and they lost the ball on downs. Faulkner
for Bowdoin punted on first down for 45
yards. Fraser made two through left guard
and Good followed with five off tackle. Fraser
then punted to Ivern who brought the ball
back to Bowdoin's 45-yard line. Wood then
made the first substantial gain of the day with
a twenty-yard gain around right end on a
tackle-around play. An unsuccessful attempt
at a forward pass, Hinch to Hurley, followed
and Bowdoin was forced to punt. Bagnall
carried the ball back to Colby's 40-yard line
and on the next three plays Colby made dis-
tance. A penalty of 5 yards forced the Wa-
terville team, however, to punt and Crosby, re-
ceiving, was downed on Bowdoin's 40-yard
line.
Kern took the ball for a short end run but
was penalized for crawling with the ball.
Faulkner did not get off well on the next play
and Bowdoin was forced to punt again. With
the ball well in Bowdoin's territory Good was
thrown back for a loss by Burns on the first
down and Fraser punted to LaCasce and it
was Bowdoin's ball on their 30-yard line.
Wood made his second long gain around right
end, this time for 20 yards, but the White
could not follow up this advantage with more
yardage. Neither side was able to get yard-
age on the next succession of plays and was
forced to punt on third down. The battle was
then waged back and forth, neither side get-
ting within kicking distance of the other's goal
and the first period ended with the ball in
Bowdoin's possession on their 40-yard line.
Kern opened up the second session with a
plunge through right guard for 5 yards, but
Faulkner was forced to punt on third down and
the ball went to Colby on their 40-yard line.
The forward pass was used for the first time
with success on the next play, Fraser to Beach.
On the next down Fraser was brought to
earth with no gain, but followed with 3 yards
outside of tackle which put the ball danger-
ously near our goal posts. A drop kick, how-
ever, by Fraser failed.
Kern took the ball for a lo-yard gain on
the next play but the ball changed hands on
third down. Colby failed to make distance in
turn and Kern for Bowdoin pulled off another
gain, this time for 6 yards. Wood failed to
make it first down and Faulkner punted to
Fraser who was downed on Colby's 40-yard
line. Colby tried a forward pass but failed and
on second down Good was thrown for a S-yard
loss. Colby punted and in turn, Bowdoin was
forced to punt on third down. Good received
the kick and returned it 25 yards with a bril-
liant run before he was downed. His team-
mates could not gain thru Bowdoin's line,
however, and Fraser punted to Crosby, the
ball being downed in the centre of the field.
Then followed a punting duel in which
Colby got a little the better and by substantial
gains around end and a successful forward
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pass, Fraser to Soule, gained 15 yards. On the
next play, Colby tried to repeat the trick, and
by so doing came as close as teams can come
to losing the game ; for it was here that Faulk-
ner intercepted the throw and dashed down
the field for an 87-yard run, being tackled on
Colby's 7-yard line by Roy Good. Just as the
White as lining up to make those last 7 yards
the whistle blew and the first half was up.
The second half opened with no changes in
the line-ups of the opposing teams. Fraser
kicked off and Kern was downed after a short
return. Faulkner kicked on first down. Colby
made good gains and with their shift play
brought the ball down well into Bowdoin's ter-
ritory but lost the ball on downs. Wood got
away with another long gain around right end
and was downed by Fraser after a 15-yd. gain.
Kern followed this up by dashing through cen-
tre for 7 yards, and then the team was set back
by a 15-yard penalty. Faulkner was forced to
punt and then followed another series of short
gains and exchange of punts by both teams
which ended by a gain of 20 yards by Good
through centre. Colby again worked their
shift play for good gains and took the ball
down the field to Bowdoin's S-yard line and
then stopped, or rather, were stopped by that
stonewall defence which the White always pre-
sented when their goal was in danger. The
quarter ended with the ball in the possession
of Bowdoin on her own 25-yard line.
Kern opened the last period with a sub-
stantial gain, but on the next play a forward
pass was fumbled and it was Colby's ball on
Bowdoin's 40-yard line. Fraser and Good,
Colby's two speedy backs, made first down and
from this point Fraser made another try at a
field goal which failed.
Bowdoin took the ball for scrimmage on,
their 25-yard line and Faulkner made 6
through right tackle. Short gains followed
but the ball soon changed hands and was kept
shifting back and forth for some time. This
see-saw resulted in gradual gains for Colby,
although their offence was successful only out-
side of Bowdoin's 25-yard line. With 7 min-
utes to play, Bowdoin made a last desperate
rally. Faulkner broke away for a sensational
23-yard gain around right end and Kern
bucked the line for 3 yards. A five-yard pen-
alty forced Bowdoin to punt.
Good tried an end run and was forced back
by LaCasce. At this point Dogulas was re-
placed by McMahon and Royal took the place
of Beach for Colby. Fraser punted to Colby
and it was Bowdoin's ball in the centre of the
field. Neither team seemed able to make first
down and a kicking duel followed. Pratt was
replaced by Simpson, Hall by Weeks and
Hinch, by Page. Colby put in Crosman for
C. Soule. The last play of note was Fraser's
punt to Crosby which rolled over the goal line
and counted as a touchback. The game ended
with the ball in Bowdoin's possession on its
own 25-yard line.
The line-up and summary follows:
Bowdoin Colby
Hinch, Page, l.e I.e., S. Soule, Royal
Hall, Weeks, l.t ■ ■ l.t., Ladd, Bowler
Pratt, Simpson, l.g l.g., C. Soule
Douglas, McMahon, c c, Hamilton
Burns, r.g. . • • r.g., Pendergast, Thompson
Wood, r.t ■ . r.t., Keppel
Hurley, r.e r.e., Beach, Priestly
Crosby, q.b q.b., Bagnall
Faulkner, l.h.b l.h.b., Joy, Pratt
LaCasce, r.h.b r.h.b., Goode
Kern, f.b f.b., Fraser
Score — Bowdoin 0; Colby o. Referee — Scudder
of Brown ; umpire. Murphy of Harvard ; Field
Judge, Jones of Haverford; Head Linesman, Carter
of Michigan. Time— four fifteen-minute periods.
MEETINQ OF ATHLETIC COUNCIL
Tufts Game Called Off
After months of negotiation on the part of
the managers and further weeks of confer-
ence on the part of Athletic Councils of Tufts
and Bowdoin, it is practically assured that the
game between these two institutions, scheduled
for Nov. 18 in Portland, will not be played.
Arbitration in this case seems to have resulted,
surely enough, in a cessation of hostilities, but
the fact is, that most of us would have liked to
see the struggle take place. As far as can be
ascertained, our athletic council was right in
the position it took, even if it meant the
loss of the game; for if it had yielded a point
to allow the game it would have been damag-
ing to the athletic interests of Bowdoin for the
next three years. The controversy is so com-
plicated that it is not worth while to set it
down here, so we must simply make the most
of it and centre our whole efforts on the games
of the next ten days. There is a bare possi-
bility that Manager King may get a substitute
game, but it is unlikely, as all colleges of
standing have their schedules filled for that
date.
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Vol. XLI.
NOVEMBER 3, 1911
The cross country team will need the sup-
port of the student body in the race next week
with the University of Vermont. The team
is made up entirely of "green" men and a few
cheers at the beginning and end of the race
will mean a lot to the men who represent the
White. Each man can be depended upon to
do his best for Bowdoin but with the student
body behind him he can do even more. Don't
fail to be there to urge the team along.
No longer need the Bow-
Nothing Vague doin spirit be talked about
vaguely in mass meetings
and rallies. That indefinite something which
has made Bowdoin teams gain victories, took
real form at the game last Saturday. Bow-
doin did not win but it was due only to that
spirit which has thus far been hidden this fall,
that she did not lose. The team played a vic-
torious game in spite of the fact that the score
does not show it. Those who followed the
game were surprised at the defensive power
which the team exhibited when it seemed as
though Colby would score. The way in which
the eleven men on the field responded to the
first call of "Fight" from the bleachers put
confidence into the hearts of all who were
cheering for the White.
The same "fighting spirit" must be main-
tained throughout the State series if Bowdoin
is to be in first position when the last game is
over. Every man knows now what he is cheer-
ing for when he supports the team which held
Colby last week. Consequently not one man
should fail to follow the squad to Lewiston to-
morrow afternoon and keep alive the famous
Bowdoin spirit which was resurrected a week
ago.
It seems necessary from
The Reserved Shelf time to time to remind cer-
tain fellows of the fact that
the reserved books in the library are not put
there solely for them. The number of these
books in each course is so small that it is im-
possible for each man to do his required read-
ing unless the spirit of altruism is exercised to
a certain extent. This idea is greatly warped
in the mind of the fellow who deliberately
takes a book from the reserved shelf and hides
it away for his own future use. By such an
act which is not due to carelessness at all, he
not only prevents twenty or thirty other fel-
lows from doing their readings but he causes
much trouble to the librarians.
The same criticism holds true in the use
of the reference lists posted on the bulletin
board. Many fellows take such lists from the
board, carry them to the reading-room and
forget to return them. This practice might be
attributed to a man's carelessness in forget-
ting to return the list, but it could be avoided
by a little forethought. If while the list is
gone a fellow comes in to look up his outside
reading and finds no references posted, he con-
cludes that there is no outside reading. As a
result when he gets into class he has to be con-
tent with a "flunk" because of the carelessness
of someone else. These conditions can be
greatly improved if each man connected with
reference courses sees to it that he gives the
"other fellow" a fair show.
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CLASS OF 1868 PRIZE SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED
Professor Mitchell announced Monday the
list of Seniors who are to compete in January
for the Class of 1868 Prize. The list includes
Charles Francis Adams of Auburn, Eugene
Francis Bradford of Bangor, John Lawrence
Hurley of Maiden, Mass., Earl Francis Ma-
loney of South Thomaston, Burleigh Cushing
Rodick of Freeport, and Arthur Deehan
Welch of Portland.
1915 CHOOSES OFFICERS
At a meeting of the Freshman Class, Tues-
day, the following officers were chosen ;
President, George A. MacWilliams.
Vice-President, George W. Ricker.
Secretary, George W. Bacon.
Treasurer, Edward R. Elwell.
Class Football Captain, Harry G. Cross.
Class Football Manager, Charles W. W.
Field.
Class Track Team Captain, Philip S.
Smith.
Class Track Team Manager, Guy W.
~t L 0. MEANS, 1912, ELECTED BASEBALL CAPTAIN
The baseball "B" men met in the Y. M. C.
A. room last Friday and chose Leland Green
("Lee") Means of Orleans, Nebraska, to lead
the team next spring. He succeeds George
Frank ("Squanto") Wilson, who was elected
last Spring and who has been playing with the
Detroit Americans this summer. Captain
Means made the team his Freshman year and
has since then been a leading member of the
pitching squad.
MASS MEETING FOR COLBY GAME
The rally for the Colby game, held last Fri-
day evening in Memorial Hall, brought out a
good deal of enthusiasm from the student body
and college spirit ran high. The rally was
held mainly to show the team that the student
body was behind it, and it succeeded in its
purpose. Capt. "Jack" Hurley called the
meeting to order, and introduced the various
speakers of the evening.
The first to address the meeting was Prof.
Hutchins. He spoke very interestingly on
football, and gave a short sketch of the evolu-
tion of the game. He said that the first
requisite of football was to play to win, the
second to play it fairly.
Prof. Davis also exhorted the fellows to
play the game fairly and cleanly, to be good
sportsmen, win or lose, and to do their best
to uphold the banner of White.
"Farmer" Kern spoke a few words which
brought forth plenty of applause. He said
that although as a member of the team he
ought not to say much, he was confident of
the result.
Coach Bergin when called on, gave a
speech which was full of confidence. He said
that he was absolutely sure of the gameness of
every man on the team. He urged the student
body to make the trip to Waterville to sup-
port the team, and cheer. He cited the Army-
Navy game of a few years ago, in which the
Army won through "fight," and the loyal
cheering of the student body. That his confi-
dence was not unfounded was shown by the
result.
Professor Lunt spoke of the cheering. He
said that last year at the games he attended
the cheers were not given with enough snap.
He urged the fellows to cheer hard and often,
not only when victory was certain, but also
when things were going against the team.
"Bill" Nixon, '13, led the cheering and the
new "wow" yell was tried several times. The
band was on hand with several timely selec-
tions. The speakers were all well received
and were heartily applauded. The rally closed
with the customary cheers and Bowdoin Beata.
STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING
At the regular Monday night meeting the
Student Council elected as publishers of the
college calendar, Alton L. Grant, '12, and D.
Earl Gardner, '13.
It was voted that the Freshman-Sopho-
more football game be held on Saturday, No-
vember 25. In accordance with the rulings of
the college, training should be begun at once
by those who are going out for the class teams.
In regard to the question of the bulletin
board it was thought that this board could best
serve its purpose if all advertisements were
posted below the glass case. This would allow
more space for important notices.
The "blanket-tax" situation was discussed
and tentative plans were considered. When
they have been more carefully arranged the
Council will submit them to the student body.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
BAND ORGANIZES FOR THE SEASON
The band has recently elected B. H. Riggs,
'i2, manager, in place of L. A. Crosby, '13, re-
signed and has elected C. A. Brown, '14, as
assistant manager. Rehearsals are being held
weekly under the direction of Leader J. H.
Newell, '12, and indicate a successful year.
The make-up of the band is as follows:
Qarinets, C. L. Clark, '12; E. S. Purington,
'12; L. D. Lincoln, '12; M. Moulton, '15; J.
A. Lewis, '15; and H. M. Chatto, '15. Pic-
colo, B. H. Riggs, '12, Cornets, J. H. Newell,
'12 ; H. D. Gilbert, '13 ; H. E. Locke, '12 ; B. L.
Adams, '14; B. E. Moulton, '13; M. A. Hast-
ings, '15; O. R. Folsom- Jones, '15. Horns,
J. H. McKenney, '12; W. J. Greenleaf, '12;
C. A. Brown, '14; E. H. Austin, '15. Baritone,
G. F. Cressey, '12. Trom'bones, C. D. Skillin,
'12; H. A. Lewis, '15. Bass horns, K.
Churchill, '12; H. G. Cross, '15. Snare drum,
A. B. Stetson, '14. Bass drum, W. E. Mason,
Jr., '14. Cymbals, S. P. Morrill, '15.
LATIN DEPARTMENT WINS FACULTY TENNIS
TOURNAMENT
The Faculty tennis tournament, which be-
gan a week ago Wednesday, has reached the
final round. Dean Sills and Professor Nixon
are left to battle for the honor of winning.
The score is as follows :
Preliminary Round
Professor Lunt defeated Professor Brown,
6-3, 6-4.
Professor Nixon defeated Dr. Burnett, 6-0,
6-0.
Professor Ham defeated Professor Wood-
ruff, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Dean Sills defeated Professor Davis, 6-2,
6-1.
Mr. Alvord defeated Dr. Whittier by de-
fault.
Dr. Loomis defeated Professor Hornell,
6-0, 6-2.
Professor Catlin defeated Mr. Wilder,
6-0, 6-0.
Second Round
Professor Nixon won from Professor
Lunt, 6-4, 6-1.
Mr. Fifield won from Professor Ham, 6-1,
6-1.
Dean Sills won from Mr. Alvord, 8-6, 6-4.
Professor Catlin won from Dr. Loomis,
6-3, 6-2.
Semi-Final Round
Professor Nixon defeated Mr. Fifield, 4-6,
6-1, 6-2.
Dean Sills defeated Professor Catlin, 7-5,
6-3-
Final Round
Dean Sills vs. Professor Nixon.
BOWDOIN VS. VERMONT: CROSS COUNTRY RACE
NOVEMBER 10
Final arrangements have been made for the Bow-
doin- Vermont cross country race which is to be held
on Friday, November 10. The teams will leave
Whittier Field at four p.m. for the five-mile course,
which will begin and end with one lap around the
track.
As a result of the trials, Wednesday, the follow-
ing men made the team: Harry H. Hall, '13; J. O.
Tarbox, '14; C. B. Timberlake, '12; G. A. MacWil-
liams, 'is; C. B. Haskell, '13; and G. W. Bacon, '15,
alternate.
BOWDOIN IN ENGLAND
At a meeting of Convocation, held on Tuesday,
October 24th, at Oxford University, the following
decrees were proposed :
(I)
"That any member of Bowdoin College, Bruns-
wick, Me., who shall have been graded not less than
B either in Advanced Greek at the Admission Ex-
amination, or in Greek A and Greek B ; and also in
Greek I. and Greek II. at that University, shall be
deemed to have a sufficient knowledge of Greek as
required by the provisions of Statt. Tit. II. Sect. IX,
"On Students from Foreign Universities," cl. 11.
(2)
"That any member of Bowdoin College, Bruns-
wick, Maine, who shall have pursued at the Univer-
sity a course of study extending over two years at
the least, and shall 'have completed not less than
eight courses with an average grading of at least
seventy-five per cent., shall be eligible for admis-
sion to the status and privileges of a Junior For-
eign student, provided that the said courses are
courses vdiich could have been counted towards the
Degree of Bachelor of Arts at that University."
(3)
"That any member of Bowdoin College, Bruns-
wick, Maine, who shall have pursued at that Uni-
versity a course of study extending over three years
at the least, and either (a) shall have obtained the
Degree of Bachelor of Arts magna ciim laude, or
(b) shall have completed not less than thirteen
courses with an average grading of at least eighty-
five per cent., shall be eligible for adrnission to the
status and privileges of a Senior Foreign Student."
This recognition which Oxford makes of Bow-
doin puts it on a basis which it shares with^ Cornell,
Brown, University of California, Columbia, Har-
vard. Leland Stanford, Princeton. Michigan, Van-
derbilt, Virginia, Wisconsin, Yale and Haverford.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
1£5
In accordance with the decree above stated, by
obtaining Senior standing, a graduate of Bowdoin
becomes exempt from prehminary examinations, and
is able to begin reading for his degree at once ; and
if successful can secure the degree in two instead
of three years.
This year Bowdoin has two graduates in attend-
ance at Oxford, Robert Hale, igio, and Edward E.
Kern, 191 1, both of whom were Rhodes scholars
from Maine.
MAINE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION
Bowdoin men, both members of the Faculty and
alumni, were very prominent at the meeting of the
Maine Teachers' Association at Augusta, Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday of last week, and took
active part in the program.
Professor Mitchell presided at the meeting of the
English Department. During the past year he has
been President of the Department, and at this meet-
ing was elected chairman of the executive commit-
tee on English.
In the classical department, Bowdoin men were
very much in evidence. Dean Sills was chairman of
the department, and was elected to the executive
committee of the association. Professor Nixon read
from his translation of the "Menaechmi of Plautus."
Professor Woodruff attended the meeting also.
The alumni were also active in this section. Hon.
Herbert M. Heath, '72, of Augusta, spoke on the
"Practical Value of a Classical Training for a Man
of Affairs." W. E. Sargent, '78, Principal of Hebron
Academy, read a paper entitled, ''How to Get the
Classical Cause before the People of Maine."
Professor Files, secretary of the modern language
department, presided in the absence of the President.
He had as a subject "Literature and Literary Crit-
icism as Assets in Modern Language Instructon."
Professor Ham read a paper on "New Books from
Germany."
In the scientific department Professor Cram was
elected chairman of the section. He addressed the
meeting on the "Co-ordination of Gherajistry
Courses." Wm. Wing, '02, of Portland, was also
a member of the executive committee. George R.
Gardner, '01, opened the discussion which followed.
W. G. Mallett, '91, Principal of Farmington State
Normal School, read an article before the depart-
ment on "Methods in Physics." Dr. Loomis also
attended the meeting.
CALENDAR
FmdaYj November 3
3.30 Football Practice at Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Team leaves Gymnasium.
7.30 Mass-Meeting in Memorial Hall.
Saturday, November 4
2.30 Bowdoin vs. Bates, Lewiston.
2.30 Maine vs. Colby, Waterville.
Sunday, November 5
10.45 Morning service in Church on the Hill.
S.oo Sunday chapel.
Monday, November 6
3.30 Football Practice at Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Team leaves Gymnasium.
7.00 Meeting of Normal Class in Bible Study.
8.00 Meeting of Student Council.
Tuesday, November 7
3.30 Football Practice at Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Team leaves Gymnasium.
Wednesday, November 8
3.30 Football Practice at Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Team leaves Gymnasium.
Thursday, November 9
3.30 Football Practice at Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Team leaves Gymnasium.
7.00 Y. M. C. A. Meeting in chapel room.
Friday, November 10
3.00 Football Practice at Whittier Field.
4.00 Cross Country Race with U. of Vermont on
Bowdoin's Course.
8.00 Informal Dance at Delta Upsilon House.
7.30 Mass Meeting in Memorial Hall.
College Botes
All out for Mass Meeting in
Memorial Hall at 7.30 Tonight.
Robinson, '14, is ill at his home in Biddeford.
Harold P. Marston, '11, visited the Theta Delt
House last week.
H. B. Ballard, '10, and G. C. Duffey, Jr., ex-'l3,
have been visiting on the campus.
Professor George L. Hendrickson of the Latin
department at Yale, visited the college, Friday even-
ing.
Most of the team witnessed the Hebron-Coburn
game, Saturday morning. Frank Smith, '12, refereed
the game.
"Bill" Clifford, '11, was one of the officials at the
game between Portland High and Bangor High at
Bangor last Saturday.
Professor Johnson gave the first of a series of
lectures on the Art Building and its contents, Thurs-
day at 11.30 in the Art Building.
The north basement room in the Art Building
is being prepared for an exhibition room. The
workmen are tinting the walls now.
Walter H. Norton, Dartmouth, '10, who coached
the Bowdoin nine last spring, has entered the rub-
ber business. He is employed lay the Enterprise Rub-
ber Company of Boston.
The specifications for the new "gym" were sent
out to the bidders from the architect's office, Mon-
day. It is planned to break ground early in the
spring, and if conditions are favorable, the "gym"
will be in running order by winter.
The Brunswick High football team, coached by
Frank Smith, '12, showed the effects of his coach-
ing a week ago Saturday, by carrying Cony High off
its feet, and piling up a score of 20-0. Cony Hig'h,
bv the way, is coached by "Al" Wandtke, '10, who is
an instructor in the school.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
RESOLUTIONS
Hall of Alpha Delta Phi.
The Bowdoin Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi
was grievously stricken by the death of one of
her most highly esteemed and honored alumni,
Rev. John Smith Sewall, "50, who died Octo-
ber II, at his home in Bangor.
The public remembers Brother Sewall as
a valiant soldier and a learned theologian, the
college knew and respected him as a loyal and
devoted Professor and Trustee. But we, as
Alpha Delts, remember and cherish the name
of a true and affectionate brother, possessed
with those qualities of cordiality and kindly
sympathy, which made him so "beloved to those
of the outside world with whom he came in
contact.
(Signed),
e. s. purington,
James E. Philoon,
E. S. Thompson,
For the Chapter.
Hall of Alpha Delta Phi.
On July 2, the Bowdoin Chapter of Alpha
Delta Phi lost by the death of Franklin Augus-
tus Wilson, '54, of Bangor, one of her most
prominent and highly esteemed alumni.
Brother Wilson was a prominent member
of the Penobscot bar, and on account of his
pre-eminence as a jurist, and his business abil-
ity as a banker and railroad enterpriser, was
honored with many high positions of private
and public trust.
(Signed),
e. s. purington,
James E. Philoon,
E. S. Thompson,
For the Chapter.
Hlumni Bepattment
'40. — William Pitt Preble, for the past four
years the oldest living graduate of Bowdoin,
died at his home in New Brighton, Staten
Island, N. Y., Monday, October 23. Mr.
Preble was born in Portland, April 15, 1819,
and was graduated from Bowdoin in 1840 and
from Harvard in 1843. ^'■- Preble was a
prominent lawyer and was for many years
Clerk of the United States District Court in
Portland. He was also the senior past grand
master of the grand lodge of the Masons of
Maine and was one of the three surviving
members of the northern supreme grand coun-
cil, who assisted in the union of the supreme
councils about 40 years ago.
'60. — Rev. Edwin A. Harlow, one of the
best known Congregational ministers in
Maine, died at his home in Windham last Sat-
urday afternoon, Oct. 28, after a long illness.
Mr. Harlow was graduated from Bowdoin in
i860, in the same class with Thomas B. Reed,
Judge Symonds, and others ; and from the
Bangor Theological Seminary in 1863. He
was ordained at West Minot the same year.
From 1863 to 1871, he held pastorates in the
West, being successively pastor of the Congre-
gational Churches at Kansas City, Mo., Grass-
hopper Falls, Mo., and Wyandotte, Kansas.
In 1871, he returned to the East and held a
pastorate at Cape Elizabeth from 1871 to 1884.
This was followed by six years of service as
general missionary of the Congregational So-
ciety of Maine. From 1890 to 1892, Mr. Har-
low occupied the pastorate at North Anson,
and from 1892 to 1895 that at Robbinston.
On account of feeble health he gave up active
labor and came to Windham in 1896, where he
purchased a small farm and devoted himself
as far as possible to out-of-door pursuits.
Being somewhat improved in health, he
spent several years in work for the Bible
Society of Maine, and for five years was pas-
tor of the Litchfield Congregational Church.
Mr. Harlow has always devoted his entire in-
terest to the aid and progress of the church
in Maine. He has held many large pastorates
and given his time and energy to building
them up and making them prosperous in every
way. Mr. Harlow's many friends sympathize
with his family in their loss.
'04. — The wedding of Philip M. Clark of
Cambridge, Mass., and Miss Margaret Kreutz
of Winchester, Mass., took place at the
Church of the Epiphany in Winchester on
Monday evening, Oct. 9. Mr. and Mrs. Qark
will be at home after Nov. 15 at 592 Huron
Avenue, Cambridge.
Medical School of Maine
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Addison S. Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLl
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, NOVEMBER 10, 1911
NO. 16
BOWDOIN VS. MAINE ON WHITTIER FIELD
Bowdoin and University of Maine will de-
cide the 191 1 football championship of Maine
Saturday afternoon on Whittier Field before
what promises to be a record-breaking crowd.
From every part of New England, alumni of
both institutions are coming to swell the num-
ber of undergraduates, and one of the most
important struggles in the football history of
the state will be witnessed by a crowd that will
be numbered in the thousands. Hundreds are
coming to watch the work of the splendid
eleven which, often under-rated by outsiders at
the opening of the season, has attained a posi-
tion in which to fight for the highest possible
gridiron honors in Maine. Bowdoin Spirit
has been a telling factor in putting the team in
that position, and Saturday afternoon Bow-
doin Spirit, every Bowdoin man firmly be-
lieves, is going to win the championship.
Wrapped up in this spirit, however, is the
steady, conscientious work and wonderful grit
of the football men. With a hard-earned tie
over Colby and a grand victory over Bates to
their credit, they are going after the U. of M.
game with every bit of ability, grit, and spirit
they have, and these three characteristics,
which have been true of every other Bowdoin
team, should combine to bring victory to old
Bowdoin.
Preparations have been made during the
week to take care of the enormous attendance.
Additional bleachers with a seating capacity
of five hundred have been erected on the Bow-
doin side of the field, and the U. of M. cheer-
ing section will be directly opposite. The
Maine men, over five hundred strong and with
the band, are coming on a special train which
will arrive in Brunswick about 11 o'clock Sat-
urday morning. Rumors have been rife all the
week to the effect that Bates will send down
her band and a large number of students to
cheer for Bowdoin. Brunswick people, too,
are vitally interested in the great game, and it
is expected that the Brunswick band will be
present. To urge Bowdoin men to attend the.
game and root hard for their team is not neces-
sary at this stage of the season.
At this writing it is not possible to name
the exact line-ups with which Bowdoin and
Maine will take the field, but the make-up of
neither eleven is likely to be radically different
from that of previous state games. Needless
to say, neither side has left a stone unturned
to put forth the strongest team possible.
Manager King has announced that the fol-
lowing corps of officials will handle the game:
Referee, Ernest G. Hapgood of Brown; um-
pire, Thomas F. Murphy of Harvard ; field
judge, A. S. Macreadie of the Portland Ath-
letic Club ; head linesman, Lieut. Jacob Frank
of Vermont.
BOWDOIN, II; BATES, 0
The White triumphed over the Garnet last
Saturday on Garcelon Field, Lewiston, before
the largest crowd of the year by the satisfying
score of 11 to o. From a spectator's point of
view the game was replete with sensations.
Both of the plays with which Bowdoin scored
were on long runs by Kern and another long
run by Duff. Wood in the third period looked
like a touchdown for a short time. Bates
added to the features of the open play by suc-
cessfully executing the forward pass for good
gains and also gained a great deal on a clever
fake kick.
It was in about the middle of the first
period after Bates had secured possession of
the ball on her 4-yard line and was working it
out of danger, that Dennis fumbled on a line
play and Kern shot out from the mass of play-
ers around right end for a touchdown. Again
in the third period, this same Kern intercepted
a forward pass and raced down the field for 76
yards and again placed the ball behind Bates'
goal. The second try at goal was successful,
the first one having failed making the final
score II to o.
At two or three other times during the
game Bowdoin was within scoring distance of
Bates, but lost the ball on downs at crucial mo-
ments. Bates came within kicking distance of
Bowdoin's goal once or twice but did not come
very near to scoring a touchdown.
The punting of Faulkner was superior to
that of the opposing kicker and this advantage
helped the Bowdoin team out of more than one
dangerous position. Hurley and Hinch were
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down under nearly every punt and many times
caught the receiver before he had moved from
his tracks. Lewis, a Freshman, made his first
appearance in the line and played a good
steady game as well as doing some good punt-
ing. The centre trio, Burns, Douglas and
Pratt were as strong as usual on defence and
stopped short nearly every play sent in their
direction. Wood, at tackle, was slowed up on
olifense with a sore knee, but played his usual
aggressive game and came near to scoring in
the third period. Dole at quarter ran the
team in good shape and played well, especially
in the returning of punts. LaCasce also played
a strong game in the back-field. Bob Weather-
ill was able to get into the game for a couple
of periods and while he was in, pulled off sev-
eral of the cleanest and hardest tackles of the
game.
For Bates, Skip Dyer played a remarkable
game and seemed to figure in every one of
Bates plays. Dennis at half back also made
several long gains around our ends and out-
side of tackle.
There was a large crowd of Bowdoin sup-
porters in the bleachers and the rooting was
especially good.
The game in detail:
Bates won the toss and Dyer kicked to LaCasce
but he fumbled and Dole recovered the ball. Kern
was held for no gain and Faulkner made five yards
through right guard. Faulkner then punted to Rem-
mert on the Bates 2S-yard line and he brought the
ball back ten yards. Dyer then made four yards
thru center but was stopped by Kern. Dyer then
punted to Faulkner in the center of the field. Kern
hit the line for eight yards and LaCasce was unable
to gain. LaCasce then punted to Remmert on the
Bates 22-yard line but before the Bates man could
move, Douglas had him down. Dyer then hit the
line, but again Douglas was the obstacle and there
was no gain. Dennis made four yards on a skin
tackle play. Dyer then fumbled a poor pass and
when he had recovered the ball was tackled for a
four-yard loss by Burns. At this point Kern got
away from the crowd and made fifteen yards around
left end, bringing the ball to Bates' lo-yard line.
Here, however, Dole was unable to gain, and after
Kern had made three yards, Bowdoin lost the ball.
Dyer then punted out to Dole who carried the ball
to the Bates' 3S-yard line. LaCasce and Kern
made small gains and an attempted forward pass
from Dole was recovered by Danahy who carried
the ball to the Bates' 37-yard Une. Dyer then punted
and again Dole was the man under the ball, and
carried it back ten yards. Faulkner after trying un-
successfully to gain, punted to Remmert whom
Douglas downed. Bates was here penalized 15
yards for holding. Faulkner on a fake punt tore off
ten yards and Kern made seven through right guard
giving Bowdoin first down in the center of the field.
Kern tried twice to gain and Faulkner booted the
ball for 45 yards. Dyer then tried center, but found
Lewis too much for him and he was forced to give
up with no gain. He then punted to Dole in the
center of the field. Kern made three yards thru
center altho in doing so he was injured. However,
after a moment of rest he pluckily remained in the
game. Faulkner then punted to Bates' 13-yard line
where Wood held Remmert back for no gain. On
the next play "Farmer" wlio was standing just out-
side of the play picked up the ball which had been
fumbled by Dennis and rolled out from the pile, and
went over the line for a touchdown. Hurley failed
to kick the goal.
On the first kickoff, Thompson sent the ball
against the goal post and the play started from the
Bowdoin 2S-yard line with the ball in Bowdoin's
possession. Kern failed to gain on a fake punt.
Lewis booted the ball to the center of the field where
LaCasce received it. Dole made four yards, but this
and sixteen more were lost when Bowdoin was
penalized for holding. After a slight loss by Kern,
Lewis punted to Bates' 4S-yard line and then ran
down and tackled Dennis when he received the ball.
Dennis found Kern too great an obstacle to gain and
the quarter ended with the ball in Bates' possession
on her own 46-yard line.
Second Period
On the first play of this quarter, Dyer punted to
LaCasce on Bowdoin's 37-yard line. Here a fumble
lost three yards and Faulkner punted to Dennis on
the Bates so-yard line. An attempted forward pass
for Bates failed, altho as a result of this play, Bow-
doin was penalized for holding. This gave Bowdoin
first down on her own so-yard line. Dennis was able
to get away for fifteen yards before he was brought
down by Kern. Dyer went through center for three,
being tackled by Wood and Douglas prevented
Bates from gaining ground on the next play. At
this point Bates was penalized twenty yards for
holding. After trying an unsuccessful forward
pass. Bates punted to Dole who was downed on
the Bowdoin so-yard line. After the ball has see-
sawed for several plays. Dyer punted to Dole who
was brought to earth on Bowdoin's 2S-yard line.
LaCasce tried unsuccessfully to gain and Faulkner
punted to Bates in the center of the field. When
Bowdoin next got the ball it was on her own 3s-
yard line as a result of an unsuccessful forward
pass starting from Remmert.
After trying unsuccessfully to gain, Faulk-
ner punted to the center of the field. From
there Dennis made six yards thru center and
Dyer repeated the performance, Kern and
Douglas being the men who prevented larger
gains. Keni then intercepted a forward pass
and got away for twenty-five yards, but the
ball was taken back thirty as a penalty for un-
necessary roughness on Bowdoin's part.
Faulkner then punted to Bates' 50-yard line.
From here Bates was pushed back still farther
as a result of a fumble, and Dyer on trying to
get through the line found Simpson too much
for him. Dyer then punted thirty-five yards
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to Faulkner who brings the ball back fifteen
yards before he is tackled. Kern after losing
on an attempted end play, punted to Tal-
bot on Bates' 50-yard line. After mak-
ing several short gains, Bates then punted.
Dole getting the ball on his own 20-
yard line. Kern immediately returned the
punt, booting the ball thirty yards. Three
plays by Bates netted them thirty-four yards,
but two unsuccessful attempts at the forward
pass gave Bowdoin the ball. Kern tried to
gain on a fake kick unsuccessfully and then
Faulkner punted out of danger. Bates then
tried an end run and a forward pass without
gaining. Bowdoin was penalized five yards
for being offside, and thus when she started
with the ball it was from her own 28-yard line.
From here after "Farmer" had made five
through center, Faulkner punted, but the ball
went high in the air and Dyer got the ball and
ran it back to practically the place it had
started from before he was downed. From
here Bates worked down the field until they
had the ball on Bowdoin's four-yard line when
the whistle blew for the end of the half.
Third Period
Thompson's, first attempt on the kick-oflf
went offside. The second was taken in by
Wood on Bowdoin's 20-yard line and carried
in twelve yards. After a series of short gains,
Bowdoin punted, and Bates returned the play.
Bates' punt, however, was fumbled and she
recovered the ball again on Bowdoin's 25-yard
line. Dyer then made three yards through
center. On the next play Kern broke in and
intercepted a forward pass. Quick as a flash
he was out of the crowd and speeding down
the field. By clever work on the start of his
run he got a clear field and ran seventy-five
yards for a touchdown. LaCasce kicked the
goal.
On the kick-off, Dole made a pretty run in
returning the ball but fumbled and Dennis re-
covered the ball on Bowdoin's 42-yard line.
After two plays, Bates fumbled the ball and
"Farmer" recovered it. After getting a couple
of short gains, Faulkner punted 35 yards where
Hinch tackled the receiver of the ball by what
was without doubt one of the best tackles of
the game. The ball was pushed back and
forth on the field with little advantage for
either side until Bates had the ball on Bow-
doin's 12-yard line as the result of two or three
brilliant forward passes. From here, however,
Danahy, trying to work the forward pass was
thrown for a loss and the next two plays only
brought the ball five yards. When Bowdoin
got the ball here, Faulkner soon put the ball
on the Bowdoin 40-yard line with a pretty
punt. Here on Bates' first attempt to get back
to the White's goal line. Wood recovered a
fumble and ran fifty yards, this being all the
more remarkable as it was evident that the
runner's game leg greatly hindered his prog-
ress. Shortly after this Bowdoin tried a for-
ward pass and this gave Bates her innings.
On their first play, Dennis got away for 12
yards, and would have gone farther had it not
been for Weatherill's star tackle. After this
Dyer was forced to punt and Dole got the ball
on his own 47-yard line. Here it was when
the quarter ended.
Fourth Period
This period was the most uninteresting of
the game as in it no scoring was done and it
was so dark that it was almost impossible to
distinguish the players. This period was cut
to twelve minutes. On the first play, Faulkner
punted to Talbot who had taken Remmert's
place, on Bates' 40-yard line. After making
two short gains. Dyer punted, but unfortu-
nately for him the ball hit against the back of
one of his team mates and Wood recovered the
ball. Kern was then sent around left end for
five yards and a forward pass from him netted
five more. Dole went through for first down,
taking the ball to Bates' 20-yard line. How-
ever, Bowdoin hopes of another score were
dashed when Kern lost five yards on the next
play, and in the following one Bates got the
ball thru a fumble. Dyer punted to the cen-
ter of the field and Thompson, by one of the
best spurts of speed shown on the field, recov-
ered the ball which Bowdoin fumbled. Dyer
then tried another punt and this time Dole got
the ball tweny-five yards away. Weatherill
then made five yards, but when he tried a sec-
ond time was unable to gain. Faulkner punted
and from that time until the end of the game
the ball see-sawed back and forth without
either team being able to gain much ground in
spite of the fact that many new men were in-
troduced into the game. On the last play,
Crosby received he ball from Dyer's toe on
Bowdoin's 35-yard line and there Bowdoin had
the ball when the whistle blew.
Continued on page 130, 2d column
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Vol. XLI. NOVEMBER 10, 1911 No. 16
And now the time for the
Tomorrow last great effort has come !
When the final whistle
blows on Whittier Field to-morrow afternoon
either the University of Maine or Bowdoin
will be the undisputed football champion of
the State. According to the reports of the
press in general Bowdoin has thus far shown
very little championship form. But we as un-
dergraduates are not backing a team which we
think is winning through luck. We have seen
its "fighting spirit" displayed and we have
every reason to rely on such a spirit to make
the team fight to-morrow. We know, too, that
every man who represents Bowdoin in the
game is going to work as never before this
season to win. The entire squad is permeated
with a "do-or-die" spirit. But we can't re-
main satisfied at that point. As in the two
previous championship games the student body
must back the squad to a man. The spirit of
fight which the cheering section instils into the
team on the field is essential to the result for
which Bowdoin men look to-morrow. With
team and student body working together we
can expect to see the White declared champion
with a clean slate.
The Orient is glad to ac-
New Relations knowledge the relationship
established between the
University of Vermont and Bowdoin in track
athletics. In former years the two institu-
tions have contested in baseball and tennis but
never before have they fought for supremacy
on the track. This year a contract exists which
insures competition in cross country for a
period of two years. We hope that the friendly
spirit of rivalry which has promoted previous
contests will be maintained in this new rela-
tionship.
The recent recognition
Bowdoin Abroad which the University of
Oxford made of Bowdoin
has brought to the college a great distinction.
Through it Bowdoin is ranked with institu-
tions throughout America which are much
larger. Now, she has the honor of being the
smallest institution among fourteen which has
received such notice from the University of
England. Not only does this bring distinc-
tion and honor to the name of the college but
it pays a tribute to the quality and worth of
Bowdoin's sons who rank as Rhodes scholars.
Bowdoin, 1 1 ; Bates, 0
Continued from page 129
The line-up and summary:
Bowdoin Bates
Hinch, Page, l.e r.e., Thompson
Wood, l.t r.t., Bolster
Pratt, Simpson, l.g.
r.g., G'Donnell, Hooper, Bickford
Douglas, McMahon, c c, Cole
Burns, r.g l.g., Moore
Lewis, Hall, Weeks, r.t l.t., Butler
Hurley, r.e I.e., Dana'hy
Dole, Crosby, q.b q.b., Remmert, Talbot
Faulkner, Weatherill, l.h.b.
r.h.b., Elbridge, Hill, Shay
LaCasce, Weatherill, r.h.b l.h.b., Dennis
Kern, Holt, f.b f.b.. Dyer
Score: Bowdoin, 11. Touchdowns, Kern 2. Goal
from touchdown, LaCasce. Referee, L. Hudson
Andrews of Yale. Umpire, Jacob Frank of Ver-
mont. Field judge, Harold W. Jones of Haver-
ford. Linesman, Harley Rawson of Buckfield.
Assistant linesmen. Lovely of Bates, Hamilton of
Bowdoin. Time, three is-tninute and one 12-minute
periods.
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1914 CLASS ELECTION
The Sophomore class met in the gym,
Thursday evening, Nov. 2, and elected officers
for the ensuing year. The following men
were chosen :
President, Robert T. Weatherill of Bruns-
wick.
Vice-President, Ralph L. Buell of Portland.
Secretary, Alfred E. Gray of Portsmouth,
N. H.
Treasurer, Philip R. Fox of Portland.
Lewis T. Brown of Portland, was elected
captain of the class football team, and Louis
A. Donahue, also of Portland, manager.
MASS MEETING FOR BATES GAME
Every "live" fellow in college was at the
mass-meeting last Friday night, and every one,
as he went down the stairway and out into the
open air, was telling himself that he was glad
he came, and was figuring on which train he
should take to Lewiston. Capt. "Jack" Hur-
ley kept things moving and introduced the
speakers. At the opening of the meeting, he
made some remarks himself, before calling on
the speakers. Fie said that during the game
at Waterville he could hear the "Fight, fight"
of the cheering section, and it helped him won-
derfully. He asked the fellows to show the
same spirit at Lewiston. He said that although
their defence had been strong, their offence
had been weak, but promised that it would
show a big improvement against Bates.
Professor Nixon said that he did not wish
to see a big Bowdoin, that, in fact, he would
consider it a calamity. As it stands now, about
four hundred men take the "exams" every
year and only about a hundred are accepted.
These are picked men. If every Bowdoin man
should get at least one man to take the
"exams," should talk Bowdoin to him at
every opportunity we would have a class of
picked men which could not be equaled. He
said that it was hoped to arrange games with
Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, and Trinity
next year. It was a duty to go to the Colby
game, he argued, but a privilege to accompany
the team to Lewiston, and that if we invaded
the city three hundred strong, it would be the
best "ad" which we could have.
"Brosie" Burns spoke a few words, terse
and to the point. He said that he had no
doubt as to the outcome, and that under Coach
Bergin and "Jack" Hurley, they could not lose.
Dr. Whittier remarked that whenever he
spoke at a Bowdoin rally he always felt that
two things were expected of him, statistics and
prophecy. As to the first, he said that Bow-
doin had won eleven games from Bates, and
had lost six. He had 'built up quite a reputa-
tion in former years as a prophet, and his rule
had been invariably to prophesy a Bowdoin
victory. His reputation had waned somewhat
recently, but he was going to prophesy that at
the end of the game the score would be Bow-
doin 15, Bates o. He paid a glowing tribute
to the team, but declared that we should sup-
port the team better financially, that it is our
duty to subscribe. He said that if the man-
agement does not come to us, it is our place
to make a voluntary subscription.
"The fellows have a double duty to-mor-
row," said Coach Bergin, "to hold Bates to
nothing and not let Bates do it to them." He
urged the student body to show the same spirit
which helped the team at Waterville. He said
that the team could not win games by great de-
fensive work, but that they must get the ball
into Bates territory and keep it there.
The band kept the fellows' attention be-
tween whiles, and the rally closed with a round
of good, snappy cheers.
MEDICAL SCHOOL NOTES
In view of the recent ruling of the board of
trustees of the Medical School, that, beginning next
year, all candidates for admission must have com-
pleted a college course, it is interesting to note the
small number of men in the present first year class,
who have the degree of A.B. The number this
year is unusually slender, there being only three, as
compared with ten last year.
Seven colleges are represented in the present
entering class. Bowdoin leads with nine, Bates,
Colby, Holy Cross, Montreal and Laval University
having only a single representative each, while the
University of A'laine contributes two men. It is a
strange coincidence, that in both the first, and sec-
ond-year classes, all but three men are natives of
the "Pine-tree" state, and that, in each case, the
exceptions come from Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire, and Connecticut.
The medical students will take Histology in the
Biological Laboratory in the Science Building this
year, instead of in the medical building as formerly.
The change is to give larger quarters. The instruct-
ors are Dr. Drummond and Dr. Holt, both of Port-
land, and Dr. Stevens.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
In his chapel talk last Sunday, President Hyde
described church services as mass-meetings for the
cause of righteousness. He said in part, "If anyone
said to you, 'Yes, I'm interested in football but I
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cannot go to the mass-meeting. The mass-meeting
is not the game and I cannot waste time on mere
accessories,' you would repudiate his logic. Yet
practically eighty per cent, of us are saying this reg-
ularly with regard to church services. The atti-
tude of the majority is that church may be neg-
lected, even though we are interested in that for
which it stands.
Either the mass-meeting is a part of football and
church is a part of righteousness, or just the oppo-
site is true. Let us not argue in conflicting ways.
Services 'have the same claim on us, if we are in-
terested in the cause which they strive to further,
that the mass-meeting has if we are interested in
football."
Y. M. C. A. NOTES
Next week Nov. 12-19 has been set apart
throughout the country as a week of prayer for col-
lege students, The Bowdoin Y. M. C. A. will ob-
serve this week by a series of special noon meetings
from I o'clock to 1.30 in the Y.M.C.A. room. The
following men will conduct the meetings : Monday,
President Hyde ; Tuesday, Prof. Johnson ; Wednes-
day, Mr. Fifield; Thursday, Mr. Parsons; Friday,
Professor Chapman.
The speaker at the meeting on Thursday, Nov.
16, will be Rev. H. E. Dunnack of Augusta, Me.,
who will speak on the subject, "The Unspeakable
Gift." Mr. Dunnack is one of the most popular
speakers whom we have the pleasure of hearing and
this opportunity to hear him is one which should
not be missed.
The cabinet held its monthly meeting at the
Delta Kappa Epsilon House on Thursday, Nov. 2.
Reports from committees were heard and plans for
extending the work were discussed. The member-
ship Committee reports a total enrollment of 193
men.
DELTA UPSILON DANCE
An informal dance is being held at the Delta
Upsilon House this evening for the guests of the
fraternity who have come for the Maine game, Sat-
urday. Among the guests are Mrs. F. W. Brown,
Mrs. W. H. Davis, and Mrs. S. B. Furbish of
Brunswick, Mrs. Jennie Bird, Misses Madeline and
Dorothy Bird, and Miss Blanche Hanscom of Rock-
land, Misses Charlotte Nevens and Mina Everett of
Auburn, Misses Gertrude Sadler of Brunswick,
Ethel Withee of Farmington, Mary Holton of
Boothbay Harbor, Doris Berry and Marion Swift
of Gardiner, Elsie Holmes of Bangor, Estelle Barker
of Phillips, Asaphine Harvey and Imogene Wood of
Hallowell, and Helen Stackpole of Biddeford.
Music is furnished by Stetson's Orchestra of
Brunswick.
REV. ALBERT P. FITCH TO SPEAK
On next Sunday, Nov. 12, will be heard the sec-
ond in the series of college preachers, Rev. Albert
Parker Fitch, D.D. He has been here several times
and is regarded as one of the best of college preach-
ers as he always has something of interest to college
men. He was born in Boston on March 6, 1877, and
received his preparatory education at Roxbury Lat-
in School, graduating in 1896. At Harvard he re-
ceived his A.B. in 1900 ; graduated from Union
Theological Seminary in 1903 ; received degree of
B.D. from New York University in 1903 ; and D.D.
from Amherst in 1909. He was ordained as a min-
ister in the Congregational Church in 1903, and was
pastor of First Church, Flushing, L. I., from 1903 to
190S, and Mt. Vernon Church, Boston, from 1905
to 1909. Since 1909 he has been president of An-
dover Theological Seminary. He is a member of
the Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon.
He will speak in the Congregational Church in
the morning at 10.45 and conduct chapel service in
the afternoon.
CALENDAR
Friday, November 10
7.30 Football Mass-Meeting in Memorial Hall.
8.00 Informal Dance at Delta Upsilon House.
Saturday, November ii
3.30 'BOWDOIN VS. MAINE, WHITTIER
FIELD.
5.30 Informal Dance at Beta Theta Pi House.
8.00 Informal Dance at Delta Kappa Epsilon
House.
Sunday, November 12
10.45 Morning Service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by President Albert P. Fitch, D.D.,
Andover Theological Seminary, ^Cambridge,
Mass.
S.oo Sunday Chapel, conducted by Dr. Fitch.
7.00 Meeting, Y. M. C. A. Room, conducted by Dr.
Fitch.
Monday, November 13
7.00 Normal Class meets in Hubbard Hall.
8.00 Student Council Meeting, Deutscher Verein
Room.
Thursday, November 16
7.00 Y. M. C. A. Meeting, Rev. H. E. Dunnack,
Augusta, Me., "The TJnspeakable Gift."
Colleoe IRotes
All out for the Mass Meeting in
Memorial Hall at 7.30 To-Night.
Professor W. B. Mitchell preached in the Con-
gregational Church at Fryeburg on Sunday.
F. W. Hart, '12, attended the initiation of the
Boston University Chapter of Beta Theta Pi, Sat-
urday night.
G. J. Lathrop, the prospective track coach for the
ensuing year, has been engaged by Bates; conse-
quently another will be engaged.
The Faculty have voted that the Christmas vaca-
tion will begin on Friday, Dec. 22, at 4.30 p.m. in-
stead of Saturday noon, Dec. 23, at 12.30.
A chart of the recently excavated city Priene
was hung in the classical room last week. A cata-
logue of the chart is kept at the desk in the library.
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Tony Fiske, ex-'og, was in town over Sunday.
George F. Wilson, '12, is coaching the Biddeford
High School football team.
Robert P. Coffin, '15, and Leon French Dow, '15,
have been initiated into Zeta Psi.
R. D. Kennedy, '13, is manager of the Hubbard
Grandstand as successor to Hathaway, '12.
vr All the rooms in the dormitories are to be equip-
ped with new electric light fixtures by the college.
By the will of Rev. John S. Sewall of Bangor,
Class of 1850, the college is left one thousand dol-
lars.
Rubin, 'is, told his unusual life-story to an inter-
ested audience at the Methodist Church, Sunday
evening.
Nason, '14, Cooley, '14, and Pope, '14, walked to
Lewiston, Saturday morning, to attend the Bates-
Bowdoin game.
Several fellows attended morning service at
Shiloh last Sunday and were shown through several
of the buildings.
John Lewis, '13, who has left college on account
of sickness, has been operated upon and is now get-
ting along well.
C. A. Cary, '10, finished seventh in the recent
Tech-Harvard cross-country race. He was the
third Tech man to finish.
The Alpha Kappa Kappa "Medic" Fraternity
has opened a fraternity house on the corner of Mc-
Lellan and Harpswell streets.
Extra bleachers for the Maine game are being
erected at Whittier Field. Bleachers seating 400 are
being built directly in front of the grandstand.
General Secretary Fifield and President Mac-
Cormick of the Y. M. C. A. spent Tuesday in Wa-
terville, arranging for the State Conference to be
held at Orono next February.
In the July number of the National Magazine is
an interesting story of college life written by Rob-
ert King Atwell, '09. The reader who is well ac-
quainted with the Bowdoin campus, would easily
recognize it as the one described.
B. H. Riggs, '12, attended the initiation, banquet
and dance of Alpha Lambda Chapter of Kappa
Sigma at the University of Vermont as the delegate
from Alpha Rho Chapter last week.
G. B. Webber has presented the college with a
large picture of the Bowdoin igii championship
baseball team done in sepia and framed in a heavy
brown oak frame. The picture will be hung in the
gymnasium this week.
Edward L. Morss, '12, is taking special work in
surveying. He is erecting signal stations in the sur-
rounding country and will use these in mapping the
topography of the land. One of the stations will be
upon the library tower, another in Bowdoinham and
another in West Bath. Mr. Morss is working un-
der the leadership of Assistant Professor Alvord.
Over 75 people will take part in the big Saturday
Club vaudeville in the Town Hall on Tuesday even-
ing, November 28, at eight o'clock. After the per-
formance there will be dancing till midnight. There
will be girls from Killarney, girls from Amsterdam,
and girls from Bombay. See "The Student's Glide."
Mr. Ernest Bragdon of 8 Coffin Street, who has
been working in the paper mill at Pejepscot, has
taken the janitors'hip at the library made vacant by
the death of Mr. Adams.
Mr. Joseph C. Adams, for the past three years
janitor of Hubbard Hall, died very suddenly of
heart disease on Tuesday evening, Oct. 31st. He
had been engaged at his usual duties in the library
that day, although he had been unwell for a fort-
night. Mr. Adams was a kind-hearted man and had
other qualities that won him friends.
At a meeting of a nominating committee consist-
ing of representatives of each fraternity and the
non-fraternity men a week ago Monday, the follow-
ing Sophomore slate was drawn up :
For class president, Robert D. Leigh, Seattle,
Wash. ; Robert T. Weatherill, Brunswick.
For vice-president, Edgar R. Payson, Jr., Port-
land; Ralph L. Buell, Portland.
For secretary, Elroy O. LaCasce, Skowhegan ;
Alfred E. Gray, Portsmouth, N. H.
For treasurer, Samuel W. Chase, Lowell, Mass. ;
Philip R. Fox, Portland, Me.
jFacult^ Botes
Professor Mitchell addressed Turner Grange
last Saturday on "Reading in the Home."
President Hyde spoke at the dedication of the
Rumford Mechanics Institute at Rumford last
Thursday. The Institute is opened through the
generosity of Hugh J. Chisholm, whom Bowdoin
men remember for his donations toward the gym.
Henry Q. Hawes, 'lo, is principal of the school.
1[ntercollegiate IFlotes
The Sophomore Class of Hamilton Col-
lege have agreed to abolish the use of "trots"
in Latin. The Latin professor, for his part,
has promised to shorten the lessons.
The University of California is building a run-
ning track which will cost $20,000.
Cigarette smoking is forbidden at Notre Dame.
This regulation is enforced by suspension.
A descendant of John Harvard's second cousin
has come from England to enter Harvard University.
Admission to all athletic contests at Brown is
covered by a "blanket tax." The charge is nine dol-
lars.
After two years of persistent effort all traces of
hazing have been removed from Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology. The work started by the
Class of 1912 has been brought to completion by the
Class of 1914.
Because of the baneful influence of divorces over
the students, the Nevada legislature recently se-
riously considered the removal of the University of
Nevada from Reno to Carson City.
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Hlumni department
'57. — "The Present Day Problem of
Crime," by Albert H. Currier, D.D., is un-
doubtedly the most complete and intelligent
summing up of the whole matter of prison
reform yet published. The full title of its con-
tents shows its breadth: The Present Day
Problem of Crime Related to Prisons and
Prison Discipline, to the Administration of
Criminal Law, and to the Labors of Philan-
thropists for the Prevention of Crime and
Reformation of Criminals.
'96. — Rev. Howard Gilpatrick is the first
pastor of the first church to be erected in Flag-
staff, one of the central lumber spots in Som-
erset County. Mr. Gilpatrick is fast building
up the new parish and will make his church
one of the most prosperous in that section.
'81. — Frederick C. Stevens, congressman
from Minnesota, has been made chairman of
the important committee on interstate and for-
eign relations. Congressman Stevens was a
classmate of Congressman D. J. McGillicuddy.
Both are members of Theta Delta Chi.
'91. — Algernon S. Dyer, formerly of the
Hill School at Pottstown, Penn., has resigned
to accept a position in the Berkshire School in
Sheffield, Mass.
'99. — Edgar Kaharl, for six years princi-
pal of the Brunswick High School, which
position he resigned last spring, is now in Ger-
many. He has a position as English teacher
in a German school and is succeding very well
in his new field.
While in Brunswick, Mr. Kaharl made
many friends, both among the townspeople
and the members of the college. He was
deeply interested in the Athletics of the col-
lege and gave his advice and aid to the Ath-
letic Association freely. He was particularly
interested in the affairs of the football team,
being a graduate member of the Monday
Night Club.
'01. — George R. Gardner is principal of
the Brunswick High School this year. Mr.
Gardner has been very successful as teacher
since his graduation from college. He is an
enterprising young man and will, undoubtedly,
make an efficient successor to Mr. Kaharl.
Mr. Gardner has been principal of the Brewer
High School for two years, principal of the
Bridgton High School for two years, and has
been in the Science Department of Bangor
one year, and has been principal of Camden
High School during the three past years. Mr.
Gardner has also done graduate work in the
Teachers' College of Columbia University two
summers.
'06. — Melvin T. Copeland, now at Har-
vard, has a leading article in the August num-
ber of the Quarterly Journal of Economics on
"The Progress of the Automatic Loom."
"06. — David R. Porter has an article in the
current Educational Review entitled "Foot-
ball— an impossible intercollegiate sport."
'06. — Dr. William E. Youland, who re-
cently resigned as interne of the new Webber
Hospital in Biddeford, has been elected to the
board of pathology in the medical department
of Cornell University, and has entered upon
his duties at that institution.
'07. — Rev. Oscar W. Peterson, pastor of
the Congregational Church at Brownfield, Me.,
has recently accepted a call to the church at
Bristol, Vermont. A short time ago, Dr.
Peterson published a book containing transla-
tions of Swedish poems, entitled, "Swedish
Songs and Lyrics."
'07. — Mr. Harold Sprague Hichborn of
Augusta, Me., and Miss Bertha Margaret
Batchelder of Broo'kline, Mass., were mar-
ried Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 18, at All
Saints Church, Brookline. Immediately after
the reception, held in the parlors of the Hotel
Beaconsfield, Mr. Hichborn and bride left for
Poland Spring, where they will remain until
their new bungalow at Augusta is completed.
They will be at home at Augusta after Jan-
uary I.
'09. — R. K. Atwell, who was last year in-
structor in mathematics at Syracuse Univer-
sity, N. Y., is this year taking a graduate
course in Teachers' College, Columbia.
'11. — John L. Roberts is teaching mathe-
matics and science at Kennebunk High School.
Medical School of Maine
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Addison S. Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLl
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, NOVEMBER 17, 1911
NO. 17
BOWDOIN VS. BATES IN CROSS COUNTRY RACE
TO-MORROW
The cross country team will compete with
the Bates cross country team to-morrow at
three o'clock, in Lewiston.
The course measures four and a quarter
miles. The members of the team are in good
condition after their race with Vermont last
week. The make-up of the team will be
about the same as in that race. They lost to
Vermont by a close score, and, with the expe-
rience gained in that race, may be expected to
give a good account of themselves to-morrow.
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GOES TO MAINE
Bowdoio, 0; Maine, 15
Before the largest crowd that ever assem-
bled at Whittier Field to watch an athletic
contest, the final battle in the State Champion-
ship Series was played last Saturday and re-
sulted in a clean-cut victory for the University
of Maine, by the score of 15 to o.
Never did Bowdoin athletes work harder,
or fight more stubbornly to defend the honor
of the White than did Capt. Hurley and his
warriors, but the quick, varied and powerful
attack of the heavy Maine backfield and the
good right leg of Tom Shepard were more
than they could withstand.
It is needless to say that the stands and
bleachers, packed full to overflowing with
loyal Bowdoin supporters, were disappointed
at the outcome of the game, but Maine won
fairly and had a team which deserved the State
Championship; so there is nothing to do but
take the matter philosophically and build
hopes on next year's team. Incidentally the
spectators saw one of the strongest, most pow-
erful and well-oiled and directed teams that
has won the State honors in a number of
years. It was victory enough to have held
these sturdy warriors, who so greatly out-
weighed our team, to so low a score.
Shepard's place kicking was responsible
for 9 of the points, two being scored in the
third period and one in the first. The other
score was made in the second period as the
result of the brilliant offensive work of Capt.
Parker and Carleton of Maine who marched
down the field by line plunges and rushed
the ball over the line, breaking up
Bowdoin's stubborn defense. Throughout the
game these men made most of the yardage
for their team, carrying the ball through
guard and tackle on a delayed pass forma-
tion and skin-tackle play. Cleaves at quar-
terback for Maine did the best work
at this position that has been witnessed
on a State gridiron this year. He ran the
plays off with precision and used excellent
judgment and showed a thorough football
knowledge. Maine's brilliant offensive show-
ing on line plays was not so much due to the
ability of their linemen to make holes as it was
the fact that their backfield "had the jump,"
as the football phrase goes, on the Bowdoin
defense. They reeled off their plays before
our men were able to size up the situation and
their heavy line-plunging backs hit the line in
jackknife style.
In one department of the game Bowdoin
outplayed Maine, contrary to newspaper re-
ports; this was the kicking game. Faulkner
punted eleven times with an average of 44
yards to the punt, and Shepard punted eight
times with an average of 39.5 yds. to the kick.
In running back kicks both teams were about
equal. In rushing the ball Maine gained about
once and a quarter as much ground as the
White. Neither side used the forward pass
to a great extent, and Bowdoin employed the
on-side kick only once successfully.
On the offense our backfield was unable to
gain consistently. "Farmer" Kern was in-
jured at the first of the game, and, although he
fought like a tiger through the remaining
four periods of the contest, he* was unable to
gain much on offense. Weatherill, Faulkner,
and Dole made occasional gains, but there
was no offense possible to cope with the
strong up-State aggregation. On defense the
work of Faulkner was brilliant. A great
many of Maine's line plays reached the sec-
ondary defense, but here they stopped with a
thud, usually as a result of the clean tackles
of Faulkner and Bob Weatherill. Capt. Jack
Hurley, playing his last game at the end of so
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many seasons of brilliant work, did all that
was in his power to stave off defeat for the
White, and Hinch on the other end played the
best game he has played this season. The
other men all worked their hardest, dug their
cleats viciously in the sod and clenched their
teeth on every scrimmage, and fought from
whistle to whistle in their last game for the
State Championship.
Bowdoin was not "easy" as some of the
Maine papers said after the game. Maine had
to play every minute to keep the lead, and
now and then during every period Bowdoin
supporters were given flashes of hope by
spurts on the offense made by our speedy
■backs. But Maine was playing a masterly
game and playing with a team that was not to
be denied the victory.
Referee Hapgood said after the game that
it was the best example of interference on of-
fense he had ever seen in this State, and also
remarked at the wonderful work of Shepard
in the kicking and Parker's ability to sift
through our line for substantial gains.
It was fully two hours before the game
that the crowd began to line up at the gates of
Whittier Field, in order that they might get
favorable seats to witness the big battle. Ex-
cursions from Boston, Portland, Bangor, and
Orono all contributed to add to the throng of
excited spectators and the loyal citizens of our
own town of Brunswick turned out en masse
with a band at their head. An unfortunate
arrangement of seats impaired the rooting of
the Bowdoin contingent, but White was every-
where visible in the stands and around the ropes
and when a Bowdoin man made a star play a
cheer arose that betrayed by its volume where
the sympathies of most of the onlookers were.
The large crowd was handled in the best pos-
sible manner and no difficulties were encoun-
tered in keeping the side lines and field free
from spectators. The official report of the
paid admiissions showed that it was larger than
any crowd which had ever witnessed a Maine
State game. The number was 3800.
Two features of the game which made it
high class from the spectator's point of view
were the unusually clean manner in which the
ball was handled, there only being one fumble
during the whole game, and the excellent con-
dition which the winning team was in. Not a
man of their team was removed from the game
on account of injuries. The work of the of-
ficials was entirely satisfactory. The sum-
mary:
Maine Bowdoin
Cook, Donahue, l.e r.e., Hurley, Page
McNeil, l.t r.t., Lewis
Sawyer, l.g r.g.. Bums, Weeks
Baker, Whitney, c c, Douglas, McMahon
Gulliver, Crowell, r.g l.g., Pratt, Simpson
Bigelow, r.t l.t., Wood
Bei nheisel. Smith, r.e I.e., Hinch
Cleaves, Bryant, q.b q.b., Crosby, Dole
Carleton, Smiley, l.h.b r.h.b., Faulkner
Parker, Martin, r.h.b. . .l.h.b., Weatherill, LaCasce
Shepard, f.b f.b., Kern, LaCasce
Score : Maine 15, Bowdoin o. Touchdown. Carle-
ton. Goals from field, Shepard 3. Referee, Ernest
P. Hapgood, Brown. Umpire, Thomas F. Murphy,
Harvard. Field Judge, A. S. Macreadie, Portland
Athletic Club. Head Linesman, Lieut. Jacob Frank
of Vermont. Time of quarters, 15 minutes.
FOOTBALL "B's" AWARDED
At a meeting of the Athletic Council, Mon-
day evening, football "B's" were awarded to
fifteen men. The men to win their letter:
Captain John L. Hurley, '12, of Maiden,
Mass.
George C. Kern, '12, of Woodfords.
Frederick S. Simpson, '12, of Bangor.
Philip S. Wood, '13, of Bar Harbor.
Lawrence A. Crosby, '13, of Bangor.
Paul H. Douglas, '13, of Newport.
Kendrick Burns, '13, of Saco.
Stanley J. Hinch, '13, of Danforth.
Stanley F. Dole, '13, of Portland.
Elroy O. LaCasce, '14, of Skowhegan.
Leo W. Pratt, '14, of Wilton.
Robert T. Weatherill, '14, of Brunswick.
Harry P. Faulkner, '15, of Brunswick.
Herbert A. Lewis, '15, of North Haven.
The letters were awarded to men who
played the whole of three periods and parts of
three others in the Colby, Bates, and Maine
games.
BOWDOIN, 21 ; UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, 24
Bowdoin Loses to Vermont in Cross Country Race
Although it fought to the finish, the Bow-
doin Cross Country Team was defeated last
Friday by the narrow margin of 24 to 21. The
team had had no experience in races before,
and considering that this was its first contest,
made a very creditable showing. The best in-
dividual race was between Jones of Verinont
and Captain Hall of Bowdoin for first place,
the Vermont captain passing Hall in the last
300 yards and finishing a few feet ahead of
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him. Tarbox and Hayden of Vermont also
fought it out at the tape in an exciting sprint.
The order in which tlie men came across
the finish hne was as follows :
Jones, Vermont
Hall, Bowdoin
Aldrich, Vermont
Tarbox, Bowdoin
Hayden, Vermont
Timberlake, Bowdoin
Minor, Vermont
Haskell, Bowdoin
Auten, Bowdoin
Abbott, Vermont
First place counted 9 points, second, 8,
and so on down.
The officials were as follows : Starter, B. C.
Morrill ; timers, B. C. Morrill, Dr. F. N. Whit-
tier; judges at the finish. Dr. N. E. Loomis, E.
G. Fifield, S. A. Phelps, Dr. Manton Copeland,
M. W. Greene, R. B. Kennedy, F. S. Wiggin,
R. L. Morss, F. E. Harrington, and W. P.
Skillin.
The race started at 4.03 and was run in 29
minutes, 11 seconds, the course being 4.92
miles long.
MASS=MEETINQ FOR MAINE GAME
The whole college turned out for the mass-
meeting, Friday night, and it was in every way
the best which has been held this fall. "Artie"
Welch presided in the absence of Captain Hur-
ley and introduced the various speakers.
Doctor Copeland was the first speaker,
saying that the "Maine" idea was to win the
game, but that the Bowdoin idea was that
Maine should not. He went on to say that
there was no need of urging the men to cheer,
or the players to play a straight game, as we
are sure of those things. Although Maine
has a heavier team, brain work and knowledge
of football is what wins the game.
Professor Lunt spoke about former Maine
games, among them a 35 to o victory for the
White. He then spoke about the team, saying
that a team made up of stars does not win, be-
cause each star tries to do only grandstand
play, and a team made up of one star and his
backers also loses from the same reason. The
team that wins is one in which every man
works with every other man like a cog of a
machine, and our team is such a one.
He also said that cheering does not depend
on the volume of noise or kind of cheer, but
in the spirit behind the cheers. The Bowdoin
undergraduates should show the "grads" who
will be back to-morrow that the spirit is bet-
ter now than in their time.
After a selection by the band, Mr. Hawes
compared our present team with former ones,
saying that although the old men have gone
we have good ones in their places. He re-
marked that this was the last game of the
season and we were up against a good team,
but good teams had gone back to Orono sur-
prised and defeated by our teams and the
Bowdoin spirit. Mr. Hawes said that some-
times teams have to play better than their best,
but, however the game came out, there would
be no need of an apology for Bowdoin play-
ing.
Mr. Alvord prophesied that the weather
would be favorable and that the chances were
against rain. He said that every man is go-
ing into the game with the intention of doing
his best, and concluded by saying that we are
sure of victory.
Professor Files put emphasis on the fact
that the college as a body has to stand behind
the team. He urged the students to be sports-
manlike and to cheer fairly. He said that
Maine, Bates, and Colby were all afraid of
Bowdoin spirit. Professor Files also praised
the sportsmanship of the cheering at Bates.
"Artie" Welch advised the students to re-
member the motto, "Fair Play and May the
Best Man Win."
Douglas spoke of the importance of this
game and reported that all the players were
ready for the fight.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES
Hon. Carl E. Milliken, prominent in the
business world for his extensive lumbering
operations in this state and in politics as a
leader in the M^aine Senate, will speak before
the Y. M. C. A. on Thursday, Nov. 23, on
"Christian Principles in Business." We are
very fortunate in having such a prominent
man to present this second talk in the general
series of the year on the Practical Applica-
tions of Christianity.
On Wednesday before Thanksgiving, the
Social Service Committee will take a collec-
tion to give a Thanksgiving dinner to some of
the poor families of Brunswick. Come to
chapel on Wednesday morning with some
change in your pocket.
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BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
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DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
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NOVEMBER 17, 1911
Once more does the old
The Season adage, "There is no use
crying over spilled milk,"
come to our ears after the defeat of last week.
But such a half-hearted approval of the work
which the Bowdoin team has done this fall is
not sufficient. From a squad of men which
most football dopesters claimed would be
good only for last place in the State cham-
pionship, a team was built up which won its
way into the final round through clean, hard
football. In the contest for highest honors
Bowdoin met a team which was her superior
in many departments of the game. Yet with
some of her men badly crippled she held her
heavier opponent on the three-yard line during
the last four minutes of play. The same spirit
which has characterized Bowdoin's play dur-
ing her uphill fight for the championship was
nianifested in the very last scrimmage of the
season.
Although as a whole, the season has not
been successful we have held our own in the
Maine games. Outside of the State we met
only teams which were far beyond our stand-
ard. Against these teams Bowdoin was un-
able to score, but her team learned how to
fight against great odds. That this lesson was
well learned can be seen in the record made by
the White in her State matches.
And with the close of the football season
of 1911 all Bowdoin men should have only the
word of praise for the coach who developed
the team which fought for the championship ;
for the captain and men who worked faithfully
for the college ; for the second team which
made the first team possible ; and for the man-
agement which handled the largest crowd ever
seen on Whittier Field.
„. „. . , Although the active part
The Financial ^^ ^j^^ f^^^^^ ^^^ ^j^^^^j^ ^
Situation niighty important phase is
yet unfinished. Through no direct fault of
the management the game which would put
the financial situation on a sound footing, has
been cancelled. This loss of the annual game
in Portland leaves finances in a very poor con-
dition. The way in which such a condition
can be remedied is through the student body.
It is reported that a small percentage of the
men in college have made any subscription to
the support of the team. Others have made
low subscriptions thinking perhaps that foot-
ball can support itself by gate'receipts. Then,
too, many men are evidently dissatisfied with
the system of raising money for the support of
teams. Such an expense, however valid it
might sound, will not pull the football associa-
tion "out of the hole" this season. Since we
haven't got the "blanket-tax" this fall, are we
justified in letting our present system fail to
fill its place? If we wish to bring about a
change, let us try to close the old method with
a clean sheet. It is the personal duty of every
man in college to "square" himself at once
with the football association.
THE OCTOBER QUILL
The discriminating studies of character ^ in
Manniton in the current Quill, and the prevailing
simplicity of incident and restraint of style, at once
commend the story. On the other hand, the
writer's evident effort to suggest rather than to ex-
press often demands too much of his readers. Ex-
amples of this are to be seen in the frequent and
abrupt shifting of the point of view — notably in the
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first paragraph of Section III. — and in the dispro-
portionate and hence misleading emphasis at the end
of the story upon what Marmiton sees from the
window. How far the author and how far the
proof-reader should be blamed for the many errors
in punctuation and for the use of expressions like
"bullion" (for bouillon), "alright," "onto," and
"puffy" (meaning "rapidly breathing"?), a reviewer
cannot say without having access to the manuscript
of the story. Certainly, however, offences against
good use in these matters are far too frequent in
the never-to-be corrected pages of this, the college,
literary magazine.
The briefer contributions include The Dreamc .
The Hills, the Plain, and the Sea and Silhouettes.
Of each of the first two, both efforts in verse, it is
no mean praise to say that, although the expression
is defective, the mood is distinct and worthy. As
for Silhouettes, why does the writer, in repeating
the admonitions composed by his predecessors, con-
clude with the quotation which of them all is the
least striking?
The suitableness of title to subject-matter in
Quebec-August, igil may well be questioned, for
under that head the writer treats specifically of
Quebec not at all (also of August, 1911, not at all).
and,, throughout fully half of the article, of a scene
which, as he repeatedly says, is distant from the city.
In this description, moreover, the vividness of
"Tanned engineers [who] pore over blue prints"
makes a reader hunger for more of such detail in
place of "dreams" and "romance."
Granting that the point of One Summer's Day
forms an adequate basis for a story, one may .say
that the writer has made the point effectively. The
most notable achievement of this story, however, is
the crisp and spirited dialogue with which it
abounds,
I cannot conclude this brief comment upon the
successive contributions without emphasizing what
to me is the chief characteristic of the issue as a
whole. There is to nearly every page an unreahty,
a remoteness, a dreaminess which is surely unnat-
ural among active young men in a flourishing col-
lege in our day. E)oes the Quill fail to reflect the
true quality of Bowdoin life? or is that life really
lacking in virility? Unquestionably dreaminess and
delettantism and refinement of sorrow have their
place in literature ; but a college magazine which
presents little but these sentiments is not truly rep-
resentative of the sort of young manhood we need
to cultivate. Even the contribution which seems to
me strongest in tone would please me tremendously
more if it began :
"There is too muth peace in the hills,
There is too much rest in the plain ;
And I long in the night for the wet sea-light
And the drive of the off-shore rain."
W. H. D.
Brunswick hut his impersonation of "Micawber" in
David Copperfield, his "Cyrano," and the diverse
characters taken in his "Pair of Spectacles," made
him a great favorite with students and townspeople.
He is a master in making an entire cast of play or
novel live and act before his audience and this he
does by voice and movement, quite without stage
effects.
Long before the estabHshment of his well-known
school of dramatic interpretation in Boston, he was
recognized as a master of character-depicting on the
platform. He has appeared twenty times before the
Brooklyn Institute, seventeen times before the Uni-
versity of Michigan, twelve times before Williams
College students, and in his long lists of engagements
he has appeared again and again at Yale, Oberlin,
Wellesley, the Hill School, Lawrenceville, St, Paul's
and Hotchkiss. The recital is free to all students
of the College and Medical School. The following
members of "Masque and Gown" will usher: N
D. Welch, '12, C. R, Crowell, '13, L. E. Jones, '13,
and W. F. Twombley, '13. The program, showing
the variety of characters, is as follows :
LORD CHUMLEY
Adam Butterworth A retired produce merchant
Lieut. Hugh Butterworth His son
Eleanor Butterworth His daughter
Jessie Eleanor's friend
Lady Adeline
The aunt — a maiden lady, fair, fat, and forty
Monsieur Le Sage A French adventurer
Blink Bunk
A convict lately released from the galleys
Winterbottom The butler
Meg Maid of all work in a lodging house
Lord George Chumley
A friend of Hugh Butterworth — not such a fool as
he looks
Act I — At Adam Butterworth's country house.
Act 2 — Lord Chumley's lodgings.
Act 3 — At Adam Butterworth's country house.
DRAMATIC RECITAL
On Monday, Nov. 20, at 8 p,M, in Memorial Hall,
Leland Powers will give, by special permission,
"Lord Chumley" by Belasco and DeMille, under the
auspices of the Saturday Club and the College. It is
several years since Leland Powers has appeared in
Y. M. C. A. MEETING
In the Y. M. C. A. Room last Thursday night
Professor Chapman lectured on the King James
Bible. He briefly described the preceding transla-
tion and then told of the real work of translation.
Fifty-four divines were appointed for the work and
divided into groups of nine men each. Each one of
these g.oups worked independently and then com-
pared their work. They were expected to keep as
close to the former Bishop's Translation as possible
and to give the common meaning to words of sev-
eral 'meanings. Various other interesting instruc-
tions were given.
Dr. Faber said of the King James Bible, "It is
part of the national mind, and the anchor of
national seriousness. It is the representation of a
man's best moments, and all that there has been
about him of rapt and gentle, and pure and penitent
and good, speak to him forever out of his Protestant
Bible." It is the greatest piece of English literature
in the world.
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PSI UPSILON DANCE
An informal dance was held Friday evening at
the Psi Upsilon chapter house. About fifteen
couples were present and dancing was enjoyed until
a late hour. Members of the Delta Kappa Epsilon
and Theta Delta Chi fraternities were also present.
Music was furnished by the Arlington Club of Port-
land. At intermission refreshments of salad, ice-
cream, and cake were served at the house. Mrs.
H. B. Peters of Woodfords acted as chaperon.
Ainong those present were ; Misses Helen Sher-
man, Dorothy Sherman, Bar Harbor; Janet Peters,
Margaret Starbird, Woodfords; Rose Tyler, Evelyn
Edwards, Portland; Ethel Haskell, Beatrice Mud-
gett, Bangor ; Frances Crosman, Portland ; Ruth
Palmer, Bath; Louise Allen, Gardiner. The com-
mittee in charge included Loring Pratt, '12, of El-
mira, N. Y., chairman; Robert P. King, '12, of Ells-
worth; Robert D. Cole, '12, of Arlington, Mass.,
from Delta Kappa Epsilon; George F. Cressey, '12,
of Portland, from Theta Delta Chi.
CALENDAR
Saturday, November 18
Cross-Country Race : Bowdoin vs. Bates, at
Lewiston.
Sunday, November 19
10.45 Morning Service in the Church on the Hi.l,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
5.00 Sunday Chapel, conducted by President Hyde.
Monday, November 20
7.00 Normal Class meets.
8.00 Leland Powers Recital in Memorial Hall.
Thursday, November 23
11.30 Prof. Johnson gives talk on Art Building.
7.00 Y. M. C. A. Hon. C. E. Milliken, Island
Falls, Me., "Christian Principles in Business."
Colleoe flotes
BETA THETA PI DANCE
An informal dance was enjoyed at the Beta
Theta Pi house after the Maine game, starting at
S.30. Music was furnished by the College Orches-
tra. The chaperons were Mrs. Paul Nixon and
Mrs. Frederick W. Brown. The committee in
charge: Lowell S. Foote, '12, of Somersworth. N.
H.; Jesse H. McKenney, '12, of Brunswick; and
Francis X. Callahan, '14, of Portland.
Among the guests present were the Misses
Frances Little, Sarah Baxter, Ellen Baxter, Mary
Eliot, and Belle Corniss of Brunswick; Miss Lula
Barber of Yarmouth; the Misses Annie Brown,
Katherine Johnson, and Katherine Jenkins of Port-
land; Miss Marguerite Hennessy of Bath; Miss
Molly Hutchins of Fryeburg; Miss Inez Giles of
Edgewood, R. I.; Miss Dorothy Bird of Rockland;
Misses Marion Lowell and Iva Record of Auburn;
Miss Blanche Webster of Augusta; Miss CaroHne
Wells of Boston; Professor Nixon and Professor
Brown.
DELTA KAPPA EPSILON DANCE
Theta Chapter of Deha Kappa Epsilon enter-
tained at its chapter house Saturday evening after
the Maine football game. About fifteen couples
were present and dancing was enjoyed until mid-
night. Music was furnished by Hobbs' Orchestra
of four pieces from Lewiston. After the dancing
refreshments of ice-cream and cake were served.
The committee in charge included Robert D. Cole,
'12, of Arlington, Mass., chairman; Benjamin D.
Holt, '13, of Portland; William B. Williamson, '15,
of Augusta. Among those present were: Misses
Beatrice Mudgett, Ethel Haskell, Leola Coombs,
Mollie Woodcock, Hazel Savage, of Bangor; Helen
Sherman. Dorothy Sherman, Bar Harbor; Elizabeth
Fuller, Rockland; Anne Percy, Bath; Imogene Ben-
net, Geneva Hinch, of Danforth ; Janet Peters, Mar-
garet Starbird, Woodfords; Evelyn Edwards, Port-
land; Gail Woodcock, Bangor; Eleanor Wescott,
Portland.
"Jack" Hurley entertained his brother over the
week-end.
Ernest Pottle, '09, has been on the campus for
a few days this week.
Austin, 'is, entertained his brother for a few days
the first of the week.
Harold P. Marston, '11, is principal of the High
School at Vinalhaven, Me.
Governor Plaisted and Senator Johnson were
present at the Maine game.
A crew of men is removing the browntail moth
nests from the trees on the campus.
McMillan, '98, who was the star halfback in 1895,
was among the many alumni back to the Maine
game.
Fifty-seven of the Freshman class received warn-
ings, forty-two receiving minor warnings and fifteen
major warnings.
After the Maine game, the squad held an in-
formal dinner at "Fan" Pennell's. After the din-
ner, each man spoke a few words on the past season.
The Zeta Psi House was placed at the disposal
of the football team, Friday night. Douglas, who ~^
spoke at the rally, was the only man to leave the
house.
About 25 men have reported for practice for the
Sophomore football team and about 20 for the
Freshman team. The Sophomore squad is in charge
of Capt. L. Brown, while "King" Pratt is coaching
the Freshman squad.
R. J. Campbell, the great pulpit orator of The J
People's Temple, London, spoke Tuesday in the ■
church of Rev. Raymond Calkins of Portland, a I
familiar figure in college Y. M. C. A. meetings, on
"Christianity and the Modern Social Problems."
The last week special meetings have been held in
the Y. M. C. A. room from I to 1.30 p.m. The
speakers were President Hyde, Monday; Professor
Johnson, Tuesday; Mr. E. G. Fifield, Wednesday;
Rev. L. A. Parsons, Thursday; Professor Chapman,
Friday.
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C. D. Jameson, '76, who was sent last summer to
China to study the food conditions, in an effort to
effect a remedy, is working to relieve the famine
situation.
The discussion of the All Maine football team
has been opened in many of the Maine papers.
Among the Bowdoin men mentioned are Capt.
"Jack" Hurley, "Farmer" Kern and "Duff" Wood.
An unusually large number of alumni were back
on the campus for the Maine game last Saturday.
C. T. Hawes was the sole representative of the class
of '77. The class of '88 was represented by L H.
Hodgdon and T. S. Kimball. The only 1900 man
back was W. V. PhiUips. 1901 contributed H. D.
Evans, G. C. Wheeler, G. L. Pratt, and E. T. Fen-
ley, while Geo. Fogg was the only '02 on hand. 1903
was represented by F. G. Marshall, H. L. Webber,
F. J. Welch, R. C. Bisbee, E. F. Abbott, and C. P.
Connors. The 1904 men were W. F. Coan, Emery
Beane, W. T. Rowe, and G. C. Purington. Among
the '06 men were D. B. Andrews and W. T. John-
son, R. A. Cony, '07, and W. S. Weston, "Cush"
Abbott, ex-'o8, Ray Merrill, and E. T. Sanborn, all
of '08, were on hand for the game. The '09 men
were J. M. Sturtevant, B. F. Briggs, W. T. Phillips,
and E. H. Pottle. 1910 was well represented by G.
C. Weston, W. E. Atwood, "Al" Wandtke, "Bob"
Morss, "Bill" Nulty, "Puss" Newman, Leon Smith,
and "Jim" Hamburger. There were a number of
191 1 men, among them being "Benny" Partridge,
"OUie" Sanborn, M. G. L. Bailey and G. H. Ma-
comber. Among others were "Jack" Minot, '96,
"Don" MacMillan, '98, "Mel" Gould, ex-'ii. Leon
Conway, ex-'li, V. A. Hughes, ex-'ii, "Steve"
Perry, ex-'i2, G. C. Duffy, Jr., ex-'i3, and H. D.
Archer, ex-'l3.
BOWDOIN MEN ENOAQED IN TEACHING
It is very interesting to note the comparatively
small number of Bowdoin men engaged in teaching.
Out of approximately twenty-eight hundred living
graduates, only between two and three hundred are
engaged in teaching. The number of those who
teach permanently is even smaller. The reason
may be found in the fact that many men, after grad-
uation, go into teaching as the quickest and surest
way of earning money to send them through law or
medical school. The following statistics, compiled
at the college office, give the number of Bowdoin
men at present actively engaged in teaching.
Fifty-seven graduates of Bowdoin are teaching
in the various colleges of the country. The list in-
cludes one president, thirty-five professors, six
assistant professors, twelve instructors, and three
deans. One hundred and ninety-four men are
engaged in teaching in schools, academies, and nor-
mal schools. Among these are twenty-four super-
intendents, sixty-six principals, sixteen sub-masters,
seventy-five teachers, and eighteen in grammar and
other grades.
Maine leads in the number of men employed,
with seventy-six, while Massachusetts is a close sec-
ond with sixty-one. New York has eighteen, New
Hampshire seventeen, Pennsylvania eleven, Con-
necticut ten, and California six. Vermont, Wiscon-
sin, Ohio, and New Jersey can each boast of four
Bowdoin men among their teachers. Our graduates
have even reached Porto Rico, there being three of
them in the teaching profession on the island. Ore-
gon, Montana, Utah, North Carohna, Rhode Island,
Illinois, Iowa and even Alaska have two Bowdoin
educators each within their boundaries, while Vir-
ginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Canada, Washington, Ten-
nessee, and Maryland have one each.
TENTATIVE BASEBALL SCHEDULE
Manager "Fred" Wiggin of the baseball team is
rapidly arranging his schedule for next spring. As
matters stand at present, there will be nineteen or
twenty games on the list. The season will begin
with the usual New York trip, on which at least five,
and possibly six games, will be played. It is Man-
ager Wiggin's intention to extend this trip more
than is the usual custom, and to play Princeton,
Seton Hall, Columbia University, Rutgers, West
Point and Trinit}'. He plans to arrange games
with Harvard, Brown, Rhode Island State College,
Dartmouth, University of Vermont, and Tufts, be-
sides the championship games with the Maine col-
leges. If negotiations are successful, an innovation
will be introduced commencement week by ending
the season with a game with some strong Massa-
chusetts team, such as Am'herst.
AT THE LIBRARY
By the kindness of Dr. William C. Mason of Ban-
gor, the library has recently received two last century
books from the private library of Dr. Rufus King
Gushing, of the Class of 182 1. One is the well-worn
copy of Walker's Dictionary which he bought
in his Sophomore year and which told him to use
the final k in music, fabric, etc. The second volume
the records of The Social Fraternity established at
Bowdoin College, April 21. 1819. Most of its mem-
bers belonged to the Class of 1821, and the recorded
meetings subsequent to the latter date were of the
nature of class reunions. In undergraduate days, the
society discussed such questions as : Does Climate In-
fluence Genius? The latter was decided in the af-
firmative.
IFntercolleoiate Botes
The most popular man in Minnesota will soon
be decided by the votes of the "co-eds."
Columbia outdistanced the previous records of all
American universities this year by an enrollment of
over eight thousand students.
The course of lectures on Rugby Football being
given this year at Leland Stanford University will
count as one unit of credit toward an A.B. degree.
In a report on scholarship at Leland Stanford it
is interesting to note that the fraternity members
had the less number of "warnings." Of the total 87
men warned, 40 per cent, were fraternity men, and
60 per cent, non-fraternity men.
Continued on page 142, 2d column
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Hluinni Bepavtment
'83. — John E. Dinsmore, A.M., of the
American Colony at Jerusalem, has contrib-
uted to the Zeilschrift des Deutsden Palaes-
tina-Vereins a valuable monograph on the
Plants of Palestine. This has also been issued
in separate form, making an octavo pamphlet
of 122 pages.
'97. — The current volume of the Transac-
tions of the American Philological Associa-
tion contains an article by Professor J. W.
Hewitt on the "Necessity of Ritual Purifica-
tion after Justifiable Homicide," a study in
Greek archaeology.
'97. — A. S. Harriman, superintendent and
principal of the Middlebury, Vt., schools, was
elected president of the Vermont State Teach-
ers' Association, Oct. 20, at Montpelier.
'01. — ^On Oct. 27, Edward S. Anthoine was
unanimously elected Chairman of the Republi-
can City Committee of Portland, Me. Mr. An-
thoine is a young attorney, a brilliant speaker,
and is regarded very highly hy those who
know him. He has been two years on the city
council. Mr. Anthoine, while in college, stood
high in his studies, and his friends confidently
expect him to show the same energy and op-
timism in his new position as he displayed in
his course here at Bowdoin.
'05. — Frank E. Seavey, instructor in Eng-
lish at Tufts, in collaboration with Earle and
Savage, two other members of the English De-
partment, has recently compiled a revised and
enlarged edition of his book, "Sentences and
Their Elements." This book is published by
the MacMillan Company, and is designed for
the use of Freshman classes in college.
'08. — Roy L. Kinney is now located in San
Diego, Cal, with the Squires Employment
Agency, having recently moved to San Diego
from Imperial Valley, Cal.
•08. — Philip H. Timberlake is now in the
United States Bureau of Entomology, and is
located at Whittier, California, where he is
doing special research work concerning pests
peculiar to the fruit orchards of the West.
Upon being graduated from Bowdoin, Mr.
Timberlake entered Harvard. While there, he
worked under the Massachusetts Bureau of
Entomology upon the gypsy moth. The State
Bureau was taken over by the government in
1910, and Mr. Timberlake was promoted to
the government bureau. He was transferred
to Michigan that year for a few months and
then in September, 1910, was promoted to his
present work in California. Mr. Timberlake
is one of the most valuable young men in the
bureau and is advancing rapidly in his work.
The following Bowdoin men are in Yale :
Thomas Otis, '10, in the Law School; Eaton,
'10, in the Forestry School; and C. L. Deming,
'10, in the Medical School.
INTERCOLLEGIATE NOTES
The entire Senior Class of the Enginering School
of Purdue has signed an agreement to raise mous-
taches.
There are four "co-eds" in the Law Department
of Wisconsin University, and one in the Engineering
Department.
Wisconsin is trying the system of upperclass ad-
visers for Freshmen. One 'hundred and thirty men
have each agreed to call on at least five or six
Freshmen and try to act as elder brothers.
A course in logging is one of the innovations this
year at the University of Washington. This course
is designed for young men wishing to take up lum-
bering as a profession, and teaches that knowledge
of mechanical engineering required in laying out log-
ging roads and installing logging outfits generally.
Hereafter any upperclassman at Johns Hopkins
who indulges in even the mildest form of hazing is
to be expelled.
Captains of five other sports are on Yale's foot-
ball squad, the crew captain being the only captain
not out for the eleven.
At the University of Kansas, those trying out for
football must take a written quiz on the first ten
rules of the game.
Forty foreign students representing twelve coun-
tries, are registered at Syracuse. Eleven come from
China, six from Porto Rico, three each from Cuba
and Russia, and one from Palestine.
Cornell is to be the model for a large new uni-
versity in Perth, the capital of Western Australia.
The trustees of Dartmouth College have decided
that no steps shall be taken to limit the growth of
the college, and that instead increase in the enroll-
ment should be encouraged.
Lecture courses in Rugby Football, the collegiate
game at Leland Stanford University, have been in-
stituted bv the faculty.
The "co-eds" of the University of Wisconsin have
just formed a student council.
Medical School o! Maine
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Addison S. Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, NOVEMBER 24, 1911
NO. 18
BOWDOIN DEFEATS BATES IN CROSS COUNTRY
RACE
On Tuesday afternoon was held the Bow-
doin-Bates cross-country race which had been
postponed from last Saturday. It was a de-
cisive victory for the Bowdoin team. The
start was made at the Beta Theta Pi House as
Bates desired a 4^ mile course, and the finish
was at Whittier Field with one lap around the
track. The start was at 3.38 and the time of
the race was 24 minutes and 56 seconds. The
Bowdoin team was composed of Capt. Harry
H. Hall, '13, Timberlake, '12, Auten, '12, Has-
kell, '13, and Tarbox, '14.
The men entered the field and finished the
race in the same order : Hall of Bowdoin,
Deering of Bates, Tarbox of Bowdoin, Par-
ker of Bates, Haskell of Bowdoin, Auten of
Bowdoin, Sawyer of Bates, Timberlake of
Bowdoin, Houston of Bates, and Ellis of
Bates.
Hall led by a big margin and the rest were
well bunched as far as the standpipe, except
Sawyer, who had to walk up Standpipe Hill.
Timberlake got winded going up the Hill, and
from there to the golf club-house lost two
places. The men went past the half way mark
in the following order : Hall, Tarbox, Deering,
Haskell, Parker, Timberlake, Auten, Houston,
Ellis, and Sawyer. On the way back, a
freight train blocked the path of the runners.
Timberlake, Houston, Sawyer, and Ellis were
forced to wait till the track was clear but the
others climbed the train. Hall finished about
30 yards ahead of the field and had finished
when the sixth man entered the field. In the
last hundred yards there was a pretty race be-
tween Savi'yer and Timberlake, who, by a
spring made up the ten-yard lead possessed by
Sawyer and passed him, but Sawyer finished
by a strong sprint beating Timberlake by a
few feet. This was the only individual race
of the meet. One of the most promising points
of the meet from the Bowdoin viewpoint was
the work of Tarbox, '14, who finished third.
The starter was Burton C. Morrill. The
judges at finish were Dr. Manton Copeland,
A. C. Adams of Bates, E. G. Fifield, Robert
D. Cole, '12, Wm. A. MacCormick, '12. The
timers were Dr. F. W. Whittier and L. G. La-
throp of Bates.
SUMMARY OF THE FOOTBALL SEASON
At the beginning of the season Bowdoin
had an outlook which was anything but
cheerful; many of the stars of the- pre-
vious year had graduated, or for various
reasons had not returned to college. The re-
sult of the early season games, all of which
were unsuccessful, hardly served to raise the
hopes of the supporters of the "White," and
up to the day of the Colby game nobody
really knew what kind of team Bowdoin was
represented by. But the large band of Bow-
doin rooters and "grads," came away from
that hard-fought drawn battle in Waterville,
with the confidence that again we were repre-
sented by a hard-playing, snappy team, which
could well uphold the name of old Bowdoin
in the remaining games of the State series.
Then followed the game with Bates, with
its spectacular scoring, and the final game
with Maine before the immense crowd on
Whittier Field, where we went down fighting
hard before Maine's well planned attack.
Championships are good things, nice things to
cherish in one's memory, but the sons of Bow-
doin have learned that the only real thing that
counts, is to have a hard-fighting, clean-play-
ing team, and so we do honor to the gridiron
heroes of the season of 191 1, with the same
enthusiasm, and spirit, as if they had again
brought home to the "Pines" the State cham-
pionship.
On paper Bowdoin started the Maine
series with the weakest team of the four, but
thus heralded as the prime contender for the
cellar championship, with a list of defeats in
the early season contests, with a new backfield
and inexperienced quarterbacks, this same
team at the end of the season was playing with
the University of Maine for the State cham-
pionship with no odds on Maine.
Owing to unfortunate circumstances, two
out-of-State games were cancelled, and the big
game in Portland could not be played. The
games with Brown and Dartmouth were held
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too early in the season to give Bowdoin time
to develop an offense and the heavier oppo-
nents piled up rather large scores.
The complete schedule is as follows :
Sept. 30 — Bowdoin, 14; Ft. McKinley, o.
Oct. 4 — Bowdoin, o ; Dartmouth, 23.
Oct. 14 — Bowdoin, o; Brown, 33.
Oct. 28 — Bowdoin, o ; Colby, o.
Nov. 4 — Bowdoin, 1 1 ; Bates, o.
Nov. II — Bowdoin, o; Maine, 15.
The three games of the Maine series, in
which Bowdoin contested, were all of a high
class. to witness.- The final game with Maine
was a great exhibition of hard playing and
sportsmanship. The captain of the Maine
team said after the game "It was the cleanest
game I ever saw between Maine and Bowdoin.
I have the greatest respect for the members of
the Bowdoin team. Never in my football ex-
perience have I played against a cleaner lot of
gentlemen."
The line-up of the team was changed from
week to week during the season on account of
injuries, but during the Maine game the best
line-up was presented.
Capt. "Jack" Hurley, three years owner of
the position of Bowdoin's right end, was back
in his old place this Fall. "Jack" made an
ideal leader for the team. He graduates this
year and it is a great less to the team as well as
the college that he has donned the moleskins
for the last time. Two years a member of
the All Maine team, his reputation as a foot-
ball hero will live in Bowdoin fcr many a day.
The position of right tackle was an uncer-
tain one all year. Lewis, '15, was seen in the
position at the end of the season and by his
strong defensive work and ability as a punter,
gave promise that he will develop into a star
lineman with another year's experience. Henry
Hall, '14, played a part of the season and
showed up as a shifty tackle with plenty of
speed. Weeks also played this position during
parts of the games. This last named man is
to graduate this June, and is one of the grid-
iron heroes that has not received the official
recognition of the college by being awarded
his letter, but is known by the members of the
squad for his faithfulness, and willingness to
work at any position. Such men as this
make the coach's work easier and help to make
championship teams. It was unfortunate that
Weeks was out of the game with an injury for
a large part of the season.
"Brose" Burns filled the position of right
guard and played the same strong, aggressive
game that he has been noted for in the past
two years in which he has represented the
White in this capacity.
At centre Douglas, a second team man for
two years, took care of the passes. There was
never a harder and fiercer player donned a
Bowdoin uniform than this lanky, shock-
haired youth. With more weight Douglas
would be an invincible lineman, and it is his
lack of beef that keeps him on the injured list
so much. As an understudy chunky Bill Mc-
Mahon ended a number of games in the place
of the peppery regular centre, and whether
passes were behind his own goal line or not
he was as steady as a clock and always in the
game.
At left guard Leo Pratt was seen after a
year's absence and finished the centre trio
which presented a stonewall defense to the op-
ponents in all except the last game. Simpson
was also seen in this position and played the
best game of his life in the final game with
Maine. Simpson also graduates this year and
will be a distinct loss. With another year's ex-
perience he would have developed into a pow-
erful guard with his 220 pounds and speed.
"Duff" Wood, a Junior and tackle for two
years, played the next position in the line.
This man was one of Bowdoin's best ground
gainers during the season and on defense was
in every play. He has earned for himself the
honor of an undisputed berth on the all-
Maine team at tackle.
"Stan" Hinch, the speedy Junior, played
left end and improved steadily during the
season, being one of the strongest men on the
team during the Maine game. Page also held
down the left wing and played a steady game.
"Stan" Dole and "Chuck" Crosby alter-
nated at quarter during the whole season and,
although neither had had any previous expe-
rience in that position, they worked hard and
showed an excellent fighting spirit. Both are
Juniors and will come back next year with
added experience, and guarantee good mate-
rial for the pivotal position.
The halfback positions were well cared for
by three men this Fall. Faulkner, "the Fresh-
man find" was the fastest man on the team
on offense, and on defense put up a wonderful
exhibition in the Maine State games. He did
the large share of the punting for the team and
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should be ranked second to none in the State
in this department.
Bob Weatherill, '14, who made his reputa-
tion last year as a speedy back, was better than
ever this Fall. Time and again, in every
game he played he brought the stands to their
feet by his hard, driving, reckless tackles.
LaCasce, also '14, alternated at halfback
and end. "Casey" was a valuable man for
the team on account of his versatility and on
defense played a fine game throughout the
season. With more experience he will develop
into a great "back."
Last, but by no means least, was "Farmer"
Kern at fullback. The idol of the football fans
of Maine, the pride of Portland, and Bow-
doin's sensational ground gainer, what more
needs be said, when we state that he was bet-
ter than ever this year. "Farmer" is a Senior
but may return to the Medical school next fall.
We only hope we have the pleasure of seeing
him again in uniform, dodging through a
broken field, or stopping the whole attack oi
an opposing team.
A number of others there are, who played
in some of the earlier games and deserve credit
for their loyalty and hard work, which space
does not permit us to bestow individually.
Frank Bergin as coach was entirely suc-
cessful and has the College behind him. It is
to be hoped he can be secured for another year.
Trainer Nickerson worked long and late over
the black and blue spots and, incidentally, im-
bued a little of the old Bowdoin fighting spirit
into his charges.
The managing end of the season was well
taken care of by Robert P. King, '12. The dis-
satisfaction expressed by some at the cancel-
ling of two important games and the lack of
reserved seats for the Maine game, was un-
justly laid at the feet of Manager King, but he
was entirely blameless in these circumstances.
Financially, he has made an enviable record,
and leaves things in good shape for Lawrence
W. Smith, '13, who was assistant manager this
Fall and takes up the position of managership
next year.
The captain for the team for 1912 has not
been elected yet, but there have been one or
two good men suggested, either one of whom
would make an excellent leader.
AN OPEN LETTER
To the Undergraduates, Alumni, and Faculty of
Bowdoin College
I am sorry to find in the Orient of recent
date an editorial upon the unsatisfactory finan-
cial condition of the Quill. This appears to be
a more or less chronic condition, for which a
permanent remedy should be sought.
As a remedy I suggest the elimination of
the present competition between the Orient
and the Quill, which, though probably uncon-
scious, is none the less real. This competition
is of two sorts ; first, for suitable editors (I un-
derstand that no one can hold positions on the
boards of both papers) ; second, for advertis-
ing, without which no periodical, however
large its subscription list, can be really profit-
able.
Is it not unreasonable to keep the member-
ship of the two boards distinct ? What would
be said if a man were kept ofif the baseball
team because he was already on the football
team? And though to some it may appear
strange, there are men who enjoy undergrad-
uate journalism enough to work on two pa-
pers. At least, this used to be true, for class-
mates of mine, until forbidden by rule, were
on both the Orient and the Quill.
As to advertising: Of course, there always
will be difficulty in getting merchants to pay
for space in each of two papers when the cir-
culation of one duplicates to an extent the cir-
culation of the other. And, at present, the mer-
chant's choice of the two is likely to be the
Orient — this being the better established pa-
per, larger in size, more frequently published,
and more widely circulated.
Now the mistake in the present business
arrangement of Bowdoin's papers is that each
manager is allowed to regard his paper aS his
personal property; that is, he is allowed to
pocket the profits. But, in fairness to his suc-
cessors, why should he? The prestige of the
paper is not his. It is the prestige of the col-
lege. The man may hustle for advertising,
but how much would his hustling get him if
the college were not back of his paper? And
why should the manager of the college paper
pocket his profits any more than the manager
of the football team?
As a more business-like and permanent ar-
rangement, I suggest the establishment of a
Bowdoin Publishing-Association, whose direc-
tors shall be elected from undergraduates.
Continued on page 147
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WILLIAM A. MacCORMICK, 1912, Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
Associate Editors
w. r. spinney, 1912 r. d. leigh. 1914
L. E. JONES. 1913 D. K. MERRILL. 1914
V. R. LEAVITT. 1913 K. A.ROBINSON, 1914
F. D. WISH. Jr.. 1913 R. E. SIMPSON. 1914
H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
H. B. W^ALKER, 1913
Business Manager
Asst. Business Manager
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
Entered at Post-Office at Brunswick as Second-Class Mail Matter
Journal Printshop, Lewiston
Vol. XL!.
NOVEMBER 24, 1911
That the system of athletic
Are You Eligible? government at Bowdoin
needs revision or regula-
tion, is not questioned in the sHghtest degree
by the student 'body. The rules which gov-
ern eligibility to class teams are decidedly
vague and fickle. During this fall men who
have represented their classes in baseball and
track have been declared ineligible for the
annual football game. The reasons which
now declare such men ineligible existed before
and allowed men to participate in baseball and
track. Why is it that football should come in
for this special attention? As far as we can
discover there are no permanent rules to pro-
vide for eligibility in class games. Last spring
at the eleventh hour it was necessary to make
temporary rules governing competition, be-
fore the Indoor Meet could be held. In some
events men actually competed without know-
ing which class they represented. Under the
present lack of system a man can represent one
class in baseball and another in football or
else he can't represent any at all. Such vague-
ness and uncertainty connected with the way
in which class matches are held, does little to
stimulate interest in the contests. Primarily,
these interclass games of every description
are carried on for the purpose of bringing out
new material for the various college teams.
If, then, the games are to amount to anything
and if they mean anything to the general wel-
fare of athletics here in Bowdoin, why not
have them run in a definite and fair way ?
That the loss of a cross
A Good Season country race last fall did
not kill the sport here, has
been demonstrated in the good work done
this season. From a squad of men who
lacked experience in this work, a team was
picked which brought credit to the college.
With one more race than usual to run this year
the ^ team did faithful and consistent work.
The race with the University of Vermont
which was a close victory for that institution,
brought out the fighting powers of the team.
In the next race of the season with Bates this
fighting power became a winning factor and
the White was victorious by a comfortable
margin. Throughout the whole season each
man trained faithfully and hard to give his
best to the college. The results show the effect
of the hard practice which the men have been
through. Much credit is due them for the
way in which they worked for the college and
much is also due the undergraduates who
backed them so well in both races.
Special attention should be .
The "Open Letter" given by the undergradu-
ate body to the "open let-
ter" which is printed in another column. The
letter brings out many points for discussion,
and, as on all subjects which vitally interest
the students, the Orient will be glad to pub-
lish any communications it receives. Al-
though we do not at this time express our
opinion of the proposed system, it is well for
those interested to consider it. We are glad
to recognize the interest which the alumni
body takes in undergraduate problems and it
challenges us as active members of the col-
lege, to do our share in solving such problems.
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An Open Letter
Continued from page 145
alumni, and faculty. I wish that all who are
interested would consider this plan. I leave
the details to be worked out after discussion.
Three points, however, seem essential : ( i )
Allow the same undergraduates to serve on
both papers if they can qualify; (2) make one
man (with assistants as necessary) the busi-
ness manager of both; (3) all money col-
lected for subscriptions and for advertising
should be turned into the treasury for the pay-
ment of the joint publication expenses of the
two papers ; balances should be handed on to
the next manager.
I hope no one will read out of this letter
criticism of the Quill's business management,
either past or present. Nothing of the sort is
intended, for I think the Quill has always been
handled as well as the circumstances of publi-
cation would allow. What should be improved
are the circumstances. The best expression of
alumni interest will be help in inaugurating
this improvement.
Yours very truly,
Hanson H. Webster, '99.
MASQUE AND GOWN ORGANIZES
The first meeting of the Masque and Gown was
held Monday night. Arthur Welch, '12, was re-
elected president and John E. Dunphy, '13, was
elected manager. Jack Hurley, '12, was elected to
the executive committee to serve with the president
and manager. The position of assistant manager is
to be competed for. Welch briefly outlined the his-
tory of the club and told of the great interest evinced
in the club by the faculty. The men out for positions
then registered and the meeting adjourned.
DRAMATIC RECITAL
A large audience of townspeople and students at-
tended the recital of "Lord Chumley" by Mr. Leland
Powers under the auspices of the Saturday Club.
The piece was highly dramatic and the speaker took
the different parts in a very excellent manner. His
impersonation was without costume of any sort and
was the more remarkable for that fact. President
Hyde introduced the reader. The outUne of the
piece was as follows :
The scene opens at Adam Butterworth's country
home in England on the eve of his son's depart-
ure to the Boer War. Lord Chumley declares his
love for Eleanor, Adam's daughter, but is turned
down. Lord Chumley then invokes the aid of Lieut.
Hugh Butterworth, Eleanor's brother and a close
friend of Chumley's. Monsieur Le Sage appears
and has entangled Hugh in a blackmailing scheme.
Hugh had been entrusted with a thousand pounds
raised by his fellow ofiicers for the widow of a
soldier. Le Sage had gotten Hugh intoxicated an 1
had stolen iSoo. He has possession of the wido.v's
receipt for the other i20O and threatens to betray
Hugh unless he will influence his sister to marrv
him, Le Sage. Hugh confides in Chumley. Chum-
ley stints himself for six months while Hugh is in
Africa to save up iSoo. On the day of Hugh's re-
turn Chumley pays the widow the iSoo and gets a
receipt for it. Meanwhile Le Sage has forced
Eleanor to agree to marry him to save the family
honor. At the celebration following Hugh's home-
coming Lord Chumley proves Le Sage's villainy to
Eleanor and clears Hugh. Le Sage is allowed to
escape. Eleanor admits that she loves Chumley and
so the tale ended.
1911=1912 CATALOGUE ISSUED
The latest number of the college catalogue, the
first copies of which were received at the office this
week, is larger and better in every way than any of
the preceding issues. It is more explicit in every
department, and careful attention is given to every
detail. The section devoted to the Medical School
has been revised and enlarged and also made more
definite. The courses are described much more
fully. The current number shows the total number
of students in the academical department to be three
hundred and thirty-three, five less than last year,
while in the medical department there are eighty-
three, a gain of sixteen over last year's registration.
In all there are eleven more students this year in the
institution than last. It is a rather unusual fact
that the present Senior class is the largest class in
college, numbering eighty-six. The Freshmen are
next in order of size with eighty-one members, the
Juniors next, seventy-seven in all, the Sophomores
being the smallest class, numbering only seventy. It
is significant, and speaks vifell for the standard of the
college, that only sixteen men of the upper classes
have Freshman standing, as compared with thirty-
five of last year.
The scholarships and prizes are dated for the first
time. By the recent bequest of Joseph Edward Mer-
rill, of the Class of 1854, $4,000 annually has been
added to the amount distributed to students in the
form of scholarships. At present the total amount
devoted to scholarships and prizes in aid of merito-
rious students of slender means is over $12,000 an-
nually. It is noteworthy that the David Sewall
Premium was established in 179S, before the college
was opened to students.
A new fund of $S,ooo has been added, the William
A. Packard Library Fund. The income is to be used
"preferably for the purchase of such books as illus-
trate the Greek and Latin languages and literatures."
The Hbrary now has 101,000 volumes, besides several
thousand unbound pamphlets.
The new issue is the first to officially recognize
the Student Council. Heretofore only the Athletic
Council has been in the catalogue. Another innova-
tion is a section devoted to the Requirements for De-
rgees and Degrees with Distinction. In this number
is printed, also, a schedule of "exams" and an ex-
haustive schedule of courses. The examinations are
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simplified by having only one set of papers in each
subject, instead of two, as there have been in some
subjects formerly.
The most interesting 'thing, however, is the new
system of entrance examinations. This is treated
very carefully, and explained very fully, in this issue.
It goes into effect next June. Contrary to the gen-
eral impression, the new system does not do away
with entering on certificate. The Carnegie system of
counting is employed — two points make a unit. In-
stead of 29 points, as formerly, 14 1-2 units are re-
quired. The following extract will explain the new
system.
"Under this plan of admission candidates will be
required to present a record of their school work
showing the subjects studied, the time devoted to
them, and the quality of work done. Such a report,
to be approved, must show that the work in second-
ary schools has covered four years, that it has been
mainly devoted to languages, mathematics, science
and history, and that two of the subjects offered have
been pursued beyond their elements. This record
must be sent to the Dean of the College, before June
I. If it is approved by the College, candidates will
then be given, in each of four (4) subjects, an exam-
ination adapated to show the range and quality of
their attainment in the whole subject.
"For the degree of A.B. the examinations shall
be: English; Latin; and two of the following six:
(except that Science may not be offered unless Math-
ematics is offered with it) French, German, Greek,
History, Mathematics, Science (Physics and Chem-
istry),
vj "For the degree of B.S. the examinations shall be :
' Enghsh; Mathematics; and two of the following six:
French, German, Greek, History, Latin, Science
(Physics and Chemistry).
"Both the school records and the results of the
examinations will determine the acceptance or rejec-
tion of the candidates. Those who are admitted will
be received free from conditions, and those who are
rejected will receive no credit for such examinations
as they may have passed under this plan of admis-
sion."
In harmony with the other improvements is the
addition of an index. The catalogue, which is ad-
mirably done, was printed at the Record Press of this
town.
BOSTON ALUMNI GATHERINGS
Every Saturday evening there is an informal
Bowdoin gathering in some well-known Boston res-
taurant. There are a large number of the gradu-
ates of the past few classes located in Boston this
winter who make it a point to meet at least once a
week. The fellows meet at the Adams House about
six o'clock and from there go to dinner.
These weekly gatherings are looked forward to
with much pleasure, for they afford an excellent op-
nortunitv not only to maintain college friendships
and college ties, but also to keep in touch with Bow-
doin life and the activities at the college. Every
Bowdoin man is cordially invited to join these gath-
erings, especially any undergraduate who may be in
the city. ^ . , r ,
Last Saturday evening Manager Smith of the
1912 football team was present and told the fellows
something of next year's football prospects. Last
Saturday night the gathering included Hughes, '09;
Crosby, '10; Williams, '10; Woodward, '10; Morss,
'10; Tuttle, '10; Hamburger, '10; and Townsend, '10.
The Boston alumni want every undergraduate
who attends the Harvard-Yale game to-morrow to be
sure to attend the Saturday night Bowdoin dinner,
and a hearty welcome is assured.
REPORT OF BASEBALL MANAGER, SEASON I9II
Receipts
Balance from 1910 Manager $1 80
1910 Subscriptions ■ 150 50
Loan from Athletic Council 125 00
Princeton Guarantees 175 00
St. John's College Guarantees SO 00
Brown U. Guarantee 100 00
Maine Central Gate 84 40
Bates (exhibition) Gate 8 38
Minstrel Show Receipts 162 So
Dartmouth Guarantees 17=; 00
U. of Vermont Uuarantees 150 00
Tufts Guarantee 80 00
Harvard Guarantee 125 00
Maine Gate 174 75
Colby Gate 127 00
New Hampshire Gate 67 go
Colbv Guarantee SO 00
Maine Guarantee 7^ 00
Tufts Gate 29342
Bates Gate (Memorial Day) 171 85
Ivy Game (Gate and Grandstand) 363 2S
191 1 Subscriptions 326 00
Total $3,036 75
Disbursements
1910 Bills '. $225 05
The Book Shop 4 50
Trip to secure coach 18 60
New York Trip 390 34
Maine Central Trip • ■ • 40 55
Athletic SuppHes— J. Hassett 10 00
Minstrel Show 190 05
Bates Trip (exhibition) 15 10
F. A. Brady, coaching 35 10
Dartmouth and Vermont Trio 409 68
Tufts and Harvard Trip 155 45
Maine Guarantee 75 00
10 Per cent. Maine Gate to Athl. Council... 17 47
Colby Guarantee 50 00
10 Per cent. Colby Gate 12 70
Brook's Expenses 8 93
Maine Map & Register Co 5 SO
New Hampshire Guarantee SO 00
10 Per ce'nt. New Hampshire Gate 6 79
Colby Trip ■ 48 05
Total $1-768 86
Wm. Read— Athletic Supplies 25 17
Maine Trip 62 90
G. M. Wheeler 34 25
Tufts Trip and Guarantee 213 24
Bates Trip 36 20
Bates Mgr., 1-2 Ivy Gate no iS
10 Per cent. Ivy Gate to Athletic Council 25 70
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Dr. Whittier — Grandstand io6 25
Dr. Palmer — Services for Means & Smith .... 4 00
F. H. Wilson — Services for Means & Smith. . 5 55
Western Union Telegraph Co 15 49
L. H. Colby — Room for Coach 18 00
W. F. Goodwin — Police 5 00
I. Stetson — Police Ivy Game 2 00
R. Bridge — Board for Coach 30 25
J. O'Brien — Umpire 39 00
Coach, Salary & Expenses 343 50
Incidentals 78 70
Total $2,924 21
Total Receipts $3,036 75 $3,036 75
Total Expenditures 2,924 21
Balance in Bank 112 54
$1,036 75 3,036 75
Outstanding Bills (Approximate) $450 00 $450 00
Outstanding Subs. 1911 ..$95 00
Balance in Bank 112 54
$207 54 $207 54
Balance Liability $242 46
Respectfully submitted,
Edward O. Leigh, Manager.
June 19, 1911.
I have examined the books and accounts of the
Baseball Manager, and find the foregoing a correct
summary therefrom, except that disbursements are
not in all cases sufficiently vouched, and except that
subscriptions, which a Manager cannot collect at the
close of his season, ought not to be carried as an
asset.
B.\REETT Potter, Auditor.
November 21, 19H.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
At Sunday Chapel President Hyde talked
of what Christianity brought into the world.
Ward Fowler .says that such prayer as is found
in the Christian religion was strange to the
ancients with their ceremonial religions. The
prayer of the Hebrews, Greeks and Romans
was very different from prayer in the Christian
religion. The Hebrews prayed in a sort of
bargaining way, a give and take ; the Romans
prayed for the legal propriety of their acts ; the
Greeks offered a prayer with ^ the aesthetic
sense of proportion ; while the Christians pray
with a full-surrendering faith in the divine
will of God — it is a talk with God. Jesus
taught a prayer to his disciples which is en-
tirely different from that of the Hebrews, the
Romans, and the Greeks. When the Lord's
Prayer is contrasted with these, it is seen that
a new force for love and good citizenship
throughout the world came with Christianity.
CALENDAR
Saturday, November 25
2.00 Fres'hman-Sophomore Football Game on the
Delta.
Sunday, November 26
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 quartette.
Monday, November 27
7.00 Student Council Meeting, Deutscher Verein
Room.
Tuesday, November 28
8.00 Saturday Club Vaudeville in Town Hall.
Wednesday, November 29
12.30 Thanksgiving Recess begins and continues
until 8.20 A.M. Dec. 4.
THANKSGIVING RECESS
The Thanksgiving Recess begins on Wednesday
noon, November 29th, at half-past twelve, and closes
on Monday, December 4th, at 8.20 a.m.
Absences from college recitations and chapel on
Tuesday and Wednesday, November 28th and 29th,
and on Monday and Tuesday, December 4th and
5th, render students Uable to probation for a period
of six weeks.
Students Uving in towns in which there are no
Sunday trains are allowed to return on the first train
Monday morning by leaving their names at the
Dean's office on Wednesday, November 29th.
Leave of absence will be permitted in no other
cases.
Kenneth C. M. Sills, Dean.
CollcQC Botes
Lowell Foote, '12, was in New York last week.
Thirty men turned out for the "Masque and
Gown" Monday night.
Prof. Johnson's last talk on the Art Building
and its contents was given yesterday.
Eddie Files, '08, finishes his work with the Port-
land High football squad to-morrow.
Prof. Sills was out of town over Saturday and
Sunday. The Latin classes took adjourns, Saturday.
President MacCormick of the Y. M. C. A. was
in Boothbay Harbor over Sunday on Y.M. C. A.
business.
The number of members on the faculty is 73, the j
academic faculty numbering 25 and the medicaL'
faculty 53.
Many of the students have wondered what the
flags were in the Library tower. Prof. Alvord has
established a surveying station there.
On Saturday letters were sent out to all the
alumni of the Medical School for subscriptions for
the new dispensary to the built in Portland.
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Matthews, '12, and Burns, '13, made a tour of the
campus, Monday evening, presenting their comedy,
"The Queen of the Barnyard."
Cary, Bowdoin, '10, was the eighth man to finish
in the recent Brown-Tech cross-country race, which
Tech won. He was the fourth Tech man to finish.
In the final round of the golf tournament for the
cup offered by Professor Sills, Curtis Tuttle, '13, of
Brunswick, defeated Louis Donahue, '14, of Port-
land, 2 up.
MacCormick, '12, represented the Bowdoin Chap-
ter of Delta Upsilon Fraternity at the initiation ban-
quet of the Colby Chapter, held at the Augusta
House last Friday evening.
Phillips, '09, together with E. P. Paulsen, a grad-
uate of Wesleyan, has started an evening school for
foreigners in Westbrook. Already nearly thirty-five
men have enrolled in the classes.
The Bowdoin Chapter of Kappa Sigma was rep-
resented at the annual initiation of the Kappa Sigma
Chapter of the University of Maine by Weston, '12,
Leigh, '12, Riggs, '12, Hoit, '12, and Abbott, '13.
The Sophomores and Freshmen have had two
teams out for practice all this week in preparation
for their game, Saturday. The Sophomores are
weakened by the loss of "Lew" Brown, who is ineli-
gible.
All applications for Scholarships must be re-
turned to the Treasurer's ofiice on or before De-
cember first, and applications for Fellowships must
be made to President Hyde in writing on or before
the same date.
A meeting of the Bowdoin Masque and Gown
was held Monday evening in the Y. M. C. A. rooms
for the purpose of electing officers and getting the
signatures of those who are out for this year's cast.
Arthur Welch was unanimously elected president,
and John Dunphy manager.
Dean Sills represented the college last Saturday
at Augusta at the meeting of the Advisory Commit-
tee on Relations between the Colleges and Public
Schools of Maine. The meeting was held in the
ofiice of Payson Smith, State Superintendent of
Schools, and was attended by a representative of
each of the four Maine colleges. President Hyde
was elected chairman of the college section of the
Maine Teachers' Association which meets in Port-
land next Fall.
A recent article published by President Hyde and
reprinted in a number of college and University
papers throughout the country, entitled "The College
and the Student," in the form of a catechism, is of
esoecial interest to Bowdoin students in its many
allusions to our College and its policy with respect
to new students and its organization. The interest
shown in the article by the readers of the University
of Washington Daily has caused their editors to
publish a series of extracts from President Hyde's
writings on College life.
No official all-Maine team is ever chosen, but the
Lewiston Journal, considered to have the most im-
partial and up-to-date sporting department in the
State, publishes a team selected from the choices
of the captains and coaches of the four State colleges.
We copy herewith this tentative aggregation with a
few slight changes. These changes are the addition
of alternate players for a few positions which the
frequency of their appearance in other all-Maine
teams for the year warranted.
L.e., Danahy, Bates.
L.t., Wood, Bowdoin.
L.g., Gulliver, Maine-Soule, Colby.
C, Cole, Bates-Baker, Maine.
R.g., Sawyer, Maine.
R.t., Bigelow, Maine.
R.e., Hurley, Bowdoin.
Q.b., Cleaves, Maine.
L.h.b., Parker, Maine-Good, Colby.
R.h.b.. Frazer, Colby-Kern, Bowdoin.
F.b., Shepard, Maine.
Hluntni department
'98. — William W. Lawrence, Professor of
English at Columbia, has just published
through the Columbia University Press the
lectures which he delivered last year at Cooper
Union. The title of the collection is "Social
Ideas in Mediseval Story."
'06. — Rev. Oscar W. Peterson has accepted
a call to the pastorate of the Congregational
Church at Bristol, Vt.
'07. — On Tuesday evening, October 31,
Miss Helen Lancaster Eaton and Felix Arnold
Burton were married at the home of the
bride's .parents on Federal Street. Harold
Hitz Burton, '09, brother of the groom, was
best man. While in college Mr. Burton was
prominent in Christian Association work, was
artist of the class Bugle and a member of the
D. K. E. fraternity. The couple will reside in
Helena, where Mr. Burton is employed in his
professional capacity of architect.
'09. — In the recent list of Bowdoin men at
^ale the name of Robert G. Stubbs of the For-
estry Department, was inadvertently omitted.
'09. — Rev. Charles L. Stevens has received
a call to be pastor of the First Congregational
Church at Chicopee, Mass.
Medical School of Maine
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Addison S. Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, DECEMBER 8, 1911
NO. 19
19IS WINS FOOTBALL GAME
In the closest and most interesting class
football game seen at Bowdoin for several
years, the Freshmen defeated the Sophomores
Saturday afternoon, Novemher 25th, by the
score of 3-0. The Sophomores outweighed
their opponents but were defeated by the punt-
ing of Floyd, the Freshman left tackle, and
by the Freshmen's following of the ball. The
Sophomores outrushed the Freshmen steadily
' during the first period, but in the second period
the Freshmen came back strong. Securing the
ball on their opponents' 25-yard line, they tried
a goal from the field. This failed but the
Freshmen recovered the ball. Then Mannix,
the Freshman quarterback, made a beautiful
drop-kick which went squarely between the
goal posts, and the score was 3-0 in favor of
1915.
During the next two periods, the Sopho-
mores fought gamely to overcome this lead. In
the last quarter, they rushed the ball down to
their opponents' 12-yard fine. This was their
opportunity to make a touchdown, but Merrill,
the Sophomore quarterback, thinking there
was was only one minute more to play, tried a
drop-kick, which failed. The game ended
with the ball in Freshman territory. The game
was witnessed by a large crowd of students
and townspeople. It was played under almost
ideal conditions, the Delta being free from
snow for the first time during the class games
of recent years.
Arthur Merrill captained the Sophomore
team and Harry Cross the Freshmen. Both
captains played a strong game,Merrill running
back punts well and Cross being one of the
strongest of his team on both offense and de-
fense. Cooley, the Sophomore left half,-gained
more ground than any man on either team.
Floyd, who never played football until he en-
tered college this fall, showed great ability as
a punter, repeatedly outpunting his rival, Mer-
rill.
The line-up was as follows :
Freshmen oufhomoees
Smith, l.e I.e., Russell
Floyd, It l.t, O. P. Badger
Moulton, Badger, l.g I.g., E. S. Thompson
Thompson, Eastman, c c, Payson
Coffin, McKinnon, Evans, r.g r.g., Marr, Eaton
Austin, Evans, Koughan, Stowell, r.t r.t., Hall
Houghton, West, MacCorraick, Coxe, r.e.
r.e., Tuttle
Mannix, Roberts, q.b q.b., Merrill
Cross, l.h.b... l.h.b., Cooley
Somers, Dunton, r.h.b r.h.b., Hubbard
Stone, f.b f .b., C. A. Brown
Score — Freshmen 3, Sophomores o. Goal from
field — Mannix. Referee — F. A. Smith, '12. Umpire
— ''Farmer" Kern. Field Judge — "Brosie" Burns.
Head Linesman — Trainer Nickerson. Assistant
Linesmen — Barton, '14, and Fields, '15. Tuners^
Simpson, '12, and Douglas, '13. Time — four 10-
minute periods.
GYMNASIUM WORK BEGINS
Gymnasium, track ,baseball, and fencing
commenced last Monday for the winter.
For track work 49 men reported, and for
the present, at least, will be under the super-
vision of Captain Robert D. Cole, '12, of Ar-
lington Heights, Mass. This is a much larger
number than usual. Of the men, 12 were Sen-
iors, 17 Juniors, 9 Sophomores, and 12 Fresh-
men.
For baseball there are 32 candidates, who
will practice in the cage in charge of Captain
Leland G. Means, '12, of Orleans, Nebraska.
Ten of the men are Freshmen.
Edward L. Morss, '12, of Boston, Mass.,
will have charge of the Freshmen who are tak-
ing the regular gymnasium course. The
Sophomore squad will be looked after by
Seward J. Marsh, '12, of Farmington, Me.;
Carle O. Warren, '12, of Gorham, Me.,
Edward W. Torrey of Peabody, Mass., will
supervise Junior drill, and Allan Woodcock
of Bangor, will take charge of the Seniors.
FENCING SQUAD STARTS PRACTICE
The fencing squad started practice this
week with 13 men out. The outlook for a
team is good since several of the men have
had a year's experience. They are by no
means experts at the game and will require a
lot of practice before they meet out of state
teams. The men out are S. T. Pike, '13, man-
ager; W. J. Greenleaf, '12; H. A. Briggs, '12;
PL M. Shea, '14; F. W. McCargo, '14; W. S.
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Greene, '13; Allan Woodccck, '12; William
Holt, '12; M. B. Auten, '12; E. W. Torrey,
'12; D. E. Gardner, '13; J. E. Dunphy, '13;
C. O. Warren, '12.
MUSICAL CLUBS CHOSEN
The members of the musical clubs are to be
chosen this week. The glee club will be picked
from the following men :
Stephen W. Hughes, John H. Joy, Everett
P. Walton, Joseph H. Newell, Seward J.
Marsh, Arthur D. Welch, Kenneth Churchill,
Harold C. L. Ashey, Carl D. Skillin, 1912;
Merton W. Greene, Lawrence W. Smith, W.
Fletcher Twombly, Charles B. Haskell, Willis
1913; Reginald O. Ccnant, Horace A. Barton,
Clarence H. Tapley, 1914; George C. Thomp-
son, Robert M. Dunton, Albion K. Eaton,
1915: and George F. Cressey, 1912, leader.
The glee club lost but four men by gradua-
tion. The club holds rehearsals twice a week,
with Professor E. H. Wass of Augusta, as
coach.
Manager Ashey has arranged the follow-
ing provisional schedule. Not all the dates
have been definitely settled, but will probably
be as follows :
Week of February 26, Maine trip, Bangor,
Oldtown, Bar Harbor, Camden, Rockland.
Week of March 25, Massachusetts trip,
Saco, Exeter, Reading, Wellesley, Boston
(Steinert Hall).
George F. Cressey. 1912. Leader of MaiiaoKn Club
E. Dodge, Clifton O. Page, Robert W. Belk-
nap, 1913; Wallace E. Mason, Jr., John L.
Barbour, Charles H. Bickford, Lewis T.
Brown, Percy D. Mitchell, 1914; Francis P.
McKenney, Jacob F. Weintz, George A. Mac-
Williams, Philip L. Card, Harry G. Cross,
Samuel West, 1915, and George A. Tibbetts,
1912, leader.
The mandolin club will be chosen from this
list:
Kenneth Churchill, Walter H. Greenleaf,
Lendell D. Lincoln, Robert p. King, Jesse H.
McKenney, George H. Nichols, 1912; George
L. Skolfield, Jr., Paul C. Savage, Harold D.
Gilbert, Lawrence A. Crosby, Benjamin D.
Holt, Walter F. Eberhardt, Charles B. Haskell,
Ge
A. Tibtetts. 1912. Leader o£ Glee Club
Beside these, there will be also concerts in
Portland, Bath, and Richmond, and a joint
concert with Bates at Lewiston.
STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING
At a recent meeting of the Student Coun-
cil in the Deutscher Verein room it was voted
that Manager Ashey be allowed to circulate a
paper for the benefit of the musical clubs.
A discussion was held concerning the
holding of a college smoker. 'No definite date
was set, but the affair will probably be held
in January.
According to the rules laid down by the
Council, Freshman caps shall be worn from
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the time college opens until the Thanksgiving
recess, and again from the Easter vacation un-
til college closes in June.
The form of "blanket-tax" which the
Council presented in rough draft was op-
posed by the faculty. A new form is now un-
der consideration and will be presented at an
early date to the student body.
1913 ELECTS OFFICERS
The Junior Class held their elections Thurs-
day, November 23rd, and elected the following
officers :
President, Laurence A. Crosby of Ban-
gor.
Vice-President, Paul Ploward Douglas of
Newport.
Secretary, John E. Dunphy of Portland.
Treasurer, John A. Slocum of Albany, N.
Y.
Orator, Merton W. Greene of Madison.
Marshal, Lawrence W. Smith of Portland.
Chaplain, Cedric R. Crowell of Richmond
Hill, N. Y.
Poet, Edward O. Baker of North Adams,
Mass.
The Ivy Committee consists of:
Leon E. Jones of Winthrop, Mass., Chair-
man.
Clifton O. Page of Bath.
Paul C. Savage of Bangor.
Robert W. Belknap of Damariscotta.
Stanley F. Dole of Portland.
The Junior Assembly Committee consists
of:
WHliam F. Twombly of Reading, Mass.,
Chairman.
Kendrick Burns of Saco.
George L. Skolfield, Jr., of Brunswick.
Frederick S. Wiggin of Saco.
Theodore E. Emery of Randolph.
PRESS CLUB ORGANIZES
At a meeting of the Press Club Monday
evening, William R. Spinney, '12, Wilmot C.
Lippincott, '13, and Douglas H. McMurtrie,
' 1 3, were elected to membership. The officers for
the year are Fred D. Wish, Jr., '13, President;
James A. Norton, '13, Vice-President; Lau-
rence A. Crosby, '13, Secretary and Treas-
urer. The other members of the club are : T.
H. Riley, Jr., '03; Allan Woodcock, '12; Ed-
win C. Burleigh, '13; Dana K. Merrill, '14;
Stewart P. Morrill, '15. The newspapers rep-
resented are the Bangor Daily News, Bangor
Daily Commercial, Portland Eastern Argus,
Portland Express- Advertiser, Portland Sun-
day Telegram, Kennebec Journal, New York
Post, New York Sun, Springfield Republican,
Intercollegiate, and the Orient.
THE IBIS
The first business meeting of the Ibis was
held at the Delta Kappa Epsilon house, No-
vember 2d. Charles F. Adams, '12, was ini-
tiated into the club.
During the coming year the Ibis plans to
hold closed meetings every month and to have
one or two open meetings at which the mem-
bers of the college will have opportunity to
hear talks by some of the leading men of the
country.
The club continues its previous offer of
twenty dollars as a prize for the best college
song written by an undergraduate. The
song may have original music or be written to
some known air. The competition is open
to all members of the student body. Any
one submitting a song may leave it with
Bradford, '12, at the Delta Kappa Epsilon
house or with any other member of the Ibis.
ZETA PSl DANCE
A formal dance was held at the house of
Lambda Chapter of Zeta Psi on College
Street, Tuesday evening, Nov. 28th. The
College Orchestra played for the party, which
enjoyed an order of twenty dances. The
rooms were beautifully adorned with pillows
and banners. The patronesses were Mrs. Wil-
liam E. Lunt, Mrs. Chas. W. Hayes, of Fox-
croft, Mrs. Chas. C. Bickford, of Portland;
and Miss Hannah R. Page, of Skowhegan.
The committee in charge consisted of Richard
E. Simpson, '14, Reginald A. Monroe, '14,
and Omar P. Badger, '14.
Among the guests were Misses Marguer-
ite Burr, Gladys Burr, Helen Thompson, Ada
Sawyer, Florence Home, of Portland; Misses
Harriette Henderson, Katherine Leydon, of
Bath; Miss Mary Holton, of Bootbbay Har-
bor; Misses Gertrude Emery, Mary Emery,
Charlotte Colby, of Skowhegan; Misses Helen
Fiske, Alfretta Graves, of Brunswick; Miss
Mary Wright, of Wiscasset; Miss Etliel Lib-
by, of Augusta; Miss Edith Klein, of Buck-
field ; Miss Christine Whittemore, of Liver-
more Falls, and Dr. Copeland.
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BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WILLIAM A. MacCORMICK, igi2, Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
ASSOCIATE Editors
W. R. SPINNEY, 1912 R. D. LEIGH, 1914
L. E. JONES. 1913 D. K. MERRILL. 1914
V. R. LEAVITT, 1913 K. A. ROBINSON, 1914
F. D. WISH, Jr.. 1913 R. E. SIMPSON. 1914
H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
H. B. WALKER, 1913
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Vol. XLI.
DECEMBER 8, 1911
• A few weeks ago we went
As Others See Us as far as to say what the
chance visitor might think
of the morning chapel services at Bowdoin.
Since then we have discovered that the proba-
ble has become the actual. In a recent issue
of the Nezv York Ez'\.*uing Post in which a
Dean of one of our leading universities writes
on "Manners in College," appeared the follow-
ing statement: "I was at still another New
England college, not long ago, and in com-
pany with the representatives of a dozen otlier
"f colleges, I went to the chapel service. One
would think that the students would have real-
ized that they were, so to speak, on exhibition ;
but not they. They shuffled and yawned and
talked. Really the hest-behaved of the lot
seemed to be the ones engaged in preparing
their lessons for the coming hour." Although
no name is mentioned good authority has it
that "the coat fits" Bowdoin men. Such a
presentation of facts coming directly home to
us ought at least to make us realize our re-
sponsibility as college men. We spend much
time in advocating and encouraging "fair
play" and "squareness" in all athletic activ-
ities. Why shouldn't this same spirit of gen-
tlemanliness be carried into the class-rooin
and all college exercises where it is supposed
to exist ? Evidently we are failing to put into
practice in all our relations here what we
would have our representatives do on the foot-
ball, baseball or track field. No college man
can fail to realize his responsibility to himself
and to those around him in his daily dealings.
Only when this sense of responsibility is de-
veloped, however, can we realize the definite
educational value of good manners in our col-
lege life.
Now that the football
A Song season with all its de-
mands is a thing of the
past we hear the call, "In times of peace, pre-
pare for war." One of the most crying needs
at the present time is an addition to our list ot
college songs. During the past football season
the lack of songs was a very conspicuous feat-
ure. All efforts, however, to remove this un-
desirable feature in the past years have been
in vain. Speakers, alumni, editors, and
friends have urged men to show their devotion
to the college by writing a song to her name.
These entreaties have produced only a few
feeble efforts and we are still without any new
songs. To present the problem more forcibly
to the student body the members of the Ibis,
over a year ago, offered a prize of twenty dol-
lars for the best college song which should be
handed in to its committee. As yet that prize
has not been won and more important still,
Bowdoin has not got a new college song. To
keep the songs which we now have "alive" it
is essential that we have others to support
them. The competition which the Ibis en-
courages through its prize is open to all un-
dergraduates and we sincerely hope that no
undergraduate has so little loyalty in him that
he can't at least try to honor Bowdoin with a
new song.
LECTURE BY EDITOR OF THE BOSTON HERALD
In another week, on Saturday, Dec. i6th,
there will speak before the college and the Sat-
urday Club, in Memorial Hall, an editor who
is both a thorough-going "newspaper man"
and a student of modern political life. Mr.
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Robert Lincoln O'Brien, the editor of the Bos-
ton Herald since its re-organization a year ago,
had assumed the editorship of the Boston
Transcript five years previously with a record
of ten years as special correspondent of that
paper in Washington. The articles signed
"Lincoln" are thought by many to represent
the highest type of constructive journalism,
the type where the reporter of proceedings be-
comes the intelligent judge of affairs and offers
a positive contribution to his readers' political
knowledge. Before his correspondent days,
Mr. O'Brien was private secretary to Mr.
Cleveland, from the later's nomination in '92
to '95 and it is upon Washington, on which he
is a recognized authority, that he will speak
next Saturday. This is not one of the two reg-
ular entertainments arranged in co-operation
by the club and the college, but an extra even-
ing which the club is able to offer by the special
courtesy of Editor O'Brien, whose interest in
college men is very marked. The well-known
Bromley Lectures at Yale, a course in the
various aspects of journalism, were given last
year by Mr. O'Brien. It is hoped that the col-
lege will give him the best Bowdoin greeting,
— a large and appreciative audience.
V. M. C. A. NOTES
The Thanksgiving collection amounted to
$28.12. Fourteen dinners were purchased
and distributed by the committee consisting
of W. R. Spinney and G. H. Nichols. These
gifts were much appreciated by the people and
helped to make Thanksgiving a brighter day
for many.
A company of Boy Scouts is to be started
this week at Pejepscot under the leadership of
C. A. Brown, '14.
The speaker for Dec. 14 will be C. C.
Dwyer of Conway, N. H., Y. M. C. A. Sec-
retary for Carroll County. Mr. Dwyer is a
Colby graduate in the Class of 1908. He was
one of the best baseball players that Colby has
produced in recent years, having the enviable
record of playing in every game but one while
he was in college and being captain of the
team in his Senior year. After graduation he
was Physical Director at Hebron Academy
for two years where he was very popular.
Last year he left this position to take up a
work which ,has great responsibilities, the Y.
M. C. A. work for the boys in the country
towns.
Mr. Dwyer is an earnest speaker and will
have something worth while to say.
The cabinet meeting was held at the Ivappa
Sigma House on Thursday evening, Dec. 7.
Some of the questions discussed were deputa-
tion work, a meeting to give information about
Hiwale's work, disposition of the old clothes
collected, and a Christmas tree at Pejepscot.
The collection of old clothes, books and
magazines is now going on. A considerable
quantity has already been received which will
be sent to some worthy organization.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
In his chapel talk the Sunday preceding the
Thanksgiving recess, President Hyde com-
pared the college year to a football game, of
which the first period was nearly finished. He
said in part:
"The ending of this first period comes at
the Thanksgiving season. On looking back
over it, we do not say that it has been perfect,
There are many things with which we may
well be dissatisfied. Yet we have a great many
things to be thankful for; the football team
and its splendid career; the Freshman-Sopho-
more football gaine, with its fine dis-
play of good sportsmanship and its lack of
ill-will, which was a fitting conclusion to the
work of the first period. We should be thank-
ful for the means we now have with which to
work; the endowmeits amounting to two mil-
lions, the faculty with their splendid coopera-
tion, and the great interest of the alumni in us.
These good things which we enjoy and are to
enjoy do not come to us by mere chance. Over
all is the power of the Father. Let us, there-
fore, have gratitude and thankfulness to God,
and as we have freely received, so let us freely
give of our gifts."
jFacult^ flotes
At a meeting of the faculty on Wednesday,
November twenty-ninth, the question of class eligi-
bility was discussed and the following vote was
taken :
"That in order to take part in class contests, stu-
dents must have class promotion and be approved
as physically qualified by the department of physical
training."
According to this, no student may represent any
class except the one in which he is listed in the cat-
alogue. Every man may compete, but he must rep-
resent the class in which he has standing.
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Dean Sills was in Montreal during the Thanks-
giving recess.
Mr. Alvord spent Thanksgiving at his home in
Weymouth, Mass.
Professor Burnett spent a few days at Holyoke
last week.
CALENDAR
Saturday. December 9
8.00 Maude Adams in "Chantecler" at the Jefiferson
Theatre.
Fencing Practice in the Sargent gymnasium.
Sunday^ December 10
10.45 Morning service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
5.G0 Sunday chapel, conducted by President Hyde.
Music by Quartette.
Monday, December ii
S.15 Fencing Practice.
7.30 Meeting of Normal Class in Bible Study.
Tuesday, December 12
5.15 Fencing Practice.
Wednesday, December 13
5.15 Fencing Practice.
Thursday, December 14
5.15 Fencing Practice.
7.00 Y. M. C. A. Mr. Charles Dwyer, County Sec-
retary Y. M. C. A., Carroll County, N. H.,
"Leaners and Lifters.'
Friday, December 15
5. 1 5 Fencing Practice.
8.00 Elsie Janis in "The Slim Princess' 'at the Jef-
ferson Theatre.
ColleGe IRotes
Bordeaux, '14, has left college.
The new catalogues have been sent out to the
alumni.
Harold Marston, '11, was on the campus last
Sunday.
The number of applications for scholarships this
fall is unusually large.
Since November sixth, 228 new volumes have
been added at the library.
Thomas J. Welch and Dr. Francis J. Welch, '03,
were on the campus last week.
An unusually large number of warnings were
issued just before the Thanksgiving recess.
Vernon P. Woodbury, '15, spent the Thanksgiv-
ing recess with George Bacon, '15, at Fryeburg, Me.
The electric light in the loggia of the Art Build-
ing has been raised so that it is no longer visible
from the walk in front of the building. Although it
is a minor detail, it adds to the attractiveness of
the building.
Prof, Mitchell spoke at Second Parisih Church at
Portland, December 3.
New electric light fixtures are being installed in
the rooms throughout the dormitories.
The monthly cabinet meeting of the Y. M. C. A.
was held last night at the Kappa Sigma house.
Robert D. Cole, '12, is a delegate to the Delta
Kappa Epsilon National Convention at Chicago, this
week.
Curtis Tuttle, '13, spent the Thanksgiving recess
with Gibson, 'ii, who is attending the Harvard Med-
ical School.
A party of twenty Bowdoin students went to
Keith's Theatre in Portland, Friday afternoon,
Dec. I.
Stanley Dole, '13, and Ralph Buell, '14, were
among those who witnessed the Yale-Harvard foot-
ball game.
Fiske, ex-'op, was home from West Paris, Me.,
for Thanksgiving. He has a position in the High
School there.
During the Thanksgiving recess "Jim" McBain
and his crew of janitors gave all the college rooms
a good cleaning.
"Jack" Hurley, '12, is principal of the night
school which is run down town in connection with
the Cabot cotton mills.
Many Bowdoin students were present at the
Alumni Dance and Entertainment at the Portland
High School, Friday evening, Dec. 1st.
Thornton Academy defeated Biddeford High in
the annual game on Thanksgiving Day by the score
of 9 to 5. Hurley, '12, has been coaching Bidde-
ford High this fall since the college season closed.
Dr. E. F. Pratt, '97, "Medic" '00, has moved into
a house on School street of this town, and has an
office over the Pastime Theatre. Dr. Pratt was a
member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity while in col-
lege.
The rush after the annual Freshman-Sophomore
football game was held on the campus instead
of on the chapel steps. It was started by the blow-
ing of a whistle and was regulated by the Student
Council.
The question for debate in English 6 last Tues-
day night considered the wisdom of President Taft
in vetoing the Arizona Statehood Bill. Rodick, '12,
and Douglas, '13, supported the negative, while Rus-
sel, '12, and Gage, '14, upheld the affirmative.
Have you noticed Harry Faulkner crossing the
campus with something black in his arms, showing
up against his white sweater? If you have, you've
probably wondered what it was. It's a cat. It
wandered into the "end" some time ago and Harry
promptly adopted it.
Five Bowdoin men took part in the entertain-
ment given at the Masonic Installation in Augusta,
Monday evening, Nov. 27. A quartette consisting
of Arthur Welch, '12, first tenor; Harold Ashey,
'12, second tenor; George Cressey, '12, first bass;
and George Eaton, '13, second bass, accompanied on
the piano by Charles F. Adams, '12, gave several
selections which were greatly enjoyed. Arthur
Welch also read several selections.
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A Bowdoin dance is to be held at the Chateau du
Pare, Vanderbilt Avenue and Park Place, Brook-
lyn, Tuesdaj' evening, December twelfth. Commit-
tee: Mr. George R. Walker, 1902; Mr. John W.
Frost, 1904; Mr. James G. Finn, 1905; Mr. Robert
J. Hodgson, Jr., 1906; Mr. Benjamin F. Briggs,
1907; Mr. Philip R. Shorey, 1907; Mr. Arthur L.
Robinson, igo8; Mr. Harrison Atwood, 1909; Mr.
Harold W. Slocum, 1910.
The college was well represented, in roles of
every character, in the society vaudeville given
Tuesday evening, November 28, under the aus-
pices of the Saturday Club. Those taking part were
Professor FileST-MrT Alvord, Professor Davis, Mr.
Furbush, Welch '12, Foote '12, Loring Pratt '13,
W. Greene, '13, Mathews, '12, Alan Cole, '14, L.
Brown '14, Callahan '14, Tibbetts '12, Weintz '15,
McKenney '15. Marsh '12, P. P. Cole '12, Ashey
'12, and Churchill '12.
D. B. MacMillan, '98, visited college on Monday,
November 27, to obtain slides of a party of Bow-
doin men in Labrador shown in connection with a
lecture on "Labrador" which was given before the
Bowdoin Club of Boston at the University Club
rooms, Friday evening, December I.
He related at the Club his intensely interesting
experiences before an appreciative gathering of more
than a hundred of his fellow graduates of Bowdoin
College. His work last summer was under the aus-
pices of the American Museum of Natural Sciences.
Alone in an 18-foot canoe he travelled up the Labra-
dor coast for over 500 miles to study the native tribes
in their primitive villages and at their summer hunt-
ing camps in the bays and on the outer islands.
Among these Labrador Esquimaux, much farther
north than Dr. Grenfell goes, the Moravian mission-
aries have maintained stations for 140 years ; and
Prof. MacMillan finds no praise too strong for the
devoted men wiho bury themselves in the frozen wil-
derness, and whose noble work is practically unheard
of in the outside world.
IfntercoUeoiate IRotes
Cornell, for the tenth consecutive time, won the
Intercollegiate cross country championship Satur-
day, November 25tih.
Co-eds of Leland Standford and University of
California, have arranged a fencing match.
Cornell is considering a plan for building its dor-
mitories in groups about a common court and hav-
ing a dining room and kitchen for each group of
two or three dormitories.
The Michigan Athletic Association has a mem-
bership of 13,000 men.
Princeton, Annapolis, and Pennsylvania State are
the only large college football teams unbeaten to
date.
The average yearly expenditure per student at
Princeton is estimated at $919.
Within two minutes after the close of the Penn-
Michigan game, the Michigan Daily put a sporting
sheet containing the full account of the game on the
street ; a record which any college paper may well be
proud to equal.
The Michigan Musical Clubs will make an 18-day
trip to Los Angeles and back during the Christmas
holidays.
James Thorpe will captain the Carlisle Indian
School team next year. He has played halfback on
the eleven this year and is considered America's
greatest all-around college athlete.
Booker T. Washington lectured on "Negro Prog-
ress" at Harvard, Nov. 27.
RESOLUTIONS
Hall of Lambda of Zeta Psi.
The Lambda chapter of Zeta Psi has lost a
most highly esteemed elder member by the
death of Col. Frank W. Hawthorne, '74, at his
home in Montclair, N. J., on Saturday, No-
vember 2Sth.
The classmates and college friends of Col.
Hawthorne remember him for his pleasing
ways and his literary ability. His friends and
associates in his work as an editor remember
him for his energy and diligence in attaining
success. The chapter remembers and cher-
ishes him for his devotion and fidelity to the
fraternity.
(Signed),
Harold P. Vannah,
Harold W. Miller,
Elwyn C. Gage,
For the Chapter.
Hall of Lambda of Zeta Psi.
On December ist, the Zeta Psi fraternity,
and the Lambda chapter especially, was
stricken by the death of Dr. Albion S. Whit-
more, '75, in Boston.
His skill will be greatly missed by his co-
workers in the treatment and care of crippled
and aged persons. His geniality and presence
at class reunions will be missed by all. As a
loyal graduate, the college will especially miss
him. The fraternity, however, will miss him
as a most devoted alumnus, one who was al-
ways attentive to the development of the chap-
ter and who contributed both time and money
to its progress.
(Signed),
Harold P. Vannah,
Harold W. Miller,
Elwyn C. Gage,
For the Chapter.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
Hlutnni IDepartinent
'74. — Col. Frank W. Hawthorne, a native
of Bath, but for several years past a resident of
Montclair, N. J., died at his home in New Jer-
sey, Saturday. The funeral was held from
the residence of Mrs. E. H. Turner in Bath.
Col. Hawthorne leaves a widow, who was
Miss Ella Turner of Batli, and one son, Hay-
den. Mr. Hawthorne was educated at the
Bath public schools and was valedictorian of
the Class of 1869. During his college course,
he excelled in literary work and was a leader
in the college and society life. On completing
his college course in 1874, he came home and
for years, while in business with his father,
was a leader in the social life of Bath. He
wrote a poem for the Bath Centennial, which
he read at the exercises in Wesley Church. In
politics, a Democrat, he accepted a position on
the staff of Governor Harris M. Plaisted.
Col. Hawthorne has enjoyed marked sac-
cess in editorial work. His .first work was
done in Florida, where he was connected with
a leading newspaper in Jacksonville. While
here, he won great public approval for his
heroism in staying through the yellow fever
epidemic, rallying aid through the press to
stricken Florida. It 'amounted to the actual
jeopardy of his life every hour of his stay,
while others were fleeing.
Soon after, he left Florida for the North
and entering New York newspaper work, won
his way by his merit. He was witty, facile, and
gracious. A fine example of his cleverness is
seen in his story in the "Tales of Bowdoin."
For many years. Col. Hawthorne has been an
editor on the Nezv York Commercial. That his
ability as an editor was appreciated by this
paper is shown by their retention of him for
such a long period of years.
'75.- — Dr. Albion Stinson Whitmore died
last week at the Deaconess Hospital in Brook-
line. He was born in Bowdoinville, Me., and
was graduated from Bowdoin in 1875 and
from the Columbian College of Surgeons and
Physicians of New York in 1878.
Dr. Whitmore was consulting physi-
cian of the New England Peabody Plome
for Crippled Children and for the Home
for Aged Couples. He was a member of the
American Medical Association, Massachusetts
Medical Association, Boston Medical Library
Association, University Club, Bowdoin Club,
and of the Masons. He lived at 18 Union
Park and is survived by a widow.
'75. — Friends have received from Mr. and
Mrs. William Curtis of New York, invitations
to the marriage of their daughter, Miss Helen
Very Curtis and Edwy Lycurgus Taylor at
Saint Bartholomew's Church, Saturday after-
noon, Dec. 9. A large reception will follow at
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis, 986
Fifth Avenue, New York, at half-past four.
'yy. — In a brief newspaper interview, Will-
iam T. Cobb has shown that he is considering
the matter of going before the primaries as a
candidate for United States Senator, and that
he is positively not in the field for the repre-
sentative nomination in the second district.
'94. — Rev. Alfred V. Bliss has accepted a
call to the Winslow Congregational Qiurch at
Taunton, Mass., and has entered upon his pas-
toral duties.
'95. — Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Peterson of
Santa Ana, Cal., announce the marriage of
their daughter, Emeline Marguerite, to Philip
Douglas Morton Lord of San Francisco, on
November 14 at the home of the bride. Mr.
Lord is a son of the late Dr. John and Helen
Dimock Lord. OHis father was a practicing
physician, and was prominently connected
with Biddeford's affairs for a number of years.
Mrs. Helen Lord was a prominent club woman
and passed her last years with her sons in Cali-
fornia. Mr. Philip Lord was graduated from
Biddeford High School and from Bowdoin.
After graduation, he was a member of the
Biddeford Journal force and later went to Cal-
ifornia. Mr. and Mrs. Lord are to take up
their residence in San Francisco, and are to be
at home after January first.
'97. — An article on the Basis of Liability
Insurance by J. E. Rhodes, 2d, appears in
Volume 4 of the Insurance Institute of Hart-
ford, Conn.
Medical School of Maine
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Addison S. Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, DECEMBER 15, 1911
NO. 20
MAINE INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC BOARD
MEETS
The representatives of the four Maine col-
leges, at the request of the Maine Intercolle-
giate Athletic Board, met in Portland last Sat-
urday, and considerable business pertaining to
football, not only for next year, but for the
ensuing years, was transacted.
The principal subject of discussion was the
football schedule. For a number of years now
Bowdoin and Maine have played the last
game of the season. The other colleges have
been grumbling a little at this arrangement,
and so a rotating schedule was proposed. If
this schedule were agreed upon for a period of
6 years, for example, each college would have
played three of the games in the Maine series
on their home grounds. As Bowdoin is not a
member of the Maine Intercollegiate Athletic
Board, she cannot vote but can simply express
her opinion in the meetings. Whatever decis-
ion the board makes, must be ratified by Bow-
doin, however, before it goes into effect.
The following recommendations were
adopted :
That a rotating football schedule be
adopted by the four Maine colleges to cover a
period of six years and to begin in 19 12.
That each college shall accredit a faculty
member to assist its football manager in ar-
ranging a rotating schedule.
That Bowdoin be requested to accredit a
faculty member in a like manner.
That all games between Maine colleges be
played on a schedule represented by the last
Saturday in October and the first two Satur-
days in November.
That the schedule offered to the conference
of the four Maine colleges by Professor Pome-
roy of Bates, be the basis for the rotating
schedule, subject to amendment, such a sched-
ule to lend itself to adjustment by the shifting
of its starting point.
The arrangement for the last games in
1912 was Bates vs. Bowdoin — at Brunswick,
Maine vs. Colby at Waterville.
The Bowdoin representatives were Profes-
sor Manton Copeland, Lawrence Willey
Smith, '13, of Portland, and Captain-elect
"Duff" Wood of Bar Harbor.
PHILIP S. WOOD, 13, CHOSEN AS FOOTBALL
CAPTAIN
Philip Shaw Wood, '13, of Bar Harbor,
better known to undergraduates and alumni as
"Duff," was elected captain of the 1912 foot-
ball team last Saturday afternoon. He has
played for two years on the team at left tackle,
and was chosen by practically every one for
the All-Maine team.
HARRY H. HALL, 1913, RE=ELECTED CROSS
COUNTRY TEAM CAPTAIN
The cross-country team had its pictures
taken at Webber's last Tuesday, and re-elected
Harry H. Hall, '13, of Medfield, Mass., as cap-
tain. He has been on the team for three years
now, and is generally the one to show the way
home. In the recent Vermont-Bowdoin race
he came in second by a scant three yards,
while in the Bates-Bowdoin contest he won by
half a lap.
TENTATIVE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
The tentative schedule of the football team
for next year has been approved by the athletic
committees. Since the manager for next year
has not been elected, the schedule is technically
not official, but the athletic authorities say that
it is a mere formality and the schedule will be-
come effective as it stands when the manager
is chosen. The games were arranged by L.
W. Smith, '13, the assistant manager, and are
as follows :
Sept. 28 — Fort McKinley at Brunswick.
Oct. 5 — ^Wesleyan at Middletown, Ct.
Oct. 12 — Trinity at Hartford.
Oct. 19— Tufts at Medford.
Oct. 26 — Colby at Brunswick.
Nov. 2 — Bates at Brunswick.
Nov. 9 — University of Maine at Orono.
Nov. 16 — ^Open.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
TRACK LETTERS AWARDED TO CROSS COUNTRY
TEAM
The Athletic Council met Thursday even-
ing, and considerable ibusiness was transacted.
Letters were awarded to three men of the
cross-country team which made such an excel-
lent showing this fall by defeating Bates and
being barely defeated by Vermont. The men
to secure the coveted "B" were Capt. Henry
H. Hall, '13, of Medfield, Mass., James O.
Tarbox, '14, of Topsham, and Charles B. Has-
kell, Jr., '13, of Pittsfield.
Manager Frederick S. Wiggin, '13, of
Thomaston, outlined a brief schedule for the
coming season. It showed the usual New
York trip in the early spring, with games with
Princeton, Brown, and Seaton Hall, the Dart-
mouth trip and the usual championship games
with the Maine colleges.
Professor Manton Copeland, Lawrence W.
Smith, '13, of Portland, and Philip S.
Wood of Bar Harbor, were delegated
to attend the meeting of the Maine In-
tercollegiate Athletic Association to be held at
Portland, Saturday morning.
Manager Smith, assistant manager of the
football team, outlined, subject to change, a
schedule for next fall.
DEUTSCHER VEREIN ORGANIZES
A meeting of the Deutscher Verein will be
held with Prof. George T. Files, this even-
ing, to organize for the year. The following
men are eligible for membership: From 1912,
Allen, Bragdon, Bryant, Foss, Marsh, Mif-
flin, Mitchell, Pratt, Skillin, Torrey, Weeks,
and R. F. White; from 1913, Eberhardt,
Gardner, McMurtrie, and Miller.
CLASSICAL CLUB
Thursday, Dec. 7, the Classical Club met for
the first time this year at Prof. Nixon's house.
The following executive committee was
elected : Prof. Nixon, chairman ; Willis E.
Dodge, '13, secretary; Ralph L. Buell, '14,
third member. Prof. Woodrufl read a paper
on "Recent Excavations in Crete." The fol-
lowing were elected to membership :
Dana K. Merrill, '14; Paul L. Wing, '14;
Kenneth A. Robinson, '14; Robert E. Bodur-
tha, '14; Earl F. Maloney, '12; Paul L. White,
'14; Frank R. Loeffler, '14; Philip H. Pope,
'14; and Ralph L. Buell, '14.
DEBATING COUNCIL MEETING
At the recent meeting of the Debating
Council, the council voted, in co-operation with
the college, to continue the Bowdoin Inter-
scholastic Debating League. The following
committee was appointed by President Bur-
leig'h C. Rodick, '12, to have charge of the
league : Prof. Wm. Hawley Davis, C. F.
Adams, "12, and E. F. Maloney, '12.
WORD FROM A BOWDOIN MAN
Bowdoin is always interested in the success
of her sons, but she has an especial interest in
the work of Anand Sidoba Hiwale, '09, who
is working among his own people of India as
the Bowdoin Missionary.
It will be a cause for gratification to hear
the recent reports of his work from Dr. Hume,
who has charge of the Marathi Mission, in
which Hiwale is working. Mr. Hume writes,
"It gives me pleasure to write that the mission-
ary representative of Bowdoin is doing excel-
lent work and is commending himself in every
way. He is earnest, devoted, humble, tactful,
hopeful, courageous, successful. He com-
mends himself to the Missionaries, to Indian
Christians, and to Non-Christians."
Many men in college knew Hiwale person-
ally and remember his cheerful disposition, hi^
kind word of greeting for all, his loyalty to the
college, and the enthusiasm with which he
talked of representing Bowdoin in India. They
who knew him were confident of his success
and rejoice in it. The Bowdoin men who have
not had the pleasure of being with him in col-
lege should feel a no less interest in his work,
'because he is working for the college. He is
our representative in one of the great move-
ments of the present day in which such colleges
as Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania are taking an active part
by supporting missionaries and schools in dif-
ferent countries.
Mr. Hiwale and his wife, who is a great
help in his work, are at present situated at
Rabinatpur, about 150 miles from Bombay in
the southern part of India, under the Ameri-
can Marathi Mission. He superintends the
work of the Satara district and has several
workers under him. He himself spends the
greater part of his time in preaching in the
surrounding villages.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
161
That tlie students may have a better chance
to become acquainted with the work that Hi-
wale is doing as the Bowdoin Missionary, the
Y. M. C. A. has arranged an illustrated lec-
ture on his work by the Rev. Brewer Eddy of
Boston, Secretary of the American Board of
Foreign Missions, in Memorial Hall on
Thursday, January 4.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
"Whosoever shall confess me before men,
he shall I confess before God." "Christianity
is a social thing," said the President, "either a
man must confess Christianity before men or
he has not Christianity. The Christian Asso-
ciation is our representative of Christ in Bow-
doin. We must measure our loyalty to Christ
by our loyalty to that. By belonging to that
the members show their desire to serve Christ.
In confessing Christ we try to be his disciples.
It is the basic principle of Christianity to con-
fess Christ. Fifty-seven per cent, of the stu-
dents belong to the Y. M. C. A. Of the forty-
three per cent, left, ten per cent, would have to
make a radical change in their life to become
disciples of Christ. The other thirty-three per
cent, are drifting along about on the line. It
is this number that need to be careful. If we
do not care to identify ourselves v^fith Christ
it will be impossible for Him to confess us be-
fore God." The exercises closed with a solo
by Mrs. Davis.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES
The Gymnasium Class for Grammar School boys
will be started this Saturday under the direction of
E. O. LaCasce, '14, and Omar P. Badger, '14. A
large number have enrolled. The class will meet
every Saturday morning from 10.30 to 11.30.
The Christmas tree of the Pejepscot Sunday
School will be held on this Friday evening, Dec. 15.
A short entertainment will be provided and presents
given to the children who attend the school. It is
under the direction of L. A. Crosby, '13, and A. E.
Gray, '14.
A new form of work is to be started this week in
the form of a Deputation to Boothbay Harbor on
Sunday, Dec. 17. This is something which has been
done by other colleges, notably Dartmouth and
New Hampshire State, with marked success. The
object is by meetings held in conjunction with the
churches to make the people acquainted with the
Christian work that is being carried on in the col-
leges and to arouse a greater interest in church work
in the community, especially among the young peo-
ple. The following men will compose the Deputa-
tion, E. G. Fifield, General Secretary, W. A. Mac-
Cormick, 'i2, Kenneth Churchill, '12, P. H. Douglas,
'13, and J. F. Weintz, '15.
The speaker at the regular Thursday evening
meeting on Dec. 21 will be Dr. Charles A. Moore of
Bangor, Pastor of the Central Congregational Church
there since l?05. He is a graduate of Yale in the
Class of 1886, and of Andover Theological Seminary.
The subject of his talk will be "The Question of
Command."
So much real need was found in the distribution
of the Thanksgiving Dinners that it has been decided
to take up another collection at Christmas time to
give the students a chance to relieve a great deal of
suffering at but very little sacrifice to themselves.
Attention is called to the letter by the Chairman of
the Social Service Committee in this issue.
Y M. C. A. MEETING
The Rev. Mr. Gilman of Boston, gave a talk on
World Peace. An unusually large audience attended.
Mr. Gilman said in part : "Whatever has been done
in the past the world has now reached a point where
we must put away the sword and gun. A world
tribunal is needed. The findings of a commission are
only compromises but a fixed tribunal would correct
this. Interest in the arbitration movement has ad-
vanced more in the last ten years than ever before.
The average man will say, 'We have always had war,
and it is human nature to fight. We always will have
war.' But we have found other things which were
considered impossible to have been accomplished.
Illustrations of this are manifold. Billions of dol-
lars have been paid out in war. Future generations
will wonder why we were so foolish. The average
man will not believe any unheard of idea or fact.
But Carnegie gave three million dollars toward arbi-
tration, he must have believed. A year or so ago
the Kaiser explained to the world why he had acted
in a certain way. Twenty years ago he would not
have done this but taken up arms. Carlyle then
describes war : 'Here are 100 red men, here are 100
green men, — signal, red men fire, green men fire, —
fifty red men fall, 25 green men fall, — and nothing
results.' You will say the French Revolution did
a world of good. It did. But to-day it would not
have been necessary. The whole thing rests upon
the people. If they want war they will have it, if
they do not want it they will not have it. It is up
to every one of us to do our share in preventing
future wars."
"LET THE GOOD WORK GO ON," SAY THE
PAPERS
To the Editor of the Orient:
The newspapers say all sorts of things about us
fellows here at Bowdoin, but it is seldom that any
paper can make a comment which should so fire us
with enthusiasm for work which is good in itself as
the simple, inartistic and yet touchingly sincere word
of approval reported to the writer the other day from
a little country paper in New Hampshire.
Just before the Thanksgiving recess a collection
was taken at Chapel for the purpose of giving food
Continued on page 163
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
THE BOWUOIN ORIENT
Bv THE Students of
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WILLIAM A. MacCORMICK. 1912, Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
Associate Editors
W. R. SPINNEY, 1912
L. E. JONES. 1913
V. R. LEAVITT, 1913
F. D. WISH, Jr., 1913
H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
H. B. WALKER, 1913
R. D. LEIGH. 1914
D. K. MERRILL, 1914
K. A. ROBINSON, 1914
R. E. SIMPSON, 1914
Business Manager
Asst. Business Manager
Contributions are requested from all undergradu-
a*es alumni, and officers of instruction. No anony-
mous nnanuscript 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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il Matter
Journal Peintshop, Lewiston
Vol. XLI. DECEMBER 15, 1911
No. 20
In regard to the matter of
You Are Eligible class eligibility which was
mentioned a few weeks
ago in this column, the faculty took the fol-,
lowing action: "That in order to take part in
class contests, students must have class pro-
motion and be approved as physically qualified
by the department of physical training." This
regulation simply means that a man can rep-
resent only the class with which he is listed in
the catalogue. Perhaps more than a mere ex-
planation is necessary. In the past, class spirit
has been so keen that some men rather than
compete with a class other than the one with
which they entered college, have refused to
compete at all. This exhibition of loyalty to
the class, however, kills the larger and broader
spirit of loyalty to the college. Aiming to help
college athletics as a whole, we should try to
make our class games and meets more valua-
ble under this direct and definite regulation —
than they have been in the past.
With fires raging about us
More Carelessness at the rate of two a week
it seems as though we
should earnestly seek to locate the causes and
remedy them as speedily as possible. The
majority of the fires which have been started
in college during the past few years, have been
due to carelessness in smoking. It is by no
means an uncommon occurrence toVead at the
present day that many colleges are putting re-
strictions upon smoking, and some are even
abolishing the habit entirely. Although we
don't propose any such drastic measures as
those to be taken here we can appeal for indi-
vidual reformation. It is a common practice
for a fellow to use his waste basket as a re-
ceptacle for lighted cigarette butts or half-burnt
matches. Such carelessness often brings about
more serious results than the thoughtless
smoker cares to anticipate. Not only is he
exposing his own room and contents to the
danger of being ruined, but he is exposing the
property of all men in the building to the same
danger. In extreme cases the lives of the men
even, might be in question. Of course these
things do not enter into a fellow's mind when
he carelessly empties his pipe or throws a
lighted match in a pile of dry papers. But in
our dormitory and fraternity life here in Bow-
doin some consideration for those around us is
necessary. If the carelessness of one indivicl-
ual involves danger to the whole, it is quite
essential that some care and forethought be
exercised by that individual.
The whole student body
Captain Wood unites with the Oiuent in
extending congratulations
to "Duff" Wood, '13, as Captain-elect of the
football team for 1912. Through hard, con-
sistent work for two years on the team, Wood
this year won the honor of holding a position
on the All-Maine eleven. The undergraduates
feel that in him they have a leader who will
maintain the standard set by former Bowdoin
elevens. It is not only a great honor to be the
captain of a Bowdoin team, but it is even a
greater honor to be a leader of the true Bow-
doin spirit and sportsmanship which the White
always exemplifies. As guardians of this
spirit we all wish Captain Wood and his team
great success on the gridiron next year.
BOWDOIN ORIENT
163
"Let the Good Work Go On"
Continued from page 161
to a few destitute families about Brunswick. The
collection amounted to $28.12 — a commendable sum
to be given, but small indeed for the purpose for
which it must serve. And yet if the men of Bow-
doin could have seen the good that so small an
amount did ; could have seen the delivery team piled
full of meats and vegetables and groceries ; could
have seen the evidences of actual hunger amounting
in several cases almost to starvation, relieved by this
small distribution, they would have appreciated more
fully what the giving of a few cents by each man
had done.
The committee found a widow with seven chil-
dren cooped in a dark attic with no food in the place
except a loaf of dry bread and a dish of hashed-up
vegetables. Across the street was another family,
man and wife both sick, several children about, and
all literally starving to death because they were too
proud to call upon the town for assistance and their
neighbors were too proud to give them much help.
It was for the alleviation of such cases as these that
the Bowdoin contribution was used.
In some way the Boston papers got hold of the
story of the work and it seems that papers every-
where copied. A student who spent the vacation
way up in the north of the state of New Hampshire,
brought the report of a country newspaper's comment
upon it. It recited the story as printed in a Boston
paper and in closing an editorial comment made the
almost humorous and yet pleasing statement: "Bow-
doin men are O. K. Let the good work go on. Bow-
doin Beata !"
The good work is going on. With the loyal sup-
port always given by students at large and by the
faculty, the Christian Association will make a similar
collection the morning before college closes for
Christmas vacation. It is sure to be a large collec-
. tion. Already, unsolicited, a prominent out-of-town
man has started the thing going with a small contri-
bution. An extra half a dollar, more or less, means
nothing to us fellows. Every half dollar's worth of
food comes like a Godsend to the poor families of
Brunswick.
WiLLi..\M R. Spinney, Chairman,
Social Service Committee,
Christian Association.
i
THE NOVEMBER QUILL
In making up the "forms" of the Quill for No-
vember, the printer carelessly overlooked the poem,
, or poems, that should have appeared in it, and sent
it forth to its readers without any other concession
to the Muses than the time-honored silhouette of
Longfellow on its cover, and an article on the influ-
ence of the classics on the poetry of Gray, and some
verses copied from the Amherst Monthly, which were
indebted for their inspiration to a source quite dif-
ferent from the classics. Such an absence of poetry
is, undoubtedly, the result of accidental oversight on
the part of the printer. He would not, of course,
have left it out with malice prepense ; nor would the
Editorial Board deliberately have omitted from the
Table of Contents a suitable installment of verse.
The accident is to be deplored, but it may be atoned
for in the December number.
The article which deals with The Influence of the
Classics on the Poems of Thomas Gray, is an inter-
esting and conscientious piece of work, a trifle over-
loaded, in parts, by minutiae which serve to justify
its title, but do not specially appeal to the general
reader. It somehow gives one the impression of a
paper written on a prescribed theme as a class exer-
cise, and admirably adapted to that purpose. It
seems almost invidious to lay so much stress upon
the influence of the classics in poetry which owes as
much, if not more, to the influence of English,
French, Italian and even Norse writers. It is, how-
ever, a thoughtful and well-written article ; and one
cannot but regret that the limits necessarily imposed
did not allow the writer to expand some of the
topics but briefly touched upon.
In the story entitled A Piece of Justice, the au-
thor, with sympathetic imagination and in effective
style, supplies what is lacking to an incomplete entry
in Winthrop's Journal of 1643. It is a story, of
course, of stern Puritan days, and it preserves viv-
idly the atmosphere of the time. The characters of
the magistrate, Mr. Malbon, liis daughter, Eleanor,
the tithingman, Hopkins, and the minister, are all
well drawn; and the pathetic recital of Eleanor's
humiliating punishment, and its effect upon her, and
upon her father as well, is full of interest and power.
It is as convincing as if it had been told by Win-
throp himself, and is certainly, as he himself wrote,
"not unworthy to be recorded."
The story entitled Sally, unlike that which
records the troubles of Eleanor, the Puritan maiden,
is conspicuously modern. Its heroine, Sally, is a
member of the company presenting the musical com-
edy, "The Golden Butterfly," in New York, and its
hero is a young lawyer who has but recently com-
pleted his legal studies. He is sent by the firm of
lawj'ers in whose office he is employed, to have a
professional interview with Sally. He is deeply im-
pressed by *he charm of her simple, true, ingenuous
nature, and naturally and properly seeks and gains
her love. The story is well told, and suggests some
interesting lessons.
It is pleasant to see, from some extracts given by
Ye Postman, that the Quill is esteemed by other col-
lege magazines, as it deserves to be.
SATURDAY CLUB LECTURE BY EDITOR O'BRIEN
To-morrow nigiht, Dec. 16, comes the lecture by
the editor of the Boston Herald, Robert Lincoln
O'Brien, in Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. Mr. O'Brien,
for years the leading political correspondent at
Washington, will speak on his experiences at the
capital and his talk ought to be an interesting rev-
elation of the newpsaper man's point of view. All
students in college and medical school are invited to
attend.
The following men from the Press Club will
usher : Fred Dixon Wish, Jr., '13 ; Laurence Alden
Crosby, '13; William Riley Spinney, '13, and James
Augustus Norton, '13.
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ART BUILDING NOTES
One of the recent acquisitions of the Art Building
is an Intaglio Ring given by Mrs. Ellen S. Roche
of Bath. The ring belonged to Governor William -
King, the first governor of Maine, and for whom
King Chapel was named. The ring is on exhibition
in the Boyd Gallery.
Mr. J. P. Baxter, of Portland, one of the over-
seers of the college who is on the committee of art
interests, visited the art building last Tuesday.
The two paintings which were loaned to the
Metropolitan Museum, have both been reproduced
in its special catalogue of Colonial portraits.
jfacult^ Botes
President William DeWitt Hyde was the speaker
at the meeting of the Men's Club of the State Street
Church, Portland, on Thursday, Dec. 7.
Professor Hormell will give an address at the
eighth annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association which will be held at Buffalo
and Toronto, from Wednesday, December 27, to
Saturday, December 30, 191 1. Professor Hor-
mell will speak on "City and County in New Eng-
land." Professor C. H. Macllwain of Harvard,
who was formerly a member of the Bowdoin
Faculty, is on the executive council.
Professor Catlin may attend the meeting of the
American Economic Association of which he is a
member, at Washington, D. C, from Dec. 27 to
Dec. 30. Prof. Henry C. Emery, '92, chairman of
the Tariff Commission, will read a paper, and also
Prof. Fairchild of Yale, formerly of Bowdoin.
PRIZE SUBJECTS ANNOUNCED
The subjects for this year's competition for the
Philo Sherman Bennett Good Government Prize
have been announced and are as follows : "The Ref-
erendum," "The Liberty of the Individual," and
"Proportional Representation."
The subjects this year for the 187S prize in Amer-
ican History will be "The History of the American
Merchant iVIarine," "Policy of the United States
since 1898 with Regard to Acquiring and Governing
Dependent Territory," and "Relation of the isth
Amendment to Suffrage in the Southern States."
CALENDAR
SaturdaYj December 16
8.00 Elsie Janis in "The Slim Princess" at the Jef-
ferson Theatre.
Fencing Practice in the Sargent gymnasium.
Sunday, December 17
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 Quartette.
7.00 Bishop Codman will speak at the Episcopal
Church.
Monday^ December 18
5.15 Fencing Practice.
Tuesday^ December 19
5.15 Fencing Practice.
Wednesday, December 20
5.15 Fencing Practice.
8.00 Christmas Dance at Beta Theta Pi House.
Annual Dance at Alpha Delta Phi House.
Christmas Dance at Delta Kappa Epsilon
House.
Thursday, December 21
5.15 Fencing Practice.
Christmas Dance at Zeta Psi House.
8.00 Christmas Dance at Theta Delta Chi House.
Christmas Dance at Kappa Sigma House.
7.00 Y. M. C. a. Dr. Charles A. Moore, Bangor,
Me., "The Question of Command."
Friday, December 22
4.30 College closes for vacation until Jan. 2, 1912,
8.20 A.M.
7.00 Christmas Dance at the Delta Upsilon House.
Colleoe Botes
The relay team will turn out for practice the
first of next month.
Harry P. Bridge, '15, has been initiated into Zeta
Psi Fraternity.
"Eddie" Files, '08, and Mark Burlingame, ex-'i2,
were on the campus, Saturday.
There were adjourns in "gym" in the 3.30 division
Monday, on account of the blaze in "Mike's" room.
Lowell Foote, '12, attended the initiation of the
Dartmouth Chapter of Beta Theta Pi last Saturday.
J. Leslie Brummett, '11, was on the campus a few
days this week.
Charles C. Dwyer spoke before the Y. M. C. A.
last night on "Leaners and Lifters."
McAllister, '12, occupied the pulpit of the Con-
gregational Church at Fryeburg Sunday, Dec. 3.
Many alumni were back to the meeting held with
the faculty, last Saturday.
Daniel F. Koughan, '09, was on the campus,
Monday.
Philip Cole, '12, spent last Sunday with his par-
ents in Bath.
The football team had its picture taken last
Thursday .at Webber's.
Robert G. Severance, '14, has left college. He has
accepted a fine position with the Northern Massachu-
setts Railway Co.
Mr. White of Augusta, came down to coach the
fencing squad, Saturday. About fifteen candidates
are out now.
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Some time in the near future Professor Sills will
take his classes to the Art Building, and give them
a lecture on Roman Statuary.
Pictures of the cross-country team were taken
last Tuesday. The members of the team are Hall,
Timberlake, Tarbox, Auten, and Haskell.
President Hyde has announced that the donor of
the Gen. Thomas W. Hyde Athletic Building has
given an additional $10,000. The total amount now
available is about $115,000.
Prof. Chapman attended the centennial anniver-
sary exercises of the First Congregational Church of
Bangor on Sunday, Nov. 26, and was the speaker
at the Vesper Services of Bangor Theological Semi-
nary on the following day.
An All- Star team will be picked by Stan Dole
and John Bull to play Lew Brown's Sophomore
team to-morrow afternoon on the Delta. Capt.
Brown will play with his team and a corking game
may be expected.
It is proposed to remove the trees from the
gymnasium and athletic building site soon. As a
part of the regular forestry work on the campus
the pines, back of South Appleton, which are in
poor condition, are being removed.
On Monday, Dean Sills gave notice that any Sen-
ior, Junior or Sophomore who has maintained a rank
C of 85 or more during his college course will be al-
\, lowed an extension of the Christmas vacation by ap-
plying to the Dean. The list consists of nineteen
Seniors, twelve Juniors, and twelve Sophomores.
President Hyde has rewritten in part his "From
Epicurus to Christ" which appeared in 1904, and has
passed through several editions. This new volume
bears the title of "The Five Great Philosophies of
Life" and was recently publisihed by the MacMillan
Company.
There was a fire one day last week in Herbert
Ashby's room. No. 8 South Appleton. It was started
by pipe ashes. A mattress and couch cover were
destroyed before the fire was extinguished by Ashby,
who used one of the chemical extinguishers installed
in the end.
A fire occurred in "Mike's" room, number 19,
North Maine, last Monday, at about four o'clock p.m.
The damage done 'to the room is estimated at $25.00,
besides the personal property destroyed. The fire
was discovered at 3.55 p.m. and the alarm was pulled
in by Maurice Hamblen while some one was sent to
ring the chapel bell. Before Fire Chief Colby had
arrived the flames had been extinguished by Jesse
McKenney, '12, and Warren Eddy, '14, who used the
chemical extinguishers installed in the ends. It is
supposed that the fire was caused by a cigar or cigar-
ette stub thrown in the waste basket. When once
started the flames rapidly spread to "Mike's" roll-
top desk. The inside of the desk was badly burned
and most of its contents were destroyed, including
some cloth goods and samples. It is beUeved that
there was some slight insurance on these latter. The
paper in the room was destroyed by fire and water,
and the woodwork was badly blistered. It is esti-
mated that it will cost the college about $25.00 to
repair the damage done to the room.
This makes the second since Thanksgiving caused
by smoking.
The Friars had their pictures taken at Webber's
Studio, Tuesday.
Soule, '15, has been at his home in Augusta, He
is suffering from a sprained leg.
The new College Calendar is now on sale at the
Bookstore. The Calendars this year are better than
ever. Grant, '12, and Gardner, '13, are the publish-
ers.
Americo Bernardino, alias "Spaghetti," the vender
of plaster ornaments, has been on the campus for a
few days after a tour of all the larger New Eng-
land colleges and schools.
Bishop Codman will speak at the Saint Paul's
Episcopal Church next Sunday evening at 7.30. All
Episcopal men in college are invited to meet him in
the Rectory after the service.
Dean Sills was the guest of Delta Upsilon Fra-
ternity, Monday evening, and gave a short talk on
ways of getting good men to come to Bowdoin. He
expects to speak to each of the fraternities on this
subject before the Christmas vacation.
The following letter is being circulated about the
college : "The undersigned, undergraduates of Bow-
doin College, desire to express their approval of
President Taft's projected treaties with Great
Britain and France."
Professor William Hawley Davis will give a se- ^
ries of readings from Dickens' works, in Hubbard X,
Hall at 7.30 next Monday. They will consist of
selections from Sketches by Boz, parts of the Christ-
mas Carol, and other writings appropriate to this
season of the year.
The Christmas fraternity dances will be held this X
year on the following dates : Beta Theta Pi, on
Wednesday evening, December 20; Zeta Psi, Theta
Delta Chi, Alpha Delta Phi, and Delta Kappa Epsi-
lon on Thursday evening, December 21 ; and Delta
Upsilon and Kappa Sigma on Friday evening, De-
cember 22.
The corrected list of papers represented by the
Press Club is as follows ;
Bangor Daily News, Bangor Daily Commercial,
Portland Eastern Argus, Portland Express-Adver-
tiser, Portland Sunday Telegram, Portland Press,
Kennebec Journal, Lewiston Journal, Lewiston Sun,
Boston Globe. New York Post, New York Sun,
New York Globe, New York Herald, Burlington
(Vt.) Free Press, Springfield Republican, Associated
Press, Intercollegiate, and the Orient.
"Bowdoin Night" marked the monthly meeting of
the Winthrop Improvement and Historical Associa-
tion of Winthrop, Mass., last week, in the Deane
Winthrop House. The placing of portraits of Gov-
ernor James Bowdoin and Madan Bowdoin, ai:d
addresses by Bowdoin graduates, resulted in one of
the most notable meetings of tiie society. Ervine
D. Osborne, principal of the Winthrop High School,
read a paper sketching the career of James Bowdoin,
the formation of the college and its growth to the
present time. Edgar O. Achorn of Boston, Simon
W. Hathaway, and Preston Churchill of Winthrop,
gave reminiscences of college life and spoke words
of praise for their Alma Mater. College songs were
sung, and the rooms of the old house which Gov-
ernor Bowdoin owned for about forty years were
decorated with the college colors.
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Among- Bowdoin men who have recently been in
the public eye is Dr. Edville Gerhardt Abbott. Dr.
Abbott was graduated from the Medical School of
Maine in '98 and later from Bowdoin in '06. For a
long time he taught surgery in the Medical School.
At present he is head surgeon in the Children's Hos-
pital of Portland. It is in this capacity that he has
become famous. Spinal curvature has never been
successfully treated in former years, but Dr. Abbott
has recently invented a method which is successful
— so successful, in fact, that men have been coming
to Portland from all over the United States to study
it. It is extremely simple, as compared to former
methods of treatment, and does away with all straps
and braces. Briefly, his method consists of bending
the body in the opposite direction in which it is bent.
That is, if the spine curves to the right and back-
ward, it is bent in a corresponding position to the
left and backward. The body is then placed in a
plaster cast and left for three weeks, after which the
patient is freed.
One of Commander Peary's sledges which he
used in his recent Arctic exploration was received
Tuesday at the Library from the" Museum of Nat-
ural tlistory in New York City. It is the identical
sledge with which Commander Peary reached the
North Pole. It has been a custom with Com-
mander Peary to give his sledges a name, and this
one was fitly named "General Hubbard," after one of
Bowdoin's most illustrious alumni, a member of the
Class of 1857, and at the time of the discovery of
the Pole, president of the Peary Arctic Club.
The sledge shows the effects of the hard knocks
it received on the perilous trip to the "top of the
world." Its sides are split and scarred by bumps
from ice-hummocks and ridges. It was designed by
Commander Peary himself, and is the result of 23
years of experience in the land of the midnight sun.
It is longer than the Eskimo type, being 12 feet in
length, while the sledge used by the natives is but 9
feet long. In width it is the same, 2 feet. It is
made principally of oak, and is bound together with
sealskin thongs. The sides are about two inches
thick. The runners are curved upward in front,
while on the rear of the sledge are lashed handles
for use in guiding. The body is about 7 inches from
the ground.
The sledge is at present in the hall on the second
floor of the Library. It has attracted considerable
attention, and makes all who have seen it feel proud
to think that it is a relic of the greatest exploring
feat of modern times, and that it was the work of
a Bowdoin man.
IFntevcoUeoiate Botes
the ages of 16 and 17, all of the five coming from
high schools. The present Freshman class has the
same average age as the class of 1914, but the 1915
men are three-tenths of an inch taller and average
four pounds heavier. The Sophomores are stronger,
however, with a total strength of 994.2, as compared
with 968 for the Freshmen.
The Syracuse football men elected their captain
while they were in a street car on their way back to
their hotel, after their Thanksgiving Day game in
St. Louis.
Exeter will have a new board running track ready
for use after the Christmas holidays. The old one
has been used 14 years.
Hlunini Bepavtment
'96. — Dr. John H. Bates, democrat, was
elected mayor of Rochester, N. H., Tuesday,
Dec. 5. Dr. Bates polled 908 votes to 646 for
his opponent.
'96. — At the recent municipal elections in
Rochester, N. H., Dr. John H. Bates was
elected mayor of the city. Dr. Bates is the
first Democratic mayor of Rochester in ten
years.
'97. — Dr. E. F. Pratt, Bowdoin, '97, Medi-
cal School, '00, has moved to Brunswick and
has opened an office over the Pastime Theatre.
Plis residence is on School Street.
'97. — Edwin S. Pratt, Medic, '00, has just
moved into the house at 27 School Street, and
has temporarily opened offices at the Pastime
Building. Before coming to Brunswick this
fall, Dr. Pratt has practiced at New Portland.
Last year. Dr. Pratt did graduate work at the
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Gen-
eral Hospital, and the Children's Hospital,
where he specialized in surgery.
'98. — Guy H. Sturgis was elected Alderman
from Ward 9 at the Portland municipal elec-
tion on Dec. 4th.
'03. — A. P. Havey of Sullivan, has recently
been appointed Insurance Commissioner of
Maine.
A series of interclass basketball games will be
held this year at Maine. This plan was tried last
year, and was very successful.
The Freshman class at Yale is composed of big-
ger men, physically, than any of the previous classes.
There is an unusual number of men exceeding 6 feet
in height, and the 'height ranges from 5 feet to 6 feet
5 i-io inches; the weight from 96 pounds to 264.
The average age is 19 years. There are five between
Medical School of Maine
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Addison S. Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
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VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JANUARY 5, 1912
NO. 21
^ NEW GYMNASIUM CONTRACT
At a meeting of the Committee on the
new Gymnasium held in the Faculjty
Room, Massachusetts Hall, Dec. 21, it was
voted to award the general contract for the
gymnasium building and the Thomas W.
Hyde Athletic Building to the Tyson Con-
struction Co., of Boston. The contract for
the heating of both buildings was awarded to
Albert B. Franklin of Boston ; the contract for
wiring was awarded to the Cleveland Co., of
Portland; the contract for plumbing to
the F. & C. B. Nash €0. of Portland. The
total cost of both buildings, not including the
equipment, will be about $100,000.
It has been finally decided to locate the
buildings between the Sargent Gymnasium
and the observatory, and fronting the quad-
rangle between King Chapel and Maine Hall.
Both buildings will be of brick with cement
foundation. It is understood that the work of
construction may be begun at once.
The members of the committee present at
the meeting were President William DeWitt
Hyde, Chairman; Dr. F. N. Whittier, Secre-
tary; Hon. Franklin Conant Payson, Port-
land; Mr. Charles T. Hawes, Bangor; and
Professor George T. Files. Ex-Governor
William T. Cobb of Rockland, and Ex-Mayor
Edwin U. Curtis of Boston, Mass., were una-
ble to be present.
QUILL BOARD ELECTION
At a meeting of the Quill Board Dec. 19,
Edward Oliver Baker, '13, of North Adams,
Mass., was elected chairman of the Board for
the coming year. The other members of the
Board of Editors, elected at that time,
are Walter Faber Eberhardt, '13, of New
York City, and Kenneth Allan Robinson, '14,
of Biddeford. Laurence Alden Crosby, '13,
of Bangor, was elected manager, and Alfred
Everett Gray, '14, of Portsmouth, N. H.,
assistant manager.
SENIOR CLASS ELECTS OFFICERS
On December 18, the Class of 1912 chose
the following officers for the year:
President, John L. Hurley of Maiden,
Mass.
Vice-President, George F. Wilson of Al-
bion.
Secretary-Treasurer, WilHam A. MacCor-
mick of South Framingham, Mass.
Marshal, Robert D. Cole of Arlington,
Mass.
Poet, Eugene F. Bradford of Bangor.
Orator, Charles F. Adams of Auburn.
Historian, Arthur D. Welch of Portland.
Chaplain, Clyde R. Chapman of Fairfield.
Opening Address, Burleigh C Rodick of
Freeport.
Closing Address, Frank A. Smith of
Calais.
Class Day Committee : J. H. Newell, chair-
man, S. J. Marsh, J- H. Joy, E. D. Leigh, and
H. A. White.
DEBATING LEAGUE TO BE FORMED
It has been practically decided that Bow-
doin will enter a three-cornered debating
league of which the other members will be
Wesleyan and New York University tliis
year. This means that two teams will be put
in the field and one of them will probably de-
bate Wesleyan at Brunswick, while the other
on the same night will debate New York Uni-
versity on the other side of the same question
at New York.
The Debating Council, at a meeting
held December 19, adopted a set of regu-
lations for this league and these will be sub-
mitted to the other members immediately for
their approval.
ATHLETIC COUNCIL MEETING
At a meeting held December 21 the
Athletic Council discussed the matter of the
rotating schedule recently proposed by the
Maine Intercollegiate Athletic Association at
its meeting in Portland and the following de-
cision was adopted: "The Bowdoin Athletic
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Council after full consideration of the pro-
posed rotating schedule for six years, is un-
willing to be bound by any schedule for so
long a time, but will in the future, as hereto-
fore, be glad to take up annually with the
other Maine colleges in a fair spirit, the foot-
ball schedule for the year."
This would seem to make such a schedule
impossible ■ but will mean that the schedules
will be considered from year to year as for-
merly.
BOWDOIN MEN IN POLITICS
Among the prominent men of the State it
is interesting to note the number of young
Bowdoin graduates. Within the past 'few
months the rapid rise of young Bowdoin
alumni in politics has been exceptional.
A. P. Havey, '03, of Sullivan, has recently
been appointed Insurance Commissioner of
the State by Governor Plaisted. Mr. Havey
is better known to the majority of Bowdoin
men as "Andy" Havey, 'varsity pitcher.
In Portland politics, two recent graduates
of the college are very prominent. Guy H.
Sturgis, '03, was elected alderman from Ward
9 at the recent municipal election on Decem-
ber 4.
The other Portland representative is Ed-
ward S. Anthoine of the Class of 1902. Mr.
Anthoine was recently honored by being
elected chairman of the Republican city com-
mittee. He has also been a member of the
city council for two years.
Still another is Emery O. Beane of Hallo-
well, a member of the Class of 1904. He is
mayor of his home city, and enjoys the unique
distinction of being the youngest Democratic
Mayor in the State. Mr. Beane will long be
remembered for the speedy, slashing game he
played as end on the football team.
Although Dr. John H. Bates, '96, lives in
the State of New Hampshire, it would be well
to mention him, also. On Tuesday, December
15, at Rochester, New Hampshire, he was
elected Mayor. He is the first Democratic
Mayor in ten years.
Savage of Bangor, John Edward Dunphy of
Portland, Cedric Russell Crowell of Rich-
mond Hill, N. Y., and Edward Oliver Baker
of North Adams, Mass. Besides the men
initiated last night the active membership in-
cludes Lawrence A. Crosby, '13, of Bangor,
and Philip S. Wood, '13, of Bar Harbor.
The members from the Class of 1912, who
were present at the initiation and banquet,
are: Eugene F. Bradford of Bangor, George
C. Brooks of Reading, Mass., George F. Cres-
sey of Portland, Maurice H. Gray of Old-
town, John L. Hurley of Maiden, Mass.,
George C. Kern of Portland, Jesse H. Mc-
Kenney of Brunswick, Joseph H. Newell of
Richmond, Frank H. Smith of Calais, Arthur
D. Welch of Portland, and Herman A. White
of Bangor.
FRIAR INITIATION
The Friars held their annual fall initiation
and banquet at Riverton on Friday evening,
December 15. The following members of the
Class of 19 1 3 were initiated: Paul Chapman
PHI CHI INITIATION
Gamma Gamma Chapter of Phi Chi Fra-
ternity (Medical) held its initiation Sat-
urday afternoon, December 16, in Red-
men's Hall, Portland. The men initiated are :
Francis Aborn Perkins, M.D., of Madbury, N.
H. ; Wm. DeSue Anderson of Portland ;
Ralph Lester Barrett of East Sumner; Sidney
Cullingwood Dalrymple of Medford, Mass. ;
Harold Linwood Doten of Lewiston; Herbert
Francis Hale, A.B., of New Sharon; George
Cragin Kern of Portland; Philip Albert Kim-
ball of Tamworth, N. H. ; Charles Wesley
Kinghorn of Yarmouthville ; Herbert Luther
Lombard of Bridgton; Lawrence McFarland,
A.B., of Portland; William Berchman Me-
laugh of Portland; William John O'Connor
of Augusta ; Arthur Hale Parcher of Ells-
worth ; Robert Cole Pletts of Brunswick ;
Wendell Otis Philbrook of Greene; George
Alton Tibbetts of Brunswick; and Gard Wil-
son Twaddle of Bethel. Of these first year
medical students, Parcher, Lombard, Kern
and Tibbetts are seniors in the academical
department.
In the evening the members of the active
chapter and the alumni enjoyed a banquet at
the Congress Square Hotel. The speaker of
the evening was Dr. John B. Blake of Boston,
who spoke upon Surgical Treatment of Frac-
tures of the Extremities, Particularly Those
Involving Joints.
In the forenoon the members of the frater-
nity sat for a chapter picture at Hanson's. The
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first and second year students were the guests
of the third and fourth year students at din-
The Christmas collection amounted to
$30.77 and was the means of providing 16
famihes with a good dinner.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
At Sunday chapel service of Dec. 17, Pres-
ident Hyde spoke of a few current coloquial-
isms and of their real meanings. We find in
the Bible that the prophet told Hezekiah that
all of his property and his descendants were
to be taken to Babylon in captivity. But as this
would not affect the course of events in his
life, he seemingly did not care. What is
thought of a man with such heedlessness?
There was the current expression, "C is a gen-
tleman's rank ;" but it is being put down now.
What would be thought of a man who desired
C and worked for it as his ideal in rank? An-
other of these current phrases among college
men is, "Get by." One's whole philosophy of
life is revealed in the expression. A business
man, after asking a young man in law school
what he expected to do in his examinations, re-
ceived the reply that he hoped to "get by." Up-
on this reply the business man asked the
young man if he could even expect to receive
a large and important case from him with the
only assurance that he hoped to get it by.
Such wretched phrases as these are getting
current. They simply mean that one does not
mean to take a course for the good which he
will receive from it, but that he will try to get
around it on the other side. Let us bury
these worthless phrases. No such ideal is for
any man having a serious responsibility of
life.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES
The practical side of Christianity is being
emphasized this year in the Y. M. C. A. meet-
ings and next Thursday, January 11, the sub-
ject will be along this line. The subject is
"Christianity and the Criminal Class" and no
better man could be found in the state to pre-
sent this phase than Mr. E. P. Wentworth of
Portland. . For 35 years Mr. Wentworth has
been connected with the State School for Boys
and has been Superintendent since 1897. He
is also President of the Maine Prison Associa-
tion and ex-President of the National Confer-
ence on Backward, Truant and Delinquent
Children. His wide experience will make his
remarks especially valuable.
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF HIWALE'S WORK
Since the college has undertaken the par-
tial support of A. S. Hiwale in his work in In-
dia as the Bowdoin Missionary a statement of
his financial condition will be interesting.
Hiwale has an allowance of $660 a year,
$500 as a personal allowance, $40 for rent and
$120 for conveyance. The mission does" not
pay a cent towards these items of his support.
In addition, Hiwale is spending about $800 a
year to carry on the work in his district and
is receiving but $360 from the American
Board which cannot be increased as the money
would have to be taken from other stations
which are themselves in great need. $1,100
must then be raised from Hiwale's friends to
carry on 'his work. A large part of this has
come from Rev. T. S. Lee, the missionary un-
der whom Hiwale has been working, but Mr.
Lee died this summer and that support has
been cut off. "In consequence," Mr. Hume,
the missionary in charge of the district, writes,
"1912 is likely to be the hardest year in Anan-
drao's (Hiwale's) life, and a very critical one
for Mission work in the Satara district."
The second problem is that of a house for
Hiwale. He is at present living in a very poor
house which is neither healthy nor safe. $400
have been collected from friends for a new
house, but this is totally inadequate and he
must continue in poor accommodations for the
present.
Every dollar will count this year more
than ever. Let us make an effort to help
Hiwale out in this crisis.
THE CHRISTMAS DANCES
Alpha Delta Phi
The annual house party and Christmas dance of
the Bowdoin Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity
was held Dec. 21, the committee in charge of the
event consisting of Edward Longworth Morss, '12,
of Boston, Alton Levicount Grant, Jr., '12, of Lew-
iston, Curtis Tuttle, '13, of Colusa, Cal., Arthur
Llewellyn Pratt, '14, of Bath, and George Arthur
MacWilliams, '15, of Bangor.
The first feature of the event was a dinner party
served at the chapter house at six o'clock. At nine
o'clock dancing began at Pythian Hall and continued
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EDITORIAL BOARD
WILLIAM A. MacCORMICK, igiz, Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
ASSOCIATE Editors
R. D. LEIGH. 1914
D. K. MERRILL. 1914
K. A. ROBINSON. 1914
R. E. SIMPSON. 1914
W. R. SPINNEY. 1912
L. E. JONES. 1913
V. R. LEAVITT, 1913
F. D. ^K^ISH, Jr.. 1913
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Vol. XLI.
JANUARY 5, 1912
That the college man of
Why Not? to-day is tolerably igno-
rant in regard to political
conditions in the world, is a fact which seems
to be almost beyond question. The life of a
college is often, if not usually in one sense,
narrow and centered in collegiate affairs. We
are constantly wrapped up in our athletic con-
tests, in our problems of self-government and
in our own intellectual development. We are
preparing ourselves to do something when we
get out in the world. We try to best fit our-
selves to give something to the world beyond
the college. But does this justify us in ap-
pearing disinterested in the history which is
being made daily? We perhaps, take a few
minutes each noon to look at the papers in the
reading-room but athletic topics usually claim
our interest. Politics seems to be too large a
topic for the college man to handle while he is
preparing himself for active life later on. In
the daily routine of the college there are too
many important things without looking out-
side for more sttbjects to discuss.
Conditions at Bowdoin in regard to poli-
tics and world-wide questions have been sadly
neglected in the past two or three years. A
single instance would not be out of place. A
few weeks ago a speaker visited the college to
speak to the undergraduates on the question
of International Peace. The Peace Movement
offers one of the largest issues of the day for
widespread interest. And yet out of a body
of over three hundred men only about thirty
were interested enough to attend the lecture.
To whatever source the lack of interest in this
question and others equally as important may
be attributed, the fact remains that the under-
graduate body can better conditions through
its own efforts. Only a few years ago — in
fact, during the course of the present Seniors
— at least one political club existed in Bow-
doin. It was a means by which the men con-
nected with it became acquainted with ques-
tions before the country. It kept alive discus-
sions on topics which should be of vital inter-
est to the college man. Throughout the
w'hole country to-day colleges are taking up
political matters through clubs organized for
this purpose. What, then, would be more
beneficial to men here in Bowdoin than the
establishment of at least one or two such un-
dergraduate clubs?
Before the holidays the so-
Junior Assembly cial life of the college was
made bright by the in-
formal dances held in the several fraternity
homes. One week from to-night the college
will be thrown open to receive friends and vis-
itors at the first Junior Assembly of the year.
It is perhaps often felt by many in college that
such an affair is carried on simply for the
class under whose auspices it is held. This
view is, of course, rather small in comparison
to what the event should mean. At various
times during the year we receive the public to
our athletic contests, to our prize-speaking
contests and debates and all these functions
play their part in making up what we call
"college life." The development of the col-
lege community, however, would not be com-
plete if the social features were neglected.
So to avoid any possibility for negligence the
Junior Assemblies are held at the most suit-
able time of the year. The Assemblies are not
class affairs but distinctly collegiate in every
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way. They, therefore, in the purpose for
which they are maintained can be most suc-
cessful if supported by undergraduate inter-
est.
Bowdoin has many repre-
A Son of Bowdoin sentatives in lands outside
our own but of none other
should she be more proud than of A. S.
Hiwale in India. When Hiwale graduated
from college in 1909 and sailed for his own
country to do mission service, Bowdoin
claimed him as her first missionary. Since
that time he has carried on his work among
his own people with the Bowdoin spirit
which he received while here in college.
During this week we have been brought into
very close relations with him and the work he
is doing. We have also been made aware of
the fact that the undergraduates should be
proud to lend support to him. We do not in-
tend to sermonize on the value of the mission-
ary work which is being carried on to-day.
The average college man must admit that it
is one of the big movements of the time. But
the undergraduate in Bowdoin should feel a
special and definite interest in the work which
a Bowdoin man is doing in India. This inter-
est can find expression in various ways but
a careful scrutiny of the financial conditions
under which Hiwale is working, readily shows
that a loyal subscription would be most highly
appreciated by him.
The Christmas Dances
Continued from page 169
until three o'clock in the morning, an orchestra led
by Miss Airaee Stetson playing for the order of
twenty-four dances. The hall was prettily decorated
with the fraternity colors, green and white, college
and fraternity banners and Christmas decorations.
At one end of the hall was a large star and crescent
of electric lights. When the time came for the last
dance all other lights in the hall were turned off and
these alone shone. The programs for the dance had
leather covers on which were the fraternity initials
in Greek, while on the first page inside was the fra-
ternity crest.
Grant of Lewiston, was the caterer for the re-
freshments served at intermission.
Mrs. E. L. Philoon of Auburn, Mrs. Charles C.
Hutchins, Mrs. William A. Moody and Mrs. Gard-
ner Cram were the patronesses.
Among the guests were Miss Elizabeth Curtis of
Portland, Miss Virginia' Woodbury of Brunswick,
Miss Hazel Bonney of Auburn, Miss Elsie Emery
of Saco, Miss Methyl Decker of Mechanic Falls,
Miss Marion White of Bangor, Miss Hazel Munro
of North Jay, Miss Marion Sanborn of Auburn,
Miss Frances Skolfield of Brunswick, Miss Alberta
Robinson of Portland, Miss Ruth Goodwin of Saco,
.Miss Ruth Whitman of Bangor, Miss Margaret Tor-
rey of Bath, Miss Lida Baker of Boston, Miss Ruth
Woodman of Saco, Miss Mabel Davis of Bruns-
wick, Miss Gale Littlefield of Bangor, Miss Ruth
Thompson of Bath, Miss Dorothy Laughlin of
Portland, Miss Dorrice Robinson of Bangor, Miss
Ruth Young of Saco, Miss Caroline RuUmann of
Bath, Miss Katherine Hall of Portland, Miss Mar-
garet Sewall of Bath, Miss Ellen Baxter of Bruns-
wick, Miss Olive Nutter of Brunswick, Miss Carrie
Jenkins of Portland, Miss Evelyn Edwards of Port-
land, Miss Lydia Cook of Portland.
The delegates from the other fraternities were
Robert Parsons King, '12, of Ellsworth, from Psi
Upsilon, Benjamin Dyer Holt, '13, of Portland, from
Delta Kappa Epsilon, John Edward Dunphy, '13, of
Portland, from Theta Delta Chi, John Lawrence
Hurley, '12, of Medford, Mass., from Zeta Psi, Har-
old Davis Gilbert, '13, of Farmington, from Delta
Upsilon, Edmund Sylvester, '14, of Freeport, from
Kappa Sigma, and Lowell Sanborn Foote, '12, of
Dover, N. H., from Beta Theta Pi.
Other guests were Paul L. White, '14, of Indian-
anoUs, Ind., J. Harold Machette, Edward H. Weath-
erill, '11, Philip Weatherill of Brunswick, and Har-
rison L. Robinson, '11, of Bangor.
Beta Tiieta Pi
The Christmas Dance of Beta Theta Pi was held
Dec. 20. Music was furnished for an order of
twenty dances by the College Orchestra and at in-
termission refreshments were served. The house
was tastefully decorated in a seasonable manner.
The patronesses -were : Mrs. Roscoe J. Ham, Mrs.
William E. Lunt.
Among _ the guests were : Misses Kath-
erine Jenkins, Ruth Jenkins, Eulalia Duddy, Lydia
Skolfield, OHve Barnes, Katherine Johnson, Mar-
guerite Burr of Portland ; Misses Lynnette Philbrick,
Margaret Wood of Bangor; Misses Beatrice Hack-
er and Grace Lunt of Brunswick; Miss Iva Record
and Miss Genevieve Dwinal of Auburn; Miss Phyl-
lis Waterman of Cambridge, Mass.
The committee in charge : Francis X. Callahan,
'14, of Portland; Clarence A. Brown, '14, of Port-
land, and D. Earl Gardner, '13, of Calais.
Theta Delta Chi
The members of Eta Charge of Theta Delta Chi
held their annual Christmas dance at the charge
house on Maine Street, Thursday evening, Dec. 21.
The chaperons were Mrs. H. W. Cobb of Bath, Mrs.
Frank E. Woodruff and Mrs. Wilmot B. Mitchell
of Brunswick. The committee in charge of the
dance consisted of Philip P. Cole, '12, of Bath ; Neil
A. Fogg, '13, of Freeport; and Louis A. Donahue,
'14 of Portland. Lovell's Orchestra played for an
order of 20 dances, and the house was handsomely
decorated in harmony with the holiday spirit.
The guests were : Dean Sills of the faculty, Leon
S. Lippincott, '10; and Miss Gladys Richardson of
Arlington, Mass. ; Miss Laurel Wyman of Lawrence,
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Mass. ; Miss Marguerite Lynam of Soraerville,
Mass. ; Misses Margaret Hewey, Janet Peters, Eliz-
abeth Wyer, Jessie Ridge, Helene Schonland, Olivia
Bagley, Elizabeth Payson and Frances Crosman, of
Portland ; Miss Gladys Newell, of Levviston ; Misses
Gertrude Dillon and Katherine Torrey, of Bath ;
Misses Emily Felt, Sue Winchell and Gertrude Sad-
ler, of Brunswick; Miss Lillian Fogg of Freeport;
Misses Gladys Abbott and Marjorie Scribner of
Bridgton ; and Miss Lynnette Philbrick of Bangor.
Zeta Psi
Lambda Chapter of Zeta Psi held its Christmas
dance on the evening of December 21. The Col-
lege Orchestra played for twenty enjoyable dances;
the patronesses were Mrs. Hartley C. Baxter, Mrs.
Henry Johnson, Mrs. Charles Bickford, and Mrs.
William E. Lunt; the committee in charge, Harold
W. Miller, Paul C. Lunt, and Robert W. Belknap,
1913-
Among the guests present were the Misses Mar-
guerite Burr, Gladys Burr, Doris Powers, Frances
Darker, and Edith Sawyer of Portland ; Miss Edith
Klein of Mt. Vernon; Miss Helen Merriman of
Brunswick; Miss Gladys Umberhind of Topsham;
Miss Morrison of Bar Harbor ; and the Misses Lil-
lian Johnson and Carolyn Sparks of Augusta.
Delta Upsilon
The Bowdoin Chapter of Delta Upsilon cele-
brated the closing of the fall term by a dance, Dec.
22, at their home on Maine Street. The hall
was decorated with Christmas colors and col-
lege and fratenity banners. The College Orchestra
played for an order of eighteen dances. The pa-
tronesses were : Mrs. Frederick W. Brown and Mrs.
William Hawley Davis of Brunswick, and Mrs. Jen-
nie Bird of Rockland.
Among those present were : Miss Mildred Co-
nant, Hazel Lothrop, Maryella Rendall, Virginia
Dunn, Mina Everett, and May Dinsmore of Au-
burn ; Miss Dorothy Bird, Madeline Bird, Kath-
erine Spear, and Blanche Hanscom of Rockland ;
Miss Elva Niles, of East Saugus, Mass. ; Miss
Marion Smart of Portland ; Miss Edna Dyer of
Manchester ; Miss Mamie O'Brien of Lubec ; _Miss
Gertrude Sadler of Brunswick; and Miss Vivienne
Lamont of Bath.
The committee in charge of the dance were : Carl
D. Skillin, '12, of Hallowell, chairman; H. Burton
Walker, '13, of Biddeford, and Samuel W. Chase,
'14, of Lowell, Mass.
Harold M. Smith, '09, and Mrs. Smith were
among the guests.
Kappa Sigma
Alpha Rho Chapter of Kappa Sigma held a very
pleasing Christmas dance, Dec. 22, at their home
on Harpswell Street. The house was very prettily
decorated with seasonable colors. Stetson's Orches-
tra of Brunswick, furnished the music and the or-
der consisted of twenty-two dances. A pleasing
feature of the affair was the introduction of a
Christmas tree presided over by a Santa Claus, and
from this favors accompanied by an appropriate
verse were given.
The patronesses were : Mrs. Roscoe J. Ham, Mrs.
Wilmot B. Mitchell of Brunswick, and Mrs. Willis
B. Moulton of Portland.
Among those present were : Misses Rita Mitch-
ell, Florence Carll, Dorothy Gould, Olive Gould,
Annie Hodgkins, of Portland ; Misses Lorraine
Eaton, Marguerite Hutchins, and Margaret Day of
Brunswick ; Miss Ida Beane of Winthrop ; Miss
Kathleen Duffy of Gardiner ; Miss Jessie Merrill of
Freeport. Mr. Ensign Otis, '09, and Mrs. Otis of
Rockland, were also present.
The committee in charge of the affair : Wal-
ter J. Greenleaf, '12, of Portland, chairman; Robert
D. Leigh, '14, of Seattle ; and Chester G. Abbott, '13,
of Lynn, Mass.
J^acult^ Botes
Professor Kenneth C. M. Sills has just pub-
lished a small volume of poems entitled "The First
American." The title poem is the one read by him
at the Lincoln Centennial celebration. The rest of
the poems include original verse and sonnets and
translations from Dante and Horace. The book is
printed by the Brunswick Publishing Co. and it is
very nicely printed and bound. Only a few copies
were issued for Prof. Sills's friends, and a few are
on sale at Chandler's.
This makes the fourth volume of verse published
bv members of the faculty during the year. The
others are "The Seer" by Prof. Henry Johnson ; "A
Roman Wit," translations from Martial, by Prof.
Paul Nixon; and "The Pond" by Dr. Wm. A.
Houghton.
Prof. Cram attended the meeting of the Ameri-
can Chemical Society in Washington during the
holidays. Dr. Loomis also attended the meetings of
the society.
Prof. Catlin attended the meeting of the Ameri-
can Economic Association in Washington during the
recess.
Professor Orren C. Hormell spoke on "City and
County in New England" at the eighth annual meet-
ing of the American Political Science Association
which was held at Buffalo and Toronto from
Wednesday, Dec. 27, to Saturday, Dec. 30.
President William DeWitt Hyde spoke on "Child
Welfare" at a meeting at the Lafayette Hotel, Dec.
18, of representatives of the Boys' Club, Portland
Fraternity, Home for Friendless Boys, Children's
Protective Society, Children's Committee and Prison
Association, and the Associated Charities.
Professor Warren B. Catlin attended the annual
meeting of the American Economic Association at
Washington, D. C, Dec. 27 to 30. At that meeting
papers were read by Professor Henrv C. Emery.
Bowdoin, '92. chairman of the Tariff Commission,
and also by Professor Fairchild of Yale, formerly a
member of the Bowdoin Faculty.
Professor Hormell read a paper at the_ nieeting
of the American Political Science Association at
Buffalo, N. Y., during the Christmas vacation. The
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Boston Sunday Herald of December 31 says edito-
rially :
"The conditions which exist in the 14 counties of
Massachusetts were described with fairness and ac-
curacy in a carefully prepared paper read by Prof.
0. C. Hormell, of Bowdoin College. His survey of
the situation brought out the fact that many, if not
most, of the abuses which we have succeeded in
eliminating from city administration during the last
half-dozen years are permitted to continue without
molestation in our counties. These various oppor-
tunities for improvement in county administration
with others which are set forth in Professor Hor-
mell's report, might well have the attention of Mas-
sachusetts legislators."
(Tolleoe IFlotes
Walter Emerson, '11, was on the campus, Mon-
day.
'Varsity relay practice is being held every day at
4IS-
Harry P. Bridge, '15, was recently initiated into
the Zeta Psi Fraternity.
Harry Faulkner spent the Christmas holidays
with S. J. Hiinch in Danforth.
There are about forty Bowdoin men taking grad-
uate work at Harvard this year.
Professor Sills spent the holiday recess at the
home of his parents at Geneva, N. Y.
E. Baldwin Smith, '11, has been added to the
faculty of Reed College, Portland, Ore.
The Massachusetts Club will hold a meeting Sat-
urday night, Jan. 6, at the Delta Upsilon House.
A large nuinber of fellows went to the Jeffer-
son Theater and Keith's in Portland, Monday night.
Harry Peter Faulkner, '15, of Boston, Mass., was
initiated into the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
Dec. 20.
Among the visitors on the campus, Tuesday,
were Purington, '11, Merrill, '11, Meserve, '11, and
Levature, '99.
The sled which Peary used in his trip to the
North Pole, has been removed from the rotunda of
the library.
A squad of about 15 men reported for relay prac-
tice Tuesday, in p: eparation for the B. A. A. meet
in Boston, Feb. 10, when Bowdoin meets Tufts.
In view of the small-pox recently discovered in
Brunswick the faculty advises those who have not
been vaccinated within five or six years, to be
treated immediately.
' Warren D. Eddy, '14, was taken Monday to his
home in Portland, where he will be operated on for
appendicitis. He has been confined to his room for
several weeks with diphtheria.
Dean Sills began a series of short talks on ob-
jects of classical interest in the Art Building, Tues-
day afternoon. He plans to take small parties of
those taking Latin I. to the Art Building for these
talks in the next few weeks.
In connection with the presentation of the medal
which the Sportsmen's Club of France has just voted
to Rear Admiral Peary, appeared an article in the
issue of the New York Times for Dec. 25, entitled
"Peary, Sportsman."
Charles A. Flagg, Bowdoin, '94, who is connected
with the Library of Congress in Washington, has
been chosen to perform the difficult task of a revis-
ion and extension of the classification of American
histories.
Students will be interested to know that a new
theatre is soon to be built down-town. A corpora-
tion, known as the Cumberland Theatre Co., has
been organized with a capital of $10,000. The build-
ing will be located on Cumberland Street, just back
of the former location of the Pastime.
Hon. Sumner I. Kimball, Bowdon, '55, who has
beeri for many years Superintendent of the Life
Saving Service, was injured in Washington one day
last week by being run down by an automobile. Mr.
Kimball is more than 80 years old, and it is feared
that his injury may be dangerous.
The second regular meeting of the Classical Club
was held Tuesday evening at the Delta Upsilon
House. The program consisted of readings from
the "Captivi" of Plautus by members of the club.
This was followed by a general discussion and so-
cial hour. Light refreshments were served.
There will be an illustrated lecture in Memorial
Hall, Thursday evening, January 4, at 8 p.m.. Rev.
D. Brewer Eddy of Boston, secretary of the Amer-
ican Missionary Board will speak on the work of
\nand Sidoba Hiwale, '09, Bowdoin's missionary in
India. There will be music by the College Orches-
tra. The public is invited.
The dates have been announced for the Junior
Assemblies as Jan. 12 and Feb. 23. The committee
in charge consists of Twombley, Wiggin, Emery,
Skolfield, and Burns. Tickets may be obtained of
any member of the committee before the dates on
which the assemblies are to be held, or at the door
on the night of the assembly.
At the annual performance of the Musical Club
of Harvard on December 18, Frank Kendrie, Bow-
doin, '10, who is in the second year graduate de-
partment, played a number of selections on the vio-
lin. A Boston Transcript critic speaking of him
says, "Mr. Kendrie, a thorough and serious violin-
ist, should be praised as being excellent both indi-
vidually and in ensemble."
Maine will soon have a Peace Society in active
operation, a branch of the historic American Peace
Society. A meeting will be held in Portland in
January to elect officers and complete the organiza-
tion temporarily made on Nov. 28th. The Organ-
ization Committee, of which Pres. Wilham DeWitt
Hyde is a member, has George E. Fogg, '02, as its
chairman.
Shipley Ricker, Bowdoin, '08, who has been for
some time connected with the Library of Congress
in Washington, has left there to take charge of the
periodical department of the New York Public Li-
brary. Bowdoin representation in the Congressional
Library has been kept at four, however, by the em-
ployment there of Joseph C. White, Bowdoin, '11,
of Bangor.
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Professor William Hawley Davis, Monday
evening in the Debating Room in Hubbard Hall fa-
vored many of the students who had assembled, with
readings from Dickens' "Christmas Carol" and se-
lections from the "Sketches by Boz." His audience
thoroughly enjoyed Professor Davis' reading, and at
the close he received prolonged applause.
A Christmas tree was given at the Pejepscot
Sunday School December 15, under the direc-
tion of Clarence A. Brown, '14, of Portland, and
Alfred E. Gray, '14, of Portsmouth, N. H. The
Pejepscot Sunday School and Boys' Club are run
under the auspices of the Bowdoin Y.M.C.A. About
60 were present at the Christmas tree, and it was a
very pleasant event, especially for the youngsters.
An article by Theodore Roosevelt entitled "The
Search for Truth in a Reverent Spirit" in the Out-
look for Dec. 2, contains the following paragraph;
"It is striking to see how these two gifted French-
men (M. Boutroux and M. Bergson), by their own
road reach substantially the same conclusion, which,
by a wholly different method, and, indeed, in treat-
ing religion from a wholly different standpoint,
is also reached by the President of Bowdoin College.
Mr. Hyde's short volume combines in a high de-
gree a lofty nobility of ethical concept with the
most practical and straightforward commonsense
treatment of the ways in which this concept should
be realized in practice. Each of us must prescribe
for himself in these matters, and one man's need
will not be wholly met by what does meet another's ;
personally, this book of President Hyde's gives me
something that no other book does, and means to
me very, very much."
Hlumni department
'57. — The death of Rev. David Sullivan
Hibbard occurred in Gorfiam, Sunday, Dec.
17. Altho Mr. Hibbard had made his home
in Gorham only since 1896 he had so identified
himself with its interests and that of the First
Parish Church that on his going out, he will
be greatly missed.
Mr. Hibbard was born on April 27, 183 1,
in Lebanon, N. H. He was graduated from
Bowdoin in 1857 and from the Bangor Theo-
logical Seminary in i860. Mr. Hibbard held
pastorates in Eliot and East Sumner, Me.,
and in Wentworth, N. H. Two years were
also spent in Kansas, from which state he and
his family came When they settled in Gorham
in 1896. Mr. Hibbard is survived by three
daughters: Mrs. H. N. Robinson of Kansas,
Mrs. Jennie S. Paul, and Miss Nellie W. Hib-
bard.
"Mr. Hibbard was a man of marked indi-
viduality. He was an accurate student, with
special gifts as a linguist. There was nothing
superficial in his mental life, for he was ever
wanting to find the roots of things. Connected
with this accuracy was a severe logical turn
of mind. No one saw through an assumption
on a superficial argument sooner than he. He
desired to know what a man's premises were
and then demanded consistent reasoning.
Added to this was a Puritan conscience. He
had no use for mere show, or pretence, or af-
fectation or shams, but in his private life he
was the incarnation of realness and sincerity.
Those who differed from him felt that, how-
ever much they disagreed, they were dealing
with an honest man, in every word, act, and
emotion."
'61. — In the death of Dr. John Warren
Thorp at his residence in Oxford, N. Y., Fri-
day, Dec. 15, Oxford loses one of its foremost
citizens and an able physician. The doctor had
been ill with penumonia only five days before
his death.
Dr. Thorp was born at East Boothbay,
Maine, April 30, 1839. Being graduated from
Bowdoin in 1861, he came to Oxford, N. Y.
in the same year as an assistant in the Oxford
Academy. Later he became principal of the
school, a position which he held several years.
When the school became the Oxford Academy
and Union Free School, Dr. Thorp became a
member of the Board of Education, of which
he was president for several years. He had
been a trustee of the Oxford Memorial Li-
brary since its foundation.
After about six years of teaching, he stud-
ied medicine with the late Dr. S. F. McFar-
land, completed courses in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in New York City
and the Medical School of Maine. He began
the practice of medicine in Oxford in 1868.
He had been a deacon of the Congrega-
tional Church and its clerk for many years.
He married. May 9, 1865, Charlotte M.
Brown. The deceased is survived by two
sons: Rev. Willard B. Thorp of San Diego,
Calif., and Rev. Charles N. Thorp of Chelsea,
Mass.
Medical School o! Maine
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Addison S Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLl
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JANUARY 12, 1912
NO. 22
WORK ON NEW GYMNASIUM BEGINS
Superintendent Fred W. H. Kalor, the rep-
resentative of the Tyson Co., who is to be in
charge of the work on the new Gymnasium,
has arrived and is now hard at work complet-
ing the plans for the erection of the building.
On the arrival of the lumber, Mr. Kalor's of-
fice will be erected between the present Gym-
nasium and the proposed site of the new build-
ing. The contract for clearing excavation has
been awarded to Strout and Pennell of Bruns-
wick, and the work of clearing has been un-
der way already for several days. Trenching
will be begun immediately and carried on with
all haste. It is probable that the building will
be completed before it was expected.
MEETING OF ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
At the Athletic Association meeting, Jan.
8, in Memorial Hall, Lawrence W. Smith, '13,
of Portland, was elected football manager for
next season and Robert D. Leigh, '14, of
Seattle, Wash., was elected assistant manager.
Paul E. Donahue, '14, of Portland, was elected
assistant tennis manager.
President Hurley, '12, spoke of the Student
Council, outlined two plans for the so-called
"blanket-tax," which will be discussed at the
college smoker which is to be held in about
two weeks, probably on January 19.
FIRST COLLEGE TEA AND JUNIOR ASSEMBLY
This afternoon the first College Tea of the
year was given by the faculty ladies in the
Alumni Room of Hubbard Hall from 3.30 to
5.30. This was called the "Brunswick Tea"
and was held especially for Brunswick people.
The hall was beautifully decorated with red
roses. In the receiving line were Mrs. F. W.
Brown, Mrs. Paul Nixon, Mrs. W. B. Mitchell,
Mrs. C. C. Hutchins, and Miss Helen Chap-
man.
Dainty refreshments of fancy crackers,
coffee, tea, and punch were served. At the
tea table Mrs. W. A. Moody presided, assisted
by Miss Little and Miss Sarah Baxter. Coffee
was poured by Mrs. Manton Copeland and
Mrs. R. J. Ham, assisted by Miss Helen
Snow, Miss Grace Tibbetts, and Miss Edith
Woodrufif. Punch was dipped by Mrs. G. T.
Little assisted by Miss Ellen Baxter and Miss
Frances Little, and by Mrs. G. G. Wilder,
assisted by Miss Virginia Woodbury and Miss
Mabel Davis.
The us'hers, representing the various fra-
ternities were: Albert P. Cushman, '13, of
Bangor, from Psi Upsilon; Lawrence A.
Crosby, '13, of Bangor, from Delta Kappa Ep-
silon; Arthur D. Welch, '12, of Portland,from
Theta Delta Chi; Harold W. Miller, '13, of
Lynn, Mass., from Zeta Psi; John H. Mifflin,
'12, of Exeter, N. H., from Delta Upsilon;
Burleigh C. Rodick, '12, of Freeport, from
Kappa Sigma; and Kenneth Churchill, '12, of
Newtonville, Mass., from Beta Theta Pi.
This affair was enjoyed by a large number of
people, over two hundred invitations having
been issued. The next College Tea will be
given February 23.
This evening is being held the first Junior
Assembly in Memorial Hall.
TAFT AND WILSON ARE THE FAVORITES ,C
The following summary of the presidential
campaign among the undergraduates is sub-
mitted by Slocum, '12, after a general canvass
of the student body:
1st choice 2d choice
Votes cast 280 146
Taft 116 22
Wilson 102 30
Roosevelt 41 37
La Follette 12 " 21
Harmon 6 22
Hughes I S
Beveridge i 8
Debs I I
By classes :
'12 '13 '14 'is
Taft
36
27
19
30
Wilson
19
2=;
21
33
Roosevelt
II
6
9
lb
La Follette
4.
2
3
3
Harmon
2
2
I
I
When two
choices
were expressed Taft was
first
choice with
Roosevelt second
2=;
times
Wilson
second
17
times
La Follette second 8
times
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Hughes second
4 times
Harmon second
4 times
Beveridge second
3 times
Wilson was first choice with
Harmon second
i6 times
Roosevelt second
9 times
Taft second
9 times
La FoUette second 8 times
Roosevelt first choice with
Taft second
12 times
La FoUette second
4 times
Wilson second
4 times
Beveridge second
I time
There is one point that transcends all these
compiled statistics in interest, and that is the
non-interest of college men in anything beyond
their narrow circle. If this canvass has aroused
any interest, the compiler can bear with
martyr-like happiness, the charges of fraud
which he has encountered in his philanthropic
task.
THE "BLANKET TAX"
The Student Council, having carefully con-
sidered the question of the so-called "Blanket-
tax," has decided to submit two plans to the
student body for general discussion. It pro-
poses to hold a smoker in the near future, at
which a formal discussion will take place, and,
to arrive, if possible at a unanimous agreement
in favor of either one plan or the other, with
or without amendments.
The Council feels that there is a practically
unanimous sentiment in favor of some plan
similar, at least, to the two which it proposes.
If there is such unanimity of opinion, it be-
lieves that there is no good, strong, adequate
reason why the Athletic Association should
not amend its constitution so as to incorporate
the popular plan.
If the Council is wrong in its judgment of
undergraduate opinion, and there is a fairly
strong minority opposing the submitted plaris,
it desires that such a minority will show its
full strength at the formal disussion. In such
a situation, of course, some other scheme will
have to be evolved.
The Council fervently hopes that every
man in college will consider the plans carefully
and enthusiastically so that a long step for-
ward towards the systematizing of athletics
may be made.
The plans:
Plan A : A hoard of managers consisting
of the managers of all the college athletic
teams and the managers of other specified or-
ganizations, shall be formed for the purpose
of collecting from each man in college, a sum
not less than fifteen dollars, for the purpose of
defraying the expenses of these orgaizations.
This board shall estimate porportionately
the percentage of this sum which shall be
given to each manager.
The board shall divide the work of collect-
ing the money among themselves in a sys-
tematic manner, and the money shall be col-
lected at three stated periods in the college
year, e. g., five dollars the first term, five the
second and five the third, the dates specified
by the board.
The Orient and Quill are to be controlled
by one business manager who shall receive a
certain percentage of the profits. (Plan of
combination to be determined later) .
Any man who does not pay the stated fee
is to be deprived of the right to vote as a mem-
ber of the Athletic Association.
Plan B : Plan B is essentially the same as
Plan A, but it includes among the list of or-
ganizations to be supported only athletic teams,
namely, — football, track, baseball, tennis, fenc-
ing and the band.
The fee to be charged, $12.00.
All who pay fee will be entitled to entrance
to home games with certain exceptions such
as Ivy Day.
The organizations included under this plan
are : Football, baseball, track ,tennis, the band,
Y. M. C. A., debating society, the Quill and
the Orient.
Note. — Anyone wishing to speak at the
formal discussion will please hand his name
to the president of the Council some time pre-
vious to the meeting.
NEW COURSE OF LECTURES
.V friend has established a fund in memory
of Benjamin Fuller to be used for an annual
lecture before the student body in Sex Hy-
giene. The first lecture in the course was
given by Dr. Frederic H. Gerrish, '66, a
member of the medical faculty andof the board
of overseers, on Tuesday evening in Memorial
Hall.
CHEMICAL CLUB MEETING
.\t the recent annual meeting of the Chem-
ical Club the following officers were elected:
Douglas Howard McMurtrie, '13, of Wood-
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fords, president; William Fletcher Twombly,
'13, of Reading, Mass., vice-president; Harold
Percy Vannah, '12, of Winslow Mills, secre-
tary and treasurer.
The Club met Tuesday evening at the Beta
House to discuss plans for the year, and en-
joyed a talk given by Dr. Loomis on his trip
to the meeting of the American Chemical So-
ciety during the holidays.
The executive committee chosen consists
of the officers and Harry McLean Keating,
'12, of Rockland. Dr. Loomis was elected an
honorary member of the club.
LINCOLN COUNTY CLUB
At the annual meeting of the Lincoln
County Club which was held a short time ago,
the following officers were elected : Harold
Perry Vannah, '12, of Winslow Mills, presi-
dent; Raymond Davenport Kennedy, '13, of
Jefferson, vice-president; Leon Dodge, '13, of
Newcastle, secretary and treasurer; Herbert
Lorenzo Bryant, '12, of Round Pond, Edward
Weston Kent, '12, of Bremen, Robert Willis
Belknap, '13, of Damariscotta, executive com-
mittee.
GIBBONS CLUB ORGANIZES
Another organization has recently been
added to the various clubs already existing in
Bowdoin College. The new arrival is the Gib-
bons Club, which has been formed by the Cath-
olic students. The club has about twenty
members. The first list of officers is as fol-
lows : John Lawrence Hurley, '12, of Maiden,
Mass., president, and Lawrence Alden Cros-
by, '13, of Bangor, seceretary and treasurer.
MASSACHUSETTS CLUB
A meeting of the Massachusetts Club was
held at the D. U. House on Saturday, Jan. 6,
1912. Prof. Sills gave a history of Bowdoin
and of the Massachusetts men in college at
various times. The number has varied from 6
per cent, to 16 per cent, of the entire body.
After this talk a social evening was spent.
COLLEGE PREACHER
On next Sunday, January 14, the third in
the series of college preachers. Rev. Charles
Reynolds Brown, D.D., of New Haven, Conn.,
will preach in the Congregational Church in
the forenoon and conduct chapel service in the
afternoon. Dr. Brown was born at Bethany,
West Virginia, in 1862. He received the de-
gree of A.B. from the University of Iowa in
1883, and of S.T.B. from Boston University in
1889. In 1897 Dr. Brown made a trip through
Egypt and Palestine for professional study.
In 1899 he was appointed Special Lecturer
on Ethics at Leland Stanford, Jr., University;
was Lyman Beecher Lecturer at Yale 1905-
1906 ; and Special Lecturer at Cornell Uni-
versity in 1909. From 1896 to 1910 Dr. Brown
was pastor of the First Congregational Church
of Oakland, California. Last year he occupied
the pulpit of the Old South Church, Boston,
during Dr. Gordon's absence in Europe; and
last fall became Dean of Yale Divinity School.
Dr. Brown is the author of several books,
among which are "The Social Message of the
Modern Pulpit," "The Strange Ways of God,"
and "The Young Man's Affairs." He is one
of the ablest preachers of the Congregational
Church.
REV. D. BREWER EDDY TALKS ON HIWALE'S
WORK
An appreciative audience assembled in Memorial
Hall, Thursday evening, Jan.. 4, to hear Rev. D.
Brewer Eddy of Boston, lecture on the work of
Anand Sidoba Hiwale, 'og, Bowdoin's representative
in the mission field in India. Rev. Mr. Eddy, besides
being secretary of the American Board, has been
in the field in India and has personal, first-hand
knowledge of the trials and disappointments of the
work. His lecture was illustrated by a fine set of
stereopticon views of life in India. He told a num-
ber of interesting little incidents and customs _ of
everyday occurrence which were doubly interesting
because they were before the eyes of the audience.
He briefly outlined the religious and social situation
in India on which he brought out the chief charac-
teristics of the Hindu people.
It is among these people, poor and superstitious,
yet full of remarkable possibilities, that the mission-
aries work. Anand Sidoba Hiwale, by his zeal and
faithful service, has earned the name of the most de-
voted native missionary in Northern India, and has
been put in charge of a station, a most remarkable
honor for a native. Until recently he has had the
support of Dr. Lee. The latter, however, has re-
cently died, and Hiwale faces a financial crisis.
Mr. Eddy made a most eloquent plea that we
should not desert Hiwale in this time of need. At
the close of his talk, cards were passed through the
audience, to give each person an opportunity to
help on the great work which Hiwale is domg. In
the interim the college orchestra, which gave sev-
eral pleasing selections during the evening, played.
After the lecture Mr. Eddy met the members of the
Hiwale committee and outlined their subscription
campaign.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WILLIAM A. MacCORMICK, 1912, Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
Associate Editors
W. R. SPINNEY, 1912
L. E. JONES, 1913
V. R. LEAVITT, 1913
F. D. W^ISH, Jr., 1913
H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
H. B. WALKER, 1913
R. D. LEIGH, 1914
D. K. MERRILL. 1914
K. A. ROBINSON. 1914
R. E. SIMPSON, 1914
Business Manager
Asst. Business Manager
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, 10 cents
Entered at Post-Oflice at Brunswick as Second-Class Mail Matter
Journal Printshop, Lewiston
Vol. XLI. JANUARY (2, 1912 No. 22
The Orient is very glad
Editor's Note to receive communications
but it does not hold itself
responsible for views expressed in them.
. , ,, „ We hasten to offer tardy
n 'i i;""". ^" congratulations to the re-
Undergraduate ^.^-^^ Q^^-n EjjtQj. for the
independent stand he took regarding the
"Blanket-Tax" question in an editorial printed
in the Christmas issue. We are inspired also
by his remarks to print a further discussion on
the much-mooted subject.
In his article he gives voice to the almost
unanimous dissatisfaction with the system ex-
isting at Bowdoin for the obtaining of finan-
cial support for student activities. And with
judgment he points to the "blanket-tax" plan,
as the one approaching a solution of the very
chronic financial difficulties among our stu-
dent organizations.
This present system of ours, if not fully
understood in its actual operation, appears to
be a very elastic and just method, that of each
organization in college supporting itself sepa-
rately by individual voluntary subscriptions,
collected by the managing staff and paid in
amounts according to the ability and interest
of the students. But in its actual working
out, if we are to take the word of those whose
actual experience should give their opinion
authority, its mode of action is not so benefi-
cent.
At the beginning of a season the manager
sends out his assistants with subscription
books and the instructions to get every cent
he can from every man in college. With this
advice the successful candidate soon learns the
tricks of the trade. He learns to place the
large subscriptions in the front of his book,
and to conceal the smaller ones in the back
part of it; he soon learns that with this array
of big subscribers, nearly every poor man of
pride and every Freshman, rich or poor, is
good for a similar amount ; he learns to his sur-
prise that, actually, and in nine cases out of
ten the largest and most generous subscrip- •
tions come not from the well-to-do, but from
those "who are too proud to pay less than the
most of the fellows" and who consequently
over-tax themselves. He appeals to college
loyalty; the doors are locked at his approach.
He wheedles, dodges, sneers ; some pay, some
sign in and pay, and some sign in and never
pay.
The manager, meanwhile, has troubles of
his own. He is obliged to start the season and
never has a cent to his credit, and usually with
a debt from the year before. For his first ex-
penses, and the equipment of his teams he must
either borrow money on his own security or
take his capital from his own pocket. He wor-
ries through the season, with his bank account
always in doubt, never to be depended upon,
and ends with a stack of unpaid bills and un-
collected subscriptions.
But not alone does the manager suffer
from this system.. The entering student, plan-
ning his college expenses before entering,
reads in the catalogue:
"No attempt is made to estimate such ex-
penses, as furniture, traveling expenses, class
dues, fraternity fees, etc." And he hardly,
with this information, plans on meeting two
or three collectors on his first week in college,
who waylay him and tell him he is supposed
to subscribe this and that amount to various
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college organizations. As a result his financial
calculations are upset and with it his peace of
mind.
How would it be to read in next year's cat-
alogue some such statement as this :
"The student activities are controlled by a
general association of the undergraduates and
representatives from the faculty, with man-
agers and other officers from each branch of
activity. Membership in this association is
$12.00 per year, payable $6.00 at the begin-
ning of each semester to the association treas-
urer and his assistants. Membership is vol-
untary, and includes free subscription to both
college magazines and the privileges of voting
and holding offices under the jurisdiction of
the association."
Which of the two systems seems to con-
tain the most unjust discrimination between
rich and poor? Under the proposed plan each
man is given an accurate account of student
expenses before entering college, and if he de-
cides to take an active part in the student or-
ganizations he may plan to do so financially.
For more than a college generation it has
seemed a very desirable improvement, and
many and various have been the articles in the
college magazines and efforts by other bodies
to see it adopted.
The 191 1 Student Council, after collecting
data from various colleges throughout the
country, and after much consideration, pro-
posed the blanket-tax as the most feasible to
inaugurate at Bowdoin and included the col-
lection of the tax through the college treas-
urer's office.
The Faculty vetoed this plan with the very
logical objection that such a system would be
the shifting of an onerous task from student to
faculty agencies.
Our present Council took the matter philo-
sophically, eliminated the objectionable feature
to the plan, and very wisely proposed that the
students proceed to the collection of the fee,
but that it should 'be a voluntar- assessment
rather than a compulsory tax.
This plan, also, was promptly vetoed by
the Faculty, the objection being that "the sys-
tem discriminates between the rich and the
poor student."
The Council received this news, perhaps
with a sigh, but are again at work to try and
patch up the old blanket-scheme so as to make
it acceptable to the Faculty.
But a casual viewer of the situation would
say that the superiority of the new system lies
in the very features they are now trying to
eliminate. We agree with the Quill that there
is another policy that the Council might adopt.
We quote : "The plan may have met with op-
position. But the retiring editor's last words
to the Student Council are. Push still harder.
And to the Student Body he would say. Stand
behind the Student Council ; through them de-
mand what you want and work for it with all
your might."
Of course, the student body may be wrong
and the Faculty may be right, as is so often
the case, but the purpose of this editorial is to
ascertain for the students at large, the real,
underlying fault which condemns as unfeasi-
ble, this system which seems to them so much
superior to the one we now have.
It is a significant fact that the cry for the
blanket-assessment comes from the managers
and ex-managers of our student organizations,
the very men who are most familiar with con-
ditions as they exist : and it is a significant fact
that its warmest supporters are not the "idle
rich" among us, but the students who are
earning all or part of their way through col-
lege. The average student does not discern
any danger of money discrimination in the
new system, he knows that the present system
is one of brow-beating, begging, conflicting
student interests, and believes he sees an im-
provement in a uniform, business-like assess-
ment under the blanket system.
1912 Student Council, it is up to you.
Thus far you have shown a courageous and
progressive attitude in the matters you have
undertaken. The student body, your constit-
uency, want this much-needed change, and a
large majority of them will be satisfied with
nothing else. We second the motion of
the Quill: "Now work for it with all your
might."
We have only to read the
The Track Situatioa college papers circulating
about the country to real-
ize that the track season is even now well un-
der way. But we are especially interested
and anxious to know where Bowdoin is going
to place in the contests in which she will be
represented. It is a question which calls for
a solution in action rather than in speculation.
Every man in college realizes where Bowdoin
ranked in last year's meets. But because her
showing was not w'hat it had been in past years
does not justify us in thinking we will do no
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■better this year. Such will, undoubtedly, be
the case if we do not wake up to the situation
at once and realize that we have to produce
a team which will keep defeat from Whittier
Field. It is not a bit too early to begin work
for making that team. The fact that Bowdoin
took last place in the State Meet last spring
comes as a challenge to every man in college
to put her up higher this spring. It is not
necessary for a man to wait until spring prac-
tice begins, to go out for the team. On the
other hand it is quite essential as well as bene-
ficial that winter work be carried on in the
gymnasium. We must begin now to develop
a team which we all want to see put Bowdoin
at the top in track athletics. We all have a
part to play in this development. If a man
has discovered that he is not an athlete him-
self he can at least influence the "next man"
to go out and try for the team.
Quite necessary to a successful team is the
system of coaching and this spring Bowdoin
is to make a change in her system. It is the
desire of the management to secure the coach
about three weeks before the Indoor Meet. To
make this possible loyal support along financial
lines is absolutely necessary. If we believe in
the team we must stand behind it in every way.
We must support it by our subscriptions, we
must show our loyalty by trying for the team
and urging the "next man" to try, and we
must all pull together to put Bowdoin in her
proper place.
THE CHRISTMAS QUILL
Bowdoin men who had the pleasure of listening
to the Commencement speakers last June need not
be informed of the excellence of the essay which has
first place in the Christmas Quill. The writer of
The Nineteenth Century and the Short Story does
not say undisputed things in a solemn way, nor does
he deal with indifferent things in a trivial way. But
he has escaped platitudes and triviahties only to be
the victim of a modern heresy. "Suggestion-ism" is
not entirely new ; and, after all, it is not more than
one of the many swallows necessary to our human-
istic summer. Catholicity of taste cannot confine it-
self to the mood and temper of one century, or of
two ; the essayist's generalizations concerning the
fiction, the drama, the painting, and the sculpture of
the past are too broad in their sweep and too narrow
in their implied discontent. His main thesis the
essayist handles well ; his trenchant expressions, his
quotations, his animation call for unalloyed praise.
"A rangy, sprawling fiction form" is one of several
characterizations which command attention.
The reviewer has read Beatrice three times, partly
because he enjoyed it, partly because he was trying
to disentangle the heroine's character from her plot.
He is not certain of his success. He does not know
whether the Beatrice who "swings her foot with
nonchalant abandon," "ogles" her father, "smiles
obtrusively," and is so vain, showy, and graceless is
the real Beatrice, or Beatrice in her role of gay de-
ceiver. He feels that this much, at least, should be
made known, even though he never told what the old
gentleman was to do at Kennebunk, or why he
speaks so irreverently of his own nose. Beatrice,
the girl, is very individual ; Beatrice, the story, is
not at all commonplace. But are not plot and char-
acter incompatible even when they are happily disen-
tangled? Why should a girl who ventures to beard
her own sire, coolly telling him her intentions, and
coolly carrying them out, descend to pretty wiles
in order to gain his superfluous acquiescence? Bea-
trice is too unlovely and masterful to devise and play
so dainty and feminine a part. The phrase, "sat
tight," is rather discordant, and, in his desire to es-
cape the banal, the writer occasionally uses words
which are so striking as to divert attention from
story to style. Yet Beatrice is eminently worth
while ; it contains a number of descriptive touches
that are most felicitous, together with passages that
go with professional "snap."
The climax of An American Invasion is unex-
pected and entertaining, so entertaining that the
writer might well have led up to it more directly, and
might well have sacrificed chivalry and truth and ex-
traneous detail to humorous effect by making his
Americans more loud, voluble, and uncultivated. We
would enjoy hearing more of "those remarks which
were not always apropos" and occasioned that "kind
of uneasiness which showed itself at times" on the
face of the English boy.
One may feel that the "mem'ries dear" of autumn,
in That September Day, are partly due to the "year"
of the previous line, and that the "summer's hope"
has too exclusive a connection with the "mountain
slope ;" but the last six lines of this sonnet are very
effective. The music of fresh, living words, slow
and soft, ends at "the parting of the forked ways,"
and in the last, sudden, broken fine sound and sense
are in admirable accord.
Rejoice, the other verse contribution to the
Christmas Quill, conveys a pleasant Christmas
thought which is hardly the less pleasant for being
trite. The absence of punctuation in the first line is
rather misleading, while the first line of the fourth
stanza could well spare its initial "So," and might
end with a weightier word than "things."
Readers of the December Quill can have no
reason to consider the November Postman assertive
or premature in telling how the Bowdoin periodical
is regarded by its esteemed contemporaries. A ses-
sion with Dickens, to induce that feeling "sort of
good all over," is no necessary prelude to enjoyment
of the Christmas number of the Quill, and we hear-
tily agree with the writer of Silhouettes that it
would be unpardonable to allow the magazine to die.
I
SATURDAY CLUB LECTURE BY ENGLISH
SUFFRAGETTE
On Thursday, January i8, at 2 p.m., in Town Hall,
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst will speak on "Woman Suf-
frage" under the auspices of the Saturday Club.
Miss Pankhurst is the younger daughter of Mrs.
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Emmeline Pankhurst, whose recent speech in Cam-
bridge was the occasion of much comment because
of the attitude of the Harvard Trustees towards her
coming to Sanders Theatre. Miss Sylvia Pank-
hurst is described as a girl of twenty-one with a
great charm of manner and the simple, direct power
of speech which goes with profound conviction.
She has been very successful in securing the inter-
est of even hostile audiences by her presentation of
facts little known in America, — the conditions, so-
cial and economic, in England which have made
women of all classes seek the vote as a means
primarily for safe-guarding and improving their
homes — she is an artist of note, was arrested early
in her work with her mother for "militant tactics,"
and has since her imprisonment worked to reform
the inhumanity of EngHsh prison methods.
She is to be in the States but two months and
this is one of her few engagements in the East.
Reserved seats will go on sale Monday, Jan. is,
at 9 A.M., at Miss Shorey's store, Maine Street.
A LETTER FROM THE FAR EAST
St. John's College, Shanghai, China,
November 19, 191 1.
My dear Orient:
A Bowdoin dinner in the Far East is of sufficient
rarity to make it worth recording.
So far as I know Eastern Asia, exclusive of
Japan, can boast but six of us : Jameson, 'y6, civil
engineer, architect and all-round man; Fessenden,
'96, lawyer and man of affairs ; Brigham and Shorey,
'04, and Brett, '05, International Banking Corpora-
tion magnates, and the writer, who is only a mission-
ary physician and teacher. None of the banking ex-
perts are now living in Shanghai, but Fessenden and
I claim residence here, and the exigencies of the
Anhwei Famine, and the American Red Cross So-
ciety brought Mr. Jameson in here to report on his
Preliminary survey of the Hwai River district. Par-
don these introductory details.
Kind Fate, who never does anything by halves,
decreed that A. J. Boardman, '73, with some of his
family, should happen in here at this time and the
Revolution, which was so suddenly foisted upon us
all, kept them in our midst for two weeks so we had
a good visit from them.
The evening of the 9th was a red letter day,
when Mr. Boardman invited Jameson, Fessenden
and me to a Bowdoin dinner at the Astor House,
Shanghai's hotel de luxe. Two other men were
bidden because they were lucky enough to come
from Maine, Consul General Wilder, who graduated
from a well-known country college in New Haven;
and Mr. Hall of the American Bank Note Co. of
New York, a citizen of the world, whose home is
in Orono.
It was altogether a delightful family dinner, and
we had sufficient comity of interests to invite whole-
some discussion on all sorts of subjects from the
present revolution in China to politics in Maine:
the Bowdoin contingent having occasionally to call
the Consul General to order on account of tempo-
rary exacerbations of obtruding Yale into the con-
versation.
Mr. Boardman and party left for Manila on the
i6th and will return home by way of the Hawaiian
Islands.
Shanghai is such an important center and so ac-
cessible to travelers in the East that most people
coming to Asia this way for business or pleasure get
here sooner or later. To us who live out here, a
visitor from the old sod, and especially one who has
been through the old college among the pines, is
ever welcome. Don't forget us if you come through
Shanghai. Fessenden and I are both in the "Hong
List," that means city directory, and if you have not
time to come out to the college to see me, (and the
college is well worth seeing), ring up 203 and tell
me where you are staying, and I will find you if it
is possible to do so in the given time.
As ever faithfully yours,
C. S. F. Lincoln, '91.
CALENDAR
Friday, January 12
8.00 First Junior Assembly, Memorial Hall.
Sunday, January 14
10.45 Morning service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. Charles R. Brown, D.D.,
New Haven, Conn., College Preacher.
5.00 Sunday chapel conducted by Rev. Charles R.
Brown,
Monday, January 15
4.IS Relay Practice.
7.00 Meeting of Normal Class in Bible Study.
Tuesday, January 16
4.15 Relay Practice.
Wednesday, January 17
4.15 Relay Practice.
Thursday, January 18
4.15 Relay Practice.
7.00 Y. M. C. A. Rev. J. F. Albion, Portland.
Friday, January 19
4.15 Relay Practice.
(TolleGe Botes
Leon Lippincott, '10, was on the campus Saturday
and Sunday.
H. L. Grinnell, '02, of Derry, N. H., visited the
college, Tuesday.
The Freshmen had adjourns in gym Monday, be-
cause of the cold.
G. Tappan Little, ex-'is, is attending a technical
school near Boston.
The picture of the Musical Clubs was taken at
Webber's studio on Thursday.
Lawrence Davis, '11, and "Nate" Weston, '08,
were on the campus, Saturday.
The democratic students at Dartmouth have or-
ganized a Woodrow Wilson Club.
An unusual number of Freshmen is taking the
course in conic sections under Professor Alvord.
Manager Williana Bird of the Exeter Baseball
Team was the guest of Harry Faulkner, Tuesday.
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It was reported on the authority of "Bill" that the
thermometer went down to thirty-five below zero on
Monday morning.
Governor Plaisted has reappointed Prof. Cram
as a member of the State Board of Health for a
term of six years.
Professor Davis entertained the coaches of the
Bowdoin Interscholastic Debating League at dinner
last Friday evening.
Horace Barton. '14, who, on account of illness,
has been forced to extend his Christmas vacation,
returned to college, Monday.
Henry J. Colbath, '10, of Dexter, Maine, was on
the campus, Saturday. He is now teaching at the
Hill School of Pottstown, Penn.
Jack Curtis, '11, was on the campus this week.
He will soon go to London in connection with the
International Banking Company's work.
Many of the Bowdoin students proved of great
assistance at the fire on Maine Street, Saturday, by
helping remove the furniture from the house.
James Plaisted Webber, Bowdoin 1900, Professor
of English at E.xeter, has published a book of verse
entitled "The Turnpike Tavern, and other verse."
Eddy, '14, is convalescing from an operation for
appendicitis at his home in Portland, Word re-
ceived from him says that he is recovering nicely.
Donald Sewall, ex-'l3, of Bath, was on the cam-
pus Saturday. He is now on his way to Zanzibar,
South Africa, where he will take a position in a
transport company.
The lecture on Sexual Hygiene given in Memo-
rial Hall on Monday evening, by Dr. Frederic H.
Gerrish of Portland, was attended by a large num-
ber from the student body.
The student body was shocked Sunday to hear
that the youngest daughter of Dr. F. N. Whittier
had been accidentally burned to death Sunday morn-
ing. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon.
In addition to the list in last week's Orient of
books by members of the Bowdoin faculty, a book
of verse entitled "On Sacred Themes,,' by Profes-
sor Henry Johnson, has recently been published.
The halls and basements of the dormitories are
in the future to be lighted with tungsten lamps in
place of the old style carbon filament ones. The
new Ughts are to be covered by wire cages to pre-
vent loss.
A trio of students is now playing at the Eagle
Hotel every evening from 5.30 to 7.30. They are
Joseph H. Newell, '12, of Richmond, cornetist ; Geo.
F. Cressey, '12, of Portland, violinist; and Charles
F. Adams, '12, of Auburn, pianist.
Thus far in the college year nine men have left
on account of sickness, etc. They are John Lewis,
'13, R. W. Merrill, '13, F. E. Nolin, '12, Robert G.
Severance, '14, C. H. Tupper, '14, P. L. Bordeau.x,
'14. E. W. Bacon, '15, V. C. Thurston, '15, and G. T.
Little, '15.
A Progressive Republican Club has been
formed, the members of which pledge themselves to
support Senator La Follette of Wisconsin in the
Presidential campaign of 1912. Plans are being made
to try to have Senator La Follette speak here while
he is in Maine this spring.
Gymnasium makeup work was interrupted by the
fire on Maine Street, Saturday. Hurley had to bar-
ricade the doors for a while to keep the students in.
There will be a meeting of the Bowdoin Inter-
scholastic Baseball League Saturday, at 2 p.m., at the
Beta Theta Pi house, to arrange the schedule for the
coming years and to consider other matters of im-
portance. The members of the League last year
were Brunswick, Lewiston, Edward Little High of
Auburn, Cony High of Augusta, and Morse High
of Bath. Brunswick High, which also won the
State championship, was champion of the league
with a record of 7 games won, one lost. F. X. Cal-
lahan, '14, of Portland, is president of the league.
In ' an address at Hobart College last June, on
the "Life of Benjamin Hale," who was one of the
early presidents of Hobart, and a graduate of Bow-
doin in the Class of 1818, Hon. Andrew D. White
of Ithaca brought forth the interesting fact that
while tutor at Bowdoin in the early twenties. Dr.
Hale instituted the first vocational courses ever
given in a school in this country. They were given
at the so-called Lyceum at Gardiner, Maine, where
under his direction courses of a practical nature
were offered for the express purpose of furthering
education along technical and mechanical lines.
Hlumni department
■94. — Rev. Alfred Veazie Bliss has re-
ceived a unanimous call to the Winslow Con-
gregational Church, and has accepted it. Since
the resignation of Rev. Archibald McCone
some months ago, the church has been with-
out a reeular pastor. For the past three
months, Mr. Bliss has been filling the pulpit,
and so favorable has been the impression
which he has created that the church voted to
ask him to become its permanent pastor.
'00. — Albro E. Burnell, who has been a
guest of his parents at Coyle St., Woodfords,
Me., for several days, is now in Washingon
on official business. Mr. Burnell is in the
consular service, and for the last four years
has been the United State consul at Barran-
quilla. Republic of Colombia. Previous to en-
tering the consular service, Mr. Burnell was a
teacher and superintendent of schools in a dis-
trict in the Philippine Islands.
Medical School of Maine
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Addison S Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JANUARY 19, 1912
NO. 23
COMPLETE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
Manager Lawrence W. Smith of the
Football Team has announced that arrange-
ments have been made for a game with Uni-
versity of Vermont at Portland, November i6,
This will be the first football game between
Bowdoin and University of Vermont. The
game was made possible only through the
courtesy of Brown, which gave Vermont No-
vember 2 instead of November i6, thus leav-
ing the latter date open to Bowdoin.
The complete schedule for 1912 is as fol-
lows:
Sept. 28 — Fort McKinley at Brunswick.
Oct. 5 — Wesleyan at Middletown, Conn.
Oct. 12 — Trinity at Hartford, Conn.
Oct. 19 — Tufts at Medford, Mass.
Oct. 26 — Colby at Brunswick.
Nov. 2 — Bates at Brunswick.
Nov. 9 — University of Maine at Orono.
Nov. 16 — University of Vermont at Port-
land.
During the past few years, athletic rela-
tions have been growing stronger between
Vermont and Bowdoin, and now regular rela-
tions have been assumed during the baseball
POLITICAL CLUBS
Republicans to Organize
At a meeting of delegates from the un-
dergraduate body and from the faculty
held in the debating room, Monday evening,
definite steps were taken for the formation of
a Republican Club. The club will be founded
upon the broadest possible general lines so
that it may include all who care to ally them-
selves with Republican principles. A commit-
tee of three consisting of Simpson, '12, Paul
White, '14, and Spinney, '13, was elected to
draw up a tentative constitution and make ar-
rangements for holding a mass-meeting of the
Republicans in college. At the mass-meeting,
held in Memorial Hall to-night, the club will
definitely organize and elect officers for the
year. The membership will include both
faculty and undergraduates. Professor Files
will be the speaker of the evening.
Democrats Next
We recently spoke editorially of the desir-
ability of the formation of one or more
political clubs among the undergraduates.
A quick response to our suggestion came
tills week in the form of the first steps
toward the launching of a Republican Club
conceived with the no less ambitious purpose,
among other things, than that of securing a
lecture from Senator La Follette and one from
ex-Speaker Cannon when those two men come
East this spring. So far as this undertaking
goes it is very good, but Bowdoin is by no
means unanimously Republican in its politics.
The Orient believes that it should be possible
and desirable for some other party to arrange
a program of speakers for this spring and
thus give the college and the town an oppor-
tunity to hear another side of the question.
JUNIOR ASSEMBLY
The first Junior Assembly of the year was
held Friday evening, Jan. 12, in Memorial
Hall. Although not very largely attended,
it proved to be a delightful affair. The com-
mittee, composed of W. Fletcher Twombly of
Reading, 'Mass., Frederick S. Wiggin of
Thomaston; George L. Skolfield, Jr., of
Brunswick; Theodore E. Emery, of Ran-
dolph ; and Kendrick Burns of Saco, are to be
congratulated on the success of their first
assembly.
The hall was tastefully decorated with col-
lege and fraternity banners, and refreshments
of salad, ice cream, and coffee were served by
Caterer Morton of Brunswick. Lovell's Or-
chestra of six pieces played for an order of
eighteen dances.
The patronesses of the evening were : Mrs.
W. H. Davis, Mrs. Paul Nixon, Mrs. W. B.
Mitchell, and Mrs. W. E. Lunt, all of Bruns-
wick. Among those present at the dance
were: Miss Evelyn Edwards and Miss
Frances Crossman of Portland ; Mrs. G. Clark
Brooks, Misses Harriet Estes, Marguerite
Hutchins, Gertrude Sadler, Alice McKinley
and Virginia Woodbury of Brunswick ; Miss
Anne Dudley and Miss Marjorie Scribner of
Bridgton, Miss Beatrice Joy of Boston, Miss
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Gladys Umberhind of Topsham, Miss Carolina
Rvdlman of Bath; Miss Dorothy Bird of Rock-
land; Miss Marion Kendall of Biddeford;
Miss Iva Record of Auburn ; and Miss Olive
Holway of Augusta.
SMOKER COMING
At the regular meeting of the Student
Council held Monday night in Hubbard Hall,
it was decided to hold the first smoker of the
year, Friday evening, January 26, in Memo-
rial Hall. The committees in charge of the
aiifair reported that plans were being com-
pleted to make the affair a grand success.
Music will be furnished by the band and the
college orchestra, and refreshments of the kind
that soothe will be freely distributed. The
small price of twenty cents will be charged for
admission and to each man will be given a col-
lege souvenir. Tickets may be obtained now
from any member of the Council or may be
bought at the dcor on Friday evening.
A business session will be held during the
evening at which time the "blanket-taxes," as
proposed by the Council, will be discussed.
Further discussion will be held in regard to the
question of uniting the Quill and Orient un-
der one business management. Any plans or
suggestions on this point should be handed to
the Council before the meeting.
Festivities will begin promptly at 7.30
P.M. and come prepared to have one grand,
good time before the mid-year confinement.
Get your tickets now and don't forget the
date, — one week from to-night!
DEUTSCHER VEREIN ORGANIZES
Tuesday evening, the Deutscher Verein
held its first meeting with Professor Files.
The officers elected for the year are Herbert L.
Bryant, 1912, Vorsitzender ; Douglas H. Mc-
Murtrie, 1913, Schriftwart; Seward J. Marsh,
1912, Kassanwart.
IBIS MEETING
The next meeting of the Ibis will be held,
Saturday evening, Jan. 20, in the Deutscher
Verein room- in Flubbard Hall. Hon. Herbert
M. Heath of Augusta, will give an address.
The lecture at the opening meeting in Memo-
rial Hall, which will be held some time in
March, will be given by Professor William W.
Lawrence, who is at present Associate Profes-
sor of English at CoUimbia University. Profes-
sor Lawrence is a graduate of Bowdoin, a
member of the Class of '98.
FROM A YOUNG ALUMNUS
Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 9, 1912.
Editor of the Bozvdoin Orient:
Dear Sir — In May comes the State Track
Meet, and it comes on Whittier Field. This
week I have run into matters connected with
our track prospects, and as a very interested
young alumnus, I make bold, while there is
yet time, to add a word to those of the track
captain that we may start now to fight to win
that Meet. It may sound familiar but it is as
true as it is familiar : To-day, to-morrow, and
next day, these and the days closely fallowing
them are the ones, which, accordi""- as the un-
dergraduates use them, will make up or
shamefully fail to make up for Bowdoin the
inch that in the Spring will mean to us very
vital points. The Meet is but four months off.
To-day and no later is the right time for every
man who would like to compete next Spring,
to report to Coach Morrill for Spring practice.
This is the time for every candidate to start
something, — "Bert" will tell him what — to
start something, start something, and keep it
going, going, going, every day till Jtme.
Up on your feet now ! We never have
lost a track meet on our own field, and this
year is a bad time to begin. One could say
much about the facts that a track meet with
its variety of events, and its large number of
competitors (especially on a home team), is
more widely representative of a college's
strength, skill and pluck than any other of
our big contests ; that in track work there is
open to every man in college the opportunity
to catch the Bowdoin spirit and devotion
which comes so readily from working even in
the smallest way with a college athletic squad;
that in track work more than in any other
sport there is opportunity for continual prac-
tice, for equal opportunity to practice, for
watching one's self gain, for being judged as a
candidate on exactly one's merits ; and so on
and on. But I trust the undergraduates real-
ize all that, and I am writing not for fun but to
help the crowd actually start the things now
due.
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A college man's character roughly is as
broad as his ideals. To-day is the time for
the undergraduates, each and every one, to set
his ideals no narrower than the interests of the
whole college, and in that spirit now is the
best chance to concentrate on our track pros-
pects. The Meet is to be more than a test of
bull strength, though that will help ; it is to be
more than a test of the rough-and-ready spirit
to fight to the finish, though that will help;
this Meet is to be a test of individual, earnest,
active, cheerful Bowdoin devotion, thru the
winter.
Bowdoin can make the story of this Win-
ter and Spring live long, as a supreme expres-
sion of tiae united active loyaltv of each and
every student. This is the time to build for
the future the stories of the present Bowdoin
spirit. Just as a suggestion, I urge as a good
way of starting things, that in addition to the
immediate reporting for practice by urged
and unurged candidates, that the next student-
council meeting, the next college mass-meet-
ing or smoker, the next Rally, the next fra-
ternity meetings, each and every one adopt an
emphatic resolution that every member use the
best there is in him- to pull Bowdoin out of her
conceivably hopeless track situation ; and then
let everybody join to show to the colleges, to
the alumni, and to the old pines themselves
that Bowdoin now has the spirit to come thru
and win !
Trusting that no one will resent my inter-
ference, and wishing to all the very best suc-
cess,
I am sincerely,
Harold H. Burton, '09.
IS THE CHOIR QUARTETTE "GETTING BY"?
For four years, Mr. Editor, we Seniors
have heard chapel services desecrated by that
inhuman maltreatment of beautiful hymns and
no written protest has appeared. A remarkable
record of forbearance ! But if it keeps on, the
fact that the college quartette is, — to use com-
mon parlance, — "rotten" will become one of
our traditions and future generations will be
compelled to suffer, even as we have suffered.
Isn't it time the college protested?
Truly, it is to be regretted that when we
bring our friends to chapel we must be pre-
pared to apologize in case the quartette should
rise to do violence to a sacred song.
We have exhibited commendable fortitude ;
and since "Hope springs eternal in the human
breast," we have waited for improvement. In
vain ! Sunday after Sunday have we submitted
while torturing noises assailed ourears, and the
fervent prayer arose from our hearts, "Oh!
God, we have had charity, now give us peace."
Respectfully yours,
A SENIOR.
INTERSCHOLASTIC DEBATING LEAGUE
Prof. Davis announced on Saturday, Jan.
13, the question for the annual Bowdoin Col-
lege Interscholastic Debating League as fol-
lows: Resolved, That a protective tariff is
better for this country than a tariff for reve-
nue only.
The schools entered in the league are:
Portland High School, Lewiston High School,
Cony High School, and Wilton Academy
The subject for the debate was chosen by
Portland and Lewiston High Schools and the
privilege now Hes with Cony High and Wilton
Academy to choose the side of the question
on which they prefer to debate.
The preliminary debate will take place
March i, Cony High contesting with Portland
High at Portland, and Lewiston High debat-
ing with Wilton Academy at Lewiston. The
date for the final debate between the two win-
ners in the preliminaries has not yet been de-
cided upon.
The coaches appointed for the debating
teams are as follows:
For Portland High School, John E. Dun-
phy, '13, of Portland.
For Cony High School, Herbert E. Locke,
'12, of Augusta.
For Lewiston High School, James A. Nor-
ton, '13, of Phillips.
For Wilton Academy, Verd R. Leavitt,
'13, of Wilton.
REV. CHARLES R. BROWN, D.D., SPEAKS AT
SUNDAY CHAPEL
Charles Reynolds Brown, D.D., Dean of the
Yale Divinity School, the college preacher for Jan-
uary 14, spoke at Sunday chapel. After reading the
first chapter^ of Paul's Epistle to the Romans, he
sooke, in brief, as follows :
"As Paul looked on Rome at the beginning of
his ministry there, he realized what a stupendous
opportunity was at hand. Here was Rome, the
leader of the world. All roads led to Rome, and all
Continued on page 186, 2d column
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EDITORIAL BOARD
WILLIAM A. MacCORMICK, 1912, Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
Associate Editors
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R. E. SIMPSON. 1914
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JANUARY 19, 1912
We gladly welcome the ap-
The Smoker preach of the first college
smoker of the year and we
hope that it will go down in history as one in
which the management of athletics at Bow-
doin receives a new basis. For the past few
years agitation has been made to put athletics
liere on a good financial basis as well as to do
away with the subscriptions for other activi-
ties. The undergraduates have wished a
change and have urged their own governing
council to propose some method. Out of this
have come the plans for a "blanket-tax" which
are already known to us. Whether or not such
a method as proposed shall be put into practice
here in future years depends upon the attitude
the undergraduate takes in viewing it. We do
not necessarily mean that a fellow who doesn't
believe in either proposal must support it with
his views. But in the discussion to be held it
is up to every man to defend it or oppose it as
he likes or dislikes the "tax." A decided in-
dividual opinion either way will mean much in
coming to a definite conclusion by the whole
student body.
When we stop to consider
Abuse of Magazines that some of the subjects
treated editorially from
time to time are trite and worn out, we might
well believe that they are not written in, the
spirit of mere "knocking." It is one of the
duties of the college paper to set before the
student body the conditions of things as they
exist, be they pleasant or unpleasant. Among
these subjects written annually for the Orient
is one which deals with the clipping of articles
from the papers and magazines in the library.
Once more it comes to the lot of the Orient
to make known the fact that some person or
persons are grossly abusing the privileges
granted them in the use of these periodicals.
The occasional clipping of articles might be
overlooked, but when some malicious person
deliberately removes magazines from their
bindings and appropriates them for his own '
personal satisfaction, it is time for facts to be
known. It would seem that no fellow in col-
lege could believe that magazines are bought
solely for the individual, and yet such actions
which have been brought to light serve only to
furnish ground for this belief. It might well
be suggested, then, that in any community
whether it is collegiate or civil, the rights of
the individual are small in comparison to those
of society at large.
Rev. Charles R. Brown, D.D., Speaks at Sunday Chapel
Continued from page 185
roads led from Rome. Rome's influence spread
over all the known world and Paul looked at it as
a vast moral field He realized what would be the
result if the influence of God's religion should be
spread over Rome.
But Nero was emperor of Rome, a wild, disso-
lute, tyrannical monarch. Under his rule_ the Ro-
mans had become sensual and coarse. Religion wjas
a name to be scoffed at. a word to be spoken with
a sneer. Nevertheless, Paul was readv for his task.
The significant thing about him was his attitude of
will. Rome stood for opportunity, Paul for ability.
He accepted his responsibility with no fears as to
his ability to attend to it.
Paul's case was like that of each one of you col-
lege men. Before you lies an opportunity. It may
be great as the seven hills of Rome, or it may be
small, but it will surely come, and your success will
depend entirely on your will and preparation.
So you, young men, must prepare yourselves for
the opportunity which is coming to you. Some day,
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it may be five or it may be ten years hence, you
must accept a responsibility. Let it find you with
untainted vitaHty, a clear head, a sound character,
and a heart filled with the love of God. Then, when
your opportunity comes, you can answer, 'Ready.' "
Y. M. C. A. MEETING
Douglas, '13, presided and in a brief introduc-
tion in which he defined Christianity with its partic-
ular bearing upon society, introduced Mr. E. P.
Wentworth of Portland. Mr. Wentworth has been
for 35 years connected with the State School for
Boys and has been superintendent since 1897. He is
also President of the Maine Prison Association.
He said in part, "'We are living in a most inter-
esting time. Changes have taken place in all
branches of learning, particularly in Science and in
Theology. Those in Science are in particular notice
with regard to medicine ; those in Theology have
not been much more than the restating in a clearer
way the old Truths.
For the past 140 years great changes have taken
place in Criminalology. They have been particularly
marked in the last 40 years, but the greatest interest
in the criminal class has been shown in the past ten
years.
The old Criminalology was taken from what is
known as the vindictive theory of the Old Testa-
ment. If a crime was committed, the criminal owed
a debt to the community which had to be paid by
suffering.
The New Criminalology holds this theory to be
very wrong, and instead of inflicting most cruel
punishment upon those who are guilty of crime, in-
stead of studying the crime, the criminal himself is
studied and criminals have been accordingly classi-
fied quite similarly to the way Shakesoeare classi-
fied men of greatness.
" 'Some men are born great.
Some achieve greatness.
Some have greatness thrust upon them.'
Some persons are born criminals.
Some persons acquire criminality.
Some persons have crime thrust upon them.
"The best place to study criminals is in such a
place as the State Juvenfle Reformatory. Here the
criminal is found in embryo. There is a class of
boys and girls mentally weak and they will commit
crime unless they are kept from it — kept away from
society. There is a class mentally sane — these are ha-
bitual criminals and may be sub-classed as follows:
Vagrants, inebriates, sexual perverts, professional
criminals. A third class are those who have crime
thrust upon them and who do not intend to repeat
it — these criminals should be dealt wtih most cau-
tiously lest they be transferred to the class of ha-
bitual criminals.
The most eff'ectual way to deal with these
classes is not to send them to jail but to build homes
for them where they may be confined, studied and
educated. The beginning of this Reformatory
Movement took place in 1824 when a Juvenile Re-
formatory was established.
Mr. Wentworth read several letters from men
who have been reformed since he has been con-
nected with the State Reformatory and also told
several stories of boys who being mentally defective
could not be reformed.
There was a fair-sized gathering of the students
and all were interested and very grateful to Mr.
Wentworth for his instructive lecture.
REVISED SCHEDULE OF SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS
Thursday, Febru,\ry i
8.30
Latin
Economics
Surveying
I, 3
3
Memorial Hall
Physics Lect. Room
Drawing Room
1.30
Economics i Memorial Hall
Greek i, 7 Physics Lect. Room
Friday, February 2
8.30
Government i Memorial Hall
French i Memorial Hall
Chemistry S Memorial Hall
Latin 5 Memorial Hall
(Room 3)
1.30
French 3, 13 Memorial Hall
Saturday, February 3
8.30
History 5 Memorial Hall
Physics 3 Memorial Hall
Zoology 5 ' Memorial Hall
1.30
Economics 5 Memorial Hall
Greek 3 and A Memorial Hall
History i History Lect. Room
Monday, February 5
8.30
Chem. I, 3, 7 Memorial Hall
German 15 Memorial Hall
1.30
Physics I History Lect. Room
Latin A Memorial Hall
Philosophy i Memorial Hall
Tuesday, February 6
8.30
Geology i Memorial Hall
Eng. Lit. I Memorial Hall
1.30
German i, 3 Memorial Hall
German 13 Physics Lect. Room
Wednesday, February 7
8.30
Eng. Lit. 3 Memorial Hall
German 5 Memorial Hall
1.30
Psychol. I History Lect. Room
Hygiene Memorial Hall
Thursday, February 8
8.30
German 7 Memorial Hall
1.30
Math. I, 3, s Memorial Hall
French 7 Memorial Hall
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Friday, February 9
History
Drawing:
Italian
8.30
7
Memorial Hall
Drawing Room
Memorial Hall
English
Zoology
1.30
I
Memorial Hall
Physics Lect. Room
Saturday, February 10
Zoology
8.30
I, 4
Memorial Hall
Y. M. C. A. NOTES
We are to have the privilege of hearing the Hon.
C. E. Milliken of Island Falls on Thursday, January
25 at 7 o'clock. Mr. Milliken is one of the most
prominent men in the political and business Hfe of
the state. For several sessions he has been a mem-
ber of the state senate and is recognized as one of
the leaders in that body. He is also connected with
extensive lumbering operations in Aroostook County
and is in every way fitted to speak on the subject
"The Applications of Christianity to Business."
The dates for the State Conference of Colleges
and Preparatory Schools to be held with the Uni-
versity of Maine at Orono have been announced for
Feb. 16, 17, and 18. A complete program will be an-
nounced later. It is enough to say now that among
the speakers will be David R. Porter, '06, Harrison
Elliott, Bible Study Secretary of the International
Committee, and James L. McConaughy. A remark-
ably cheap rate on the railroad has been secured of
one-half the regular fare, which ought to make it
possible for everyone to go who desires to do so.
Entertainment will be provided by the University of
Maine. Remember the dates and try to be there.
A CORRECTION
Under plan A of the "Blanket-tax" proposed in
last week's Orient, it should have been stated that
admission to all home games — with one or two excep-
tions— would be given to those paying the fee. This
provision makes the two plans aUke in regard to
conditions governing admission to the games.
jfacult^ flotes
Last Saturday evening in the Court Room in the
town building, the Brunswick Dramatic Club was
organized with a membership of about 150. The
aim of the society is to encourage amateur perform-
ances, the production of good plays, and the study
of the drama. Several persons, closely connected
with the college, are interested in the club. Profes-
sor George T. Files is president; Professor Mitchell
and Mrs Hutchins are members of the executive
committee; Professor Hutchins is chairman of the
music committee; Professor Brown is chairman of
the committee on selection of plays and casts of
which Professors Burnett, Davis, and Sills are mem-
bers, and Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Davis are members
of the stage committee. The club plans to present
one big entertainment a year for the benefit of some
local charity and to give two or three entertain-
ments to which only members will be admittted.
Professor William Hawley Davis will give an
address at the third meeting of the Literature De-
partment of the W. L. U., which will meet in
Pythian Temple, Portland, on the afternoon of Sat-
urday, Jan. 20, to study modern literature. Profes-
sor Davis will illustrate his talk by the reading of se-
lections from Short Stories.
President Hyde will have leading articles in the
February and April numbers of American Youth,
the first number of which will appear in February.
It is a magazine for "adult workers with adolescent
youth." President Hyde's articles are "A Prayer
for All Boys," and "A Boy's Prayer."
The Harvard Club of Buffalo has recently had
printed, in attractive poster form, the closing para-
graph of a paper which President Hyde read before
the International Congress of Arts and Sciences, at
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis,
Missouri, September 19-24, 1904. The selection,
which is headed "The Offer of the College" is as fol-
lows :
"To be at home in all lands and all ages ; to
count Nature a familiar acquaintance, and art an in-
timate friend ; to gain a standard for the apprecia-
tion of other men's work and the criticism of your
own; to carry the keys of the world's^ library in
your pocket, and feel its resources behind you in
whatever task you undertake; to make hosts of
friends among the men of your own age who are
to be leaders in all walks of life ; to lose yourself in
generous enthusiasm and co-operate with others for
common ends ; to learn manners from students who
are gentlemen, and form character under professors
who are Christians — this is the offer of the college
to you."
The Committee on Relations with Preparatory
Schools is preparing to publish again President
Hyde's article, "Salient Questions Which the Stu-
dent and the College Should Ask Each Other." It
is in the form of a catechism. It appeared in the
Nczv York Times last summer and attracted much
attention. It contains a set of questions which are
designed to be helpful to a student in choosing a
college.
Professor Henry Johnson read a paper on Dante
before the Faculty Club of-the University of Maine,
last Saturday
An unusual number of inquiries and requests for
catalogues have been received at the college office
recently. They are from all parts of the country,
notably California, New Mexico, and other distant
localities.
Colleae IRotes
The Deutscher Verein picture was taken Wednes-
day noon.
Several of the student body attended the Chap-
man concert in Bath, a week ago Tuesday.
Professor Cram and Professor Whittier were
both on the stand as expert witnesses for the State
in the recent Keefe murder trial in Bath.
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Among recent visitors on the campus were
Heath, '09, and Johnson, '09
Warren Eddy. '14, is critically ill at his home in
Portland with pleurisy of the heart.
There was an unusually large number of visitors
at Sunday chapel to hear the college preacher,
H. H. Hall, '13, is back in town again. He has
been confined at home on account of diphtheria.
Atwood, '10, was on the campus, Friday. He is
engaged in the shirt-manufacturing business in Port-
land.
Nickerson, ex-'i2, has been elected Manager of
the Tennis team of Stetson University, De Land,
Florida.
Farrar, '14, has been teaching Latin at Morse
High School for a week during the sickness of the
regular instructor.
Cowan. '13, has returned to college after his long
illness with diphtheria. He was taken sick before
the Thanksgiving vacation.
Entrance examinations in Algebra and Plane
Geometry will be given on Saturday, Jan. 20, at
1.30 P.M. in the Math. Room.
Weymouth, '14, has left colege on account of ill-
health. He has been ordered by the doctors to seek
rest for a year, but expects to enter the Medical
School next year.
Cuts of the new gymnasium, together with ex-
tended accounts of the building, have appeared in
recent issues of the Boston Globe, Portland Ex-
press, and the Boston Transcript.
The third meeting of the Classical Club was held
in the classical room in Memorial Hall, Thursday
evening at 8 o'clock. After the meeting the club
adjourned to Professor Woodruff's.
The Freshman Rehgious Cominittee of the Y. M.
C. A. is to "make the rounds" of the campus
monthly, collecting old magazines to be sent to lum-
ber camps for the benefit of the woodsmen.
The teachers convention, in which some of the
faculty are interested, will be held in Portland, in-
stead of Brunswick as originally planned. The
small-pox epidemic made the change advisable
Charles Reynolds Brown, D.D., the college
preacher, held an informal reception at the Theta
Delta Chi House, Sunday evening, at 7.30, when he
gave a short talk on "Choosing a Life-Work."
Lincoln Academy plays Morse High School at
basketball to-night at Bath, at Y. M. C. A. building
at 7.30. All the Lincoln Academy and Morse High
School men will go down, besides many other fel-
lows.
Leo Pratt had a narrow escape from an acci-
dent when his sleigh tipped over on the car track
near the Church on the Hill, Sunday evening. The
sleigh spun around a couple of times and Pratt
crawled out uninjured.
Prof. Davis' course in argumentation and debat-
ing has more students enrolled this semester than
are enrolled in a similar course in any New Eng-
land college or university, and is probably larger
than any class in argumentation and debating east
of th.e Mississippi River. The number of students
in the course is thirty-two.
The Maine Peace Society has transmitted peti-
tions to Senators Johnson and Gardner, requesting
the ratification of the arbitration treaties. One of
these petitions bears the signatures of President
Hyde and more than sixty undergraduates at Bow-
doin.
A Roman copper coin, As. of the date 325 B. C,
has been presented to the Art Collection by Prof.
George D. Chase, Ph.D., of the University of Maine.
This is one of the Romans' earliest attempts at
coinage. In 1909 Prof. Chase gave an exchange
course in the Art Building on Roman coins.
According to the papers of the State, Prof.
Henrv L. Chapman is a possible candidate for the
governorship of Maine. At a recent meeting of lead-
ing Republicans, his name was suggested and met
the enthusiastic approval of all those who were
present. Prof. Chapman has made no statement of
his position.
The Bowdoin College Alumni Association of
New York City and vicinity will hold the forty-
second annual meeting and banquet at the Hotel
Martinique in New York City, on Friday evening,
Jan. 26, 1912, at 6.30 o'clock. Among those pres-
ent will be General Thomas H Hubbard, 'S7, and
Admiral Peary, 'yy.
The Bowdoin Alumni Association of Washing-
ton, D. C, numbering about forty, will enjoy a ban-
quet at the Willard or Raleigh the last of this
month. Three distinguished Maine men who have
served as president of the Association, Chief Justice
Fuller, Senator Frye, and Speaker Reed, have
"assed away. There is a very creditable showing of
Bowdoin men in Washington, although but two of
the Maine members are graduates of Bowdoin.
Professor Wilmot B. Mitchell attended the Con-
ference of New England Colleges on Entrance Re-
quirements in English, held at Simmons College in
Boston on the morning of Jan. 13. The Conference
considered changes in the entrance requirements for
1916-18. The following colleges were represented:
Wesleyan, Williams, Amherst, Yale, Trinity, Brown,
Simmons, Harvard, University of Maine, Dart-
mouth, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Bow-
doin.
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, who spoke in Memorial
Hall last evening, is the daughter of Mrs. Emaline
Pankhurst, the noted militant suffragette, and Dr.
Pankhurst, a leading English barrister. She gave
up her study of Art to take up the work of the
Women's Social and Political Union, when it was
interrupted by the arrest of her mother and sister,
Christobel. Her zeal and fearlessness in this work
led to her own arrest and imprisonment. Miss
Pankhurst is only twenty years old and speaks with
a directness and simplicity which captivates her
hearers. She is the author of "The Suffragette : a
History of the Militant Equal Suffrage Movement."
A delegation from the Equal Suffrage Club of Port-
land, heard her speak last evening.
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Hlumni Department
'64. — Joseph N. Whitney, former chief
clerk of the bureau of statistics, Department of
Commerce and Labor, died Jan. 9 at his home,
141 5 Chapin Street. He was stricl<en by
paralysis November 24 last, and was confined
to his home since then.
Funeral services were held Jan. 12 in Rock
Creek chapel. Delegations from the Loyal
Legions and G. A. R. attended the funeral,
and the honorary pall-bearers were chosen
from Mr. Whitney's associates in these organ-
izations.
Mr. Whitney lived in Washington ever
since the close of the Civil War. He was
born at Raymond, Me., in 1836, and was grad-
uated from college just before the outbreak of
the war. He was among the first to enlist,
and served for three years as a private, ser-
geant, and first lieutenant in the 7th Rhode
Island Cavalry. He was taken a prisoner of
war and for nineteen months was confined in
Libby and other Confederate prisons. He was
released from Wilmington, N. C, after Lee
surrendered.
At the close of the war, he received an ap-
pointment in the office of the Treasury De-
partment, where he served until the bureau of
statistics was organized, in 1867. Then it was
that he was transferred to that bureau. He
was promoted to be chief clerk in 1878, a po-
sition he held for many years, until he resigned
in March, 1910, on account of failing health.
In 1867, Mr. Whitney graduated from the
Columbia Law College and was admitted to
the bar of the District of Columbia. He was
a member of Burnside Post, No. 8, Depart-
ment of the Potomac, G. A. R. ; of the Loyal
Legion, and of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fra-
ternity.
'86. — The Bureau of Mines has just issued
Bulletin 16, entitled, "The Uses of Peat for
Fuel and Other Purposes," by Charles A.
Davis.
'97. — Rev. Frederick K. Ellsworth has ac-
cepted a call to the Congregational Church at
Sangerties, N. Y., and is now working in that
parish.
'07. — Joseph Blake Drummond of Portland
and Miss Katherine Murray Randall of Au-
gusta were married in Augusta, Dec. 14, 191 1,
by the Rev. Clayton P. Boothby. Mr. Drum-
mond was graduated from Bowdoin in the
Class of 1907, and from tlie Medical School
of Maine in the Class of 1910.
'08. — Frank P. Wight has again returned
to the Holly Inn, Pinehurst, N. C, for the
winter after a most successful summer season
at The Inn, Charlevoix-the-Beautiful, Michi-
gan.
Ex-'io. — Daniel J. Ready is a lieutenant in
the constabulary service in the Philippines.
'10. — Charles A. Smith is pursuing courses
in mining engineering in Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology.
'11. — D. Scribner Hyler, who was with
Mr. Wight at Charlevoix-the-Beautiful last
summer goes with him to Pinehurst this win-
ter.
INTERSCHOLASTIC BASEBALL LEAGUE ORGANIZED
At the meeting of the Bowdoin Interscholastic
Baseball League a schedule of games for the season
of igi2 was arranged. Francis X. Callahan, '14, of
Portland, assistant manager of the baseball team
and president of the league, presided. The follow-
ing schools were represented : Deering High, Morse
High of Bath, Lewiston High, Edward Little High
of Auburn, and Cony High of Augusta.
There was some discussion on the details of the
management of the league and it was decided that
if the managers of two teams scheduled to play fail
to select an umpire five days before the game, the
president of the league shall have the power to ap-
point an umpire. It was decided that the number of
players to be taken on the league trips should be
limited to twelve.
At the meeting Edward O. Leigh, '12, of Seattle,
Wash., manager of the 191 1 Bowdoin baseball team,
in behalf of the Bowdoin Atliletic Association, pre-
sented to the representative of Lewiston High
School the league pennants for 1909 and igio, which
the association offered for the two years mentioned.
IFntercoUeGiate IRotes
A New Haven minister predicted to Yale stu-
dents that in ten years betting will overthrow foot-
ball as a national sport.
In a straw ballot recently conducted at Oberlin,
Woodrow Wilson won a complete victory for the
Presidency. La Follette was second and Taft thrd.
Medical School o! Maine
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Addison S Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JANUARY 26, 1912
NO. 24
COACH BERQIN TO RETURN
The students will be glad to know that
Coach Bergin has signed a contract with Man-
ager Lawrence Smith, '13, to coach the foot-
ball team next year. Coach Bergin has
coached two years at Bowdoin with great suc-
cess. He is very popular among the fellows
and is one of the best coaches in New Eng-
land. He was quarterback of Princeton's
1910 team. Ted Coy said of Bergin, "He is
the fastest man that ever handled a signal."
Bergin is attending a law school in New York
this winter.
MONDAY NIGHT CLUB
The first meeting of the Monday Night
Club was held at the Theta Delta Chi house,
Monday evening at 7 o'clock. Captain Wood
presided. The following men were elected to
membership : Frederick Benjamin Simpson,
'12, of Bangor; Laurence Alden Crosby, '13,
of Bangor, Paul Howard Douglas, '13, of
Newport, Stanley Fuller Dole, '13, of Port-
land, Plerbert Alton Lewis, '15, of North
Haven, and Harry Peter Faulkner, '15, of
Boston, Mass. Douglas was elected secretary.
After the business session light refresh-
ments were served.
CLASS OF '68 PRIZE SPEAKING
The program of the Prize Speaking which
was held Thursday evening in Memorial Hall,
is as follows :
Music
Carlyle's Message: Insight Plus Action
Eugene Francis Bradford
The Old Order Changeth
* Burleigh Cushing Rodick
Music
Walt Whitman's Democracy
EAR..E Francis Maloney
Music
The Educational Value of Music
John Lawrence Hurley
Music
The New Immigration
*Charles Francis Adams
The Irish Drama
Arthur Deehan Welch
Music
^Excused.
Judges — Rev. Omar W. Folsom, Bath;
Rev. John H. Quint, Brunswick; Prof. Hal-
bert H. Britan, Bates College.
REPUBLICAN CLUB iVlASS=MEETING
Friday evening, Jan. 9, a mass-meeting
was held in Memorial Hall for the formation
of a Republican Club and the election of offi-
cers. W. R. Spinney, chairman pro tern., read
sections of the constitution concerning the
purpose of the club, election of officers and
membership requirements.
W. R. Spinney, '13, was elected president,
F. B. Simpson, '12, vice-president, Laurence
Crosby, '13, secretary and treasurer, and
Professors Files and Moody, faculty members.
After the election Prof. Files gave an in-
formal talk on the Republican party. He be-
gan by saying that he always had been a Re-
publican and would be as long as the party
kept to the right principles and put up the
right man. There is a great opportunity for
college men in politics now. Politics need the
academic freedom which college men possess.
In American politics there is a great deal of
corruption and manipulation which deters
honest men from entering. This Prof.
Files illustrated from his own experience
while running for the legislature. The country
needs interest from college men and this club
helps to fill this need.
The Republican party, although rather low
at present, has some very good men. La Fol-
lette, who may soon speak here, is a promis-
ing candidate, while Taft or even Roosevelt
have a good chance, provided that the party
incorporates in its platform the insurgent
principles.
After Prof. Files' talk, those present were
given an opportunity of enrolling as members
of the club.
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STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING
Monday evening the Student Council held
a meeting and a plan was submitted for put-
ting the Orient and Quill under one financial
management, but this plan was not considered
advisable because it placed too much power in
the hands of the Managers and the Student
Council. The final arrangements were made
for the Smoker this evening.
GOOD GOVERNMENT CLUB TO REORGANIZE
Professor Lunt in the course in govern-
ment announced last Monday that the Good
Government Club would be reorganized next
Saturday evening The club will be open to
all members of the course. He also added
that the idea was not an honor club, but one
which would investigate the political condi-
tions of the country and the state.
LECTURE BY MISS PANKHURST
A large number of students and townspeo-
ple availed themselves of the unusual opportu-
nity of hearing Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, the
"militant suffragette," speak in Memorial
Hall Thursday evening, January i8. A
large number was present from surrounding
communities, chief among which was a dele-
gation from the Portland Equal Suffrage
Club. This was the last lecture which Miss
Pankhurst delivered in New England.
President Hyde made a short introductory
speech in which he referred to Miss Pank-
hurst as possessing the qualities of persever-
ance, self-sacrifice, and devotion to the cause
of woman suffrage.
In beginning Miss Pankhurst gave first the
reasons why woman suffrage in England is
necessary to-day. "A married woman has no
legal existence in England," she said. She
asserted that a married woman, under the
present laws was not entitled to any of her
earnings, and that she could not hold property.
She spoke at length concerning the eco-
nomic conditions in England to-day. The
average wage of working men in England to-
day is 25s. a week, whereas that of women is
but 7s. When the suffrage movement was
first started, the working men opposed it, for
they reasoned that if women got more tvages,
men would receive less. Miss Pankhurst
asserted that they were beginning to perceive
that they were in the wrong. She also at-
tacked the insurance laws, declaring that they
discriminated unfairly between men and
women.
In the final part of her speech, Miss Pank-
hurst gave the history of the suffrage move-
ment from its inception in 1870 until the
present day. She told of the difficulties they
have experienced in presenting the bill to Par-
liament, and cited instances of shocking ill-
treatment by the authorities.
She was very optimistic, however, and said
that she felt no doubt of ultimate success. She
said that the movement had already reached
Australia, and would soon reach America, al-
though the time is not yet ripe.
In closing, she said : "Its benefits will be
gradual, yet sure. It's bound to come. To
attempt to hold it back is like holding the
waves of the ocean."
CLASSICAL CLUB
A meeting of the Classical Club was held
in the Classical Room of Memorial Hall Tues-
day evening. Prof. Nixon gave an illustrated
lecture on "Pompeii, Past and Present." The
club then adjourned to Professor Woodruff's
house and a business meeting was held. A
committee consisting of Professor Sills, Buell,
'14, Maloney, '12, was elected to consider giv-
ing a Latin play in translation. A social even-
ing followed. The next meeting will be Feb.
15-
FROM THE MUSIC COMMITTEE
Brunswick, Me., Jan. 22, 1912.
To the Editor of the Bozifdoin Orient:
Dear Sir: "Senior's" communication in
your last issue on the "rotten" college quar-
tette, may relieve a mind "for four years" tor-
tured, but as criticism it is of less value, be-
cause it is without discrimination. Bowdoin
in music has not the resources of a big uni-
versity, and it is as idle to expect our college
choir to reach a high standard as to demand a
Bowdoin football team that will win a Novem-
ber game from Harvard. The good results
obtained in athletics — and the results are good
in spite of occasional severe strictures from
undergraduates — are largely due to expert
coaching, a means of improvement that has
never been provided for the college choir.
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193
Although we depend on student leaders, and
the voices available are comparatively un-
trained, the average results for six times "four
years" have, in my judgment, been as good as
under such conditions we could reasonably ex-
pect. Not that any one with a sensitive ear
ought to be satisfied and forbear criticism.
The music committee are not satisfied, and I
feel sure that our choir leaders are sometimes
disappointed and even chagrined, for voices
are not always in prime condition, untrained
singers are uncertain, and students here, as in
athletics, in Y. M. C. A. work, and in the
class rooms, make preparation which cannot
always be described as adequate.
But there have been many Sundays even in
the last "four years" when the Chapel music
has been creditable, and no apologies to
friends have been necessary. What the college
needs is a music department, with a thoroly
trained musician at its head, who, besides of-
fering courses in music, will superintend and
coach the musical clubs and the Chapel choir;
and if "Senior's" onslaught helps to bring that
need home, and hastens by ever so little the
day of expert guidance for Bowdoin's musical
interests, it ought, in spite of its undiscrimi-
nating severity, to be welcomed.
With the hope that the improvement we
all desire may soon be made possible, I am
Respectfully yours,
Frank E. Woodruff.
MASSACHUSETTS MEN IN COLLEGE
At the first meeting of the Massachusetts
Club which was held recently, Dean Sills pre-
sented a table of statistics showing the number
of students from Massachusetts, and their pro-
portion to the whole student body in each
year since 1900, and each decade since 1880.
The table shows that the smallest number of
Massachusetts men in college in any one year
has been ten, and the smallest percentage of the
student body has been four. On the other
hand, both the absolute and relative number
of students from Massachusetts has shown a
decided increase since 1905, the number hav-
ing reached 53 in 1909-1910, and the men
numbering 15 per cent, of the entire student
body from 1909 to 191 1. This year there are
only 40 men in college registering from Mas-
sachusetts, but this is explained in part by the
fact that several men who originally came
from Massachusetts have changed their resi-
dence to Maine.
The table, showing the total number in col-
lege, the number from Massachusetts and the
percentage is as follows:
Number in Number from Percent-
Year college. Massachusetts age
1880-81 157 10 6 %
1890-91 181 10 5 %
I89S-96 243 10 4 %
1901-02 254 15 6 %
1902-03 275 16 6 %
1903-04 277 16 6 %
1904-05 280 21 8 %
1905-06 288 27 9 %
1906-07 289 34 12 %
1907-08 30s 40 13 %
1908-09 348 49 II %
1909-10 346 53 15 %
1910-11 338 51 15 %
1911-12 333 40 12 %
ZETA PSI CONVENTION
The sixty-fifth annual convention of the
Grand Chapter of the Zeta Psi Fraternity was
held at the Hotel Chelsea, Atlantic City, New
Jersey, on January 4th, 5th, and 6th. The
convention proper was preceded by an in-
formal meeting of delegates at the Chapter
House at Columbia University on the 4th.
The convention was held under the auspices
of the Chapter at Rutgers College and there
were delegates present from all the chapters
of the Fraternity, besides a great number of
other active members and elders. The
Lambda Chapter of Bowdoin was represented
by Merton W. Greene, 1913.
MEETING OF THE DEBATING COUNCIL
An important meeting of the Bowdoin Debating
Council was held Jan. 16, when the question was an-
nounced which will be debated in the Triangular
League, of which Wesleyan, New York University,
and Bowdoin, are members. This question is :
Resolved, That the United States should adopt a
uniform, compulsory workingmen's compensation act
aoolicable to industrial employments. Such an act
1. Should extend to railroads and other public
service corporations.
2. Should be adopted by both federal and other
governments for such employments as may be within
their respective jurisdictions.
3. Should make the employer absolutely liable
for injury or death to the employe unless he estab-
lish the employe's contributory negligence.
Continued on page 195
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EDITORIAL BOARD
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Associate Editors
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L. E. JONES, 1913
V. R. LEAVITT, 1913
F. D. WISH, Jr., 1913
H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
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JANUARY 26, 1912
There appeared in last
Undesirable Publicity week's Orient an under-
gradu ate comm;unication
entering rather a strenuous complaint against
the Chapel quartette. If it was couched in
a tco emphatic style that is a matter which
concerns the author alone. As a student pub-
lication receiving undergraduate expressions
of opinion this paper assumes no authority to
bar any letter written to it except for indecent
language and the expression of dangerous and
unreasonable ideas. The communication above
referred to was wholly within the law but the
Orient regrets to have discovered that it was
seized upon and made the subject of undesir-
able newspaper publicity for the college.
There appeared in a recent issue of a
nearby evening paper a two-column story
"scare headed," "Inhuman Maltreatment of
Beautiful Hymns — Bowdoin College Quartet
Scored as 'Rotten' by Senior Critic." Had
this story been taken direct from the Orient
by the paper in question we could have no
complaint. But it was not. The report was
dated from Brunswick, marked "special" and
gave a wealth of details including names of
students and members of the faculty which
betrays familiarity of the writer with the sub-
ject. But most painful reflection of all is, that
since Bowdoin news is written by Bowdoin
men only and goes through the channels of
the Bowdoin Press Club, an organization so
honored by the college that membership in it
is recorded as an attainment to personal dis-
tinction, the article in question must have been
written by a Bowdoin man.
The Orient feels that college "stories" of
a hig'hly colored nature, with no real news
value have no place in the public press and
that the publication of the story in question
was an unfortunate occurrence, a repetition of
which should be regarded with stern disfavor
by Bowdoin men. If Bowdoin is dissatisfied
with her quartette or with any other college
afifair that is a matter for discussion upon the
campus and has no place in the supplements
of a newspaper where it can serve only as a
morbid incentive to the unappreciated ridicule
of its readers.
One need not be a very
Good Government close follower of campus
activities at Bowdoin to ob-
serve that a progressive spirit is abroad and
is causing the re-organization and moderniza-
tion of many of our student activities. Latest
among the organizations to fall in line with
the new movement is the Good Government
Club.
For the past few years this club has been a
close corporation of a dozen seniors with high
ranks in Government. Its activities have been
confined to the holding of meetings for discus-
sion and the occasional address by some out-
side speaker. Further than that it has caused
no ripples on the placid stream of college life.
But comes now into the midst of those
who are organizing the club this year, some
progressive spirits imbued with the idea of
making the Good Government Club more than
a "Bugle honor," and means of spending a
profitable evening now and then. "Away with
the scholarship requirements for admission,"
they say. "Let anyone be admitted to mem-
bership who is really interested in the prob-
lems of City and State, and is willing to prove
his interest by practical investigating and re-
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search work, whether he be Senior or Fresh-
man. Eliminate the honor society idea and
make it a real vital organization for the practi-
cal study of political science at first hand."
These progressive spirits have met with favor
in their new ideas. The Club is to be re-or-
ganized in the way they have outlined and
there is even talk of uniting with the Intercol-
legiate Civic Association, composed of similar
organizations in other colleges which do prac-
tical work and hold meetings yearly in New
York and Washington.
The Orient congratulates the Club on the
occasion of its "renaissance" and wishes it all
success in its venture into new fields of activity.
Meeting of the Debating Council
Continued from page ]9.5
4. Should contain reasonable rates of compensa-
tion which might vary in different locations.
A committee composed of President Rodick of
the Debating Council and Merton W. Greene, '13,
was chosen to confer with Prof. Davis, in order to
plan the system of trials for the Bradburv Prize
Debate, which will decide the soeakers on the teams
against other colleges, and which will be held Feb-
ruary 15.
Each college will have a team for the negative
and one for the affirmative. Debates will be held
simultaneously at New York, Middletown, and
Brunswick.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES
A box of clothing has been sent to Rev. H. Ros-
well Bates of New York, for the use of his Easl
Side Mission.
E)r. Estes Nichols of Hebron, will speak on
Christianity and Public Health on Feb. 15.
Don't forget that the dates of the Maine Student
Conference at Orono are Feb. 16, 17, and 18, and
plan to go.
About $250 has now been pledged for the sup-
port of Hiwale. This is not up to the record of past
years and it is hoped that those who have not al-
ready contributed will do so soon and help this loyal
Bowdoin man in his good work in India.
ago was a semi-barbaric nation, to-day she is one of
the leading powers of the globe.
The college man cannot be blind to this move-
ment, the forces behind it, and its influence on the
western world For these reasons he cannot afford
to ignore the study of the work of Christian Mis-
sionaries in these lands They have been and are
one of the great determining forces in the develop-
ment. The natives themselves recognize this fact.
Viceroy Tuan Fong of China, Special Commissioner
to the U. S., says, "The awakening of China which
is now at hand, can be traced in no small measure
to the hands of the missionaries." Marquis Ito,
Premier of Japan: "Japan's progress and develop-
ment are largely due to the influence of mission-
aries." This reason alone is enough to demand con-
sideration from every broad-minded man. But an-
other important question forces itself on those
whose interest is not narrowed by the limits of their
own country but is world wide. Is this civilization
to develop without those moral qualities which un-
derlie our civilization and which alone can make it
lasting? This question, too, the missionaries are
answering.
In our own country also modern civilization is
producing great changes in our poKtical, social, and
industrial life. One of the greatest is the movement
toward the city. In 1850 only 6 per cent, of the pop-
ulation of the United States were living in cities of
over 100,000 population. In 1900 18 per cent, were
living in such cities. The new and complex problems
involved press urgently for solution on the present
generation.
An O'^iortunity to learn something about these
world-wide problems and the efforts to meet them
will be given by the Y. M. C. A. in a course of five
lessons, beginning the first of next semester.
Three courses will be given :
1. India Awakening by S'herwood Eddy. A
study of conditions in a typical eastern country
showing what Christian missions are doing for that
land. Normal class leader. Prof. Mitchell.
2. The Apologetic of Foreign Missions bv J
Lovell Murray. Designed especially for men who
are opposed to missions. A study of the reasons for
and against. Normal Class leader, Mr. Fifield.
3. The Chaillenge of the City, by Josiah Strong.
A study of the conditions and problems of Ameri-
can cities. Normal class leader, Prof. Catlin.
These courses will be worth while. Enroll in
some group.
J^acult^ Botes
MISSION STUDY FOR 1912
We are in the midst of a vast forward move-
ment of civilization world-wide in its scope. The
East_ is awaking from its long period of seclusion
and ignorance. China is in the throes of a political
revolution which will bring liberty and enlighten-
rnent to her people ; Turkey has secured a constitu-
tional government ; education is spreading in India
and with it a national spirit with which England
will soon have to reckon ; Japan less than fifty years
President Hyde occupied the pulpit at Welles-
ley last Sunday, Jan 21.
Professor Little was in Boston the first of the
week, on business for the library.
The annual dinner of the New York Alumni Club
will be held Friday evening in New York. The
club at present has a large membership. President
Hyde will represent the college.
Mr. James L. MacConaughy, who is studying at
Teachers' College, Columbia Universit" on a year's
leave of absence from the faculty, will be present
also.
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CALENDAR
Friday^ January 26
7.30 Smoker in Memorial Hall.
Sunday^ January 28
10.45 Morning Service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev J. H. Quint.
S-OO Sunday Chapel conducted by President Hyde.
Thursday, February i
8.30 Mid-year Examinations begun.
(Tolleae Botes
Don't Forget the Smoker in Me-
morial Hall, Tonight, Everyone be
sure and bring Steins.
Two original drawings have been loaned
to the Art Collection by the artist, Miss Mary
N. Richardson. One is a striking drawing
of an old man who is seated. The other is a
charming drawing of a young girl. They are
hanging in the Boyd Gallery.
A book of poems, entitled Poems of Action,
has very recently been published which was
compiled by David R. Porter, M.A. (Oxon),
a Rhodes Scholarship man from the Class of
1906 and secretary for High and Preparatory
Schools of the Boys' Work department of the
International Committee of Young Men's
Christian Associations. The compiler states in
his preface, "My first purpose in making this
collection has been to bring together in a con-
venient volume from all poets using the Eng-
lish language the verse which mature boys en-
joy reading."
It is a book of poems most carefully chosen
and having a large variety of poems and au-
thors, there being about ninety different au-
thors represented, — among whom are those
who are best known to the average person to-
day.
Philip Towle, '14, left college last week.
Bisbee, '03, was on the campus, Saturday.
Herbert Davis, ex-'i2, was on the campus last
week.
Warren Eddy. '12, who has been seriously ill at
his home, is better.
Allan Woodcock, '12, was at his home last week
on account of illness.
The first concert of the musical clubs will be
given at Bath, Monday evening, Feb. 12.
"Lee" Means of the baseball team, was in Bos-
ton, recently, to see about securing a coach.
The Ibis picture was taken at Webber's Thursday
noon.
G. Tannan Little, ex-'i2, has been at home for a
few days.
The Delta Kappa Epsilon House Party and dance
comes Feb 16.
"Bill" Sparks, '09, is athletic director at Hobart
College, New York.
Pictures of the Student Council were taken at
Webber's, Thursday noon.
The picture of the Classical Club was taken,
Wednesday, at one o'clock.
Several students have been skiing during the
last week at Standpipe Hill.
An unusually large number of Bowdoin students
.'.pent the week end in Portland
The Chemical Club had its picture taken at Web-
ber's studio, Monday afternoon.
The picture of the Classical Club was taken at
Webber's studio last Wednesday.
Bowdoin students are now daily enjoying the
skating on the Androscoggin River.
Earl Tuttle, '13, and Neal Tuttle, '14, are both
ill at their home in Cumberland Mills.
Several of the fellows attended "Beverly of
Graustauk" in Portland, last Saturday
Several Bowdoin students were present at the
leap year dance given at Bath last week.
Several college men attended the play "Lucia's
Lover," given by the Misses' Club last club.
The Bowdoin College Glee Club will start on its
annual trip through New England on Feb. 26.
Winthrop S. Greene, '13, passed the week end in
Bridgton with his uncle, who is a Bowdoin graduate.
There will be a meeting of Exeter and Andqver
men in the Deutscher Verein room, Monday evening.
A small boy appeared in the dormitories the
other evening trying to sell chances on a live rac-
coon.
Several Bowdoin students were seen at Keith's
Theatre and the Jefferson Theatre in Portland, Sat-
urday.
"Bill" Merrill, janitor of Appleton Hall, has been'
awav from his work for a few days on account of
illness.
Next semester Professor Ham will include in his
German 2 course a series of 10 lectures on German
subjects.
The first lecture in the Annie Talbot Cole series
will be given by Dr. Bliss Perry on Feb. 19, in Me-
morial Hall.
Rabbi Fleischer, who was the college preacher at
Bowdoin one Sunday last fall, has founded a
church in Boston.
A large number of students attended the per-
formance of "Lucia" at Keith's Theatre^ Portland,
Thursday evening.
Douglas Urquhart, ex-'l4, is reported by one of
the Boston papers as having "an understanding"
with the Boston Rex Sox. During the past summer
he has pitched for the Woodstock team of the Maine
league, with which he made a fine record.
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Appleton Hall is the only dormitory which has
not yet been equipped witli the new chandeliers.
Why this partiality?
Prof. Chapman has announced that he has no
intention of running for the Republican nomination
for Governor.
Dean Porter of Clark College and Prof. Gould,
of the Department of History at Bates, were visit-
ors here last week.
Walter Brown, '14, was referee at the basketball
game between Portland High School and Bath High
School played at Portland last Saturday.
The College Smoker which was to have taken
place January 19, has been postponed till to-night,
because time is needed to procure the souvenirs.
Stewart Morrill, '15, came near being seriously
hurt in the gymnasium, Monday. While running he
fell against the wall, and had to be revived.
Among those who have been confined to their
rooms as a result of vaccination are : MacCormick,
'12; Craig, '13; Shea, '14.
Rev. Charles R. Brown gave a talk before about
thirty students at the Theta Delta Chi House last
Sunday evening. His subject was "Choosing a Life
Work."
Professor Sills has begun his series of lectures
on Roman art and statuary which he is giving in
the Art building for the benefit of his students in
Latin i.
Irving Bacheller, "The Cheerful Yankee," au-
thor of "Eben Holden" and "Keeping up with Liz-
zie," lectured in the Universalist Church in Bath on
Wednesday evening, Jan. 24.
An interesting list was posted on the bulletin
board, Tuesday. It contained the names of men
now in college, who are grandsons, sons, or broth-
ers of graduates of Bowdoin.
Frank Smith, '12, and Bob Weatherill, '14, skated
to Gardiner Saturday. They started at about 3.30
in the afternoon and arrived at Gardiner at about 6
o'clock after quite an exciting trip.
The charge for rent on the semester bills of Feb.
10, 1912, will be made to those students whose names
appear on the Room Contract Book, Jan. 31. Later
changes will not affect the February bill.
Last Saturday, the faculty again announced the
advisability for the students to be vaccinated. There
are at present about fourteen cases of small pox in
Brunswick. Although these are all at the lower
end of the town, it will still be best to take precau-
tion against such a serious disease.
In Prof. Davis' talk on "The Short Story" before
the Women's Literary Union of Portland on last
Saturday, he devoted the greater portion of the time
in reading short stories. He read from "The Re-
treat" by Elsie Langmaster, "The Burglar," by Ken-
neth Graham in his book "The Golden Age," and his
last selection was from "The Man on the Hilltop,"
by Irving Bacheller.
Philip Porritt, "Uriah" Hall, and Charlie Has-
kell, had an exciting experience last Sunday after-
noon. They started to skate down river to Bath,
but made a wrong turn in Merymeeting Bay and
got on the Kennebec. After skating until after
dark, over ice that was thin and full of holes, they
went ashore. They walked from there to Bowdoin -
ham, a distance of about S miles, and arrived in
Brunswick on the midnight train.
Intercollegiate Botes
The Board of Control of the University of
Washington, has prohibited the distribution of cam-
paign literature by candidates for student offices.
Between $600 and $700 was spent for that purpose
at last year's election.
The University of Washington has been presented
with a set of chimes valued at $10,000. Alden J.
Blethen, an honorary graduate of Bowdoin, and edi-
tor of the Seattle Times, is the donor.
Carlisle has a remarkable all-round athlete in
James Thorpe, of Oklahoma. He is a fine basket-
ball player, a baseball pitcher of talent, and covers
any of the bases or outfields with as much credit as
a professional. He can put the sixteen-pound shot
forty-three feet, broad jump 22 feet 10 inches, run
100 yards in 10 seconds, and clear six feet in the
high jump. The high hurdles are easy for him in
15 4-5 seconds, while the 220-yard hurdles he nego-
tiates in 26 seconds. He also excels at cross-
country, plays lacrosse, tennis, indoor baseball, hand-
ball, and hockey with equal skill, and can fill almost
any position on a football team. At halfback he is
probably seen at his best. In one track meet last
Spring he won five places and one second.
At Colby, the Faculty have recently voted to ap-
ply for membership in the New England Certificat-
ing Board, and after 1912 to receive no student to
regular Freshman standing except by examination,
or on certificate of schools approved by the Board.
This rank, of course, does not apply to prospective
students from outside New England. This new plan
will bring Colby into conformity with the great ma-
jority of New England colleges in reference to ad-
mission requirements.
Through the efforts of the present membership
campaign, the Michigan Y. M. C. A. now has 1.200
members enrolled.
Although J. P. Morgan has given $1,185,000 to
Harvard, he was refused two tickets to the Har-
vard-Yale game because he said in his letter that he
probably would not use the tickets personally, and
as every applicant is required to promise that he
will use one ticket personally, his money was sent
back.
On November 18, the girls of Smith and Vassar
played a game of football at Northampton, Mass.
This is the first game of its kind in this country.
At a recent meeting of the Senior class of the
University of Chicago, it was announced that the
moustaches of the Senior men should be shaved off
at once, and that any one who is caught with that
"hirsute adornment" should be cast into the swim-
ming tank.
All liquor advertisements have been ruled out of
Cornell College papers by President Schurman. This
is one of the results of agitation stirred up by the
recent charges of a Western millionaire as to drink-
ing among college students.
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Hlumni Department
'44. — Major John Wallingford Goodwin,
for many years a successful civil engineer and
one of the most prominent residents of Lynch-
burg, Virginia, died at his home on December
1st. Major Goodwin was born at South Ben-
nick, Maine, on April 17th, 1825.
After his graduation from college, Major
Goodwin was iirst employed on the Green
Mountain survey He then went South and
made the preliminary surveys of what is now
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. After com-
pleting these surveys, he continued with the
road until the Civil War. At the outbreak
of the hostilities, he was a member of the
Mobile Riffes, a local company, which was
afterward made a part of the Twenty-third
Alabama regiment.
Having known him in Mobile, Mr. Camp-
bell, secretary of war, C. S. A., had him trans-
ferred to Norfolk to construct fortifications
there. Early in 1863, he was appointed engi-
neer on the staff of General Bragg, and took
active part in the battles of Corinth and Chat-
tanooga.
On June 17th, 1863, he was united in mar-
riage to Miss Georgie Smith, daughter of Sid-
ney Smith, of Mobile, president of the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad. In the fall of 1863, he
was transferred to Virginia and made military
superintendent of the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad, and after the war was made gen-
eral superintendent of the same under Col.
Robert L. Owens, and continued with the
road until 1872, when he moved to Texas.
Later he returned to Tennessee to accept the
position of division superintendent of the East
Tennessee and Virginia and Georgia Rail-
road.
In 1887 he rejoined the Norfolk and West-
ern and continued with it until the Durham
road was begun, when he was elected chief
engineer of that road. After its absorption
by the Norfolk and Western, he resumed work
with that road and continued with it actively
until August, 1903, when an accident he met
with, caused his retirement from outdoor
work, but his official connection with the road
continued until his death.
Major Goodwin was a man of brain and
executive ability ; a friend who never failed ;
courteous and polite in the social walks of life
and in his home ; a gentle and tender father.
He is survived by four children.
'oo.- — ^^Clarence C. Robinson is now actively
engaged as a specialist in the Men and Relig-
ion Forward Movement Campaign in Boston.
Mr. Robinson is carrying into his work the
same zeal and energy he displayed while in
college as an athlete and as a student.
Following his graduation from college,
Mr. Robinson was beys' department secretary
of the Young Men's Christian Associations of
Philadelphia, Trenton, and Salem, N. J. In
these places, he was successful in his work,
ad so quite naturally, he was chosen boys'
work leader by the officers of the Maine state
Y. M. C. A. He served two years, from 1907
to 1909, and in the latter year was chosen for
his present position with the international
committee. Mr. Robinson is enjoying marked
success in his work among boys and well de-
serves the rapid promotion he is receiving.
'00. — Albro L. Burnell of Portland, who
for a number of years has been consul for the
United States at Barranquilla, Republic of
Colombia, has been appointed vice-consul of
the LTnited States at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
This appointment carries with it far more re-
sponsibility and importance than the one for-
merly held by him.
'08. — Walter A. Powers was appointed, on
Jan. 18, fourth assistant attorney general of
Massachusetts, following the resignation of
Assistant Attorney General F. P. Field.
INTERCOLLEGIATE NOTES
Continued from page 197
Smoking has been tabooed from the campus of
Columbia.
The University of Paris is the largest college in
the world, having a total enrollment of 17,512 stu-
dents.
Out of seventy-five presidents of the great rail-
roads of this country, more than forty per cent, are
college graduates.
The list of fatalities and injuries in college foot-
ball games this year is considerably less than in
previous years. Of the 13 persons killed, only two
were college men. This year, 13 were killed and 47
severely injured. Michigan has suffered the heav-
iest among the colleges in injuries, with three
broken legs and 10 or more minor injuries.
Medical School of Maine
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Addison S Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
BOWDOIN ORIENT
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, FEBRUARY 16, 1912
VOL. XLI
NO. 25
\ "BLANKET=TAX" ADOPTED
The 1912 Student Council made their de-
but as purveyors of joy and good-fellowship
on the occasion of the first College Smoker,
Jan. 26. Neat souvenirs in the form of Bow-
doin paper cutters were presented on entering
the Hall and before the evening was over they
were needed to pierce the atmosphere caused
by the free "smokes."
The first part of the evening was spent in
the consideration of the "blanket tax" schemes.
z\fter a general discussion in which the two
plans were outlined in some detail and their
merits and defects emphasized, a vote was
taken. To the surprise of even its most san-
guine supporters, plan A was adopted by a
unanimous vote of the student body. This
means that the students authorized the Stu-
dent Council to proceed to arrange for the
adoption of an assessment of fifteen dollars,
to replace the present subscriptions for foot-
ball, baseball, track, tennis, fencing, debating,
Orient, Quill, Y. M. C. A., and Band. The
arrangement for division of this sum and the
collection of the same shall be in the hands of
the Board of Managers composed of the man-
agers of the various component organizations.
Those who took part in the discussion were :
Spinney, '13; Cole, '12; White, '14; Bradford,
'12; Harrington, '12; Douglass, '13; King,
'12; Leigh, '12; Wiggin, '13; MacCormick,
'12; Cowan, '13; Cummings, '13; Leigh, '14;
and Newcombe, '14.
After this matter was settled a short rally
was held for Track. Those who spoke were:
Capt. Cole, '12; Wood, '13; Crowell, '13; iVIac-
Cormick, '12; Means, '12; and Pres. Hurley,
'12.
After the more serious work of the evening
was concluded, the Council proceeded to
moisten the parched throats of the evening's
orators and others with cider. Meanwhile,
those two requisites of a successful smoker,
"Artie" Welch and the College Band, did their
part toward the evening's entertainment.
When the apples, cider, and pretzels were all
consumed, w'hen "Artie's" fund of laugh-pro-
ducers was exhausted and when the Band was
ausgespielt, the orchestra stole onto the stage,
unnoticed in the ever-increasing blue haze
and struck up the "Chicken Reel." The
temptation was not to be resisted, and in a
short time the hall was the scene of Terpsi-
chorean revelry, which lasted until "Sammy"
Seels had to close up for the night.
THE FIRST COLE LECTURE BY DR. BLISS PERRY
The Annie Talbot Cole Lecture given in
Memorial Hall, Tuesday evening, Feb. 14, by
Dr. Bliss Perry, Professor of English Litera-
ture in Harvard University, was attended by
a large number from the student body. Dr.
Perry has taken as his general subject, "Amer-
ican Traits in American Literature." The
subject of his lecture on last Tuesday evening
was "The American Mind;" the subject of his
lecture on the evening of Feb. 20 will be
"Romance and Reaction," and that of Feb.
27, "Humor and Satire."
The origin of the phrase "The American
Mind" is political. The phrase indicates that
from the iStli century there has been a mode
of thinking and feeling which is distinctly
characteristic of the inhabitants of the United
States. There is no question that there are
prevalent atmospheric conditions in this
country which produce in settlers of English
stock marked changes in physique. A change
takes place similar to the change in appear-
ance of John Bull and of Uncle Sam. A men-
tal differentiation is no less pronounced. The
American mind has been accused of ignorance,
superficiality, levity, and commonplaceness, but
never of dullness ; it does not lack alertness of
wit or emotion. Americans back individual
guesswork and pay cheerfully when they lose;
they would rather speculate than know.
From the very beginning our people have
been characterized by idealism. Optimism is
an unfailing trait of our national mind. The
American loves to win as m'uch as the Jew
and hates to lose as much as the Englishman,
but, losing or winning, he carries into his busi-
ness activity the mood of the idealist.
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BOWDOIN WINS RELAY
The following, relative to Bo\vdoiii"s share
in the B. A. A. Meet, was taken from the
Boston Post : "Cosgrove, Harris, Marble, and
A'lansfield, who were the quartet that Tufts se-
lected to meet Bowdoin, drew the pole, and
Cole, for the Maine University, beat Cosgrove
to it for possession of the first corner. He
also beat him for his entire relay, turning over
a lead of twenty yards to Haskell, the second
Bowdoin runner. From start to finish the
race was all Bowdoin. A distance nearly as
great as that from Brunswick, Me., to Med-
ford, separated them at the finish." The time
made by the team was three minutes, thirteen
and two-fifths seconds. The men who made
the trip were Coach Morrill, Manager Cedric
R. Crowell, '13; Capt. Robert D. Cole, 'i2;
Charles B. Haskell, Jr., '13; George L. Skol-
field, Jr., '13; Curtis Tuttle, '13; Edmund Wil-
son, '12, alternate; and Carl B. Timberlake,
'12, who ran in the handicap mile. The team
stopped at the Hotel Brunswick and several of
the graduates were there to speak to the boys.
his subject being Translation. Then, in turn,
come Prof. Mitchell — Oration; Prof. Davis —
Short Story; Prof. Files — Drama; Prof.
Chapman — Essay; and Prof. Sills — Verse.
Probably this is the largest staff of teachers
ever engaged in giving a single college course.
A NEW COURSE IN ENGLISH
In response to a petition from the students,
a new course in Advanced English Composi-
tion has been established. It will be conducted
by six professors, each taking charge for a
period of work in one form of literature.
Each professor will hold several exercises
with the class in his special subject and at the
end of the work the entire group of professors
will meet the class to criticize the work done
by it in that subject. The class is limited to
men who have already shown some ability' in
writing. The applicants for admission to the
course were required to present something
which they had written as evidence of their fit-
ness to take the course.
From the seventeen competitors who
sought for admission to the course, the follow-
ing six were chosen: Charles F. Adams, '12,
Auburn; Eugene F. Bradford, '12, of Ban-
gor; Philip P. Cole, '12, of Bath; Arthur
D. Welch, '12, of Portland; Edward O. Baker,
'13, of North Adams, Mass., and Alfred IT.
Sweet, '13, Portland. Prof. Johnson will have
charge of the course for the first two weeks.
NEW TRACK COACH
Captain Robert D. Cole, '12, announced
Monday afternoon, that he had secured Wil-
liam F. ("Fish") Marsh, the well-known
Boston track athlete, to coach the track team
■"this spring. Negotiations have been carried
on for some time with Mr. Marsh, but it was
not until last Saturday, while Captain Cole
was in Boston with the relay team, that he was
able to secure his signature to the contract.
Mr. Marsh has a wide reputation as a track
athlete and all-around star. Among his other
records is one of six feet in the high jump.
He has had considerable experience in the
coaching line, having spent a year as
coach at Iowa State University, besides
several years which he has spent train-
ing preparatory school teams. Some years
ago he had charge of the Kent's Hill track
team. He comes to Bowdoin highly recom-
mended by Coach Kanaly of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology track team, ana Dy
John Rjrder of the Boston Athletic Association.
According to his contract, Mr. Marsh will
arrive in Brunswick on or about March i, and
will begin upon his duties at once. The first
event of the track season this year will be the
annual indoor meet, which will come on Mar.
22. The first work of the new coach will be
to train the men for this contest. Bowdoin is
facing a difficult proposition this year in track
and is exceedingly fortunate in securing a man
of the caliber of "Fish" Alarsh to look after
her track team.
RESULT OF PRIZE SPEAKING CONTEST
In the '68 Prize Speaking, which was held
Thursday evening, January 25, in Memorial
ITall, the prize was awarded to Arthur Deehan
Welch, who spolce on "The Irish Drama."
Eugene Francis Bradford received honorable
mention. Music was furnished by Lovell's
Orchestra.
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HILAND LOCKWOOD FAIRBANKS PRIZE AWARDED
At a meeting of the debating council, held
last Tuesday evening, Burleigh Gushing Ro-
dick, 'i2, of Freeport, was announced the win-
ner of the Hiland Lockwood Fairbanks prize
for excellence in debating. The prize was to
be awarded to the member of the advanced
course in debating who should be elected best
speaker the greatest number of times at the
several debates during the course. The win-
ner received five such votes in the course of
the year, as against three and one-half for his
nearest competitor.
MUSICAL CLUBS READY
The Musical Clubs have been rounded into
form and will be ready for the opening con-
cert on February 20th, at Freeport. Prof. E.
W. Wass of Augusta, who has been coaching
the Glee Glub, says that in his opinion both
clubs are better than any of recent years. The
opening song for all the concerts is Dean Sills'
"Rise, Sons of Bowdoin." Prof. Burnett has
recently written new music for the song and
the club will use it as a feature.
The following men have been picked as the
final members of the clubs:
Glee Club
George A. Tibbetts, '12, Leader
First Tenor— G. A. Tibbetts, '12; A. D.
Welch, '12; W. F. Twombly, '13; C. O. Page,
'13; E. F. Wilson, '14.
Second Tenor — H. C. L. Ashey, '12; C. D.
Skillin, '12; S. West, '15; F. P. McKenney,
'15-
First Bass—S. J. Marsh,'i2; J. H. Newell,
'12; C. B. Haskell, Jr., '13; L. W. Smith, '13.
Second Bass — K. Churchill, '12; C. F. Ea-
ton, '14; W. E. Mason, Jr., '14; R. A. Monroe,
'14; Accompanists, C. F. Adams, '12; W. F.
Twombly, '13.
Mandolin Club
George F. Cressey, '12, Leader
First Mandolin — G. F. Cressey, '12; P. C.
Savage, '13; B. D. Holt, '13; R. O. Conant,
'13 ; E. S. Thompson, '14; H. A. Barton, '14.
Second Mandolin — W. J. Greenleaf, '12;
G. L. Skolfield, '13; H. D. Gilbert, '13; C. B.
Haskell, Jr., '13; E. A. Nason, '14.
Mandola — J. PL McKenney, '12; G. H.
Nichols, '12.
Guitar — K. Qiurchill, '12; L. A. Crosby,
'13-
Mando-'Cello — W. E. Mason, '14.
Cornet — ^J. H. Newell, '12.
'CelloSR. E. Mason, '14.
Reader — A. D. Welch, '12.
Manager Ashey, '12, has arranged the fol-
lowing schedule, which opens at Freeport next
Tuesday evening. The annual Maine trip be-
gins on the 26th of this month and the trip to
Massachusetts will begin just before the open-
ing of the Easter vacation. The complete
schedule is as follows :
Feb. 20 — Freeport.
Feb. 21 — Bath.
Feb. 26 — Bangor.
Feb. 27 — Oldtown.
Feb. 28 — Fairfield.
Feb. 29 — Skowhegan.
Mar. I— Hallowell.
Mar. 5 — Richmond.
Mar. 8 — Lewiston (joint concert with
Bates. )
Mar. 12— Portland.
Mar. 23 — Brunswick.
Mar. 27 — Saco.
Mar. 28 — Pending.
Mar. 29 — Reading.
Mar. 30 — Boston.
STATE CONFERENCE AT ORONO
The Annual Conference of Colleges and
Preparatory Schools in the State of Maine is
held this week, Feb. 16, 17, 18, at Orono with
the University of Maine.
Nearly 300 delegates are expected to at-
tend and an excellent program has been pre-
pared which will be printed in detail next
week. Among the speakers are David R.
Porter, '06, Harrison S. Elliott, of the Inter-
national Committee, James L. McConaughy,
and A. G. Cushman, General Secretary at
Bates. The Conference opens with a banquet
Friday night at Oldtown, given by the busi-
ness men of that place. The other sessions
are to be held at the University and include
conferences on Bible Study, Mission Study,
and Social Service and addresses by the dif-
ferent leaders.
Bowdoin will be represented by about 30
men.
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THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WILLIAM A. MacCORMICK, igi2, Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
ASSOCIATE Editors
W. R. SPINNEY. 1912
L. E. JONES. 1913
V. R. LEAVITT. 1913
F. D. WISH. Jr., 1913
H. C. L. ASHEY, igi2
H. B. WALKER, 1913
R. D. LEIGH. 1914
D. K. MERRILL. 1914
K. A. ROBINSON. 1914
R. E. SIMPSON. 1914
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Vol. XLI.
FEBRUARY 16, 1912
The Right
Combination
Although the college
smoker is a thing of the
past, it is worthy of a
resurrection and passing notice. The whole
affair, which was in the hands of the Student
Council, brought out many interesting points
in regard to the way in which undergraduate
affairs are managed in Bowdoin. In the first
place, the smoker showed that as an under-
graduate governing 'body, the Council is alive
to the issues of interest to the whole student
body. " Through organizations similar to the
present Student Council the "blanket-tax" idea
was conceived and partially worked out. It
was the fortune of the Council now in power
to be able to present the plan which seemed
best suited to meet Bowdoin's present condi-
tions.
In the second place, the spirit of co-opera-
tion which was manifested between the Stu-
dent Council and the student body in bringing
the matter to a decision, deserves commenda-
tion. This attitude on the part of the under-
graduates expresses not only their apprecia-
tion of the Council's efforts, tut also the value
of such a Council as an undergraduate govern-
ing body The unanimous adoption of the
"tax" proved beyond a doubt that the plan is
one which seems to bring a solution of the
poor financial system controlling collegiate or-
ganizations which exists at the present time.
We do not mean to say that the mere adop-
tion of the "blanket-tax" will materially im-
prove conditions. It does, however, give a
basis for the Student Council to work on and
with the support of the student body a clear
and concise plan should be put into operation
next fall.
For a combination of business and pleasure,
in both of which the real Bowdoin spirit was
evident, the first smoker of the year was a
grand success. The Council deserves con-
gratulations for its efforts in making the cele-
bration a memorable one, and the student body
deserves praise for the spirit of appreciation
and co-operation which it displayed in its
unanimous action.
Congratulations, to the
A Good Start coach, captain and mem-
bers of the relay team ! Not
only did the team easily defeat its opponent
and gain a victory for the White, but it showed
its worth by making excellent time in the race.
With such a beginning the track situation
should take on a brighter aspect. This team
furnishes a nucleus for a whole track team to
be built around. As was brought out in the
discussion which took place at the smoker, it is
essential that we begin at once to make a team.
In less than two weeks the new coach will
be here to take full charge of all track men.
But it is not necessary to wait that long be-
fore trying out for the work. Every day of
practice which can be spent now will count for
much more when the time for actual trial
comes. Now is the right time to report for
preliminary training and Bowdoin should have
a large squad out working for her track team.
With a number of men backing up the work
done by the relay team, Bowdoin will get a
good start in the spring fight coming to Whit-
tier Field.
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SUNDAY CHAPEL
In the last Sunday chapel exercise of last
semester, President Hyde spoke of his recent
visits to the Bowdoin Alumni Associations in
various cities. He said that these associa-
tions had been growing rapidly in late years
and that they were holding regular meetings,
sometimes as often as once a week. Presi-
dent Hyde spoke of the interest which these
associations are taking in college affairs, and
the pleasure it gave him to be able to tell them
what an earnest, hard-working, interested lot
of young men there is in college at the present
time.
NATURE LECTURE IN MEMORIAL HALL
Professor Dallas Lore Sharp of Boston Univer-
sity has secured distinction in two lines of work, —
as a writer of nature essays with a charm of style,
marked humor, and philosophic turn, and as a
teacher of English Composition who is able not only
to criticize uncompromisingly the work, but also to
inspire the enthusiasm of his students. In his ad-
vanced course in English he has already had con-
tributions from his pupils accepted by the Atlantic
Monthly. He was himself ''launched" by the At-
lantic under the editorship of Bliss Perry and has
become one of its popular contributors. His pub-
lished volumes are "Wild Life Near Nome," "Roof
and Meadow," "The Lay of the Land," and "The
Face -of the Field." From the latter he will read
selected parts of essays before the Saturday Club,
in co-operation with the college to-night, Feb. l6, in
Memorial Hall. The reading is free to students.
.'Ks a naturalist, John Burroughs has placed Mr.
Sharp at the head of the many recent nature writers,
and as a master of the essay form he has an espe-
cial appeal to lovers of literary charm. Three essays
which appeared originally in the Atlantic and at-
tracted much attention, are "The Scarcity of
Skunks," "Turtle Eggs for Agassiz" and "The Dust-
less Duster." He has been compared with Thoreau,
with Hazlitt, even with Charles Lamb because of that
remarkable power of drawing the reader into sym-
pathy with his mood of rambling or reflective dis-
course.
Mr. Sharp is a graduate of Brown and a member
of Alpha Delta Phi.
AN ORTHOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF THE QUILL
In view of the statement in the Gray Goose
Tracks Department of the January Quill, anent
Orients without mistakes, the Orient has under-
taken an investigation of this number of the Quill
and here presents the results.
Page 2, bottom line, "geniune" for genuine.
Page 8, line lO, the spelling of "vigour" is not
consistent with the spelling of "humor," page 13,
line 27.
Page 8, line 20, "pityful" for pitiful.
Page 8, line 34, "dialogued" for dialogue.
Page II, line i, "shape" for shapes.
Page II, line 15, incorrect insertion of comma
after "jesting."
Page 13, line lo, disagreement of subject and
predicate of sentence.
Page 13, bottom line, incorrect insertion of quo-
tation marks.
Page 14, line 2, incorrect omission of comma after
"true."
Page IS, line 2, "bien" for rien.
Page IS, line 6, "in in" for in.
Page 17, line 22, the spelling of "theatre'' is in-
consistent with the spelling of the same word on
page 20, line 12.
Page 20, hue 28, the direct quotation should be-
gin with a capital.
Page 22, bottom line, inversion of question mark
and punctuation marks at end of sentence.
Page 23, line 3 of editorial heading, "Bvsiness"
for Business.
Page 24, line 4, incorrect punctuation after
"heroes."
Page 2S, line I of title, "Proceedings" for Pro-
ceedings.
Page 26, line 26, preferably "less" for least.
Page 27, line I, incorrect omission of quotation
marks before "turn."
Page 28, line 24, "remaked" for remarked.
Page 30, line 14, "he" for be.
Page 31, line IS, "not not" for not.
ALUMNI MEET IN NEW YORK AND BOSTON
The Bowdoin College Alumni Association of
New York City and vicinity held its forty-second
annual meeting and banquet at the Hotel Mar-
tinique, New York City, Friday evening, Jan. 26th.
W. C. Merryman, '82, was elected President of the
Association ; Joseph B. Roberts, '95, Secretary, and
Harrison Atwood, '09, Treasurer, for the coming
year. Among the speakers were President WilKam
DeWitt Hyde and Prof. James L. McConaughy.
Most of the speakers congratulated the Class of '57
for their achievements and for their coming fifty-
fifth anniversary. There are eleven survivors of this
class. A poem, "Vivat Bowdoin," written especially
for this dinner by Isaac Bassett Choate, '62, was
read.
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One hundred and seventy-five loyal graduates of
Bowdoin gathered at the American House on Tues-
day evening, Feb. 6, for the 44th annual reunion of
the Boston Alumni Association. Representatives of
classes ranging from 1848 to 1912 were present. D.
O. S. Lowell, the retiring president of the associa-
tion, was toastmaster, and Jotham B. Sewall, '48,
the oldest living graduate present, was the first
speaker. The other s-peakers were Pres. Hyde, Prof.
Mitchell, Donald B. McMillan, '98, describing his
plans for Polar exploration during the next two
years, "Jack" Hurley, '12, bringing the greetings of
the undergraduate body, Dr. Samuel F. Cole, '74,
Edward Stanwood, '61, and Prof. Lunt, '04.
Among the others at the head of the table were
Thomas F. Moses, 'S7, John F. Eliot, '72, James A.
Howe, 'S9, S. B. Carter, '66, and Dr. Myles Standish,
'75, the president-elect of the association. Other offi-
cers- for the coming year are John F. Eliot, '72, arid
Edwin U. Curtis, '82, vice-presidents ; Alfred B.
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White, '98, secretary ; Thomas L. Pierce, '98, assist-
ant secretary; William D. Stockbridge, '99, treas-
urer ; Dwight R. Pennell, '98. chorister ; WilUam I.
Cole, Edward E. Goding, J. Everett Hicks, John C.
Minot, Ellis Spear, Jr., George C. Purington, Jr.,
and George F. Hyde, executive committee.
CollcQC Botes
Y. m. C. A. NOTES
A Cabinet meeting was held on Thursday night
at the Beta Theta Pi House. Mr. Harrison S. El-
liott, Secretary of the International Committee, was
present. The usual reports of committees were given
and plans made for the delegation at the Conference.
The final Bible Study report for this year has
been made up. There were 17 classes, 7 in the Life
of Christ, 6 in the Social Significance of Jesus'
Teachings, and 4 in Men of the Old Testament.
The total enrollment was 141 with an average at-
tendance of 86.
Those who have books out from the loan library
will please return them to the Secretary's ofBce.
The list of books available is posted in the reading-
room of the library and those desiring books for this
semester should apply at once.
It is requested that all subscriptions be paid at
once as it is desirable to have the bills paid before
the end of the year in March.
CALENDAR
Friday, February 16
8.00 Author's Reading by Professor Dallas Lore
Sharpe, of Boston University, in Memorial
Hall, under the auspices of the Saturday Club.
Sunday, February 18
10.45 Morning Service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
5.00 Sunday chapel conducted by President Hyde.
Monday, February 19
7.00 Normal class meets in Hubbard Hall.
8.00 Meeting of the St. Paul's Church Men's Club
at the house 'of Mr. W. P. Purington, Tops-
ham.
Tuesday^ February 20
8joo Second Annie Talbot Cole Lecture : "Ro-
mance and Reaction" by Bliss Perry, LL.D.,
Professor of English Literature in Harvard
University.
Thursday, February 22
Washington's Birthday: a Holiday.
Friday, February 23
'3.30 Second College Tea. Hubbard Hall.
O. T. Sanborn, '10, was on the campus a short
time ago.
"Bill" Merrill, the janitor of Appleton Hall, is
seriously ill.
The Orient Board sat for its picture at Webber's
studio, yesterday afternoon.
Carl Hawes, '11, and Arthur Cole, '11, have been
on the campus for a few days.
A squad of men is practising for the Freshman
Relay Team under Capt. Smith.
Shintaro Iwasaki, a Japanese student from Ban-
gor Theological Seminary, has entered college.
Prof. Sills is planning to spend part of next year
abroad. He will visit England, Italy, and Greece.
The preliminary trials for the Bradbury Debating
Prizes took place yesterday afternoon in Memorial
Hall.
Prof. Alvord attended the meeting of the Maine
Society of Civil Engineers in Lewiston, Wednesday,
Feb. 7-
Among the recent visitors to the college were
Dean Porter of Clark University, and Professor
Gould of Bates.
President Hyde was present at the annual dinner
of the Bowdoin Alumni Association of Maine, given J
in Portland, recently.
George C. Wheeler, Esq., Bowdoin, '01, was re-
cently appointed referee in bankruptcy for Cumber-
land and York counties.
W. A. MacCormick, '12, President of the Y. M.
C. A., recently occupied the pulpit at the Congrega-
tional Church of Hallowell.
^ Arthur Welch, '12, is to be interlocutor in the
minstrel show which is to be given by the Alpha Phi
fraternity in Portland next Saturday.
E. E. Weeks, '12, has completed his college course
and has accepted a position as teacher of sciences
in Rockville High School in Connecticut.
Prof. Hutchins lectured before the Jordan
Scientific Society of Bates College last Monday
night on "The Light Effects in the Atmosphere."
Madame Nazimova, the Russian actress, is to ap-
pear in "The Marionettes," the new Pierre Wolff
comedy, at the Empire Theatre, Lewiston, Feb. 26.
The first concert of the Musical Clubs will be
given in Freeport, Tuesday evening, Feb. 20. On
the following evening a concert will be given in
Bath.
Quite a number of former Bowdoin track athletes
were at the B. A. A. Meet Saturday night. Among
them were Harrison Atwood, '09, Edwards, '10, and
Cary, 'lo.
Judge Harrie L. Webber, '03, of the Municipal
Court of Auburn, has prepared a book of conven-
ient size to carry in the pocket, containing the auto-
mobile laws of Maine.
The annual banquet of the Bowdoin Alumni
Association of Washington, D. C, is to be held
sometime between Feb. IS and 22. The college will
be represented by Dean Sills.
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Palmer Straw, ex-'ii, has returned to college.
Prof. George D. Chase of the University of
Maine, lectured before the Classical Club, Thursday
evening, Feb. 15.
Prof. Chapman, who fractured his arm by slip-
ping upon the ice, is getting along well and expects
to be able to take his classes in a few days.
The New York Sunday Times has added a new
feature in the form of a section which is given up
to college news. W. A. MacCormick, '12, is the
correspondent from Bowdoin.
A portrait of Prof. Hutchins by Miss Mary N.
Richardson has been loaned to the college and
hangs in the Boyd Gallery of the Art Building. The
painting is a most excellent likeness of Prof.
Hutchins.
A week from to-night, Feb. 23, at eight o'clock,
the Second Junior Assembly will be held in Memo-
rial Hall. Tickets may be obtained from the com-
mittee at $1.25 a couple. It is hoped that a large
number will be present.
President Hyde had an article in the New York
Sunday Times Feb. 4, on the "Making of a College"
in which several interesting statements about Bow-
doin were made. In the article were included pic-
tures of the Art Building and Hubbard Hall.
The annual joint banquet of the Colby and Bow-
doin Chapters of Zeta Psi Fraternity will be held
at the Augusta House on Tuesday evening, Feb. 20.
It is expected that a large number of alumni will
be present.
The second College Tea given by the ladies of
the faculty will be held on next Friday afternoon,
Feb. 23. Students wishing invitations sent to
friends will please leave their cards with Miss
Boardman at the Library.
The New England Student Members of the Epis-
copal Church are holding their Tenth Annual Con-
ference at Harvard this week. To-morrow morn-
ing Lowell S. Foote, '12, will be one of the speakers.
Dean Sills is a member of the committee in charge
of the Convention.
Saturday evening, Feb. 3, Professor W. B.
Mitchell spoke in the Unitarian Church before the
Saturday Club and the pubHc on "Wordsworth's
Country" and illustrated his talk with pictures ob-
tained last summer in England. The pictures were
put upon the screen by Professor Hutchins.
Professor Allen Johnson, of Yale, and formerly
of Bowdoin, read a highly instructive and interesting
paper on "The Winning of the National Domain" in
New Haven on the evening of Feb. 2, before the
General David Humphreys Branch, No. I, Connecti-
cut Society, Sons of the American Revolution.
According to the Portland Express, Gordon P.
Floyd, 'is, holds the joint world's record with an
Iowa City high school lad for the school-boy match
target shooting. The record was made last April
when Floyd representing Deering High School shot
gg off hand and 96 prone in a match against the
Harry Hillman Academy of Wilkesbarre, Pa. In a
previous match against Ogden High , Floyd shot 193.
Bowdoin's Freshman world's record holder was not
aware of his honor until so informed by the paper
notice. "Floyd is a Portland boy," the Express
adds.
By the will of Alniira K. Hasty, late of Port-
land, who died Jan. 17, $1,000 is left the trustees of
Bowdoin College to establish a scholarship to be
known as the "Hasty Scholarship Fund." The will
asks that in the awarding of this scholarship, stu-
dents who are residents of Portland or Cape Eliza-
beth, are to be preferred.
After the personal legacies have been paid the
residue of the estate to be created into a trust
fund from which the public bequests are taken and
the balance made into what is to be called the "Elihu
Hasty Fund" for the use of the Medical School of
Maine. One-third of the income from this fund is
for the immediate use of the Medical School and the
income of the remaining two-thirds shall be allowed
to accumulate until it has reached $50,000, when the
entire income is to be used and expended for the
purposes of the Medical School.
Willis E. Roberts, '07, has been authorized by
Gov. Plaisted to organize a military company in
Brunswick to take the place of the loth Company,
C. A.c. which was disbanded early in the winter. A
petition signed by nearly 100 men and indorsed by
another, headed by President Hyde and signed by 64
business men and property owners, was presented.
The Philippian Club has been recently re-organ-
ized, consisting of the men who have come to Bow-
doin from Andover and Exeter. There are about
fifteen members among whom is President Hyde.
The following officers were elected : John L. Hur-
ley, '12, of Maiden, Mass., president; Harry P.
Faulkner, '15, of Boston, Mass., vice-president; Wil-
liam B. Williamson, '15, of Augusta, secretary; and
John Heywood, '14, of Gardiner, Mass., treasurer.
The annual dinner of the Bowdoin Alumni Asso-
ciation of Maine took place in Portland on Satur-
day, Feb. 3d. An important feature was the ad-
dress given by Donald B. MacMillan, '98, who spoke
relative to the trips which have been made toward,
and the one to the North Pole during the past 400
years. He also spoke of the preparations which are
being made for a trip north which is to start next
July and will probably take three years to complete.
President William DeWitt Hyde was the first
speaker of the evening, and his topic was "College
Life and Work." Other speakers were Hon. Wil-
liam L. Putnam, '55, Hon. Clarence Hale, '69, and
George C. Wheeler, '01.
Dr. Bliss Perry, the Annie Talbot Cole Lecturer
for this year, was born in Williamstown, Mass.,
Nov. 25, i860. He received the degree of A.B. in
1881 and A.M. in 1883 from Williams College ; stud-
ied at Berlin and Strasburg Universities ; received
the degree of L.H.D. from Princeton in 1900 and
Williams in 1902; Litt.D. from Bowdoin in 1904;
and LL.D. from Wake Forest in 1906. Dr. Perry
was Professor of English at Williams from 1886 to
1893 ; at Princeton from 1893 to igoo and is now
Professor of English Literature at Harvard, and a
trustee of Williams College. Among the books
edited by him are "Selections from Burke," Scott's
"Woodstock" and "Ivanhoe," "Little Masterpieces"
"Cambridge Editions of the Poets." He is also the
author of many widely known books, among which
are "The Broughton House," "Salem Kitteredge
and Other Stories," "The Plated City," "The Powers
at Play," "A Study of Prose Fiction," "The Ama-
teur Spirit," "Walt Whitman" and "Whittier."
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The coming together of Bowdoin and Trinity
in athletic relations next fall was made the text for
a very gracious tribute to Bowdoin at the annual
dinner of the Trinity alumni in Boston February i.
At the request of the Trinity men a representative
of the Bowdoin Alumni Association of Boston at-
tended the dinner as their guest, and John Clair
Minot, '96, was chosen for this honor. He was the
only outsider present and was one of the three
speakers after the banquet. There were hearty cheers
for Bowdoin, led by President Luther of Trinity,
who recalled that one of his predecessors in the
presidency of Trinity, Daniel Raynes Goodwin, was
a Bowdoin graduate of the Class of 1832. About 50
Trinity men attended the dinner, and a good share
of them pledged themselves to visit Bowdoin when
Trinity plays on the former's home grounds.
RESOLUTIONS
Hall of Theta, Delta Kappa Epsilon,
January 31, igi2.
The recent death of Joseph Newell Whitney, of
the Class of 1864, has removed from Theta's roll the
name of another of its honored alumni, and has de-
prived our nation of a most faithful servant. En-
tering Bowdoin in 1859, Brother Whitney had
scarcely half completed his course at the outbreak
of the Civil War. With three other members of
his delegation, he enlisted at once in the Union army
and served his country for four years, — nearly half
of which time was spent in Confederate prisons. He
was discharged from the military service in 1865
with the rank of first lieutenant, and immediately
entered the employ of the Treasury Department at
Washington. On the establishment of the Bureau of
Statistics Brother Whitney was given a position in
that branch of the work and after ten years became
chief clerk of the department. For thirty-two years
he faithfully performed the duties of his office, re-
signing finally only because of ill health.
Brother Whitney's entire life was spent in the
loyal service of the country. His death is a loss
both to the nation he honored and to the fraternity he
loved. In behalf of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Theta
we extend our sincere sympathy to his family and
express to the public our deep appreciation of the
life and work of a true Deke.
Robert Danforth Cole,
Laurence Alden Crosby,
Alfred Everett Gray,
For the Chapter.
Georgia and Florida for a short time. Later
he took up tlie study of medicine and was
graduated from the Jeiiferson Medical College
in Philadelphia. He began practice in Bidde-
ford in 1844 and remained until 1855, when he
went to Waldoboro, remaining there three
years. In 1858, he returned to his home
town, Gorham, where he has lived ever since.
He served as paymaster in the army from
1861 to 1865, and was brevetted lieutenant col-
onel. He was a member of the state legisla-
ture for ten years and was speaker of the
House during the sessions of 1872 and 1876;
he was a state senator in 1866-7 ! he was gov-
ernor from 1883 to 1887. Mr. Robie was
prominent in the Grange, being State Master
eight years.
In spite of his advanced age, Mr. Robie
had continued his business activities up to a
few weeks ago. He was President of the First
National Bank of Portland, director of the
Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, and
President of the Dirigo Fire Insurance Com-
pany of Maine; in 1899, he served as com-
mander of the Department of Maine, Grand
Army of the Republic, and was President of
the Board of Trustees of the Insane Hospital
of Maine for eighteen years.
In every branch of work which Mr. Robie
entered, he did his best and was rewarded with
the success which followed. In politics, Mr.
Robie enjoyed particular success, serving the
state in various positions and through a long
period of years. Mr. Robie was a forceful
speaker and had a way of going straight at the
heart of the discussion.
As a doctor and as a business man, Mr.
Robie was characterized by the same earnest-
ness and zeal. He was always attentive to his
work and perfectly thorough in the perform-
ance of his duties. He kept himself up with
the times and still irmintained his deep interest
in the politics of the state.
As the last of a generation of great politi-
cal leaders, Mr. Robie was truly the "Grand
Old Man of Maine."
Hlumni Bepavtment
'41. — Former Governor Frederick Robie
died at his home in Gorham, Maine, on the
morning of Feb. 2. He was in his ninetieth
year and had been in failing health for some
time. He was prominent in business affairs
in Portland, and only a few weeks ago retired
from the presidency of the First National
Bank in that city.
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, FEBRUARY 23, 1912
VOL. XL!
NO. 26
PROVISIONAL COMMENCEMENT APPOINTMENTS
The list of provisional appointments for
commencement parts has been announced.
From this number, six men will be chosen by
competition to deliver their parts at Com-
mencement, and to one of these the Goodwin
Prize will be awarded. The list is as follows :
Charles Francis Adams of Auburn ; James
Bailey Allen of Mt. Desert; Harold Augustus
Andrews of East Conway, N. H. ; Meredith
Bodine Auten of Cass City, Mich. ; Eugene
Francis Bradford of Bangor ; Lester Lodge
Bragdon of Wells; Kenneth Churchill of
Newtonville, Mass. ; Robert Danforth Cole of
Portland; Edward Weston Kent of Bre-
men ; Seward Joseph Marsh of Farmington ;
John Arnett Mitchell of Gallipolis, O. ; Ed-
ward Longworth Morss of Medford, Mass. ;
Ellison Smullen Purington of Mechanic
Falls ; Carl Billings Timberlake of Lancaster,
N. H. ; Harold Perry V^annah of Winslow's
Mills ; Carl Orestes Warren of Gorham ; Rich-
ard Eraser White of Brunswick; and Edward
Wadsworth Torrey of Peabody, Mass.
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED
Monday it was announced that the Charles
Carroll Everett Scholarship, which is awarded
to the member of .the graduating class whom
the President and Trustees shall deem the
best qualified to take a post-graduate course in
either this or some other country, has been
awarded to Ellison Smullen Purington of Me-
chanic Falls. He expects to study Physics,
either at Columbia or Harvard.
It was also announced that the Henry W.
Longfellow Graduate Scholarship has been
awarded to Eugene Francis Bradford of Ban-
gor. He will probably pursue his graduate
work at Harvard.
BRADBURY DEBATE TRIALS
The first step in the trials for the two
teams which will represent Bowdoin in the
Triangular Debating League was taken
Thursday afternoon, Feb. 15.
Two teams were chosen, one of which will
debate on Feb. 28 and the other on March 1st.
From these teams will be chosen six men, who
will debate in the intercollegiate debates. The
judges were Professor W. B. Catlin, Principal
H. E. Cole of Morse High School, and Mr.
Samuel L. Forsaith. The following men were
picked to debate Feb. 28 : Affirmative, Greene,
'13; Rodick, '12; Simpson, '14; Andrews, '12,
alternate. Negative, Eberhardt, '13; Gage,
'14; Spinney, '12; Mathews, '12, alternate.
The following men will debate March ist:
Affirmative, Douglas, '13; Locke, '12; Wish,
'13; Timberlake, '12, alternate. Negative,
Emery, '13; Maloney, '12; Norton, '13;
Hughes, '12, alternate. The question which
was debated and which will be debated in the
Triangular League, is as follows :
Resolved, That the United States should
adopt a uniform, compulsory workingmen's
compensation act applicable to industrial em-
ployments.
TRACK SCHEDULE
Cedric R. Crowell, '13, of Richmond Hill,
N. Y., manager of the track team, has an-
nounced the following schedule of track
events.
March 22 — Indoor Meet at Brunswick.
May 1 1 — Maine Intercollegiate Track
Meet at Brunswick.
May 17 and 18 — New England Intercolle-
giate Track Meet at Springfield, Mass.
May 24 and 25 — Eastern Intercollegiate
Track Meet at place to be determined later.
May 25 — Bowdoin Invitation Interscholas-
tic Meet at Brunswick.
CLASSICAL CLUB MEETING
An unusually large number attended the
last meeting of the Classical Club, which was
held Thursday evening, Feb. 15, at the Psi
Upsilon House. Prof. Chase of Maine spoke
to the club on "A Comparison of the Roman
Republic and Our Own," describing the
causes of the downfall of the Roman Republic
and tendencies which might lead to the same
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result in our own Republic. He took, how-
ever, a very optimistic view with regard to
these tendencies. A general discussion of the
subject followed Prof. Chase's talk and re-
freshments were served. The next meeting
of the club will be held March 5 at the Theta
Delta Chi House.
THE SECOND COLE LECTURE
As the subject of the second Annie Talbot
Cole lecture, Tuesday evening, Dr. Bliss
Perry took "Romance and Reaction." He
spoke in part as follows with regard to the
vitality of American Romance :
■'American history has been marked by cer-
tain great romantic passions that seem en-
dowed with indestructible vitality. The ro-
mance of discovery, the fascination of the
forest and sea, the sense of danger and mys-
tery once aroused by the very word 'redskin'
have all moulded the national imagination.
There is no diminution of interest in the ro-
mance of adventure, in the stories of hunter
and trapper, in the journals of Lewis and
Qark, in the narratives of Boone and Crock-
ett. In writing his superb romances of the
northern lakes, the prairie and the sea, Feni-
more Cooper had merely to bring to an artistic
focus, sentiments that lay deep in the souls of
the great mass of his American readers. 'Play-
ing Indian' has been immensely significant,
not merely in stimulating the outdoor activity
of generations of American boys, but in teach-
ing them the importance of the pioneer quali-
ties of observation, resourcefulness, courage
and endurance. Even when the Indian has
been succeeded by the cowboy the spirit of ro-
mance still lingers, as any collection of cowboy
ballads will abundantly prove. And when the
cowboys pass and the real estate dealers take
possession of the field, one is tempted to say
that romance flourishes more than ever.
The West means simply the retreating
horizon, the beckoning finger of opportunity.
Like Boston, it is not so much a place as a
state of mind. Some Eldorado has always been
beckoning to the more adventurous spirits on
American soil. The passion of the forty-
niner neither began nor ended with the discov-
ery of gold in California. It is within us. It
transmutes the harsh or drab-colored everyday
routine into tissue of fairyland. It makes our
'winning of the West' a magnificent national
epic. It changes to-day the black belt of
Texas, or the wheat fields of Dakota, into pots
of gold that lie at the end of rainbows, only
that the pot of gold is actually there. The
human hunger of it all, the gorgeous dream-
like quality of it all, the boundlessness of the
vast American spaces, the sense of forest and-
prairie and sky, are all inexplicably blended
with the notion of the ideal American. Henry
James once tried to explain the difference be-
tween Turgenief and a typical French novelist
by saying that the back door of the Russian's
imagination was always open upon the endless
Russian Steppes. No one can understand the
spirit of American romance if he is not con-
scious of this ever-present 'hinterland' in
which our spirits have, from the beginning
taken refuge and found solace."
Tuesday evening, Feb. 27, Dr. Perry will
give the third and last of his lectures. His
subject will be "Humor and Satire."
ANNUAL RECEPTION AND DANCE OF DELTA
KAPPA EPSILON
Friday afternoon and evening, Feb. 16, the
Bowdoin chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon held
its annual reception and dance at their house
on Maine Street. The house was beautifully
decorated for the occasion with evergreen and
cut flowers. About 300 guests were present
at the reception, which was held from 3.30 to
5.30 P.M. In the receiving line were Mrs.
William E. Twombly of Reading, Mass., Mrs.
George L. Skolfield, and Mrs. George T. Lit-
tle of Brunswick. Refreshments, consisting
of sherbet, punch, fancy crackers, and cake,
were served by Mrs. Hartley C. Baxter, Mrs.
Henry Johnson, Mrs. Roscoe J. Ham, and
Mrs. George C. Brooks. Kendrie's Orches-
tra of Brunswick, played throughout the
afternoon and for an order of twenty-four
dances in the evening. Dancing began at
8.30 and continued until long after midnight.
About sixty couples were present at the dance,
of which Mrs. Twombly and Mrs. Skolfield
were the patronesses. At intermission re-
freshments of salad, rolls, ice-cream, cake and
coffee were served by Pooler of Portland.
Among the guests were Misses Elizabeth
Sullivan, Pauline Savage, Marion White, Ha-
zel Savage, Beatrice Mudgett, Leola Coombs,
and Rebecca Harding of Bangor; Marion
Keith of Oldtown; Geneva Hinch of Dan-
forth; Nell Davis of Guilford; Jennie Means,
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Margaret Starbird, Frances Grossman, Anna
Milliken, Rachel Marble, Ada Sawyer, Elean-
or Wescott, and Evelyn Edwards of Portland ;
Ellen Baxter and Gertrude Sadler of Bruns-
wick ; Gladys Umberhine of Topsham ; Helen
Coombs of Minneapolis, Minn. ; Sally Ed-
munds of Lynchburg, Va. ; Katharine Torrey
of Bath; Sarah Snow of Skowhegan; Edith
Flynn and Josephine Flynn of Lawrence,
Mass. ; Sarah Gole of South Portland ; Lora
Standish and Barbara Standish of Boston;
Mrs. Tessa Gibson of Houlton ; Mrs. George
C. Brooks of Brunswick. The delegates from
other fraternities were: H. C. L. Ashey, "12,
from Alpha Delta Phi; Loring Pratt, '12,
from Psi Upsilon ; C. R. Chapman, '12, from
Zeta Psi; A. D. Welch, "12, from Theta Delta
Chi; E. F. Bragdon, '12, from Delta Upsilon;
L. E. Jones, '13, from Kappa Sigma; J. H.
Newell, '12, from Beta Theta Pi; R. A. Har-
low, Colby, '12, from the Colby Chapter
of Delta Kappa Epsilon. The committee in
charge consisted of Gray, '12, Simpson, '12,
and Twombly, '13.
NEW COLLEGE SONGS
The following is an extract from a letter
written by David W. Snow, '73, of Portland,
and published in the Orient of April 29,
1910. Mr. Snow writes: "I wish Bowdoin
would introduce the custom which exists in
some other colleges, of musical contests. Bow-
doin needs new college songs, needs them
badly, and a custom of this kind would serve
to bring out whatever musical ability there is
in the college or in its alumni. In a college
which I have in mind each class produces two
songs and at a fixed date each year the classes
meet and there is a friendly contest, each class
singing its song. The songs are not class
songs, but are college songs. At this contest
a musical committee decides which class has
the best song and a cup is given to the class,
with a small financial prize to the writer of
the successful song. I wish very much that
this custom could be introduced at Bowdoin
and would be glad to set up a cup to be given
to the winning class, with a financial prize of
say ten dollars to the writer of the successful
song, the cup to be contested each year for five
years and at the end of the fifth year to be de-
posited by the class then holding it among the
college trophies."
SUNDAY CHAPEL
In his chapel talk, Sunday afternoon, Feb.
18, President Hyde drew a lesson from Da-
vid's magnanimous treatment of Saul as de-
scribed in I. Samuel, 26.
He said in part : This story of David, who
lived thirty centuries ago, can be matched by
a story of a man prominent in public life,
which was told 8 years ago in this chapel by
Jacob Riis. When Roosevelt was Police Com-
missioner of New York City, he was thwarted
in all his purposes by another member of the
board of commissioners, who was in league
with the worst element in the city. One night
a police captain gave Mr. Roosevelt the oppoi-
tunity to remove the commissioner from of-
fice if he would adopt underhand means.
"No," said Mr. Roosevelt, "we do not hit be-
low the belt." This is the same spirit that
made David unwilling to take an evil advan-
tage of a man, even if he represented the
forces of evil. If a man wishes to apply a se-
vere test to himself, to test his spiritual power,
and his fellowship with God, let him take
some one who has wronged him or, worse yet,
those dear to him. Let him try to keep out
personal animosity and desire on personal
grounds that harm may come to that person.
We should always fight hard and never yield
on the main issue, but we should fight with
no personal hatred against a man. This same
spirit was shown in Jesus' prayer, "Father,
forgive them, for they know not what they
do," and in Paul's words, "If thine enemy
hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him
drink." Let us try to put this in practice the
next time someone plays a trick on us or
betrays an interest that we hold dear.
AT THE LIBRARY
presented to -tC
; of 1875- It '
The largest single gift of books ever
the Library has been given by the Class
is composed of the Roll series of publications of the
national records of England and the works of the
Historical Manuscripts Commission.^ The Roll se-
ries is in two parts, the first consisting of 350 vol-
umes, and the second of 250 volumes. It is valued at
$1700. The works of the Historical Manuscripts
Commission consist of collections of other national
documents from private sources in England. They
are composed of 160 parts and are valued at $100.
The Library already has the books of the Re-
cording Commission, published by the English Gov-
ernment in the last part of the l8th century. Bow-
doin now has practically a complete set of old Eng-
lish documents, and is one of the best equipped libra-
ries in the country for the study of English History.
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THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WILLIAM A. MacCORMICK, 1912, Editor-in-Ch ef
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
Associate Editors
W. R. SPINNEY. 1912
L. E. JONES, 1913
V. R. LEAVITT, 1913
F. D. WISH. Jr.. 1913
H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
H. B. WALKER, 1913
R. D. LEIGH. 1914
D. K. MERRILL. 1914
K. A.ROBINSON. 1914
R. E. SIMPSON. 1914
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We wish to call especial
Time to Act attention to the letter pub-
lished in another cohimn
which deals with college songs. We appre-
ciate the fact as well as our readers that this
question of college songs is as old as any ever
considered by the Orient. It is so old, in fact,
that we as undergraduates absolutely refuse to
pay any attention to it. At least, if any atten-
tion is given to editorials on the subject, the
Board never hears from it. Once more we
are glad to print the fact that alumni, under-
graduate clubs, faculty members, and editors
have begged for new songs. It is time for
some action to be taken and the Orient sug-
gests that the Student Council take up the
matter at once. It would seem by the man-
ner in which the ofifer of the Ibis has been
responded to that the undergraduates want
individual invitations to write a song and re-
ceive the prize. But it is safe to say that the
Ibis has no such desire to curb the faimous
Bowdoin spirit by pushing the individual in-
to prominence. The Ibis and Mr.. Snow are
simply voicing the sentiments of every Bow-
doin man in urging the production of new col-
lege songs. Like every other college Bowdoin
must meet her problems and there is no
reason why Bowdoin cannot solve such prob-
lems as well as other colleges do. Surely the
matter of college songs has by this time be-
come vital enough to cause some consideration
of it by the student body. Let the undergrad-
uates and the Student Council show more of
that spirit of co-operation and bring this ques-
tion to a head.
It is seldom that the four
A Leap Forward colleges and the many
"prep" schools of Maine
are ever represented in such a large and
united gathering as was held at the Univer-
sity of Maine last week. This gathering was
known by those who attended and throughout
the state at large as the "Students' Fourth
Annual Y. M. C. A. Conference." Over
three hundred delegates from the various edu-
cational institutions in the state met to con-
sider plans for Association work. It is of
particular interest to Bowdoin men to know
that the first of these conferences was held on
the Bowdoin campus. "Prep" school men
were not present at that conference and only
about 40 delegates from the four colleges met
together. But at the conference which closed
last Sunday over 300 delegates were regis-
tered from the colleges and secondary
schools of the state. Such a rapid growth
shows to some extent the value of the Christ-
ian Association in the college and school life
of our country. As represented at the con-
ference meetings, it shows also that this Asso-
ciation stands for a broadening along physi-
cal, social, and religious lines in the daily life
of every college man.
Although it may be looking a long way
ahead we must begin to think about next
year's meeting. It is going to be held again
at Bowdoin and considering the growth al-
ready indicated, the college under the pines
will be visited by hundreds of men. It will
be Bowdoin's iirst opportunity to entertain
such a body and it will be up to Bowdoin to
show the hospitality which can equal that
shown by the other three colleges in the State.
While the taste of the recent Conference re-
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mains we might begin to file away ideas for
the one to come next year.
In the death of Colonel
Colonel H. A. Wing Henry A. Wing which oc-
curred a short time ago,
Bowdoin loses one of her alumni most promi-
nent in undergraduate affairs. Colonel Wing
was especially interested in all athletic con-
tests in which Bowdoin played a part. He was
always on hand as an official at a football
game or track meet and for years he served
as a member of Bowdoin's Athletic Council.
In all his relations with managers and captains
to whom he was a faithful adviser, he always
received the deepest respect. As a visitor to
the college rallies and undergraduate func-
tions he was always hailed with rousing cheers
of student appreciation. But not only as a
friend to undergraduates will Bowdoin miss
her son. As a servant both of the college and
of the state at large, the loss of Colonel Wing
will be greatly felt by all who knew him.
Y. M. C. A. STUDENT CONVENTION
The fourth annual Maine Y. M. C. A. Student
Convention was held at the University of Maine.
Feb. i6, 17, and 18. The convention was attended
by over 300 delegates from the colleges and prepar-
atory schools of the state. The colleges and schools
represented were : U. of M., Bates, Colby, Bowdoin,
Bangor Theological Seminary, Northeast Harbor,
Newport, York, Buxton, Foxcroft, Lincoln, Hebron,
Ricker, Presque Isle, Fort Fairfield, Oldtown, Lee
Normal, Pittsfield, Orono, Bristol, Good Will, Old
Orchard, Houlton, Lewiston, Kent's Hill, Liverraore
Falls, Bucksport Seminary, Sangerville, Fryeburg,
Oak Grove Seminary, Coburn, Belfast, Clinton,
Rockport, Higgins and Dresden.
The delegates from Bowdoin were, Ernest G. Fi-
field, '11; Wm. A. MacCormick, '12; James B. Al-
len, '12; Harold G, Andrews, '12; Kenneth Church-
ill, '12; Percy W. Mathews, '12; Neil A. Fogg, '13;
Harry B. Walker, '13; Omar P. Badger, '14; Rob-
ert E. Bodurtha, '14; Samuel W. Chase, '14; R.
Earle Hubbard, '14; Arthur S. Merrill, '14; Percy
D. Mitchell, '14; Harry M. Chatto, '15; Robert J.
Evans, '15; Wm. T. Livingston, '15; G. Arthur Mac-
Williams, '15; Philip W. Porritt, '15, and John F.
Rollins, '15.
On Friday night, Feb. 16, the delegates were the
guests of the business and professional men of Old-
town at a banquet which was served in the City
Hall. There were five long tables extending the
full length of the hall which had been fittingly deco-
rated with college and school banners, of the insti-
tutions represented at the convention. During the
evening excellent music was furnished by the stu-
dent orchestra from the University of Maine. At
the head of the middle table sat Jefferson C. Smith,
State Secretary of Y. M. C. A. work, who took
charge of the exercises. He introduced Dr. Leon
S. Merrill, Dean of the College of Agriculture of
the University of Maine, as toastmaster, who ac-
cepted the honor in a few words. He introduced
President Robert Aley of the university, who ex-
tended a welcome to the delegates in behalf of the
university, and also from the people of Oldtown,
who had provided the banquet and opened their
homes to them during their stay in the city. Hon.
Charles W. Stevens, mayor of the city, was the next
speaker and in a few words welcomed the boys. A.
G. Averill, chairman of the general committee, spoke
briefly for the committee to welcome the hundreds
of students and invited them to meet in Oldtown at
any other time. The next speaker was Ernest G.
Fifield, '11, who responded for the students, thanking
President Aley, Mayor Stevens, and the business
men of Oldtown for their welcome, also for the ban-
quet served them.
A. G. Cushman of the Bates Y. M. C. A. then
spoke upon the purpose and aims of the 1912 confer-
ence and was followed by James L. McConaughy of
New York. In closing the entire body united in
singing ''America," after which President David N.
Beach, of Bangor Theological Seminary, offered the
closing prayer and benediction.
On Saturday morning the program opened by a
meeting led by Thornton B. Penfield of New York,
in the U. of M. chapel at 8.30. This was a devo-
tional service and opened with prayer and song. At
g o'clock the union' session of preparatory schools
and colleges was called, and at this time James L.
McConaughy put before the conference this ques-
tion : "What Right Has Your Association to Exist
in Your Institution?" A representative from each
delegation was called upon to respond to this ques-
tion and many good and interesting points were
brought out in this connection.
After a short intermission the meeting was re-
sumed and David R. Porter. '06, gave a talk upon
"The Principles of True Leadership." At 11.45 the
conference picture was taken.
At 1.30, quiet hour service was held by Thornton
B. Penfield, of New York, and at 2 o'clock was held
the preparatory school session with the program ar-
ranged by David R. Porter, following which was a
college session, with an address by Harrison S. El-
liott on "Bible Study and Its Relation to Social
Service."
At 3 o'clock came the recreation hour when the
following basketball games were played in the uni-
versity gymnasium : Kent's Hill vs. M. C. I. ; Old-
town vs. Orono; E. M. C. S. vs. Higgins.
On Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock was held a
mass-meeting for men addressed by David R. Por-
ter. In the evening at 7 o'clock a public service was
held with fifteen minute talks by Thornton B. Pen-
field, Harrison E. Elliott, and David R. Por-
ter. The farewell meeting, led by Mr. McCon-
aughy, immediately followed and at this meeting-
there were present the delegates and the faculty of
the U. of M. The convention was then declared
closed by its president, Russell Lord, '12, of Colby.
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Y. M. C. A. MEETING
The speaker at the Y. M. C. A. meetmg, Feb. iS,
was Dr. Estes Nichols of Hebron. Dr. Nichols took
for his subject, "Public Health" and spoke in part
as follows :
"To most people the words 'Public Health' sug-
gest the red quarantine card or the vaccine point,
the warfare against uncleanliness, or the campaign
against back alleys. It should suggest other things
as well ; the fight against tuberculosis, the campaign
against child-labor, and such things. Public health
is conservation of resources to bring about not only
physical health, but also mental and moral health.
In the conservation of forests, great precaution is
taken against fire, the underbrush is cleared away
and all lose material. We need the same precau-
tions with regard to our bodies. Two things should
be done away with, which feed the fires which are
burning the souls of our young men and women,
namely, alcoholism and the social diseases. In our
colleges is the worst possible place for these fires to
burn, for there is our best timber. Colleges are by
no means the dens of drunkenness and immorality
that they are made out to be. Every year they are
turning out men and women of the highest ideals.
But it is the exceptions to the rule that are noticed.
With their training, the college men and women are
most admirably fitted for the uplift of humanity and
they must realize their duty."
Dr. Nichols went on to speak of alcoholism and
the terrible suffering and misery that attends it, and
of the social diseases, the false prudery that haa
kept such subjects covered with a veil of obscurity,
and the need of a million or more boys and girls now
in high schools and the third of a mihion in higher
institutions. They are to be the fathers and mothers
of future years and now is the time to instruct them.
CONCERT: THE "RUBAIYAT" TO BE SUNG BY
BOSTON QUARTETTE
A concert of unusual interest to all music-lovers
will be given before the Saturday Club and the public
on Thursday, February 29, at 8 p.m., when the Com-
monwealth Avenue Church Quartet of Boston, will
sing "In a Persian Garden," Liza Lehmann's musical
setting for the "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam, the olu
philosopher-poet of Persia, whose verse Edward
Fitzgerald translated into an English classic. The
great beauty of the poem with its penetrating ques-
tionings of Whence ? and Whither ? and the fingering
melodv of its lighter quatrains make it especially
adaptable for vocal rendering; and this quartette
has a high reputation for ensemble work with this
and other productions. As a finale for the evening
they will give those matchless "Nonsense Songs"
from "Alice in Wonderland," the "songs that came
out wrong" and that all love for their very per-
versity. As the Orient goes to press, it is not de-
cided whether the concert can be held in Town Hall
as scheduled, but posters announcing the place will
be out by Saturday.
CALENDAR
Friday, February 23
8.00 Second Junior Assembly, Memorial Hall.
Sunday, February 25
10.4s Morning Service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
5.00 Sunday chapel conducted by President Hyde.
Monday, February 26
7.00 Normal class meets in Hubbard Hall.
Musical Clubs' concert at Bangor.
Tuesday, February 27
8.00 Third Annie Talbot Cole Lecture: "Humor
and Satire" by Bliss Perry, LL.D., Professor
of English Literature in Harvard University.
Musical Clubs' concert at Oldtown.
Wednesday, February 28
Musical Clubs' concert at Fairfield.
Thursday, February 29
7.00 Y. M. C. A. "Christian Missions" by Rev. Ray-
mond Calkins, Portland, Me. ; Musical Clubs'
concert at Skowhegan.
CollcGe Botes
Putnam, ex-' 15, has entered Colby.
Work on the new theatre down town began
Monday.
Simpson, '03, was visiting his brother, Simpson,
'14, Monday.
Baker, '13, was confined to his room for several
days, last week.
"Jack" Hurley has returned to college from his
home in Maiden.
Peary's sledge which is in Hubbard Hall, is now
protected by a case.
George Hyde, '08, and Carl Robinson, '08, were
on the campus, Tuesday.
The floors of the three galleries of the An
Building are being scraped and re-finished.
John E. Chapman, Esq., of Boston, is visiting his
brother, Prof. Henry L. Chapman, this week.
James L. McConaughy, Yale, '09, who was Gen-
eral Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. last year, con-
ducted chapel, Tuesday morning.
Darwin Tuttle of Exeter Academy was visiting
his brother, Curtis Tuttle, '13, over Saturday. He left
Sunday for his home in Colusa, Cal.
'Puss" Newman, '10, was interlocutor at the
minstrel show given in Bar Harbor recently, and
"Squid" Whitmore, ex-'ii, was end man in the
same show.
There will be a meeting of the Maine Intercolle-
giate Athletic Association at the Penobscot Ex-
change in Bangor, Saturday. Manager Crowell,
'13, of the Track Team and ex-Manager MacCor-
mick, '12, will attend the meeting.
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Leon Lippincott, 'lo, was on the campus last
week.
A'laurice Hamblen, '14, has just returned to college
after a short illness.
Eastman, '10, and Redfern, '11, have been on the
camnus for a few days.
The Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity is holding its
annual convention at Springfield, Mass., this week.
Ernest Bisbee, '15, and George Bacon, '15, are
spending two weeks at Intervale, New Hampshire.
Prof. George T. Files had an article in the Port-
land Sunday Telegram of Feb. 18, on the "Problem
of Road Maintenance."
Mr. A. E. Moore, of Portland, has commenced
his winter's work of repairing and retouching the
paintings in the Art Building.
The Lewiston High School Debating team has
been on the campus for a few days. Norton, '13,
is coaching them for the interscholastic debates.
Several Bowdoin students witnessed the basket-
ball game between Portland High School and Morse
High School played at Bath last Friday evening.
Walter Brown, '14, was referee at the basketball
game between Portland High School and Morse
High School, played at Bath last Friday evening.
Dean Sills left for Washington, Sunday, where
he will represent Bowdoin at the annual banquet of
the Bowdoin Alumni Association of Washington,
D. C.
At the first annual meeting of the Maine Society
of Civil Engineers in Lewiston on Feb. 7, Prof. Al-
vord was appointed chairman of the good roads com-
mittee.
A traffic census was taken on Feb. 10 by three of
the students on lower Maine Street under the direc-
tion of Prof. Alvord. The town may soon re-surface
this street and it was found desirable to know the
relative amount of light and heavy traffic thereon.
Several men of the class of 1912 have completed
the work required for the degree of Bachelor of
Arts and have left college. They will return at Com-
mencement and receive their degrees. Among them
are Earl F. Maloney, Parker Rowell, Ernest E.
Weeks, H. Ashmead White, and Richard F. White.
r The registration of students for the second
iemester was completed recently and the following
figures were given out by Dean Sills ;
I Seniors 87
Juniors :. 79
Sophomores 73
Freshmen 76
Specials 4
Total 319
The registration for the first semester was 333,
so there is a falling off of 13.
The following is found in the February Revieiv
of Revicivs: " 'The Five Great Philosophies of Life,'
by William DeWitt Hyde, president of Bowdoin
College, is an exposition of the philosophical princi-
ples produced in the five centuries from the birth of
Socrates to the death of Jesus — namely, the Epicur-
ean pursuit of pleasure, the Stoic law of self-repres-
sion and control, the sublime idealism of Platonism,
the Aristotelian scheme of proportion, and the
Christian doctrine of perfect love. It is a book of
practical philosophy, aUve to the everyday needs of
life, that endeavors to reconcile the good within all
philosophies to a common meeting point in the doc-
trine of Jesus' spirit of love. Mr. Hyde has the
gift of lucid, virile utterance and an understanding
of the scientific spirit that dominates the world to-
day."
Though the official baseball schedule has not yet
been announced, the following are among the games
which Bowdoin will play during the coming season :
April 10 — Brown at Providence.
April 24-25 — Dartmouth at Hanover.
May 10 — Maine at Brunswick.
May 15 — Maine at Orono.
Among the games which the other Maine colleges
will play during the coming season are :
April 24 — Bates vs. Brown, at Providence.
May I — ^Colby vs. Maine at Orono.
May 8 — Bates vs. Maine at Orono.
May 18 — Bates vs. Maine at Lewiston.
May 25 — Colb}' vs. Maine at Waterville.
The following items appeared among the edito-
rials of Harper's Weekly for Feb. 3 :
"One College That is Complete"
"Bowdoin is unique among the colleges. Its
Alumni Association had its annual dinner here last
week, and the papers said that President Hyde
'aroused great enthusiasm among the alumni by stat-
ing that on this occasion he need ask them for
nothing, since Bowdoin had now a perfect plant.'
We wouldn't have believed, except on the authority
of a responsible newspaper, that an American col-
lege could be complete — equal to its work both in
plant and equipment. That is the case with Bow-
doin, Dr. Hyde says. It is encouraging to hear it.
There may come a day when others of our older col-
leges will have enough. That seems to have hap-
pened in Europe, where, centuries ago, kings, princes,
rich merchants, and other opulent persons used to
endow institutions of learning somewhat as our
millionaires do now."
In compiling a new address book of the gradu-
ates of Bowdoin College, a table has been prepared
showing the geographical location of the 1881
alumni of the academical department of the college.
Of the total number 1799 are located in the conti-
nental United States and 14 in the possessions of the
United States. The location of 34 alumni is un-
known.
Of the United States Maine leads with 715, while
Massachusetts conies second with 421 and New
York with 170. Of the western states California is
the home of the most Bowdoin meij, 56, leading even
the central states of Illinois with 36 and Minnesota
with 24. There are no Bowdoin men living in Del-
aware, that being the only state in which Bowdoin
is not represented.
The location of Bowdoin alumni by states and
countries is as follows :
Maine, 715; New Hampshire, 61; Vermont, 9;
Massachusetts, 421; Rhode Island, 14; Connecticut.
-.-7- New York State, 170 (New York City 125);
New Jersey, 41 ; Pennsylvania, 33 ; Maryland, 5 ; D.
C, 40 ; Virginia, 2 ; West Virginia, i ; North Caro-
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lina, 4 ; S. Carolina, i ; Georg-ia, i ; Florida, 2 ; Ohio,
17; Indiana, 3; Illinois, 36; Michigan, 4; Wisconsin,
is; Minnesota, 24; Iowa, 6; Missouri, 8; North Da-
kota, 4; South Dakota, 2; Nebraska, 3; Kansas, 5;
Kentucky, 2 ; Tennessee, 3 ; Alabama, i ; Louisiana,
2; Arkansas, 2; Oklahoma, 6; Texas, 3; Montana,
8; Idaho, 2; Wyoming, i; Colorado, 9; New Mexi-
co, i; Arizona, i; Utah, 2; Washington, 11; Oregon,
5 ; California, 56 ; Alaska, 2 ; Hawaii, 2 ; Porto Rico,
2 ; Panama, 2 ; Philippines, 6. Total in United States
1813; Germany i, Sweden l; France 3, Italy i. Mex-
ico 4, Canada 6, England 4, Turkey i, Palestine i.
China 5, Austria i, Brazil i, Cuba, i, Japan 4, Un-
known 34, grand total 1881.
Hlumni Department
'80. — Col. Henry Asa Wing of Lewiston,
one of the best-known newspaper men in the
State, died, early Saturday morning, after a
year's sickness, which was thought to have
worn him out until he did not have the
strength to combat the illness any longer.
Colonel Wing was a newspaper man of
no small renown and he was very popular in
his profession. His title of colonel he derived
from the fact that, among many other public
favors, he had served on the staff of the late
Governor Llewellyn Powers. Colonel Wing
was a native of Waterville, where he was born
58 years ago and was a graduate of Houlton
Academy and later of Bowdoin. He fitted
for the bar but never practiced law as he
shortly entered the newspaper profession.
Colonel Wing has been connected with the
Bangor Commercial, Portland Dauy rrcss,
the Pittsburg Dispatch and later on the Ban-
gor Neivs, where he remained until 1882. He,
then, in association with the late Charles L.
Fox, started the Lewiston Sun. Later Mr.
Fox died and Colonel Wing, deciding it was
too big a proposition to handle alone, sold out
but remained on the staff'. In 1896 he re-
signed and became the central Maine cor-
respond for the Boston Herald and continued
so until 19 10. He then became connected as
a correspondent of the Portland Express-Ad-
vertiser and other papers until ill health com-
pelled him to give up newspaper work of any
kind.
During his career Colonel Wing has been
honored with many positions of trust and
honor by both poltiical parties as he was inde-
pendent in faith. His last appointment was
that of private secretary to Congressman Mc-
Gillicuddy, but ill health compelled him to re-
linquish this position. He was a member of
the Lewiston Lodge of Elks. Colonel Wing
was an earnest devotee of athletics and was
prominent in all the branches of sport at Bow-
doin, having been a member of the athletic
council for a number of years. Li horsedom
the colonel was a master hand and owned
many fast thoroughbreds which he had en-
tered at various meets.
March 28, 1893, Colonel Wing married
Miss Grace A. Gilbert, and they had one son,
Carleton, 12 years old. Besides these a brother,
Fred A. Wing of Bangor, and two sisters,
Mrs. Eva Stratton of Laconia, N. H., and
Miss Alice Wing of Roslindale, Mass., sur-
vive.
'80. — Henry Brown Wilson, formerly of
Portland, died in Redlands, California, Janu-
ary 13, 1912, at the age of fifty-five. He had
lived for many years in that state, and occu-
pied numerous positions of trust there, being
trustee of the South California Asylum for
the Lisane by appointment of three governors,
was long connected with the First National
Bank of Redlands, and at the time of his death
was assessor of San Bernardino County.
Those who knew him in college will remember
his genial and companionable disposition, and
his unusual talent for amateur dramatics.
'89. — William M. Emery, the active news-
paper editor of Fall River, Mass., finds time
for much careful and thoroug genealogical re-
search. For several months he has been en-
gaged in his leisure hours as an assistantin the
preparation of an elaborate history of the
Crapo family.
'96. — George T. Ordway, formerly Vice-
President and General Manager of the Engi-
neering Securities Corporation, has become
associated with Tucker, Anthony & Co., bank-
ers, in their New York office.
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VOL. XLl
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MARCH 1, 1912
NO. 27
FRIAR CUP STANDING ANNOUNCED
Dean Sills has announced the standing of
the several fraternities for the first semester,
in the competition for the Friar Scholarship
Cup. Delta Upsilon was the winner for the
third consecutive time. The average scholar-
ship is reckoned on a basis of points, each A
counting 4 points; B, 3 points; C, 2 points;
D, I point; and E, minus 2 points. The total
of the points made by each fraternity is
divided by the number of men in the fraternity
thus giving the average scholarship of each
fraternity.
The standing of the several fraternities
for the first semester is as follows :
Delta Upsilon 12.170
Alpha Delta Phi 10.666
Theta Delta Chi 10.273
Beta Theta Pi 10.258
Delta Kappa Epsilon 9-957
Zeta Psi 9-905,
Non-fraternity 9.418
Kappa Sigma 9-3i6
Psi Upsilon 8.5
THE SECOND COLLEGE TEA
On last Friday afternoon from 3 until 5
o'clock the second of the College Teas was
held at the Alumni Room in Hubbard Hall,
and was largely attended, especially by friends
of the college from Lewiston and Auburn.
The guests were received by Mrs. Manton
Copeland, Mrs. William DeWitt Hyde, Mrs.
Frank E. Woodruff, Mrs. George T. Little,
Mrs. Roscoe J. Ham, and Mrs. Gerald G.
Wilder. The members of the introduction
committee, who saw that none of the guests
lacked introductions to the members of the
faculty and the students present, were : Mrs.
William Hawley Davis, Mrs. William E. Lunt,
Mrs. Ira P. Booker, and Mrs. John A. Cone.
Coffee was poured by Mrs. William A.
Moody, assisted by Miss Sue Winchell, Miss
Margaret Wilson, and Miss Marion Drew.
Mrs. Geo. T. Files presided at the tea table
and she was assisted by Miss Lida Baker, of
Boston, Miss Isabel Forsaith and Miss Ruth
Nearing of Brunswick. Punch was dipped by
Mrs. William H. Davis, Mrs. William E.
Lunt, and Mrs. Orren C Hormell, assisted by
Miss Anna Snow, Miss Helen Johnson, Miss
Evelyn Swett and Miss Olive Utter.
The ushers were: Frederick S. Wiggin,
'13, of Thomaston, from Alpha Delta Phi;
Ray E. Palmer, '13, of Bath, from Psi Upsi-
lon; Benjamin D. Holt, '13, of Portland, from
Delta Kappa Epsilon; Albert E. Parkhurst,
'12, of Presque Isle, from Theta Delta Chi;
Robert W. Belknap, '13, of Damari'scotta,
from Zeta Psi; William A. MacCormick, '12,
of So. Framingham, Mass., from Delta Up-
silon; Elden G. Barbour, '12, of Yarmouth,
from Kappa Sigma; Francis X. Callahan, '14,
of Portland, from Beta Theta Pi ; and iLvereit
P. Walton, '13, of V'inalhaven, from the non-
fraternity men.
SECOND JUNIOR ASSEMBLY
The second and last of the Junior Assem-
blies to be held under the auspices of the class
of 1913 was held in Memorial Hall last Friday
evening and was attended by about 50 couples.
The patronesses were Mrs. Henry John-
son, Mrs. George T. Little, Mrs. Roscoe J.
Ham, and Mrs. Frederick W. Brown. Lovell's
Orchestra played for an order of 20 dances.
At intermission refreshments of salads, ice
cream, cake, and punch were served by Mor-
ton.
The assembly was in charge of the follow-
ing committee: William Fletcher Twombly of
Reading, Mass., Frederick Shaw Wiggm of
Thomaston, George Lincoln Skolfield, Jr., of
Brunswick, Theodore Evans Emery, of Ran-
dolph, and Kendrick Burns, of Saco.
Among the guests present were: Miss
Katherine Jenkins, Miss Marion Smart, Miss
Jessie Ridge, Miss Lydia Skolfield, Miss Ma-
rion Proctor, Miss Olivia Bagley, Miss Kath-
erine Johnson, Miss Marie Hieber, Miss Dor-
othy Laughlin, Miss Gladys Burr, Miss Mar-
garet Burr, Miss Hilda Laughlin, Miss
Frances Darker, Miss Marion Fernald, Miss
Alberta Robinson, Miss Evelyn Edwards, Miss
Pauline Hight of Portland, Miss Mina Ev-
erett, Miss Iva Record of Auburn, Miss Belle
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Cornish, Miss Mabel Davis, Miss Marguerite
Hutchins, Miss Grace Lunt, Miss Gertrude
Sadler, Miss Virginia Woodbury, Mrs. Alger-
non G. Chandler of Brunswick, Miss Olive
Holway, Miss Bessie Locke, of Augusta, Miss
Elizabeth Woodward of Colorado Springs,
Col., Miss Martha Fifield of North Conway,
N. H., Miss Louise Haggett, Miss Harriett
Henderson, Miss Alice Pushard, of Bath, Miss
Belle Tilton, of South Portland, Miss Blanche
Hanscom, Miss Dorothy Bird, of Rockland;
Miss Gladys Umberhind of Topsham ; Miss
Mary Emery, of Skowhegan ; Miss Edna Den-
nison, of Freeport; Miss Lida Baker, of Bos-
ton ; Miss Marion Hunt of Wellesley, Mass. ;
Miss Margaret Burns of Saco; Miss Flossie
Kember, of Biddeford ; Miss Haskell of Pitts-
field; Miss Florence Carll, of Waterville;
Miss Helen Shaw, of Buckfield; Miss Rose
Davis, of Rockland; Miss Irene Kennedy, of
Haverhill. Ma.ss.
THE THIRD COLE LECTURE BY DR. PERRY
Tuesday evening, Feb. 27, Dr. Bliss Perry
delivered the last of the Annie Talbot Cole
lectures. His subject was "American Humor
and Satire" and he spoke in part as follows:
"The conception of humor as incongruity is
particularly applicable to a new country. On
the new soil and under the new skies, a new,
social grouping, all the fundamental contrasts
and absurdities of our human soci'=*"" assume
a new value. We see them under a fresh
light. They are differently focused. The
broad humors of the camp, its swift and
picturesque play of light and shade, its farce
and caricature no less than its atmosphere of
comradeship, of sentiment and daring, are all
transferred to the humor of the newly settled
country. If it is true that the new country
offers endless opportunities for the humor
which turns upon incongruity, it is also true
that the new country offers countless occasions
for humor which turns upon sudden glory of
superiority. The backwoodsman is amusing to
the men of the settlements, and the back-
woodsman, in turn, gets his full share of
amusement out of watching the "tenderfoot"
in the woods. It is simply the case of the old
resident versus the new comer. The supe-
riority need be in no sense a cruel or taunting
superiority, although it often happens to be so.
The humor of the pioneers is not so very deli-
cately polished. The joke of the frontier tav-
ern or grocery store is not always adapted to
a drawing room audience, but it turns in a sur-
prisingly large number of instances upon ex-
actly the same intellectual or social superiority
which gives point to the bon mots of the most
cultivated and artificial society in the world. J
There is another sort of American humor I
which has been of a marked historical import-
ance and which has never been more active
than it is to-day; the humor, namely, of local,
provincial, and sectional types. Much of this
humor falls under Bergson's conception of hu-
mor as social censure. It rebukes the extrav-
agance, the rigidity, the unawareness of the
individual who fails to adapt himself to his
social environment. It takes the place, in our
categories of humor, of those types of class
humor and satire in which European literature
is so rich. The mobility of our population, the
constant shifting and callings, has prevented
our developing fixed class types of humor.
We have not even the lieutenant, or the
policeman or permanent members of our
humorous stock company. The police-
man of to-day may be mayor or gov-
ernor to-morrow. The lieutenant may go back
to his grocery wagon or on to his depart-
ment store. But whenever and wherever such
an individual fails to adapt himself to his new
companions, fails to take on, as it were, the
colors of his new environment, to speak in the
new social accents, to follow the recognized
pattern of behavior, then the kindly whip of
the humorist is already crackin? around his
ears.
A similar social function is performed by
that well-known mold of American humor
which ridicules the inhabitants of certain
states. Why should New Jersey, for exam-
ple, be more ridiculous than Delaware? In
the eyes of the newspaper paragrapher it un-
questionably is, just as Missouri has more hu-
morous connotations than Kentucky. We
may think we understand why we smile when
a man says that he comes from Kalamazoo or
Oshkosh, but the smile when he says, "Phila-
delphia," or "Boston," or "Brooklyn" is only
a trifle more subtle. It is none the less real.
So it is with the larger divisions of our na-
tional life. Yankee, Southerner, Westerner,
Californian, Texan, — each type provokes cer-
tain connotations of humor when viewed by
any of the other types. Each type in turn has
its note of provinciality when compared with
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the general notion of the general American. It
is quite possible to maintain that our literature,
like our social life, has suffered by this ever-
present American sense of the ridiculous. Our
social consciousness might be far more va-
rious and richly colored, there might be more
true provincial independence of speech and
custom and imagination if we had not to
reckon with this ever present censure of
laughter, this fear of finding ourselves, our
city, our section, out of touch with the preva-
lent tone and temper of the country as a
whole. It is one of the forfeits we are bound
to pay when we play the great absorbing game
of democracy."
MUSICAL CLUB TRIP
The Musical Clubs opened their season by
a concert at Freeport on Tuesday, February
20, and completed their Maine trip to-night,
according to the schedule published in an
earlier number of the Orient.
The program of the concert of the Musi-
cal Clubs for this year is as follows :
PART I.
(a) Rise, Sons of Bowdoin Burnett
Words by Sills, 'oi
(b) We'll Sing to Old Bowdoin
Words by Fogg, '02
Glee and Mandolin Clubs
The Song of Prince Rupert's Men Thayer
Glee Club
'Cello Solo Selected
Wallace T. Mason, Jr., '14, of Andover,
Mass.
March Militaire Bohm
Mandolin Club
Tenor Solo Selected
George A. Tibbetts, '12, of Brunswick
(a) Beam from Yonder Star Bidlard
(b) Dry Yo' Eyes Landsberg
Glee Club
PART II.
Cornet Solo Selected
Joseph H. Newell, '12, of Richmond
Dutch Kiddies Trinkaus
Mandolin Club
Ciribiribin Pestalozsa
Arranged by Macy
Glee Club
Reading Selected
Arthur D. Welch, '12, of Portland
Popular Medley Trinkaus
Mandolin Club
(a) Bowdoin Beata Words by Pierce, '96
(b) Phi Chi Words by Mitchell, '71
Glee and Mandolin Clubs
M. I. A. A. .IVIEETINQ
A meeting of the Maine Intercollegiate
Athletic Association was held Saturday, Feb.
24, at the Penobscot Exchange Hotel of Ban-
gor. Each college was represented by last
year's and this year's manager. Dinner was
followed by a two hours' business session,
when last year's accounts were audited and
approved by the executive committee. Amend-
ments to the constitution were considered but
none were passed. The following officers
were elected for this year: Mgr. Adams of
Bates, President; Mgr. Wells of Colby, Vice-
President ; Mgr. Seekins of University of
Maine, Secretary; Mgr. Crowell of Bowdoin,
Treasurer.
ANNUAL DANCE OF THE PHI CHI FRATERNITY
Gamma Gamma Chapter of Phi Chi fra-
ternity of the Medical School held its annual
dance at Pythian Hall last Friday evening. A
feature of the decorations was a handsome em-
blem of the fraternity made out of colored
electric lights.
The patronesses were Mrs. William De-
Witt Hyde, Mrs. Gilbert M. Elliott and Mrs.
Edwin F. Pratt, of Brunswick, Mrs. Walter
E. Tobie and Mrs. Wallace W. Dyson of Port-
land, and Mrs. Jennie W. Bird, of Rockland.
The committee of arrangements consisted
of John Everett Cartland, '14, of Lisbon Falls
Harold Vincent Bickmore, '14, of Augusta
Waldo Thompson Skillin, '14, of Hallowell
William DeLue x\nderson, '15, of Portland
and Lawrence McFarland, '15, of Woodfords.
Music was furnished by Pettengill's Orchestra
of Lewiston.
Delegates from other fraternities were
Carl G. Dennett, '15, Saco, from Alpha Kap-
pa Kappa; James B. Allen, '12, of Mt. Desert,
from Delta Upsilon; Dr. Carl H. Stevens, '14,
of Northport, from Delta Kappa Epsilon ; and
Continued on page 218, column 2
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Now for those who have
New Coach Here been waiting for the track
coach to arrive ! He is
here and ready to meet all men at once who
have aspirations for track work. Although
we have been urging ever since last fall that
work begin at once we must continue to urge
until the season gets under way. In three
weeks the first big track event of the year will
be held and then followers of the Bowdoin
team can get some idea of the prospects for
the spring meets. The Indoor Meet should
do more than settle class superiority. It
should serve as a stepping stone to the larger
and more important events to come. Accord-
ing to the ruling of the Athletic Council all
men who intend to participate in this first
meet must go into training now. This is, then,
the starting point of the thorough preparation
for the State Meet not many weeks away.
The Freshmen may well be pointed out as
showing the kind of spirit which makes college
athletics what they ought to be. For the past
two or three weeks a large squad of first year
men have been training daily on the outdoor
track. A good many upper classmen who are
evidently much concerned about this spring's
track team, might take notice of this fact. It
is encouraging, at least, to know that men will
get out and work without being driven. Evi-
dently the Freshmen deem it of great import-
ance to start nozv if they want to become val-
uable assets to the college track team. That
is the sentiment which ought to run through
every class in college. The coach has arrived
and we all wish him great success. But it is
up to those men who have been waiting, to re-
port, and see what he has for them to do.
Success will come to us this spring, just as
soon as we begin to go after it.
Last week we wrote com-
Bowdoin Beata plainingly about college
songs. This week we
have a much more serious complaint to
render against certain undergraduates and
their disrespect for what songs we have. It
has been noticed many times that fellows
either through indifference or total irrever-
ence fail to stand up when Bozvdoin Beata is
being played or sung. This was brought home
most forcibly at a Glee Club concert recently
given in a city not far from Brunswick. In
the audience werea number of Bowdoin under-
graduates who showed their "devotion" to the
college by keeping their seats while the clubs
sang Bowdoin Beata. Perhaps it would have
been embarrassing for those men to stand up
if they were two or three in number and the
only Bowdoin men in the hall. But to refuse
to stand with thirty or forty more loyal Bow-
doin men makes embarrassment seem a little
bit feminine. We all regret that we haven't
more college songs, but it does not matter how
many more we do have, Bowdoin Beata will
remain the one to which all hats shall be
doffed. We hope that in the future when-
ever this song is sung loyalty will vanquish
embarrassment and that all Bowdoin men will
show their colors by responding to the song in
the right way.
Annual Dance of the Phi Chi Fraternity
Continued from page 217
Edward H. Snow, '14, of Brunswick, from
Kappa Sigma.
The guests present were Mrs. W. T. Ham-
mond of Portland ; Miss Maude Coombs, of
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Vinalhaven; Miss Madeline Bird, of Rock-
land; Miss Mildred F. Lombard of
Bridgton ; Miss Marion T. Swift, of
Gardiner; Mrs. Ira R. Smith, of Brunswick;
Miss Inez Webster, of Lewiston; Miss Ruth
Dearborn, of Dover, N. H. ; Miss Florence
Hastings, of Auburn ; Miss Mildred Colbath,
of Dover, N. H. ; Miss Genevieve Dwinal, of
Auburn; Miss Helen O'Neil, of Portland
Miss Ernestine Thompson, of Springfield
Miss Minnie K. Murphy, of Berlin, N. H.
Miss Catherine Johnson, of Portland ; Miss
Elizabeth O'Connor, of Augusta; Miss Mollie
Giveen, of Topsham; Miss Mabel Laws of
Brunswick; Miss Ethel Reed, of Auburn;
Miss Eleanor Wescott, of Portland ; Miss
Rene Buck of Harrison ; Miss Mary Mattocks,
of Portland; Miss Abba Harris, of Portland;
Miss Lilly Pretts, of Brunswick; Miss Hazel
Lord, of Portland ; Miss Grace Harris of
Portland ; Miss Alice Blake, of Richmond ; and
Miss Anna Snow, of Brunswick.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
At Sunday chapel of Feb. 25, Rev. G. C.
DeMott, pastor of the Congregational Church
of Bath, preached and a quartette from the
same church rendered two selections. Rev.
Mr. DeMott said in part, that among all the
fine things in this world nothing fills the re-
cesses of a man's soul with such satisfaction as
the moral struggle to be a good man. When
we die, shall we die as moral traitors? Great
wars are over but moral wars will never cease.
If a man loves his emperor, then all his efforts
will be devoted to the emperor's cause. This
is well illustrated in the instance of the siege
of Port Arthur; the Japanese were successful
only after a long struggle against the obsta-
cles of modern warfare. Their love for their
emperor was such that they expected and
. desired to die for him. So our love for our
Lord should be such that we shall be devoted
to His cause.
WASHINGTON ALUMNI DINNER
The thirtieth annual dinner of the Bowdoin
Alumni Association of Washington, was held in that
city on the evening of Tuesday, February twentieth,
at the Hotel Raleigh. At the dinner about thirty-
five were present. Congressman Frederick C. Stev-
ens, of Minneapolis, presided. The first speaker was
Senato Knute Nelson, of Minnesota, a very warm
personal friend of the late Senator Frye, who gave a
most interesting address on the work and character
of his distinguished colleague. Senator Nelson
brought out the fact that Senator Frye was not only
an unusually able speaker; but that of all the men
whom he had known in a long public career, the
Senator from Maine was the best legislator : that is.
he could put legislation through the Senate. Con-
gressman McGillicuddy, of the second district of
Maine, spoke next, and brought out the fact that in
all his long career Senator Frye had never had to
go into a contest for a nomination. Mr. McGilli-
cuddy spoke of the respect and regard in which Sen-
ator Frye was held by members of the opposite
party. Senator Johnson, of Maine, the newly-elected
President of the Association, spoke of the work of
Bowdoin men in Washington, and of the fact that
the Bowdoin spirit was manifested in the lives of
men of public service like Thomas B. Reed and
William P. Frye, as well as in the athletic victories
of undergraduates. He stated that he believed very
firmly in the small college and in hberal education,'
and said that no matter what a man's future careel
was to be, he behaved it should be founded on a
basis of classical training. General Spear, Richard
F. Dole, of the Class of 1902, and Joseph C. White,
of the Class of 191 1, spoke briefly. The College
was represented by Dean Sills.
The newly elected officers of the Association are
as follows : President, Senator Charles F. Johnson,
'79; Vice-Presidents, Hon. Frederick C. Stevens,
'82, and Hon. Daniel J. McGillicuddy, '81 ; Treasurer,
General Ellis Spear, '58; Recording Secretary, Rev.
Frank Sewall, '58; Corresponding Secretary, Chas.
H. Hastings, '91.
JOINT BANQUET OF COLBY AND BOWDOIN
CHAPTERS OF ZETA PSI
The third annual joint banquet of Chi Chapter
of Colby and Lambda Chapter of Bowdoin of Zeta
Psi, was held Tuesday evening, Feb. 20, at the Au-
gusta House, in Augusta. There were about ninety
present, besides a large number of alumni from both
chapters the active members were present en masse.
The occasion was enlivened by the singing of college
and fraternity songs. Instrumental music was fur-
nished by Dennis' Orchestra.
The post-prandial exercises were brilliant and
sparkling, the speakers all being thoroughly alive to
the occasion and helping to make the banquet the
most successful of the joint banquets held by the
fraternity. The toastmaster was Lyman A. Cousens,
of Portland, Bowdoin, '02; and the speakers were:
Frank G. Farrington, Esq., Augusta, Bowdoin, '94;
Clyde R. Chapman, Fairfield, Bowdoin, '12 ; Hon.
Payson Smith, Augusta, Tufts, '97; Walter J. Ride-
out, Dover, Colby, '12; Prof. William E. Lunt,
Brunswick, Bowdoin, '04; Harry Kidder, Waterville,
Colby, '11; Herbert M. Waldron, New Brunswick,
N J., Rutgers, '93 ; Harry L. Bagley, Boston, Bow-
doin, '94; and Fred H. Nymeyer, New York City,
University of Illinois, '11, who is the traveling sec-
retary of the fraternity.
The banquet committee was : From the Colby
Chapter, W. B. Carroll, '13, chairman, John A. Bag-
nail, '12, and from the Bowdoin Chapter, Richard
E. Foss, '12, chairman, Carl B. Timberlake, '12, and
Robert W. Belknap, '13.
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A COMMUNICATION
Editor of the Orient:
Dear Sir : Many of our undergraduate institu-
tions at Bowdoin have lately received criticism.
Much of this criticism has been favorable; much has
been adverse. However, this attitude of the student
body and alumni, is, it seems, most commendable.
It is one of the best signs of progress. We can
never hope to be perfect in any way, nor do we
care to be. That which is perfect is in a sad state,
indeed. Yet we can strive for perfection ; we can
'hitch our waggon to a star" and live on, attaining
those ends for which Bowdoin is famous.
That phase of our undergraduate life which,
judging from the past, we might believe to be well
cared for, but which at present is in a truly sad con-
dition, is our social life. By this I do not mean the
part the fraternities play in this regard; rather the
social life of the brotherhood as a whole, that of
Bowdoin.
Under this category come the College Tea and
the Junior Assembly. First let us consider the Tea.
Time after time you will meet an undergraduate
who has spent from two to four years 'within the
pale" of the pines, who will smilingly inform you
that he has "never yet attended one of those 'pump-
handle' functions." Very often, too, this naive con-
fession comes from a man who is a leader in col-
lege activities. O nobilis adolesccns, how brave is
thy stand! Our Alma Mater is striving to send out
men fit to move in any circle. At her winter recep-
tions there is a delightfully wholesome atmosphere
that can be had nowhere else. Are we justified in
slighting this, the most gracious and refined privilege
she offers?
As for the Junior Assembly, happy as these oc-
casions are, I believe there is much room for im-
provement. Perhaps the greatest need here is for
better decorating. Gaudy dress is never desirable;
but at the last assembly there were far too tew
banners, pennants, streamers and pillows in evi-
dence. The gay college atmosphere was lessened on
this account. I would also suggest that instead of
the present vogue whereby fifty or sixty fellows
must swarm about the caterer's table at intermission
if they are to get refreshments for their guests and
themselves, there be at least two peopfe engaged to
serve. Much unnecessary confusion would be
avoided in this way. Lastly, in the gallery there is
room for criticism ; also room for the orchestra.
Here it has been the custom for those who were not
dancing to sit lazily about, stare at the dancers, pass
comment, etc. It seems to me that this is an awk-
ward sight at such an affair. There is ample oppor-
tunity for every fellow in college to attend at least
one of these dances during his college course. For
the sake of propriety, I think the "gallery gods"
might well make way for the orchestra, which would
leave a place for the patronesses on the platform be-
low.
These remarks, Mr. Editor, are given in a way
of friendly suggestion, and I trust will be so re-
ceived. Soon we will have a new hall in the build-
ing now under construction. The better we are pre-
pared to enter the new auditorium, the more en-
joyment we shall receive from it. Our best is the
least we can show for Bowdoin.
Another Senior.
February 27, 1912.
V. M. C. A. NOTES
On Thursday evening March 7, Mr. WilHam I.
Cole, '81, will speak on "Christianity and Poverty."
Mr. Cole has been Secretary of the famous South
End House in Boston since 1894 which gives him the
power to speak from practical experience on this
vital topic.
Two boxes of magazines have been collected by
the Freshman Religious Committee and sent to the
Sailors' Haven in Charlestown where they are dis-
tributed to vessels starting on long cruises.
Special Lenten Meetings
During Lent short meetings will be held in the
Y.INI.C.A. room on Wednesday noons from one to
half-past one o'clock, led by the following men :
March 6 President Hyde.
March 13 Dean Sills.
March 20 Rev. J. H. Quint.
March 27 Prof. Mitchell.
CALENDAR
Friday, March i
8.00 Musical Clubs' Concert at Hallowell.
8,00 Second Bradbury Debate in Memorial Hall.
Resolved, That the United States should adopt
a uniform, compulsory workingmen's compen-
sation act applicable to industrial employments.
Sunday^ March 3
10.45 Morning Service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
5.00 Sunday Chapel, conducted by President Hyde.
Tuesday, March 5
8.00 Musical Clubs' Concert at Richmond.
Thursday, March 7
7.00 Y. M. C. A. Mr. William I. Cole, South End
House, Boston, Mass., "Christianity and Pov-
erty." VI. in the series.
Colleoe Botes
Leon Lippincott, '10, was on the campus last
Sunday.
A meeting of the Gibbons' Club was held last
Monday evening.
On account of illness Prof. Nixon was unable to '
meet his classes the first of the week.
Prof. Alvord had an article in the Brunswick
Reeo d of Feb, 23, on Good Roads in Maine.
Prof. Nixon will read a paper before the New
England Classical Association at its meeting at Yale
University in April.
The second monthly meeting of the Ibis was held
Fridav evening, Feb. 23, at the home of Prof. W.
E. Lunt on Page Street. The speaker of the evening
was "Ike" Martin, '03, of Harvard University, who
spoke on South America and particularly of his trav-
els there. His talk was followed by a general dis-
cussion and refreshments were served.
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Invitations have been extended to the track man-
agers of the preparatory schools of Maine to send
teams to the Bowdoin Invitation Meet to be held
in the spring.
A prehminary meeting for the purpose of form-
ing a Democratic Club in Bowdoin College was held
in the Deutscher Verein room in Hubbard Hall,
Monday evening.
The trials for the fencing team are now being
run off. About 15 men are now out, from whom
the team will be picked. The first bout will be with
Harvard, March 8.
Alan Cole, '14, assistant track manager, will be
present at a meeting of the executive committee of
the New England Athletic Association to be held in
Springfield, Mass., on March 6.
The board track events of the Indoor Meet will
be as follows ; 300-yard run, 780-yard run and mile-
run. There will be no low hurdles. Men out must
have trained during this week.
A concert, under the auspices of the Saturday
Club, was given in the Town Hall, Thursday even-
ing, bv the Commonwealth Avenue Church Quartet
of Boston. Among the selections rendered were :
"In a Persian Garden" and Nonsense Songs.
The second monthly meeting of the Deutscher
Verein was held at the Eagle Hotel last Saturday
evening. Professor Files gave an informal talk on
European travel illustrated by some wonderfully
clear stereopticon views from snapshopts he made.
Andrews, '12, awoke at s o'clock, Monday morn-
ing, to find the entire couch in his living room on
fire. He quickly carried the whole thing into the
hall and dropped it out the window, so no further
damage was done to the room. The board coverings
of the steps to the "End," however, were slightly
burned.
The Pastime opened last Friday afternoon after
having been closed since the first of January on ac-
count of the epidemic of small-pox in town. The
danger of the disease spreading is now thought to
be over, only one new case having develooed in
more than two weeks and the ban on pubhc enter-
tainments has accordingly been lifted.
Four Bowdoin graduates, Daniel I. Gould, '03,
James N. Emery, '05, Stuart O. Symonds, '05, and
Paul H. Powftrs, '08, were among the ten success-
ful candidates who passed the examinations for ad-
mission to the Maine bar, held at Bangor the second
week of February, and will be admitted to practice
at the next term of court for their respective
counties.
The Western Association of Bowdoin Alumni has
been organized in Denver, Col., largely through the
influence of Dr. George F. Libbey, '91, and Paul A.
Buttrick, '07. The following officers have been
elected. President, Hon. R. H. Gilmore, '63 ; vice-
president. Dr. George F. Libbey, '91 ; secretary and
treasurer, Paul A. Buttrick, '07. On Saturday, Mar.
2, will be held a dinner of the new Association, at
which plans for the future will be made.
President Hyde spoke at the annual meeting of
the New England Watch and Ward Society, held in
Old South Church in Boston, Sunday evening. His
tonic was The Social Evil, and he described six
methods of treating it : The educational, the social
in the narrow sense, the sociological, the economic,
the moral, and the protective. President Hyde gave
an imoortant place to the educational method, which
consists of educating the child in matters of sex
sometime between the ages of 8 and 12.
RESOLUTIONS
Hall of Thet.a. Delt.\ Chi.
On Saturday, February tenth, the Eta Charge
of Theta Delta Chi lost from its rolls Brother Henry
Asa Wing of the delegation of 1S80.
Brother Wing was born in Waterville. and was
fifty-eight years of age last September. In college
he was prominent in literary and athletic affairs,
taking part in the '68 Prize Speaking and being one
of the six commencement speakers of his class.
On leaving college Brother Wing studied for the
bar, but though fitted, never applied for admission.
His work was journalism, and in that he had a long
and successful career, having editorial positions on
the Lcmiston Journal, the Bangor Commercial, the
Portland Daily Press, the Pittsburg Dispatch, the
Bangor Daily News, and the Lewiston Daily Sun.
He was also correspondentt for the Boston Herald,
and the Portland Express-Advertiser.
At various times in his career, Brother Wing
held public positions. He was appointed city mar-
shal of Lewiston in 1893, in 1902, and in 1904. He
was on the staff of Governor Powers with the rank
of colonel, and was appointed private secretary to
Brother Daniel J. McGillicuddy, though ill health
prevented his entrance into the duties of this posi-
tion.
For many years Brother Wing has been a famil-
iar figure on the Athletic Field, and he has served
as an Alumnus Member of the Athletic Council.
To Mrs. Wing, as well as to the son, brother,
and two sisters of Brother Wing, the Charge extends
its sympathy. To us he was a loved and honored
Brother and we mourn his loss with them.
Philip P. Cole,
Philip S. Wood,
Maurice W. Hamblen,
For the Charge.
Brunswick, Maine.
February twenti'-eghth, nineteen twelve.
The recent death of Col. Henry A. Wing of the
Class of 1880 has removed from the membership of
the Bowdoin Athletic Council one of its most highly
esteemed and valued members. While an under-
graduate. Col. Wing took an active interest in ath-
letics and has for years been connected with the
Athletic Executive of the College.
Being one of Maine's best known newspaper men
he was intimately acquainted with the athletics of
the State, in which he took the greatest interest.
In his death Bowdoin loses a highly honored and
loyal Alumnus, and the Council a worker whose
advice and presence will be greatly missed. In be-
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half of the Council we extend our sincere sympathy
to his family and express our deepest appreciation
for his work.
T. E. Emery,
Philip S. Wood,
For the Council.
Hluinni E)epartment
'89. — Emerson L. Adams, since 1905 the
efficient and successful superintendent of
schools at Lincoln, R. I., has been elected to
a similar position at Central Falls, R. I., a
much larger and a more important field. Mr.
Adams is spoken of by the Pawtucket Times
as "one of the most noted schoolmen in North-
ern Rhode Island."
'91 — Lewis A. Burleigh has entered the
firm of Burleigh and Flynt, publishers of the
Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, he having
purchased a quarter interest in the business.
Mr. Burleigh was admitted to the b.ar in 1894,
and at once entered into a paiturcrship with
Joseph Williamson. In severing his connec-
tion with the law firm of Williamson, Burleigh
and McLean, and relinquishing the active
practice of law, Mr. Burleigh is entering a
field with which he is not unfamiliar, his
father and brother having been members of
the firm for many years.
'95. — H. E. Holmes, Esq., has been ap-
pointed state librarian of Maine.
'96 — John Clair Minot, an editor of the
Youth's Companion, and Miss Marion Bow-
man of Augusta, Me., were married Wednes-
day evening, Feb. 21, in the presence of about
50 guests at the home of the bride's uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Akeroyd, loio
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Reverend
John C. Hall of the Medfield Congregational
Church, officiating.
The bride was given in marriage by her
uncle. Her matron of honor was her sister,
Mrs. Harold B. Warde of Medfield. The best
man was Harlan M. Bisbee of Exeter, N. H. M
After the reception, the couple left for a trip
South. They will reside at 83 Pickney St.,
Boston.
Mr. Minot has been with the Youth's Com-
panion since 1909, he having been with the
Kennebec Journal previous to 1909.
'01. — Judge Clarence Hale of the United
States District Court, has appointed George
C. Wheeler, a Portland Attorney-at-law, as
referee in bankruptcy for Cumberland and
York counties. Mr. Wheeler was admitted to
the bar in September, 1904, in Franklin county
and for one year practiced law in the office of
Hon. Joseph C. Holman of Farmington, but
for the past year has been located in Portland,
having for a time been in the office of Albert
S. Woodman and subsequently by himself. In
politics, Mr. Wheeler is a republican and for
the past year he has been a member of the
common council from ward 6 and at the recent
election was re-elected for another term.
'02. — Mr. Harvey Dow Gibson of New
York, has recently been elected assistant to the
president of the Liberty National Bank in New
York city. Before entering upon his new
duties, Mr. and Mrs. Gibson will spend a
month in Europe.
'10 — William E. Atwood has purchased an
interest in the A. H. Scott corporation, custom
shirt manufacturers at 273 Middle St., Port-
land. Before entering this field, Mr. Atwood
was engaged in the manufacture of paper
boxes at Auburn, Me., where he held the posi-
tion of sales manager for H. Wesley Hutchins
Company.
Chandler's Military Band and Orchestra
First-class music furnished for all occasions. Combina-
tion Band and Orchestra for School and College
work can be furnished in any number of pieces from ten
to thirty. Small Orchestra for Receptions, Teas, and
Dancing Parties a specialty. For terms apply to
C. M. BROOKS, Agent, Portland, Maine Tel. 3747-1
Medical School of Maine
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
.^DDisoN S Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
BOWDOIN ORIENT
VOL. XLl
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MARCH 8, 1912
NO. 28
THE BRADBURY DEBATES
The Bradbury Debating contest closed with
the debate Friday evening, Feb. 28, when the
affirmative team, composed of Burleigh C. Ro-
dick, '12, Richard E. Simpson, '14, and Mer-
ton W. Greene, '13, was given the decision
over the negative team, composed of Elwyn C.
Gage, "14, Waher F. Eberhardt, '13, and
William R. Spinney, '12. The first prize was
also awarded to the affirmative team, while the
second prize was awarded to the winners of
Wednesday night's debate, Fred D. Wish, Jr.,
'13, Herbert E. Locke, '12, and Paul H. Doug-
las, '13, who supported the affirmative agamsi
James A. Norton, '13, Paul H. Emery, '13,
and Earle F. Maloney, '12. From the four
teams which debated six men and two alter-
nates were chosen to represent Bowdoin in the
Triangular Debating League. These men are :
P. H. Douglas, '13; E. C. Gage, '14; M. W.
Greene, '13; E. F. Maloney, '12; B. C. Rodick,
'12; F. D. Wish, Jr., '13; with J. A. Norton,
'13, and W. R. Spinney, '12, as alternates.
Prof. Wm. Hawley Davis presided over
the debates and the judges were President
Wm. DeWitt Hyde, Prof. Warren B. Catlin,
Principal Herbert E. Cole of Morse High
School, Lieut. Marston Niles of Topsham, and
Samuel L. Forsaith of Brunswick.
Two-thirds of the prize, which amounts to
sixty dollars, will be awarded as the first prize,
and the remaining one-third as the second
prize.
One team will debate against New York
: University at New York and support the neg-
ative of the proposition; the other team will
support the affirmative against Wesleyan at
Brunswick, March 28.
CLASSICAL CLUB MEETING
The Classical Qub held a meeting, Tues-
day evening, March 5, at the Theta Delta Chi
House. Dean Sills and Robert D. Cole, '12,
spoke on "Latin Lyrics of the Middle Ages,"
and a general discussion of the subject by the
members of the club followed. Refreshments
of ice-cream, cake, and coffee were served.
MASS MEETING
Thursday, March 14, at 7 o'clock there will
be a meeting in the Y. M. C. A. room to dis-
cuss questions of interest to the whole student
body. What can be done to improve our un-
dergraduate life? The following speakers will
have something to say about it which will be
worth hearing: L. G. Means, '12, W. A. Mac-
Cormick, '12, C. R. Crowell, '13, and P. H.
Douglas, '13.
MUSICAL CLUB TRIP
The musical clubs returned Friday night
from one of the most successful Maine trips
that Bowdoin clubs have ever taken. Five
concerts were given altogether, at Bangor,
Oldtown, Fairfield, Skowhegan, and Hallo-
well. Everywhere the crowds were large and
very appreciative, the largest being at Bangor,
where about six hundred people attended the
concert. The work of both clubs was excel-
lent. The work of the soloists, Newell, '12,
Tibbetts, '12, and Mason, '14, was warmly re-
ceived everywhere. "Artie" Welch became
just as popular with the audiences encoun-
tered on the trip as he is with Bowdoin audi-
ences, and that is saying a good deal. The
"Pall Mall Quartette," which sang a little
verse about the home industry of each town,
took the crowds by storm everywhere. "Hod"
Barton's clog dance in one of the mandolin
club selections was one of the features of tiie
program. Both of the clubs, and the soloists
as well, were obliged to respond to encores at
every concert.
ALPHA DELTA PHI CONVENTION
The national convention of Alpha Delta
Phi fraternity was held in Springfield, Mass.,
on Feb. 21, 22, and 23, with headquarters at
Hotel Kimball. The occasion was opened on
Wednesday night, Feb. 21, by a smoker and
reception. A dinner was given on the follow-
ing night at the Springfield Country Club to
the delegates and visitors, after which they at-
tended the theatre in a body to see "The Fol-
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lies of 191 1." On Friday morning the dele-
gates went to Amherst where a buffet lunch
was served them at the Amherst chapter house
and in the evening the annual banquet was
held at Hotel Kimball. The Bowdoin chapter
was represented by C. O. Bailey, Jr., '12, and
E. L. Morss, '12, as delegates and also by H.
C. L. Ashey, '12, C. R. Bull, '13, and Curtis
Tuttle, '13.
SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED
By the annual award of scholarships, one
hundred and twenty-two of the undergrad-
uates received scholarships, aggregating $9,-
398.17 and varying in size from $45 to $200.
Fourteen scholarships were reserved to be
assigned later to applicants whose rank in the
second semester may be sufficient to warrant
it. The number and size of the several schol-
arships awarded is as follows : One, $200 ; five,
$112.50; one, $106.67; one, $105; seventeen,
$100; fourteen, $90; forty-seven, $75; one,
$70; one, $67.50; one, $62.50; two, $60;
twelve, $50; and nineteen, $45.
DEMOCRATIC CLUB MEETING
The Democratic Club of Bowdoin CoHege
held a meeting in the debating room in Hub-
bard Hall on Monday evening. Alfred H.
Sweet, '13, presided. A constitution was read
and adopted. Dean Sills then gave a brief talk
on the presidential situation this year. Offi-
cers were elected as follows : President, Fred-
erick S. Wiggin, '13, of Thomaston; Secre-
tary, Alfred H. Sweet, '13, of Portland;
Treasurer, Fred D. Wish, '13, of Portland.
The above, together with Chester G. Abbott,
'13, and Francis X. Callahan, '14, are to serve
as an executive committee.
1914 ELECTION
A meeting of the Sophomore Class was
held Wednesday noon, for the election of
squad leader and pianist. The men eligible
for squad leader were : Francis T. Garland of
Bangor, Frank R. Loeffler of Lisbon Falls, and
Arthur L. Pratt of Bath.
1915 CLASS MEETING
The class of 191 5 held a meeting, Wednes-
day, Feb. 28, and elected Gordon P. Floyd of
Deering, leader of the Indian Club squad, and
George A. McWilliams of Bangor, class pian-
ist.
PRESIDENT HYDE ON THE COLLEGE
The following article concerning colleges
in genera! and Bowdoin in particular was
written by President Hyde for the Nezv York
Sunday Times of Feb. 4, 1912. It is full of
interesting facts for every Bowdoin man and
is printed here as it was first published.
Colleges don't grow of themselves; they are
made; or rather they are always in the making; for
nothing deteriorates so fast as a college that is left
to stand still.
For illustration of how a college is made I shall
take the one I know best; not that it is better than
others which are being made on similar lines ; but
because to name others might seem invidious to
those not named ; and also because some of these
better colleges are located near great centres of pop-
ulation, and if it were known how good they are
they might become overcrowded and spoiled. For the
difficulty of making a first-rate college as distinct
from a university, increases as the square of the
number of students after that number passes four
hundred. Bowdoin, however, is still a little inside
the danger line, and its location in a corner of the
country is sufficient protection against sudden inva-
sion, even if the secrets of its making are disclosed.
Many persons think that money is the making
of a college, and that money raising is the Presi-
dent's chief problem. Far from it. Money is not
the essential thing; and raising money for an honest
college is nowadays the easiest thing in the world.
Bowdoin College, for instance, has received a mil-
lion and a half dollars in the past twenty years, yet
it has very few wealthy alumni ; and no one has
spent in its behalf as many as twenty days in all
these twenty years, on the road in solicitation. This
average of seventy-five thousand dollars a year has
come from interested alumni and friends, and from
public benefactors hke Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Fayer-
vveather, Mr. Carnegie, and Mr. Rockefeller's Gen-
eral Education Board, who looked into its educa-
tional and financial management and found it sound.
Neither do buildings make a college. Bowdoin
College in this same period has received buildings
costing half a million, and has another hundred-
thousand-dollar building in process of erection. But
all of these, e.xcept the last, came without solicita-
tion.
Neither do numbers make a college. They, too,
are easily secured by lowered standards of admission
and retention, and by scholarships promised in ad-
vance of evidence of the scholarly achievement they
profess to represent. That policy will unmake a
college faster than any other : and every boy who
wants an education, as distinct from merely going
to college, will steer clear of an institution which by
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easy admission and retention, or any special induce-
ment, confesses that numbers rather than education
is its end and aim.
If neither money nor buildings or number of stu-
dents make a college, what does? Great teachers are
at the same time great men. To find them is not easy.
When President Tucker was making Dartmouth, I
happened to say to him that I was looking for a
professor. He replied : "Out of fifty men you hear
of, there will not be more than two whom you would
take on any terms." After one has weeded out the
legion of mere research men who are utterly useless
in a college — the men who are not teachers and the
teachers who are not men — he is lucky to find even
4 per cent, remaining. It is usually a matter of three
months' search to pick out a single good instructor
— much harder work than to pick up the endowment
for his salary. When one who is making a college
finds a man who knows both his subject and his stu-
dents' minds, and has a passion for bringing the
two together, he will, if wise, offer him considerably
more than the average institution is paying for that
grade of instructor. For instance, last year Bow-
doin College paid $2,000 for a man with only two
years' experience in teaching, and $1,800 for an-
other with only one year's experience and no de-
gree beyond that of A.M. Both men were wanted
by both Faculty and students in the institutions
where they had achieved marked success, but real or
supposed justice to other men of the same grade
made it impossible for these institutions to promote
them as rapidly as they really deserved, and sub-
stantial increase of salary, with the title of Professor
in one case and Assistant Professor in the other,
secured them. Of course, we could have filled these
places with instructors of equal or nearly equal
training and teaching experience for ten or twelve
hundred dollars apiece. But the difference between
a first-rate and a fourth-rate teacher, between a man
whose success is certain and one whose success is
doubtful, is so great immediately, and so enormous
if extended throughout a period of j^ears, that it does
not much matter whether you pay a young man in
his first few years one thousand or two thousand
dollars, if you get a man who is a real teacher. The
rule is to consider no man whose intellectual and
personal success is not absolutely sure — and then
to pay the right man whatever is necessary to secure
him.
A BOWDOIN BUREAU
On February 24th Edward O. Achorn, Esq., '8l,
gave an informal dinner to a small group of Bowdoin
men at his home in Jamaica Plain. The discussion
of the evening centered around the question ''What
can Bowdoin men of Boston do to further their own
interests, one with another, and the interests of the
College?"
As a result of the discussion it was decided to
start a Bowdoin Bureau which, for the present, will
be located a 120 Boylston St., with Geo. C. Puring-
ton. '04, as manager.
The purpose of the Bureau may be summed up in
its motto, "We work for Bowdoin and for Bowdoin
men." While the details have not been worked out,
it may be said that the Bureau will have a perma-
nent addressing list of the graduates around Boston,
which will always be at the disposal of any of the
alumni who may wish to look up a man. It will en-
deavor to keep those men who are unable to attend
Bowdoin gatherings informed of the proceedings ; it
will also send around reminders when any Bowdoin
teams or the musical clubs are coming to Boston,
and in general will keep the alumni informed oi dll
things of interest.
Another function of the Bureau will be to look
after newly graduated alumni and endeavor to see
as many of them as possible placed in good positions
in Boston. Finally, a systematic and thorough cam-
paign will be inaugurated to send some of the best
material in Massachusetts to Bowdoin College. Fur-
ther details of the work will be published from time
to time in the Orient.
The Bureau is most eager to receive suggestions
and information from any and every source. Any
such should be addressed to Bowdoin Bureau, Room
51S, 120 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.
THE JANUARY QUILL
The grace and merit of the opening number of
this Quill, the Sonnet "To H. L. C," get their surest
approbation from the reader's instantly aroused
sympathy with the writer's mood and his answering
admiration for the writer's subject. There is an in-
trinsic beauty in such a tribute from pupil to teacher
that puts it far above the touch of commentary. So
far as form is concerned, the first half of the sonnet
seems especially suited in simple directness to such
deep-felt and spontaneous praise. There is, how-
ever, a certain unsatisfactoriness about the vague
line "And on that soul how glows the word com-
plete !" and the line "enshrined within the secret
place of tears," both in meaning and in relation to
the rest.
The essay on Byron's dramatic work is a very
able and suggestive excursion (albeit somewhat dif-
fuse) into a neglected field of literature, the "closet"
drama, which includes so much good poetry and so
many poor plays. This essay is a good example of
what might be called the higher criticism in literary
analysis. For with no more rehearsing of the con-
tents of the plays considered, it shows the critic's
reaction upon them ; it creates in turn an atmos-
phere which splendidly reflects Byron's own. The
language of our essayist in describing scenes and
character is indicative of an absorption of that
Byronic spirit which was at once wild, sweeping,
masterful, gloomy, melodious. The writer meets with
two of his standards for judging Byron's drama; he
is rather casual and a bit arbitrary — in settling the
third, the "final merit of his literary legacy." By-
ron's true status, not yet determined, is probably
somewhere in the realm of appreciation between our
essayist's "dethroned monarch, a man of diminished
fame," and the adulation of William Watson for
"that fiery soul" whose going "left the air reverber-
ating to this day its loud despair."
Some obvious misprints occur, a particularly imp-
ish one being "a profane and delecteriOus work."
Quotation marks cannot justify the needless incon-
gruity of "sloppiness" in second paragraph. The
comparison of Byron to the Elizabethans which
seems unaccountable to the writer maybedue in part
Continued on page 236, column 2
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BOWDOIN ORIENT
THE BOWDOIN ORIENT
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WILLIAM A. MacCORMICK, 1912, Editor-in-Chief
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preliminaries to the intercollegiate contests with
Wesleyan and New York Universities. There
is no doubt that all Bowdoin men would be
deeply concerned if they thought that the col-
lege was not making a consistent fight for vic-
tories in these debates and yet the men who
tried out for the 'varsity teams last week spoke
to a handful of loyal souls strewed over
benches enough to hold a multitude. The re-
sult was inevitable. The speakers, lacking
what could be called an audience, found it im-
possible to put into their speeches the best that
was in them and the debates were disquiet-
ingly "slow" considering the formidable work
before the teams in the coming contests.
Undergraduate debates are not renowned
as producers of excitement, but so long as the
college puts out teams to represent it in this
field it should do so with a characteristic spirit
of support in order that the teams may have
every advantage in preparing for their work.
We believe that every student owes it to his
college to attend such events as the Bradbury
debates.
Vol. XLI.
MARCH 8, 1912
No. 28
The Democrats in college
Now for the j^^^^ organized a club. The
Campaign Orient extends them
greetings and wishes them all success. With
two political clubs arranging for speakers we
ought to be able to have some good meetings
and hear some good expositions of both sides
of the political questions of the day. All stu-
dents, whatever may be their faith, should not
fail to attend all of the lectures which are
forthcoming.
Unsupported
Activities
There are certain college
activities which none of us
would care to see done
away with or even neglected to such an extent
as to have them fall below the Bowdoin stand-
ard, and yet they are of such a nature that
such support as they get must be given them
rather consciously and with a somewhat relig-
ious cultivation.
During the past week two Bradbury de-
bates were held in Memorial Hall. These were
^, „ So well managed a depart-
The Newspaper ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ (^^^^^^ jj,^^^^y
'*""'" ofifers but little room for
criticism. We believe, however, that improve-
ments could be made in the newspaper room.
The room is now furnished with a representa-
tive list of local papers, as well as three Bos-
ton and two New York papers: The stu-
dents thus get only an Eastern interpretation
of political, industrial and other news. New
England sentiment upon news of a national
character is quite often at variance with pub-
lic sentiment in other parts of the country.
The present attitude of the New England
press toward certain political complications is
a striking example of this. Why, then, would
it not be well to substitute for some two pa-
pers, two other papers of dififerent political
faith, one chosen perhaps from Chicago, and
the other from the Far West or South?
The January Quill
Continued from page 225
rather to a superficial likeness with Ben Joiison's
bombast and classic rigidity, or with Webster's love
of setting forth the horrors of sixteenth-century
Italy.
What seems even upon first glance a strikingly
good translation from Boileau, is seen at closer ex-
amination to have greater merit because of its care-
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fill reproduction of the original in thought, form,
correspondence of metre and of end-rhymes. The vir-
tue of literalness in this form is that it keeps the
restraint of the original and avoids a peculiar tend-
ency to flippancy in "free" renderings. One line,
"greeted me, etc.," is too much of a paraphrase to
conform to the rest.
The breezy style of "A Tale of True Love," and
its freedom from the over-seriousness and trite de-
tails of much college fiction, make it a refreshing
contribution. It is a clever story, but that is a dan-
gerous word and represents a dangerous tendency
to-day. The writer has great grasp of the dramatic,
much imagination and command of materials ; it is
to be hoped that he will not allow himself to get
inspiration and themes too constantly from the lights
of Broadway as reflected in the popular magazines.
He seems able to write plays with real plots or at
least telling one-act situations. That the Quill needs
more such good stories the editor's plea makes clear
but he should not "anticipate" anything about them.
That the Quill Board is prepared to appreciate the
right sort is shown by the Postman's discriminating
review of college fiction; and this department is un-
usually free from the perfunctory formulas of ex-
change editors. Such echoes, however, of smart-set
style as "shriekingly improbable" and "sadly inco-
herent" can become troublesome mannerisms.
The "Gray Goose Tracks" of this Quill are really
interesting and amusing even to the uninitiated, —
which is praise very rarely deserved by their mean-
ingless ramblings in past years. (The retention of
this department has always seemed ill-advised unless
it can be enlivened with real wit and serviceable
"thrusts.")
Much might be said in praise of the dignity of
the present Quill and the evidences of good editorial
judgment; but its mission as printed is "to express
the literary life of the students." Does it do this when
no new names appear from month to month, when
only three or four men out of three hundred con-
tribute? Is literary effort so little encouraged that
it seems a futile thing? Is there danger of over-
conscientious editing, or any fear of editorial strict-
ness? Here are subjects for a series of letters to the
Orient where some forceful ones have appeared on
other topics.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
Sunday afternoon, March 3, Bishop Codman
spoke at the chapel exercises in part as follows :
"We are living in an age of great religious re-
action. In past ages there have been too many
creeds. Now the pendulum has swung to the other
extreme. I wish to speak on a matter of vital im-
portance, the dependence of character on creeds.
The things that affect character are ideals. These
are what we beUeve and so are creeds. Among tne
various kinds of ideals are the ideals of relation to
one another, as in the business world, or in the po-
litical world. As the college man with splendid ideals
comes in contact with the tactics of the business or
political world, his ideals perhaps become lower.
These lower ideals then make his political or bus-
iness character. We must have high ideals and creeds,
not only in our relation to others, but also in our re-
lation to God. The ideal in this case becomes per-
sonal, just as in the case of the small boy who
takes a larger boy for his ideal. Our ideal is the
Saviour himself. When we come to know him ana
that he has a great interest in us, it affects our char-
acters. It is what we believe that moulds our char-
acters, not what we do not believe. Your denials
do not affect your character or others' characters.
You are going out into the world to meet tempta-
tions that will overwhelm you, if you do not have
something to hold to. A creed is what a man needs,
a creed that does not lower him, but raises him up.
The best possible thing is a creed on which you can
depend, and depending on which, you can meet the
temptations of life."
Y. M. C. A. MEETING
In the Y. M. C. A. meeting, Friday evening,
March i, representatives from Andover and Hart-
ford Theological Seminaries, were the speakers.
First, Mr. Patten of Andover, spoke on the minis-
try in part as follows : "There are three distinct
types of man that the ministry needs to-day. First,
there is the man who has made good in college, in
athletics and other activities, the man with lots of
"pep" and red blood. Next, there is the man who
has a great deal of ambition, the man who, if he en-
tered politics, would clean up rotten city govern-
ments, and institute sweeping reforms. Third, there
is the man who is more or less of a hayseed when
he enters college, but who develops into a man of
solid character, who may not be known very well,
but who is always at hand when he is wanted for
some good work. The popular conception of a min-
ister's life is that he has to do a lot of talking Sun-
day and can loaf the other six days in the week.
This is far from true. The outside work that- the
minister and his church do is vitally important. He
fights side by side with the man who is down and
out, losing himself in the other man's fight, and pull-
ing him up by his interest in the fight. If you want
to be a man, the ministry is the place for you. It
is a man's size job.
Mr. Holmes of Hartford Theological Seminary,
then spoke, outlining the program of the Triangu-
lar Conference to be held at Hartford March 22 to
24, under the auspices of the Andover, Union, and
Hartford Seminaries. The program is one of unus-
ual promise, the speakers being men of national
reputation. A cordial invitation was extended to all
college men to attend this convention.
A LETTER FROM BOWDOIN, 1928
The Orient has received a letter from the six-
year-old son of Henry Hill Pierce, of the Class of
1896. The son of the composer of "Bowdoin
Beata" has already become a boomer for the col-
lege, as is seen from the following :
DEAR BOWDOIN— MR. PIERCE DID GO
TO BOWDOIN AND HE HAS 2 BOYS AND i
IS GOING AND i YOU CAN'T TELL ABOUT.
TH.4T BOY, I THINK IS GOING 2 BOWDOIN.
WILLIAM CURTIS PIERCE.
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JOINT CONCERT WITH BATES
The second annual joint concert of the Musical
Clubs of Bates and Bowdoin will take place in Lew-
iston City Hall this evening.
Following is the program:
Song of Prince Rupert's Men Thayer
BovvDoiN Glee Club
March Militaire Boehm
Bates Banjo Club
Vocal Solo — For You Alone Ghecl
George A. Tibbetts^ '12
Soldiers' Chorus from Faust, Act IV. Gounod
Bates Glee Club
Mandolin Solo — Caprice de Concert Seigel
Mr. Brunner (Bates)
Dutch Kiddies Trinkaus
Bowdoin Mandolin Club
Nottingham Hunt Billiard
Bates Glee Club
Cornet Solo Selected
Joseph H. Newell, '12
Waltzes from the Pink Lady Ivan Caryll
Bates Mandolin Club
Reading Selected
Arthur D. Welch, '12
Violin Solo Selected
Mr. Davis (Bates)
Popular Medley Trinkaus
Bowdoin Mandolin Club
Finale, Stein Song Hovey
Bates-Bowdoin
College Botes
Heath, '09, was on the campus last Tuesday.
Knowlton, '15, and Fish, '15, have been sick for
several days.
The Lewlston Journal of Feb. 27 contained a
picture of the Bugle Board.
John E. Dunphy, '12, is coaching the debating
team of Portland High School.
A photograph of the Phillipian Club was taken
at Webber's on Friday, March i.
Dr. Frank Donahue visited his brothers, Paul and
Louis Donahue, 1914, last Sunday.
W. E. Montgomery, 'ex-12, of Levviston, was on
the campus several days last week.
Percy C. Buck, '13, was initiated into the Delta
Upsilon Fraternity, Wednesday, February 28.
Clarence E. Robinson, '15, was initiated into the
Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, Wednesday, March 6.
K. A. Loring, '15, who has been confined to his
bed with the grippe for several days, is now about
again.
A program of vocal solos by Miss Rose Tyler
of Portland, Aesthetic Dancing by Miss Miriam
Worcester Kimball, and piano solos by Miss Wood-
ruff will be presented by the Saturday Club on Sat-
urday evening, March 9, at the Unitarian Church.
Omar P. Badger, '14, is ill at his home in Skow-
hegan.
Professor Nixon, who has been ill for several
days, has resumed his classes.
Freshman squad practice began last Monday
night. The hour for practice is, temporarily, 8 p.m.
William T. Livingston, '15, has been forced to go
to his home in Bridgton because of an attack of the
grippe.
The Bowdoin Glee Club is to give a concert at
the new Masonic Temple in Portland on Monday,
March 11.
Paul Donahue, '14, was compelled to spend sev-
eral days at home last week because of an attack of
the grippe.
A large track squad is practicing daily under
Coach Marsh. Between 40 and 50 men are out for
the various events.
The New England banquet of Zeta Psi Frater-
nity will be held at the American House, Boston, on
Saturday, March 9.
Pictures of the managers and captains of the
Bowdoin athletic teams appeared in the Portland
Sunday Telegram last week.
Prof. Files spoke upon Good Roads at the second
of a series of business dinners of the Portland
Board of Trade on Wednesday evening, Feb. 28.
Prof. Files gave a lecture illustrated with views
of Switzerland, at the Pine Street Congregational
Church in Lewiston on Thursday evening, Feb. 29.
The Brunswick High School relay team is prac-
ticing daily under Coach Marsh for their race
against Edward Little High School at the Indoor
Meet.
Warren Eddy, '14, who has been out of college
since Christmas on account of illness, was on
the campus last Thursday. He expects to come back
to college in two weeks.
On March 13 and 14 the New England Intercol-
legiate Association will meet in Boston. Alan Cole,
'14, who is vice-president of the association, will rep-
resent Bowdoin.
D. Earl Gardner, '13, of Calais, represented the
Bowdoin Chapter of Beta Theta Pi, at the New Ertg-
land Convention, held at the Hotel Vendome, Bos-
ton, on March I.
At the annual meeting of the Maine Interde-
nominational Commission, held in Waterville on
Tuesday, Feb. 27, President Hyde was elected presi-
dent of the organization.
The Bowdoin and University of Maine Chapters
of Beta Theta Pi fraternity will hold their second
annual joint banquet at the Augusta House, Au-
gusta, to-morrow evening, March 9.
Heni-y Adie Briggs, '12, of Gorham, has been
elected captain of the fencing team. On Wednesday
the first bout was held with the Pianelli Club of Au-
gusta, and on Saturday, March 9, the first big bout
is held with Harvard.
The first accident in the work of the construction!
of the new gymnasium was suffered by Harvey Jor-
dan, who, while working in one of the trenches re-'
cently, had the misfortune to break his leg by beingj
caught in a pile of earth.
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Prof. Lunt served as one of the judges of the de-
bate on Friday evening. March i, betwen Portland
High School and Cony High School of Augusta,
which was held under the direction of the Bovvdoin
Debating League.
On Thursday evening, March 7, the Brunswick
Dramatic Club presented as its first play , "The
Amazons," by Arthur W. Pinero. The play, which
was given in the town hall, was given as a closed
performance, admission being limited to members of
the club.
President MacCormick, '12, and General Secre-
tary Fifield of the Y. M. C. A., have been away for
a few days this week. Last Sunday President Mac-
Cormick spoke in the Congregational Church at
Conway, N. H., and Monday he and Mr. Fifield or-
ganized a Y. M. C. A. at Fryeburg Academy.
The third College Tea given by the ladies of the
Faculty will be held in Alumni Room, Hubbard Hall,
on Friday, March 15, from 3.30 to 5.30 p.m. Students
desiring to have invitations sent to their friends will
leave names, together with their visiting cards, with
Miss Boardman at the Cataloguing Room in the
Library.
At the meeting of the Student Council on Mon-
day evening, March 4, details of the Blanket Tax
were discussed and the probable dates for the annual
College Rally and for a Smoker, were chosen. The
date of the Rally is April 16. The Smoker comes
March 26. College matters will be discussed and it
is considered best not to invite sub-freshmen.
A new feature and also one which "took well" in
the concerts of the Glee Club was introduced by the
"Pall Mall Quartette," composed of "Artie" Welch,
"Doc" Smith, Seward Marsh, and "Tug" Eaton.
The selections rendered paid tribute to Colgate's
Shaving Soap, Bangor's Pine Tree TafTy, Old-
town's Birchbark Canoes, Skowhegan's Sharp Edge
Tools, Fairfield's Fibre Pie-plates, and Hallowell's
Ladies' Shoes.
On Friday evening, March i, in the series of de-
bates under the direction of the Bowdoin Debating
League, Cony High School of Augusta, defeated
Portland High School, and Lewiston High School
defeated Wilton Academy; the final debate will be
between Cony High and Lewiston High. The ques-
tion was : "Resolved, That a tariff for revenue only
would be better for the United States than a pro-
tective tariff."
ITntercoUeGiate Botes
CALENDAR
Friday^ March 8
8.00 Bowdoin-Bates Musical Clubs' Joint-Concert
at Lewiston.
Sunday, M.\rch 10
10.4s Morning service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
5.00 Sunday Chapel, conducted by President Hyde.
Monday, March ii
7.00 Normal Class meets in Hubbard Hall.
Tuesday, March 12
8.00 Musical Clubs' concert at Portland.
Thursday, March 14
7.00 Y. M. C. A. student meeting.
Electric lights have been installed around the
board track at Cornell so that runners may practice
at night.
Judge Lindsey of the Denver Juvenile Court says
college men are the biggest crooks, but he qualifies
this statement by saying that some of the best men
he has found have been college men.
In the recent straw-ballot at Yale, Taft received
470 votes, while Wilson was second with 211 votes.
As a result of the organization of a swimming
team at Annapolis, there are less than one hundred
midshipmen who do not take part in some kind of
organized sport.
It is said that President Hibben of Princeton is
strongly opposed to compulsory chapel.
The oldest student at West Virginia University
is a farmer of SQ.
In the Harvard Graduate Schools Bowdoin is
particularly well represented. In the graduate school
of Arts and Sciences only one college save Harvard
herself, has more men than Bowdoin, that being
Yale. In the Applied Science department Bowdoin
is represented and but four other colleges have any
more. Bowdoin is also well represented in the Law
School, ranking next to Williams among the smaller
institutions. In the Medical School we have six
men, and only six other college.s have larger repre-
sentations. There are in all about thirty-five Bow-
doin men in the Harvard Graduate Schools.
Bowdoin students will be glad to know that the
work on the new theatre which Brunswick is to have
will begin immediately. It is to be situated on the
corner of Maine and Cumberland streets.
The first chess match between the faculty and the
undergraduate chess team at Yale took place recently.
There were nine matches, two of which were drawn.
The faculty finally won by a single point, after a
match of 4 1-2 hours. President Hadley was de-
feated by his opponent, E. E. Stearns, '12, of Cleve-
land.
Of the forty-nine men who are entitled to wear
the University "P" at Princeton, ten came from
St. Paul's School, Concord. Hill School and Exeter
tie for second place with six men each.
During the coming year, teams representing 22
colleges belonging to the National Rifle Association,
will hold matches to shoot for the Inter-collegiate
championship of the country.
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A club has been formed among the athletes at
Iowa for the purpose of keeping the members in
good standing in their studies Those in danger of
flunking will be tutored by the "sharks."
According to statistics taken by the Yale News,
there are 461 student publications being issued at the
colleges and universities of the country. The great
majority of these are monthlies, there being 286 of
these issued; 85 colleges publish weeklies; 40 col-
leges publish bi-weeklies, and only 19 publish a daily
paper.
"Mike" Murphy, the famous athletic trainer of
the University of Pennsylvania, has announced his
intention to resign at the end of the present college
year.
A new rule has gone into effect at Columbia,
which forbids smoking in any form.
Purdue has decided to give a gold medal to all
students who represent the college for two or more
years in athletics
Hlumni Department
'40. — Rev. Dr. Edward Robie, the venera-
ble pastor of the Congregational Church of
Greenland, N. H., celebrated the 60th anni-
versary of his pastorate on Feb. 24. The
church over which Dr. Robie presides was
organized in 1707. Dr. Robie is the seventh
pastor of the church and he enjoys the dis-
tinction of having filled only one pastorale
since being ordained to the ministry.
Rev. Dr. Robie was born in Gorham, Me.,
April 5, 1821, being the son of Thomas S.
and Clarissa Robie. In 1851, he was ordained
to the ministry in Greenland, and immediately
became pastor of the Congregational Church
over which he now presides and where he
preaches regularly every Sunday. The fol-
lowing year, he married Miss Susan P. Jame-
son. In January, 1878, her death occured.
In 1876, the degree of D. D. was conferred
upon Dn Robie by Dartmouth College.
'22. — Hon. A. L. Crocker of Minneapolis
has been recently appointed chairman of the
Minnesota Waterways Commission.
'74. — From the estate of Ira S. Locke, the
sum of $5000 has just been given to the Chil-
dren's Hospital of Portland, Maine. This
sum was given by Mr. Locke in his will to the
Maine General Hospital for the orthopedic
out-patient department then maintained by it;
but at the time of Mr. Locke's decease the
Maine General Hospital had ceased to main-
tain such a department. Mrs. Locke, as
executrix of her husband's will, wishing to
carry out as nearly as possible his benevolent
design, has therefore given the money to the '
Children's Hospital.
'05. — Mr. Stuart O. Symonds of Portland
was admitted to the bar February 28 before
Judge Bird. Mr. Symonds studied law in the
offices of Snow, Cook and Plutchinson. He
was examined before the board of legal ex-
aminers at the last meeting in Bangor, at
which time he passed his examinations. His
formal permission to practice came Wednes-
day. Mr. Symonds is a member of the Psi
Upsilon fraternity.
Announcement has been received of the
formation of a partnership by Charles H.
Gilman, '82, and Henry Lewis, '05, under the
firm name of Charles H. Gilman & Company
for the transaction of a general business in
investment securities.
'11. — The engagement of W. C. Allen of
Boston to Miss Marguerite Fitzgerald of
Maysville, Kentucky, has been announced.
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VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MARCH 15, 1912
NO. 29
INDOOR MEET
On next Frida}', March 22, the spring ath-
letic activities of the college are begun by the
annual Indoor Meet. Trials will be held in the
gymnasium on Saturday, March 16, at 3.30
P.M. in the following events: High jump, pole
vault, and shot-put. From the men competing
the five best men in each event will be chosen
to compete in the meet. All entries must be
made by Saturday, March 16; ten men may
be entered for each class relay race, eight of
whom will run, and in all other events six
men from each class may be entered, four of
whom are to compete.
The Indoor iVTeet will open Friday after-
noon at 3.30 with three out of door events on
the board track: the 300 yard run, 780 yard
run, and mile run. The rest of the meet will
be held in Town Hall in the evening and will
begin promptly at 7.30. Following is the
program of events :
Fencing Drill. Class of 1912.
Class Relay Race. 1912 vs. 1914.
Relay Race. Lewiston High vs. Edward
Little High. (The winner to race the win-
ner of the Brunswick High-Morse High
Race) .
20- Yard Dash. Trial Heats.
Relay Race. Bates 19 15 vs. Bowdoin
1915-
Running High Jump.
Broadsword Drill. Class of 1913.
Class Relay. 1913 vs. 1915.
Putting 16 lb. Shot.
20- Yard Dash. Semi-finals.
Relay Race. Brunswick High vs. Morse
High.
2S-Yard ITurdles. Trial Heats.
20- Yard Dash. Finals.
Dumb Bell Drill. Class of 19:4.
25-Yard Hurdles. Semi-finals.
Pole Vault.
Relay Race. Finals. (Between winners
of High School races.)
25-Yard Hurdles. Finals.
Indian Club Drill. Class of 191 5.
Class Relay Races. Finals. (The pre-
vious winners to run for first and second
places. The previous losers to run for third
place. )
Following are the officers of the meet :
Referee: Dr. W. W. Bolster, Lewiston.
Judges of Drills: Dr. Copeland, Prof.
Hutchins, Prof. Alvord.
Judges of Floor and Track Events: Prof.
Nixon, Wm. F. Marsh, V. S. Blanchard of
Bates.
Timers : Dr. Whittier, Dr. Loomis, L. Mc-
Farland, '11.
Measurers: S. B. Furbish, A. W. Wandtke,
'10, E. O. Leigh, '12.
Starter: B. C. Morrill.
Scorer: E. G. Fifield, '11.
Announcer: W. A. MacCormick, '12.
Clerk of Course: H. L. Robinson, '11.
Assistant Clerks of Course : G. W. Badger,
'15 and M. H. Kuhn, '15.
In an interview with Captain R. D. Cole of
the 1912 track team he stated that the entries
for the senior class in the dashes would proba-
bly be McKenney, R. Cole, Smith, and Kern.
In the 300-yard run the entries will probably
be Cole and Gray and in the 780-yard run will
be Wilson, who ought to make a good race.
The probable men in the mile-run are Timber-
lake and Auten; high jump, Mifflin; hurcUes,
Smith, McKenney and R. Cole ; shot put,
Kern and Smith ; pole vault. Smith. The
seniors having won the cup twice, it is neces-
sary that they win it this -time in order to hold
it as the property of the class.
Captain Emery, of the 1913 team, said that
the juniors are rather weak in the weights and
pole vault, but in the runs they ought to make
up to put them in the lead. Hall is in the
mile run ; Emery and Walker in the 780-yard
run ; ITaskell and Skolfield ought to "figure" in
the 300-yard run ; C. Tuttle will enter the hur-
dles ; and Skolfield will run in the 20-yard
dash.
Captain Donahue of the 19 14 team stated
that he could not name his entries but that the
sophomores intend to do their best for the
cup.
Captain Smith of the 1915 team, said that
as most of his men have never competed be-
fore in an indoor meet, it is rather uncertain
what place they will get, but that they hope to
make a good showing.
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CONCERT IN PORTLAND
On Monday evening, in Pythian Temple,
Portland, the Bowdoin Musical Clubs gave a
concert similar to those given in the recent
Maine trip. The audience was large and
appreciative. Tibbetts, '12, who gave a tenor
solo, and Newell, '12, who played a cor-
net solo, were features of the evening. "Artie"
Welch, who gave selected readings, was just
as popular as ever, and the audience called him
back again and again.
The concert was given under the auspices
of the Alpha Delta Sigma fraternity of Port-
land High School. At the close of the pro-
gram an informal dance took place, in which
a large number participated.
BOWDOIN FENCING
On Friday afternoon, March 8, the Bow-
doin fencing team lost to Harvard in the Hem-
enway Gymnasium, Cambridge, the score be-
ing eight bouts to one. Bowdoin's one point
came in the second round when Briggs de-
feated G. B. Wilbur of Harvard, after an ex-
tra period. In the other two rounds the Har-
vard men made a clean sweep :
The summary :
First round: Boyd (H) defeated Briggs
(B); Wilbur (H) defeated Warren (B);
Loomis (H) defeated Holt (B).
Second round : Briggs defeated Wilbur ;
Loomis defeated Warren ; Boyd defeated Holt.
Third Round : Loomis defeated Briggs ;
Boyd defeated Warren ; Wilbur defeated Holt.
On the following (Saturday) afternoon the
Bowdoin team held a series of informal bouts
with fencers of the Fenway Studio in Back
Bay, Boston. Nine or ten bouts were played,
but no formal record of the score was kept.
The Fenway team was in excellent condition
and easily excelled the Bowdoin men, though
the latter showed good fight.
MEETING OF N. E. I. A. A.
Bowdoin was represented at the recent
meeting of the New England Intercollegiate
Athletic Association in Springfield by Alan
Cole '14, Assistant Manager of the Track
Team. At the meeting plans for the annual
spring meet were discussed. The meet will be
held May 17 and 18 at Springfield under the
auspices of the Springfield Intercollegiate
Alumni Committee, of which H. P. Chapman,
Bowdoin, '06, is a member. The referee of
the meet will be announced in two weeks. It
was voted to change the name of the Associa-
tion, so that "Intercollegiate" should be spelled
as two words, "Inter Collegiate." A committee
was appointed to inspect cross-country courses
for the spring cross-country race. Cedric
Crowell, '13, manager of the Track Team,
has been elected Vice-President of the Asso-
ciation, in place of Assistant Manager Cole,
who was elected through a misunderstanding.
Cole was elected to the executive committee.
IBIS LECTURE
Professor W. W. Lawrence, Ph.,D., Bow-
doin, '98, of Columbia University, will lecture
to-night in Memorial Hall at eight o'clock.
His subject will be "Maurice Maeterlinck: Old
Tales for New."
BOWDOIN CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS
At its annual meeting in March the Bow-
doin Club of Boston, elected officers for 1912-
13 as follows: President, John Clair Minot,
'96; Secretary, Geo. E. Kimball, '04; Assistant
Secretary, Geo. P. Hyde, '08; Executive Com-
mittee, Dr. C. R. C. Borden, Med., '96 ; J. E.
Hicks, '95 ; Francis S. Dane, '96, and Edward
Stanwood, Jr., '98. The club, which is an
inside circle of the general alumni association
of Boston and vicinity, meets the first Friday
evening of each month at the University Club,
and for the past year the attendance has
ranged from 60 to 100. There are no dues, and
any alumnus or former student is welcomed
to these informal monthly dinners. The club
has been in existence nearly 30 years, and no
other college has maintained so long a similar
organization in Boston. For the past year the
president has been Ellis Spear, Jr., '98, and the
secretary, Dr. J. A. Furbish, '02.
CLASS ELECTIONS
The Class of 191 2 have elected Arthur
Deehan Welch of Portland, Vice-President of
the class in place of George F. Wilson, who
has left college to join the Toronto team of
the Eastern League. William Holt of Bridg-
ton, has been elected squad leader and Charles
F. Adams of Auburn, class pianist.
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The Class of 191 3 have elected John C.
Carr of Frankfort, squad leader, and W.
Fletcher Twombly of Reading, Mass., class
pianist.
The Class of 1914 held a meeting, Wednes-
day, March 6, and elected Francis T. Garland
of Bangor, squad leader. Herbert M. Shea
of Flallowell, was elected class pianist.
JOINT BANQUET OF MAINE AND BOWDOIN
CHAPTERS OF BETA THETA PI
The second annual joint banquet of Beta
Eta chapter of Maine, and Beta Sigma chapter
of Bowdoin of Beta Theta Pi was held last
Saturday evening at the new Augusta House
at Augusta. The members of both chapters
were out in a body, and a large number of
alumni of both colleges were on hand for the
festivities.
After the banquet, a number of speeches
were made on matters of vital interest to the
colleges and the fraternity. Clarence L. New-
ton, Wesleyan, '02, a member of the board of
trustees of the fraternity, acted as toast-mas-
ter. The other speakers were Henry D. Evans,
Bowdoin, '01 R. H. Flynt, Maine, '04, of Au-
gusta, Mayor Pattangall of Waterville, Me.,
VV, H. Parsons, Maine, '11, J. H. Newell, Bow-
doin, '12, D. P. Washburn, Maine, '12, and
Clarence A. Brown Bowdoin, '14.
COLLEGE TEA
The third and last College Tea of the year
was held in the Alumni Room of Hubbard
Hall, from 3.30 to 5.30, Friday afternoon.
The room was beautifully adorned with spring
flowers and bandrols. Not only many Bruns-
wick people and students, but .also several vis-
itors from various parts of the State, enjoyed
the occasion. The caterer was Grant, of Lew-
iston.
The reception committee consisted of Mrs.
William E. Lunt, Mrs. William H. Davis, Mrs.
George T. Files, Mrs. Orren C. Hormell, Mrs.
Henry Johnson, and Mrs. William A. Moody.
The introduction committee was composed of
Mrs. G. A. Brooks, Mrs. Gardner Cram, and
Miss Belle Smith. At the punch table, were
Mrs. Wilmot B. Mitchell and Mrs. Paul
Nixon ; tea table, Mrs. Frederick W. Brown
and Miss Chapman; coffee table, Mrs. Chas.
C. Hutchins and Mrs. Frank E. Woodruff.
Brunswick young ladies assisted in serving
the refreshments.
THE NEW ENGLAND INTERCOLLEGIATE
ORATORICAL LEAGUE
The third competition in the New England
Intercollegiate Oratorical League will be held
in Providence on Thursday, May 2. In this
competitive speaking one representative from
each of the five colleges — Amherst, Bowdoin,
Brown, Wesleyan, and Williams — will deliver
an original oration not more than 1800 words
in length. A Preliminary Speaking will be held
in Memorial Hall on Wednesday, April 17,
when a committee of the Faculty will select the
speaker to represent Bowdoin. Commence-
ment parts or '68 parts may be used in this
competition, and it is open to any student in
college.
All students who wish to enter this compe-
tition will please give their names to Professor
Mitchell not later than Saturday, March 30th.
Y. M. C. A. MEETING
At the Y. M. C. A. meeting Thursday evening,
March 7, Mr. William I. Cole, '81, of the South
End Settlement House of Boston, gave the sixth of
the series of talks on the "Practical Applications
of Christianity." Mr. Cole took for his subject,
"Christianity and Poverty" and spoke in part as fol-
lows :
"In my travels abroad, I once saw, in a little
Italian village, a picture representing the marriage
of St. Francis and the Lady Poverty. When I was
asked to speak before the Bowdoin Y. M. C. A. and
thought of my subject, I remembered this picture
and how well it represented the espousal by the
church of the cause of the poor. But this antedates
St. Francis by many centuries. The duty of reliev-
ing the poor was insisted on by the whole line of
prophets, and it has come down to us, reiterated
through many centuries. At first the duty was
mainly alms-giving. St. Francis was the forerunner
of modern charity. When he went to a town, he
did not ask for the rich and influential but for the
lepers and outcasts. Modern charity has come from
the early injunction to give to the poor, but it has a
broader duty, to remedy and to work for the future.
Modern charity puts emphasis on the benefit which
the recipient derives and discourages indiscriminate
giving, which tends to increase what it tries to cure.
Poverty must be cured and it is a problem how to
do it. Pauperism is different, a disease which
should not be tolerated. The old-fashioned work-
house has its place as a reformatory for those who
can work and an asylum for those for cannot. Pov-
erty is an educational and moral problem. Most
men who are unemployed, are so because they are
unemployable through ignorance of how to work.
Education must lift the burden of poverty from the
poor. The church, too, has a vast responsibihty.
The burden of poverty can be lifted when men are
willing to do it and it is the duty of the church to
create in men the willing will."
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EDITORIAL BOARD
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L. E. JONES. 1913
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F. D. WISH, Jr., 1913
H. C. L. ASHEY, 1912
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The Orient is glad to re-
A Plan ceive coinmunications at
all times from the alumni,
faculty, and undergraduates. Such letters
show signs of progress in all college affairs.
It is especially glad to print this week a plan
for making J3owdoin more democratic along
fraternity lines. The sentiment expressed in
the letter from a "fraternity man" is certainly
that which should be fostered by all who liold
the name of Bowdoin dear. Although we do
not say whether or not the proposed plan is
the best, we do agree with the writer that the
relations between the fraternity and non-fra-
ternity men of the college, should be closer.
Other colleges throughout the country have
faced this problem and have solved it in a way
similar to the one advocated. One of the col-
leges in our own State has recently organized
a club to provide better social conditions for
the non-fraternity men and to promote the best
interests of the college in general. That Bow-
doin should make better provision for the men
who are in the minority, here, there can be no
doubt. The communication tells its own story
and every undergraduate should give it se-
rious consideration.
A general criticism of the
Are We Democratic? inefficiency of certain un-
dergraduate organizations
in Bowdoin is based on the fact that a few men
hold too many offices of responsibility. We
find here that one man has many honors
heaped upon him by his fellow-students which
although he might deserve, he could well do
without. As a result of this, one man may
either be at the head of or closely connected
with at least five or six college activities all at
one time in his course. This has an evil eft'ect
which is two-fold for in the first place it puts
too much strain upon the individual, and in the
secoftd place it keeps other men from taking
an active interest in the various activities.
The man who occupies five or six positions in
athletic, literary, or social organizations finds J
that he cannot give equal attention to all. One I
organization has to suffer at the expense of an- •
other. Moreover, as it is in Bowdoin to-day
the few men who are actively engaged in man-
aging undergraduate affairs, are forced to sac-
rifice to a large extent the attention and time
which is due their academic courses. This is
a fact which is often regarded as insignificant
except by the individual concerned.
Then, too, Bowdoin stands for democracy.
Why sliould nqt the undergraduate honors be
more evenly distributed? If one man was al-
lowed a limited number of interests for which
he would be responsible to the student body,
he would put more time, energy, and attention
into the management of those interests. Our
organizations would then become more ef-
fective and conditions could be gradually im-
proved. By our undemocratic choice of lead-
ers many men are kept out of office who would
make efficient managers, editors, leaders, and
committee men. If given an opoprtunity to
serve, more men could show their worth in
academic life. It is one of the duties of a
college to train all its members and not merely
a feiv to become good citizens in later life.
Why shouldn't Bowdoin foster more closely
the spirit of democracy of which she
boasts and use more men in the manage-
ment of undergraduate affairs? In this way
the scholastic standing of the college would be
raised and undergraduate organizations made
more efficient.
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A COMMUNICATION
To the Editor of the Orient:
We men of Bowdoin pride ourselves on our
democracy. We like to think that every fellow is
judged on his own merits without regard to his
wealth, or social position. Yet true democracy can-
not exist unless all men have an equal chance.
Equality of opportunity is necessary before we can
judge men on their merits.
How can we say that A is a better fellow than
B, if B has not had as many advantages as A? And
it is the duty of the college, which includes the
faculty, alumni, and students, to give to every man
as nearly an equal chance as possible. This equality
of opportunity is found in the class room. Here
every man is judged for just what he is. Yet in the
vital part of a college man's life, his associations,
this is not found. "Man is a social animal" and his
tendency is to form associations and link himself
with others. He does not attain the highest degree
of efficiency until he does. This is the principle that
lies back of our fraternities. They are the most im-
portant factors in our life here. We eat, sleep,
study, and loaf there. It is there we form our closest
friendships. They are the strong ties that will bind
us to the college in after years.
Yet such an opportunity as this should not be
denied to any one. If there are advantages in the
mere gathering together of fellows of diverse types,
why should not all have them?
But there are over 45 fellows in this college who
do not have this privilege. They are not having a
fair chance. Very few of them "make" teams or
collegiate organizations. This is not so because they
are less able than the fraternity men, but because
they lack the force that drives men out for college
activities. And if they do go out, they are apt to
feel that the entire college is against them. Yet this
is so because they are unorganized. "In union there
is strength," without it a man feels as if he were
alone.
College activities, however, are but superficial at
best. The real life of the college is far deeper. The
intimate knowledge and friendship of a few fellows,
the wide acqviaintanceship with all in college, linked
by the tie of old Bowdoin. These are the biggest
things in our lives here. And from this, the non-
frat man is, to a large extent, barred. There is no
common meeting ground of either place or ideals,
where he can meet his fellow non-fraternity men,
or the fraternity men themselves. For, deny it tho'
we may, the fact of one man belonging to a frater-
nity and the other man not belonging to any frater-
nity, is something that comes up between two fel-
lows, and, unless they are unusually frank, prevents
a complete understanding. The non-fraternity man,
therefore, lacks the big means of social contact that
exists here. His knowledge of the men in college is
limited. And because of this, he must inevitably
feel that, to a large extent, he is alone.
Nor is this all. Not only as an undergraduate is
he deprived of much of a fellow's life, but to an
even greater degree does he suffer after he gradu-
ates. He loves the college just as much as any man,
yet there is not the tie to bind him to Bowdoin
which a fraternity affords. Where can he go when
he comes back to commencement? Investigation
shows that a very small percentage of non-frat men
ever come back. There is no reason why they should.
All others have pleasant ties to renew, but for them
there is only some Jonesome boarding place. Hence
the man drifts farther and farther apart from the
old college.
This loss to the non-frat man is a big
loss to the Bowdoin which we love. Her
men are the greatest asset which she has. And
it is her loss if her alumni weaken in their devotion,
or if her sons go forth from the doors deprived of
some of the best things in the life here.
The importance of this problem will increase as
years go by. For we are going to grow in num-
bers, and consequently, there will be an even greater
number of non-frat men than now. Yet they will
always be in the great minority, and hence will
suffer.
As Boss Tweed said, "What are you going to
do about it?" Any successful movement must be
the result of co-operative effort on the part of both
fraternity and non-fraternity men. We have all
felt that there was something that was decidedly evil
in the present fraternity system, but have taken no
definite steps to solve it. The more this question
is threshed over, the nearer we can approach a solu-
tion. To start the ball rolling, I should like to
propose this plan, as a basis for discussion.
My plan is this : A club open to all non-frater-
nity men, having a house where an eating club could
be maintained, and where some of the fellows could
room. All non-frat graduates would be consid-
ered members and membership in this club should
not prevent a man from entering a fraternity. He
should be free to enter one, if an opportunity to do
so came.
This club could give all the real advantages
which a fraternity affords. The non-frat men would
be organized, there would be a common meeting
place, for both graduate and under-graduate. The
social life would be strong and clean. Every man
would have his college home.
Clubs similar to this have been instituted in many
of the colleges, Wesleyan and Tufts being the most
notable examples. In those colleges ,they are among
the strongest. Men quite generally refuse to join
fraternities, preferring to belong to the club.
This plan may not be the one which the fellows
will favor. Yet there is some remedy, and we
should find it. We fight for old Bowdoin on the
athletic field, but the greatest battles for her are
within our walls. Let us all, whether fraternity men
or not, do our level best to establish true democracy
here, and give to every man an equal chance.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
President Hyde spoke Sunday afternoon in chapel
from the text, "Freely ye have received, freely give."
He said : "College Ufe affords an excellent opportu-
nity to follow out Christ's teaching in these words.
It is much that we receive, and very little that we
are called on to give'. For the paltry sum of $75,
the student gets the advantage of the great endow-
ment fund, the services of the two dozen men who
form the faculty, the benefit of the work some 2,000
men who have gone before have done, and countless
benefits. Once in a while there is an opportunity
for us to give, and then it is a pleasure to do so, as
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in the case of new buildings. Practically all the
student body have a share in the giving for the new
gymnasium. There are other ways to help the col-
lege. At a recent meeting of teachers, the oldest of
them said that the students themselves can do more
to build up a college than the faculty. Prof. Lunt
has suggested a plan to you whereby you caxi help
with regard to next year's entering class. These
are some of the opportunities to pay for what comes
as the fruit of the toil of hundreds who have gone
out. In the same way as in college, so in the great
world outside, we should plan to act so that we shall
leave it a little better for the part we have taken
in the affairs of the world."
REPUBLICAN CLUB HAS SPEAKER
On Friday evening, March 9, in Memorial Hall,
the Hon. Asher C. Hinds, Representative in Con-
gress from the First Maine District, spoke to a
large audience on the subject of "National Political
Issues.' He declared that the decrease of the value
of gold was one of the causes of the present high
cost of living, and defended the protective tariff and
other doctrines of the Republican party. Mr. Hinds
d(id not speak in detail of the Republican candidates
for the Presidential nomination, and only brought
in President Taft's name in speaking of men who
hold positions of trust in Washington. He de-
fended what his party has done in the past and is
doing now, and in addition spoke substantially as
follows :
"I speak as a Republican to Republicans on what
the Republican party is doing to-day. From history
and experience you know that it is the great con-
structive party of the nation. Ten and twenty years
mark the span of usefulness of such parties as gath-
ered around Cromwell in England, and around
Washington and Hamilton in the United States.
For fifty years the Republican party has lived as an
example of constructive statesmanship, and has
made the United States one of the greatest nations,
agriculturally, industrially, and commercially, in the
world. It has brought more results than can be
found in the history of any party in any free
country." The speaker declared that the Republi-
can party is still marching in the path of its found-
ers, and has carefully studied and knows the ground
on which it is walking.
Mr. Hinds then took up the matter of trusts, ex-
plaining the prosecution of the Standard Oil Com-
pany and the Powder Trust, and the thirty suits
brought by the government against other combina-
tions. He spoke in detail about the American Sugar
Company, telling of its formation in 1891, its suc-
cess in gaining control of the beet sugar industry
in the West, and how, through suits brought up in
the New York courts by the United States govern-
ment, the company is now giving up its control of
the beet sugar refineries. This same warfare is be-
ing fought against other trusts. The government
has brought about a chance for competition, but
not destructive competition, for capital should be
allowed to combine to secure the most satisfaction
as far as cheapness is concerned.
Another question discussed was that of the high
cost of living. The Democrats have claimed that
the tariff is respon.sible, but since they have agi-
tated this question before the people, the cost of
living has not been materially reduced. Mr. Hinds
explained that since 48 out of 100 people now live in
cities, material must be stored up there, and men
must be allowed to do this. In attempting to explain
the cause of the high cost of living, he said that he
subscribed to EngHsh papers and found that, even
. with the absence of any Republican party, of any
trusts — for the English say they have no trusts —
and of any tariff, England was not so well oft' in
living as are the people of this country. The most
important cause of the high cost of living, a theory
advanced by the "London Economist," and with
-which Mr. Hinds agrees, is the increased production
of gold, which has been brought about by the dis-
covery of the cyanide process of extracting that
metal from its ore.
Mr. Hinds next discussed the protective tariff
and its opposing doctrine, tariff for revenue only.
The Republican party, he declared, wished no
change until the question had been thoroughly and
carefully studied, as well as the effect of any change
on the industry involved. The party has been grossly
misrepresented by its opponents in the last fifty
years, but has lived through it and will continue to
do so.
Representative Hinds's address was delivered un-
der the auspices of the Bowdoin College Republican
Club, and is the first of a series of addresses which
the club is planning. Mr. Hinds was introduced by
William R. Spinney, '13, as president of the club, and
the speaker was excellently received, being frequent-
ly interrupted by applause.
HOW THE HIWALE FUND STANDS
March 12, 1912 : Total amount subscribed, $289 10
Of this there have been paid, 204.00
Can't we make this year's subscription at least
$300? Hi wale needs it and he is worthy of our
hearty support.
A letter was received from him a short time ago.
It was dated Feb. 9, and he writes that he has just
recovered from an attack of the terrible plague of
India. He wishes to be remembered to "all the
Bowdoin men."
Checks for Hiwale can be made payable to Ken-
neth Churchill.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES
On next Thursday evening, March 21, the last
speaker on the program for the year will be here.
He is Mr. Robert H. Gardiner of Gardiner, a prom-
inent lawyer and one of the leading Episcopal lay-
men in the state. He will speak on the Laymen's
Missionary Movement with which he has been
closely connected We are very fortunate that the
program can be closed with such a strong man.
The third of the Lenten meetings will be held
Wednesday, March 20, under the leadership of Rev.
J. H. Quint.
A deputation was sent to Kent's Hill last week
to interest the men there in the work of the Y. M.
C. A. Those who went were E. G. Fifield, Secre-
tary, W. A. MacCormick and A. S. Merrill.
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dollcQC Botes
Wandtke, 'lo, was on the campus last week.
A Republican Club has been organized at Colby.
A meeting of the Student Council was held
Tuesday evening.
The Masque and Gown picture was taken at
Webber's Thursday noon.
Professor H. L. Chapman is improving, and
hopes to be out this week.
Pictures of the site of the new gymnasium were
taken by Webber last Monday.
Otto R. F. Jones, '15, who has been ill at his
home in Skowhegan, has returned to college.
A meeting of the B. B. B. Club was held at the
Delta Kappa Epsilon house on Tuesday evening.
On Tuesday evening, March 12, a meeting was
held for the organization of a New Hampshire Club.
A new drop curtain has been purchased for the
Town Hall stage. It is of deep green and makes
an important improvement to the stage equipment.
In response to a circular sent to the graduates
of the college there have been numerous requests
for the Address List of Bowdoin Graduates which
has been recently compiled and published.
A series of Lenten meetings is being held in the
Y. M. C. A. room each Wednesday noon during
Lent. The dates and speakers are as follows :
March 20, Rev. J. H. Quint; March 27, Prof.
W. B. Mitchell.
A special meeting of the Class of 1915 was held
in the Gymnasium Monday morning. It was voted
that seventy-five cents be collected from each mem-
ber of the class to pay for class squad expenses at
the Indoor Meet.
Within a few days President Robert J. Aley of
the University of Maine will reach a decision re-
garding the offer that he has been considering for
several months to become president of the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma.
A delegation from the Y. M. C. A., consisting of
President MacCorraick, '12; Ernest G. Fifield and
Arthur S. Merrill, '14. were at Kent's Hill, over
Sunday, on Y. M. C. A. work.
On Wednesday, March 20, a four-man relay team
from the Freshman class will race a team from the
Bates Freshman class at the Bates Indoor Meet in
Lewiston. The four men and alternate chosen are :
MacWilliams, Stetson, Roberts, Prescott, and Coxe.
On a card to one of the members of the faculty
one of the older graduates of the college, William
Gray Nowell of the Class of 1859, states that he has
been skating three times this winter. This is a bet-
ter record than some of the undergraduates can
present.
Prof. Files took a prominent part in the annual
town meeting held on Monday, Mar. 4, by introduc-
ing a plan by which Maine Street is to be improved
at an expense of not more than $15,000, which was
carried by a vote of 107 to 46. Prof. Files and Prof.
Alvord were appointed to the committee on perma-
nent roads, which is to have charge of the improve-
ment of Maine Street, and Prof. Moody was ap-
pointed a member of the Committee of Twelve.
Cedric R. Crowell, '13, Merton W. Greene, '13,
Harry Faulkner, '15, and Jacob Weintz, '15, will take
part in "A Russian Honeymoon," a play to be given
in Town Hall on Monday evening, March 18, under
the auspices of the Madisses Club of the First Par-
ish Church.
Professor Wilmot B. Mitchell represented the
college at the annual banquet of the Bowdoin
Alumni Association of Aroostook County, held in
Houlton, March 6. During his trip to Aroostook
County he also spoke to the schools in Presaue Isle
and Fort Fairfield.
The members of the fencing team who made the
trip to Boston last Saturday for the Harvard and
Fenway Club boats are : Captain Henry A. Briggs,
'13, of Gorham; Carl O. Warren, '12, of Gorham;
WilHam Holt, '12, of North Bridgton, and Manager
Sumner T. Pike, '13, of Lubec.
The Western Association of Bowdoin Alumni
has been organized at Denver, Col., with the fol-
lowing officers : President, Hon. R. H. Gilmore,
'63; Vice-President, Dr. George F. Libby, '91; Secre-
tary-Treasurer, Paul A. Buttrick, '07. The new
association held its first banquet Saturday, March 2.
Melvin T. Copeland, Bowdoin, '06, Ph.D., who is
an instructor in New York University at New York,
has recently won the David A. Wells Prize of $500
at Harvard University for the best paper on an eco-
nomic question. The article on which Mr. Copeland
won this large prize was written on "The Cotton In-
dustry in the United States."
At Orono on Fridaj', March 8, University of
Maine won the dual indoor meet with Colby, 38^
to 30/4. Maine won all three places in the ufgh
hurdles and shot-put, second place and tie for third
in the broad jump, third in the high jump, second in
the low hurdles and second in the 25-yard dash.
Maine also won the 668-yard and 4692-yard relays
and forfeited the 1340-yard relay for failing to
touch a man. Wood of Colby did 5 feet yyi inches
in the high jump and Shepard of Maine put the
shot 38 feet 9 inches. The 668-vard relay was won
in I minute, 14 seconds.
An Ozonator, one of the latest devices for the
purification of air, has been installed in the Pastime,
the first theatre in Maine to have this modern de-
vice. The Ozonator is operated by an electric cur-
rent, which transformed to a high voltage produces
within the apparatus a series of purplish flames.
These flames, which are barely visible, make ozone
or oxygen in an active or highly electro-negative
state. The effect is complete purification of air, and
it is in many respects superior to ordinary methods
of ventilation. The ozone has a fresh and invigo-
rating smell, like the air of a warm spring morning.
The New England Association of Zeta Psi held
its annual banquet at the American House in Bos-
ton, Saturday evening, March 9. Among the speak-
ers were Fred H. Nymyer, Traveling Secretary of
the fraternity; H. M. Waldron, J. H, Raven, and
H. L. Bagley, '94, who are Grand Officers of the
fraternity. After the speeches a business meeting
was held at which it was voted to extend an invi-
tation to the Grand Chapter to hold the annual con-
vention in Boston next year. Between the speeches
musical sketches were rendered by the delegates
from the various New England chapters. Among
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the delegates from the active members of the Bow-
doin Chapter were: J. C. O'Neil, '12, and T. C. Wy-
man, '12.
FOR A BOWDOIN SONQ
(Boston Globe)
That tum-tum noise that you may hear from the
direction of Bovvdoin College is very likely the re-
sult of the offer of Graduate Snow, of the Class of
'73, of a cup to be given to the class which produces
the best Bowdoin College song, with a cash prize
of $10 to the writer of it. Any student who can find
an effective rhyme for "Bowdoin" deserves to get
more than $10.
CALENDAR
Friday^ March 15
8.00 Ibis Lecture, Memorial Hall, Prof. W. W.
Lawrence, Ph.D., of Columbia University,
will lecture on "Maurice Maeterlinck : Old
Tales for New."
8.00 Dance at Delta Upsilon House.
Saturday, March 16.
4.00 Trials for Indoor Meet.
8.00 Massachusetts Club Meeting at A. D. House.
Sunday, March 17
10.4s Morning Service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
S.oo Sunday chapel, conducted by President Hyde.
Monday, March 18
7.00 Normal Class meets in Hubbard Hall.
Wednesday, March 20
i.oo Lenten Service in Y. M. C. A. Room, led by
Rev. J. H. Quint.
Thursday, March 21
7.00 Y. M. C. a. Mr. Robert H. Gardiner, Gar-
diner, Me., "Laymen's Missionary Move-
ment."
Friday, March 22
3.00 Outdoor Events on Board Track.
8.00 Annual Indoor Meet.
Hlumni IDepartment
'43. — Oil Oct. 26, 191 1, there occurred at
Bristol, Me., the death of Dr. Samuel W.
Johnson. Dr. Johnson had sufifered from a
stroke of paralysis since April, 1904, grow-
ing more helpless every day up to his death.
'60. — Major Frederick A. Kendall died at
Cleveland, Ohio, on February 14th, following
a protracted illness, during the latter part of
which he endured with fortitude very great
sufifering. Mr. Kendall was a member of the
firm of F. A. Kendall Son and Company, gen-
eral agents for the Penn Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company.
Major Kendall entered the insurance busi-
ness on June 2, 1886, being then a retired of-
ficer of the United States Army with the rank
of captain. He chose his home city as the- field
of his operations, where he was well known
and greatly respected, and applying himself
vigorously, with a high degree of intelligence
and with that irresistible tact and persuasive
faculty which made him in many directions a
leader among men, commanded from the start
a very considerable volume of desirable busi-
ness.
Major Kendall was well-known through-
out Northern Ohio and in Army circles,
equally so throughout the United States, be-
ing a leader in social, political and municipal
affairs, in many of which he interested himself
to the benefit of the various organizations with
vv'hich he was identified. As a commander for
a series of years of the Loyal Legion his ser-
vices were appreciated and recognized by very
many voluntary testimonials as to his ability
and worth. He had great facility in the ex-
pression of his views, in writing and orally ;
and wherever he spoke or lectured he was list-
ened to with great respect for the sincere
thoughts which he uttered and because of an
appreciation of the inherent wealth of his
character.
Simple in his tastes, unpretentious, mani-
festing cordial good-will to everybody, he was
deservedly popular, and his loss is a depriva-
tion which will be long felt. Very active in the
agency ranks of his company, his eiiforts were
exerted to improving the well-being of the in-
stitution, and had much to do with the favora-
ble conditions which now surround agency
management. His work in the National Asso-
ciation of Underwriters was a notable one.
He gave of his time and talents to that move-
ment, and its members will necessarily share
the loss which his death imposes.
Chandler's Military Band and Orchestra
First-class music furnished for all occasions. Combina-
tion Band and Orchestra for School and College
work can be furnished in any number of pieces from ten
to thirty. Small Orchestra for Receptions, Teas, and
Dancing Parties a specialty. For terms apply to
C. M. BROOKS, Agent, Portland, Maine Tel. 3747-1
Medical School o! Maine
BOWDOIN COLLEGE
Addison S Thayer, Dean
10 Deering Street, Portland, Maine
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VOL. XLI
BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MARCH 22, 1912
NO. 30
NEW BASEBALL COACH
According to an announcement made
Tuesday by Capt. L. G. Means of the baseball
V team, James J. Conroy, Dartmouth, 191 1, of
Boston, has signed a contract to coach the
team this spring. Mr. Conroy will report on
April 3 to get the team in shape for the
game with Brown on April 10. Conroy
played shortstop four years for Dartmouth.
He will use the same coaching system that
Coach Norton used last year. Before Con-
roy's arrival, "Pop" Williams, the Pine Tree
pitcher, will coach the candidates for battery
positions for a few days.
ENTRIES FOR THE INDOOR MEET
Following is the list of entries for the In-
door Meet as given out by Manager Crowell,
'13:
Class of 1912 Team
R. D. Cole, Captain; J. H. McKenney,
I'iern, Locke, F. Smith, M. Gray, Timberlake,
Wilson, Mathews, W. A. MacCormick, F. D.
Slocum, Simpson, Auten, Mifflin, Lincoln.
Class of 1913 Team
T. E. Emery, captain ; W. S. Greene, Gard-
ner, L. E. Jones, C. Tuttle, Skolfield, Dole,
Cummings, Hagar, Burns, Douglas, Page,
AVood, Walker, L. Dodge, Haskell, Saunders,
H. H. Hall, J. Brown.
Class of 1914 Team
L. Donahue, captain ; Tarbox, Wright, N.
Tuttle, Garland, C. L. Russell, Payson, Marr,
Buell, Wing, A. Pratt, C. A. Brown, H. L.
Hall, A. E. Gray, Weatherill, Hubbatd, Chase,
Mason, La Casce, L. Pratt.
Class of 191 5 Team
P. Smith, captain; L. Brown, Houghton,
Faulkner, Floyd, F. P. McKenney, H. A.
Lewis, Austin, McWilliams, Stowell, Rodick,
C. E. Allen, Bacon, Bridge, Prescott, A. PL
MacCormick, Stone, Roberts, Coxe, Stetson,
Mannix.
The following men are entered in the 300-
yard run: Cole, Gray, McKenney, 1912; Has-
kell, 1913; P. Smith, 1915.
780- Yard Run: Wilson, Timberlake, 1912;
PL PL Hall, Walker, T. E. Emery, C. Tuttle,
1913; Marr, 1914; McWilliams, 1915.
One-Mile Run: Timberlake, Auten, Mat-
thews, F. D. Slocum, 1912; Emery, H. H.
ITall, Saunders, Douglas, 1913; Tarbox,
Wright, N. Tuttle, Garland, Russell, 1914;
McWilliams, C. Allen, Bacon, Bridge, Ro-
dick, 1915.
The following men are entered for the
class relay races: Cole, McKenney, Kern,
Locke, F. Smith, M. Gray, Timberlake,
PLighes, Lincoln, Knowles, 1912; Skolfield,
C. Tuttle, Hagar, Page, Jones, Wood, Emery,
L. Dodge, Dole,- Haskell, 1913; C. Russell,
Garland, N. Tuttle, A. Pratt, L. Donahue, C.
Brown, Wing, H. L. Hall, Payson, A. Gray,
1914; Faulkner, P. Smith, McWilliams, A. H.
MacCormick, Prescott, Floyd, Stetson, Coxe,
Mannix, Roberts, 191 5.
The men entered for the 20-yard dash are :
Cole, J. McKenney, F. Smith, Locke, M.
Gray, Kern, 1912; Gardner, Skolfield, C. Tut-
tle, Hagar, 1913; L. Donahue, C. Russell, A.
Pratt, Wing, R. Weatherill, Payson, 1914; P.
Smith, Prescott, Faulkner, McWilliams, Mac-
Cormick, Floyd, 1915.
The men entered for the running high
jump are: W. S. Greene, 1913; C. Brown,
1914; L. Brown, Houghton, Faulkner, 1915.
The men entered in the i6-lb. shot-put are:
Ivern, 1912; Hubbard, 1914; Faulkner, A.
Lewis, Houghton, 19 15.
The men entered in the 25-yard hurdles
are: Cole, F. Smith, J. H. McKenney, 1912;
Jones, C. Tuttle, Skolfield, Cummings, Dole,
1913; L. Donahue, C. Brown, A. Pratt, Wing,
1014; Houghton, Floyd, P. Smith, IQ15.
The men entered in the pole vault are :
Kern, F. Smith, 1912; Hubbard, 1914; F. Mc-
Kenney, P. Smith, 191 5.
The following men are entered in the high
school relay races : Lewiston High : Boothby,
McCusker, Shapiro, Penney, Conley, Tapley,
Case, Levenson, Pettingill, Crites. Edward
Little High : Hollis, ITutchins, Decker, Stur-
gis, Chesley, Cummings, Watson, Wardwell,
Stinchfield, Lewis. Brunswick High: Nevins,
Stanwood, Weatherill, Donnell, Little, Wey-
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brant, Potter, Coombs, Graves, Pierce. Morse
High: Kelley, Mercer, C. Parker, Wing,
Morse, Thompson, Wood, Brawn, Pomeroy,
W. Parker.
MUSICAL CLUBS' CONCERT
At the concert to be given by the Glee and
Mandolin Clubs to-morrow evening in Memo-
rial Hall, the undergraduates will have an op-
portunity to enjoy the program which has
been presented with so much success on the
trip through the State. The concert will af-
ford an excellent entertainment for sub-Fresh-
men visiting the college and will call forth a
large attendance.
Next week the clubs start on their Massa-
chusetts trip, giving a concert Wednesday at
Saco, Thursday at Portsmouth, N. H., Friday
at Reading, Mass., and Saturday at Bath.
SECTIONAL CLUBS ORGANIZE
Several sectional clubs have been organ-
ized during the past week. The clubs, with
the officers elected, are as follows :
Cumberland County — President, Stanley
F. Dole, '13, of Portland; secretary and treas-
urer, Edward H. Snow, '14, of Brunswick;
executive committee, Jesse H. McKenney, '12,
of Brunswick; Clifford L. Russell, '14. of
Portland; Alfred H. Sweet, '13, of Portland;
Fred D. Wish, Jr., '13, of Portland; Burleigh
C. Rodick, '12, of Freeport.
Aroostook County — President, Charles R.
Bull, '13, of Monticello.
Somerset County — President, Reginald E.
Foss, '12, of Skowhegan; vice-president,
Charles B. Haskell, Jr., '13, of Pittsfield; sec-
retary, Arthur S. Merrill, '14, of Skowhe-
gan; treasurer, Elroy O. La Casce, '14, of
Skowhegan.
Kennebec County — President, Herbert E.
Locke, '12, of Augusta; vice-president, Theo-
dore E. Emery, '13, of Randolph; secretary
and treasurer, Ruel B. Soule, "15, of Augusta.
Franklin-Oxford Counties — Pr c s i d e n t,
James A. Norton, '13, of PhilHps ; secretary
and treasurer, Luther G. Whittier, "13, of
Farmington.
Sagadahoc County — President, Clifton O.
Page, '13, of Bath; vice-president, Joseph H.
Newell, "12, of Richmond ; secretary and treas-
urer, Earle S. Thompson, '14, of Bath.
New Hampshire — President, Ralph H.
Hoit, "12, of Grasmere; vice-president, Wil-
liam J. Nixon, '13, of East Richester ; secre-
tary and treasurer, Alfred E. Gray, '14, of
Portsmouth.
Knox Couny — Alfred W. Newcomb, "14,
Thomaston, president; W. C. Coombs, '14, of
Camden, secretary, treasurer.
LECTURE BY PROFESSOR LAWRENCE
The lecture "Maurice Maeterlinck; Old
Tales for New," given by Professor William
W. Lawrence, '98, of Columbia University, in
Memorial Hall on Friday evening, March 15,
under the auspices of the Ibis, was attended
by a large audience of the students and
faculty.
In a brief introduction. Professor Law-
rence spoke of the difficulty of estimating the
real achievement of any contemporary write..
Nevertheless, he said, the extraordinary pop-
ularity of Maeterlinck's work both in Europe
and America makes it impossible to ignore
him in any survey of the literature of the pres-
ent time. Maeterlinck is particularly note-
worthy as a dramatist ; his essays show, on
the whole, less originality. Yet it is interest-
ing to study his plays in relation to their
sources, to see how greatly he is indebted
to the past, — particularly to medieval litera-
ture. In an age which is constantly insisting
upon originality, Maeterlinck has gone back
to earlier times, and offered the public old
stories in new guise. Four plays were se-
lected for discussion :"Pelleas and Melisande,"
representing the medieval romance; "Sister
Beatrice," the pious tale; and "The Blue Bird"
and "Ariane and Blue Beard," the fairy-tale.
Illustrative passages from the plays were
read, and the real originality of the dramatist,
despite his dependence upon earlier material,
emphasized. In closing. Professor Lawrence
spoke of the function of a poet as the interpre-
ter of the literature of the past for the present
day.
COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS
All men whose names are on the provis-
ional list of Commencement speakers are re-
quired to write Commencement parts. These
parts, which should be not more than twelve
hundred words in length, will be due Monday,
May 13.
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A COMMUNICATION
For several years there has been growing
among the non-fraternity men at Bowdoin a
desire for organization and the advantages
that go with organization. This feeling has
manifested itself in the founding of two clubs.
These clubs have, however, been only partially
successful, and it remains for the whole non-
fraternity group to organize itself into a club
which shall be strong enough and democratic
enough to live down the difficulties which may
meet it.
The need of such an oganization must
surely be apparent to the non-fraternity men.
That the Greek letter fraternties might not be
so fully conscious of this need is reasonable
to suppose, and it is a cause of congratulation
when we can realize that the fraternity men
are broad-minded and fair-minded enough to
recognize this need and to be willing to co-op-
erate to help meet it. The problem concerns
more than the non-fraternity men alone. In
a measure the college as a whole suffers under
the present conditions. One-eighth of the stu-
dent body cannot in absolute frankness feel
that Bowdoin is giving to them all that it gives
to the other seven-eighths. The result is dis-
satisfaction. Until this dissatisfaction shall be
removed the college as a whole has a problem
to solve.
In the communication printed in the last
week's issue of the Orient, is described a
scheme which might be put into effect as a
possible remedy. Those who attended the Y.
M. C. A. meeting on Thursday, March four-
teenth, heard the same plan discussed there.
Briefly, it is as follows: "A club open to all
non-fraternity men, having a house where an
eating club could be maintained, and where
some of the fellows could room. All non-
fraternity graduates would be considered
members and membership in this club should
not prevent a man from entering a fraternity.
He should be free to enter one if an oppor-
tunity so came."
Since that Y. M. C. A. meeting twenty-
four of the thirty-eight non-fraternity men
have been consulted and among these twenty-
four only three or four were found who were
not in favor of some such organization. As
far as can be ascertained at present the ma-
jority of the faculty is in favor of a club of this
sort. Professor Nixon and Mr. Wilder con-
stitute a committee which has been appointed
to investigate the matter and report the result
to the faculty.
For the present it remains for these most
directly concerned, the non-fraternity men, to
think over this matter, to determine, if possi-
ble, what features are desirable and what are
not, and if they have objections, to prepare to
state them with clearness and frankness. If
the desirability of the proposed scheme comes
home to all non-fraternity men as it does to
the writer, and if all non-fraternity men will
overcome certain silly prejudices which may
form the ground for their objections, then the
greatest difficulties have been overcome. Once
the members of the faculty feel assured that
the proposed club is really desired and that
the men are willing to co-operate to help se-
cure it, I feel confident that their aid is
secured.
Before vacation this matter will be dis-
cussed at a general meeting of the non-frater-
nity men. For the present "think on this
thing."
Bryant, 1912.
Y. M. C. A. ELECTIONS
The annual election and business meeting
of the Y. M. C. A. will be held in the Y. M.
C. A. room on Tuesday evening, March 26,
at 7 o'clock. Brief reports of the work of the
different committees will be given and there
will be an informal discussion open to all of the
members on how the work of the Y. M. C. A.
can be improved. This is a very important
meeting and every member should be present.
The following officers have been nomi-
nated :
President — Cedric R. Crowell, '13, Paul H.
Douglas, '13.
Vice-President, Laurence A. Crosby, '13,
Leon E. Jones, '13.
Corresponding Secretary — Clarence A.
Brown, '14, Alfred E. Gray, '14.
Treasurer — Maurice W. Hamblen, '14,
Robert D. Leigh, '14.
Recording Secretary — George A. McWil-
liams, '15, Jacob F. Weintz, '15.
Alumni Advisory Committee — Dean K. C.
M. Sills, '01, David R. Porter, '06, Rev. Ches-
ter B. Emerson, '04, Ernest G. Fifield, '11.
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BOWDOIN COLLEGE
EDITORIAL BOARD
WILLIAM A. MacCORMICK, 1912, Editor-in-Chief
DOUGLAS H. McMURTRIE, 1913 Managing Editor
HAROLD P. VANNAH, 1912 Alumni Editor
Associate Editors
w. r. spinney. 1912 r. d. leigh. 1914
L. E. JONES. 1913 D. K. MERRILL. 1914
V. R; LEAVITT. 1913 K. A. ROBINSON. 1914
F. D. WISH. Jr.. 1913 R. E. SIMPSON. 1914
H. C. L. ASHEY, igi2 Business Manager
H. B. WALKER, 1913 Asst. Business Manager
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Vol. XLI. MARCH 22, 1912 No. 30
n- n * 41. niA It is with a feeling of re-
"RingOut the Old, ^^^^ ^^^ ^j^ g^^^^j ^e-
R,ng in the New ^j^.^^ f^^^^^ j^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^
of publishing the Orient. But it is also with
most hearty and loyal congratulations to those
who are to enjoy this privilege for the next
year. In passing, however, we do feel thai: a
few statements should be made in regard to
Bowdoin's weekly. In the first place, we want
to express our appreciation for the way in
which students and alumni have contributed to
the paper. It is a very significant fact that
an editorial board can do much better work
when it has the best support of those inter-
ested in the paper. Articles received from
graduates show that they have not forgotten
the college which they have left behind and
communications from undergraduates are
signs of progress in the internal solution of
the problems of student life. It has been the
pleasure of the retiring Board to report these
signs to its readers and we hope that such a
spirit of co-operation will ever exist in rela-
tion to the Orient.
But at this point we feel that we are justi-
fied in asking the question, "Is the Orient
serving the college as it best can?" Much
outside criticism has been made to the effect
that the Orient serves merely as a record of
college events. This is, indeed, true to a great
extent and we feel that conditions can and
should be changed so as to remove this de-
fect, if defect it is. It should be remembered
that it is not easy to make a weekly paper in
a college like Bowdoin, more than a record.
But it seems quite possible and practical to
publish the Orient earlier in the week, and
thus bring the events which happen at the
week ends more quickly to the attention of
the readers. Although this change would
not abolish entirely the "record" aspect of the
paper it would improve conditions considera-
bly. Around this change other minor changes
which we feel would raise the standard of the
paper, could be made.
With this one main suggestion for im-
provement we lay down the pen to our suc-
cessors and once more urge that the student
body, alumni and friends of the college co-op-
erate with the Editorial Board to make the
Orient represent the lofty standard of Bow-
doin's ideals. To new positions we welcome
the following men : Editor-in-Chief, Douglas
H. McMurtie, '13, of Portland, Me.; Manag-
ing Editor, Robert D. Leigh, '14, of Seattle,
Wash.; Alumni Editor, Fred D. Wish, '13, of
Portland, Me. ; Associate Editors, Austin H.
MacCormick, '15, of Boothbay Harbor, Me.;
Francis P. McKenney, '15, of Brunswick, Me.,
and John F. Rollins, "15, of Bangor, Me. To
the business department we welcome H. Bur-
ton Walker, '13, of Biddeford, Me., as Busi-
ness Manager, and Ermond Sylvester, '14, of
Freeport, Me., as Assistant Business Man-
ager.
To-night Bowdoin's track
The Meet season for 19 12 opens offi-
cially with the twenty-
si.xth annual exhibition and the seventeenth
annual Indoor Meet in the Town Hall. The
great interest which has been manifested for ^
the past few weeks will come to its height in
the struggle for class supremacy. Since the
arrival of the new track coach on the campus
every man has worked faithfully towards 1
making the Indoor Meet this year mean more
than it has ever meant before. Every class
team is primed to do its best to win the Meet
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I
and every man who participates is on his met-
tle to show his best for the weeks ahead be-
fore the State Meet. Although the Indoor
Meet is only a forerunner of what is to come
it is by no means less important. On the con-
trary, the spirit of this meet will show the
coach and management about what can be ex-
pected of Bowdoin in May.
We wish to call attention
A Reminder to the debate between
Bowdoin and Wesleyan
University to be held next Thursday night in
Memorial Hall. For the past few months the
debating teams have been working hard in
preparation for the Intercollegiate debates
which are to be 'held on that night — one here
and the other in New York. Owing to the
small attendance at the preliminary debates
held a few weeks ago none of the teams was
able to show its best form. It is certainly up
to the student body in general to show some
interest in this form of collegiate activity.
Every man should turn out to the debate and
show that we appreciate the efforts of the
members of the debating teams and those of
the Department in making this Bowdoin's best
year with the work.
AT THE LIBRARY
Among the recent accessions at the
Library are: A. W. Lowell's "Government of
England," F. G. Peabody's "Sunday Evenings
in the College Chapel," C. M. Gioven's "Con-
olgy of the Municipal History of Waterville,''
Franz Boas' "Mind of Primitive Man," W. E.
Castle's "Heredity in Relation to Evolution,"
J. P. Putnam's "Plumbing and Household
Sanitation," A. A. Hopkins' edition, "Scien-
tific American Cyclopedia of Formulas," F.
M. Stetson's "William the Conqueror," W. E.
Kellicott's "Social Direction of Human Evolu-
tion," Arnold Bennett's "Clayhanger," D. F.
Wilcox's "Municipal Franchises," Henry Van
Dyke's "The Mansion," President Hyde's
"Five Great Philosophies of Life," E. A. Ross'
"The Changing Chinese," W. A. Dunning's
"History of Political Theories from Luther to
Montesquieu," L. F. Field's Police Adminis-
tration," R. C. Punnett's "Mendelism" third
edition, Dalgren and Kepner's "Text-book of
Principles of Animal Histology," Z. A. Dix-
son's "Concerning Book-plates," F. T. Carl-
ton's "History and Problems of Organized
Labor," Berry's "Cambridge Medieval His-
tory," M. J. Moses' "The American Drama-
tist," J. C. Stobart's "Glory that was Greece,"
A. C. McGiffert's "Martin Luther," W. H.
Pyle's "Outlines of Educational Psychology,"
G. C. Graham's "Santa Teresa," J. Morley's
"Life of William Ewart Gladstone," C. E.
Marshall's "Microbiology," A. E. Zimmern's
"Greek Commonwealth," J. S. McGroarty's
"California : Its History and Romance," Max
Rooses' "Jacob Jordaens," A. S. Low's
"American People," E. L. Ingram's "Geodetic
Surveying," Max Leuz' "Geschichte Bis-
marcks," C. F. Adams' "Studies, Military and
Diplomatic," Eric Robertson's "Wordsworth
and the English Lake Country," C. W. C.
Oman's "England before the Norman Con-
quest" second edition, W. T. Kelvin's "Math-
ematical and Physical Papers," Karl Gareis'
"Introduction to the Science of Law," J. W.
Foster's "Practice of Diplomacy," F. J. Stim-
son's "Popular Law-Making," J. W. Mack-
aie's "Lectures on Poetry,'' Hermann Levy's
"Monopoly and Competition," James Hast-
ings' "Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics,"
J. Vinycomb's "Fictitious and Symbolic
Creatures in Art," J. W. Foster's "Diplo-
matic Memoirs," P. S. Reinsch' "Readings
on American Federal Government," F. J.
Stimson's "Law of Federal and State Consti-
tions."
SMOKER AND MASS=MEETING
On Monday evening at seven-thirty in Me-
morial Hall will be held a business meeting
and a smoker under the direction of the Stu-
dent Council. The business of the evenmg
will be the discussion of Professor Lunt's plan
which has been presented during the past
week. After the business is over the band
will furnish music, entertainers will provide
enjoyment, and refreshments will be passed
around. The small sum of ten cents will be
charged for admission. Get your tickets and
be on hand for a sfood time !
GIBBONS CLUB MEETING
The regular meeting of the Gibbons Club
was held at the Beta Theta Pi house, Wednes-
day evening, March 20. Father St. Martin,
curate of the Church of St. John of this town,
and spiritual director of the club, was present.
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Laurence A. Crosby, '13, read a letter recently
received from Cardinal Gibbons, in which he
sent his blessing and his best wishes for the
success of the club.
MASSACHUSETTS CLUB MEETS
The regular monthly meeting of the Mas-
sachusetts Club was held at the Alpha Delta
Phi House last Saturday night. Prof. W. E.
Lunt was the guest of the evening and was
elected to honorary membership in the club.
John Clair Minot, "96, was also present and
extended an invitation to the men to attend
the Bowdoin C lub dinner to be held in Bos-
ton, April 5, 1912.
SUNDAY CHAPEL
The speaker at the chapel exercises Sunday
was President William Trufant Foster of
Reed College, Portland, Oregon, formerly
Professor of English and Argumentation at
Bowdoin. He spoke on "Loyalty," empha-
sizing the way in which we can show our loy-
alty to Bowdoin in our studies, aspiring to
some thing higher than the "gentleman's
mark."
THE HAWTHORNE PRIZE
The Hawthorne Prize of forty dollars,
given by Mrs. George C. Riggs (Kate Doug-
las Wiggin), is awarded annually to the
writer of the best short story. The competi-
tion is open to members of the Sophomore,
Junior, and Senior classes. The stories of-
fered in this competition must be not less than
fifteen hundred words in length, must be type-
written, and must be left at Room 3, Memo-
rial Hall, not later than Monday, May 13.
THE FEBRUARY QUILL
The Quill for last month is a well rounded num-
ber, containing', as it does, two essays, one story, two
sketches and two bits of verse. The opening num-
ber by Mr. Hale is a very beautifully worded de-
scription of the glamour that Spain casts, and is a
sketch of much charm and distinction of style. It
is always pleasant to have a former editor of the
Quill maintain his interest, particularly so when the
contribution comes from across the seas. Mr. Rob-
inson's story, that of the Country Mouse, is clearly
conceived, but is not long enough to give much of
a chance for dialogue, and is consequently not very
well proportioned. In order to get the solution the
author makes use of a rather mechanical device ;
and, on the whole, the story does not live up to the
promise of the first two pages. The lines on a Magic
Carpet form a bit of verse of unusual attractive-
ness. There is just that air of light pleasantry and
of gentle humor that is missing in so much college
poetry ; and the last phrase with its quaint disre-
gard of grammatical accuracy enhances the charm of
the whole piece. Mr. Coffin's essay on a lost art, the
sculpture of the Greeks, is well phrased and schol-
arly in its nature. There are, perhaps one or two
purple patches; but nowadays ornateness is not over
common, and is much to be preferred to slovenly, or
ordinary diction. The verses from Horace are a
pleasant attempt to render the well-known descrip-
tion of Spring in musical EngHsh, and although one
or two of the lines halt, the effect in the main is very
g(}od. Perhaps the strongest thing in this number is
the pen sketch of the cobra by Mr. Gibson, entitled
The Nuisance. It is unusually effective. The Gray
Goose tracks are a little more serious than usual
and return to the somewhat cryptic style of some of
their forerunners. The message that is intended to
be conveyed is admirable ; but the means to convey
it are not so patent that he who runs may read.
The editors of the Quill should be more careful
about their proof reading. It is too bad to have the
excellence of the periodical marred by unnecessary
typographical errors. It also would be a good thing
to have the year printed wtih the title, particularly
for one who keeps a file of boimd voliunes. It is
a great nuisance to have to look long in order to
discover in what year the various numbers were
printed.
K. C. M. S.
Y. M. C. A. MEETING
The Y. M. C. A. meeting, Thursday, March 14,
was a students' meeting, in which MacCormick, '12,
Means, '12, Douglas, '13, and Crowell, '13, spoke on
"What can be done to improve our undergraduate
life?" Means, '12, spoke first, dealing with knock-
ing and the harm it does to all the best college in-
stitutions. Crowell, '13, spoke next on "Profanity."
Douglas, '13, was the next speaker. He outlined a
plan which he had formulated to give the non-fra-
ternity men more of a show by uniting them. The
plan as outlined was received with a great deal of
interest by all present. MacCormick, '12, the last
speaker, took for his subject, "Drunkenness," speak-
ing especially in behalf of the man who is down and
out. The speeches were heard by a large and in-
terested crowd of undergraduate-s.
COMMUNICATION
March 9, 1912.
Editor Bozvdoin Orient:
Dear Sir — I was interested to read in your last
issue of the Orient of a chess match played between
the faculty and students of Yale University, and the
thought occurred to me that possibly a similar match
could be arranged at Bowdoin.
If the undergraduates here would form a chess
club I am of the opinion that the faculty chess
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players would be willing to arrange their side of
such a match.
It may be questionable whether either body has
in it very strong chess material, but to my mind
that is of little importance, since the main result
would be a greater social intercourse between the
two of a pleasant nature, and which would be of
mutual benefit.
Sincerely yours,
Henry B. Alvord.
LETTER TO THE DEAN
60 Clark Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., Mar. 8, 1912.
Dear Dean Sills:
In computing the standing of the fraternities on
a basis of points for the Friar Scholarship Cup it
seems to me that the number of courses a man
takes has altogether too great an influence upon the
final figures to give results that are absolutely fair,
while the average rank per course is not considered
at all. Take the case of the man who gets four A's
out of four courses. His score is 16, the same as
the man's who takes five courses, getting 2 A's, 2
B's, and i C, altho it seems to me that the first man
is entitled to the greater credit. The present meth-
od of computing points emphasizes the gettirig of
fair rank in many courses rather than of practically
perfect rank in few. It disregards the possibility
that the first man we mentioned might have been
able to get another A had he taken another course.
It furthermore greatly handicaps the fraternity,
some of whose men receive incompletes.
If to the number of points as computed at pres-
ent we add the average rank per course, it seems
to me we will get results that will more nearly show
relative scholastic ability. The score would then
read:
4 A's 16 points 2 A's, 2 B's, i C — .16
Average rank per
course 4 • — 3-20
20 1920
We thus compromise the two factors without
giving undue prominence to either.
Very truly yours,
Edward W. Skelton.
College Botes
Marston, '11, has been on the campus for a few
days.
Myles Standish, Jr., '14, is ill with diphtheria at
his home in Boston.
A. P. Havey, '03, has been appointed to the Dem-
ocratic State Committee.
Warren D. Eddy, '14, came back to college,
Wednesday, after his long illness.
The Monday Night Club held a meeting at the
Delta Kappa Epsilon House, Monday evening.
About 25 candidates for the Masque and Gown
took part in the trials in Memorial Hall, Tuesday
afternoon.
Prof. Copeland gave an address on Thursday
evening, March 14 before the Bristol County Acad-
emy of Sciences at Taunton, Mass.
The Children's Hospital of Portland recently re-
ceived $5,000 from the estate of the late Ira S.
Locke, '74.
The Seniors celebrated their last gym, Wednes-
day, with much ceremony, finishing with a tour of
the campus.
Merrill, '14, left Thursday for New Haven to at-
tend the President's Conference of Eastern Student
Y. M. C. A.'s.
President MacCormick of the Y. M. C. A., spoke
Sunday before the Methodist Sunday School at
Boothbay Harbor.
Bodurtha, '14, left Thursday, for the conference
of Eastern College and University Men at the Hart-
ford Theological Seminary.
A number of men interested in baseball have re-
moved the snow and ice from the diamond on the
Delta, in order that it may dry up more quickly.
Dean Sills and Prof. Ham attended the Demo-
cratic Convention at Augusta, Tuesday. Newcomb,
'14, was the delegate from his home town, Thomas-
ton, and J. Lewis, '15, represented North Haven.
In the Bnmsmick Record of March 15, there is
an article on "Maine's Economic Waste in Highway
Construction" by Prof. Files, and an open letter by
Prof. Alvord on the no-school signals of the town.
It is interesting to note that in 1852 Bowdoin X
had political clubs. At that time the late Chief Jus-
tice Fuller was President of the Democratic Club,
and ex-Senator Washburn of Minnesota, was Pres-
ident of the Whig Club.
A number of fellows took part in the play, "A
Russian Honeymoon" given in Town Hall, Monday
evening. Harry Faulkner took the principal part,
while Crowell, '14, and Merton Greene, '13, also had
leading parts. The other men in the play were
Weintz, '15, Weatherill, '14, Eaton, '14, and Win-
throD Greene, '13.
CALENDAR
Friday, March 22
7.30 Indoor Meet in Town Hall.
Entertainments at Fraternities.
Saturday, March 23
8.00 Musical Clubs' Concert, Memorial Hall.
Sunday, March 24
10.45 Morning Service in the Church on the Hill,
conducted by Rev. J. H. Quint.
5.00 Sunday Chapel, conducted by President Hyde.
Monday, March 25
7.30 Mass-Meeting and Smoker in Memorial Hall.
Tuesday, March 26
7.00 Election of Officers of Y. M. C. A. in Chapel
Room.
Reports of Committees and Informal Dis-
cussion.
Wednesday, March 27
I P.M. Lenten Meeting, Y. M. C. A. Room, con-
ducted by Professor Mitchell.
Musical Clubs start on Massachusetts trip.
8.00 Concert at Saco.
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Thursday^ March 28
8.00 Bowdoin-Wesleyaii Debate in Memorial Hall.
Bovvdoin-New York University Debate in
New York.
8.00 Musical Clubs' Concert in Portsmouth, N, H.
Friday, March 29
Vacation 4.30 p.m. until April 9, 8.20 a.m.
8.00 Musical Clubs' Concert at Reading, Mass.
Saturday, March 30
8.00 Musical Clubs' Concert at Boston.
Hlumni Bepautment
'■j-j. — The death of Ex-Governor John
Fremont Hill occurred in Boston, Mass.,
March 16, while he was journeying to the
National Headquarters of the Republican
National Committee, of which committee he
was the chairman.
Governor Hill was born in Eliot, Maine,
October 29, 1855, his ancestors having been
original settlers and men of mark in the com-
munity. He was educated in the public
schools of his native town, and at the South
Berwick Academy. After the completion of
his academic studies, he entered the Maine
Medical School, from which he was graduated
in 1877. At the conclusion of his professional
studies, he practiced medicine for about a year
at Boothbay Harbor.
His business instincts being stronger, how-
ever, he gave up his profession and entered
the publishing business at Augusta, Me., in
1879. As a member of the firm of Vickery
and liill, he was very successful and rose rap-
idly in the business. His rise in the business
world was rapid and substantial and as new
fields of development opened, his interests be-
came widely diversified.
Governor Hill always took an active and
honorable part in the politics of the state of
Maine, and his fellow-citizens called him to
many places of public trust and responsibility,
the splendid majorities that were always ac-
corded his candidacies being a fine proof of
his high standing with the voters. During the
years 1889 and 1891 he was representative
to the state legislature and served well on
various committees. During the years 1893
and 1895 he was the Senator from Kennebec
County, serving through both periods as chair-
man of the railroad committee. He was a
presidential elector in 1896, and a member of
Governor Powers' council in 1897 and 1900.
Dr. Hill had impressed himself so strongly
upon the people of Maine, by the high quality
of his work as a legislator that in the sum-
mer of 1910, he was nominated by acclama-
tion as the Republican candidate for Gov-
ernor, and was elected by a sweeping major-
ity. In 1902, he was re-elected by another
large majority.
Governor Hill's two administratioiis weie
notable ones for the state. They were pre-
eminently business administrations but were
by no means lacking in constructive legisla-
tion. They were especially characterized by a
wide conservatism that enabled them to leave
behind a record of practical ■ results, which
were a credit to the Governor and a source
of pride to the citizens of the state.
As a business man. Governor Hill's inter-
ests were many and diversified. He was
prominently interested in the banking institu-
tions of the state, being President of the State
Trust Company and a director of the Granite
National Bank. He was also one of the trus-
tees of the Augusta Water District and one.
of the Directors of the Augusta General Hos- ■
pital. Governor Hill was a member of various
clubs and a member of the Augusta Lodge of
Masons. Governor Hill was married to Miss
Lizzie G. Vickery May 19, 1880. Mrs. Hill
died April 10, 1893. He was married in St.
Louis, April 25, 1897, to Mrs. Laura Liggett.
His funeral services were held at Augusta,
March 19, 1912.
'83. — E. P. Jordan, one of the best known
photographers in the Southwest, died in
Texas, March 5. He was born in Lisbon, Me.,
in 1862, and went West soon after leaving col-
lege. For a time he was in the publishing
business in St. Louis, but for the past ten
years he had 'been located at Austin, Texas.
Mr. Jordan was an extensive traveler and had
visited every state in the United States except'
two, and in his travels had made a rare collec-
tion of pictures.
'01. — Mr. Alfred L. Laferriere, of Nor-
way, Me., is in the employ of Prof. E. E. Car-
ter at Petersham, Mass., for the Flarvard For-
estry School.
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