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LITERARY. I'KOSE. PAGE A College Waterloo. S. M. B., '98. 1 A Fisli Talc. O. U. I.,' 9- 215 An Autumn Sketch. W. T., '99. 188 A New England Sabbath. Mabel C. Andrews, '97. 4 A Picture. Suclie. 31 A Relic, Huklos. 80 A 'Rignal Poem. Hugh Pendexter, 1900. 180 A Shot at the Moon. O. U. I., '!)-. 79 Aunt Dolly. Zara, '08. 57 A Visit to the French Chamber of Deputies. C. A. Hick ford '72. 157 Books of the Heart. Edith I. Irving, '99. 217 Burnt Cookies. 242 Criticism of " The Marble Faun." Emma V. Chase, '97. 84 Discussion. W. S\ Bassett, '!M). . ;s2 From Her Diary 240 Harper's Ferry. Stella James, '97. (il Individualism. Adah M. Tasker, '98. 1G2 [ft the Lap of Nature. 239 Life. Max :S8 Life's Crises. C. E. Milliken, 97. 5! I Melancholy in the Work of George Eliot and Hawthorne Ei lima V.C hase , '97. 181 Napoleon and Joan of Arc. Edith B. .Marrow, '99. 109 National Issues and Municipal Elections. 237 No Christmas in Heathen Africa. Lewis P. Clinton

ALUMNI DEPARTMENT. Alumni Banquet 15 Alumni Dinner 250 Bates and the Maine Pedagogical Convention. F. A K. •98. 14 Class Review. 107, 194, 220, 244 College Club 39 Founding of the Student. F. B. Stanford, 74. 10 Homer. William Prescott Foster, '81. 88 In Memoriam.—John Quinry Adams. 154 Frank L. Noble. 114 Thomas James Bollin. 247 Henry Ossian Dorr. . 247 Alexander Benjamin MoWilliams 155 Edward Webster Morrell. 192 Personals. Id.:«t ,91, IIS, 166, 1(19, 1 98, 22:?, 248 Resolutions Adopted at the Alumni Banquet. (is Symposium—Societies and Society Work. 63, 89, 1 >2, 171, 219 To the Alumni. W. W. Bolster, Jr., '95.' . 88

COLLEGE NEWS AND IN FERESTS A Dream. 97 Bates Song Collection. Arthur L. Sampson, '97. 4:: College Field Day. .... 145 Commencement Week 149 Foot-Ball 203, 2 10, 25:; Heard About the Campus. •21, 45, 71 98, 123, 14(i, 177. -'01,2 27, 255 M. I. C. A. A. Meet 145 Nineteen Hundred and One. 175 Physical Examinations. "_>'-". i Statistics of the Class of '97. 151 Tennis 202 The Glee Club Trip 9(1 The History of the New England Debating League. 73 The Northfield Y. M. C. A. Conference. 176 The Third Society 43 Y. M. C. A.—President's Report. 95 The Y. W. C. A. Conference at Northfield. 17(i Y. W. C. A. Deputation Meeting. 44 Y. W. C. A.—President's Report. Susan Merrill 126 EDITORIALS. GKNKRAI. SUBJECTS. Athletics 70, 144 Hates College. 18 Hates Student 17, 41, 93, 251 Christian Associations. 252 Colleges 175, 199, 200 Debate 42, 94, 174 Education 93, 120, 119 Examinations. 69 Foot-Ball 42, 200 Library 119, 225 Miscellaneous 17, 18, 41, (.9, 94, 120, 144,174,199, 251, 252 Music 70, 144 Societies. 252

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CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, 1897. A Wayside Lesson 235 The Florentine Martyr 2:55 National Parties and Municipal Elections. 237 Harvest Time 288 In the Lap of Nature 239 in the Summer 239 From Her Diary 240 Burnt Cookies...... 242 A Bates Prayer 243 Chimera 243 ALUMNI DEPARTMENT 244 EDITORIAL. 261 COLLEGE NKWS AND INTERESTS 253 COLLEGE EXCHANGES. 258 A CHAT ABOUT NEW JJOOKS. 259

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VOL. XXV. DECEMBER, 1897. No. 10.

A WAYSIDE LESSON. windows. The vast area is filled with 'Twas an unsightly wayside flower an eager throng, who sit as though That none to pluck would care, carved from stone, with faces upturned Yet all day long the honey-hees Were softly murmuring there. toward the pulpit. A Dominican friar stands at the sacred desk, a black- I found a tiny hidden cup Beneath its bristling top, mantled figure with cowl partly pushed From which the busy workers drained back, revealing an intense face and A clear ambrosial drop. eyes luminous with the glow of pas- A lesson for my daily use sionate feeling. The crowd hangs That lowly plant revealed— breathless on the words of the preacher, The humblest duties bravely done Ever some sweetness yield. or sways and vibrates with the conta- M. B. M., '98. gion of uncontrollable emotion. Now, in a voice of sudden thunder, he hurls THE FLORENTINE MARTYR. out fiery denunciations of the wrath to THREE scenes tell the story of come; now in tones trembling with Savonarola's tragic life. The anguish he entreats his people to repent curtain rises on the first. We see a and pray. solitary youth with head bowed as by The scene changes to the great the weight of years, wandering along square of Florence. On one side is a the green banks of the I'o. From the narrow platform and a heap of fuel gay Italian city behind him comes the placed in the circular area at ks end. sound of revelry and wild bacchana- A gibbet, from which three halters are lian songs. What cares he for this, or suspended, rises above the pile of wood. even for the quiet beauty of his sur- The piazza is thronged with a fierce, roundings? Tears are in his grea.t blood-thirsty mob. Ribald shouts and eyes; his gaunt, rugged features are jeers and curses are heard on every moved ; his young heart is wrung with hand. Three men walk firmly out pity for suffering and ignorance, and upon the platform. From their lips with horror for the wickedness of " the triumphant hymns of praise arise. blinded people of Italy." We see the flicker of torches and the The scene changes. We are in a mad fury of the people. The curtain Florentine cathedral, dark, majestic, falls. The tragedy is over. mystical, here and there a beam of Girolamo Savonarola—the priest, light straying in through the painted prophet, reformer, statesman, and mar- 23fi THE BATES STUDENT. tyr ! Against the dark background of the star, and these the rays reflected in corruption of the fifteenth century, he troubled waters. From this spot the stands out the champion of purity and three sister shapes—Sculpture, Archi- truth.- He represents the awakening tecture, and Fainting—went forth to of the soul of his age and one of the beautify the world." The Dominican elements of humanity's renaissance. friar taught that life is not idle ore, When he entered the convent gate of but metal to be bent to useful ends." San Marco, solitary and unknown, To the historian, the career of Savon- Florence was one of the most luxurious, arola is interesting because of the nature dissolute cities that ever the blue of the mark left by him upon his time Italian sky smiled down upon. The and his influence in shaping succeeding liberty of the people was gone, and events. The student of character is they, dumb and helpless, were solaced impressed by the strongly marked lines by the magnificent shows and festivals and shadows and the picturesqueness given by their tyrant, Lorenzo de of the man, as well as by the fascina- Medici. The monk cried out in despair tion of his terrible fate. He finds in that the world was— him a most remarkable example of a ..." In wild confusion tost, great sotd balancing itself on the peril- Tlie very depth and essence lost ously uncertain line which divides self- Of all good ways and every virtue bright; Nor shines one living light, deception from conscious imposture, Nor one who of his vices feels the shame. high prophetic- fervor from low fanati- .Those souls shall now he thought most rare cism, the noble zeal of the patriot and and good philanthropist from the selfish ambition Who most by fraud and force can gain. of the politician. Who heaven and Christ disdain, Whose thoughts on others' harm forever Whatever may have been his faults, brood." his life teaches us the great lesson of In a few years the inspired preach- devotion to duty. Self had no place ing and the powerful individuality of in his heart. Through obscurity and the mai/had completely changed pleas- fame, through honor and degradation, ure-loving Florence; the streets re- he labored ever for Florence and for sounded with sacred hymns instead of mankind. His reward was what has drunken orgies; and the people fasted fallen to Christian reformers since the rather than feasted. The unknown beginning of time—scorn, obloquy, and monk of St. Mark's had become the suffering during life, but at death the absolute dictator of the city, politically crown of immortality. and religiously. As long as Florence sits in her This influence upon the famous Flor- valley by the silver Arno and the vine- entines who lived after him is remark- clad hills encircle her dark palaces and able. One writer says : " He was the towers, so long will a shadow lie across tree with vigorous roots in the earth, her sunny squares and speak the name and these followers the branches, the of Girolamo Savonarola. leaves, and the fruit. Savonarola was M. B. MAXIM, '1)8. THE BATES STUDENT. 237

NATIONAL PARTIES AND MUNICI- true method of procedure, namely, the PAL ELECTIONS. independent movement; or, in other jjgR. BBYCE, in liis "American words, they have entirely eliminated Commoowealth," tells us that national party lines from municipal toe greatest evil in our system of gov- elections. And why should they not erinnent is our management, or rather be eliminated? What has a man's mismanagement, of municipal affairs. views on the currency problem or the In the last few months this truth has sugar tariff to do with the manage- been brought home to the American ment of a city's affairs? public more forcefully than ever before. It is high time that the respectable The utter rottenness of municipal con- citizens of all parties should look about ' trol is a fact now so evident that it them and observe how powerless they cannot be overlooked by respectable are and how little they have to do or and well-wishing citizens. Conditions, to say in respect to choosing the bad as they have been in the years manipulation of the reins of govern- past, have lately taken on a far more ment. And this is just what has taken serious aspect. City amalgamation place. and the centralization of power has When the plan first assumed definite complicated the problem. New York form there was great hope that an City, the national metropolis, is the alliance might lie made between the real storm center for the gradually Reformers and the Republican machine. darkening clouds of ring rule and boss Rut such could not be accomplished, control. This one giant common- and it is well that it could not. The wealth, with its three and one-half reform movement, to a great extent millions of people, almost invariably at least, would have at once lost its sways the nation. Hence it is but significance if it had called upon the natural that here should be the objective " party boss " for aid. Even the elec- point for the mightiest efforts of the tion of the Citizens' candidate, if two great, controlling parties ; and that supported by the party organization, here, also, in the very stronghold of would have been a result far short of the cation's diabolical schemers and absolute success. aggrandizing party managers, there And yet. on the other hand, what should have arisen the most potent has the failure to concur cost the movement for the purification of the people of the great metropolis ? Instead governmental system. of having four years of government The Citizens' Union of the Greater by an honorable, non-partisan, and New York have struck at the root of progressive administration, they have the evil and dealt it a staggering, if taken a step backward. They have not a well-nigh deadly blow. They repudiated the action of the last have broken loose from the general administration in its campaign for a plan of reform by converting the party cleaner government, and have said that leaders, and have adopted the only they prefer the "good old rottenness." 238 THE BATES STUDENT.

Although the Reformers failed to HARVEST TIME. elect their candidate, yet they accom- All hail to the gleam of the bright autumn sunshine plished much. That they massed, in That dwells on the wheat and the ripening round numbers, one hundred and fifty corn. thousand votes on the side of advance- All hail to the process of nature's completion, ment, is a fact of great significance. When summer and roses are faded and gone. It shows what might be accomplished Far out in the woods the wild cherries are if a general and determined effort were ripening. The heech-nuts await the first frosts of the fall, made. It shows that there are men And from out of the hranches, fast changing who are in sympathy with good govern- their garments, ment and will keep along with it if The song-hirds' last messages chirrup and call. some one else will furnish the motive No longer the light, fleecy clouds of the power. It shows what a campaign of summer Scud over the delicate tints of the sky. education can accomplish in a great Deep a/.ure instead tells of oncoming winter, city where a large proportion of the And warns us that autumn is fading to die. population cannot speak the English And nature in hand taking up her light language. brashes The largest city in the western hem- Sets out a picture of heauty to paint, isphere is now in the hands of a great Turns tall trees and woodlands to flashes of color political party committed to a certain With harmonic blending of beauty so quaint. code of national issues. It is ruled by The trees are all turning to russet and yellow, men nominated upon this national plat- To orange and crimson, to copper and red, form and elected solely because of While out in the fields the great yellow pump- party afliliations. No heed was paid kins Lie ripe on their vines, so withered and dead. to their qualifications for the positions to which they were elected. The party The great purple asters stand out in full heauty, The golden-rod, emhlem of national pride, machine, managed by the party boss, And the great hottle gentian, hlue-lidded and nominated the men and elected them. dainty, The fact that national politics are Grow now where the violet blossomed and died. allowed to figure in municipal elections The granaries are filling with mother earth's is responsible for nine-tenths of the products, political corruption aud governmental And the great horn of Plenty is full running o'er, mismanagement in this country to-day. While wreaths of bright maple leaves bound Party lines in municipal affairs increase close together the evils of the spoils system many Are thrown in confusion on the treasure in store. fold. They render the cities the strong- holds of the corrupt politicians ; they So all hail to fair nature, our dear foster- strengthen the allegiance to party mother, Who gives us these fruits for the uses of man, rather than to principle; and they Who brings by her aid one step nearer com- render the government of our Ameri- pletion can cities a cause of shame to any Great problems of life which our Father did plan. respectable citizen. G., '98. —L. H. S. THE BATES STUDENT. 239

IN THE LAP OF NATURE. the busy world and sought the boy- A Sketch. hood home. He goes to the old scenes, I. and again amid the fragrant pines and N the joy of wild freedom the hoy hemlocks, by the running brook, the runs through the fields and woods. peace and calm of youth's dreamy He throws himself down beside the days falls on him. He has reached brook and delights in the birds around some of the heights he dreamed of him. He catches the speckled trout years ago in this same spot, but suc- and chases the squirrel. Unknown to cess and honors now fade away, in the him, nature is satisfying a something presence of nature pouring balm upon within trim. Sometimes, in his sober the tired spirit. moments, there steals silently into his IV.

FROM HER DIARY. bad boys and the experiences of former May 15, 18!)-. teachers. ftEAR old Diary,—Three days have Sometimes they carried the stove hsf passed and I haven't written a funnel out and sometimes they carried word. Well! the fust day of my first the teacher out. He pulled his bushy school is over, and I am ill and tired eyebrows down over his twinkling blue and homesick. 1 feel just like pouring eyes and watched me while he talked. out my heart to you. "There was a girl come up here tor On Saturday afternoon, the agent's teach from your school, two or three hrother met me at the depot in a clumsy year ago. She felt mighty important, spring-hoard witli enormous wheels. an' when Jet Springer sassed her she My valise was tied on behind by ropes, took out a ferrule an' set out ter lick and I climbed up to the narrow board him then an' thar; but Jet he jest took seat beside the driver, feeling rather holt of her wrists an' backed her up nervous. My manner was dignilied, for agin the desk an' made her agree ter I wished to make a favorable impres- let him alone. She didn't stay long. sion on this representative from the Last winter the fellers got ter foolin' "deestrict." He remarked that the at noon time an' tossed a little chap roads were "putty bad." After we right up through the ceiling, plaster left the village and travelled some dis- an' all. lie was ailing fer a week. tance with two wheels on a snow bank You'll have ter carry your dinner, if and two sinking as far as the hub in you do board near; so as ter keep the mud, after my valise had burst your eye on 'em, school-marm." open on account of the sudden changes About half-past eight I was con- in position, and I had escaped several ducted into a musty room adorned ignominious tumbles into the soft slush with faces of deceased members of the by clutching my companion's arm, I family. Black bows of ribbon, crepe decided that his remarks were not rosettes, and dried flowers were attached unfounded. to these pictures. On a shelf was a In four hours we reached a little row of black memorial cards and a gray house with large barns at one glass case containing a collection of side. An old man in shirt sleeves, human hair. The young wife pointed with a pipe in his mouth, came to the out one shade of brown as belonging door. It was my agent. lie shook to the- head of Emily, the first wife. my hand very cordially and introduced My nerves are strong, but the stories me to his third bride, a young woman of unfortunate teachers had excited about my own age. There were twin me during the evening, and these sur- daughters in the family named after the roundings were not quieting. The first two wives, Emily and Mahala. bed was high, and I tossed about upon After supper we sat down together the best feather-bed (I hate feather- in a long, low sitting-room, and the beds), quite unable to sleep. agent entertained me with stories of On Sunday morning, after a delicious THE BATES STUDENT. 241

breakfast of maple syrup and hot bis- an awkward silence followed, broken cuit, I felt refreshed. A little boy only by whispered comments among appeared, to conduct me to my board- the girls. ing place. He was about nine years After the first shyness wore off, old, small of his age, with a pinched some of the larger hoys willingly look. helped me to start a fire with the The agent tried to frighten him by broken seats, and carry out the dirt expounding on my strength, stern and plaster. I rang my bell and nature, and hidden sticks. The boy watched the scholars go to their seats. eyed me cautiously, and then—grinned. Some of them tiptoed, and some of them I felt humbled, hut couldn't help laugh- scuffed along ; some pushed, and some ing with him. The little boy was a pulled. I felt much like a Freshman as •' staunch friend after that. .My hoard- the numbers before his declamation are ing place was pleasant, but I suffered rendered and his turn approaches. from a severe cold caught in the agent's I had a little speech prepared, but I best room. was too frightened to give it. After On Monday morning I was called reading in the Uible I busied myself very early, and after breakfast sat with learning the names of the pupils, shivering in the kitchen until school distributing books, and assigning les- time. Then, taking my books and a sons, just as Miss A— told me to do. large school-house key, I set out. The fire went out throe times. Three The rain poured down drearily upon times a big boy stalked solemnly down the red school-house. It was not far the aisle, drew a huge jack-knife from from my boarding place and was situ- his pocket and whittled away at a ated in a grove of maple trees. One broken seat. Somebody found some door was open, as some small boy had barrel hoops which they twisted, and climbed through a window and unbolted broke with their feet. Once the situa- it from the inside. I stopped in the tion amused me so much that I laughed doorway, wishing that I could turn my aloud. The scholars smiled solemnly. back on it all. A large piece of plas- The second session was more tiresome tering lay on the floor in the midst of for both teacher and pupils. The rain torn bits of paper, spit-balls, dust, prevented much exercise and the chil- and the remnants of broken seats. dren were noisy. The stove smoked, There was no (ire in the cracked stove. and we could not get much heat from All the wood was out of doors, well the wet wood. My cold increased so soaked. A group of girls were huddled that I could scarcely speak aloud. together in a corner with their dinner Glancing out of the window I saw pails in their hands, and a dozen hoys the chairman of the school committee were scuttling in the hack part of the approaching. ■ A weakness crept into room. Two or three others were kick- my knees, but I managed to appear ing at a mark on the scarred black- tolerably composed as I ushered him board. They stopped on seeing me and in. He was wet and decidedly cross— 242 THE BATES STUDENT. an old-time school teacher with iron- BURNT COOKIES. clad rules in regard to discipline. He THE oven door came open with a supposed the school had been in ses- slam. A cloud of smoke poured sion" a week. out. Dismay was written on Aunt I called out a class in geography. Dinah's face. " Neber see de beat. Their lesson was a half column of ques- Sho' an' dem cookies am all burnt to a tions on California. "What is the crisp." She turned the huge pan up- chief city?" I asked in a trembling side down on the white kitchen table, voice. There was an awed silence. and then gazed ruefully at the black One little fellow, not counting diffidence bottoms of the spicy-smelling snaps. among his virtues, raised his hand. "Ain' it jis like that fool nigger ter At the same time he snapped his call the chief cook awa' from her wurk fingers with a sound like the explo- ter look at his ole black pig. Here, sion of a pistol. "Boston," he cried yo' ninny, car' dese cookies down to exultantly. 'Unc' Billy's—an' min' yo' don' spill After sitting a short time, watching 'em, kase marsa 'd see 'em an' den J'd the nervous pupils trying to understand hear from it, sho' naff. Look to it a still more nervous teacher, the august lively, now." " committee-man " arose and addressed Down the dusty road scampered two the school. He said it was the noisiest little brown legs, and two little black in the town, that the agent should have pig-tails bobbed frantically up and seen that the school-house was in better down, and a shrill little voice sang, " I condition, that the teacher needed to wan' ter be an' angel." be much more strict; and, in general, Soon she came to a brown, winding the work was far from satisfactory. path that led to a little hut built down I thought 1113' cup of misery was full close to the water, just below a long, as I dismissed the school and went gently-sloping hill. The one door was back to my boarding place in the rain. closed, and through the cobwebbed At tea-time the head of the household, window no sign of life appeared. a stern, reserved man, inquired of his Thump ! thump ! thump-e-ty thump ! youngest boy, " Well, my son, what went the hard little fists on the door; have you learned to-day ? " " Northin'," then there was a series of shuffling replied the 3'oung hopeful. sounds within. Meantime the humble Thus eudeth the first day. cause nearly tumbled over backward in May 18.—My cold is better. I have several vain attempts to avail herself a real pleasant boarding mistress. On of the extra height that the rickety account of the school committee's steps afforded and to lean back far speech, the pupils are staunch friends enough to peep in at the much-abused of mine. My big boys are the best window. The last attempt had been behaved part of the school. Teaching unusually dangerous, and her small isn't so bad, after all! body had barely recovered its equilib- S. M. B., '98. rium, and her mouth had scarcely THE BATES STUDENT. 243

ceased from its contortions, before the door was opened and an old man, with A BATES PRAYER. a straggling gray beard and shaggy Eternal God! Before thy throne eyebrows, half hiding a pair of very We how our loyal hearts; sleepy eyes, half dressed, shoeless, And in this sacred hour and partially sockless, looked stupidly Petition Thee. From vast resources of thy boundless power at her. Upon thy Christian college, now, 0 shower "Here, Unc' Billy, mammy don' Unmeasured good. sen' dese to yer wif her respec's," said the child, proffering the bright tin pan Endow us now, Most gracious God, with its smutty contents. " Dey's With living fire of love. ' good," and Uncle Billy passed the pan We, penitent, adore. to an old woman who had been peeking Oh, hear our ardent prayer as we implore That thou, Omnipotent, once more curiously out from behind him, first Our college bless! helping himself to some of its contents. S. M. B., '98. She turned them out without ceremony into the middle of a cracked board table and drew two wooden chairs to CHIMERA. either side, and Uncle Billy and Aunt There's inony an' inony a thing I see Iluldy began their morning meal, and Wi' a clearer sight than e'er is free; An' nature's heart beats wi' mony a sob, the sun four hours high. That findfl in my heart an answering throb. The little pickaninny stood on the shaking step, first on one foot and then But I canna tell what I think or feel, An' my tongue is poor, for woe or weal; on the other, curiously watching the Within myself the beauty falls— two old people. »• I 'clar' to gracious, As strange as the light on prisoners' walls. I done see no crack ir. Unc' Billy's head," she said, shaking her head An' it a'most seems as if there came Down from the Heavenly Faether's hame, solemnly as she slowly retraced her An' 'twere His love that wud tell me how steps, thrumming a jingle on the tin To live in the fulness wi' Him just now. pan as she went. I. N. HASTE, '98. HLUMRI ^DEPARTMENT.

CLASS REVIEW. Horace Franklin Giles. Has been a [CONTINUED.] manufacturer of lumber in Sanborn- CLASS OF 1875. ton, N. H., 1875-80 ; in Franklin Falls James Raymond Brackett, A.M., since 1880. Address, Franklin Falls, Ph.D. Principal of Academy, Fox- New Hampshire. croft, 1875-7!). Graduate student at Frank Henry Hall, LL.B., LL.M. Yule, 1879-81. Principal of High Graduate student at Columbian Univer- School in Montpelier, Vt., 1881-83. sity. Home in Washington since 1875. Principal of Drury High School in In government service, 1875-78. Has North Adams, Mass., 188:5-84. Pro- practiced patent law since 187!) ; asso- fessor of Comparative and English ciated with G. W. Dyer, 187D-81, and Literature at University of Colorado sincel881 without a partner. Address, since 1«84. Address, Boulder, Col. Washington, 1). C. Henry Sumner Cowell, A.M. Prin- Joseph Herbert Hutchins, A.M. On cipal of Clinton Grove Seminary, the editorial staff of the Morning Star, Weare, N. II., 1875-7G. Principal of 1875-77. Principal Seminary and Academy, Francestovvn, N. H., 1876- superintendent of schools at North- 83. Principal Arms Academy, Shel- wood, N. H., 1875-89. Principal Free burne Falls, Mass., 1883-87. Prin- Academy, Glastonbury, Conn., 18K9. cipal of Cushing Academy, Ashburn- George Oak. Studied law in the ham, Mass., since 1887. Has been Office of Cheney & Smith, and later in an occasional lecturer and preacher. that of G. E. Smith (Bates, 73), Bos- Address, Ashburnham, Mass. ton, 1875-78. Has been in practice Forrest Leroy Evans. Principal of there since 1878. Address, Boston, Seminary at Northvvood, N. H., 1875- Mass. 77. Read law with J. A. Gillie, Salem, Lewis Merritt Palmer, A.M., M.D. Mass., 1877-7!!. Admitted to Essex Principal High School, Ilopkinton, County bar in 187!). Has been city Mass., 1875-78. Graduate student at solicitor for many years. Address, Harvard Medical School, 1878-81. Salem, Mass. House physician and surgeon, Rhode Frank Boutelle Fuller, A.M., M.D. Island Hospital, 1881-82. In practice Graduate student at Harvard Medical in South Framingham, Mass., since School, 1875-78. Medical and Sur- 1882. Member of Framingham school gical Interne, Rhode Island Hospital; board six years. Took a post-graduate house-orliccr, Boston Lying-in Hos- course in New York in 181)4. Spent pital. Has heen in practice in Provi- 1896 abroad studying in foreign hos- dence since 18«0. Medical examiner pitals. Address, South Framingham, eighth district, Providence County. Mass. Address, Providence, R. I. Nathan Sanford Palmeter. Gradu- THE BATES STUDENT. 245 ated at Hates Theological School, 1880. 1876. Admitted to the Suffolk County Pastor of Free Baptist Church, Mere- bar in 1878. Has been associated in dith, N. II. Has resided in Newton the practice of law with Hon. Benjamin Center, Mass. Taught in South Wood- F. Butler. Address, 6 Ashburton PL, stock, Vt., and Francestown, N. II. Boston, Mass. Address, Stonehain, Mass. George AVillard Wood, Ph.D. Grad- Aslunun Thompson Salley, A.M., uate student at Yale, 1875-77. Read D.l). Graduated at Bates Theological law with Frye, Cotton & White, Lew- School in 1879. Pastor Roger Williams iston, 1877-81. Lawyer and agent Church, Providence, K. I., 1879-83. for Lewiston Steam Mill Co., Boston, Student of Hebrew in Germany, 1892- Mass., 1881-87. Instructor in Greek 94. Professor of .Sacred Literature, and Librarian, Bates College, 1889-91. 11 illsdale Theological School, and pastor Editor of Maine Statesmen), 1897. of the Free Baptist Church. Address, Address, Lewiston, Me. Hillsdale, Mich. CLASS OF 1876. Frank Hartford Smith. Read law Enoch Case Adams, A.M. Studied in Winthrop, Me., and Stockton, Cal. at Harvard Summer School. Traveled Teacher, 1875-79. Has resided in in Europe. Teacher in High School, Stockton since 1878. Clerk of Courts, Bloomfleld, N. J., 1876-78. Principal SanJoaquiu County, three years. City High School, Beverly, Mass., 1878 85. attorney four terms. Trustee Free Principal High and Putnam Schools, Public Library, two terms. Address, Newburyport, Mass., 1885-96. Prin- Stockton, Cal. cipal High School, New Britain, Conn., Albert Moore Spear. Principal 1896-97; 1897-. Principal of High Academy, North Anson, 1875 77. School, Newton, Mass. Address, New- Studied law in the office of Hutchinspn ton, Mass. & Savage, 1877-78. Admitted to An- George Fish Adams, M.I). Gradu- droscoggin County bar in 1878. Prac- ate student at Dartmouth and Univer- ticed law in Ilallowell, 1878-85; Gar- sity of Vermont. Physician and sur- diner, 1885. Was on the school board geon in Lunenhurg, Vt., 1879-83; in Ilallowell seven years, city solicitor Livermore, Me., 1883-87 ; West Derby, six years, and alderman four years. Vt., 1887. Address, West Derby, Vt. Has been in Maine House twice, in Wendell Holmes Adams, A.M., Senate twice—last term president of M.D. Graduate student at Bowdoin the Senate. Mayor of Gardiner four Medical School. Physician in Frank- years. Address, Gardiner, Me. lin, Mass., two years; Oxford, Me., Charles Godfrey Warner, A.M. En- one year; Kingston, Mass., live years. gaged in farming in Naumburg, Lewis Dennis Joseph Callahan. Read law County, N. Y. with Hon. Mv T. Ludden, Lewiston. Frank Leslie Washburn. Read law Admitted to the Androscoggin County with Horace li. Cheney, Boston. Re- bar in 1878. Has practiced in Lewis- sided in Boston, 1875-76 ; in Melrose, ton since 1878. Alderman, 1877-80, 246 THE BATES STUDENT. and president of the board, 1878; Wahpeton and erected a church build- eity solicitor, 1883-84; member of ing at Breckenridge. Address, Pitts- school board, 1883, and president of field, 111. the board, 188f>-87. Appointed by Frederick ErnestEmrich, A.M., D.D. Governor Bnrleigh, commissioner to Graduated at Bates Theological Semi- the World's Fair from Maine, April nary, 1877. Pastor of Congregation- 25, 1891. Address, Levviston, Me. alist Church, Mechanic Falls, 1877-82 ; William Orville Collins, A.M., M.I). Chicago, 111., 1882-89; South Fram- Resided in Harrison, Me., 1870-77. ingham, Mass., 1889. Was super- Principal of High School, Norway, visor of schools in Minot, Me. Me., 1877-84. Physician and super- Address, South Framingham, Mass. intendent of schools, South Framing- Reuel Jefferson Everett, A.M. Read ham, since 1884. Graduate student at law with Hanson & Libby, Mechanic Harvard. Address, South Framing- Falls. Resided in Poland, 1876-77. ham, Mass. Principal High School, South Paris, John William Daniels, A.M. Prin- 1877-86. Has resided in Poland since cipal High School, Lonsdale, P. I., 1886. Address, East Poland, Me. 1876-78. Teacher of Latin, Mathe- Edward Rollins Goodwin. Princi- matics, and Elocution, Seminary, pal Academy, Yarmouth, Me., 1876-80. Westbrook, Me., 1878-80. Principal Principal High School, Dover, N. II., and superintendent of city schools at I.S80-84 ; Manchester, N. H., 1884-87 ; Poise City. Now practicing law in Lawrence, Mass., 1887-189"). Princi- same place. Address, Boise City, pal Classical High School, Worcester, Idaho. Mass., 18!!;-)-. Marion Douglass. Traveled in James Holinan Huntington. Taught Europe, 187(!-77. Read law witli school and was engaged in newspaper Hutchinson & Savage, Levviston, 1877- work, first in the oflice of the Repub- 71). Principal Normal School, Lee, lican Observer, White River Junction, Me.. 1*77-79. Lawyer in Columbia, Vermont, then as associate editor of Brown County, Dak., 1*80-87; Du- the Haverhill Morning Gazette, and luth, 1887. Was probate judge in later as proprietor of Ocean Breeze, Dakota. Address, Duluth, Minn. Hampton Beach, N. H. Since 1883 James Oscar Emerson, B.D. Prin- has been city editor of Northampton cipal High School, Milton Mills, N.H., Daily Herald, correspondent of Bos- 1876-77. Graduate student at Yale ton Herald and New York World. Divinity School, 1877-80. Home mis- Address, Northampton, Mass. sionary at Wahpeton, Richland County, Charles Sumner Libby. Read law North Dakota, and Breckenridge, with Frye, Cotton & White, Lewis- Wilkins County, Minn., 1880-88. ton. Resided in Lewiston, 1876-80. Pastor of Congregationalist Church, Attorney-at-law in Buena Vista, Bunker Hill, 111., 1883-87; Pittsfield, Chaffee County, Col., 1880 ; city attor- 111., 1887. Organized a church at ney of Buena Vista two terms ; mem- THE BATES STUDENT. 247 ber of city council ; prosecuting district Minneapolis, where he remained three attorney of fourth judicial district; years. In the fall of 1880 he was elected member of House of Representatives. principal of Patten Academy, but was Died in 1805. Remains brought to compelled to resign at the close of the Maine and interred in cemetery at fall term on account of ill health. In the Stroud water. spring of 1800 he engaged in mercan- Irving Cashing Phillips. Studied tile business at Dresden Mills, Me., law in the office of Hutchinson & where he remained two years. He Savage in Levviston, and at Boston then returned to Gardiner, where he University. Principal Academy at was engaged in farming. In 1893 and Wilton, Me., eleven years; superin- 1804 he was a member of the common tendent of schools, Hopkinton, Mass., council of that city, and took an active two years ; superintendent of schools interest in city affairs. in Bath, Me. ; superintendent in Levv- While Mr. Dorr had been in failing iston since 1895. Address, Lewiston, health for several months, no material Maine. change was noticed until about three months before his decease, when he IN MEMORIAM. began to fail rapidly, and died at his mlENRY OSSIAN DORR, son of parents' home, October 30, 1807. ]3L Daniel H. and Isabella (Hildreth) Mr. Dorr naturally was a man of Dorr, was born in Gardiner, Me., May groat energy, and very industrious. 23, 1863, and his youthful days were He was a great reader and an interest- spent in that city. He was graduated ing conversationalist. If his health from the Gardiner High School in the bad allowed him to have followed Class of 1879, and in the fall of his chosen occupation of teaching, he that year entered Bates College, grad- would have taken a high rank in that uating from that institution in the profession. Class of 1883, having first honors He was of most exemplary character, in "Modern Languages." After grad- well liked and much respected by all uating from college, Mr. Dorr chose who knew him. teaching as a profession, and was Besides a father and mother he leaves principal of the Highland Avenue a brother, Dr. Linwood Hildreth Dorr Grammar School in Gardiner for two (Bates, 1800) of Dresden Mills, Me., years, meeting with excellent success. who have the sympathy of all in their He resigned his position in the fall of great loss. O. B. C. 1865, to take charge of the Camden GARDINER, ME,, December (i, 1897. High School. At the close of his first year there, he was compelled to IHOMAS JAMES BOLLIN, son of resign and to relinquish teaching, on James Madison and Rachel Bollin, account of ill health. Mr. Dorr then was born in Lexington, Va., April 23, secured a position as clerk in the oflice 1847, and died in the Freedman's of the CM. & St. Paul Railroad, in Hospital, Washington, D. C, on Jan- 248 THE BATES STUDENT.

uary 19, 1897, after a. four days' illness President Chase, who knew him well of Blight's disease of the kidneys. and long, says of him: "Rollin He was liberated from slavery by always seemed to me warm-hearted the emancipation proclamation of Pres- and generous—thoroughly manly. I ident Lincoln, and in 18G7, through the never saw in him a trace of that vanity influence of teachers from the Home thought by some to be almost a Missionary Society, Miss Z. R. Harper characteristic of his race. He was of Limerick, Me., in particular, he appreciative of kindness and had a went to Limerick and entered the very tender heart. He carried himself Academy there, living in the family of with pluck amid toils and hardships, one Mrs. Hurbank. After a few years and manfully worked his way through he went to Lewiston and entered college. He took his place among the Nichols Latin School to complete his students, asking no special sympathy preparation for admission to college. and adjusting himself to the situation, He was regularly admitted to Bates not through hiding or holding back his College in 1875, and completed the personality, but by entering appreci- course creditably in 187'.), having lost atively into all the life of the institu- very little time from his classes, but tion. He was not self-assertive, and being obliged to earn all the money he preferred to toil in a comparatively necessary for his support as he went humble position rather than solicit along. favors that might have brought him lie was a faithful and conscientious better opportunities. lie was modest— student, a favorite with all who knew almost gentle—but he was manly." him —his classmates especially. After Many people, both North and South, graduation he was chosen class presi- will realize that in his death a spirit dent, which position tie held until his has been set free, fairer and liner than death. many that abide beneath a whiter skin. After leaving college, he went to He was a Master Mason, belonging Washington, I). C, where he found to Felix Lodge, No. .'5, of Washington, employment in the Riggs Market. His and was also a member of a Congrega- purpose was to teach or secure a gov- tional church in that city. He was ernment position. Disappointments buried under Masonic auspices in Lex- were many, but his courage remained ington, Va. good. If he had been spared a little longer his great desire would have PERSONALS. been realized, for only a few days after '67.—Professor J. II. Rand visited his death, papers arrived at his home the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- appointing him to a responsible position nology, during the vacation. in the new Congressional Library. '68.—G. C. Emery has resigned his He is survived by two brothers and position in the Boston Latin School three sisters—two of whom are wives and has removed to California. of Methodist clergymen. '08.—President G. C. Chase is in THE BATES STUDENT. 241)

Boston and vicinity. lie will probably country runs, which have become very bo absent from the college nearly all popular among the students. An inter- winter. esting appeal for spirit and enthusiasm '71.—Hon. John T. Abbott has com- in physical training, by Dr. Neal, has pleted his fourth year as Judge of just been published in the Coup

'Or,.—C. S. Webb is principal of the ALUMNI DINNER. High School ut Sherburne, Mass. BOSTON, December 7, 1897. '96.—H. L. Douglass is teaching at The fourteenth annual dinner of the Columbia Falls, Me. Alumni of Bates College will occur at '%.—O. E. Hanscom is teaching at Young's Hotel on Thursday, December Georgetown, Me. 30, 1897; business meeting at 5 P.M., '%.—J. P. Berry man, who graduated and dinner at 0 P.M. from Bates College in the Class of '96, All graduates of the college are en- was united in marriage to Miss Harriet titled to a seat in the convention. The Hewins of Augusta, on November gentlemen are invited to bring their 24th. L. .1. (Jraves, superintendent wives or lady friends, so that the sweet of schools in Augusta, was best man. girl graduates may not be in a hopeless Mr. Berryman is studying law in the minority. office of Attorney Leigh of Augusta. It is earnestly requested by the hotel —Leiciston Daily Sun. steward that he know as nearly as '97.—J. F. Slatterv is taking the possible how many plates to provide census of ward three in Lewiston. for, and for that reason, all who intend to be present should notify the Secre- '97.—Miss Susan Merrill is teaching tary. The members have been slightly in Waterville. forgetful of this matter for the last '!)7.—E. F. Cunningham has been two years, many more coming than we recently elected to a position as teacher had notice of, and thereby causing in Lnnenburg, Mass. some little confusion in fretting seats '97.—A. W. Foss is al work in for all at the dinner tables. Roxbury, Mass. The speakers of the evening will be '97.—P. W. Brackett is teaching at selected from all ranks, colors, condi- Bradford, Me., for the winter. tions, classes, and parties. A huge '97.—Rev. J. S. Durkee, of Cobb number of the best and poorest speak- Divinity School, has received and ers among the graduates have already accepted a unanimous call to the Court tendered their services to the President, Street Free Baptist Church in Auburn. and he is now considering which ones '97.—A. P. I). Tobien has charge not to have. of the High .School at Agawam, Mass. For further information, come to the dinner. '97.—Miss Mabel W. Winn is prin- K. C. ADAMS, President. cipal of the High School at Greenville, C. C. SMITH, Secretary. Me. <>8 Pemberton Square, Boston, Mass. BATES STUDENT. Published by the Class of 1898.

BOARD OF EDITORS:

FRANK 1'EARSON. OLIVER 11. TOOTHAKER. SADIE M. BRACKETT. RALPH H. TUKEY. ADAH M. TASKER. MYRTLE B. MAXIM.

BUSINESS MANAGERS: LOUIS B. CoSTBLLO. HARRY \V. BLAKE.

>HE old Board of Editors with tliis chief during his absence and in his issue of the STUDENT lays down its stress of other duties. duties and responsibilities and extends a hearty greeting, full of good wishes, "EtoECAUSE of certain occurrences in to the incoming Board. £& the past few weeks we are again The year now past has not been led to mention the tendency of the without its progress gained from dis- public press to devote its columns to couragements as well as from successes. sensationalism even at the expense of Each Board must go through the same truth. experience to a greater or less degree The college news in some of the lead- of efficiency. But through it all the ing dailies we find to be wonderfully STUDENT should grow with the college, incorrect, and the cause is apparent. reflecting the college life and thought, .lust so long as the news of the college and ever presenting a high standard of are reported by the city local reporter literary and scholarly work. they will continue of their present If the present Board has attained to tenor. One reporter gets a greatly any measure of success in increasing embellished account of an occurrence, the value of our magazine, the thanks and then, after a few additions from are due to the unity and hard work of his own fertile brain, forwards the the editors, the practical zeal of the same to his paper. Then another business managers, and the hearty reporter finds that the first mentioned sympathy and active co-operation of gentleman has edified the public with the student body. a wondrous tale as yet untold, and he Thanks are due also from the editor- goes and does likewise. And so the in-chief to his fellow-editors, not only good work goes on. Now what, pray, for their readiness and enthusiasm in do these gentlemen know about the their own departments, but also for affairs as they exist at the college? their interest in the STUDENT as a Plainly, nothing. Some of them admit whole ; and also for their kindly per- as much. None but the persons forming many of the duties of the intimately connected with the college 252 THE BATES STUDENT. and the life of the college are competent ance at the opening of the winter to announce college news. term, and the making-up which burdens A decided advance has been made those who return late, usually render in the line of college reporters, and we the work less satisfactory than at other hope that it may go on. times in the year. Our society meet- ings are too valuable to be slighted for STRONGEST of all the sacred a single night. There will be increased college ties is that which binds responsibilities, increased opportunities, together "our class." There is never and whoever will, may obtain increased but one class in college for most of us. benefits. We look with ill-concealed pity on If what Samuel Harris says is true— those unfortunates who entered just a "The object to be aimed at in educa- year or so too early or too late. To tion is the development of the person be sure, we very seldom recognize the to the mastery of himself and of his presence of genius in " our class ; " hut resources, and to the realization of the then it is composed of such strong, wide- highest possibilities of his being"— awake fellows, and such jolly girls! then there is no agent, no study in Of course there is friction occasion- college which is more potent than care- ally—what is that old saw about the ful, painstaking work in any one of "best regulated families?"—but class the literary societies. frictions arc soon forgotten. The sweet remembrance which will go with us all JTUIN the past few years our our lives long and brighten many a Christian Associations have be- dreary hour is of a happy, enthusiastic come two of the strongest organizations roomful of friends, our friends, ready in college. Over two-thirds of the stu- with laughter and song and mischief dents are members of either the Y. M. to celebrate anything. or Y. W. C. A., and are thus united And the class prayer-meetings ! their for the common purpose of develop- spirit will never leave us. Perhaps it ing in themselves and others a well- was through their holy influence that rounded Christian character. It is not we first gained courage to stand for merely necessary to train the mind the Truth. After all, the dearest along purely intellectual lines and the memory of our class will be of that body in physical culture, in order to little circle up in one of the society give the young man or woman of rooms, at the last meeting of the term, to-day the training he or she will need singing with tremulous lips, ''Blest be in active life. Spiritual development the tie that hinds." must be added to these. Practical, TT'jrIIAT do we owe to our literary trained Christianity is always needed. )jgL societies? The question can be Through their Bible classes and organ- answered readily in words. Let us ized work in other departments the during the next term answer it by our associations afford the opportunity for work. The comparatively small attend- obtaining just this thing. m THE BATES STUDENT. 253 GoII^gG DGWS QY\£ Iritsrssts. A REVIEW OF THE FOOT-BALL The last game for the season was SEASON. played at Exeter with Phillips Exeter. WHIE record of tliis year's games is Owing to Bates's previous work she H as follows: The first game of the expected to win by a good score; but season was played at Brunswick with considering the fine showing which the Bowdoin eleven on October 2d. Exeter had made against Bowdoin, The marked superiority of the Bates Dartmouth, and Tufts, Bates hardly team over Bowdoin was the most looked for a score of .'50 to 0, which noticeable feature of this game ; hold- was the result of this game. At the ing Bowdoin'a line at will and scarcely close of the game an Exeter man said ever failing to make the required dis- Bates was the strongest team they had tance. The best gains were made by played during the season. Call and Pnlsifer when they secured It is interesting to note that on the touchdowns; Call milking a run of "all Maine team" several competent forty-live yards through Bowdoin's line, authorities have given Bates five men ; and Pnlsifer a run of sixty yards left half-hack. Captain Pnlsifer; cen- around Bowdoin's left end. Score, 10 ter, Iloag; left guard, Saunders ; left to G. end, Putnam ; quarter-hack, Purinton. The following week Bates went to The success of the team is largely Orono and played University of Maine due to the hard work of the men and a very close and exciting game, which the excellent coaching of Mr. W. Efoag resulted in Bates's favor by a score of of Harvard. I consider Mr. Iloag the 8 to 6. best coach Bales ever had. His Again, on the Kith of October, Bates coaching has been progressive ; every played University of Maine in Lew- man on the team gained not only in iston. This game was by far the knowledge of the game but also in best of the season—the most evenly weight during the season. It is the matched ami the most exciting, the score wish of every member of the team being 4 to 0 against Hates at two that Mr. Iloag coach the Bates team seconds from the end of the game, for the year 1-S«.I8. when, with a drop kick from the field The following is a iisl of the foot- by llalliday, Bates won by a score of ball team, giving the physical condition 5 to 4. of each : The fourth and last State game .1. P. Sprague, Right Tackle ; age 22 ; played was with Colby at Lewiston, on Class 'W. October 28d. The Bates team out-played Weight, 79.2 kilos—174.2 lbs. the Colby team in both offensive and Height, 172.7 em.—5 feet, '.I inches. Capacity of lnngs, 310on. inches. defensive play; but, owing to the Strength of lungs, 23 kilos—00.6 lbs. Strength of hack, 818 kilos—693 lbs. referee's partiality or ignorance of foot- Strength ..f legs, 4(18 kilos-1,029.6 lbs. ball rules, the game resulted in a tie. Strength of upper arms. 1110 kilos—418 lbs. Strength of right forearm,68.6 kilos—13!).7 lbs. 254 THE BATES STUDENT.

Strength of left forearm, 03.5 kilos—130.7 lbs. D. L. Richardson, Left End; age Total strength, 1,122.5 kilos—2,405.6 lbs. Development, 580.2 cm. IS; Class 11)00. (T) condition, +542.8. Weight, 71 kilos—15(1.5 lbs. Height, 17

Strength of lungs, 10 kilos—22 lbs. Development, 5:14.8. Strength of back, 215 kilos—474.1 lbs. Condition, + 227.9. Strength of legs, 840 kilos—74:5.7 lbs. Strength of upper arms, 74.9 kilos—166.3 lbs. E. II. Prescott; age 2.'5; Substitute ; Strength of right forearm, 51.8kilos—112.4 lbs. Strength of left forearm, 51.8 kilos—112.4 lbs. Cobb Divinity School. Total strength, 74:1.4 kilos—1,639.4 lbs. Weight, 75.2 Mlos—166.8 lbs. Development, 551.8. Height, 169 cm.—5 feet, 6.5 inches. Condition, + 191.2. Capacity of lungs, 250 cu. inches. Strength of lungs, 6 kilos—13.2 lbs. Frank Halliday, Fullback; ago 21; Strength of back, 200 kilos—441 lbs. Class 1901. Strength of legs, 306 kilos—672.5 lbs. Strength of upper arms, K15.4 kilos—363.8 lbs. Weight, 62.2 kilos—186.7 lbs. Strength of right forearm, 63.6 kilos—139.9lbs. Height, 167.." cm.—5 feet, 5.7 inches. Strength of left forearm, 63.6 kilos—189.9 lbs. Capacity of lungs, .100 cu. inches. Total strength, 808.6 kilos—1,771.7 lbs. Strength of lungs, 17 kilos—87.8 lbs. Development, 504.7 lbs. Strength of back, 208 kilos—458.6 lbs. Condition, + 238.9. Strength of legs, 250 kilos. Strength of upper arms, 105.4 kilos—551.2 lbs. * Owing to a lame side at the time Strength of right forearm, 48.8 kilos—10(i.!l lbs. Strength of left forearm, 48.8 kilos-106.it 1 bs. Mr. Iloag's physical examination was Total strength, Ii78.1 kilos—1,405 lbs. Development, 527.3. taken, his total strength, as here given, Condition, + 150.8. is less than it should be. *A. U. Hoag, Center; Cobb Divinity (T) The term condition means the School. difference between a man's develop- Weight, 82.5 kilos—181.8 lbs. ment and his total strength. Height, 177.8 em.—5 feet, 0.7 inches. Capacity of lungs, :>00 cu. inches. \Y. W. BOLSTER, JR. Strength of lungs, 16 kilos—36.3 lbs. Strength of hack, 230 kilos—507.1 lbs. Strength of legs, 300 kilos—6(11.5 lbs. Strength of upper arms, 41.2 kilos—00.4 lbs. Strength of right forearm, 57 kilos—125.7 lbs. HEARD ABOUT THE CAMPUS. Strength of left forearm, 57 kilos—125.7 lbs. Morituri salutamus. Total strength, 601.2 kilos—1,826.2 lbs. Development, 579.8. Condition, + 21.4. The winter term of the Latin School begins December 21st. A. P. Pnlsifer; age 21 ; Substitute; Class '98. The Divinity School closes at Christ- Weight, 67.6 kilos-148.8 lbs. mas for a recess of ten days. Height, 172.2 kilos—5 feet, 7.7 inches. Capacity of lungs, 270 cu. inches. Owing to President Chase's absence, Strength of lungs, 16 kilos—36.3 lbs. Strength of back, 240 kilos—523.2 lbs. the Seniors will be obliged to give up Strength of legs, :>20 kilos—705.6 lbs. their work in Logic for next term. Strength of upper arms, 101.4 kilos—223.8 lbs. Strength of right forearm,70.5kilos—155.4 lbs. In the Sophomore debates the prize Strength of left forearm, 70.5 kilos 155.4 lbs. Total strength, 818.4 kilos—1,8(14.7 lbs. winners were Km rich, Staples, Miss Development, 548.9. Condition, + 269.5. Marr, Miss True, Dcnnison, and Wagg. A. C. Wheeler ; age 20 ; Substitute ; rainier, '1)9, has been elected man- Class '!>9. ager of the foot-ball team for next Weight, 67.8 kilos—148.8 lbs. season, and Hutehinson, '99, takes his Height, 17:5.8 cm—5 feet, 8.1 inches. Capacity of lungs, 260 cu. inches. old position as treasurer of the Athletic Strength of lungs, 8.5 kilos—18.7 lbs. Association. Strength of back, 195 kilos—429.9 lbs. Strength of legs, .180 kilos—8.17.9 lbs. The foot-ball team has unanimously Strength of upper arms, (17.8 kilos. Strength of right forearm, 55.7 kilos—148.8 lbs. re-elected Pnlsifer, '99, captain of the Strength of left forearm, 55.7 kilos—148.8 lbs. Total strength, 762.7 kilos—1,681.3 lbs. team. Captain Pnlsifer has played 256 THE BATES STUDENT. three years on the 'varsity team, and is of them educational works, were pre- a very popular and efficient captain. sented by Messrs. Silver, Burdett & Thanksgiving evening the Faculty Co., of Boston. Twenty-nine volumes of the college, the Divinity School, were purchased. Among these latter and the Latin School gave a pleasant are: Fronde's History of Ireland, 2 reception to the students of the three vols. ; "The Huguenots and Henry of institutions, in Roger Williams Hall. Navarre," 2 vols., Baird; "The Rise of the Huguenots of France," 2 The Latin School will begin again vols., Baird; "Pharaohs, Fellahs, and Tuesday, December 21st, after a two Explorers," Edwards ; "The Life and weeks' vacation. Thirty-six new stu- Works of G. E. Lcssing," Adolph dents entered during the fall term, and Stahr ; "The Four Georges," 2 vols., there is a good prospect of more for McCarthy ; History of Latin Literature, the winter term. 2 vols. Mr. .1. G. Elder, of Lewiston, The last catalogue gives the total has also presented four valuable and number of students in college as 261. interesting books. They are specimens In 18!)G there were 240 ; in 1895, 218; of early printing and binding, pub- and in 1894, 190. At present there lished in Kill and 1012. arc 42 Seniors, 65 Juniors, 7."5 Sopho- mores, and 81 Freshmen. At the meeting of delegates from the Maine colleges to consider the forma- The new board of STUDENT editors tion of a State Debating League, held and their departments are as follows: in Lewiston, November 27th, Bowdoin 0. C. Merrill, Literary ; C. S. Calhoun, was not represented ; and as she after- Alumni; Miss M. E. Chase, Poetry wards declined to enter the league, it and Exchanges ; F. E. Pomeroy and was thought beat not to form a trian- Miss L. B. Albec, Locals; Miss S. L. gular league, and a debate was arranged Hounds, Book Reviews. between Colby and Bates. This debate The Ladies' Glee Club, with Miss is to be held at Waterville, February Bonney as reader, made a successful 18th. Colby was given the choice of and pleasant trip the first week of the question, and Bates the choice of vacation, giving concerts at North Ber- side. President Butler is to select the wick, Me., Rochester, Sanbornville, three judges from a list prepared by and Somersworth, N. IL In spite of President Chase. The award is to be unfavorable weather, good audiences determined by the merits of the argu- greeted them everywhere. Miss Bon- ment and the manner of presentation. ney's readings were very favorably Colby selected the following question : received, and at Somersworth she was " Resolved, that municipalities in the recalled four times on her last selection. United States of twenty-live thousand The college library has recently been or more inhabitants should own and enriched by the addition of sixty new operate plants for supplying water, books. Twenty-eight volumes, most light, and surface transportation. Bates THE BATES STUDENT. 257

lias the negative of the question, and Florence S. Farnnm, New Gloucester, Me. Henry Hawkins, Sullivan, Me. has chosen for its disputants : L. B. Abuer T. Hinckley, Par Harbor, Me. Fred U. Landman, Latin School. Costello, '08, F. U. Land man, '98, and Peroie L. Morrison, Harrison, Me. F. P. Wagg, '99. Atlie I). Weymouth, Livermore Falls, Me. The Freshmen have chosen subjects JUNIORS. Edith S. Blake, Somersworth, N. H. for debates next year as follows: Muriel E. Chase, Livermore Falls, Mo. FIRST DIVISION. Herbert C. Churchill, Franklin, Me. Bertha Donnooker, Brooksville, Me. Is it probable that within fifty years the United Milton P. Diinton, The Forks, Me. States will have a elaini equal to that of Ina V. Flanders, Grove ton, N. H. Great Britain to he considered a nation of Emma6, Gay, Barrisville, N. H. the lirst rank '.' Bessie L. Higlit, Groveton, N. H. Affirmative—Siegars, Felker, Miss Libhey, Allen ('. Hutoliinson, Paris, Me. Nash, Moulton, Miss Hesse, Miss Towle. Eva A. Maxim, Limington, Mo. Negative—Miss Dennison, Miss Smith, Miss Oscar C. Merrill, Latin School. Parker, Miss Neal, Marr, Miss Dow, Miss Finest L. Palmer, Harrington, Me. Cartland. Everett Peacock, Andover, Me. SECOND DIVISION. Thomas A. Roberts, Turner, Me. Is then; danger that the separate interests of Susie L. Bounds, Boothbay, Me. the several states will finally destroy our Oscar A. Stevens, St. George, Me. government? Delbert M. Stewart, Monticello, Me. Affirmative—Holman, A. C. Clark, Miss Vick- Wildie Tha.ver, Lowell. Mass. ery, Smith, Miss Bailey, Miss Mills, Hand. Alton 0. Wheeler, Paris, Me. Negative—Jlam, Hardy, Goss, Roys, Miss Irving, Dennett, Densinore. SOPHOMORES. Frank P. Ayer, Cornish, Me. . THIRD DIVISION. Willard K. Bachelder, Bffingham, N. H. Was the civilization of Athens at any period Clara E. Berry, West Paris, Me. of her history equal to that of Boston at the Welbee Kutterfield, Mercer, Me. present time? Charles P. Dennison, Paris, Me. Affirmative—Miss Brett, Moore, Ellingwood, Harry E. Dunham, Phillips, Me. Miss Purinton, Pierce, Channel), ituker. Horace \V. Female!, Mercer, Me. Negative—Deane, Crossman, K. B. Stevens, George L. Griffin, London Center, N. H. Holmes, Garcelon, Russell, Phillips. Guy E. Healey, Wayne, Me. FOURTH DIVISION. Albert M. Jones, Brooks, Me. Mabelle A. Ludwig, Vinalbaven, Me. Is the United States doing more for civiliza- Josiah S. MoCann, Mechanic Falls, Me. tion than is Great Britain? Bertram E. Packard, Hartford, Me. Affirmative—H. Stevens, Jordan, Hanilen, Harriet D. Proctor, Brooksville, Me. Miss Perkins, Miss Fisher, Guptill. Justin N. Rogers, Biickfichl. Me. Negative—Ilalliday, C. E. Wheeler, Stuart, Ferris Siimmerbell, Lewiston. H. G. Wheeler, Miss Varney, Damack, Helen White, Wiscasset, Me. Nason. A. W. Wing, Latin School. FIFTH DIVISION. Ought Canada to he annexed to the United FRKSHMEN. States ? Delia M. P.lanchard, Guilford, Me. Affirmative—Murphy, Miss Bennet, Chick, Jesse S. Bragg, Pittsfield, Me. Miss Small, Miss Noyes, Miss Bates. Winfield F. Buker, Pittsfield, Me. Negative—Wilson, Daicy, Murke. Miss Shea, Wilfrid I. Burke, Lyman, Me. C. W. Clark, Miss lilanchard, Miss Towne. Mittie A. Dow, Plymouth. Me. SIXTH DIVISION. Ivan I. Felker, Pittsfield, Me. William R. Mam. Dixfield, Me. Ought the United States to become a great Frank Ilalliday, Pittston, Me. naval power'.' George S. Holman, Jr., Dixfield, Me. Affirmative—E. F. Davis, Miss Williams, Pen- Nina F. Landman, Lakeside, Me. dexter, Williams, Miss Landman, Lang. Ivan E. Lang, Bowdoinham, Me. Negative—Trickey, Bragg, A. E. Davis, Maerz, William A. Marr, Boothbay, Me. Miss Baldwin, Putnam, Miss Osboroe. Harry L. Moore, New Sharon, Me. Venue E. Rand, Dexter, Me. The following is a list of students Lincoln Roys, Windham, Me. who are teaching school this winter:. Albert .J. Sugars, Bowdoinham, Me. Harry 1. Smith, Newport, Me. SKNIOKS. Bertha M. Varney, Bowdoinham, Me. 11. w. Blake, Ossipee, N. H. Annie E. Williams, Topsham, Me. J. F. Braokett, Limington, Me. Leroy E. Williams, Bowdoinham, Me. 258 THE BATES STUDENT. (3oII<3$@ ®xahar)C)<3s_ " Kins out, wild bells, to the wild sky, and against a student becoming a pro- . The Hying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; fessional during his vacations, fairly Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. and squarely. "Threnenia" is above Ring out the old, ring in the new, the average. Ring, happy bells, across the snow; As a whole The Tennessee University The year is going, let him go; Magazine is good. Of especial merit Ring out the false, ring in the true." — Tennyson. are the two short tales, "The Mistle- THIS world-wide cry—"Ring out toe" and "The Chronicles of Hetty," the old, ring in the new," comes the latter of which is decidedly modern to us with peculiar emphasis, for with in plot and treatment. the passing of the year these pages pass The writer of "English Fiction of into the care of others. It is with a the Present Day," in The Smith Col- curious feeling of relief and regret that lege Monthly, characterizes some of we take up our pen to (HI these columns our recent novelists, viz: DuMaurier, for the last time. During the past Hardy, Meredith, Stevenson, Kipling, year we have felt a deep interest in etc. " Last Chance," the story of a our Exchanges—they have meant to western horse race, in some places us, labor, pleasure, and profit. We shows skill in vivid description—and have done what we could, and tried to pathos and humor are not lacking. be true to the best, and now—farewell! In "A County Fair" the spirit of E. Benjamin Andrews advances some good humor is infectious, and the pithy thoughts in his address. «« For- experiences of the truly ingenious small ward Steps in Education," published boy are well summed up in the clos- in The Brown Magazine. He empha- ing- sizes the new conception of the nature "An' they waz a swing where ye rode—an' I rode, and ends of education as an evidence An' a thing-um-a-jig 'at ye blowed—an' I of educational progress, saying: "The Mowed; constituents of a sound education are, An' they was a game 'at ye played—an' I played, first, character; second, culture ; third, An' a hitch in the same wher' ve paid—an' critical power, including accuracy and I paid." also sympathy with all the various The Yale Literary Magazine is up ages, nationalities, and moods of men ; to its usual standard. Several poems and fourth, power to work hard under are worthy of mention, among them, rule and pressure." He is a strong "Rubaiyat" and "Schubert." Other advocate of the elective system, and magazines for the month that rank claims that the stepping-stone to thor- well, are The Buff and Blue, The oughness is exhaustive study in some Mountaineer, The Brunonian, The Col- one field. "The question of Summer orado Collegian, and The Bowdoin Base-Ball" presents the arguments for Quill. THE BATES STUDENT. 259 H Ghat jRlbout Dsw ioooks_ N interesting coincidence is the fact fire to her pen as to cause critics to that two of the books lying on forget faults in her style and diction. in}' table this month are lives of people No one reading her works can doubt who figured prominently on opposite the depth of her religious nature. This sides in the events surrounding the is shown, also, in her letters to her Civil War. friends. In regard to "Died," she Harriet Beeclier Stowe' will always writes to her husband, "God, to whom be dear to our hearts. The story of I prayed night and day while I was her literary achievements, her devotion writing the book, has heard me." to her country and her home, is in- Letters from George Eliot, Lady tensely interesting. Mrs. Annie Fields Byron, Charles Kingsley, J. R. Lowell, tells us, with tact and grace, just the The Duchess of Argyll, etc., are valu- particulars which we most wish to able as throwing side lights on their know. When we read of her interrup- lives. tions from domestic cares and private 2Robert E. Lee and the Southern philanthropies, together with her phys- Confederacy is the twenty-second book ical weakness, we are compelled to in the " Heroes of the Nations Series," wonder how she found strength or time issued by Putnam's Sons, including to write. But when the inspiration lives of Sir Philip Sidney, Julius came she could write anywhere. An Caesar, Napoleon, U. S. Grant, etc. amusing scene is recounted by one of These men are chosen as representing, her friends who saw her writing in her in a sense, types of national ideals. kitchen. Her ink bottle was on the The story of Lee's life is written by tea-kettle cover, her paper on a book a Southerner and colored somewhat by in her lap. Instructions to an ignorant his prejudices. It is valuable because house girl were mingled with a tragic it gives us clearly the national condi- situation in her story. Her youngest tions surrounding this man and depicts baby was fastened in a clothes-basket his character as seen by that half of on the floor. our country whose ideal and hero he Mrs. Stowc possessed an unfailing was during the war. It is well to hear store of mirth, and her humorous both sides of so important a stni2°'le. speeches relieve many a trying situa- Many interesting extracts from Lee's tion. We learn of her absent-minded- letters are given. ness, and many other traits. She was A neat little volume of sermons by not a student of the best literature, Ezra Hoyt Byington, D.D., is sent out but through this work of Mrs. Fields by Roberts Brothers. The volume is we come to understand how her great named from the first: "The Christ love for suffering humanity drew her of Yesterday, To-Day, and Forever.":l inseparably to the truth and gave such '1 he work is strong and spiritual. 260 THE BATES STUDENT.

The sermon on "The Danger and long studied the one perfect life and Safety of Young Men" shows sound absorbed His teachings. common sense and a clear insight into All the beauty that a vivid and cul- character. "The Gospel of Rest" is tured imagination can weave about the a helpful discourse drawn from Christ's gospel incidents is to be found in this visits to Bethany. The preacher bids book. The surroundings of Christ's us be " cheerful enough to go to life, gleaned from heathen historians Bethany, and brave enough to go to and other sources, and careful descrip- Calvary." tions of natural scenery, are used as a " Gloria Victris "4 is a strange book, background to the Gospel records as was the author's "Amos Judd." which are carefully adhered to. He seems to delight in dealing with The writer's style is pare and beau- improbabilities in so realistic a manner tiful. Her work has often thrilled us as to bewilder our judgment. The before, but into this book she has motive of Gloria Victris is to prove poured her whole heart-strength. The that Christ appears on earth to-day in story cannot be read without new bodily form to guide and comfort. emotions add stronger appreciation of The characters to whom the writer the character of Jesus. represents Christ as appearing, contrast The chapters on " The Wilderness," greatly. The one is a noble Christian "The Five Thousand Guests," and on clergyman whose whole life seems to the last days of his life, are especially be an exposition of the beauty of rich in scenic effect and dramatic Christian charity. The other character power. Her closing words are : " Ideal is that of a boy of ten, born of wicked of sacrifice, Master of suffering, the parents with no sense of right or wrong. grandest intellect, the purest heart that The last scene presents many incon- this low world has known—its Supreme gruities. The hero and heroine, both Soul—he passed. circus performers, an insane mother, " He has left us the faith which and the devout and respectable clergy- bears his name. He has left us the man, are the actors. The master august opportunity of everlasting life." strokes by which the author introduces 1 Life and Letters of Harriet Beerher Stowe. a modern Christ and causes him to Edited by Annie Fields. Houghton, -MiHIin &Co., Boston; $2.00. raise the heroine to life again, excite -Robert E. Lee and the Southern Confed- our admiration though not our approval. eracy (1807-1810). By Henry Alexander White, M.A., Ph.D., D.D. G. P. Putnam's Sons, That the author of "Gates Ajar" New York; 81.80. and "Come Forth" should conceive of 3The Christ of Yesterday, To-day, and For- ever. By Ezra Hoyt Byington, D.D. Roberts so noble a work as the " Story of Jesus Brothers, Boston; $1.50. 4 Christ"5 is not strange. The character Gloria Victris. By J. A. Mitchell. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York; $1.20. of the sailor's "Christinan" in "A 6 The Story of Jesus Christ. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Houghton, Minim & Co., Singular Life" could not have been Boston; $2.00. developed except by one who had B USINESS Dili EG TOR Y. HI

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Profc88or of ( cmis,ry JONATHAN V. STANTON, L.TT.D.. '" - Professor of Greek and Latin Languages. WILLIAM II. HARTSHORN, A.M., Professor of Rhetoric. RKV. BENJAMIN P. HAYES, D.D., Professor of Apologetics and Pastoral Theology. WILLIAM C. STRONG, A.M., Professor of Physics. THOMAS L. ANGELL, A.M., Professor of Modern Languages. HERBERT R. RURINTON, Professor of Hebrew and Church History.

RKV. JAMES ALBERT HOWE, D.D., GROSVENOB M. ROBINSON, Professor of Systematic Theology and HomlletiCS. ,Instructor ,,„,._• in .,r Incut .■ ion.

CIASSICAI BEl'A iriMENT. TERMS OF ADMISSION. Candidates for admission tn the Freshman Class are examined as follows: LATIN: [n Six books of Virgil's F.ncid ; four hooks of Oi-sar; six orations of Cicero; thirty exercises in Jones's Latin Composition; Latin Grammar (Harkness or Allen A Greenoogh). GREEK i In three books of Xenophon's Anabasis; two hooks of Homer's Iliad) twenty exercises In Jones's Greek Composition; (loodwin's or Had lev's Creek (iriimmar. MATHEMATICS: in Arithmetic, in Wentworth's Elements of Algebra, and Plane Geometry or equivalents. ENGLISH: In Ancient Geography, Ancient History, English Composition, and in English Literature the works sit for examination for entrance to the New England Colleges. All candidates for advanced Standing will be examined in the preparatory studies, and also in those previously pursued by the class they propose to enter,or in other studies equivalent to them. Certificate! of regular dismission will be required from those who have been members of other colleges. The regular examinations for admission to College take place on the set I Saturday liefore Commencement, on Wednes day preceding Commencement, and lai Monday preceding the first day of the Fall Term. The examinations for admission to College will lie Loth written anil oral. Hereafter no special students will be admitted to any of the College classes. EXPENSES. The annual expanses for board, tuition, room rent, and incidentals are $200. Pecuniary assistance, from the income of thirty-seven scholarships and various other l>encfactions, is rendered to those who are unable to meet their expenses otherwise. Students contemplating the Christian ministry receive assistance every year of the course.

For Fine Writing, Nos. 303,170, 004 E. F. For General Writing, JOSEPH GILLOTTS 332,404,601E. F., 1044,1045, 1046. For Broad Writing, 1008, STEEL PENS. 1009,1043. For V ertical Writ- COLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878 and 1889. ing, 1045 (Verticular), 1040 ( Verticraoll) A,,<1 others for all HIGHEST AWARD, CHICAGO, 1893. 6 r /' purposes. viii BUSINESS DIIIECTOR Y.

FLfl&fi & NEW STYLES. MURPHY, THE HATTER

FURRIER.

Sign, GOLD HAT, Cor. Lisbon and Ash Streets,

LEWISTON, - - . MAINE.

F. W. BOWLEY, DEALEB IN We Make the FINEST CARBONS in the State. Coal and Wood Our prices art! right. < ome in or correspond for 8e d s for v 1 Every grade of Hard and Soft Wood, Kitted si'PInnas V hS '" " "" • " "' PHOTO 5!" ■ ' " - £* »™ everything tor Lho Ama- or Dnfluod, at Lowest Market Prices. A ic« Second-Hand, al ngreal bargain. OFFICE AND YARD: 138 Lisbon St., LEWISTON, ME. Eear of 270 Main St.. LEWISTON, ME. J. T. RICHARDSON, Successor to Richardson, Farr & Co.. Intercollegiate Bureau of DEALER IN

Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, • • Qtum ,,,il"v«'s. Dmbrollnsof all kinds. Academic Costume. 8AMPLE AM) DAMAGED 8HOE8 a Specialty 137 Main Street, - LEWISTON, ME. Repairing Promptly and Neatly Executed. l scratch your back if you will snatch mine.

J^ C. PINGREE & CO.,

136 Main St., LEWISTON,

COTRELL & LEONARD,

LUMBER YARD® PLANING MILL 472-478 Broadway,

And all kinds of ^- ALBANY, N. Y. Makers of the WOOD WORKING. CAPS, GOWNS, and HOODS to the American Colleges and Universities. INDIAN-CLUBS TURNED TO ORDER. Illustrated bulletin, samples, etc., upon application. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. IX C. O. MORRELL,^— .. Boot and Shoe Dealer has sold out his interest in the C. O. MOIUIELL SHOE CO., and has opened A New Shoe Store With All New Goods, 116 "SwimST in One-Half of 8. I\ ROME'S STORE. C. (>. MOKREI.L, A. It. l'HINCE. «M MORRELL-PRINCE SHOE CO. Fisk Teacfiers" Rgencies MAKE YOUR MONEY EARN MORE MONEY. EVERETT 0. FISK & CO., Wheat and stocks are the fastest money makers PBOPBTETOBS. in the world. Better investments cannot l>e made than through Systematic Syndicate speculation in stock and Grain markets. We guarantee profits of Send to any of the following addresses not less than ."> per cent, monthly, remitted 1st and for Agency Manual Free. [6th of each month. Investments secured. Our hook tells how loss is Impossible and profits enor- mous. SENT EliEE. ti per cent, paid to our custom- 4 Ashhurlon Place, BOSTON, MASS. ers September 1st, made in 10 days. 70 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK, N. Y. 1242 Twelfth St., WASHINGTON, D. C. JAMES M. HOBBY & CO. 878Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL. STOCK BROKERS, 25 King Street, West, TORONTO, CAN. No. 32 Equitable Building, 07 Milk Street, 414 Century Building, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. BOSTON, MASS. 525 Stinison Block, Los ANOBLBS, CAL. ': 022 Temple Block Building, KANSAS CITY, MO. F. E. BETTS, State Agent, 730 Cooper Building, DENVER, COL. KOHA TEMPLE BLOCK, - - LEW1STON, MB.

J. H. TWOMBLY & eo.,

OS MERCHANT TAILORS. y®

Our assortment of WOOLENS for Fall and . Before placing your orders we should Winter comprise all the novelties in Q be pleased to show you through foreign and domestic makes. ® our stock.

Suits from $20 Upwards, Dress Suits a Specialty.

J. H. TWOHBLY <& CO.,

3S Court Street, AUBURN, IVIAirM! BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

\Y H. WEEKS, DR. EMERY BAILEY,

32 Main St., DENTIST, LEWISTON, MAINE, No. 20 LISBON ST., - LEWISTON. Gas administered to extract Teeth. Book and * Job Printer E. 6L M. S. MILLETT,

Letter Heads, Note Heads, Statements, Kill Heads, jflNE /IfolLLINERY. Envelopes, Catalogues, I5y-Laws, etc. Special reduction given to Students Orders by mail will receive mentioning this advertisement. prompt attention. 13 Lisbon St., LEWISTON.

A SPECIALTY MADE

OF

Boston University Law School, SCHOOL AND COLLEGE NEW HALL, ASHBURTON PLACE. 4()() Students. EDMUND H. BENNETT, LL.D., DEAN. opens Oct. (1,1898. Boston, Mass. (printing

AT THE

LEWISTON JOURNAL OFFICE,

Protect your family, STUDENTS Provide for the future, If you want to Secure low rates, Insure while you're young (Jet your Magazines and Periodicals Hound, anil your School Hooks Repaired at MAJINE MERRILL & WEBBER'S BENEFIT LIFE ASSOCIATION BOOK=BlNDERY, OF AUBURN, ME. ON THE NATURAL PREMIUM PLAN.

All Machinery New, 88 Hain St., Cash Assets, $120,000.00. which insures best of work at easy prices. Paid Beneficiaries, $1,133,800.00. AUBURN. Send for application! or circulars. Agents wanted at liberal terms. PRINTING of Kvery Description. Hook OEO. 0. mm, M. F. Bicm, N. W. HASEIS, and Job Work. Each n Specialty. President. Manager. Scc'y and Tress. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. XI

^O Lisbon St., John H. Whitney, Lewiston.

Physicians' Prescriptions Apothecary, \ a Specialty.

TURN OVER A Every day in tlie year and NEW LEAF * enjoy the hap- The py thought that heads every page of the

-ColiiOia^ FOR YOUR MONEY When you hoy [ FURNITURE, Keep track of engagements and matters CARPETS, * of daily importance in your life, on the ample memoranda space—and at the end DRAPERIES. of the year you have a journal of diary that will he a pleasure to refer to for years To do this you must go to some one with a rep- to come. utation for selling good things at Low Prices. By mail to any addross Believing we have a stock that will answer every for fivo two-oont stamps. desire of the careful, economical buyer, we invite I you to come or write to us for particulars. POPE MFG. CO. Our stock covers a floor space of 2.1,000 square feet, and we think it offers more advantages than Hartford, any similar line in Maine. Conn. Columbia Cat- BRADFORD, CONANT & CO. alogue l>y mail for a 2-c. stamp. 199-203 Lisbon Street, Free by calling on any Colum- bia dealer. LEWISTON, ME. WALKER BROTHERS, The Union Oil Co., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Wholesale and Retail Dealer* in Oysters, Clams, and Lobsters Goods Delivered Without Extra Charge. KEROSENE OILS, GASOLENE, NAPHTHA. 55 Bates St., Near Main St., Lewiston, Me. Two Grades of Oil always Carried in Stock. Try the Better tirade of Oil. It will Give More Light. A Five-Gallon Can Fur- nished Kach Customer. JORDAN-FROST LUMBER CO., (Joods Delivered within the City Limits of Lewiston anil Auburn. Your Patronage is Solicited. Lumber, Coal,^Wood, HOLMAN GOULD, Prop'r, Foot of Cross Canal, Lewiston. 11 Miller Street, - AUBURN, ME. Xll BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

&TONE PHOTO «^ WOOD EIECTROTYPING ALL DONE ON THE PREMISES A. M LCFORRHARTFORD'CON'N.

F. C. FARR & CO., WRICHT & DIT30N Dealers in Athletic outfitters to the leading colleges, schools, and athletic chilis of New England. SAMPLE AND DAMAGED SHOES. Rubbers of all kinds. BASE-BALL Haymarket Square, - LEWISTON, ME. Special terms to Students. Supplies of Every Tennis, Description Golf, ! /!*■ for Cricket, J. D. GILBERT'S Athletic 4fcfe> Track, and Sports. W^fTS? Field yjj&Mtt Supplies. BOOK-BINDERY, Discus Throwing. IS JOURNAL BLOCK, Full Una of sup- Gymnasium plies for this Equipments. popular sport. ill LEWISTON, .... MAINE. Estimates and samples for team uniforms, etc., furnished on short notice. Secure Magazines, Music,etc.. Bound in a Neat our rates hefore purchasing- Special attention to mail orders. Catalogue free. and Durable Manner. Staling and Blank Book Work of Every Description WRIGHT & DITSQN '544 Washington St., imium a. JIIOUII, JJOSTON, MASS. Done to Order. Also, Edge eliding. ■•'

MONARCH CYCLE MFG CO. CHICAGO NEW-YORK •• f»m mm m *• LONDON xiv H UBINESS DIRECTOR Y. A NEW DEPARTURE AT THE COLLEGE BOOK-STORE. HAVE YOI SIOKN our TeiiiiU Rackets. We nave the best make we could find. HAVE YOU SEEN our Sweaters. We have all (trades at satisfactory prices. HAVE YOU SEEN our Tennis Shoes. We can trade with you if you are goinjj to buy. HAVE YOU SEEN our Tennis I'ants. We have White Duck and we have others. HAVE YOU SEEN our Golf Suits. They are nobby and the boys say they are " all right." HAVE YOU SEEN our Stock and compared our prices with those clown town. We have put in a line of Rackets, Shoes, I'ants, Sweaters, Golf Suits, etc., on which we can save you onev, and which will interest you whether von think of buying or not. We will also show you a line of Stationery, Note Books, Blanks, and Tablet* Which will supply the wants of the students. We represent reliable clothing houses and guarantee satisfaction if we take your order for a suit, pair of trousers, or overcoat. We can furnish READY and CUSTOM-MADE CLOTHING at prices that draw trade. We solicit the patronage of the (ike Club for dress suits. You cannot buy New or Second-Hand Hooks, neither can you Exchange so profitably, as at 43 Parker Hall, COLLEGE BOOK-STORE. Frederick G. Payne, You Get COLLEGE AND SOCIETY PRINTING the Profits 138 Lisbon Street, Of Dealers, Agents, Jobbers Corner Lisbon and Ash. and Middlemen by buying di- rect from the manufacturer. • |>on|ui\nm;i s.f u.npi SMI.1,1 UIO)v>|[-At s8 B "NOISIMBI 'si98JJS > a P"B "!*W 'JOQ

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aoiouo .Kt Mooxs I8BDVY1 mix \ AMES & MERRILL, No better wheel made than the DEALERS IN Fine Teas, Coffees, and Spices, Acme Bicycle All kinds of FrultS, Meat. Game, and Poultry, Built in our own factory by Flour and Molasses. skilled workmen, using the best 187 Main Street, - LEWISTON, ME. material and the most improved machinery. We have no agents Sold direct from factory to the New Hampton Literary Institute, rider, fully warranted. Shipped anywhere for examination. NEW HAMPTON, N. H. WRITE FOR IlKV. A. 15. MESKRVEV, A.M., PH.D., Our Interesting Offer l'RINCII'AI.. Acme Cycle Co., Elkhart, Ind.

The only NADUTUA PI CAMCINP (,;m °e (|"m' thoroughly, with (lie very best work- place where llHrn I riH LLCnROlHu men and all the modern improvements in the way of machinery, fixtures, and tools. We can do lirst-elass work, and as low as it can he done. Laoe and Muslin Curtains Done Over to Look Like New. DYEING, CLEANSING, AND REPAIRING in all its Branches. LEWISTON STEAM DYE HOUSE, 141 Main Street, Lewiston, Me. JOSEPH l-@Bt-/MNG, Proprietor. BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

THE HORACE PARTRIDGE COriPANY, Bicycles and Athletic Goods. Everything for Health and Sport. Agent for Bates, A. T. HINKLEY.

SKH THK" WHITELY EXERCISER. Reduced Prices, $2.00 and $3.00. f Men's Furnishings < AND s.p. 9 (Athletic Outfits. Agent, LEWISTON. ... I have been using one of these exercisers for twenty minutes each night and like il better and better the longer 1 have it. ... Yours for health, ROBERT J. ROMKRTS, Physical Director Boston Y. M. C. A.

DENTIST. GEO. V. TURGEON & CO., JEWELER; Percy J\. HoWe, D.D.S., Scientific Watchmaker and Osgood Block, LEWISTON. Graduate Optician. OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 12 A.M., 1 to 6 P.M., and Repairing neatly and promptly done. Ca»h paid for old gold and silver. evenings. 72 Lisbon Street, Sign, Electric Clock. pOR. NICE PURE CANDIES -*©*- -*©♦- CALL ON' -H- GO TO A. L. GRANT

A. E. HARLOW'S, FOR Where a large stock and variety is always on hand. Hot Soda and Ice-Cream Soda, 5 Cents. A. E. HAELOW, 58 Lisbon St. ICECREAM, FRUIT, AND SODA. Hathaway, Soule &. Harrington's Hot Chocolate and Coffee. Men's Fine Shoes. ALTON L. GRANT,

FESSENDEN I. DAY,. Journal Block. 170 Lisbon St., LEWISTON. M^MMMMkM Exclusive Styles FOR FALL. AND WINTER. Confined patterns not to be found elsewhere. The best tailored clothing at naif tailors' prices. Let us show you our Nobby We can save you money, too, SUITS and OVERCOATS on HATS and FURNISH- at $10, $12, and $15. INGS. Try our Furnishing Your fit guaranteed. Department.

SYKES CLOTHING CO., Lisbon Street, = = LEWISTON, ME.

DRESSING WELL is a Bcience—it requires lots of study and thought. It requires a little time and trouble—looking about—finding tin' store which offers the host values. Don't yon know some man who always looks particularly well? Why do you sup- pose it is? It's because be understands the art of dressing—because he appreciates a good clothing store, and buys here year after year. We have spent lots of time, money, and brains, in making this store what it is, but we have never had cause to regret it. riaines & Bonnallie, oNEPRicE CLOTHIERS, no Lisbon Street, LEWISTON.

J. N. WOOD & CO. TELEPHONE 169-2.

FEINTED AT JOUBNAL OFFICE, I.KWISTON.