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VOLU M E VI.

EDITORS:

John E. Chapman, William T. Conn, Edgar M. Cousins, William C. Greene,

Georgk T. Little, Curtis A. Perky, Charles B. Seabury.

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BO W DO I \ CO LL EG E, BRUNSWICK, MAINE. 1876-7. PRINTED AT THE JOURNAL OFFICE, LEWISTON, MAINE. .

INDEX TO VOL. VI.

Alpha Delta Phi Convention 37 Editorial Notes 4, 16, 28, 52, 66, 76, 88 Alumni Meetings 65 100, 112, 121, 133, 145, 157, 169, 181, 193 Alumni of New York 173 Editors' Table 10, 22, 34, 46, 58, 82, 94 Alumni of Portland 138 106, 118, 130, 142, 154, 166, 178, 190, 202 An Occasional Poem 134 Engineering Association, The 20 Exile, The 13 Base Ball:

Bowdoins vs. Bates 29 Faculty, Changes in the 66 Bowdoins vs. Resolutes 42 Farewell to '76 66 Bowdoins vs. Colby 54 Field Day 33, 43 Bowdoins vs. Quicksteps 54 Fires the Colleges 158 Communication 188 Among Benson, Hon. Samuel Page 97 Foot Ball 75, 77 Bowdoin Alumni, The 183 Freshman Supper, Omission of 67 Broken Drum of Gettysburg, The 148 From the German of Eichendorff 13 Bugle, Review of the 123 Glee Club Concert 170 Burial of Analytics 72 " Good Old Times," The 139 1S1 Carmina Collegensia, The New 17 Graduates, Honors of our 88 Carthaginian's Death, The 37 Gymnasium, Abuse of Catullus (Ad Diauam, XXXIV) 49 Habit, The Law of 109 Catullus V. (Ad Lesbiam) 126 Horace (Ad Fauuum, Book III., Ode XVIII.) 109 Changes, Some Needed 196 Horace (Ad Pyrrham, Book 1.. ode V.) 37 Church, Compulsory Attendance at 113 Horace (Ad Quintum Deliuni, Hook II., Class Day 67 Ode III.) 25 Class Loyalty 77 Horace B. Patten L02 College Hermit, The 126 11. K. P 97 College Publication, An Old Hi-.J

College Library, Use of 16,122 "It Is I, Birthday" I -l College World, The 9,21,46,57,93, 104 Ivy Dav 40 116, 129, 142, L53, 165, 177. 201

Commencement Concert, Tin' 69 Journalism, Amei 101 loinmencemenl Week 53

ritieisui 1 Caspar Hauser. 85

Critics, A Word to the L49 Lament. A 109 Delia Kappa Epsilon Convention 78 Landlord, The

Discovery and Invention 7:i Languages, How to Study the 38 INDEX.

PAGE Languages, The Teaching of 15 "Publications of Presidents and Faculty" 146 Letter Writing 134 Beading Boom, Our 5 Local 6, IS, 31, 44, 54, 70, 79, 90 Eecent Publications 94, 118 102, 114, 127, 140, 151, 163, 175, 188, 199 Eegatta, The 41 Luxuries of Our Lauguage 185 Eeminiscences of College Friends 136

Marking Library Books 148 Reports, Publication of 146

Medical Course, First Lecture in 171 Runaway Cupid, The 1 Memorial Hall 27 Secret Societies 123 Memorial Hall Lectures 147, 158 Self-Esteem 25 Ministry, No. of Graduates Who Enter the 158 Seniors' Last Chapel Exercise 52 Morning Hymn (After the Latin of Pru- Senior Parts .":" 53 dentius) 171 Senior Pictures 121 My Lassie 160 Senior Supper, The 71 Shakespeare Club 100 Naughty Greek Girl, The 197 Shall We Teach ? " Noblesse Oblige " 98 186 Silent Voices Noel Gower 197 172 Skating on the River .' Noel-Hope 88 182

"Smyth Scholarship," The New.., ,. 64 Opinions Statistics, 110 A Few , . 160 Summer School of Science, The 89 Paraphrase on Horace 25, 37

Paraphrases on Horace 196 Theme Writing 14 ,. Theocritus Parker Cleavelaud 61 (The Distaff, 28th Idyl) 73 II Patriotism vs. Pine Boards 13 Theta Delta Chi Convention ioi " 'Tis Sixty Years Personal 8, 20, 33, 45, 55, 72, 81, 91 Since" 61 " Those Panels" 103, 115, 128, 141, 151, 164, 176, 189, 200 159 Poets, Revolutionary 50 Tribute to Longfellow, The. 171

Political Excitement 101 Ventilation of Recitatiou Booms . ..28, 112, 122 Prayer of Mary, Queen of Scots 85 Prizes Awarded for 1875-76 69 Walking 49; 182 A Protest, 173 Wind to the Critics, A 149

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Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, APRIL 26, 1876. No. 1.

THE RUNAWAY CUPID. CRITICISM.

After Moscbbs (B.C. 250). There seems to be implanted by nature in The Cyprian goddess proclamation made, all an inclination lo criticise everything that For Cupid, wilful child, from her had strayed: they chance to observe. Seldom do we care- " Has auy one seen Cupid, wandering lone fully examine anything, but that we see that 'Mong blooming fields, or near the cross-roads' stone 1

lie is my darling hoy! Reward I'll give some improvement, of more or less import- To any one who finds my fugitive; ance, could be made. If it were not so, there A kiss of mine shall bo the meet reward, could be but little advancement; for no im- And greatest pleasure will that kiss afford provement can be in anything lie is no common child, and one could know made until

My boy among a score ; a rosy glow some defect is noticed that can be remedied, Suffuses cheeks and neck; his piercing eyes; or some chance for an addition that will His disposition's wicked; talks by sighs. improve the whole. Critics may be divided Nor does he ever think and speak the same ;

For, though his voice like houej' is, the flame into two general classes : those who perceive Of anger may his cruel spirit stir, that improvements are possible, and make And then beware his vengeance to incur! their observations of practical utility keep- j by He utters nothing true — the artful child ! their 'A cruel savage' he has oft been styled ing thoughts to themselves, and In- Although bis arms arc small, he shoots his dart going to work to place them in some tangible Even to Acheron — to Hades' heart. form ; and those who are habitually making Of body bare, his mind's concealed from view; known their thoughts, but make no further Winged like a lustrous bird, he flies as true, And perches on the hearts of all mankind. endeavor to make of any use the results of Though very small, his bow and arrow find their observations. Perhaps there might be A way e'en to the laughing sunset skies; added a third class, whose business it is lo A golden quiver o'er his back he ties, criticise the "Within it uro those bitter shafts, so bright, works of others in order to en- "With which ho sometimes doth e'en my heart smite. courage the good, censure the bad, and point But far more cruel is the torch he lights, out defects that the authors or inventors Tho sun itself, to love, this torch incites. themselves may correct. By some the If you shall find him, bind and bring the prize term 'I'" a"', nor pity bake upon his erics. "critic" has been applied to the last class II weeping, mind he lead you not astray; alone, but not properly so. If laughing, quickly carry him away; The present enlightened and advanced And if ho tries to make his love to you, stale' of world is. Beware! His kiss may be us sweet as dew,— the for the most part, due Your poisoned lips the kiss will quickly rue! to the efforts of the fust class. By the ener-

if says • And he to yon ; Take these — I've more ; getic, manly, upright efforts of one branch of I always freely give from my full Store,'— this class, nations have been built up and Oh, touch them mil ! They are deceitful arms; They all arc dipped in powerful, fiery charms." established on firm foundations with sound,

\ r C practical, and 1 esl governments. Authors, another branch of this class, by their extensive Gen. Garfield lias been invited to address researches, patient self-culture, strong imag- the Williams College Literary Societies al the inations, ami clear logic, have delighted the next Commencement. world and elevated it to a higher moral —

B0WD01N ORIENT. standpoint, brought it from a state of ignor- fault-finders. If they attend church and hear ance to its present information in art, science, a sermon that is eloquent and learned, they and literature. Another branch—inventors declare that it is a very good sermon, but by their persistent efforts, have so wrought then half of the congregation could not under- upon inanimate matter that it has sprung into stand it, and therefore it is of no practical life ; so that what formerly could only be benefit. If, on the other hand, the p*eacher accomplished by the tedious labor of the is plain-spoken, and preaches a pointed prac- hands, is now performed by machinery which tical sermon, they say that he hits too hard only needs the guiding touch of man. They and will keep many away from the church. have accomplished work that was declared When they hear a lecture, there is something impossible, and made matters that could not wrong about it. Either it is poorly written be understood, matters of simplicity. Still or badly delivered, or both. They see no another branch of this class consists of pro- use in the beauties of art or nature, or, in fessional men who have not been less active short, in anything that is not directly of use in their chosen life-work. They have labored in sustaining life. Not only man receives incessantly and earnestly, and the results in censure from them, but even the Creator must the moral, social, and physical welfare of the receive a share of this eternal fault-finding. people have been as great, and their influ- Sometimes we find in College a little of ences as extended, as we ought to expect from this less pleasing part of criticism. If we the untiring exertions of such talented men. have a new Professor in any branch of study, As the greater portion of the good done no matter how talented or how well adapted in the world has been by the first of these to his new work, he must receive a large classes, so a large part of the evil has been amount of criticism, fault-finding, and even done by the second class. By their continual abuse—at his back. Listen to the comments disparagement of eveiything good, by mis- of many of the students in regard to the Pro- representation of facts, and by opposition to fessors ; and then if one, appreciated by the the endeavors of the better classes, they have outside world, is called away to new labors, exerted an influence which has been more or again hear their remarks in regard to this less injurious to every good cause. Belong- Professor. You would not recognize him as ing to this division, there is a large class of the same man in the two cases. Men receive beings who are generally denominated "Gos- their due praise only after they have left a sips." Though they are ever active in stir- place, or are dead. ing up strife, and in other acts of a similar After a celebration of any kind, when nature, yet they are so despicable in charac- perhaps the best orator and poet of the class ter, and their manner of life is so well known, have delivered fine productions,— or after a that we Avill pass them without further notice. Senior and Junior exhibition,— hear the re- Others of this class, though not quite as bad, marks of those who had not the ability for yet are somewhat disagreeable in their ways. any of the positions. How flattering they

It is they who always have some fault to find are to the participants ! Perhaps they do not with whatever they hear and see. Some realize they are necessarily lower than the might claim that these should not be called speakers, however low they may estimate Critics, as that term properly should include them. As a. representative of both these only those who are skilled in judging literary classes,—those who by their earnest efforts in improve- works or productions of art, &c. ; but we find behalf of the good, are aiding in the by their on good authority that it also includes the ment of the world ; and those who BOWDOIN ORIENT. equally earnest efforts in opposition to the a decided improvement in the political acts of good, because not exactly as they would have the people. But perhaps we are wandering it, are lending a helping hand to lower the from our subject, so we will leave this point. moral standard of the people,— may be men- The third class, recognized by some as tioned the political papers. Perhaps they are professional critics, consists of many men less excusable for their bad influence, because competent to judge with nicety on works of their avowed object is to support honest and art and literature, and are of much use in patriotic men for the high offices, and those their sphere ; and of many others who are measures which will be for the best good of self-appointed critics and are not of much the people. The papers are supported by the use in any sphere. This class of critics people, and are in a great measure the means deserve more attention than we at present through which the people make known their can give them, so we will close this article. needs. They ought to act as a restraining influence on public men by encouraging ben- Scribner's Monthly for May is at hand eficial measures, and by showing that the with the long promised and eagerly awaited people detest all corrupt measures. Instead sketch of Bowdoin, by Rev. George T. Pack- of doing this, they make it their object to ard, 'G6. The publication of a series of his- cirlicise severely every act of the other party. torical and descriptive articles upon the lead-

Nor is that all : they make, quite often, per- ing American colleges was a happy concep- fectly false statements. When we read in tion of Scribner's. In pursuance of the plan, one paper a statement which we cannot it has already published papers upon William doubt, because it is stated so strongly, and and Mary College, Michigan University, and to make it more emphatic the editor writes Trinity and Yale Colleges. In this number an editorial on it, telling us that is is undeni- Mr. Packard tells the story of Bowdoin with

ably true ; and when we read in another a grace and a freshness that quite charms the paper a statement equally strongly made, and reader. He begins with the first impulse to a backed by as good authority, which is directly college in " the vague Orient of Down-East," contrary to the former,—we begin to think and in an interesting manner traces the there is a mistake somewhere. If we are growth of the college through the three- able to read both sides and believe but a small quarters of a century which the history cov- portion of each, it seems to have but little ers. The reminiscences of her distinguished influence on us, except to lower our estimate men who, as alumni or instructors, have done of some noble and true men. But the major- so much to give Bowdoin an enviable repu- ity of the people read but one side, and manj tation among the colleges of tire country, form put implicit confidence in all they rend in one of the most readable portions of the art- their paper. Consequently there is a large icle. Even old Diogenes, the faithful ser- chiss of men who are extremely bigoted and vant of the students for a quarter of a cen- really know bul little of the true condition of tury—but almost forgotten by the present the government, and have no faith at all in generation of undergraduates—looks kindly men who belong to the opposite party. We out upon us from the printed page. It is one heat a great deal about educated voters ; but of the most graceful bits of descriptive writ- if there could be some plan devised to put an ing we have read, and shows throughout the end tn all falsity in the papers and compel spiril of a loving and loyal son of Alum i hem to give men and things their just deserts Mater. We hope the sketch will be read by and nothing more or less, we should scum see every friend of < lid Bowdoin. BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. As the time is approaching for the fourth semi-annual field day of the Athletic Associ- PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- ation, we would renew a suggestion that has ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT already been made privately, if not publicly. BOWDOIN COLLEGE, It is that those who have the matter in charge should take steps to introduce a larger By the Class of 1877. ele- ment of the humorous into these contests. Of EDITORS. course, the primary object of the Association John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, is to encourage and develop the athletic spirit William T. Cobb, George T. Little, of the students. It would be defeating the Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, purpose for which the society was organized, Charles B. Seabury. to turn its field days into occasions of mere

Terms—$2.00 a year, in advance; single copies, amusement for either participants or specta- 15 cents. tors. But we think a spice of fun would Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, add a pleasing variety to the exercises, and Brunswick, Maine. make the contests of skill and endurance all For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Deuni- the more thorough^ appreciated and enjoyed son's, Brunswick. by contrast. Why not have a sack race, a wheelbarrow race, &c, in addition to the CONTENTS. three-legged race which has heretofore been 1.— Vol. VI., No. April 26, 1870. the only humorous feature? A single experi- ment, we are confident, would convince the The Runaway Cupid 1 Criticism 1 directors that the change was an improve- Editorial Notes 4 ment. Our Reading Room 5 Local A class secretaryship is one of the purely Personal 8 ornamental offices at Bowdoin. The sole The College World 9 duty of the gentleman who holds that office Editors' Table 10 is to post a two-line notice on the bulletin EDITORIAL NOTES. board, perhaps once a term. He never makes any records of the meetings of his With the present number the Orient class—does not indeed feel bound to attend passes into the hands of the class of '77. It them. Political exigencies usually require is one of the disadvantages under which most his election, but he is chiefly serviceable for college papers labor, that annually the edito- imparting an air of dignity to the ticket. rial boards undergo a complete transforma- Now, having an officer of this sort, wouldn't tion. No one can feel this disadvantage more it be well to make him practically useful in keenly than the present editors. Our duties some way? We have attended meetings have been made as easy as possible by the where there was considerable confusion and courtesies of the retiring board, but the advan- uncertainty in regard to what had been done tages of experience will come only with at previous meetings. If the Secretary had time. Meanwhile, we ask the kindly indul- made the proper records at the time, the trou- gence of our readers until we become more ble would have been avoided. The work accustomed to the atmosphere and surround- attaching to the position cannot in any event ings of* the editorial sanctum. be considered onerous, and we believe that a BOWDOIN ORIENT.

college immortality awaits the young man who OUR READING ROOM. shall inaugurate the custom of faithfully pur- To those who remember the condition of

forming the ordinary duties of class secretary. the reading-room a few years ago, it may seem out of place to offer any criticisms upon Within the last three months, almost every the present management. Nevertheless, com- paper in New England has printed a para- plaints are not uufrequently made upon the graph to the effect that certain colleges had disposition of the funds received for its sup-

withdrawn from the inter-collegiate regatta, port ; complaints which we deem worthy of and including Bowdoin in the list. This a fair statement. The income of the reading- report has never been strictly true, for up to room, arising from a term tax of fifty cents

the 17th of this month the only vote taken upon each student, is now two hundred and

by the Boat Club had been in favor of sending ten dollars. This amount is somewhat in- a crew. At the meeting of that date, how- creased by the sale of the periodicals when no ever, as will be seen by the report published longer read. The cost of maintaining a per-

in another column, it was voted by a large son in charge of the room, when open, is one majority to send no crew to Saratoga this hundred and fifty dollars per annum. Add- summer. Our own views upon this matter ing to this the expense of heating and light- coincide very well with those expressed by ing, we have only the small balance of thirty one of the gentlemen on that occasion. We dollars to employ in purchasing reading matter.

should have been glad to see Bowdoin repre- The result of this system is very apparent. sented at the regatta; but we do not believe One paper after another has been dropped in spasmodic representation. By sending a from the files. Toward the close of last crew one year and withdrawing for the next term the Graphic suddenly disappeared. year or two, we lose half the benefit and all Upon inquiring the reason, we received the the interest of the races. We are contin- laconic reply: "No money; ten dollars in ually starting afresh. We have no experi- debt." Any extra expense, any diminution ence or training to build upon when a crew of income, necessitates the stopping of some is to be organized. And so we hope that the paper or magazine. Should the next Fresh-

withdrawal from this year's race will result in man class fall below '76 in numbers, Ave fail a final withdrawal from the Association. The to see how anything besides the " Christian sum that would be required by a University Week!//"—which comes prepaid by some crew can, perhaps, be more judiciously ex- friend—would be left to grace the walls. pended on a new boat house and the Spring Now, it is urged that the largest item and Fall class regattas. The experience of among the expenditures ought to be materi- last < )ctober convinced the students of three ally reduced, if not entirely done away. It things : First, (hat it was possible to have a is really shameful to be obliged to spend one successful race on our own waters; second, hundred and fifty dollars a year in guarding that such a race awakened more interest and thirty dollars' worth of periodicals. Let it be enthusiasm in college than their sending of a generally understood throughout College how crew t<> Saratoga; and, third, that a much much the attractions of the room could be larger number of students received the bene- increased, were it not for the cost of keeping fits of physical training. If, therefore, this some one in front of the magazine desk, and action of the Boat Club gives a greater impe- we apprehend no great difficuly in restraining tus i" class boating, il will have been a step the thievish propensities of the few who wisely taken. seem to eet into even college. If this is —;

BOWDOIN ORIENT. impossible, could not a student be hired for The Orono students are going to the Cen- about thirty dollars a term to carry the mail tennial. It is not yet known whether they and take care of the room in the evening, attend as objects of interest, or simply to give allowing it to remain open during the day to tone to the affair. all read the papers ? In this man- who wish to Appointments for the '68 prize contest ner a large number would be convenienced have been given to the following Seniors : A. who desire to spend their odd moments, before Bates, J. G. Libby, J. A. Morrill, C. Sargent, looking over the and after recitations, in A. H. Sabin, W. G. Waitt. journals. The Medics have tasted blood. The hun- LOCAL. gry-looking students who vainly hoped for an entrance into the clinic were weighed in the "No?" balance and found wanting. Did any one speak of hard times? Scene—Examination in Physics. Prof.

Look out for the with the gun ! man "Mr. C, what is Mariotte's law?" Mr. C.

The Seniors were the first class crew on —" I don't remember his law, but I remem- the river. ber his bottle." Class applaud.

Base-ball is again coming to the front. So Mr. Chandler has resigned his position as is Bates. instructor in this College, and has taken up

Nearly all the gymnasts have retired to his residence in Franklin, N. H., where he private life. will take charge of the High School.

The Medics are the happy possessors of a It is reported that a Senior is endeavoring foot-ball. They are easily pleased. to start a dancing-school. He will be obliged soon, as a with considera- The ball at the close of last term was an to leave town man ble discernment will be looking into his case. enjoyable affair. (This phrase is peculiar to reporters.) Members of the University Crew say that The Junior class has not elected an Ivy- a pair of oars have mysteriously disappeared

Day Odist. Is it not time to begin to think from the boat-house. The thief will find it a of the matter ? difficult matter to conceal them on his person.

Have you seen the hair on the head of the The young lady who lost her shoe while young gentleman from Portland ? It is one trying to cross Main street, at the close of last of the sights of the centennial year. term, has not been seen since. She should The Juniors were debarred from reciting not be forgotten when the charity-plate is in German for the first week of the term, but passed.

bore up manfully under their affliction. She looks first-rate in her new spring suit

Prof. A. S. Packard, Jr., will lecture the but it seems possessed to drag in front, and scientific Juniors on Zoology. Until his the high steps she takes are not strictly in arrival, Prof. Carmichael has charge of the accordance with the principles of graceful

class. walking.

This is how a Junior explains : "As the While the college photographer was endeav- Faculty have increased the facilities for study, oring to take the pictures of a collection of

the students have decided not to send a crew little "nigs," one of them remarked that it tu Saratoga." would be necessary for him to go home and comb BOWDOIN ORIENT. his hair and wash his face before he could pect for a good nine is quite flattering. The submit to the operation. He obtained the subject of finances is one that is worthy of full consent of the artist. attention, as regards the maintenance of a good nine. It is a matter of surprise that so Mr. Benjamin P. Mann, of Cambridge, has much money is clue this Association from the charge of the Classical Juniors and Scientific students. The amount is sufficient to cancel Sophomores in Botany. all debts and leave a good balance in the treas- We all go to the depot this pleasant ury. We have good and sufficient material weather. Those travelers who pass through with which to build up a first-class nine; and Brunswick are fortunate. The students are if there is to be no crew sent to Saratoga, it well-behaved young men, who neither stare would seem that base-ball might be well sup- nor create any disturbance. ported. It is generally conceded that Bow- The drill has found favor in the eyes of doin can furnish a nine worthy to compete with lower-classmen, are desirous of many who any other in this State ; and anything tending cultivating that spirit of manly independence to bring about this result ought to receive which so characterizes the men who partici- from the students their best wishes and heart- pated in the late unpleasantness. iest support. meeting of those students interested in The Juniors and Sophomores are to recite A the chapel, the first together in Crystallography and Mineralogy. boating was held in Mon- term. the Boating The Senior and Freshman classes will soon day of the Although previously voted that a form a partnership, and this institution will Association had crew sent to Saratoga, it was evident be known as " a home school for boys." should be that this would be a difficult matter, unless Members of the Senior class are requested those students not members of the Association

to answer the following questions : — would contribute to the payment of necessary 1. When born? expenses. The meeting was called at the 2. Whore fitted for college? request of the College, and Mr. O. C. Stev- :i. Date entered college?

4. Height .' ens was elected chairman. A few present 5. Weight .' seemed anxious that the meeting should lie 6. Expected occupation ? adjourned before arriving at any definite decis- Answers to these questions will be handed ion, and made motions to that effect. These, to the Chairman of Committee of Arrange- however, were defeated, and this question ments, mi or before May 15th, 1876. was brought before the College: Shall a Uni- Per order, versity Crew be sent to Saratoga to take part Committee or Arrangements. in the coming regatta? I'.ut few availed A meeting of the Base-Ball Association themselves of an opportunity to argue the

was held the first Saturday of tin- (inn. The question; and the result was, that Bowdoin meeting was called to order by the President, College withdraws from the regatta. The after which the report of the Treasurer w;is action of this meeting may appear strange to read and accepted. The reniainiug time was some, when we recall the enthusiasm that was spent in discussing the prospects of the Spring manifested last year and even up to the close

and Summer campaign. Captain Sanford de- Of last term. By all it was generally under-

clared himself ready tn begin operations al stood that a- si">n as the river opened, a Uni- mice: and provided enough men signify their versity dew was to begin training for the

willingness t<> engage in base-ball, the pros- great race. During the last two months, how- ;

B0WD01N ORIENT. ever, the popular feeling has experienced a the first settlers in Dakota. He has been several change in this direction, and now only a few times a member of both branches of the legis- seem disappointed at the result of the College lature, Speaker of the House, President of the vote. We cannot but think that this action Senate, and Chief Justice of the Territory on the part of the students will work directly is called the railroad genius of the Territory. for the benefit of boating in College. It will He lives at Yankton, Dakota. undoubtedly lead to the formation of the best '56. —Samuel Edward Floyd studied law, crews in the class boats, and will cause class and died of consumption at Whitehall, N. Y., races to be of more importance and interest. May 21st, 1873. The Boating Association is in need of funds, '58.—Gen. Ellis Spear, for ten years in and men who would refuse their aid in send- the Patent Office, Washington, and recently ing a crew to Saratoga will give to support Acting Commissioner, has resigned his posi-

7 class crews. The} do this, because from the tion and entered a patent-law firm : Hill, former they receive neither advantage nor Ellsworth & Spear, Washington, D. C. enjoyment. The prospect for boating was '60.—L. G. Downes was elected mayor of never brighter than at present; and nearly Calais by the Republicans, April 3d. all the students seem to think that by refus- '62.—Isaac B. Choate furnishes the Home ing to send a crew to Saratoga we shall have Scientist of April an article itpon "The The- better class races, a fair prospect of a ory of the Whirlpool." Mr. C. is at Akron, better boat-house, and that it wjll give to Ohio. the boating interest in general a forward im- '68.—Tutor G- L. Chandler has accepted pulse, which could have been brought about a position as teacher at Franklin, N. H. in no other way. '72.—W. F. Bickford is in the graduating class at Bangor Theological Seminary. Efforts PERSONAL. will be made to secure his services by the Congregational Society at Wilton.

'73. F. E. Whitney is in the Boston [We earnestly request contributions for this — department from the Alumni and friends of the Grammar School. College.] '73.— F. A. Wilson, of the Hallowell '22.—Hon. John Appleton, Chief Justice Classical Institute, has been appointed to of the Supreme Court of Maine, was married deliver the Master's Valedictory at the com- to Mrs. Ann V. Greeley, at Portland, March ing Commencement. 20th. '74.—G. B. and F. K. Wheeler have pur- '22.—Rev. John Boynton died at Fulton, chased the Merrimon Journal, published at Del., March 1st, 1876. He studied theology Franklin Falls, N. H. They assume its at Andover ; was settled in the pastorate at management on the first of May. G. B. W. Phippsburg twenty -four years; afterwards has been upon the editorial staff of the Port- resided in his native town, Wiscasset, some land Advertiser for the past year. '74. C. C. Springer accepts the position years ; then at Winthrop ; and more recently — removed to Delaware. of Principal of Yarmouth High School for '50.—Rev. John J. Bulfinch has recently the remainder of the year. been dismissed by the church at South Free- '75. —F. O. Baston has been elected Sup- port, and is recommended by that church to ervisor of Schools in Hiram. churches needing a pastor. '75.—M. A. Floyd is studying law in the '55. —Wilmot Wood Brookings was one of office of A. A. Strout, Esq., Portland. —

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'75.— C. L. Clarke lias an interesting let- Prof, in Chemistry —" There are several ter in the Portland Transcript of 18th ult., steps to be taken in finding the exact chemical dated Stuttgart, Feb. 10th. composition of bone. For example, when '77.—C. T. Evans is in his brother's Insur- you boil it, what is given off?" Student — ance office, Philadelphia. " Soup." Dalhousie Gazette. '77.—W. A. Golden is studying law in the The boating finances of Princeton are in office of Hon. T. B. Reed, '60, Portland. a promising condition. There are already '77. —M. R. Williams passed through here a thousand dollars in the treasury, and but last week. He has been teaching in Min- little difficulty is anticipated in raising a nesota. sufficient amount for the necessary expenses '78.—G. W. Seavey, of Amherst, '78, at Saratoga. intends to enter this class. '79.— We are sorry to announce that N. President Anderson, of Rochester Univer- C. Brown has been compelled to leave College sity, is represented as opposed to inter-colle- by reason of ill health. He has the sympathy giate literary contests, having argued against of his classmates. them at chapel. As a consequence, the Uni- versity will not be represented at the business meeting soon to be held. THE COLLEGE WORLD. A fire engine has been added to the other The new chapel at Yale seats 1,150. attractions of Cornell. The degree of E. E. (Extinguishing Engineer) will be granted at California University asks the Legislature the next Commencement. The establishment of that State for $263,000. of a Hook-and-Ladder Professorship is con- The Philadelphian Society, of Princeton, templated.— Acta Columbiana. proposes to erect a new hall, to cost $15,000 Professor, when one recites, be lair, or more. And mark in the presence of the sufferair. The four professors' houses of Drew Sem- A dot in one comer for the rushair, A dot in the other for the flnnkair, inary at Madison, N. J., cost $84,000, and the A dot in the middle for the fizzleair. library $13,001)! O, mark, Professor, mark with c:ire, But mark in the presence of the sufferair. The young ladies of Wellesley College —Dartmouth. are organized into a fire brigade, and are reg- Hillsdale College, Michigan, which was ularly drilled in their duties. destroyed by fire a few years ago. is being triennial catalogue at The Harvard will rebuilt rapidly. One of the group of five hereafter be changed to a quinquennial, mak- buildings nearly completed will lie named ing publication in Isso. the next Griffin Hall, after Trot'. P. Griffin of X. V.. Out of one hundred and seventeen ladies who gave the college a liberal sum of money. in Michigan University, only four have taken Prof. John K. Lord is preparing a history to law. I low many have taken to lawyers is of Dartmouth College from its foundation no! stilted. in 176'.i. The history is written for the The college buildings at Colby University, Centennial Exposition at the request of the Waterville, Me., are to be renovated, and the authorities at Washington, who are to publish gymnasium is to be erected before next Com- histories "i all the colleges which have been mencement. in existence for more than one hundred years. 10 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Scene in mechanics class. Several soft EDITORS' TABLE. Sophs sit on the ladies' side of the house. Three new exchanges are upon our table this Prof, (calling the roll, stops) —" All the week (two from Vermont and one from Maine). young ladies who wish that those gentlemen The Undergraduate is issued hy the students of sit on their own side of the house will would Middlebury College, and this first number impresses manifest their desire by smiling." Unanimous us favorably. It has a sensible and business-like vote.— Oberlin Review. air that is pleasing, and promises with its secoud number to add four pages to its reading matter. Boarder— "What large chickens these The University of Vermont is represented by ! — are " Landlady " Yes, chickens are larger Winnomngs from the Mill—an unfortunate choico

than they used to be ; ten years ago we could of a name which gives one the impression that it not get chickens as large as these." Boarder must be a Sunday school publication. There is abundant room, too, for improvement in its contents. (with an innocent air) —"No, I suppose not; The first number of a neatly printed sheet comes these mast have grown a great deal in that to us from the Maine State College at Orouo, called time." as Landlady looks though she had the College Review. Its division into agricultural, been misunderstood.— Skald's College Journal. chemical, engineering and general departments is a little novel, but perhaps adds to its local interest. The Crimson suggests that it would be a It is certainly an improvement upon the College good plan for several" of the larger organiz- Reporter, as iudeed almost anything would be. ations at Harvard, like the boat club, athletic Of our old exchanges none takes precedence of association, etc., to unite in employing a com- the Crimson. It is dignified, gentlemanly, and petent book-keeper to look out for their readable, — a combination of adjectives which few college papers can claim. The "Story of Harvard," finances. The present system either allows in the last number, contained many excelleut things, the money matters to be very loosely and and the editorial notes were suggestive, as usual. carelessly managed, or compels several stu- We congratulate the Chronicle of Michigan Uni- dents to give .their whole time to the business. versity upon its release from a discouraging and hampering debt. It has done well to struggle ou President McCosh, of Princeton, in his for two years under such a burden. The paper do- attempt to build up the two great societies at serves a better support than it receives from the " Princeton, says : Let there be, two or three undergraduates of the University, if we may judge times a year, debates upon great academic and from its editorial statements. social questions, thrown open to the whole The Yale Courant contains an account of the gymnastic exhibitions given at New Haven the last college. The debating societies of Edinburgh of March. It appears that, although the perform- have produced some of the greatest states- ances themselves wore fine, the New Haven public men of Britain ; the Historical Society of were either inappreciativo or ignorant of the merits Dublin nurtured the great orators of Ireland; of the exhibitions. Four evening performances and, in our day, the results of the debates of were given, and an afternoon matinee, and the the Union Clubs of Oxford and Cambridge result was a loss of $300. The Courant speaks highly of Mr. Sargent. are telegraphed to London, and statesmen Tho Amherst Student seems now to incline favor- next morning eagerly tear open their news- ably to the Quaker persuasion. A writer in tho last papers that they may see what is the opinion number begins thus: " Friend, hast thou ever con- of young England now, which they are sure sidered what advantage would accruo to thee if but will bo tin; opinion of old England five years for an instant, so brief that memory wore almost too sluggish to grasp it, thou coulds't in thy heart of hence. I do long to have such debates in old hearts understand tho veriest fragment of tho Princeton, and it will give better matter to grandeur which encompassetli thee?" Tho poem the New York papers than they have had the "Night" is a pleasing and musical picco of versifi- last month or I wo." cation. We hope to hear more from "151. 78." ; — "; —: !!

Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MAY 10, 1876. No. 2.

THE EXILE. [communication.] PATRIOTISM vs. PINE BOARDS. The dashing wave, the breakers' roar, visitor to Brunswick reports that the Are heard along the rugged shore, A And, mingled with the sea-gull's cry, windows of the Bowdoin Memorial Hall have Re-echo with a mournful sigh: pine boards for panes, and that within all is " Jfapoleon ! incompleteness. Fifteen years since the first call for troops—eleven years since the last He whose strong hand has monarchs crowned, drop of blood was shed—and yet the monu- Xow to a barren rock is bound. ment to our dead brothers is a mere shell His empire, armies, all have fled; When the}' went to the front, pledges of To him, the world is worse than dead, The exiled man. honor and remembrance were plentiful ; and this is the paltry keeping of those ardent The hour of death draws near at last promises. If any Centennial visitor stra}' as The warrior's life is ebbing fast; far East as Brunswick, what a pitiful notion Again the pageant is renewed, of the American scholar's remembrance of His soul with youthful fire imbued, "sweet and honorable'' deaths for the coun- An emperor now. try's sake he will carry to his home over the sea Once more he leads his armies on If some one of our martyr brothers, who To conquest, glory, and renown; went down before the whirlwind of shot at pause and hold their breath The nations Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, or in the Wilder- The vision breaks — it breaks in death, ness, should revisit the familiar college In rest at last. grounds, would he not sigh over the indiffer- A willow guards his lonely grave ence which contents itself with tears, resolu- No funeral notes are sounded, save tions, protestations, and — pine boards! If The wild Atlantic's constant surge, the worst enemy of Bowdoin should see her Chanting a solemn, mournful dirge: sons gather for festivities within a building " Napoleon." dedicated years ago to precious memories, but

unfinished still, would he not blush, rather than exult, at such a spectacle? The Spring- FROM TIIK HERMAN <>F KK'HKXIH iRI-T. time decks with "dewy lingers" the graves of walls When the first of morning rays our boys, and we offer to them blank

! next Plies through valleys sunk in haze. and—pine boards As we sit at the Hills and woods, awakening, sing: Commencement dinner and hear (as we whate'er Then, can By, lakes wing. always shall ) of Bowdoin honor and courage when grim war was upon us. will there not Then man throws his cap in air, lie skeletons at the feast. — if SO be it appeal- Shouts for joy, nor thinks of care: that while they had the grace t" die. we have Now, since songs, like birds, take wing. not the grace to remember ? . 1 1 . 1 1 . 1 1 \ . merrily I'll sing.

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THEME WRITING. bear them away to their rooms ; not, as one Remembering that good advice in regard might suppose, to read at the earliest oppor- to literary labor has often been given by those tunity, but rather to leave untouched until a who were themselves peculiarly destitute of day or two before the exercise is due. Thus, any talent in that direction, we have dared to considering the hasty reading and the want offer a few hints, drawn mostly from our own of all reflection upon the subject by the experience, upon the subject of theme writ- writer, it is not strange if the two or three ing. To the majority of college students, we pages scribbled off bear a marked resem- venture to say, this is the most distasteful of blance, both in ideas and expression, to all their duties. Several causes doubtless certain standard works. Indeed, it has been conspire to produce this result; yet one is noticed that when the cyclopedias were the particularly powerful, and even of itself only assistants to be found, many themes renders a good theme well nigh impossible. were not unlike these invaluable volumes in We mean a lack of interest in the subject we dullness, as well as in the abundance and are writing about. When this is the case, accuracy of dates and statistics. On the composition is sure to become drudgery. To other hand, when the subject matter was get through will be the only desire, the only aim. contained in the short, readable essa}'s of the

It is needless to enlarge upon the evil results "Spectator " the composition revealed a cor- which must follow. They are very evident, responding style of the writer. and have long been noticed in those branches Another way of improving our themes of learning which signally fail to engage the lies in a careful correction and criticism of attention of a large proportion of students. them by ourselves. Though every manual of

The question naturally arises : How shall composition urges this, though ancient and one excite an interest in the subject selected ? modern rhetoricians have alike sounded its

We reply : By thinking about it. The praise, very few are the college students method seems so simple that some may who habitualby practice it. In order to secure doubt, at first, its efficacy ; after an honest the best results, all revision should be post- trial they cannot. We would not be under- poned until the precise forms of expression stood to recommend that the subject be we used are forgotten, so that the production kept before the mind for an hour or so, may be criticised as freely as if it were to be then dismissed and ever after entirely another's. There should also be no hesitancy neglected. Such a course would be likely in re-writing all sentences which do not to have anything but the desired effect. exactly please us, even if it is hard to dis-

It is, rather, an earnest study or contempla- cover any particular fault. It is well to tion of the subject at different times extend- remember, in this connection, the anecdote ing over the space of a week or fortnight, told of Daniel Webster to the effect that he which we advise. This, supplemented by a once wrote seventeen replies to an invitation careful reading up, will never, we believe, to dine, before he thought of one so worded fail to disclose points of interest. as to satisfy him. If a statesman in active

Many students fall into a great and almost life could afford to give so much time and fatal error, in supposing that more or less attention to a note of no more consequence reading can take the place of all thought on than this, we surely ought not to be back- their own part. Upon the announcement of ward in re-writing our thoughts until they theme subjects, they immediately hasten to are in every respect acceptable to our literary the library, secure the desired books and taste, which is not very liable to be over-critical. B0WB01N ORIENT. 15

THE TEACHING OF LANGUAGES. memory becomes surfeited and clogged, and After struggling in vain with a German refuses to act. Would it not be a better plan lesson, searching through the lexicon for a to begin with a little, commit that little per- word, only to find it to recognize it as one of fectly to memory, and then proceed to a new a previous lesson, and at length becoming portion ? But how can we be sure of com- cross and fretful over our struggle, we fell to mitting perfect!}' that little? By constant thinking of the German children. Are they repetion at intervals during the day. If a compelled to pore over a lexicon when they man determines to write a book, he cannot desire to make their wants known? Do they sit down and write continuously until the keep forgetting words they are continually book is finished. He must stop to rest, to hearing ? Do they at length become vexed '? eat and sleep, and by so doing, refresh him-

If so, what do they do ? Keep silent in their self ; and the oftener he rests, the more vexation? Not at all. They "speak right refreshed he will be, provided, of course, he on," and no lexicon burdens them. Imagine works in the meantime. So the oftener the a hungry child running to his lexicon to find memory is rested, the stronger it will be. Of the word "fleisch," before he could ask for course a student should not rest (or idle) the meat! Why is it, then, we cannot remember greater portion of the time, and thereby

words we have seen and heard pronounced a expect to strengthen his memory ; but rest at number of times? We are older than little proper intervals after close application. children, and have given good attention At this juncture we were compelled to besides, and have certainly tried to remember close our meditations. We consoled our- them. Our memory is good on other topics. selves, however, with the thought that older It must be we have been trying to do too heads than ours were continually planning

much— to run before we could creep. From beneficial changes ; and among these, a change the first, we have had long lessons,—longer in the present method of teaching and study- than wc ought, for our interest in them has in"' lano-uao-es will be included. flagged before we have gone half through with them. Each lesson we have had new The classification of the German univer- words to remember, before we have com- sities according to standard, as made by the mitted the old. Yes, that must be the trouble; government, comprises three classes, as fol- we have not fully committed each lessun as lows: First-class, Berlin. Leipzig, GOttingen, along. is that a fault of ours? we went But Munich and Strassburg; second-class. Konigs- have tried, as we have said before. We We berg, Breslau, Halle, Bonn, Jena. Tubingen, greatly doubl if a student of average ability, Wiirzburg and Heidelberg : third-class, Greifs- beginning German, could take six when wald. Kiel, Rostock, Giessen, Marburg. Erlan- lessons of the length ordinarily assigned, and gen, Freiburg and Minister. The universities in six days commit to memory every word, so at Munich, Wiirzburg, Freiburg and Minister that he could have them at his tongue's end, are Roman Catholic. In pronounce them fluently at a moment's The Seniors of Dartmouth College, with a in it ice. Yet this is what one ought to be able sublime self-conceit quite characteristic, have tu do. We begin with pouring into the had their pictures taken, bound into an memory a confused mass "I' winds; and before allium, ami sent on to the Centennial Exhi- ii has had time in arrange and store them bition. away, wc pour in another load, and yet another on the tup of this last. In time the Hobart College has Inn nineteen students. "

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Bowdoin Orient. College, enough to pay all bills and leave a handsome working balance in the Treasiuy. PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- But the Treasurer finds difficulty in collecting ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT the dues. There, doubtless, are cases of BOWDOIN COLLEGE, honest inability to pay; but with the most of the students no this By the Class of 1877. such excuse as can be pleaded. And we are confident that when EDITORS. the members realize the position in which the

John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, Association is placed by their refusal to pay, William T. Cobb, George T. Little, they will be willing to settle the demands that Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, now appear against them on the Treasurer's Charles B. Seabury. books. But beside the claims of the present

Terms—$2.00 a year, in advance; single copies, liabilities of the Association, it should be 15 cents. remembered that all the interests of base-ball Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, at Bowdoin require a live, active body of Brunswick, Maine. supporters ; and that the University nine, For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- however good it may be in itself, cannot son's, Brunswick. do the playing and furnish the money and enthusiasm for the whole college. In the CONTENTS. height of the base-ball season, and on the Vol. VI., No. 2.—May 10, 1876. occasion of match games with other clubs, the students generally display " interest

The Exile 13 enough, but it is the interest that pays its the of Eichendorff From German 13 bills, as well as shouts for the nine in a game, Patriotism vs. Pine Boards 13 that is needed. Theme Writing 14 The Teaching of Languages 15 Editorial Notes 16 We were very much interested, the other Local 18 day, in looking over the book of the Recording The Engineering Association 20 Librarian of the College Library. It appears Personal 20 that the number of books taken out of the The College World 21 library by the students, during the present Editors' Table 22 collegiate year up to May 1st, was 1624. Of this number the Seniors took out 745, the EDITORIAL NOTES. Juniors 538, the Sophomores 180, and the Freshmen 161,— giving an average of some- Our attention has been called to the finan- thing over seventeen books to each Senior, of cial condition of the Base -Ball Association, about eleven to the Juniors, nine to the and a word to the members seems demanded Sophomores, and six to the Freshmen. These by the situation. It appears that the Associ- figures confirm the remark we so often hear ation has a debt, not very large to be sure, made, that it is not until the last year, or, at which ought to have been paid some time ago, best, two years, that students improve their but which still remains on the books. This advantages for general reading and culture. debt was contracted when the present head- We are aware that, to a certain extent, such quarters in Winthrop were fitted up. There a condition as this must necessarih7 exist.

is due the Association, from men now in The curriculum is so arranged as to bring the —

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 17 hard work and drudgery of the course largely however, been increased in size by the addition into the first two years, and the lower classes of fresh songs in colleges previously repre- have only a limited amount of time to put on sented, and the addition of several colleges outside reading. But, making all reasonable before omitted. A recognition of the older allowance, we think the students do not im- institutions is introduced by dividing the prove their library privileges as they should. work into three parts : The first including There are men in every class with not a book those founded between 1640 and 1800, registered against their names since last Sep- Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, tember, and there are other men with only Dartmouth, Williams, Bowdoin, Union, and one book charged for the seven months. Rutgers ; the second those founded since 1800 ; Economy in the use of time is one of the and the third made up of miscellaneous sere- hardest lessons for a student to learn, and nades, humorous songs, and a selection of the many a man thinks he has no time to read songs of English and German Universities. because he cannot sit down and read, uninter- Considering the difficulties of a work like this, ruptedly, by the hour. The sooner the fallacy we think that Mr. Waite has done well. All of such reasoning is seen, the sooner one is in the standard and favorite songs of the former a position to make a proper use of the oppor- volume are retained in this, and the new songs tunities which surround him. have been, in the main, judiciously chosen.

It was interesting, too, to see in what pro- Some of the best ones are found under Prince- portion the different kinds of writing were ton and Columbia, which had nothing in the read. We took the trouble to eximiine, care- first edition. The collection of Bowdoin songs fully, the records of the Seniors as the repre- is certainly better than in the old book, but sentative class of college, although upon some we noticed one or two errors. In his acknowl- subjects, such as Political Economy, they read edgements of those friends who have assisted more, of course, than other classes. We him in the preparation of this edition, the found that History headed the list, furnishing compiler neglects to mention Mr. A. T. Parker, about 16 per cent, of all the works taken out; one of the committee at this College : and then came the Monthly and Quarterly Reviews the music of the " Walls of Old Bowdoin," — Seniors have to write themes, you know — composed by Willett H. Sanborn, is credited with 18 1-2 per cent. ; then Political Economy, to Millett Dunbar. We were disappointed,

with 12 per cent. ; Biography and Science, too, in not finding views of the colleges, as we " with 9 per cent, each ; Fiction, 7 1-2 per had supposed there would be ; and the Col- cent. ; and then down through Poetry, Liter- lege History" has been entirely omitted. We ature, Theology, La\^» Metaphysics, Travels, are at a loss to account for this last omission, Education, Philology, and Art. as Mr. Waite, in his preface, refers to this " History" as "a special and valuable feature In the Spring of 1874 a letter was received of the new edition." The price of the book

here from Mr. H. R. Waite, then in Rome, is $3.00; and no student, whether a singer Italy, requesting that a student, or a committee himself or only a lover of student music, can of students, might be appointed to collect the spend three dollars to better advantage. Mr. songs of Bowdoin for representation in a new W. H. Gr. Rowe is the agent at Bowdoin. edition of Canniini Cullri/ciixiii. The book

(hen promised is now published. In general And now thai we are provided with a

appearance it differs little from the old volume choice collection of the best college songs of with which students are familiar. It has, the country, why may not these beautiful 18 BOWDOIN ORIENT. summer evenings be made still more enjoy- Now is the time when the Junior starts able by good " sings " on the campus ? There afresh in the hope of winning the prize cup, is nothing that lends a greater charm to stu- Ivy Day. dent life, or that binds one more closely to his Judge Hilton has been with us for the class and college, than the happy influence of last week or two. He has proved a valuable a good song. In after years we may forget companion. a great many things connected with college Spring has come, and they are raking up days, pleasant and unpleasant ; but the recol- the cigarette-wrappers on the campus and lections that cluster round our evening songs burning them. will linger with us, when — Those ash heaps on the walks tend to "The gokleu moments we hare spent break the third commandment. In learning's honored walls, make one With all their joj's and sorrows blent, We all know what that is. Fond memoiy recalls." The new "floats" have been placed in the river, and the crews find them acceptable LOCAL. additions to the Bowdoin Navy.

The number of Freshmen now working in Got a dollar to lend ? the Gymnasium has been reduced to four. Shoot the hoop scoops ! " Times have changed since then."

Fighting cuts are much in vogue. The Sophomores are having lectures on How are you betting on the race ? Mathematics. A beautiful study, and we who are old and have died, wish you well. R. E. Peary has been elected Odist for Ivy Day. The Juniors finished optional Greek to Prof. Sewall, last Saturday. They have been The worst grind yet — The change of time reading the " Panegyric of Isocrates." on the Maine Central. The Athenasan Society has renewed the He pulled down his vest when he declaimed, insurance upon its Library until July next. and the class applauded. It is only a fire insurance policy, however. Ulsters and foot-stoves were in great Robinson, Captain of the Senior crew, has demand for May-day parties. resigned. Payson has been elected Captain, has designated the The Junior Committee while Evans pulls in the place of Robinson. first Friday in June as Ivy Day. Prof. Young has a class in optional Ger- Now do they haunt the romantic fish-way man. Fourteen members of '76 have entered and gaze into the foaming waters. it, and they are reading Goethe's William

Who is this Mr. McCrock of Bowdoin, that Tell.

conferred with the Lewiston City Fathers ? It is noticeable that upon the arrival of a Mitchell has taken the place made vacant new professor every man in the class reports would hardly by the resignation of Cousins on the Junior present. The voices, however, crew. be recognized by the men themselves.

Longing eyes are cast upon the new gong Romeo and Juliet is having its fourth week at the depot. A Sophomore observes that it at the north end of Appleton. Hamlet is will be just the thing to wake him in time for soon to be put upon the stage. Admirers of morning devotions. Shakespeare should take advantage of this. —

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A Senior proposed that a number of stu- Prof. A. S. Packard, Jr., delivered his dents should attend the Governor's reception first lecture to the Scientific Juniors, Monday, in the uniform of the Bowdoin Cadets. As May 1st. We anticipate that, before the it is centennial year he escaped with his life. close of the course, his audience will be

increased, as it is seldom The opera, given under the auspices of the the students have an opportunity of listening to a Congregational Church, was spoken of as a man so thoroughly master of his profession. decided success. How could it have been otherwise when so many students offered their May-day passed even more quietly than valuable services? usual, this year. Quite a number of the stu- dents improved the opportunity for a ride, The College Library is open from Monday but most of them devoted themselves to study to Friday inclusive, from 2 till 8 1-2 p.m., and with exemplary diligence. The Faculty on Saturday from 9 1-2 to 12 a.m. We should met in the evening to consider the petitions for advise some of the students to cut this out and an adjourn, and voted the petitioners " leave to paste it on their glasses. " withdraw ! We hear that a man lias been in Lewiston The Bowdoin Orchestra endeavoring to hire the Bates students for deserve special credit for their performance waiters at the coming centennial of which at the two dra- matic exhibitions week before last. The leader there has been so much said. We trust it did not arrive from was not the man with the gun. Portland with the music to be played, until seven o'clock Friday even- Student to young lady —"Who is that ing, and must of the pieces had to lie played fellow ? I have seen him lots of times, but without any previous practice. On Thursday can't seem to place him." Young lady —"Oh, the case was little better. that is the bar-tender at the Preble." Student now places him with out any difficulty. A meeting of the Reading Room Associa- tion was held last Saturday morning. The Two Juniors who have just escaped from report of the Executive Committee was read a German recitation. 1st Student—"Who's and accepted, and a new board of officers that coming across the campus?" 2d Stu- chosen for the ensuing year: President W. dent—" Don't you know ? That's Mrs. Jones." G. Beale; Vice President — J. W. Tiling; 1st Student—"And who is that with her?" Executive Committee — E. M. Cousins, C. L. 2d Student—" That's her Jones." Nickerson, O. W. Garland.

We hear that, owing to the cold weather, Prof, in Botany—-What are suckers?" tlic wood-pile hack of the church is growing Student—"Suckers are little hairy projective* beautifully less. Doubtless the students have that shoot out from the roots and sink in food used it for religious purposes; it helps relieve tbr the plain." Prof. —-That is a definition tin' monotony of the Sunday evening talks evolved out of your inner consciousness, I that take place in the north end of Appleton. guess. What is a stolon?" Student—"I don't know." Prof, (smiling) — During the rehearsal of a Junior the Pro- "Perhaps thai is a projectile from the root that •/< fessor remarked as follows: " You don't man- stole to its food." ifest enough energy; in fact the only gesture you made was when you scratched your head; lion. Daniel Pratt, the Great American that was appropriate but rather brief." The Traveler, visited us last week, ami spoke to Junior retires to read the life of Demosthenes. an enthusiastic audience of Modocs and sui- —

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dents upon " Organic Laws." This lecture is PERSONAL. au exhaustive treatment of the laws of vent- [We earnestly request contributions ilation, respiration, perspiration, inspiration, for this department from the Alumni and friends of the inflation, and concatenation, and is one of the College.] most eloquent efforts of the gifted speaker. '15.— Hon. George Evans representedthis Mr. Pratt says that Henry Ward Beecher is a State eighteen years in Congress. He died in mere gas-bag compared to him. 1867. From a sketch of his life, by Hon. S. P. Benson, '25, in the Christian Mirror of the

THE ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION. 29th ult., we make the following selection : " Mr. Evans's friendship for his Alma Mater was Messrs Editors: — ardent aud continuous throughout his life. I have Among the various College institutions is been told that for fifty successive years he never one which does not receive its due notice failed to attend the Commencement, and was always from the students : namely, the Engineering at his post as Overseer or Trustee, seeking to pro- Association. This organization was formed mote the best interest of the College. But he had one peculiarity the latter part of the Fall term, under the —as soon as ho had eaten his dinner, he left the hall to escape making au after-dinner name of " The Bowdoin Engineering Associ- speech. In explanation I once heard him say that ation"; its principal object being "to increase he had no faculty at making a speech, when there the practical knowledge of the members, as was no subject to talk about, and nothing to prove. well as to create a greater interest in the pro- At the semi-centennial of the College in 1852, ho fession." Immediately after its formation did speak at the dinner-table, —introducing Frank- lin Pierce, '24, then a candidate for President, in a Prof. Vose gave into its charge the manage- manner most acceptable to him, and to the gratifi- ment of the stationery department of the cation of the large audience. He then had some- drawing room, which has a yearly business of thing to say, aud eloquently said it." from three hundred to five hundred dollars. '20.— Rev. Jacob Abbott is living quietly The use of the south drawing room was given at Farmington, in the enjoyment of a well- to the Association by the Faculty, where earned rest from his literary labors. His weekly meetings are regularly held. At books form a library in themselves, and sell these meetings papers are read, and discuss- so well that scarcely any of them are out of ions held, on engineering subjects. print.— Ex. Among the periodicals taken by the Asso- '33.— Albert T. Wheelock, M.D., died ciation are Engineering (a weekly paper pub- recently in Belfast, where he had practiced lished in London), The Railroad Gazette, Van medicine nearly forty years. He was a man Nostrand's Eclectic Monthly, The Engineering of considerable literary ability. He was never News, etc. This society is one that can work married. much good for its members, and the students '36.— Rev. Howard B. Abbott practiced of the Engineering Department should take law eight years ; then entered the ministry of pride in sustaining it. X. the Methodist Church, laboring with great zeal and success. He died during the past year. A gentle, meek-eyed Indiana girl at '37.— Rev. Dr. Geo. W. Field and Mrs. " Vassar College, writes to her parents : This Lucy L. Humphrey, both of Bangor, were is the most stylish hair-pin of a boarding- married last week in Springfield, Mass. school I ever tumbled to. I can eat four '39.— Among the names mentioned for the times a day, if I want to, and get a fair hack next Democratic candidate for Governor, are at the hash every time." Fred A. Pike and John C. Talbot, both of '39. — —

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'41.— Rev. Geo. F. Magoun is President '70. — The Lafayette (Ind.) Daily Courier of Iowa College. The Christian Mirror has pays F. E. Hanson the following compliment published several letters from Pres. Magoun, in its issue of April 26th: — " during the past winter, full of reference to The Lafayette School Board has appointed Prof. Hanson to fill the unexpired term of Prof. Alma Mater and College friends. Blackburn as Principal of the Ford High School, '4(3. — Rev. Franklin Lafayette Knight, a position he has filled very acceptably during the D.D., died of pneumonia, April 28, 1876, at illness of the lamented Principal, whose death we

Washington, D. C, ret. 52. He was Assist- announce to-day. Prof. Hanson is an estimable ant Minister of St. John's P. E. Church ; was gentleman and a ripe scholar. '73. F. Hatch has been a native of Maine ; was Rector of Kent Par- — M. admitted to the bar of Rockingham County, N. H. ish, Md., seven years ; was Chaplain to the '74. M. W. Davis still remains in Bishop of New Jersey ; also Chaplain of the — Europe, University of the South, and Professor of where he has been for the past year. Creek in the same. He was much esteemed '75.—D. M. McPherson is Principal of for his scholarship and his character. Gould's Academy, Bethel, for the coming '47.— Rev. C. II. Wheeler, a Missionary year. '75. in Eastern Turkey for over twenty years, is —L. A. Rogers is Principal of Castine now spending a few months in this country to High School. recruit his health, and to raise an endowment '75.— W. S. Thompson is Principal of fund for Armenia College at Harpoot. He is Waldoboro High School. author of "Ten Years on the Euphrates," and '75. — Hall, McPherson, Nevins, Simmons, " Letters from Eden," books well-known to and Standish have been visiting their friends those interested in missions. His address is in College recently. Bangor, Me. '77.— W. H. Sanborn has left College to 'oo.— S. R. Crocker is witli Little, Brown prosecute his musical studies in Europe. & Co., Boston. He is editor of the Literary '78.— E. F. Stetson has left College. World. '79.— A. L. Lumbert enters this class from '60.— W. G. Frost, M.D., who has been Williams College, '79. practicing medicine in the towns of Pownal and Freeport for some years, has opened an THE COLLEGE WOULD. office ai 499 1-2 Congress St., Portland. Harvard has raised $2,200 for its Uni- '61.— New York City, April 18th, by Dr. versity crew. John Hall and Rev. J. P. Knox, Theodore

Dwight Bradford, M.I)., and Miss Matilda R., Professor of Mathematics, illustrating to daughter of the late Chas. P. Leverick of Freshman that the sides of a prism are its New York City. surface, not its contents —"When a tailor

'70.— I). T. Timberlake is Principal (if the makes for me a suit of clothes, does he make High School at West Walerville. the man?" Freshie, with avidity —"Yes, " '70. sir ! Vblante. — 1. W. Keene is practicing medicine — at Wollaston Heights, Mass., six miles from On investigating the cause of a certain Boston, on tin- old Colony Railroad. Soph.'s declaration that " those darned petti- '7

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It is said that the oldest diploma of Dart- EDITORS' TABLE. mouth College has, written on the back, an Having passed beyond that period when we took order for a quart of rum, signed by the holder delight in reading primary-school compositions, we of the diploma. must decline to place the Archangel upon our ex- Students at Union are fined twenty-five change list. We copy one of its literary articles

entire, for the benefit of our readers : — cents for every cut they make. The payment " Drunkenness.— Some men when they go in a of this fine is obligatory goes to the pro- and saloon become intoxicated and commence fighting, fessor who helps the student make up his and perhaps kill one another, or got their eyes knocked out, or their teeth punched down their lesson. throat. Some men when they go in a saloon, do President Bascom of the University of not get drunk, but gamble and lose all of their money. It would bo better for them to stay at Wisconsin writes that the tax law passed by home; for the barr-room is the place for no man." the Legislature, recently, will yield an income The Arcliaiifjcl is the organ of St. Michael's of $42,000 to the University, and, with other College, Portland, Oregon. revenues, will raise the total income of the A certain crudeness and inexperience which institution to 180,000 a year. An observatory shows itself in the first number of the Boston Uni- to be built and furnished by a gentleman of versity Beacon, will, doubtless, disappear in time, but the editors will always have a disadvantage to over- Wisconsin, has also been granted an income come, in the nature, of the University itself. It says of 13,000. that " there is probably no college paper in America The following colloquy occurred last week which represents so large a number of students, or students pursuing various courses of study." at a Wall street boarding house : Young such

This may be true ; but scattered about as-its students lady (to Freshman)—"How did you like the are, through different quarters of Boston, with no ball last night ? " Freshman (turning very common college life, no dormitories, and almost no red)— " Wh-a-t ball? I didn't go to any — class distinctions, it must lack a certain esprit clu ball." Young lady "Why, my servant told corps, which we are accustomed to connect with me that you danced five times with her." college and a college paper. And it is just this thing Freshman chokes, swoons, and is carried off that wo miss. Its articles are fairly written, but there is no marked tone or vigor to the Beacon,— on a shutter.— Utica Herald. none of the flavor of college life. The Trustees of the Johns Hopkins Uni- The Marietta boys are beginning to look forward offered to from versity have young men any to the close of their collegiate career, with mingled place ten fellowships, or graduate scholarships, feelings of hope and anxiety. The Sophomore to be bestowed for excellency in any of the class has had its customary celebration, and the Olio following subjects: — Philology, literature, prints a class song called forth by the occasion, with the chorus : history, ethics and metaphysics, political sci- " Hurrah ! Hurrah ! for the day that makes us free !

ence, mathematics, engineering, physics, chem- Hurrah ! Hurrah ! fur we all expect to be In the shoes of Andrew Jackson or the penitentiary, istry, and natural history. The value of the "When we've waded through college." fellowship will be five hundred dollars, pay- We cannot say that we thoroughly like the make- in three sums. Applications must able be up of the Williams Athencnum. It is too stately made prior to June 1, 1876. The conditions and majestic to be at first sight attractive. But we are an evidence of a liberal education and of can say that it has a truer ideal of college journal- of its contemporaries, and an air of a proclivity towards a certain line of study, ism than most refinement aud good breeding which makes it a and of upright character. The holder will welcome visitor to our sanctum. In the last issue, be expected to co-operate in upholding the the old board of editors take leave of the paper and efficiency of the University, and to render introduce their successors, twelve in number,—eight some service as an examiner. Baltimore Sun. from '77 aud four from 78. ——: —

Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MAY 24, 1876. No. 3.

PARAPHRASE ON HORACE. doses are very injurious and sometimes fatal,

Ad Quintcm Delicm, Book II., Ode III. self-esteem is an excellent quality when it

Delius, bat bom to die, exists as self-esteem ; but when it becomes so Remember to maintain great and distorted as to cause one to think A tempered mind in times of want, that he is made of more than common clay, As well as times of gain, and deserves reverence from ordinary human Yes, even when your life is sad, beings, it ceases to he a virtue and becomes a Or when you oft regale defect in one's character, and is well 'With old and rich Falernian wine, known Reclined in grassy dale, under the name of self-conceit.

When a man is blessed with such an extra- Where lofty pines and poplars meet And interweave their shade, ordinary amount of self-appreciation, he is Where trembling streamlets purl along easily recognized as such. He carries his head The far-meandering glade. a little farther back than a plumb-line would Uere, bid your slaves to bring the wine, suggest, wears a self-satisfied smirk on his The perfumes, aud the rose; countenance, which often abounds in cheek "While age and fortune suffer you, cheek, that is And the Fates do not oppose. we mean by he apt to have a full, round face — and usually walks with a From your rich house and stately groves pompous gait. He is very interesting in con- From your delightful villas (By which the yellow Tiber flows), versation — to himself, but a regular bore to Adorned with many pillars, others. Of course he talks mainly of himself

Sou must depart aud leave j'our wealth, and his various exploits. That is to be Another shall possess expected. But he treats the subject in very Tour riches, all high -piled in vain — many different phases, and all he says about A glittering emptiness. it is supposed to be founded on fact, but the It's all the same — n mighty prince fact is sometimes so small that it niusl be Descended from an anoient throne; called atom, i. e., less than any A wretched beggar, shelterless— an appreciable Grim Pluto claims both as his own. quantity. He is more talented, can talk lii-tlcr. and do more than any other man. He We all are traveling the same road;

Our lol is shaken in the urn even thinks those who have not the honor of In Charon's boat we must embark, his acquaintance, bereft of tin- chief pleasure Ami, exiles, nevermore return. of life. In short, he believes thathe possesses

all the desirable characteristics thai a man can SELF-ESTEEM. have and uol be divine, and we t'car he thinks Some persons have an idea thai self-esteem he has some divine qualities. This may be is an undesirable quality, for they confound ii an extrei :ase, for nol all have the di with self-conceit, which often makes him who as hard. We would pit? such a man. l>ut he

possesses it appear ridiculous. Like various is so happy in his conceil thai he lerds no kinds of medicine, which in small quantities pity, so we despise him, and thai does jusl as are of greal value, bui administered in large well. ; —

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We often hear quoted the words of the common it is to underestimate men-. Many times like poet Burns : — noble, moral, and talented men, in

" wad some power tbe giftic gi'e us, the present, are calumniated by unprincipled To see oursel's as ithers see ns! men, who, by their plausibly constructed It wad frae mouie a blunder free us, scandals, bring the majority of the people Au' foolish notion believe a What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e ns, who seem much more willing to man And even devotion." guilty until proven innocent than innocent These words seemed to be a very fitting close until proven guilt}'-— to see their victims as to the poem of which they formed a part. base, unprincipled, designing men. If such Doubtless Burns, inspired by such a subject, men were to see themselves with the eyes of

felt that it would be desirable to have the the multitude, they would at once cease to be good " giftie " grant the petition. Sometimes, of use to the world. They would either when we see these highly conceited persons, become what they are believed to be, or they we think that it would free us from many a would lose all courage and slacken their efforts blunder. But to calmly and deliberately to do good in their various callings. No, this consider this, do we think that it would be would not do. Every man who is or hopes better to see ourselves as we are seen by to be good or great, must have self-esteem others? For to throw aside conceit now, that he may rightly practice self-culture. would it not leave our self-esteem ? An im- We have self-comprehending power. We portant means of self-culture is to free our- have power of acting on, determining, and selves from the power of human opinion and forming ourselves. We- are able, not only to example, except so far as this is santioned by trace our powers, but to guide and impel them. our own deliberate judgment. We are apt to Not only to see our faculties grow, but to be dragged down by the worldly, unreflecting apply to them means and influences to aid multitude around us. Even the influence of their growth. He who does what he can to superior minds may harm us by bringing us to unfold all his powers and capacities, especially an almost servile acquiescence. Because some his nobler ones, so as to become a well-pro- men have great minds and good judgments in portioned, vigorous, and happ}r being, practices many things, we are led to think them capable self-culture. Man has desires, passions, appe- of judging correctly in all matters, and there- tites, which terminate in himself—which seek fore conform to their views in those things his own interest and gratification. If he has which Ave could not approve if originated bj' no self-esteem he will give way to these lesser minds. We should strengthen our OAvn passions and appetites, and allow them to reason by other men's intelligence, but not control him and bear him down to the lower throw our reason away and blindly follow the base habits which naturally afflict and cling to lead of others. By so doing we are not men. But if he has that self-respect which developing our own capabilities. We are gives him air inner consciousness of manly lowering our self-esteem and giving others strength and power which will enable him to more credit than belongs to them. control these appetites, he will check and train Though in some cases men are regarded them and turn them into principles important as superior to what they really are, and thus, and disinterested, enjoining on him a regard

if they viewed themselves with the eyes of for the rights of others, and also his own others, would be puffed up with their impor- rights and happiness — such principles as have tance, and perhaps rush into extremes and made men so strong in right that no power in to the wrong. ruin their former usefulness ; yet far more the universe could turn them BOWDOIN ORIENT. 27

A great impulse is given to vice and crime [communication.] by the bringing up and education, or rather MEMORIAL HALL. want of education, of many of the young. One Alumnus, at least, was very glad to Taught from earlier influence to respect noth- see and read " Patriotism vs. Pine Boards,"' in ing right, they soon learn to have no respect the last Orient. It is evidence that some for themselves. They give themselves up to among the Alumni, beside those who have it evil inclinations, and influences, and habits, daily before their eyes, are pained by the fact until they are borne along by the current of that the Hall, the plan for the erection of which wrong doing, and finally reach the drunkard's was inaugurated with such enthusiasm at the grave, or the prison, or some other place of Commencement of 1865, has reached only the equally confining power. One of the surest completion of its granite shell. Both " remem-

' ways, and, in fact, in some cases the only way brance of sweet and honorable ' deaths for in which men can be saved from their crimes the Country's sake," and the urgent necessi- and depraved habits, is to rouse in them a ties of the College for increased lecture room, feeling of self-respect. Make them feel that and especially a hall for exhibitions and others care for them, and think that the}' still general lectures, demand that it should be have in them that which will enable them, when finished. once reformed, to be men in the truest sense, Will not the Alumni come to Commence- and you have done much towards their reform. ment this year determined that something shall In every one's heart something good has been be done ? If the hard times seem to forbid the implanted; and it is not wholly destroyed by expectation of raising the amount necessary by all the wrong doing and sin that changes immediate subscriptions, cannot and ought not the characters of men, so that there is appar- the Alumni to set on foot some plan which will ently nothing good left in their hearts. But accomplish the work at some time '? If no still it is there; perhaps so burdened by the better can be suggested, the organization of rubbish heaped upon it that it is almost Alumni into "A Memorial Hall Fund Asso- smothered, yet if the least ray of encourage- ciation," the terms of membership of which ment reaches it, it will expand and grow until should be the payment annually of a small it is able to overcome the evil which has sum, not less than two dollars say. to be confined it. funded till a sufficient sum is collected to do You may point out to those men who are the work, might be made. If two hundred fallen so low, the pure lives of others, and the Alumni only, agreeing to pay annually an benefits mid honors arising from such lives, average sum of five dollars, would thus hut that will not reform them, because they organize, it would make one thousand dollars can not see ahead so far; the difference a year: and this carefully invested, and the between the two is so great that they have no additions winch would certainly be made to it, hope of ever crossing this wide gulf. But if especially if an earnest agent had the business ever the)' are made to realize the fact that constantly in hand, would soon roll up to a there is still something in them worthy of their sufficient amount. own and others' esteem, they will allow this Brothers Alumni, shall not something be germ of good to develop, and will also aid its done? If no process can be devised by whirl, development. We advise all who have self- it can be done at once, or speedily, shall not esteem, to cherish it as the apple of their eye. mil I.e devised which will certainly do it at but under no circumstances whatever to he some time'.'

wise in their own conceits. Al I mm >. 28 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. secure fresh air, and a draft is thus created which is not only uncomfortable but danger- PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- ous. The arrangement in the Freshman reci- ING THE COLLEGIATE TEAR, AT tation room may work well, but it certainly BOWDOIN COLLEGE, doesn't look well. It seems to us that venti- lators could be put in over the doors at com- Bt the Class of 1877. paratively trifling expense, which would, in a EDITORS. measure at least, remedy the evil. At any John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, rate we hope some steps will be taken to give William T. Cobb, George T. Little, us pure air, for much of the dullness and Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perrt, inattention that is now seen in classes is due Charles B. Seaburt. to the closeness of an atmosphere which is almost irrespirable. Terms—$2.00 a year, in advance; single copies, 15 cents. Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, Before the next number of the Orient Brunswick, Maine. appears, '77 will have planted the fourth ivy For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Deuni- — that has decked the College walls '66, '74, son's, Brunswick. and '76 being the only previous classes which have observed the day. The order of exer- CONTENTS. cises will be substantially the same as last year. After the delivery of the Oration and Vol. VI., No. 3.—Mat 24, 1876. Poem in the chapel, the class will march to the spot selected for the ivy, and the planting of Paraphrase on Horace 25 Self-Esteem 25 the vine will take place with appropriate Memorial Hall 27 ceremonies. This will be followed by the Editorial Notes 28 presentation speeches by the President of the 29 Base-Ball class, and the responses of the fortunate men Local 31 who receive the "Junior Honors." In the Field Day 33 evening will probably occur the Ivy Hop at Personal 33 Editors' Table '. 34 Lemont Hall, a feature which always closes the exercises of this characteristic celebration of Junior year. EDITORIAL NOTES. We are happy to say that some improve- We would remind those members of the ments in the management of the reading Senior class who do not intend to stay in town room, suggested in a late number of the through the Senior vacation, that if they wish Orient, have been determined upon by the the Orient sent to them, they should hand new board of officers, and have already gone their addresses to Chas. B. Seabury, 12 A. H., into effect. By the new arrangements, the as soon as convenient. room will be open from one till a quarter of four o'clock every afternoon, and every eve- None of our recitation rooms have any- ning from seven till nine. No one will be thing like adequate means of ventilation. In kept in the room to guard the property ; and most cases the raising or lowering of a window by this means a large saving will be made, or the opening of the door is the only way to which can be applied to the payment of pres- B WD OIN ORIENT. 29 ent liabilities and to the addition of new peri- first. The Bates nine then tried their hand at odicals. This retrenchment is of the nature the bat, and Adams went to first on a safe hit of an experiment, and the result of this term's to left field. P. R. Clason got his first, and trial will determine whether or not the direct- sent Adams to second, by a grounder which ors can carry it through the year, as they hope Perry failed to pick up ; and an error by to do. It certainly seems strange that in a mat- Melcher gave them each another base. Rec- ter like this there should be room for any doubt. ord hit a fly which Waitt missed; Adams

The self-respect of every student, as well as came home ; Clason went to third, and Record his obligations to the others who frequent to second. Oakes struck a grounder to Pay- the reading room (which includes pretty son, and was out at first. Lombard sent a fly nearly the whole College), should prevent any to centre field, where Waitt took it and sent disorderly conduct in the room, and, most of the ball home in season to put out Clason and all, any private appropriation of the papers close the inning. and magazines. The object of the room is Second Inning. The Bowdoins went out " " not to furnish a convenient loafing-place for in one, two, three order : Potter on three afternoons and evenings, nor a place for pub- strikes, Perry at first, and Sanford on three lic debates upon theology or politics. And strikes,—-the third strike "called" by the the thoughtlessness or the indifference to the umpire. The Bates men did no better : Rec- rights of others, which have been so noticeable ord getting out at first; Oakes sending a hot there at some times, ought to be checked by fly to Payson, who took it, winning loud the general sentiment of the students, rather applause from the crowd ; and Lombard mak- than by a paid attendant. ing the third out at first by a grounder to Sanford. Third Inning. Melcher opened this inning BASE-BALL. by a hit which put him out at first ; Knight Last Saturday, the grounds of the Andro- sent Oakes a liuer which the latter took, thus scoggin Base-Ball Club at Lewiston were well balancing accounts with Payson ; and Payson thronged with spectators, to see the match retired the nine by a fly to P. R. Clason. between the Bates and the Bowdoins. An Noble, of the Bates, got out at first. Burr exciting game was anticipated, and the crowd was saved by an error of Sanford's on a for watched eagerly the opening ; comment- grounder, and went to second on another ing meanwhile upon the appearance of the error by Jacobs. O. B. Clason made a splen- men, and especially remarking the contrast did hit to right field, and Burr came home, between the light, slender young men of the barely escaping an out by an error of Jacobs, Bowdoins and the heavy, powerful, and older- which also gave Clason his second. Whitney looking men of the Bates team. was second out at first, and Clason was •• run First Inning. At 2 o'clock all was in read- out " by Payson, Melcher, and Perry, while iness, and five minutes later the Bates men, trying to get home. having "won the toss," went to the field. Fourth Inning. Fuller was first at the

Payson, the first of the Bowdoins at the bat, bat, and also first out on a foul bound, which went out on three strikes ; and Fuller hit a Record caught evidently to his own surprise. grounder to Burr, who picked it up in season Waitt was second out in the same way. to send it to first. Waitt took his base on an Jacobs struck a grounder directly to first, and error by Lombard ; but Jacobs put the nine started after it on a race for the base. The out by a hit to second base, leaving Waitt on ball arrived ahead, and the Bowdoins went to ;

30 BOWD01N ORIENT. the field. The Bates at the bat. Whittle}7 Adams and P. R. Clason, both being put out gave Sanford an opportunity for a neat fly at first. catch, and went out ; but Adams got to first Eighth Inning. The eighth inning was a on a fair foul past the third. P. R. Clason repitition of the second, both sides going out got out at first by a grounder to Payson in one, two, three order again. Of the Bow- Adams went to second. Record struck a doins, Melcher and Knight got out at first by grounder to Payson, who took it and put light hits, Payson by foul fly to Record. Adams out at third. Three out. Record, of Bates, stepped aside on a foul Fifth Inning. Potter made a base hit, and which Melcher took. Oakes followed by went to second, and an overthrow by Record another to Jacobs, and Lombard closed the gave him his third. Perry got out on a foul inning by getting out at first. bound ; Sanford followed with another ; and Ninth Inning. At the opening of the Melcher sold on three strikes, bringing the ninth inning the interest of the crowd was Bates to the bat. P. R. Clason got out at intense. The Bowdoins had as yet failed to first. Record made a base hit to left field, make a score, and as this was their last chance and errors by Jacobs gave him his second and every one looked for an extra offort. The third. Oakes was second out at first by a Bates men were determined not to allow them grounder to Melcher, and Record came home. a run if possible, and lively playing ensued. Lombard Avas put out at first by a hit to Pay- Fuller opened for the Bowdoins, striking a fly son. This closed the fifth inning, which was which was taken by Burr. Waitt gave him especially noticeable for the score of the Bates, another, and thus two men were out. Jacobs obtained by Melcher's throw to first instead now went to the bat and struck a base hit to of to home base. centre field, giving him first base, and before

Sixth Inning. Knight, the first at the bat, the next strike he managed to steal to second. struck a grounder which put him out at first. Potter struck a grounder to, Burr who threw Payson "punished" the ball by a fly into it to first, where it was "fumbled," and Potter centre field, where Adams missed it, and Pay- was safe ; Jacobs running to third. Perry son stole to second. Fuller got out by a fly now took the bat. One strike, Potter stole to to P. R. Clason, and Waitt at first by a second. Two strikes, Jacobs prepared to earn grounder,—leaving Payson on third, where he his home. Three strikes and out, with Jacobs had stolen while Waitt was striking. The two-thirds of the way from third to home base.

Bates men then took the bat ; but Payson's This settled the game for the Bowdoins, the back was up, and the balls came in at a fear- only thing now being to keep down the score ful rate of speed, being too much for the of their opponents. Noble was the first strikers—Noble, Burr, and O. B. Clason—who striker. A grounder to Payson put him out trotted out in single file, each one at the first at first. Burr made a base hit into right field, base. but was caught napping at second and put Seventh Inning. Jacobs gave Record a out. 0. B. Clason finished the inning and foul bound — out. Potter struck to Burr who the game by a fly to Payson, leaving the Bates threw to first, but Clason became "lost" that victorious by a score of 3 to 0. time and Potter was all right. Perry and The result, though appearing bad for the Sanford got out on foul tips, and Potter was Bowdoins, is yet a credit to them. The nine left on second. Whitney of the Bates played a better game than they have ever " stepped down and out " by a foul tip to played before, with one exception. They Jacobs, and he -was immediately followed by certainly fielded and played the bases as well B0WD01N ORIENT. 31 as their opponents, and in running the bases The Bowdoin Navy is in great demand for were greatly their superiors. The Bates the "Fourth." excelled in hatting, and in coolness and self- Did any say that Goethe was the author reliance, very necessary requsites for good — of William Tell ? playing. Their catcher is especialty to be Now is the hammer of the Mineralogist praised for his excellent playing, as to his heard in the land. account are credited thirteen of the twenty- seven men put out. What do you think of the prospect of a The umpire, Mr. "Dolly" Wilson of the Gymnastic Exhibition ? of fairness and Androscoggins, was a model We hear that the term is to be shortened good judgment, and the extraordinary time of a week. Let us hope not. the game was largely due to his promptness. A pale, ghastly figure has been seen weep- The crowd, among which were about forfy ing over the grave of Anna Lytics. Bowdoin boys, was a very orderly and appre- ciative one, manifesting great interest and Nothing is meaner than to disturb a man often applauding both nines. The game is when he is trying to read in church. decidedl}' the best amateur game on record, Now the weary Freshman again takes up and is only equaled by one or two professional his cross and watches the upper windows. games, either as regards the score or the time. There is a Junior who shaves three times The following is a summary: — a week. You can't bribe him with any cup. BATES. R. O. IB. P.O. A. E. Adams, c.f 1 2 10 1 One week previous to the Ivy Hop, the Fuller, 1. f 4 P. R. Clason, 2b.O 4 2 2 1 Waitt, c. f 3 Record,c 1 2 1 13 Dancing School will open in the north end of Jacobs, c 3 Oakes, p 4 Potter, lb 1 Lombard, 3b.... 4 Appleton. Perry, 3. s 4 Noble, 1. f 3 Sanford, 2b 3 Burr, ss 1 2 Msleher,3b 3 0. B. Clason, lb.O 3 If you want to see how specie payment Knight, r. f 3 Whitney, r. f 3 works, take your friend down to the depot

Total . .0 27 2 27 19 10 Total 3 27 4 27 and shout. Inning 1 23456789 Bowdoina o oooooooo — Bates 1 01010000 — 3 The Junior class are to have a new set of oars, Runs on errors—Bates, 2. Left on bases—Bates, 1 ; Bowdoins, 6. oars ; they are too strong to use like the Time of game— 1 hour, ]a inniiit

The game of base-ball between the Senior LOCAL. and Junior classes resulted in favor of the former, by a score of eleven to six.

Take down your coal stove ! " Warren's man" is here, taking the Col- lege views for '76. A young darkey is with '76's Ivy is doing its level best. him, to furnish a dark background. Now begin to cram for the examination. Hear the Freshmen: "Who is the sad- No more original declamations for the faced man thai wearily trundles the wheel- Juniors. barrow 'round the College campus?"'

The Bates students consider I). Pratt a Hume, of Batli, has been engaged to novelty. build the Freshman boat. It will be similar Has any one spoken for your "fakir" on to the boats of the Junior and Sophomore Mathematics? classes. ! ;

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A stranger within our gates prophesies tried to persuade his chum to go over to the that the Sophomore crew will win the race. fish-way with him and watch the fish go up

This, of course, is a matter of opinion. the ladder. We advise Freshmen to shun the

fish-way ; it is a bad place when the dew falls. " Those who are not prepared can be " excused from this recitation ! Thirteen A Card.— The young ladies of the Con- Juniors and a dog step forth to do his bidding. gregational Society, at their meeting May 8th, voted that the thanks of the Society be ten- It is fortunate for the Faculty that they dered to the Bowdoin Orchestra, and to all receive no marks for absence from prayers. others of the College and town, who assisted There is nothing like setting a good example. them at their late entertainment. The second game between the Senior and '78 has decided upon the evening of July Junior nines came off Wednesday, May 17th. 5th, upon which to pay the last sad rites to The Juniors were victorious by a score of 29 Anna Lytics, who, it is hoped, will then be to 22. dead beyond resurrection. The officers are " Que du bandeau royal sa tete soit ornee" as follows : Marshal, J. M. Burleigh ; Eulo- " This is how a Sophomore translates : Let gist, A. E. Burton; Elegist, D. H. Felch his head be ornamented with the royal Priest, S. D. Fessenden. Committee of bandage." Arrangements, B. Potter, S. E. Smith, T. M.

The Italian musicians who Avere here last Pray. The statement in the Telegraph, that week gave great satisfaction to an apprecia- the class will have a supper immediately after tive audience assembled in the College con- the burial service, is unauthorized by the

cert rooms. committee ; no action has yet been taken in regard to it. You had better be hunting up a partner By reference to another column, it will be for the Ivy Hop, and remember and be thank- seen that a very attractive programme is ful for the fact that you are not obliged to offered for Field Day, and that two or three confine your invitations to Brunswick. new features have been introduced. We trust Daniel Pratt, during his sojourn here, that the number of entries will be large. It remarked that one acquired, in college, a will also be seen that the day selected is the taste for " Organic Law." It is impossible to one following Ivy Day, and if the Regatta acquire a taste for anything else organic. Committee decide to have the Regatta on the

The pictures of Daniel Pratt which Giird- forenoon of June 2d or 3d, as there is now a jian succeeded in taking are excellent, and are good prospect of their doing, next week will much sought for as memorabilia. Some thirty be emphatically the students' week. Although or forty students will descend to posterity by thus bringing the important events of the associated with Daniel in the picture. Spring term into two successive clays, there are some disadvantages to the students, we The Junior hires a horse, arms himself think the plan will commend itself for the with a tack hammer, and drives over to greater convenience it offers to visitors. Many Topsham. Late in the afternoon he comes persons who would like to see all three of the back with a broken thumb, minus two finger exercises cannot come to Brunswick three nails, a pocketfull of old stones, and a happy times for that purpose, and the present arrange- heart. Oh ! Science ment will accommodate them better than any During the recent freshet a Freshman other that could be made. BOWDOIN ORIENT. 33

FIELD DAY. '54.— Chas. M. Herrin, Esq., was found Saturday, June 3d, 2 p.m., at Topsham. dead in his office, at Houlton, on the morning The exercises will consist of — of the 9th inst. He is supposed to have died in an apoplectic fit. Throwing base ball. '52. Hon. John H. Goodenough, Consul Two-mile walk. — General to Turkey, has resigned and returned Standing long jump. to his home in Alfred. Hundred-yard dash. '61. Mr. Edward Stanwood will occupy Running long jump. — the position of editor-in-chief of the Boston Half-mile walk. Daily Advertiser during the absence of Mr. Throwing heavy weights. Goddard in Europe. Mr. Stanwood has been Two-mile run. upon the editorial staff of the Advertiser for Standing high jump. twelve years. He began his newspaper life Hurdle race. upon the Augusta Journal. Half-mile run. '61. S. H. Manning is sheriff of Running high jump. — Xew Hanover County, at Wilmington, N. C. Velocipede race. '61.—J. Bradbury, Jr., is S. Wrestling match. W. U. Com- missioner, Augusta, Me. Three-legged race. '61. Joseph B. Upham, 1st Assistant Hop, skip and jump. — Engineer, U. S. N., has been placed upon the Potato race. retired list. Consolation race. '67. Melvin F. Arey is teaching at Cedar In all cases there must be three to enter — Falls, Iowa. and two to start. Entrances will close on '68.— F. E. Hitchcock is practicing Medi- Wednesday, May 31st, at six o'clock p. m., cine at Rockland. and all desiring to enter for any contest must '71. Batchelder is Principal of the Maine notify the Master of Ceremonies, William G. — Central Institute, Pittsfield, Me. Beale, before that time. Per Order. Clark is in the Harvard Medical School. Curtis is practicing Medicine at White PERSONAL. Plains, N. Y. Davis is teaching in the High School,

[We earnestly request contributions for this Middletown, Conn. department from the Alumni and friends of the Dennett is practicing Medicine in Boston.

College.] Mitchell is sub-editor of the New York Sun.

'47.— Charles E. McDougall, M. D., was Pattee is Principal of the High School in admitted to the order of Deacons, in the Northfield, Minn.

Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Florida, at Stackpole is studying Theology in Boston Pensacola, April 23d. The Pensacola Gazette University. speaks most highly of his Christian character White is practicing Law in Winthrop, Me. and fitness for the ministerial office, as well W. P. Melcher has hung out a shingle as as his scholarship, scientific research, and M. D., in Camden. X. J. After graduating ability. from the Philadelphia Medical University two '50. — Gen. O. O. Howard delivered an months ago, he tonic an extended tour through anniversary address before the Y. M. C. A. of the West, visiting Alexander, ">

'73.—J. M. Boothby has recently graduated agreeable to the eye, and we wish the editors could at least have changed its color if its from the Medical School at Detroit, Mich., and not name. But we always turn to the Herald with interest, for it is is now assistant in the hospital in that city. seldom dull, and for general reading matter must '73. B. T. Deering has been been pursu- — certainly rank ahead of most of our exchanges. ing his studies, since graacluation, at the Uni- On account of the trouble between the Faculty versity of Berlin ; but is at present in Paris, aud the editors of the Dartmouth, which resulted in studying the modern languages. Address, 19 the suspension, for a short time, of seven of the Faubourg St. Honore. editors, that paper has been discontinued for the remainder '73.—A. E. Herrick is studying Law at of the College year. The editors are unwilling to publish paper over the contents of Bethel, Me. a which the faculty have any control, since they did '75. —C. L. Clarke, under date of London, not consider themselves subject to any limitations furnishes interesting April 13th, an account when they accepted their positions. In their farewell of the Oxford-Cambridge race, to the Port- number they say : "That a paper representing the land Transcript of May 13th. faculty would be much more valuable than one representing the students, and very much more '76.—Pratt conducts the services at St. valuable than one representing ourselves, we do not Paul's Episcopal Church, since the removal of deny; but we are not the ones to edit it." And Eev. Mr. Sill to Portland, May 1st. thus ignominiously disappears one of the lights (?) '76. — Prince has obtained employment in of college journalism. Engineering in the Boston Water Works. More than a year ago the Notre Dame Scholastic graduate class. He will return to with the was dropped from the exchange list of the OpaENT, '77.— F. O. Stanley and wife, nee Miss but it has kept up its weekly visits with a monotonous Tileston, will teach the Mechanic Falls High regularity that is in the highest degree exasperating exchange editor. Perhaps it thought School this term. to the that the editorial board needed the example of its elevated

moral tone ; but as it comes with its leaves uncut and EDITORS' TABLE. we never take the trouble to cut them, its exempli- fication of the doctrines of the Catholic church may like Yale, is rejoicing in boat- Columbia, a new have had less effect than it supposed. Please leave house. The last number of Acta Columbiana gives us to our heresy and give us a rest. a full-page picture of the house, from which we We have heard of poetical " figures," and Mr. should judge that it was a spacious, convenient, and Macbeth has given us an exhaustive division of them architecturally handsome structure, of which the into two or three hundred classes. But we confess Columbia boys might justly feel proud. The first that we should be at a loss to locate the effort of a story " will afford ample accommodation for fifty poet in the Brunonian, who says that — boats or more." " The second story is divided into

" 'By the road-side grew si violet sweet, four apartments, as follows : On the river front, the Whose opening leaves were first to greet reception room, 36 by 28 feet, which is handsomely The rage of the morning sun." finished in hard woods, laid in fancy patterns. From sun should rise in a "rage does not the reception room a hall-way leads to the dressing- Why the "he enlightens us to the room, of the same dimensions, around the four sides inform us. The same number four columns in regard to " What of which are lockers, to the number of one hundred, extent of Wc About Eats." writer was annoyed by for the keeping of rowing costumes, etc. On one Know The

rats in his room ; but at last hit upon the novel side of the hall is a room for the janitor, aud on the setting trap, and caught one. other an apartment fitted up with baths, etc." expedient of a

The first impression that one receives of the Uni- A Western paper saj'S that there are one versity Herald is that its arrangement is confused, hundred and fifty college graduates running and that a great number of short articles and para- at " graphs arc thrown together without much attempt pea-nut stands the Centennial. Knowl- to reduce them to order. Its pink tint, too, is not edge is power.'' ;!; ; ! ;

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Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JUNE 7, 1876. No. 4.

PARAPHRASE ON HORACE. Pursued by foes where'er he goes, For him is no relief. Ad Ptrriiam, Book I., Ode V. Will he then die a slave — What dainty youth, with perfume sweet, A slave to Kome, whose blood Aad crowned with many a rose, Was poured like rain on Cannae's plain, Caresses Pyvrha in some grot, And crimsoned Trebia's flood ? And thinks he's free from woes ? Before dishonor, death's For whom with simple elegance The watchword of the free, Do you bind up your golden hair? Of warrior, sage, of every age, Alas ! Pyrrha, he shall mourn Who's fought for liberty. The perfidy of one so fair He drained the fatal cup — He'll be amazed (not versed in love) Earth from his vision passed At blackening storms and seas, In death he slept, his oath is kept, Who, credulous, enjoys you now, And Rome is free at last. And thinks your love to please. lonely, unmarked spot, fool! Yet ignorant of the gale — grave without a name The faithless gale — to trust We know thee not, but ne'er forgot She will be always disengaged Shall be thy hero's fame. And amiable and just! G. C. C.

0, luckless they who think you fair! But good luck falls for once to me PHI CONVENTION. For I was shipwrecked by your charms, ALPHA DELTA But rescued from the dangerous sea. The forty-fourth Annual Convention of C. A. the Alpha Delta Phi Society was holclen at Utiea, N. Y., on May 24th and 25th, under THE CARTHAGINIAN'S DEATH. the auspices of the Hamilton College Chapter. The warrior's brow was sad, Delegates were present from Hamilton, Miami, And dark with deep despair; Amherst, Brown, Hobart, Bowdoin, Hudson, Its awful gloom bespake his doom — University, Dartmouth, Rochester, No hope was written there. Michigan Williams, College of New York, Middletown, Bis country's fate is fixed — Union, and Cornell Chapters. Fixed by a stern decree The Roman's sway triumphantly The delegates convened in the parlor of Spreads over land and sea. the Butterfield House, Utica, at 10 o'clock.

His memory wakes, afresh The forenoon was devoted to a private business He sees his native laud meeting. In the afternoon the Convention, Before the shrine, a boy of nine at the invitation of the Hamilton Chapter, Swears with uplifted hand. made an excursion to Hamilton College, which The father by his side is some nine miles, perhaps, from Utica. "With joy and hope elate, The secret fears of future years Arriving at the College the Convention pro- Seeks not to penetrate. ceeded to lay the corner-stone of the Eells

Hall. hall is in The recollection fades Memorial This named honor Away in untold grief: of the founder of this society, who was a ;

38 B WD OIN ORIENT.

student at this College ; and while a student effect was soul stirring — round after round of here he conceived the grand idea of the Secret applause made the echoes ring in the old hall

Society which is now called the Alpha Delta of Utica. After waiting some little time for Phi Society. The exercises of laying the the applause to die away, the President, Prof. corner-stone were very imposing. Prayer L. Collins, introduced A. C. Coxe, of Hamil- was offered by the Rev. T. B. Hudson, of ton, who gave the address of welcome. Dr. Clinton, N. Y. Judge O. S. Williams, of Herrick Johnson, of Hamilton, '57, Principal Hamilton, '32, was then introduced, who per- of the Auburn Theological Seminary, gave the formed the ceremony of laying the corner- oration, and evidently the sympathy of his stone. His address was eloquent throughout, hearers was with him throughout, if applause

and when he referred to his old college friend, is an indication of sympathy. After a very the founder of the society, Bro. Samuel Eells, able and interesting poem by Prof. North, of

it was most touching. Hon. Ellis H. Roberts Hamilton College, the Convention adjourned then delivered the address of dedication. He with singing of some old familiar college songs. was followed by Richard Bowker, late editor At the banquet, which was served in truly of the New York Evening Mail, who delivered regal style at the Butterfield House, there the congratulatory address. He is a speaker were about one hundred members present. who never fails to hold the attention of his The banquet commenced at 11 o'clock p.m., hearers, both by the beauty of his diction and and ended somewhere in the wee small hours the ease and grace of his delivery. of the morning. The exercises of Thursday were of a The general officers elected for the next private nature, so that these cannot be made year, are John Jay, late Minister to Austria, public through the columns of the Orient. President. Prof. Lewis Collins, the late Pres- The public exercises in the evening, at the ident of the Society, Secretary. Orator, Man- Utica Opera House, were most interesting. ton Marble of New York, Rochester, '59 The house was beautifully decorated with Substitute, Gen. E. N. Bates of Illinois, a floral wreaths and festoons. Directly over the graduate of Williams. Poet, Prof. H. L. stage was a huge star and crescent composed Chapman of Brunswick, Bowdoin, '66. of flowers, while upon the sides of the stage were smaller stars and crescents; around the [communication.] balcony were festoons of green and white, the colors of the society. Music was furnished HOW TO STUDY THE LANGUAGES. by the Utica Orchestra and by the Amphion The interesting article upon the teaching Sextette of Amherst. The music of the latter of languages, which appeared in the Orient organization was most pleasing — arousing the of May 10th, advances a theory which, if audience to great enthusiasm. Frequent were adopted, would make a marked change in the the encores which followed their appearance amount read if not in the manner of reading. upon each occasion. The hall was filled to It is evident that if the students were required overflowing. The front seats were reserved to commit perfectly to memory what they for the delegates, while those just behind, in read of the languages, they would not read accordance with the custom of college students, half as much as under the present system. were set aside for the young ladies from the Would there be a sufficient gain in under- Female Seminary at Utica. standing and remembrance, to balance the loss The exercises were opened by singing the in amount? In regard to Greek and Latin, battle song of Alpha Delta Phi, " Xatps" The such might be the case, for Cicero, Demos- BOWDOIN ORIENT. 39

thenes, and many other ancient authors must at least recognize them when we see them ; be studied most assiduously to be well under- and we claim that this familiarity with them stood, and some of their works should be can be acquired in no other way than by committed to heart. How is it with the memorizing. It was of ivords, not of sen- French and German? We do not take up tences (for they will easily follow, if we these languages until we have had years of know the words which compose them), and hard study in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics. an improvement in the method of acquiring After such a training as this, we should be these words, that we spoke.—Ens.] able to understand such works as Goethe's " Hermann and Dorothea " and Racine's The '68 Exhibition, an appointment to " Athalie," without even a second reading. which is justly regarded as one of the highest In each of these works there are many pass- honors of a college course, took place last ages worth quoting, but who wo.uld wish to Monday evening, at Lemont Hall. The fol- commit the whole of either to heart ? Perhaps — lowing was the order of exercises : it is desirable that shorter lessons be assigned, American Legislation, J. G. Libby; The that we may have a better idea of the gram- Philosophy of Our Government, Charles Sar- matical construction. But could not this be

gent ; Methods of Criticism, Arlo Bates ; The obtained by having, in addition to the xisual Origin of American Institutions, J. A. Mor- reading lesson, a short conversational exercise rill; The Sphere of Political Law, W. G. in which special attention would be paid to Waitt; Art and Criticism, A. H. Sabin. the idioms in common use ? Such an exercise The committee, consisting of Hon. Mar- could be so conducted as not only to assist us shall Cram of Brunswick, Hon. Joseph Tit- greatly in the study of the languages, but comb of Kennebunk, and Rev. Mr. Dicker- also to render us familiar with many of the man of Lewiston, awarded the prize to Mr. brilliant thoughts and witty sayings of the J. A. Morrill. greatest modern authors. Aboneteichos.

Harvard Advocate sa}-s that the library [We supposed we plainly stated our views The of the University is exposed to a new danger in the article referred to by our correspondent,

r in the shape of white ants, little insects which in our issue of Maj 10th ; but as there seems have a great liking for books. Steps are being to be so great a misunderstanding on the part to head them off if possible. The turf of " Ahoneteichos," we will endeavor to taken about the building has been taken up and its straighten out, a little, our idea on that sub- place will be supplied by gravel. ject. Speaking of " Hermann and Dorothea" " " and Athalie," A. says, Who would wish to Fourteen hundred Americans are pursuing commit the whole of either to heart?" We, their studies at the various Schools, Conserv- for one, would not, if we could, commit to atories of Music, and Universities of Germany. memory every sentence of either of those —Ex.

poems ; for, although it might be good train- Of three hundred and twenty students at ing for the memory, we should prefer to com- Amherst College, all but fifty, it is reported, mit something that would be of more use to have made a profession of religion. us in after life ; but the words which make up these sentences, the majority of which we The Philadclphian Society of Middleburv are supposed to have made the acquaintance College, founded in 1804. organized the first of, ought to be so familiar to us that we may Sunday-school in New England. 40 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. At 3 p.m. the Juniors marched into the Chapel, where they occupied the row of seats PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- next to the desk. After a few introductory ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT remarks by the President, Mr. J. A. Roberts, BOWDOIN COLLEGE, and a song finely rendered by the class quar- tette, prayer was offered by the Chaplain, Mr. By the Class of 1877. J. E. Chapman. EDITORS. The orator of the day, Mr. C. W. Morrill, John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, was then introduced, and preceded to deliver William T. Cobb, George T. Little, an able and eloquent address upon the claims Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, of " Old Bowdoin " upon her Alumni and Charles B. Seabury. undergraduates, and the numerous ways in

Terms—$2.00 a year, in advance; single copies, which it is possible for them to do her honor. 15 cents. The oration, finely written, was equally well Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, delivered, and kept the close attention of the Brunswick, Maine. large audience for nearly half an hour. For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- son's, Brunswick. The poem, by Mr. C. A. Perry, abounded in sly hits and happy allusions, which were CONTENTS. fully appreciated by the class, if not by the other listeners. the close, a more Vol. VI., No. 4.—June 7, 1876. Toward

serious tone was assumed ; and the sylvan Paraphrase on Horace 37 glades, haunted by the ivy, were beautifully The Carthaginian's Death 37 described in lines remarkable for their Alpha Delta Phi Convention 37 ease How to Study the Languages 38 and grace. We regret to say that Mr. Perry, Ivy Day 40 although earnestly requested, will not allow

The Regatta 41 its publication. It is worthy of mention that Base-Ball 42 both poem and oration could be heard through- Field Day 43 out the Chapel. We think the speakers have Local 44 Personal 45 good reason to congratulate themselves upon

The College World 46 their success in this direction ; for the only Editors' Table 46 fault of the similar exercises last year lay in the fact that very many were unable to enjoy IVY DAY. the intellectual feast spread before them. The ceremonies connected with the plant- The remainder of the exercises, consisting

ing of an ivy which is to keep alive the mem- of the presentations, singing the ode, and

ory of a class long after it has left the halls planting the ivy, took place on the green near of Alma Mater, ought certainty to be among the Library door. The President, in each the most interesting and impressive of the case prefacing the gift by a speech well filled College course. That this was the case with with wit and puns, presented the spade to C. the exercises of last Friday, no one, we think, A. Perry, a finely caparisoned steed to C. B. will deny. The weather was all that could Seabury, the mustache cup to W. Perry, the be desired, the arrangements of the commit- looking-glass to O. M. Lord, the jack-knife to Sherman, the to tee perfect in every respect ; and a large num- A. M. and wooden spoon W. ber of lady friends from out of town lent T. Cobb. their charms to the occasion. The gentlemen made happy responses, and, ; ; ; ;

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 41 in one or two instances, quite sharp ones. It THE REGATTA. was noticeable that, excepting the recipients No event since last fall has excited so of the looking-glass and wooden spoon, all much interest in College as the race between seemed very much surprised at the honor the Junior and Sophomore crews, which came done them. The class then united in singing off last Friday. Both crews have been train- the Ivy Ode, written by Mr. R. E. Peary, ing hard for the past five weeks, and, with the

Avhich we append : — exception of one week when the Sophomores

0! Ivy ever true, just awakening from thy sleep, held off, they have taken their regular daily Henceforth like vestal pure thou a sacred trust dost keep ; pulls upon the river. The amount of class Take thou then by subtle art of our throbing lives a part, feeling manifested was considerable, but we Fill thy veins with richest life for the future's storm and

strife. have not heard of any bets being taken ex- ceeding one hundred dollars. The Sopho- All through the comingyears in thy leaves of darkest green, Upon the Chapel walls will our peerless name be seen mores from the first of their training claimed

fast strong, beat to life All our hearts beat and send thy that the race was a sure thing for them ; but along, according to a Junior, " You can't most always Every thought goes out to thee and the future's mystery. sometimes tell," and no lack of interest was Let others praise thy trust, but thy leaves remind us now shown on this account. Of ages long gone by, when they decked young Bacchus' brow Until a short time previous to the race the So may we, Ivy fair, ever keep away despair, Junior crew had pulled with an odd set of And with Ivy crowns alway live our lives through fresh oars, and did not obtain the new ones in sea- and gay. son to become perfectly accustomed to the But not for joy alone dost thou stand the symbol fair, change. Wo see thy dark leaves gleam in the Isthmian victor's hair; The following are the names and positions Wreath the garland, shape the erown, we will hunt Dame Fortune down, of the crews: Junior Crew— Hargraves, hand shall pour richest gifts And her vanquished our path- Bow and Captain ; Crocker, Stroke ; Brinker- ways o'er. hoff, No. 2 ; Mitchell, No. 3 ; Brown, Cox- Thus speaks the noble vine in a glorious triple sense, swain. Sophomore Crew — Jacobs, Bow; Its voice shall guide us all, though our paths may lead far Hall, Stroke ; Baker, No. 2, and Captain hence r Burleigh, No. 3; Seav} , Coxswain. Now God speed thee gentle vine, softly o'er these gray walls twine, The wind and weather, on the day of the Meeting every stranger's eyes with a vision's glad surprise. race, was all that could be desired, and a short The closing ceremony was the planting of time previous to the hour of starting quite a the iv}-, in which every member of the class crowd had assembled on the south bank of participated. With a few appropriate words the river. The arrangements for starting the President committed the charge of it to were similar to those pursued last year, and Mr. R. E. Peary, who had previously been nothing occurred to cause any delay. appointed Curator. A neat, marine tablet in The Junior crew was the first to appear the form of an ivy leaf, affixed to the wall of on the river, and as they dropped by the the Chapel near by, is to distinguish it from crowd, expressions were freely given as to all which may be planted hereafter. their merits and defects. For one day, at In conclusion we cannot refrain from com- least, every student was a boating man, and " plimenting the committee, and in particular discussed of " form " and " inboard leverage its chairman, upon the taste displayed in the with a fluency which comes only from an inti- design of the invitations and the general mate knowledge of boating. excellence of all the arrangements. In a short time the Sophomores came pull- — —

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ing under the bridge, and even an inexperi- ers. They all had a tendency to strike flies, enced eye could see that their stroke was and not a base hit was made until the seventh more in unison than that of the Juniors. inning. In the eighth inning Knight suc- Without farther delay the crews pulled to ceeded in getting a base hit, and, aided by their positions, and at about 10.15 the word wild throwing, came home,—scoring the first " go " was given by the starter. and only run for the Bowdoins. Jacobs was The Sophomores took the better start, and not in good condition for playing, having been led down the river pulling forty-five strokes able to practice but very little, and made to the minute, while the Juniors followed eleven errors. There were no particularly close behind. In about seven minutes the brilliant plays. Fuller, however, made a boats could no longer be seen by those on the splendid fly-catch in the left field. judges' barge, and the men on the lower end Below we append the score and sum- of the island report that they made the turn mary: with the Sophomores three lengths ahead. BOWDOINS. RESOLUTES. R. lB.P.O. A. E. K. lB.P.O. A. E. Soon the glancing oars were seen by those Payson,p 1113 J. Barnes, 1. f. 3 12 1 Fuller, 1. f. 2 Leighton, c 3 10 2 up the river, and many speculations were Waitt, c. f. Knight, s. s 1 1 1 1 Jacobs, c 10 111 Black, p 10 made as to which crew was taking the lead. Potter, lb 10 3 Evans,2b 3 13 Sanford, 2b 2 2 11 Ayres, lb 1 6 1 As they pulled steadily nearer it was plainly Perry, s. s 2 4 3 Hayes,r. f. 1 110 Knight, r. f. 1 10 F. Barnes, 3b 2 2 2 seen that the Sophomores were in advance, Melcher, 3b 2 2 St. John, c. f. 1 2 10 and encouraged hj the shouts of the crowd Total 1 4 27 9 23 Total 12 5 27 3 8 they crossed the line in 18' 56£", the Juniors 123456789 following in 19' 00000010—1 23f". 3

There was the usual amount of shouting, Time of Game—1 hour 40 minutes. Umpire—J. F. Day. Scorers P. H. Ingalls, Bowdoin F. Ilsley, Resolutes. and the crews, after learning the time, pulled ; slowly back to the boat-house, while the The Bowdoins felt that such a game ought crowd gradually dispersed. not to stand against them, and so invited The race was pronounced an excellent one the Resolutes to play a return game. They by those competent to judge, and surely for accepted, and Saturday afternoon was selected fairness and speed it would seem difficult to as the time for the game. At the appointed be surpassed on this course. Both crews did time a very large crowd collected on the well, and the Sophomores' victory was owing Delta to witness the game. The friends of to superior muscle and training, two essentials the Bowdoins hardly expected to win the that will always count on the day of the race. game, but at the same time they were bound that the Resolutes should make as few runs as possible. BASE -BALL. The game was called shortly after three The Bowdoins have been trying their o'clock, H. G. Briggs, '75, being umpire. hand again with the Resolutes this season. The Bowdoins went to the bat. Payson was The first game was played on Presumpscot the first striker, and he led off with a splendid Park, Portland, Memorial Day. From begin- three-base hit. This seemed to put new life ning to end it was a game of errors on the into the nine and they all began to " brace part of the Bowdoins. It was the opinion of up," and in the first inning eleven base hits many who witnessed the game that the Bow- were made on Black's pitching. The Reso- doins never played so poor a game. The lutes thought it would be unwise to continue pitching of Black seemed to trouble the strik- him longer in the position, and so Black was :

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changed for Leigh ton, St. John was put in Instructor Robinson and Tutor Smyth as catcher, and Black was put in left field. If Judges, and Mr. W. G. Beale as Master of

Black had continued to pitch there is little Ceremonies. The grand stand was well filled doubt but that the score would have been the with students and visitors, while the inner largest made by our nine for a long time, but circle of the track was crowded with carriages. Leighton's pitching was more effective, and First on the programme was the hurdle

only two base hits were made from it. The race, for which three contestants appeared Resolutes tried hard, but a start of fourteen E. F. Varney '79, F. M. Byron '79, and F. A. runs was too much for them, and the end of Mitchell '77. It was won by Varney in 14 1-2 the ninth inning found the score standing 20 seconds. Three gentlemen tried their hand

to 15 in our favor. It was rather a loose at throwing the heavy hammer (16 lbs) : F. game, many errors being recorded on both H. Crocker '77, G. F. Pratt '76, and C. E. sides, but the Bowdoins succeeded in doing Knight '77. Mr. Knight won, throwing 45.6 what they have been trying for some years to feet. Instead of a match between the four do. A more jubilant crowd than the Bow- gentlemen who entered for the two mile doins can hardly be imagined. The nine were walk, W. H. Marrett, '76, walked .against cheered, and one yagger felt so enthusiastic time. He proposed to walk the two miles that he threw a bag full of flour high in the inside of 18 minutes 30 seconds, and was air, and its contents were very generously accompanied by two or three students—as soon sprinkled over the crowd; but as white is as a man gave out a fresh one being supplied. Bowdoin's color of course they could not The first half mile was walked in 3 minutes object. 42 seconds ; the first mile in 8 minutes

A press of matter forbids a detailed account 3 1-2 seconds ; and the two miles in 17 minutes of the game, so we simply append score and 53 seconds. The three-legged race which summary : — followed, afforded considerable amusement to BOWDOINS. RESOLCTKS. the spectators. '79 was the only class repre- R.lB.P.O. u.ln. Payson, p 3 2 J. Barnea, 1. f 2 sented in this — Messrs. Achorn and Hender- Fuller, 1. f. 2 1 2 Lelghton, c 3 \Vaitt, c. f. 2 2 2 Knight, s. s 4 4 son forming one pair, and Messrs. Ring and Jacobs, c 3 1 5 Black, p 2 Potter,lb 3 2 11 Hayes, r. f. 1 Varney the other. The former won in 15 Sanford, 2b 3 2 8 St. John,c.f. 1 1 Perry, s. 3 2 2 Ayres, lb 1 1 seconds. The running long jump was won by Knight, r. f. 1 1 Evans, 2b 2 1 Melcher, 3b 1 1 F.Barnes, 3b 1 3 C. E. Cobb '77, who jumped 17.4 feet. As

Total , .2H 13 27 17 18 Total .15 12 27 11 20 usual on these occasions, one of the most SUMMARY. 123456780 pleasing and interesting contests was the Bowdoins 14 50000010 hundred-yard dash. Leavitt '76, Alden '76, Resolutes 2 2 8 10 2 — 15 Time of Gam: — 2 hours. Umpire — H. G. Briggs, " Dry Goods." Varney '79, Byron '79, and Kimball '79,

Scorers — P. H. Ingalls, Bowdoiu ; F. Ilsley, Resolutes. appeared. The first dash was won by Leavitt in 11 seconds; Byron and Alden withdrew FIELD DAY. from the second dash, which was also won by Friday had been so pleasant that many Leavitt in 11 seconds. The standing long feared Saturday would see a rain-storm. But jump was entered by B. Potter '78, and C. E. the fog and haze of the morning disappeared Cobb '77. Won by the latter by a jump of by nine o'clock, and the throng began to 9.75 feet. W. W. French 78, W. II. Marrett turn their steps towards the Sagadahoc Park. '76, and B. W. Dinsmore '7'.'. entered the half- Shortly after nine the exercises commenced, mile walk, which was handsomely won by with Instructor C. II. Moore as Referee, Mr. Marrett in 3 minutes 27 1-2 seconds. —

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The crowd testified their appreciation of Mr. How much did you lose on the race ?

Marrett's performance by hearty applause. r The Class Treasurer is looking for j ou. E. C. Metcalf '77, gained the prize for throw- He came in and said he stole his second. ing the base-ball, by a throw of 308 feet. The standing high jump was contested by C. E. Go and see the " Calludian " in No. 23 Cobb '77, and J. W. Achorn '79. Mr. Cobb A. H. won very easily and gracefully, his best jump The new foul board has already paid for being 4.8 feet. There were so many with- itself. skip drawals that the two-mile run, the hop, The Bates nine sent down their congratu- high and jump, the half-mile run, the running lations. jump, and the best three jumps, were all There is a thief about College. Look out omitted, and the exercises of the day closed for him. with the potato and wheelbarrow races. The potato race looked like a very simple affair Who said that Black's pitching was hard when the potatoes were arranged, but, though to strike ? it afforded considerable amusement to the Editorial comments on some of the exer- spectators, it proved to be a race which re- cises of last week are crowded out until our quired a good deal of pluck and endurance on next number. the part of the contestants. E. F. Varney '79, How is that " Medic " getting along, who was the first to drop the twenty-fifth potato lost his mustache and took a midnight bath, a over the line, and his time was 7 minutes 40 1-4 few weeks ago ? seconds; W. H. Marrett followed in 7 minutes 47 1-4 seconds. The wheelbarrow race was Those who participated in the potato race not conducted as such races usually are, but are willing to take oath to the effect that they

it was quite exciting, and formed, a pleasant ran five hundred miles.

close to the day's programme. J. S. Leavitt One of the Junior crew remembers that '76, was the winner. he did not see any thing of the recent race. The presentations of the prizes took place His boat was behind. in the chapel at 1.30 p.m.j and thus success- The Athletic Association will soon be fully passed off the fourth semi-annual Field formed into a stock company ; it is now the Day of the Bowdoin Athletic Association. wealthiest institution in College. We are glad to learn that the Association is in so flourishing a condition financially, there A delay of one day in the publication of being a considerable surplus in the treasury the Okient was rendered unavoidable by a after all the expenses of this year's Field Day press of late matter for publication. have been settled. The classical Juniors are doing fine work in Botany. At least so we are told by one of LOCALS the class, and of course it must be so. Now doth the fishing season approach, " Good morning, '76;" that blessed time when the Freshman is the " " Pull down the blind ! most honorable man in the community.

Britannia ware is plenty. Last week the Scientific Juniors made an We warmed 'em this trip. excursion trip to Mare Point with Prof. Pack- The Sophomores are jubilant. ard, in search of strange, crawling creatures. ,

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The Sophomores are anxious to try the practice the profession. He engaged in busi- crews of other colleges, and if they are sure ness in New York. He had traveled abroad of such time as they made Friday, they will and was a man of culture. His sudden death probably come in ahead. was caused by disease of the heart. '40.—Thomas Newcomb Stone, M.D., died The men appointed for the Sophomore at Provincetown, Mass, May 13th, aged fifty- Prize Declamation are as follows : Burleigh, eight. He was respected as a Physician Burton, Fessenden, Felch, Hall, Higgins, throughout Cape Cod, had been in both Jacobs, Paine, Potter, Purington, Sargent, branches of the Legislature of Mass., and Smith. President of the Mass. Medical Society. He the report of the game at Lewiston For was warmly interested in literature and educa- readers of the Orient are indebted to the tional work.

Beale ; and for the account of the Mr. W. G. '50. —Hon. William P. Frye was renom- games in the present issue, to Mr. P. H. two inated by acclamation by the Second District Ingalls. Republican Convention, at Auburn, May Those who attended the Ivy Hop pro- 24th, as Representative in Congress. not nounce it a decided success. There were '58.—Osceola Jackson is agent for Yates as many dancers as usual upon such occasions, & Porterfielcl, New York City, at Bassa, but the lack in quantity was amply atoned Liberia, West Africa. for by the quality. The music by Chandler '61.—Rev. W. R. Cross, of Orono, accepts was all that could be desired. his call to Elm Street Church, Camden, and We are reaching the extremes of inaccu- begins his labors there by the first of June. racy when we read in the Argus that C. E. '67.—In St. John's Church, Bangor, May Knight won the prize for throwing the heavy 25th, by Rev. George T. Packard, '66, Joseph '67, hammer by throwing it 456 feet, and that C; C. Wilson, Esq., of Orono, and Miss Mary E. Cobb won the standing high jump by jump- H. Colton, daughter of N. H. Colton, Esq., of ing 4.8 inches. It also gives this lucid account Bangor. of W. H. Marrett's two-mile walk: "He '72.—S. L. Gross graduated from Columbia walked against time, endeavoring to beat Law School, May 17th, and was immediately admitted to the Bar. 18-i minutes ; first half in 3.42, miles in 8.3f mile and half 1.83, two miles in 1753, amidst '74.—C. H. Hunter has finished teaching greatest excitement and applause." at Limerick Academy. He goes to Portland to study Medicine. '75. W. A. Deering has finished his first PERSONAL. — 7 year's teaching at Gilmanton Academ} , Gil- ton, his [We earnestly request contributions for this man N. H. He spends vacation in department from the Alumni and friends of the assisting the Y. M. C. A. canvass of N. H. College.] '75.—E. H. Hall has accepted the position '25.—Rev. John S. C. Abbott is reported as Principal of Brunswick High School for

dangerously ill at his home in Fair Haven, the ensuing year. Conn. '75. —W. Nevins is studying Law in the '30.—Henry Waldron died in Brooklyn, office of Northern! ('43) & Benjamin, Salem, N. Y., May 10th, 1876. He was a native of Mass. Portsmouth, N. II., studied law, finished a '76.—Ralph Hemmenway spent a few days course at Harvard Law School, but did not with his friends in '76, before leaving for — — —

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Minneapolis, Minn., where he expects to from this fund, are greatly embarrassed, and engage in teaching. some fear they must leave the college. '77. E. J. Pratt's term of teaching at — The following is said to have been the Fort Fairfield, is very favorably mentioned in letter in which Prof. Tyndall proposed to the New England Journal of Education. He Miss Hamilton : " Saccharine conglomeration is engaged to teach at the same place for the of protoplasm ! Adorable combination of Fall term. matter and force ! Rarest product of infinite

ages of evolution ! The luminiferous ether is THE COLLEGE WORLD. not more responsible to the rays of light than are my nerve centres to the mystic influence

A Freshman very innocently enquires if, which emanates from the photosphere of thy when Adam and Eve partook of the tree of countenance. As the heliocentric system was knowledge, they studied the higher branches. evolved from primordial chaos by the works

Will some self-sacrificing sportsman please of inexorable law, so is that rarification of make an object of that Freshman. Athenceum. matter, which men call my soul, lifted from profound despair by the luminance issuing Scene in Moral Philosoplw. Professor — from thy visual organs. Deign, O admirable " It is not necessary that there should be an creature, to respect that attraction which overt act in order to constitute a moral crime. draws me towards thee with a force inversely Now, we have the announcement that ' Who-

; proportional to the square of the distance. soever hateth his brother is a murderer ' do Grant that we shall be made double suns you believe the truth of that ? " Student describing concentric orbits, which shall touch "No sir, not exactly." Prof.—"This saying each other at all points of their peripheries. should carry weight, it comes from St. John." Your own Tyndall." Student — "Oh yes, I believe it now. I did not— know it had so high authority before." Ex. EDITORS' TABLE. The Amherst Student corrects a rumor

which had got into the newspapers, that the The Harvard Advocate has opened a column of salaries of the professors at Amherst had been " Answers to Correspondents," in which it endeavors reduced on account of " financial depression." to solve the perplexities which surround students. The following is a specimen : It says the assertion is entirely erroneous, and " S., 79. — You ask whether, on the average, it is that there have been no resignations on the more judicious to send an instructor a box of cigars faculty from such a cause. Owing to the after an examination, or to present his wife with a bouquet. financial depression, the income of Amherst " Ans. —The question is a hard one ; but we think College will be seriously diminished this year. that on general principles the cigars would be more effective, especially if the instructor is not a married The Hitchcock fund of $100,000, the income man. In some cases, however, for men of your class of which is devoted to scholarships and in particular, a bottle of old Madeira would be far professorships, will be wholly unproductive better than either of the other two, as the latter would probably have an effect just the opposito of The fund is invested in Ogdensburg and the one desired. It would bo better for you to con- Lamoille Valley railroad bonds, which have sult us personally, stating the case more in detail. " N. B. —Remember to bring the cigars with you, already passed two dividends, and there that we may judge of the effect." is no prospect of immediate resumption. As We shall await the close of the first volume of fifty a consequence, about students, who were the Harvard Lampoon with a good deal of interest,

the recipients of scholarships of $100 each for it is the first attempt of collego students to pub- ! — — OWMIB

Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JUNE 21, 1876. No. 5.

CATULLUS. train and sleeping car of the present day, but Ad Oiaxam, XXXIV. to present the claims of a primitive and almost forgotten mode of travel known as walking. We are children in tbe service Of Diana, chaste and pure; Foremost among its merits may be consid- We will loudly sing her praises ered the excellent opportunity it affords of Lung will endure! they becoming intimately acquainted with the

Diana ! You are fairest character of both people and country. The Of the children of great Jove, traveler upon foot is brought face to face with Whom thy mother bore in Delos the classes which form the mass of the popu- In the olive grove, lation, classes which never see the iuterior of There to rule o'er woods and mountains a Pullman car or the cabin of a t'unarder, Where the golden sunlight gleams. O'er the green, sequestered meadows yet make the nation what it is. He meets And the laughing streams. them engaged in their daily occupations,

At .thy birth came kind Luciuia, catches glimpses of their home life, notes the Trivia, in her awful might, subjects of their conversation, and in number- Luna, diademed and shining less ways is enabled to accurately judge of With her borrowed light. their character. In no other way can one Measuring out the way, Goddess, obtain so clear an understanding of the coun- In thy course, for mouth aud year. try itself. Even an hour's walk will not fail You o'erfill the husband's cottage With the best of cheer. to reveal the prominent features of the region. Only thus can the best scenery be enjoyed. Now, where'er you are, Diana, May you kindly hear our prayer Our railroads, with a few notable exceptions, Shield the Romans from disaster, seem to have been laid out through the drear- With your guarding care iest regions to be found. But even if they C. A. P. were not, what pleasure would the most beau- tiful landscape afford one shut up in a air- WALKING. tight box, and hurried along at the rate of As one result of the means of rapid con- thirty miles an hour? veyance now in use, the word traveler is fast Another reward offered to the pedestrian

losing its old meaning. It no longer calls to is an acquaintance with nature. Lavish as

mind the bronzed face of an old friend who she may be of her gifts, it is only witli a few came back to us over-flowing with tales of that she deigns to hold communion. Only

foreign lands and peoples ; but a worn-out to the humble worshiper who comes on foot

individual, besprinkled with cinders, who, if dues she reveal her loveliest retreats and holi-

you inquire whether the women in Saxony est shrines. To him alone is it granted to really work in the fields, is likely to reply that while away the midday hours on the green, he does not know, for he passed through that shady bank of a noisy brook, or to climb witli country in the night time. It is not our pur- the rays of the morning sun the rugged side pose, however, lo inveigh against the express of the steep mountain. Herein lies the charm —

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of the writings of Thoreau and Wilson Flagg. hungry, he is actually compelled to stop.

To their frequent rambles is due the intimate The natural result is that he comes back worn

knowledge of wood, and field, and sky, by out and disgusted ; always ready, indeed, to which they are enabled to picture them so assert that he has had a fine time, but very vividly in words. careful never to go upon a similar expedition. Traveling on foot, moreover, besides being peculiarly strengthening when conducted rightly, necessitates less fatigue than any REVOLUTIONARY POETS. other mode. Strange though this may seem Now that generals, statesmen, and orators at first, we are confident that most people will of the Revolutionary period have been duly find riding in the stage or cars for six or seven praised and held up to youthful minds as consecutive days far more tiresome than walk- examples worthy of imitation, it is no more ing, especially if they are at all accustomed than right that the part the poets then played to the latter. At its healthfulness no one should have its share of praise. The office need wonder. It furnishes the lungs with of the poet has always been a privileged one, pure air, affords the body an agreeable exer- and he has exerted an influence extending as cise, and constantly supplies the mind with far as his language was spoken. His song has interesting subjects for thought. It is neither penetrated to hearts which speeches, procla- so violent as to shut out the weak, nor so mations, and harangues could never affect or costly as to exclude the poor. reach, arousing them to action, or calming Notwithstanding all this, walking is not them to quiet and rest. Writings on local topics popular, and never has been, with the great must of necessity soon lose their interest and majority of Americans. It matters not die ; and this, in part, is the reason why the whether we ascribe this dislike to dread of names of Frenean, Trumbull, and Barlow are losing caste if seen walking wherever it is not as familiar to us as those of other men, possible to ride, or to a fear of being mistaken who wrote neither so well nor as much, and for tramps and lodged at the public expense ; who did no more to help along the cause of the fact still remains the same. vain In does the Revolution. one look to collegians in hope of finding an Philip Frenean was the first poet of his exception to the rule. The walking parties time, and his verses have a " truthful power" so characteristic of English and German stu- and a musical metre, even if they almost dent life, are almost unknown here. The wholly want the picturesque element. His rarity of such excursions, which, when prop- satires, songs, and ballads aroused the enthu- erly managed, are both instructive and in the siasm of the Americans in the darkest da}'s of highest degree enjoyable, cannot be solely our Rebellion, awakening the lurking patriot- attributed to the laziness of students. The ism in the few rustics who still remained at explanation, we think, can be found in the home, urging them on to deeds of valor, or spirit of haste and the desire to be the first cheering the drooping spirits of our soldiers one there, which almost invariably take pos- as they fought battle after battle for the session of an American, when walking with cause of liberty. He was himself a soldier, others. They do not allow him to enjoy the and scenery, to leave the road in search of a " Trained in camps, he knew the art flower, nor to rest in some shady nook, but To win the soldier's hardy heart)"

keep him pressing along the dusty highway so it is no wonder that his songs had such for mile after mile, until, faint, foot-sore, and power. ;

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John Trumbull was a mechanical poet, anything but agreeable. " I have great faith

and one that our modern critics would call a in the influence of song," wrote Barlow ; and penny-a-liner, we are afraid }-et, in his day, we should think he had, to judge from the ; his influence was great and his fame almost length of his "song." unbounded. Trumbull's chief work was But however we, in our day, may regard entitled " McFingal," a jolty and humorous the literary worth of the poems of these men, poem — keenly satirizing the faults of the we cannot disregard or overlook the influence British Government in particular, and the they brought to bear upon their coternporaries, follies of his countrymen in general. It was and through them upon the welfare of our immensely popular at the time of its publica- country. Of all the motives to excitement, tion, and was republished, and republished, either for good or bad purposes, none has ever

until it seemed as if the people could never been so universally effective as that of song ; get enough of "McFingal." It was the and of course the maker of the song, to a favorite volume, in use in the kitchen as well certain extent, controls this power. In the as the parlor. The copy now in the Maine beginning of the French Revolution, the

Historical Library is one of very early publi- people were aroused to madness by songs cation, and its pages are worn and greasy, as Cromwell led his forces into Winceby Fight if it had been pored over by the hour. John singing the Psalms of David, and came off

Adams was an ardent admirer and friend victorious ; and instances are numerous where of Trumbull, and upon the publication of a simple song has spurred on a multitude to " McFingal," wrote the author a congratula- the most heroic action. Songs, as a general tory letter, telling him that his poem would thing, are short, and contain some strik- live forever. But now, after a lapse of onh/ ing turn of wit or fancy, and are easily seventy-five years, it is seldom mentioned and committed entire to memory; while many a more seldom read, and Mr. Adams's letter is weight}' argument, set forth in an elaborated just as famous as the work it praised. Trum- newspaper article or essay, is partially lost, bull's rhyming power was great, and it was simpby because one cannot remember the probably the ring of his verses that caught whole of that. Then, again, songs have a the popular ear. Some of his rhymes are veiy peculiar solvent property, and by some inde- funny, and some are as wonderful as James R. scribable means open a man's heart, and when

Lowell's. This, in a great measure, accounts his heart is opened, he is most easily suscept- for his title of poet, for even now-a-days ible to the first emotion that presents itself or rhymes are thought poetry—for instance, Joa- is presented to him ; and so well did the quin Miller's. Greeks understand this that their very beggars Joel Barlow was a minister and soldier, asked alms in a song. We do not remember and, like Frenean, wrote songs and satires. seeing in any history of our Revolution, an The work by which he was best known was account of this great and almost unlimited the "Oolumbiad," a poem begun in camp but power; and we hope some future rising histo- not completed until a number of years after- rian will give it his careful attention, and assign wards. The "Columbiad," in part, describes it its proper place in the causes and motive the events of the Revolution ; but the author power which aroused our forefathers to rebel, did not feci bound to confine himself to this and helped to carry them through that long, one topic, but skipped about from one century hard-fought, but successful war. to another and from one part of the world to another, so that the result seems to us to be The Junior class is reviewing Taugenichts. 52 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. breeches and other characteristic features of the costume of a hundred years ago. Their PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- example has been followed by the Seniors of ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT Brown University, and, we believe, one or BOWDOIN COLLEGE, two other institutions. We are not sorry that the Seniors of By the Class of 1877. Bowdoin have refrained

from such action as this ; but there is one EDITORS. way in which we should like to see them rec- John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, ognize the peculiar significance of their year William T. Cobb, George T. Little, of graduation. All through the war it was Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, the custom of graduating classes to drape the Charles B. Seabury. church during Commencement Week with Terms—$2.00 a year, in advance; single copies, the national colors. The style of architect- 15 cents. ure of the interior is such as to afford a rare Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, opportunity for tasteful decoration. For a Brunswick, Maine. years the custom has fallen For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- good many now son's, Brunswick. into neglect, and it seems to us that this year something of the sort would be very appro- CONTENTS. priate. If it is favorably regarded, we think

Vol. VI., No. 5—June 21, 1876. it is not too late to carry the sugestion into execution, and we should be glad to see it Catullus 49 done. Walking 49 Revolutionary Poets 50 Editorial Notes 52 Monday afternoon, June 5th, was held the Commencement Week 53 special exercise when the Seniors attend chapel Senior Parts 53 services for the last time. Quite a number of Base-Ball 54 visitors were present, as usual, to witness Local 54 what has perhaps justly been called the most Personal 55 impressive ceremony of the College course. The College World 57 A " Editors' Table 58 quartette from the Junior class sang Home, Sweet Home," and the "Farewell Ode to the EDITORIAL NOTES. Graduating Class"; Rev. Dr. Packard" read an appropriate selection of Scripture, and

The next number of the Orient will be offered an earnest and touching prayer for issued after Commencement, and will contain God's guidance in the future of the young

; four full accounts of the exercises of the week, men and then the class formed abreast, together with an interesting paper of College with arms interlocked, and moved slowly down " reminiscences by one of Bowdoin's oldest the aisle singing Auld Lang Syne." The in front and most distinguished Alumni. It will be exercises on the walk of the chapel mailed to the catalogue address of the students, were the same as usual. We were sony that the cheers the Seniors unless more definite directions are given to when it came to used

" ! Mr. Seabury. the short, sharp 'Rah ! 'Rah ! 'Rah " of their class cheer. A cheer of this sort may base-ball The Seniors of Harvard this year propose do very well for regattas and games ; to appear during Commencement in knee- but it lacks the real hearty power of the old- BOWDOIN ORIENT. 53

fashioned cheer, and its use on this occasion dent of Harvard University. The Alumui will form detracted sadly from the effect of the in procession at the Chapel, at 2.45 p. it. In the evening will be given in the cheering. a Concert Church, by Miss Annie Louise Cary, Mrs. H. 31. Smith, Mr. Myron W. Whitney, Mr. Will IT. Stock- The exercises of Field Day this year were bridge, and the Philharmonic Club of Boston. seriously marred by the great number of with- Doors open at 7 o'clock ; Concert to commence at 8 drawals on the part of those who had entered o'clock. THURSDAY. for the contests. On the printed programme Commencement Day. The House will be open for the clay, distributed on the grounds, there for ladies at 10 a.m., of which notice 'will be given were just one hundred entries; as a matter of by the bell. Admission to the Trausepts by tickets fact, less than fifty took part in the contests. from the Senior Class at 9.30 a.m. The exercises Six of the eighteen exercises advertised were will commence at 10.30 a.m., and proceed accordiug

omitted, in some cases because all, and in other to the printed order. The Procession will form at the Chapel, and move at 10.15 a.m. The Treasur- cases because all but one, who entered with- er's office will be open from 8 to 10.15 a.m., for the drew. Now it seems to us that by entering registry of the names of Alumni and the distribution himself on the list, a man puts himself under of tickets for the Commencement Dinner. Presi- some sort of obligations to attend the sports dent's Reception at 8 p.m.

and if take part he can do so. A race between FRIDAY. four or five is much more interesting to the The Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity will hold their spectators than a race between two. And it Annual Meeting at the Medical Lecture Room, places the managers in an unpleasant position Adams Hall, at 8.30 a.m. The Annual Meeting of to advertise a long list of contests on the the Maine Historical Society will be held at their Library Room, at 8 a.m. strength of numerous entries, and then have Examination of Candidates for admission to the a third or a half of them spoiled by with- several classes, at 8 a.m., iu the Chemical Lecture drawals. It would be much better to have a Room, Adams Hall. less pretentious list of entries, and a more Cleavelaud Cabinet, Libraries, Painting Gallery pretentious list of contests. and other Rooms open to the public from 8 to 10 a.m. COMMENCEMENT WEEK. SENIOR PARTS. July 9—14, 1876. The following is the assignment SUNDAY. of parts

to the Senior class : — Baccalaureate boforo the Graduating Class by Salutatory.— John Adams Morrill. the President, at the Congregational Church, at 4 Orations.— Charles Sewall Andrews, Arlo Bates, o'clock p.m. MONDAY. Charles Herbert Clark, John Gair Libbv, Alvah Horton Sabine. Prize Declamation by the Junior Class at the Philosophical Disquisitions. — Franklin Conaut Congregational Church, at 8 o'clock p.m. Payson, Walter Augustine Robinson, Oliver Crocker TUESDAY. Stevens, William Gay Waitt. Class Day. Exercises under the Thorndike Oak Literary Disquisitions. — Charles Taylor Hawes, at 3 p.m. Promonado Concert and Dance on the Jere Merrill Hill, Edward Hazen Kimball, Frank Green at 8 p.m. Reed Kimball, Walter H. Marrett, Charles Albert WEDNESDAY. Perry, Charles Sumner Taylor. Meeting of the Alumni Association in the Chom- Disquisitions. — Tascus Atwood, Collins Grant ical Lecture Room, Adams Hall, at 9 a.m. Public Burnham, Edwin Barrett Newcomb, Johu Howard Exercises at the Congregational Church at 3 r.M. Payne, George Franklin Pratt, Charles Gardner Address by the Rev. Thomas Hill, D.D., Ex-Presi- Wheeler, Charles Augustus Whittemore. — —

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Discussions. — Oriville Clark Gordon, George versal comment. We subjoin the complete Ellington Eogers, Charles Thomas Prince, Allan score : Henry White. Sargent, Fred Hilo Stimson, John BOWDOINS. QUICKSTEPS. Dissertations. — Howard Elijah Hall, George .171. Payson, p 1 4 6 Peavear, 2b 1 3 1 Parsons, William Henry Gulliver Rowe, Alpheus Buller, 1. f. 2 2 Twomey,l. f. 1 1 Waitt, c. f 1 Fessenden, 3'j 1 3 1 Sanford, Hardy Popes Sewall. Jacobs, c 2 1 8 Murphy, c. f 10 Essays.—William Alden, John Samuel Leavitt, RiDg, 2b 1 Ring, s. s 12 1 Perry,s.s 1 Tufts, r. f. Jr., George Bartol Merrill, Bion Wilson, Prank Wright, 3b 2 McCarty, lb 1 5 Potter,lb 1 11 Abbott, p 10 Vernon Wright. Knight, r. f. 2 Peach, c 11 3

Three members of the class have not yet Total 9 27 10 7 Total. .4 1 27 6 17 SUMMARY. been assigned parts. Parts will be delivered on Commencement Day by the Salutatorian Bowdoins 2 00021040- QuickBteps 10 3 — 4 and by those who have received Orations and Time of Game—2 hours 10 minutes. Umpire—Mr. O'Brio ' Live Oak

Philosophical Disquisitions. Juniors." Scorers—Quicksteps, Mr. Eddie -, Bowdoins, P. II. Ingalls.

LOCAL. BASE -BALL.

The College nine have played two games Who broke the andirons ? since our last number, and won two victories. Do you know many Sub-Freshmen who On Saturday, June 10th, they played a are to enter? friendly game with the Colby University nine, and won by a score of 30 to 8. The game The whitewash man has been the rounds was very loosely played on both sides. The with his little bucket. Colby men can hardly be said to have a If the future is of any interest, it may be strong team, and they showed a sad need of well to study on review. practice, especially in their throwing. Per- It is expected that we shall play a return haps the most noticeable feature of the day game with the Colby nine. was the thoroughly satisfactory umpiring by Mr. A. W. Small, Colby '76. We append the- The Sophomores have been unable to score by innings : arrange a race with Harvard '78. 123456789 ColbyB 02020013—8 Prof. A. S. Packard, Jr., has completed Bowdoins 3 74613312 — 30 his course of lectures on Zoology. Time of Game—2 hours 25 minutes. Scorers—Colby, W. H. Brownson ; Bowdoin, P. H. Ingalls. It don't pay for a man sleep iu church. On Saturday, June 17th, by all odds the There are too many hired watchers. best played and most interesting home game The Freshmen are looking at the Sopho- of the season took place on the Delta, between more seats in a peculiar way. Be patient. the Quicksteps of Lynn and the College nine. We are sorry that we have not room to give The "yaggers" are getting so that they the game a more extended report, but the ask for permission to play ball on the Delta. score will speak for itself. The Quicksteps The man who borroived the Brunsiviclc were weak at the bat, but played a good field Telegi'aph from the reading room, is wanted. game. It will be seen that Mr. Payson's delivery was very effective, as only a single There is a good lot of hard work being base hit was made on it during the game. Mr. performed in the Gymnasium. That is, in Jacobs's catching was also the subject of uni- conversation. :

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7 A part} of Seniors took a trip down to The Senior boat is for sale ; for terms and Little Chebeague, and from all reports had a other particulars, inquire at No. 5 A. H. Any pleasant time. one desiring to purchase the oars should call at No. 8 M. H. The light-weight crew are doing heavy work on the river. The}7 expect to pull at We hear that the Amherst nine is about the Centennial. to make a trip through this state, and that the managers of the club are endeavoring to Prof. Carmichael and Mr. Sabine, '76, are arrange a game with the Bowdoins. making a two weeks' trip in the vicinity of Carsville, Nova Scotia. The following appointments have been made in the Junior class, for the Prize Decla- They say that they caught twenty-four

mation at the close of the term : Beale, W. trout and gave them to a poor family. They T. Cobb, Crocker, Gurdjian, Lord, Morrill, were generous fishermen. Peary, C. A. Perry, Roberts, Scribner, Sher- The second nine is in hard practice, and man, Stan wood. at the time of writing is trying to arrange a The following officers have been elected game with the Westbrook Seminary nine. by the Praying Circle, for the ensuing year

The weather permitting, the Seniors are to President, E. M. Cousins ; Vice President, J.

; have a dance on the green, Commencement. E. Chapman Secretary, H. E. Henderson ; Let us hope that the weather will permit. Standing Committee, G. T. Little, O. W. Garland, G. W. Johnson. Gtirdjian has taken fine pictures of the interior of the Chapel and of the College grounds. He has them for sale at his room. PERSONAL.

You had better be looking for a chance [We earnestly request contributions for this as reporter during Commencement week. department from the Aluumi and friends of the Reporters, you know, go in to the dinner free. College.]

'25. —Hon. S. P. Benson is reported to be Now that the Medics have left, Brunswick dangerously sick at his home in Yarmouth. has returned to its normal condition, and we '33.—Rev. Geo. F. Tewksbuiy and family, all miss their cheerful faces and little foot-ball. on taking leave of their friends in Gorham, '76 men don't seem to have a care in the N. H., were the recipients of many valuable prayers, recitations. world. No no Nothing gifts ; among them an elegant gold-headed to do but smoke and talk of the political cane, a silver spoon-holder, and a roll of green- outlook. backs. '36.— Geo. F. Emery, Esq., Portland, lias A Freshman wants to know if the Okient purchased an interest in the Boston Post, and can be seen at the Centennial. Of course; will be connected with its editorial and finan- its place is between the Nation :\\v\ the Bruns- cial departments. wick Telegraph. '50.—Rev. J. J. Bulfinch is supplying the The following appointments have been Congregational Church at Washington, Me. made by the faculty for the ooming year: '56.—From the Christian Mirror of May Senior Librarian, John A. Roberts; Junior 27th, we take the following account of the Librarians, H. C. Baxter, I). W. Felch, O. W. '56 class of : —

Garland, lb Potter. T. M. Pray. "The class of l>">0 celebrates its Bi-Decennial at ;

56 B0WD01N ORIENT. the coming Commencement at Brunswick. While it '57.—Rev. D. S. Hibbard is pastor of Con- has not had time to equal the Longfellow class, who gregational Church at Loudon, N. H. were the heroes of the last Commencement, there is '70.—D. S. Alexander is Secretary of the no knowing what its members may be when the Indiana Republican State Central Committee. half-century comes around! Among its lawyers services are H. M. Robinson, Esq., of New York, TJ. S. Asst. '70.—The of W. E. Frost have

; in the Acad- Atty. Gen. Edwin B. Smith, of Washington, D. C ; been engaged Westford (Mass.) Gaslin, George C. Yeaton, Esq., of Maine ; William emy for an additional time of three years, at Esq., of Nebraska ; W. L. Melcher, Esq., of N. H. a salary of $1,800 per annum. During the Col. and Judge E. T. Luce, and S. E. Floyd, Esq., fall Mr. Frost will erect a house to cost about of Boston. Some of its business men are Mr. Isaac $3,000. D. Balch of the New York Custom House ; Hon. '73. Prentiss Loring, lately representing Portland in the — Berry, Yale Divinity School.

State Legislature ; G. C. Moses, Esq., of Bath, Thos. Boardman, in business, Marion, Iowa. Leavitt of New Hampshire, and George R. William- Boothby, M. D. in Harper Hospital, Detroit. son of York. Maj. Edward W. Thompson of New Chapman, finished second year in Bruns- Arkansas, and Capt. William H. Smyth, U. S. A. (son wick High School, June 9th. Enters Yale of Prof. Wm. Smyth), are among its military men. Divinity School this fall. Among the ministers whom we recall are Rev. E. P. Parker, D.D. of Hartford, Ct., Rev. T. S. Robie of E. J. Cram, Principal High School, Ken- Walpole, N. H., Rev. E. B. Palmer of Ipswich, Mass., nebunk, Me. Rev. J. P. Watson of Mashapaug, Ct., Rev. Henry Deering, Paris, France. Farrar of Gilead, Me., Rev. R. B. Howard of East Elder, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Orange, N. J. (New York editor of the Advance), Portland, Me. Rev. James H. Taylor of Lake Forest, 111. Of deceased members, Chaplain T. L. Ambrose of New Elliot, Principal High School, Winchen- Hampshire was killed by a gun-shot on the James don, Mass. River; S. W. Tenney (son of Chief Justice Tenney) Fairbanks, studying and teaching music, died at Washington in the service of the U. S. Boston, Mass. Christian Commission; Col. Frank Miller of Port- Floj'd, Attorney and Counselor at Law, land, who was military governor of New Orleans, Bangor, Me. and active subsequently in political life ; James 0. Brown of Portlaud, a beautiful writer and promising Gould, reading Law, Biddeford, Me. poet; Rev. Cyrus H. Carlton of Monmouth, Me., a Hatch, Attorney and Counselor at Law, faithful Baptist minister ; and George S. Whitte- Portsmouth, N. H. more of Brunswick, who died soon after graduation; Herrick, reading Law, Bethel, Me. George Robinson of Augusta, died while in the army; Hill, teaching in South Berwick, Me. Mr. Charles H. True, at one time editor of the Port- Hughes, teaching in Bath High School. land Star, died at Dakota; Capt. Frank C. Davis of Farmington, distinguished himself as a cavalry Ladd, attending Medical School, Bruns- officer, and died of disease contracted in the army. wick. Dr. George A. Wheeler of Castine, is the only physi- Lowell, Yale Divinity School. cian. is the author of history of Castine and He a Moullon, reading Law, Portland, Me. other local histories. Prof. J. Y. Stanton of Bates Reed, Principal of High School, Orange, College is the only college professor. Thomas B. Lenoir of Mississippi has not been heard from since Mass. the war. Including Lenoir nine of the' thirty-three Richardson, Principal of High School, who graduated have died. Rev. E. B. Palmer is by Bridgtori, Me. appointment assiduously collecting the history and D. A. Robinson, Principal of New Gram- statistics of the class. Mr. G. C. Moses of Bath mar School, Bangor, Me. will give a Maine welcome to his scattered class- F. C. Robinson, Instructor in Chemistry, mates on their return to Brunswick, after twenty years of work and wandering." Bowdoin College. —— — —— —

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Sampson, Andover Theological Seminary. A villainous -looking character, with a Snow, 113 Commercial St., Portland, Me. still more villainous -looking bull-dog, was Walker, teaching in California. seen the other day inquiring the wa}r to Prof. Waterhouse, reading Law, Cambridge Law Dean. He was directed to Memorial Hall, School. and was shortly after seen coming out minus Whitney, teaching in Boston. the dog. Harvard Advocate. Wilson, teaching in Hallowell Classical A Senior has had all his translations bound Institute. in Turkey morocco, with titles little indica- Wis well, Attorney and Counselor at Law, tive of their true character, such as " Helps Ellsworth, Me. over Hard Places," " Youth's Companion," '75.— John J. Bradley, of Dartmouth '75, " Greek Made Easy," " Help for the Lowly," for two years member of this class in Bowdoin, " Hope for the Fallen," " Spectacles for Young was drowned in Lovell's Pond, near his home E}'es," etc.— Yale Gourani. in Fryeburg, June 8th. Since his graduation he had been studying Law with his uncle, There is a certain Sophomore who has Judge Barrows of Brunswick. His body was "passed up" out of Cornell, and gone to recovered the 12th. Phillips Academy to prepare for the Fresh-

man class at Harvard. This is as it should be. When a student leaves one institution THE COLLEGE WORLD. he should enter another of a higher grade, and thus the interests of higher education Yale, '77, has elected Notman class photo- will be advanced.— University Herald. grapher ; Princeton, '77, has chosen Warren. Prof, (after waiting some time for answer One of our professors claims that the cry to question which he had just asked of Mr. of the greenback is " Help Cash-us, or we H.)—" Why, don't you see what I mean?" sink." Athenaeum. a Mr. H.— "Yes, sir, it's— —it's —ah A Freshman asked us the other day, Prof.—" What I wish to get at is, that if an whether it was Cicero or Tully that wrote imponderable string is stretched by an infinite the Oratio Obliqua. —Ex. number of equal weights applied equal dis- tances from each other, the funicular polygon The Seniors are growing wiser daily. One becomes a parabola." Mr. H. (enthusiasti- recently asserted that Raphael was an Angel, cally) —"Yes, sir; yes, sir; you get my belonging to heathen mythology. — Obcrlin idea." Ex. Review. The Neiv York Tribune says that the Chi Prep, (translating slowly but energetically Chapter of the Psi Upsilon College Fraternity withal) "Nunquam, never; animus, mind; was established at Cornell University, June ignis, fire; via, a way." (Triumphantly) 13th, with brilliant ceremonies. The inaugu- " ! " Never mind ! Fire away — Vblante. ral address was delivered by President Van Our Metaphysical Prof, finds from the Rensselaer of Hobart, and the poem by Prof.

'. Bible a paraphrase of the song: "Oh ! Sukie, II. XV Parker of Amherst. Letters of con- Oh! Sukie, I hope you'll never die," in the gratulation were received from Coy. Rice of words, "what shall it profit a man if he gain Massachusetts, Gen. Hawhy. President Angel the whole world and lose his own

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They were walking in the conservatory. The time of some of the winners was as follows

Hurdle race, 120 yards in 19 seconds ; hundred -yard "No one loves me," she said, sadly, glancing dash, 11 seconds; half-mile run, 2.201; one-mile into his eyes with tear-wet lids. "Not so, walk, 8.55 ; one mile run, 4.55:1. Miss Lily," he answered, and she pressed his A Cornell student has pasted up over his mantel- arm ever so lightly, " God loves you." The " piece the motto : Co-education is the thief of time." wretch! Ex. Out in Adrian College, Michigan, they seem to object Modest, lamblike Freshman to Tutor in to co-educatiou on other grounds. The studeuts of that institution consist of " a hundred young men Latin — "Professor, wasn't I conditioned on and women of ages varying from fifteen to forty Cicero?" Tutor — "I believe you were." years," and the Recorder complains that the students — " I'd like to have it changed to Fresh Well, who are forty years old receive the same treatment Latin Grammar, for I'm weakest there." as those who are fifteen. This would seem to be a Tutor subsides.— College Argus. defect in the system of government of Adrian Col-

lege ; aud we agree with the Recorder that, if it can Those ladies who have criticised so not be remedied in any other way, " the children severely the exclusiveness of Harvard College need not be admitted." The Recorder is one of the toward women, would feel their suffering sex few college papers that print continued stories. It avenged could they be daily present at the has two serials running now, neither of which adds to the general interest of the paper. Dean's office, and see the meekness of the average student before the Dean's Secretary, The Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduate Journal is interesting as illustrating the difference a young woman whose office it is to announce between the Euglish ideal of a college paper aud to them their various admonitions and pen- the American ideal. The Undergraduate Journal alties. She seems to enjoy it more than prints every week the sermous preached before, the the}' do. — Woman's Journal. students of the two Universities. It gives accounts of various games and amusements which One of the College boys recently preached the occur from time to time, but in that staid, matter-of-fact his first sermon. As is usual there, a collec- style so characteristic of English journalism. We tion taken After the sermon, just as was up. like the eminently dignified aud respectable toue of the leader was about to commence the class- the paper, but we fear that its circulation among meeting with, " A charge to keep I have," college studeuts would bo wofully small if published the good brother who took up the collection, in America. In a previous issue wo printed an from an address by President H'Cosh of brought the change, a whole handfull, and extract Princeton, in which he said that " in our day the put it in the open hand of the student. As results of the debates of the Union Clubs of Oxford it met his gaze, his ej'es opened wide, his and Cambridge are telegraphed to London", and mouth flew ajar, and he exclaimed, " That's statesmen next morning eagerly tear open their " is business ! Lawrence Collegian. newspapers that they may see what the opinion of young England now, which they are sure will be the opinion of old England five years hence." The EDITORS' TABLE. Undergraduate quotes this from the Orient, and then says :—

" is The Yale Courant contains a sensible argument We confess that all this news to us ; and, as far regards the Oxford Union, it is, if true, calcu- in support of sending examiners from Tale to Chi- as lated to make the officials seriously ill. To think cago, to examine young men in the West who that after all their efforts to suppress the publication would choose Yale as their college, but who do not of debates, the results are regularly telegraphed to wish to incur the expense of coming to New Haven London,— that would be too dreadful. We may beuefit of 'statesmen' who act in for an examination, with the risk of being rejected. add, for the auy the maimer described, that the divisions at the Ox- The athletic contests at Yale this Spring are pro- ford Union do not ueoossarily represent the feeling " nounced a fizzle." Very few atteuded as specta- of the House, as comparatively few members remain tors, and the list of entries was disgracefully small. to record their votes." —

Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JULY 15, 1876. No. 6.

[For the Orient.] seems a great while to look forward to the PARKER CLEAVELAND. sixtieth anniversary of their examination,

but it does not seem so far to us who have a BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. period of similar extent to survey in looking

[Written after revisiting Bowdoin in 1875.] back.

There are only two of us left, however, to Among the many lives that I have known, — None I remember more serene and sweet, do this, that is of my class -the first and the

More rounded in itself, and more complete last,—first and last I mean by the catalogue.

Than his who lies beneath this funeral stone. For I, myself, though the youngest, took m}r These pines that murmur in low monotone, place at once after entering, at the head of These walks frequented by scholastic feet, my class! which position, I am happy to say, Were all his world; but in this calm retreat I have retained unquestioned ever since. I For him the teacher's chair became a throne. remember being very proud of my position With fond affection memory loves to dwell not specially of the order of my name, in On the old days when his example made relation to the names of the rest—but of its A pastime of the toil of tongue and pen; being admitted and formally entered on the And now amid the groves be loved so well next college catalogue, which, according to That naught could lure him from their grateful shade, the custom of the time, was printed on a He sleeps, but wakes elsewhere, for Clod hath said Amen! broad sheet in order to be conveniently pasted up in the students' rooms. "'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE." My class entered college when I was twelve

This phrase was the secondary or subordi- years of age, and I joined it near the end of nate title of Waverley, the first of the cele- the first term, but not until I had passed my brated series of novels by Walter Scott ; at thirteenth birthday. The President's house, least^these novels were greatly celebrated in at the time, was on the college grounds. It the days when the}' first appeared, now about was a spacious and handsome residence, situ- "sixty years since." I remember well the ated on the main street, west of the college great sensation these works created as the buildings, and there was a raised walk leading successive numbers of the series appeared. to it from those buildings and ending in an It seemed then quite a serious act of retro- entrance to the President's study, which was spection that was required of the reader, to in the rear of the house so as to be easily look back sixty years to the time when the accessible to the students. I remember going events narrated in the first volume of the there, in great trepidation, to undergo my series took place. But it does not appear so examination alone, before the President and much tn me, now thai a second period of sixty some of the professors. I am happy to say I years lias elapsed since the book appeared. passed. The time looks comparatively short to the Besides the distinction of having my name human memory that can actually span it. To take precedence of all my classmates, on t lie l he -

to mine, to give the youngest student the life, or with the peace and comfort of the ridiculous name of Putt. Whether this is so instructors, but all was done for fun ! Indeed,

now I do not know ; but it was so then. the fun in a great measure consisted in pro- Putt consequently became my name, and con- ducing these interruptions. This seemed, tinued so until, not very long afterward, a afterwards, to us very strange. When we still younger man than I—if it is proper to consider that the whole object of the college

call a young student in his teens a man— course is to benefit the students themselves, entered the next coming class, and another that all the funds have been contributed and

name, still worse than Putt, was bestowed the toils and privations of the instructors are upon me. borne solely for this end, the attempt on the President Appleton was a very remarkable part of the recipients of these benefits to man. He was tall and extremely dignified amuse themselves by throwing obstacles and in presence and demeanor, and his character difficulties in the way of those whose only —as it was manifested to the students, and wish and aim is to help them along toward indeed to all who knew him—impressed every success in life, seems analagous to the case of one with a very extraordinary degree of a party of boys on a railroad train, bound to respect and veneration. His family consisted a centennial exhibition, or on any other plea- at that time of three daughters, the eldest of sure excursion arranged for their enjoyment whom had then arrived at the maturity of by the company, who should be found, by the maidenly perfection and beautj', and was other passengers, boring a hole through the regarded by all who knew her as the perfect floor of the car over an axle of the truck, in type and symbol of loveliness,—a distinction order to pour down sand or gravel into the

which, if I may judge from a photograph bearing of the wheel,—only for fun ! which I have lately seen in the hands of one One of our exploits in putting gravel into of her intimate friends of those early clays, the working machinery which was running

she still retains. Her younger sisters followed solely for our benefit, consisted in our claim- closely in her steps, in this and in other ing and insisting upon our right to adjourn respects. The second became in due time from the recitation room after waiting five

the wife of one of the most distinguished minutes, if the instructor did not make his professors of the college, to whom circum- appearance at the end of that time,—the stances prevent my alluding here more partic- instructor not admitting that right. My class ularly. The third took her position, some consisted at that time of only seven members years subsequently, at the head of society at —though it was afterwards increased to about Washington, as the wife of the President of twelve—and of these, as we had not then the United States. But these recollections fallen into the stylish and extravagant ways are leading me away from my subject, for it which T understand characterize voung sin- — ! !

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 63 dents of the present clay, only one possessed classmate coming up in the dark, unsuspicious a watch ! We had, moreover, no proper reci- of danger. Indeed, these considerations were, tation rooms at that time, the authorities of in fact, the elements of the fun expected to the college being as little inclined to extrava- be realized gance, in the way of providing general accom- The students of the neighboring rooms, modations for us, as we were personally, on hearing the thundering crash, would rush and we used to meet for recitation in each to their doors to see what was the matter. other's private rooms, in rotation, a week at a They would find the entry solitary and silent, time for each. Accordingly, when, on any for the perpetrators of the mischief would particular occasion, the coming of the tutor have at once slipped back to their own room, was delaj'ed, the owner of the watch was and were deeply engaged in their studies called upon, in some very blunt and inelegant These occurrences soon began to produce manner, to pull out his time-keeper and let a sensation about college. A considerable us know the time. As the minutes passed number of the students thought that rolling on, and no tutor appeared, the excitement logs down stairs in the night, for fun, was increased, until at four minutes and a-half all transcending the legitimate limits of juvenile began to get their hats ready and prepare for joking, and a certain few banded themselves a start. At the instant when five minutes together to put a stop to it. And as any com- was called, we all rushed out and drove pell- bination 'or co-operation of any kind or in any mell up stairs or down stairs, wherever there form, with the authorities, against any portion was the best chance of escape,—but not of the students, was entirely inconsistent witli unfrequently meeting the tutor on the way. college etiquette, as it was understood in those Then would come difficulty and trouble: a days, they determined to take the law into collision with the authorities and much fric- their own hands,—in other words, to abate tion, with shocks and jolts and mutual threats the nuisance by a kind of lynch law.

and defiance, till some time had elapsed, and Now, the extreme penalty ever inflicted, the machinery had worked itself smooth again. or rather talked about-— for it was very sel- The onl}7 excuse we had was that we were dom actually inflicted—by the college lynch not then old enough to understand the folly law of those days, was pumping, as it was

of wilfully hindering a journey made for our called ; that is, holding the delinquent under own benefit alone. the nose of the college pump, and deluging In some cases, however, a certain portion his neck and shoulders with a stream of water. of tlic students had sense enough to see the The confederates in this case determined that principle that was really involved. At a cer- this was the proper due of young men so des- tain time a few rude fellows of one of the perate and reckless, and so regardless of the lower classes introduced the practice of roll- lives of their companions, as to mil heavy logs ing heavy logs down the stairs of one of the down a flight of stairs in the night, when these college buildings, late in the evening,—all for stairs formed the general thoroughfare.

fun, understand ! They were utterly regard- .So they laid their plans in secret, and set

less of tlu' interruption to all their fellow- their watch. ( )ne of the culprits was detected students in the neighboring rooms, the damage in the act, and without any ceremony was

in the college edifice which ii had cost so taken down by two strong and resolute fel- much to build I'm' their own exclusive benefit, lows to the pump, and the sentence which and uf the danger "f breaking tin' limbs, had been previously determined upon was or crushing the life out of some innocent carried into effect. and he was then set at liberty. —

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The news soon spread through the college The successful candidate is entitled to the rooms, and it produced a general and an in- income of the scholarship at six per cent. tense excitement. College divisions usually This will be paid as follows : as soon as the run very much in class lines, and it was so in award is made, $100 ; and through Junior and this case, in the fierce discussions which im- Senior years, $35 at the end of each Fall and mediately sprang up. There was, of course, Winter term, and $30 at the end of each no room for anything like argument or reason- Summer term. Thus it will be seen that the ing on such a question as whether rolling big- Smyth scholar in each class will receive the logs down stairs in the night, in a building generous sum of $300—by far the most valu- crowded with lodgers, was to be tolerated or able prize in College. If scholar dies, or not ; and so, instead of looking at the subject at any time a Smyth as a question of right and wrong, the different loses his class standing, the next in rank will knots and assemblages which gathered here succeed him in the enjoyment of the scholar- and there about the buildings and grounds ship. This secures to each competitor below spent their strength in denunciations, vocif- the successful one a contingent interest in the erations, threats, and fist -shakings. The scholarship, in the order of his rank. excitement, however, gradually passed away, The excess of income above $300 a year but the log-rolling was not resumed. will be set aside as a permanent fund, the

But this is enough of gossip that fe " sixty income of which will be spent in purchasing " books for the College Library, preference years old ! being given to mathematical works. All friends of the College will be pleased THE NEW "SMYTH SCHOLARSHIP." to hear of this generous gift, which, aside

Mr. Henry J. Furber of New York, of the from its pecuniary value, gives evidence of class of '61, has established a scholarship on such intelligent appreciation of the wants of a foundation of $5000 for the encouragement the College. Graduates especially will appre- of mathematical study in the classical depart- ciate the characteristic modesty which has ment. It is understood to be his wish that led Mr. Furber to suppress his own name, and the income of this fund be awarded as a prize make the bestowal of his gift an occasion for on the following basis : pa}'ing a grateful tribute to the honored name Early in the third term of Sophomore year, of Professor Smyth. In so doing he has given the six men who have the best mathematical expression to the feelings of the many who rank from the beginning of Freshman year to look hack with affectionate interest to their the end of second term Sophomore are to be college days under Prof. Smyth. A more admitted to a written examination as a further appropriate form of expression could not have

test of their knowledge. The result of this been chosen ; for this endowment, by stimulat-

examination, counted as a sixth term, is to be ing mathematical study, and by furnishing averaged with the rank of the five preceding means for keeping the College supplied with terms. The student who thus receives the the best and latest mathematical books, will highest average mark obtains the benefit of most efficiently help on the work to which he the scholarship, and is to have his name devoted his life. entered in the catalogue as the " Smyth In view of the increased interest in math- Scholar" of his class; and his five competitors ematical study which it is believed this new are also to be entered, in the order of their scholarship will awaken, the Faculty have rank, as mathematical honor men. decided to add the Calculus to the mathemat- B WD OIN RIENT. 65

ical course of the classical department, making- of development that the ultimate object is it an " elective " in Junior year. It is also forgotten, both mental and spiritual faculties expected that an opportunity will be given for are dwarfed. the stucty of Quaternions as an "optional." Dr. Hill spoke at some length upon the disastrous effects sure to follow the mistake of considering Science a mere recording of the ALUMNI MEETINGS. uniformities of nature, and a condensing of The Alumni Meetings upon Wednesday, those records into the briefest formula of ex- for reasons obvious to all, were not so well pression. For thus a great department of attended as those of last year. In the morn- human learning is divested of much of its ing the Association chose Prof. Egbert C. interest and value, and the character of its Smyth of Andover, President; Hon. W. D. devotees injured to a great degree. Let a

Northend of Salem, Vice President ; and man think himself an accidental result of Prof. H. L. Chapman, Secretary and Treas- blind molecular forces, and he will limit his urer. for th*e Arrangements were made morality to external utility ; and only a nature payment of the interest and the gradual of the finest mould will prevent him from liquidation of the Memorial Hall debt, now bounding his ideas of utility by his own selfish- amounting to $6,835.77. ness and indolence. The difference between At 3 p.m., under the direction of the Mar- the influences which Rome and Athens have shal, Mr. S. C. Boardman,*the usual proces- exerted upon subsequent ages, the orator sion was formed in front of the Chapel, and traced to the opposite views prevalent in marched to the Church. After prayer had those cities, in respect to the sphere of Sci- been offered by the Rev. R. B. Howard, Ex- ence. To guard against the dangers spoken President Hill of Harvard was introduced, of above, the colleges of our land must con- and proceeded to deliver an able and scholarly tinue to give philosophical and historical address. studies the first place in the curriculum. The In opening, he made a graceful acknowl- sciences should by no means be neglected, but edgement of the personal debt of gratitude they ought to come earlier in the course of he had owed for nearly half a century to education. two of Bowdoin's professors, Cleaveland and In conclusion, Dr. Hill expressed the hope Longfellow, and without further introduction, that at Bowdoin the golden mean might be passed to a consideration of the subject of his attained, and that here Science would ever essay, the relations of Science and Philoso- lead to Philosophy, and Philosophy to wisdom

phy, two great divisions of human knowledge ; and integrity. the first concerning itself with time, space, and matter ; while the second deals with the emotions and purposes, not only of man, but The officers of the Bowdoin Engineering also of the Higher Power which created and Association, elected June 24th, are as follows :

rules the universe. President, George W. Tillson ; Vice Presi-

The great danger attending modern edu- dent, Alfred E. Burton ; Secretary, Joseph cation, is the tendency to place Science, the Sewall; Treasurer, James W. Sewall; Asst. handmaid, above l/liilosophy, the mistress. Treasurer, Seward S. Stearns; Executive

Knowledge ol Lli3 laels of nature increases Committee, II. E. Peary, J. W. Sewall, E. C.

the power of thought and expression; but if Metcalf; Auditing Committee, George W. one devote himself so earnestly to these means Tillson, L. H. Reed, A. E. Burton. 66 B0WD01N ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. have changed, there is yet much in common between the Bowdoin of 1816 and the Bow- PUBLISHED EVEET ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- doin of 1876. ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT BOWDOIN COLLEGE, Two or three changes have taken place in the Facult}7 this By the Class of 1877. Commencement. Mr. C. H. Moore resigned the position as Instructor in EDITORS. French and German, which he has acceptably John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, filled for the past two years, and lias been William T. Cobb, George T. Little, elected Instructor in Latin. Prof. A. H. Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, Davis, who has occupied the chair of Latin Charles B. Seabury. during the year, retires ; and also Mr. B. P. Terms—$2.00 a year, in advance; single copies, Mann, who has given instruction in Botany 15 cents. during the Summer Term. The chair of Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, Modern Languages has been filled by the Brunswick, Maine. election of Mr. C. C. Springer, of the Class For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- son's, Brunswick. of '74, as Instructor. Mr. Springer has spent two years in study abroad, and brings to his CONTENTS. work here the highest recommendations, as

Vol. VI., No. 6.—July 15, 1876. well as the best wishes of the students.

Parker Cleav eland Gl Notwithstanding the scorching heat of the

"'Tis Sixty Years Since" 61 r annual Commencement Daj , and which was The New "Smyth Scholarship" 64 unusually severe this year, a -very large Alumni Meetings 65 Editorial Notes 66 audience gathered at the church, on Thurs- Class Day 67 day, to listen to the graduating exercises of

The 'Concert ,-. 69 '76. With this class went into operation the

Prizes Awarded for 1875-6 69 r new rule of the Facult} , by which but ten Local 70 members of the class delivered parts. This The Senior Supper 71 reduced the exercises to a reasonable length, Burial of Analytics 72 Personal 72 and made an imiDrovement over former years. At the close of the orations the sheepskins were distributed, and forty-three fledgelings, EDITORIAL NOTES. liberally educated, were prepared to sing

" With white degrees we'll take our ease, We invite special attention to the opening And he Alumni too." pages of the present Orient, as being of About two hundred alumni, including the peculiar interest to the older graduates of graduating class, sat clown to the dinner Bowdoin. The beautiful tribute to Prof. served in Memorial Hall. Parker Cleaveland, which the venerable Prof. Longfellow has so kindly written for us, will The boys of '76 have joined the great be read with the deepest interest ; while the body of alumni, and the halls of Bowdoin reminiscences of the College life of one who will know them no more as undergraduates. entered Bowdoin just sixty years ago this In behalf of those who remain, and who, dur- summer, show that although many customs ing the past years, have formed some of their BO WD OUT ORIENT. 07 dearest friendships among their number, we We are sorry that this has been so, both on bid them an affectionate farewell. account of the classes themselves, and on By those who knew her members, and account of the influence of their example in who were associated with them through any the future. No occasion of a college course part of their college course, the name of '76 is more thoroughly enjoyed by a class than will not soon be forgotten. It was a class " Freshman supper." It is held just at a time that bad, and justly had, a great deal of self- when are felt the first relief from the insignifi- " respect and class pride. But loyalty to " '76 cance of Freshman, and the first freedom of

T was never allowed to overshadow loyalty to Sophomore, } ear, and is the first purely social Bowdoin, and among few classes have the celebration of the four years. More than this, interests of the College found warmer friends it is to be remembered that while college life and advocates. Not specially noticeable for is quick to cherish a precedent and build it scholarship, it was a class that was foremost into a custom, it is as likely to perpetuate a iii all outdoor college sports, and with '76 we bad custom as a good one ; and it will not take lose some of the best members of the College long, at the present rate of progress, for Fresh- nine, and some of the best material for boat- man supper to become an obsolete observance. ing. It was through the efforts of certain We had hoped better tilings from '79—our members of this class that Field Day became reliance now is on the class of '80. a recognized feature of Bowdoin sports ; and credit is certainly due to the class for reviving the beautiful custom of planting the ivy. CLASS DAY. We shall miss the boys when we re-assemble It has alwa3"s been conceded that the next fall, but we take pleasure; in extending class of '76 possessed the happy faculty of to them the best wishes of all the undergrad- planning and making a success any festive uates of Old Bowdoin. With old Kip Van occasion to which they directed their ener- Winkle we say, "Here's to their health and gies; and thus every one felt that their Class their families ; may they live long and prosper." Day would be characterized by some novel and agreeable features, and that the reputa- Another class has omitted the customary tion of '76 for having a good time would gain supper at the close of Freshman year. The new lustre by this, their final effort. The unfortunate division in '78, too well known to graduating class wisely decided upon the need any explanation at our hands, very thor- Tuesday before commencement day as the oughly destroyed all hope of a harmonious time for their Class-Day exercises, in this dis- class supper with them. '711, profiting by the regarding the example of the two preceding warning example of their predecessors, had a classes. It is needless to say that nothing peaceable election of officers for the occasion, but good resulted from the change of time, and everything promised well until it came and it is to be hoped that coming classes will time tu decide where the supper should lie in this respect follow the course pursued by held. Then a pail of the class wanted In go '76. Of course, the lirst requisite for a Class to Portland, a part to Bath, a part to Lewis- Day on the green is pleasant weather, and in ton, and a part to have it in Brunswick. I'.c- this '76 was fortunate; for tin' skies, blue tween all these conflicting interests, none of and cloudless, looked down upon as faia^a which seemed ready to compromise, the sup- scene as ever graced the campus. Tic seat^ per fell through,—and thus for two years no under the old oak were tilled some time Freshman supper lias been held at Bowdoin. the class assembled; bul the usual 68 B WD OIN ORIENT. monotony of waiting was made agreeable by satisfied, and appreciating the efforts of '76 listening to the strains of Chandler's Band, to contribute to their enjoyment, dispersed to which discoursed its sweetest music and held prepare for the greater exertions and merri- the attention of the otherwise impatient ment which should come in with the evening. audience. Only those who held tickets were Every one was on the tiptoe of expec- allowed within the charmed circle and given tation, as so much had been said about the seats; but a slight railing will shut out neither dance which was to take place at about nine sight or sound, and crowds strolled about the in the evening, and every one had their expec- enclosure, or in groups laid under the old tations more than realized. The "Dance on trees and brought back pleasant memories of Green " was, without exception, the most college days, when for them "life was fresh brilliant affair ever witnessed in Brunswick. and sweet." The decorations were simply superb. The It was truly a lovely picture. The seats lights of hundreds of Chinese lanterns were were filled with ladies and gentlemen, attired blended into sweeping festoons, forming in as only Class Day demands. Fans fluttered outline a "stately pleasure dome," which and waved, while merry talk and jest went seemed to rest upon the columns of the maple the rounds. All faces were bright with trees, while the thick and arching foliage cheerful expectancy. The strains of a fine above formed a most fitting covering to the band filled every one with animation, while whole. Red, blue, green, and orange-colored over all the spreading branches of the old lights danced and swayed around the music- trees gave grateful shade and protection. stand, twinkling and keeping time to the At three o'clock the graduating class swell of a Strauss waltz as gaily as the crowd marched from the chapel to their seats under of dancers themselves. If the lights were the old oak, while those participating in tlie brilliant, the beauty called forth on this literary exercises were assigned places on the occasion was perfectly dazzling. Mothers, platform. sisters, and cousins from all parts of New Of the literary parts it is only necessary England, lent their charms, and the result, as to say that they were fully equal to anything we have said, was almost bewildering. Most given by former classes, and were listened to all the spectators remarked that the scene

with marked attention and silence to the was like fairy-land ; and, indeed, the dancer

close. It is a matter of regret that one part might think so, too, if occasionally he did not which in the past has proved a pleasant feat- hear his fairy-like partner's remark, in a sorry " ure, was this year omitted. We refer to the tone of voice : Oh, dear ! Some one put poem, and think that the majority of college their foot through my trail." men will heartily agree with the historian of Like that famous party at Brussels, when the class in his remarks upon the causes and "The lamps shone o'er fair women," &c, our

results of its omission. After the literary party was interrupted by a sound no less

exercises came the singing of the ode ; then ominous— the sound of rain pattering on the the class, seated upon the grass, waited anx- leaves. Then, indeed, there was hurrying iously for the President to light the famous "in hot haste," and "sudden partings," and pipe of peace. This operation being success- waterproofs and umbrellas were in demand. fully performed, the pipe, gaily decked with Fortunately, the dances were nearly finished the various society colors, was sent its rounds when the rain began to fall. Even though for the farewell smoke. This closed the the ending was sudden and unexpected, and exercises for the day, and the audience, fully the enjoyment cut off when at its height, most — :

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pleasant recollections will always float in greeted, showed that, though somewhat of a one's mind, when, in the future, " Seventy- stranger, she had by no means been forgotten. Six," and their " Dance on the Green " shall be Mr. Whitney certainty merits the leading place mentioned—recollections as sweet as those of that he has gained in his profession. " Three a "Midsummer-Night's Dream" of Shakes- Fishermen," sung as an encore, was wildly peare or of Mendelssohn. applauded. This year the tenor was supported by Mr. W. H. Stockbridge. He appeared but once in solo, and, though warmly encored, THE CONCERT. responded simply with a bow, much to the The Commencement Concert was musi- regret of the audience. The highest compli- cally a success; financially it was probably ment that can be paid is that the attention about as remunerative as those of former of the audience was held to the final note. years. Could Commencement occur a month It is to be regretted that the receipts from earlier it would, doubtless, make a great these concerts are so small, for probably no difference in the attendance here, as well as exercise of Commencement Week requires so at the other exercises ; for the heat at this much labor in the arrangement. The only season of the year is excessive, and no little suggestion that we can make, is to transfer moral courage is required to induce one to sit the selling of tickets to other hands. '76 has for two hours in a close church. However, spared neither labor or expense in carrying- the audience was fair in numbers and very out any project she has undertaken, and vn&y appreciative. The programme was one of the justly feel a pride in this part of her Com- best ever presented to a Brunswick audience, mencement Week. representing the finest musical talent of the country. PRIZES AWARDED FOR 1875-6. The Philharmonic is too well known to Class of 1868 Prize. need even a mention. The selections were in John Adams Morrill. Subject of Oration remarkably good taste. Harmony was not "The Origin of American Institutions." sacrificed to execution, but the two were so excellently blended as to be fully appreciated English Essays. by all. The audience was not dashed from First Prizes—John Adams Morrill. Sub-

the sublimity of music to the mere mechanical ject : "The Origin of American Institutions." " level,— a very agreeable though rather a rare Charles Sargent. Subject : The Philoso- featureof concerts of this kind. Any attempt phy of Our Government." on our part to criticise would be indeed absurd, Second Prizes — Arlo Bates. Subject: and we only mention the more noticeable " Methods of Criticism." Charles Taylor parts. Miss Cary was somewhat more quiet Hawes. Subject: "Truth." in manner than usual. Being obliged to EXTEMPOKAXKOI FS ENGLISH COMPOSITION. appear so frequently, she could not respond First Prize —Frank Asa Mitchell. Sub- to all the numerous encores she received. " ject : The Obligation of Rank." Consequently the audience missed those tender Second Prize — William Titcomb Cobb. songs which she always sings with so much Subject: "The Obligation of Bank." pathos. In response to one, however, she sang "Comiif thro' the Rye," one of the JUNIOH DECLAM \ 1 hi\. finest treats of the evening. first Prize—John Alfred Roberts. Selec- " " The warmth with which Mrs. Smith was tion : Charles Sunnier Curtis. ! — — — ;

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Second Prize—Robert Edwin Peary. Se- Only ten men delivered Commencement " lection : " Jo's Death Dickens. Parts. The rest looked on. The togas gave tone the affair. Sophomore Greek Prize. to Otis Ward Garland. Honorable mention, The game of ball between the Bates and Barrett Potter. Bowdoins resulted in favor of the latter by a score of four to three. Sophomore Latin Prize. During an exhibition Thomas Moses Pray. Honorable mention, Commencement Week of ball took place between the Electrics Barrett Potter. game of Brunswick and the College Nine. Sophomore Declamation. A gentleman of '79 remarks that you can First Prize—Samuel Emerson Smith. Se- tell at a glance the men of '80, they are so '' lection : " The Roman Soldier Atherstone. green. One clay makes a great difference. Second Prize—George Colby Purington. Selection: "Toussaint L'Ouverture" Phil- The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon lips. Dr. David Humphreys Storer of Boston. The Brown Memoriae Scholarships. degree of A.M. upon Prof. G. L. Vose, Rev. Albert Cole, and Dr. Yorick G. Hurd. Class of '76—Franklin Conant Payson. Class of '77—Robert Edwin Peary. Class of As most of the colleges are in the midst '78—Alfred Edgar Burton. Class of '79— of their summer vacations when this number

Holmes Boardman Fifield. of the Orient is issued, it is not mailed to our exchanges until the beginning of the Fall Term. LOCAL. Both the Sophomore and Junior Prize Nearly all of '56 were in town this year. Declamations were unusually good this year, and we regret that we have not space to give Not so many visitors as usual during Com- mencement. them suitable notice. The award of prizes will be found in another column. Not many students are obliged to study The Phi Beta Kappa Society held its this summer. annual meeting at nine o'clock, Friday morn- We shall all miss Brunswick that is, in — ing. The following members of the class of conversation. '76 were initiated : C. S. Andrews, A. Bates, It is a good plan to pay your bills before C. H. Clark, J. G. Libby, J. A. Morrill, F. C. leaving town. Payson, W. A. Bobinson, A. H. Sabin, O. C. Stevens, W. G. Waitt. A '79 man says that fishing affects his nerves. Poor fellow '77 has been unfortunate in her programmes

The graduating class had their farewell thus far. Only a hundred were printed for supper at the Falmouth. the " Burial of Anna Lytics," and they were, therefore, so scarce as to command almost Forty-one men were in at the first exam- fabulous prices among memorabilia hunters ation, and thirty-eight were admitted. and there were not more than half enough The present Sophomores will be likely to for the Junior Declamation, Commencement have their hands full in managing the class Week. What they have lacked in quantity, of '80. however, they have made up in quality. — : :

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THE SENIOR SUPPER. The Faculty : " These were our teachers ; who can feel surprise The 4.40 train for Portland, on Friday That from their care we hare emerged so wise." afternoon, carried a most jolly crowd to the Responded to by H. E. Hall. Class Supper of '70. About thirty members The Red: of the class were in the cars, and the other " Red is the maiden's mouth, passengers were, according to their tempera- And thus to all 'tis kuowu ments, disgusted or amused by the college That when we sip the maiden's lip songs, the jokes. Swiss warbles, and various We only take our own." amusements in which the newly made Alumni Responded to by O. C. Stevens. indulged. Our Absent Members The supper, which was held at the Fal- "Tho' parted, we are no less one." mouth Hotel, was served at a quarter after- Responded to by G. F. Pratt. eight. It was preceded by a class meeting The Classical Department : for the transaction of business. The follow- " " ing officers were elected for a term of three Hark to their hoofs as they galloping go ! years: President, A. E. Andrews; 1st Vice Responded to by C. H. Clark.

President, E. H. Kimball ; 2d Vice President, The Scientific Department :

0. C. Stevens ; Secretary, F. C. Payson ; Treas- " Engineered through life by their own knowledge, and urer, Bion Wilson ; Committee of Arrange- led into the hereafter lw right angles." ments, Arthur T. Parker, W. Alden, C. Wliit- Responded to by E. B. Neweomb. temore. The Undergraduates : The class oars were given to the boys who "ifature has framed strange fellows in her day." used them in the race of last Fall ; and $25 Responded to by C. S. Andrews. voted for a cup for the first baby born to the class. Our Coming Glories: " The supper was excellent, both in kind Footprints on the sands of time." and quality, and was well served. Ample Responded to by J. A. Mori-ill. justice was done to the viands, but this did Base-Ball not prevent a running fire of mirth and wit. " There is no luck for steadfast men The class of "66 were celebrating their decen- Who bend Fate's will to their's. nial in the House, and '76 sent them congrat- Responded to by A. Sanford. ulations, wishing them many happy returns of Boating : the day. "66, in return, cordially welcomed "Xol what men gain, but what they do the newly graduated class to the body of the Glives them their place and worth." A lumni of Bowdoin. Responded to by F. C. Payson. The supper was unfortunately shortened The Ladies of Brunswick: by the departure of some of the boys on the " Fair, sweet, and unforgiving."

1 1.20 (rain, and with hearty I ml sad farewells Responded to by W. • . t- Love : The following are the toasts, Arlu Bates " I love, I love, I oarfl not what the world nuv say." being Toasl Master for the evening: Responded to by W. Alden.

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"Motherand Goddess." Some say it was luck that carried them Responded to by A. T. Parker. through the examinations. —

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BURIAL OF ANALYTICS. such an occasion, and we regret to record the her Again has the oft-dying Anna gone to her fact that '78, seemingly unmindful of music with transient rest. The 5th of July witnessed bereavement, accompanied the her departure, and in the evening of the same the words : day, with commendable promptness, the class " Fling out the brave old banner, boys,'' etc. of '78 assembled in mourning habiliments to We merely mention this as a warning to pay the last sad rites to the beloved remains. coming classes not to "go and do likewise." Keeping time to the mournful strains of the The programme, a unique and original affair, "Dead March," the funeral cortege moved was printed by Tenney of the Telegraph. slowly down Chapel Avenue to Main Street, following the printed order, and followed by an admiring multitude, who made the asinine PERSONAL. part of the procession (we do not refer to the members of the class) objects of marked [We earnestly request contributions for this department from the Alumni and friends of the attention. But the staid old mules, mindful College.] of the solemnity of the occasion, paid a sub- figured largely at the lime disregard to the harmless torpedoes that Bowdoin men Dem- were cracking about their flanks, and wagged ocratic State Convention, held at Bangor, of '39 was nominated their ears in sober silence. Halting for a June 13. J. C. Talbot Titcomb of '43, and C. moment at No. — Potter Street, for reasons for Governor, and J. '51, nominated for Elec- best known to themselves, the procession W. Roberts of were J. Goodwin of '44 was returned to the Campus, and under the tors at large. M. candidate for spreading branches of the " Old Oak," listened prominently mentioned as a but declined to allow his name to to the touching stanzas of the Elegy by Mr. Governor, Parris, formerly of '71, was Felch, and to an eloquent recital of Anna's be used. P. J. Secretaries. J. B. Redman of '70, many virtues by the Eulogist, Mr. Burton. one of the delegates the We noticed with compassion the evident was selected as one of the to National Convention from the 5th sorrow of the Prineeps Plorator, who also bore St. Louis Congressional District. In attendance, also, the insignia of the Feror Fakiris. At every delegates, were Bion Bradbury of '30, C. allusion, direct or indirect, to " cara Anna," as Spofford of '46, C. B. Merrill of '47, H. his welling tears and lugubrious howls bore A. Fairfield and E. Eastman of '57, C. E. Mor- ample testimony to the intense grief of which rill and C. G. Haines of '61, R. D. Woodman his whole countenance was indicative. But of '66, G. T. Sewall of '67, F. E. Hitchcock the saddest of all was yet to come. Beneath '68, E. P. Payson of '69, and E. F. Red- the shadow of the " whispering pines," near of '70 '53, man of ; while M. Emery of P. J. her former graven, after the priestly lament of and J. Curtis of '75, represented Mr. Fessenden, with renewed howls and wail- Parris W. the editorial fraternity. ing, the Diaboli Ignes " touched her off," and '61. amid the fire and smoke of three tar barrels, —From The Horning Star, Wilming- her soul (we hope she had one) departed to ton, N. C, of June 11th, we learn that Gen. sheriff that bourne whence no traveler is said to S. H. Manning was re-nominated as return. of the county, at the Republican County We feel called upon to state here our Convention. This is but one of many posi- sense of the utter impropriety of the band tions of trust which Gen. Manning lias re- playing "Marching through Georgia" upon ceived from his party. ! ; ;: "

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THEOCRITUS. Some oue of them shall exclaim "Though this gift was small and trivial, Distaff. (28th Idyl.) The It was prized, through gratitude

Come, distaff, friend of spinners — For the value counts for nothing, Gift of Atbeua, blue-eyed, By the eyes of Friendship viewed ! To the women ever busy, C. Anxious, household cares to guide — Come with me to Xeleus' city, Gleaming with the burnished gold, DISCOVERY AND INVENTION. And the verdant fane of Venus All discoveries may be divided into two 'Mid the graceful reeds behold! general classes : those which have a direct Let us ask a voyage propitious bearing Of great Zens, in storm -clouds clad, on the every-day life of humanity, That with joy my old friend Nicias and those which merely add to speculative I may gladden, be glad, and knowledge without directly affecting human Drinking in my Nicias' friendship — interests. As an example of the first class, Sleias, the sacred child Of the Graces, poets' muses, we may take the invention of steam power,

Blessed with voices sweet and mild; or rather, as the power of steam is co-existent And that I may place you, distaff, with steam itself, the invention of methods of "Wrought of ivory with much care, utilizing In the hands of Ni'cias' good wife — steam power so as to apply it to prac- Chosen gift for woman fair tical purposes in performing labors which had In her deft and taper fingers, hitherto been incumbent upon the unassisted You shall make for men's rough wear strength of man. Many cloaks, and, for the maideus,

Kobes as light and thin as air. As an example of the second class, the Twice a year, iu fragrant meadows, discovery of the satellites of Jupiter, and Ought the sheep to yield their wool their motions relative to the orbit of the For the use of fair Theugenis, (She with ankles beautiful,) planet. Although this discovery offered a She is such a busy housewife very strong argument, from analogy, for the And to send you forth — I would not, Copernican system of the universe, and is of Into idle, lazy households, some importance in determining difference of From our house, our home — I could not! For by Corinth was your city longitude, it affects very little the interests of Planted — small the seed was then, society, and may lie regarded as a fair exam- But it's now the heart of Sicily, ple of the second class. Famed for able, learned men. Surely now a good man's dwelling There can be no doubt that the utility of Ton shall hold, famed for his skill the former discovery exceeds that of the lat- In the curing of diseases ter ; for, while the invention of the steam And the warding off of ill. engine has, or will affect directly and indi- You shall dwell at lair Miletus; And the people all shall own rectly the fortune of the majority of the peo- That Theugenis with her distal)' ple of all nations, outside of astronomers Is tin' loveliest spinner known, there are very lew who care in the remotest And forever shall remembrance degree whether Jupiter is called a star or ill' I he guest and sung remain: a Ami, beholding yon, mv distaff, planet. It s tint affeoi in the lpn

fluence in the solar system, whether it is there are found numberless people ready to known to be a planet or not; the fact is devote themselves to these sciences. unchanged. Though Darwin may prove his theory of Notwithstanding the above, we are not natural selection by arguments which will con- sure that a majority of the educated classes vince the most incredulous of opposing scien- would not prefer the fame arising from the tists, it will not in the least change the fact, that discovery of a new planet, to that of the in- man is gifted with qualities which no other ani-

ventor of the steam engine. We are thus mal possesses ; that he is endowed with reason, prone to consider the searching out of the and is accordingly responsible to Him who laws which govern the motions of the most gave him reason, for his actions ; that he is distant of the starry spheres as capable of giv- connected by indissoluble social ties with his ing more renown than the discerning of some- fellows, and that he has moral capabilities, thing which shall affect immediately human which, unless trained to a higher conception interests. We attempt ambitiously to meas- of social duties, will lead him wrong. ure the remote movements of the spheres and He who lifts up fellow-man to a higher to note their imagined music, before we have level, inculcates in him a clearer perception brought order or harmony into the daily of right and wrong, and in any way elevates

course of our own lives. the social and moral attributes of men, is Notwithstanding our habitual reverence doing more real good to humanity, than Dar- for those who wander off into metaphysical win in showing that the only difference and theoretical speculations, whither our own between man and monkey is caused only by a process of natural selection. ambition would lead us rather than into cal- culations how we can best elevate and alleviate We do not wish to be understood as con- veying the condition of mankind, yet there can be the idea that astronomical calculations can be dispensed no doubt that, in general, man is so practical with with no particular det- riment to in an animal, that if even the accurate and curi- humanity general, or that the researches of Mr. Darwin have been in vain ously verified physical sciences of these latter ; for days were as destitute of social applications, we most heartily believe that whatever tends to raise the veil and as barren of practical results, as Greek of ignorance or drive science was in the days of Socrates, nine hun- away false hypotheses and establish true laws dred and ninety-nine out of every thousand in their place, has a direct tendency to give a truer sense of the of those who now delight to dabble in chem- man infinite power and goodness of the Creator, try and geology would leave these interesting- to increase the range of his sciences to the few men of a purely specula- mind, and to give to each a clearer understanding of his dependence tive character, with whom knowledge is loved upon God for itself. and his fellow-man, and to render him more ready to give to every one his due and to God But when by geology we are enabled to a more perfect reverence. But we would unearth coal and the precious metals, and to express the opinion that while both are wor- determine where to sink wells with far greater thy of the highest praise, the inventor of any- certainty than by the mediaeval magic of the thing which is of immediate use in improving apple-tree branch ; and when, by chemistry, the physical condition of men, or he who by we improve our stores, bleach our clothes, precept and example leads men to a higher purify our infected chambers and streets, and morality and more cheerful performance of dye our clothes with hues of which the most duty, is more worthy of honor than the mere celebrated of ancient dyers never dreamed. speculative philosopher. BOWDOIN ORIENT. 75

FOOT -BALL. Again they were repulsed, .and at the close of As a general thing there is but little need the fifteenth rush were dangerously near the of giving anything more than a brief mention hedge marking their boundary line. The to the annual game of foot-ball ; but this year excitement was now at its height. The the game was so long and pluckily contested crowd seemed to have entered fully into the on both sides, that it is seemingly worthy of spirit of the players, and cheered first the something more than a mere notice. Sophs and then the Freshmen, when either The Freshmen, because of their superior made a good \Aaj or showed particular skill. number, were conceded by all to be the prob- After a short rest the players were again

able victors of the match ; and they, being called to take their positions. aware of their great advantage, seemingly This was in one respect the crisis of the anticipated an easy victory. The Sophomores game. The Sophs were within twenty feet of numbered but twent}^ men, and although hav- their goal, and if '80 could obtain the first ing the advantage of an experience, and actu- kick, the game would be virtually over. The ated by motives arising from college customs, Sophomores saw this, and resolved to make a and the dislike of being defeated by Fresh- hard struggle. As the ball was thrown up men, yet no one expected from them such for the sixteenth time, Byron, '79, knocked it stubborn resistance and good pluck as they to the Freshmen, who forced it to one side. manifested during the whole of the game. It It was here met by a Sophomore, who by a was plain that the sympathies of the specta- well-directed kick sent it over the heads of tors were with '79, not so much from the fact the Freshmen, and as the sides were now in of their being Sophomores, as from a prece- close contact, the Sophomores seized their dent impression that they were working under opportunity, and, fighting their way through heavier odds than the Freshmen, and conse- the crowd, endeavored to get behind the ball quently stood in need of encouragement. and obtain possession of it before the Fresh- The game was of unusual length, and as there men could recover and turn. In this they

were in all thirty rushes, it is of course impos- would have been successful, had it not been sible to give an account of the game in detail. for one Freshman who before had made sev- The Sophomores gained ground the first two eral fine plays. He being behind the rest of his rushes, which fact was probably clue to the class was just in time to save the ball and turn

Freshmen being modest, and not daring to put it back to where his men were fighting. Here

forth their best efforts. When the ball was it was retained for a while and kept in close tossed for the third time, '70 had pressed '80 quarters. The Sophomores had in the mean- back some distance towards their goal, but at time gained considerable ground, and were the rush '80 seemed to wake up, and before trying to foul the ball. They finally succeed- the ball was fouled had recovered their lost ed in doing this, and the rush resulted in the ground and something more. For the next Sophomores once more taking their position in few rushes hut little was gained by either side, the middle of the grounds. This was by all

and then it became evident that '79 was slow- odds the most exciting portion of the game. ly being pushed back, lighting every inch of In the succeeding rushes the Freshmen slowly the way, but overpowered by numbers. The gained ground, and at the thirtieth rush the Sophomores gained ground by foulingthe ball ball was kicked by Call over the Sophomore by a pick-up, and, after some hard fighting, goal, thus giving the game to the Freshmen. fouled the ball at the side of the ground and Referee: Crocker, 77. Judges: For the Sopho-

mores Potter, 78 ; For the Freshmen— Burleigh, came back to almost their first position. 78. 76 B WD OIN ORIENT.

members of the institution. editors are Bowdoin Orient. The compelled to do all the work and run all risk

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By the Class of 1877. lecting at present, makes it more than usually desirable for every member of College, who EDITORS. can possibly afford it, to subscribe for the John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, Orient this year, and pay for it. Unless William T. Cobb, George T. Little, Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, there is a marked increase in our subscription Charles B. Seabury. list there will be a deficit of no inconsiderable amount for the editors to meet at the end of Teems—$2.00 a year, in advance; single copies, the year. 15 cents. Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, Brunswick, Maine. We would ask the attention of the Alumni Griffin's Denni- For sale at Charles and B. G. fro the notice in our advertising columns rela- son's, Brunswick. tive to Dr. Hill's address at the last Com- mencement. The title of the address — " Phil- CONTENTS. osophy Higher than Science"— reveals the

Vol. VI., No. 7—October 18, 1876. subject, which, it is needless to say to those who know Dr. Hill, was treated in a most Theocritus 73 able and eloquent manner. Especially do we Discovery and Invention 73 that the address, touching as it does Foot-Ball 75 hope Editorial Notes 76 upon a subject which is now engaging their Delta Kappa Epsilou Convention 78 attention, will be read by every member of Local 79 the Senior class. The separate provinces of Personal ,. .... 81 Philosophy and Science and their mutual de-

Editors' Table , . . . , 82 pendence and relations are so clearly pre-

sented and illustrated that it forms an invalu- EDITORIAL NOTES. able auxiliary to the text-books used. We are, confident that the wisdom and generosity The present number of the Orient is sent of the Portland Alumni who have published to every member of the Freshman class, and, the pamphlet, will be appreciated by all who

unless special notice is given to the Business read it. Editor, the names will be placed on the sub- scription list. We would also urge upon Omitting field-day in the Fall seems to us the consideration of the upper classes their a wise step. Perhaps the method the Ath-

duty in this respect. The editors do not letic Association has adopted of allowing it

undertake the work for literary distinction, as to go by default instead of voting to omit it

you well know, and certainly not for pecun- is not commendable, but even this is better " iary advantage. There's no money in it." than to try to hold a field-day under the cir- Carried on as it is simply and solely to sustain cumstances. It appears to be settled that our

the reputation of the College in this respect, Fall Term is not hereafter to begin much

it certainly deserves the support of the active before the first of October, and this allows BOWBOW ORIENT. 77 but three or four weeks that can be safely practiced by both this Fall. It certainly does reckoned on as affording at all suitable not seem right that a single player should weather for these contests. During the first have the power of bringing the game to a two weeks the attention of most of the stu- standstill by simply picking up the ball and

dents is taken np with other business than holding it a moment. It is true that neither

preparing for a field-day, and hence it could be side gained materially by the rule, but a case

little more than an impromptu affair at best. is easily possible when it might bring the The Fall meetings have already been aban- game to a result very unjust to the better side. doned by several colleges for these same rea-

sons. But if we are to have only one field- A new class is with us ; new faces meet us

day a year, it will give us all the better oppor- in the chapel, on the walks, and in the dormi- tunity and stimulus to make that a good one. tories, around which cluster the memories and associations of former occupants. To the The annual game of foot-ball two weeks gentlemen of the class of '80 we wish to offer ago, of which a detailed account will be a word of friendly advice. It is not in regard found in another column, seems to raise two to their studies. Personal experience leads or three pertinent questions. One of these us to believe that they will from time to time

is, Why should not foot-ball be elevated to a be suitably admonished by their instructors as more prominent position among college sports to the danger of over-work and too close con-

at Bowdoin'? It is a game which during the finement to their books. It regards rather last few years has been steadily growing in what we may call the social or public charac- favor with American students, and there ter of the class. it will not take them now j For

are few colleges of importance that have not ', long to learn that reciting three times a day

their regular^ drilled and organized foot-ball ' and attending chapel is only one part and elevens. It affords active exercise to a larger phase of the educational life they have number than base-ball, and, when properly entered. Every class that comes to college j played, is almost as valuable a trainer of the forms for itself, during the course, a character

physical powers. It is perhaps too late to do just as marked and positive as that of an indi-

much this season, but we hope next Spring to vidual. It is of course the aggregate of the see a club organized that can contend with characters and tendencies of its members, but

some of our sister colleges with credit to the in its turn it reacts with triple power upon j

White. The material is here it is the " life of each member. And so we — go j the college ahead" that is needed. would urge upon the men of '80 the impor-

allied to this, is tone Closely the revision of i tance of building up a manly and worthy

the rules under which the is are not of those game played. i of class sentiment. We who

It would be more correct to say the formation sneer at class feeling. We believe it is worth \

of some rules, for foot-ball at Bowdoin is a great deal to a man to belong to a class he

played according to tradition. Not a line is is proud of. And we believe it is every man's

in existence directing or regulating the ; duty to labor as earnestly as at his studies in

annual match. The memory of successive '. his efforts to make his class the class of college. classes, and their inventiveness in extempor- Be public-spirited. Support willingly and izing rules, are the sole authority. As a con- generously the Associations already in exist-

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secpuence new features, and sometimes bad ' ence, and the various projects that will arise

ones, creep in from time to time. Among the ' for class and college advantage. Remember hitter was the fouling which was persistently that the credit and reputation of the college —

78 B WD OIN ORIENT. are largely in the keeping of its undergradu- The delegates assembled at 10 a.m., in the ates, and that of them you are a part. But hall of the Epsilon Chapter, and were called above and beyond all, avoid a wrangle in to order by S. S. Rogers of Williams College. class elections. We are sorry and disap- W. A. Wood took the President's chair, ar.d pointed to see, as we have seen within a year W. J. Ray was appointed Secretary. After or two, a class start out upon its career with organizing, but little business was accom- a wretched squabble over offices. We do not plished in the forenoon session. say that a feud of this sort will spoil a class, The afternooon and evening were devoted but we do say that it will turn the chances to business of a private nature,—the evening- against unity and harmony in its future, and session being especially interesting, discussions the preservation of class unity is of vastly arising which enlisted the attention of every greater importance than the satisfaction of delegate present. At a late hour the first some man's ambition. We are looking for- day's meeting was adjourned. ward to a time when Freshmen shall come to At 10 o'clock Thursday morning, the bus- college with the sentiment that an office iness of the convention was resumed. A gained by chicanery and intrigue is an office charter was granted to found a new Chapter stripped of its honor, empt}' and barren of at Oakland College, California; and Col. John significance. If it seem that we have dwelt A. Cockerell of Cincinnati, editor of the upon loyalty to the class to the exclusion of Cincinnati Enquirer, was elected an honorary college loyalty, Ave have only to say experi- member of the society. ence shows that the class whicli is true to In the afternoon the delegates went on an itself is always the class which is true to the excursion to the Hoosac Tunnel, Berkshire college—always the class which does the most Hills, and various other places of interest in for the fair name and standing of its Alma Mater. the vicinity of Williamstown. The afternoon This and other good advice which may was a little cloudy and unfavorable for the appear in our columns from time to time is ride, but the boys were in high glee and the furnished to the Freshmen without extra occasion was truly enjoyable. charge, " and solely in consequence of our Public exercises took place in the church, belief" in these thino-s. Thursday evening. At 7.30 p.m. the proces- sion, headed by Doring's Band, formed in front of the Mansion House, and proceeded DELTA KAPPA EPSILON CONVEN- to the church, where a very able address was TION. delivered by the President of the meeting, The thirtieth annual convention of the Hon. James W. Barker of Pittsfield. At the J. K. E. Fraternity was held on October 4th close of the address, the President introduced and 5th, with the Epsilon Chapter at Williams Col. Latham Strong of Troy, N. Y., who read College. Delegates were present from Yale, a very beautiful and touching poem, entitled Bowdoin, Colby, Amherst, Brown, University "Looking Backward through the Gates." of Mississippi, Miami, Middlebury, Michigan The orator of the evening, Hon. Samuel F. University, College of the City of New York, Hunt of Cincinnati, was next introduced. Hamilton, Madison, Lafayette, Rochester, Mr. Hunt, a graduate of Miami University Rutgers, Indiana Asbury Institute, Wesleyan, a young man of superior talents, who had Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Western distinguished himself during the convention Reserve, Cornell, Universit}'- of Chicago, —was greeted with loud applause. He held and Syracuse University Chapters. the attention of an appreciative audience for BO WD OUT ORIENT. 79

nearly an hour, treating his subject—Scholar- serenade. When the music ceased, President ship and Country—in a most scholarly man- Chadbourne, a venerable looking old gentle- ner, scouting the idea that politics is incom- man, appeared at the door and greeted the patible with refinement and culture, earnestly boys with a short speech, expressing his

r recommending that the educated 3 oung men opinion in favor of college secret societies, of the present day do not shrink from politics, stating that in his experience he had found deterred by the abuse which political aspir- them an advantage rather than a disadvantage

ants suffer, but, like the Spartan youths, place to the discipline of Williams College ; then

country first, and see to it that public affairs thanking the boys for their mark of attention are administered by wise, intelligent, and he bade them good night. The procession educated men. The orator, whose delivery then proceeded to the Mansion House, when, was natural and graceful, sat down in a burst after a brief concert by the band, a sumptuous of applause. At the close of the exercises, banquet was served. It seems unnecessary

the delegates, who occupied seats in the front to describe this feast, it was so much like all of the church, rose and sang, in the air similar occasions. Everybody, delegates and " America," the following song ; — Alumni, were in the best of humor and re-

" Our brotherhood, to thee, tired well pleased with the hospitable reception

Our glorious J. A'. E., they had received from the Epsilon Chapter. Our song we raise; From all our glorious land TV'e ooine, a brother baud, United heart and hand, LOCAL. To chant thy praise.

"Sons of old A.K.E.. Gentlemen, I am no gymnast! Earth's true nobility, Receive our song. The Freshman Class numbers forty-seven. Teachers are in onr band, decline in coal didn't strike There poets, statesmen stand, The Brunswick. And holy men command The Sophomores complain of having the Truth to prolong. ear-ache. " Hearts linked in warmest clasp, Didn't you always think - Hands bound in firmest grasp, this was } our Hold we our way. eyebrow ? Increased prosperity, The noblest destiny The Seniors are losing flesh by hard work Fur onr Fraternity, in the Gymnasium. Oh God, we pray. The average Freshman is troubled with a " Long live its glorious fame, vast expanse of face. Ami may its honored name Exalted be. It isn't good taste to ask a man if he has Let all its sons unite been to the Centennial. In apreadiug far its might, While floats in dazzling light, J. Scwall and J. T. Davidson of '78 have lis banner free." received an election to '/'. )'. The exercises in the chinch having been A member of the Faculty invariably spells completed, the procession again formed in division wilh an e. Vim can't lose him. front of the church. On their way to the hotel the delegates hailed before the Presi- Phil lias set up for himself a good place dent's house while the band gave a brief to square up a few of those election bets. —

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A Senior and two Juniors are on the look- The list of prizes in our Commencement out for a Freshman with a bucket of cider. number requires one correction. The Brown Memorial Scholarship in the class of 1879 Mr. C. C. Springer, '74, is instructing the was awarded to Mr. Frank S. Corey of Port- Junior and Sophomore classes in Modern land. Languages. Mr. Leslie A. Lee, a graduate of St. A long member of '80 saved the reputation Lawrence University, and for the past few of his class by coming into prayers after the years Instructor of Natural Sciences in Dean doors were closed. Academy, Franklin, Mass., fills the chair A Freshman thinks that large pile of cord- formerly occupied by Prof. C. A. White. wood ought to have a card stuck up over it In the good old times, after a Freshman with the inscription, " Take one." had been " put through," he was put to bed It has been proved beyond the shadow of and told to make no back talk. Now, how- a doubt that a Freshman can't climb a door ever, the Freshman politely lights his visitors while two Sophomores hold his legs. down stairs, and is seemingly grieved when The Freshmen pay cash for second-hand refused permission to see the rest of the fun. books. They are not old enough to appreciate A Freshman was observed intently exam- the advantages of the credit system. ining the plan of a cemetery on exhibition at The room rents are lower than last year, the Post Office. A student asked him what and as a natural result the College Dormitories he was doing, and the verdant youth serenely assume, once more, a lively appearance. informed him that as he supposed this was a

During the first two weeks of the term, a plan of the College buildings, he was select- the only way to find Mr. Booker was to begin ing a good room. No bouquets. picking the flowers in front of Massachusetts. Recitation in Political Economy. Presi- — Mr. B., far do Scene in recitation room. Prof.—" Please dent. " how you agree with the statement of Dr. Walker that 'labor is mention an example of the elevated style of always irksome '? " Mr. B.— poetry." Freshman.—" Bunyan's Pilgrim's "I agree with Progress." him fully." Slight applause. President. " People of physical health and sound mind, A Freshman was saved trouble by coming don't usually think so." An audible smile " out with the following : Gentlemen, as I am from the class. a Democrat I suppose that is the reason why a mass meeting of students held you haze me." Lights out. At on Friday, the 6th inst., in the chapel, J. M. A grave Senior having business with the Burleigh was unanimously elected Captain Treasurer, was politely asked by him if he of the College Crew. It was voted to ratify was a member of the Freshman Class. The the previous action of the Boating Association Senior stepped out in search of a club. relative to withdrawing from the Inter-Col- The officers of the Bowdoin Rowing legiate Association, and favoring the formation Association for the ensuing year are as fol- of a New England Association. The question lows: Commodore, Crocker; Vice Commo- of sending a crew to the next regatta was dore, Burleigh ; Secretary, Felch : Assistant considered, after which the meeting voted to

Treasurer, Paine ; Directors, Brinkerhoff, send a crew if possible, and expressed itself Mitchell, Baker. in favor of four-oared shells. —— p —

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The following members of '80 have been '29.—Francis Brown Robie, eldest son of pledged to secret societies : the late Tappan Robie of Gorham, died Oct. 8th, of softening of the brain. For over A. J. . W. S. Dane, IT. B. Hathaway, forty years he had suffered from blindness X. W. Emerson, W. P. Martin, caused by the premature explosion of a small F. Goulding, T. H. Riley. '/'. )'. quantity of fulminate of silver, which he had W. A. Burleigh, .T. S. Jameson, prepared as a chemical experiment. W. T. Call, W. W. Northend, '34. Call died in Lewiston, H. W. Griudal, J. C. F. Upton, —Hamilton M. C. M. Hay, H. B. Wilson, Sept. 12, at the age of 72 years and 9 months. G. L. Weil. After graduating he spent fifteen years in the J. K. E, West, teaching. He then returned to this F. 0. Conant, G. S. Payson, F. Cony, J. E. Preston, State, and opened a law office in Dresden, E. G. Spring, H. R. Given, where he continued to practice his profession F. W. Hall, W. S. Whitmoro, '75. D. L. Morrill, V. C. Wilson. until the Spring of '/. '/'. '40.—-Rev. Edward Robie received the C. E. Burbank, W. P. Ferguson, degree of D.D. from Dartmouth College at its F. F. Coffin, T. F. Jones, R. L. Swett. last commencement. Dr. Robie is preaching

J. X. at Greenland, N. H. E. W. Bartlett, J. F. Libby, '50.—Hon. Wm. P. Frye was re-elected as A. M. Edwards, W. P. Perkins, Representative to Congress from the Second A. H. Harding H. A. Wing, Franklin Winter. District by a majority of three thousand. Mr. Frye has already served several terms in The following resolutions of the class of the House, and took an active and prominent '75, were received too late for insertion in part in the proceedings of the last Congress. our Commencement number: '54.—We see it stated that Hon. Warren Brunswick, July 13, 1876. Johnson has resigned the office of State Whereas, It has pleased God in his infinite wis- Superintendent of Common Schools, to accept dom to take from us our beloved classmato aiid friend, John Jay Bradley, the position of Superintendent of Schools for Resolved, That we recognized in him qualities the city of Newton, Mass. Mr. Johnson, in which endeared him to us, and led us to see in him of opposition, has done a good a youth of generous emotions, fine intellect and the face much sterling integrity. work for our public schools during the eight Resolved, That we sincerely deplore his death, in which he has been at the head of the and deeply sympathize with the relatives and friends years in this the hour of their affliction. educational department of the State. He G. R. Swaskv, has proved himself an energetic laborer in the ('. II. Wells, Myi.ks Standish, cause of public education, and his removal Committee fir the Class 1875. of from the State will be regretted by all the friends of our common schools. Portland PERSONAL. Transcript. ;,,">. —Mr. S. R. Crocker, Editor of the [We earnestly request contributions for this Literary World, is to prepare a full index of department from the Alumni and liicuds of the College.] Plutarch's Lives for a new edition of that '25.—Hon. S. P. Benson died at his resi- work, to be published at an early day by Little, dence in Yarmouth, Aug. 12th. We hope in Brown & ( '". our next issue to give a sketch of his life and •(i(). — rof. A. II. Davis has been appointed character. Clerk of the U. S. Circuit Court at Port- —

82 B0WD01N ORIENT. laud, and entered upon the duties of his office EDITORS' TABLE. last month. The Yale papers took a wise step in changing '60.—Hon. Thomas B. Reed was elected from weeklies to bi-weeklies. The Courant is before Representative to Congress from the first dis- us and shows a perceptible improvement over the trict \>y a majority of about one thousand. issues of last term. It contains a communication '61.—After a protracted illness, James W. on the much-discussed subject of college expenses, " Bradbury, Jr., died of consumption at the and arrives at the conclusion that for the last six years college expenses have not increased, but have residence of his father in Augusta, Thursday, rather decreased," although " the average expense Sept. 21. Immediately after his graduation, of each member of '76 per year, as shown by the the study of law in the office he entered upon class statistics, was $1,075." of his father, and on admission to bar became The Crimson admits the superiority of Yale in his partner. was appointed U. S. Com- He boatiug this summer with a completeness and cor- missioner, and held the office till his decease, diality that speak well for the undergraduate senti- discharging his duties with great integrity ment at Harvard. It says: and independence. " We congratulate Yale on having produced this summer a crew as fine, probably, as we shall ever '70. —Wallace K. Oakes is practicing med- see come from any college. The race at Springfield icine in company with his father at Auburn. was splendidly won. •The four who went to Phila- delphia brought glory not to their college only, but '73. is studying theol- —H. W. Chapman to the country generally. They did what will pos- ogy at New Haven, Conn. sibly not be done again until another century is completed, and we join heartily with the Courant '73. B. T. Deering has completed a — in exclaiming, " All honor to Captain Cook and to course of study in the Berlin University, but the Yale four at Philadelphia !" will return to Europe to continue the study The Cornell Era, in marked contrast with the Languages. of the Modern Crimson, speaks of Yale's " wonderful (?) victory at '73.—G. E. Hughes is Principal of the Philadelphia " and remarks that " Yale's victory Bath High School. over Harvard at Springfield seems to us very unsat- isfactory considering the unfair course," The '74.—L. H. Kimball was married Sept. 21, &c. truth is that Cornell refusod to pull in the Philadel- to Miss Payne of Bath. phia regatta for what most college men regard as '74. White is studying law in Boston. —H. G. insufficient grounds, and some disagreeable suspi- '74. —H. H. Emery is studying medicine cions have grown up as to her real reasons. She in Boston University. will hardly better her position, however, by abusing '75. —R. R. Baston is Principal of the Yale. High School at South Berwick. On a recent rainy day, wishing to take the chill '75.—F. O. Baston is Principal of the off our sanctum, and not having procured our win- supply of ooal and wood, we determined to try High School at Natick, Mass. ter's a stove full of paper. For this purpose we took all '75. H. R. Patten has gone to California. — the Dickinsonians, Notre Dame Scholastics, North '75. Cressey is Vice Principal and —G. C. Western College Chronicles, Dartmouths, and simi- Instructor in Classics at Alexander Institute, lar publications we could lay hands on, and our White Plains, N. Y. experiment was a decided success. They were dry enough and heavy enough to make a capital lire. 75.—H. R. True is a student in Civil are glad we have discovered their use. Engineering, Bowdoin College. We That little sheet up in Vermont which got unnec- '77. —E. H. Blake has entered Harvard essarily excited over our criticism of its name, has University. so far modified its estimate of the Okiext as to '77. is studying in Ger- —Will H. Sanborn appropriate and print as its own, a very respectable many. His address is Kleiner Schaferkamp portion of our exchange column. In this case, it is 56, Hamburg. not its taste we deplore, but its honesty. — ! ;

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PRAYER OP MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. and finally, owing to the interest taken in him by scientific gentlemen, was placed in the FROII THE LATIN. household of Prof. Daumer to be educated. God, rny sole Master, After long and patient labor he was taught I've trusted iu thee; Dear Jesus, my loved oue, to speak, and narrated the story of his past Ob, now set me free! life. Imprisoned, enchained, As long as he could remember, he had By woes and griefs pained, lived in a narrow, dark hole, where he always I long but for thee; Fainting and kneeling, sat upon the ground. Whenever he awoke, Weeping, appealing, a pitcher of water and a loaf of bread were Adoring, imploring beside him. Sometimes the water had a bad Oh, now set me free C. A. P. taste, and then he invariably fell into a deep sleep, during which his clothes were changed. His only amusement was to roll a couple of KASPAR HAUSER. wooden horses up and down beside him. He Kaspar Hauser and his strange story have was never disturbed or molested, save once caused the curious minds of the present cent- when he made considerable noise with his ury almost as much trouble as the Man in the toys. Iron Mask did those of the last. The obscur- This wonderful story was fully substan- ity enveloping his early life and violent death tiated by various circumstances. The bones has never been dispelled, and yet the facts of his legs and knees were of a peculiar shape, which have been ascertained are so peculiar only to be explained by supposing that the and extraordinary that a short sketch of his greater portion of his life had been spent in life may be of interest. a sitting posture. He could see objects iu One afternoon about dusk, in the spring the dark, even after he had become accus- of 1828, there appeared in the streets' of tomed to sunlight, which at first was ex- Nuremberg, Bavaria, a youth apparently sev- tremely painful to him. enteen years of age, unable to walk or speak. The sensitiveness of his physical system In bis hand he carried a letter addressed to was almost incredible. The least bit of meat an army officer on station there, stating in concealed in his bread made him violently ill confused and broken sentences that the writer a few drops of wine or beer in his water was unacquainted with the boy's parentage, caused even greater distress. When once but had supported him for many years, until placed near a regimental band, as the lie had expressed a desire to join a 'company music began he was thrown into convulsions. of cavalry. The officer, unable to obtain any Winn heard at a distance, however, most information from the lad, surrendered him to sounds afforded him pleasure. His olfactory tire police, who lodged him in a department nerves were particularly acute, and were often used for vagrants. Mere, as the story spread the source of much suffering, inasmuch as all abroad, he was visited by people of all classes, odors were nol only disagreeable to him, but 86 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

frequently productive of severe sickness. time and attention to the subject, seems to When riding or walking along the streets, he have been of the opinion that this ill-fated could smell the tobacco hung up to dry in the Kaspar Hauser was the legitimate heir of the houses at the distance of two or three hun- Grand Duchy of Baden.

dred feet. It is said that he could distinguish the leaf of an apple from that of a pear tree \>y merely placing them near his nostrils. THE LANDLORD. Many flowers which are commonly regarded As I stepped from the cars, rejoicing in as inodorous, when brought into his room the thought that for a while at least I should were sure to give him a violent headache. He be beyond the scream of the railroad whistle, was also susceptible to the influence of elec- and might enjoy the simple manners of real tricity and magnetism to a great extent, and country people, I was met by the landlord, a many interesting experiments of this nature middle-aged man, quite tall and fat, who im- were performed upon his person. mediately invited me to a seat in his buck- A wonderful power of remembering names board. As we drove along through the and words, at first characterized his mind ; woods road, where the trees met over us, I but, as its acquisitions increased, this power could not but notice the remarkable vein of gradually diminished. In other respects his refinement in his conversation and manners, mental abilities were about the average. which did not at all accord with my ideas of Utterly destitute of all ideas of religion, he farmers or rustics in general. Presently we was yet remarkable for his amiability, and came in sight of his home where I was to rarely failed to make a friend of any one spend the summer as his guest, a low house whom he met. twined with woodbine and morning-glories,

During the course of his education a and I remarked how beautiful it looked. rumor was circulated to the effect that he was " Beautiful ! There's no more beautiful spot engaged in writing a full history of his past on earth. It was my father's and his father's life. Almost immediately an attack was made as well. Now it's mine, and one day it will " upon him by a masked assassin, who left him be my son's, I hope ! for dead ; but fortunately the wound proved When we came to the gate, I saw his wife, a slight one. This, with several other circum- a woman of about his own age, standing on the stances, aroused the suspicion that he was of stone door-step waiting to meet us. Her wel- higher birth than at first supposed. Various come went straight to the heart, and made efforts were made to pierce the obscurity me feel immediately at home. Then as I which hung around his nativity, but all were stood waiting to be shown to my room, I saw without avail. A year or two later he re- him stoop and kiss her, and of course I moved to Anspach, where he continued to smiled ; but as I afterwards learned, it was spend his time in stiuty. It was here that a his usual habit to kiss his wife on every suita- second attempt was made upon his life, which ble occasion, " Because," as lie said, " he proved successful. The murderer succeeded believed in it." This wife, of whom he was in making his escape. exceedingly fond, was a short, fat, and as I

As yet no satisfactory explanation has thought, a very plain looking woman ; and it been offered to show who the lad was, and was really comical to see her take his arm to why such persistent attempts to destroy him walk over to the store of the village, which were made. Anselm Von Feuerbach, an was only a short distance removed, both wad- eminent German jurist, who devoted much dling along like two fat ducks. Invariably "

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 87 whenever she went from home, either walk- est face to hear him tell Iioav he had puzzled a ing or riding, he accompanied her, and I saw smart New York lawyer over a most absurd him once actually lift her into the buck-board, case, which he invented as he related it. He —almost an Herculean feat, considering the Avas well read in the politics of the day, and I fact that she weighed two hundred pounds or heard him remark concerning the civil service more. When they Avere young, they had reform, "Let men keep their public offices as

eloped and had been married contrary to her long as they keep their noses clean ; when !" parents' Avishes (so one of my fellow board- they are dirty, send them out to be washed

ers told me), and it was really delightful to There was a spirit of poetry in his nature,

see that their love for one another had only which often shoAved itself ; for every evening increased by age. But I sincerely hoped she at sunset he walked Avith his wife down to the at least Avas not as fat then as noAv, for her shallow river to see the shimmering reflection

lover must have had a sorry time of it, help- in the water, and to Avatch the cloud forms ing her down, perhaps, from a second story taking shapes and hues of roses and lilies

window ! twined into Avreaths and festoons. One In addition to his being fat, his hair was evening, after he had been gazing and mus- reddish gray, Avhich he Avore rather long be- ing for some time, he startled all Avho Avere hind, and had all the hair on the top of his there by emphatically observing, " The man head concentrated into a so-called "Boston," or Avoman Avho can't enjoy that sunset is a an artificial kind of a curl, fastened and held beast ! in place by a hair-pin. His Avife regularly He Avas school-committee and field-driver

every morning combed his hair and did up in one ; kept the post-office and a livery sta-

his " Boston " for him. His eyes were the ble on a small scale ; and in an emergency had

color of blue asters and looked as if they had preached a sermon or two ; and his son in- been bleached by the sun, which had also formed me that his father knew more about

brought the blood to his cheeks and baked it the Bible than any minister living, and he be- there, in the small delicate veins. lieved his father Avould go to Heaven if any He delighted in relating bear stories, and one did, even though he should be buried like the jokes he had perpetrated upon city people, Alaric, beneath the river's bed,—a burial against whom he had a grudge, probably which his father earnestly desired. because he had once visited the city, Avhere the noise had driven him nearly crazy and he had fallen in with pickpockets, so that he Avas The society of the Phi Beta Kappa was

glad to escape to his country home, Avhich lie organized at Williamsburg, Va., by members vowed he never Avould leave again. He of William and Mary College, Dec. 5, 1776, liked nothing better than to have us gather and celebrates its centennial this winter. about him in the evening and ask him for a The original charter has been preserved, and

story, Avhich Avas always ready and wonderful. is signed by forty-three persons, some of On one occasion he told a city woman, Avho whom are of considerable note. The first was very inquisitive to know Avhy so many charter granted Avas to Harvard, and subse- birch trees Avere white-washed in the Avoods quently chapters Avere established in other and along the roads, that those kind of trees colleges. The Phi Beta Kappa has always Avere ahnu/x puinlnl irhlfr, so that people could demanded of its members high scholastic find their way home after dark by such land- abilities, and its catalogues are full of the marks. It would force a smile from the sour- most illustrious names. 88 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. the sun. He is heartily tired of roaming, and wants to settle down. Poor Noel, it is a pity PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- that a man of his intellectual attainments can- ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT not have this one wish gratified in his old age. BOWDOIN COLLEGE, If any one unacquainted with college By the Class of 1877. ways should go into the Gymnasium some night during the exercises of the two upper EDITORS. classes, and carefully watch proceedings, John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, William T. Cobb, George T. Little, he would witness a scene which we Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, think would surprise him. Many have an Charles B. Seabury. idea that college students are always gentle-

Terms—$2.00 a year, in advance; single copies, manly in conduct ; but if they knew how 15 cents. they have conducted themselves for the past Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, few nights in the Gjunnasium, they would Brunswick, Maine. change their opinion immediately. For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- We have seen clubs and dumb-bells son's, Brunswick. thrown across the room, and have heard shouts and unearthly sounds, until we, accustomed CONTENTS. as we are to college peculiarities, are almost Vol. VI., No. 8.—November 1, 1876. astonished at the actions. If they confined

Prayer of Mary, Queen of Scots 85 themselves, to those acts which we have men-

Kasper Hauser , 85 tioned, perhaps they might be excused on the The Landlord 86 plea of puerile playfulness. But they are not Editorial Notes 88 content with confusion alone, but must in ; The Bowdoin Summer School of Science 89 some way injure the building. Consequently Local 90 a few panes of glass are smashed, a lamp is Personal 91 The College World 93 broken, the weights are got out order, or Editors' Table 94 some other mischief is done. When young

New Books „ 94 men go so far as to wantonly destroy prop-

erty, their sportiveness is developed into EDITORIAL NOTES. meanness, and is not excusable. On account of college customs, it may be Noel-Hope, a former instructor in our Col- expected that members of the Sophomore lege, well known to all students of his clay class will do some things not exactly proper and by tradition to our younger members, in the view of outsiders; but we see no rea- lias turned up at Princeton, N. Y., under the son why a Senior or a Junior should allow name of Noel Gower of Battle Abbey, Eng- himself to be guilty of such downright fool- land. He is desirous of giving a "Seance ishness. It is acknowledged by all that gym- Declamatoire " before the students of Prince- nastic exercises properly conducted are bene- ton College, to " raise the wind." He has ficial to students. They need some physical given the " Yarn of the Nancy Bell " as nat- culture, and nothing is better than the exer- ural as life to a select audience, which has cises in a good Gymnasium. Now, if we care pronounced it the most wonderful rendering to derive any benefit from them, let us give of that beautiful ballad ever witnessed under our attention while iu the Gymnasium wholby —

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 89 to our exercises. If we do not care for exer- Mineralogy, and Botany, during six weeks of cise ourselves, we can at least conduct our- the Summer vacation. Like the similar ones selves so as not to disturb those who do care held at Harvard and elsewhere, it was designed for it. for the purpose of giving teachers especially, of either sex — who are occupied with their "We would not have the outside world schools during the rest of the }'ear — an oppor- suppose that our College is worse than any tunity of getting a practical knowledge of other, or that our students, as a class, are those branches which the advance of modern more child-like than those of any similar science has pushed into such prominence even institution ; but we cannot refrain from pub- in the regular courses of study in our High licly rebuking certain members of all our Schools and Academies. It had long been a classes — Seniors as well as Freshmen — who source of regret to the teachers of science at persist in cutting and disfiguring the seats in Bowdoin, and a great hindrance to them in the recitation rooms. Initials of names and their work, that while students came to Col- societies and class numbers are everywhere lege, year after year, well fitted in the classics, cut into the settees and chairs, and what is they appeared to know practicalh/ nothing at worse, large holes are often dug through them. all of science, although most of them had

We heard the other morning of two Seniors taken a more or less extended course in it. who amused themselves during recitation Obviously the quickest way to remedy the hour by "running a race;" that is, seeing evil was to get hold of the teachers and who could cut the fastest through the back of improve them; and it was principally with a settee ! It is annoying alike to the students this object in view that the School was who are reciting and to those who wish to established. attend, as well as insulting to the Professor, The first meeting was held in the Cleave- whom we all respect and honor. It is worse laiid Lecture Room, on the afternoon of July than the offenses, complained of above, in the 17th. The opening exercises consisted of a Gymnasium, for it outrages all sense of brief address by Prof. Carmichael, wherein decency. The capers cut in the Gymnasium he very clearly set forth the objects of the are perhaps somewhat excusable on the plea School, and at the same time gave them to of a thoughtlessness which somehow or other understand that they must make up their takes possession of a fellow when he feels the minds to do a good deal of hard work in order restraint of study is thrown off; but this to obtain the greatest good from the studies downright, willful mischief of cutting seats before them ; followed by registering of names is unpardonable, and ought to be liable to and choice of studies — each student being punishment of some kind—by the students allowed to select any two branches. Active if not by the Faculty. work commenced the next day. The follow- ing were the names of the students, with then-

places of residence and branches chosen : THE BOWDOIN SUMMER SCHOOL CIIKMISTKY. OF SCIENCE. Mr. D. A. Robinson Bangor, Me. Scribner Topsliam. Me. About the middle of the last College Mr. E. A. Mr. Barrett Potter Brunswick, Me. year, circulars were sent out announcing that nil.MisTKY \M> mim:i; U 0GY. directly after Commencement a class would Mr. E. II. Hall Brunswick, Me. be formed, under the above title, for the pur- Mr. F. P. Moult. in Littleton, N. II. of pose pursuing the studies of Chemistry, Mr. A. II. Sal line Mason City, Iowa. 90 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Mr. Horace Blood Concord, N. H. ing been fully as successful as they had any Mr. A. Stuart Kent's Hill, Me. G. reason to hope. Particularly were they grat- Miss J. W. Williams Framingharn, Mass. ified with the numbers that came, consider- Miss Helen D. Sewall Boston, Mass. ing Mr. H. W. Philbrook Bowdoinham, Me. the small extent to which it was adver- Mr. F. 0. Stanley Mechanic Falls, Me. tised, the exceeding hot weather during MINERALOGY AND BOTANY. which it began, and the Centennial Exhibi- Mrs. F. 0. Stanley. Mechanic Falls, Me. tion which undoubtedly kept some away who Miss Annabel Stetson Brunswick, Me. could not afford the money for both. Whether

Mr. W. R. Hemmenway . the school will be held another year has not

CHEMISTEY AND BOTANY. yet been decided. It is a considerable strain Miss Julia A. Robinson Bangor, Me. upon the energies of an instructor to continue Miss Lettie T. Harlow Brewer, Me. at his regular work during the season set Mr. G. E. Chapin East Orrington, Me. apart for his vacation ; and yet, when he sees The course in Chemistry was substantially the enthusiasm of those who attend, and re- that which is given in the regular College members that in no other way can the}7 enjoy course here. It included flame and blowpipe the advantages they get in such schools, he analysis, together with as much aqueous cannot help feeling willing to endure a good analysis as each had time for ; most of them deal of discomfort to himself, where it is going through the group separation accord- manifestly of such advantage to others. ing to Beilstein. There were also lectures on This surely was demonstrated by the

Chemistry two or three days in the week, in school this Summer : that there are a great which particular attention was given to in- many teachers in New England who are fully structing the students in the principles of alive to the importance of being able to give chemical manipulation ; and they were fre- better instruction in science, and are willing quently allowed to experiment for themselves, to support Summer schools for that purpose under the direction of the Professor. whenever formed. Mineralogy was taught mostly by lectures illustrated by cabinet the subject specimens ; LOCAL. of Crystallography being first taken up briefly ; the instructor aiming to teach the What will strengthen Ingalls ? students to recognize the more common min- Did you recover your umbrella ? erals at sight, and for this end allowing them much was the interest on your term to handle each specimen and get its most How bill? prominent characteristics indelibly fixed in their minds. Concerts in the Gymnasium every eve- I am not familiar enough with the method ning. pursued in Botany to give an outline of just Lock your door, here comes the man with the I what course was ; but know that in that the chart. department, as in the others, the aim was to They say that Chris made a good trade on give the students the greatest amount of the End lamps. available knowledge possible in the time ; and The Seniors are to have a short vacation judging from the interest of those who took in Science of Wealth. it, the instructor must have been successful in his object. F. H. Crocker has been elected delegate The instructors regard the school as hav- to the Convention at Worcester. ; ;

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The Sophomores say that he did apologize, rian, Riley ; Prophet, Call ; Poet, Libby ; and the Freshmen say that he didn't. Secretary, Martin ; Treasurer, Northend Toast Master, Conant. Committee of Arrange- One of the dwellers in the South End of ments: Grindal, Spring, Winter. Appleton seems to have no ear for music. A Convention relative to the formation of The hase-ball interest is languishing for a Rowing Association of New England col- want of funds. "• There's no money in it." leges was held at the Parker House, Boston, The Freshmen have decided upon seal October 24th, at 9 o'clock. Delegates were color, and the Sophomores brown as a class present from the following colleges : Bow- changed their color to red. have doin, P. L. Paine ; Brown, S. W. Nickerson ;

The Freshmen are the hardest working Dartmouth, E. C. Carigain ; Trinity, S. men in the Gymnasium. Let us hope they Hooker. The Convention waited upon Har- will see the folly of their ways. vard, and invited her as the leading college in New England to take the leading part in the Sophomore translating: "Ubi me fessum movement, and issue a call for a Convention sol acrior ire lavatum — When the sun, becoming of organization. But this Harvard refused to warmer, warns me to go to Bath." do, as it was the sentiment of the University Now that the arrival of the trains does to row Yale a second race in eight-oared not interfere with the dinner hour, a full shells in '77. The delegates present drew attendance of students at the depot is desired. up a call, inviting all New England colleges

Prof. —" Describe the Nautilus." Student who favored an organization of a Rowing —"The Nautilus — or, in other words, the Association of New England colleges to send Horse -Shoe Crab " Applause drowns one or two delegates to a Convention to be Worcester, the rest. held at the Bay State House, Mass., Nov. 22d, 187G, at 2 o'clock, P. M. The following is an exact quotation of a The Convention expressed itself in favor of postal card written by a Colby Freshman. four-oared crews, and for New London or " Don't get hazed, carry a cane, don't wear a Springfield as the place for the regatta. tall hat, but will if I have a mind to."

A week or two ago the students thought " something like this : Is it best for me to pay PERSONAL. my term bill, or to take the money and go to the Centennial?" The majority adopted the [We earnestly request contributions for this department from the Alumni and frieucls of the latter course. College.] The officers of the Junior class for the '50.—Gen. O. O. Howard was recently as

year are as follows : President, Smith ensuing far east as Boston, and has now been dis-

President, Felch ; Orator, Higgins ; Poet, Vice patched to negotiate a treaty with the Nez

; Sargent ; Secretary Baxter Chaplain, and Perce Indians. Treasurer, Thing; Curator, French. Com- '53.—Rev. .1. E. Pond has resigned his mittee of Arrangements: Burton, Davidson, charge as the pastor of the Congregational Paine. Church at Hampden. The following are the officers of the 7)7.— Rev. Edward A. Rand has closed his in Freshman class: President, Wilson : Vice pastoral relations with his church South

speak el' in President, Edwards; Orator, ; Histo- Boston. The Boston papers him 92 B0WD01N ORIENT. the highest terms as an earnest and faithful H. E. Hall is studying law at Damaris- pastor and preacher. cotta. '62.— The Rev. John T. Magrath, Rector C. T. Hawes is teaching at Pembroke. of St. Paul's, Jackson, Mich., was elected R. Hemmenway, formerly of this class, is Missionary Bishop of Cape Palmas, Africa, at teaching in Minneapolis, Minn. the annual meeting of the Episcopal Board J. M. Hill is Principal of the Limerick of Missions, at Philadelphia, October 13th. Academy. He was a native of Gardiner, Me., and before E. H. Kimball is studying Law in Bath. going to Michigan was for some time Rector J. G. Libby is teaching at Bethel. of Christ Church, Gardiner, where he was W. H. Marrett is teaching at Yarmouth. successor to Bishop Burgess. J. A. Morrill is teaching at Auburn. '67. —W. S. Huse died at Newburyport, E. B. Newcomb is in Ohio. Mass., Oct. 13, 1876, aged 31. After gradua- G. Parsons is studying music in Boston. tion he spent several years in teaching, was J. H. Payne is studying Medicine in then admitted to the bar, and practiced law Boston. for four or five years. His health had been F. C. Payson is studying law at Portland failing for some time, but his death was sud- in the office of Hon. Wm. L. Putnam. den and unexpected. C. A. Perry is Principal of the High '70.—D. T. Timberlake is Principal of the School at Orrington. High School at Dexter, Me. C. F. Pratt is Principal of the High '73.—A. F. Moulton and F. S. Water- School at Brewer. house were admitted to the Cumberland bar W. A. Robinson is Principal of Fryeburg

r at the last session of the Supreme Judicial Acaclem3 . Court. A. E. Rogers is teaching Hampden Acad- '74.—Ira S. Locke and Win. M. Payson emy. were admitted to practice law in the courts of W. H. G. Rowe is reading Law at the this State at Portland on the 14th of last office of Hutchinson, Savage & Sanborn, month. Lewiston. is Professor of Chemistry '74.—D. 0. S. Lowell is the foreign cor- A. H. Sabine respondent of the Portland Transcript. and Mineralogy in Ripon College, Ripon, '75. —W. J. Curtis, local editor of the Wisconsin. Bangor Whig for the past year, has retired to A. Sanford is studying law in Boston. enter upon the study of law. C. Sargent is studying law in Machias. is his '75.—W. E. Hatch is Principal of the F. M. Stimson in business with High School in Bran ford, Conn. father at Auburn. Taylor is teaching in Edgecomb. '76.—W. Alden is studying medicine in C. S. Portland. C. A. Whittemore is teaching at Deer C. S. Andrews is Principal of the High Isle. School at Mankato, Minn. F. V. Wright is in the Engineering de-

T. Atwood is reading law at Auburn. partment at Bowdoin College. Q^(\\UattJpJlb '76, for- C. G. Burnham is studying theology at C. W. Whitcomb, Dartmouth the Bangor Theological Seminary. merly of this class, is studying in Germany. Saxony. C. H. Clark is Principal of the High and Address, Victoria Hotel, Dresden, Grammar Schools at South Abington, Mass. '78.—S. D. Fessenden intends to read year. O. C. Evans is teaching at Pembroke. Law in Boston during the coming — ; — ;

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THE COLLEGE WORLD. Laugh as much as you like, old man, But the fact is this, you see, Say what you will, I've laid a plan The Yale Navy is 11,500 in debt. To carry away a degree. I've loafed enough since I've been here, Cornell has twenty-two ladies in its Fresh- And now if you watch, my hearty, You'll see, in the course of the coming year, man class. (?) " Keform within the party." —Crimson. The Class Dajr Orator at Brown Univer- In answer to an inquiry, Hon. J. G. sity is a colored man. Blaine recently told President Wallace, of The salaries of the Professors at Amherst Monmouth College, that "during all the have been reduced ten per cent. years of his connection with Washington The Dartmouth Seniors intend to make a College, Penn., he had never been absent three-lumdred-dollar donation to the College from any College exercise, nor from public Library. worship on the Sabbath." And that " during Harvard College has an annual income of the six years of his Speakership he had not over $10,000 exclusively devoted to the pur- been absent from the House of Representatives chase of books. a day, nor been one minute late in calling the House to order." Fresh.— "I wonder why my mustache " O, tell me you will be mine, doesn't grow under my nose as well as at the My beautiful, my green !" Thus spoke the amorous Hydrogen corners of my mouth ? " Soph.—" Too much Unto the fair Chlorine. shade." Ex. " By Chemical Affinity The Corporation of Brown University True lovers' knots are tied, And when our atoms have combined, has voted that " the existence of secret soci- We'll live Hydric Chloride."

eties among the undergraduates is unfriendly The Professor gave the word ; to the best interests of the University." The jar was opend wide, And out flew Hydrogen Tuition fees of various Colleges differ as Aud clasped his verdaut bride. —Ex. follows : Syracuse, $60 ; Cornell, $75 ; Bow- The following were the events at the Fall ; ; doin, $75 Rochester, $75 Brown, $85 ; athletics at Williams: One-fourth-mile Dartmouth, $90; Williams, $90 to $95; run,

1-4 sec. ; base-ball, 58 throwing 323 ft. 4 in. ; Amherst, $100 ; Yale, $140 ; Harvard, $150 Pennsylvania, $150 to $170. running high jump, 4 ft. 11 in. ; one-half-mile

run, 2.24 1-4 ; mile walk, 8.39 1-2 ; running Tufts College has 35 in its Freshman class broad jump, 16 ft. 5 in. ; 100-yard dash, 11 1-4 College of the City of New York, 197; sec. ; mile run, 6.18 3-4. At Amherst: Throw- Amherst, 83; Dartmouth, GO; Colby, 46; ing ball, 364 ft. 2 in. ; 100-yard dash, 11 1-4 Cornell, 160; Beloit, 26; Williams, 48; Bow- mile walk, ; three-mile sec; 9.11 walk. 28.5 1

doin, 47 ; Trinity, 35 ; Marietta, 20 ; Yale, one-fourth-mile run, 58 sec; running jump, 123; Middlebury, 35; Harvard, 197. * 16 ft. 4 in.; standing jump, 9 ft.: two-mile Cornell was one of the first institutions to run, 12.12; one-half-mile run. 2.33 1-2. At open its doors to lady students. The experi- Dartmouth: Throwing the hammer (191bs.), ment (for at first it was an experiment ) lias 60 ft. 3-4 in.; one-fourth-mile run. 59 1-2 sec;

been fully tried, and it lias been pronounced three jumps, 30 ft. 3 3-4 in.: putting the shot a success. The ladies who have come among (19 ll.s.), 27 ft. 7 3-1 in.: throwing base-ball, us have shown themselves fully able to com- ."22 It. 5 in.: one-mile walk, 7.57 1-2: mile pete for all University honors.— Cornell Era. run, 5.8 1-2. ;

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EDITORS' TABLE. the world of letters. And while we are deeply pained to learn that their productions did not accord The Trinity Tablet thinks that "in '76 we lost an with the fastidious taste of the Undergraduate ex- energetic class, always advancing and firing—those change editor, we are unable, owing to the advanced they met in their way." years of each writer, to offer him the least hope of future improvement. If the College Olio would only print its title line a little lower down on the first page it would have The Princetonian comes to us this week well

even less space than at present to fill with meta- filled with articles of interest to collegians. Among physics, science, and theology. other things the ranking system now found in almost every American institution of learning is discussed. The Eurhetorian Argosy drops its mellifluous Though no new ideas are brought forward, the adjective, and appears now simply as The Argosy. usual arguments are clearly and concisely stated. A still greater improvement is the presence of some If all that has been written upon this theme should reading matter where we used only to sec the be collected, an unparalleled example would bo ingenuity of the printer displayed in " spacing." afforded of how many words can be used to clothe the If the Harvard Advocate continues to puhlish as same ideas. There is not a college paper in the fine poems as those which have marked the last two country that has not devoted at least half a dozen issues, another book of its poetry ought soon to be columns to the subject, and yet we venture to say forthcoming. The Advocate prints several extracts that not a single new argument, pro or con, has from the Kegulations of the University of Cam- been advanced for the last two years. bridge, which seem to show that in many respects far less liberty is allowed English than American students. NEW BOOKS. The College Mercury differs from our other ex- changes in having absolutely no literary depart- Sower, Potts & Co., Philadelphia, have ment. Editorials, which are very well written and just issued two new books by J. Willis West- live subjects, occupy the first two on pages ; Locals lake, A.M., Professor of English Literature,

and Personals the next two ; and Communications, State Normal School, Millersville, Pa. Exchanges, etc., the remaining two. This hardly The first — "How to Write Letters," a seems to us to be an ideal plan, but the Mercury is above the average of our western College exchanges, neatly bound volume of 264 pages—is a com- and seems to be better this year than last. plete manual of letter- writing and composi- Both the Yale Courant and the Record devote a tion, containing all the points of etiquette large portion of their space to communications which relative to letters, notes, and cards. No one exceed in number, and usually in interest, those of can read it without profit. Price in cloth, $1 any other College periodicals we receive. This Gilt, 11.50. seems to us the best, and, in fact, the only way to The second — make the College paper a true exponent of the views "Common School Litera- and opinions of the students in general. In many, ture, English and American"— is a book of if not most cases, as far as our experience goes, the 52 pages, bound in black cloth. The first editors write the greater part of what they publish, part is taken up with brief biographies of all and being often selected from a particular class or the noted English authors from Chaucer to set, they lamentably fail to represent the College as Carlyle, making the choicest selections from a whole. each. Part second is The Undergraduate of Middlebury College, devoted to American Vermont, remarks that the literary articles in our writers, beginning with Colonial history. The Commencement number were rather poor. Had the work closes with a valuable catalogue of editors written them, not the least surprise would authors and the names under which they have been felt at such a criticism. By chance, write. Price 60 cents. however, they were contributions from the pens of The clear and concise style of both, at once two of our most distinguished Alumni, Henry Wads- worth Longfellow and Rev. Jacob Abbott, both of recommend them to the reader as invaluable whom have, we believe, achieved some reputation in for authoritative reference. Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, NOVEMBER 15, 1876. No. 9.

H. R. P.AjttH ns. ments which elapsed between his graduation

and his death, he attended all but five ; and " Oone away into world of light." a of these the fifth found him on his death- —Henry Vaughan. bed, but still eagerty interested in everything

Art thou called higher to a world of light I could tell him of the exercises which I left Alone, while we in outer dark remain ? his bedside to attend. ¥e catch vague gleams of glory through our pain His devotion to his Alma Mater had been As of the stars half seen in some drear night, early recognized. "Within a few years of his And with a love would supplement our sight graduation he was appointed a member of the Strive to see clearer. Do wc hear a strain Board of Overseers. the death of Of sweetest sound, like welcoming refrain? On Gov.

Ah ! if it be that when in sore affright Dunlap he was elected President of the Board and continued in the office until last "Wo thought the place that held thee was a tomb, Com- It was that bright world's portal, we can wait mencement, when he resigned, after having Until we too from out this doubtful gloom been re-elected for sixteen successive years.

Are bidden thither. Ever first calls fate He was appointed Treasurer of the Memorial The worthiest. Oh! favored guest, some room, Hall fund after the death of Professor Smyth, Some memory keep for us, though we be late. and cheerfully gave his unrequited services r for several years to the laborious task, as his lamented predecessor had done before him. HON. SAMUEL PAGE BENSON. By means of repeated journeys and an exten- Among the Alumni of our venerated Col- sive correspondence, though everywhere met lege, few have ever been more loyal to her by the pressure of the times, he succeeded in welfare or more active in her interests than adding upwards of twenty thousand dollars to he who has so lately disappeared from the the fund. Everything which touched the ranks of her living sons. He was a member welfare of the College enlisted his personal of the famous class of '2"), and on graduat- interest and active endeavor. ing received its highest honor as Salutatorian. It was in the political sphere that Mr. The last Commencement he attended was the Benson was most widely known. He was by fiftieth anniversary of the class, celebrated by birth and choice an old-line Whig. But when eleven of the thirteen survivors of the orig- the "irrepressible conflict" had so Far advanced inal thirty-seven ; a class meeting which he as to destroy the old party distinctions, and had himself planned and consummated. men found themselves rallying around new While the must illustrious member of the standards, he joined the Republican ranks and class, and I lie foremost poet of America, was remained a steadfast and loyal adherent to reciting the tender lines of the Morituri Sal- the principles of that party throughout the utamus, it seemed hardly likely that he would rest of his life. While yet a young lawyer be the first of the band of survivors to realize he represented his town in both branches of the omen and bid a final adieu to the scenes the Legislature. He was Secretary of S he loved so well. < >f the fifty-one Commence- in 1838 under Gov. Kent, and again in 1841 ;;

BOWDOIN ORIENT. under Gov. Fairfield. In 1851 he was elected, feelings to so late a period in life; few have and in 1853 re-elected, to Congress from the made such constant and cordial endeavor in Kennebec District; but when the nomination behalf of everything which could contribute was offered him the third time he declined, to the welfare or happiness of the j'oung jocosely remarking that he had spent four around them. The same disposition was years in Washington and come ont an honest carried into his religious experience. He had man, but did not wish to risk himself again. been all his life a man of unblemished name, His College friend Franklin Pierce occupied scrupulously honest, honorable and temperate the White House during his entire Congres- but some ten years before his death he pro- sional service, and their widely differing polit- fessed his faith in Christ, and exemplified his ical creeds presented no barrier to their fre- profession by a sincere and consistent life. quent and cordial revival of the old College His warm heart he carried not only into the associations. To a disposition so frank and Church and Sabbath School, with which he genial as his, Washington society presented was immediately connected, but also into the abundant opportunities for an extensive and wider relations of Christian fellowship and varied acquaintance, which came to include missionary labor in the world around. not only his colleagues in Congress and the He was born in Winthrop, Nov. 28, 1804 members of Government, but also leading died in Yarmouth, Aug. 12, 1876. officers of the army and uav3r (he was chair- man of the Naval Committee), and prominent men from all parts of the country. During the Rebellion those Avho enjoyed opportunities NOBLESSE OBLIGE. of conversation with him were often assisted No gift, which is of real worth, is given in their insight into the secret history and to man from either the hand of God or that motives of the great struggle, by his personal of his fellow-man without placing him under knowledge of Jefferson Davis, A. H. Stephens, some obligation to the donor. Government Judah P. Benjamin, Robert Toombs, and comes from the people — the lowly as well as many others of the Southern leaders. He the high-born. The peasant has a voice in had a wider familiarity with the principal the election of rulers as well as the noble- men of his own State than any other person man, although his power and influence, as one

I have ever known. His retentive memory man, is not as great ; hence those who hold held a vast store of racy anecdotes concerning in their hands power, should recollect that his political compeers, and still more concern- they owe something to the people who give ing his brethren of the bar — Sprague, War- them their power. ren, Boutelle, George Evans, and many others Suppose we take the case of England as of the famous names of a generation ago. an example, and see what her nobility are The enjoyment of these reminiscences often bound to do for the common people. There suggested to me the idea of keeping a sort of must have been a time in the history of that collectanea of them. The opportunity has nation, when all men were equal in point of

passed now ; but such a collection if it had been rank. Of course they had rulers, and those completed would have preserved many inter- rulers, as we read, gave their chosen subjects esting fragments of professional biography. certain titles, which in those times were His social temperament was strongly ex- earned by skill in war and faithfulness in the hibited in his keen sympathy with young men. service of their sovereigns. In these later Few men have retained their own youthful times men who have sufficient influence and ; "

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 99 money may, by these means, gain such a title. than themselves. The people give a man

But that is not to the point. The rulers nobility or office and expect him to regard gained and owed their power to the people their interests, and he is bound to do so, not and the nobles, as the}' were called, also gained only out of thankfulness for the gift but from theirs from the people — indirectly through moral duty, the duty of doing all in his power the rulers — hence both king and noble are to advance society. Noblesse Oblige applies bound to consider the rights of the people indeed to every man. Xo one is so low but from the mere claims of justice. some one is a little lower, and he can at least

But there are still higher and nobler help him along towards an equality with him- reasons why the nobility — and in those coun- self. If every man would regard the rights tries where there is no nobility so called, the of Noblesse Oblige towards his neighbor, we educated people — should have an interest should soon have a world in a great measure in those beneath them. It is highly probable free from the man}' miseries and crimes with that the first barons of England were no which it is now filled. This French adage is better in point of education and manners than only another way of expressing our ••Golden their retainers, but in the growth of years Rule." Each can do something for the bene- the nobility has made much more improve- fit of some one else, though it be but slight, ment ; and their power and influence over the and he is bound to do it from the very fact of people is not less great, perhaps, than in the his existence : that is what he is made for. days of the old feudal system. The present The motto of the whole world should be government of England is made up in a great Noblesse Oblige; but men are, as a rule, so measure by nobles ; nobles set the example swallowed up in themselves, so wide awake to the peasantry all over the kingdom. The for their own interests and so blind to those noble lord who is mean and penurious has of others, that Noblesse Oblige is forgotten tenants buried in the depths of ignorance and and " self" usurps its place. poverty ; while the noble who feels the res- Radix. ponsibility of his position and sees in his ten- ant a fellow-man, uses all his power to raise him up and improve his condition. The social The Williams Athenceum has been reading a condition of the country at large depends, in large number of letters from students of various a great measure, upon the nobility. In our colleges, placed at its disposal by a gentleman

- own country, the monej ed men and the edu- who has received them in his official character cated men stand in the place of the nobility, as secretary of different college associations.

and the stall' of our society depends upon These letters represent as large a variation in them. Men are bound, from the fact that their methods of spelling as in the different " they have made their money out of the peo- interests discussed. There are " challanges ple,as thr noble gets his rank, primarily, from sent, and "acceptences" "anounced"; "deli- the people, and from the high position that gates" urged to gather in '• convension their money and their rank has given them, where matters of great '• importence " are to to do all in their power to make the poorer be " concidered," and opinions as to the people contented ami happy, to provide means " feesibility " of a " seperation " desired by a fir their education, and, in a word, to ennoble variety of writers, who frequently resemble them. God gives men talents and expects each other in signing themselves "truly them to use them in his cause and for the yours." The moral which the Athenceum good of their fellow-men who are less gifted draws is obvious. 100 BOWD01N ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. nected with the college. Of course those who try to accomplish the manly deed of barring PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- up the chapel are not known to the college in ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT general, nor would they be held in higher es- BOWDOIN COLLEGE, teem for their valor if they were known. It is simply a boyish trick, unworthy of college By the Class of 1877. students, and entitles its perpetrators to, as it obtains for them, the pitying regret EDITORS. of their classmates. John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, William T. Cobb, George T. Little, Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, We take it for granted that the most of Charles B. Seabury. the students have read the excellent series of

Terms—$2.00 a year, in advance; single copies, articles by Richard Grant White, which the 15 cents. Galaxy is now publishing, on the way to read Address couiimmications to Bowdoin Orient, Shakespeare ; and if so, it can hardly but be Brunswick, Maine. that a desire has been awakened among some For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- of them to gain a more thorough knowledge sou's, Brunswick. of the great dramatist by a systematic and appreciative study of his works. Such CONTENTS. knowl- edge can be most pleasantly and profitably Vol. VI., No. 9.—November 15, 1876. acquired through the joint efforts of several

H. E. P 97 persons, but there exists in College at present Hon. Samuel Page Benson 97 no Shakespearean Club in any proper sense. Noblesse Oblige 98 There was a Shakespeare Club in '77 during Editorial Notes 100 its Junior year, but we have not heard of its Horace B. Patten 102 being reorganized this Fall. And now that Local 102 the long Winter evenings are almost here, Personal ] 03 The College World 104 and students are beginning to form virtuous Editors' Table 106 plans for doing a prodigious amount of work (as we believe they always do, whether they

carry out their plans or not), we think it EDITORIAL NOTES. would be a wise step to organize a club for the study of Shakespeare. It doubtless

There is one amusement practiced by a cer- would be composed—at any rate it ought to tain class in college which we should think be composed—only of those who took some would grow as tiresome to those who engage genuine interest in the matter, who would in it as it is repugnant to the better sentiment work for the intellectual pleasure and profit of the students. We refer to the repeated which it would yield. Every member should attempts that have been made this term to furnish himself with a different edition of the fasten the chapel door. It is at best a puerile plays, so that the Ar arious readings might be performance, requiring neither brains nor cour- at hand for comparison, and all possible helps age. The ridiculous monotony of the thing obtained for the elucidation of the text. But has not been broken by the faintest glimmer more important than this, even, every mem- of success, and we venture to believe that it ber should carefully and critically study the

will not be so long as Professor Booker is con- play to be read, before going to the reading. BOWBOW ORIENT. 101

It is possible to make the study of Shakes- in our halls. But we are confident that there peare of absorbing interest, and it is possible has been no class more interested in the re- to make it duller than the dictionary. It all sult of our centennial campaign than the col- depends upon the individual. The interest lege community. will be exactly proportional to the work done. Will not some admirer of the old poet take The bitter newspaper war of the last few the matter in hand, and give us either a Class months, culminating as it has within the past or College Shakespeare Club? week, suggests a reflection and a lesson to thoughful men. Mr. Carpenter relates, in his One of our leading dailies asserted a while "Six Months at the White House," that once ago that whatever the American college stu- when in company with Abraham Lincoln he dent might be, lie certainly was not a politi- chanced to make to Mrs. Secretary Welles cian. And up to within a week our own ex- the commonplace observation that the papers perience has been strongly confirmatory of were not always reliable. "That is to say, the remark. But either a sudden change has Mrs. Welles," broke in the President, "they come over the spirit of the average student or lie, and then they re-lie;" a remark which he has been grossly misrepresented, for a more shows that Mr. Lincoln understood the prin- thoroughly excited body of men we have sel- ciples of journalism as well as the principles dom seen than those who have gone through of government. It is, in truth, a sorry con- the formality of attending college exercises fession to make that our papers cannot be since election. It has been little more than a trusted. And it is a disgraceful confession. formality. Nothing but the "probabilities" The moral tone of the press is the measure of has been discussed at the clubs, nothing but the moral tone of the people. The press is a the "outlook" talked of in college rooms, mirror that reflects the principles of its read- nothing but the "latest news" demanded on ers, and reflect them it does very accurately. all sides by everybody. A man with a news- There is no surer way to tell a man's charac- paper has been sure of an audience. Pro- ter than to know the newspapers he reads. phetic figuring on the standing of the elec- Journalists are not wholly to blame for the toral college, wise prognostications as to the irresponsible slander that is so characteristic stad' of public sentiment in Florida, shrewd of our political press. But they are directly forecastings of the chances in South Carolina, and in a large measure to blame. Xo one can have served to beguile the slowly moving deny that the temptations of the American hours between "train-time." The Freshmen editor are greater than the temptations of the have forgotten all about their Greek Gram- English or the German editor. No one would mar in their anxiety to hear from the back deny or underrate the pressure brought to counties in Louisiana; the Sophomores can't bear upon him. The turmoil of politics in a study Conic Sections while they are uncertain republic like ours; the intense and unscrupu- about North Carolina ; the Juniors are ob- lous spirit of parti/.anship that centers in our livious to the claims of Physics so long as the political organizations; the mighty power of Democrats claim Oregon, while the Seniors government patronage, ami the policy of main- look witli grave apprehension at the Constitu- taining party discipline at any cost or hazard, tional defects which this crisis discloses. Such cannot but blunt the liner sensibilities of him is the condition of things at the hour of writ- who is surrounded by such influences. I'.nt ing. By the time these lines are read quiel there are and there have been editors who and regularity may have resumed their sway successfully resisted these influences. With ; :

102 BOWDOIN ORIENT. all his faults Ave counted Horace Greele}' such The interest in class glee clubs seems to an one, and to-da}r George William Curtis is have diminished. the representative of the class. And are we The political majority in this College to have no more Greeleys and Curtises? It seems to be decidedly Republican. will be a happy day for the American press The name of Baker, Marshal of the and the American people when the same law Junior class, was omitted in our last issue. of truthfulness and gentlemanly courtesy as prevails in our daily intercourse shall be bind- The Orono students passed like a beautiful ing on our political journals. And great will dream; the State had them on exhibition. be the purification both for press and people The pedagogues are beginning to leave the journalist shall come to honor and when and we shall have to move up in the Chapel. obey the moral law, "Thou shalt not lie." Scene in Math. room. Prof. —"Well, Mr.

B., how far have you got ? " Mr. B.—" Got HORACE R. PATTEN. stuck."

The following Resolutions on the death of There is no better way of improving these Horace Reed Patten, were adopted by the long evenings than by taking a solid course of Portland Law Students' Club, at a meeting reading. of the Club, Nov. 10th, 1876 : — The meanest man in College is the one Resolved, That the Portland Law Students' Club that stole the oil from the lamps in the read- have learned with great sorrow of the death of Hor- ing room. ace Keed Patten, a former member of this Club.

Resolved, That his intellectual and social quali- Every Senior is now prepared to deliver ties were held in high esteem by the members of this an exhaustive argument on Evidences of Club, and insured success to him in his chosen pro- Christianity. fession. Resolved, That we tender our heartfelt sympathy The editor's of the Bugle will be obliged to the of his family in this great affliction members to begin collecting material at once, if they and that a copy of these Resolutions be transmitted expect to publish it this term. to them by the Secretary of the Club, and also to the Bowdoin Orient for insertion in that paper. The Colb3r students are making arrange- H. G. Briggs, ments to establish a College paper. We wish F. S. Waterhouse, them the best possible success. H. Gr. White. The College Societies have chosen fol- Attest: George Doane Rand, Secretary. the lowing men to act as editors of the Bugle Garland, Potter, Burton, Baker, French. LOCAL. It seems to be the proper thing for every to the The Freshmen are sighing for a dance. man have Gymnasium Rules in his mem- orabilia. We hope the supply will hold out. Now is the time to start debating clubs. Ten men have been chosen to practice for No more sacred concerts in the Gym- the next base-ball season. The game of ball nasium. between the Sophomores and Freshmen re- Now the betting man comes out with his sulted in favor of the former by a score of 25 new hat. to 22. The Freshmen gave us something The singing in chapel last Sunday after- new in the way of batting and catching in noon was very fine. the field. B WD OUST ORIENT. 103

The Freshmen should understand that held in this College. Now it has been sug- when in church they should not expect to be gested that the usual routine be varied, and supplied with cushions from the Juniors' seats. that class praise meetings be held in one of the recitation rooms. We are quite confident It was indeed remarkable to see how rap- that the many who are comparatively stran- idly many students became twenty-one and ob- gers to the regular meetings would attend, tained leave of absence to go home and vote. and with singing one of the prominent fea- for the ball nine, A new uniform is needed tures we see no reason why these meetings it that those students and has been suggested would not impart both pleasure and profit. not members of the association should pay all bills for the same. PERSONAL. We overheard a Freshman the other day confidentially telling his chum that he was [We earnestly request contributions for this glad the election was over for now he could department from the Alumui and friends of the settle down and study. College.]

'43—'61. The College is prepared to furnish a re- —Among the committees at Har- markably fine band as an escort for political vard are found the names of Rev. John O. or other organizations. Drumming regardless Means, '43, and A. S. Packard, Jr. '61. '48. of time will be made a speciality. —Hon. Lafayette Grover has been chosen United States Senator from Oregon. The Saturday evening lectures in the '57. —Rev. Wallie E. Darling, pastor of Cleaveland recitation room are interesting and the Congregational Church at Kennebunk for instructive, and are certainly deserving of a the past eleven years, tendered his resignation fuller attendance than has been accorded them Sunday, Oct. 23. of late. '59.—Gen. C. II. Howard is the manag- — ing editor of the Advance. His brother, Rev. Scene in Senior recitation : Prof. " Mr. '56, is associated him. C'., who was our first President?" Mr. C, R. B. Howard with doubtfully, after long deliberation—" George '61.—C. B. Rounds is County Attorney Washington.'' Prof.—" Are you sure as to for Washington County. '62. that ? " An audible smile by the class —Rev. E. X. Packard of Evanston, drowns the answer. Illinois, has been chosen a corporate member of the American Board of Missions. It is said to be a difficult matter to dis- '62.—We learn from the Churchman that perse a crowd engaged in political discussion. the Rev. J. T. Magrath has declined the posi- venture to assert, however, that there is a We tion of Missionary Bishop of Cape Palmas, man in Brunswick, who, if lie begins to talk recently tendered him. or even makes his appearance, will cause every '67. —Stanley Plummer has been appointed person to bring his argument to a close and Revenue Agent for Maine, vice Manly, leave post haste To remain is torture. resigned. Party spirit seems to be forgotten and all look '69.—Geo. F. Mosher is editor of the upon him as an enemy to the common cause. Morning Star. It is needless to mention names, as we have '7 1. —W. R. Hemmenway is teaching in all been his victims. Minneapolis, Minn. Many students are apparently ignorant of '74.— A. G. Bradstreet is studying law in the fact that class prayer meetings are ever Portland. — — ——

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'74.—H. H. Emery and T. C. Simpson are Professor in Astronomy—How did Coper- studying law in Boston University. nicus avoid persecution? Senior—He died.

'74. — J. W. Pray is studying medicine —Madisonensis. < father at Dover, N. H. with his The Senior Society for the Prevention of '75. Horace Reed Patten died in San — Gallinaceous Longevity underwent its second Francisco, the 28th of October, aged 22 on Eleemosj'nary Orgy last week. Dartmouth. years and 8 months. Since his graduation he had studied law in Portland. Early this Fall Prof. Guyot — "Mr. H., of what minerals is lime-stone composed ? " Mr. H. (com- he sailed for San Francisco, partially for his — health, but soon after his arrival he was posedly) -'Lime and stone." Nassau Lit. from the lungs, seized with a hemorrhage And now Room T will weekly resound declined. and rapidly with the Sophomoric " Give me liberty, or give

'76. 0. Stevens is studying law at ! — C. me death " and the average spectator will Boston University. rise up in his might and say, "give him '76.— F. V. Wright is pursuing a special death! " Era. course of study, here instead of being in the At a young ladies' seminary recently, dur- Engineering Department as we inadvertently ing an examination in history, one of the not stated in our last issue. " most promising pupils was asked : Mary, '76.—A. T. Parker is with his father, did Martin Luther die a natural death V Parker & Carey, Commission Merchants, Bos- " " No," was the reply : he was excommuni- ton, Mass. cated by a bull." '76.—W. G. Waitt is studying law in Gardiner. The Hartford Post, complaining of the '77.—F. 0. Stanley, formerly of this class, lack of centralization in the American system took a prominent part in the late Teachers' of education, sa}T s that one College, with an Association held in Brunswick. able and intelligent Faculty, in each State is

all that should be asked for, and it is a sacri-

fice of efficiency and skill to admit of more. THE COLLEGE WORLD. It appears that early graduation was more common years ago than now. Everett grad- Colby is to start a College paper, to be uated at seventeen years ; Webster at nineteen issued monthly. ; Story, nineteen; Channing (Valedictorian), " Render unto Scissors the things that are eighteen ; Moses Stuart (Valedictorian), nine- Scissors'." School Bulletin. teen ; Prescott, eighteen ; Emerson, eighteen.

Dartmouth talks of changing its College Some time since a delinquent Fresh com- color, which is at present green. ing in to recitation late, as usual, was asked The students of Yale College pay the New by Prof, as to cause of his lateness, and re- Haven washerwomen .$20,000 and upwards plied that he had been to see his pl^sician.

annually. " What does the Doctor say ails you ? " asked

Tutor—" Describe the alimentary canal.'' the Prof. "Why, I don't remember, sir. It Dea.—" I can begin and go through it, sir, if was some big Latin name." Prof. —" Was you wish." Tutor (with a comico-serious it non compos mentis V " Oh, yes," replied

look) —" A plain description will be suffi- Fresh, " that was it, and he says I have it cient."— C'ouraut. bad.''—Dickinsonian. — — — — — —

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Prof. —" Mr. Joues, what remains of ani- A Junior says this is the season of the mal life in the Silurian age have we?" Sen. year when the literary editors are seen in the

— " Worms, sir.'' Prof. —" Do worms petrif}', streets and halls crying " Piece, piece," and ? — Mr. Jones " Sen. "Well, no, sir ; but the there is no piece. Dartmouth. holes do." Ex. The most diabolical pun ever invented worldly youth asked his pious neighbor A was perpetrated by a very harmless sort of a last " do say you Sunday, What you when person the other evening. When Mr. Sober- kneel down on coming into chapel ? " " Now leigh read that a farmer in the West had I lay me down to sleep," was the prompt chopped his only son in two, he innocently reply. College Mercury. — remarked that he didn't think they ought to Why do we not have more practice in arrest a man for simply " parting his heir in military drill ? The question has been asked the middle." Ex. by a good many, and there seems to be no The University of Virginia was founded good reason why the college classes should in the year 1825 by Thomas Jefferson, who, in not get this training as well as those of the connection with the late Mr. Witherspoon, Preparatory School. Round Table, Beloit was largely instrumental in causing that nec- College. essary evil, the Centennial. It was the object A tradition is current at Michigan Univer- of the founder to establish an American insti- sity that once " in the absence of the President tution where the ambitious student could from chapel exercises, the Professor of French learn almost anything, and we consider our- was the only member of the faculty present. selves safe in venturing the conjecture that AVhat was the amazement of the boys to see he succeeded. The studies are elective, each him step forward say that as his vocabulary student being allowed to pursue whatever was rather short and he was an mjiddle the branches he may choose, but no one can pur- exercise would be postponed." sue less than three, except under certain un- following We clip the from the Whig: likely circumstances. Each "School'' has its Bangor schools cost $17.38 per scholar per appropriate Professor, and a harder working

annum, Lewiston #17. 50, Augusta $19.67, corps of instructors it would be difficult to

and Portland $21.69. Bangor scholars have find. Eighty is the least possible grade which 85 teachers, Lewiston 65, Augusta 39, Port- allows a student to "make " an examination, land 114. Bangor has an average attendance and, throughout, the standard of the institu- of scholars at school 2,5*:!, Lewiston 2,004, tion is the highest, perhaps, in America, — cer- Augusta and Portland 4,17s. 1,020 — tainly in the United States. Tin; session be- Patient tu liis doctor "And it is really gins on the first of < October and continues un-

true that I shall recover?" " Infallibly," an- til the Thursday before the Fourth of July, swers the man of medicine, taking from his Chrismas day being the only occasion mi

pocket a paper full of figures. " Here, look which holiday is given. The absence of all at the statistics of your ease: you will find notions of religious training from the scope of

that one per cent, of those attacked with your the Iniversity's aim is a noticeable feature malady arc cured.' 1 " Well," says the sick and one which has not unfrequently been the man, in an unsatisfied manner. " Well, you cause of much aspersion,—••that Atheist Col- arc the hundredth person with this disease lege" being one of the endearing epithets that 1 have had under my cure, and the first occasionally applied to ii by ii- good haters. ninety-nine are all dead." Ex. Nassau Lit. :

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EDITORS' TABLE. columns of formulas and equations that take one straight back to the palmiest days of his analytical

The Asbury Review tells us that " it has been geometry. We are afraid the Wittenberger is not improving, and year by year this will go on." For adapted to the latitude of Brunswick. the sake of future exchange editors we hope it will. We are very much pleased with the Brunonian. One of the most acceptable of our exchanges is We are the more ready to express our pleasure be- the Bockford Seminary Magazine. Its articles are cause in times past we have taken occasion to criti- always excently written, and speak well for the lit- cize the paper quite severely. But the now board

erary culture and ability of the young ladies of the of editors has improved it. The literary depart- institution. And yet thoy must be decidedly reck- ment is well conducted—although the number before less and eccentric if we may believe the editor of us has no poet's corner—the editorials are bright the Lawrence Collegian, who " has a sister that once and readable, and the local and news departments walked the consecrated icalls which the magazine full and attractive. One of the interesting articles represents." Possibly it was a case of somnambu- of the last number was " Impressions of Character." lism. The Campus, a new publication from Alleghany The Tufts Collegian is a very creditable repre- "please shall sentative of its College, but its first page looks bare . College, comes to us marked X." We unfinished without the customary title line. be pleased to. Number three lies upon our table and From an article on " College Men in Congress " we and is very fair, all things considered. The paper that one of the Senators from Massachusetts excludes on principle, as wo gather from its editorial learn

is a Tale graduate ; the other Senator and six of her columns, all advertisements of saloons, billiard eleven members are not graduates. She has now halls, and tobacco stores, "since a college has a Harvard men in Congress, and they are the moral standard to maintain and their appearance three in that body. would be quite probable to do some harm." Speak- only Harvard men New York sends seven College graduates out of thirty-three repre- ing of college expenses as they have recently been sentatives in all; Illinois eleven out of nineteen; exhibited in Scribner's Monthly it says that the rich eight of twenty; Pennsylvania seven student at Alleghany College spends $350 a year, Ohio out out of the seventy-four Senators the average $200, and the economical $150. twenty-six. Of in Con-

gress twenty-six are Alumni of Colleges ; and of the Williams Athenaeum has altered its shape The two hundred and ninety-eight Representatives and size, but we cannot say we think for the bet- and delegates, one hundred and eight, the two houses ter. It may be owing wholly to this change of form together giving a proportion of College educated that we miss the old familiar atmosphere that men amounting to thirty-six per cent. always made it a welcome visitor to our table. A

similar reduction of size marks the Amherst Stu- The College Argus is very decidedly opposed to

dent this term, and while we hardly recognized it at coeducation as it exists in Wesleyau University. first as an old friend, we most heartily congratu- A correspondent writing in the last number says late it on the improvement it shows. A novel fea- " Students soon to graduate carry with them a set- ture of field-day at Amherst was the awarding of a tled conviction concerning coeducation in Wesleyau. barrel of cider to the class whose members took the In the class of 76 a large majority condemned the most prizes in the athletic contests. '78 got it. action that opens our doors to all. I understand feeling ran so high that Yale and Cornell cannot live happily together and that the the gentlemen refused the ladies any part in Class Day exercises. the attitude of their respective college papers is one general feeling of the present Senior Class is of constant belligerency. A recent issue of the Cou- The rant says: "We must confess that our professors that four years have failed to convince them of the coeducation. If other were seriously in the wrong, when, although benefit of classes follow these, any one can see that injury to men of religious principles, they yet, in accepting our College an invitation to preach to the students of Cornell, will follow." deliberately disobeyed the sacred command, " Cast Bodoin is perhaps a simpler way of spelling our not your pearls before swine." name, but we prefer the orthography in common use.

' The Wittenberger runs a ' mathematical depart- We would call the attention of the Hamilton Lit. to ment," and in the last number prints two solid this point. ; —

Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, NOVEMBER 29, 1876. No. 10.

HORACE. THE LAW OF HABIT. to be a law of our nature, that Ad Faunum, Book III., Ode XVIII. It appears our past thoughts and actions should exercise Faunus, lover of the nymphs material influence upon those which Flying with their streaming hair, a very Come and bless 1113* sunny fields are to come. Whatever ideas and whatever And my kids and lambkins fair! actions have been joined together have ever disposition to in proportion to Then, at every Autumn-tide, after a unite Shall rich wines in goblets gleam, the frequency of their previous union, until at your altars, on all sides, And last the adhesion becomes so strong that it With the costly perfumes stream. frequently overcomes the earliest and the most

When your festival is held powerful passions of our nature. and frolic fill the flocks; Frisk If we are accustomed to see certain things "While the village rests from work; always joined together in the same way, they Idle stands the brown-eyed ox; become so united in our mind that the sight AVolf and lamb sleep side by side; of one always suggests the others. Some- Trees in homage bow to you this association becomes so strong that Laborers dance with merry wives, times And their youthful days renew. we are affected by it years after it was formed. A. P. C. For example, it is said that men who have

suffered hardships iii the Arctic Regions, ever A LAMENT. after, when affected by extreme cold, recall the scenes connected with these hardships. Come, pity him, ye happy lads When ideas are united in consequence of Who still in College halls abide, Pity the "grad" but just gone forth their having been previously joined by some From Alma Mater's portals wide. accident, we call it association; or when all these conjunctions of ideas, feelings, and states No longer does ho hear the bell Which summons to the Chapel dim: of body are confined merely to the intellect,

You smile? lie did not like it once; they pass under the name of association ; but But now 'twould lie a treat to him. whenever any outward observable action is No longer into oheerful rooms connected with them, we use the word habit. Do jovial comrades bid him come, Habits may be active or passive,—those 'Mid clouds of smoke and student glees, Or conversation's steady hum. things which we do by an act of the will, and those things which we suffer by the agency of lie leads a dull and lonely life, lu crowded oily or dull some external power. town ; He longs for some professor's voice, It seems to be a general law thai habit Or oven stalely tutor's frown. diminishes physical sensibility, — whatever

But. most of all, he misses friends affects any organ of the body affects it less by Who tor long years Btood by Ids side, repetition. A person who is accustomed to Whose trust and confidence and worth use intoxicants in small quantities, soon re- lie reokona as hia greatest pride. quires larger quantities to be affected in the 110 BOWB01N ORIENT. same degree. But while an immoderate use being so constituted as to desire to do what of strong liquors destroys the sensibility of the we have been in the habit of doing, does not palate, it strengthens the habit of intemperance. always work to disadvantage. The wise toil

Thus we see that experience diminishes the and the true glory of life is to turn all these influence of passive impressions, but strength- provisions of our nature—all these great laws ens our active principles. of the mind—to good ; and to seize hold of On these two laws of our nature is the power of habit, for fixing and securing founded our capacity of moral improvement. virtue. The state which repays us is that

In proportion as we are accustomed to obey habitual virtue which makes it as natural to a this man to act right as to so our sense of duty, influence of the breathe ; which temptation to vice is diminished, while at incorporates goodness with the system, that the same time our habit of virtuous eon- pure thoughts are conceived without study, duct is confirmed. There are many circum- and just actions performed without effort. It stances in the distresses of others which is the perfection of health when every bodily tend to alienate our hearts from them, organ acts without exciting attention. It is but the force of the impressions are daily so with the beauty of moral life,—when man diminished and may be wholly destroyed. It is just and generous and good, without know- is thus the character of the beneficent man ing that he is practicing any virtue, or over- is formed. The passive impressions which he coming any difficulty. The truly happy man felt originally, and which counteracted his is he who, at the close of a long life, has so sense of duty, have lost their influence, and a changed his original nature that he feels it an habit of benevolence has become a part of his effort to do wrong and a mere compliance nature. with habit to perform any great and sacred

Habit uniformly and constantly strengthens duty of life. all our active exertions. Whatever we often But a habit formed against the stream is do we become more and more apt to do. not so strong as one that goes with it. It is Swearing begins with anger and ends by more natural for man to do wrong than to do mingling itself with ordinary conversation. right. A habit of intemperance is stronger

Smoking begins with an occasional cigarette than one of temperance, as is seen by the and ends with a constant use of a pipe. Per- attempt to change the one to the other. haps no reason can be given why the habit of Men who are aware of the power of habit having done a thing should increase the tend- escape its influence, and therefore it is among ency to do it, but such is the fact. It is the most trite principles of education to usually difficult to give up a habit once discover the particular habits to which we are acquired. In fact, it is sometimes almost exposed by situation and profession, and when impossible to do so. It has been said that they are discovered, to resist them. nature is too good a legislator to make a law without annexing a smart penalty to the violation of it. A man who has practiced OPINION. vice for a long time, curses it and still clings to it; he pursues it because ho feels a great Few men are able to judge justly of opin- law of his nature driving him on towards it, ions differing from their own, yet this fact lias but knows that reaching it, it will gnaw his little effect in restraining their condemnation heart and tear his vitals and make him roll not only of such opinions but of the holders himself in the dust with anguish, lint our of such views. Without attempt to rise supe- — — — —

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politician of is rior to their own warped and peculiar views, politics. The ardent to-day they look at those differing from them with no the same who worked so earnestly on the is alone, majority allowance for the influences which helped other side ; but he not the make those differences. The " rarity of human has gone with him. The party whose princi- charity" must be felt as much in ideas as in ples lately seemed so dangerous to good gov- other respects. ernment now appears the only bulwark against Perhaps the best teacher of this rare vir- anarchy. No one will venture to saj' where tue as respects others' ideas would be an anal- he may stand ten years in the future. Could ysis of our own beliefs and an examination of a disinterested observer take in a complete the foundations upon which these convictions view of the conflict of opinion now drawing rest, were we ahle or honest enough to submit to its close in this country, would he imagine them to the test. that beneath all this strife and fierce opposi- Men appear naturally to condemn what tion on either side lay the same purpose, they do not understand. The merest pastime namely, to furnish this country with the best and the most important principle alike are form of government, and such form as shall accounted folty. This has raised the opposi- bring the highest prosperity? Nevertheless tion which has ever stood in the pathway of this is the fact. " science and made men bigoted. The earnest While it is true that as a man thinks so opponents of Galileo could neither understand is he," still it must be acknowledged that he how his theories could be true nor how they doesn't remain so long, whatever state that could consist with the Bible, hence their zeal. so may represent. Such analysis will show how much greater

is the influence of prejudice than of reason, Slang is gaining a too sure and prominent and how often the cause of condemnation place in the common conversation of to-day. exists in the form and not in the spirit. Thus even among the educated, as may be seen from the Englishman sneers at the, frog-eating the following conversation between two Sen- Frenchman with Ids parlez vous and his "draw- iors: Sen. A. (in response to an exclamation) ing-room" manners, without considering that —"That's where you're right." Sen. B.

there is nothing necessarily criminal or weak " You shouldn't use slang, my dear." Sen.

in a man's eating what lie pleases, speaking a A.—"But I learned that expression of you." different language, or showing respect to his Sen. B. (quite excited) — "Impossible! I associates. But the strongest argument nerer use slang, and 'that's where you're up '" againsl this sweeping condemnation of oppos- a stump." Sibyl.

ing opinions would seem to lie the considera- tion of the process by which these com ictions Time, beginning of the year. First stu- have been reached, and also the length of dent (to '2d ditto), " Glad to see 3-011 back." time during which these views have been Second student, "So glad you're glad." First " clearly denned and unchanged, if they have student, Glad you're glad I'm glad." Sec- arrived at this state. Each successive period ond student, " Si glad you're glad I'm glad

will be found to have had its own opinions, you're glad." A realizing sense of the awful and a gradual change to have ever worked insanity to which they are drifting here breaks

with more or less force, until 1 1 pinions of a off the colloquy. -Williams Athenaeum.

Few years ago can not he recognized or are tin;

very ones so freelj rejected in others. Why is the moustache of a Soph like a

here is inoi e Now this not ieeahle than in . base-hall nine? Three out, all out! Argus. 112 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. Delinquents please take notice, and relieve our embarrassment. PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- ING THE COLLEGIATE TEAR, AT There is considerable complaint concerning BOWDOIN COLLEGE, the ventilation of the recitation rooms, and with very good reason. During the Winter By the Class or 1877. the rooms are heated by Avood stoves, gener- ally filled so that the room becomes uncom- EDITORS. fortably hot a few minutes after the class is John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, William T. Cobb, George T. Little, seated. In addition to this, great care is taken Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, that no fresh air be allowed to enter through

Charles B. Seabury. windows or doors. The result of all this is

that in the air is not fit to Terms—$2.00 a year, in advance; single copies, twenty minutes 15 cents. breathe, and members of the class begin to Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, grow stupid and uneasy. It would seem that Brunswick, Maine. steps might be taken by the College authori- For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- ties to have this evil remedied, as the good son's, Brunswick. results of the Gymnasium and other compul- sory exercises are more than balanced by the CONTENTS. evil effects arising from badly ventilated

Vol. VI., No. 10.—November 29, 1876. rooms.

Horace , 109 We have received a circular from Julian A Lament 109 M. Elliot, Chairman of the Executive Com- The Law of Habit 109 Intercollegiate Literary Associ- Opinion 110 mittee of the Editorial Notes 112 ation, saying that the examination of con- Local 114 testants in the different departments will take Personal 115 place in rooms at the New York University, The College World 116 Washington Square, New York City, Dec. 6, Editors' Table 118 1876, at 10.30 a.m. The prizes offered con- Recent Publications 118 testants in Greek, Latin, Mathematics, and

Mental Science respectively, are : First prize, EDITORIAL NOTES. $300 ; second, $100. If by any contingency only two contestants appear in any depart- The state of our finances renders it very ment, the first prize only will be given. The desirable that all subscriptions shall be paid Oratorical contest will take place in the

as soon as possible. We have bills outstand- Academy of Music, New York City, Jan. 3, ing to a considerable amount, and as we are 1877, at 7.30 p.m. The first prize will be dependent upon our subscribers for the nec- $75; the second $50. A prize of $150 is essary cash, we would urge upon their atten- also offered for the best essay on any one of tion our little bill of $ 2.00 for the year end- the subjects previously announced. ing March, 1877. They won't miss it and we shall be helped out of our difficulties. All We remember, during our Freshman year, subscriptions should be remitted, if possible, of seeing in the Orient an account of a soci- prior to Dec. 20th, to the Business Editor. ety which had just been organized in the —

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Senior class, called the "Sumner Club." As in the matter, and that part of the trouble the name indicated, it was a political though arises from the well-designed requirement of not a partizan society, formed for the purpose church attendance. The large majority of

of awakening an intelligent interest in the students, if free from outside influences, would politics of the day, and the deeper questions be found regularly at church, and the same of Constitutional interpretation. As to its service under smy other circumstances would

prosperity in the class in which it originated receive their attention and respect. Even if

we cannot speak, but it was not adopted and required to attend, their se(f-respect restrains

perpetuated by 75, and hence its clays of use- them when in the body of the house. It fulness were short, A desire has, however, is when brought together in the galleries, been expressed by some members of '77 to counted, and placed under the watchful care of see the club revived, or something instituted guardians, that they seem to lose all care for

to take its place. The suggestion strikes us themselves. This manner of seating students as a good one. The studies of the term, as so entirely by themselves has much to do with

well as the national events of the last few deportment, still it seems under the circum- months, have been such as to cause unusual stances a "necessary evil." The tendency of

interest in the class of topics that would fall numbers to do what they would not do as in-

within the province of a political club. Un- dividuals is one of the strong arguments against

less we are mistaken, it would not be a difficult removing the requirement ; still we think that matter to find a sufficient number who would after the reaction from the present system had be glad to join such an organization as work- passed away, such a course might be found to

ing members ; and we hope that those who secure a more thoughtful attendance upon re- are thinking of the matter will persevere ligious services. Even were some compulsory until there shall be in College a well manned religious service besides prayers twice, thought and managed club for the discussion of to be needful for the Sabbath, let such ser- national questions. vices be held — as in many colleges — in some college building, leaving the attendance upon The effect of a requirement upon the av- the regular church service optional. This erage mind is nowhere better illustrated than method, with sermons especially adapted to as regards church attendance in College. In student life, as in our Saturda}' evening meet- one unused to the peculiar manifestations of ing, would be an improvement as respects the student life, a visit to our galleries Sunday design of religious services. morning might not create a very favorable impression as to the interest in religious wor- Richard Grant White says there is no such ship or the respeel paid to religious services. thing as " in our midst." We should like to Some, and the number is not small, assume ask where he would locate the pain that the most utter indifference to what may be makes paregoric a popular beverage with the going on in the church, except that they may young. Ex. get on their feet when the congregation rises.

From tliis extreme (here arc grades of indiffer- erence, until you reach the few, who, despite •• Maria, what's that strange noise at the their surroundings, give in some measure that front gate?" "Cats, sir." "Cats? Well!

regard which is due to so solemn a service. when I was young, cats didn't wear stove- Though these are facts, we think that they are pipe hats and smoke cigars!"' " Times have " hardly true exponents of the students* feeling changed, sir ! — AV. '

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LOCAL. There is much complaint concerning the ventilation of the Gymnasium. The building

" Blow, Bugle, blow." is so close and warm that it makes active labor almost impossible. Appleton wound up Maine at Avhist. A Junior whose woocl-closet formerly con- Now is the time to look up fine points in tained a supply of apples was heard to observe whist. that his friends had ceased to inquire about A few hardy Freshmen still persist in his health now that the barrel was empty. playing ball. Through inadvertence we omitted to men- The Chapel bell seems to defy all attempts tion that we were indebted to Prof. John S. to prevent its ringing. Sewall of Bangor Theological Seminary for

Prof. Condon has planted a woodbine at the interesting sketch of Hon. Samuel Page the south side of the temple. Benson, in our last number.

Showmen complain of the abundance of The following Seniors have been appointed reporters connected with this College. to take part in the Senior and Junior Exhibi- tion at the close of the present term. Little, The Juniors have completed the Germania Salutatorian ; W. T. Cobb, Giirdjian, Metcalf, and Argoliea as one of them remarked. C. A. Perry, Seaburj^ Sewall, Tillson. The boating and ball men are pursuing a " They condemn the hard and laborious special course of training in the Gymnasium. honor of monuments as burdensome to the

The supply of Gymnasium rules has given defunct," is how a Junior translates the pas- out. Glue has taken the place of tacks, hence sage, " Monumentorum arduum operosum the scarcity. honorem ut gravem defunctis aspernantus."

Burton '78, having been absent from Col- A promising Freshman astonished his lege on account of sickness, his position as one equals a short time since by translating the of the Bugle Editors is filled by P. L. Paine. passage: "Forte in duobus turn exercitibus erant trigemini fratres," " Perchance there The Senior class has settled the question were in the two armies three twin brothers." of "Free Trade vs. Protection," and now the country will return to a peaceful condition. Junior Recitation in Physics. Prof. —"Mr. B., if a pendulum made ten vibrations per A resident of the North End of Appleton " second, would you be able to count them ? has lately received a lot of fine apples. Mr. B.—" Yes sir." Prof. —" You evidently Friends are cordially invited to sample the differ with this author and all other authors stock. on the subject." Stealing the Bulletin Board must have A College band, in embryo at least, seems been the result of long continued mental to exist among us, and it has given the students activity. Such an action was worthy only of two or three extempore out-door concerts a profound philosopher. lately. We hope it will grow and take on '79 men carry their neckties in their hats. more imposing proportions, as we believe the

It is a very convenient place, but embarrassing College can now produce just as good a band results may follow if it becomes necessary to with a little effort as it has ever had. The raise the hat on meeting a lady acquaintance. Bowdoin Orchestra practices regularly, and

You ask him if it isn't so. will be heard from before long. ;:

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The Sophomore class has chosen the fol- A. M. Sherman ; Chaplain, J. K. Greene lowing officers for the comingyear: President, Orator, C. W. Morrill; Poet, C. A. Perry;

Fifield ; Vice President, Varney ; Eulogist, Historian, W. T. Cobb; Prophet, F. A. Mitch-

H. W. Ring ; Secretary and Treasurer, Hast- ell; Parting Address, E. M. Cousins; Odist, ings. Committee of Arrangements, H. A. R. E. Peaiy. Committee of Arrangements Huston, Byron, Bourne. R. E. Peary, C. E. Cobb, L. H. Reed. Com-

— mittee on Music : C. B. Seabury, C. E. Knight, In Constitutional Law : Prof. " If a ves- L. A. Stan wood. Committee on Pictures: S. sel sails from Baltimore down Chesapeake Bay, A. Giirdjian, C. W. Morse, E. J. Pratt. by the ports of what State would she pass?'' Senior—" By the ports of the State of Del- aware." A collection is at once taken up and a Geography is procured for the unfor- PERSONAL. tunate Senior. [We earnestly request contributions for this Thus far, all attempts to close the Chapel department from the Alumui and friends of the in a large addition have resulted only making College.] to the bill of average of repairs to be paid by '32.—Prof. John Johnston of Wesleyan each student at the close of the term. If we University intends to spend the coming pay for the experiment, surely those making winter in Cuba, on account of ill health. it ought soon to give us some satisfaction ; '31. —Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, D.D., has begun even a little excitement would be preferable a series of lectures before the students of the dull failure that follows each attempt. to Yale Theological Seminary, upon the Turkish

In view of recent events it may for the Empire, witli especial reference to the cause advantage of each student to inquire the of missions. number of his marks. The indications are '39.—Rev. Franklin Davis has accepted a that the College authorities would eagerly call to the church at Tamworth, X. II. '53. seize the opportunity of establishing what —Rev. J. E. Pond is supplying the they are pleased to term another precedent. Congregational Church at Milltown. The marking system as used in this College '53.—Rev. J. E. Adams is Secretary of the appears to be under the control of individual .Maine Missionary Society. members of the Faculty. '58.—Robert Ellis lias been re-elected County Clerk, Oconto County, Wisconsin. The Bugle will lie published on December 'GO. — Rev. C. F. Penney, on Sunday. Nov. 16th, the Saturday previous to the end of the 19th, tendered Ins resignation of the pastorate term. It is the intention of the editors to of the Free Baptist Church al Augusta, in make it a faithful representative, not of elass order to accept a call to Providence, R. I. but of the society interests of the College; The Augusta Journal says his resignation and il was for this reason that contributions causes the deepesi regrel on the part of his were requested from all the students. In parishioners. order thai it may be issued before the holi- "(il. — Rev. W'. R. ('loss was installed pas- days, all articles must be handed in to the tor of the Congregational Church at ( iamden, editors before .Monday morning, Dee. 4th. Wednesday. Nov. 15th. The sermon was The Senior Class have elected the follow- preached by Prof. J. S. Sewall, '50. '63. ing officers : Marshal, II. I). Wlggin; Presi- — Horace I;. Cheney. Esq., of Boston, dent, \V. (r. Beale; Secretary and Treasurer, is seriously ill. For ihe past six months he — — : — —

116 B0WD01N ORIENT. has been unable to practice his profession A Freshman timidly inquired in the li- owing to impaired health, and has now gone brary the other day what he should read up South for relief. on the Seductive method of Bacon. Ex. '63. of the —Rev. A. J. Smith, pastor Prof, to student reciting—" Define a C}d- at Waterford Centre, Congregational Church inder." Student—"A cylinder is a vacuum has been unable to preach for the last six surrounded by a curved surface ! " Athenceum. months, owing to severe lung troubles. A wag, noted for his brevity, wrote to a '70.—Alonzo G. Whitman is teaching at to be careful in the selection of diet. Melrose, Mass. friend " He says : Don't eat Q-cumbers ; they'll '74.—E. N. Merrill is practicing law at Skowhegan. W-up."—Ex. '76.—O. C. Evans is principal of the High The Commercial Advertiser —"A Yale man, and Grammar Schools at Pembroke. accidentally struck with a base-ball club, the '76.—Jere Millay, formerly of this class, other day, did not even sustain a bruise from has opened a law office at Bath. it. He must be an unusually hard student." '76. —G. B. Merrill is at work upon the A belated citizen, from whom a policeman new pulp mill now being built at Yarmouth. was trying to rescue a lamp-post a few morn- '76.—Charles A. Perry has entered the ings ago, violently resisted the endeavor, ex- Bangor Theological Seminary. claiming : " Lemme 'lone ! I'm (hie) hold'n '76.—J. M. Hill has finished his first term " th' fort ! at Limerick Academy. '77. —Edward E. Dunbar, formerly of this They have found a petrified Mormon in s class, was married to Miss M. A. Day of Dam- Utah, and from the number of dents in the ariscotta, Nov. 22. Dunbar is the editor of head, evidently made with a poker and flat- the Village Herald and Lincoln Record, a weekly iron, it is judged that he had at least thirty- paper published at Damariscotta. three wives. Amherst Student.

On Hang, of North Adams, sings of Mary

little lamb : WORLD. and her THE COLLEGE "Was gal name Moll had lam, Pleas all samee white suo, Evly place Moll gal walkee Prof.—" What is the reciprocal of secant Ba, Ba, hoppee long too. I ? " Student (unconsciously), "I can't see." — College Argus. It is one of the Connecticut qualifications of a voter that he shall be able to read, and A Freshman, being asked the name of it was amusing to any one standing by the Xenophon's wife, replied after considerable the polls on election day, to see the efforts hesitation, that he believed it was Anna Basis. made by some of the Irish to show that they — College Journal. were qualified. One had evidently committed A Fresh was seen leaning out of the win- to memory the part where it was customary to moonlight night, and heard dow on a recent examine applicants, and which ended some- to exclaim, "I wonder if the moon is shining " what as follows : every, man shall serve in a this at Vassar?" like military capacity." After stumbling through Some helpless sort of a person in Pitts- the first part, he ended with, " and every man burgh advertises for "one or two steady girls shall carry a gun." The next applicant had

to help on pantaloons." Ex. not even tried to ' commit to memory, and — — — :

BO WD OIN ORIENT. 117 after shifting the book about from side to side, the head, not with the hands." " Butted, did " he gave it to his companion with the request, they ? said the old lady. " Jim, just read that for me. eyes Here, My Prof.—" Mr. P., translate." Mr. P.—" I poor to-day." was disquali- are very He pass, Professor." Prof. —" I order you up, jfied. Trinity Tablet. Mr. P." Another student (well versed in Prof, of Philosophy—"Mr. Fitzgibbons, the art) —" You can't order a man up after he will you please name one of those philoso- has passed." Professor promises to think it " phers called Rationalists ? Fitzgibbons over. — Collegian. — —"Correct; (sleepily) "Can't, sir." Prof. The average expenditure of College men Kant was one. Your father will be glad to is discussed by the Springfield Republican, hear of your proficienc}-." which says that that expenditure " has been

Prof.—" Mr. A., in a case of poisoning with rising steadily for the past fifteen years, until sugar of lead, what would j'ou do ? " Mr. it has got to a point where it must stop and

A.—" Counteract it with a dose of strych- recede, or the colleges will suffer a diminution " nine." Prof. — " What else would you do ? of students." The Rochester Democrat says Mr. A.—" Give the patient an anecdote." " The public sentiment of the College in this (Class looks solemn, and Professor takes out matter should be educated to the point of his smelling bottle.) The Targwm. conservatism—of extreme conservatism. The Faculty owe it to the patrons of their College Some of those naughty botanical Juniors to advise the students against unnecessary have a very pleasant way of pressing their expenses, and they should not hesitate about specimens. They arrange them in button- specifying what they regard as useless and hole bouquets, then spend the evening with foolish expenditures. Faculty advice has some damsel. The next morning the flowers great weight with classes, and if it is given in are pressed beautifully. We suppose they are time it can do much to check the alarming acting on Prof. Seely's suggestion, that they excesses to which College students are running. should get up their herbariums by fair means. — Undergraduate. Out of 1,000 published books, 500 never pay the cost of printing, etc., 200 just pay " Mus' brace up," said Sozzle, as he stood on expenses, 100 return a slight profit, and only the doorstep at 1 a.m.; "i'll never do let ol' 100 show a substantial gain. Of these l.ntin lady 'spect anythinV and, as Mrs. S. de- books, 650 are forgotten by the end of the scended the stairs, clad in her robe de nuit, year, and 150 more by the end of three years: Sozzle braced up, knocked the ashes off his only 50 survive seven years' publicity. < >f the cigar, and, as the door opened, said cheerily: 50,000 publications put forth in the seven- "Hullo, M'ria, (hie) up yet? Got a match in teenth century, hardly more than 50 have a yer pocket?" Of course she did not suspect great reputation and are reprinted. < *f the anything. Reporter. 80,000 works published in the eighteenth

"That's where the boys fit for college," century, posterity has hardly preserved said the Professor to Mrs. Partington, point- than weic rescued from oblivion in the seven- ing to a school house. " l>iil they?" said the teenth cent my. -Men have been writing books old lady, with animation. "Then, if they lit these three thousand years, and there ale fur college before they went, they didn't fight hardly more than 500 writers throughout the afterwards?" "Yes,"- said he, smiling and globe who have survived the outrages of lime favoring the conceit; "but the fight was with and forgetfulness of man. —

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EDITORS' TABLE. of its literary department is too suggestive of the well rounded periods of Daniel Pratt, G-. A. T., and his " vocabulary laboratory equilibrium." The Archangel and the Notre Dame Scholastic exchange with each other. We extend our sympa- The Alabama University Monthly has a most thy to both in their hour of affliction. original aud complimentary way of introducing its editors to the public. One of the board resigned The Village Herald and Lincoln Becord is a his position much to the regret of his fellow laborers, bright, attractive weekly that comes to us from the but they go on to say that " after losing this talented twin villages of Damariscotta and Newcastle. It is gentleman, we elected Mr. R. Betts in his stead. devoted to " Agriculture, News and General Litera- Mr. Betts is one of the brightest young men we ture," and is a very creditable representative of ever knew. His standing, in all respects, is Lincoln county. It will interest '77 men to know second to none that have ever entered the Uni- that Mr. E. E. Dunbar, formerly of their class, is versity, and to those who know him he needs no one of the editors and proprietors of the Herald and eulogy." On reading the number through we judge Becord. that Mr. Betts could not have taken much of a hand

"We venture to say that few college productions in getting it up. And he will not be one of the bright- during the past year have been superior to the prize est young men we ever knew unless he follows the essay on "Nathaniel Hawthorne" which the No- example of his predecessor and retires from the Ala- vember number of the Nassau Lit. gives us. The bama University Monthly. whole number, too, while it contains one or two crude, school-boyish communications, is on the whole exceptionally well written, and is typographically among the best of the monthlies. We congratulate RECENT PUBLICATIONS. the Lit. on its improvement this year. We have just received from the publishers ad- We have received a specimen copy of the Young vance sheets of Student Life at Harvard, to which Folks Gem, published in Wadsworth, Ohio, and we would earnestly call the attention of our readers. after an examination we unhesitatingly recommend A faithful picture of college life, beginning with the it to the Freshmen as an excellent publication. It entrance examination and closing with class-day, contains several short, easy stories, together with occasional digressions to life in the outside world one or two articles on Natural History especially relieving it of anything of a tedious nature to those adapted to children. It affords a good chance for unacquainted with college life. At almost every them, too, if any of them wish to begin learning to page the student finds his mind wandering back to " write, as the editor says : Letters from the child- similar incidents in his own experience. A book of ren wauted, short, pithy and to the point. Tell of rare interest to every college man. Published by your pets, amusements, sorrows and homes." We Lockwood, Brooks & Co., 381 Washington Street, hope the members of '80 will give the Gem the sup- Boston. Price $1.50.

port it so richly deserves. Subscription, thirty cents The Popular Science Monthly for December is a year, including a beautiful chromo, mailed to each an unusually interesting and valuable number of subscriber. Liberal reductions to clubs. that always excellent magazine. We hardly see how We must decline to exchange with the Alfred any one at all interested in scientific subjects can Student, which is "published monthly by the literary dispense with the Monthly. Among the articles of societies and faculty of Alfred University." Not this issue are " Fermentation and its Bearing on from any ill will to the University—we never heard the Phenomena of Disease," "The protection of of it before —but we are confident, from the number Buildings from Lightning," "Mormonism from a the managers have sent us, that it would be alto- Mormon Poiut of View," " What American Zoolo- gether "too many" for us. Its philosophical tone gists have done for Evolution," " The Laws of quite staggers the unmetaphysical reader. It may Health," "Canine Sagacity," Prof. Huxley's Second

be true that "man is the unit of which mankind is Lecture in full, and a largo amount of literary and the unity or brotherhood, and it is in aud through miscellaneous matter. Published by D. Appleton & the organic unity of these units" that something or Co., New York. Single copies 50 cents, or $4.50 a other happens, wo can't make out what. The stylo year. ©witia ®iitrti

Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, DECEMBER 13, 1876. No. 11.

BOAVDOIN ORIENT. taken, and tlie beauty of the Chapel is cer- tainly impaired if not destroyed, by the PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DURING THE COLLEGIATE FEAR, BY THE CLASS OE '77, OF absence of so many paintings included in the BOWDOIN COLLEGE. original plan. It is needless to enlarge upon the appropriateness of leaving such a memo- EDITORS. rial of the class. During a great portion of .Iiiiin- E. Chapman, William C. Greene, William T. Cobb, George T. Little, its College course it has been one of the lar- [Sugar M. Cousins, Curtis A.Perry, gest Bowdoin has ever known, and, in its own Charles B. Seabi/ry. opinion at least, it has not excelled in point

Terms — $2.00 year is advance singlo copies, 15 cents. a 5 of numbers alone. The real question is Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, Brunswick, Maine. of class are willing For sale at Chark'S Griifin's and B. G. Dennison's, Brunswick. whether the members the to raise the necessary sum. Of their ability CONTENTS. to do so we see no reason to doubt. They Vol. 71., So. 11.— December 13, 1876. own already a fine boat in good condition, for which they will have no use after next Spring, Editorial Notes 121 Secret Societies 123 and which if sold would certainly furnish half Tin- College Hermit 12G the amount needed. We hope and earnestly Catullus, V. (poem) 12G ' recommend that early and favorable action be Uical 127 the subject. Personal 1'JS taken upon The College World \-M Editors' Table 130 Tlie committee elected by the Senior class to take charge of the matter of class pictures, EDITORIAL NOTES. have decided to have the pictures taken by Messrs. Pierce & Reed of this town. They Our readers will perceive this week a have thus decided, not only because the sam- change in the arrangement and make-up of ple specimens presented by this linn fully the ( Irient. < )n several accounts this change equaled the work exhibited by rival photog- lias seemed desirable, and we hope and believe raphers, but also because there are some im- thai a little familiarity with the now arrange- portant advantages to be gained by having ment will make its advantages evident to all. the work done at home. If a photographer comes to Brunswick from Portland or Boston,

We hear it proposed thai the Senior class he can remain but a limited time, and in that put into execution whatseveral previous ones time the picturesmusl be taken, be the weather have often talked of, and fill one of the empty what it may. and be the engagements and dis-

( panels in our 'ollegc ( lhapcl. The desirable- positions of the students what they may. If, ness of such a course is not to be questioned. on the other hand, the students go to Boston

The College is evidently unable at present to or even to Portland, they are just as much at incur the expense necessary to complete tlie the mercy of the weather, with the additional system of decoration which has been under- disadvantage of being weary from n journey 122 B0WD01N ORIENT. of some considerable length. The arrange- remedy this evil. Any carpenter of ordinary ment which the committee propose, however, ability could, at a slight expense, make open- will enable a man to sit at any time conven- ings above the doors similar in shape and ar- ient to himself, and as many times as may be rangement to those in use on railroad cars, necessary to get a satisfactory picture. Mr. which would obviate if not entirely do away Gurdjian, the chairman of the committee, and with the present difficulty. himself a photographer, proposes to examine every negative before pictures are finished No one can use the College library to any from it,—a safeguard against imperfect work, great extent without being surprised at which no previous class has possessed. On the absence of many works usually found in the whole, we think there is reason to believe a collection of one-tenth its size. Rich in that '77 will be more fortunate in the matter old, rare, and valuable volumes seldom seen of class pictures than some classes, at least, on this side of the Atlantic, save in one or which have graduated from Bowdoin within two of the larger libraries and among the col- our remembrance. lections of antiquarians, it is wonderfully de- ficent in many books published within the last As the Winter is now fairly upon us, we half-centuiy, some of which are fast coming feel constrained to s&y a word in regard to to be considered as classic, and all of which the want of ventilation in several of the reci- have in the past and still exercise a great in- tation rooms. The present Senior class has fluence. If we look at the history of the suffered considerably from this cause hereto- library, we need not be so much astonished at fore ; but this term, perhaps because the two this deficiency. Never, we are informed, lias divisions have recited together for the first it had a fixed income. Every year the Boards time, the evil has been much worse than usual. of Trustees and Overseers are accustomed to In two of the rooms in particular, long before make an appropriation for its support, varying the hour is over, the air is, to state it mildly, from time to time in amount, but always far not remarkable for its purity. Whether it be below what is needed. The usual excuse, hot or cold at the beginning of the recitation the poverty of the College, is pleaded in ex- —and we are alternately treated with each ex- planation of this course. treme of the temperature—before its close, the The absence of many works by the continued exhalations of so many have in either Alumni and former members of the Faculty,

r case entirely unfitted the air for breathing. however, cannot be accounted for in this wa} . One might suppose that no difficulty of The writer lays claim to no great knowledge this kind would be experienced in a high- of the Alumni or their literary labors, yet he posted apartment like that in the south wing is able to name full one hundred of their vol- of the Chapel. On the contraiy, this is one umes which cannot be found within the walls of the worst occupied by the class, and the of the library. Doubtless an examination by only drawback to the interesting recitations a competent person would double, perhaps conducted there is the foul atmosphere which treble this number. We consider this state invariably characterizes the closing half hour. of affairs very unfavorable, if not disgraceful.

Though a few may not notice it, the effect We do not pretend to say who is to blame for upon their systems is none the less injurious. it. Perhaps the fault lies with the authors, It seems to us that an institution of learning, perhaps with the College authorities. The and especially one which provides instruction latter, however, are able, we think, to remedy in physiology, should make fome attempt to the evil by simply requesting the former to BOWDOIN ORIENT. 123 present their Alma Mater with copies of their numerous and excellent. A large number of works. A certain sense of modesty, which new ones have been made, which are almost might have restrained an author before, could uniformly good. Among the best we would do so no longer, and we are at a loss to con- mention the highly suggestive picture which ceive of an}' other motive which could pre- follows the Faculty, the Senior and Freshman vent him from acceding to so reasonable an class cuts, and the cut of the Bowdoin appeal. If other Colleges take so much pride Orchestra. The three stages of discipline are in the publications of their graduates as to ex- capitally illustrated, and the ivy leaf of '78 hibit them at the Centennial, surely Bowdoin is quite an ingenious piece of work. The cuts ought to give her undergraduates at least an are well designed and well executed, and will opportunity to read the works of their prede- add greatly to the popularity of The Bugle. cessors. The quotations are good, as a general thing, some of them exceptionally appropriate, and Through the kindness of the editor we the large amount of "miscellaneous matter'' have been permitted to examine the advance has been carefully collected and arranged. sheets of the forth-coming Bugle, and we In concluding what we wish could have can assure our readers that they will find no been a more detailed review, we would con- cause for disappointment in this number of gratulate the editors upon the success which their annual publication. It is fair to pre- has attended their efforts. They labored sume that each Bugle will show an improve- under the double disadvantage of having one ment over its long line of predecessors, profit- less editor than usual, and of having less time ing, as it may, b}' their defects as well as by than should be allowed to prepare so large a their excellencies. The gentlemen of '78 publication. We consider that they have have had this advantage, and we think the re- given us a Bugle which is a worthy represen- sult is that they have given us a Bugle supe- tative of '78, and of the College at large, and rior as a whole to any that has yet appeared. we are confident that our opinion will be con- A trifle larger than the number last year, it firmed next Saturday by the general verdict will imitate that number in adopting for its of the students. cover the class color, which is blue. The editorial, while not differing radically in plan

traditional Bugle editorial, is from the yet so [COMMUMIOATIOS.] gracefully and pleasantly written as to make SECRET SOCIETIES. it one of the most attractive features of the book. It will not, perhaps, in some passages, As the readers of the Orient probably are he thoroughly endorsed by the boys of '76, somewhat interested in the Greek-Letter Fra- but the good natured lone of its remarks will ternities to which our heading refers, we disarm any resentment. It pays a very hand- thought it would not be out of place to re- some compliment to the class of '77. Among mind them of some of the more prominent the '' new departures" in this number is the facts relating to their standing in Bowdoin; introduction of class histories, which are gen- and also to consider some of the objections erally found in college publications of this that are urged against their existence, and see sort. We have never yet seen a publication what answer may be made to their opponents, which was much improved by them, and we endeavoring to show how each individual chap- hardly think The Bugle forms an exception to ter is able in great measure to silence adverse our previous experience. The cuts are both criticism. We hope at least to bring out the 124 B0WD01N ORIENT. reality of the influence which each society is ciety has over them for good or evil,—we apt to exert over its members, in molding mean the influence of the society not simply

life. T their characters, during their college as a set of } oung men, but as part of a Fra- We think all who have observed student ternity. If one should take the pains to go life at Bowdoin would admit that the most over the standing of the various Fraternities prominent feature of the social life of the throughout the colleges, he would find some students is the part that the various societies relation between each of the separate chap- have in it. When the Sub-Freshman enters ters in the general habits of their students. town, if he happens to be in any way desira- We think the traditions, the songs, the ble for an associate, he finds that the question method of conducting meetings, all have an as to what society he will join is all-important influence over each student, tending to make to the upper-classmen. Somewhat ludicrous those in far distant chapters resemble each is the attention they receive then in compar- other. Every member feels, or should feel, ison with the lack of attention immediately an interest in his society as a part of a Fra- after they pledge. We can remember seeing ternity, and should try in his own college life a number of upper-classmen waiting round to bring no disgrace on the Fraternity to the door of the room where the Freshman which he belongs. Often this feeling has was being examined, so as not to lose a deterred students as a society from wrong- moment in " fishing" him. One would think doing. When one takes a catalogue of any of from the arguments that are then urged, that the Fraternities, lie will probably be struck, the poor Freshman was taking one of the especially if he has a friend near him well most serious steps in his life, in deciding as to posted in the art of "fishing," with the many which one of the societies he will join ; and distinguished names he will meet there. we think it really is of great importance, Every student feels, or should feel, desirous though at the time it may seem of little con- of making his part of the Fraternity, his sequence. When a student once joins a soci- chapter, such that the men who bear these ety, he finds that he. is in a great measure names may be proud of it. We firmly hold prevented from making college friends out- that a college which can count many distin- side of the set composing that chapter. He guished men among its Alumni, can get much generally boards with those of his own society higher work out of its students, from the

at a club ; often a number of the same society emulation that is incited in the student by the will take rooms near each other, sometimes remembrance that such and such a man once taking a whole end of a college building, and here went through the same course that he is it is a prominent trait of a college youth to go going through, and from the tradition that into the room that is nearest if time hangs such men were generally hard workers. heavy on his hands. It might be said in most Each societ}^ is stronger for every name of instances that when a Freshman chooses his merit it has on its roll, since it thus excites society, he really chooses for four years his the ambition of its members for better work. companions, whose influence is proverbial ; and Every member is bound to use his utmost ef- if we remember that the student's four years forts to bring up his own chapter to the high- in college are generally at a time when his est plane of true excellence, and the only way habits of life are being formed, the influence of he can do this is by helping his fellows to be " Secret Societies " must be admitted. worthy members, shielding them from harm, Any one who has watched students care- and urging them to good, and sinking all petty fully, can plainly trace the influence their so- personal ambitions or passions in trying in BOWDOIN OBIENT. 125

the esprit de corps which it is so desirable every way to make his chapter worthy of his utterly for every class to cherish. time and love. If every member would thus We fail to see the bearing of this objec- strive, no one could in fairness have any ob- tion, for we cannot see any more harm in a jection to the existence of secret societies in society possessing esprit de corps than in a colleges. Every student should be liberal enough Before taking up any adverse criticisms, class. to do for his class and his society at the same we again insist that there is a difference be- time. tween a mere clique of young men, and a chapter with all the customs and traditions of 3. They lead, iu the management of class affairs, intrigue and to the practice of the low an old, established Fraternity,—although so to habits of arts of the politician. Combinations and bargains many of the opponents of secret societies arc often made to secure or defeat the election of ignore this fact. candidates for parts in the exercises of class day, at In all that we have ever seen written the end of the college course, which are wholly in- against secret societies, we never met the consistent with the disingeuuousness of youth and arguments put in a more concise, common- scholars. sense way, than those given by Pres. Robin- This is the one great practical objection, son of Brown University in his annual report and the objection that is urged with the great- for this year. After recognizing the good est truth. His words can express our dis- that they may do from a social and literary like for class politics under society patronage; point of view, he gives the objections under we only hope that some way may be devised five heads, which we will quote in full, and to lessen it at Bowdoin. see if they may not be made false by the 4. They intensify peculiarities of taste aud standing of the societies in Bowdoin. habit, till these, harden into fixed defects of charac-

1. Tlieir expeusivenoss. Kacli society must have ter. Each society is marked by its own peculiar its own hired and furnished room. To provide for type, drawing to itself only men of its own kind. the rent, care, heating, and lighting of this room, The natural result is, that intimacies are quite as for the occasional refreshments which are regarded likely to exist among men of different classes, and as essential to the life of the society, for correspond- of classes farthest removed from each other, as they ence with numerous chapters of the same society are among members of the same class. Whatever in different parts of the country, and for expenses of evil as well as of good there is in a Junior or

(if delegates to the annual re-unions of chapters, Senior, finds its way very readily into the mind and

there is necessarily charged a very considerable initi- heart of a Freshman ; and the evil thus communi- ation fee, besides an annual tax. one of the lar- cated, I am sorry to say, quite too frequently out- gest items in the present rate of college expenses, weighs the good. former is in as compared with years, found these 5. There are annual meetiugs of the societies, to societies. which chapters at the different colleges are required meetings are sometimes < )f course this objection must be given its to send delegates. These hundreds of miles away. Two delegates are full force, and the members must in every way held ordinarily sent, though several sometimes apply for try to lessen the expenses. Their room should permission to go when the place of reunion is con- be one that they can fid is worth taking care veniently near. The delegates are absent from col- of, but beyond the few running expenses, lege duties from one day to four, or more, according money should always be raised by subscrip- to the distance to he traveled. These meetings, it serious iuter- tion, so that those wild can best afford to pay is evident, must sometimes occasion of work, and where the societies in may give their share. ruptions college ;, college are numerous, must lie sources of serious •I. They foster a spirit of clannisbness, and lead annoyance to professors. to the formation of cliques in the classes, interfer- ing with the class feeling, and oftentimes destroying Tii the hist objection, it is sufficient i" —

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urge that Conventions must be held to keep sore. Nor is it my purpose to advocate the tak- the Fraternity together, while demanding that ing of a single moment for social enjoyment they should be as small a tax as possible on from the time honestly clue to studies. Every- the time and purse of the student. Finally, body who has been through college knows we hope that each member of the secret soci- that no tendency of this sort needs encourage- eties at Bowdoin will strive in every way to ment. The almost irresistible temptation is honor his Fraternity and help Old Bowdoin. to loaf, and the temptation to -study can be

only too easily withstood. But it is the per- sistent and morose self-seclusion—uncommon I admit, but not unknown even in college THE COLLEGE HERMIT. which sends a man forth from his Alma Mater, Messrs. Editors: cynical, distrustful, a man in stature but not a An hour of quiet meditation the other man in spirit or sympathy. The kindly asso- evening before the glowing grate, while the ciations of his college life, the friendships snow whirled against the window-panes and which are to last through the coming years, the wind moaned dismally without, turned are wanting. He has gathered fruit from his upon that most unnatural and unexpected college course, but it is withered and small. phenomenon—a college hermit. The atmos- He is liberally educated so far as his text-books phere and surroundings of college are such as will make him so, but it will prove in the end to be favorable to the keenest social pleasure. to be a most illiberal education.

The four years of college life are years that El'SILON. do not find a counterpart in airy subsequent experience. The firm friendships formed, the knowledge of character acquired, the con- CATULLUS, V. stant contact with manly hope and enthusiasm, AD LESBIAM. are things not to be held in light esteem in summing up the benefits of collegiate educa- Let us live, my Lesbia, Let us live, and couut for nought tion. Before I entered college I was assured All the stories of old age — by a graduate that he should consider the Give those idle tales no thought! social education of a college course a suffi- Suus may set and rise again; cient return for the necessary expenditure of You and I have one short day, time and money, if there were no such things Then comes everlasting night; as text-books and recitations. You and me dull sleep will stay! But the man who makes a recluse of him- Give me hisses! Hundred! Thousand! self, voluntarily surrenders the pleasantest jSTow another! Yet once more! and not least valuable element of the course. Then exchange them till their number Doubles what it was before! Shut within the solitude of his own room, he loses the magnetism of the life around him, Thou, when we have given kisses, feels a social isolation stealing over him, and Many thousands, may-bo more, We will jumble them together, takes gloomy and perhaps cynical views of And repeat this o'er and o'er, college and college companions, and the world in general. It is not my purpose to advocate That the number may be lucky, Since we know not what it is; the turning of college into a kind of social Aud that no man may grow envious, loafing place and nothing more. The "pro- Though a wretched lot is his! fessional loafer " is always and everywhere a B0WB01N ORIENT. 127

Messrs. Editors: The Sophomores have been informed that

There is considerable dissatisfaction on it is a grave offence to chew tooth-picks dur- the part of several gentlemen who have ing recitations. pianos in their rooms, because they have We are told that " Der Grindstone " of a been of late frequently interrupted while en- Cathedral in Germany was laid by a Junior gaged in cultivating their musical talents. one morning last week. Without entering upon a discussion of whether The meanest man in College still lives. singing or any kind of music should be This time he stole a barrel of apples from the allowed in college rooms, we would say that room of one of his fellow-students. it seems to us only just, to allow those who have been at the trouble and expense of pro- The Sophomores have the satisfaction of curing instruments to use them, at least until knowing that for one Sunday, at least, the " some rule forbidding it has been passed. It Freshmen came down to the hard pan." is very unpleasant whenever one attempts to The present term closes Tuesday noon, sing a song or play a piece of music, to be Dec. 19th. The Winter term begins two waited on by a member of the Faculty, and weeks from the following Thursday, Jan. 4th. informed, solely upon the hitter's authority, Now we are again reminded of the exist- that he is disturbing the studies of others and ence of several societies among us, never must immediately desist. of except material for the Bugle Musical. heard when is in demand.

A student of this College, somewhat noted LOCAL. for his length, was swelling down town smok- ing a cigar, when a dirty "yagger" accosted War upon Turkey has ceased to be a joke. him with: "Say, Mister, throw us down a

Dance after the Senior and Junior Exhi- match, will yer?" bition. The following Juniors have been appointed

Skating on the river has been unusually for the Exhibition at the close of the term : Potter, Burton, Garland. It will be noticed good the last week. that the number of Junior Part men has been A recitation of the Junior class is sure to reduced to three, and there seems to lie con- furnish one or two locals. siderable dissatisfaction expressed in the class Tin: lights in the North End of Appleton at the new arrangement. have been extinguished. Junior translating: "Etdivina opici rodc- The Bugle will make its appearance the bant carmina mures,"' -And the divine songs last Saturday of the present term. of the barbarians wore away the walls." The

originality this young man is only Mr. Booker is looking for the man who of equaled throws ashes on the hedge at the North End by that of a student at a fitting school who of Maine. translated "Hie patriam vendidit aureo," '•This one hung up his father by tie Our young companion, William Bones, having become desirous of receiving religious The following are two very original trans- instruction, recently lent to us the charm of lations that were recently made in the Junior his graceful personal appearance one morning recitation room: "Et metutino sudans Cris- in the Chapel. I'iuus amomo, quantum vix redolent duo ; —

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funera," " Crispinus sweating from his morn- ticing for a few years at Saco, he entered the ing ointment which smelt like two funerals." ministry, and in 1846 was assigned as a mis- And the other: " Cernis erectas in terga sionary to the eastern diocese of Massachu- slides," " See how the sweat stands on its setts. He established the first church in (Fish's) back." Lawrence, and continued its rector until his death. He was for several years Superin- One of our number lately returned from a tendent of the city schools and a member of country towR, where he has been teaching, the School Committee. On the twenty-fifth and brings with him an example which seems anniversary of his pastorate, in 1871, there to illustrate the fallacy of " object-teaching." was a general observance of the event by One of his young pupils spelled " o-x," but the denomination in that part of the State, could not pronounce it. The teacher pointed and the venerable rector was presented with to a picture of the object in question as a hint $3000. He was a brother of Prof. Packard. to its pronunciation, whereat the little fellow '25.—Rev. John S. C. Abbott of Fair exclaimed in a triumphant tone : "Steer" Haven, Conn., who, several months ago, was The Seniors finish Constitutional Law the expected to live but a short time, still lingers present term, and it may not be out of place in a feeble state, though he occasionally walks to say a few words as regards the manner in about his house or sits by the window on a which it has been taught. The study is a fine day, enjoying the sunshine and the air. very important one (especially is this the case Little hope of his recovery is entertained, at the present time), and one that would seem however, as he seems to be slowly wasting to require a thorough knowledge of it to be away. Leiviston Journal. possessed by the instructor, that he may pre- '34. —Rev. William S. Sewall closed his sent the various topics clearly and decidedly. labors at Athens, Sept. 17. This knowledge has evidently been possessed '48.— Prof. Thomas H. Rich of Bates The- in a high degeee by the present Professor ological School, was married in Portland, and we know that a large majority of the Nov. 27, to Mrs. C. W. D. Strout of Auburn. Senior class has considered his recitation one '50.—Hon. Win. P. Fvye left home for that was a misfortune to lose, and that they Washington, Thanksgiving Day. thoroughly appreciate and will long remember '54.—Hon. Warren Johnson, Superintend- the lucid explanations, the decided opinions, ent of Schools of Newton, Mass., spent and the courteous treatment they have re- Thanksgiving at Augusta. Many friends will ceived from the gentleman who conducts this be glad to learn of his success in his new field. department of study. '59.—Caleb Saunders has been nominated for Mayor of Lawrence, Mass, by the demo- crats. PERSONAL. '63.—Rev. A. J. Smith, pastor of the Congregational Church in Waterford, died illness. [We earnestly request contributions for this Nov. 16, after a long department from the AluniDi and friends of the '65.—Rev. J. E. Fullerton has been dis- College.] missed from the Church in Southbridge, Mass. '21.—Rev. George Packard, rector of '66.—Dr. F. II. Gerrish has been elected Grace Episcopal Church, Lawrence, Mass., President of the Cumberland Medical Associ- died Thursday night. Having graduated, he ation. received a degree in Medicine. After prac- '71. —Augustine Simmons, for two years a —— — — — ——

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" member of this class, is Principal of the High bj'-the-way, have you ever seen a water lily? School at Fairfield, Me. Mr. S. (student from Sandy Bar J—" Wall, '74-'75-'76. —The Thanksgiving vacations no ; but I've seen lots of dock rats."' Niagara brought several of the recent graduates back Index. to Brunswick, among whom we noticed Hun- Henry Randall Waite, Hamilton '68, who ter '74, Curtis '75, Clark, Hill, Marrett, Pay- compiled the recent edition of the Carmina sou, Prince, and Robinson '76. Collegensia, is now the editor of the Interna- '74. A. G. Bradstreet, who has been — tional Revieu'. Civil Engineer of the Maine Central Rail- Prof, (to class in Mechanics) — "Place road, has been elected Principal of Gardiner your right foot firmly against the wall, and High School. try to raise the left. Explain your reluctance '75. —From catalogues received, we learn to do so." JlcGill Gazette. of the continued prosperity of the Academy at Gilmanton, N. II., under the charge of W. Two Freshmen have set a noble example A. Deering. which we hope others will follow. On the '75. — Horace R. True is teaching at Wal- wall of their room appears the placard, "Please doboro. smoke in our room." Undergraduate. '75. — H. A. Powers is about to enter upon One of the Seniors on entering a friend's the practice of Law in the office of the late room the other day noticed a book lying upon G. W. Whitney of Newport. the desk, neatly covered with brown paper '77. — Fuller, W. C. Greene, Melcher, and and labeled: "The Perfect Horse—Murray." Roberts have recently gone out to teach. His astonishment may be better imagined '78.—Seavey, formerly of this class, is than described, when, on examination, lie studying Medicine with his father at Dover, found it to be a "horse" on Plato. Amherst N. II. Student.

A gentleman made application for a school THE COLLEGE WORLD. in Maine, and presented himself to the board for examination as to his qualifications. Arith- right in The man the right place —a Fresh- metical questions were proposed ; the teacher man in Chapel. Ex. stumbled and halted, but finally made out to

A lad from the Ridge was in town Satur- cipher out the answers. But on Geography day In inquire when the fall Term opened at he was profoundly stupid. Said the commit- ihc Cemetery. Anbury Review. tee-man. "Can you locate Boston?" He " answered, I know all about it. probably just "Grace before meat," as Ihc young lady as well as you do : have heard of the place remarked when she laced herself so light she several times, but can't, somehow or other, couldn't swallow. — College Argus. seem to locate it." With a view to helping Columbia Freshmen sometimes Even make him out, the committee-man said. " It is the mistakes. of them asked a young One lady capital of some State, is it not?" "Yes, I in Brooklyn " if she knew whal the diaphragm •• it is." Whal Stale'.'" " Well. I " believe of an inclined plant.' was ? know, probably as well a- you 'I". what State

Class in Botany. Prof. —"I suppose, Mr. Boston is the capital of: but you see / Jiavi n't S., you are conversant with all the flowers got the flow of language to express it!" — -V. E. native to our soil. The water lilv i-- one of Journal of Education. — —

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Rev. James H. Ecob of Augusta, Me., forms us that " we are now on a level with our ablest delivers the annual poem before the Society cotemporaries." It must be a source of profound gratification to the editors to contemplate the corn- of Hamilton Alumni, next Commencement. mandiug position to which, by their transcendant "I'm a Sophomore, and I'm a he oue, abilities, they have raised the Beview. And if our

I am spoiling, I am spoiling for a fight. estimate of their characters be not amiss, it will uot Do not detain me, for I am going disturb their equanimity in the least to know that To where the Freshmen their horns are blowing; not another human being on the globe agrees with I'm a Sophomore, and I'm a he one, them. Of our seventy odd exchanges the Review I am spoiling, I am spoiling for a fight." keeps well to the rear. —Amherst Student. The Oberlin Beview comes from a college with Freshman to Postmaster—" Have you any eleven hundred students. This gives us some rea- son to expect a first-class paper, and wc are not compartments for letters, etc., with a sliding, wholly disappointed. Its literary department is alternate, rectilinear motion, furnished with very good, its editorials arc readable, aud its local lock key, that are not filled?" and P. M. editor looks well after the news and gossip of the in- "You mean drawers, I suppose." Fresh stitution. It has not a very inviting appearance at " Yes, jesso." Ex. first, but it improves on acquaintance, and on the whole takes rank among the higher class of college publications.

It seems that at Beloit College there was some EDITORS' TABLE. dissatisfaction this year because the editors of the Bound Table were chosen from the Senior class The College Mirror is an unpretending but not alone. We do not know precisely how far this was unworthy candidate for the favor of the students of a reasonable ground for grievance, but we do know Ohio University. that the editors chosen are displaying fitness for their positions. The general tone and temper of the We are getting accustomed to the changed form paper arc good. We should like to reprint entire of the Williams Athenaeum, and we are disposed to the article " Shall Wo Piddle." It is not long, but think that the editors acted wisely in making the it is eminently seusible aud well put. change. There are very few papers that come to us that are editorially better conducted than the Athe- The University Magazine says that " the Com- naeum. mencement number of the Bowdoin Orient is as interesting as Commencement numbers generally The McGill Gazette is a new visitor, and a wel- are." We are sorry we cannot say as much for the come oue. "A Peep at Eton" is an excellent arti- University Magazine ; but wo have, not read its cle on "one of the old schools of the Old World ;" essays on the " Four Great Religions of Asia," which and in spite of one or two mistakes in meter the have beeu running for several months in its columns, poem, " Just Before the Wedding, Mother," is very with that absorbing interest which perhaps we ought fair for the kind. It is a good representative of our to have felt. We use the word " running " iu a fig- Canadian cousins. urative sense, for certainly there is nothiug lively We are at a loss to conceive by what arguments about these articles. the faculty of Trinity College persuaded themselves The Neoterian is a better paper than some of our to issue auy such decree as has just been promul- exchanges that criticize it severely. Its last num- " gated to the students there : No singing is ber, too, is rather better than the average. Its edit- allowed on the campus or in the buildings. It is out orials are well written, and wc wish wc knew whom order at all times." The correspondent of the of we should thank for them — whether the youug 'Tablet says not a word too much in condemning the ladies or the youug gentlemou, between whom the absurdity of such a rule aud of the impossibility of editorial board is equally divided. " Tom," who carrying it into execution. professes to bo a Methodist preacher, has no occa- We mentioned in a late number that the Asbury sion to be proud of his letter, however, and we Beview assured us that "it had been improving, and should not advise his friends to encourage him in year by year this would go on." Its last issue in- any more of his violent attempts at humor. Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JANUARY 17, 1877. No. 12.

BOWDOIN ORIENT. The article in another column containing some recollections of college friends, although PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DURING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, BY THE CLASS OF '77, OF originally written for another publication, has BOWDOIN COLLEGE. been kindly sent to us by the author, Mr. Isaac M'Lellan, of the class of 1826. We EDITORS. deeply regret that we have been obliged for John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, William T. Cobb, George T. Little, want of space to make a few omissions. Not- Edgar SI. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, withstanding this, we are confident our read- Charles B. Seabury. ers will find it extremely interesting. While

Term? — $2.00 a year in advance ; single copies, 15 cents. speaking of the literary labors of his friends Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, Brunswick, Maine. the writer has modestly remained silent con- For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Dennison's, Brunswick. cerning his own verses, whose merit has been CONTEXTS. so widely acknowledged.

Vol. VI., No. 12.— January 17, 1877. We have received a highly indignant pro- Editorial Notes 133 An Occasional Toem 134 test from a correspondent who has heard it Reminiscences of College Friends 136 rumored that "Prof. Wilder and Dr. Palmer Bowdoin Alumni of Portland 133 of the Medical School have been notified that The "Good Old Times" 139 their services will if Local 140 be no longer required Personal 141 they continue to lecture before the Homoeo- The College World 142 pathic students at Michigan University." He Editors' Table 142 asserts that "when there is no reason [for the rumored action] save to afford the advocates of EDITORIAL NOTES. one system of medical practice an opportunity to gratify their spite towards those of another,

We have at various times endeavored to it is not only a misfortune but becomes a dis-

bring to the notice of our subscribers the grace to all who allow it," and closes by de- necessity of prompt payment for their papers, claring that '•' never before has such a cou- but responses are not numerous. Our con- temptible reason as this been assigned for the nection with the Orient will cease with the removal of any instructor." We quite agree fifth following number, and as our bills have with our correspondent that " the loss of two to be paid we must have money. This week instructors so able and distinguished as these we have sent to many addresses written re- would be under any circumstances a great quests for payment, but, if possible, we would misfortune to the School," and we are happy escape the task of writing to all, as we have to be able to inform him that the rumor he other claims upon our time. We hope that has heard is but a rumor and nothing more. subscribers will appreciate our circumstances Profs. Palmer and Wilder will lecture before and forward S'-.OO in payment for the current the School the coming term the same as usual year ending in March, to the Business Editor. and there is no truth in the report that their — — —

134 B0WD01N ORIENT. resignations Lave been requested. The par- is doing neither himself nor his friends justice. agraph which has been floating round among They have a right to ask more of him; and he the daily papers, like a great many newspaper is, perhaps, after all, gaining the greatest bene- paragraphs, is based on insufficient foundation. fit himself in meeting their desires.

One of the ablest American writers in his autobiography says that whatever excellence AN OCCASIONAL POEM. his literary style may possess, he attributes Read at the Annual Meeting of the Bowdoin Alumni Association of Port- in a great measure to his early and continued land and Vicinity, Portland, Jan. 5, 1877. habit of letter writing. We think the ability •By S. V. Cole. to write thoroughly good and entertaining- When rivers turn and run up hill letters is much less common than it is gener- (That old familiar figure still); ally believed to be. From its very nature a When truth on earth shall cease to be letter is peculiarly liable to some of the worst A sort of technicality A substance lawyers mould like clay faults of a literary style. It is written to To Januses that face each way; friends and partakes more or less of the famil- When candidates smile not as sweet As if they loved you, head and feet; iarity of friendly conversation. The formality When men shall make their actions rhyme of the essay and the logic of the argument With their convictions every time — are wholly laid aside. It is a simple narration Shall keep their souls within the breast, Nor let them out for interest; of experience, or a quiet chat about nothing, And then — to drop a single knot the written "small talk" of society, and so Or two adown this thread of thought — When some most philanthropic quill the writer is under continual temptation to Shall start a patent rhyming mill. be careless and to be negligent in the con- And Pegasus, subdued in heart, struction of his sentences. A man who be- Like other horses heads the cart; And wine is hoisted out of wells, gins this way will never make a good letter And music flows from rusty bells, writer, and he will never like to write letters. And school books rise upon the wing, Examination papers sing, Most men whom you ask will say that they O, then it were a proper time like to receive letters, but they don't like to To ask a pedagogue for rhyme! write them. And what we would urge upon II. such men is the practice of this pleasantest Muse! — alas! she always blends and by no means least profitable kind of lit- Some conscience in the choice of friends, erary work. Write a great many letters and And far it is from my intent To put her to embarrassment. make them just as readable and entertaining 1 did it once: the ancient bird as you can. No one need be at a loss for cor- Replied that she had often heard, In her sweet ear, a decent man respondents, for the " folks at home " will al- Come beating round her his tin pan; ways be glad to hear from their boy who is And called my notice to the fact away at college, and the " boy " may be sure On which I now call yours to act: That, as the "occasional" poet knocks, partial indulgent readers. of and But what Trees, bushes, and the larger rocks wonder the pater familias feels that he is Do not in general rise to view And follow, as they used to do! hardly repaid when he gets a scrawl two or three times a term saying only that " I am The ancients, when they feasted, poured Unto the deity they adored very well and will you please send me a check A little wine upon the board; for twenty-five dollars as I am a little short The purpose was not quite so clear, Perhaps for reverence, or fear just now." The student who confines his That all de more might appear. epistolary productions to efforts of this sort And so, lone dweller in the halls — ! —: — ; —

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Of Helicon that looms afar, That, from his heart unlocked as from a sheath, Whose shadow on the million falls, Won martyred Lincoln his immortal wreath; Whose peak, tipped with the golden star And in each humbler, as the mightier strife, Of Fame, is inaccessihle, Is always the Exealibur of life. Let thy broad pinions now unfurl Be present from the realm of air! friends, that are older, speak! For dinner is our special care; Brothers and ye And we, like them, would tip to thee How seems the morning ye went forth to seek A temperate cup — of melody. The first successes, and life's many fears Like sounds of battle rolled arouud your cars? Ay, mighty temperate it must be, How seems it, now the surely-moving sun if not mistake, And poured, I do Is somewhat nearer where all strife is done? JJe more and for conscience' sake. The one departing from a crowded tent friends; break Submit, my would any Wherein is played some sweet-voiced instrument, thus — A lance against proceeding Amid the bustle of a fair or town, 'Gainst even a wooden Pegasus? Hears one by one the ruder noises drown Think of Laocoiin and the snake! Away in distance ; last of all The music which the instrument lets fall. III. Do I interpret the sweet voice that falls have volume of undoubted age, I a Upon you, brethren, from old Bpwdoin's walls? That sometimes utters from its mouldy page The harp of memory that still plays on, Wisdom in parables; aud this is one When all the tumult of old days is gone; About a temple reared into the sun, When all distinctions of the clique or class A cloud of marble on a summit low, Are silent in the undistinguished mass; With rounded dome and columns white as snow. When every effort in that battle's heat On one side rose around it songs of birds Is sealed with victory or with defeat. From leafy shadows, sweeter than all words; And, on the other, ocean's music rolled Thou readiest farther than a baser sound, Forever grandly through Us pipes of gold. Harp of Memory, to the homeward bound. Thy notes enthrall us; but thy golden chords One day the sun had burst the crimson seas, Throb not their meaning through incarnate words; And bronzed the tinkling leaflets on the trees They summon voiceless visions o'er and o'er, Around the temple, when at open door And forms and features we shall see no more. A young man entered, crossed the silent floor, To ask a blessing on his heart and hand You bear me sympathy, if in this place As he went forth to battle in the land. 1 miss the look of one familiar face. The blessing given (so the story ran), You knew him well, for he was one of you; The priestess bade him rise aud be a man; Young, with a purpose, and his heart was true. And in his hands a shining weapon placed, He took life's sword—whose hilt did seem of gold Whereon she pointed, delicately traced, Aud read the legend on it and was bold; The Persian poet's apothegm of gold Till that dark spirit, coucmering even fate, " 'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Issued the archway of the iron gate ' Wo to the dupe who yields to fate!'" That throws its shadow on the paths of men, What fortune followed, was he weak or bold, And in their faces ere we look again, Lived he a conqueror, or died alone, Aud drew him to its silence. Iu my room The little book is silent as a stone. I oft have heard, when sitting in the gloom, But these beginnings of the story pass The hour drop loudly from the belfry's tongue, Before me like reflections in a glass — Borne on the winds, and known that it was rung The subtle mirror in the poet's mind All unregarded o'er a snowy crest That will the substance from the shadow find. Not far from me, where Patten was at rest. The temple is wherever in our youth, v. In all the realms of fancy or of truth, We draw our inspirations and our aim,— Ye that are younger, hearken if you will As Ca'-iar did from Alexander's fame. One other echo and my harp is still. Ambitions vary, but they all do clasp The spheres of action to your eyes expand Their rarest jewels with the firmest grasp, As wide as heaven is, and sea and land. To stir our spirit, and to emphasize And every height its inspiration holds That action, action only, wins the prize. Its snowy dome; yet oue great dome enfolds The sword is the sincerity of heart Around all others in its wide embrace. We put into our efforts at the start, Who looks about him sees it, face to face; Enthusiasm, through good luck or ill, I will not name it: let him stand with me Whereon men read indomitable will; On such a night as this is; let him sec The sword Mazzini wielded, and the same The winter hills, like old men in a line, That carved for Mahomet his glittering fame; Shake their white locks of poplar and of pine. — ; !

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Within his hearing, the broad billows sweep life Longfellow, Hawthorne, J. S. C. Abbott Our wild Atlantic borders, from the deep. and Cheever were members of the class next The sky is white; those limitless blue fields The stars have covered with their silver shields. above us. With Hawthorne we had but little Lo, the Aurora! and the silent clash intimacy, as. he was a reserved student, ming- Of sharp-edged scimitars, that curve and flash Amid the starry army — darted forth ling only with his own particular clique which By unseen giants warring in the North, consisted of Jonathan Cilley, William P. Fes- Where ice and snow in wondrous forms are blended, senden, John P. Hale, Horatio Bridge, Frank- And many a frozen fancied Gothic town Lifts its transparent columns, cold and splendid, lin Pierce, and one or two others. Haw- Into the radiance of the Northern Crown. thorne was remarkably diffident and silent,

Behold a picture on the boundless wall I always moving with a downcast, meditative Ayl Nature's temple better than them all, look, as if lost in thought. He did not apply And nobler in its promptings, purer, higher, Free from all selfishness and low desire, himself much to college studies, but was, we The perfect body, wherein ye may trace think, an industrious general reader. He had The moral spirit, shining through its face, That throws its inspirations wide and far no ambition for college honors, and held no Into all other purposes that are, high rank in his class. When he subse- Or ever have been, or can ever be, quently gained his brilliant reputation as a Attended by a lasting victory. "Who follows Nature goes not far astray" writer, it was a great surprise to those who Is what the famed Itydalian Muses say; did not know him well in college, but his few Who follows not, who does not cast aside All the conventionalities that hide intimate friends were doubtless much better His aspirations for a better life, acquainted witli the qualities of his mind. A Who mingles not some manliness in strife, few years after, we met him at the office in Some fountain sips, from those that over-brim In Nature's moral world — alas for him! Boston, of our mutual friend, Park Benjamin, But following or following her not, and were introduced to him as Mr. Haw- This solemn lesson have our fathers taught: into his Sometime, somewhere, I know not where nor when, thorne. We looked impassive face The circle of the age revolves again, and his fathomless black eyes, and it was And men, no longer actors, see always some moments before we recognized him as The faithful panorama of their days. .apneas in a foreign land did see the " Nat Hathorne " of college days. He had — His battles in their order: so shall we changed his name to Hawthorne, and was no The onset, the commotiou, the retreat, the plain, familiar " old Hath." Temptation sounds, or our own flying feet. longer Achates, Achates, draw thy sword Among Hawthorne's most intimate friends And find that virtue is its own reward. were Horace Bridge, of his own class, and And without that what paltry things are won And, after all, how soon the day is done! Franklin Pierce, of the class next above him. The brightest blade that ever cleaves this light Com. Bridge is still living at Washington, Will rust to ashes in the dews of night. Chief of the Bureau of Supplies to the navy. O young and old ! the years between you seem An old man's memory, a young man's dream After studying at the law school at North- For all the voices of the spirit tell ampton, Mass., he practiced his profession at Gray hairs is not old age but life lived well. Augusta, Maine, but soon abandoned it upon securing a position on one of our ships of EEMINISCENCES OF COLLEGE war ; and during one of his voyages he wrote FRIENDS. the "Diary of an African Cruiser," which was BY ISAAC M LEI-LAN. edited and published by his friend Hawthorne. We have been requested to furnish recol- He was appointed by his friend Pierce to his lections of some distinguished men, chiefly lucrative post in Washington, and by his hon- of a past generation, and it is a pleasant task esty and ability has retained the place ever to yield to such solicitations. In our college since. Hawthorne, after he had become BO WD OUT ORIENT. 137 famous, united his fortunes with those of the The professors at Bowdoin were at that time, Brook Farm Community, near Boston, where and in years previous, men celebrated as for several months lie toiled at the prosaic authors. President Allen, Professors Cleave- work of agriculture. It was amusing to see land, Packard, Upham, Smyth and Newman him in his check frock, and wearing his coarse were writers of high repute, and some of boots, at work with the hoe, in the poiato their works still hold their place as text- and corn-fields, or busy in harvesting the hay books in academies and colleges. All of this and grain crop. But he soon wearied of this band of instructors have now passed away, uncongenial labor, and returned to his first with the exception of good Professor Pack- love, the book and pen. Through the influ- ard, now far advanced in years. In alluding ence of President Pierce, he secured a position to this revered band, Longfellow, in his "Mor- in the Boston Custom house, and subsequently ituri Salutamus," thus speaks : received the lucrative post of Consul at "What greetings come there from the voiceless dead? What salutation, welcome or reply ? Liverpool. But this also did not accord with What pressure from the hands that lifeless He ? his secluded and literary tastes, and after They are no longer here; they all are gone traveling for several months upon the con- Into the land of shadows—all save one. Honor and reverence, and the good repute tinent, lie returned home and spent the rest That follows faithful service as its fruit of his days at Concord. Be unto him whom living we salute." Our friendship with Longfellow com- Of other distinguished members of the menced early in college life. One bond of classes at that time we can but briefly speak. union among others, was that we were both George B. Cheever, after being settled at members of the same college society —-the Salem, Mass., came to New York and soon "Peucinian.'' Geo. B. Cheever, John S. C. earned a high reputation as one of its most Abbott, and Calvin E. Stowe were also mem- eloquent preachers. William Pitt Fessenden

bers of it ; but Hawthorne, Cilley, Pierce, Hale was a good scholar, and popular in his class, and Fessenden, of another set, belonged to the and proved to be one of the most brilliant rival society, the " Athenean." In his Sopho- senators at Washington. Jonathan Cilley more year, Longfellow pronounced a very was an excellent scholar, and soon after grad-

beautiful poem before it, which was never uating was sent to Congress, where he dis- published. He did not deliver a poem at tinguished himself in debate. He was a Commencement or before the Phi Beta Kappa; courageous and resolute man, and, becoming and his poem of last year, " Morituri Saluta- involved in a quarrel with a fire-eating South- mus," was, we think, his first public appear- erner, received a challenge from his opponent, ance at Brunswick as a poet. After our Graves, and was shot dead by him in a duel. evening meal we were often accustomed to John P. Hale, late Senator from N. H., was take a walk together in the woods, and then one of Hawthorne's most intimate friends. adjourn to his room. Among his earlier He was famous in College for his broad droll- poems, written at that time, were "The Burial ery, overflowing with witticisms and stories of the Minnisink," "Pulaski's Banner," " An told in his inimitable manner. He did not April Day,'' "Woods in Winter," "Thanks- apply himself closely to his studies and it giving," and other charming and well-known was some years belore he made himself poems. famous as an orator in Congress. Franklin After Longfellow graduated he went for a Pierce, afterward President, only distill- year or two to Europe, and on his return was guished himself at a late period in college

appointed to a professorship in Bowdoin. life. He then had a passion for military mat- ;

138 BOWDOIN ORIENT. ters, and was elected captain of the college Samuel V. Cole of '74. It was a most grace- company. On leaving college, entered upon ful and pleasing production, and was received the study of law at Concord, N. H., and with marked favor. The Toast Master, Mr. there for sevei'al years practiced his profes- Clarence Hale, of '69, read toasts to Our

7 sion, and rose by his talents and eloquence to College, Our Country, The Arm) , The Clergy, the head of the bar. When the Mexican war The State, Our City, The Press, and The' broke out he entered the army, and by his Ladies, which were responded to respectively galantry rose to the rank of general. A few by President Chamberlain, Gen. S. J. Ander- years after its close he was elected President son, Gen. J. M. Brown, Prof. J. B. Sewall, of the United States. With Hawthorne he Hon. T. B. Reed, Hon. W.L. Putnam, Mr. E. ever remained on terms of the closest friend- S. Osgood, and Prof. H. L. Chapman, these ship, and was present with him at a little gentlemen being introduced by President country tavern on the night of the great Goddard with elaborate and felicitous remarks. author's sudden and lamented death. Calvin All the speeches were good; but the best of E. Stowe was at the head of his class, and all was that by Prof. Chapman in reply to the was celebrated for his powers of mimicry. sentiment to The Ladies. Its readiness, wit,

John S. C. Abbott, the historian, was a pure- vivacity, and eloquence quite took the audi- hearted popular student; and as his brother, ence by storm. the late Gorham D. Abbott, of the Springier At the business meeting the following

Institute, was our chum, we often had the officers were elected : President, Charles W. company of John, who came in to smoke his Goddard, '44; Vice Presidents, Bion Brad- evening pipe. Sergeant S. Prentiss, the late bury, '30, George F. Talbot, '37, Samuel J. distinguished lawyer and statesman of the Anderson, '44, George E. B. Jackson, '49,

South-West, was an eager sportsman, and, John M. Brown, '60 ; Recording and Corres- though very lame, he managed to hobble ponding Secretary, Frederic H. Gerrish, '66 '63 about the woods in pursuit of game. After Treasurer, Thomas M. Giveen, ; Executive his graduation, he established himself at Committee, William E. Donnell, '62, Edward Vicksburg, Miss., where he soon rose to be P. Payson, '69, William H. Moulton, '74; '44 the head of the Southern bar, and was se- Orator, Joshua S. Palmer, ; Poet, Edward '75 Clarence Hale, cured in all important cases. It was said of S. Osgood, ; Toast Master, him that he would often pass the night with '69; Dinner Committee, William W. Thomas, his convivial associates, and then go into Jr., '60, Charles J. Chapman, '68, William H. court the next morning and conduct and argue Anderson, '57. a case entirely new to him, with surpassing It was voted to annually appoint a com- power and skill. His speeches in Congress mittee to attend the examinations at the were of marvelous eloquence, and received College, and report the condition of the insti- the Alumni at its regular meetings the applause of both Clay and Webster. tution to ; and Philip H. Brown, '51, was elected as that committee for the present year. BOWDOIN ALUMNI OF PORTLAND. The vote passed at the last meeting in- The eighth annual meeting of this Associ- structing the Secretary to send notifications ation was held at the Preble House, on the only to members and those who had expressed evening of Friday, the 5th of January. After a desire to join the Association, was recon- the dinner, which was one of the Preble's sidered, and hereafter all graduates of Bow- best, the anniversary poem was read by Mr. doin in the Counties of Cumberland, York, ,

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and Oxford, whose addresses are known to better for him and for posterity had he been the Secretary, will receive invitations to the here in the days when jokes were perpetrated dinners. which would cast the weak playfulness of the The festivities continued until a late hour, to-day's most ambitious Sophomore far into and the general expression was that this had outer darkness, and when to be called the been one of the most successful meetings of hardest man in college would imply that to the Association. F. H. G. him had fallen the chief good and honor of a college course. v ~'' Ci/K > 'U (, Now I do not think it is too much to say that, to man)7 men who hear of college mainly THE '-GOOD OLD TIMES." through these old stories of freaks and adven- Messrs. Editors: — tures, a course here now seems really dull Some time since I chanced to be in a when compared to one some years back, and college room where a number of students they sigh for the '•' Good Old Times," since were relating some interesting events that the absence of the actions and ideas that occurred in what they called the " Good Old characterized that happy period tends to dis- Times." The talk ran chiefly upon college appoint and make them dissatisfied with col-

tradition, and each volunteered his story and lege life as they find it from day to day. told of the deeds and misdeeds (generally the -That any one should look at this matter in latter) of men who in their course here were such a way appears wholly wrong to me, and noted for being what is best expressed by the yet I have heard many students complain of

word "hard." the dullness of college life now in comparison The subject seemed to be quite a fascinat- with that of ten or even five years ago. ing one, for those who participated in the Those who decry the present say that in the conversation did not seem at all at loss for "Good Old Times" men smoked more, drank adventures in which their favorite men played more, gambled more, and in fact did more of the prominent part. And when, as was very every thing that made a career here fast and often the case, a story chanced to be a new exciting. Tradition would force us to believe one, and the narrator was asked when this that such was the case, but of that we will particular instance took place, I noticed that not speak. The question seems more to be his invariable reply was that it occured in the whether such a course is the right one to be " Good Old Times." This answer moreover pursued, and whether a college can rightfully was always given in a tone of regret, as if the be called degenerate in which such practices " Good Old Times " carried with them some have ceased, inasmuch as the majority of the characteristics of college life that were highly students no longer tolerate them.

essential to happiness and advancement, but It is evident that such a course as is men- which in this degenerate day aro either tioned above will only make a man unfit for frowned down by a watchful Faculty, or lead anything worth doing, and if the question a brief existence by reason of the students should bo left to the outside world we think

possessing a weak and childish morality. the parents, at lea.-t. >>f students here would After a while the conversation ceased, and advise them not to wish for the renewal of each one, as he prepared to leave the room, customs fatal to themselves, but rather to seemed deeply impressed with the idea that take advantage of the quiet which, even if college life at Bowdoin was, upon the whole, dull, is still more conducive to the pursuit of a very dull affair, and that it would have been knowledge. :

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College traditions are worth}' of remem- It makes one religious to attend pikers brance, and will be willingly listened to by these cold winter mornings. Our thoughts coming classes, but those classes should not are not of Heaven however. forget that traditions are issues living only by We understand that the Editors of the force of their example. If that example is Bugle have met with very good success in helpful, well and good; if not, it is far better disposing of their publication. It surely to use the present time well than to waste it deserved to have a large sale. in longing for the " Good Old Times," which " Voveasque sacellis exta, candiduli divina at the most are better as traditions than as tomacula porci." — realities. Junior "You may vow Undergraduate. to the shrines divine sausages from the snow- white porcine." This takes the prize.

We were in error in our last issue in LOCAL. saying the Senior pictures would be taken by

Pierce

The Junior class is reading Minna von Prof. Sewall has arranged a remarkably Barnhelm by Lessing. attractive series of lectures this winter for

The Bowdoin Orchestra is willing to be the third Memorial Hall Course. We hope engaged. We mean as a whole. they will meet with the success which they certainly deserve. Every student ought to Coal-ashes judiciously sprinkled on the have a course ticket. walks would be a great preventive of pro- The Senior and Junior Exhibition at the fanity. close of last term was unfortunate in occuring The Seniors this term take up Interna- on the night of the worst storm of the season. tional Law under the instruction of Capt. But despite the storm a very good audience- Caziarc. assembled in Lemont Hall, and they were am- We are glad to say that ventilators were ply repaid by the excellence of the exhibition. placed in some of the recitation rooms during The parts were good without exception and vacation. were upon attractive subjects. The Bowdoin furnished the music, The debates arising from the study of Orchestra and we have known it to play better than Political Economy will be continued through never on this re-organized it the present term. occasion. As now certainly reflects credit upon the musical abilities of We were informed by Mr. Perkins that the students. The programmes did not arrive one of the Orient Editors " is happy with in season for the exhibition, but perhaps this Julia on the string." is hardly to be regretted, as they were not a Capt. Caziarc is the class officer for the triumph of the typographic art. The pro- Seniors, and Mr. Springer for the Juniors, gramme was as follows during the present term. MUSIC. Salutatory Oration in Latin. Prof, to class in Butler — " Imagine for a George T. Little, Auburn. a moment people even more ignorant than Eulogy on Agricola (Tacitus). yourselves." Impossible. * Otis W. Garland, Gloucester, Mass. —

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The Use of Poetry. Hyde, '61, from Sagadahoc County. In the James W. Sewall, Oldtowu. House, F. A. Pike, '39, Calais ; Fred. Robie, MUSIC. '41, Gorham; S. W. Johnson, '43, Dixmont; Education as a Qualification for Suffrage. Charles B. Seabury, Gardiner. I. N. Wadswortb, '45, E. B. Nealley, '58, Ban- Extract from Demosthenes. gor; Wm. W. Thomas, '60, Yarmouth; J. A. * Barrett Potter, Brunswick. Locke, '65, Portland. T. W. Hyde has been Is Protection Best for the United States ? Edward C. Metcalf, Brunswick. re-elected President of the Senate, while E. The Development of Beauty. B. Nealley is Speaker of the House. F. A. Curtis A. Perry, Brunswick. Pike declined serving as chairman of the Address at the Unveiling of the Statue of Lafayette (Courdert). Judicial Committee. * Alfred E. Burton, Portland. '51.—Dr. A. C. Hamlin delivered a lecture Technical Education. recently before the Bangor Art Association. C4eorge W. Tillson, Thomaston. beautiful MUSIC. He also exhibited his own collection Before the Statue of Mazzini. of opals. Serope A. Giirdjiau, Csesarea, Turkey. '52.—Mr. Walter Wells, Secretary of the Our Political Evils. Hydrographic Survey, and author of several William T. Cobb, Rockland. MUSIC. valuable works, was united in marriage Mon- * Juniors. day forenoon, Jan. 1st, to Miss Mary J. Stur- divant of Cumberland, by the Rev. Mr. Fenn, PERSONAL. at the residence of Mr. George E. Taylor, in this city. Portland Press. '60. Rev. C. F. Penney, pastor of the [We earnestly request contributions for this — department from the Alumni and friends of the Free Baptist Church in Augusta, on Sunday, College.] Dec. 24th, made the gratifying announcement

During a short visit to the State Teachers' to his people that he had declined the very Convention at Bath, December 28th, we found flattering call from the Roger Williams Church our College well represented in that body. in Providence, R. I., and would remain with Below are some of those known to your the people of his first choice. The Augusta correspondent, and doubtless others were people, without regard to denominational present: Rev. Dr. J. 0. Fiske, '37; Pres. C. preference, are delighted witli this decision. F. Allen, '39; Prof. H. 0. Ladd, '59; Profs. '61.—Edwin Emery is writing a history of Sewall, Vose, Young, and Chapman; Thomas Sandford. Tash, Esq., '42; G. C. Moses, Esq., '56; Henry '63.— Horace Rundlett Cheney, Esq., only '57 son of President Cheney of Bates College, Dame, Esq., ; Charles Fish, '65 ; C. A. Page, '70; D. A. Robinson, '73; S. V. Cole, '74; L. died at Philadelphia, Dec. 13th. After grad- A. Rogers, '75; W. S. Thompson, '75. Of uation be was appointed the first Tutor in these the following delivered papers before Bates College, also its Erst Librarian. Choos- the convention: Prof. Chapman, Prof. Ladd, ing the Law as a profession he graduated at Messrs. Fish, and Robinson. Mr. Rogers also Harvard Law School and studied with Senator read a paper which had been prepared by Boutwell and Judge French, in Boston. He Prof. G. T. Fletcher, but which the latter was was not only a young man of great promise, unable to deliver. but had already achieved a high position in Maine sends nine Bowdoin men to her his profession. lie loaves a will' and one Legislature this year. In the Senate, J. W. child. His funeral occurred Dec. 16th, at Phillips, '58, from Penobscot County; T. W. Valley Falls. P. I. — — — :

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THE COLLEGE WORLD. not omit some of the best of the current college jokes. It is a very valuable addition to the World for all are interested Scene : Junior class reciting in Greek. who in our higher institutions of learning. Dr. K. —"Very well, indeed. It is not often The College Courier, from that a student translates] vdv di ' as it is,' Monmouth College, Illinois, creates quite a favorable impression ou its although it is as clear as noon-day."—Roch- first appearance among our exchanges. It has a ester Campus. sensible article on " College Oratory," in which the Professor in Psychology—"Now, Mr. D., writer argues that "Americans are too apt to slight in regard to how the mind forms a material real scholarship and give applause to mere fluency of speech." It has the remarkably familiar style of thing from several percepts : take an apple too many of our western exchanges in its Alumni and illustrate." Mr. D.— "I don't care if I " '68. Department. For instance : —W. A. Black- do." Class murmur, " Pass 'em around." burn is practicing law at Austin, Texas. Subscribe." —Dartmouth. " '69. —Rev. Geo. T. McClelland spread his coat " A Freshman, seeing only the back of a tails in Monmouth, a few days ago." '65. —Wm. Brown is pastor of the U. P. Church at Mt. Ayr, tutor's head, and taking him for a class-mate, Iowa, and should subscribe for the Courier." slapped him on the back with the remark The Chronicle, from the University of Michigan, " What a long-winded prayer Prex gave us is a good pager. Its editorial columns are well con- this morning." The Freshman's name was ducted, and the "Things Chronicled" arouud the booked. Ex. University, are usually well done. It is becoming Innocent Freshman grinds on Livy and quite common for American students, at the close of collegiate course, to continue groans frequently. Depraved Prep.—" Why their their studies in Germany, and to those who contemplate doing this don't you have a pony?" Freshman (look- the series of letters, " An American in Germany," ing up with interest) "I do want one. Papa must be both interesting and useful. has promised me a grey one with a lovely Since the spring of 1875, when the Collegian long tail."— Vassar Miscellany. suspended, the College of the City of New York has

It is not very often that the Doctor per- had no representation among college papers. It now appears with the College Echo, which appeals petrates a joke, but when he does it is sure to " the little world of its own Alma Mater and the to be a good one. On registration day a cer- brilliant circle of its exchanges," in a gracefully tain Fresh walked meekly up to the Doctor's written " Salutatory Talk." For a first number it " desk and inquired, Are the schedules out is a good one, and we wish it all success. ? " " Yes, sir,_the}r are." Fresh after an yet NEW PUBLICATIONS. " — I please ? awkward pause " Can have one Gems of the Dance. Published by Oliver " Dr. (with a bland smile) How can you have Ditson & Co., Boston. The special reason for the one when they are out?" Cornell Era. issue of this brilliant volume, was the great success of a similar work, "The Gems of Strauss." That, of course, being published soon after the appearance EDITORS' TABLE. of Strauss at the "Jubilee," owed something of its reputation to the renown of the great composer. A good many papers publish more or less full Yet much was owing to the brightness of the con- and accurate educational news, but the New York tents. " Gems of the Dance " are bright enough for " " World is, so far as we know, the first of the im- any one. They are divided into various dauce portant dailies to establish a distinct department for titles, as Waltzes, Galops, Polkas, Quadrilles, etc., colleges. In its Sunday issue each week it gives an of which about twenty-five are new ones by the two excellent summary of all matters of interest iu the Strauss-es, and the rest are by Gung'l, Zikoff, college world, notes changes in the faculties, gifts to Lamothe, Faust, aud others. In all there are about the various institutions, marks the drift of student twenty-five authors, whose compositions fill two opinion as gathered from the college press, and docs hundred and tbirty-two large pages. Btwitln ©item1

Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JANUARY 31, 1877. No. 13.

BOWDOIN ORIENT. Senior recitation room, but the suggestion of introducing such a service into the series of PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DURING TIIE COLLEGIATE YEAR, BY THE CLASS OP '77, OK Saturday evening lectures is altogether to be BOWDOIN COLLEGE. preferred. We hope to see it tried, for we believe we can promise it success. EDITORS. John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, William T. Cobb, George T. Little, One of the good signs of the times is the Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, increased attention which some ot the lead- Charles B. Seabury. ing newspapers are giving to college matters.

Terms — $2.00 a year is advance single copies, 15 cents. ; That a paper gives every day or every week Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, Brunswick, Maine. For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Dennison's, Brunswick. a full compendium of college news is a great recommendation of the paper to an intelligent CONTEXTS. reader. And it is no small benefit to the col- leges themselves, for in a community in gen- Yol. VI., No. 13.— January 31, 1877. eral, outside of college bred men, there is Editorial Notes 145 ; more or less of mystery and misapprehension The Broken Drum of Gettysburg (poem) 148 prevalent regarding the character and work- A "Word to the Critics 149 " Those Panels" 150 ing of colleges. This mystery and misappre- Local 151 hension is due in no small degree to the news- Personal 152 papers themselves, for there is a class of The College World 153 Editors' Table 154 journalists who delight in seizing upon the veriest trifle of boyish misbehavior and mag-

nifying it into the proportions of a grave of- EDITORIAL NOTES. fence, which calls for the righteous indigua-

i tion of the peace-loving people of the coun- The Saturday evening lectures in the try. A difficulty between a few students and Cleaveland recitation room are not so well an unpopular or meddlesome policeman, or a attended as they ought to be. We have class rush in which perhaps somebody gets heard it suggested that it would add to the slightly injured and blows are exchanged, is interest of the meetings to vary the exercises picked up by an eagle-eyed editor, and made a little, and have a praise meeting on some to serve as a diabolical outrage upon society. Saturday evening. We think the suggestion From distorted and embellished reports of worthy of trial at least, and we have no doubt this sort, a great many people, otherwise in- of a gratifying result. For it is true that telligent and sensible, have come to feel afraid many persons will attend a service of song of college and afraid to trust their sons to the gladly, who will not of themselves attend a influences of college life. A diffusion of ac- sermon. We have once or twice before curate and reliable news would go far to re- heard it proposed to take some evening of move such fears from the minds of people the week and hold a praise meeting in the and restore confidence in onr colleges and 140 BOWB01N ORIENT.

our college sj^stem. And it is for this reason justly arouse in every Bowdoin man a glow we are glad to see papers like the New York of pardonable pride in his Alma Mater. The) World and the Boston Transcript establish- list contains one hundred and nine publica-

ing departments of college news, and we tions by the six Presidents of the College, I hope others will go and do likewise. and four hundred and thirty-one by the Pro- fessors connected with the institution during Somewhat in the line of the foregoing these seventy-four years—a total of five hun- note is the annual publication of the Presi- dred forty numbers, and no small proportion dent's and Treasurer's reports to the Trus- of these are recognized as classic works in tees and Overseers of the college. This cus- literature and standard authorities in scholar-

tom is not common with the colleges of the ship. It is extremely unfortunate that the

country, although it was begun by Harvard edition was so limited, for it places the book many years ago, and for the past ten years beyond the reach of many, both graduates has been followed by Yale, and more recent- and undergraduates, who would have been

ly the Boston University. But it is true, as glad to possess it.

it has been said, that the great majority of the colleges are wont to manage their affairs with Though the Senior debates have been, on

a positive secrecy, as if it were not a public the whole, a decided success, one great function which they are discharging. There advantage which might be derived from them may be objections to the publication of the has been singularly neglected. We refer to complete reports, but certainly there could the opportunity there presented of obtaining be none to publishing a report of the year's a practical acquaintance with parliamentary progress in financial and educational matters. usage, an object which formed, as our instruc- And by this means the Alumni would, we be- tor told us at the beginning of last term, one lieve, keep up a much more active, because of the chief reasons for their establishment. more intelligent, interest in the welfare of their Every college graduate is liable at any time

Alma Mater. As it is, the only medium of in- to be called upon to preside over an assem-

formation is the college catalogue, of which an bly whose deliberations will not be so calm insufficient number are printed and these are or their proceedings so orderly as those of sold at an exorbitant price. the Monday debates. A familiarity with the rules of order is evidently necessary for any

A neat pamphlet of thirty-five pages was one who would fill such a position with any issued some time last Summer containing a degree of success and escape repeated per- " list of the Publications of the Presidents sonal mortification ; and this familiarity, it is and Faculty of Bowdoin College, 1802-1876." equally clear, cannot be obtained save by Like some other college publications, so small continued practice and observation. No a number was printed that we doubt whether occasion so well adapted for obtaining it as

a dozen students have ever seen or heard of the present is likely to be again offered us, the work. And this is the more to be regret- and we can not refrain from urging the class

ted because it is really valuable for reference during the remaining debates to make a few and mustbe of permanent interest to graduates motions more complex in their nature or

and friends of the College. For it is the results than a call for the previous question record of an amount and quality of literary or a proposition to adjourn. If, as has been work by the members of her Faculty for the suggested, two or three members should last three-quarters of a century, which may come prepared to propose a series of motions B0WB01N ORIENT. Wi

so arranged as to display the working of the been noticeable for two things: the excellence rules in some of the difficult situations which of the lectures and the smallness of the audi- often arise in legislative assemblies, much ences. The course was opened Jan. 1 6, by Prof. interest as well as value would be added to E. S. Morse of Salem, with a delightful lecture the meetings. on '"Flowers and their Friends,'' the friends being the little insects which play so promi- College students are about the same every- nent a part in the fertilization of imperfect where. We find on looking through the col- flowers. The lecture was illustrated with lege press a very general complaint that the wonderful blackboard drawings for which there is a lack of interest in athletic sports, Prof. Morse is noted, and by which he makes as shown by the little systematic training the most difficult parts of his lecture clear to

which is going on in the gymnasiums. Espe- his audience. cially does there seem to be a reaction against The second lecture was delivered last boating, or perhaps more strictly against Thursday evening, by Prof. Vose, on the intercollegiate races. We doubt ourselves subject of " Light-houses." Prof. Vose never whether the recently formed New England fails to deliver an entertaining lecture, and Rowing Association will have either a long although he spoke an hour and a half, it or a brilliant career. It has not met with a seemed at the close that we could listen very hearty support from the majority of another hour, so plainly was the subject des- New England colleges, and the tendency cribed and so clearly illustrated. seems to be towards the abandonment of such Brunswick has had no better course of

organizations, and the better support of class lectures offered to it for a long time than this regattas in the individual colleges, with an Memorial Hall Course, and it is a shame that

occasional challenge perhaps to some other it receives no better encouragement. There institution. Bowdoiu sent delegates to the are just two classes of entertainments which New England Convention, and is regularly Brunswick people enthusiastically support: enrolled and reported as a member of the first, negro minstrel and variety troupes; and

Association, but from present indications it is second, free shows of any sort. The object doubtful whether she will be represented by for which these lectures are given ought to a crew next summer. None is training, nor, commend itself to the people of the town. for the matter of that, is there any class crew They ought to feel an interest in the pros- practicing in the Gymnasium. It is true that perity and welfare of the College, and to

if all refrain from training the classes will lie manifest an interest at least to the extent of nu an equality next spring when the river a dollar and a half, even if they are wholly opens, but they cannot give us so fast and indifferent to the admirable series of lectures. interesting a race as they could with a longer These remarks will apply just as well to the time to train. We shall not be particularly students as to the townspeople, for we under-

Borry if no University crew is sent to the stand that only a comparatively small number New England regatta, but we shall be sorry of tickets have been taken in College. We

if the college regatta is not sustained by an had almost said it was a duty, we would

earnest rivalry between the classes for the rather say it should be regarded as a privi- champion cup. lege, to have the opportunity offered as i" help in ever so small a degree the completion The two lectures which have already been of our Memorial Hall. Dr. Gerrish of Port-

of tin- w< i 1<. lelivered in the Memorial Hall Course have laud lectures Thursday evening ; —— ;

148 B WD 01N ORIENT. on " Public Health," and we hope to see a No one will interfere with or question his good audience. perfect liberty to make such comments as please him. But when he undertakes to There are some readers in College whom make his views public by defacing books

we should like to see abated as public nuis- which are the common property of all, he

ances. They are the ones who take occasion should understand that is infringing upon the whenever they read a book to underscore rights of other readers and abusing the priv- such passages as particularly please or dis- ileges which he enjoys. please them and to note their approval or their dissent in the margin. We have before us a book belonging to the Athenasan Library. It is a very able book and written in an THE BROKEN DRUM OF GETTYSBURG.

interesting style ; but no sooner do we begin On Cemetery Hill, upon that sacred, hallowed spot, to read it and turn over a leaf than we are Which through the coming centuries will never be forgot; brought up standing by a paragraph heavily Where missiles from the cannon ploughed the ground in underscored, inclosed in parentheses, and furrows deep; Where fathers, husbands, brothers, He in calm and peaceful marked " good " in the margin. Well, perhaps sleep; it is good, but what right had the last reader to force his criticisms upon us in any such Where the veterans of Virginia with silent measured tread, Charged up those cannon-bristling heights, facing the storm way? No one can read a book with contin- of lead ued attention when every second paragraph Where the patriot soldier met the foeman hand to hand, has been marked up and commented upon Hurled back the surging rebel hordes, and saved his native land; by previous readers. An author's statement does not derive much additional authority Where Nature's healing hand has hid the marks of mortal strife, from the penciled " good " of some anony- And God's own plants have budded forth in new and ver- mous scribbler, or the more emphatic com- dant life, mendation " very fine." But when this scrib- There, by some wanderer o'er the hill, a broken drum was found, bler goes to pointing out what he imagines to Which busy bees had filled with honey from the flowers be the mistakes of his author, and brands one around. " paragraph as " weak '' and another as " obscure Flowers growing on the hillside, nourished,— O, mournful and another as " illogical," we feel that the thought, point has been reached where forbearance By the pure blood which there was shed, which there our ceases to be a virtue. He has violated the freedom bought And not alone from Union breasts did pure blood flow that individual rights of every reader of that day, book. For one does have the right to claim For many true hearts ceased to beat beneath a coat of gray. the privilege of reading a book which he And thus that instrument of war, whose loud resounding takes from the College or Society Library, as beat it was printed, and not as it has been revised Had nerved the valiant, warlike heart to many a noble feat, Became the emblem of that peace and of that kindly love and corrected by unknown nobodies before Which, after fratricidal strife, God sendeth from above. him. One does have the right to form his own opinions of the style and sentiments of a O, lesson for us, each and all, as Nature's gentle hand Obliterates the marks of strife which desolate onr land, work, and not to be informed as each new And drums whose notes have once been heard above tho thought is presented that it is " good " or battle's roar, " weak " or " questionable." If a man chooses Become the type of industry and fellowship once more. G. C. C. to mark up his own books it is well and good. White Plains, N. Y., Dec. Otli, 1870. yir B WD 01N ORIENT. no

A WORD TO THE CRITICS. edly, we do know something about college students generally, and can know as much as The careful criticising of one another's j they concerning the subject written upon faults and failings in a friendly spirit, is un- | if we take time enough and expend patience doubtedly a source of great good, to both enough, and may rightly take upon ourselves the critic and the person criticised. But the to pass judgment upon them. average college critic, who usually presides We have been greatly struck, in looking over the columns marked " Exchanges," can over the recent numbers of " Exchanges," at hardly be called a critic, for the word criti- the space given to criticisms upon books cism implies the passing of an impartial judg- written by eminent authors or specialists, and ment upon the work in hand. We have seen have been alarmed at the way in which a these fellows, in reality and in imagination, work of j'ears has been demolished — at least running through the different college publi- to the satisfaction of the little fellows. cations, until their eyes light upon something George Eliot hns not escaped this slaugh- they may denounce or remark upon in the tering and has been brought to the bar of jus- most general terms, and are at length happy tice of college publications and arraigned for when enough items of this sort are obtained her sins. Here is one of the charges against to " fill up" their part of the paper. Of course, her which we copy from the Rochester Campus. they always have a reason for thus treating The writer in speaking of Daniel Deronda their fellow-writers —-they are pressed for says (when the story terminates as it does), time, and they find it easier to blame the " We feel that every legitimate art has been college world in general, than to carefully transcended, that every legitimate expectation write out their candid opinion of the paper has been disappointed, and that we have a as a whole, giving praise or blame where it right to throw the book down in bitter dis- is due. Oftentimes they have a grudge or pleasure and almost disgust. That Gwen- prejudice against a certain publication, and dolen should have been led through all these they give vent to this in their columns ; or bitter experiences, gradually softening and they think few if any readers ever look into refining into a noble and high-minded woman, their corner and so it makes little difference and should finally be absolutely thrown off by what they write. author, left out utterly ' in the cold,' and This careless tit-for-tat remarking upon the with Deronda, should wind up each other's literary productions may be of her relations with the pitiful ' I shall be the better for some use in its way, for it helps to keep the you,' is a crime that the rea- printer employed and may afford some amuse- having known will not easily forgive.'' This is no ment to the " Exchange " editor, proving irre- der " garbled statement," but a fair specimen of sistibly to himself that he is able to write of the whole article. witty or sarcastic articles at his pleasure. the style It is oftentimes fortunate for us, as we But when this little fellow undertakes to rise later in life, that our hopes and above his station and apply his little six-inch have seen expectations do not turn out as we have measure to works as large as our world, wished and possibly as the writer of the he makes a ludicrous and oftentimes painful ; have this exper- spectacle of himself. abovo grows older, he may We cannot, and we ought not, criticise ience forced upon him. What would be the others or their literary efforts, unless we good of publishing any new works at all, if all

know something about the person or the mat- the new were to be made after a set pattern ; or ter upon which they have written. Undoubt- what would be the pleasurs in reading novels, 150 B WD OIN ORIENT. if we knew how each was to end ? George "THOSE PANELS."

Eliot probably understands the making of Messrs. Editors : books as well as any writer, and the great Every time we enter our chapel, we in- success which has attended the publication of wardly thank those benevolent beings who them seems to prove this. She has a motive have been generous enough to cause the five for writing as she does, and she does not of the twelve panels which line the walls to allow it to be warped either one Avay or the be filled with pictures, which always delight other to make her story pretty or particularly us more or less. Even in these cold morn- pleasing to any one class of readers. She ings, while waiting for prayers, we derive probably knows more than the student who some consolation from them, for the}7 partially has mastered Ethics, and if she gives us the make us forget the absence of heat, which is result of her explorations and reflections, noticeable by even the most inexperienced ! thankfully at least We were much pleased at seeing in your we should accept them ; we should not grumble at the way in which paper an exhortation to our class to follow she sees fit to give them. If we cannot the example set for succeeding classes by '66, wholly understand why she chooses to give but which has not been followed, like so many to us as she does, we should trust that, when other good examples. Having recently heard we arrive at her age and wisdom, we shall see that another panel was soon to be filled and understand. There are plenty of novels by a lady friend of the College, the hopes in the market fashioned after one model, which that we have for a long time entertained that we would recommend to such writers as the our class might do likewise, were revived, one above referred to as likely to fulfill all his and your apt suggestion in your issue of " legitimate expectations." Let him make his Dec. 13th greatly pleased us, as we have said experimental criticisms upon such novels, as before. What better memorial could '77 these and no one will care, except perhaps leave behind itself than a picture to adorn the authors themselves, for all will feel that the walls of our chapel, adding to its beauty such books are rightly served, since we have and attractiveness, affording a delight to the already more than enough of such manufac- eye when the mind occasionally wanders from tured literature. We know there is a great the thoughts or words of the speaker, teach- temptation to " put in our little word " and ing a lesson or raising new ideas in some " have our little say " whenever we hear whom the speaker, perhaps, can never reach? those around us talking of a subject in which What token — at parting — of respect or love we are interested (and we confess we had for our College, could we show better than thought, after reading Daniel Deronda, of this ?

publishing our ideas upon it, but restrained The idea seems to be prevalent that we ourselves from doing so, when we saw the cannot afford, in these "hard times," to ex- ridiculous figure the other college publica- pend as much money as a picture would cost, tions were cutting), but the knowing what nor ought we to indulge in such luxuries. and when to speak is one of the hardest les- But we find that generally the men who sons we have to learn in life. If one must entertain these sentiments do not really know write something, please let him confine his how much such a picture would cost. We criticisms to books which he can enjoy and have made enquiries in regard to this and we appreciate. have found that the panel which was filled by '66 cost about two hundred and eighteen Vassar has organized a political club. dollars. The artist was Charles Otto of New ,

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York City, and his price was one hundred LOCAL. dollars for each figure and traveling expenses. " His work, however, does not seem to have Be still my heart." given universal satisfaction, and we would Look out for the " Medic " when the bell

not recommend him again, even if he is now rings. in of living " the land the ; but there are a num- The Senior class sings, Leaf by leaf the ber of artists in Boston who could undoubt- roses fall." edly give satisfaction, and their traveling ex- The Bowdoin Orchestra gives a concert penses, even assuming that they were to be paid at Wiscasset, Friday evening of this week. would not be as great as in the former case. The non-payment of term bills allowed Now, as you have suggested, if we could quite a number to retire a while from active sell our "gig" for one hundred and fifty life. dollars, which it is certainly worth if not It isn't good policy to insinuate to a Sen- more, and raise a subscription of one hundred ior in the Engineering Course that he is hav- dollars, or perhaps a little less, we could ing a " soft thing." undoubtedly accomplish the seemingly impos- '77 sible, because seemingly expensive, feat of ought to immortalize its name by

: filling one of " those panels," which look so adding another picture to tho walls of the

- What's to reproachfully at us as if to say, " How can chapel. hinder? you leave us unfinished ? Help us to clothe The Seniors have completed Science of ourselves and fulfil our mission." The sub- Wealth and are now reciting to the President scription of one hundred dollars would not in Hopkins' Outline Study of Man. average more than two dollars and fifty cents We understand that Ingalls and Stephen- a man. Cannot each one of us deDy himself son, formerly members of '77, will attend that amount? Certainly we do deny ourselves Medical lectures here the corning term. for other purposes, for boating, base-ball, and You can recognize at a glance the man field-day, more than this on the average. who poured oil on the tobacco. His dejected These are transient pleasures, but a picture appearance plainly shows that he is a social such as we could procure for our College by outcast. denying ourselves two dollars and fifty cents It was recently asserted in church that worth of something else would be a " thing the congregation was present because of of beauty which is a joy forever." their own sweet will. It is needless to say Of course we could not have the picture that this statement was firmly denied by the completed while this cold weather lasts, for occupants of the galleries. no artist would martyr himself by freezing at his work in the chapel; but in the course of The Scientific Freshmen are not yet the Spring vacation or at the beginning of the acquainted with each other. Some of them next term, the work could proceed easily and so frequently fail to put in an appearance at safely, if wo say the word. Shall we not recitations, that the rest of the class are puz- say it? AMCEBA. zled to know if they entered last Summer, or are new men.

Tho Faculty of Boston University talk of On examination it has been found that the limiting the size of each entering class in the back of a Freshman's head is destitute of hair. Academic Department, and of obtaining the One of them explains tin's phenomenon by desired number by competitive examinations. saying that they wear it off at the black-board. 152 B WD OIN ORIENT.

" You know how it's done. Hold the " fakir abated, and at present we believe that none in your left hand, cast down your e}7 es, put of the nine are doing any work. There on a wise look and scratch the back of your surely ought to be enough interest taken by head. the students in this matter to allow the nine

In our last issue it was suggested that to begin the coming season in good condi- some ashes should be thrown on the paths, tion, both financially and physically.

but with the exception of perhaps a peck of The subject of ventilation has been dis- sand on the Chapel steps, we have seen no cussed to a considerable extent in the Orient, signs of better walks. It is somewhat and while one or two recitation rooms have remarkable that a revival and slippery walks been made a little more habitable, the College can be found in the same town. authorities seem to be unwilling to take any more steps toward furnishing a better supply It is too early yet to speak positively, but of air. We imagine that the Professors, the indications are that the Medical Class this during their long stay here, must have year will be about the same in size as last become accustomed to impure air and all its year—possibly a trifle smaller. The term evil results; but as some of us intend to leave- begins Februarj' 15th, and the opening lect- after graduation we should prefer to be spared ure will be delivered by Prof. Burt G. Wilder a course of training which, when completed, at three o'clock in the afternoon. His sub- would leave us unable to appreciate the ject is not yet announced. advantages of pure and temperate air. We Life has no longer any thing worth living venture to assert that no College in the coun- for. We are all to be deprived the privilege try can compare with this in the way of of visiting the depot except on business. poorly ventilated recitation rooms. The We are now prepared to believe the state- rooms in which the Senior class recites are ment that but few legislators are college almost destitute of proper means of ventila- graduates. If there were more of them at tion ; and, unless something is done to improve Augusta the present Winter, we should not their condition, we doubt if any Senior will have to forego the pleasure of attending the be alive in the Spring to tell to other classes arrival of trains. how little account this College takes .of the Dr. Thomas F. Perley, class of '37, has health and comfort of its students. recently presented the College with a very fine and complete collection of insects. They are mounted on wood between glass cases, PERSONAL. and these are bound in book form. This manner of arrangement not only gives to the [We earnestly request contributions for this collection a novel and handsome appearance, department from the Alumui and friends of the but it perfectly preserves the insects, and College.] affords the best possible advantage for stud}'. '32.—Henry A. True, born in Union, Aug. Nine volumes have thus far been received. 10th, 1812, died at Marion, 0., Dec. 12th, 1876, It was the general impression that the aged 64. He took his Medical Degree at the base-ball nine was to take a thorough course Maine Medical School in 1835, practiced his of training this Winter in the Gymnasium, in profession in Ohio, and was highly respected

order that no time should be wasted in pre- as a physician, a man, and a Christian. He paring for the next season. For some reason visited the College last Commencement, spent the interest in base-ball has considerably several days in town, and left a proof of his — —

B WD OIX ORIENT. 153 devotion to his Alma Mater by a donation of a Henry L. Chapman, Professor of Rhetoric valuable work to its library, viz. : Geology of and English Literature, Bowdoin College. Ohio, in four large volumes with maps. Ezekiel H. Cook, Principal of High School, Columbus, 0. '56.—James Henry Taylor is preaching at Physician, Portland. Rome, N. Y. In October last he left Lake Fretleric H. Gerrish, John P. Gross, Superintendent of Schools, Forest, 111., where he was settled about seven years. Plainfield, N. J. John J. Herrick, Lawyer, La Salle Block, '58.—Col. Ellis Spear, recently appointed Commissioner of Patents at Washington, is a Chicago, 111. Hinkley, Wholesale Clerk, native of Warren, Maine, and is about forty- Charles K. Drug four years of age. He enlisted in the early Boston, Mass. part of the war as a private, but was speedily George F. Holmes, Lawyer, Portland. promoted to the rank of Colonel, and served William P. Hussey, temporarily at Carver's to the end of the war. Col. Spear received Harbor, Maine. his first appointment in the Patent Office as George W. Kelly, Congregationalist Min- clerk, and has gradually worked his way up ister, Portland. to his present position of Commissioner. Hiram B. Lawrence, Holyoke, Mass. George E. Lord, Assistant Surgeon, U. S. '58.—Gen. I. P. Cilley of Rockland has A., supposed to have been killed with Custer, been re-elected Adjutant General. June, 1876. '61. —Hon. Lucilius A. Emery of Ellsworth Leander 0. Merriam, Lumber Merchant, has been re-elected Attorney General. Petitcodiac, N. B. '70.—P. E. Hanson, Principal of the Lafay- George T. Packard, Episcopal Clergyman, ette (Ind.) High School, spent the Holiday Bangor, Maine. week at Indianapolis in attendance upon the Geo. T. Sumner, Lawyer, Sheboygan, Wis. State Teachers' Association. His school ranks Charles E. Webster, Physician, Portland. fourth in size and importance in the State. Russell D. Woodman, Wholesale Flour '75.— C. Fred Kimball was admitted to Agent, Portland. practice as attorney and counselor at law in all courts in the State, on Monday, January 21, in the Supreme Judicial Court of Portland. THE COLLEGE WORLD. Since graduating Mr. K. has studied law in the office of W. L. Putnam, Esq., '55, in Port- The class of '77 at Michigan University also in York City, and has land, New attended has seventy-seven members. Columbia Law School. He intends going to Scene: a college chapel. Prof, to stu- Chicago to practice. dent who was in the habit of absenting him- '76.—Waitt is teaching at No. Boothbay. self—" You are present to-day. What is your Class op '66. excuse?"' Student—"Couldn't sleep, sir." Charles M. Beecher, Lumber Merchant, College Olio. Bridgeport, Conn. Naughty Cornell Freshmen slamp their

Charles A..Boardman, Calais, Me. feet in recitation time. Poor grangers ! Ac- Delavan Carlton, Apothecary, Manistee, customed to the wild freedom of the hay-field,

Mich. the potato-patch, and the tow-path, it mual Sylvester B. Carter, Insurance Agent, indeed be hard to he confined by the walls of

Newburyport, Mass. the class-room. Hamilton Lit'. —

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An Ulster overcoat covers a multitude of the whole college." Nearly nine columns of the Targum are given up to clippings, which are gener- sins.' McGill Gazette. ally well selected, but it seems to us like going a Oxford University is one thousand years little too far in the right direction to devoto so old, and rejoices in an annual income of one much space to them. million dollars, a library of five hundred and The Advocate comes to the rescue of the Greek twenty thousand volumes, and thirteen hun- course at Harvard, which was so freely criticised dred undergraduates. and condemned in the January Atlantic. The same number, too, contains an explanation and defense of The Dartmouth Faculty say that the the use of slang. " Its great office is to impart to result of the new plan of admitting candi- conversation that familiar air that makes one feel dates without any examination, is working that he is conversing out of pure pleasure, and not even better than they acticipated. It makes for the sake of avoiding a reputation for stupidity.

' ? When a friend stops you with How you was ' and the first three months of Freshman year a begins to converse, you feel that there is no need of virtual examination, and it is affirmed that ceremony—of polite interchange of inquiries regard- the fear of being dropped at the end of that ing health , etc. The chat is nonchalant, and for time has had a marked effect in increasing the that, if for no other reason, interesting." " Lines studiousness of the Freshman class. to Myself" is a bright and readable poem—like the most of the Advocate's poems. The Harvard Advocate is not the only paper EDITORS TABLE. which has lately been giving its views of " slaug," for here comes the Volante from the University of The typographical work of the Lafayette College Chicago with a communication on the subject wherein " Journal is neither tasteful nor well executed. It is the writer says : We claim that ideas should always unfortunate that a paper which is really so good in be embodied in the purest and most irreproachable many respects as the Journal should not be more English. Sentences always lose in force and sim- attractively clothed. It is, we think, very successful plicity by the employment of slang. When the in representing the particular interests of Lafayette, classical English of Macaulay, Irving and Hawthorne and so far as the aim of a college paper is to give becomes inadequate for the expression of some the news and sentiment of its own institution the thought, then we think that thought had better be Journal may claim an excellence above the majority. left unexpressed." Here is a manifest disagreement The College Herald with the number for last between the doctors. The Advocate may be said to month passed into the hands of a new board of take the practical and sensible view of the matter, editors. They have succeeded on the whole in pro- while the Volante assumes a theoretical position to ducing a creditable number. We cannot say that which the world will never couform. the salutatory of the editors pleases us very much, The January number of Acta Columbiana is a because the writer seems to us to bo trying to say a good one. It contains a larger number than usual good deal when he has not much to say. He suc- of Editorials, the only objection to which is that ceeds as well as one could under such circumstances. they seem rather incomplete and paragraphic. The The article upon "College Honors" is a fair presen- Columbia student is among the busiest of mortals if " tation of the objections to the prize and honor we may judge from an editorial which says : In fact we never knew the value of time until we came One noteworthy thing about the January number here, whore the whole day is required for hard work of the Targum is that it contains no distinctively and the whole night for hard study, sleep being literary articles. We do not mean to imply that the included as it wore, in parentheses ; where holidays articles are poor — simply that they are not upon arc availablo only for copying omitted notes, and literary subjects. The Crimson has been publishing Sundays are almost crowded from the calendar." a series of " Letters to Freshmen," and wo believe "The Reaper" is a very pleasing poem, suggestive one of the Yale papers has giveu some advice to in thought and prettily expressed ; while the author " the article entitled " Dipping into Literature Sophomores ; the Targum contains an article full of of good advice for Seniors, the key-note of which is that has made a strong protest against the superficial " the Senior Class ought to give tone and dignity to tendency of students iu their habits of reading. ©in Ori

Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, FEBRUARY 14, 1877. No. 11.

skirmishing into the exercises on the very day BOWDOIN ORIENT. our note was sent to the printer. It proved

PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DURING TIIE to be an entertaining addition, and one which OP OF COLLEGIATE YEAR, BY THE CLASS 77, taught parliamentary knowledge in a decid- BOWDOIN COLLEGE. edly practical way.

EDITORS. John E. Chapman, "William C. Greene, Our readers will be glad to see in another "William T. Cobb, George T. Little, column a short account of the first concert of Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, the Orchestra, and the cordial recep- Charles B. Seabury. Bowdoin tion it met at Wiscasset. The Orchestra has

Terms — $2.00 a year in' advance ; single copies, 15 cents. Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, Brunswick, Maine. done some very faithful and conscientious For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Dennison's, Brunswick. work this term, and is to-day, we believe, in much better condition than at any previous CONTENTS. time in its history. It proposes, we under- "Vol. VI., No. 14.— February 14, 1877. stand, to give several concerts in different Editorial Notes 157 parts of the State, sometime during the re- lly Lassie (poem) 160 mainder of the present term. We are glad A Few Statistics 160 Theta Delta Chi Conventon 161 to note among the students a more general in- Au Old College Publication 162 terest in music, both vocal and instrumental, Local 163 than for some time past. We hope that in Personal 164 The College World 153 the approaching Spring and Summer we may Editors' Table 154 have more out-door College singing. We have not heard from the Sophomore Glee Club for EDITORIAL NOTES. some time, though at one time it practiced regularly. There is so much musical ability

"We do not publish anonymous articles. in '79 that we hope it will not be allowed to The name of the writer must accompany the suffer through neglect. article, though not necessarily for publication, of course. We have received within a short There is one danger from which—if sta- time two anonymous poems, which we should tistics are good for anything—anxious parents be pleased to print, if by so doing we did not may believe their sons to be reasonably safe. break that rule of all prudent and reliable The editor of the college department of the newspapers which requires the names of the World has been looking up the matter, and authors of contributions. finds that there has been a surprisingly small

loss to the colleges from fire. The burning

- The advice which was offered in the last of the roof of Hollis Hall at Harvard, a 3 ear ORIENT, relative to the manner of conducting ago, was the first serious lire that has occurred the Senior debates, was a little late, as the in the college yard in more than a hundred class introduced the feature of parliamentary years. In the hundred and seventy-live years ;

158 BO WD OIN OBIENT. of Yale's history, she has never had a build- extent. We are of course unable to discuss ing seriously injured by fire. And taking the the question in the space allotted us here three hundred and fifty or four hundred so- but it should be remembered that of late called colleges in this country, he can find years the size of college classes has been only five or six instances where any damage largely increased by those who pursue the has been clone by fire in the last two years. prescribed course of study with no intention These four hundred institutions probably own of following a profession, whereas fifty or a two thousand buildings, and it will be seen hundred years ago a graduate who did not at once that the proportional loss has been practice some profession was a rara avis. Let remarkably small. The only times that Bow- proper allowance be made for this class of stu- doin has suffered seriously were in the burn- dents, and the proportions may not bear so ing of Maine Hall, first in March, 1822, and heavily upon the ministers. again in February, 1836. We should think insurance companies would be glad to take We learn from the Treasurer of the Sen- college risks, although the buildings are occu- ior Class that there are several unpaid bills pied by " careless and irresponsible boys." for printing, amounting to twenty dollars and upwards, which were contracted last May in The large decrease in the number of col- the celebration of Ivy Day. Personally we lege graduates who enter the ministry is a were much surprised at this information, sup- subject which has of late engaged, to a con- posing the assessment at that time sufficient siderable extent, the attention of the religious for all needful expenses. It appears that this press. Turning to the triennial of our Alma comparatively large deficit is owing to the fact Mater, we find this falling off particularly that a few members of the class have neg- noticeable. The classes of the decade begin- lected to pay their dues, and more especially ning with 1830 claim the largest number of because a considerable sum was advanced to clergymen, averaging thirty-two in every one the Base-Ball and Athletic Associations, hundred graduates. In one class, that of '33, which are now unwilling or unable to meet out of a membership of twenty-six, fifteen their share of the expense for posters and pro- graduated at Theological Seminaries. The grammes. We briefly mention this fact, next decade shows an average of twenty-two thinking that it is not known to many in the per cent., and the following, of eighteen per class, and hoping that speedy action may be cent.; while during the last, 1860-1869, only taken upon the subject. Hardly anything one in ten became clergymen. Similar statis- contributes so much to the low esteem in tics in regard to Harvard's alumni, recently which college students are often held as the given in a Boston paper, are even more strik- carelessness they exhibit in regard to their ing. In 1761-1770, seventy-nine per cent. just debts. We trust '77 will not follow the were ministers ; in 1861-1870, five and three- example of a preceding class, which separated fourths per cent. The same is true, though without paying for the copies of " Auld Lang not in an equal degree, of all the older New Syne " used in marching out of the College England colleges. Chapel for the last time as students. It must not, however, be concluded, in view of these facts, that our institutions of The third and fourth lectures of the Me- learning do not graduate so many religious morial Hall Course fully sustained the high men as formerly. Other facts may explain expectations which the patrons of this course this apparent diminution to a greater or less had formed. On Thursday evening, Feb. 1st, B WD OIN ORIENT. 159

Dr. F. H. Gerrish of Portland spoke upon occupy rooms in the College buildings unless the subject of Public Health. The impor- the buildings were full. Whether or not the tance of the subject secured the Doctor an regulation was demanded by the exigencies of intelligent and appreciative audience, though the occasion, is not a question which we pro- it was not so large as it should have been. pose to discuss at this time. It simply

Some of the man}r ways in which society im- occurred to us that the operation of the rule perils its own health were clearly explained, might not prove so inconvenient and distaste- and the position which the lecturer endeav- ful as some were disposed to think it would. ored to impress upon the minds of his audi- It will, without doubt, have the effect of ence was partially expressed in the alliterative making some men "room in," who might assertion that " Soap was a better civilizer otherwise have pased their whole four years than syntax." Hufeland, a German writer, in the retirement of a private house in the

claimed that the ideal man is able and ought village, and in such cases we believe the ten- to reach the age of two hundred j'ears; but dency of the rule will be good and only good.

whether this is so or not, it is certain that For a man who secludes himself in the retire-

most men, by the observance of proper pre- ment of a private room in town is throwing cautions, could come nearer that age than away in great measure the social opportunities they do at present. The lecture was a very which surround him, and which, as he will strong plea for the establishment of a State sometime learn, might have been made one of Board of Health. the most valuable elements of a liberal edu- Last Thursday evening, Prof. Young de- cation. The experiences of dormitory life are lighted a somewhat larger audience with a such as you get nowhere but in the dormitory

lecture entitled "What's in a Name?" The itself. It is not alone the perfect freedom of

sources from which the surnames and Chris- life which the college buildings offer the tian names of the English-speaking people student, that makes them always attractive

have been drawn, together with the true and and keeps them always full ; it is not alone original signification of many of those names, the convenience of access to all college ex-

formed the subject of a most entertaining ercises, which the dormitories give ; it is lecture. The audience were kept in a con- because by residence in dormitories the student stant state of good nature by the flashes of comes more in contact and sympathy with wit and humor, with which the Professor what President Porter calls the " common

never fails to enliven even his class-room lect- life" of the college, that he can ill afford to ures. go through his course and lose this peculiar The fifth lecture will be given on Thurs- experience of college life. The man who day evening of this week, by Mr. Benjamin rooms in town can hardly be said to become of Boston, Mass., on the subject of "Art;" intimately acquainted with the members of and the Course will close next week with a his own class, even though he meet them in concert by the '77 Glee Club, assisted by the the recitation room every day of the four

Bowdoin ( Orchestra. years. To know them he must be with them, and with them constantly ami under every We know there were a good many students variety of circumstances. And the man who

last summer who were surprised at the action graduates from college without (_in the proper of the Boards of Trustees and Overseers in sense of the word) knowing his classmates, passing an act requiring students, who did not will some da}- become conscious that he lost reside with their parents in Brunswick, to opportunities of social education that he will ! ! ! ; ;

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There are about as many For the Orient. not see again. MY LASSIE. educational as political " reformers " loose in Why do I love my lassie so? this country now, and every little while one Is't for her hair wi' ripplin' flow? of them starts up with a demand that college Is't for her eeu sae bright an' clear, students shall be " treated like other citizens," As dark as those o' startled deer f Is't for her form ? Her saft footfa' ? that they shall board in private families in the Oh ! not for one o' these, but a' town where the college or university is situ- Not one, but a'! ated, and that dormitories shall be banished How does my lassie charm me so? as fostering an unnatural and undesirable Is she a witch, a spell to throw? seclusion of life. But we trust the conserva- Is she a changelin', by her skill make vassal o' her will? tism of the time will cling fast to the dormi- To me What she may be, I can no' tell tory system, for with its abolition will go She's nought to me but just hersel'! much of the college spirit, much of the esprit She's just hersel' de corp>s, and much too, we believe, of the My lassie, by her charm or art, social moral educational power of the and Is sovereign mistress of my heart. colleges of America. Nae way sae lang wi' her I'd tire; For her I'd brave or frost or fire. Ane snawy waste this world wad be The Class of '74 will introduce a new, Her love wad make a heaven for me! and, as it seems to us, an excellent feature A heaven for me into the celebration of their reunion at the coming Commencement. The Committee, consisting of Messrs. Hawthorne, Cole, and A FEW STATISTICS. Moulton, elected by the class at the last Com- Whether students who surpass their fel- mencement to make arrangements for the tri- lows in the studies of the College curriculum ennial reunion, held the preliminary meeting maintain a corresponding pre-eminence in

at the Sagadahock House, Bath, on Thursday after life, is a question sure to arouse a warm evening, Feb. 1st. They decided to arrange discussion whenever broached. Neither side for a supper on some evening of Commence- ever lacks earnest supporters, who make their ment Week, and for the reading of the Class assertions with the utmost confidence, but, History, an Oration, and a Poem. It strikes when called upon for facts confirming their us that these literary exercises will add mate- statements, invariably fall back upon their rially to the interest of the occasion, while own observation, — an authority which, how- the History will be of the greatest value here- ever satisfactory to themselves, rarely con- after, if the class should adopt some such plan vinces' their opponents. These, strange though

as the class of '53 adopted, and publish a it may seem, using the same means, have Class History on the twentieth or twenty-fifth come to directly opposite conclusions. The anniversary of their graduation. We are lack of reliable information upon this subject glad to hear that there is every prospect of has led the writer to prepare the following

a large gathering of the members of '74 at statistics, which it is hoped will prove trust- this reunion next summer. worthy, though not so extensive as might be desired. A book entitled "American Colleges" is to For the first thirty years or more after the be published during the Winter. Mr. H. C. establishment of the College, whoever in the Richardson of The Independent is to be graduating class had, in the opinion of his in- editor and publisher. structors, best performed the assigned colle- BOWDOIN ORIENT. 1G1 giate duties, was given the Valedictory at the most eminent in after life. Nor, on the Commencement. In this way the relative whole, is this to be wondered at. -College standing of a student in College is easily as- honors, as is seen every day, are often carried certained, and can be compared with his off by men of no particular talent, but whose prominence in after life. habits of industry or previous training over- The writer has made, in the manner indi- weigh the superior abilities of others. No cated, careful investigations, and found that one would be so foolish as to advance this of the first thirty-two valedictorians, seven fact as an excuse for neglecting the prescribed were indisputably the most eminent men of studies. The advantages which can be ob- their respective classes,— sometimes in one tained from them by anj- one, whether he be" sphere of action, sometimes in another, but with or without special ability, are far too ob- always in a department of life for which one vious to require mention. Only let it be is supposed to be fitted in a greater or less borne in mind that a first part at Commence- degree by a college education. In twenty- ment, instead of indicating, as some appear to one other classes it was equally clear that the think, superior talent, only shows that he who valedictorian could not be termed in any receives it has performed the assigned tasks sense the most eminent of his fellows ; and in more faithfully than his classmates. the four remaining cases it was quite difficult, if not impossible, to decide. Of the nine DELTA CHI CONVENTION. graduates who have been called to the head THETA of other colleges, four were first in point of The Thirtieth Annual Convention of the

scholarship in their respective classes ; and of Theta Delta Chi Fraternity was held under the twenty-six who are mentioned in the tri- the auspices of the Eta Chapter of Bowdoin ennial as afterwards becoming professors in College, at the Revere House, Boston, on this or similar institutions, only six were val- Wednesday and Thursday, February 7th and edictorians. In political life, as might per^ 8th. Delegations were present from all but haps be expected, the good scholars were even one of the different Chapters. Kappa of more manifestly left behind by their comrades. Tufts, Phi of Lafayette, and Eta of Bowdoin Out of the twenty from these classes who being very largely represented. Among the have served as members of Congress, but one prominent men present were Hons. Hosea was a valedictorian. Knowlton and H. J. Canfield of the Massa- The statement, so often made, that those chusetts Legislature, President Capen and who lead their classes injure their health or Professor Fay of Tufts College, and Rev. J. exhaust their vitality by overwork, does not P. Watson, a charter member of Eta Chapter. seem to be substantiated by these investiga- The first meeting was held in the parlors tions. The average age of the twenty-one of the Revere House, at 10 a.m. Wednesday, who have died is sixty-seven years and four I. P. Pardee, of Phi, presiding. After the months. Only one died before attaining his appointment of several committees, the Con- thirtietli year, and two of his classmates who vention adjourned till afternoon. did not take high rank died at earlier ages. During the afternoon session several appli- It is by no means claimed that these sta- cations for the establishment of new Chapters tistics are conclusive; and yet, until contra- were received. Considerable private business dictory testimony is brought forward, one is was accomplished, and interesting addresses justified in saying that, as a rule, those who were made by several of the gentlemen pres- make the best recitations in College are not ent. Many of the members accepted the 162 B0WD01N ORIENT. invitation of Kappa Chapter to visit College with Fraternity songs, served to strengthen Hill during the evening. the bonds of brotherhood. The company Business was resumed Thursday at 10 a.m. broke up at a late hour, well satisfied with the The Convention voted to grant the petition experiment of holding the Convention in for a charter to a Chapter to be established Boston instead of New York, as in former at Boston University. The other applications years has been done almost invariably. for the establishment of Chapters were re- The next Convention is to be held under ferred. The Grand Lodge of the Fraternity the auspices of Theta Chapter of Kenj^on consists of three members, one graduate, and College. two undergraduate associates. The former

Grand Lodge was composed of I. P. Pardee AN OLD COLLEGE PUBLICATION. of Phi, H. H. Eddy of Kappa, and T. A. Thayer of Theta. As the Grand Lodge of Messrs. Editors: the ensuing year, H. H. Eddy, of Kappa, was On a low shelf in one of the dark corners chosen president, with J. G. Blue of Psi, and of the College Library, there stand two or G. B. Markle of Phi, as associates. At the three volumes of the University Quarterly, close of the afternoon session resolutions of one of the most, if not the most, notable of thanks to the proprietors of the Revere House American Collegiate publications. A hasty for the satisfactory manner in which the mem- perusal has been sufficient to convince the bers had been treated, and to the Chapter writer that a brief mention of it might not be holding the Convention for the perfection of without interest to your readers. The mag- its arrangements, were adopted. The Con- azine was started in 1860, and lived for only vention then adjourned to meet at the Banquet two years. It is somewhat remarkable that at 9 p.m. it survived as long as this, considering the The literary exercises of the evening con- complicated organization that presided over sisted of an Oration by Hon. H. J. Canfield, its destinies. Of the twenty-eight colleges association which of Theta, '57 ; and a History by J. G. Libby, comprising the published it, of Eta, '76. The Poet, Augustus S. Miller, each was represented by a board of editors of Zeta, '71, by change of time of Conven- who contributed for every issue sufficient tion, was unavoidably absent. The subject of literary matter, in the form of essays or news the Oration was " Things New and Old." articles, to fill a certain number of pages pro- Space will not allow an abstract of this pro- portionate to the number of students. The duction, which was eminently appropriate and Yale board, in addition to their other duties, able, and was delivered in a very graceful and performed the work of compilation and pleasing manner. The History was mainly of attended to the details of the printing. In Eta Chapter, telling of her struggles and practice this complex arrangement worked triumphs of the past and hopes for the future. much better than could have been expected, At the close of the delivery of the literary and the discontinuance of the periodical seems parts, which were received with hearty appre- to have been due to other causes. ciation and applause, they were distributed to The essays contained in it are upon sub- those present, printed in a tasteful form. jects of interest to students, and rarely fail to The Banquet was served in that manner hold the attention of the reader. The news which the Revere managers so well under- articles give a record of the current events stand. H. H. Eddy presided, and appropriate at the different colleges. In several cases sentiments with fitting responses, interspersed their place is taken by brief sketches of the BOWDOIN ORIENT. 163

history of the institutions represented. That The last entertainment in the Memorial of our own Alma Mater will be found partic- Hall Lecture Course has been announced. It ularly interesting. Bowdoin, by the way, will be a concert given in Lemont Hall by the was well represented in both departments. '77 Glee Club and the Bowdoin Orchestra. writer noticed the Among her editors the The Freshmen who have been so anxiously of Portland, names of Gen. .Samuel Fessenden waiting for the Day of Prayer for Colleges, of Congress and Hon. T. B. Reed, member are becoming despondent, and are inclined to the First District. Sigma. from the opinion that the whole affair is a myth.

It is said that the F. K. is hunting for the LOCAL. Freshman who was unable to tell what form of government exists in the United States.

He isn't coming as a Medic, after all. It is a question, however, that at present is

The Freshmen are running a stage line to puzzling older heads. Bath. All persons owing the Bowdoin* Orient will confer a favor upon the Editors His name is Smith, even though he spells by set- tling their account. As the publication will it with a y. soon pass into the hands of '78, it is necessary The Seniors are having a short vacation in that this should be done at once. Metaphysics. Scene in Math. Recitation Room. Tutor The punctual Medic is in town looking —"Go over your work again, as I don't quite for a place to lay his weary head. understand your explanation." Precocious The Junior Class have disposed of four Fresh—" Well, sir, I am certain that it is hundred and fifty copies of the Bugle. right, and I understand the explanation per- The Seniors will attend the lectures of fectly well myself, but I don't see how I can the Prof. Carmichael in Medical course. make it clear to you." The Tutor decides to The hopeful Freshman has been heard take a private course in Mathematics. singing : " Spring, Spring, Gentle Spring." It has been rumored that we are to give up our seats in the gallery and sit down stairs Prof.—" What can you say of the polit- with the vest of the good people in the Church ical status of Etruria ? " Fresh (promptly) on the Hill. If this change takes place, we —" It is very fertile." are afraid that Sunday sickness will become Junior translating a sentence from the epidemic, as attending church and sitting up German—" If we are beautiful, we are most straight through the whole of the service is beautiful undressed." No? a task from which the majority of students President Chamberlain delivered his Cen- naturally shrink. tennial Address before the Legislature at There seems to be considerable interest Augusta, Tuesday, Feb. 6th. manifested by the Senior class as regards the Tin' 1). K. E. Fraternity gave a Ball at plan of adding another painting to the walls Great Palls, N. II., Thursday evening, Feb. of the Chapel. 1*' rom all that we can learn, 8th. Delegates from Bowdoin were present. a majority of the class are decidedly in favor When Dr. Gerrish in his lecture touched of leaving to the College some lasting expres- upon the question of ventilation, it is reported sion of their respect and good will, and surely that those members of the Faculty who were the question ought to be kept before the class present fell into a deep trance. until they arrive at some definite conclusion. —

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The College Orchestra gave their first con- Students flocked to the institution in great cert before before an appreciative audience in numbers, and at no previous time had it at- Wiscasset, on Friday evening, Feb. 2d. The tained the celebrit}r gained under his auspi- programme was made up of Overtures, Duets, cious rule. He possessed peculiar talents as Solos, and Selections from the best composers, an executive officer, and in intellectual acu- together with College Songs. It was well men and literary scholarship he held a high suited to the tastes of the audience, as was rank. During his administration, Wentworth, evident from their hearty applause and fre- Thornton, and Reed Halls were built, the quent encores. The college songs were ren- Shattuck observatory constructed, great addi- dered in a very pleasing manner by a quartet tions made to the libraries and cabinets, and consisting of Messrs. Kimball, Knight, Byron, the Chandler Scientific Department estab- and J. P. Huston. The young gentlemen lished. It was a remarkable and an unprece- were encored, and on their return to the stage dented fact in the history of American were honored b}' a presentation of beautiful colleges, that President Lord had eight sons bouquets from the no less fair young ladies of graduated at Dartmouth. He died in 1870, the town. The concert was a success in at the age of 78 years." every particular, and the people expressed '18. —Rev. Dr. Rufus Anderson, over fifty the desire that a second one be given as soon years Secretary of the American Board, with as expedient. The students were very much his wife celebrated their golden wedding pleased with their trip, and gratified with Jan. 8th. Illustrated Christian Weekly. their cordial welcome at the hands of the '55.—S. R. Crocker of the Literary World, good people of Wiscasset. Boston, is reported to be seriously sick. '58.—Chas. P. Loring, M.D., of Provi-

dence, R. I., died from diphtheria, Saturday, PERSONAL. Jan. 27th. Dr. Loring was a native of Au- burn, and after graduating from the College and

[We earnestly request contributions for this the Medical School, at once entered iqnon the department from the Aliimui and friends of the practice of his profession. An exchange College.] speaks of him as "successful in his profession '09. —From a sketch of the Presidents of and highly esteemed as a citizen ; a gentle- Dartmouth College, given in the Boston Jour- man of retiring manners, but with a heart nal of Feb. 1st., we make the following se- full of sympathy; one whose conduct, whether " lection : Rev. Nathan Lord, D.D., LL.D., in professional or social life, was characterized the sixth President of Dartmouth, was born by conscientious performance of duty. His in South Berwick, Me., Nov. 28, 1792. He death, at the age of 41 years, is a severe blow graduated at Bowdoin College in 1809, and to his aged parents, as well as to his family, at Andover Theological Seminary in 1815. and many friends in Providence." He left the pastorate of the Congregational '59. —Rev. H. 0. Ladd, recently Principal Church at Amherst to accept the Presidency of the State Normal School at Plymouth, N. of Dartmouth, and was inaugurated Oct. 29, H., and formerly in succession Professor in 1828. He filled the office 35 years, resigning Olivet College and pastor of the church in at the Commencement in 1863. Throughout Romeo, Michigan, has accepted the call of the this long period this eminent divine main- church in Hopkinton, Mass. tained a proud position in the discharge of '62.—Rev. E. N. Packard preached his the arduous duties of his elevated station. seventh anniversary sermon on the 31st of ;

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December, before his people at Evanstown, THE COLLEGE WORLD.

111. The Index says that his church has been Consolation for those that need it. "The most prosperous in all respects under his pas- moment we find a being that knows anything toral care. is conditioned.'"—Sir Wm. Hamilton. '64.—A. O. Fellows, Lawyer, 170 East he Adams St. (Room 4), Chicago, is visiting in Freshman (in light and unassuming attire, town. on a table) —" I've sung for you and danced for but I'll be darned if I'll hurrah for '65. —S. G. Harmon is practicing law in you; " Boston. you ! '70.—Charles E. Beale recently opened a At Yale the appointments for the Com- law office in Boston. mencement stage are determined by a com- '70.—J. W. Keene is a teacher in the Bow- petitive trial in oratory, which this year takes ditch Evening School, Boston. He intends place on February 27th.

to open a physician's office in that city soon. Princeton will have a new ten-acre field, '72. —J. G. Abbott is the junior member graded, inclosed, and carefully sodded for use of the law firm of Brewster & Abbott, 13 next Spring for the first time. The base-ball Court Square, Boston. Col. Brewster was grounds are in the centre, surrounded by a formerly District Attorney of Boston. Both quarter mile running track for the athletic members of the firm were on the stump for contests. A grand stand, which will seat two Tilden in the last campaign. hundred and fifty, and a club house, adorn '73.—J. F. Elliot, having resigned his po- the premises. The drift at Princeton is sition at Winchendon, is now Master of the towards base-ball and athletic games, and High School at Hyde Park, Mass. against boating. '73-74— '75.—In the report of the second From the Annual Report of the Presi- annual supper of the Portland Law Students' dent of Harvard College, we learn that the Club, at the Preble House, last week, we find increase in instructors and students during the names of the following Bowdoin men the last thirty years has been about propor- appearing : F. S. Waterhouse, '73, presided tional — slightly on the side of the instruct- H. G. Briggs, '75, delivered the oration. The ors. In 1846-47 there were 16 members of President, H. G. Briggs, and C. F. Kimball, the Faculty and 272 students; in 1856-57, '74, responded to toasts. 24 and 382 ; in 1866-67, 51 and 419 ; in 1876- '75. — S. M. Carter was admitted to the 77, 58 and 821. President Eliot says the Bar, Feb. 3d, in the S. J. Court at Auburn, amount of money dispensed to those who Judge Walton presiding. need aid in getting their education has of '76. —Burnham and Perry, of Bangor late years been rapidly increasing, so that in

Theological Seminary, spent part of their first 1875-76 it amounted in all departments in last vacation town week. to nearly !?43,000. And yet lie makes the '76. —C. S. Hawes is teaching the High rather surprising statement that, taking the School in Hiram. Loan Fund on which any needy student can '76.—G. T. Prince, South Natick, is Asst. draw by giving his note to the trustees, "not Engineer of the Boston Water Works. more than a quarter of the young men who have received loans have ever paid them." Williams College students will hereafter The total invested funds of the University wear the Oxford caps and gowns through the amount to $3,406,653.43 with an annual in- Commencement season. come of s-j;;t,s 14.89. — — —— — — — — —

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At' the closing of a concert, while a young too, whether the appointment on Junior Exhibition is obtained through an exclusive devotion to the sub- gentleman was struggling with his hat, cane, ject of high stand, and whether every lesson is overcoat, opera-glass, and his young lady's fan, learned with the professor's book and pencil imme- diately in mind, or whether the lesson is all of which he was trying to retain on his learned for what it is worth to the student and without special lap, a suspicious looking black bottle fell on regard for the mark that may be obtained for it. — the floor with a thud. " There," he exclaimed Yale Courant. to his companion, " I shall lose my cough med- One of the most important and at the same time the most neglected branch of education, is elocution icine." This was presence of mind. Ex. or vocal culture. It is of vital importance to a young man who is studying for one of the learned profes- sions. He should study at it all his school and col- EDITORS' TABLE. lege life, and devote a year or two to it after gradu- ating. A member of the dramatic profession to be- come eminent in it must spend years of careful We are going to let our exchanges speak for study. Indeed he is a student of elocution all his themselves this week, as in this way our readers life. College Journal. better idea of what subjects are can get a engaging The recurrence of the annual inter-collegiate the attention of the college press, and of the views oratorical contest has brought the subject of inter- entertained on college matters. collegiate literary contests again before us. So far as the department in oratory is concerned, we pre- But it is a fact, and one that is being realized, dict a speedy termination to public trials, unless that there are a few of our "fh'st-class" colleges that some plan other than that at present pursued is are not only indifferent and slack about the moral proposed. Ten speakers entered this year. All of training of their students, but are absolutely auti- the orations were much over ten minutes in length, religious in their tendency. Golden Sheaf. and before the end was reached the audience was heartily tired, It may be that some things said here may not having sat nearly four hours. Wil- Athenaeum. fairly apply to the ideal system of boating, but we liams speak in regard to the existiug state of affairs here. There is one thing peculiar about a vacation ; no We can but admire a college which will frankly say difference where or how a student has spent it, he "we cannot afford it," and refuse to take part in a always says he had a good time. Perhaps he stayed regatta. Taking every thing iuto the account, we at his room in the college, to save the expense of at Dartmouth can ill afford it, and it is time that we going home, yet he avers he had a nice quiet time. should drop the matter entirely. Dartmouth. Perad venture he had to go home, to give an account Let us not then attempt to decry or abolish the of himself, and undergo a parental examination, but higher mathematics or any branch of this science. he still protests that it was a graud season of whole- If this queen of all knowledge is dethroned, the result sale enjoyment. Whatever he does, or is done to can only be disastrous to all lesser branches, which him, during its continuance, a student from a seuse are dependent upon this for their very life. If this of duty dilates on the beauties of the vacation. foundation is taken away, the whole superstructure We need not be surprised at this, for the inhabitants must certainly fall to the ground. Round Table. of the ideal upper world are often represented as enjoying an unending vacation. Lawrence Colle- We are losing a treasure. We have no college gian. songs. The value of these songs is not their music or words, but in their associations. The melody of We have seen that the whole system of meals is "Home, Sweet Home" is very simple, but is some- wrong. Dinner should be, as we think, at five times very powerful to touch the heart. College o'clock instead of at one. There would in this case songs are often wanting in real melody or poetry, but be no real ground for the cry of "light suppers," in- by aud-by those songs w 11 bring back memories of asmuch as the retiring hour of students is almost classmates and scenes else forgotten. Boston Uni- always late. Two hours would pass before evening versity Beacon. study and three or four more before sleep. The student's rest during the night would be as rcfresh- Whether Princeton "shall enter the Regatta" is ing as under the present system. He would rise iu still a question of doubt. Mr. Clark of 78 is doing the morning to partake of only a moderate break- his utmost to place our boating interest on a firm fast aud would, on that account, be bettor prepared basis, and it is no more than right that until we do for the work of the day. By restraining his appe- decide positively not to enter, he should receive tite at noon, eating only a lunch, he would continue more encouragement than has been given him. In in working condition during the afternoon and be case we determine to row, we do not want to have ready for the principal meal at the close of the day. the disadvantage of having had no trainiug during The habit "which has become second nature" would, the winter. l'rincetonian. perhaps, be strong ; but we are certain that, iu the But it makes a very great difference in the eyes end, the new system would in every way be more of the class, and we must believo of the professors, satisfactory than the old.— College Argus. Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, FEBRUARY 28, 1877. No. 15.

BOWDOIN ORIENT. erful sermon from the passage, " The Truth shall make you free." The preacher held the PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE "WEDNESDAY, DURING THE to COLLEGIATE YEAR, BY THE CLASS OF '77, OF undivided attention of his audience the BOWDOIN COLLEGE. very last, and it was one of the most logical and earnest discourses it has been the pleasure EDITORS. of the students to listen to for a long time. John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, "William T. Cobb, George T. Little, In the afternoon a prayer meeting was held Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, in the Congregational Vestry, and in the eve- Charles B. Seabury. ning a preaching service at the same place.

Terms — $2.00 ft year is advance ; single copies, 15 cents. Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, Brunswick, Maine. hist For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Dennison's, Brunswick. The Senior class, in the meeting Satur- day morning, did two or three things worthy CONTENTS. of mention and commendation. We were 15.— Vol. VI., No. February 23, 1877. very glad, for several reasons, that they took Editorial Notes 169 such decided and favorable action in regard Morning (poem) 171 Hymn to the boating interests of the College. It The Tribute to Longfellow 171 was voted that a crew be put upon the river Silent Voices 172 A Protest 173 this Spring, and Mr. Brinkerhoff was elected Bowdoin Alumni of New York 173 captain with power to choose the men. In Local 175 his little speech accepting the position, Mr. Personal 176 The College World 177 Brinkerhoff said that he should select those Editors' Table ]78 who he thought could work best together,

and best represent the class ; and he would EDITORIAL NOTES. promise that an honest, and he hoped success- ful, effort should be made to again encircle Unlike most colleges, Bowdoin has clung the champion cup with the green of '77. We to the observance of the last Thursday in trust the example which has thus been set by February as the day of prayer for colleges. the Senior class, will have its influence with The objections to the last Thursday in Jan- the lower classes, and that every class will lie

uary, which is now generally observed, are represented in the regatta next term. For we

not very weighty, and we think it would, on cannot afford to let these class races languish.

the whole, he better if that date were adopted If we send no crew to the regatta of the New

here. Last Thursday was duly observed this England Rowing Association next Summer, it

year as the day of prayer, all college exercises is the more imperatively demanded that we after morning prayers being omitted. At ten sustain our class contests with genuine interest

o'clock a students' prayer meeting was held in and enthusiasm. And if, to the students in the Senior recitation room, and at eleven general, the advantage of having four crews o'clock a service was held in tin' chapel. The of four men each in training and practice on Rev. Mr. Eeob, of Augusta, preached a pow- the river, is greater than ihat of having only 170 BOWD01N ORIENT. a university crew of four or six oars, it becomes The Memorial Hall Course of Lectures them the more heartily to support these home closed last Friday evening, with a concert by races. Few colleges as regards boating the '77 Glee Club, assisted by the Bowdoin opportunities are more fortunately situated Orchestra. The audience was much larger than Bowdoin. Our boat-house does not than those which the previous entertainments amount to much, it is true, but Nature has have called forth, the attendance from both offered us quite exceptional advantages so far College and town being decidedly increased. as lay within her power. It has been abund- We understand that owing to this the Course antly demonstrated that the course adopted has escaped becoming a failure financially. on the river is deep enough and broad enough The instrumental music was creditable to any to give a chance for a most exciting and closely organization, and hardly to be expected by contested race : there is no class in College any one aware of the limited opportunities but can furnish the material for a creditable for practice together which the performers crew ; the two upper classes have boats in the have enjoyed. The flute solo, in particular, best condition, and the Freshmen are taking- was skillfully executed. The college songs steps to obtain one. What, in short, is to pre- were finely rendered, and called forth several vent having a first-rate class regatta next encores, while the melodies by the quartette June ? We are very glad the Senior class has were especially admired. There was notice- taken the action we mentioned above. able, however, in the rendition of of many of the songs, the absence of a certain something, The other action of the Senior class which hard to define but necessary to their best specially pleased us was the heartiness and effect, which seems indeed to constitute their substantial unanimity with which the propo- peculiar charm, and is always present when sition to fill one of the Chapel panels was they are sung in the open air, or even in a received. There are men in the class, as we recitation room, provided there is a fair prob- know, who have cherished a hope all through ability of obtaining an adjourn. Whether their college life that their class might leave a this something consists in the abandon, or the Chapel picture as a testimony of their loyalty enthusiasm, or the number of the singers, we to Bowdoin, and an example to coming gen- leave others better versed in music than our- erations of students. And surely no more selves to decide. graceful and appropriate tribute could well be found than that one which the class has It is none the less to be regretted because adopted. The expense of filling a panel can- it seems to be always the case, that in every not be looked upon as money spent merely on community of students there are found a few the pleasure of the hour, for the picture will possessed with an insane desire to destroy always stand, a thing of beauty and a lasting everything they can in the way of college memorial of '77. It speaks well for the gen- property. So long as these persons content erosity of the class that even now all doubt themselves with such school-boy tricks as as to the probability of raising the required breaking glass or engraving their names on sum is almost wholly removed. The matter the seats in the recitation-rooms, their pres- of obtaining subscriptions has been placed in ence, though certainly not desirable, especially the hands of a competent and energetic com- when we consider the bill for the average of mittee, and we have every reason to believe repairs, can nevertheless be endured, The that before many months the Chapel will be trouble is, however, that they are not satisfied adorned with a new panel. with their ravages in this direction. They !

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aspire to higher fields of action. Only the going note is the fact that the Bowdoin Med- other night one of these noble-minded, great- ical School has taken a step in advance this sonled heroes stole into the Chapel and suc- year, in requiring all who present themselves ceeded in mutilating an antique chair recently for admission to pass a satisfactory examina-

presented to the College by a, friend, and val- tion in the rudiments of some simple branches

ued highly on account of its age and historical of education, such as Geography, Arithmetic, associations. We do not mention this with Grammar, etc. There are very few Medical the expectation of causing the least shame on Schools in the country which require any the part of the one who performed the deed, examination for admission, and it is highly

but to induce, if possible, the great majority creditable to this School to have taken the of the students, who certainly do not com- stand it has in this matter. The examination mend such actions, to manifest their disap- this year was of course extremely elementaiy, proval and contempt so clearly as to do away as some of the Seniors had an opportunity of with them. The remedy in nearly every case seeing by the blackboard in the Chemical lies, we think, in their hands. They know, Lecture Room, but two of the candidates or at least can find out, who delight in such were rejected. The class now numbers be-

meanness ; and if, as too often happens, the tween eighty and ninety, and will probabhy

matter is not passed by with a laugh or a shrug come close up to a hundred when all are on of the shoulder, we shall soon see amendment. the ground.

On the afternoon of Feb. 15th, Prof. MORNING HYMN. Burt G. Wilder delivered the opening lecture After the Latis of Prcdextics. of the Medical term in the presence of a large Lo, the golden light arises attendance of medical students, college stu- Pale the black of blindness grows, dents, and the Faculties of the two depart- Which deceitfully has led us ments. He took for his subject the value of In a winding path of woes. the study of Comparative Anatomy in prejua- Fair the day this light will bring us! ration for the practice of medicine. He did To ourselves will show us pure! All our speaking will be simple! not favor the introduction of Comparative Shadowy thoughts shall not endure! Anatomy into the regular course of lectures Thus each day shall pass in goodness; at the expense, as would necessarily be the Lying tongue or lying hand,

branches are ; case, of which now taught but Sinful eyes or harmful body, he was very earnest in his belief that the Ne'er shall staiu the spotless laud. student should devote a year or two to who From that Searcher of each action Comparative Anatomy at the beginning of his We no thought nor deed can hide! medical studies would go out into the world lie is with us — has been — will be — From the dawn to eventide. intelligent and trustworthy a much more mem- C. A. P. ber of bis profession. The latter part of the lecture was devoted to a plea for the nunc thorough preparation for the practice of Med- THE TRIBUTE TO LONGFELLOW. icine, ami the need of a broader genera] The meeting of the Faculty and students culture on the part of those who designed in the Chapel, Tuesday noon, for the purpose entering the profession. of extending their congratulation to Prof. Longfellow on the occasion of his seventieth

Suggested liv the conclusion of the fore- birthday, was almost an impromptu gathering. 172 BOWDOIN ORIENT. and for that reason to a certain extent the and laid the mountains bare. It was in the more significant. Surely no more graceful still, small voice that God was manifested to or appropriate tribute could have been ten- the prophet of old, who, struck with awe and dered to Bowdoin's most distingushed alum- amazement, stood at the mouth of the cave, nus. The meeting was opened by President his hiding-place.

Chamberlain with fitting and eloquent remarks Indeed, the wind, with its strange music, suggested by the hour, and wherein he briefly rehearses at its every motion the power of its alluded to the unequaled roll of honored Maker. The earthquake, with its rumbling names which Bowdoin could claim in the noise, as it sends its vibration from one corner ranks of her alumni. The venerable Prof. of the earth to the other, proclaims the wrath Packard was then introduced, who gave some of God to the wicked, his glory to the right- exceedingly interesting reminiscences of the eous. The fire, in its destroying nature, college life of Prof. Longfellow, and closed teaches that its Maker, the Great Alchemist, with presenting the letter of congratulation can do and undo, create and annihilate, printed below. The reading of the letter was worlds and systems. Yet how much more received with hearty applause. Prof. Chap- emphatic is that eloquence which we hear, man moved that the letter be adopted as the when, in the silence of the night, we listen to sentiment of the meeting, and be forthwith the voices of nature which are sounding convej^ed to Prof. Longfellow. In making throughout the vastness of eternity. the motion, Prof. Chapman made some very In silence the mind, the most precious of graceful and happy remarks, and the motion divine gifts, becomes active, and performs its was seconded in an admirable little speech greatest exertions. In deep stillness, the by Mr. C. W. Morrill of the Senior class on imagination attempts to fathom the unmeas- behalf of the students. The following is the urable universe, but, failing in its efforts, at letter in full : — once acknowledges that Omnipotent Being Bowdoin College, Feb. 27, 1877. whose works are beyond the reach of human The President, Faculty, and Students of Bowdoin intellect. College embrace the opportunity to convey to Prof. Longfellow their sincere congratulations on reaching In the still hours, Science, like a thousand his seventieth birthday. We congratulate him, that rays of celestial light rushing forth from the from "the snowy summit of his years" he maylogk of Intellect, dispels the darkness of back on a career of usefulness, honor, and fame sel- Fountain dom realized ; on manifold productions of his own ignorance around us, and leads us through genius and cultured taste which are household treas- silent avenues to that wonderful palace of ures wherever the English language is spoken or read ; above all that by elevation and purity of sen- nature, where everything speaks of that timent and by tender sympathy for the lowest no Mighty Spirit whose omnipotence fills all less than for the highest of his tellow-men, enshrined as they are in verse of matchless simplicity and space, boundless, unlimited, untried by man, beauty, has won for himself a home in human he unfathomed even by his imagination. hearts. We would add our cordial wishes for the health and happiness of Prof. Longfellow and family Astronomy, changed from the state of its be his best and that his last days may yet days. infancj', when it was cradled ages ago in the tent of Chaldean shepherds, attracts our at- SILENT VOICES. tention towards the tower of Genoa, where It was not in the strong wind which rent Galileo, the great astronomer, with his new- the mountains and brake the rocks in pieces. born telescope, views the glorious constella- It was not in the earthquake which shook the tions of the heavens, the myriads of worlds earth from its very foundation. It was not in and systems shaped by the hands of One whose the flaming fire which devastated the forest glory they proclaim. With every revolution B WD OW ORIENT. 173 they speak silently of their Creator, and touch Now, here in College a portion of the stu- the strings of the human heart through some dents must suffer on account of the thought- inconceivahle organs, waking our souls to the lessness (we give it as light a name as possi- knowledge of God, and the wisdom and ble) of others. Tobacco smoke is not only omnipotence of Him who holds in his hands annoying but positively injurious to some per- the destinies of the universe. sons. To breathe it a few minutes will cause

Geology, with its truths half hidden, half them to suffer for hours. Now here, when

discovered; with its mountains and valleys; even a class meeting or anything of that kind

with its life, animal and vegetable,—from the is held, in a few minutes the room is full of smallest grain of sand to the enormous bulk smoke, and of course is not fit for any person of the globe, from the microscopic infusoria except the smokers. One can seldom go into to the intelligent man,—leads us to that hal- the reading room for any length of time with- lowed spot where its great student, Hugh out breathing air filled with smoke, coming Miller, points us with silent finger towards not from a good cigar, but from those odious that imperishable inscription —"It is God." cigarettes. They would be seriously offended Ser. if requested to leave the room while smoking, and would doubtless reply, " You can leave A PROTEST. the room if you don't like the smoke;" self- Messrs. Editors: ishly thinking that all others can forego the Many practices are allowed because they advantages of the reading room, or endure have become customary. There seems to be the smoke, better than to have them leave the a tacit acknowledgment that custom makes room a few minutes while they finish their law. We submit to man}' annoyances because cigarettes. Sometimes they go into another's we have been accustomed to submit to them. room and smoke without even asking if it

We allow men to smoke in our presence be- will be agreeable ; and they will puff their cause they assume a right to do so without smoke in your face — a joke they call it. It is customary to endure these annoy- permission ; and that is the point we wish to call attention to at present. ances in silence, but it is no more than fair

Probably there is no class of persons so that the smokers should know that they are wanting in politeness as the average smoker. troubling others. Of course, as soon as they

And this is so well known, and the class is so once discover that smoke is disagreeable to numerous, that in most public places accommo- many, smoking in reading room and other dations arc furnished them in order to be free places of resort will be entirely unknown at

from their annoyances. A special car is run Bowdoin. Non -Smoker.

on all passenger trains ; rooms arc furnished in depots and oilier public places. If such

accommodations were not furnished, it is pre- BOWDOIN ALUMNI OF NEW YORK. sumable that those who arc not smokers would The Bowdoin Alumni Association of New York be annoyed constantly. Even where there held its seventh annual reunion and dinner at the are such rooms for the smokers the people are Brunswick Hotel, Tuesday evening, February 13th. were not entirely free. It is thought necessary to Between forty and fifty persons present, among tin-in, Nathaniel Cothren, the Rev. Dr. John Cotton post placards in public places forbidding Smith, President Chamberlain and Pints, roung smoking; and quite often in a room with sev- and Carmicbael of Bowdoin, President Allen of eral such on the walls, will be there found a Grirard College, the Rev. Dr. fJpbam, l'rof. K. R. number of persona filling the room with smoke. Peaslee, the Rev. R. B. Howard, Prof. Bracked IU B WD OIN ORIENT.

of Princeton, Prof. Nathaniel Dunn of '25, Charles suggestions on college matters. Dr. R. Goodwin E. Soule, Esq., of '42, D. A. Hawkins of '48, the Hon. offered the sentiment, " The wealth of Bowdoin Col-

Charles A. Washburn of '48, Hon. B. B. Foster of '55, lege : Her Funds are Her Fruits." Hon. J. H. Godenow of '52, Messrs. Abbott, Hawes, The officers elected at the business meeting

Goodwin, McKeen and many others. At the busi- were : President, Rev. Dr. John Cotton Smith ; Vice ness meeting, officers were elected for the ensuing Presidents, N. Cleavelaud, W. H. Allen, N. Cothren,

year, and resolutions were offered in regard to the E. Brackett, Wm. A. Abbott ; Recording Secretary, death of the Rev. Dr. Henry Boynton Smith of the Frederick G. Dow; Corresponding Secretary, Theo.

Class of '34. D. Bradford ; Treasurer, Samuel L. Gross. Mr. Cothren, President of the Association, opened

the post-prandial entertainment about 9.30 P. M. Resolutions offered by Henry Stone, Esq., at meeting He said that the surviving alumni of Bowdoin num- of Bowdoin Alumni Association of New York, bered about 1,200; of these the New York Associa- Feb. 13th, 1877. tion had 91. There were other associations in Resolved, That we desire to convey to Dr. Leon- Bangor, Portland, Boston, and Chicago, and others ard Woods an expression of our most affectionate were to be found in Washington and St. Louis. regard, and our earnest hope for his continued wel- He believed that Bowdoin Alumni would now be fare and happiness. represented by association in San Francisco, or even Mesolved, That this Resolution be entered upon beyond the Pacific Ocean. President Chamberlain the minutes of the Association, and a copy of the " responded to the toast Our Alma Mater." He same be sent to Dr. Leonard Woods. said that when among the men who formed the Unanimously adopted by a rising vote. Alumni of Bowdoin he was made to feel the true (Signed) Frederic G. Dow, Secretary. dignity of the position he held in young Bowdoin. It was the aim of the Faculty to make the College Resolutions offered by Charles E. Soule, Esq. fill the place in this generation that it filled in the Resolved, That the Bowdoin Alumni Association past, and that was saying enough. He spoke with of the City of New York hear with deep regret of pride of the men of Bowdoin who had given the the illness which prevents the venerable Dr. Pack- college a record which no other college, old or young, ard from being with us this evening, and with grate- in the country could surpass. There were Adams ful recollections of our respected professor and kind and Fcssenden among statesmen, Prentiss among friend, present him our hearty wishes for his speedy orators, Hawthorne among authors, and Longfellow restoration to health, and the assurances of our con- among poets. Prof. Young, treasurer of the College, stant and affectionate esteem. said the principle that one could not serve and God Resolved, That this Resolution be entered upon Mammon at the same time had kept him out of the minutes of the Association, and a copy of the the class-room. had been acquitted on the first He same sent to Dr. Packard. count and brought in on the second. There was Unanimously adopted by a rising vote. something unsavory about the duties of a treasurer, (Signed) Frederic G. Dow, Secretary. although he believed that treasurers had averaged better during the last year than pi'esidents and trus- tees. He would not mingle sentiment and practical Scene on a crowded street car at Philadel- matters by taking any money in trust just there, but phia. Young gent, standing near, said to a begged to leave his address with generous Alumni. young lady who "was heavily laden with an Prof. Carmichacl said that not being regularly bap- immense basket: " Miss, is not your basket tized as a Bowdoin Alumnus, he had climbed up Young lacby, anticipating another way. He paid a compliment to the scien- heavy?" what the tific department of the College. He thought the next question would be, inwardly prepared a reputation of Bowdoin through her Alumni was due nice "No, I thank you," and said aloud, " Yes, not so to what was much imparted at the College as it is very heavy." Young gent —"Why to a certain independence of habit and thought don't you set it down, then ? " Disappointed which prevailed among Bowdoin men. President but sharp young lady saved herself by quickly Allen of Girard College gave some amusing College " reminiscences, and Dr. John Cotton Smith inter- responding, Oh ! I don't know enough." spersed a short address with humor aud practical (Laughter.) BOWDOIN ORIENT. 175

LOCAL. Every Senior in the Scientific Course is now prepared to give instruction in Geology.

Whist playing is again at the front. Terms, moderate, very.

Griffin's Nearly all the pedagogues have returned. The collection of pictures at Mr.

is at present one of the leading attractions. Book agents complain of ill treatment here. Be sure and pay for them. Upper-classmen have laid aside their little A Freshman in the north end of Appleton hob-sleds. rejoices in the possession of a new stove. He A " Home for Little Wanderers" has been is anxious to explain its workings. established in town. Seniors in the Engineering Department The Seniors attend Prof. Carrnichael's are busily engaged in reading and discussing lectures on Chemistry(?) the little story of Ananias and his wife. Some fine horn playing can be heard in gave a concert at the north end of Appleton. The Bowdoin Orchestra Damariscotta, Friday, Feb. 16th, and met " Nipper " objects to being called the vic- with even better success than at Wiscasset. tim of misplaced confidence. Subscriptions for the Orient are payable Another attempt to prevent the chapel lately. It is at any time to C. B. Seabury, 12 A. H. bell from ringing has been made almost needless to say that it was a failure. The appearance of the pack-peddler about College indicates the return of Spring. The under-classmen in the Engineering The Seniors experienced a return of Department are learning the advantages aris- rules of "Junior ease" during the last two weeks. ing from a knowledge of a few etiquette. Washington's birth-day was observed by Students who keep late hours Saturday the students with appropriate ceremonies. nights, will be rejoiced to hear that we are to With but one exception every member of retain our sleeping apartments in the galleries the Senior class is now present in College. of the church. Strange, but even the Faculty are not No rules of order have been imposed upon " exempt from an occasional Sunday sickness." '77 in the Chemical Lecture Room. This is A shooting gallery furnishes amusement a new departure and shows the value of a for the occupants of the south end of Maine. good reputation.

The pictures of the Senior class, taken by An interesting article upon Rev. William Mr. Heed, have thus far given general satis- Allen, the third president of the College and faction. also president of the short-lived Dartmouth University, may he found in the Congregation- It is encouraging to learn that the base- alist for Feh. 14th. ball nine is again to go into training in the Gymnasium. A very fine lunar rainbow was observed half hour or from the College build- There arc eight graduates of Bowdoin for a so, upon Tuesday evening of this week, and attending the present course of lectures in the ings, attention. So perfect Medical School. attracted considerable a one has been rarely seen. Obliging tin' offending person to give the nienls whole of the review, is the latest way of The following ate the ap| " lint for maintaining order in the class-room. the Senior Exhibition at the close of this term: :

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also appointed the lecturer on the Ely foundation J. A. Roberts, Salutatorian ; W. Gr. Beale, E. for the present year. In 1867 he was a delegate to M. Cousins, C. W. Morrill, C. L. Nickerson, the Evangelical Alliance at Amsterdam. In 1869 M. Sherman. R. E. Peary, A. he traveled for his health in Germany and Italy, and We regret to learn that a member of the in the following year, in company with Kev. Drs. visited Mount Sinai, Palestine, Senior class has fallen into the bad habit of Hitchcock and Park, and Constantinople. Prof. Smith was the author of leaving his overcoat behind him at public en- a number religious works, including tho "History of tertainments. We hope no one will be led to Christianity in Chronological Tables," and was the pattern after him in this respect. editor of the periodical known at different times as The Bowdoin Alumni of Boston and the American Theological Review, the American Presbyterian and the Presbyterian Quarterly. He vicinity had a reunion and dinner last Thurs- translated several German theological works, and day. The reunion and dinner of the Bangor published many addresses, sermons, &c. Association occurred the following night. All The Historian Bancroft has pronounced these little occasions furnish adjourns. Dr. Smith the most accomplished philosoph- ical critic in the United States. '55.—S. R. Crocker, editor of the Literary PERSONAL. World, has been placed in an insane asylum.

His insanity is caused by overwork. [We earnestly request contributions for this '61.—S. M. Finger is a member of the department from the Alumni and friends of the State Senate of North Carolina, now in ses- College.] sion. Last year he was a member of the '25.— The Congregationalist of Feb. 21 has House of Representatives. a sketch of Rev. J. S. C. Abbott "in his sick '70. —J. W. Keene has removed his office chamber," which can but prove interesting to from Wollaston Heights to 1654 Washington all his many friends and admirers. St., Boston, Mass. '34.—We take the following from the N. >71_'75._Charles E. Clark '71, Myles Y. Evening Post of Feb. 10 Stanclish, E. H. Noyes, and W. H. Holmes The Rev. Dr. Henry Boynton Smith, the distin- '75, Bradley, formerly of '75, are guished theologian, died at his home in this city, 108 and D. W. East Twenty- fifth street, Wednesday morning, Feb. studying Medicine at Harvard Medical School. 7th. His health had been poor for several years, '71-'73-'75.—Among the members of Yale but his final illness was the result of a severe cold Divinity School are E. F. Davis '71, L. F. contracted about six weeks ago. Dr. Smith was Berry, H. W. Chapman, and J. N. Lowell '73, bom in Portland, Me., Nov. 21st, 1815; was gradu- and C. W. Hill '75. ated from Bowdoin College in 1834, and was em- '72. Jr., is in ployed as a tutor in that institution in 1836 and '37. —J. S. Richards, Bangor He then studied theology at Andover and Bangor, Theo. Sem. continuing his studies at Halle and Berlin in Europe. '73.—C. C. Sampson is in Andover Theo. On returning to this country he became pastor of Sem. the Congregational Church at West Amesbury, '75.—W. Nevins has charge of Bridgton Mass. In 1847 he became Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy in Amherst College, and three Academy. years later he accepted the professorship of Church '75.—D. A. Sargent is a member of Yale History in the Union Theological Seminary in this Medical School. city. He was transferred to the professorship of '76. —J. H. Payne has been attacked by a Theology in 1854, and retained this po- Systematic hemorrhage of the lungs, and been obliged to sition until 1874, when ill-health compelled him to return home from his medical studies in Bos- resign. He was then made Professor Emeritus, and occupied the chair of Apologetics. Prof. Smith was ton. — — —

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'76.—Tascus Atwood will take charge of A gentleman, taking dinner at a hotel and the Mattanawcook Academy at Lincoln, be- not recognizing an article of food which was ginning March 12, with the Spring term. placed before him, asked the waiter: " Waiter,

Leiviston Journal. what is this?" "It's bean soup, sir.'' "I '76.—Burnham, Jameson, Perry, Pratt, don't give a cuss what it has been: what is it " and Robinson of this class were present at now? the Alumni Dinner at Bangor, Feb. 23. Scene, Library. Fresh—" Where shall '74, A. G. Ladd '73, Hunter and Lowell I find Darwin's works ? " Librarian—" What Whitmore '75, Alden, Gordon, and Rowe '76, do you want with Darwin?" Fresh—"I

and Stephenson, formerly of '77, represent want his ' Origin of Species,' so as to find Bowdoin in the Medical School thus far in something about this finance question." Cor- the present course of lectures. nell Era.

The item which has been circulating among the college papers, and which we THE COLLEGE WORLD. printed in our last number, to the effect that at Yale the Commencement appointments Amherst Sophomores are studying Calcu- were determined by a competitive trial in

lus from French text-books. oratory, is untrue.

The first number of the Colby Echo, the A change in the statutory exercises for di- new monthly paper to be published at Colby vinity degrees, Oxford, by which two theologi- University, will appear March 7th. cal essays were required from the candi-

the : Wesleyan University counts among its dates, called forth following The title D.D. 'tis proposed to convey alumni 334 ministers, 151 lawyers, 45 physi- To ao A double S lor a double S. A. cians, 24 editors, 18 college presidents, 38 col- —Ex. lege professors and 110 teachers. At Oxford, Dr. Pusey lectures on Hebrew Dr. McCosh sits upon the fence in the to an audience not exceeding ten in number. rear of Princeton College, when the weather Dr. Jowett lectures on Thucydides to an

is fine, and has great success in convincing average of forty students ; the Professor of the students of the possibility of their gorilla Latin to twenty. Mr. Ruskin gives lectures

origin. on Fine Art. His audience is about one hun-

The old buildings at Trinity will be torn dred.— Wx. their site will down next summer ; and be turf- A British journal pays this pretty compli- ed, and made to correspond with the rest of the ment to an American bard: "Aldrich says. grounds. The college has received donations 'As wild as the winds that tear the curled red to the amount of $960,591 within thirteen leaf in (he air is the song that I have never years. sung.' Tin: man who knows a song like that,

to sing it, is The Professor, after a minute description and nobly forbears a credit to of labradorite, hands a specimen to one of the any country." class for examination. Anxious Sen. (whose Italy has declared its seventeen universi- turn to recite is approaching) — "Say, Bob, ties open to women. The like action has what is that which Prof, just handed you?" been taken by Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Bob (cautiously whispering)—" It Ionics like and Denmark. A ministerial order has been a — stone."— I ridergraduate. issued in Holland opening every university — '

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and gymnasium to women. France has uate is well conducted — in fact, the whole paper is a good deal better than opened the Sorbonas to women, and Russia its some papers which repre- sent institutions four times the size of Middlebury. highest schools of Medicine and Surgery.— The Acta Columbiana has found some linos College Argus. written by a Sophomore of a moral turn of mind. " A Senior remarked the other day that a They run as follows : " large mouth showed that a man was capable The second term is nearly here, How short the first has been !

of eloquence ; large ears, that he was capable If duties you have left undone, Brace up, and start agiu." of appreciating eloquence ; and both large " A Fragment " with the accompanying foot-notes mouth and large ears, that he was capable of is very neatly done ; and a correspondent pleads appreciating his own eloquence." Ex. strongly for the more systematic and thorough study of English.

There has been a noticeable improvement in the EDITORS' TABLE. Dickinsonian within our remembrance ; but we must implore the editors not to open their columns The poem entitled "The Hermit," in the Amherst to any more such articles as the one entitled " Col- Student, is quite good, but the literary department lege Boarding Clubs " in their last issue. If the man borders on the ponderous, and the editorial depart- who wrote it thought he was witty, he should be ment is not quite up to the standard we should ex- discouraged in every possible way by his readers pect in Amherst. who know better; and if it was put in in response The editors of the Round Table, in closing their to a pitiless demand for "more copy," the editors editorial "work, enter on a consideration of the dif- made a mistake in not allowing a blank column in ference between " the Editorial board aud the great their February number.

Public Bored." In real interest this number hardly The Princetonian is generally a good paper, but

seems to us to come up to some of its predecessors the best number we have seen for some time is that — but then it is not bad. issued Feb. 8th, which lies before us. The editorials The Bockford Seminary Magazine (quarterly) are by no means the least attractive part of the has reached us again, and is good as usual. The paper; aud the fact that all strictly literary and "Essay with Valedictory" is well written, aud is philosophical essays are banished to the pages of the perhaps the best article in this number. Other Nassau Lit. effectually prevents any impression of readable articles, however, are "Out of the Old " heaviness " in its make-up. It suggests a conven- Cometh the New," the little sketch " If You'd Have tion of college editors. "The 'women suffragers a Faithful Servant, Serve Yourself," and "A Plea have their conventions, the social scientists theirs,

' for Mediocrity." the newspaper men theirs, and their swell ' dinners, too; and why, why, brethren of the quill, should In its article upon " Woman and the Law," the our swell dinner, too?" Slight Laivrence Collegian cau at least be said to have we uot have "A clearly outlined the great argument from nature Misunderstanding" is very fair. which the advocates of female suffrage have never We think we can appreciate iu some degree the demolished, and which, we imagine, will always difficulty of running an interesting college monthly, prove a troublesome objection in the path of the aud especially one which assumes the form of a lit- " reformers." The column headed " About Books, erary monthly. And so wo are disposed to bo char- Old and New," is no addition to the Collegian. itable with the Hamilton Lit. For it is a good The Undergraduate, from Middlebury College, specimen of its class, not reaching the excellence of shows a commendable desire to awaken the students some of its fellows published iu the larger institu- of that College to an interest in the subjects which tions, but yet on the whole well written, and show- interest other college students. It laments the dis- ing a desire and effort on the part of its editors to appearance of class-day, which was an established make it as entertaining as possible. The essay on custom in the times gone by; and complains that " The Transit of Venus in 1874 " is pretty good, and " there is no interest in base-ball, foot-ball, or, to take the article on National Unity " is worthy of men- " the other end of the list, in intercollegiate literary tion. " The Search for Sir John Franklin is a good contests. The local department of the Undergrad- piece of descriptive writing, and readable withal. Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MARCH 14, 1877. No. 16.

BOWDOIN ORIENT. of other colleges. Eight have been United States Senators, and twenty-seven Represent- PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DURING THE atives to Congress. Four have been appointed COLLEGIATE YEAR, BY THE CLASS OF 77, OF BOWDOIN COLLEGE. Foreign Ministers, eleven Judges of the Na-

tional or higher State Courts ; one has been EDITORS. elected President of the United States, and John E. Chapman, 'William C. Greene, six Governors of States. Out of the whole "William T. Cobb, George T. Little, Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, number, up to 1873, three hundred and thirty Charles B. Seabury. (or about eighteen per cent.) have been min-

Terms — $2.00 a year in advance •, single copies, 15 cents. isters. Williams, with a thousand more Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, Brunswick, Maine. alumni, has had thirty-one members of Con- For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Dennison's, Brunswick. gress, five Senators, eight Governors, and seven CONTEXTS. hundred and sixty clergymen. Dartmouth,

Tol. VI., No. 16.— MARCn 14, 1877. ! with over twice as many graduates, claims

Editorial Notes 181 sixty-one Representatives to Congress, fifteen "It is Longfellow's Birthday" (poem) 183 Senators, eleven Governors, twenty-five Col- The Buwdoin .Alumui (poem) 183 lege Presidents, one four j and hundred and Luxuries of Our Language 185 : Professors. Shall wo Teach? 186 Base-Ball 188

Local 1 88 So rarely is it possible to skate down the Personal 189 river into Merrymeeting Bay, that we fear few Editors' Table 190 students were aware, and a still smaller num- ber took advantage, of the opportunity to do EDITORIAL NOTES. so recently presented. Whoever chanced to make the trip, however, can hardly have Several paragraphs have appeared of late failed to derived much satisfaction therefrom. in different college papers, stating the number Aside from the pleasurable sensation which of their alumni who have filled the higher every skater feels when, with a clear sky public offices. Though by no means a good above, glassy ice beneath, free as the air, he criterion of the worth or standing of a col- glides hither or thither as his fancy dictates, lege, it may be interesting to learn what the gratification to be derived from the scen- positions our own graduates have occupied. eiy along the river is by no means to be de- Notwithstanding Eowdoin ranks twelfth in spised or overlooked. At the narrows, where point of .age among the three hundred and the sharply- defined strata of mica schist. fifty or more colleges and universities of broken just enough to allow the stream a the Union, her alumni are exceeded in num- scanty passage, will claim the attention of the ber by those of several younger institutions. one geologically inclined, the average skater, We find, however, that sixteen have served guiltless we fear of remembering his Dana, as as Presidents and seventy-five Professors can scarcely tail lo notice I lie group nf half a 182 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

dozen or so islands, each with a delightful lit- to all our precepts and exhortations, but we tle cone at its lower extremity—the cause of do believe in the benefit of taking a reasonable which we willingly leave to the before-men- amount of exercise every day. It may be had tioned student of Geology — and one or two in various forms, but there is one form abso- magnificently wooded, and calling to mind lutely without restrictions of expense or views among the Thousand Isles of the St. physical skill and training. A man can walk, Lawrence. Farther on, the Brunswick bank, whether he can afford to row and play base-

with its growth of pine and cedar, and the ball or not. Pie is his own captain and need cleared lands and farm-houses on the opposite consult no one as to when, or where, or how side, deserve at least a passing glance. The long he shall walk. And we believe that few huge square chimneys of these old-fashioned places offer pleasanter rambles than Brunswick country-seats suggest the blazing hearth-fires and its immediate vicinity. In the Winter and generous hospitality of "ye olden tyine," systematic exercise of this kind will be sus- and also naturally lead us to remember that tained more as a duty, in the Spring and Fall

close at hand is the oldest settled region in it is the most enjoyable portion of the student's our native State. Up this very bay and river, clay. It has been said that as soon as two past these very shores, sailed the bold Captain Americans get the same idea they immediately Weymouth, full fifteen years before the Pil- organize a society for the propagation of that grims landed at Plymouth. idea. So why does not some one found a " Society for the Promotion of Pedestrianism "We find by one of our exchanges that among' Students"? a Professor of Intellectual Philosophy has proved to his class "from experience, and The extent and conditions of the exami- testimony, and observation, and facts, that a nation for the Smyth Scholarship, which is to student could, by taking two hours' exercise take place the first of next term, make it evi- every day, perform his usual amount of labor dent that the scholarship is to be awarded on in three hours' less time than when taking no no formal or superficial list of attainments,

particular exercise ; therefore gaining an extra but that the examination is to be, so far as it

hour in the twenty-four." is possible for one to be, a thorough and Now we have no doubt that every student searching trial of the mathematical abilities in Bowdoin College has seen statements simi- of the several candidates. This scholarship

lar to the above, a hundred times ; and we is from a pecuniary point of view by far the have no doubt that there is widely dissemin- most valuable prize of the course, and the ated a sort of vague belief in the doctrine. successful competitor may feel well recom-

The trouble is, it is a hard doctrine to begin pensed for any consumption of the midnight

to practice. It requires courage. When a oil that has placed it within his reach. We man sees lessons before him to which he certainly hope that the result of Mr. Furber's ought to give seven hours study in addition to generous gift will be to take away somewhat

the three hours of recti tation, it seems little from the unpopularity with which mathemat- short of madness to take two good hours of ics as a branch of liberal education is com- daylight for idle walking, or riding, or gym- monly regarded. And we have reason to

nasium practice. So he swings Indian clubs believe that it is raising and will continue to in his own room for ten or fifteen minutes, raise the standard of mathematical studies

and lets his outdoor exercise take care of itself. among the successive classes. Indeed, we Now we do not claim to come up in practice know that a large proportion in the classes ; ; —; ;

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 183 which are now pursuing the higher mathe- THE BOWDOIN ALUMNI. matics look upon them as very far from being The following admirable poem by Dr. E. recitations. The the most irksome of their M. Field, of Bangor, was read by Prof. Sew- for is growing. respect mathematics all, of the Bangor Theological Seminary, at the reunion of the Bowdoin Alumni, at the We would ask the attention of our readers Bangor House, Friday evening, Feb. 28: to the communication from " One of the Nine," old, dreamy, most bewitching haze, in another column. The fact that the nine From the That lingers fondly on the far-off days are practicing regularly in the Gymnasium Of Grecian fable and of Grecian lays, ought to give the students confidence in them There rises on the vision, saint-like, clear, as willing and able to do their best when the The charming picture of sweet Galatea

Her throne the graceful Nautilus ; her brave season opens ; and the assurance from those And dainty crew, the dolphins of the wave material for who know, that we have as good From her right hand, high poised, a goldeu thread a first-class club as has been here for "a num- Leads curve-like to each proudly-conscious head left, afar, and still more near, ber of years," removes the last possible pre- And right or In triumph floats the queenly Galatea. text for indifference to this branch of college sports. We believe a majority of the students So, from her throne 'mid yonder fragrant pines, We feel our loving mother's guiding lines, are in favor of heartily sustaining a good col- And, willing sons and subjects, proudly bear lege nine. believe they are willing to do We Her sacred image with ns everywhere; their part towards having Bowdoin well rep- And all our conquests — all our battles won — All pleasures garnered, and all duties done, resented on the ball-field ; and now that the "We lay as lawful trophies at her feet, Association lias made such a generous reduc- Who made the victory sure, the pleasure sweet. tion on the dues of members, there is cer- tainly no reason why it should not be re- Wherever, on the broad earth's smiling face, A son of Bowdoin finds his dwelling place — lieved of all financial embarrassments and In far Japan, or India's sultry shore, placed in a position to offer the nine adequate The fair Penobscot, or the famed Marmore — support. We trust no student will dishonora- Whether as lawyer, taking moderate fees, bly attempt to evade the payment of his dues And swift condemning Courts of Common Pleas, Loud deprecating litigation's woes, under the new and liberal arrangement. And praying men to be no longer foes; Or minister, dispensing weekly chaff And consolation to the better half citizens, whose sole delight IT IS LONGFELLOW'S BIRTHDAY.' Of houest Is their own way to have, or else to fight Feb. 27, 1877. Or doctor, whose chief aim's to solace woe, Nov e'er feels anxious for the quid pro /"", A stronger bond than written thoughts must link Who with the clergy heartily believe His dear old heart to ours, that he may know "lis better far to give than to rea ivt .— The thankful throbs, which quivering come and go, Whiitc'cr the path our feet, may daily tread, And thrills of love Mini pride which rise and sink, Whether life's tasks employ the hand or head. In all our fresh, young hearts ! For he has shown The car of memory, festooned with Mowers, That one may rise to e'en tin' highest place, Revisits oil th sweet dissolving hours, And rule o'er all mankind, by honesl grace Where youth and hope exultant Mend their strains And Godlike thoughts and words — by these alone. In sweet accord on Bowdoin's sacred plains. His reign forms but a list of goldeu deeds. Oh, what eventful ways We've journeyed o'er. His royal life a text we well may make, Since from that haven calm we put from shore I And from it strong, impulsive spirit take The interim how prdgnant, and how rife To manfully do all our duteous Deeds. With all that makes and all that ends a life: Ay, from the heart indeed our voices ring — With joy illumed — darkened with sorrow's breath. Honor and greeting to our poet kiug! 0. A. P. Willi life exultant — saddened oft with death; ; !; ; ;! ; ; ; ! ! ; !; ; — ! ; ;; ! ;; !

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A battle scene, the victory almost won, And Cleavelaud, too, that diamond in the rough, Framed 'twixt the rising and the setting sun. Uncut, upolished, but the geuuine stuff; A geode, with no promise of the gem How soft and sweet the retrospect appears, Withiu its bosom hid, a diadem Ere yet we trod this bridge of joys and tears Of precious brilliants, each a wond'rous mine The murmur low and soothing of the grove, Of wealth uncounted, freely all to shine

The breath of flowers below, of birds above, Resplendent round the world, himself divine ! The paradise of study and of love In that old room iu Massachusetts Hall, Had he but fixed the image on the wall The fragrance of the whispering pines, When thro' the shutter came the solar ray, Their dim and quiet aisles Passed o'er the screen, then faded quite away, sunbeams flashing in and out, The Daguerre had not been known ; had he each Leyden jar Like childhood's sunny smiles A continent between sat down, afar The distant sound of waterfalls From each as foreign nations are, and sung Loud leaping to the sea,— His sweet electric song in every tongue These, like the precious things of earth, Then Morse had not been known ; in his deep soul Are shrined in memory. There dwelt the data of a perfect whole, Which needed but the waving of the haud The bell that summoned us to prayers Of the magician, Death, all things to understand. From the old Chapel tower The cheerful room we gathered in These pass'd not thro' the tedious gates of pain, At morn and evening's hour; But ripe with goodness — free from earthly stain, The chapter read — the fervent prayer, Like dew-drops were exhaled to Heaven again The hymn both sweet and clear; souvenir These, like the precious things of earth, There lingers yet a precious old days to love and memory dear Are still to memory dear Of those The polished Packard, genial as of yore, The hymns are hush'd — the voices dumb His lips with Christian court'sy running o'er; The Chapel passed away A golden link between the dreamy Past The lips that prayed at morn and eve And the wild hurry round the Present cast Have long since ceased to pray A radiant gloaming iu the western skies, There breathes a solemn requiem That pales in holier brightness as it dies From every bird and tree Altho' for him nought lingers to combat, These, like the precious things of earth, His aspirations all of Heaven begat, Are shrined in memory. Serus—serus in caelum redeat

And where are they — those honored men and true, Brothers, we still are undergraduates "Whose names from awe to admiration grew The record of our individual fates "Who toiled to urge us upward day by day, Will stand unfinished, till the muffled oar on the shore — And in the ascent led themselves the way '? Of grim old Charon lands us The sterling Smyth, the opposite of mild The nether shore — where all our cai'es and strife Without — within, a tender-hearted child; Find joyful issue with the dream of life. A towering oak, sublime in rugged power, Persian poet praised a clod of clay, And yet a sensitive and fragile flower! A Because it had a sweet perfume one day Memorial Hall ! thy office, too, must be And praying it the secret to disclose, To tell of him who gave his life for thee The clod replied, " I laid beside the rose." And TJpham, too, a graceful elm, whose mind So let the fragrance of our lives proclaim Too gentle seemed for mingling with his kind, The sweetness of our Alma Mater's fame, of For life's rough recognition too refined Whose teachings breathe of Science and Love, The complex brain, the imperial throne of thought, The Christian scholar's joy below — above Whose subtle actiou he so plainly taught, At last, abnormally to him, revealed — A longed-for knowledge heretofore concealed Prof. " Mr. S., tell me what you know As through the rifted clouds effulgence breaks, of Shakespeare's heroines." Soph (after much And all beneath a sudden glory takes, hesitation) —" Well, I think they were nearly So through his ruptured brain a radiance stole, Ex. And light eternal flashed upon his soul all women." ! ! a

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LUXURIES OF OUR LANGUAGE. q were spelled by our earlier ancestors with a How many luxuries we are daily using, of ow, until a new letter was invented for the sound which had already existed. J"is a coun- which we thanklessly take no thought ! Of course, no one imagines that our language has terpart of i, and even in the earliest extant always possessed all the words we are in the English writings they are written the same, habit of using, for a very limited looking- and this practice continued for some centuries. about would show us that names do not exist In course of time, as a more extended before the idea they embody comes to light. acquaintance with one another took place, Certainly, within our own recollection, new men saw the need of an adverbial designation, inventions have given rise to new names. It that is, something to let folks know that such was on\y a short time ago that the telegraph and such a word rendered the sense of a pred- was practically put in use. Although the icated action more complete and restricted. word "telegraph" existed a long time ago in In looking about itself, Language fastened

a little different form in another language, it upon the word "like," or rather its Anglo-

is for us a new word. It seems to be a point Saxon equivalent, lie, as the word most fit to of civilization that greater and greater luxu- accomplish this end. This word was hung ries should be introduced proportionally as the upon the qualifiers of nouns to make the in race of man progresses, and of course there qualifiers of verbs. Our ending, ly, as in must be new names for them. The histoiy of "sweetly," "darkly," "homely," and almost

words, if they could be fully traced out, would all our adverbs, is but a contracted form ; and " furnish an exact history of these luxuries, the " sweetlike," " darklike," and " homelike " date at which they first saw the light, their were once the forms of these words, as home- growth, and finally their death or everlasting like," which is still preserved to us, shows.

life, as the case may be. To be able to ac- The relative pronouns were a luxury of later

complish this, or to approximate to it, one introduction, being equivalent to a pronoun must be a perfect monster in language-learn- and a conjunction combined. Imagine how ing, from so many different sources are drawn difficult it would be for us to cany on ordi- the words which make up our language. Do nary conversation, if we did not have these

not think that we are about to attempt it little but extremely convenient words, and We intend only to set before you a few inter- then you will agree that the}r are luxuries esting facts which we have learned from our indeed dictionary — that "book of books," for with- Shortly after the discovery of the Xew out it our Bible would be comparatively World, as voyagers returned home to Eng- nothing. land and the Continent, luxuries were in-

In the first place, within a thousand years, troduced thick and fast, and names had to be our language has luxuriated in letters. The furnished for all of them. Sometimes the

Anglo-Saxon alphabet comprised neither j, k, Indian name was carried home with the arti- cle itself, as in q, or v. K was evidently derived from e, and the case of "potato,"— in fact We find them often interchanging places. slightly changed form of "batata;" "moc-

Moreover, we have two sounds of e, one of casin," "banana," and "anana." In the case

which is like k, so that this new letter is evi- of this last, curiously enough, we have at

dently a superfluity. Likewise v is derived length substituted for it, "pine-apple,"— from u, and is nearly as dispensable as the must outrageous blunder, since it is not the

above-mentioned /-. Q is a combination of fruit of the pine al all, or a fruit at all, but

ew, and all our words which we spell with a I lie jbur.T uf an evergreen plant. ! ;

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Oftentimes students of our own and other phrases, aiming perhaps to supply an imagined languages have been struck by our poverty of need, or to vaunt their knowledge before the words to express some one particular idea in world? Such persons who are in the habit a forcible manner. Seeing some phrase in of saying " distingue," "ra'ai's," "privat-docent" another language which would exactly fit the " nisiis" "in toto" etc., when we already have demands of the case, they have transferred it equally as good words which convey the same to their own, and this transfer meeting with meaning ? Nothing more than this — even the the approval of the people, it has been finalty greatest men have always been slow and shy

adopted. For instance, how forcible is the to propose a new word, much less to force it expression, which we have borrowed from the upon their fellow men. French, of "cul-de-sac," signifying literally the "bottom of a bag," when applied to an alley or a street open only at one end. Sometimes SHALL WE TEACH? one man alone has likewise ventured to bor- In this, and many other colleges, there is row a word for which he feels the immediate a certain class of young men who rely upon necessity, but his venture has not been sanc- their own resources to meet the expenses tioned, and it possesses a short life. De- necessarily connected with a college course. Quincey borrowed "clinamen'' from a Latin Some have no friends willing to furnish them author, who beforehand had borrowed it from the requisite means, while others are proud, the Greek ; but we seldom see it now. The self-trusting, sensitive fellows, unwilling to word was felt to be a surfeit, and then and accept that kind of aid which many students there its career ended. Coleridge both in- thankfully welcome. Both of these classes vented new and borrowed other words, and in depend upon themselves alone. If they are a majority of cases met with the same result to have a collegiate education they must look as DeQuincey. Lord Bacon gave us the word forward to four years, and perhaps more, of " essay," in its present accepted signification hard, persistent endeavor, attended with many and we thank him for it, for how our conver- discouragements. A young man needs con- sation would be impeded if we were com- siderable pluck to enter college with no pelled to sa}% instead, "a short treatise or dis- money, no expectation of help and no encour- sertation" (so much do the Seniors talk of agement from any one, and expect to complete their essays) his course in four years. But history shows

There is no reason why we as students, in that many of our most famous men started in our every-day talk, should not employ this life without means, obtained their education same principle, provided our borrowed words without help, and reached positions of emi- and expressions really aid our conversation. nence by their own unaided efforts. What But in so far as they fall short of this aid, we has been done can be done. So in every class are in duty bound to pass by as dirty, infec- there are a few who enter with the expectation tious rags, all of the slip-shod expressions com- of receiving no aid from others. monly called "slang," which, by the way, Every college catalogue informs the world formerly signified a fetter worn by convicts. that "meritorious students with slender pecun-

See to it that it does not in truth prove iary means can obtain considerable help from a fetter to our thoughts ! But what shall we the College." The inexperienced believe all say to those persons who, through ignorance the}' see in a catalogue, but they soon discover or affectation, run through all languages of all that the "help from college" is by no means times to rake up odd or fanciful words and certain to the needy student. They also soon B0WD01N ORIENT. 187

find that term bills and other expenses must who by his experience has learned many things be paid when due, or their connection with of interest not in the text-books, which he

the college is a thing of the past. What then presents to us. Every study has its appro- can they do ? They must have money, and priate place in the whole course, and every

to get it they mnst earn or lure it. Some one or every part of one lost, detracts so much

unfortunate fellows cannot hire it, because no from the value of the whole. It is impossible one will let them have money. The only to make up some studies and get the full value

alternative then is to earn it. Others, more of them, while others may be made up with- fortunate perhaps, can obtain money by pay- out any material loss. Another thing of much

ing a high rate of interest. Then they must importance to some is, one's standing in the decide whether it is better to hire money to class is lowered. If the object of a college pay all of their expenses so that they ma}r course is to obtain honors in college — rather lose none of the course, or to be out part of than after graduation — teaching and every- the course and earn money to pay expenses. thing of the kind must be given up and the What business is open to a student for a few time devoted to study alone.

weeks at a time ? We answer, teaching. It Now, what do we gain by teaching ? The is the best opening to students, all things real object for which we leave our college considered. duties is gained. We have received a certain When the student asks himself the ques- sum of money. It may be small and we may

tion, "Shall I teach or borrow?" how can he have to pay away most of it to meet expenses answer it? Men learn by experience, so which have benefited us none. But we are

when we have had no experience ourselves saved from hiring so much, and it is not a very we ask the advice of those who have had pleasant prospect at graduation, when we see experience concerning those matters in which our classmates preparing to enter upon the we are interested. A student unable to study of their chosen professions, to look for- decide whether he had better teach or borrow, ward to a number of years of hard, and per- goes to a Senior who has taught more or less, haps distasteful, labor in order to pay for and also kept along with his class, and asks money hired, a portion of which might have his advice. Perhaps the Commencement Parts been earned with but little sacrifice. have been given out, and this Senior, natur- It is claimed that many of the studies in the ally a fine scholar, finds his name among those college curriculum are given us for discipline. much inferior to him, consequently he replies, But in our opinion more discipline is obtained

"If you can get the money in any honest way by teaching a district school one term, than is don't stay nut a day. I would not, if 1 wire gained by all the studies of the course which to go through college again." Is his advice are given especially for discipliue. Perhaps good? Let us consider some of the advan- you are placed in authority over fifty children tages and disadvantages connected with teach- of all ages and differing much in character ing one term a year. and ability. You must control these restless In first the place, what do we lose ? If we bodies and impatieu I hearts, and al the sh teach a. Fall term we need be out lint a few time control yourself. You must teach them weeks of the term; if a Winter or Spring all how to learn, ami in so doing you make term, we may be out eight or ten weeks. greal advancement in that art yourself. In During those weeks We lo.e the benefit of llie your explanations to the different classes, you recitations whicll are made valuable by the learn to make yourself clear and easy 1" be lectures ami explanations of the instructor, understood. You have an excellent oppor- u B0WB01N ORIENT. tunity to study the different shades of char- their names to pay a certain sum of money acter and to notice the effect of Avords and for any purpose, we fail to see how they can actions upon them,— a study which, rightly claim the possibility of meriting distinguished used, may be of much advantage in future life. honor if they neglect to make their word While here in college we are always under good. The nine is now at work in the Gym- the authority of some one. We do not have nasium, and is evincing a readiness to do itself a feeling of independence. We do not fully honor this season, though with little encour- realize that we are to lay our own plans in agement from the members of the Associa- life, and that our success will depend wholly tion ; but unless this is given the nine will on ourselves. We are told what to do. We not continue work in the Gymnasium, and

do it without thinking whether it is for our therefore will not be in condition to play any good or not. But when we teach we are in games the coming season. We have as good authority ourselves. We must lay plans for material for a nine as there has been in College others, and see that they are carried out. for a number of years, and we are ready to This gives us more independence, more reliance "measure lances" with any nine in the State, upon ourselves, and shows to some extent our providing we can have balls to play with and own powers. shoes to wear. Pay your dues is all we ask. There are many other advantages in teach- One of the Nine. ing, which want of space will not allow us to

present. But, in conclusion, we think it bet- ter for needy students to teach a portion of LOCAL. the time than to burden themselves with a large debt to pay after graduation. Keep right on smoking.

Loiterers not wanted at the depot.

BASE -BALL. Is this your much-vaunted liberty ?

Messrs. Ehitoks: No smoking allowed in the Reading Room. Many articles have appeared in the Orient The Seniors bid farewell to themes this at different times with reference to boating term. and other college exercises, but very seldom Prof. Young has a few Seniors in optional do we find anything in that highly appreci- Italian. ated paper intending to create a greater inter- " A dollar that the next one I turn up is est in base-ball,— in which we should be the card." glad to see an immediate revival, especially in with us a noted character in wild the way of paying dues. The fact is, base- We have

ball is in a very fluctuating state, and of late border life. the fluctuations have all been in the wrong Were the guns spiked by the supporters direction. There appears to be no interest of Tilden or Hayes ? manifested by any of the students, outside of The melting snow under the Hall windows the nine, to keep base-ball among the sports is disclosing its secrets.

of Bowdoin College ; and unless something is The Medics have delegated responsible done by those interested in seeing base-ball men to select a foot-ball. flourish, it will be among the things that were. We do not wish to criticise the action The long absent Senior has been lecturing of the Future." of any of the students ; but when they sign on "Problems !

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A large and select audience attended the Second Medic — "Why, no, a fellow would lecture of Prof. Brown. Students were for- have to understand fractions to do that." tunate in procuring special rates. Hence the undertaker. A Senior has come to the wise conclusion The Bowdoin Orchestra is doing a flourish- that when a man's moustache will not show ing business, but after all some of its members in a picture it is time to give it up and shave. are not wholly blinded by avarice, for recently while on his way to fulfill an engagement, one The following Juniors have been ap- of their number so far forgot the object of his pointed to take part in the exhibition at the journey as to leave his instrument at home. close of the present term : Baxter, Felch, Pray. In place of the debate Monday, Feb. 26th, President Chamberlain gave the Senior class Judging by the readiness with which a short talk on the political situation. It was money was appropriated in the last class meet- listened to with the marked attention which ing, the Commencement of '77 will be a high- it deserved, and the class fully appreciated toned affair. the privilege of hearing his clear and decided One Orient subscriber has sent, in addi- opinions. tion to the regular subscription, twenty-five cents "for candy and cigars." Won't some- PERSONAL. body else do likewise ?

subscription will circu- A paper soon be [We earnestly request contributions for this lated among the members of the Senior class department from the Alumni and friends of the with the view of ascertaining how much College.] money can be obtained for the much-talked- '36.—Dr. Alonzo Garcelon was Demo- of panel picture in the Chapel. cratic candidate for Mayor of Lewiston in the election of the 5th. Professors are useful in more ways than '45.—Moses M. Butler was elected Mayor one. The latest is to bet on their ability to of Portland by the Republicans on the 5th. cross the campus and reach the recitation '50.—Gen. O. O. Howard is in command room within a certain limit of time. The in- of the Department of the Columbia, which terested parties stand on the steps and shout embraces Oregon and the territories of Wash- "Time!" ington and Idaho. At a base-ball meeting held Saturday '51.—Dr. A. C. Hamlin is the Republican morning, Feb. 24th, the following officers were candidate for Mayor of Bangor. elected : Treasurer, Jacobs, '78 ; Assistant '57. —Rev. E. Bean of Fort Fairfield has '79 Treasurer, Henderson, ; Third Director, accepted the unanimous call of his former Call, '80. parishioners at Gray, and will resume his pas- At the close of the last entertainment in torate at once. the Memorial Hall course, the Freshmen gave '58.— Hon. Edwin Reed has been re-elected an exhibition at the depot in tall hats and Mayor of Bath. were canes. The Sophomores offered reserved '60. — Hon. J. M. Brown has recently been seats, but declined the honor. How the times elected President of the Maine State Agricul- have changed tural Society. Medics, talking over the examination: '63. —The Bates Btiohnt promises a steel First .Medic, after repeating a simple question engraving of II. R. Cheney. Esq., in its March in Arithmetic — "Did you do that sum?" number. —

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'73.—A. P. Wiswell, Esq., haa been ap- two articles, "Musing," and "On Early Rising," are pointed by Governor Connor as Judge of the good — particularly the latter; but we do not think is was in very good taste to publish the communica- Municipal Court of Ellsworth. tion, "Putz and Coremonie." Where is the poet of '74. L. H. Kimball received bis diploma — the Record f in the last class at Boston Univ. Med. School. We hardly know what to say of tho Madison- '74. — Mr. T. C. Simpson, Jr., has been ensis. Some things we like about it and some things chosen to represent the graduating class at we do not like at all. Its literary articles are very well written, and in the number before us — the University Commencement. It augurs that of March 3d — are upon rather attractive subjects. The well for this choice that on the day following tone of the last half of tho paper, which includes his election by '77, Mr. Simpson received an the editorials and locals, is not pleasing. There invitation to deliver the annual oration before is a lack of real substantial matter and a ten- his class in Bowdoin. Boston Univ. Beacon. dency towards hap-hazard, frivolous and slangy writing, that takes away much from the '76. —This class was represented in town weight and dignity of the paper. Sundaj-, the 4th inst., by the following men : The College Olio has passed into the hands Alden, Gordon, E. H. Kimball, Marrett, Mor- of a new board of editors. They have done pretty rill, Rowe, Stimson, Waitt, Wheeler, Whitte- well, on the whole, but we will venture to give them, more, Wilson, Wright. a little advice. Don't make a practice of publishing- '77.— H. B. Mason, formerly of this class, such poetry as "Judge Gripe"— your readers may graduated in the last class at Boston Univer- bear it once, possibly twice, but only as an indul- gence to you. Don't publish many of those " Eng- sity Medical School. lish Letters" ending with "to be continued;" they will not be read, or enjoyed if read. Live up to your EDITORS' TABLE. excellent remarks on college criticism, and your ex- change column will come to be respected at least. The Bochester Campus for March is a very good Abolish your " Science Column," aud establish some number. The article upon the " Art of Translat- live college articles in its place. Success to tho ing" shows that the writer at least understands the new board ! requisites of a proper translation, and can appreciate The Colby Echo, Vol. I., No. 1, is before us, and one which is well done. The "History of the Uni- we are glad to welcome it to our exchange list. The versity of Rochester" we should judge would be of publication of a first number is probably as momen- interest to the readers of the Campus. The edito- tous and as anxious an occasion as an editorial board rial department hardly seems to be up to the dignity ever sees. Wo never receive a "number one" but which we should expect, and "Local News" con- we feel a thrill of sympathy for the nervous editors tains rather too many jokes aud too little news. behind it. So we are glad to assure our friends at The Boston University Beacon has steadily im- Colby that they have produced a very good paper. proved from its first number. It announces that it The literary part of this number is well written and is published by the several departments of the Uni- gives good promise for the future. "A Day in the versity in concurrence, and so we find the Beacon Highlauds " is sketched in an attractive style, and itself divided into departments to represent the the poem, " Then and Now," is a pleasant piece of " Law School," " School of Medicine," " School of versification. In " A Word for the Field " the Theology," "School of Oratory," "College of Music," writer argues for more interest in athletic matters and "College of Agriculture." As a result of this among the students. Unless wo mistake tho pur- division the "literary department" as a thing by pose of " Tho Waste-ISaskot," it is not so good as it

and of itself is almost entirely given up, which is by will be when tho Echo begins to receive its collcgo no means an objection to the Beacon. The locals exchanges. Tho Echo would bo improved by mak- arc quite well done. ing its editorial department more prominent, and The Vulr Record reports that as Spring has set therein discussing the interests of tho students, and in early, each afternoon the. Seniors engage in "the of the institution in general. Tho typographical

exciting contest with tho marble or the still more work is, of course, excellent, as it was done at tho childish game of tops," in front of Uttrfeo Mall. The Leiviston Journal office Vol. VI. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MARCH 28, 1877. No. 17.

BOWDOIN ORIENT. addressed a letter to Bowdoin stating their recent losses and present circumstances, but PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DURING THE college COLLEGIATE YEAR, BY THE CLASS OK '77, OK declaring their willingness to row any BOWDOIN COLLEGE. or colleges of the New England Association which will send a crew to New London. EDITORS. There certainly seems little prospect that John E. Chapman, William C. Greene, invitation given. "William T. Cobb, George T. Little, Bowdoin can accept the Edgar M. Cousins, Curtis A. Perry, The matter of expense alone seems to pre- Charles B. Seabury. clude the idea. Were the interest in the

Terms — $2.00 a year in advance -, single copies, 15 cents. regatta much stronger than it really is, it Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, Brunswick, Maine. difficult to raise among For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Dennison's, Brunswick. would be much money the undergraduates, since the two larger CONTENTS. classes have recently made arrangements for Vol. VI., No. 17.— March 28, 1877. outlays which draw considerably upon the

Editorial Notes 193 purses of their members. The proper course Paraphrases on Horace (poem) 196 seems to be the one often advocated in these Some Needed Changes 196 columns, to give our attention to making our The Naughty Greek Girl (poem) 197 in all respects. Noel Cower 197 home regatta a success Local 199 Personal 200 The last Senior debate was in itself an un- The College World 201 Editors' Table 202 answerable argument for the change which is to be inaugurated. It showed conclusively that, in spite of the experience of the previ- EDITORIAL NOTES. ous meetings, the class, as a whole, is unable to amend a series of short resolutions so as to following members of the Junior The make them express the views and opinions of class have been elected editors of the Orient the majority within the space of an hour and for the ensuing year: II. C. Baxter, A. E. a half. It disclosed, in a word, the want of a Potter, G. C. Purington, Burton, B. W. E. knowledge of parliamentary rules and usages Sargent, S. E. Smith, J. W. Thing. They on the part of a large portion of the class. will enter upon their duties at the beginning With the effect and wording of certain of next term, and the first number by the motions, in particular, very few. if any, new board will issued April 25th. be seemed acquainted. In saying this we do not wish to deny or disparage the advance which Dartmouth, as the mother of the New has been made, but only to bring forward an England Rowing Association, seems bound additional reason for a change that will, we thai her offspring shall not die without an believe, make the meetings more profitable as effort upon her part. The president of the well as more interesting, and thai will, at the Dartmouth Rowing Association has r nth least, break up the routine into which they 194 B0WD01N ORIENT.

have fallen of late, and which in no way is remarkably deficient in the department of tends to accustom one to the proceedings of fiction, in which the former are quite full, legislative assemblies. besides containing a large number of books of reference which can not be found elsewhere. We fear the College Art Gallery is not If the numerous volumes in the College fully appreciated by the great body of under- Library which, though valuable and indeed graduates. Very few seem aware of the necessary to its completeness, are rarely con-

treasures it contains or of the advantages it sulted so often as once in three years, could affords to any who would cultivate their be replaced by four or five thousand of the tastes for fine art. While on the one hand works now in Maine Hall, we are confident there is no multitude of masterpieces to weary the change would be hailed with rejoicing by the eye and distract the mind, a complaint so all undergraduates. Should this, however, frequently made by European travelers, the be impossible, owing to other reasons of which collection is nevertheless not open to the we are unaware, why not connect the rooms objection which can be brought against most of the two societies and keep them open an

of those on this side of the Atlantic, the lack hour or so every day ? Surely, it is not right of any painting by one of the old masters. that thirteen thousand books should remain Besides the original by Van Dyck, for which practically shut up to those for whose benefit the College has been offered what seems a they were collected. fabulous price to an economical, matter-of-fact

New Englander, it comprises what are either As the Spring opens, attention again turns originals by Raphael, Titian and Rubens, or to our outdoor sports, and especially to boat- else exceedingly fine copies of their works. ing. Upon the selection of a captain, a few The Flemish school is particularly well illus- weeks since, '77's men began work and are trated. American art is represented by por- found regularly in the Gymnasium. The traits by Gilbert Stuart and John Singleton Freshmen are next in activity. With a few Copley, besides several paintings by artists of hours' labor they have obtained the full lesser note. With the warmer days and in- amount necessary for the purchase of a boat,

creasing sunlight we trust many will take while the men from whom their crew is to be occasion to form an acquaintance with some selected have lately begun hard work. Of the of these pictures. other classes, one seems inclined to retire on its past honors, and the other to lack some Cannot the large libraries of the Peu- one to go ahead earnestly in the matter. cinian and Atbemean Societies be made more Neither of these circumstances ought to keep accessible to the College public ? Under the their men out of the Gymnasium. present arrangement it is well-nigh impos- With the purchase of a new gig by '80, sible to obtain a book from the former when the old difference in boats will be finally gone desired, or from the latter at any time, without and the source of some dissatisfaction in for- personal inconvenience to the single librarian mer races will be removed. With the proper

who, acting without compensation, is, of degree of energy, there now appears no reason course, unable to give much attention to the whatever why the opening of the river should duties of his office. These collections, though not find four good crews ready for the Spring not so large as the College Library, are, we work. venture to say, of almost as much interest The parties most affected by this matter and value to the average student. The latter seem to be the ones least interested. The ;

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result of tlii.s regatta is of not so much impor- to a noisy little river which, if we are pleased tance, be the race ovAy a good one, as the to follow its course, will lead to some of the effect upon coming regattas. With the grad- finest inland scenery in this portion of the uation of '77 the two upper classes will be State, although it is comparatively unknown. small in numbers, but with good boats on This same neighborhood is rich in mineral hand there will be no reason why interesting deposits, and fine specimens of beryl and races may not be held regularly, and the in- garnet can be quite easily obtained. terest transmitted to larger classes to come. The Lewiston branch, which also passes

Possibly there is a feeling that one of the into Topsham and runs along the banks of classes has men against whom no successful the river, likewise opens up an excellent field crew can be selected from the classes in ques- for an hour's walk. The forest-crowned tion. That class will be here for but one ridge upon one hand, and the Androscoggin race; but, unless crews be trained for this upon the other, afford sufficient occupation regatta, the same advantage will be obtained for the eye until the wanderer reaches the by '80, and the same feeling will keep these deep cutting on the side of a projecting ledge classes unrepresented during the rest of their of gneiss and mica-schist, where he should course. This would be a blow to boating leave the track and clamber up a narrow path when it should have the support of every to the top of the rock. Here he will find, friend. even now, bare ground, and a little later the

It is too late to expect much this term earliest blossoms of the arbutus together with but let every man, especially every boating several others of the Spring flowers. Look- man, reflect upon and discuss these things; ing away to the north-west he can trace the then certainly all will be found ready for course of the river for a considerable distance, work next term, and we may expect to see a while in front are spread out the plains of regatta with which all will be satisfied. Brunswick, bounded by the high hills of

Freeport. In a word, the view is one of the In this time of mud and slosh, when the most extensive to be obtained from any streets of Brunswick are well-nigh impassable natural elevation within a radius of several and it requires considerable courage to venture miles. as far as the Post Office, we would recommend the railroad track as a field for locomotion as

- well as for locomotives. Though the sleepers The Universit} of Virginia is the only an' somewhat troublesome, one is not com- institution in this country which has never pelled to wade through mud or snow, and can adopted in any way the class system. In find on either hand objects of sufficient inter- the catalogue the students are enrolled alpha- est to repay a walk of several hours. This is betically and the figures 1, 2, 3, 4 placed be- especially true of the two lilies which cross fore each name shows how many years the the Androscoggin, the one above and the student has been in the institution. Two other below the village. The latter, after years' studj gives a man the degree of bach- leaving the iron bridge, runs through a region elor of science, of arts, or of letters, and ye! the exacl opposite of Brunswick in almost only two per cent, of the students have every physical feature. The sandy plains and graduated and taken one of these degrees, stunted pines are replaced by wooded hills while in the better grade of colleges the ami deep with hen' anil ravines, (here a gr0ve graduates are fiftj per cent, of the matric- of oak or maple. A i'aw miles and we come ulants. !;

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PARAPHRASES ON HORACE. been done will, we think, appear upon exam- ination. The first two years are devoted for Ad Leoconoe, I., XI. the most part to Mathematics and the lan- Do not inquire, it is not right to know guages, the foundation of a liberal education, How long a life is given to you or me ! Chaldfean horoscopes can never show leaving the remaining two years for the nat- What good or iu future time shall be. bad ural sciences and the English branches. On Ah, how much better is it that wo bear comparing the time allotted of the latter With patient soul whate'er may chance to come, some "Whether one winter more or less shall tear studies, we find that constitutional law, a The waves aud dash the rooks with ceaseless hum, subject always important to an American,

Or this shall be our last ! Be wise, my friend, and of especial interest and value during the And make each pleasing household care your own. Cut short your hopes, for shortly life will end — past year, is given five hours a week for half E'en while we talk, invidious time has flown. a term, while international law receives twice Oh, seize the present, aud enjoying what you may, as much. The latter study, though as a Put smallest faith in no succeeding day matter of fact it is one of the most interest- Ad Puerum, I., XXXYIII. ing of the Senior year owing to the able and My boy, I hate the Persian pomp, enthusiastic instructor, hardly deserves so

And chaplets with a linden-baud ! prominent a place in a course which finds no By no means hunt luxurious flowers room for Hygiene, Zoology or Modern His- For me through all our land. tory. Moreover, considering the present un- Seek not to add laborious pomp — Plain myrtle wreaths are mine settled state of the science, we think there is They suit us both while drinking here no doubt but what much more benefit could Beneath this arching vine. be gained from a short course of lectures C. A. P. summing up the fixed points than from a text-book which never fails to set forth the

SOME NEEDED CHANGES. uncertainties, and in many places is nothing The discussion which has arisen of late but a compilation of the opinions of other years upon the comparative merits of an elec- writers. tive and a prescribed course of study has Bearing in mind the wonderful advance shown at least that the average student may which Chemistry has made during the last be safely allowed some option in regard to half-century, and the excellent facilities en-

the branches pursued during the last year or joyed here for its study, it is not, perhaps,

two of the college curriculum. Trusting that strange that it has gained step by step so this fact will free the writer from the impu- large a portion, comparatively, of the four tation of assuming himself the superior in years. No one, however, can deny that in knowledge or experience of those who pre- the term of Junior j^ear devoted to recitations

pare the course of instruction here, it is and laboratory work, very many do, and all intended in this article to briefly state the can, obtain a good understanding of the

opinions of a large body of undergraduates elements of the science, and that it is a great upon some needed changes, together with the mistake to allow nearly two terms of the reasons therefor. following year to be spent in attendance The limited resources of the College of upon lectures on the same subject — lectures course render impossible an extended series which are manifestly adapted to the require- of electives, but this very fact ought to cause ments of the medical class and necessarily go especial care to be taken in the arrangement over the same ground taken up before. By of the prescribed course. Whether this has making the attendance upon these optional, ; ;

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those who desire to pursue the stud}- farther This Alpha was so bad to That, every time she chanced to meet her, would be given an opportunity of doing so, She looked as though she longed to r while the remainder of the class would gain t ; And oft against the wall she jammed her, the time requisite for other branches. And oft she took a stick and / ; And, for the pain and tears she brought her, Our principal grievance, however, is the

She pitied her not one : entire omission of English Literature from ; But, with a sly and wicked eye, the course pursued by the present Senior " "Would only say : Oh fiddle

Would give the little girl some tz. the position in cultivated society which a col- " And say : Sovr, darling mustn't y." lege graduate is expected to occupy. No other study throws open a field where so Two Irish lads, of ruddy cheek, Were living just across the creek; much personal enjoyment and gratification Their names, g and w — can be obtained. And the absence of instruc- The one was small, the other bigger tion in this branch is rendered all the more For Alpha, so demure and striking, noticeable and vexatious to an undergraduate m took an ardent liking; by reason of the enviable reputation which And Mike, when first he chanced to meet her, Fell deep in love with little Bowdoin has maintained during past years in ; And oft at eve the boys would go this very particular. To think that after one And on the pleasant water n. of her professors had published a work on So, when the little, hapless Rhetoric that passed through sixty-seven edi- j Alpha was about to /} tions, she should deny her students even a She down upon the bank would J course of lectures upon the masters of Eng- And cry aloud, and shout like fuu — "Kun, Mike! run Mikey! „!" lish Literature ! It is all very well to dilate upon the fact that the names of two of the MORAL. most distinguished of American authors may Have you a sister? Do not treat her Alpha her sister be found among the Alumni of this institu- As did 0- tion, but we must confess that the probability of increasing the number is very small if the NOEL GOWER.

proper authorities do not take means to supply Who is Noel Gower, and what kind of a circus

the needless and disgraceful defect which now are we invited to attend ? His " La Soiree Decla- " exists in the prescribed course. mation has been conspicuously posted for several

weeks, to take place ou the evening of . If any one is any the wiser for having deciphered this THE NAUGHTY GREEK GIRL. written hand-bill, or if any one has seen Noel per- The following witty plfty upon the Greek Alphabet waa written form at any kind of an entertainment, we will be by Trot. .1. I!. I.. Soulc, of the class of HO, now of Carlinsville, glad to hear the particulars. At present we are in 111., anil published in The Advance (Chicago and New York), Mar. total darkness on the subject. 15, 1S7T,—or which the Howards (l{. It. H., 'SO, and C. II. II., '69) — University Herald. are editors and proprietors. If our friends of the University Herald Miss Alpha, thongb She led her class, will lend us their attention for a moment, Was yet a most unlovely lass; She had a little sister perhaps we can throw a glimmer on the dark- And she would often bang and ft ness which surrounds them. We may be And push and pinch and pound and pelt her, able to do this from our knowledge of his- And many a heavy blow she ,) tory. We have seen advertisements similar So that the kitten, e'en, would u

When 0>b sufferings she v. to the ones referred to, and taken pains to —; : ;

198 BOWDOIN 0E1ENT. decipher them in the one way possible, namely, the first stanza of a poem entitled " Amorum by seeing them performed. Amor "

Noel-Hope, Noel Gower, Godfrey Noel " Ah ! from the suow-deck'd Maythorn bough

Gower, a man of mutable name and habita- This sad truth ye may borrow : Earth's gems and joys so radiant tion, is nevertheless but a single individual now, Fast-fleeting know no morrow not a spirit, whatever may be his attachment But there's a flower that never dies, for spirit, but a being of flesh and blood like Strewn o'er Alp-ridge, tarn, and glen,

The rainbow tints its sheen outvies, ourselves ; a character unsurpassed in modern 'Tis Jehovah's love for men." civilization. The mists of four summers are now gathering thick around his hegira from In spite of the abilities he possessed, as Brunswick, and we still retain a vivid impres- poet, linguist, and elocutionist, Mr. Hope was sion of his small and erect figure, his cane, his not a rich man. There is this to be said, cigar, his eye-glasses, and his wide-branching however, in his favor : he had aspirations in hat. Many and varied are the legends of that direction. The admittance fees occa- Noel which cling to our walls. He dropped sionally attached to a " seance declamatoire," into the town from a clear sky, and no man and the willingness he evinced in receiving- knoweth whence he came. There were two pupils in the modern languages, lay bare this theories about the matter. Some said he side of his character. The genuine improve- came from England, others said he came from ment which students appeared to make under the moon. The former was at first the prev- his instruction, and a combination of circum- alent idea; but the longer Noel remained stances which rendered it the best thing to among us, the moon theory gained steadily do, led the Faculty of the College to invoke in adherents. his assistance temporariby in the class room.

The "seance declamatoire " was his first Mr. Hope was now on the pinnacle of his introduction. It was truly a frightful affair, fame. He walked straighter, smoked better particularly the rendering of the " Raven." cigars, was more mathematical in the use of He entered so deeply into the spirit of the the cane, and wrapped dignity about him piece as to lead many to surmise that he was thicker than an overcoat. This was on the speaking of no earthly bird, and the advocates street; but in the class room he was the of lunacy seized at once upon the matter by genius of the place. Among other things, he saying it was some winged creature of the taught his class to sing the Marseilles Hymn moon which haunted his troubled brain. with great vim and enjoyment. This in itself

Mr. Hope appeared to be a well-read man. might have passed ; but other peculiarities He could converse intelligently on almost any betrayed him. He adopted the original name in English Literature. He always had method of expelling students on his own opinions and they were never compromises. account for any misconduct ; and sometimes He spoke with great emphasis pro or con, as addressed them in English that were better the case might be. He was also a linguist. done in French. This was the beginning of In this respect his tongue was three-forked — the end. The end came- when one morning English, French, German. His remaining his " services were no longer required," and accomplishment, and the one of all others he vanished as he came. This was the hegira. that would be expected from his erratic dis- Since that time occasional glimpses of him position, was have appeared in the horizon — now in

"The vision and the faculty divine." Washington, now in Savannah, and now, it

The following is a specimen from his pen seems, in Syracuse. : — ;

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In the Savannah News of Nov. 26, 1873, Prof. Burt G. Wilder has completed his

is a report of one of his " seances," headed course of lectures in the Medical School. Affair Godfrey Noel Gower "A Refreshing — The first five minutes after prayers are the concluding- on the Prance." We quote used by Seniors in shouting for an adjourn.

paragraphs : The next Orient will be issued by the " ' Singing for the Million ' concluded this bril- class of '78. We wish them the best possible liant seance, and as the distinguished elocutionist pranced off the stage through the private door, the success. audience of fifteen, hesitating whether to weep or The occupants of the South End of Apple- laugh, capered off nimbly, and blessed their stars ton want another member of the Faculty down the seance was ended. their way. " G. N. G., equally felicitous, snatched up his

valise, it is understood, and cantered for the Charles- A regatta this Spring would revive the ton depot, and thus fades from our vision the most interest in boating and would be generally brilliant literary luminary of the period." acceptable.

In Brunswick no monument has been The term closes next Tuesday, April 3d. erected to his memory. Only, on the morn- The next term begins one week from the fol- ing after his withdrawal, was found inscribed lowing Thursday. on one of the walls of Adams Hall this At the late lecture of Wendell Phillips in melancholy epigram Lemont Hall the audience was chiefly com- " Old Noel was a fiery youth, posed of students. But now his fire's abated He used to wear a rusty eoat, Prof.—"Mr. L., what was the end of Alex- But he's now msty-cated." ander?" Fresh, anxious to avoid a dead— " His death, I suppose." " LOCAL. A thirsty Freshman finds " Sodom punch the proper thing to take. The taste is im-

A dance after the exhibition ? proved by drinking it in the dark.

Look out for "grinds" April 1st. Prof. Carmichael delivered a lecture on " Seniors are not permitted to make up on Color," Friday evening, March lGth. The review. blue glass theory was shown Lo be a myth. If possible, preserve your health while Members of the Freshman class have sub- reviewing. scribed enough money to secure a boat, and have formed a committee to make the pur- An ulster is not a cloak to hide the sin of chase. reading in church. A Freshman asserts his divine right to use It is nearly time to predict the Dumber in "adventitious aid" by saying that the first the next Freshman class. instance of this kind of which we have any The first clinic in the Medical School was record was when Elijah was translated by held lasl Monday, the 26th. horses. The season approaches when the fish-way The paper circulated for the benefil of the is a fashionable resort after dork. Base-Ball Association received a sifihcient The Freshmen have pui a crew of five number of subscribers to place that interest men in training in the Gymnasium. on a firm footing, and as a nine is now doing The Sophomores are brushing up their regular work in the Gymnasium the prospect

Mathematics. There's money in it. for a g 1 season is very 1'avoraMe. —

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A plan has been proposed by which the PERSONAL. debates in the Senior class may be made more lively and interesting. [We earnestly request contributions for this

department from the Alumui ' and friends of the Prof.—"In the form of a paradox, what is College.] the temperature of a body which has no tem- '09. — John Mussey, Esq., of Portland, is perature?" Student —"It is an unknown the oldest living graduate of the College. quantity." '34. — Rev. Dr. Cyrus Hamlin of Howard Pres. Chamberlain, by invitation of the College was in town the 15th and 16th. Senior class, will deliver his interesting lec- '35.—Rev. Sewall Paine died at Mont- ture, " The Surrender of Lee," some time the gomery, Vfc., March 4th, 1877, in consequence present term. of injuries received by a fall from his sleigh Prof, in Mathematics to careless student — as he was returning from an evening meeting, "If you don't improve in your work you will March 1st. Mr. Paine pursued his Theolog- be in danger of filling a position here as tutor ical studies at Bangor, and was a faithful and in mathematics.'' earnest laborer in the ministry, to which he

The letter-box in South Maine is found to devoted his life. be very full Monday mornings, now. It is '39.—Judge Wm. G. Barrows has been the last of the term, you see, and everybody re-appointed Justice of the Supreme Judicial is writing home for a remittance. Court of Maine, and took the oath of office Prof. —" Mr. S., how are diamonds found at Portland on Saturday, March 24th. in the rough?" Mr. S.—" They are generally '50. — Hon. W. P. Frye, on his return covered with a brown epidermis.'' Prof. from Washington, March 16th, was tendered

"Your description is altogether too animated." a supper by his friends in Lewiston. John May, Esq., '52, read a poem, and John B. Prof. Packard, of Salem, has recently W. Cotton, Esq., '65, acted as toastmaster for the donated to the College a valuable collection occasion. of Crustaceans, Insects, and Echinoderms. '50. Prof. J. S. Sewall has recently been Accompanying this generous gift were nine — lecturing in Bangor, upon the Bowdoin Pict- volumes upon various scientific subjects. ure Gallery. It is reported that the Faculty are to send '53. — Rev. J. E. Pond is preaching at St. home to the parents all excuses handed in by Stephen, N. B. the students the present term. If this is '57. — Rev. Granville C. Waterman is true, it is worth while to think of some fiction pastor of the Washington Street Free Bap- by which to explain the prevalence of disease. — tist church in Dover, N. H. Scene in International Law : Mr. S. "On '58. — Rev. I. P. Smith is pastor of the the African coast those ships whose object it Belknap Congregational church, Dover, N. H. was to prevent the slave trade generally '59. —Rev. H. O. Ladd was installed as hunted in couples.'' Prof.— " How many pastor of the Congregationalist church at couples were married in this way?" Mr. S. Hopkinton, Mass., Thursday, March 22d. —" The connection was martial, not marital." '61. — Prof. A. S. Packard, Jr., has been appointed upon the United States Govern- visit the West to inves- President Eliot says that the question of ment Commission to grasshopper. admitting women to Harvard has never been tigate the habits of the of the discussed by the faculty. '65.—Mr. Charles Fish, Principal — — — ;

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Oldtown High School, during the last Summer A motto for young lovers : So-fa and no and Fall collected a large number of insects. father. Ex.

Some of these were sent for identification to The Senior class of Dartmouth intend to Mr. A. R. Grote, director of the Academy of give the library a donation of 6300. Science in Buffalo, who is one of the best Prof. Rockwood, formerly of Bowdoin, and entomologists of the country. He found that more recently of Rutgers, has accepted the some of these were quite rare, and one of them position of Professor of Mathematics at was entirely new to science. It was a new Princeton College. genus, and Mr. Grote in honor of its discov- The Students' Guild, an association to erer gave the name Fishea to it. secure " proper care and attendance"' in case '69. — George F. Mosher is elected to the of sickness among the students, was lately New Hampshire Legislature from Dover. organized at Cornell. 73.—L. F. Berry, of Yale Divinity School, Stable Keeper —"By the way, shall I put has received a call from the Congregational in an extra buffalo?" English — Church of Plantville, Ct. Blood " Could n't you let 'ave an 'orse, '73. — A. E. Herrick was admitted to the me you know? Er er rather not drive practice of law on Friday, March 16th. — — a buffalo first time, you know." '74. — H. K. White has finished his second term at Washington Academy, East Machias. A rival volume to Prof. Packard's book, " '75. — W. E. Hatch is teaching and read- Half-Hours with Insects," is promised by a ing law at Branford, Conn. distinguished inhabitant of the University Buildings. '75.— F.B.Osgood is teaching in Brown field. It will be entitled "Whole Nights '76.—C. H. Clark has been compelled, by with Insects." Cornell Era. the failure of his eyes, to resign his position And now the Bowdoin students are for- as Principal of the High School at South bidden to visit the depot except on business.

Abington, Mass. Physicians advise him to Trinity can't sing ; Williams can't walk engage in some outdoor occupation, and relieve Syracuse can't " snuggle ;" Princeton can't his eyes all from further exertion at present. play billiards ; and here is poor Bowdoin shut '76. — C. S. Andrews, by the failure of out from the fascinations of the depot. Who his eyesight, was forced to resign his position is the next victim? Hamilton Lit. as principal of the High School at Mankato, The Crimson states that "all attempts to Minn., at the close of his second term. He secure a Class Day have been finally aban- is now visiting California. doned," and the prospect, at the present '78. J. L. Higgins, formerly of this — class, moment, is that none (if the usual exercises is now studying law in the office of Lochren, will take place on that day. "Seventy-seven,'' McNair & (iilfillan, Minneapolis, Minn. it says, " is the first class so peculiarly consti- tuted as to be unable to have a Class Day." The THE COLLEGE WORLD. Dickimonian unintentionally does the Orient injustice in saying that it referred to the Undergraduate of Middlebury College as Every Senior in Trinity College is re- "that little sheet up in Vermont." ( >ur allu- quired to write a poem of one hundred lines. sion was not to the Undergraduate, but to a The Juniors of Yale have adopted the paper called Winnovnngs from the Mill, of Oxford rap, made and their tirsi public which we are happy to say we have nut seen appearance therein last week. or heard anything fur several months. 202 B WD OIN ORIENT.

The faculty of Williams College have for- semi-literary and semi-news papers. The latter class is by far the largest, aud bidden the students going to walk Sundaj' the second is the smallest. The difference in their characters and afternoons. spheres is, on the whole, pretty well defined ; but we have numerous individual publications which can price paid for rooms is larger The much at hardly be classed under either of the three heads, but Harvard than elsewhere, the average being which are edited on entirely original principles. Of the literary monthlies and the still more dignified $156 a year, and at Yale ; at Wesleyan $70 quarterlies we have some excellent examples. The they vary from $36 to $48, and at Williams influence of such papers upon the literary tone of an institution cannot be inconsiderable. It is only the only $30 a year is charged. The income of most carefully written and the most polished' pro- Harvard from her dormitories is about $64,000 ductions of student minds that are admitted to tueir pages, aud through their and of Yale $14,700. Harvard has 410 rooms, agency the prize orator obtains a wider audience and secures for his produc- Yale 210.— Dartmouth. tion the immortality of type. Some of them do not live quite up to their pretensions as magazines of literature. Some of them very seriously mar their value by the incongruous mixture, in the last half, EDITORS' TABLE of jokes and news items, which they would do bet- ter to leave to other papers. But the earnest en- deavor to present a readable publication is no less College journalism is a thing of comparatively marked than in the case of the other two classes. recent growth. That it has become so popular The college newspapers, strictly speaking, are among students as we see it to be, is not in itself sur- few. It is only the largest colleges and universities prising, nor is it a reliable indication of the destined that attempt to support them. The news of the permanency of journalism. For the fickleness of hour, with comments thereon, the expression of the student mind in certain directions is too evident undergraduate opinion in short communications to need illustration. The popularity of the various upon any subject, and the discussion of current col- college sports rises and falls with almost as much lege topics, form the staple material for perhaps the regularity as the tides of the sea ; and no one can most entertaining class of college journals. Litera- tell whether, five years from now, boating or base- ture is banished from their columns, except a cer- ball or foot-ball will stand highest in the estimation tain light and half-humorous style of writing, and of undergraduates. But we are inclined to thiuk they are not in any proper sense exponents of the that journalism, modified and improved of course by literary culture of the students whom they represent. experience, will retain its place as a recognized Of the third and largest type of college papers feature of American colleges. We thiuk so because it is to be said that, while they have as a rule as- the college papers of to-day supply a want which sumed that form from necessity, and labor under was felt before their establishment; and because some inevitable disadvantages, they are by no means their aim and spirit, when they are properly con- destitute of certaiu important advantages. They ducted, are so perfectly in accord with the atmos- bring to their readers every week or two the news phere of the college. of their own college, and to some extent of other

It has been said that editing a paper is like car- colleges also ; they hold their columns open to rying an umbrella in a windy day—everybody thinks undergraduate communications of all sorts ; and at he could do it better than the man who has hold of the same time they serve partially to represent the the handle. But it does seem to us that if all could literary abilities of the students. We know that read our sixty or seventy college exchanges, all much fault has been found with this half-and-half would be at least partially satisfied; for, if we may style of college journalism ; aud we know, both by be permitted to continue the figure, we believe that observation and experience, that it has its defects. every possible mode of carrying the umbrella has But we believe that it is on the whole best adapted its representative and champion. We have had to the needs and possibilities of most American col- papers from almost every State in the Union, and leges. There are plenty of papers of this class, papers from across the sea. We have had every admirably conducted, and which prove conclusively grade and degree of excellence, from the solid and that there is nothing in the nature of the case that sturdy exponents of the old New England colleges should necessarily make them of less interest than to the puny High School sheets of the West. And the other two classes. as wo look back over our experience for the past And now that, for the last time, we sit behind the twelve months, wo become aware that many notions editorial desk, piled high with innumerable ex- with which we entered upon our duties have disap- changes, we feel that our associations duriug the peared, and that other and sometimes opposite opin- past year have been pleasant, aud that wo shall ions have taken their place. miss the welcome face of many a friend which we In looking at this department of journalism, the have come to enjoy and respect. And in making first broad line of distinction divides college publi- its final bow, the Orient would not omit to extend cations into the literary magazines, the college news- its inky palm and its best wishes to its exchanges papers, aud the mixed or compromise type — the aud the exchange editors of the college press.