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T l 3k k;< V. i v I jar~/7< — THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS Member of the American Alumni Council College year Published by Eowdoin Publishing Company, Brunswick, Maine, four times during the a year. Subscription price, $1.50 a year. Single copies, 40 cents. With Bowdoin Orient, $2.50 Application for entry as second class matter pending. '23, Acting Editor Austin H. MacCormick '15, Editor (on leave) Philip S. Wilder '28, Clarence H. Johnson '28, Business Manager J. Rayner Whipple Managing Editor ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD '16 Arthur G. Staples '82 Wallace M. Powers '04 Dwight H. Sayward William M. Emery '89 Philip W. Meserve 'ii Bela W. Norton '18 '22 Wilmot B. Mitchell '90 Robert D. Leigh '14 Edward B. Ham John Clair Minot '96 Walter F. Whittier '27 &- iS Contents for November, 1927 Vol. TT No. 1 PAGE Table of Contexts—Inside Front Cover Editorial—"Sursum Corda"—Professor Wilmot B. Mitchell 'go I Accepted Design for New Union ...... 3 The Best Commencement Ever— 1927 Philip Ricker Shorey '07 . 4 Commander MacMillan in Labrador—Edivard N. Goding '91 7 Review of the Fall Athletic Situation ..... 8 Assistant Professor Malcolm E. Morrell '24 Assistant Professor Roland H. Cobb '17 Analysis of the Student Body • 9 Fall Alumni Day a Success . 10 '81 To Bowdoin College—A Poem by Edgar O. Achorn . 11 Two Bowdoin Physicians Honored . 12 Campus Development Since Commencement . 13 Two 1914 Men Recent Authors • 13 MS of Bowdoin" Xow Popl'lar . 14 General Notes ...... 15 •• "They Sent Their Sons To Bowdoin in the Fall" 17 Shanghai Honors Sterlinc, Fessenden \>6 18 Faculty Notes ...... 19 With the Alumni Bodies .... . 20 News From the Classes .... 21 K & : VOLUME TWO NUMBER ONE THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine November, 1927 Sursum Corda! Boas, and As early as 1773 John Messrs. Mencken, Marks, Lewis, Trumbull, a graduate of Montross, and the "Middle-Aged Father" Yale, put his criticisms have to say concerning the lowness of our of the American college higher institutions of learning. Could he into a long satirical poem conclude aught else than that the college is entitled 'The Life and a colossal blunder, a menace, a loafing place Character of Dick Hair- where 600,000 American boys and girls get brain." The purpose of confused, absurd, and pernicious notions the poem, says Mr. about life; that the curriculum is a kind of Trumbull, is to show salmagundi, a chow-chow, with little oi that "ignorance wanders unmolested at our everything and not much of anything; that colleges, examinations are dwindled to mere the A.B. or the S.B. is a "lazy bee rather form and ceremony, and after four years than a busy bee" ; and that the only evi- dozing there, no one is ever refused the dence of a real education that a graduate honors of a degree on account of dullness has is nothing "more vital than the dried and insufficiency," and later he adds skin of a dead sheep?" Nay, would he not "There vice shall lavish all her charms, be obliged to go further and conclude that And rapture fold us in her arms, the average student is a brutal, moronic, Riot shall court the frolic soul, And swearing crown the sparkling bowl." bawdy-minded sensualist, caring nothing From 1773 to 1927 such criticisms have for the finer things of life, and that with not been wanting; but never, it seems, has the exception of a few—a very, very few, the light beat more fiercely upon our col- selected by Mr. Mencken—the 40,000 pro- leges than it does today. They are scru- fessors are either charlatans or dunder- tinized and analyzed and criticized from a heads? hundred points of view. After reading the Has any Bowdoin alumnus come to this excoriations in recent books and magazines, sad conclusion? And is he, because of any fond parent might well conclude that this, full of grave anxieties for his he had better send his young hopeful to own college? To all such—if such there be Purgatory rather than to college, and any —we can gladly say: "Lift up your old graduate might with reason sorely hearts !" Lack of space compels mere as- grieve at the tragic downfall of his Alma sertion to take the place of detailed proof. Mater. But if the word of one who has for two Suppose for a moment the incredible. score years been intimately associated with Suppose a man should really believe all that the College as student, graduate, or teacher. ! — [ T Ji c B o zv d o i n A I u m n it s and has often looked upon it with a critical the building is now occupied by the Ad- scrutiny born of admiration and desire, may ministrative Offices, while the upper floors be of any encouragement, be rejoices in contain the Cleaveland Cabinet of Mineral- saying that never in his acquaintance witri ogy. Bowdoin has the present been more satis- factory than it is today, or the future more An interesting report by the Committee promising. Never has it been harder to get on Scholarship Aid has recently been pub- into Bowdoin or harder to stay in. Never lished by the College as Bowdoin College before have the physical conditions of the Bulletin number 170 and will be sent to in- College been so good; and the new swim- terested alumni as long as the supply lasts. ming pool, the new athletic field, and the This report includes copies of the applica- new Union will soon make them still better. tion for scholarship aid now used, the letter Never before has the Faculty been so large to sponsors for such applicants, and the and never has it been more earnest in pur- financial record which must be kept by stu- to arouse suit of truth ; never more desirous dents who wish to avail themselves of intellectual interests in the students; never scholarship privileges. more zealous to put the best influences pos- sible around them and help them to be men. Austin H. MacCormick '15, Alumni Sec- And the student body? That do you say retary for the past seven years, is now is the supreme test? It is made up of care- on a year's leave of absence. He is work- fully-selected, eager, alive American boys ing under the auspices of the National So- 550 of them in all. Some of them no doubt ciety of Penal Information, of which he is arc sometimes silly; some, impetuous; some, a Director, and will make the first nation- selfish; some, at times indolent; some, con- wide study of educational work in Ameri- ceited. But by far the greater part, any one can prisons. He will visit every prison in who knows them at all intimately must as- the United States during the year, and will sert—if he have regard for the truth and then compile a report for the Handbook is not striving to say something that is of American Prisons, of which he is joint merely startling — are healthy - minded, editor with Paul W. Garrett. thoughtful, ambitious, eager-hearted young men, sane and sound, and worthy of Bow- Alumni wishing to send messages by doin's best traditions. Sursiim corda radio to Commander Donald B. MacMillan W. B. M. 90. may do so by writing Mr. Clark C. Rodi- mon, 171 1 Park St., Hartford, Conn., who is in communication with the ''Bowdoin" THE COVER twice every day. The use of Massachusetts Hall as the subject of our cover this fall is particularly Donald B. MacMillan's new book, "Etah proper because of the fact that the one hun- and Beyond," has recently appeared at the dred and twenty-fifth anniversary of its book stores. It is published by Houghton, building was observed this year. Here the Mifflin Company and sells for $5. It will first exercises of the College were held, be reviewed in the next issue of the Sept. 2, 1802, and one day later the acorn Alumnus. which later grew to be the mighty Thorn- dike Oak was planted close by its front Have you sent for your copy of Hatch's doorsteps. Once housing the entire College, new History of Bowdoin? Many have not. [2] The B o tv d o in Alumnus] Accepted Design For New Union This building, gift to the College of Hon. Augustus F. Moulton '75, will stand next to the new Swimming Pool, facing the opening between Hyde and Appleton Halls, and with its front on a line with the Heating Station. Tt will contain n spacious two-story lounge, a card room, a dining hall for either cafeteria or waiter service, a private dining room, and rest rooms. Upstairs will be offices for student activities, a few bedrooms for alumni and guests of the College, and a hall for student gatherings. The basement rooms will include a large general store, a billiard room, a canteen, and the kitchens and service rooms of the building. Specifications have been prepared and it is hoped that the work may be begun this Fall. Under the administration of Dr. Henry Bowdoin is now listed among the 80 odd L. Johnson '07, College Physician, exten- colleges taking part in the Intercollegiate have been made in the sive improvements Alumni Hotel Movement, which is a co- apparatus at the Dudley Coe Memorial In- operative effort on the part of the alumni firmary. new X-ray machine has been A of the colleges and universities of the installed consisting of the latest model United States and Canada to concentrate Acme 660 generator, powerful enough to their activities in designated centers. Forty- ray any part of the body including the chest five hotels in the larger cities of the coun- and spine. This machine is also equipped try have been chosen as headquarters for with the latest type Buky-Potter diaphragm this movement and each will be supplied enabling the operator to intensify the pic- with current numbers of the various alumni ture to a very fine degree. Other apparatus publications and with card indexes of installed is for work on nose, throat, and sinus cases and a marked effect has been alumni resident in the respective cities. noted in the reduction of absence from More detailed information concerning this classes owing to colds. movement will appear in the next issue. [3] [ T h c Bo zv d o i n A I u m n u a* The Best Commencement Ever-1927 PHILIP RICKER SHOREY '07 Of course the last Commencement is al- To the observant ones present, however, ways the best. This is as it should be, true there seemed to be a better mingling of the or not. The Commencement of 1927, how- classes and a bigger free-hearted com- ever, to the minds of those who have been munity feeling instead of sectional class attending these affairs for twenty years and groups. This was shown by the visiting- more, did stand out as being just a little back and forth between the various class better and a bit more full of that good old headquarters. Bowdoin feeling of good fellowship and Although the official count as given the pride in the College, not only for what it writer by the ever alert Phil Wilder, acting- has done but is still doing in keeping Bow- Alumni Secretary during the absence of doin foremost among the smaller colleges in "Spike," only reached 792, the writer (per- the country. haps because he had charge of the 20-year Every day of Commencement Week was class headquarters) is positive he counted reunion day. A reunion of old friends and yy others who didn't register due to their old scenes and college days were lived all haste to get into the spirit of the occasion, over again. From the oldest grad present which would make it the largest attended since to the youngest it was just the same. All Commencement 1922. had left their personal and business cares That is our count anyway, official or not. at home and had come to pass inspection on The official count showed 649 alumni, 96 work done in their absence. members of the graduating class, and 47 Of course it is the time-honored privilege guests. The record for the preceding of the grad to complain that things are not four years is as follows : In 1926 there the same as when "he was a boy," etc. were 800 present; in 1925, 868; in 1924, etcetera. It has ever been thus and so will 753; in 1923, 705. continue world without end. Nevertheless It fell to the honor of the Class of 1892 it shows the pride every alumnus has in to win the attendance cup. They had 70 wanting the College always to be par excel- per cent of their members present. The lence and it typifies the Bowdoin spirit of Class of 1877 was a close second with 69^2 having every grad think his class by all per cent. means was absolutely the best ever and for- Just to show that people up in Saco, ever. This is as it should be also. With Maine, never grow too old to uphold the this spirit Bowdoin will not die or decline. best traditions and spirit of the College, [4] : The B o w d o in Alumnus] they sent down the two grads who were the fort had to be made to come was fully re- oldest of all present. They were George paid. A. Emery '63, and Daniel F. Littleficld '64. As usual many honorary degrees were Moses C. Stone '65 of Wellesley, Mass., was conferred. What was most gratifying to third, Clarence Hale '69 of Portland, the alumni body was the giving of degrees fourth, and Davis T. Timberlake '70 of to a number of the Bowdoin men who for Lancaster, N. H., was fifth. good reason left College before obtaining The dignity of the Class of 1907 which their degrees but who by their affection for held its twentieth, with all embellishments, their Alma Mater, their support and their was upheld by William S. Linnell, who func- loyalty, have often set high standards for tioned with becoming dignity as the the more regular, members of the alumni Marshal for the Commencement exercises. body. Those who received degrees were One of the pleasing features of the com- John Henry Halford, 1907, President of mencement spirit this year was the visiting the Philadelphia Alumni Association, Mas- around at the various headquarters of many ter of Arts. of the Professors. This is especially true Archer Parris Cram, 1899, New York of the older ones as students of former lawyer, Master of Arts. days thus were able to meet them and talk George Edward Carmichael, 1897, Head- over College days. Observation showed master of the Brunswick School, Green- that this was enjoyed fully as much by the wich, Conn., Master of Arts. students at it was by the Professors. William Ellery Wing, 1902, Principal of Those men who do not return to com- Deering High School, Portland, Maine, mencement from year to year due to one Master of Arts. cause or another miss a lot. Every Bow- Wallace Edward Mason, 1882, Principal doin alumnus who does return, however, of the New Hampshire State Normal finds the time well spent and whatever ef- School, Keene, N. H., Master of Arts. [5] : [The B o w d o in Alumnus Joseph William Hewitt, 1897, Master of Point. At West Point, as at Bowdoin, he Arts and Doctor of Philosophy of Harvard was a varsity football man, and one of the University; for 22 years Professor of the leaders of his class in scholarship. He re- signed from the army, to Classics at Wesleyan University ; now Dean went Massachu- of Freshmen there; was awarded degree setts Institute of Technology, where he re- of Doctor of Humane Letters. ceived the degree of Bachelor of Science in George W. Hinckley, Master of Arts of Civil Engineering. Colby College ; for 47 years minister of the Walter M. Miller, appointed Assistant gospel ; degree of Doctor of Divinity. Professor of Mathematics. He is a gradu- The conferring of the degree of Doctor ate of Lafayette College, Class of 1918; of Laws on Cyrus H. K. 'Curtis was espe- received the degree of Master of Arts from cially pleasing to the alumni. Everyone Pennsylvania State College in 1923, and also knows of the wonderful work Mr. Curtis has received his Doctor's degree in mathe- has done not only for the State of Maine matics from the University of Illinois. but also for Bowdoin College. Mr. Curtis Robert C. Pollock, appointed as Instruc- has built up in the City of Brotherly Love tor in Psychology and Philosophy and Fred- a great journalistic enterprise that has be- erick W. Dupee as Instructor in English. come an American Institution and his steps Mr. Pollock was graduated from Harvard to fame and fortune have been taken al- with honors in 1925 and received his Mas- ways by fair play, kindliness, and magnan- ter of Arts degree from Harvard. Mr. imity. Dupee is a graduate of Yale where he took The degree of Doctor of Laws was also an active part in the undergraduate literary conferred upon Hon. Scott Wilson, Chief life of the college. Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court 01 Philip S. Wilder of Gorham, a graduate Maine, a graduate and now trustee of Bates of Bowdoin, Class of has been appoint- College and known to many a Bowdoin ath- 1923, ed Acting Alumni Secretary for the year lete as the crack second baseman of the during the absence of Mr. MacCormick. Bates team when he was in college. Since graduation Mr. Wilder has been With each succeeding Commencement teaching at the High School in Gorham and some of the old familiar faces and beloved has been engaged in all sorts of community Professors are missing and new ones are T work. hile at Bowdoin he was prominent found who are taking their places. W in many student activities, especially in lit- At the Commencement dinner the alumni erary work and dramatics. Everyone who were told of the addition of seven new has had the pleasure of coming in contact members to the faculty for the coming year. These were with Mr. Wilder knows that he is the man for the place. Dr. Stanley B. Smith, appointed Associ- ate Professor of the Classics. Dr. Smith Kenneth J. Boyer, a graduate of the Uni- was graduated from Harvard with highest versity of Rochester and of the Albanv honors in 1916 and received the degree of Library School, has been appointed Assist- Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy ant Librarian. For the past two years Mr. there. He comes from Ohio State Uni- Boyer has been librarian at the Westfield, versity. Massachusetts, Atheneum. Boyd W. Bartlett, appointed Assistant These names are included in resume of Professor of Physics, was graduated from Commencement activities as a form of in- Bowdoin in 1917 and was appointed to West troduction to the alumni. [6] The B o w d o in Alumn u s ] Commander MacMillan in Labrador EDWARD N. GODING '91 Saturday following Commencement Pro- Association of which MacMillan is a di- fessor MacMillan again started North for rector and of which the first president was scientific exploration and to carry to com- President Hyde, who was succeeded by Al- pletion the plan to establish in Northern bert T. Gould '08, who helped to organize Labrador, a station from which his work the Association, and was its secretary from might be carried on for some years to come. the beginning until elected president. This Expedition which will return in the The Bowdoin Expedition of 1891 to Lab- autumn of 1928, has gone under the aus- rador, under the direction of Professor Lee, pices of the Field Museum of Natural His- did a notable work in several branches of tory, of Chicago, which has designated six science, and in the exploration of the Grand scientists to do work and make collections or Hamilton River to the Grand Falls. Ten pertaining to several sciences; among these of the members of this Expedition are liv- men is Charles S. Sewall '97, who will do ing: the botanical work. Some collections will '87 Austin Cary be made for the College which has indi- '89 Mervyn A. Rice cated to what extent such collections can be '90 Walter R. Hunt used at this time, pending the selection of '90 Warren R. Smith some suitable place at Bowdoin where col- '91 Charles S. F. Lincoln lections of interest, ethnological and other- '91 Ralph H. Hunt wise, may be kept. '91 Parker C. Newbegin The station has been built on the shore of '91 Gould A. Porter a bay at about 56 30' North Latitude where '94 Walter M. Spear the latest charts indicate the shore by a '94 Rupert H. Baxter dotted line unexplored. This bav Through the courtesy of Yarick Frizzell has been named Bowdoin Harbor and here of Yale, who visited the Grand Falls in the schooner Bowdoin will lie protected 1926, the College has received two beautiful from the sea by many islands. pictures of the Grand Falls and Bowdoin MacMillan has already reported that a Canyon. These are hung in the President's visit was made to Frobisher Bay for scien- .Office, and serve as a constant reminder of tific work. Contact has been made with Bowdoin's long continued activity in the members of the Nascopie tribe of Indians, North, and its interest in the welfare of its who inhabit the interior, as well as with inhabitants. the Eskimo along the shore. The establishment of this station will help President Sills has been elected a member to assure continuance of Bowdoin's interest of the Board of Trustees of Wellesley in Labrador which was indicated by Pro- College. fessor Packard's visit to that place in i860, and has been kept up by successive visits Two reels of 16 mm. motion pictures, and expeditions, including those of Peary taken at the 1927 Commencement, are at '77, Burton '78, Professor Lee and the 18 the office of the Alumni Secretary. These Bowdoin men in 1891, as well as MacMil- may be shown with any Kodascope projec- lan's own former visits, and by Bowdoin's tor and will be gladly loaned to interested connection with the New England Grenfell Alumni. [7] [The Bo w d o i n A 1 u m n it s Review of the Fall Athletic Situation Assistant Professor MALCOLM E. MORRELL '24 Assistant Professor ROLAND H. COBB '17 In writing of the physically able should take advantage of athletics at Bowdoin this opportunity. fall approximately fifty this fall and of athletic In football this men have reported for the Varsity Squad. policies, we want first Paul "Ginger" Fraser is the assistant coach of all to give credit and as last year "Ben" Houser is the where it is due. In trainer. "Don" Lancaster has had a squad asking the Y a r s i t y of about forty-five freshmen out for that Football Squad to re- team, and a system is being developed so port early for pre-sea- that these men may be as readily absorbed son practice we feel as possible by the Varsity next year. that perhaps an injustice has been done, as In Track, Jack Magee has had one of the they have to stand their own expense dur- largest squads he has ever had since he ing this period. It is doubly inconvenient came to Bowdoin. He has daily worked for many as they have to give up positions with his men developing some mighty green which help them to earn money to defray material as only Jack can do. At the time college expenses. It requires a high type of of writing the fall interfraternity meet is loyalty and love of the game to do this. in progress and frequently during the fail The same would hold true also for the road races have been on the program. Per- managers. It is doubtful whether this is haps no phase of our varsity sport scheme either fair to the men or necessary in our makes possible the conditioning and de- policy of Intercollegiate athletics. A seven veloping of as many men as those who work game series in football would make possible for Jack. starting later and scheduling the first game Regarding our athletic policies we feel so that the present situation might be that Bowdoin should compete with colleges avoided. This is a matter for serious con- in her own class. On our football schedule sideration. for 1928 are the "Little Three," the Maine In presenting to the undergraduate body colleges, Tufts, and 'M. A. C. We have a scheme of Varsity Sports, we naturally already mentioned the matter of the early feel that they offer an opportunity in which season training. Finally it seems to us that there is real merit and from which much in order for these sports to give as much good can be gained. This advantage is to as possible to each man a sane and healthy the individual who participates, and makes desire to win should be one of the vital fac- possible for him a fundamental training in tors inculcated in each individual. Onlv sportsmanship, the development of courage then is the game worth playing—and only in the broadest sense of the word, the ability then are any desirable qualities developed in to "give and take" fairly, with many other the boy—no courage is needed unless we attributes which might be mentioned. play hard, give all we have—no self sacri- Equipment and instruction is provided for fice, or cooperation, is needed—no sports- these sports and we believe that all who are manship is invalued. It doesn't take a [8] The B o zv do in A I it m n u s J sportsman to give up something that is lit- part in athletics this fall than at any time tle desired. Only when one desires keenly in the last few years. Many men are rifl- to win, and yet plays fair, perhaps even ing horseback, a polo team has been formed, loses and yet is fair, is there development informal golf calls a great number who of character. may be seen daily on the Brunswick course, M. E. M. '24. and a new Outing Club has been formed which has already sponsored a trip to Mt. Washington and is working out a scheme With the advent of for camping trips, canoeing, and shooting. the new athletic field, R. H. C. '17. generously given to the College by Mr. Pick- ANALYSIS OF ard- and the develop- ment of which has THE STUDENT BODY been made possible Although it is the policy of the College to by gifts from many limit its undergraduate body to approxi- Alumni, history has mately 500 men, there were a total of 556 been made for Bow- enrolled last September. This is the larg- doin. Perhaps no greater thrill has come est number in the history of the College and to many of us for a long time than to see an increase of 13 over 1926. One hundred a great field space literally covered with and sixty-four of these men are listed as men taking part in athletic sport for the freshmen while five have transferred to most part entirely voluntarily. Two soccer Bowdoin from other colleges. fields are in almost daily use as well as a The freshmen come from 13 states, and freshman football field. Three tennis courts Mexico and Porto Rico have each sent one are being built and by the continued support man. Sixty-five of the first year students of loyal friends we hope to add each year are from Maine, while the parent state of to the development. Massachusetts has sent 62. There are 10 It seems to us that a new athletic era has men from New York, seven from New started for Bowdoin and one in which our Jersey, five from Connecticut, three from Varsity Sports are bound to benefit by the Pennsylvania, and two each from New provision of adequate facilities for outdoor Hampshire, Ohio, and Illinois. Rhode sport for our men. In this voluntary sport Island, Delaware, Maryland, and Iowa are many embryo athletes may be discovered, each represented by one man. Portland has whose interest, developed in this way, may sent 12 of the new men, while Newton, be turned into Major Sport channels. Mass., has sent seven. Of the total student This intra-mural system in itself is bound body 37 men or 6.6 per cent, are of Port- to go a long way in the building for the land origin, while the Massachusetts city is better health of the individual and creating represented by 22 or 3.9 per cent. Bruns- in him a "joy in sport" which opens a field wick has entered five men this year as com- of enjoyment which should be helpful in pared to seven in 1926, while six have come later life. from Auburn, a city which contributed no Besides the interf raternity soccer schedule freshmen a year ago. which is now nearly finished, open tourna- ments in tennis and golf are in progress. Professor Wilmot B. Mitchell will serve It is fair to say that more men are taking as acting Dean during the second. semester. [9] [The B o iv d o i n A I u m n u « Fall Alumni Day a Real Success Fall Alumni Day at Bowdoin was '23, Acting Alumni Secretary, and the sing- observed on Saturday, October 29th, at the ing of Bowdoin Beata and Phi Chi under time of the annual football game with the leadership of A. L. Richan '20. James Bates. There was an attendance of over F. Chaney '71 of Brunswick, the only living 350 alumni, many of whom brought their member of his class and the oldest alumnus families and other guests. The main fea- present, received an ovation when he was ture of the day was the alumni luncheon in asked to rise in his place by the presiding Memorial Hall where about 250 men were officer. served in the style familiar to those who About 115 wives of alumni and other have attended the Wednesday luncheons at ladies in attendance were served an excel' Commencement. The principal speaker of lent luncheon in the vestry of the First the occasion was President Kenneth C. M. Parish Church. Sills '01, who was introduced by his class- Following the football game, President mate, Roland E. Clark, President of the and Mrs. Sills were at home to the alumni Alumni Council. The President commented and friends, and upwards of 150 availed upon the recent statement of John D. Rocke- themselves of this hospitality. During the feller, Jr., declaring that college students day the new swimming pool was opened to should be charged the full cost of the visitors with student guides in attendance course, and spoke of other critics who be- and nearly 200 people were shown about the lieve that tuition should equal the cost of fine building, now nearly completed. The actual instruction. He mentioned the recent main feature of the evening was an in- change in Bowdoin's tuition, which is now formal dance held in the gymnasium under set at $250, and stated that in order to pay the auspices of the Student Council, which instruction costs from this source the was attended by many of the alumni and charge would necessarily be increased to their guests. $456. The program for the day was in charge The President also spoke concerning the of a committee of the Alumni Council com- age and experience of the present faculty posed of Lyman A. Cousens '02, chairman, and the presence of real scholarship in that Eugene L. Bodge '97, and Walter M. San- body in addition to the teaching ability ob- born '05. viously required. He expressed the hope that the Alumni Day meeting in 1928 might Fall contributions to the Alumni Fund be held in the new Union given by the Hon. are far behind our record of a year ago. Augustus F. Moulton '73, who was present It is hoped that this situation will soon be and was enthusiastically applauded. remedied. Another member of the Class of 1901, Ripley L. Dana of the Board of Overseers, Ground was broken for the new Union was called upon to speak in eulogy of Wil- on November 21st, when President Sills liam J. Curtis '75. As stated elsewhere in turned the first shovelful of earth, sur- this issue, his address will soon be pub- rounded by the cheering student body. The lished by the College. Other features of Cummings Construction Company, builders the gathering were an appeal for support of of the Swimming Pool, has been awarded the Boivdoin Alumnus by Philip S. Wilder the contract. [10] — ——; — ! ; — — The B o w d o in Alumnus] To BOWDOIN COLLEGE On the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of its opening All faith, all hope, all love for truth Eternal at the heart of youth And what e'er made New England great, E'er fed the sinews of our State Are writ upon thy ivied walls Upon thy walls. Thy floors have echoed to the tread Of mighty men, of noble dead, Of statesman, soldier, pioneer, Who served their people without fear, Then went unto their well-won rest Unto their rest. From thy fair seat in former day The "Star of Empire" took its way, And in the western sky now glows Resplendent with the worth of those Whose mind and heart were taught of thee Were taught of thee. A wreath of laurel on thy brow Serene thou stand'st, exalted now While in a low sweet monotone The whispering pines forever drone The story of thy glories won Thy glories won. O gracious mother of us all, Once more on bended knee we fall Like knights of old again renew The ancient pledge we gave to you In everlasting fealty In fealty. Edgar O. Achorn. [ii] [The B o w d o i n A I u ;;/ n u s Two Bowdoin Physicians Honored Dr. Fred H. Albee '99, was decorated Dr. Lucien Howe Sc.D., a distinguished October 27th by the Roumanian Regency at member of the Class of 1870, has recently Bucharest with the Order of Commander been awarded the Leslie Dana gold medal, given annually to the person who has done of the Crown of Roumania, for his contri- most for the conservation of vision during butions to the advancement of bone sur- the preceding year. The award was made gery. This was the first decoration award- in St. Louis through the National Commit- ed by the Regency and is an order usually tee for the Prevention of Blindness. This conferred upon ambassadors and other medal is the gift of Leslie Dana of St. people of high rank. Before leaving' Rou- Louis, and its recipient is chosen by the mania. Dr. Albee gave Httle King Michael National Committee in cooperation with the a miniature American airplane to supple- Missouri Association for the Blind. ment his fleet of kites. Dr. Howe was referred to by Mr. Carris After leaving Bowdoin, Dr. Albee at- of the National Committee as the ''father tended Harvard Medical School where he of ophthalmia neonatorum legislation.'' receive ! the degree of M.D. in 1903. He This disease, more commonly known ?.s has since been granted the degree of Sc.D. baby's sore eyes, has been for centuries the by Bowdoin and by the University of Ver- principal cause of blindness and in recent mont He has been Professor of Ortho- years there has been a reduction of 50 per pedic Surgery in the Xcw York Post Grad- cent in the frequency of blindness resulting uate Medical School and Director of the from it. The Howe law, passed in 1890 in Orthopedic Department of the Post Grad- New York state, was the first legal step uate Hospital. He has also served as con- toward its prevention and has been fol- sulting surgeon to 10 other hospitals and lowed by similar laws in almost every state two large railway systems. As a colonel in of the Lnion. the Medical Reserve Corps he organized Dr. Howe has also been the author of United States Army General Hospital No. many notable treatises on the eye, a spon- 3. during the war, a hospital having 2,000 sor of research into hereditary blindness, beds. He demonstrated bone grafting and was the first director of the Howe Lab- methods in France at • the request of the oratory of Ophthalmology at Harvard Uni- French War Office in 191 6, and gave a versitv, which institution he and his familv graduate course for the Army Medical have generously endowed. Corps at the request of the Surgeon Gen- Dr. Howe, who received the degree of eral. He has attended and addressed vari- Doctor of Science at Bowdoin in 1910, is ous surgical conferences here and abroad the donor of the Lucien Howe Prize and was last summer exchange professor Scholarship, which is awarded yearly to the at the International Clinics in Paris where senior who has shown the highest qualities he gave a graduate course in original bone of conduct and character during his college plastic methods. He has established a cura- course. tive work shop for handicapped men in Xew York City and is editor-in-chief of the Re- "The City of Open Air," by Charles P. habilitation Review and the author of two Cleaves '05, will be reviewed by Professor notable volumes on bone surgery. Chase in the January issue. [12] i r h c B o zv d o n A I u m n u s ] CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT SINCE COMMENCEMENT The summer of 1927 has shown but little marked change in the appearance of the campus, the only new work in evidence be- ing the swimming pool, which will be ready for use about December 1st, and which will make an attractive addition to the building group in the rear of the dormitories. In accordance with the precedent of a year ago $20,000 has been spent in renovating one of the older dormitories, a cement tower 20 feet square having been built in the center of Appleton Hall. This contains adequate modern sanitary facilities on each of the four floors and makes possible passage be- tween the ends. The tunnel connecting the '14 various buildings with the heating plant has K. A. Robinson '14 R. D. Leigh been extended to include Memorial Hall Outside Hubbard Hall and the Science Building so that practically all of the campus pipe lines may be in- TWO 19U MEN spected and repaired without excavation. Work has been done on the roof of the RECENT AUTHORS Chapel and various minor improvements of the Class of have have been carried on in the Gymnasium and Two members 1914 in Massachusetts Hall, where the quarters almost simultaneously put out publications of the Treasurer's Office have been en- this fall, although these are of vastly differ- larged and improved. ent nature. Kenneth A. Robinson, profes- A great deal of work has been done ov. sor of English at Dartmouth College, is the the new athletic field south of the College, author of an article, "Van Winkle '07 Re- given a year ago by Frederick W. Pickard views College Morals," which appeared in of the Class of '94, and varsity baseball will the Saturday Evening Post of October no longer be played on Whittier Field, 22nd. It discusses this popular subject in a which has been entirely grassed over. sane and interesting way and is a relief Since College opened changes have been after some of the doctrines put forward by made in the Library, providing for a new the men mentioned in Professor Mitchell'; periodical room and enlarging facilities ai editorial. the delivery desk, while the old organ from Robert D. Leigh, professor of Politic il the Chapel is being erected in Memorial Science at Williams College, has recently Hall. The Chapel Choir have been given published a volume entitled "Federal Health T the seats on either side of the pulpit for- Administration in the L nited States." This merly reserved for Faculty and guests and will be reviewed for the Alumnus by Dr. the old choir loft is being remodeled to Henry L. Johnson '07, the College Phy- serve as a visitors' gallery. sician. [13] : : [The B o w d o in Alumnus "Sons of Bowdoin" Now Popular Rise, sons of Bowdoin, praise her fame, And sing aloud her glorious name, To Bowdoin, Bowdoin lift your song, And may the music echo long O'er whispering pines and campus fair With sturdy might filling the air: Bowdoin, from birth the nurturer of men, To thee, we pledge our love again, President Sills again. Professor Burnett While now amid thy halls we stay And when in future wand'rings we And breathe thy spirit day by day, Shall fainting yearn for glimpse of O may we thus full worthy be thee, To march in that proud company O then before our presence rise. Of poets, statesmen and each son And may the light of thy dear eyes Who brings thee fame by deeds well Give sweetness to our fainting heart, done To us new life and strength imparl Bowdoin, from birth the nurturer of Bowdoin, from birth the nurturer oT men, men, To thee, we pledge our love again, To thee, we pledge our love again, again. again. "Sons of Bowdoin," the music for which is given on the opposite page, is coming into ever greater popularity as a Bowdoin song. The words were written by Kenneth C. M. Sills '01, in his senior year at college and were originally sung to the tune of "The Watch on the Rhine." On becoming acquainted with the words, Prof. Charles T. Burnett, feeling that it was worthy of a tune of its own, composed the melody now used, which was first published in 191 1. While "Bow- doin Beata" is still known as the College song, this younger composition is almost equally popular and it is becoming customary among the undergraduates to rise when it is played or sung. In response to a demand for copies of the Bowdoin songs the Alumnus plans to print one of them in each of its issues this year. "We'll Sing To Old Bowdoin"' will probably appear in the January number. [14] The B o w d o in Alumnus] °* -^QO^ ^ouaoift *» 1 •St&s t i. S iiU' WT. tl'VAuKorffr. Cs ow g^S h ^^ HJ-HtH^J N fe B r-tf- Hii ^ T FWP T . tf#^£-: * * : [The Bow do in A I u m n u x GENERAL NOTES The address given by President Sills at the Memorial Service for the late William During" College receive 1 issued in the form the summer the J. Curtis '75, will soon be a gift of $50,000 for the general endow- of a College Bulletin, together with the ad- ment funds from David Pingree of Salem, dress of Ripley L. Dana '01, on Alumni Mass., who wrote that he had no particular Day, and a tribute from the Faculty. connection with Bowdoin but was making his gift where he thought it would do the The meeting of the Alumni Council on most good. Alumni Day was addressed by Stanley C. Lary of the University Club of Boston, who A meeting of Class and Regional Associ- discussed the question of better placement ation Secretaries was held on the morning for college graduates. All of the members of Alumni Day with Professor Stanley P. of the Council were present with the ex- Chase, secretary of 1905, presiding. Donald ception of Phillips Kimball '07, who is in W. Philbrick '17, of the Bowdoin Club of St. Louis, Mo., and John W. Leydon '07 of Portland, served as secretary of the meet- Germantown, Pa. ing. There was general discussion with re- gard to the maintenance of the College ad- It was announced on October 7th, that dress list, class reports, the Alumnus, the the College had received a legacy of question of keeping in touch with non-grad- $150,000 from the estate of the late Dr. uates, and other matters falling within the Thomas Upham Coe of Bangor, a graduate duties of secretaries. Lyman A. Cousens in the Class of 1857. Dr. Coe will be re- '02, spoke concerning the Dartmouth Sec- membered as the donor of the Dudley Coe retaries' Association, which meets each year Memorial Infirmary. to insure better cooperation among the alumni of that college. Professor Thomas Three men, all members of the Class of C. Van Cleve spoke for the faculty and 1927, have been chosen as Bowdoin's can- urged that the secretaries bring pressure to didates for the coming election of the bear on their constituencies with a view to Maine Rhodes Scholar to enter Oxford in increasing support of the Orient and the October, 1928. They are William Hodding Alumnus. He also urged discussion by Carter, of Hammond, La., now doing- alumni groups on the following problems Jr. graduate work in English at Colum- 1. Is the College educating teachers? bia; Charles Wardwell Morrell of Hyannis, 2. the College give better business Should Mass., studying Physics at the Harvard training? Graduate School; and Paul Arthur Palmer 3. Should the College give better profes- of Machiasport, who is also at Harvard, sional training? specializing in History and Government. 4. Should the College stick to liberal arts? Rhodes Scholars are chosen in Maine in It was voted to call a similar meeting two years out of every three, there having next year and the Alumni Secretary was in- been no election a year ago. structed to appoint a committee who should Men in residence at Oxford last year report at that time on a possible plan of or- were Edward Billings Ham '22, who is now ganization with recommendations. The on the tutorial staff at Harvard, and Law- class agents will also be asked to attend the rence Brock Leigh ton '25, who is still in meeting next year. England. [16] s The Bo w d o i n A I u m n u ] M "They Sent Their Sons to Bowdoin in the Fall Front row, left to right: Woods, Leighton, Cushman, Dane, Whitcomb, French, Thomas, W. R., Swan, D., Spear, A., Spear E. Second row : Cousens, Means, Snow, Smith, J. P., Garcelon, Bates, Perkins, Boothby, Ward, Soule. Third row: Donworth, Sears, Pettingill, Dana, E., Dana, R., Dyson, Bell, Shute, Mallett, Thomas, E. Fourth row : Foster, Fisher, Johnson, Brown, Drake, Mullin, Clark, Riley, Chapman, Fuller, Perkins, Swan, M., McKown, Abbott. The alumni will be interested to know that there are now in College 63 sons of Bowdoin men, no less than 14 of whom have also had grandfathers who attended the College. In order that the alumni body might be able to see these sons of theirs the picture shown abo ve was taken and it is only to be regretted that the entire number did not report at that time. The list as we have it is as follows and we should appreciate the report of any errors to the Alumni Office. E. F. ABBOTT, JR., '31 R. H. DAY '30 W. P. McKOWN, JR., '29 PHILIP A. SMITH '29 E. Farrington Abbott '03 DeForest S. Day, M-'05 Wendell P. McKown '98 Charles C. Smith '98 R. T. BATES '30 J. S. DONWORTH '31 R. P. MALLETT '30 R. S. SMITH, JR., '30 John H. Bates '96 Albert B. Donworth '90 Wilbert G. Mallett '91 Ralph S. Smith '04 R. H. BELL '30 J. M. DUDLEY '31 F. W. MEANS '28 W. P. SNOW '29 Charles W. Bell, M-'97 Herbert J. Dudley '95 Edgar L. Means '87 Donald F. Snow '01 P. R. BLODGETT '30 W. C. DYSON '31 W. L. MORSE '29 G. W. SOULE '30 Homer R. Blodgett '96 Wallace W. Dyson, M-'OO Frank W. Morse '96 A. M. G. Soule '03 A. C. BOOTHBY '29 H. S. FISH '28 D. MULLIN '31 A. SPEAR '29 and Clayton D. Boothby '06 Edman P. Fish, M-'OO Seth S. Mullin, M-'08 E. SPEAR, 3rd, '29 Bertrand F. Marshall, M-'87 B. FISHER '30 W. S. PERKINS '31 Ellis Spear, Jr., '98 D. F. BROWN '29 Hon. Frederic A. Fisher '81 Walter P. Perkins '80 Ellis Spear '58 Frank I. Brown '85 R. C. FOSTER '29 O. S. PETTINGILL, JR., '30 D. M. SWAN '29 and J. E. BURBANK. JR., '30 Robert C. Foster '01 Olin S. Pettingill '08 M. SWAN *29 John E. Burbank '96 Enoch Foster '64 W. C. PIERCE '28 Frank H. Swan '98 H. P. CHAPMAN, JR., '30 J. B. FRENCH '30 Henry H. Pierce '96 John Swan, M-'66 Henry P. Chapman '06 Prof. John S. French '95 Lewis Pierce '52 E. THOMAS, JR., '31 R S. CHAPMAN '28 Albert G. French, M-'56 William J. Curtis '75 Elias Thomas '94 Arthur Chapman '94 E. M. FULLER, JR.. '31 S. D. PINKHAM '31 W. R. THOMAS '29 A. H. CLARK '31 Edwin M. Fuller '01 Stephen H. Pinkham '05 William W. Thomas '60 Walter B. Clark '06 Edwin M. Fuller, M-'73 J. W. RILEY, JR., '30 F. G. WARD '30 L. A. COUSENS, JR., '31 G. G. GARCELON '30 John W. Riley '05 Fred U Ward '00 Lyman A. Cousens '02 William S. Garcelon '02 Thomas H. Riley '80 B. B. WHITCOMB '30 F. P. COWAN '28 F. B. HARLOW '29 George T. Prince '76 Benjamin B. Whitcomb '94 Fred H. Cowan '01 John A. Harlow '03 R. ROBINSON '29 H. F. WHITE '28 W. P. CUSHMAN '31 W. L. HASTY, JR., '29 Clarence C. Robinson '00 Wallace H. White. Jr.. '99 Benj. G. W. Cushman, M-'91 Willis L. Hasty, M-'08 C. F. ROSS '29 Wallace H. White. Hon.-'04 E. F. DANA '29 W. F. JOHNSON '30 Archibald C. Ross '09 R. E. WILLIAMS '29 John F. Dana '98 Charles E. Johnson, M-'97 C. S. SEARS '28 Edmund P. Williams '00 Charles O. Hunt '61 W. F. LEIGHTON '28 George B. Sears '90 C. B. WOODMAN '28 and R. W. DANA '31 Charles M. Leighton '94 B. F. SHUTE '31 G. M. WOODMAN. Jr., '31 Harold F. Dana '99 J. D. LINCOLN '29 John M. Shuce '97 George M. Woodman, M-'97 F. S. DANE, JR., '31 Charles S. F. Lincoln '91 J. PHILIP SMITH '29 Erwin B. Newcomb '76 Francis S. Dane '96 John D. Lincoln '43 Albion K. P. Smith, M-'96 P. W. WOODS '30 Henry E. Woods, Hon.-'03 [The B o w d o in Alumnus Shanghai Honors Sterling Fessenden '96 The North-China Herald of October ist, In the course of his address Judge Grain carries a full page account of a dinner given said, "Mr. Fessenden arrived in China in in Shanghai on the occasion of the fifty- 1903 and since 1905 has been carrying on second birthday of Sterling Fessenden '96, his profession as a lawyer amongst us and Chairman of the Municipal Council. E. S. is recognized among us as a lawyer of great Cunningham, United States Consul-Gen- integrity and distinction. In 1924 he was elected to the distinguished orifice of Chair- "The Man Who Beat Dick Whittington" man of the Municipal Council. He has broken the record of our old friend, Dick Whittington, who was thrice Lord Mayor of London, as Mr. Fessenden has been Lord Mayor of Shanghai for four years in suc- cession, although he has not taken the same means of attaining that high orifice as our friend Dick. I understand he has not mar- ried his master's daughter nor anyone else's daughter. Which was one of Dick Whit- tington's roads to success. But he may possess a cat." The November issue of the North Ameri- can Review, oldest of American magazines, which now becomes a monthly again after several years as a quarterly, has three ar- ticles by Bowdoin graduates. They are "Merchant Ships and the Navy," by Edward C. Plummer '87, a member of the United States Shipping Board; "What Door Does the Phi Beta Kappa Key Open?" by John Clair Minot '96, Literary Editor of The Boston Herald, whose article has several allusions to Bowdoin and its famous grad- uates ; and "From Whitehead to Le 7 Havre," by Robert P. T. Coffin '03, Pro- —North China Herald fessor of English at Wells College, who writes in humorously reminiscent vein of cral, presided, and stressed the fact that the the journey of his regiment from Portland Fessenden family has had a fine record in to France in 1918. American History, mentioning in particular the name of William Pitt Fessenden, Bow- doin 1823. Speakers included Judge Grain The Alumni Secretary would appreciate of the Supreme Court, M. Nagglar, Consul- any clippings from papers and magazines General for France and other representa- in which mention is made of the College or tives of the Foreign Colony. of any Bowdoin men. [18] The B o w d o in Alumnus] series of Bowdoin College bulletins. It is styled "Maine Public Utilities" and is the Faculty Notes seventh of the series. Prof. Alfred O. Gross of the department President and Mrs. Sills passed last sum- of Biology is travelling in Central and mer in Europe where they visited France, South America where he reports many in- the Italian Lakes, and Switzerland, and teresting adventures. were for nearly three weeks at Lausanne where the President was a delegate from Prof. Henry B. Dewing, President or the Episcopal Church of America to the Athens College, is now attending to the World Conference on Faith and Order. duties of his new ofhce and will return for When asked for his impressions of the the second semester at Bowdoin. Conference he quoted a Syrian Bishop, who described it as "an admirable introductory Prof. Wilfrid H. Crook is on leave chapter to a long volume on Christian Unity now of absence from the College and is working yet to be written." on his new book which deals with "The General Strike." Dean Paul Nixon is the author of "Mar- tial and the Modern Epigram," the latest Prof. Charles H. has edited a vol- volume in the series "Our Debt to Greece Gray and Rome" published by Longmans, Green ume of William Hazlitt's essays recently published by the MacMillan in the & Company. The book defines by illustra- Company Modern series. tion from modern English writers and Reader shows the great influence of Martial on It is interesting to note that with the both serious and frivolous epigrammatists. appointment of Boyd W. Bartlett the The Dean is at his best in the last chapter Physics Department contains two of the volume, which has the heading "The 1917 graduates in fraternity Antiquity of Modern Wit." who were the same delegation and whose fathers, also fra- The Dean will be on leave of absence ternity brothers, were respectively leaders during the second semester and following a of the Classes of 1885 and 1887. cruise to the Mediterranean, will devote himself to work on the fourth volume of his translation of Plautus for the Loeb Freshman Day was observed at Bowdoin Classical Library. on Tuesday, September 20th, two days be- fore the regular opening of the College. "The Labor Problem," which was pub- The program included, addresses by Dean lished last spring by Prof. Warren B. Cat- Nixon, Athletic Director Morrell '24, Act- lin, is now in its second printing and has ing Alumni Secretary Wilder '23, Governor been adopted for use by many of the leading Ralph O. Brewster '09, and William S. Lin- colleges and universities of the United nell '07. Other features of the day were a States. It is published by Harper & psychological test under the direction of Brothers. Professor Burnett, personally conducted visits to the Library, the fraternity houses, Prof. Orren C. Hormell has added an- and other campus buildings, and the show- other volume to the Municipal Research ing of the College motion pictures. [19] T r h c B o w d o i n A 1 it m n u gathering being about evenly divided in opinion on this point. Eugene B. Gordon With The '14, was elected chairman of the Executive Committee, with Herbert L. Bryant '12, and Alumni Bodies Donald F. Snow '01, to assist him. RHODE ISLAXD BOWDOIX CLUB OF BOSTOX The first fall meeting was held at the The first fall meeting of the Club was Providence Biltmore Hotel on Friday, No- held at the University Club on Friday eve- vember 1 8th. Following the dinner Mr. ning, October /th. The speaker was Dean William M. Emery '89 spoke on "News- Paul Nixon, who brought news of the Col- r paper W ork, with Especial Reference to and delivered a clear-cut answer to Bowdoin Men Who Have Been Con- current criticisms of modern higher educa- spicuous in the Profession." tion. On November nth about 90 members of At one time during the game with Yale the Boston Club met for the annual football the entire Bowdoin lineup was made up of get-together before the Tufts game. The members of the sophomore class, this group speakers included Coaches Morrell and being the same team which, as freshmen, Fraser, Manager Fuller '28, Luther Dana had played against Kent's Hill in the fall '03, Ralph Robinson, first mate of the Bow- of 1926. doin, and the Acting Alumni Secretary. A bronze tablet honoring Cyrus H. K. BOWDOIX CLUB OF PORTLAND Curtis, who was granted the degree of The Club held a luncheon meeting at the LL.D. by Bowdoin last June, was recently Falmouth Hotel on October 26th. Coach unveiled at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. Mai Morrell and Assistant Coach "Ginger" A pipe organ, similar to that given to Bow- . Fraser spoke concerning Football, and Act- doin, is now being built for the auditorium ing Alumni Secretary Wilder outlined the of the Institute, and will be the third large plans for fall Alumni Day, and for the gift to Drexel by the noted publisher. Bozcdoin Alumnus. On the afternoon of the Maine game, the The Masque and Gown was among the Club joined with local alumni of the Uni- first American units to respond to the ap- versity in hearing a play by play report of peal last June for contributions to an inter- the affair over a private wire to the Fal- national fund to rebuild the Shakespeare mouth Hotel. Memorial Theater at Stratford-on-Avon in England which was destroyed some time BOWDOIX TEACHERS' CLUB ago by fire. Their gift of $50 will be a part The Annual Meeting of the Club was of the United States' quota of $1,000,000 in held at the Columbia Hotel on October 27th, the total of $2,500,000 which it is hoped with over 50 men present. After listening will be raised. to a fine address by Dean Nixon the meet- ing was opened for general discussion, most Copy for the January Alumnus should of which centered on the question of offer- reach the Alumni Office before January ing courses in Education at Bowdoin, the 10th. [20] The B o zv d o i n Alumnus'] News From The Classes 1864 which is based on the need for service to the Secretary, Dr. Daniel F. Littlefield, Saco, cause of Temperance. Although almost 80 years Maine. old, he is now working upon another book, "Sug- Frederick H. Appleton died on June iith at gestions from the Greek of the New Testament." his home in Bangor, Maine. Rev. J. S. Richards, the efficient class secre- 1869 tary, after serving for two years as Principal of Calais High School, took the theological course Secretary, Thomas H. Eaton, 54 Central St., at Bangor Seminary, and then was for years Manchester, Mass. 37 an active Congregational minister. Since his re- Dr. Norman Call died on May 27 in Waban, tirement in 191 2 he has continued to supply va- Mass. cant pulpits and to preside at various weddings, Thomas H. Eaton has been travelling in Europe funerals, and baptisms. Although in ill health and will be at 54 Central St., Manchester, Mass., he has been a Justice of the Peace since 1914. upon his return. Rev. C. C. Sampson after receiving the degree Judge Clarence Hale was presented with a of S.T.B. at Andover has been a Congregational silver loving cup by members of the Maine Bar pastor in New Hampshire. Since 1885 he has on September 20th at the completion of 25 years served the church at Tilton, N. H., as pastor and as a United States Justice. pastor emeritus and is honored and beloved Dr. Charles A. Stephens has been writing juve- throughout the state. nile stories for Youth's Companion for nearly 60 Harold Wilder, after 12 years of teaching in years. Massachusetts, moved to a large ranch in Flora, 1871 northern Oregon, which he still maintains, al- Dr. Everett S. Stackpole passed away at his though assisted by a partner, as his health has home, Sunny Hill Farm, West Bath, Maine, on failed somewhat. Thursday, July 28th, at the age of 77. He was Arthur B. Ayer, a former member of the class, a graduate of Boston University School of The- is living at Niantic, Conn., and Edgar H. Deer- ology. After graduation he spent two years in ing, long a resident of Auburn, is a patient at the post-graduate work at the University of Berlin Central Maine General Hospital, where he has and beginning in 1888 was for four years engaged been since early summer. in founding a mission at Florence, Italy. He 1873 there edited a religious paper called "L'Evangel- John F. Eliot, secretary of the class, attended ista." He also wrote a joint history of Durham, the meeting of class secretaries held at the Col- Maine, and Durham, N. H., a four volume his- lege on Alumni Day and later witnessed the tory of the State of New Hampshire, and a his- tory of the old families of Kittery, Maine, be- game between Bates and Bowdoin, in company sides several theological works and a genealogy with the Hon. Augustus F. Moulton. of the Stackpole family. James F. Chaney, the 1874 only living member of the class, attended the Secretary, Dr. D. O. S. Lowell, 209 Mountain funeral services at West Bath. Ave., Maiden, Mass. 1872 1875 Secretary, Jehiel S. Richards, Walnut Hill, Me. Secretary, Dr. Myles Standish, 256 Newbury The Rev. Warren F. Bickford, A.M., died at St., Boston, Mass. Muskogee, Okla., July 7, 1927. He saw active The funeral services for Mr. William J. Curtis, service in the Civil War before entering college for many years chairman of the Finance Com- and after graduating from Bowdoin and from mittee of the College, were held in the First Bangor Theological Seminary had done good ser- Parish Church in Brtinswick and were conducted vice as a soldier of the church. by President Sills. Ambrose V. Ackley, who was a State track William G. Hunton is industrial agent of the champion when in college, has lived at Peak's Maine Central Railroad, with headquarters in Island since his graduation. has served the He Portland. City of Portland in various capacities and is a regular attendant at Commencement. 1876 Professor Simeon P. Meads is a resident of Secretary, Arthur T. Parker, East Orleans, Oakland, Calif. He has led an active life as real Mass. estate dealer, teacher, lecturer, and Chrfstian Franklin C. Payson is serving as chairman of worker and was at one time a candidate for the the committee in charge of building the new office of Governor of California. He has pub- Union at the College. He has also served in this lished an historical novel, "The Rising Tide," capacity in connection with the swimming pool. [21] [ T li c B o zc d o i n A I u m n a s 1877 1885 Secretary, Samuel Melcher, Brunswick, Maine. Secretary, Eben W. Freeman, Esq., 120 Ex- William T. Cobb was State chairman of the change St., Portland, Maine. Maine Primary Repeal Board before the referen- Howard L. Lunt is the author and publisher of dum in Maine this fall. "Thinking and Studying," a students' and teach- We are sorry to report the death of Mrs. Frank ers' guide. Hargraves, which occurred in Philadelphia while 1886 she was attending the wedding of her son, Gor- Secretary, Walter V. Wentworth, Great Works, don, Bowdoin '19. Maine. George W. Tillson has just returned from a trip to Europe, on which he sailed the day fol- 1887 lowing Commencement. Secretary, John V. Lane, Augusta, Maine. Sixteen members of the Class were present at Arthur W. Perkins died suddenly of heart the fiftieth reunion, held last June, and a con- disease on September 29th in Farmington, Me. fession was read from a member who was unable 1888 to attend, in which he admitted being one of the Secretary, Dr. Horatio S. Card, 411 Massachu- two men who blew up "The Temple" in 1873. setts, Ave., Boston, Mass. 1878 1889 Secretary, Alfred E. Burton, 67 Wall St., New Secretary, William York City. M. Emery, Boston Tran- script, Boston, Mass. Dean Alfred E. Burton, who has for the last Rev. Edward R. Stearns is Secretary of the few years been in charge of the campaign for New Hampshire Congregational Conference with new dormitories at the Massachusetts Institute headquarters in Concord. of Technology, has been chosen director of the American Merchant Marine Library Association 1890 and will make his headquarters at 67 Wall St., Secretary, Prof. Wilmot B. Mitchell, Bruns- New York City, after December 1st. wick, Maine. 1879 Prof. Daniel Evans of Andover Theological Seminary, speaking at the Fourteenth Secretary, Dr. George W. Bourne, Kennebunk, Annual Maine. National Business Conference in Babson Park, in September, reviewed book censorship through 1880 the ages, with especial reference to its recent Secretary, Francis O. Purington, Mechanic history in Massachusetts, and came to the con- Falls, Maine. clusion that, "it would be wise to change the law, Warren S. Whitmore died suddenly on May make possible the possession of books which men 26th, 1927, at his home in Allston, Mass. competent to judge of moral and literary value write, publish and sell, secure for these ministers 1881 to the minds of men protection from criminal Secretary, John W. Manson, Esq., Pittsfield, procedure, and save Boston from being the laugh- Maine. ing stock of the country at large." H. H. is of for Oxford 1882 Hastings Judge Probate County and chairman of the State Prison Com- Secretary, Prof. William A. Moody, Brunswick, mission of the State of Maine. Maine. Frank Morse is in the Massachusetts Depart- 1883 ment of Education with supervision over secon- Secretary, Herbert E. Cole, Bridgton, Maine. dary schools. John E. Dinsmore is engaged in the revision 1891 of "Poste Flore of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai." Secretary, Henry S. Chapman, The Youth's This is the only Botany in English of the plants Companion, Boston, Mass. of Syria and Palestine. It is hoped that the new Dr. Charles S. F. Lincoln is assisting in the edition be issued in may 1929. Department of Biology at Bowdoin during the Charles H. Dunning died on August 28th, 1927. absence of Professor Gross. Arthur J. Russell has completed 40 years of Dr. Herbert H. Purinton of Durham, N. C, has service on the staff of the Minneapolis Journal. moved to Chesterfield, Mass. 1884 1892 Secretary, Dr. Charles E. Adams, 29 W. Broad- Secretary, John C. Hull, Esq., Leominster, way, Bangor, Maine. Mass. [22] The B o w d o in Alumnus] 1893 1898 Secretary, Harry C. Fabyan, Esq., 6 Beacon Secretary, Alfred B. White, Esq., 85 Devon- St., Boston, Mass. shire St., Boston, Mass. Col. Weston P. Chamberlain, chief health of- Harlan M. Bisbee has returned to his work ut ficer of the Canal Zone, took a leave of absence Robinson Seminary, Exeter, after a well earned from his duties this summer. He has under his leave of absence. direction 70 doctors and surgeons, 100 nurses, Dr. Clarence F. Kendall has been reappointed other is and 1000 employes. He responsible for state commissioner of health for a term of six the management of all medical activities in the years. zone, including the establishment of hospitals, Harry C. Knight is one of the chief executive sanitation, and maritime quarantine. There are officers of the Southern New England Bell Tele- three hospitals in his jurisdiction, Ancon with phone Company. 1200 beds; Corozal Hospital for the insane with Ellis Spear, Jr., has been in communication accommodations for 600 ; and Colon Hospital with 80 beds. with Cassius C. Williamson and Waldo T. Mer- rill '99, both of whom are in the wilds of Mon- Judge Clarence W. Peabody of Portland has tana. been nominated by Governor Brewster to be com- missioner to revise the statutes. Before the re- Hon. Edward W. Wheeler was chosen general cent referendum he debated at the College on the counsel for the College at the last Commence- Primary question with Judge Lauren M. Sanborn. ment, replacing the late Barrett Potter of the Class of 1878. 1894 1899 Secretary, Prof. Henry E. Andrews, Bruns- wick, Maine. Secretary, Roy L. Marston, Skowhegan, Maine. Prof. Cony Sturgis of Oberlin represented Professor Andrews is travelling abroad where Bowdoin at the inauguration of Dr. Wilkins as he has visited many notable art collections. President of that University. 1895 1900 Secretary, Dr. Louis C. Hatch, 18 North High Secretary, Joseph C. Pearson, Lehigh Portland St., Bangor, Maine. Cement Co., Allentown, Pa. 1896 George F. Goodspeed has been building new Secretary, John Clair Minot, Boston Herald, mills at his Wilton, Maine, plant. Boston, Mass. Frederick C. Lee is rector of St. Andrews Twelve sons of Bowdoin graduates in the Class Church of Rochester, N. Y. Prof. Philip Palmer of Lehigh L'niversity of 1896, have enrolled at the College within the M. past few years. Three members of the class, Dr. was Bowdoin's representative at the inauguration of the College this John H. Bates of East Rochester, N. H., Homer new President of Lafayette R. Blodgett of Chicago, and Henry Hill Pierce fall. P. spent the past in of New York City, have each sent two sons. The James Webber summer of one-act six other members of the class whose sons have England. He has produced a number graduated, or are now undergraduates, are plays in conjunction with his literary work at Exeter. Francis S. Dane of Lexington, Mass., Howard Gilpatrick of North Anson, Dr. Angus G. Hebb 1901 of Bridgton, Ralph W. Leighton of Augusta, Secretary, Walter L. Sanborn, Lansdale, Pa. Carleton P. Merrill of Skowhegan, and the late Harry H. Cloudman of Oklahoma City, Okla , John E. Burbank. At least 10 other sons of '96 was in Maine this fall and attended the Bates- men are definitely preparing for Bowdoin. The Colby game. He was reminded of the game latest candidates for that list are John Hallowell with Colby in his senior year when Bowdoin won Minot, born July 6, 1926, and Sidney Oakes, born by a score of 68 to 0, the highest total ever re- June 1927. 9, corded in a Maine series game. Dr. Charles R. C. Borden spent the summer in Ripley L. Dana is acting president of the Bos- Europe. ton Alumni Association. 1897 John A. Pierce is still in Europe where his health is improving and he is doing considerable Secretary, James E. Rhodes, 2nd., 700 Main writing. St., Hartford, Conn. George C. Wheeler of Pomona, Calif., was a San Lorenzo Merriman, principal of Presque recent visitor at the College. Isle (Maine) Normal School, was at the College on Alumni Day. 1902 Reuel W. Smith has been chosen a Director of Secretary, Lyman A. Cousens, 101 Vaughan the Bowdoin Alumni Fund. St., Portland, Maine. [23] [The B o zv d o i n A I u m n it s Lee T. Gray, for many years principal of the Major Wallace C. Philoon, who is now sta- High school at Portsmouth, N. H., is now at tioned at Fort McKinley, Portland Harbor, was Swampscott, Mass., in the same capacity. recently elected president of the Officers' Club of the Fort. 1903 Neal D. Randall is associated with the North- Secretary. Donald E. MacCormick, 8 South eastern Company, 75 State St., Boston. i _>th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Mary Lawrence Webb, wife of William B. Philip C. Coffin, now vice-president and gen- Webb, of Wabasha, Minn., died on September eral auditor of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- 6th, after an acute brief illness. phone Company, was the subject of a recent article in the Portland Sunday Telegram. Luther The grain elevator at Lewiston owned by the Dana has also been used as the subject of one of J. B. Ham Company, of which Donald C. White these articles. is the president, was burned recently. The loss, which is covered by practically full insurance, is Andrew P. Havey died in Hartford, Conn., en estimated at $100,000. June ioth. 1906 Thomas H. Riley, Jr., was elected president of the Savings Banks Association of Maine at the Secretary, Robert T. Woodruff, Esq., 100 annual meeting of the Association held at Broadway, New York City. Sprucewold, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, in Sep- 1907 tember. Secretary, Robert Cony, Augusta, Maine. Alfred G. M. Soule and Miss Abigail R. Charles R. Bennett has been Manager of the Knowles of Augusta, Maine, were married at St. National City Bank of New York in Peking, Mark's Episcopal Church at Augusta on June China, since 191 7. He is Honorary Advisor to 25th. the Chinese Government Commission for the Thomas C. White is candidate for mayor of Readjustment of Finance, Honorary Financial Lewiston, Maine. Advisor to the Board of Trustees of Tsing Hua 1904 College Endowment Fund, American Treasurer of the China Foundation for the Promotion of Secretary, Eugene P. D. Hathaway, 1807 New- Education and Culture, and Vice-Chairman of ton St., X. W., Washington, D. C. the China Famine Fund. He was decorated by Prof. John M. Bridgham, formerly head of the the Chinese Government with the Third Class Latin Department at Cornell College (Iowa), is Chia Ho for services as Honorary Financial Ad- now professor of Latin at Grinnell College. He visor to Tsing Hua College Endowment Fund, received the degree of M.A. from Dartmouth and is Representative of the American Group of in 1905, and of Ph.D. from the University of The China Consortium, which position is held Wisconsin in 1913. concurrently with his principal position as Man- Frank H. Byram is now superintendent of the ager of The National City Bank of New York. Lisbon, Webster, and Durham (Maine) district. Phillips Kimball has moved from New York Rev. Chester Emerson of Detroit was a dele- to St. Louis, Mo., where he is with the Mid- gate to the World Conference on Faith and West Laundries, Inc. Order at Lausanne, Switzerland, this summer. William S. Linnell was one of the speakers at Dr. John B. MacDonald died in September ; t the annual Freshman Day at the College this his home in Arlington, Mass. He is survived by fall, his topic being "Getting Value Out Of his widow, a son, John, and a daughter, Eliza- College." beth. 1908 1905 Secretary, David T. Parker, 4249 Drexel Secretary, Stanley P. Chase, Brunswick, Maine. Boulevard, Chicago, 111. John H. Brett, who was in this country for William R. Crowley was umpire at the Yale- several months last year, is now stationed in Brown game on October 15th. Tientsin. 1909 Major Arthur O. Davis is the Surgeon at the Secretary, Ernest H. Pottle, 60 Cumberland U. S. Army Disciplinary Barracks, Alcatraz Is- Ave.. Perona, N. land. San Francisco Bay, Calif. J. Harold H. Burton is President of the First Walton T. Henderson is with the American Unitarian Church of Cleveland, Ohio. This was Smelting and Refining Company, Angangueo, given as Universalist in the spring issue. Mich., Mexico. Roy C. Harlow is with Schultz Brothers & Major Harold E. Marr is the Field Artillery Company in Cleveland, Ohio. Instructor at the Infantry School, Fort Benning. P. Conant Voter was Dean of the summer ses- Ga. sion at Middlebury College, last summer. [24] I u in The B o zv d o in A n u s ] 1910 hobby is breeding horses, which are shown all Secretary, E. C. Matthews, Jr., Piscataqua over the country and which are winners in the Savings Bank, Portsmouth, N. H. three and five gaited classes. Parker T. Nickerson has closed a successful Robert D. Cole is professor of secondary edu- cation season at Sprucewold, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, at the University of North Dakota. Bob received his Ph.D. where he has what is believed to be the largest from the University of log cabin hotel in the world. He has built for Pennsylvania last June. sale or rent over 80 large log cabins, and is gen- Loring Pratt is Promotion Manager of Hotel erally credited with the most successful summer Management and Restaurant Management Maga- real estate development in Maine. zines, and Editor of Institutional Merchandising magazine, all published Publishing Ralph L. Thompson, chief of the order and ac- by Ahrens Co., Inc., New York City, with offices at cessions division of the Public Library of the 40 East 49th St. District of Columbia, has been appointed librarian of the Mount Pleasant branch library. 1913 1911 Secretary, Luther G. Whittier, Farmington, Maine. Secretary, Ernest G. Fifield, Esq., 14 Wall St., Prof. Paul H. Douglas of the University of New York City. Chicago was one of the speakers at a recent Franz U. Burkett is continuing as assistant Labor meeting in Madison Square Garden, New county attorney of Cumberland with headquar- York, at which time he urged the recognition of ters in Portland. Soviet Russia by the United States. Walter N. Emerson is making a 10,000 mile tour of the country during which he will devote 1914 his time to the collection of rare postage stamps. Secretary, Alfred E. Gray, Milton Academy, Philip H. Kimball left on November 1st to Milton, Mass. become principal of the Washington County H. C. Dixon, M.D., is on the house staff of State Normal School at Machias, Maine. He has the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, spe- been superintendent of schools in Brunswick for cializing in Ophthalmology. A daughter was the last three years. born to Dr. and Mrs. Nixon on June 2nd. Eugene B. Gordon has been chosen Principa 1 Judge Robert M. Lawlis qualified for the "Hole of the High School at Brewer, Maine. In One Golf Club" on October 8th, at the Houl- V. W. Marr is practicing law in Boston. He ton, Maine, Country Club, when he negotiated is associated with the Legal Aid Society and the third hole of 120 yards in one shot. was recently reelected chairman of the Public Fred Lord took moving pictures of the Bates Group of Boston Charities. game for the Portland Evening Express on Evan A. Nason, who is head of the Mathe- Alumni Day. matics Department at Albany Academy, has a Donald Redfern attended the American Legion summer camp for boys. Convention in Paris this fall. Edgar R. Payson, Jr., is connected with the 1912 Atlantic, Merrill, Oldham Corporation, Brokers, Secretary, William A. MacCormick, Y.M.C.A., 100 Milk Street, Boston. Huntington Ave., Eoston, Mass. Clifford L. Russell is manager of the Boston Investments, A class directory and report now on the press office of G. L. Olvistrom & Co., 30 carries 108 members on the roll with the where- Federal St., Boston. for abouts of a score or so unknown. Information Myles Standish, Jr., is a bond salesman State St., on those who have sent in replies to the Class Estabrook & Co., Investments, 15 Secretary reveals some interesting facts. The Boston. men live in 17 different states with Maine lead- 1915 ing and Massachusetts second. Seventy-eight Secretary, Clifford T. Perkins, Copsecook Mill, men are married and 51 families have children. Gardiner, Maine. Of these children 53 are boys and 52 are girls. Dr. H. Everett Allen is practicing in Water- The class report also contains the official photo- bury, Conn. graph of the members who attended the Fifteenth Harry M. Chatto, who has long been associated Reunion. with the General Electric Company in Schenec- Eugene Bradford, who last year was on leave tady, moved to Boston last year. of absence from Syracuse, has returned to his A poem "What Do You Want Of Me, Moon" work at the University after having secured his by Robert P. Coffin was given the feature posi- Ph.D. at Harvard. tion in the Saturday Review of Literature for Philip Cole is mixing his profession and hobby October 22nd. at Colebrooke Farm, Saint Matthews, Kentucky. A. Keith Eaton is with the Merrimac Chemicil He is working on a novel and shorter fiction. His Company at 148 State St., Boston. [25] [The B o iv d o i n A I u m n u ? Gordon P. Floyd is a comptroller with the Col. Sherman M. Shumway has moved from Henley-Kimball Company in Boston. Skowhegan to Bangor, where he has offices in Otto R. F. Jones is associated with the law- the Kenduskeag Building. firm of Holmes & Brewster, Washington, D. C. 1918 Frank E. Knowlton and Kenneth E. Ramsay Secretary, are associated in the insurance business in Farm- Harlan L. Harrington, 15 Putnam ington, Maine. St., Quincy, Mass. Max V. MacKinnon is manager of "The War- Robert G. Albion, assistant professor of His- dell" in Detroit. tory at Princeton, is the author of "Forests and Dana K. Merrill has returned to Penn State Sea Power," credited as the best doctor's thesis College after a two years' leave of absence, three in Economics at Harvard last year. An Ameri- semesters of which were spent in study at Colum- can admiral declares that the book would have bia and one semester in teaching at the Univer- saved the government millions of dollars in build- sity of Wisconsin. ing wooden ships had it been published before Clifford T. Perkins, the secretary of the class, the war. It is published by the Harvard Univer- is now with the Copsecook Mill of the S. D. sity Press. Warren Paper Company at Gardiner, Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Elton F. Chase have a son, John F. Rollins is a member of the legal staff Frederic Robinson, born May 1, 1926, and a of the International Paper Company fn New daughter, Helen Fletcher, born June 22, 1927. York. Alfred S. Gray has left the New Hampshire Ellsworth A. Stone is with Russell-Miller Mill- Mica & Mining Company at Keene, N. H., and ing Company with headquarters at 131 State St., has gone to Chicago where he will be sales man- Boston. ager for the Macallen Company, makers of elec- William G. Tackaberry, secretary of the trical insulation materials. Androscoggin Alumni Association, attended the Linwood H. meeting of class and association secretaries at Jones died on February 24, 1927, in the College on Alumni Day. Brunswick, Georgia, following an operation for appendicitis. 1916 Secretary, Dwight H. Sayward, Masonic Bldg., 1919 Portland, Maine. Secretary, Donald S. Higgins, 78 Royal Rd., Eudore A. Drapeau and Miss Marie S. Roy of Bangor, Maine. Brunswick were married on September 26th. The engagement of Percy Graves and Miss are living Haverhill, They in Mass. Arietta Brehaut was announced on October 20th. Richard Fuller, one of the youngest majors in George Minot was the author of a series of the United States Army in the World War, was articles on the New England Colleges which drowned September 10th at Westport, Mass., appeared in the Boston Herald this fall. where he was camping with his family. The Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Smethurst have a son, accident occurred while he was attempting lo Benjamin M. Jr., born on September 5th. rescue someone else. He leaves a wife, two sons, and a daughter. P. S. Turner, principal of the Skowhegan High School, has been elected president the Laurence Irving is at the University of To- of Maine ronto as associate professor of physiology. Association of Secondary School Principals. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Winter announce the 1920 arrival of John Glenwood Winter, Jr., on October Secretary, Stanley M. Gordon, 208" West 5th 1 8th. Ave., Roselle, N. J. 1917 Jere Abbott left in October for Europe where Secretary, Prof. Noel Little, Brunswick, Maine. he will travel. Nathaniel U. McConaughy has moved from The engagement of Louis B. Dennett to Miss Stambaugh to Iron Mountain, Mich., where he Laura Beecher Hooks of Forsyth, Georgia, was has a larger church. He reports the arrival ot announced this fall. David Maynard McConaughy on May 15th. Arthur DeMuth is with Paine, Webber & Co., Paul H. Mclntyre has recently been elected a in New York City. member of the Falmouth (Maine) school board. Prof. Leland M. Goodrich is at Brown Univer- He is a member of the faculty of Portland High sity, Providence, R. I. School. Nahum P. Moore is manager of a spool and Harvey D. Miller is at Bethany College, wood products mill in Bethel, Maine. Bethany, W. Va. Harold Prosser is with W. T. Grant Co., in Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Philbrick have a Fort Worth, Texas. daughter, Jean, born June 3rd. Avard Richan is doing newspaper work in Lew- Frank E. Phillips and Miss Ethele McConky iston, Maine. He was formerly with the Y. M. were married on June 9th in New Haven, Conn. C. A. in Auburn. [26] The B o zv d o i n A lu m n u s ] Maynard Waltz is now principal of South David V. Berman, LL.B., is practicing law in Paris (Maine) High School. For the past five Lewiston, having passed the Maine bar exams years he has been principal of Canton (Maine) last year with one of the highest marks in his- High School. tory. 1921 Lloyd W. Bishop, who received his M.D. from Secretary, Samuel C. Buker, Walton Apart- Harvard in 1927, is an interne at the Alexandra ments, Athens Ave., Ardmore, Pa. Hospital in Montreal. Harold Beach has moved from Albany to New Udell Bramson is studying at Boston Univer- Haven. He is still with the Atlantic & Pacific sity Law School. Tea Company. Hubert Davis, after dabbling in life insurance Herbert Ingraham has been elected president and going to Cuba as a chemist with a sugar of the Rotary Club in Milo, Maine. company, is now teaching at the Hill School. Harrison Lyseth is the new president of the Pottstown, Pa. Kennebec Teachers' Association. Harrison and Roy M. Fitzmorris, LL.B., is practicing law at Herbert Ingraham roomed together at Harvard 18 Tremont St., Boston. Summer School this summer. Robert D. Hanscom is instructor in English at Among those seen on the campus Alumni Day the Moses Brown School, Providence, R. I. were Hiram Cole, George Goodwin, Hilla'-d Hart, Alonzo Holmes, Herbert Ingraham, Charles Reginald F. Hayes was married on June 25th Jordan, Philip Lovell, and Russell McGowan. to Beulah Morrison and is now living at Roches- 1922 ter, N. H., where he is purchasing agent with Secretary, Carroll S. Towle, 40 Wall St., New N. B. Thayer & Co., Inc. Haven, Conn. Francis B. Hill is assistant advertising man- Frederic A. Allen and Miss Bernice M. Hart of ager with the Portland (Maine) Publishing Com- Sanford, Maine, were married on September 14th. pany. He announces the arrival on May 4th of Arthur C. Bartlett, author of "Spunk, Leader Jackson Dudley Hill, who is understood to be of the Dog Team," has recently published a thriving. second book entitled "The Sea Dog'' which has William B. Jacob is back at Andover where he received very favorable comment from the re- is instructor in Latin and is coaching football. viewers. is It published by W. A. Wilde Com- His daughter, Virginia, will be two years old next pany. May. Shepherd M. Emery is with the Newton Trust W. Montgomery Kimball and Miss Dorothy Company, Newton, Mass. Wheeler were married last summer at Concord, Waldo R. Flinn is assistant business manager Mass. They are living at 290 Jefferson Ave., of the Rockefeller Foundation. Rahway, N. J. Howard P. Larrabee is principal of the Somer- set (Mass.) High School. Robert B. Love, M.D., is now practicing at Eaton S. Lothrop and Miss Alice W. Sweetser Windham, Maine. of Gray, Maine, were married in Gray on Sep- Willis G. Parsons, who is with the law firm of tember 3rd. They are living in Portland where Gross, Hyde & Williams in Hartford, Conn., an- Eaton is a practicing physician. nounces the arrival of Willis, Jr., on June 6th, Sylvio C. Martin announces the birth of a last. Paulette Gloria, 29th, daughter, on September Karl Philbrick is now secretary of the Penob- 1927. scot County Bowdoin Club. The engagement of George Partridge to Miss Howard C. Reed, M.D., is practicing at Whit- Louise Grover Hammond of North Berwick, man, Mass. Maine, was announced this fall. Elmer S. Ridlon is principal of the High Eben G. Tileston writes that he has been ap- School at Svitton, Mass. pointed manager of True Inn at Walling- Temper David S. Smith has a law office at 506 Bar- ford, Vt. formerly at Williams Inn, He was risters' Hall, Boston. Williamstown, Mass. F. King Turgeon is instructor in French at 1923 Amherst College. He has spent three summers Secretary, Philip S. Wilder, Brunswick, Maine. in European study. is assistant editor of New- Lawrence Allen is practicing law in Sanford, Walter R. Whitney Maine, where he has been located for over a Age Illustrated. year. He is extremely interested in the raising Philip S. Wilder received news of the birth oi of poultry and has written a number of articles his daughter, Anne, on Commencement Wednes- on that subject. day while he was at Brunswick being trained for Stephen Palmer is travelling in South America the Alumni Secretaryship. for the A. C. Lawrence Leather Company and Richard S. Willis is in the Real Estate busi- will return in December. ness at 82 Devonshire St., Boston. [27] [The B o w d o i n A I u m n 11 ? 1924 1926 Secretary, Clarence Rouillard, St., 34 Amity Albert Abrahamson writes as follows : "The Amherst, Mass. first issue of the Class of 1926 Record has just Louis W. Barker and Miss Florence O'Con- been published. Members of the Class who have nell were married in October at Manchester, not received a copy should address the secretary, Conn. They will live in Hartford where Louis Albert Abrahamson, 521 Furnald Hall, Columbia is connected with the National Fire Insurance University, New York City." Company. Charles S. Bradeen and Miss Winnifred John- Francis P. Bishop is with the New England son were married on November 5th, at Bath, Tel. & Tel. Co. in Providence, R. I., in the ac- Maine. Among the ushers were Charles P. Davis, counting department. He was married on June Clayton C. Adams, Porter Thompson, Wolcott 27th, 1925, to Miss Charlotte Corey. Andrews, Gordon Bell and Eliot Coulter. George Hill was graduated from Harvard Law Nathan Cobb was one of the two men from School in June. He was married in August and New England elected to the Harvard Law Review is practicing law in Portland, Maine. this fall. Election to the Review is one of the Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Johnson have a daughter, greatest honors at Harvard Law School. Jeanette Joan, born in March, 1927. Rupert is Charles P. Davis and Miss Flavia Folsom principal of the High School at Standish, Maine. were married on August 21st, 1926. He is with Adelbert Merrill is statistical secretary of the the First National Bank of Boston. Portland Chamber of Commerce. Elroy B. Dunphy is a member of the U. S Paul Upton and Miss Shirlie Sanborn were Coast Guard, holding the rank of Boatswain. E. is in retail business married in October at Lynnfield, Mass. They Edward Fox the lumber in Portland. On August 17, he was mar- are living at 515 Pleasant St., Melrose. 1927, ried to Miss Mildred LeGrow of Portland. John Watson has given up his position with John D. Spanos is teaching in the Greek the New York American and has sailed for Parochial School in Lowell, Mass., and is pub- Europe to do newspaper work. lishing a magazine called the "Hellenic Monthly.' Sidney D. W'entworth has recovered from in- James E. Thompson is in Honduras with the juries received while riding horseback and went United Fruit Company. back to his position with the National Credit Office in New York about November 1st. STUDYING 1925 William W. Fisher has left the Aetna Life Insurance Company and is now studying at the Secretary, William Gulliver, 47 West St., Port- Harvard Law School. land, Maine. Sherwood Steele is studying at the Library Lawrence S. Cockburn and Miss Verna M. School of the University of Illinois. Porter were married on August 25th, in Skow- hegan, Maine. Charles Drummond was best man. TEACHING Gilbert M. Elliott and Miss Virginia Nash James Bixler is teaching at the American Uni- were married in June. They are living in Ban- versity at Beirut, Turkey. gor, Maine, where Gilbert is with Ireland & Com- Asa Small is assisting with athletics and teach- pany. ing mathematics at the Needham, (Mass.) High Edward G. Fletcher is instructor in English at School. Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa. Frank Tucker is coaching football at the Fes- Crosby Hodgman is teaching in the Chicago senden School in West Newton, Mass. Latin School. IN BUSINESS Norman N. Nevins and Miss Helen M. Merrill Kenneth Atwood is assistant chemist with the of Bluehill, Maine, were married in September. Heywood-Wakefield Company. Mr. and Mrs. at Nevins are both teaching Brewer Gerard Austin is a bank teller at the Cam- High School this year. bridgeport Savings Bank, Cambridge, Mass. Andrew S. Pennell and Miss Alice E. Coffin Perry Barker is with the Eastern Trust & were married in the Little Church Around the Banking Company, Bangor, Maine. Corner, in New York, on March 26, 1927. They Robert Brock is with the American Steel & are living at Monroe, N. Y. Wire Company of Worcester, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Alden Smith have a daughter, Earle Carll and Henry Phillips are in the Port- born last spring. land office of the Travellers' Insurance Company. Robert F. Smythe and Miss Virginia Paine of Leslie Claff is working in his father's firm, M. Bath, Maine, were married on September 28th. B. Claff & Sons, Inc., manufacturers of the Claff R. Seymour Webster and Miss Emily Lippin- Automatic Process Paper Boxes, in Randolph. cott were married in May in Philadelphia. He Mass. is teaching French at Portland Country Day Emlyn Vose is with the Inland Paperboard School. Company at Versailles, Conn. [28] The B o iv d o in A In m n u s } 1927 ing course with the General Electric Company ai Secretary, George M. Cutter, 33 Chestnut St., Schenectady, N. Y. Salem, Mass. J. W. A. Kohler is teaching at St. Pauls George Adams substituted in the Department School, Garden City, Long Island, X. Y. of Modern Languages at the College for about a Philip LaFrance is studying at Yale Medical month this fall, during the absence of Mr. Arm- School. field of that department. Donald E. Lewis is attending the Yale Music Samuel J. Bargh is employed at the Joplin School. Water Works Company of Joplin, Missouri. Maurice Mack is a salesman for the Tabulating Forrest C. Beal is principal of the High Machine Company in Bridgeport, Conn. School at Wells, Maine. Don Marshall is studying medicine at the Uni- Dana L. Blanchard is at Yale Medical School. versity of Michigan. Sidney P. Brown is with the Liberty Mutual Everett Martin is reporting for the Rumford Insurance Company in Boston. Falls (Maine) Publishing Company. Donald A. Brown and Miss Adele Sadler of Thomas Martin is assistant treasurer of the Brunswick were married on March 12, 1927. Martin Page Company at Middleboro, Kentucky. Hugh Burgess is a chemist at the Brown Erville B. Maynard and D. K. Montgomery are Manufacturing Company in Berlin, N. H. studying at the Episcopal Theological School in Charles R. Campbell is teaching Spanish at Cambridge, Mass. Brunswick High School. He substituted at Bow- Robert Michie is working in the accounting de- doin for a few weeks this fall. partment of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- Briah Connor is a chemist at Heywood Wake- phone Company in Washington, D. C. field Company in Gardner, Mass. August C. Miller is teaching History at the Crane is studying at Hopkins Norman Johns Peddie School, Hightstown, N. J. Medical School. Robert Olmstead is coaching and teaching at Thomas Downs is an instructor in German and Phillips Andover Academy. Mathematics at Franklin and Marshall College. Winslow Pillsbury is managing a shore dinner Harold Dunton is with the Central Wharf Cold resort at Pine Point, Maine. Storage Company in Portland, Maine. Murray Randall is in the investigation bureau Frank Farrington is with the S. D. Warren of the National Credit Office in New York. Paper Company in Westbrook, Maine. John Reed and John Robertson are studying Aubrey Fenderson and Miss Vivian Oldenburg History in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts were married on September 15, 1926. Fenderson and Sciences. is in the hardware business with his father. Mahlon Rowe is assistant manager of Batch- Morrell P. Goodwin is employed as stock trader elder Brothers, Inc., at Sanford, Maine. with Dillon, Read & Company, Boston. He was David M. Sellew is working and studying at married on July 14, 1926 to Miss Estelle Gil- the Goodyear Tire Company in Akron, Ohio. christ and has a daughter, Barbara Estelle, born Sewall is studying medicine at the September 20, 1927. Weston Harvard Medical School. John Hagar is with the Atlas Plywood Cor- is in Shanghai serving at present poration in North Adams, Mass. Quincy Sheh as editor of a weekly paper (in English) called Robert Ham is a salesman for the Tabulating the China Tribune. His present address is care Machine Company in Boston. of Mr. Kan Pah Kong, The Exchange Bank of Merritt Hewett is teaching History and assist- China, 5 Foo-Chow Road, Shanghai. ing with athletics at Milton Academy, Milton, W. H. Thalheimer is a chemist with A. I). Mass. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. Paul S. Hill is studying medicine at Johns Edward M. Tolman is doing electro-chemical Hopkins Medical School. research work at the Bell Telephone Labora- LaForest E. Hodgkins is principal of the High tories, New York City. School at Sabattus, Maine. Howard Tucker is employed in the statistical John S. Hopkins is studying medicine at Co- department of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- lumbia University. phone Company. Edward Hutchinson is doing graduate work 'n Clement S. Wilson is studying at the Yale Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Medical School. and is an assistant in the medical and dental George Cutter. Sanford Fogg, Donald Hill, schools at Tufts College. Roger Johnson, Lawrence Libby, John Mclnnes. George Jackson is an instructor in English at Richard Payson, Harry Sawyer, John Vahey. and the University of Tennessee. Walter Whittier are studying at Harvard Rusi- W. Gilbert Kellett is taking a business train- ness School. [29] Keep up with Bowdoin Activities— SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR A 1 9 £ 9 BOWDOIN BUGLE SUBSCRIPTION $3.50 Address HUNTINGTON BLATCHFORD, Mgr. ALPHA DELTA PHI HOUSE Brunswick, Maine JEljp (SiiUpg? Honk i^iflr? Send to us for TEXT BOOKS, BOOKS BY BOWDOIN MEN BOWDOIN BANNERS, BOWDOIN JEWELRY PIPES, BOWDOIN SEALS, PAPER WEIGHTS BOOK-ENDS, Etc. :::::: Always glad to furnish information—just write us THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS JANUARY 1928 VOLUME 2 NUMBER 2 THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS Member of the American Alumni Council Published by Bowpoix Publish inc. Company. Brunswick. Maine, four times during the College year Subscription price, $1.50 a year. Single copies, 40 cents. With Bowdoin Orient, $2.50 a year. Entered as second-class matter. Nov. 21st. 1927. at the Postofhce at Brunswick, Maine, under the Act of March 3, 1879, Austin H. MacCormick '15, Editor (o/< leave) Philip S. Wilper '2$. Acting Editor J. Rayxer Whipple '28. Managing Editor Clarence H. Johnson '28, Business Manager ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD Arthur G. Staples '82 Wallace M. Powers '04 D wight H. Say warp 'i5 William M. Emery '89 Philip W. Meserye 'ii Bela W. Norton '18 Wilmot B. Mitchell '90 Robert D. Leigh '14 Edward B. Ham '22 Johx Clair Mixot '96 Walter F. Whittier '27 Contents for January 1928 Vol. II No. 2 page Table of Contexts—Inside Front Coyer Editorial—"Who is the Loyal Graduate?"—John Clair Minot, Litt.D., '06 3i Find Agents are Reorganized ...... 32 MacMillan Sends Greetings from Northland .... 33 The Record of Maine at Oxford—Edward Billings Hani, Ph.D., '22 34 Capt. "Jim Finn," 1905, Subject of Article .... 36 Alfred E. Burton, Sc.D., Secretary. Class of 1878 37 The Bowdoin Swimming Pool 38 ' Donovan D. Lancaster 2j , Supervisor of Swimming Prof. E. H. Wass Plans Organ Recitals 40 Cleaves '05 Publishes Poems—A Review by Professor Stanley P. Chase '05 41 Alma Mater—A Review by Edward G. Fletcher, A.M., '2^ 4-' High Lights of Campus News 45 "We'll Sing to Old Bowdoin"—Song .... 46 The Conference System —Professor M. Phillips Mason 48 College Physician Reviews New Book 5i Physical Training in the "Good Old Days" 5-> Faculty Notes ...... 54 With the Alumni Bodies 55 Entrance to the Dudley Coe Memorial Infirmary—Ha ft one 56 News from the Classes 57 VOLUME TWO NUMBER TWO THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine January 1928 Who is the Loyal Graduate? When we speak of a disloyal or lacking in interest that alumnus loyal alumnus, we are who is rarely present on the reunion occa- likely to base our char- sions and whose name does not appear on acterization on one of the shining list of benefactors of the col- lege. Each case is to be judged on its in- two things — in a few dividual merits, and it is tragically easy to instances on both of be unjust when we are unacquainted with them — the graduate's the facts. For that matter, the facts are habit of re-visiting the beyond the grasp of the casual observer, college frequently or and hasty judgments are the essence of un- his financial generos- fairness and cruelty. ity. That tendency is Here is a graduate whose heart has been all de- natural enough. We know how set on seeing his son an undergraduate at sirable it is from every point of view that the college where he spent four happy years the graduates of the college shall come back himself. Death claims the boy while he is to it as often as possible. It would be a in preparatory school. The father finds splendid thing for all concerned if at least that visiting the college, as in the past, has twice the usual 700 or 800 Bowdoin men now become something too heart-breaking were on the campus at each Commence- to endure. It is the very strength of his ment, if the fall Alumni Day gathering loyalty that leads him into a position where were to increase from 300 to 1000 or more, the unthinking may accuse him of losing and if our graduates by dozens and scores interest in Bowdoin affairs and of ignoring were to spend an occasional evening or its ties. Here is another graduate who week-end at their respective fraternity meets too many ghosts when he revisits the houses. And it would be a happy situation college. The past is so precious in his indeed if every alumnus were to make his memory that the changes and the losses regular contribution, however small, to the which the years have brought fill him with Alumni Fund. a poignant sadness. It is not that he is Visits to the college and financial gen- morbid, but that his spirit is highly sensi- erosity are eloquent and concrete evidences tive. His loyalty to the old bonds and asso- of alumni loyalty and of the continuing ciations is an intensely vital part of his influence of the college on the lives of its being. Here is a third graduate to whom sons, but they fall short of telling the whole fate has not been kind. Perhaps he has story. Let us not be too ready in counting failed to gain that material success on [The Bowdoin A I u in n u s which the world puts so great — and so FUND AGENTS false — an emphasis. His reluctance about returning on reunion occasions is largely ARE REORGANIZED because he fears that his classmates will The Board of Directors of the Bowdoin pity him — and he could endure almost any- Alumni Fund, under the leadership of thing better than that. Harold Lee Berry '01, chairman, has been These three cases are not imaginary. perfecting the organization of Class Agents Moreover, they are typical and might be during the past few weeks and it is ex- multiplied. In the heart of each of these pected that greatly increased efficiency in graduates Bowdoin is enshrined. Its adding to the Fund will result from this memories are cherished. Its ideals, its move. Each Class Agent has been supplied standards, its traditions, its lessons are with a loose leaf notebook containing a woven into the fabric of life. Its influ- ledger sheet for every man in his class and ence persists. Isn't the true test of alumni Agents will be advised by the office of all loyalty something that involves these changes in address and contributions made things? The man who carries Bowdoin in to the Fund. his heart is a loyal son of the college, As was announced at the Commencement though he may never be back on the campus dinner last June, the fiscal year was closed after graduation or in attendance at an without a deficit, thanks to the contribu- alumni dinner. Without belittling the de- tions made through the Fund. In making sirability of such return and such attend- the budget for 1927-1928 similar contribu- ance at intervals as frequent as possible, tions have been considered probable and and with full appreciation of their Antsean the Alumni Fund is thus held responsible possibilities, let us not make such criteria for providing a definite amount of the too hard and fast. After all, it is less im- year's income. It will interest many grad- portant that a graduate should return often uates to know that $2000 of the money now to Bowdoin in later years than that he coming in to the Fund will be used to pro- should take Bowdoin with him wherever in vide for tennis courts at the new playing life his pathway leads. field given to the College by Mr. Frederick J. C. M. '96. W. Pickard '94. Since last June the accounting work of The Placement Committee of the Alumni the Alumni Fund has been assumed by the Council has set Wednesday, February 8th, office of the College Treasurer and a mod- as the annual Vocational Day at the Col- ern card system has been installed. It is lege. This committee is composed of Wal- expected that this will greatly increase the ter M. Sanborn 'oi, Professor Marshall P. facility of caring for the records and will Cram '04, John W. Leydon '07, and Stephen reduce the number of errors in sending E. Young '98. out notices. A check for $250,000 has recently been received from the estate of the late Frank A. Munsey as payment of the sum be- The chapel talk on Sunday, December queathed to the College in December, 1925. 1 8th, was given by Sir Wilfred T. Gren- Thc College has been receiving interest on fell, famous Labrador doctor, and the this principal sum since the time of Mr. Christmas contribution was this year given Munsey's death. to the work of the Grenfell Missions. [32] : The B o w d o in Alumnus] MacMillan Sends Greetings From Northland The following radiogram has been received from Commander MacMillan in response to a request for a short note to be published in this issue of the Alumnus. It was for- warded to the College through the courtesy of Amateur Radio Station i-FL, of which G. Donald Meserve, Forest Avenue, Hudson, Mass., is operator. He is a member of the American Radio Relay League, whose members have been of great service in keeping the MacMillan Expedition in touch with the American public "The Bowdoin is frozen in the ice in Bowdoin Harbor, Anatalok Bay, North Labra- dor, after a three thousand mile cruise from Wiscasset, Maine, to Frobisher Bay, Baffinland, and back to Labrador. Our scientific station is now complete and now occupied by all twelve members of the expedition. Our house is undoubtedly the best in this section of the sub-Arctic — double walls, windows and floors, electrically lighted throughout, ten bedrooms, large kitchen, large living room with open fireplace, and plenty of wood at our very door. Have already made some very important discoveries, scientifically and geographically. Many more are within reach for we are in a virgin country — rivers, hundreds of lakes and miles and miles of coastline undiscovered and unmapped. Dogteam work is now beginning. Twenty-one Indians are now in camp within a few minutes' walk of our station. This is the Nascopie tribe about which very little is known. Kindest regards and greetings to all Bowdoin men. If all goes well shall arrive in Wiscasset in September, 1928. MacMillan/' Received from Station WNP. The poem by Edgar O. Achorn '81, which Marshall Swan '29, son of Frank H. appeared in the last issue of the Alumnus, Swan '98 of Providence, R. I., will manage was reprinted in the Boston Herald. the 1928 football season. The annual Boston concert by the Bow- Alumni will be interested to know that doin Musical Clubs will be given at the the new swimming" pool will be open for University Club on the evening of Satur- inspection by visitors from four to five each day, February 25th. Sunday afternoon. [33] [The B o zv d o in Alum n u a The Record of Maine at Oxford EDWARD BILLINGS HAM '22 Choosing Oxford as the topic for even a few paragraphs is always a presumptuous act, but one is reassured by the multiplicity of those who keep endeavoring to translate the University into words. In view of the immense amount of available literature, it is regrettable that there should exist today in America such ignorant misunderstanding of Oxford and of the Rhodes Scholarships. Nevertheless, rather than attempt any reflections about the University and its irresistible glamor or advance many argumentative comments on American Oxonians, I shall utilize a sugges- tion made by one of the Maine Rhodes scholarship selec- tion committee that an article on Oxford in the Alumnus might well limit itself to a chronicle of Maine's repre- sentatives at the University. It is particularly significant and gratifying to find that the record of Maine at Oxford is so high among the states of America. Although it would be fatuous to four thirds, one fourth, and no failures. lay down an arbitrary system for compar- Three of the Rhodes scholars acquired ing the records of the different states, a further distinctions at Oxford: R. Hale 'io brief examination reveals that by any meth- won a Commoners Exhibition in law (a od of calculation Maine ranks among the scholarship determined by competitve ex- first ten, — probably about sixth or seventh amination) in Trinity College; L. A. Crosby in the country. It is not difficult to select '13 held a law tutorship at Trinity in the the three most successful states; first place summer term of 1919; and last spring the is undeniably occupied by Michigan, with Brooks-Bryce Foundation Prize in Ameri- Massachusetts and New Jersey second and can History (thirty guineas = $153) was third respectively. The Michigan record awarded to Erwin D. Canham (Bates '25). includes one Ph.D., five firsts (in the honors Curiously enough, there is no conveniently examinations for the B.A.), one B.Litt., available material concerning the record of and three seconds. It is virtually impos- Bowdoin men at Oxford, but the individual sible lO arrange in order the next five data for Maine may be summarized in the states, which have records of approximately following paragraphs, indicating the Rhodes the same merit. My own estimate places delegation date, the college in Maine, de- North Carolina in fourth place, followed grees obtained at Oxford, and present by California, Maine, Virginia, and West position. Virginia in that order. Ninth place should 1904—David R. Porter, Bowdoin '06. go to Maryland and tenth to Tennessee. B.A. (4th History) and M.A. Head of the It is noteworthy that New Mexico's repre- Student Department of the International sentatives include one man who secured Y.M.C.A. two firsts and another who won both a 1905—Harold W. Soule, Colby '04. B.A. first and a doctorate at Oxford. (2nd Jurisprudence). Head of the College The Maine record consists of one double Department of D. C. Heath & Co. first, one Ph.D., two B. Litt.'s, four seconds, 1907—Wayne C. Jordan, Bates '06. B.A. [34] The B o zv d o i n Alumnus] (3rd Theology). Died, February 2, 1924, at '25. In third year at Oxford; reading Sian, Shensi Province, China. (Had been Classics. a leader in Y.M.C.A. work in China). 1926—Erwin D. Canham, Bates '25. In 1908—Ballard F. Keith, Maine '08. B.A. second year at Oxford; reading History. (3rd Jurisprudence). Practicing law at Old He has served this past term as president Town, Maine. of the debating society of Oriel College. 1910—Robert Hale, Bowdoin '10. B.A. 1928—Abbot E. Smith, Colby '26. Rhodes (2nd Jurisprudence) and M.A. Member of scholar-elect; at present reading History law firm at Portland, Maine, and member for the Harvard M.A. of Maine House of Representatives. In addition to the Bowdoin men in the 191 1 —Edward E. Kern, Bowdoin '11. above list, a number of others have repre- B.A. (2nd History). Secretary to Col. H. sented the college at Oxford. Hal S. White H. Rogers of the Standard Oil Company of '17 is the only Bowdoin man who has won New York. a "blue," — the result of first honors in the high jump in competition with Cambridge. 1913—Laurence A. Crosby, Bowdoin '13. at two years, taking a B.A. (1st Jurisprudence), B.C.L. (1st), and He stayed Oxford Literature with M.A. Associated with law firm of Sullivan B.Litt. in 1922 in English thesis Nathaniel Hawthorne. and Cromwell, New York City. a on Sydney M. Brown '16 in June, 1921, won 1914—Charles R. Clason, Bates '11. B.A. a B.A. with distinction in the shortened (2nd Jurisprudence). Member of law firm (war) honor school of Modern History. in Springfield, Mass. Last summer he returned to Oxford for 1916—Robert P. T. Coffin, Bowdoin '15. his M.A. He is professor of history at B.A. (war degree), B.Litt. (English Liter- Lehigh. Other Bowdoin graduates who ature), and M.A. Professor of English at have kept terms at Oxford are Edward H. Wells College. Author and illustrator of Webster '10 (for one year), now head of several volumes of prose and verse (cf. the English department at the new State June, 1927, issue of the Alumnus). College of New Jersey, and author of sev- 1917—Neal Tuttle, Bowdoin '14, was eral volumes on the study of English; Ed- forced to leave Oxford (just before he gar C. Taylor '20 (for three years), now would have come up for his degree) by assistant professor of English at Washing- the long illness which finally caused his ton University, St. Louis ; Thornton C. death, at Freeport, Maine, August 11, 1923. Land '24 (for one year), lately instructor 1919—Philip D. Crockett, Bowdoin '20. in philosophy at Brown; and Frederic S. B.A. (pass degree), B.Litt. (Economics), Klees '25 (for one year), now instructor in and M.A. Bond business in New York City. English at Brown. 1920 John H. Powers, Bates '19. B.A. — It is noteworthy that there are six former (3rd Physiology). Physician. Oxonians on the Bowdoin faculty : Dean 1922 Alexander '21. — Thomson, Bowdoin Nixon, Professors Stanwood, Mason, B.A. (3rd History). Instructor in History Means, Gray, and Crook. at New York University. * * * * 1923—Edward B. Ham, '22. Bowdoin At this time when frequent articles in Ph.D. (French Literature). Instructor and the public press are dealing with the value Tutor in Romance Languages at Harvard and success of the Rhodes scholarships it is and Radcliffe. highly pertinent that the views of the Trus- I92 5—Lawrence B. Leighton, Bowdoin tees should be made as widely known as [35] : [ T h e B ozv d o in Alumnus possible. A few quotations from an article oped in America an enthusiasm for English by the secretary of the Trust (published re- education which had never existed before. cently in the American Oxonian) will suf- Can a project which has given these two results be condemned as a failure? And I fice : "In the early days there was a ten- dency in some parts to overrate the impor- have yet to allude to the untold personal tance of the athletic qualification," which benefit acquired by the recipients of the "ought to mean that the individual should scholarships. May I conclude with the ex- be active in body, rather than exhibit ex- pression of a self-evident sentiment which, ceptional prowess as an athlete ... At the however, no Rhodes scholar can realize too present time the tendency may be rather to often : — namely, that of the deepest grati- underrate the importance of intellectual tude (would that it might be adequate!) quality. Committees should look, not for for the satisfaction, development, and per- the pedestrian qualities of the mere 'grind/ sonal happiness resulting from the wealth but for signs of real intelligence and abil- of enriching experience in three years ity of mind ... In the judgment of the at Oxford. Trustees poverty does not constitute any qualification for a scholarship . . . The CAPT. "JIM FINN", 1905 ideal candidate is one who, while not defi- cient in any respect" (i.e., intellect, ath- SUBJECT OF ARTICLE letics, character, leadership, — the four re- "Jim Finn, Disabled Emergency Officer," quirements in Rhodes' will), "gives evi- is the title of an article by Rupert Hughes dence of having some exceptional quality at appearing in the current number of the once of mind and of character." American Legion Monthly. It tells in a Few critics of the Rhodes plan have an vivid manner the story of Captain James accurate conception of the criteria either G. Finn '05, who served with the 69th New for choosing a Rhodes scholar or for judg- York Infantry at the Mexican Border and ing of his success in after life. (It might be in the World War. His service is summed mentioned in passing that the records of up by Mr. Hughes in the following the American states and of the British paragraph Dominions are virtually equal. Scholasti- "He gave more than seven years of the cally, the Dominions have been slightly su- best of his life to the nation, and spent five perior in the final honor schools, whereas of those years in grievous torment and the Americans have made up the difference helplessness as a result of his heroism in a in higher degrees. Incidentally, association battle, in which he was so seriously wound- with Dominion students constitutes a most ed as to be among the last of the wounded agreeable aspect of Oxford for an Ameri- officers in the World War to be released can ; — I have especially pleasing memories from the hospital." of those from South Africa). The story is a plea for better compensa- Although the scholarships have not as yet tion by the Government to the officers of effected the ideal rapprochement between the war time army who by reason of their England and America to the extent dreamed injuries in the service have been handi- of by the Founder, they have produced the capped in their business and professional keenest affection for Oxford and England work since the war. (side by side with a pleasingly increased sense of American nationality) in the bene- A new edition of the Bowdoin Song ficiaries of the plan, and they have devel- Sheet has recently been published. [36] The B o w d o in Alumnus] ALFRED E. BURTON, Sc.D., SECRETARY, CLASS OF 1878 The picture shown above is reproduced from a portrait in oil by Mary B. Hazeltine, which now hangs in the Walker Memorial Building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Dr. Burton for many years did yeoman service as Dean. He is now editing a volume on "Modern Aids to Navigation and Latest Developments in Marine Engines" for the American Library Association, and is serving as director of the American Merchant Marine Library Association. This organization, with branches in twelve seaports, keeps nearly 2000 American ships supplied with fiction and nautical text books, maintaining a library of about 275,000 volumes. [37] [The B o w d o in Alumnus The Bowdoin Swimming Pool DONOVAN D. LANCASTER '27, Supervisor of Swimming Bowdoin is once again As one enters the front door of the building extremely fortunate in hav- he sees two entrances at the left and right. ing" the privilege of adding a The former leads to a men's smoking room new building to its equip- while beyond the latter is a very attractive ment. A swimming pool ladies' rest room. Of course smoking is provides a playhouse for the forbidden elsewhere in the building. Di- members of the College as rectly above these two rooms are two offices perhaps no other athletic to be used as a posturegraph room and as building could do. We an office for Dr. H. L. Johnson. As one should all realize our great proceeds further into the building he comes indebtedness to Mr. Cyrus directly into the main balcony. This is one H. K. Curtis for making reason why the pool is up-to-date; no one this fine building possible. with street shoes may walk on the pool The pool was designed by deck. To get to the pool deck one must go Mr. Hasbrouch, the only through the Director's office or the shower architect who does solely rooms. Thus no dirt may be carried into swimming pool work. An interesting story the pool by visitors and the pool decks are may be told in connection with the design- as clean as the bottom of the pool. There ing of the pool. Mr. Hasbrouch is said to is a passageway from the locker rooms of have been in Brunswick to see about sub- the gymnasium to the balcony of the pool. mitting plans for a pool the day before the A swimmer enters the pool from these Building Committee met. At that time he locker rooms. He first passes through the did not realize that the Committee was to shower bath and then must walk through a meet the following morning. So that night foot bath. This foot bath further prevents he set to work drawing up the plans and dirt from being carried to the pool deck they were completed and accepted before and subsequently into the pool. noon the following day. The pool itself is seventy-five by thirty The pool joins the gymnasium on the feet — the regulation size for intercollegiate west and forms a very attractive addition. competition. It is ten feet deep under the [38] The B o zv d o in Alumnus'] spring boards and gradually becomes more middle board of about six feet is for sport. shallow as far as the sixty foot mark. Here The efforts and interest of the three men there is an abrupt rise and there is shallow on the Swimming Committee may not be* water for beginners the remainder of the appreciated by the alumni who are not distance. At the sixty foot line a polo cable actively connected with the College but has been provided. At first, one might those who are in Brunswick realize the ex- think that the drop off is dangerous and cellent service they are performing for the unnecessary. Beginners, however, swim College. Assistant Professor Cobb, as from one side of the pool to the other and chairman of the committee, has the respon- are watched by an attendant who is re- sibility of carrying out the numerous details quired always to be present. A competitor of making the pool as well equipped as it needs deep water for speed because there possibly can. Mainly through his efforts is a drag from the bottom in shallow water; the Yale swimmers were brought to Bruns- consequently the pool is constructed with a wick for the formal opening on January 7th. maximum of deep water. Gutters to take Associate Professor Meserve has charge of care of the waste and overflow are built the chemical and bacteriological analysis of on the sides. In many of the older pools the water and he is doing some very inter- these are built on the ends as well and esting research work in this department. greatly handicap men in competition. Bulk Doctor H. L. Johnson is studying the effects heads for starts are provided at each end of the pool from the point of view of of the pool and these, too, are lacking in student health. many tanks. There are three diving boards. Great care will be taken to enforce a few Two of these boards, one and three metres, necessary rules for the supervision of the respectively, are for competition and the building. An attendant shall be present at [39] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus all times when the pool is open. No one American Red Cross Life-Saving Week. with colds, skin diseases or anything else At that time students will have the oppor- of an infectious nature may use the tank. tunity of obtaining their Senior Life-Sav- All swimmers must take a thorough hot and ing Certificates. cold water shower. No articles of clothing The pool did not come too late for mem- may be worn except, of course, at public bers of the alumni. Plan to use it when- meets. Classes will be held at certain hours ever it is convenient. You are cordially in- and no other swimmers will be allowed in vited to do so at any time. the pool during these hours. Others may only during open periods as use the pool PROFESSOR E. H. WASS follows: 10.30-12.00; 2.00-2.30; 5.00-545. Faculty period is from 5.45-6.15. PLANS ORGAN RECITALS The recirculatory and filtering system is Professor Edward Hames Wass, College of the type that is installed in modern pools. Organist, is planning a series of recitals on From the deep end of the pool the water the new Curtis Organ, installed in the is pumped continually at the rate of 150 Chapel and dedicated last Commencement. gallons a minute, through a pre-heater and The first of the series was given at the three sand niters. The circulated water is time of the dedication, when Professor returned to the shallow end of the pool, Wass was assisted by Charles Raymond either under the level of the water in the Cronham, Municipal Organist for the City pool or, in case aeration is desirable, of Portland. Following the set program, sprayed into the pool through fine orifices Mr. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, donor of the organ, that are several inches above the water played informally for a short time. level. The second recital was given on the eve- The pool is disinfected by the means of ning of Sunday, December 11, 1927, by Pro- sodium hypochlorite, and a free chlorine fessor Wass himself, and though it had been content of between one-tenth and five-tenths given but little publicity, the Chapel was parts per million is maintained in the pool. filled, a large number of students being A small laboratory has been installed in the present. building and this room has been equipped On Sunday, January 22, the visiting with apparatus for making frequent chem- artist was Mr. Alfred Brinkler, F.A.G.O., ical and bacteriological examinations of the A.R.C.O., organist of Saint Luke's Cathe- water in the pool. dral in Portland. Several organists from Little thought will be given to the idea of Portland and Boston have been secured for forming a Swimming team this year. The later programs, and it is hoped that there pool is in great demand and frequently the will be at least six more recitals during the doors must be closed for a time because it current College year. is over-crowded. For a time at least the idea of sport for all should prevail, rather than the continued use of the pool by a few Winslow R. Howland '29 of Auburndale, excellent swimmers preparing for a meet. Mass., has been elected football captain for This year over one hundred men, including 1928. twenty beginners, have chosen swimming for required athletics. In February The The mid-winter meeting of the Alumni American Red Cross Society is sending an Council will be held at the University Club expert from Washington to carry on an in Boston on January 25th. [40] ; ! ! : — ; The B o w d o in Alumnus'] Cleaves, 1905, Publishes Poems Rev. Charles P. Cleaves, '05, of Center matically with the lives of others. A no- Harbor, N. H., has gathered his published table exception is a fine poem entitled "A verse into a single volume entitled "The Mountain Funeral," truthful and moving in City of Open Air."* The characteristic its divination of the essential New England themes of these ninety-odd poems—the so- character. lace to the bruised spirit found in God, in S. P. C, '05. nature, and in the common round, the daily task—recall an earlier and more untroubled generation of American poets, as do the A MOUNTAIN FUNERAL frequent music of the lines, the careful My shoe might wedge between the door and workmanship, and the prevailing serenity of threshold. mood. Such qualities have given the poem The clapboards dangle and the sills are bare. The "Rest Where You Are" a considerable pop- panes are puttyless, the blinds are broken. The shingles chatter in the breezes where ularity, it is which easy to understand, but The lurching chimney stands perhaps the purest expression of this re- Corded and stayed with wire strands. A pale smoke puffs through ligious certitude is found in less didactic seams That stained the roof with creosote in streams. pieces, such as "A Song on the Steeps" The ceiling's patched with paper. Through the I will live in thy strength curtain I will rest in thy peace The twinkling stars are sifted from the day. While the days are spent A humming-bird might supper on the savings And the years increase. Of those short years that wore her life away. O wealth of the soul You'd think God cared for lilies more than women Beyond all fears And fed the champing cattle more than these, the For seed, to-day Flinging rich autumn robes on hills, not humans For the harvest, years Whose scrubbing is the prayer that bent their And lo, when the last eve wings its way knees. From the deathless years grows the unspent Day ! She made a home where neatness baffled squalor. At heart he is something of a quietist, You see the rough floor where her fingers dug this countryman of Whittier's; and yet he The clean, framed chromo. On the bedroom's bareness can feel and render poignantly the human A new, bright, braided rug. agony and the divine compassion of "The Christ of the Outstretched Arms." He has The faces of her people are beside her, Unanswered questions in their hard, pained caught, too, the questioning voices some of eyes. of an industrial age, as in "The Strike" and Pathos of patient minds no school nor altar "The Child Toiler." Bowdoin readers will Lightens or comforts in so sad surprise. They brought for her their love in city flowers, glad find be to certain poems connected with More costly than the summer flung away, the College and its people, a number of And a last robe and couch in which to carry Nothing but clay. which appeared originally in the Quill. In general, Mr. Cleaves's re- however, poems What moves me is that bright rug's homely grace. flect individual moods and aspirations and Hungry for life and light and love and mirth She died ere motherhood could give them birth do not attempt to deal objectively or dra- ; And all her dreams, unspoken, in her face. *The City of Open Air and Other Verse Charles Poole Cleaves. by Charles Poole Cleaves. The Rumford Press, Concord, N. H., 1927. $i-35 Reprinted by permission from postpaid. The City of Open Air and Other Verse. [41] [The B ow d o in Alumnus Alma Mater EDWARD G. FLETCHER '25 It has been recently said that there are only two things of outstanding importance to a college : its fac- ulty and its library. Dr. Hatch, who had already dem- onstrated his ability for thorough, critical, unbiased research in his Harvard Ph.D. dissertation in his History of Bowdoin* chronicles these and many other things besides. Bowdoin College came into legal exist- ence on June 24, 1794, but the activities of the college date from September 2, 1802, when a public reception and installation were given the new president and his one professor-elect. The founding of Bowdoin fills Mr. Hatch's first chapter; the next six are a pageant of the presidents: the astronomical McKeen; the ascetic and solicitous Jesse Appleton; the outwardly pompous Allen ; unmarried Leonard Woods ; Harris, who could only regard hazing as unlawful and outrageous; the political and military General Chamberlain; fessor Little's historical sketch of the medi- the extraordinary William DeWitt Hyde; cal school, which closed at Commencement the able and admirable Mr. Sills. One may 1921 after an exact century of service. read in these two hundred pages, however, There is a chapter on athletics which re- of many men besides the presidents: of cords the building of a suitable gymnasium, George Thorndike, who planted a sprouting the story of Bowdoin boating, and the acorn with a drum stick as he came out of growth, along with the major sports, of an Massachusetts Hall after the first Bowdoin athletic policy. An appendix gives track, chapel; of Allen's interest in the founda- baseball, and football scores of the Maine tion of the medical school; of the great colleges, but there is no account of track drill rebellion of 1874; of the famous five records broken at Bowdoin, or of track long-serving professors : Cleaveland the records broken and held by Bowdoin men. minera 1 ogist; Newman the rhetorician; de- The longest baseball game was the Ivy Day voted Packard who served the college sixty- one of 1912, when Bowdoin defeated Bates five years; mathematical Smyth, who intro- 4 to 1 in eighteen innings. The chapter on duced blackboards ; and philosophical Up- the religious life of the college discusses ham, who was recommended as well the pious Praying Circle. "Oh that the Lord fitted to refute Kantian heresies, and who would have mercy on the Students," one of wrote some twenty books. the entries in their records runs. "Were In the other chapters of the history one much disturbed by the noise of the students. finds treated most of the things one expects. O may the time come soon when they shall The last chapter is an expansion of Pro- leave their vain amusements to assemble with us for the purpose of supplicating the *The History of Bowdoin College by Louis C. mercy and grace of God upon their souls Hatch '95, Portland, Maine; Loring, Short & and ours. A large class soon to graduate Harmon; 1927. Pp. 500; illus. 25; $5.00. and not half of them even profess godli- [42] The B o w d o in Alumnus] ness and nearly 2-3 of those in college suppers, and the trotting of the immortal are in the path to hell." Once, in the face racer Triangle. "Has not the horse an- of discouraging moral stupor, the saintly swered to his name? Once when Professor Appleton asked the college to remain after and Mrs. Moody were driving by the dor- evening prayers, when he read to them in mitories a student shouted from his window his clear, melodious, and deep-toned spirit- 'Whoa, Triangle,' and the horse stopped." ual voice the narrative of the death and last Still another chapter describes the campus hours of Sir Francis Newport, backslider and buildings. One is glad to find among and free thinker. The effect, we are told, the illustrations Professor Meserve's famous was marked. Ten pages of the chapter on exposure of the art building in moonlight, fraternities and social life give a brief rec- but where are reproductions of the airplane ord of amateur dramatics and college pe- pictures of the campus which certainly riodicals. Here also is the account of the have outdated the 1910 panorama. Juxta- life and death of the two rival literary posed in this chapter is an account of societies : the aristocratic Peucinian and the Diogenes Curtis and the suggestion that the progressive Athensean, with their mottoes immortality on earth of several Brunswick Pinos Loquentes Semper Habemus, and, people has been due to their serving as Scientia Suos Cultores Coronat, and with models for Mr. Lathrop's chapel picture, their associated scientific groups, the Calu- Moses Giving the Law. One reads regret- vian and Phi Alpha. Phi Chi, unfortunately, fully that among the plans for Memorial is crammed into two pages. Will not some one was rejected which Professor Smyth of the alumni who belonged to that boister- wrote was "of exquisite beauty, a perfect ous and awful fraternity write us a full gem." The present building, we are told, account of it before they die? The Ovarian "was supposed to be French Gothic." Gen- Club should interest undergraduates who eral Hubbard gave the bronze memorial are dissatisfied with fraternity board. Its tablets on which are engraved the names badge was egg shaped; the president was of the 290 men who were in the Civil War. called Most Glorious Grand Rooster, the "Around the names is a beautiful border of secretary, Great Chicken; the club was pine cones and other flora. After the carv- frankly convivial and existed for eating ing had been done it was gone over again and drinking, but at some meetings there to increase the beauty and accuracy of the were mock trials, and at others literary ex- representation, and to remove any whose ercises. This chapter includes no descrip- originals were not found on soil of the tion of the literary activities of the Greek state, so that the wreath for Maine heroes letter fraternities, activities in which many might be of Maine growth only." living alumni participated, and which have There are a few footnotes packed with left fossilized clauses in fraternity by-laws. things rich and rare, but one may read in Another chapter discusses such miscel- the text how a nice calculation about the laneous things as the happily smiling college dawn by the mathematical McKeen saved seal, commencement exercises — there was a culprit from the gallows, how one summa a Hebrew oration in 1814; a Greek oration cum laude man sat on his window ledge by a certain Wise, famous for his collection reading Horace and throwing water bags, of tobacco pipes, in 1810; the last address that Longfellow did not live in "his" room even partly in Latin was the salutatory of in Winthrop, that part of Uncle Tom's z ^93 — and such student celebrations as the Cabin was written in the proctor's room of burial of calculus, peanut drunks and turkey South Appleton. It is good to see that the [43] : : [The B o zv do in Alumnus really unusual excellence of the biology de- in it somewhere should be copies of some partment is recognized. There are enough proclamation posters, the humorous his- quotations from some of President Sills' tories read on class days, and such occa- addresses to give a perfect representation sional pamphlets as Don't Pay Your Blanket of his chapel style. Mr. Hatch has rescued Tax, the Zeta Psi reply, and The Curriculum from somewhere an exquisite quatrain Interpreted. about Thorndike There can be no excuse for a superficial ignorance about the college now. What- Brief was his race and light his task ever the faults of the history in the way of For immortality careless literary technique and infelicitous His only tribute to the years expression, however much one misses cer- The planting of a tree. tain generalizations which some of the chapters suggest, here is a book which There are many things in the history, but every Bowdoin man must commend. There there are others which seem to have slipped are pages which smell of the paste pot, through Mr. Hatch's notes and into his there are pages which many a Bowdoin portfolios unused. It is no fault of his; he man would have filled with other things, could not write for all Bowdoin men. A from his own experience perhaps, but there history of Bowdoin in the World War is in is never a page which one would cancel. preparation; Mr. Hatch leaves the subject There is no alumnus who will not find some untouched; one may hope that it will be a part of it written for him; many a graduate spirited rather than a bleakly laudatory will make its chapters part of his reminis- book. Phi Beta Kappa does not even get cences ; undergraduates, one hopes, will reg- into the index. Will some one not compile ularly make some sort of a knowledge of a Bowdoin word book? Have "Christer," it one of the freshman chores of hell week "libe," "frosh," and "prexie" ever been (originally a Deke expression), and will authentic Bowdoin terms as "end" certainly themselves give at least a couple of after- is? And how old in Bowdoin slang is noons to it, and perhaps one night. The "razoo?" Who will give us a list of the brick walls of Massachusetts Hall have nicknames of Bowdoin professors, past and looked down upon a changing campus for present, with explanations? An appendix more than thirty college generations; the of the titles of commencement parts, of century plant in the president's front yard Pray prize subjects, and of Annie Talbot has lifted its vigorously classic flower and Cole lectures would have interested some. is already growing another bud; Bowdoin These things put one in mind of the scores has found an historian to chronicle her of Bowdoin books which might be written years. They are not monotonous years, histories of the fraternities, documented ac- and they contain strange and interesting counts of each of the Bowdoin publications, things. Bowdoin men can best honor Mr. edited selections from Bowdoin diaries and Hatch's long and loving devotion to his letters, a bibliography of books by Bowdoin subject by reading what he has written for authors, personal reminiscences of Bowdoin them. They may find the new Bowdoin his- thirty, forty, and fifty years ago. Mr. Hatch tory an indispensable book. It holds the in- has read his sources well ; these things are cipient visions of young men; the anecdotes there to be read by others. Some of us of middle aged alumni ; and for the old hope that the library is carefully saving alumnus, the golden illusion of the aureate materials for future histories. Filed away past. [44] The Bowdoin Alumnus] High Lights of Campus News George Roy Elliott, inside I hope they will get wet outside." Ph.D., Henry Leland The President also paid high tribute to Chapman professor of Franklin C. Payson 'y6, chairman of the English Literature at Building Committee for the pool and for Bowdoin from 1913 to the new Union, and to the other men who 1925, and now on the have been responsible for its erection and faculty at Amherst, the organization of its facilities. delivered the first The speakng was followed by a demon- Annie Talbot Cole stration of swimming and diving by four Lecture of the year members of the Yale swimming team, under on January 12, taking as his subject "A the direction of Coach Robert J. H. Kip- Turning Point in Modern Poetry." Pro- huth. The pool gallery was filled with a fessor Elliott was extremely popular among large and enthusiastic audience of students the students while at Bowdoin and was and townspeople. granted the degree of Litt.D. at Commence- ment in 1925. Assistant- Professor Roland H. Cobb '17 was sponsor for a conference on physical Through the generosity of Walter V. education held at the College on January Wentworth '86 of Great Works, Me., the 6th and 7th with representatives of over Rev. Horace Fellowes, M.A., Mus.Doc, di- twenty Maine secondary schools in attend- rector of music at St. George's Chapel, ance. Talks were given by the members Windsor Castle, England, recognized as the of the Department of Physical Training at greatest authority in the world on Eliza- Bowdoin and by Coach Kiphuth of the Yale bethan music, spoke at the College on the swimming team. A great deal of interest evenings of December 5th, 6th, and 7th. was shown by the secondary school men, He discussed the English Madrigals, Tudor particularly in regard to the use of the Church Music, and the Elizabethan Art- Posturegraph in corrective work. Songs, singing a number of illustrations to his own lute accompaniment. Although Dr. The Portland Municipal Orchestra, in- Fellowes has made an extensive American cluding over eighty players, gave a concert tour, including engagements at Harvard and at the College on January 17th under the Yale, Bowdoin is the only college to hear auspices of the Department of Music. the full series of three lectures. In accordance with a recent vote by the The new swimming pool was dedicated on student body, hockey will now be considered Saturday, January 7th, with addresses by as a major sport at Bowdoin. President Sills and Leonard A. Pierce '05 of the Building Committee. President Sills Correcting a statement in the November read a letter from Mr. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, Alumnus, the two professors of Physics donor of the pool, in which he said, "I can now at Bowdoin are Noel C. Little '17, son f only say that I hope the swimming pool will of George Thomas Little yy, former li- bring a great pleasure and satisfaction to brarian of the College, and Boyd W. 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PHILLIPS MASON, Professor of Philosophy Bowdoin College was desired in each section, and the number of one of the first colleges sections the instructor could reasonably be to introduce and develop expected to hold. Should there be more the conference system. than one instructor in the course, two or Even before Wilson in- more sections could meet at the same hour, augurated the "precep- and the class could be divided into a larger torial" system at Prince- number of sections. To prevent the con- ton in 1905, the confer- ference sections in the large courses from ence system was in use becoming too large two variations in the here. It has been devel- method have been tried, the so-called alter- oped in the departments nating system and the half-hour system. In of history and government, economics and the alternating system the class is divided sociology, English, psychology, and philos- into halves, one half meeting in conference ophy, and it was even used in the three sections one week and the other half the Bowdoin Institutes held in recent years. next week, the halves thus having their It is not a general tutorial system of study conference work in alternate weeks. In the such as exists in the colleges at Oxford and weeks in which a half does not meet in is now being tried out in a limited way at conference sections that half is given in- Harvard, nor is it a mere device for quizzing stead of a conference a written or oral quizz students in groups. At Bowdoin, as at with possibly part of the time given over to Princeton and elsewhere, it is part of a an explanation on the part of the instructor method of conducting regular college of the matters which come up in the reading courses. The usual course is scheduled to of the week. In this system the student has meet three hours a week. Before the con- a conference only once in two weeks, not ference system was used these hours were often enough to develop good conference all devoted to lectures, the student being habits. In the half-hour system the student held responsible for any matter taken up meets in conference each week but for a by the instructor in the lectures as well as half hour only. By making the conference for certain reading required of him in books half as long twice as many conference sec- bearing on the subject of the course. In tions can be held with half as many students the conference system the number of lec- in each section. The only justification for ture hours is reduced to two and the third thus cutting down the length of the confer- hour is given up to a conference on mat- ence period from one hour to a half-hour ters covered in the reading and lectures of lies in the greater value to the student of the week, the class being divided for this the conference section of small size. If he purpose into small groups or sections. For can profit more in a half-hour conference instance a course scheduled to meet on with seven students than he can in a whole Mondays. Wednesdays, and Fridays at 9.30 hour conference with fourteen students, would include lectures on Mondays and then the half-hour system is preferable. Wednesdays and conferences in sections on However both the alternating and the half- Fridays at 8.30, 9.30, 10.30, and 1.30, the hour systems are make-shift systems pend- number of conference sections depending on ing an increase in the number of the teach- the size of the class, the number of students ing staff of the college. They should be [48] The B o w d o in A lu m nu s~\ regarded as devices for making use of the some phase of the work, this serving as a conference system under imperfect condi- basis for discussion. Through the give and tions. That, however, which really defines take of discussion a subject may become a the conference system, as we understand it live thing to the student as it cannot do if at Bowdoin, is the holding of conferences he only reads and listens to lectures. He is (a) as part of the work in the regular in close contact with the trained mind of college courses, and (b) with small groups the instructor and imbibes methods and of students. ways of thinking which he might never at- The work done in the conference sections tain otherwise. In discussion a student be- varies with departments, with courses, and comes more active in his relation to the with instructors. The conference is often subject, in trying to express himself he used for quizzing or questioning the student finds difficulties of which he would not with a view to determining whether he is otherwise have thought, his knowledge of doing the work of the course, principally the the subject becomes more sharply defined, required reading, and understanding and and above all it becomes more fully his assimilating it. If the conference were used own. If it were not for the possibilities only for this purpose, it would hardly be of developing discussion the conference sys- necessary to insist upon small conference tem would not be the vital thing which it sections, because a group of some twenty- is fast becoming in our colleges. five or more could be quizzed easily in a One of the most important considerations period of an hour. The conference may in planning for the conference system is also be used for further and more detailed the question as to the number of students exposition on the part of the instructor of there should be in a conference section. In the matter already taken up in the lectures the first place, if there is to be profitable or covered in the reading of the course. To discussion, the group must be small so that a small group an instructor can talk more the discussion will not become formal and informally and directly than to a large so that all members of the group can and group, therefore he may be able to bring will enter into it. Many students dislike to out and emphasize certain points in the con- talk in a large group, or at least find it ference which he could not do in the lecture, difficult to enter into a discussion if the as well as to get the individual student's group is large. Secondly the relation of reaction to what he may say. But neither student to instructor must remain personal in quizzing nor in further exposition does and direct. Probably the maximum number the greatest value of the conference lie. of students in a section should be nine. The greatest value lies in discussion. Dis- Five or six would be better, or even four. cussion may be started by letting the student It is true that in some of the large courses ask questions, letting him bring up his diffi- at Harvard twenty-five or thirty have been culties or matters which interest him which grouped in one section, but a section of that have come up in the reading or in the lec- size is unwieldy, and the usual result is tures of the week. Or it may be done by that only a few of the enterprising students suggesting topics for discussion or asking can be drawn into discussion. In the early questions, not for purposes of quizzing, but days of the system at Princeton it was com- with a view to making the student react to mon for a section to include only two or the problems arising in connection with the three students, or even only one student if work of the course. One student might the man was majoring in the department in even be asked to read a brief report on which the course was given. Such stress [49] : : [The B o zv d o in Alumnus was laid upon the conferences by Wilson cient student, the inefficient student getting that most of the preceptors were teachers at the instructor to do for him what he is least as high in standing as assistant pro- unable or too lazy to do for himself. Un- fessors, and often five or more of these questionably the conference system should tutors helped the professor who conducted never become a system to encourage the the course in handling the conference sec- lazy and inefficient. On the other hand it tions. The effectiveness of the system is is sometimes said that since high-grade unquestionably dependent on the smallness students get most out of the conference and of the group in conference. as the conference system is an expensive What may be said for and against the system to administer, the conferences should conference system? It certainly has the be reserved for the high-grade student. The advantage over the old lecture system in truly lazy and inefficient student might well relieving the student of merely hearing not be in college at all, but there are many lectures and reading, in giving him one students of moderate ability who are serious more way of getting into the subject of the and getting real education from their col- course, and in giving him a way of ap- lege work, that is, developing what is in proach to his subject which should arouse them. It would seem that the conference his initiative. In the conference he is in system should be of especial help to such direct contact with a trained mind, he can students. If the system seems to fulfill a bring up his difficulties and be given sympa- fundamental need in the college course, and thetic guidance in developing his own inter- this it seems to do, and if the dangers men- est in the subject. The instructor also tioned can be avoided, it does represent a knows better the student's reaction to the genuine advance over the older system. subject and is thus able to make his lec- Can the ideal of the conference system be tures more effective. There are, however, realized? It is not of much value as a certain dangers. First there is the danger system unless it is fully carried out, unless of letting a conference become a quizz. all the conditions for the small group con- Even if only part of the time is given to ference are present. It is furthermore a quizzing, the student still feels that he is costly system involving a large faculty. In being examined, and he does not feel entire- accordance with experience at Bowdoin and ly free to give his full attention to the dis- elsewhere it seems probable that an instruc- cussion of the subject, to ask questions tor should not have to give more than four without fear of affecting his grade in the hours a week to conference work in any course. If a quizz is necessary, it would one course, if he is to do the work effec- seem better to hold it during part of one tively. On the basis of four hours of con- of the lecture hours or in any case not to ference work a week for each instructor, make it part of the conference. Secondly, providing the alternating or half-hour sys- there is the danger of allowing the section tems are not used, the result with regard to for one reason or another to become too the number of instructors needed would be large. Only by keeping it small can it be as follows effective and worth while. Thirdly, there With six or less students in each section is the danger of letting students become Students Sections Instructors mere listeners in the conference, of thus be- coming passive in relation to the discussion. 120 20 5 And fourthly, the conference may become a 90 15 4 means of pulling along the poor and ineffi- 48 8 2 [50] : The B ow d o in Alumnus] Result that three instructors are needed COLLEGE PHYSICIAN if the class runs over 48. With maximum of nine students in each REVIEWS NEW BOOK section We are living in an age of preventative Students Sections Instructors medicine, and Robert D. Leigh's exhaustive 120 14 4 study* of the central superstructure and its 10 90 3 relation to smaller municipal units, is des- 6 2 48 tined to be the encyclopedia of preventative 36 4 1 medicine from a Federal Health standpoint. Result that two instructors are needed if sThe term Health is very well chosen in the class runs over 36, and three are needed the title, as the end result to be obtained in if class runs over 72. curative and preventative medicine is al- Health. This table is perhaps sufficient to show- ways it that our that considerable increase in the number of In the next few years is hoped organizations the faculty at Bowdoin would be necessary National and Public Health preventative in order to carry out the conference system will only be occupied along even under the least favorable arrange- lines. The exhaustive work of the author will be ment, that is, with a maximum of nine justified in the cooperation which a study of students in each conference group. this ability will eventually effect between Though the conference system needs political and administrative forces. further expansion to be fruitful, when it is Henry L. Johnson, M.D., '07. fully developed it may represent a transi- tion in educational method. The original interesting feature of the winter intention in the system was clearly to fulfill An track this a need, to bring the instructor nearer to the work arranged by Coach Magee student and make the student more active year has been a series of "blind meets" in which the are in events in in the work of his courses. It was to im- men entered which they do not ordinarily participate. prove the college course. But it may easily There are certain restrictions on this, pre- become a step in the direction of the tutorial venting over 200 pounds run- system as a complete or partial substitute men from ning the dashes, etc., but great deal of for the course system. The use of the con- a interest has been roused. Coach Magee ference in small groups for major work is hopes to bring to light unknown talent in suggestive of this. If this turns out to be some of his men by entering them in these the case, the conference system is part of new events. an important movement in education in this country, a movement which will profoundly alter, though vitalize, our college work. "Etah and Beyond," the new book by And in this movement Bowdoin may truly Commander Donald B. MacMillan, will be be said to be a pioneer. reviewed for the March Alumnus by Albert T. Gould '08, who is president of the New England Grenfell Association. The pictures used on pages 52 and 53 were taken in the winter of 1903 and show members of the classes of 1904, 1905, 1906, Federal Health Administration in the United States by Professor Robert D. Leigh '14: Harper and 1907 going through their regular pro- and Brothers; 1927. gram of physical training. [51] .[The B oiv d o in Alumnus Physical Training in the "Good Old Days" The Lordly Seniors are Handy with the Foils The Class oj 1905 Practices with Broadswords The Sophomores Honor the Marquis of Queensbury [52] The B ow d o in Alumnus] A Day's Work in the Old Gymnasium Dumb-bell Drill 1906 in Action Again First a Gym then a Union now a Heating Station Freshmen Working with Indian Clubs [53] : [The B ow'd o in Alumnus Professor Alfred O. Gross, who has been on sabbatical leave of absence during the Faculty Notes first semester during which time he has been making certain studies of birds in Central America and in South America, is Charles Hutchins Professor and Mrs. expected to return to Brunswick the latter winter in California. are spending the part of January and to resume his duties in They expect to return to Brunswick in the the department of Biology. The following late spring. letter from Professor Gross was received by G. Allan Howe, Esq., of Brunswick: Professor Charles T. Burnett attended Cartago, Costa Rica, the meetings of the American Psychological November 25, 1927. Association which were held at Columbus, My dear Howe Ohio, during the Christmas vacation. Your letter with the enclosed copy of the Town and College program has followed me to the interior of Costa Rica. We were Roland was recently Professor Cobb glad to know of your experiences hunting of the Society of Direc- elected a member and also read with interest the account of of Physical Education in Colleges. tors your trip in the Brunswick Record. the Christmas vacation he attended During We are having a wonderful time up here meetings of that Society and while in New in the mountains where it is delightfully he also attended meetings of the York cool in contrast to the very hot climate we American Student Health Association. left in Panama. We will be in Cartago for three weeks and then the family will move Professor Henry E. Andrews, who has on to San Jose, the capital. Cartago was been on sabbatical leave of absence during completely destroyed by a severe earth- quake in and are told that the first semester, during which time he has 1910 we 1500 people were killed at that time. vol- been travelling extensively in Europe, is The cano, is still expected to return to Brunswick the latter a day's travel from here, active and a clear sulphur part of January and to resume his duties in on day one can see the smoke rising to height of 200 feet. the department of art. up a We are planning to visit the crater before we leave and I do hope we have a quake or an During the Christmas vacation, Profes- eruption to add to the excitement of our sors Thomas Means and Stanley Smith of visit. the classical department, attended the meet- While the family will be in Cartago and ings of the Philological American Associa- San Jose most of the time I expect to go to tion held in Cincinnati. Professor Means the banana plantations in the lowlands to read a paper entitled "Aristotle and the make a special study of the birds for the Voluntary" and Prof. Smith read a paper United Fruit Company. entitled "Cicero's Theory of the Compos- We will leave Costa Rica January 7 via ite State." Cristobal and Haiti and arrive home about January 18. Dean Paul Nixon was awarded the de- Please remember me to the fellows. gree of doctor of humane letters by Wes- I am sincerely, leyan University at its last Commencement. Gross. [54] The B ow doin Alu m n us] BOWDOIN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA With The The annual Philadelphia meeting will be held this year at Girard College and an interesting program is being arranged by Alumni Bodies President John H. Halford '07. President Sills is expected to be present. BOSTON ASSOCIATION The annual meeting of the Association BOWDOIN CLUB OF PORTLAND will be held at the University Club on the Dr. Henry L. Johnson, College Physician, evening of January 25th. President Sills was the speaker at a luncheon meeting of and President Stratton of the Massachusetts the Club held on November 23rd, telling in Institute of Technology will be among the an interesting way of the many new fea- speakers. tures which he has introduced at the Col- lege. William S. Linnell '07 was chosen BOWDOIN CLUB OF BOSTON president for this year and Donald W. Phil- brick '17 was re-elected secretary-treasurer. The meeting of the Club on December 2 The anuual Bowdoin Night was observed was addressed by Albert T. Gould '08, who on Saturday, January 21st, with many high told of his eventful trip with Dr. Grenfell's school boys as guests. Professor Van Cleve mission boat Maraval during the past sum- represented the College and there was a mer. At the January meeting the speaker fencing exhibition by two members of the was Mr. Frank E. Windsor, chief engineer varsity team. of the Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission, who gave a most interesting talk on "The Metropolitan Water System." WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION He was secured for the occasion through the efforts of Dr. C. L. Scamman '09, As- It is expected that the Association meet- sistant Health Commissioner of Massa- ing for 1928 will be held on Saturday, chusetts. January 28th, although no definite program has been received. HARTFORD ASSOCIATION The annual meeting will be held at the PENOBSCOT COUNTY Hartford University Club on Thursday, BOWDOIN CLUB January 26th. Willis G. Parsons '23 is now The annual meeting of the new year will serving as acting secretary of the Asso- be held on January 25th. Professor Stanley ciation. P. Chase '05 will represent the College. NEW YORK ASSOCIATION KENNEBEC COUNTY ASSOCIATION The big gathering of the year at New York will take place on Friday, January The annual meeting of the Association 27th. President Sills and Acting Alumni will be held in Augusta on March 3rd, but Secretary Wilder will be on hand to repre- plans for the meeting have not yet been sent the College. announced. [55] U-.^l — c 1 The B ow d oin Alumnus] News From The Classes 1858 1876 Moses Hooper has been practicing law for Secretary, Arthur T. Parker, East Orleans, seventy years in Wisconsin. His present ad- Mass. dress is Aljama Boulevard, Oshkosh, Wis- 615 1877 consin. Secretary, Samuel Melcher, Brunswick, Maine. 1864 1878 Secretary, Dr. Daniel F. Littlefield, Saco, Secretary, Alfred E. Burton, 67 Wall St., New Maine. York City. 1867 1879 Oren Cobb died on November 12, 1927. Secretary, Dr. George W. Bourne, Kennebunk, 1868 Maine. Nicholas Fessenden, for many years judge of 1880 of probate in Aroostook County and secretary Secretary, Francis O. Purington, Mechanic state and of staff under member the governor's Falls, Maine. Frederick Robie, died in December at his home Melville Smith is curator of Woodman In- in Ft. Fairfield after an illness of a week. Mr. J. stitute in Dover, N. H. Fessenden was in his 81st year. He is survived 1881 by his wife and two sons, Sterling Fessenden of the class of 1896 and the Rev. Thomas W. Fes- Secretary, John W. Manson, Esq., Pittsfield, senden. Maine. 1869 1882 Secretary, Thomas H. Eaton, 54 Central St., Secretary, Prof. William A. Moody, Brunswick, Manchester, Mass. Maine. 1872 Arthur G. Staples was one of a group of Secretary, Jehiel S. Richards, Walnut Hill, Maine business men who conferred with John Maine. F. O'Ryan, president of Colonial Air Transport, on December 15th regarding a proposed summer 1873 flying service from New York to Portland and Secretary, Eliot, Avenue, John F. 19 Norwood other Maine summer resorts on the coast. The Winter Hill, Mass. Colonial Company at present operates the air Augustus F. Moulton was on November 21st mail and express service between New York and last appointed by Gov. Brewster to the position Boston. of State historian to succeed the late Major Dr. Frank E. Stevens died on January 3rd in Henry S. Burrage, D.D. Mr. Moulton is well Bridgton, Maine. qualified for this position. For more than half a century he has written extensively upon the 1883 early history of Maine. His writings include Secretary, Herbert E. Cole, Bridgton, Maine. a history of Portland, one on the early settle- Samuel S. Gannett is chief of the Computing ments of Scarboro, and one on the history of Section of the U. S. Geological Survey with Maine from the Royalistic period of about 1630 headquarters in Washington, D. C. to the time when Massachusetts annexed Maine, 1884 about 1 69 1. His history of old Prout's Neck at- E. Broad- tracted wide attention at the end of its pub- Secretary, Dr. Charles Adams, 29 W. lication. way, Bangor, Maine. 1874 Dr. S. Addison Vosmus died in December. Secretary, Rev. Charles J. Palmer, Lanesboro, 1885 Mass. Secretary, Eben W. Freeman, Esq., 120 Ex- Ernest S. Hobbs and Edward O. Howard are change St., Portland, Maine. in Florida for the winter. 1886 1875 Secretary, Walter V. Wentworth, Great Works, Secretary, Dr. Myles Standish, 256 Newbury Maine. St., Boston, Mass. 1887 Albert G. Bowie died on February 8, 1927. Secretary, John V. Lane, Augusta, Maine. Judge Newland M. Pettingill died in Decem- Henry B. Skolfield died in December in New ber at Memphis, Missouri. Orleans. [57] [ T h c Bo w d in A I u m n u s 1888 Washington County to fill the vacancy caused by of the former incumbent. Secretary, Dr. Horatio S. Card, 411 Massachu- the resignation setts, Ave., Boston, Mass. Fred L. Fessenden is a member of the firm of Baker and Fessenden, General Insurance, at 1889 413 Union Central Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. Secretary, William M. Emery, Boston Tran- Walter F. Haskell was last summer elected script, Boston. Mass. Mayor of Westbrook. Maine. Dr. C. F. Curtis died on August 15th at Her- Hoyt A. Moore is vice-president of the Maine mosa Beach, California. Society of New York whose recent twenty-fifth 1890 anniversary dinner was addressed by President '04 Secretary, Prof. YYilmot B. Mitchell, Bruns- Sills and Governor Brewster. John W. Frost wick, Maine. is secretary and treasurer of the Society and sev- eral Bowdoin men are numbered among its There is an interesting article concerning trustees. Joseph Pendleton, characterized as Dean of American football officials, in the sports section 1896 of the Boston Transcript for December 9, 1927. Secretary, John Clair Minot, Boston Herald, He has been handling games for thirty-five years Boston, Mass. and estimates that he has officiated in more than Percy E. Barbour is secretary and treasurer of six hundred contests. the Mining and Metallurgical Society of Amer- 1891 ica in New York. Secretary, Henry S. Chapman, The Youth's Charles L. Curtis is principal of the high Companion, Boston, Mass. school in Groton, Mass. His classmates and friends will regret to learn "The Weekly Radio Book Talk" by John Clair that Dr. Ralph H. Hunt, of East Orange, X. J., Minot is now being given through station WEEI is seriously ill in the hospital in Orange where each Sunday afternoon at 3 P. M. he was operated on about four weeks ago. At 1897 last account he was reported as more com- Secretary, James E. Rhodes, 2nd., 700 Main fortable and somewhat better. St., Hartford, Conn. C. V. Minott of Phippsburg, Maine, is in one Reuel Washburn Smith has been elected gov- of the suburbs of for the winter. Boston "Squire ernor of the Mayflower Descendants of the Goding," 626 Tremont Building, would probably State of Maine. Dr. Benjamin G. W. Cushman know his address. '91 was elected surgeon at the same time. Dr. C. S. F. Lincoln, being temporarily unat- 1898 tached, is leaving early in February for Florida, and several other southern states. Any Bowdoin Secretary, Clarence W. Proctor, Windham, Maine. man whose trail he crosses is likely to be called on : Fore warned is fore armed. He does not Former Governor Percival P. Baxter sailed want anything, and is collecting only specimens for Europe last Month to be gone until some of interest to the Department of Zoology. time in March. He is spending most of his time in Russia and the Balkan states. 1892 Secretary, John C. Hull, Esq., Leominster, 1899 Mass. Secretary, Roy L. Marston, Skowhegan, Maine. 1893 Professor Arthur H. Nason, superintendent of the New York L'niversity Press, is well Secretary, Harry C. Fabyan, Esq., 6 Beacon known as St., Boston, Mass. a master of typography and has more than once had his work represented among the 1894 fifty best books of the year. Secretary, Prof. Henry E. Andrews, Bruns- wick, Maine. On December 5th, 1927, Wallace H. White succeeded to the chairmanship of the Committee Harry C. Boardman has for some years been on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, one of the manager of the New York Telephone Company. major committees of the House of Representa- He lives at 28 West Bridge St., Oswego, N. Y. tives. This is the first major committee chair- 1895 manship to go to a Maine representative in over thirty years. Secretary, Dr. Louis C. Hatch, 18 North High St., Bangor, Maine. 1900 Herbert C. Dudley has been appointed by the Secretary, Joseph C. Pearson, Lehigh Portland Governor and his council as county attorney of Cement Co., Allentown, Pa, [58] The B o w d o in Alumnus] De- 1901 cipal research, he became secretary of the partment of Charities and Corrections of the Secretary, Walter L. Sanborn, Lansdale, Pa. city of Cleveland. In 191 3 he organized, in Donald F. Snow has announced his candidacy Cincinnati, the pioneer Community Chest; later for Congress. he repeated the achievement in Detroit, and 1902 since 19 17 has been secretary of the Detroit Secretary, Lyman A. Cousens, ioi Vaughan Community Fund. It is with this movement he has St., Portland, Maine. that his name is chiefly associated ; but positions on On December 14th Governor Brewster nomi- also held important emergency commissions ; he nated Edward S. Anthoine as reporter of deci- flood relief and unemployment Western Re- sions of the Supreme Judicial Court to succeed has held lectureships at Michigan, ; he has pub- Freeman D. Dearth '87 whose term has expired. serve, and other universities and lished numerous reports and magazine articles. Clifford Preston, who is an architect in New Of these, perhaps the most important was his York and Paris, visited his old home in Farm- presidential address in 1925 to the National ington, Maine, late this fall. Conference of Social Work, printed in the Pro- 1903 ceedings of that year under the caption "What Secretary, Donald E. MacCormick, 8 South is Social Work?" It attempts to outline for 1 2th St., Philadelphia, Pa. laymen a philosophic conception of the reason The Class Reunion Committee met at Leon for the existence of the profession. Norton's Walker's office on January 11 to discuss plans. first book, "The Cooperative Movement in Social A three-day program is planned, including a Work," was published by Macmillan in 1927. A dance, a clambake, and a dinner. The class second book, still in preparation, covers the gen- hopes to break all attendance records for the eral theme of the social responsibilities of twenty-five year classes. wealth. A slight article from his pen entitled The Committee on the Gift to the College "Social Work Grows Up" appears in the Novem- this impressive also met on January nth. Letters will go out 'to ber Survey Graphic. In view of it is pleasant all the class this month reporting on the plans and multifarious accomplishment, and progress. The funds necessary for the plan to record that he refers, in a recent letter, to to utilize adopted at a meeting on Alumni Day, 1926, are his "earnest attempt all these years decidedly sufficiently assured for the Gift. Bowdoin's own spirit of service in a strenuous life of civic endeavor." 1904 Secretary, Eugene P. D. Hathaway, 1807 New- 1906 ton St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Secretary, Robert T. Woodruff, Esq., 100 Broadway, New York City. John W. Frost, lawyer, of New York, was re- cently elected a Director of The Washington Melvin T. Copeland has recently published a Water Power Company, which is one of the third and revised edition of his Problems in important Public Utility Companies of the Marketing, a case text book used at the Har- Northwest, and has financial offices in New vard Business School and in several other col- York. leges and universities. He was one of the speak- Prof. Howard C. Griffin, who has for some ers at the annual meeting of the Association of years been a member of the faculty of Carnegie National Advertisers held in New York last Technical Schools at Pittsburgh, Pa., is spend- November and delivered papers at the meetings ing this year in research work at Johns Hopkins of the American Economic Association and the University, Baltimore. American Statistical Association, both meeting in Washington during Christmas week. Samuel T. Dana took over his duties as Dean of the Forestry School at the University of Dr. Roland L. McKay has been nominated as medical of with Michigan this fall. examiner Kennebec County headquarters in Augusta, Maine. Arthur C. Shorey was made an officer of the recently National City Bank on its taking over the organ- Harold S. Stetson has been made the ization of the International Banking Corpora- head of the combined Tokyo and Yokahama tion with which he has been connected. branches of the International Banking Corpora- tion. 1905 Charles F. Sweeney is an insurance agent in Secretary, Stanley P. Chase, Brunswick, Maine. Fitchburg, Mass. William Norton has for himself a J. made Chester C. Tuttle is chairman of the Com- position among the leading men of the country mittee on Education of the Maine State Grange. in the field of social work and community or- ganization. After a varied early experience in 1907 settlement work, reporting, lecturing, and muni- Secretary, Robert Cony, Augusta, Maine. [59] 1 [The B o zv d o i n A lu m n u s John S. Bradbury is a contractor in Tampa, On January nth Fred R. Lord was re-elected Florida. vice-president of the Maine Daily Newspaper Rev. Leroy \Y. Coons, D.D., State Superinten- Association at their meeting in Portland. L. D. dent of Universalist Churches of Massachusetts, Flynt '17 was re-elected secretary at the same delivered the address of installation of the Uni- time. versalist minister in Brunswick and also spoke Andrew C. Swan is living in Brewer, Maine, at chapel on December nth. and is chief warden under the Maine Fish and Game Commission. 1908 1912 Secretary, David T. Parker, 4249 Drexel Boulevard, Chicago, 111. Secretary, William A. MacCormick, Y.M.C.A., Huntington Ave., Boston, Mass. 1909 "Why Learn to Read?" by Professor Eugene Secretary, Ernest H. Pottle, 60 Cumberland F. Bradford is included in a pamphlet entitled Ave., Perona, N. J. "Educational Radiograms" issued by Syracuse Harold H. Burton has been elected a member University. These short addresses were delivered of the Board of Education of East Cleveland, from Station WSY'R in the summer of 1927 by Ohio. members of the faculty of the summer school of Syracuse University. Hiram A. Morrell is on the editorial staff of the Santa Barbara Daily News at Santa Bar- John E. Crowley is with the Electric Installa- bara, California. tion Company at 516 Atlantic Avenue, Boston. Rev. Harry Xewton, who has been pastor Percy O. Dunn is running a greenhouse in J. r of the Lawrence Street Congregational Church Y armouth, Maine. of Lawrence, Mass., for over five years, has been Stephen W. Hughes has been nominated by called to Dwight Place Congregational Church, Governor Brewster to be judge of the South New Haven, Conn. Portland municipal court. He was city solicitor of South Portland for five years. Verne A. Ranger died of pneumonia at Wales, Maine, on August 27th, 1927. Harry A. Nickerson has a law office at 20 Devonshire Street, Boston. Harold M. Smith has recently joined the Uni- George H. Stewart is with the H. W. Pea- versity Club of Boston. body Company at 28 Kiangse Road, Shanghai, Robert G. Stubbs and Miss Marion Brainerd, China. former assistant State Librarian and Secretary 1913 of the Maine Library Association, were married Secretary, Luther G. Whittier, Farmington, on December 9th in Augusta, Maine. They will Maine. live in Hallowell. Secretary Whittier is preparing a class report Charles M. Witt died February 21, 1926, at which will be ready soon. Hudson, Mass. 1914 1910 Secretary, Alfred E. Gray, Milton Academy, Secretary, E. C. Matthews, Jr., Piscataqua Milton, Mass. Savings Bank, Portsmouth, N. H. Henry A. Nichols is Western college agent for Burleigh Martin has definitely decided to en- Houghton Mifflin Company with headquarters in ter the race for Kennebec County Senator on the Los Angeles, California. Republican ticket. He has served three terms in the House of Representatives. 1915 Ralph W. Smith has a music store in Hallo- Secretary, Clifford T. Perkins, Copsecook Mill, well, Me. Gardiner, Maine. 1916 1911 Secretary, Dwight H. Sayward, Masonic Bldg., Secretary, Ernest G. Fifield, Esq., 14 Wall St., Portland, Maine. New York City. Donald S. White has been made American George S. Barton is with the Lewiston Journal Vice-Consul at Berlin, Germany. He was for- in Lewiston, Maine. merly in the United States consular service at Dr. John E. Cartland has moved from King- Vienna. field to 117 Goff Street, Auburn, Maine. 1917 Leon T. Conway is manager of the New York Secretary. Prof. Noel Little, Brunswick, Maine. Buying Office of the S. S. Kresge Department George E. Colbath is living in Claremont, Stores, Inc. California. He raises poultry and grows oranges. [60] The B o ii' d o i n A I u m n u s ] Francis W. Jacob is teaching law at the Uni- Alonzo B. Holmes is captain of the National versity of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. Guard company which was called out last month to assist in the capture of Raymond Petit, the Frank E. Noyes is road-showing a motion pic- Brunswick maniac now awaiting trial for ture, "Men of Purpose," for the Veterans Film Service of New York City. He has been organ- murder. izing the State of California for them and will Dr. Arch Morrell is a resident physician at return to the Pacific Coast at the conclusion of the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital in a month's vacation which he is passing in Boston. Topsham. Percy D. Wilkins is assistant professor of Hal S. White has had one of his poems pub- Mathematics at Bates College. lished in Braithwaite's Anthology of Magazine 1922 Verse for 1927. He is teaching English at New Secretary, Carroll S. Towle, 40 Wall St., New York University. Haven, Conn. 1918 William W. Alexander is now with the Com- Secretary, Harlan L. Harrington, 15 Putnam mercial Casualty Insurance Company at 43 St., Quincy, Mass. Washington Street, Newark, N. J. Vernon Brown is the leader of the second William D. Littlefield is doing chemical lab- violin section of the Portland Municipal Orches- oratory work in West Springfield, Mass. tra which gave a concert at Memorial Hall on Henry H. Merry, Jr., is now located at 2022 January 17. Sixteenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. George H. Blake is studying at Harvard Grad- uate School. 1923 Secretary, Philip S. Wilder, Brunswick, Maine. Lloyd Colter is with the Sonora Phonograph Company in Saginaw, Michigan. We are sorry to report the death of Dorothy L. Allen, wife of Lawrence C. Allen. Their son, Franklin D. MacCormick has recently entered Frank, will be a year old in February. the employ of the Boston Woven Hose and Rub- ber Company of Cambridge in their Treasury Pierce U. Clark is Manager of the New Department. Britain Club at New Britain, Conn. Emerson Hunt has been writing special signed Dr. Ulric J. Renaud is living in Avon, Mass., articles on the S-4 submarine disaster for the and has an office in Brockton. Boston Herald. Edward S. C. Smith has been professor of Geoffrey T. Mason, president of the class, is Geology at Union College for the past three studying in Germany. He announces the birth years. of Helen Watson Mason, his second daughter, Lester F. Wallace is the newly appointed on August 13th. He will return to America in chairman of the City Council of Portland, Maine. time for the fifth reunion of the class. Manfred Warren will assume his new position Lewis H. Ross is in the furniture business in as principal of the High School in Lexington, Manchester, N. H. Mass., on Monday, February 20th. George Stetson is resident sales manager for 1919 the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in Port- Secretary, Donald S. Higgins, 78 Royal Rd., land, Maine. Bangor, Maine. George H. Quinby is with the University Lawrence H. Fernald has recently moved to Theater at New Haven, Conn. He is a grad- Natick, Mass., where he is in the drug business. uate student and actor. Percy E. Graves and Arietta M. Brehaut were Victor Whitman is at Palm Beach this winter married on 28th in Brunswick. They December and is writing short stories for a number of will live in Buffalo, N. Y. magazines. 1920 1924 Secretary, Stanley M. Gordon, 208 West 5th Secretary, Clarence Rouillard, 34 Amity St., Ave., Roselle, N. J. Amherst, Mass. William Sturgis is now in Boston as the New Lawrence Blatchford and Miss Elizabeth H. England Special Agent for the Pennsylvania Baker were married at New Bedford, Mass., on Fire Insurance Company. December 31st, 1927. Lawrence's brother, 1921 Huntington, of the class of 1929, was best man. Secretary, Samuel C. Buker, Walton Apart- Mr. and Mrs. Blatchford will live at 52 West ments, Athens Ave., Ardmore, Pa. 93rd Street, New York. Kenneth Boardman left Boston the first of George Tobey Davis is recovering from a January for a month's trip in the South. serious attack of pneumonia at his home in [6l] [ T h c B o zv d o i n Alu m n u s Overbrook, Pa. He hopes to be back with his Barrett C. Nichols has recently joined the classes at Episcopal Academy for the opening University Club of Boston. of the second semester. Joseph M. Odiorne and Miss Elizabeth Theodore Gonya has opened a law office at Damon were married on April 8th, 1927. Building, Portland, Maine. 508 Union Mutual Albert W. Tolman, Jr., and Miss Helen Nich- George E. Hill is associated with Harry L. ols of Portland have recently announced their Cram in the practice of law at 102 Exchange engagement. Tolman is an accountant with Street, Portland, Maine. Haskins and Sells at 39th Street, New York. The engagement of Clarence D. Rouillard to George Wood is teaching mathematics and as- Miss Harriet Page Lane of Cambridge was an- sisting with athletics at St. Paul's School, Garden City, Long Island. nounced in December. Clarence writes that he has been re-appointed to his present position ac A class history of 1925 has been published and Amherst College for next year. all members who have not as yet obtained a copy may do so by writing to the class William Rowe was admitted to practice in the secretary. Pennsylvania courts on December 1927. 30, 1926 Harold R. Worsnop is assistant to the presi- Secretary, Albert Abrahamson, 521 Furnald dent of Sheffield Farms, Inc., 524 W. 57th Street, Hall, Columbia University, New York City. New York. Howard M. Chute died on January 1st follow- 1925 ing an operation for appendicitis. Ashley T. Secretary, William Gulliver, 47 West St., Port- Day is teaching at St. George's land, Maine. School, Newport, R. I. E. Clayton Adams is with Little, Brown & Co. as Lee Goldsborough, Jr., is studying archi- a salesman in the educational book department. tecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts. Gordon E. Armstrong is studying music at N. is Harvard. Last year he attended the New Eng- Edmund McClosky teaching French at the DeWitt Clinton School in Mass. land Conservatory of Music and played in an Newton. He is also singing in the choir of one of the Uni- orchestra at the Chateau in Boston. tarian churches in Boston. James Berry has been transferred from Lan- Carleton Nelson is working in R. H. Macy's sing, Michigan, to Detroit. He is a salesman department store in York City. for General Motors Company. New Kenneth is selling Cadillac Fleetwood Albert F. Crandall and Miss Dorothy Brown Pond Imperials and LaSalle Sport Phaetons in Cleve- were married at Hudson, Mass., on September land, Ohio. 3rd, 1927. They are living in Providence. Carl Dunham is at present teaching at Morse 1927 High School, Bath, Maine. He intends to return Secretary, George M. Cutter, 33 Chestnut St., to medical school later. Salem, Mass. The engagement of Harold F. Eastman and Donald A. Brown is teaching in the State Miss Alys M. Hawley has recently been an- Normal School at Keene, N. H. nounced. George J. Adams will assist in the French Thomas Fasso was recently elected alderman Department during the second semester. in New Rochelle, N. Y. He is combining the Albert Ecke under the of Albert Van duties of that office with attendance at Columbia name Law School. Dekker is playing in Eugene O'Neill's play, "Mc.rco Millions," at the Theatre Guild in New Robert Foster and Samuel Williams are with York. He has been with Walter Hampden this the Aetna Life Insurance Co., in Boston. fall until starting rehearsals for this play. Ecke Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Garland announce the and Alden Sawyer both expect to be with the arrival of Virginia Garland on January 11, 1928. "Jitney Players" next summer. This is their second daughter. Spike MacCormick has received the following William C. Holway is the Michigan represen- message from Peking, China : "There is a small tative of L. G. Balfour Company, fraternity Bowdoin and D.U. reunion here tonight com- jewelers. He was married to Miss Marjorie posed of C. P. Chin and C. H. Fong. We greet Sterling on May 29, 1926. you most kindly." It was dated November 6, Harold R. Johnson and Miss Priscilla Robin- 1927. son were married on September 17th, 1927. W. G. Kellett's play, "Scene from the Private Mr. and Mrs. Phillips H. Lord have a daugh- Life of Helen of Troy," was one of those given ter, Jean, born September 28, 1927. by the Masque and Gown at Christmas time. [62] Bowdoin Alumni Council Term expires in 1928 ROLAND EUGENE CLARK, A.B., LL.B., President Fidelity Trust Co., Portland, Maine PHILLIPS KIMBALL, A.B. 4300 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. FRANCIS SMITH DANE, A.B. 1 Bennington Road, Lexington, Mass. THOMAS VINCENT DOHERTY, A.B. Houlton, Maine PHILIP SAWYER WILDER, B.S., Acting Secretary Brunswick, Maine Term expires in 1929 EUGENE LESLIE BODGE, A.B., LL.B. 120 Exchange St., Portland, Maine WALTER MARTIN SANBORN, A.B. Augusta, Maine JOHN WILLIAM LEYDON, A.B. 5230 Schuyler St., Germantown, Pa. CEDRIC RUSSELL CROWELL, A.B. Litchfield Rd., Port Washington, L. I., N. Y. Term expires in 1930 LYMAN ABBOTT COUSENS, A.M. 101 Vaughan St., Portland, Maine PROF. ROBERT DEVORE LEIGH, A.M. Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. THOMAS LEWIS PIERCE, A.M. - Box 1466, Providence, R. 7. STEPHEN EMERSON YOUNG, A.B., LL.B. 53 State St., Boston, Mass. HON. FRANK GEORGE FARRINGTON, A.B.. LL.B., from the Boards 219 Water St., Augusta. Maine PROF. MARSHALL PERLEY CRAM, Ph.D., from the Faculty 89 Federal St., Brunswick, Maine AUSTIN HARBUTT MacCORMICK, A.M., Secretary j6 Federal St., Brunswick, Maine WASSOOKEAG SERENITY A What is it School Camp 'worth ? TF y6u have known se- for I renity of the mind, even once for a short time only, Young Men you will know that it is priceless. STAFF OF NINE FOR But there are those who THIRTY OLDER BOYS can sell you for a small part of your income one of the most direct steps PROGRAM ARRANGED to this serenity — they FOR PREPARATION FOR can sell you security, BOWDOIN ON ONE OR TWO material security for the SEASON SCHEDULES future. ON THE STAFF FROM BOWDOIN: They are life insurance • Lloyd Harvey Hatch, Director agents. Formerly of the Faculty of History and Politi- They sell a priceless cal Science at Cornell University and Bowdoin commodity at low cost. College. When a John Hancock Dr. Edward S. Hammond Agent calls on you, re- Present Head of the Department of Mathemat- ics at Bowdoin College. member this. It is worth while seeing him. Better Charles E. Berry, A.B., Bowdoin * * • . 11 i still, it is worth your On the Faculty at Brewster Academy and For- merly an Assistant at Bowdoin College. while to send for him and set your mind at rest on FOR FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE: this score at once. Lloyd Harvey Hatch, Director Moosehorn Lodge /Zrff >32L s Dexter, Maine. ^^^^^^/^%^^^ <^^nLiFE Insurance Company^^ or Boston, Massachusetts OVER FIFTY PER - CENT of Wassookeag A Strong Company. Over Sixty Years Students prepare for Bowdoin. in Business. Liberal as to Contract, NO WASSOOKEAG GRADUATE has failed Safe and Secure in Every Way. at the Bowdoin Midyear or June Review of classes. I THE BO¥DOIN ALUMNUS MARCH 1928 No. 5 — THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS Member of the American Alumni Council Published by Bowdoin Publishing Company, Brunswick, Maine, four times during the College year Subscription price, $1.50 a year. Single copies, 40 cents. With Bowdoin Orient, $2.50 a year. Entered as second-class matter, Nov. 21st. 1927, at the Postoffice at Brunswick, Maine, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Austin H. MacCormick '15, Editor {on leave) Philip S. Wilder '23, Acting Editor J. Rayner Whipple '28, Managing Editor Clarence H. Johnson '28, Business Manager ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD Arthur G. Staples '82 Wallace M. Powers '04 Dwight H. Sayward 'i5 William M. Emery '89 Philip W. Meserve 'ii Bela W. Norton '18 Wilmot B. Mitchell '90 Robert D. Leigh '14 Edward B. Ham '22 John Clair Mi not '96 Walter F. Whittier '27 Contents for March 1928 Vol. II No. 3 page Table of Contents—Inside Front Cover Editorial—"Alumni by Elective Process"— Wallace M. Powers '04 63 Vocational Day a Real Success 64 Another Bowdoin Peary Goes North—George Palmer Putnam 65 Dr. Robert Devore Leich and Bennington College—Alfred E. Gray '14 67 Little '17 Wins Guggenheim Award 70 New Union Making Rapid Progress /i Etah and Beyond—A Review by Albert T. Gould '08 72 Bowdoin Men at Harvard— Walter F. Whittier '27 74 Curtis Family Establishes Prize 75 Alma Mater—An Acrostic-Sonnet by Charles Rozvcll '69 76 Mystery of "Temple" Explosion Solved ..... 77 "Forward the White"—Song ...... 78 Athletic Finances from 1923 to 1927 Professor Morgan B. Gushing 80 The Campus from the Air—Halftone ...... 87 Faculty Notes 88 With the Alumni Bodies 88 News from the Classes ...... 90 VOLUME TWO NUMBER THREE THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine March, 1928 Alumni by Elective Process A maker of phrases revealed more than a He had the fortune to be a member of a facility in the use of words when to an old class conspicuous for its devotion to the saw, "Bring up your children in the way college. The members of that class ap- they should go," he added: "And go that peared to feel themselves fortunate to have the way yourself." him among their number. We recall generous hospitality of his welcome to This obviously has no application to the young alumni beginning their life work in "nurturer of men." Bowdoin, within the the metropolis. And his "follow through," has memory of the present observer, done to those young bachelors of arts or science to blaze well by her sons, and continues in their transition period, was a thing of before them ever brighter beacons of de- beauty and joy forever. He had taken hold, they votion and enthusiasm by which may he hung on, and he never let go. The infre- life. appli- chart their course through The quent visits of Bowdoin organizations — cation, if any there be, must be for the sons athletic teams, musical clubs, debating of Bowdoin. Why is it that one alumnus, teams — were events which inspired him to forty years out of college, the denounces be first the host and then a camp follower. postmaster-general if his Orient is a day He kept the schedules handy and on Satur- late, and another whose son is to enter day evenings during athletic seasons wr ould in college the fall has to threaten to with- call a newspaper friend who had early ac- hold all financial assistance if the youth cess to the proofs of the sports department. does not choose to go to Bowdoin? "How did Bowdoin come out today?" The Neither of the foregoing suggestions is answer produced jubilation or depression a product of the imagination. We prized which few undergraduates might equal. The above everything else during our hallroom annual dinner of his alumni association al- days the interested friendship of an alumnus ways stimulated him to intensive activity. thirty years our senior. This graduate kept A few days before the occasion, having in touch with his college, always, and en- scanned the list of acceptances, he would riched his own life and the lives of hun- make the roundup of delinquents his first dreds of others by the contagion of his en- order of business. thusiasm and loyalty. We have written His method of operation deserves a para- about him before, the last time not long graph by itself. How he would plead and after his death fifteen years ago. Some- perspire at the telephone. His sales talk thing of the old story may be of value to was a masterpiece. He would coax and recent generations of Bowdoin men. cajole, and if in the end he failed to con- [The B o zv d o in Alumnus vince, and was not himself convinced of the if he ever had any regrets, to which his validity of the excuses offered, with what invariable reply was : "They can't take fine scorn he would dismiss the delinquent. away the good times I have had." regretted The last word which preceded the clatter Our alumnus, we venture, never of receiver on hook (and this surely de- the extravagance of his faith in the institu- serves a separate paragraph) was: tion he loved so well, nor, going this way again, would abate one iota the manifesta- "You're a hell of a Bowdoin man!" tion of his "heartfelt emotion and death- He lived to see his younger son complete less devotion." his course at Brunswick, whither he had Bowdoin giveth, but Bowdoin does not gone from a preparatory school from which take away. No alumnus can lose Bowdoin Bowdoin draws seldom. At least one class- except by his own voluntary choice. mate went with the young man, showing W. M. P. '04. that it is just as reasonable for the son of a Bowdoin alumnus to take his cronies to Bowdoin with him as to go elsewhere with VOCATIONAL DAY them. When this graduate of whom we have A REAL SUCCESS been speaking died he was mourned univer- Vocational Day was observed at the Col- sally by Bowdoin men, because he was lege on Wednesday, February 8th, with an known personally by so many of them. The average attendance of about fifty students association of which he was a member gave at each of the talks. Ralph G. Webber '06 unusual prominence at its next annual meet- of Augusta spoke on "Advertising," Prin- ing to a tribute to him. cipal Everett V. Perkins of Cony High Nothing would give greater pleasure to School, Augusta, on "Secondary School of us than to record that in all the activities Teaching," Col. Francis H. Farnum of the his life this alumnus was as successful as Central Maine Power Company on "Pub- he in the business of being a Bowdoin was lic Utilities," Frank C. Evans '10, person- man. We do not feel, however, that such nel manager of the DuPont Company, on difficulties as he experienced would have "The Chemical Industries," Former Bank been alleviated by a lighter emphasis in Commissioner Fred F. Lawrence of later life on the enthusiasm which four Portland on "Banking," and Edward years in Brunswick had created in him. We Humphrey '17 of the Portland Press Her- are even more convinced that the following ald on "Newspaper Work." narrative — drawn like all that has gone Dr. Frank A. Smith '12, who was ex- before, from personal observation — has its pected to speak on "Medicine," was delayed application to the life of the alumnus who by an accident to his automobile and his is the inspiration of these lines. place was taken by Dr. Henry L. Johnson A man, born into a family of social and '07, the College Physician. Hon. William S. financial standing, had gone through his in- Linnell '07 was unable to reach Brunswick heritance and in his later years lived on the for his talk on "Public Life," and Hon. meagre earnings of hard and uncongenial Frank G. Farrington '94 of Augusta dis- employment. After the day's work a sweet cussed this topic as well as that of "The pipe and a good book gave complete satis- Law." The program was carried on under faction. What might have been apparently the direction of Walter M. Sanborn '05, concerned him not at all. Occasionally some chairman of the Placement Committee of friend, learning of the past, would inquire the Alumni Council. [64] The B o w d o in Alumnus] Another Bowdoin Peary Goes North GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM In the summer of 1926 Robert E. Peary, Peary took up a special engineering course Jr., Bowdoin '25, went north with our at Lehigh University. expedition to Greenland, and again in 1927 In all, the Morrissey, during Peary's he was with us on the Baffin Island expe- voyaging, has covered over 16,000 miles. dition. It is peculiarly appropriate that 'The first expedition started from New Peary's initial Arctic experiences should be York, reaching far north Greenland. The 1927 expedition was to the unknown coast of western Baffin Island, just north of Hud- son Strait. The major geographical ac- complishment was the elimination of more than 5,000 square miles of land which has hitherto been shown on Admiralty charts as a part of southwestern Baffin Island. Peary is now on his way around the world, having shipped as an able seaman in the fo'castle of a freight steamer. It is particularly fitting that Mr. George Palmer Putnam should contribute the article which appears above, because his grand- father, whose name he bears, was an hon- orary graduate of Bowdoin in 1853, and his uncle, George H. Putnam, was also given an honorary A.M. in 1894. Robert C. Clothier of the Haverford School, Haverford, Pa., and well known as Robert E. Peary, Jr. '25 a vocational advisor to college students, was at Bowdoin during the week of February on a vessel commanded by his father's old 6th to assist seniors in making decisions skipper, Capt. Bob Bartlett. Bartlett was concerning their life work. Captain of the Roosevelt in 1909 when the North Pole was won by Admiral Peary, The Charles Carroll Everett Graduate and he himself has been further north on Scholarship has been awarded to Hayward his own hind feet than any man living", H. Coburn of Rangeley* and the Henry W. having been with the Admiral's last party Longfellow Scholarship to Robert Ford at the top of the world. Cressey of Beverly, Mass. Peary was chief engineer of the Mor- rissey, she herself being the two-masted A large class of Brunswick business and down east fishing vessel owned by Bart- professional men are using the swimming lett, thoroughly re-equipped for Arctic ex- pool on Monday evenings under the super- ploration. After graduating from Bowdoin, vision of D. D. Lancaster '27. [65] DR. ROBERT DEVORE LEIGH '14 PRESIDENT OF BENNINGTON COLLEGE The B o w d o in Alumnus] Dr. Robert Devore Leigh and Bennington College ALFRED E. GRAY '14 College president at thirty-seven, two ested in the higher education of women years before the fifteenth anniversary of held a conference at Bennington, Vermont. his graduation from college, such is the Later, in 1924, after a meeting in New signal honor that has come to Dr. Robert York City of some five hundred educators Devore Leigh, Bowdoin 1914, who is now and representative men and women, a Hepburn Professor of Government at Wil- charter was secured and a board of trus- liams College. Announcement was made in tees formed for a liberal arts college for January of Dr. Leigh's appointment as the women at Bennington. The prospectus first president of Bennington College, a issued by the new board gives some inter- new college for women at Old Bennington, esting facts in regard to the selection and Vermont. He is one of the youngest men guidance of students, the curriculum, the holding a full professorship in an Ameri- faculty, the trustees, the plant, and the can college, and it is said he is now the finances of the college. youngest college president in the country. Both in the admission and in the guid- There is nation-wide interest in this newest ance of the students after admission the of the England colleges and in the New object will be "to spot and to develop ex- career of the is to be its first man who cellence." The school record of the student president. will be studied for evidence of special apti- Bennington College tude. Supplementary conferences will be England gave the world the amazing ex- held at which the director of admissions periment in secondary education of Sander- will meet the applicant, her parents, or son and Oundle; this country supplied a some of her teachers. An effort will be bold experiment in progressive education made to seek out the best, to discover those in the field of advanced vocational train- who have maturity, initiative, independence ing when Antioch College was established. and stirring ambitions. As the student will Both these schools have developed far be- be treated as an individual with her own yond the experimental stage, having dem- personal tastes, interests and capabilities, onstrated the soundness of the progressive the enrollment will be limited to five methods of their founders. Shall we not hundred. soon have to add to these two great ex- In regard to the curriculum, the first periments in education, a third, namely, two years will be devoted to orientation Bennington College? From his knowledge courses, to general study and the discovery of the aims of the people who are found- of special aptitudes. Concentration upon ing Bennington, and from his intimate fields of special interests will come the last acquaintance with the astonishing career of two years, when the instruction will take the man who is to be the leader of the work on the informal character of honor courses, at the new college, the present writer would with tutorial and small group work and answer unqualifiedly, Yes. guided and independent reading. The fac- The plan for the new college took root ulty who are to direct this work are to have in the summer of 1923 when a group inter- "above all, the progressive zeal of whole- i^i ! [The Bo w d o in A lumnus hearted believers in the standards and economic group. Simple living arrange- methods of modern education." In return, ments will do much to lessen the expense they will receive a maximum salary of of an education at Bennington. $7,000 a year. In general, the purpose of the college, to quote from the important pronouncement Contrary to the prevailing habit of of the board, which may some day be looked managing colleges in New England, where upon as one of the Famous Prefaces in usually the trustees, few in number, often educational history, is "to enable a large related by blood or marriage, sometimes number of promising young women to re- members even of the same social clubs, are ceive a liberal arts education ... It is elected for life, a policy of a revolving- hoped that the departure at Bennington may board has been adopted to permit the con- do for the American college and especially stant introduction of new blood, new en- for the women's college, what the founding ergy, and new ideas. The tendency to of Hopkins did for the American leave everything in the management of a Johns university, by setting a new standard for college to the judgment of a few who have the curriculum, a new attitude toward served long, and sometimes well, admir- teaching, and a new example in financing able as it is in many respects, is often car- through student fees rather than through ried to ridiculous extremes in certain ac- the sacrifices of alumnae, faculty, and tivities closely connected with the actual public benefactors." administration of a college. At a recent fraternity reunion held at Commencement- The President time, the presiding officer stated that he had Robert Devore Leigh was born in Nelson, secretary at every been present as alumni Nebraska, September 13, 1890. He comes reunion during the previous twenty years, from New England stock; on his mother's and he rather naively promised that, having side there has been a long line of ministers just been elected president, he would be and teachers, including James Thompson, on hand for the next twenty annual meet- pioneer in manual training and the first ings as presiding officer President of Worcester Polytechnic Insti- The board of trustees plans to erect no tute, and Mark Hopkins, the President of monumental buildings ; utility rather than Williams College. Dr. Leigh attended elaborateness will be the basis of the archi- schools in Radcliffe, Iowa, and in Seattle, tectural scheme. It is planned to build a Washington, which has been his home most group of buildings that will not only meet, of his life. He received the degree of A.B. as far as possible, changing conditions, but at Bowdoin in 19 14, being the only summa also be worthy of the beautiful surround- cum lande in his class. He was a member ings of Bennington. Already the college of the Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Sigma has been given a building site at the foot fraternities, and of the Friars and Ibis, the of the Taconic range, and residents of Ver- honor societies of his day. He was active mont have pledged $672,000, conditional in many sides of undergraduate work, being upon the completion of a minimum of $2,- president of the Student Council, manager 500,000 by October 1, T928. The proposed of the football team, president of the dra- financial policy of the college will awaken matic society, intercollegiate debater, editor- interest. The annual expenses will be in-chief of the Orient, and a member of the largely met by tuition fees. Scholarships, editorial boards of the literary and other however, will be established in order to publications. He won various prizes for prevent the restriction of students to one writing, speaking, and class standing. The [68] The B o w d o in Alumnus'] record of Bob Leigh in the 1914 Bugle had ment at Williams College, where he has this rather prophetic announcement of his taken an active part in the reorganization present job: of the work of the freshman year and par- "Perhaps he hath great, great projects ticipated in the experiment with the honors in his mind, system and in the expansion of the social a college, or to found a race." To build sciences in that institution. In 1927 he was As the holder of the Charles Carroll chosen by the students as the first arbiter Everett Scholarship he studied history, the of the interfraternity agreement. Dr. Leigh psychology of education, and political has also taught at the summer sessions of science at Columbia, where he received the the University of Washington and Syracuse degree of A.M. in 1915. University. He is a member of the Bow- Dr. Leigh then spent three important and doin Alumni Council and of the Advisory fruitful years at Reed College, Portland, Editorial Board of the "Bowdoin Alumnus." Oregon, where he was instructor, and later, Dr. Leigh's special fields of interest are assistant professor of government. This psychology and politics, public opinion, and college, founded in 191 1, has been one of public administration. He was leader of the leading institutions for progressive ex- Round Tables on these subjects at the ses- periments in higher education. Dr. Leigh sions of the American Political Science As- took an active part in the life of the insti- sociation in 1925 and 1927. His recent tution, being at one time chairman of the book, "Federal Health Administration in Student Affairs Committee which had func- the United States," has brought forth tions equivalent to those of a dean. He was favorable comment both in this country and also active in civic affairs, serving on com- abroad. Professor Phillips Bradley of Am- mittees in the city and state, in particular, herst College writes : "He has set a high on the Advisory Consolidation Committee mark for future studies with the same of the Oregon Legislature. dynamic perspective, and made one of the During the American participation in the few really significant essays towards the World War, Dr. Leigh was at Washington understanding and interpretation of our as assistant educational director of the so- administrative machinery." cial hygiene division of the Public Health Dr. Leigh is married and has two daugh- Service, assisting in the development of the ters. Mrs. Leigh is a graduate of Columbia educational campaign in social hygiene. and Teachers College, where she studied From 1919 to 1920 he was Gilder Fellow at English literature and education. She re- Columbia; he received his degree of Ph.D. ceived the degree of A.M. from Columbia from that university in 1927. He also in 1915. She has taught at the Bennett studied at the Harvard Summer School, and School, Reed College, and has been active at the New School of Social Research. He in the League of Women Voters in Berk- was elected to the board of directors of shire County. She is now serving as a that institution. From 1920 to 1922 Dr. member of the Williamstown School Leigh taught at Columbia, where he as- Committee. sisted in the organization of the course in Bennington College will probably open in contemporary civilization and was chosen the fall of 1930. Of course, those who will assistant to the Dean in 1922. He was also be engaged in this educational experiment head of the government instruction at under the leadership of President Leigh, Barnard College. In 1922 he was ap- will have to meet the arguments and the pointed first Hepburn Professor of Govern- resistance, both passive and active, of those [69] — [The Bo w d o in A I it m n u s who may be called the reactionary school. LITTLE '17 WINS Xo doubt certain gentlemen, to show their contempt for the new ideas at Bennington, GUGGENHEIM AWARD will label them "half-baked." Furthermore, A new honor has come it will be necessary to guard against a too to Bowdoin in the recent sweeping condemnation of traditions. On award to Noel C. Little the other hand, it is true, as some one has '17, Professor of Physics, said: '"Almost all alumni influence tends of a fellowship for ad- toward extending and strengthening the vanced study abroad dead hand of tradition and obscurantism from the John Simon . . . Xot enough alumni who see their rela- Guggenheim Memorial tion to the college in anything else than Foundation. These fel- attendance at the unspeakably stupid alumni lowships are available banquets and support of the "teams" have for students in all fields appreciated the fact that they could be a of endeavor and normally provide a sti- power as alumni if they spoke out more pend of $2,500 for a year's work. About often and perhaps spoke in unison at times." fifty are awarded annually. It is the sincere wish of those who will Professor Little's project will be "the watch with sympathetic eye the work at determination of thermo-magnetic proper- Bennington, that the first fine fervor kindled ties of gaseous molecules by a new method at the start mav continue unabated. of convective flow with a A'iew to the study of their structure and spacial quantization, with Professor Gerlach at By establishing at Bowdoin College a principally W. will sab- memorial to her late husband, Mrs. William Tubingen, Germany." He be on batical leave from the College next year J. Curtis has assured permanent preserva- in this will enabled to devote tion in material form of memory of his and way be the entire this work. deep interest in his alma mater. Mr. Curtis' time to Professor Little is well as the son career includes no passage better illustra- known of Little of the tive of his fine intellectual and moral quali- Professor George Thomas of for librarian of ties than that which records his service on Class 1S77, many years the finance committee of Bowdoin, as a Bowdoin, and has himself been a member member of which he worked out plans for of the faculty since 1919. He has recently administration of its property which other prepared a Textbook of College Physics endowed institutions of learning have been which is now being published by Charles glad to adapt to meet their own needs. This Scribner's Sons of New York. is an accomplishment better understood by educational executives than it is popularly, The Student Council Cup for highest but its benefits are bestowed eventually on scholastic standing during the first semes- the public. New York Sun. ter was won by Zeta Psi, this being the third time that fraternity has been awarded Lowell Thomas, distinguished author of the cup. "With Lawrence in Arabia" and "Luckner, the Sea Devil," delivered an excellent il- The Bowdoin Winter Sports team par- lustrated lecture on the former topic at the ticipated in the annual winter carnival at College on March 7th. Dartmouth in February. [70] The B o zv d o in Alumnus] New Union Making Rapid Progress The corner stone for the new Bowdoin faculty has been chosen to cooperate in Union Building was laid on Monday, making plans for its use. It has not yet February 27th, by President Sills. There been decided whether or not provision will was no elaborate ceremony but President be made for a store and a barber shop and Sills in a brief address spoke of the great such matters as this, which will necessitate debt which Bowdoin owes to Mr. Moulton, provision for administration after the open- "one of the College's most loyal graduates," ing of the Union, will be considered jointly and dedicated the building to friendship. by the two committees. George F. Cary '88 and Harold Lee Berry '01 of Portland were present as representa- The Commencement Activities Committee tives of the Building Committee. of the Alumni Council met in Portland with The sealed copper box beneath the stone President Roland E. Clark 'oi and Acting was filled with material of current life, in- Alumni Secretary Wilder on Saturday, cluding three letters written by members March 17th. Thomas V. Doherty '95 of of the senior class and addressed to the un- Houlton is chairman of this group and the dergraduates who shall be in College when other members are Hon. Frank G. Farring- the box is finally opened. A full list of the ton '94 of Augusta, Francis S. Dane '96 of contents of the box has already appeared Boston, and Thomas L. Pierce '98 of Provi- in the Orient for February 29th. dence, R. I., who was unable to be present. Work on the building is now progressing Plans for Commencement Wednesday were very rapidly, with the brick work well above outlined, and it is expected that a large tent the windows of the first floor. The accom- will be procured as headquarters for the panying illustration was taken on Monday, Class of 1794. March 12th, and shows clearly the prog- ress to that time. The biennial alumni address list will be Although entire control of the building published in March and will contain ad- will remain in the hands of the Building dresses for all former students and for Committee until it has been formally ac- graduates of the Maine Medical School in cepted by the College, a committee of the addition to the academic graduates. [71] ; — [ T h c Bo w d 6 i n A 1 u ;;/ ;/ u s Etah and Beyond A Review by ALBERT T. GOULD '08 Anything from the pen of Donald contributions to the literature of Arctic ex- MacMillan has a particular interest for Bow- ploration and scientific research. This is doin men. Those who have read his "Four said advisedly after an examination of the Years in the White North"—and anyone who long list of notable works dealing with the has not has missed a fascinating story of far North, not excepting the narratives of Arctic adventure — must have wished Mac- Nanscn, Peary, Greely, and Kane. Millan had more time to devote to writing. ''Etah and Beyond" deals primarily with Few have had his wealth of experience and knowl- edge, keen observation, and gift of vivid expres- sion. His narrative, clear, direct, and rapid, carries the reader forward from adventure to adventure with sustained interest. There is never a word too many, nor one too few. He has the rare faculty of making others see, as though themselves present, the stirring scenes in which so much of his own life has been passed. MacMillan's latest book, "Etah and Beyond, or Life Within MacMillan's voyage to Greenland (where Twelve Degrees of the Pole,"* deals with a the Bowdoin was frozen in for three hun- voyage to the far North of the staunch little dred and twenty days at Refuge Harbor, schooner which bears the name of the Col- north of Etah), with the scientific work lege and which has made Bowdoin a there undertaken (including the securing familiar name among the people of New- of valuable data regarding terrestrial mag- foundland. Labrador, Greenland and Baf- netism, glacial action, and many other mat- fin Land. It is the narrative of MacMil- ters of scientific interest), and with a sledge lan's 1923-1924 expedition to northern trip across Smith Sound to Ellesmere Land site Greenland and Ellesmere Land, which is in to place a tablet at the of Greely's itself an achievement of which the College camp, on which tragic spot all but seven of may well be proud. The story of that ex- Greely's party died of starvation in 1883-4. pedition and MacMillan's earlier book arc The book also contains a fund of infor- the best, as well as the most interesting, mation about former Arctic explorers ; about the life of the northernmost people in the world, the Smith Eskimos, *Etah and Beyond, by Donald B. MacMillan — Sound Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1927. $5.00. their legends, history and habits; about [72] : : ; The B o w d o in Alumnus] animal and plant life near the North Pole North, the same that looked out and about many other matters of interest upon the Norsemen nine hundred and forty-two years ago . . . There that came under the eye of this keen ob- they will remain through the ages, server of and things. is men The book pondering over the ambition of absorbing, as well as instructive, and has man." the great advantage of being sincere and The book is illustrated with photographs candid. Truth is never sacrificed for effect. taken by MacMillan, and includes a picture Quite unconsciously, MacMillan's sterling done in lively style by an Eskimo artist integrity is manifested throughout the book. who has displayed real talent. An appre- It is a very human document, worthy of ciative foreword to the book by Dr. Gilbert a permanent place in literature. It is also a Grosvenor recounts an almost forgotten in- vivid picture of Arctic life. Of adventure cident of MacMillan's early Jays when, by there is good measure : encounters with ice, his prompt action and resourcefulness, he striking bottom in Smith Sound with fog saved several persons from drowning. and storm approaching, exciting walrus With characteristic recognition of the hunts, sledging through a narrow pass be- services of others, MacMillan has dedi- tween a solid rock wall and the cracking cated his book to "My Good Friends who side of a glacier that was about to fall and Helped me Build the Bowdoin and thus fill the pass, photographing charging musk- Made my Arctic Work Possible." At the oxen at close range, and many other similar head of this list should be placed the name experiences. of E. N. Goding '91, who conceived the Though fully aware of its perils, Mac- happy idea of building the Bowdoin, and Millan loves the sea with all the intensity has always been one of MacMillan's most of the old Norsemen (of whom he is a loyal friends. worthy successor), as may be seen by the Sir Wilfred Grenfell, on reading "Etah following passage from "Etah and Be- and Beyond," remarked: yond," concluding a description of a bad "Mac's book is very characteris- time among breaking ledges in foggy tic. His meticulous detail and hon- weather off the Greenland coast esty make it very valuable. He is generous to everyone and sees the "It may seem strange to some best in everybody — that is why that there is a zest in playing a everyone loves him." as playing and game such we were The book, as well as the author, deserves had played so many times ; but the approbation of the public. Never was there certainly is no lack of inter- est when you test your eyes, your a man more unspoiled by praise than this judgment, and your experience kindly, capable scientist-explorer, who, in against such an adversary as the words of his Eskimo friend Panikpa, Nature." "heard of a new land far to the North, and There are many passages in the book rest was not his until he saw it." which one would like to quote; but space will the selected admit only of following, In accordance with the change in policy almost at random of the Committee on Student Aid only 128 "The impressive grandeur of the undergraduate scholarships were granted (Greenland) coast exceeded even this year as compared with over 200 a that of northern Labrador. We year ago. The average scholarship, how- seemed and felt fairly microscopic ever, is about $50 larger than that of last as we crept along at the base of these great black sentinels of the vear. [73] [The B ow d o in A In m n u s Bowdoin Men at Harvard WALTER F. WHITTIER '27 With a representation totaling fifty-four, Bowdoin can well lay claim to a position as a leading recruiting center for the numerous Harvard graduate schools. Of the smaller New England colleges, only Williams, with seventy-two, has more graduates studying at Cambridge. Amherst has one less than Bowdoin; and Wesleyan has thirty-one. Bates is the best represented of the three other Maine colleges, with a total of twenty-five ; while twenty-one of Colby's and eighteen of the University of Maine's graduates are at pres- ent at Harvard. As far as the Bowdoin men are concerned, law and teaching appear to be the most popular lines of endeavor, as there are eighteen graduates of the College in the Law School, and sixteen in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. It is interesting to note, however, that the thirteen men at the Business School this year form the largest Bowdoin representation ever in attendance. Bowdoin's claim to repute at the Har- members of the class of 1927 who are at vard graduate schools is not, however, Harvard. Of the eighty-eight who re- limited to quantity alone, for several of the ceived degrees last June, twenty, or slightly men are distinguishing themselves in the less than a quarter of the class, are study- quality of their work. Among the most ing at Cambridge. Twelve more are at outstanding of these is Nathan A. Cobb '26 other universities, making a total of more who stands third in his class at the Law than a third who are doing graduate work. School. He is a member of the Harvard As far as Harvard is concerned it is in Law Review, the first Bowdoin man to gain the graduate school of Arts and Sciences such a distinction for a number of years. that Bowdoin men have particularly dis- Paul A. Palmer '27, who graduated sutntna tinguished themselves, as is well shown by cum laudc last June, and who is doing grad- the following statement of Dean George H. uate work in history, completed his first Chase, of that school. semester of study with a high A average. "Graduates of Bowdoin have always been It is expected that at least five of the men welcome in the Harvard Graduate School studying at the school of Arts and Sciences of Arts and Sciences, and they have made will receive Masters' degrees this year, an enviable record. It seems clear that the Harvard University scholarships are this undergraduate course at Bowdoin fits men year held by a number of Bowdoin men, well for more advanced study. Certainly Athern P. Daggett '25, Sven A. Baeck- many Bowdoin graduates have obtained the strom '26, Nathan A. Cobb '26, Charles W. higher degrees in the minimum of time al- Morrill '27, John G. Reed '27, and Gifford lowed by the regulations of the Graduate Davis '27. school, — the best proof, if proof is needed, The increasing importance of the grad- of the excellence of their undergraduate uate school to men from the Liberal Arts training. A casual survey, also, of our list college is well illustrated by the number of of holders of higher degrees shows that [74] The B o w d o in Alumnus] Bowdoin men have obtained important po- CURTIS FAMILY sitions, and have distinguished themselves in them." ESTABLISHES PRIZE During the past twenty-five years nine- President Sills announced at chapel on teen graduates of the College have received Friday, March 2nd, the gift of $20,000 from Ph.D. degrees. They are Erik Achorn '17, Mrs. William J. Curtis of New York City Eugene F. Bradford '12, S. W. Chase '14, and her children. The gift is for the purpose S. P. Chase '05, A. H. Cole '11, M. T. Cope- of establishing in memory of her husband, land '06, E. C. Gage '14, L. M. Goodrich '20, William J. Curtis '75, a prize to be known C. E. Kellogg '11, S. E. Leavitt '08, N. C. as the Bowdoin Prize. This prize will be Little '17, W. E. Lunt '04, S. O. Martin '03, awarded once in five years "to that grad- E. P. Perkins '23, R. W. Pettengill '05, H. uate of the College or former student or M. Varrell '97, P. F. Weatherill '16, L. C. member of the faculty at the time of the Wyman '18, P. C. Young '18. Since 1920 award who shall have made during the Master of Arts degrees have been awarded period the most distinctive contribution to to nineteen other graduates of the College. any field of endeavor, such as literature, A number of Bowdoin men are listed in science, politics, religion, etc., recognition to the Harvard University Faculty. Edwin H. be given for national and not merely local Hall '75 is senior professor of physics. distinction." The first award of the prize Myles Standish '75 is Williams Professor will be made in 1933. of Ophthalmology, Emeritus, at the Medical It is provided that a certain portion of School. Melvin T. Copeland '06 is Profes- the accumulated income be added to the sor of marketing at the Business School. principal until the prize award may equal Arthur H. Cole 'n is assistant professor of in five years the sum of $10,000 and that '21 is a economics. Kenneth S. Boardman thereafter the remainder of the income be the Business Re- member of Bureau of used for the general purposes of the Col- search at the Business School. Edward B. lege. It is also provided that the commit- '22 is an instructor in Romance Ham tee of award shall consist of the presidents Languages. or acting presidents of Harvard and Yale Universities the |3 rt S £ £ O § President Sills, in announcing the gift, * •§ o a s £ a in O ^ C ^ rt o pointed out that the prize times past CQ > < > PQ U |D might well have been awarded to such grad- Law School 18 27 8 o 37 3 3 uates as Longfellow, Hawthorne, Melville Graduate School of W. Fuller, Thomas Brackett Reed, Robert Arts and Sciences 16 11 9 10 6 4 3 E. to Business School ..13 17 8 8 3 1 1 Peary, and Edward Page Mitchell, or Medical School ... 2 5 6 4 2 3 4 such faculty members as Parker Cleave- School of Education 2 o 3 o 14 10 4 land, George L. Goodale, Daniel R. Good- Theological School 2 1 o 1 o o o win, President William DeWitt Hyde, Dud- School of Landscape ley A. Sargent, Thomas C. Upham, and Architecture . . . . 1 1 o o o o 1 School of Architec- George L. Vose. ture o o o o o o 1 School of Applied Lydia A. Chadwick of Saco, an honorary Biology o o o o o o 1 graduate of Bowdoin in 1910, died at her Total 54 72 53 3i 25 18 winter home in North Carolina in February. [75] ; ! [ T h c B o tv d o in A I u m n u s Alma Mater Born 'neath the shadow of primeval pines, On plain where now her halls of learning stand, With torch aflame, like blazing sun she shines, Diffusing light and culture o'er the land. Of reputation high, she takes her place In scope and thoroughness, among the best Not vainly boastful, but with modest grace, Claims credit only that her works attest. O Alma Mater that my soul reveres, Like face beloved you seem on mental page Long may you flourish through the changing years, Exalting truth and right from age to age. Great deeds shall set, as jewels in your crown, Exciting merit, honor and renown. Charles Rowell '69. [/6] The B o w d o i n A I it m n u s ] Mystery of "Temple" Explosion Solved Many of our older alumni will remember of a Dutch vreow, broad and squat, and of "The Temple," that little brick building on large capacity. Seeing it we exclaimed the knoll behind the Chapel. It has had an with one voice, 'Behold the instrument of interesting history but probably the most our vengeance V spectacular incident was its mysterious de- "We hid the kettle in a safe place, and struction in the fall of 1875 when a charge during the summer vacation secured far of explosive practically demolished it. • from the projected crime the means for its The Temple in Ruins The Temple Rebuilt The quotation below is from a letter deadly loading, powder, fuse, rope and written by a member of the Class of 1877, plaster of Paris. Returning in the fall, we who last June at his fiftieth reunion con- filled the kettle with powder — how much fessed his part in the conspiracy. It is un- of it I don't remember — and ran the fuse fortunate that the letter cannot be given in into it through the spout. We fastened the full but the section printed here is certainly lid down with heavy wire and wrapped a most interesting narrative. yards of rope about the whole thing, finally "I presume it is now safe to tell how we making it a big, solid white mass by dress- went about it, since the statute of limita- ing it with liquid plaster of Paris, which tions protects us — if it applies to high quickly hardened. In the silent hours of crimes and misdemeanors. Anyhow, times early morning, we lowered this engine of have changed and Faculties have some re- destruction into the center of the 'Temple's' gard for common decency, and the health pit, lighted the 20-foot-long fuse and stole and happiness of their students. We decid- back to our virtuous beds. ed that the 'Temple' must be utterly de- "Nobody was more startled than we stroyed, ruined beyond redemption, so we when a tremendous 'boom' shook the dor- would blow it up. In a scrap-heap in the mitories — nobody more amazed than we woods behind the dormitories we found a when it was found that the detested huge iron kettle that was built on the lines 'Temple' had been blown to bits." [77] ' 1 [ T h e B o zv d o i n Alumnus -j&ftfarfe ^ Wbite - &m#\ A.KjVtnwH )f ^WCtSumnif.:cS »^^• » »~ Ob ., . * .TTj i 3 |s ?*=== -f f ^n~ ^gF ^5^g a =2: ^E ^^« « rK ^ ^ e ^*S±3 fr > )_^ h^ h f >^=^ A* J ^LlHlV ^I -*>«««»'•«>» rear c baitlfcei Ca->-,«f lOo 'iw. Kttr +Wt E»'>p -IU $u.; ir)» •»• TSt abort 0$ *» mi»W;l ){«••• &« --'fe«t. & r urrt> &o\ce* -to 5,5 ...'t- r*»rt«, ^e-0o« 4 f«° 1br»T'»a+Vvrfi«»«4--'r^ cW- lv+ «t {lint lus*-^ +be Sk, 3SSEE ^ § :>«:« S s* T^rtr 3=g ^s •« mft & •- ' I m ^^ III J m r - V FTT^V ^ i 'il ^ ^ f ~ , . » m. £i/ J -m—h—m—m s_V„i__ w .-m ^—m ,_^ m. Or) f o «)!>««• Join e«i« » ^^ a ^^= S w » * * Si ? gjj ^ssSi ^*t ^= 21 ^2=*fc ±c -* # e ; u ^ — ° 1 » * * | 1 i * » « » « | « • • J 1 r Ibu' \ 'J« ore «««> ^"b " J|1 , -lo«^-1» ^ T3-« ,7 • ' 5fe S i *=* TfT^^S h S i ^ JJW-» [78] The B o w d o in Alumnus] CHOKUS. ^=fr S I ±=t= p VJ*7i+e pW-^U «»* bri.bt "3»r~Ho*> **>* OntW.f»tW ^ifct>+ 6»-U«» "J ^"^ ^^ =L=fc ; i ji F^ *->!» u+ + + ^w «r • ^nr TV W S^ ^t£ s -<—r ^ Se^ P^^> + m $^ s. N-^A J > ^ tfto ^ ** s^ ft^li2 - '+ + 1* Crete *& mapp ^ ?* 9 e=fc 4> s^ ^Mv :©: 1=F ^o-. K'll »«*> Jooj^-al arte +"«»*« 5\l-WoA4 -»o £ acl> ^^ of Jioo- fco.r, &•'« &o £E£ is Iflf TT * 7¥**1 •s -s •» *W £5-^5- sw [79] [The B o 7c d o i n A I u m n u s Athletic Finances from 1923 to 1927 MORGAN B. CUSHING, Associate Professor of Economics Financial recon- income in sight, desire to do the team hand- struction has been somely in the way of equipment and travel popular since the accommodations, and failure to maintain War. Within a short sufficient records to keep the current posi- space of time, the tion clear, all contributed to the dissipa- United States Gov- tion of the funds advanced by the Council. ernment, Bowdoin Each manager had his own bank account College, and the and check book, and personally handled the issue return of Athletic Council of and uniforms and equip- ment, the loss of Bowdoin College re- which was an annual ex- of considerable organized their re- pense amount. spective methods of controlling depart- Further, the burden of detail carried by mental expenditures. Reform was under- the managers was a very serious handicap taken in each case for much the same rea- in their college work. The necessity of sons, and was achieved in much the same handling and accounting for all funds, es- way, granted some slight differences in pecially for a major sport, added greatly to magnitude. The results of the Govern- the otherwise heavy duties of the manager, ment's operations are public property; the and almost inevitably meant negligence Treasurer of the College publishes an an- somewhere. The amount of detail work continually done at present by the central nual report ; but to date there has been no summary of the financial problems and office of the Graduate Manager makes it a progress of the Council. As the new pro- cause for wonder that the undergraduate cedure has now become standardized, and managers could stay in college, let alone data for four years afford a sufficient basis graduate in four years, and also helps to of experience to make an analysis worth explain why the wastes of the system were while, the following financial history is so great. The funds of the Council grad- offered for the information of the alumni. ually were exhausted, and an increasing of to Prior to 1923, the fiscal conduct of each amount borrowing became necessary sport was entirely in the hands of its un- carry on the sports programs. The system dergraduate manager. The Council's funds became unworkable through diffusion of were loaned to the various managers to responsibility. start the year, and in theory were repaid The first step in the direction of reform from the season's receipts. The success of was the appointment in 1922 of Professor the system depended upon the business Thomas Means to act as Graduate Man- sense of the individual manager. In many ager. He exercised general supervision of instances, the sport was conducted upon the expenditures of the undergraduate man- sound principles, and the advances from the agers, stopped the loss of equipment, and Council were more than returned, with un- checked the financial retrogression. Upon doubted benefit to the manager in the form his resignation in the spring of 1923, Mr. of business experience and training. But Lyman A. Cousens of Portland, a member very often the responsibilities were too of the Athletic Council, was appointed to heavy for undergraduate shoulders ; com- the position. mitments for supplies and trips beyond the That autumn the Council decided to take [80] : The B o zv d o in Alumnus] the thoroughgoing step of abolishing the new equipment, that is, uniforms, shoes, separate sport treasuries, and determined balls, etc. It is not only much simpler to to pool all funds under the control of the charge new equipment purchased to expense Graduate Manager. In detail, this involved that season, but it also prevents undue opti- first, expenditure only by authorization of mism about the financial situation. So the Graduate Manager in the form of a throughout, the Council has owned a con- signed voucher; second, a single check book siderable amount of equipment which does in his hands; third, maintenance of separate not appear on the balance sheet. and revenue accounts for each expense The year 1923-24 was one of experiment sport; fourth, custody of athletic uniforms and economy. The new system had to be and equipment in a common stock-room, worked out in its details, and economy was and their issue by the Graduate Manager essential to financial rehabilitation. There only upon requisition from the coach or was a small loss on the total of the sports manager of the sport, and against a receipt accounts, for which an expensive Southern signed by the student obtaining them; and baseball trip was largely responsible. Also, finally, the preparation of a budget for each baseball carried that year a $2,000 charge sport each year. The budget originates for the salary of Coach Houser, which was with the undergraduate manager in consul- reduced in 1924-25 to $1,500, when he was tation with the coach and the committee of engaged for the entire year, and half of the Council for the sport in question; it is his salary was charged to a special Blanket approved by the Graduate Manager, and Tax appropriation for mass athletics. The then goes to the Council for its action. other sports all showed credit balances. Later alterations in the expense items re- During the year, there was received an quire the further consent of the Council. additional Blanket Tax appropriation of These changes have left the undergrad- $1,000, and alumni contributions of $1,- uate manager plenty to do in connection 616.50 for the general use of the Council. with the everyday conduct of his sport, This was the last time the alumni were so- the management of trips, and home games licited for contributions for athletics, with and meets. A special form for each home the exception of appeals for special pur- game or meet, and for each trip must be poses, such as the rebuilding of the wooden filled out by the manager to show itemized indoor track, and the annual gift of the income and expense. The accumulation of New York alumni for the Southern base- these records has been of great assistance ball trip. In view of the need of the Col- in the accurate budgeting of later seasons. lege for alumni support, the Council realizes The basic material of this report will be its obligation to finance its sports programs found in the accompanying comparative without further solicitation of the grad- balance sheets and summary income and uates for current funds, and believes that expense statements for each college year. this will be possible in the future. To start the new records, a simple balance In the year 1923-24, the Council em- sheet was set up as of September i, 1923. barked upon the project of providing its Against $2,900 of notes outstanding, the own bleachers. The old ones owned by the Council had a small cash account as its only College were dangerous, insufficient in seat- real asset. The policy was adopted of not ing capacity, and expensive to erect. The capitalizing the equipment on hand, because purchase of the first lot of new bleachers of its negligible cash value. Each sport is cost $1,600. As these had considerable cash obliged to buy annually the same amount of value, were productive of revenue, and [81] [ T h c B o zv d o i n A I u m n u s could not reasonably be charged against the comparability of the revenue accounts the year of purchase, they were capitalized from year to year, the amount of Blanket on the accounts. In subsequent years, the Tax funds credited to each sport has been construction of additional bleachers has kept nearly constant. Track has regularly brought the total seating capacity at Whit- received $2,500, baseball $2,100, and hockey tier Field up to nearly 7,000, including the from $400 to $600. Football has received grandstand. The cost of bleachers bought $1,000 except in the years when the Maine and constructed over the four-year period game was here, when the amount was re- has been close to $6,000, against which total duced, in 1924 to $625, and in 1926 to $900. depreciation of nearly $2,000 has been Only in the case of football has the earned charged to football. This investment has income (gate receipts and guaranties on served to keep the cash position of the trips, chiefly) covered the expense of the Council low, but has been necessary to ac- sport. The percentages of total earned in- commodate the increasing attendance at come to total expense over the four-year football games, especially the Maine game, period, for the major sports, are as follows: and is justified by the increase in revenue football, 111%; track, 38%; baseball, from football gate receipts. 45%; and hockey, 42%. If the salary of It should be noted that the total sports Coach Magee, which is paid by the College, revenue shown each college year includes were to be included in track expense, the the Blanket Tax appropriations for ath- ratio of earned income to expense would letics. These in the aggregate have grown be 20%. The high degree of dependence of from $6,467 in 1923-24 to $8,137.50 in the athletic activities upon continued Blan- 1926-27. The increase has been due to the ket Tax support is evident. inclusion of the tax of $10 a semester in In addition to the amounts above men- the College term bill of each student, and tioned, since 1924-25 there has annually been the growth of the student body. As a per- a small appropriation of Blanket Tax funds centage of the total sports revenue, how- toward the overhead expenses of the Coun- ever, the Blanket Tax funds have remained cil ( office supplies and stationery, telephone, fairly constant, falling from 28^ in 1923-24 student assistance in the office and stock- to 26^ in 1926-27. In order to preserve room, interest on notes, postage, etc.). The COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEETS, 1923- 1927 Assets September September September September September 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 Cash $ 124.24 $ 773.56 $ 21.90 $ 92.83 $ 219.18 Bleachers (less depreciation) 1,621.23 3,449.59 3,412.85 4,039.13 Prepaid expense 125.35 152.05 Accounts receivable 131.25 Medical supplies 134.48 100.00 Deficit 2,775.76 779.86 Total $2,900.00 $3,300.00 $3,754.79 $3,640.16 $4,358.31 Liabilities Notes payable $2,900.00 $3,300.00 $2,000.00 Accounts payable $ 473.71 44.00 $ 79.88 Surplus 3,281.08 1,596.16 4,278.43 Total $2,900.00 $3,300.00 $3,754.79 $3,640.16 $4,358.31 [82] T h e B o w d o in Alumnus'] amounts shown in the income statements played that year in Orono. The previous are the overhead expenses in excess of these arrangement called for the payment to the annual appropriations, which have varied visiting team of fifty cents for every paid from $315 to $400. The total cost of ad- admission to the game. This procedure ap- ministration for the four years, including parently necessitated provision by the visi- some expenses which might well have been tors of a corps of ticket takers to obtain distributed over the sports accounts, was their share of the receipts. At least such $3,085, less than 3% of the total gross reve- was the practice ! With the 1925 game, nue. This satisfactory showing reflects the there was substituted a flat guaranty of fact that much gratuitous service was per- $1,000 for the visiting team, which is prob- formed in the first two years of the system ably more beneficial to Bowdoin in the long by Mr. Cousens and his assistants, Prof. run, to say nothing of its being conducive Cobb and Mr. Wm. B. Jacob. With the to better feeling. A similar contract was coming of Mr. Cates as athletic director adopted with Colby, with the guaranty set and graduate manager in 1925, the College at $500, but this saving did not offset the assumed the major part of his salary, and loss of revenue from the Maine game. In football the remainder in his capacity as 1923 we received upwards of $2,500 from coach, which arrangement continues with the Orono game; in 1925 only $1,000. With Mr. Morrell. The Council has never been the fall of 1926, we entered into a like burdened with expense for management. agreement with Bates, the guaranty being The year 1924-25 witnessed a credit bal- $750. ance for every sport, and a substantial The action of the College in assuming profit from football, with the Maine game a large portion of Mr. Cates' salary as ath- in Brunswick. The showing of baseball letic director permitted the Council to se- was improved by the reduction of salary cure Mr. M. E. Morrell as assistant foot- expense by $500, and by the gate receipts ball coach and assistant graduate manager. of the Commencement game with Bates. Also Mr. G. T. Mason was employed as At the end of the year all notes had been freshman football coach during the fall of paid off, and nearly $2,000 more had been 1925. As a result of these expansions of invested in bleachers. The original balance staff, the salary charge to football only sheet deficit of $2,jj$.j6 had been turned increased $100. into a surplus of $3,281.08 in two years. The baseball loss in 1926 was due to a During this period, Mr. Cousens came to $600 drop in gate receipts, to an increase Brunswick three or four times every week, in the salary charge for coaching to $2,000, and the financial improvement shown is to the same figure as in 1923-24, and to $200 be credited to his sagacity and untiring additional cost of travel. The Commence- effort. ment game yielded about $400 the year be- Football, track, and baseball all showed fore, but was not played in 1926. Since losses for the year 1925-26, and the net re- this year the Southern trip of the baseball sult was a debit to surplus which reduced team in Easter vacation has been abandoned, that account one-half. To meet the excess because of schedule difficulties and inabil- of cash outgo, it was necessary before the ity to obtain preliminary outdoor practice end of the year to borrow $2,000. in Brunswick. The football loss was almost entirely at- Track did not receive as much in 1925-26 tributable to a change in the method of in the way of guaranties and gate receipts handling the receipts of the Maine game, as in the preceding year. Although travel- [83] I 1 S ' >- /-S oc ts. Tt "I l/J c m o Tt i^n in in ts. SO PC PC SO "1 sq 01 •H in oo SO On in Ol M Tt (fl q X C /; 4 4 UC u~. Is ts. in 6 O OS On oi so C PC X rt X X PC SO M o OS SO M 01 X On ts. 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X in oi oi ts. oc PC oi in d d SO in in OS Tt O in On >-i On Tt X 01 o hH os rs. ts. hH PC O « 01 HH SO o sq. O ts. ts. €9- 69- PS PQ w w of < 69 69- 69- "T# On so m O O CM ts. On O >n O a* X x in pc d 01 rc in oc >-< SO PC O ts. PC CO Tt in CM « CO as - oi ts. vo m 0) X O o Tt in o o X rt O > sV (fl c PC so ts*. so so 1) X Tt o PC On rt a Tt On O ""- "I -G M '; 01 ^c so" pq 1- +j Ph CO J3 *-> O 3 rt rt < '-B ft -guo Brown dual and State meets, and the cost The summary showing for 1926-27 is of equipment increased from %6j2 in 1924- highly significant. It means that the same 25, and $1,053 in 1925-26, to $1,537. In- situation prevails here at Bowdoin that ex- come remained the same, larger guaranties ists generally in college athletics. Football and additional Blanket Tax funds being off- is the big money-maker, and must be count- set by a drop in gate receipts from $1,500 to ed on to provide funds to carry the deficits $600. The holding of the New England In- in other sport departments, both major and tercollegiate championship meet in Bruns- minor. But with us there is this impor- wick was the source of a slight loss; the tant qualification; the football profit can receipts from the meet went to the Inter- only be relied upon in the years when the collegiate Association. Maine game is played in Brunswick. In Baseball experience in the spring of 1927 the other years football will just about illustrates the uncertainties of the income break even, experience shows, and prelim- side of the budget. Revenue from attend- inary analysis of the 1927 season bears out ance at home games was only $222; in 1925 this conclusion. The Colby and Bates games it was $1,274, and in 1926 it was $644. Un- in the odd years do not in drawing power favorable weather was partly responsible and gate receipts approach the Maine game. for this drastic decline. With the abandon- Frank recognition of this situation forces ment of the Southern trip, $300 from the the Council to budget on a two-year basis. New York alumni, and $350 in guaranties The combined showing of the years 1925-26 also disappeared from the income side, and 1926-27 seems to be about what may bringing total receipts to a low figure for be expected in the future. The deficits of the period. Reduction in cost of trips, and two years in other sports will be offset by the transfer of $500 of Coach Houser's sal- football profits every other year. The Coun- [85] [ T h c B u zv d o i n A I u m n u s cil will be obliged to borrow before the end Will the steady increase in total sports of the lean year, paying off the notes in a expense continue indefinitely? Probably cash receipts of the few months from the not ; at least not at the past rate of $2,000 Maine game the following November. a year. This increase has come partly from Should the necessity of borrowing be ob- the growth of the student body and greater viated by a gradual building up of the cash participation of students in all forms of account to provide sufficient working capital athletics, and partly from increased inter- to carry through the lean years? There are est in the minor sports, notably hockey and two sides to this question. fencing. By recent vote of the student body, The Athletic Council is not organized to hockey has been accorded recognition as a make profits; it administers athletic affairs major sport, and for two years has taken for the benefit of the student body primar- a Boston trip and played more home games. ily, and is under an obligation to return to Fencing for the past two years has had the the students in equipment, coaching, and services ot competition all that is received. There a coach secured from Portland, would be no justification for a policy of and has engaged in more competition than piling up a large cash surplus for the bene- formerly. The football, track, and base- fit of future college generations at the ex- ball schedules have been pretty well stand- pense of current sports expenditures. ardized for several years, and no great in- hand, basing the budget for On the other crease in the cost of competition is to be years on the gate receipts of one game two looked for in those sports. The very de- puts all the financial eggs in one basket. sirable tendency towards universal partici- The risk of unfavorable weather the day of pation in athletics may require increased the Maine game can be insured, but con- provision for equipment, and swimming may tingencies can be imagined which might be added to the list of sports in the near lead to its cancellation, with disaster to the future, but the fact that the College has now financial program. For this reason, there is reached its maximum size must clearly much to be said for the accumulation of a serve to keep the growth of athletic ex- moderate cash reserve to serve as a back- pense within such limits that it can be cared log in the event of any unforeseen changes for from increased revenue, as heretofore. in the present situation. Over the four-year period under review, nearly $6,000 in cash A possibility of lessening expense for the was invested in bleachers without undue Council is the declaration of President Sills curtailment of sports programs, and with- in his last annual report that it is the policy out hampering the success of the teams. In of the College to take over the salaries of time, accumulated funds in excess of work- coaches as rapidly as is practicable. Track ing capital requirements might be devoted has benefited for many years from this pol- to some such purpose as the erection of the icy, and its extension would be of great as- covered hockey rink above mentioned. A sistance, to baseball particularly and to the two-year budget which estimates conserva- general sports program. But regardless of tively the uncertain income side, and which any immediate aid from this source, the leaves a small credit margin, would seem Council feels that progress has been made to be the most expedient policy for the over the last four years, that the present Council at present, and should serve to pre- condition of athletic finances is fundamen- vent a recurrence of the financial difficul- tally sound, and that the future may be ties of four years ago. faced with confidence. [86] • — < -= E © GO H [The B o w d o i n Alumnus Professor Henry B. Dewing, president of Faculty Notes Athens College, reports rapid progress in the work on the college and expects that classes will begin in the new main building President Sills spoke on "Religion and some time next fall. Education" at a vesper service in Faneuil Hall, Boston, on Sunday, February 26th, under the auspices of the National Educa- tion Association of the United States. With The Professor Frederic Brown, who is on Alumni Bodies sabbatical leave, is studying ii7 the library at Harvard University. ANDROSCOGGIN ASSOCIATION Professor Burnett represented the Col- The annual meeting will be held at the lege at a conference on religious matters DeWitt Hotel, Lewiston, on Wednesday held at Princeton University from February evening, March 28th. 17th to 19th. BOSTON ASSOCIATION Professor Hormell has written a series The sixtieth annual dinner was held at of articles on the direct primary system of the University Club on January 25th with Maine which are appearing in the Portland about two hundred in attendance. Speakers Sunday Telegram. included Ripley L. Dana '01, who was elect- ed president of the Association, President Since his return from Europe in January, Sills, President Stratton of the Massachu- Professor Henry Andrews '94 has been setts Institute of Technology, Roland E. confined to his home by an attack of typhoid Clark '01, president of the Alumni Council, fever, but is somewhat better now. and the Acting Alumni Secretary. Many fathers of undergraduates were present as guests of the Association. Kenneth S. Dean Nixon is on leave of absence and Boardman '21 was elected Secretary. is enjoying a cruise through the Mediter- ranean. On his return he plans to devote CLUB OF BOSTON his time to work on a translation of Plautus BOWDOIN for the Loeb Classical Library There was a concert by the Musical Clubs on February 25th, preceded by a Professor Gross of the Department of dinner which was well attended. At the Biology has returned from his Central meeting of March 9th Dr. Arthur E. Austin American trip bringing with him many in- '83 was elected president and John P. Vose teresting stories and photographs of the '22 was chosen secretary. birds and native life of that region. ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO Frank Cutworth Flint, a graduate of The annual dinner was held at the Union Reed College and a former preceptor at League Club on February 18th with Presi- Princeton, has come to Brunswick as in- dent and Mrs. Sills among the guests. structor in English, assisting in the depart- Clarence A. Rogers '06, president of the ment while Professor Mitchell is acting as Association, presided, and the speakers in- dean. cluded President Sills, Homer R. Blodgett [88] The B o iv d o in Alumnus] '96, Professor Arthur C. L. Brown of PENOBSCOT COUNTY CLUB Northwestern University, and Mrs. Sills, At the annual meeting at the Tarratine who spoke of the Society of Bowdoin Club on January 25th, John A. Harlow '03 Women. was chosen president and Karl R. Phil- brick '23 secretary. Professor Stanley HARTFORD ASSOCIATION Chase '05 represented the faculty and The annual meeting was held at the Uni- spoke on the new activities at the College. versity Club on January 26th with Acting Alumni Secretary Wilder representing the WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION College. Dr. Phineas Ingalls 'jj was re- An informal meeting was held on Jan- elected president and Willis G. Parsons '23 uary 28th at the Racquets Club with Dr. was elected secretary. Guy W. Leadbetter '16 presiding. There was a good attendance, several men being KENNEBEC COUNTY ASSOCIATION present from the Medical School at Johns The annual meeting was held on March Hopkins. President Sills represented the 3rd at the Augusta House. Speakers in- College and spoke on recent developments cluded Governor Brewster '09, Judge there. Charles F. Johnson '79, Ralph W. Leigh- ton '96, and President Sills. A number of CLEVELAND, OHIO potential sub - freshmen were present. President Sills met with a small group Charles A. Knight '96 of Gardiner was of Bowdoin men at the Hermit Club on elected president and Donald 0. Burleigh Monday, February 20th. There was no defi- '17 was elected secretary. nite program but considerable interest was shown by those present. NEW YORK ASSOCIATION annual meeting held on The was January Pay telephones have recently been in- Biltmore. a 27th at the Hotel There was stalled in the College dormitories. large attendance and an excellent program of speakers, including President Sills, Pro- We are indebted to the Boston Herald fessor William Lawrence '98, Dr. Al- W. for the airplane view on page 87. fred E. Burton '78, and Dr. Fred H. Albee '99. Harry L. Palmer '04 was elected pres- Coach Jack Magee has again been se- ident for the next year and Roliston G. lected as one of the staff to work with the '22 secretary. Woodbury was chosen Olympic team which will represent the United States this year. BOWDOIN CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA John A. Cone, for many years superinten- The thirteenth annual meeting of the dent of schools in Brunswick and Topsham Philadelphia Alumni Association was held and an honorary graduate of the College on January 26th at the home of Joseph A. in 1923, died on February 25th. The funeral Davis '08. There were more than sixty service in the First Parish Church was present, including the ladies. President Sills conducted by President Sills. spoke on the College and the changes that have taken place. John W. Leydon '07 was The halftone of R. D. Leigh '14, on page elected president and George Tobey Davis 66, is loaned us through the kindness of the '24 secretary. Williams Alumni Record. [89] [ T Ji e B o w d o in Alumnus News From The Classes 1857 The half-century class at Bowdoin emphasizes Rev. Albert H. Currier died on Nov. nth, 1927. the above conclusion. Of Bowdoin '77, 54 per cent of the married men have survived the 1872 fiftieth anniversary of their graduation from Harriet B. Richards, the wife of Rev. Jehiel Bowdoin, while only 39 per cent of the bachelors S. Richards, died on February 26th, at North Yarmouth, Maine. 1873 Prof. Mira B. Wilson of Smith College, daugh- ter of Rev. Frederick A. Wilson, has accepted an appointment as principal of Northfield Seminary. She will assume her office some time during 1929. She is at present director of religious and social work in the department of religious and biblical literature at Smith. 1874 Charles E. Stowe is living at 16 16 Grand Ave ,' Santa Barbara, Calif., where he is doing literary work and worthily perpetuating the memory of his distingviished parents, Harriet Beecher Stove and Calvin E. Stowe of the Class of 1824. Dr. Daniel O. S. Lowell died at the Maiden hospital on March 12th, after an illness of two 1877 Fifty Years After months. He was a graduate of the Maine Medi- are living today. The average age of the class cal School as well as of the College, but soon is 73 years, and 33 of the 66 who matriculated at after graduation went into educational work, Bowdoin with the class are still alive. being headmaster of the Roxbury Latin School in Boston for many years. He was at one time 1881 associated with the late Frank A. Munsey as Edgar O. Achorn won the handicap golf tour- an assistant editor. He was for some time pres- nament at Altamonte Springs, Fla., in February. ident of the General Alumni Association and 1887 served as Class Agent for the Bowdoin Alumni Charles H. Verrill died at Chevy Chase, Md., Fund. last month. 1876 1888 Horace R. Sturgis has presented to the Gram- William T. Hall died in Bath, Maine, on Jan- mar Schools of Augusta a cup for competition, uary 31st. His will makes Bowdoin one of the to be known as the Horace R. Sturgis Junior final beneficiaries after provisions of the will in Cup. the form of trusts have been met. Upon the 1877 death of each of the six legatees her share shall Dr. Phineas H. Ingalls has recovered from his become the property of the trustees to handle ?.s recent illness and is now able to be out. they see fit in the proportion of one-fourth to Bowdoin and three-fourths to the Bath City hos- "That the chances of a college educated man's pital. Upon the death of the last legatee the surviving the stress and strain of the modern property is to become the property of the Bath world are nearly twice as great if he marries City hospital in the proportion of three-fourths than if he remains single is the conclusion and of Bowdoin one-fourth. The president and reached by examination of the record of the half- trustees of the Bath City hospital and of Bow- century class of Princeton University. doin are appointed trustees of the will. "Forty-two per cent of the married men have survived the fiftieth anniversary of their grad- 1890 uation from Princeton, while only 25 per cent of According to orders issued in February by the the bachelors are living today. The average age Navy Department, Captain George F. Freeman of the class is 72 years, and 58 of the 152 who of Chelsea, for the past two years commandant matriculated at Princeton with the class are still of the U. S. Naval hospital on lower Broadway, alive." has been transferred to the Portsmouth, N. H. [90] The B o zv d o in Alumnus'] navy yard, where he will serve in a similar 1902 capacity. Chelsea newspaper has the following A Ben Barker and his family are passing the to say about him : "Captain Freeman, not alone winter in Miami, Fla. because he is a native of the city, but because oi his personality, is very popular with all on th* 1904 hospital reservation and has made many new Raymond J. McCutcheon is in the publishing friends about the city as well." business in Brooklyn, N. Y. 1894 Wallace M. Powers has been appointed as- sistant city editor of the Boston Transcript. He Rev. and Mrs. Albert J. Lord sailed February 25th on the Adriatic for a six months' tour has been with this newspaper since 1926. abroad. They will spend their time visiting 1905 places on the shores of the Mediterranean, in Egypt, the Holy Land, and several European Ralph P. Brown is a branch manager for the Fisk Tire countries. They expect to be in Jerusalem at Company in Portland, Maine. Easter time. This leave of absence was granted Herbert F. Cole is with the General Electric Dr. Lord by the First Congregational Church of Company in Pittsburgh, Pa. Meriden, Conn., in recognition of 25 years of Ernest Priest died in 1926 in North Vassal- service there. boro, Maine, where he had owned a farm. Rev. Robert L. Sheaff is a teacher and officer at the State School for Boys in South Portland, 1906 Maine. The engagement of Walter A. Powers and 1895 Miss Marian Gallaudet of Providence was an- nounced on March 12th. Miss Gallaudet is the Gorham H. Wood has resigned his position as granddaughter of Dr. Edward Gallaudet, the president of the Eastern Trust and Banking founder and first president of Gallaudet College Company and has become more active in Wood in Washington, D. and Bishop Company. C. 1907 1896 Bion B. John Clair Minot contributes to the March Libby is practicing law in Washing- number of the North American Review an ar- ton, D. C. ticle on "The Boston Athenaeum" which is Charles F. Thomas, Jr., has been ill in the unique among American libraries and richest of Caribou Memorial hospital recently but is re- them all in its traditions. ported as much better now. Robert O. Small, Deputy Commissioner of 1908 Education of Massachusetts, was the speaker at the March meeting of the Bowdoin Club of Bos- William J. Crowley, D.D.S., has offices on the ton. eighth floor of the Medical Arts Building, Phila- delphia, Pa. 1899 Albion W. Merrill is secretary of the Y. M. C. Representative John E. Nelson has introduced A. in Fitchburg, Mass. in the House of Representatives a bill providing that Col. Roy L. Marston be reappointed to suc- 1909 ceed himself as a member of the Board of Man- Dr. Sumner W. Jackson is practicing medicine agers of the National Homes for Disabled Volun- in Paris, France. His address is 1 1 Avenue du teer Soldiers. Bois de Boulogne. 1900 Carl A. Powers is with the Western Newspaper Union in New York City. James P. Webber of Phillips Exeter Academy will give a reading of Macbeth at Bowdoin some Ernest H. Pottle has moved to 10 Appleton time in April. Rd., Bloomfield, N. J. 1901 1910 S. Harry Coombs was the designer of the ac- J. Leland Crosby, formerly connected with the cepted plans for the memorial gate to be erected New England Telephone and Telegraph Com- at Whittier Field by the Class of 1903. pany at the Boston office, has recently been Of the four speakers at the Boston Alumni transferred to Worcester, Mass. Association dinner three were 1901 men, Ripley James F. Hamburger is now president of ihe L. Dana being president of the Association, Ro- Bowdoin Club of Boston and under his lead- land E. Clark of the Alumni Council and Ken- ership several enthusiastic meetings have been neth C. M. Sills of the College. held. [91] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus E. Curtis Matthews will start for California Henry Rowe of Old Town has recently be- the first of April, picking up Harry Woodward come Central Maine representative for Hayden, at Colorado Springs. They plan to spend a few Stone and Company. days with Henry Hawes in San Francisco. Frederick S. Wiggin is with the Cooley Finish- P. William Newman has been elected president ing Company in Pawtucket, R. I. of the Millinocket Trust Company. He is also secretary of the Eastern Trust and Banking Company in Bangor. Frank Townsend is at the present time con- nected with the Telephone Company in Canada with offices at Montreal. 1911 W. Clinton Allen is principal of the Junior School of Rye Country Day Schools in Rye, N. Y. The first publication of the Business Histori- cal Society, "The Industrial and Commercial Correspondence of Alexander Hamilton," is just off the press. It was compiled by Arthur H. Cole Bowdoin in 1820 who is assistant Professor of Economics in Har- 1914 vard University. Hebron M. Adams is engaged in the mana^;- Rev. George M. Graham is preaching in Man- ment of personally owned real estate and invest- chester, Vt. ments. George C. Kaulbach is a contract manager for Kendrick Burns has recently been made man- Ernst and Ernst in Atlanta, Ga. ager of the woodlands department of S. D. War- Frank H. Burns is an advertising represen- ren and Company. tative of the B. C. Forbes Publishing Company Francis X. Callahan is in the life insurance in Xew York City. business at Homosassa, Fla. Prof. Samuel W. Chase of the Department of 1912 Histology and Embryology at the Western Re- Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hathway announce serve .University School of Medicine in Cleve- the birth" of Richard Bradford Hathway on land, reports the birth of a daughter, Martha April i, 1927. Cowles, on Nov. 30, 1927. A son, John Waterman Joy, was born on Jan. George F. Eaton of Bangor is county attorney 5, 1927, to Mr. and Mrs. John H. Joy. for Penobscot County. Lemuel B. Fowler is field supervisor for the George H. Nichols, who is a salesman for Rand Aetna Casualty and Surety Company in Hart- Kardex Service Corp., won, through a seven ford, Conn. months' sales contest, a five weeks' trip for him- self and Mrs. Nichols through Belgium, France, Reginald A. Monroe is special agent for the and England. Standard Oil Company at Petaluma, Calif. Dr. and Mrs. Frank A. Smith of Gorham, Prof. Alfred W. Newcombe is teaching Euro- Maine, were surprised by the arrival of a party pean History and the History of Education at of their friends on the evening of January 24th, Knox College, Galesburg, 111. who came to express regret at their departure Robert T. Severance is a certified public ac- for their new home at Cumberland Mills. They countant at Buffalo, N. Y. His address is 1051 were presented with a chest filled with bills with Ellicott Square. which to purchase something for their new Robert T. Weatherill reports the birth of a home. son, Thomas Clayton, on July 20, 1927. 1913 William B. Williamson of Augusta is exten- sively engaged in the theater business in Maine Stanley F. Dole is assistant to the General and New Hampshire. Auditor of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in New York City. James P. Wright is assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Hanford, Calif. Sumner L. Pike expects to become associated with Case Pomery and Company at 60 Beaver 1915 street, New York, as vice-president sometime Joseph Rubin is sales manager of the Chicago this month. office of Brown and Bigelow. [92] The B o w d o in Alumnus] 1916 1920 Elliott S. Boardman is manager of the Sta- Miss Eleanor Allen, whose engagement to Lc- tistical Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of land M. Goodrich was recently announced, is the Boston. sister of Amos L. Allen, 2nd, of the Class of After nearly a year in Colorado, Alden F. 19 1 8, the niece of Dr. E. H. Allen of the Class Head has returned to Florida. His address is of 1885, the daughter of H. L. Allen of the Class now 341 Silver Beach Avenue, Daytona Beach. of 1883, and the granddaughter of Hon. Amos Hugh Hescock and Miss Martha A. Greenlaw L. Allen of the Class of i860, all of Bowdoin. of Presque Isle were married on February 8th m George J. Houston is in the real estate busi- that town. He is associated with a hardware ness at St. Petersburg, Fla. firm there. 1921 William D. Ireland has been appointed a mem George J. Cumming is principal of the Junior ber of the Portland Civil Service Commission. High School in Houlton, Maine. Ivan H. Yenetchi is at Daytona Beach, Fla., Gordon R. Howard is practicing medicine in this winter. Elgin, 111. 1917 Ernest E. Linsert is a first lieutenant of the Raymond F. Colby is teaching in Deerfield, U.S.M.C. and is at present on the U. S. S. Mass. Nevada. Kenneth W. Davis is teaching in Stoneham, Philip G. McLellan is an interne at the Union Mass. Memorial hospital in Baltimore, Md. Paul G. Kent is with Charles Scribner's Sons, George O. Prout is with the Western Electric Publishers, in New York City. Company in New York City. Dr. Isaac M. Webber is practicing medicine in Norman E. Sears is an explosive engineer for Portland, Maine. the Giant Powder Company in Salt Lake City. 1918 Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. St. Clair announced 'he Hugh W. Blanchard is attending Harvard Law arrival on January 31st of Jerome Hamilton St. School this year. Clair. On the back of the announcement was Alfred S. Gray is manager of the branch sales written, "We'll send our son to Bowdoin in the !" office of the Insulation Manufacturers Corpora- fall—of 1947 tion in Chicago, 111. Alexander Thompson writes that he will teach Lester F. Wallace has recently been elected a History at Wesleyan next year. director of the Chapman National Bank of Port- 1922 land. Harold Doe is a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy 1919 and is at present on the U. S. S. Gilmer. Silas F. Albert is a realtor in Grand Rapids, Edward B. Ham, Ph.D., has been elected in- Mich. His office is in the Grand Rapids Savings structor and tutor in Romance Languages at Bank Building. Harvard for three years and has been made a Clyde E. Decker is a district manager of the member of the Faculty Union Central Life Insurance Company with Rev. Kenneth R. Henley is pastor of the Maple headquarters in Clinton, Maine. Street Congregational Church in Danvers, Mass. William E. Hutchinson is an accountant with Stanley O. Northrop is an accountant and is the Kellogg Service, Inc., at 19 West 44th Street, located at Daytona Beach, Fla. New York City. Paul Ridley is a teller at the Lewiston Trv.st Milton M. McGorrill, pastor of the Norman Company, Lewiston, Maine. Park Baptist church of Chicago, is the author of Lloyd Robinson is teaching in Bridgewater, a series of sermonettes which have been printed Maine. in the Southtown Economist each week for the Evans F. Sealand is a practicing physician in past two years. He also had an article on "Has Richmond Hills, N. Y. Protestantism Failed, and Why?" printed in "The Dean H. Simpson died on Feb. 27, 1927. Baptist" in November, 1927. The Southtown Arthur T. Whitney is a senior interne at the Economist for January 18th, says: "Since com- Worcester State hospital in Worcester, Mass. ing to Southtown, the Rev. McGorrill has added 1923 scores of new members to the roster and was in- Edmund A. Albert is a practicing physician in strumental in the remodeling of the church build- Madawaska, Maine. ing to allow for a modern educational program Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Chandler announce the in the church." arrival of Richard MacDougall Chandler on Sat- Orett F. Robinson is living in Weymouth, urday, March 17th. Mass., and is attending Boston University this Edward W. Lewis is with the United Press year. in Atlanta, Ga. Duncan Scarborough is living in West Orange, Rev. Charles S. Little is pastor of a church N. J., where he is an insurance clerk. in Wiscasset, Maine. [93] [The B o w d o i n A I it m n it s Francis B. Hill, who is leaving the Portland Horace Hildreth is to be affiliated with the in- Publishing Company to take a position with a fluential Boston firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden Boston paper, was given a farewell dinner at the and Perkins. Hotel Graymore by some of his friends on March Asa M. Small is attending the night sessions oth. He was presented with a black leather of Northeastern Law School in Boston. He his brief case. recently been appointed as a member from his Geof Mason writes the following: "I'm sure class on the Dean's Advisory Council. He is you will be interested to know that as a result also a member of his class committee. of the St. Moritz Olympic Winter Sports, Too- Rev. Andrew F. Swapp is now preaching in tell has ceased to be 19-23's sole Olympic Cham- Bradford, Vt. pion. The bobsleigh crew, of which I was a Xewell E. Withey and Miss Alice L. Shaw- member, won that event for America. The other were married in Cleveland, Ohio, on Dec. 31st, American bob got second out of a field of 25." 1927. They are living at 25 West 8th Street, Xew York City. This is the 28th marriage in Mr. and Mrs. Karl R. Philbrick have a son. the class. Samuel White Philbrick 2nd, born February 2nd. Karl is now assistant treasurer and assistant 1926 secretary of the Eastern Trust and Banking Mr. and Mrs. Perry Barker have a son, Clif- Company in Bangor. ton. Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Pierce have a daugh- Charles X. Cutter is selling Automatic Coal ter, Francine, born on Jan. 16, 1928. Feeders in Boston. George D. Yarney is practicing law in Sou;h Eldon Gray will sail from Seattle on March Berwick, Me. 26th for Japan where he will be connected with Anne, the nine months old daughter of Mr. the Xational City Bank. and Mrs. Philip S. Wilder, died after a brief Arthur W. Gulliver has recently returned to illness, of pneumonia on March 5, 1928. the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to 1924 complete his engineering course. Earl W. Hohbein is with the Hartford Acci- Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Bishop are receiving dent and Indemnity Company in Xew York Ciry. congratulations on the birth of a son, Fran.:is is district manager of ihe Powers Bishop, Jr.. in February. William C. Holway fraternity jewelers, for George E. Cobb is an accountant at the State L. G. Balfour Company, School in Belchertown. Mass. Maine. X'ew Hampshire and Yermont. His head- quarters are in Augusta. Richard H. Lee will complete his legal educa- Irving R. Johnson is a graduate law student at tion at Harvard in June of this year. He will University. then be affiliated with the firm of Tyler. Fames, Cornell Wright and Hooper. James H. Oliver is now with the W. T. Grant Company in Wilmington, Del. Edward W. Rave, who is to graduate from Harvard Law School in June, has recently passed A daughter, Jean Hurlburt, was born to Mr. his bar examinations in Massachusetts. He plans and Mrs. Kenneth H. Pond on Jan. 25th, 1928. to practice with the firm of Herrick, Smith, Victor Williams is living with Stan Collins Donald and Farley in Boston. and attending the George Washington Law- Brooks Savage is a claims adjuster for the School. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in Boston. Albert Wiseman is attending Tufts Medical School. 1925 1927 Stanley Collins is studying at the George law Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Brown announce the Washington Law School in Washington, D. C. arrival of Cynthia Adele Brown on Feb. 19, He is living at 2906 Thirteenth St., N. W. 1928. Levi G. Durepo is principal of Kimball Hi.jjli Clarence L. Cole is selling International School at Rumford Point, Maine. Business Machines in the Boston district. He is Gilbert C. Greenborg is studying law at the living at 463 Audubon Rd., Brookline. Georgetown Law School in Washington. Harlan E. Glidden has recently graduated Archibald Hepworth is teaching at \\"illiston from the Philadelphia Textile School and is now Academy. East Hampton, Mass. a laboratory assistant in the General Dyestutfs Charles L. Hildreth. who graduates from Har- Corporation at 156 High St., Boston. vard Law School this year, has accepted the Robert Michie and Howard Tucker are work- offer of the Fidelity Trust Company of Port- ing with the Telephone Company in Washington, land to become a member of its legal department. D. C. [94] Bowdoin Alumni Council Term expires in 1928 ROLAND EUGENE CLARK, A.B., LL.B., President Fidelity Trust Co., Portland, Maine PHILLIPS KIMBALL, A.B. 4300 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. FRANCIS SMITH DANE, A.B. 1 Bennington Road, Lexington, Mass. THOMAS VINCENT DOHERTY, A.B. Houlton, Maine PHILIP SAWYER WILDER, B.S., Acting Secretary Brunswick, Maine Term expires in 1929 EUGENE LESLIE BODGE, A.B., LL.B. 120 Exchange St., Portland, Maine WALTER MARTIN SANBORN, A.B. Augusta, Maine JOHN WILLIAM LEYDON, A.B. 5230 Schuyler St., Germantown, Pa. CEDRIC RUSSELL CROWELL, A.B. Litchfield Rd., Port Washington, L. I., N. Y. Term expires in 1930 LYMAN ABBOTT COUSENS, A.M. 101 Vaughan St., Portland, Maine PROF. ROBERT DEVORE LEIGH, Ph.D. Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. THOMAS LEWIS PIERCE, A.M. Box 1466, Providence, R. I. STEPHEN EMERSON YOUNG, A.B., LL.B. 53 State St., Boston, Mass. HON. FRANK GEORGE FARRINGTON, A.B., LL.B., from the Boards 219 Water St., Augusta, Maine PROF. MARSHALL PERLEY CRAM, Ph.D., from the Faculty 89 Federal St., Brunswick, Maine AUSTIN HARBUTT MacCORMICK, A.M., Secretary 76 Federal St., Brunswick, Maine WASSOOKEAG •2VP- A SCHOOL CAMP FOR I Am Busy YOUNG MEN STAFF OF TEN FOR "\V7HY do you say THIRTY OLDER BOYS W that when a life insurance agent calls on PROGRAM ARRANGED you? FOR THE It may be true, but INDIVIDUAL why are you busy? It for 1. Preparation Entrance Exam- is largely because you inations. wish to make the future 2. Introduction to Courses of Fresh- secure for yourself and man Year at the College. 3. Junior College Transition Study your family. on ONE, TWO and THREE Season But the John Hancock Schedules. agent wishes to do the 4. Informal Camp Program - - All Mature Summer Sports. same thing for you. He ON THE STAFF FROM BOWDOIN: does not come to add to Lloyd Harvey Hatch, B.S. [Bow- your troubles but to lessen doin], Director. them. He has for his Formerly of the Faculties of History and Politi- commodity the security cal Science at Cornell University and Bowdoin of your future. College. Edward &> Hammond, Ph.D. Perhaps the next John [Princeton], Asst. Dir., College Hancock agent who calls Dep't. on you can answer some Present Head of the Department of Mathemat- of your problems. He ics at Bowdoin College. has the training and deals Charles E. Berry, A.B., [Bowdoin] in policies to fit the needs On the Faculty at Brewster Academy and For- merly an Assistant at Bowdoin College. of yourself and your busi- Lloyd W. Fowles, A.B. [Bowdoin] ness. On Faculty of Loomis Institute. Why Not See Him ? FOR CATALOGUE OR FURTHER IN- FORMATION CONSULT ANY OF THE ABOVE OR WRITE: Lloyd Harvey Hatch, Director Moosehorn Lodge Dexter, Maine. Life Insurance Company of Boston. Massachusetts OVER FIFTY PER - CENT of Wassookeag A Strong Company, Over Sixty Years Student-Campers prepare for Bowdoin. in Business. Liberal as to Contract, Safe and Secure in Every Way. OVER ONE THIRD OF WASSOOKEAG'S Student-Campers are on a two or three year sched- ule. ^Bm i73 if, Kjl m.mjmr~ a 'J* * 1 aS?' i Jfvn ^M WwOk^A *^**i^ wE^^ %'% wKk i 1 . ,. * m I^HMb r 1^1 ' iT* VJ mi Ij&kl THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS Member of the American Alumni Council Published by BOWDOIN PUBLISHING COMPANY, Brunswick. Maine, four times during the College year Subscription price. $1.50 a year. Single copies, 40 cents. With Bowdoin Orient. $3.50 a year. Entered as second-class matter. Nov. 21st. 1927, at the Postoffice at Brunswick, Maine, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Austin H. MacCormick '15, Editor {on leave) Philip S. Wilder '23. Acting Editor William B. Mills '29. Managing Editor Gorham H. Scott '29, Business Manager ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD Arthur G. Staples '82 Wallace M. Powers '04 Dwight H. Savward '16 William M. Emery '89 Philip W. Mlserve 'ji Bela W. Norton 'iS Wilmot B. Mitchell '90 Robert D. Leigh '14 Edward B. Ham '22 John Clair Mixot '96 Walter F. Whittikr '27 Contents for May 1928 Vol. II Xo. 4 page Table of Contexts — Inside Front Coyer "Editorial — "College Traditions" — Henry S. Chapman '91 95 Cover Prepared by Philip YV. aIeserye ii 96 Looking Forward — Commencement Plans ...... 97 A Commencement Procession — A Poem by Arthur G. Staples 'S2 . 98 Random Recollections of a Prison Investigator — Austin If. MacCormick '15 9° Congressman Hersey Eulogizes Frye '50 . 101 Commencement Through French Eyes — Edward D. Ham '22 102 Sills Completes Ten Years as President ..... 103 Twenty-Five Years in Hubbard Hall — Gerald G. Wilder '04 104 Creed of Class of 1903 Reprinted ...... "Bowdoin Beata" — Song 106 Olympic Men to Train at Bowdoin — Coaeli John J. Magec 108 Bowdoin Man Pictured in Recent Book 109 The Oldest Living Graduate — A Poem by Daniel A. Robinson '73 I II In Memoriam ...... 113 News from the Classes 115 ! ! VOLUME TWO NUMBER FOUR THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine May, 1928 College Traditions In a recent number of the Bowdoin in a group of pines somewhere behind the Orient I noticed an editorial complaint that chapel. There the coffin and the books college traditions were being set at naught were solemnly burned on a funeral pile, by certain upper classmen, who had pre- while the black robed mourners danced sumed to interfere with the well-established wildly about the blaze. There used to be a right of the Sophomores to break up the little circle of granite tombstones there, plans for the Freshman dinner by the an- each inscribed with the word "Anna" and cient method of kidnapping and holding in- the numeral of a class. Are they still there communicado, as many of the Freshmen as I wonder? they were able to lay hands on. I do not Here was a perfectly good and very pic- mean to enter on any discussion of the turesque "tradition ;" but it passed some antiquity of this tradition or of its value to half century ago, when Analytical Geom- the college ; but the item set one to wonder- etry ceased to be a required subject. Who ing what the life period of practices of this now remembers it ? Only a few silver-topped sort really is, and whether they ever attain old gentlemen — chcu fugaccs Postumc such an age as to entitle them to bear the Postumc fine old name of "traditions." In my own college days we recognized Among the white-haired alumni who will certain (so we thought) venerable tradi- march at the head of the Commencement tions. The Sophomores never dreamed of procession next June there will be some interfering with the Freshman dinner. We who can remember that amusing custom, went off gaily to Portland for that, wearing- the Burial of Anna Lytics. I can remember tall hats and carrying canes, our modern it myself, for I passed my childhood in version of the toga vivilis. But the "peanut Brunswick; and I recall perfectly the awe drunk" wr as another matter. The Freshmen with which — clinging tightly to my uncle's held —or tried to hold — that festival in hand — I watched the procession of myste- November, and laid in a bushel of peanuts rious figures in mask and gown, marching and several gallons of cider for the pur- along beneath their flaring torches, and pose, ft was always held in the dead of bearing on their shoulders the coffin, pro- night in some lonesome and solitary spot, fusely decorated with skull and cross-bones, to which the Freshmen stole singly and in which lay the books from which the stealthily, by previous arrangement. The Sophomore class had tried for a year to Sophomores were always on the watch — a extract some idea of what Analytical Geom- Sophomore slept little until the peanut drunk etry was all about. The procession ended was over; — and it was their dearest ambi- s [The Bo w d o i n A 1 u m n u tion to catch the Freshmen at their blame- exceptions apart, they still prevail rather repast, and take the peanuts and cider conspicuously among the present generation away from them. Thence proceeded much at Brunswick. May they ever do so! We warfare and some bloodshed; but it is ages can spare the ephemeral traditions of Soph- since the countryside resounded to the com- omore and Freshman rivalry, for a new motion of a peanut drunk scrimmage. crop springs up readily out of the debris From the days of Phi Chi there descend- of the old. Over the other and nobler tra- ed a tradition that Freshmen not only ditions we must set a guard. If they pass, might, but should, be "ducked" systemati- the distinction of Bowdoin passes with them. cally. It was long- the custom for the H. S. C. 91. Sophomores to line up, each with his pail of water, along the stairs of one of the COVER PREPARED BY ends and oblige the unlucky Freshman who had been selected as a victim to dash up. or PHILIP W. MESERVE '11 down, the whole three flights, doused liber- The cover of this issue ally at short range as he ran the meritless is particularly appropri- gauntlet. Not a good tradition, that, on the ate at this time as Hub- whole, though I have known the experience bard Hall was first noticeably beneficial effects in par- to have opened almost exactly ticular cases. But bad or good, it is long- 25 years ago. It is a forgotten except by those of middle age. camera study by Profes- Since then other '"traditions" have sprung sor Philip W. Meserve of vanished. mor- up. had their day and The the class of 191 1, a mem- tality among them, if the editors of the ber of the advisory edi- Orient are to be trusted, still gives un- torial board of the Alumnus. Professor easiness to the lovers of conservatism ; and Meserve was also responsible for the cover all college boys who are not considered "a on the March issue, which represented the little bit queer." are stout conservatives. Art Building steps by moonlight, and for My experience is, that ten years, or fifteen the beautiful picture of the Chapel in win- at most, is a long life for a college tradi- ter, which was used on the Alumni Fund tion of the kind I have been considering. circular sent out in the spring. After all, that means three or four college "generations." which is quite a respectable On April 26th President Sills was the age. in the eyes of youth. speaker at a noon-day luncheon of the Bos- But there are college traditions of a ton Chamber of Commerce, discussing in nobler sort, which, I hope, do not flourish his talk the place of the college man in and decay after this fashion. We have business. plenty of them at Bowdoin. I mean, of course, the traditions of a serious interest Ernest Martin Hopkins, president of in the pursuit of education, of literan cul- Dartmouth College, spoke recently at Bow- ture, of gentlemanly conduct, of fair play on doin under the Delta Upsilon Lecture Fund. the athletic field, of human and friendly re- lationship between teachers and students. The last of the series of organ recitals Whatever the cynic may say, these ideals planned by Professor E. H. Wass was have always prevailed at Bowdoin : and given in the chapel on Wednesday, May some acquaintance with conditions there 9th, by Francis W. Snow, organist of and elsewhere will convince anyone, that Trinity Church, Boston. [96] The B o zv d o i n A I u m n us] Looking Forward - Commencement Plans There is no need to touch upon the gen- headquarters in 8 Winthrop Hall and a re- eral program for Commencement Week, union dinner on Wednesday at the College for copies have been sent to all alumni, Inn. It is interesting to note that six of but two features in particular stand out for this class of thirty-five have received doc- special comment. The class of 1903, return- tor's degrees from the College. Also among ing for its 25th reunion, will at this time its numbers are Augustus F. Moulton, present to the College a new gateway to donor of the Union, and the late David W. Whittier Field, thus rilling" a needed want Snow, who gave the Snow Reunion Trophy. in a very practical sense and adding one 1878 more worthy unit to the campus. Follow- Dr. Alfred E. Burton, secretary of the 50 ing the dedication of this gateway, which year class, is in general charge of their re- will take place at 10 o'clock on Wednesday union plans, with Mr. H. C. Baxter making morning, the alumni will have an oppor- arrangements in Brunswick, where head- tunity to watch the track team of Stan- quarters will be in the College Inn, on ford University, recent spectacular winners Cleaveland Street. of the I. C. 4A. meet at .Cambridge, and A new panel for the Class of 1878 Gate- are to points many of whom expected win way is being prepared to replace the origi- for the United States in the coming Olym- nal one, which has been so weathered that pic Games next summer. These men have the inscription has quite disappeared. brought to ef- been Bowdoin through the 1883 forts of Coach Jack Magee and will train We have received no notice of the re- here until it is time to sail for the Games. union plans of the 45 year class, which The Commencement Activities Committee numbers among its members Professor of the Alumni Council, of which Thomas Charles C. Hutchins, Sc.D., but as seven- V. Doherty '95 of Houlton is chairman, has teen of the class are located in New Eng- decided to omit the clambake on Wednes- land, it is probable that there will be a day evening, but the "Class of 1794" will delegation on hand. have headquarters in a large tent near the 1888 Library and it is hoped that all members No headquarters have been selected for of non-union classes will register there on the class of 1888 but they are planning for their arrival in Brunswick. a dinner at the Portland Country Club on Plans are under way for the various class the evening of Wednesday, June 20th. All gatherings, a notable incident being the in- but one of the sixteen members of the class stitution of a one year reunion by the class have reported to the secretary, Dr. H. S. of 1927. We have had no advance news as Card, and it is hoped that nearly all of them to who can be expected from the older will attend. Mr. H. L. Shaw of Covington, classes but it is probable that the Hon. Kentucky, expects to return for the first George A. Emery, A.M., will be on hand to time since his graduation. represent the class of 1863. 1893 1873 Judge Harry C. Fabyan of Boston is in Dr. John F. Eliot of Winter Hill, Mass., charge of the 35th reunion of this class and is arranging for the 55th reunion of his has arranged for headquarters in one of class and expects about six or eight of the the dormitories. The class supper will prob- number will be on hand. They will have ably be held at New Meadows Inn. All but [97] : [The B ozv d o in A 1 u m n u s three of the twenty-one surviving members Moulton, while the general committee in- of the elass are in New England or New cludes President John B. Matthews, H. L. York City and it is expected that most of Harrington, S. L. Hanson and T. R. them will return. Stearns. Bela Norton is arousing interest 1898 in the Xew York territory with Elliott The 30 year class will have headquarters Freeman in charge of things in Maine. in Hall large is Hyde and a representation 1923 expected. Many of the men are planning President Geoffrey Mason will be in to bring their families, as was done in 1923. charge of the 5 year reunion activities with John F. Dana and Alfred B. White are ar- his committee, including P. S. Wilder, Karl ranging for the reunion and have made Philbrick. and F. B. Hill. Headquarters plans for a class dinner at Dingley Island. will be in a tent near the Delta. Costumes 1903 are being arranged for and it is expected The 25 year class has made elaborate that the class will make itself heard on plans for its reunion, with Clement F. Rob- the campus. inson of Portland as secretary and a com- 1927 mittee including President Leon V. Walker, The first one year reunion in the history E. F. Abbott, Luther Dana, Samuel B. Gray, of the College will have its headquarters and Thomas C. White. Plans include a in 17 Maine Hall. An efficient committee dance at the Burnett's Play House on Mon- has been in touch with the class and many day evening, an all-day get-together on of the men are planning to come back. Tuesday at the Auburn Colony, dedication of the 1903 Gateway to Whittier Field on Wednesday morning, and a stag dinner that A Commencement Day Procession evening with a party for the ladies at the The shuffle of the steps that pass same time. Headquarters will be in Hyde Is like the idling wind, upon the meadow grass. Hall and a very large representation is The procession's head is like an old design expected. Drawn on some parchment, in a wavering line. 1908 Albert T. Gould of Boston, who has been From sire to son. it moves across the lawns And Lo ! at last — a group of dancing fauns. chosen as Commencement Marshal, is or- ganizing the 20th reunion of his class, but Pine-needles whisper as it winds its way no definite notice has been received as to "We are renewed with each recurring day." the program. Birds ask softly "Tell us, pray, the Truth 1913 Are not WE the only symbols of eternal youth?'' The 15 year class will have its head- Xot so — for cuddled softly into aged arms quarters in rooms 1 and 3, Maine Hall. Or. step by step, hand-clenched to withered palms Arrangements are being made by Secretary Luther G. Whittier of Farmington and Goes Youth, obedient to eternal laws Lawrence W. Smith of Brunswick. Brave, glorious lad — the lad that once he was. 1918 A. G. S. '82. As usual, the 10 year class will have its headquarters over Young and Short's store Hon. John C. Hull '92, speaker of the and expects to hold its class banquet on Massachusetts House of Representatives, Wednesday evening. Costumes are being has recently declared himself a candidate arranged under the direction of A. Otis for lieutenant-governor. [98] The Bo w d o i n A I u m n u s ] Random Recollections of a Prison Investigator AUSTIN H. MacCORMICK, A.M., 1915 A hundred and ten prisons and reforma- mixed up in the scrape with me. Kow long tories for adults. Over a hundred thousand does that mean? From now on." men and women doing time. Somebody Getting my head cropped at Portsmouth counting them three or four times a day. in 1917. Trying to teach Freshman Eng- The dummy in the Sing Sing cell holding lish with dignity afterwards. Making a newspaper before its face, being counted brooms at Thomaston in 1915. The grub at every hour by a guard throughout the 12 cents a day and the bed-bugs. The cell night, in spite of the fact that the cell was 3 feet, 10 inches wide. The cells at Sing too dark for any man to read a newspaper. Sing 3 feet, 3 inches wide, occupied by The non-escapable cells at Joliet, from two men. The sweat-boxes 3 feet square which two men escaped the first week. The in Florida. The cage-wagons in the South- man who escaped by having himself covered ern road-camps. The wide-open farm up in a load of hot ashes. Hoppe, who dug prisons in Louisiana and Mississippi, guard- himself out of the death cell in Vermont ed by prisoners carrying rifles. Chain- with a broken spoon. The same Hoppe, gangs, stripes, blood-hounds, the lash and awaiting hanging in Connecticut on the the stocks in the South. Uncle Bill, new gallows that Gerald Chapman broke chained to a post for seven years in the - Georgia prison. The half-naked men in the in. The Connecticut death house : two ropes hanging from the ceiling, two black punishment cells in Arizona. Mice and hoods lying in the corner — "We bumped a gopher-snakes in the dark cells in Nevada. coupla guys off this morning and haven't Men in the dark cells for 40 days at San had time to clean up yet." The haunted Quentin. The fine educational and medical face of the man in Nebraska, going to the program at San Quentin. The real reason chair next day, after having his execu- for the riot at Folsom. The Folsom prison- tion postponed about once a month for the er making S1200 a year writing fiction for past two years. Roy Gardner, the famous "True Confessions." The bogus confes- train robber, playing crazy in the hope of sion on which Jesse Murphy beat a charge getting a chance for his third escape. The in Pennsylvania. Meeting Jesse later, do- automatic gallows in Idaho, made so that a ing double-life at Marquette — "I get spells man hangs himself. The lethal gas chamber and when I get one I usually kill a couple in Nevada, like an ordinary hen-coop in of cops." appearance. Execution by rifle fire in Utah. Idle prisoners in Montana, shooting The general inefficacy of capital punish- marbles in the yard all day. Idleness in New ment. Difficulty of conviction where there Jersey and Pennsylvania. Semi-idleness in is death penalty. Hotelling, the Michigan dozens of prisons. The hustling shops in church elder, sentenced to life imprison- the Minnesota prison. The silence rule and ment before the newspapers had time to hard-boiled discipline there. The crowded, make a hero of him. The "solitary" cell- badly lighted shirt-shop in Missouri. The house at Marquette, where he will do life. "idle company" in Ohio, with hundreds of Ryan, the 22-year-old double-lifer, doing his men sitting in absolute idleness all day long. third year in "solitary" there — "They'll The ancient jute-mill at San Quentin. The keep me in solitary until I tell who was excellent road-work there, The fine prison [99] [ T Ii e B o w d o i 11 A I u in n it s farm in Vermont. Ex-farmers and cow- in New York. Yclma West, the hammer hands running sewing machines in the murderess, fainting when her arm was shirt-shops in Wyoming and Idaho. Four- pricked for a blood test. The Dotty Dimple and-twenty yeggmen buttoning up children's books the warden gets for feeble-minded B. Y. D.'s in the underwear factory in Celia Cooney. the first of the bobbed-hair Maryland. The dye-house at Clinton, so bandits. The negro woman lifer with her two-year-old boy, born in prison, in Missis- full of steam you can't see a man four feet away. The Bear Brand hosiery factory in sippi. The little suit of stripes some pris- the Wisconsin prison. Contract shirt-shops oner made for him. The father doing life with a hundred different labels all the way in the same prison. from Maine to Oregon. The prevalence of Negroes shooting crap during the chapel women's trades in men's prisons. The exercises in Tennessee. The "Free" Bap- strangle hold that organized labor and asso- tist church inside the Missouri prison. The ciated manufacturers have on prison in- 28 colored preachers doing time there. The dustry. The pretty bills the tax-payers pay constant cutting scrapes wherever there are in consequence. negro prisoners. Knives made from files. Three hundred drug- addicts, in stripes, The ''scientific" black-jack given me by a locked up in the basement in Missouri, with- lifer. The lack of anything', in many out exercise. A thousand narcotic users prisons, to give a man something to think and peddlers at Atlanta. The over-crowd- of besides hell-raising. The good effect on ing and idleness in the Federal prisons. morale and discipline of movies and base- The fine new Federal institution for women ball in prisons. Their adoption in even the at Alderson. West Virginia. Will Rogers' hardest boiled prisons for that reason. letter to the Atlanta parole board in behalf The lack of psychological and psychiatric of a former associate: "I never knew a work in most prisons. The problem of sex bronk buster that was good for anything perversion. ''Gal-boys" and "wolves." The else, but he asked me to write you." The constant release of men who should never effect of politics on prisons everywhere. be at large. Twenty year old prisoners do- How to buy a pardon from Jim Ferguson ing life as habitual offenders under the in Texas. The brakeman who was made Baumes laws. ''Indeterminate" sentences of head of a big Southern prison. The former 175 to 199 years in Arizona. Men doing cop who became warden in Xew Jersey. "life, and ten years." The Arkansas prison- The psychopathic warden in Ohio. The er, a trusty, doing four life sentences — not bunk-shooter who is warden of a big Xew concurrently. Our unscientific method of York prison. Eleven wardens in ten years sentence and release. The Miami gamblers, in Oregon. The excellent warden at the earning protection by serving on the juries. Western Pennsylvania Pen. The inadequacy of most parole systems be- Jesse Pomeroy's bum eye. the result of cause of the small and underpaid staffs. trying to blast his way out of a heavy stone Paroled men in Arkansas, returning to the cell at Charlestown with dynamite. Sadism, prison voluntarily rather than work longer from Pomeroy to Harry Thaw. Our fool on a farm owned by the lieutenant-gover- method of letting a jury of laymen decide nor. Men who make good in spite of whether a man is insane or not. The deputy everything. warden's description of Yanzetti as a gentle The excellent women's institutions in philosopher. His description of the Sacco- Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and else- Yanzetti execution. The woman with a where. The Delaware prison, run almost face like a madonna, doing life for murder without guards. The prisoner police force [ 100] The B o ZV d o i n A I u in n u s ] and court at Auburn and Sing Sing. Four and carrying the American flag. [Ap- guards and 2600 prisoners at Portsmouth. plause.] It was his dream that this Nation The effect of Thomas Mott Osborne's life should have a merchant marine which on American penology. His influence would carry all of our products and all of abroad. Changes of the past twenty years. our manufactured goods to all parts of the Century old prisons still in use. Elizabethan world in ships carrying the American flag ideas still in force. Growing emphasis on and that all the valuables, all the gems, and the idea that prisons exist to turn out good all the beautiful things from every other citizens. The differences of opinion as to nation should come to this country under how it can best be done. The thoughtful the American flag. books being written on the subject. The William P. Frye, while in the House and awful bunk in the newspapers and maga- in the Senate, had in his office in Wash- zines. The need of proper industries, edu- ington a little boy, a bright youngster who cational work, real discipline, competent had been well schooled and well trained by officials, decent living conditions, scientific his grandfather, whom he loved and looked study of the individual prisoner, permanent up to with veneration. He was here many segregation of a large group, intelligent and years serving in the House and the Senate, adequate supervision and assistance for with his grandfather as his helper. those paroled or discharged, and freeing of Then William P. Frye died in the Senate, the whole prison system from politics. in harness, with all the honors of his years of toil upon him. Yet he looked upon his life as a failure because he did not get his CONGRESSMAN MERSEY American merchant marine. EULOGIZES FRYE '50 Now, the years have slipped by. Wil- liam P. Frye stands among the immortals The following remarks of Ira G. Hersey. today. There is but a thin veil between the representative to Congress from the Fourth seen and the unseen, and if today he could Maine District, should interest all Bowdoin look down upon this House where he served men. They appeared on page 8201 of the he would see that boy, his grandchild, in current Congressional Record. the person of Wallace White (Bowdoin Mr. Hersey. Mr. Chairman and mem- '99.) [Applause.] William P. Frye was bers of the committee, I have something of the chairman of the Committee on Com- great interest to say to you at the present merce, which takes the place of the Com- time in the matter of this bill. Maine holds mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. among her greatest statesmen the late Wil- Wallace White is occupying his grandfath- liam P. Frye (Bowdoin '50). For 10 years er's place today as the chairman of the he served this House faithfully. Then for Committee on the Merchant Marine. He 30 years he occupied a seat, with great dis- has taken the torch out of the hands of his tinction, in the Senate of the United States. grandfather and is today bearing it to vic- During the last 20 years of his service tory, because we are to have an American there he was its Presiding Officer. merchant marine. [Applause.] The dream it was the dream of William P. Frye of William P. Frye has come true. Maine while in the House and in the Senate that has noted the fight which has been made to this Nation should have an American mer- carry out the dream of her hero and her chant marine that would carry our flag on statesman. Today his dream has come true. every sea and under every sky, manned by "Where the vanguard camps today the rear American officers, owned by Americans, shall rest tomorrow." [Applause.] [IOI] [The Bo w d o i n Alu m n u s Commencement Through French Eyes EDWARD BILLINGS HAM, Ph.D., 1922 An opportunity to read a European's was not merely a spectator, but actually took impressions of Bowdoin should always be part in them. The president and the coun- welcomed by members of the College, par- cil of the university, the Board of Trustees, ticularly in this instance, as these have had invited me to receive the insignia of an been written by an eminent professor of honorary doctorate ('Litt.D.') in company literature at the Sorbonne. It will be re- with several notables of New England, membered that in 1925 M. Edmond Esteve among them Miss Alice Longfellow, daugh- gave a most pleasing lecture on Longfellow ter of the poet. The ceremony took place in France at the Bowdoin Institute of Liter- in the college church, to which we marched ature, and that he received the degree of in procession. It began with a prayer and Doctor of Letters at Commencement in the ended with a benediction. It lasted two same year. solid hours, in the course of which we M. Esteve served at Harvard in 1925 as heard half a dozen speeches. Then we pro- exchange professor from France, and since ceeded to the banquet hall. The table of his return to Europe he has been a member honor was set upon a high platform. Ar of the faculty of letters at the Sorbonne. our feet, huge tables of former students He occupies a distinguished position among extended out at right angles to our own. research scholars in French literature. About nine hundred were present, ranging In 1926 M. Esteve published in the from twenty-five years of age to seventy memoires de VAcademic dc Stanislas an es- and more, and grouped by classes. Every say entitled La vie univcrsitaire aux £tats- five minutes one of these groups would rise Unis. He has commented interestingly on as if a spring had been applied to it, and the physical aspect of the American colleges at the top of their voices would bellow out which he visited, on American general edu- their class song, interrupted with hoarse cation as contrasted with French methods, onomatopoeias and loud hurrahs, after on athletics, endowments, alumni funds, which they would sit down again. When alumni clubs, commencements, and university everyone had despatched* the lobster salad, organization. He speaks of visits to "small chicken salad, and ice cream, which in these Universities like Bowdoin, which has only banquets take the place of our filet with five hundred students, but which prides it- Madeira wine sauce or our turbot with self on more than one hundred and thirty mayonnaise, the series of speeches began years of existence (in the United States, again. There were seven or eight which that is a past), and which, in 1925, was cele- were all roundly applauded. Twice the en- brating the centenary of two of its most thusiasm bordered on delirium. The first glorious sons, the novelist Hawthorne and time was when the explorer MacMillan, the poet Longfellow." alumnus of the class of 1898, described to M. Esteve devotes a page to the Bowdoin his fellow graduates the purpose and meth- commencement, — description for which the ods of his expedition to the North Pole, for following translation is offered (English which he proposed to start, and in fact did words included in the French text are start, two days later; the second time was italicized below) : when President Sills, explaining the moral "I attended Bowdoin's Commencement and financial condition of the university, Pay ceremonies from beginning to end. 1 announced that the class of 1875, in honor [ 102] 8 The Bowdoin A I u m n u s ] of the fiftieth anniversary of its gradua- SILLS COMPLETES TEN tion, was making a gift of $50,000 to the YEARS college. In order to understand thoroughly AS PRESIDENT the full eloquence of this figure, one must May 14th, 1928, realize that Bowdoin is a university which marked the tenth an- rigorously limits the number of its students niversary of the elec- to five hundred, chosen with care ; that each tion of Kenneth C. M. class, consequently, averages only 125 indi- Sills as president of vidual members; that among these 125 the College. It is in- members absence and death in the course teresting to note the of fifty years must have cut many inroads." changes which have Concerning American examinations and taken place in these degrees, M. Esteve observes that "questions ten years. are set which require scarcely more than Of the Board of an effort of memory" on the part of the Trustees who elected the president in 191 student. If the student "is faithful (they but three remain, Hon. William T. Cobb, are as a rule, and that is seen to), there is LL.D., of Rockland, Franklin C. Payson, no reason why he should not obtain the LL.D., of Portland, and Hon. Charles F. r bachelor's degree, — which will permit him Johnson, LL.D., of W aterville. Of the thenceforth to have his name followed by forty-five Overseers at that time nineteen those cabalistic initials B.A. or B.S., by are still in service, although several others which it will be indicated to all that he has have been elected to the Board of Trustees. received a liberal training and that he is Fifteen faculty members have continued to an educated man." serve the College during this period. In numbers the College has grown from Lord Dunsany, famous Irish poet and about 340 to nearly 550 men and its growth playwright, spoke at the College recently as has now been checked by administrative first lecturer under the Tallman Fund, ruling to "about 500 students." The Medi- choosing as his subject "The Arts and cal School of Maine, closely connected with Life." This fund of $100,000 was given to Bowdoin at that time, was discontinued at the College by F. G. Tallman of Wilming- the Commencement of 1921. The endow- ton, Delaware, in memory of the members ment of the College has increased from of his family who attended Bowdoin. It about $2,602,300 to $4,949,000, an increase will be used to bring to the College visiting of $2,346,700, and during the last year there lecturers and professors, preferably from have been material developments in the abroad, and will normally add one full time form of a new swimming pool, a playing professor to the faculty each year. field, and a fine chapel organ, while a L'nion building, badly needed since the destruction Rapid progress is being made on the new by fire of the old one in 1920, is now under playing field, the work having been helped construction. by a gift of $1,000 from the Bowdoin alumni of New York City. Two of the new Numbered tables will replace the frater- tennis courts are in use and six more will nity booths at the Commencement dance probably be ready by next fall. In addition this year and provision will be made for to the varsity baseball field a second tract group reservations. These tickets will be has been graded for use in interfraternity on sale at the gymnasium throughout the games. afternoon of Tuesday, June 10th. [103] s [The Bo w d o i n A I u m n u Twenty-Five Years in Hubbard Hall GERALD G. WILDER '04, Librarian A quarter of a century in a space about ten feet square, for the ago this month the doors handling of books reserved by instructors of Hubbard Hall were for required reading in the various courses. first unlocked to the pub- The problem of reserved books had grown lic with simple but digni- and forced itself into the forefront during fied ceremony. A few the last twenty years and Bowdoin was com- minutes before, Profes- pelled to follow the other colleges in placing sor Leslie A. Lee and these books behind a counter in charge of the present Librarian, an attendant. then an undergraduate The greatest material change that a visi- assistant in the Library, tor of 1903 would notice is the transforma- it door ; and when had stolen in by the side tion of the Alumni Room into a students' Library was open was announced that the reading-room. This large room, at the discovered for service, Professor Lee was eastern end of the second floor has been the desk having the standing in front of fitted up with rugs, comfortable chairs, and culprits first book charged to him. The portable lamps, and such books of ancient rather unfair admitted that they had taken and modern times, in attractive but not the professor advantage of the officials, but expensive editions, as one would expect to less, and the student enjoyed it none the find in the private library of a man of to the punishment some- was not treated culture. Here the student who is so fortu- unlawful use of times meted out for the nate as to have already formed the reading- a key. habit may come and spend his spare hours of Hub- r In 1903 the external appearance w ith good books in pleasant surroundings, and bard Hall was the same as it is today, and here the student who has not already within the even with all the changes made formed the reading habit may hope to find few building, a visitor of 1903 would notice a greater incentive for so doing than any- standpoint of changes today. From the where else about the campus. new construction all additions have fitted In the last twenty-five years the number in so well that they would never be noticed. of volumes in the Library has almost ex- In the stack' a fifth floor has been added, actly doubled; the expenditures for books providing space for many thousands of and periodicals has trebled ; and the amount volumes. In the basement a room as large of work handled and service rendered has as the first-floor periodical room has been vastly increased, though no deprecation of equipped as another periodical room, — con- the service rendered in the earlier period venient with tables, lights, and chairs, and is here meant or implied. The direction of capable of housing twice as many volumes the affairs of the Library was then such as as the older room above. In the first-floor may be compared with any period, and only periodical room, display space has been pro- those who have had a long and intimate vided for double the number of current acquaintance with its history can appreciate periodicals, — partly ofTset by the inconsid- how well the foundations were laid. erateness of publishers in increasing the size of magazines. In the main reading- Twenty-five years in Hubbard Hall ! The room a new counter has been built, taking building was skillfully designed, and has [ 104] s The B o w d o i n A I u m n u ] met the needs of a changing quarter-century CREED OF CLASS in every respect. But, what of the future? OF 1903 REPRINTED Is it not reasonable to look ahead as well of the as backward? It seems fitting that at the time should Twenty-five years from now the building 25th reunion of the class of 1903 we publish the creed prepared and accepted by will be crowded, to say the least; that it that class at the time of their graduation. will be inadequate is perhaps not saying too It was compiled by President Hyde from much, — and it will then be only fifty years material contributed by the members of the old. And, there is something challenging class individually and thus represents the in the thought. composite ideas of the entire group. Bowdoin has often boasted that the "I believe in nature as Library is the center of the College, and in one God, present has pointed with just pride at Hubbard law, in science as truth, in art as beauty, in history as justice, in society as sympathy, Hall, but occasionally it has seemed that in conscience as duty, and supremely in Christ as our highest ideal. I believe in the Bible as the expression of God's will thru man ; in prayer as the devotion of man's will to God; and in the church as the fellowship of those who try to do God's will in the world. I believe in worship as the highest in- spiration to work; in sacrifice as the price we must pay to make right what is wrong; in salvation as growth out of selfishness into service; in eternal life as the survival of what loves and is lovable in each indi- vidual, and in judgment as the obvious fact that the condition of the gentle, the gener- Side Entrance of Hubbard Hall ous, the modest, the pure, and the true is always and everywhere preferable to that the "center of the College" was allowed to of the cruel, the sensual, the mean, the pursue a drifting policy. Of late, however, proud, and the false." the Library has come, or is coming, into its own, and a greater interest is being ex- Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, president of pressed by a larger number of people. It is St. Stephen's College, Annandale-on-the- not too much to expect that the momentum Hudson, New York, was recently at Bow- now gained will carry on. It is not idle to doin as college preacher. He is well known think of a greater Hubbard Hall in 1953. as an author and lecturer on religious and The original plan of the architect, Henry educational subjects and has preached at Vaughan, provided for the almost indefinite Amherst, Columbia, Cornell, Chicago, Har- expansion of the building, the first new unit vard, Princeton, Vassar, Wellesley, Wells. being a wing the same size as the present Williams, and Yale. main building, placed so as to cross the end of the present T, thus forming the letter H. Edward Fox Dana '29, son of John F. Is it mere chance that these are the initials Dana '98, has been chosen editor of the of Thomas Hubbard? Orient for the coming year. [105] \ T h e B o w d o i n A 1 u m n u s *"* jSoUCONO SSgoGw *"~ " " ^txc* 96 t Ai r UoKt 2frtfcWuv u3aLW3 ^We&rcto- ^ ('Wtelofcji .o-- r-erjr") k Sis& .v 3CZ ^ ^ ^SEE^I^ j|p fr^f h h h 5^5 ^ j^M ^ / w v W V pp=6 • • f 1 -!' . J J H L f Ji Ht tt f,f,t, t ! J • • • !» • l—• • • & 1*-| ff^Tu — i» ft— — W —zt~ j | | CrtoRus. ypr-if^ i^^ » ?wf \> S H h h S i»—9- M j> 4 i 1- & rilr f,iy^^>PfiM$^,-l^.f?i W fc frH ?V^ W H ilt. i *H UUi rwf f & 1 fr frfr ivi^^Uii (Arranged for Male Voices) [l 6] ! : The Bo w d o in A I u m n u s ] Sotufcom Irata When bright skies were o'er us. With heartfelt emotion. And life lay before us, And deathless devotion. 'Xeath Bowdoin's Pines we gathered far and near. We'll send our sons to Bowdoin in the fall. So filling our glasses. And pledging all classes. When age, gray and hoary. We drink a health to Alma Mater dear. Has filled out our story. The tender menvries swelling back again. Chorus Loyal forever, Clink, clink, drink, drink, drink Until death shall sever. Smash the glass in splinters when you're done. One glass to Alma Mater we shall drain. Bowdoin Beata, O dear Alma Mater. So Comrades, together. There is no fairer mother 'neath the sun. In fair or foul weather. Your glasses fill to Bowdoin and her fame. When manhood has found us. For where'er we wander And children surround us. Stronger and fonder Our college days and friends we'll still recall. The tend'rest ties shall cling about her name. I h i Hv !' >.i !>- ^ » ^ =B f k om issfcfafc"^. 2 I E ^4^4mm (Simple Piano Arrangement) [ 107] [The Bo zv d o i n A I u m n u s Olympic Men To Train at Bowdoin JOHN J. MAGEE , Coach of Track The Stanford University track team of with Ross Nichols, the intercollegiate high Palo Alto, California, will be the guests hurdle champion, reputed as being one of of Bowdoin College from June nth until the leading hurdlers of America, whose July 4th. It is their plan to reside here at best time over the sticks is 14 3-?, but one- the several fraternity houses and do all fifth second from the world's record; also their training on our track and in our indoor Charlie West, Stanford's best low hurdler, gymnasium until immediately prior to the will make up the personnel of the track final Olympic tryouts, which will be held team. at the Harvard Stadium July 6th and 7th. In the field events is where Stanford has Stanford has the best aggregation of track shown its supremacy over the best college r and field athletes in the United States. teams in the East and W est. In Eric Krenz, Stanford boasts of the best college shot- putter and discus-thrower in this country, ^kii^k having at the last Intercollegiates at Har- vard established a new record in the 16 lb. shot put with a put of 50 feet, 1 inch, and following this great feat up with another record breaking throw with the discus by creating a new mark measuring 154 feet, n inches, just a few feet shy of the world's record. H. P. Rothbert is about the equal of Krenz in the shot event, taking second place in the Stadium meet with a heave of 4 50 feet, 1-2 inch. Both of these great ath- letes were the first to put the metal sphere over fifty feet in the I.C.A.A.A.A. competi- tion. Leo Kibby, the Western javelin cham- pion, has a throw of 198 feet to his credit. Ward Edmonds is a positive Olympic con- Coach "Jack" Magee tender in the pole vault, having soared to They are coming here fresh from their re- the height of 13 feet, 9 inches in compe- cent victory in winning for the second con- tition. Kimball Dyer is one of the best secutive year the I.C.A.A.A.A. Champion- college broad jumpers and recently took ship. Among these wonderful athletes are second place in the championship meet several potential Olympic winners. These with a jump of 24 feet, 5 7-8 inches. Close men will work out each day on the Bow- up is Fred Zombro who is also good for doin track according to the plans of their over 24 feet. coach, "Dink" Templeton, and arrangements It would be a splendid tribute to the have been made for the entire squad to ex- Stanford coach and these wonderful ath- hibit their skill before the Alumni Wednes- letes for the Alumni to gather immediately day morning, June 20th, at 10.30. after the dedication of the new Memorial Captain Emerson Spencer, one of the Gateway to show their appreciation for leading quarter-milers of the country, with the efforts of these prospective Olympic a record of 474-5 for the distance, along champions. [108] The B o w d o in Alumnus] Bowdoin Man Pictured in Recent Book The following story is taken bodily from der some articles in his copies of Emerson's the pages of "The Locomotive God"* by "Dial" along with the initials of the other Dr. William Ellery Leonard of the Univer- contributors, unknown even to scholars sity of Wisconsin and is used with the per- today. An old volume of his sermons, "The mission of the author and publishers. It Rod and the Staff," may still be picked up was recently read at a college chapel ser- in the dark back shelves of Boston's second- vice by Professor Stanley P. Chase '05. hand book-stores. But he was one who worked chiefly through others. You will There was one old man who never went find, if you know what I know, Dr. Stone to the blacksmith shop. He never went in Emerson's Essays, in Hawthorne's anywhere. He sat all a summer's day in Stories, in Whittier's Poems, in all the the cottage porch behind the woodbine, all prosemen and poets of the Great New Eng- a winter's in a little study bedroom, on land Period. And I would like to think the ground floor before his wood-stove . . . that my friends will find something of him reading the Psalms in Hebrew and Plato in my own books. He was the one inti- in Greek ... or the "Odyssey" ... or mate friend that the seventeen-year-old boy Sophocles. With his widowed daughter who had in Bolton. His one bodily infirmity, had married late, and Ella the golden child. except a slow and cautious step and the He had been the village pastor a generation drowsiness that sent him to bed at eight before, during the Civil War, after he had o'clock (with "Good night, my children," been dismissed, as an Abolitionist, from the 10 all the folks in the parlor, though aged Unitarian pulpit of witch-hanging Salem. sixty and seventy years), was his extreme He had come into this world three years deafness, which he mitigated before Emerson, and graduated from Bow- by no ade- quate apparatus. But so long as I could doin College a year before Hawthorne and frame tolerably astute questions, Longfellow had matriculated. At ninety- distinctly and loudly enough for him to three and four he was certainly one of the hear, his deafness did not matter. It was for him most extraordinary creations of spirit and to talk, not for me. One question was often flesh since the human race began. Old Age enough to start a whole afternoon. If I was never more awesome, more beautiful. had had the enterprise of Boswell or young A quiet little man, but unbent, with ruddy Edward Bok, I could have written out and cheeks, and narrowed eyes still bright and marketed his talks. Talks about cheery behind their moistness, under the Washing- ton, just as he had in his own boyhood lids that were closing but had not yet questioned the veterans of the closed; with a thin crinkly beard and long Continen- tals; about the Constitution and the Cucr- iron-gray tresses unshorn over his shoul- riere, Waterloo, Monroe Doctrine, Missouri ders. Scholar, Saint, Prophet. Dr. Thomas Compromise, Monterey, John Brown — like Treadwell Stone was the last of the authentic interviews with the dead beyond Transcendentalists. His name will be found the unforded River. Vivid in concrete de- in old books about the movement, as O. B. tail, and in the settings of a philosophy of Frothingham's History; his initials in his history. Advice on study: "The secret of own small scholar's hand will be found un- learning a language is perpetual review." Talks about Shelley, talks about his talks "The Locomotive God," by William Ellery with Dana the elder, Leonard, Ph.D. The Century Company; 1928. on Byron before [ 109] [ T h e B ozv d o in Alum n u s Byron himself had died. Critical compari- in autumnal dusk lying on his back on the sons between the "yEneid" and "Paradise boardwalk between cottage porch and street Lost." Arguments for the unity of the gate. I ran in, thinking him dead. He said "Iliad." The eternal message of Plato. The apologetically : "I came out to look at the significance of Coleridge's prose for the moon, and I lost my balance." And he was New England Transcendental Movement. still looking at the moon . . . cane fallen Talks about walks with Emerson to visit beside him . . . time enough for somebody Thoreau at Walden . . . about a two hours' to pick him up ... sitting or standing or ride in a closed carriage with the shy and lying, what difference did it make between cloaked Hawr thorne where there was no him and the Oversold? He left the gate talk at all. Talks about Emerson's talks just once. The Worcester Conference of with him about Thomas Carlyle . . . regret Unitarian Parishes was meeting at Bolton. over his one disagreement with "the good My father guided his steps up the adja- man Emerson" — on the matter of transla- cent hill, through the portico, into the lofty tions versus the originals : "Yes, I would pulpit. He gave his last public message tell Emerson there is no knowing Greeks . . . standing . . . without notes . . . with without knowing- Greek." With Whittier Isaiah's seraphic coal touching his lips. he always used the Quaker speech, but was Perhaps three hundred heard him, country careful, he said, to improve the Quaker parsons and delegates and Boltonites, as grammar, — "thee," but not "thee" when it compared with the thirty or fifty millions should be "thou." He was fond of remi- who have listened to Coolidge or Bryan niscent anecdotes about eccentric obscure — the Rotarians, Fundamentalists, Repub- folk whose bodies were sixty years under licans, and Democrats. What has great- the sod . . . old college teachers, old-time ness to do with fame in a world incapable parishioners, or fellow-pastors. Fond of of knowing and using greatness? Noise anecdotes about himself — how, for in- is for the noisy . . . and the noisy are the stance, on his parish rounds in the bibulous world. A year before our coming to Bol- and social thirties, he had to resort to ruses ton, he had made his last voyage out into to avoid too many sips of the cup which the contemporary earth. It was to Bow- cheers because it inebriates. He would be- doin's commencement, as the oldest alum- gin with a ventriloquist chuckle, as if the nus, as the sole survivor of the class of far echo of the mirthful noise of the orig- 1820. As he told me about it, I thought inal comedy ; then his body would begin to that Longfellow's "Morituri Salutamus" shake, as if the old ribs would spring loose somehow lost something of its venerable from the spine, and the tears would stream pathos and dignity. When back home dur- down his cheeks; and then at last the out- ing my freshman year in college, I shouted burst of good laughter, yes, with some res- to him as best I could something of my onance, not an old man's cackle. I subse- vita nuova, for he wanted to know all about quently rimed one of these anecdotes, and it. Then one day he said to my father, it made my first poem in legitimate print, "I feel as if someone were taking the light "Parson Moody's Prayer," in the "Cen- away from me." My foreboding father tury's Lighter Vein," sometime in 1899. He came home, himself whiter-haired than Dr. never repeated himself, never lost the Stone, with troubled eyes. So Goethe had threads of narrative or reasoning. Noth- said, "Mehr licht — tlic light, the light!" ing could perturb him ... he was at one He lay in bed only three days. He wanted with the Universe of Plato and Emerson, to see me. I came. An eighteen-year-old one with the Pervading Spirit. I saw him college freshman. He had a solemn mes- [no] ; The Bowdoin A I u m n us] sage for me, on his back, half-rising from There's no doubt but he was smart For even his "Junior Part" the pillows. For me, not for my father, Made a hit. or for Emerson. Clear-headed, clear- spoken, resolute, majestic, but deluded by a All the facility have said That he never "took a dead" cruel echo in his brain. People, he thought, In the class. were defaming him ; for the first time in When he couldn't "make a sail" ninety-four years mankind was questioning Still he'd "boned" too much to fail So would pass. his integrity. He would not, he could not bring himself to say what. But : "When I Quite a deal of time he found To beau "college widows" round am dead, Ellery, go to Bowdoin, go to Pres- Senior year. ident Hyde — I am leaving Bowdoin my li- So that on commencement day brary — go and tell him it is all a lie, a lie, You could hear those ladies say "Such a dear !" a lie. Tell him that, for all these seventy- four years, I have never done or said any- Now he walks the campus o'er thing to shame my alma mater." I tell But more slowly than before And alone. Bowdoin, I tell all the colleges and univer- But his zest is just as keen sities of the land. Has Bowdoin such loyal For "this old familiar scene" As our own. lovers today . . . has Harvard, has Wis- consin? ... To live ninety-four years in Though the sun in gladness shines spiritual peace . . . only to die in spiritual Yet he walks "beneath the pines" torment. Man can be greater than any god Quite forlorn For the teachers whom he knew I have heard tell of ... After his death, "Prex" and profs, and tutors too I picked up his Teubner text of "Iliad" and All are gone ! "Odyssey" bound together, a gift of his Of the "fellows'' whom he knew son his on seventieth birthday. It contained There are left but very few the entries of his re-reading of Homer in "In the swim." These show their length of days the past twenty-four years when for most For they all are "silver greys" men the fires are dying in the grate, or Just like him. already dead. There are twenty-five en- At the dinner "in the Gym" tries. I own his pocket Vergil. Prexie placed him next to him On the stand And his speech, so quaint and queer The Oldest Living Graduate It made all the classes cheer "To beat the band." (With apologies to the memory of Dr. Holmes) If the Lord, through good and bad. I saw him once before, Should make me "the oldest grad" As he walked the campus o'er his care, With his class By ; That I not be known But so many years have sped may For longevity alone That his classmates all are dead Is my prayer. Now, alas ! Daniel A. Robinson '73. When he first came on the scene He was young and he was green Such a one, The Bowdoin songs which have been As the boys were wont to haze published in the Alumnus during the past In those unregenerate days Just for fun. winter will be combined in a pamphlet which will be on sale at Commencement. They say that as a "Soph" Copies may be purchased through the office He could take the Freshmen off With his wit. of the Alumni Secretary at 25 cents each. [in] [ T h c B ow do in A I u in n it s EDGAR MILLARD COUSINS, D.D., 1877 1850 - - 1928 [112] The B o w d o i n A I u m n u s ] In Memoriam Edgar Millard Cousins, D.D., '77 Joseph Barton Reed, Esq., '83 Edgar Millard Cousins, D.D., since 1890 Joseph B. Reed '83, judge of probate for a member of the Board of Overseers of the Cumberland County, died at his home in College, died on May 19th at his home in Portland on Wednesday, May 30th. He Brewer. Dr. Cousins was a graduate of the was 70 years old. Until two weeks before College in 1877, received his degree of that time Judge Reed had been active in Doctor of Divinity in 1920 and last June the work of his office. returned to celebrate the 50th anniversary He was born in Orrington April 24th, of his Commencement. 1858, and attended Kent's Hill before com- Dr. Cousins was born at Southwest Har- ing to Bowdoin. He was admitted to the bor September 7, 1850. Coming to Bow- Cumberland County Bar in 1889 and had doin from the Eastern Maine Conference practiced in Portland since that time, being Seminary he later attended the Bangor elected judge of probate in 1918. He had Theological Seminary, where he graduated previously served as register of probate for in 1880. He had been pastor of Congrega- eight years. tional churches in Cherryfield, Portland, Judge Reed was among the most popular Westbrook, Gray, Biddeford, Thomaston, and revered lawyers of Maine and in 1927 and Old Town and from 19 13 to 1922 was was elected president of the Cumberland in charge of the First Congregational Bar Association. Church in Brewer. He was a deacon and treasurer of benevolences in this church at the time of his death. Daniel Ozro Smith Lowell, Litt.D., 74 Dr. Cousins was an earnest worker for the College throughout his long period of The editor has been faced with a real service as an Overseer his loss will be and problem in choosing one of the several fine keenly felt. His sons, F. two Edgar eulogies which have come to his attention Cousins of Old Town, B. and Sanford since the death of Dr. D. O. S. Lowell '74. Cousins of Syracuse, N. Y., are both Bow- He has finally selected a section from the doin men, having in graduated 19 12 and pen of Professor C. H. Grandgent, which respectively. 1920 originally appeared in the Boston Tran- script : So rugged his strength, so absolutely un- serenity, so Moses Cornelius Stone, M.D., '65 shakable his courage and his undiminished his interest in men and things, Dr. Moses C. Stone of the class of 1865 that we half hoped he might elude the com- died on May 20th, at his home in Wellesley. mon fate, jand, having already outlived Mass. He was among the most loyal of attacks which few human beings can with- Bowdoin men and a regular attendant at stand, might still abide to bestow on one Commencement, having returned last June more generation his benevolence and his on the 62nd anniversary of his graduation. unassuming wisdom. But he has left us. A graduate of Kent's Hill, he had an evi- Dr. Lowell, for many years the tutelary able record at Bowdoin and was a member genius of the ancient Roxbury Latin School, of Phi Beta Kappa. is no more. Yet as long as any of those [113] [ T Ji c Bo iv.' d o i n A I it m )i u s who knew him shall survive, so long shall tion from the men he met. If he happened, his spirit dwell in those haunts which ever at dinner, to sit beside an admiral, he would were so dear to him. For the old master draw from that officer the most interesting loved the old school with an undivided af- data concerning great guns, their range, fection, an intensity of devotion hard to their sights, their charges; and these things match and touching to contemplate. he always remembered, and remembered When Charles William Eliot*s ninetieth them right. When, in 1896 and 1897, he birthday was celebrated, with tributes from was granted a year's leave of absence, he every quarter of the land, the great presi- surely traveled farther and saw more and dent confessed his wonder that in the ex- profited more than any other tourist before pression of the feeling he had aroused in or since. His interest in language led him others, the word "love" should have re- to delve in Esperanto, of which he became curred so often. He had hoped to win ap- an exponent. "One of the sanest of Amer- proval and respect; but to discover that his ican Esperantists" — so he was described by associates not only approved, admired, and a great student of the cult. respected him, but loved him — that was a When his active service was over, and he joyous surprise. Just as insistent is this could choose his lodgings, he loved best to same word when men speak of Dr. Lowell. live where he could learn. A little apart- But if he could hear it, he would feel no ment on Beacon Hill rejoiced him, because wonderment. He took it for granted that it was within easy range of three libraries, people should love one another. His heart among them the Athenseum. which he assid- overflowing with good will, he expected that uously frequented. In Maiden, his ultimate others would be as cordial to him as he to station, the library was close at hand, and them. And so they were. Irresistible was one of his dearest intimates was the li- rendered his simple benignity. Wherever he went, brarian ; indeed, the old doctor instead of acquaintances he found friends. considerable assistance as an informal A Maine man through and through, he reading committee to aid in the selection received his bachelor's degree at Bowdoin of volumes. Lovingly he was dubbed "a in 1874. In that State he became a physi- member of the staff." Thus, even to the cian; and there, after a very brief medical last, he found what he most craved — practice, he embarked on his predestined friendship and books. career. It was in 1884 that Mr. Collar won him for the Roxbury Latin School, calling him forth into a region which was hence- forth to be his home. It was inevitable that on the withdrawal of his chief, in 1909, Dr. Lowell should take the reins; and he held them until his own retirement in 1921. With his kind heart and imperturbable cheerfulness went an insatiable hunger for knowledge. Notable in the annals of Bow- doin is his record there as a student. Memorable, too, is the success of his medi- cal examinations, for which he had pre- pared himself at home and abroad. Books seemed to gravitate toward him ; and he never neglected a chance to gain informa- A Library Window [114] T h c B o iv d o i n A 1 u in n u s ] News From The Classes 1866 N. Gratz Jackson is one of the four men in Bath, Maine, seeking nomination for the can- A cousin of John J. Linscott, M.D., writes that upon his graduation from medical school in 1867 didacy for the House of Representatives from Dr. Linscott went to Farmington, Maine, where Bath on the Republican ticket. Mr. Jackson is he has been practicing medicine for sixty-one manager and treasurer of the R. W. Conforth years. He married Miss Rena C. Hemenway of Company, electrical retailers and contractors. Brunswick, and is a former student of the Maine 1897 Medical School of the class of 1866. Frederick H. Dole, for seventeen years junior master at the Boston Latin School and formerly 1870 principal of North Yarmouth Academy, has been T. Davis Timberlake died on February 17th, promoted to master and will be head of the de- his 1928, at home in Lancaster, N. H. partment of English at the new Memorial High School for Boys in Roxbury. Mr. Dole has done 1881 remarkably good work at Boston Latin in pre- Harold W. Chamberlain, only son of the late paring boys for college and more than two-thirds L. Gen. Joshua Chamberlain, died in Boston on of his pupils have ranked better than eighty per May 13th. Funeral services were held at his cent on College Board English Examinations. father's old residence at 226 Maine Street, Bruns- Professor Joseph W. Hewitt of Wesleyan Uni- wick. versity is in Europe on his sabbatical leave and 1892 expects to be back in this country some time this summer. Rev. Winfield S. Randall has accepted a call from the East Weymouth Church to be its pastor 1898 and will assume that office some time this month. Ex-Governor Percival P. Baxter campaigned for Herbert Hoover in the West Virginia pri- 1893 mary. This campaign is held as highly impor- Thirty-five years ago next June the Class of tant being the last before the Kansas City Con- 1893 graduated from Bowdoin. Of the thirty-one vention. The invitation to do this work came graduates ten have since died, leaving twenty-one from the Hoover organization in Washington. survivors. The secretary has summarized the Milton D. Morrill is an architect and for the occupations of the sur\ ivors as follows : Business, past few years has been living in South Norwalk, ; Law, ; Medicine, : Ministry, 1 ; Teaching ; 5 4 7 4 Conn. Retired, none. Frank H. Swan has been elected chairman of 1894 the special commission created by the General Assembly and appointed by Gov. Norman S. Case Frederick J. Libby, executive secretary of the of Rhode Island to investigate the State Public National Council for the Prevention of War, an Welfare Commission and all departments under organization that lists among its member societies its control. The other members of the commis- most of the influential peace societies of the sion are Rt. Rev. Msgr. P. E. Blessing and Dr. country, has recently been the storm center of at- James L. Wheaton. tacks made on his organization because of its Alfred B. White and Miss Mary P. Lanigan efforts to defeat the huge Navy building pro- were married on April 25th in Lawrence, Mass. gram. Such organizations as the D.A.R., on They will be at home after September 1 5th at 239 whose black list Mr. Libby occupies a prominent Andover Street, Lawrence. position, were among his most active opponents. His organization exerted great influence not only 1899 in the defeat of the Navy program but in forcing Dr. Fred O. Orcutt, D.D.S., is living in Kirk- Senate action leading to a settlement of the Mex- lyn, Pa., where he has an office. ican difficulties by arbitration. He has occupied 1901 his present position since the World War, during Harry S. Coombs has been selected as the which he was engaged in relief work under the architect for the new boys' dormitory at Maine auspices of the Quakers. Before the War he was Central Institute. The new building will be the resident pastor at Phillips Exeter Academy. based on the Harvard type of dormitory as used 1895 by the freshmen. Albert D. Page was a recent visitor at the James Dunning and Company, Ltd., of London office of President Sills. have recently published a little volume entitled "The Background of Events in China." It is 1902 interesting to note that special comment is paid Charles E. Rolfe and Helen H. Judson were in the text to the work of Sterling Fessenden '96 married at Stamford, Conn., on May 3rd. They as chairman of the Municipal Council. are living at 681 Forest Road, New Haven. [ns] [ T he Bo zc d o i n A I it m n u s William E. Wing has been elected president of neers" by Charles Boardman Hawes and that the Portland Rotary Club. every boy and girl in the eighth grade shall read 1903 "The Dark Frigate." These reading lists are The Cushman-Hollis Shoe Company of Auburn comparatively short, that for the eighth grade has recently purchased the business of the A. B. including but seventeen titles, all of them books Creighton Shoe Company of Lynn, Mass. One of by distinguished authors. Among the authors the Creighton lines of shoes will be manufac- are Irving, London, Masefield, Kipling, Tarking- tured in Auburn from now on. This line will be ton, and Conan Doyle. made under a separate concern to be known as 1912 Abbott-Armstrong, Inc. E. Farrington Abbott is Charles F. Adams has been nominated by Gov- to be the president of this concern. ernor Brewster to be recorder of the Auburn Selden O. Martin has been elected to the first Municipal Court. Inc. vice-presidency of C. K. Eagle and Company, Elden G. Barbour is teaching in the High 1904 School at Rochester, N. H. Walter Greenleaf is a specialist with Bernard Archibald, president of the Houlton J. the U. S. Bureau of Education in Washington. D. Rotary Club, has been elected governor of the C. He is married and has a daughter, Sibyl. 38th district, Rotary International. Clarence R. Long is with Sinclair and Company 1905 in Tulsa, Okla. Raymond Davis is one of two Maine men rec- Over 2000 boys from the various settlement ommended for promotion in the Foreign Service houses, playgrounds and boys' clubs throughout of the United States by President Coolidge. Boston proper, are members of the Braves Field Dr. Fred Pritham was the subject of a feature Knot Hole Gang this year. Membership in the article in the Portland Sunday Telegram on Gang entitles a boy to see every home game that May 6th. the Boston team plays, and costs each boy five 1906 cents. Requirements for membership are that a Mrs. Ralph G. Webber died on May 5th at the boy be between 9 and 16 years of age and that Augusta General Hospital after a brief illness. he subscribe to certain rules of conduct which are 1907 stipulated on the back of his membership card. Morris H. Xeal is with the Factory Insurance Some of these rules are that he shall not "play Association in Hartford, Conn. truant" from school, shall not smoke, shall not 1908 swear, and others of a like nature. The club Clarence W. Osborne is branch manager of the was instituted three years ago by William A. McCormick Lumber Company in Portland, Ore. McCormick, who worked out the scheme for 1909 rousing interest in the national game among Roy C. Harlow is connected with the Cleveland, Boston youngsters with the co-operation of the Ohio, office of Blair & Co., Stocks and Bonds. Braves officials, and the Boston playground Daniel McDade is an editor of the Portland. officials. Oregon, Journal. Arthur D. Welch is the Democratic candidate Ernest H. Pottle is with Buxton, Inc., Mar- for County Attorney of Cumberland County. bridge Building, 47 West 34th Street. New York City. 1913 James M. Sturtevant. M.D., is practicing medi- Clifton O. Page writes that he has been ap- cine at 1 16 East, 63rd Street, New York City. pointed as head master of the Boys Preparatory 1910 School at Indianapolis. Frank A. Kimball has been one of the Council- 1914 John L. Barbour is a superintendent of the men of the City of Redlands, Cal., for the past in Buffalo. X. Y. three years. American Radiator Company Millard Parker Hanson. M.D., died on May Charles A. Smith is .a structural engineer in Los Angeles. 20th in Bangor where he had taken a patient to the hospital. He leaves a wr ife, three daughters Ricardo Valladares, M.D., is practicing in one son. Cumanayagua, Cuba. and Frank R. Loeffler, who spent twelve years in 1911 the foreign service of the International Banking Franz Burkett is seeking Republican nomina- Corporation, is now vice-president of the Glou- tion as representative from the Portland district cester Xational Lank, Gloucester. Mass. in the 1929 Legislature. His father. Fred E. Clarence H. Tapley is a special agent for the burkett, is also seeking nomination from the Caledonian Insurance Company in Svracuse, Union, Rockport, Warren and Washington dis- X. Y. trict. 1915 The Board of Education of the City of New- Tames A. Lewis, principal of Westbrook High York has "suggested and urged"' that every boy school for several years, has resigned to accept a and girl in the seventh grade throughout the Xew position on the faculty of Tabor Academy, York City school system shall read "The Muti- Marion. Mass. [Il6] s The B o w d o i n A I u m n u ] 1916 Russell M. McGown has resigned his position as secretary of the Y.M.C.A. and instructor in James H. Brewster is practicing medicine at rhetoric at Bates College to become pastor of Attleboro, Mass. the Congregational Church of Shelton, Conn. He Philip L. Carter has moved to 4501 Larchwood will leave Bates immediately after Commence- Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. ment for his new position. John C. Fitzgerald is practicing law at 30^ Main Street, Fitchburg, Mass. 1922 Aid of Senator Frederick Hale has been in- Clarence E. Allen graduated Tufts Dental voked in an effort to locate Dr. William Ferris, from School at mid-years. a former resident of Portland, who has been lost Herman R. is in the insurance business in Mexico for two months. After his graduation Ames from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in in Keene, N. H. Boston Dr. Ferris went to Mexico, about three Warren E. Barker is commercial manager of the years ago, to practice medicine and until two New England Tel. and Tel. Company in Fal- months ago relatives in Maine had been in touch mouth, Mass. B. with him. At that time he wrote to his people Edward Ham is to be Research Associate asking that funds be transmitted to him as he in the Department of Modern Languages at anticipated trouble for Americans in Mexico. Princeton Cniversity next year. u'ilson is Director of a The money was sent to him at the address given W. Knowlton, M.D., Parish Health but the letter has been returned unopened with Unit in Opelousas, La. His en- gagement to a notice from the Mexican postmaster that Dr. Miss Audrey Isabel Smith was an- Ferris could not be located. The State Depart- nounced on May 28th. Clifford P. is registrar ment, at Senator Hale's request, has notified all of Monahan at Centenary Collegiate Institute, Hackettstown, N. its representatives in Mexico of Dr. Ferris' disap- J. pearance and has requested that they check up Albert F. Rogers is district sales manager for the Frontier Press Company in Philadelphia. on all Americans in their districts. Harvey M. Tompkins is a credit for the Leroy A. Ramsdell is secretary of the Com- man Gulf Refinery munity Chest and Council of Social Agencies in Company in West Roxbury, Mass. Hartford, Conn. 1923 1917 L. Dyer Andrews is freight agent of the Colum- Harold E. Coombs is living in Glendale, Cal., bus Line, Inc., in New York City. where he is a sergeant of motorcycle police. The engagement of Hubert V. Davis and Miss Clarence H. Crosby has announced his candi- Theodosia Shaler of New York and Washington dacy for the Republican nomination for State has recently been announced. The wedding is to Senator from Penobscot County. take place on June 25th in St. Bartholomew's Edward C. Moran, Jr., is a candidate for the Church, New York. Democratic nomination for Governor of Maine. Spike MacCormick writes, "Recently in Penn- sylvania I was motoring by a sign which said 1918 'Johnstown—8 miles' and my thoughts naturally Waldo G. Leland, of the Permanent Secretary turned to the former football manager and man- American Council of Learned Societies, recently about-the-campus, Jay Sheesley. Imagine my de- announced the of for award funds research work light when the next turn of the road revealed a to twenty American scholars. Robert G. Albion large sign reading 'For the State Senate—Jay R. was among them, his object of research being Sheesley.' It will be remembered that the future a study of the of its Port New York and com- {I hope) Solon went into coal after graduation. merce from to i860. 1775 He is now a well-known slate-and-clinker man in Mr. and Mrs. Franklin IviacCormick announce his native town." the arrival of a son, Chalmers, April 17th. on Waht Pava Yemprayura, M.D., is an interne at Percy S. Ridlon, for the past two years prin- the Lniversity Hospital in Syracuse, N. Y. cipal of the Junior High School in Gorham, Maine, will go to Kent's Hill next year where he 192': will teach in the Seminary and also be pastor of Crawford Churchill is teaching English in the Methodist church. Meriden, Conn. 1920 Henry K. Dow has left Cleburne and is now manager of a larger Harvey House in Brown- Mrs. Joseph Dieterich announces the marriage wood, Texas. of her daughter, Frances Mary, to Harold Stanley Carl E. Dunham is teaching at the high school Prosser on Saturday the fourteenth of April, in Bath, Maine. Dallas, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Prosser will be at Theodore L. Fowler is with the National City home at 1804 S. Henderson, Forth Worth, Texas. Co., 30 Congress Street. Boston, and living at 8 1921 Summit Road, Watertown. Dr. Harry Helson will teach Psychology at Albert B. Kettell is still Director of Finance. Cornell Summer School this summer. Pastoral and Evangelistic work in the Aroostook [117] 1 [The B o w d o i n A I u in n u s Larger Parish, Ashland, Maine. He announces The engagement of Miss Ruth Kroder of New the arrival of Charlotte Marjorie on August u, York City to Rudolph F. Lewsen was announced las:. this month. The wedding will take place on Harvey B. Lovell, having received his M.A. June >oth. Lewsen is now a member of the degree at Harvard last June, has been teaching Junior class at the University of Maine. Biology there under an Austin Teaching Fellow- The engagement of Norman G. Ray and Miss ship. The Fellowship has also been awarded to Gladys M. Lawrence of New Gloucester, Maine, him for the coming year. The intervening sum- has recently been announced. mers he is spending at Woods Hole. Waldo G. Weymouth has recently joined the .IXDROSCOGGIN COUNTY W. S. Libby Co. of Auburn, Maine, manufacturers of blankets. He is an overseer in their factory. ASSOCIATION 1925 The annual meeting of the Association Malcolm S. Bishop is traveling for the Lyman was held at the DeWitt Hotel Wednesday, B. Chipman Company of Portland. A daughter, Joan, was born to Mr. and Mrs. March 28th, with about fifty members Gilbert M. Elliott, Jr., on April 17th. present. William H. Clifford '11 was elect- Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Mclntire announce the ed president and James E. Philoon '13 sec- birth of a son, Justin Glenn, on April 6th. The engagement of Alden Turner Merrill and retary and treasurer. Representatives from Miss Margaret Moir of West Roxbury, Mass.. the College included Professor Boyd Bart- has recently been announced. lett '17, Acting Alumni Secretary Wilder, 192G Coaches Houser and Magee, and the cap- Charles A. Bradley is editor of the Rahway Record in Rahway, N. J. tains of the football, hockey, and base- Ralph F. Goodspeed is in the real estate busi- ball teams. ness in Burbank, Calif. Gilbert Goold is connected with an advertising bureau in New York City. JOHN HANCOCK SERIES The eng :gement of Miss Eleanor Jeanne Sim- mons and Eldon A. Gray has recently been an- nounced. 'Sonny" has left for the Orient where • • WIVES of • • he will b? connected with the National City Bank in Hong Kong. BUSINESS MEN Ralph B. Linton is instructor of English at Colby difference between office and Academy, New London, N. H. He got his A.B THE household economy often causes as- in 1926. from Oberlin tonishment and confusion to business Mr. and Mrs. Bowdoin Nealley have a daugh- men. Their wives mean well, but as for ter, Barbara Jewett Nealley. born April 18th. method— The engagement of John W. Tarbell and Miss The household budget is the answer. Merideth Churchill Farnum of Brockton was We have sent thousands of our budget announced in April. and Robert Harkness John sheets to wives who have attacked this have recently become members of the University problem. Club of Boston. To business men who care about 1927 ordered and reasonable expenditure and Claude Bourget and Miss Blanche Desjardins saving—that is, the introduction of busi- of Rochester, N. H., were married at Easter time ness methods into the home—we rec- in Rochester. They will make their home in ommend the John Hancock Home Budget Air usta, Me. Sheet. The engagement of Briah K. Connor and Miss Your local John Hancock office will be Louise Dana of Westbrook has recently been glad to send you a copy, or one can be an:: meed. Miss Dana is the daughter of Mr. obtained by writing to and Mrs. Luther Dana. INQUIRY BUREAU Donald M. Fay is an estimator for the Market Forge Company in Everett, Mass. Reginald Forsythe is now with the United Shoe Machinery Company in Beverly, Mass. Archie W. Holmes and Miss Lucina C. Wood- Company* of Boston. Massachusetts bury announced their engagement in March. 197 CLARENDON STREET. BOSTON. MASS. Oliver P. Ingraham is a salesman for the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company in the Eangor dis- SIXTY- FIFTH YEAR OF BUSINESS trict. [Il8] Bowdoin Alumni Council Term expires in 1928 ROLAND EUGENE CLARK, A.B., LL.B., President Fidelity Trust Co., Portland, Maine PHILLIPS KIMBALL, A.B. 4300 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. FRANCIS SMITH DANE, A.B. 1 Bennington Road, Lexington, Mass. THOMAS VINCENT DOHERTY, A.B. Houlton, Maine PHILIP SAWYER WILDER, B.S., Acting Secretary Brunswick, Maine Term expires in 1929 EUGENE LESLIE BODGE, A.B., LL.B. 120 Exchange St., Portland, Maine WALTER MARTIN SANBORN, A.B. Augusta, Maine JOHN WILLIAM LEYDON, A.B. 5230 Schuyler St., Germantown, Pa. CEDRIC RUSSELL CROWELL, A.B. Litchfield Rd., Port Washington, L. I., N. Y. Term expires in 1930 LYMAN ABBOTT COUSENS, A.M. 101 Vaughan St., Portland, Maine PROF. ROBERT DEVORE LEIGH, Ph.D. Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. THOMAS LEWIS PIERCE, A.M. Box 1466, Providence, R. !. STEPHEN EMERSON YOUNG, A.B., LL.B. 53 State St., Boston, Mass HON. FRANK GEORGE FARRINGTON, A.B., LL.B., from the Boards 219 Water St., Augusta, Maine PROF. MARSHALL PERLEY CRAM, Ph.D., from the Faculty 89 Federal St., Brunswick, Maine AUSTIN HARBUTT MacCORMICK, A.M., Secretary 76 Federal St., Brunswick, Maine — WASSOOKEAG SEND TO THE College Book Store A SCHOOL CAMP FOR 150 Maine Street YOUNG MEN Brunswick, Maine T?0r UKr» STAFF OF TEN FOR THIRTY OLDER BOYS TEXT BOOKS PROGRAM ARRANGED BOOKS BY BOWDOIN MEN FOR THE BOWDOIN BANNERS INDIVIDUAL 1. Preparation for Entrance Exam- BOWDOIN JEWELRY inations. PIPES, SEALS 2. Introduction to Courses of Fresh- man Year at the College. BOOK ENDS, ETC. 3. Junior College Transition Study on ONE, TWO and THREE Season Schedules. F. W. 4. Informal Camp Program - - All CHANDLER & SON Mature Summer Sports. ON THE STAFF FROM BOWDOIN: Lloyd Harvey Hatch, B.S. [Bow- doin], Director. Formerly of the Faculties of History and Politi- Good cal Science at Cornell University and Bowdoin College. Edward S'. Hammond, Ph.D. [Princeton], Asst. 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