Bowdoin College Bowdoin Digital Commons The Bowdoin Orient 1870-1879 The Bowdoin Orient 1-1-1876 Bowdoin Orient v.5, no.1-17 (1875-1876) The Bowdoin Orient Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoinorient-1870s Recommended Citation The Bowdoin Orient, "Bowdoin Orient v.5, no.1-17 (1875-1876)" (1876). The Bowdoin Orient 1870-1879. 5. https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoinorient-1870s/5 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the The Bowdoin Orient at Bowdoin Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Bowdoin Orient 1870-1879 by an authorized administrator of Bowdoin Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. It IIAI fl Alll O PI Alii VOLUME V. u EDITORS Arlo Bates, C. H. Clark, C. T. Hawes, E. H. Kimball, J. G. Librv, J. A. Morrill, W. H. G. Rowe. BOW DO IX COLLEGE, li RUNS W ICK, M A I N B . I875-6. PRINTED AT THE JOURNAL OFFICE, LETVISTON, MAINE. .. INDEX TO VOL. V. PAGE Abbot Bessariou, The 1 De Glycera 97 Adams, Eev. George Eliashib, D.D 145 Dickens, Charles 26, 39 Advantages of a Purpose in Life, The 146 Drinking Song 1S1 After Beranger 193 Alpha Delta Phi Convention 54 Editorial Notes 6, 18, 28, 40, 52, 64, 76, 88, Alumni Day 64 100, 112, 124, 136, 148, 160, 172, 184, 196 Editors' Table 10, 22, 34, 46, 58, 81, 94, 106, Alumni Notes 9, 21, 33, 45, 57, 70, 80, 93, 118, 130, 105, 117, 129, 141, 153, 165, 178, 189, 201 142, 153, 165, 202 " Amici, Diem Perdidi " 193 End Women 77 Ancient Books, A Few Facts about 193 Field Day 43, 53, 105 Art Culture 2 Filchiugs S2, 129, 166 Art of Conversation, How to Cultivate the. 16 Fitting up Rooms 77 Assyrian Slabs • . 75 Athenian, History of 1 73 Genius vs. Industry 15 Gymnastic Exhibition 67 Bacchus, Ode to 25 Hoating at Bowdoiu 51 Hand-downs 1 :;7 Boating Convention 137 4, Harpswell and Zoology 50 Boating Embroglio, The 1 49 Historical Reading 157 Bowdoiu vs. Bates 92, 100 History of Athensean 173 Bowdoin vs. Besolutes 41, 54 History of Peuciniau isi Brown Lichen, The 70 Horace, Ode 1., xix 97 Bugles, Old 89 of Lytics Burial Anna 67 Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association 148 1* inter-Collegiate Literary Association I I Cbapel Frescoes, The. L96 In the Hide 97 Class Day 66 Ivy Lay 7. in College Education 13 Ivy-Day Poem 37 College Feeling 7S College Notes 34 •;:: .1. s.. Jr. College Politics SO 157 College Tale, A 1 L3 Letter never sent Home, A 2ii. 115. Commencement Concert. 60 Local 8, 30, I I. 55, 68, 79, 90, L02, ::'.'. L26, 1 L51, L63, L76, L88, 200 Commencement Day. 65 Conciseness of Style 74 Lovers, The 145 Cupid's Bargain 193 Love Songs B5 INDEX. Macbeth 97 Prescott, William H 181 May Day 18 Prize Declamations 52 Miss-Adventure, A 195 Psi Upsilon Convention 17 Morituri Salutamus 60 Eegatta 42, 104 Mother Goose for Seniors Ill Keturn to the Old College, A 73 New and Old 133 Scott and His Novels 134 Novels 86 Second-Hand Furniture 53 On a Pair of Pants 32 Shall We Teach or Borrow ? 25 Our English 110 Society Convention 92 Orpheus 109 Spelling Match, The 19 Study of Mathematics, The 122 Pentameters 181 Spinuer, The 121 Peucinian, History of 184 Peucinian Library 100 Wanderer's Song 50 Physical Culture at Bowdoin 3 Why I don't Rhyme any More 193 Poetry, The Influence of, on Character 169 Writing Editorials 133 " ; Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, APRIL 28, 1875. No. 1. THE ABBOT BESSARION. feeling which is so often noted as prevalent in American society, that everything should be The holy Abbot, in the burning noon, tried by its material value. It is difficult to Walked by the sea, in pious thought immersed convince a genuine Yankee of the value of a His worn disciple, faintly following, cried, ! art, " My father, help me, for I die of thirst work of since it can neither be eaten, worn, nor reckoned in a cash account. This The Abbot turned, some holy thought within, fact makes a necessity of what at first seems As he made answer, shining through his face; an absurdity — the setting forth of reasons " My son, drink of this water here, and find for the popular study of art. And here I How faith works miracles in every place." may be pardoned for quoting the words of His worn disciple drank ; and lo ! the wave Taine, as given in his admirable little book, Was sweet as mountain streamlet to his taste. " The Philosophy of Art." He gave God thanks ; then, stooping, filled his flask. "Man," he says, "in many respects, is an " Why do you this?" Bessarion asked iu haste. animal endeavoring to protect himself against nature and against other men. ... To The youth replied, " Lest I again should thirst." do this he tills the ground, navigates the sea, His master gazed at him with tender care; " . forms families and states, and creates God pardon thee, my son ! Thou should'st believe magistracies, functionaries, constitutions, He can provide sweet water anywhere!" laws, Z. V. and armies. After so much labor and such invention ... he is still an animal, bet- ter fed and better protected than the rest, but ART CULTURE. so far only thinking of himself, and of others Nothing is more common than the attempt of his own stamp. At this moment a supe- to conceal or excuse ignorance and coarseness rior life dawns on him — that of contempla- by a pretended contempt for wisdom and refine- tion, leading him to study the creative and ment. How frequently we hear the expression, permanent causes on which his own well-be- "Oh, it's quite too fine for me!" " I don't pre- ing and that of his fellows depend, as well as " tend to appreciate it! and the like, in -a tone the essential predominant character which which says, " I am very glad not to know and distinguishes every group of objects and beings, appreciate." Uncultivated people are most apt and which imprints itself on their minutest to accuse art lovers of pride in their admiration details. Two wavs are open to him for this and enjoyment of master-pieces, wholly un- purpose. The first is Science . by which conscious that they themselves thus betray he expresses these causes and laws in abstract their uncouth conceit. own A little careful terms and precise formulas ; the second is reflection would show these people that they Art, by which he manifests these causes and are moved, not by a contempt for art, or art these fundamental laws, no longer through culture, but by an uncomfortable sense of arid definitions . only intelligible to a their own deficiency. favored few, but sensuousby, appealing not This vulgar spirit is encouraged by the alone to reason, hut to the heart and senses of ; BOWDOIN ORIENT. the humblest individual. Art is conspicuous oring, and grouping. It is to this training for this — it is at once a noble and popular that we must look for deliverance from the ministrant, manifesting whatever is most ex- barbarisms which are rife in our architecture, alted, and manifesting this to all." [Part I., and the details of our domestic life. Chap. 7.] The influence of art as a moral agent, also, Most students in coming to college are is becoming more and more deeply felt. A disappointed in not finding that literary at- refinement of taste must beget a disgust for mosphere from which they had fondly hoped at least the lower vices ; and he can never to breathe in culture as one breathes in vigor become irretrievably degraded who lives from the air of the mountains. Instead of . " for Beauty, as martyrs do being unconsciously moulded by refining in- For truth,—the euds being scarcely two." fluences, is as he expected, the student com- The practical gaining of this culture is, to a pelled continually to struggle against indif- greater or less degree, within the reach of ference, rudeness, and even an apparent half- each of us. The fine pictures in our gallery pitying contempt for culture. This is almost will amply repay study ; and only those who inevitable in college life. The effect of so have enjoyed it know the pleasure of such much unvaried literary work as the curricu- study. Let any one select the pictures which is to satiate lum involves, ; and students seek please him best, and try to discover loliy they relaxation and amusement in pursuits as far please him. Let him, if possible, make per- as possible removed from their ordinary work. fectly clear to his own mind what qualities Here Art should have its place. Many hours they possess, the lack of which makes the are given to amusements utterly frivolous, other picture less attractive to him. Let him and whose only merit is that they allow the compare the drawing and coloring of one mind to rest. But change is rest; and it is artist with those of another. Rubens's " Ve- not necessary that the mind be idle in order nus and Ceres," for instance, with Titian's to obtain relaxation. The cultivation of eye " Venus and Adonis," or Raphael's " Holy and ear to the sense of the beautiful, brings Family " ; the wonderful flesh tint of the with it a means of enjoyment at once elevat- Vandyke with that of the masters mentioned, ing and refining. It is a fault of the age that or the more modern Copley and Stuart.