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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 ;

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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. we make a business of everything. If students These questions and comparisons, once started, accept art as le- could once be brought to a will be found to be almost numberless ; and,

gitimate pleasure, they would find that they if carefully made, each will be a deep lesson had relieved themselves from many hours of in art. The excellent heliotypes, too, are

ennui; enriched their lives ; and taken a long offered so cheaply as to be within the reach stride toward settling the vexed question of of most students. These, although they can popularizing art. How much beauty runs to not give color and tone, yet faithfully preserve waste in this world, as far as man is concerned the composition and motives of the originals. and how many of us defraud ourselves of our With a little care and a trifling expense one rightful heritage by neglecting to cultivate the may easily make a collection of copies from

faculties necessary to its appreciation. the best masters ; and he will notice with sur- This has, too, its practical value. It is not prise how soon he will be able to think and only that the cultured eye finds a keen enjoy- talk of them, not only with enjoyment, but

ment in beauties hitherto unnoticed ; but it is with real intelligence.

often of great practical value to be able to It is not, however, being able to talk

judge and understand niceties of outline, col- learnedly of pictures ; it is not for a techni- —

BOWDOIN ORIENT. cal knowledge, a Superficial varnish of art- velopment, with its disastrous consequences, phrases, that we should strive ; but for the the question has had its advocates for and living, vital, ennobling power of art as the against, and in our day, notwithstanding the highest human interpretation of the beautiful. length of time it has been under discussion, The student has always a criterion by is still open. Although there ma}' be none which to judge works of art, and that is who assert that physical culture is not a good nature. At first he will only be able to con- thing in its place, there are many who claim

sider form ; but a deeper insight will follow, that in our American colleges it is carried too which will demand that the feeling, the inten- far to-day. It is argued, men should not come tion, the motive—to use the technical term, to college merely to learn the most scientific shall be true to nature. stroke, or the most approved method of hand-

It is next important that one study the ling a base-ball bat. True ; but neither should best models. " Taste should be educated," men come to college to make mere book says Goethe, " by contemplation, not of the worms, whose lives are bound up in the cov- tolerably good, but of the truly excellent." ers of musty old folios. In avoiding one ex-

Of course it is necessary at first to rely upon treme, care is necessary to steer clear of the the judgment of others; but the careful other. Ask any graduate of five, ten, or observer soon finds that his own judgment twenty years' standing, whether the extreme coincides with that of those who have already in his day was the phj^sical, or look for your- studied art before him. self to-day, and the answer can not be other

I have spoken principally of painting. than an emphatic no ! The tendency may The same remarks might easily be extended perhaps be in this direction, but we have a to all the so-called " fine arts." Music is the long distance to advance before reaching it. highest, and consequently the most difficult The world has seen enough college gradu- for which to establish a standard. But in all ates with weak lungs, narrow shoulders, and art it is necessary for him who would seek the shrunken muscles. The call is for " sound highest development, if not to criticise at minds in sound bodies," for men of action as least to discriminate, in order that he may well as men of thought, and the true aim of protect himself from all but the highest. The a college course should be to give these. study of works of the highest merit gives a That educational system is radically defective, just judgment of the value of others; for Art, which exalts one-half of being at the expense like a passionate woman, reveals the inner- of dwarfing the other. Physical culture, most depths of her being to her lover, even again, is invaluable as a means of increasing though what he sees in her soul may drive ability for mental labor. When the brain is him from her. throbbing and the mind seems incapable of originating a thought or of collecting those already originated, what a freshness and PHYSICAL CULTURE AT BOWDOIN. vigor is gained by a game of ball, a pull on The question of the relative merits of the river, or a long walk with some congenial menial and physical development is not a new companion. Even the advocates of the infi- one. For many years the seemingly antago- nite superiority of mind to muscle, will do nistic claims of brain and muscle have been a well to remember that although above it. ii is subject of discussion. Since the time when not independent of it; that what tends to the the life of Henry Kirke White furnished an health of the one will as certainly be for the example of the purely mental theory of de- interest of the other. Among the students —

BOWDOIN ORIENT. of the English universities, muscular devel- responsibility has too long rested upon*a few. opment has been carried much further than It belongs to all and must be assumed by all. with us, while the results have not been so Supporting the base-ball nine or the univer- demoralizing that they can not claim a very sity six, belongs not to the nine or the six, fair comparison as regards intellectual cult- with a few others, but to the whole college. ure. And what athletes were the old Greek When the nine goes to the field, or the crew philosophers and statesmen ; notwithstanding to the regatta, it must go "backed up" by which they managed to achieve very respect- every man in college, and behind all this must able results, that have hardly been exceeded be the support of the alumni. Loyalty to since. To come nearer home, a casual glance college and college institutions should not at our own Bowdoin alumni will show that cease at graduating, but rather grow stronger those men who have excelled in the physical and more willing to assert itself, as time arena have not been undistinguished in the brings it new opportunities in the increasing mental. It would be easy to mention a num- needs of Alma Mater. ber of members of classes recently graduated, who were known alike as men of muscle and men of brain. BOATING CONVENTION. But, admitting that the two theories of Since our last issue, the meeting of the development are not really conflicting, and can Boating Convention has taken place. It was be made to harmonize, let us see what is nec- held at Springfield, April 17. Bowdoin was essary to be done to advance the one without represented by Mr. 0."C. Stevens of the Jun- injuring the other. The situation of Bowdoin ior class, and Mr. J. M. Burleigh of the is particularly favorable to physical culture. Freshman. The town of Brunswick is noted for the Delegates were present from Amherst, healthiness of its climate. We are on the Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Har- banks of a noble river, furnishing opportuni- vard, Princeton, Trinity, Union, Wesleyan, for boating and kindred sports, not ex- ties Williams, and Yale. Hamilton was without celled by those of any college in the country. representatives ; Bowdoin was unanimously Our fields for base ball and other athletic re-admitted. By some oversight, however, sports are ample and easily accessible. Our the petition for re-admission was not read gymnasium, with its large hall, improved until several votes had been taken, the result apparatus, and skillful instructor, can not be of which would be to prevent Bowdoin from too highly prized. The abolition of the drill carrying out her first intention of being repre- removed the last obstacle to Bowdoin's assum- sented by a single-scull alone. ing a leading position in athletic contests, and The following are the most important all that is needed now is determination on changes in the racing rules : the part of the students to give her this posi- Rule V. Each boat shall keep its own water tion. What is wanted is not a series of spas- during the race, and any boat departing from its modic efforts, now for this object, and again own water shall be disqualified. Rule VI. A boat's own water is its buoyed for that. We have seen enough of spasms, course parallel with those of the other competing and now look for steady, earnest, well-direct- boats, from the station assigned to it at starting to the finish, and the Umpire shall be sole judge of a effort. Our sports must be placed on a ed boat's deviation from its own water and proper secure foundation. There has been a marked course through the race. Rule XVIII. If in conformity with rules XI., improvement during the past six months, but sec. B. or XIII., a second race is ordered by the the maximum has not yet been reached. The Umpiro, it shall not be called on the same day as —

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the first race. Referee was changed throughout to man race shall be represented in any other Umpire. race of the regatta." Section 2 of the amendments made in At a College meeting held at Bowdoin, April, 1874, reads as revised : April 17, Mr. Stevens presented his report,

" Any College not represented in either the Uni- and it was voted to send a University crew to versity or Freshman race of the regatta, immediately the regatta. Measures are now being taken preceding the annual convention of this Association,

shall not be considered a member of this Associa- to secure the necessary funds ; and the class tion, and shall not have a vote in any succeeding crews, from which the University crew will convention, until it shall have gained its full mem- bership by such representation in the regatta directly be selected, are at work in the gymnasium. preceding such convention."

As is well known, the name of the associa- One of the most noticeable features of the tion was changed from the to a Rowing Asso- Senior and Junior Exhibition, at the end of ciation of American Colleges. last term, was that all the Junior parts were No clubs but those which are now mem- translations into English. It may be largely bers, or which have been so, will hereafter be owing to this fact that the exhibition was, as admitted to membership. Any College which is generally acknowledged, one of the best shall fail in sending delegates to three consecu- given here in a long time. A mixed audience tive regattas of the Association is to be cut soon becomes weary of listening to parts off from future membership. their only understanding of which must come The positions of the crews, numbering from the speaker's inflections, gestures, or from the west shore are: 1, Williams ; 2, Cor- expression ; and we know too well how intel- nell ; 3, Amherst ; 4, Bowdoin ; 5, Brown ; ligible the average student can make himself

6, Columbia ; 7, Wesleyan ; 8, Princeton ; 9, if confined to these methods of expression Dartmouth; 10, Yale; 11, Trinity; 12, Har- alone. A restlessness and inattention on the vard ; 13, Union ; 14, Hamilton. This order part of the audience dishearten the speaker, will be kept for the Freshman and single-scull and both are glad when their respective tasks races also. The races are to take place " not of speaking and hearing are done. after 11 o'clock in the morning." Then, too, the old custom of delivering Men are said to be in training for the sin- parts in foreign languages before an audience gle-scull race at Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, that could not understand them, even if cor- Williams, and Yale. Freshman crews will rectly and fluently pronounced, seems to savor probable come from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, somewhat of pedantry. Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. We sincerely hope that the new order of In spite of the efforts of the Harvard things may be taken as a precedent which delegates, who favored the election of Mr. shall be followed at future exhibitions. Alexander Agassiz, the Umpire chosen was Mr. Watson, formerly of Wilkes Spirit of the We were sony to notice the absence of

Times. the choir from the Chapel gallery on the first Only graduates or undergraduates will be Sabbath morning of the term. The singing allowed to train crews ; any crew employing last term was a source of much pleasure to the other training being thereby disqualified. The students, and added an attractive feature to time of the annual meeting was changed to the service. With the many fine voices that Dec. 1, 1875. An amendment to be voted on we have here, there seems to be no reason at that meeting is " that no College that is not why this pleasant custom should be discon- represented in either the Universit}- or Fresh- tinued. ;

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Bowdoin Orient. Odes on Spring are in order ; but our poet was frozen to death yesterday, and an exam- PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- ination of his pocket-book showed that al- ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT though he had made a brave beginning, he BOWDOIN COLLEGE, had got no further than to note down " zephyr heifer," " smiling Spring everything," and By the Class of 1875. — — a few rhymes of that sort. Nothing in the EDITORS. poetical line is to be expected of us, there- Aelo Bates, E. H. Kimball, fore, in the praise of E. Mildness. C. H. Clark, J. G. Libby, Let all good people keep to their winter C. T. Haves, J. A. Morrill, clothing ; but, take our word for it, it is Spring! W. H. G. Kowe.

Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies, It may not be amiss, at the beginning at 15 cents. once of a new volume and a new system of Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, electing editors, to remind the members of '77 Brunswick, Maine. of the relation of both facts to them. The For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- next board of editors will come from the son, Brunswick. present Sophomore class, and will probably be elected by the present board of editors. CONTENTS. In view of the first of these facts it would Vol. V., No. 1.—April 28, 1875. seem to be good policy on the part of the class which will furnish the next board, to be The Abbot Bessarion 1 in a manner preparing for the work before Art Culture 2 them. This they may do by practicing their Physical Culture at Bowdoin 3 Boating Convention 4 pens while the present volume is in hand. Editorial Notes 6 The editors can not, of course, go to the dif- Local 8 ferent men in '77 who can write well, and Alumni Notes 9 request communications, since they have no Editors' Table 10 means of knowing who the ready Avriters are. The present board will be most happy to re-

EDITORIAL NOTES. ceive contributions from them ; reserving, of course, the right to use them only as far as By numerous notices in our exchanges we they see fit. In this way a preparation would have become aware of the presence of Spring be made for the next election, since the retir- and we feel it to be our painful but unavoid- ing board would have a means of deciding who able duty to apprise our readers of the inter- were best qualified to be their successors. esting fact that this delightful season has at To the Juniors, also, we beg leave to sug- last put in her appearance. The mercury gest that they are not to consider themselves ranges, in the sanctum, between forty and freed from all responsibility because they are staff. sixty, if we keep it near a good fire ; the snow not all placed upon the editorial While in should feel an interest in the storms are now of only a few days' duration ; all the College are especially the skating is spoiled ; a bitter wind blows College paper, the Juniors more for its and from the north-east ; the. chapel bell rings at regarded as responsible well-being, half-past six a.m.; all these tokens we adduce should do all in their power to make it a as proof that " ethereal mildness " is here. success. ;

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In the present need of money for our boat- the programme before us, the day chosen was ing interests, "various plans have been sug- the twenty-sixth of October, 1865, and the gested for increasing the funds of the Associ- exercises consisted of an Address, by G. W. ation. One of the most feasible, it seems to Kelly ; a Poem, by G. T. Sumner ; and the us, is that for the formation of a dramatic singing of the Ode, written for the occasion corps. We have so large a number to select by H. L. Chapman. In the evening there from, that there would be no difficulty in was a concert by Hall's Band in the Mason properly fining the male roles; and the young St. Church, and a dance in Tontine Hall. ladies in town have already proved their will- Unfortunately, and we know not why, the ingness to help in a good cause. There are custom was not continued by the succeeding many, both in the College and in the town, classes. About two years ago '74 revived it who have not only a deep interest in dramatic but, notwithstanding their efforts, the Ivy of enterprises, but who have already shown posi- '66 is the only one alive. We hope soon to tive histrionic talent. There seems to us no see another, planted by the class of '76, flour- reason why this talent should not be utilized. ishing near it. Not one of the customs of Entertainments might be given in Brunswick Bowdoin seems more worthy of perpetuation. and Bath, and possibly in some other of our The various class exercises will be in a meas- neighboring towns. Besides the real advan- ure forgotten, but not so any living memorial tage as a drill in elocution, which this might which a class may claim as peculiarly its own. be to those who took part in it, we can speak Other colleges have similar customs, and

from experience in saying that it also would surely ours ought not to be destitute. College be thoroughly enjoyable. A dramatic enter- pride, which urges us to make .any endeavor

tainment is one of the few undertakings in to maintain athletic sports, should also exert which the pleasure overbalances the trouble, an influence in this direction. Let not '76, in and from which at the same time a handsome its interest in base ball and boating, neglect sum may be gained. Moreover, all money this matter, but, beginning in season, be the

obtained in this way is clear gain, since it in class to successfully re-inaugurate this custom. no way diminishes the total of the subscrip- Since the above was written, we learn that

tion list. It is near the beginning of the the Junior Class has appointed a committee

term, and there is ample time for all needful to take charge of this matter.

preparations, if the matter is at once attended

to. is friend of Where the boating who will To the Editors of the Orient. start the good work? He may be assured At a meeting of the Base Ball Association, that he will not lack for earnest support, but held April 5, it was unanimously will find many ready to aid when once a move Resolved, That the Association tender its sincere has been made. thanks to the young ladies of Brunswick who par- ticipated in the spelling match of April 3d, for their In connection with the subject of planting kindness in so willing]}- coming forward and giving the Association the Ivy, which ought soon to engage the their aid on that occasion ; and that further wishes us to express its gratitude to Prof. attention of the Junior Class, we think that Chapman, and to Tutors Chandler and Colo for perhaps a short history of the custom may their o1)liur inur acceptance of tin- positions of enun- interest the readers of the Orient. The idea ciator and judges, and for the very satisfactory of planting an ivy seems to haw been derived manner in which they performed their duties. from Yale, and the custom was instituted at F. C. Patson, Bowdoin by the class of '66. According to Sec. B. B. A. —;

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LOCAL. - Glad to see you back again.

Pay your debts while you have money. Chapel bell rings at 6.30. Prof. Young continues his lectures on Phi- Beware of the subscription paper. lology to the Juniors this term. Remember Camilla Urso on the 30th. Stowell of '77, passed through here the One hundred and forty-two students have other day on his way to Dakota. already returned to College. Horace Sturgis of '76, writes from Naples, "Well, come Spring!" said an impatient sending his regards to all his College friends. Freshman the other day in a snow storm. Pres. Forsyth has suspended the whole Whitcomb of '76 won the prize in a spell- Senior class of the Troy Polytechnic Institute, ing match at Dartmouth, a few weeks since. for insubordination.

A new letter-box for the midnight mail The Seniors have been making up for lost has been placed in the depot near the bag- time since the President returned. They have gage room. to attend two recitations a day now. " Lo ! the poor Modoc, Examination in Chemistry. Professor "Whoso untutored miud," etc., for?" Senior is still here. "What is litmus paper used (sagely)—" It is used for filtering and to keep Think of the eighty-four dollars in the things from burning." base-ball treasury, and show your lady friends the vote of thanks. Some of the boys who were on the fence last term have since jumped on to the Gymna- S thinks the " ice was broken " in sium side. Those who have not committed boating this year, when the barge was launched this offensive act should not be railed at, how- for the first time in the slightly frozen river. ever. The Sigma Phi Society house at Williams We were much gratified a few mornings College, was robbed during vacation, of clothes since to hear a boy warned not to clean spit- and other valuables, to the amount of about toons near the pump. Everybody ought to see that it is not done, for certainly it is a The first nine called together by the Cap- matter of interest to all. tain for practice on the grounds was as follows: The Seniors have secured the services of Payson, Captain ; Sanford, Wright, Whitmore, the following artists for their Commencement Waitt, Atwood, Fuller, C. E. Cobb, and Jacobs. concert : Miss Cary, Miss Henrietta Beebe of The Engineering Juniors thought to escape the New York Madrigal Glee Club, W. H.

Astronomy this term by reviewing Calculus ! Fessenden, and W. H. Beckett of the Phil- They have not been allowed to do it, how- harmonic Club. ever, and are now pursuing the study of the This term the class officers are changed as stars with great diligence. follows: Instructor Robinson has the Juniors As there will not be a meeting of the in place of Instructor Moore. Prof. Chap- Trustees and Overseers of the College until man, the Sophomores, in place of Prof. Smith Commencement, those trees that are so trouble- Prof. J. B. Sewall, the Freshmen, in place of some in the base-ball field can not be taken Tutor Chandler; Prof. Carmichael still has out of the way until next term. the Seniors. —

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Scene. Student presenting an excuse. ALUMNI NOTES. Prof.—"But why did 3'ou miss the train?" Student (slowly and after much thought) '50.—Hon. Wm. P. Frye has been engaged "Because I didn't get there in time." to deliver the oration before Knox Post, G. A. R., at Lewiston, on Decoration Day. A spelling match will take place in the '56.—The Mirror says that Rev. Edwin City Hall, Portland, on May 7th, between B. Palmer, of the Third Congregational twenty-five Bowdoin students and the same Church in Chicopee, and formerly of Lewis- number of young ladies from the Portland ton, was dismissed from his pastorate by High School. advice of a council, March 23d. The Gymnasium time-table this term is as '64.—Rev. "Webster Woodbury, pastor of follows : Seniors and Sophomores from 5 to the Congregational Church at Skowhegan,

5.30 ; Juniors and Freshmen from 5.30 to 6 ; has resigned. Proficients from 5 to 6. The leaders and '66.—Prof. F. H. Gerrish, says the Adver- interior arrangements are the same as in the tiser, has resigned his Professorship of Thera- fall term. peutics, Materia Medica, and Plrysiology, in

E. H. Hall, of the Senior class, has been the University of Michigan, for the purpose elected Captain of the University Crew, with of resuming the practice of his profession in full power to choose his men. Those now in Portland. '69. his '76 —The Bkldeford Journal says Rev. Mr. training under direction are Pratt, ; Woodwell of the First Congregational Church Sargent, '76 ; Crocker, '77 ; Burleigh, '78, and Hall, '78. in Wells, is soon to close his labors in that church. He will leave a large circle of friends The Juniors have all their recitations in and admirers. the forenoon, but notwithstanding this they 70.—A correspondent of the Lewiston protest that undue favor is shown to the Journal writes : " The school at Wilton Acad- scientific Sophomores who are permitted to emy is in a most flourishing condition. The recite with them in botany. Who wouldn't number of pupils this term is unusually large. be a scientist and recite with upper-classmen ? The manner of instruction under the old

The rooms of the Bowdoin Ba?e-Ball board of teachers is very satisfactory to all Association presented a very pleasant appear- concerned. Prof. D. T. Timberlake, the able ance on the evening of the 17th inst., when Principal, is a native of Livermore, and a they were opened for the first time in the graduate of Bowdoin College." term. A present to the association, from Mr. '70. —E. C. Woodward is taking a course Upton of the Senior class, attracted our atten- in Chemistry at Bowdoin. tion. It consists of- a picture, around the '73.—J. F. Elliot is Principal of the High margin of which are gathered the different School, Winchendon, Mass. College colors. The furniture shows, as yet, '73.—Andrew P. Wiswell, Esq., of Ells- no signs of weakness, and even-thing is as worth, has been appointed to the position of neat as could be expected. There were U. S. Assistant Counsel, to supervise the tak- twenty or more present, and the meeting was ing of testimony in cases pending before the conducted in a perfectly quiet and gentle- Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims manly manner. There can be no doubt but at Washington. that the rooms add much to the hearty inter- '73.—A. G. Ladd is Principal of Bruns- est felt in base ball throughout the College. wick Grammar School. — — "

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EDITORS' TABLE. ticular. From the assurance with which the writer speaks of "the souls of the dead," one might sup-

It is with a feeling of bewilderment that we grasp pose that he " knew all about it, for he had been the quill for the first greeting to our exchanges. there" ; a conclusion which is enforced by a certain Naturally diffident, to he suddenly brought face to mustiness of style. "Jumping the Fence" is face with two or three dozen straugers, is almost more " nothing better but rather worse." The Owl, after than we can endure with equanimity. To all we all, has a very pleasant appearance, aud to be make our best bo w, which, though it be but an awkward pleased with it, it is only necessary not to read it .' one, is yet meant to express kindly feeling. If our One of the most pleasant things that we have remarks are neither profound nor brilliant, they shall found in the exchanges thus far received, are the at least be honest ; if we are ever detected in par- very graceful " Paraphrases on Heine," in the Har- tiality it will be because we are human ; and if any vard Advocate. We can not better please our read- luckless one thinks that we have abused him, we ers than by quoting one of them : — assure him in advance that, like Lady Teazle, we "When I but gaze into thine eyes, do it out of poor good humor. Then flies my grief, my sorrow flies; the trials of the We are much moved by Alabama And when I kiss thy lips, my heart University Monthly, which seems to us truly unfor- In health new-found forgets its smart.

: — tunate. It pathetically says "When I upon thy bosom rest, "We have a dread of printer's errors. They The bliss of heaven steals through my breast; make one say at times such strange and ludicrous And when thou say'st, " I love but thee," things. Correcting the proof, the other day, of the I weep, unwilling, bitterly." article entitled, 'A Much Discussed Subject,' in the present issue of our Magazine, we were shocked The College Herald has among others, a notice-

on reading in the opening sentence the following: able article on "The Females of Burtnah" ; written, who has a rising in his bosom,' etc., 'The youth by the way, if the signature is not a nom de plume, which is as much as to say: ' The youth who has a by " Mouny Pho San Win." tumor on his breast.' On turning to the MS., we

' found that the author had written : The youth It is a little strange that a paper so enthusiastic- who feels arising in his breast that noble pride,' etc. ally devoted to art as the Scholastic seems to be, were in mortal fear of that printer, and so we We should make its appearance in a dress of such an change the word arising to swelling. We were tint. In general appearance, however, pleased to find that he has not set up the latter abominable word as smelling." it far excels the Wittenberger, which is so poorly be almost illegible. The matter can hardly be said to be mended printed as to much, for the "a" unfortunately remains, so that The Western for April is an excellent number, the passage as printed reads: "The youth who with the single exception of "The Quest" — in are informed of the startling fact that has a sivelling in his bosom " ! The proof-reader which we must be a trifle careless, for in the same issue the some unknown young man—" though the night came word "die" is omitted in a couplet which we sup- moonless and starless," "never reverses his face!" pose should read : — the articles are exceptionally good, especially " "I need, if I would not die yet, " The Necessity of the Specialist," and Thoughts A change of diet, love;" on the Music of Beethoven." and on the same page — do they have spelling We have received a copy of the Rowing and schools at Tuscaloosa? — "preseribe" for prescribe, Athletic Annual for 1875. The book contains, in and " mew " for muse. The Monthly, is, however, concise and portable form, records of the races, one of the most readable of the periodicals thus far field-days, aud matches of 1874, both in the United received. States and Canada. As far as we are able to judge To the Owl we are tempted to exclaim with from a cursory examination, the statistics are both " accurate, and the book a most conven- Froude's cat : Bless the mother that laid you, valuable and you were dropped by mistake in a goose-nest ! ient hand-book for reference. Published by the edi- The April number opens with an article, or rather tor, James Watson, New York. " the first of a series of articles, upon Spiritism and The Mercury notices the fact that a member of the Spirits," which would rank high as an ingenious '74 has removed " that splendid gotee which was the bit of logic, showing how much may be done in the pride and glory of the Missionray Society." Yes ? way of argument without proving anything in par- But what is a " gotee " ? Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MAY 12, 1875. No. 2.

COLLEGE EDUCATION. that for many of the most important avoca-

The subject of college education is one tions of life the student leaves college as un- which well deserves attention, nor does it lose prepared as he enters it. That such a charge any of its interest from being so frequently is true to the full extent can not be maintained. discussed. And especially interesting is it to The elements of manjr practical sciences are those who are spending so much valuable time well taught in our colleges. But the aim of in gaining this education, to consider whether a college education must be kept carefully in it is one which will best fit them for the life view and distinguished from that of a profes- upon which the}7 are about to enter. sional one. Do colleges afford such instruction and Colleges do not aim to teach one a trade or discipline as are best adapted to my wants? profession, but to lay the broad and sure foun- and am I gaining the greatest amount possible dations upon which the latter is to be buirt. from the advantages offered ? are questions The general education gained in these institu- which the student often asks himself, and tions can not fail to be of value in preparing answers satisfactorily, or otherwise, as the case the student for whatever avocation he may may be. afterward select. The mind is invigorated

We all know that it is the aim of a college and expanded, and thus prepared to enter education to combine the greatest possible upon almost any occupation with assurance of amount of discipline and culture with a fail- success. amount of useful practical knowledge. To The knowledge which we actually gain carry out this design a regular course of study from the pages of Demosthenes and Tacitus is adopted, this course is and one which long may be small and unenduring ; but the vigor experience has proved to be specially adapted and expansion of mind which we gain by a to the wants of the student. thorough study of the productions of some of One of the faculties of the mind is not the mightiest intellects which have ever ex- developed to the exclusion of all others, but isted will endure throughout a whole lifetime, all receive their share of culture and training. and their value cannot be over-estimated. Do the reasoning powers need to be devel- A bare knowledge of facts may be of some oped ? Logic, and other similar studies, are value, but when compared with this discipline specially designed for that purpose. of which we have just spoken it sinks into Do exactness, imagination, and patience insignificance. need to be cultivated ? Mathematics, astron- Another important advantage which one omy, and the Greek verb come in to supply gains from a study of the classics is the fac- the need. And so we might go on through ulty of communicating his ideas and concep- the whole curriculum, and find that each tions most acceptably to others. study best accomplishes the object for which The man who has a good command of it was designed. language, even if his stock of ideas be some- But some raise the objection to a college what limited, often exerts a greater influence education that it is not practical enough, and over the community than one who has :i 14 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

greater depth and range of thought, but less leges are adopting may be to a certain extent

command of language. Always to compre- advantageous ; but we believe that in the hend the full meaning which is contained in main it is no improvement upon the old one. the writings of classical authors, and to best In the first place, it is assumed by the advo- express that meaning in our own language, cates of that system that the student, upon his

may be a difficult task ; but it can not fail to entrance into our colleges at the age of eighteen

be of service in making us masters of our own or nineteen years on an average, is a better language. judge of what studies he shall pursue than Another objection which is often raised those who have had a long experience in such against our colleges is that they do not fulfill matters, and who will consult the student's the promises held forth to the students and best good in selecting those studies which he

their friends ; or, in other words, that the in- shall pursue.

struction which they give is not thorough of We can easily see the absurdity of this its kind. Those who make this objection assumption. The consequence in many cases compare our colleges with the universities will be that those branches of study which of England and Germany as regards the seem difficult at the outset will be neglected, thoroughness of instruction given. while those which require but little thougnt Now, although we are far from denying or labor, or which please the student's fancy, that the classical education given in this will be chosen.

country is less complete than that given in Nothing is easier than for one to persuade the countries just mentioned, yet we do think himself that he is unable to comprehend this that this difference is sometimes exaggerated, or that abstruse branch of study. But if all

and that, such as it is, it is not entirely charge- those studies which seem difficult at the outset able to our colleges. The difference in the are neglected, how many proficients should preparatory training should also be considered we find in any art or occupation whatever?

r and taken into account in the estimation. On the contrar3 , history is filled with the But if our classical education is less perfect names of men whose greatest distinction has and exact than that given in England or Ger- been gained in those pursuits which they

many, it is certainly going too far to say that found distasteful or discouraging at first. it is useless or worse than useless. It is true Another consequence which is liable to fol- that we do not acquire the art of speaking low from allowing the student, at his entrance

Latin or Greek fluently ; yet we gain knowl- upon college life, to select his favorite course edge enough of those languages to be able to of study, is that his education will be of a read correctly such extracts from them as limited kind, and that a man of general in- may be thrown in our way in after life. formation, as we understand the term, will be And the same remark may be extended rarely found. to many other branches of study which form It is said that the classical scholar in En- a part of our college curriculum. The stu- gland is a mere scholar with little knowledge dent gains such a knowledge of them as will on any topics of interest which date since the enable him to render himself a thorough pro- Christian Era, and with no sympathy in the ficient in the one or the few to which he may pursuits of the great mass of his countrymen. devote himself in after life. Such results as these would be anything Such education does not deserve to be but desirable in a country like ours, where called superficial. the usefulness as well as the reputation of an The elective system which some of our col- individual often depends upon the degree of ;

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general knowledge which he may possess in so much in any great intellectual gifts with relation to the pursuits and condition of those which they may be endowed as in this gift of who are engaged in other avocations than his perseverance in conquering every obstacle in own. Hence it appears that the reasons their way. Because through all these years given in favor of the elective system are of obscurity they have been toiling and strug- more than counterbalanced by the positive gling on, preparing themselves for the great disadvantages which would result. efforts by which they render themselves dis- After a careful consideration of this sub- tinguished. And then we point to them as ject on all sides, it can not but be concluded prodigies of genius, as men gifted with extra- that a good general education and discipline ordinary intellectual endowments, when in ought to be gained by every one preparatory reality they may possess no greater natural

to the selection and pursuit of his profession ; ability, perhaps, indeed, not so great, as many and that our colleges, as conducted at present, others who, simply on account of their neg- afford the best opportunities for securing that lect to employ their talents to the best advan- education. tage, occupy much lower stations than they. But, on the other hand, how much do men of great natural abilit}', but with little indus- GENIUS t». INDUSTRY. try, accomplish ? Do our greatest men belong What is usually called genius or talent is to this class ? We think not. As a general sometimes the natural gift with which some rule the men who have attained to the highest persons are endowed, enabling them with very success in life have been the greatest workers. little labor to surmount all difficulties in their It must necessarily be so. For of what avail

way and rise to the highest eminence in what- is it for a man to have talents if he does not ever they undertake. But more frequently use them? Certainly of no more use than a the so-called men of genius are men unsur- bag of gold buried in the ground. passed in the diligence and perseverance of We observe even here in college the supe- their labors, and who by their indomitable riority of industry to this so-called genius. application have prepared themselves for the Here we see men whom we know to possess greatest undertakings. great natural ability idling away their time, The fact is, that genius is to a certain and only now and then showing their power

extent this gift of application ; this power b}r a brilliant recitation, perhaps, in some study of devoting one's whole energies to his work which happens to specially interest them.

this willingness to work early and late, and to r Then comes the man of industr3 , his lessons turn to account every spare moment, even if prepared by long hours of study, just the the fruit of our labor is not seen in a present same one day as another, his work always reward. Of course industry alone can not faithfully performed, and how much more he accomplish the highest results. These can accomplishes than the idle man of genius. only be attained by industry united with It is wonderful when we consider the class genius. But fair ability and great perseve- of young men gathered together in college, will rance often be more effective than the that so much time is wasted. In so large a highest genius without this perseverance. body of students it is of course to be expected

Oftentimes it occurs that men of genius that there will be some who will do as little

are unknown until late in life, when they work as possible. But it is strange that there burst forth in great splendor. Why is this ? are so many, among them some even who are Simply because their genius does not consist working their way and undergoing hardships ;

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for the sake of a college education, who are quirements we can attain ; and yet how few so ready to shirk their duties. How few of us there are who are proficient in this art. there are who are getting all the benefit from The majority of us seem to consider that all the college course which might be obtained. that is necessary for our success and happiness We are ampbj provided here with the things in life is to store our heads with the lore of necessary for improvement. We have good books, giving no heed as to whether we can this libraries and good cabinets ; all that is need- communicate knowledge to our fellow ful is industry on the part of the student. A men. But of what advantage to us will all stranger would be surprised to learn how little this learning be, if we have not the power of work, outside of what is absolutely necessary, conveying it to others? How often we see is done by the average student. It is a too those of inferior ability surpassing the best common idea that if we learn our regular les- scholars, simply because of their greater facil- sons so as to meet the requirements of the ity in expressing themselves. recitation room and pass the ordeal of exam- This is noticeable even in the recitation ination, we are doing our whole duty. But room, where it frequently happens that a is this so ? The time usually devoted to student with a very imperfect understanding the lessons is only a portion, and in some cases of his lesson, by his greater readiness in tell- a small portion, of the day. Are we doing ing what he does know, will obtain a higher right to allow the remainder to pass unim- rank than another, who knows, perhaps, much proved ? Can we afford to spend four of the more about it, but has not the same ease in ex- best years of our lives in so expensive a place pression. Still more is it noticeable in society. as college without obtaining the full benefit Here the man who has cultivated the art of of all its advantages ? We would not by any conversation, even though he be an inferior means have it understood by this that we scholar, if he is possessed of shrewdness, will consider the time spent in exercise and the present his ideas in such a manner as to con- popular games of college as wasted. Far ceal his ignorance, and show himself in his superior from it. These are of great importance, and best light; while, on the other hand, should have their proper places. But we are scholars, who have given little attention to speaking more particularly of the time which this art, present only their poorer side, and seen as wall-flowers. is idled away or given to useless amusements. hence are so frequently Our professed object in coming to college To be able to converse well, it is neces- place, to be possessed of is to improve and fit ourselves for the duties sary, in the first sense, and to have the of life. Ought we not then to take advantage good, sound, common point is of every opportunity offered ? Although we ability to express it. And this latter For, al- may not be so successful as some, is it not of especial importance to success. praiseworthy in us to do our best ? And we though one may have many and sound ideas, of expressing may rest assured that every well-directed yet if he has not the power manner, he will not suc- effort will, in the end, be rewarded. them in an elegant ceed as a conversationist.

Another requisite is extensive reading. CULTIVATE THE ART OF HOW TO necessary in order that the mind may CONVERSATION. This is be kept supplied with ideas. It is necessary, To be able to converse intelligently on all not only to read much, but also to digest general occasions, and upon whatever subject what we read; to thoroughly think it over, may be proposed, is one of the greatest ac- and make it, as it were, a part of ourselves ;;

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 17 to incorporate it into our minds so thoroughly Chapter, chairman of the Executive Council, that it may form a part of them, so that in presided. The following is the list of dele- talking of it we shall feel perfectly at our gates : F. T. Hastings, Theta, Union College ease. However much one has read, if he has E. P. Howe, Beta, Yale College ; Rathbone only an imperfect knowledge of it, he is no Gardner, Sigma, Brown University ; Moses better off than if he had not read so much. Gay, John B. Stanchfield, Gamma, Amherst

On the contrary, he may be even worse off, College ; Wm. S. Forrest, E. C. Carrigan, C. for his imperfect knowledge may lead him W. Whitcomb, Zeta, Dartmouth College ; Geo. into egregious errors. Sherman, Dubois Smith, Lambda, Columbia

To please in conversation, it is not only College ; W. J. Curtis, G. R. Swasey, Alpheus necessary to talk well, but also to be a good Sanford, Kappa, Bowdoin College ; E. B. listener. If one takes all the conversation to Cobb, Psi, Hamilton College ; _A. S. Under- himself, his companions soon weary of him. bill, G. S. Coleman, Xi, Wesleyan University He seems to say in action that he considers F. W. Young, Upsilon, University of Roches- himself superior to them, and so talks for ter; E. H. Ranney, A. G. Higginson, Phi, their instruction. This does not please. Men University of Michigan ; R. B. Twiss, Omega, are naturally vain, and wish it to be consid- University of Chicago. ered that they know something, even if they A petition for a chapter at Syracuse was do not; and in no way can a man be pleased granted ; all others were refused. The Exec- better than by being made to think that his utive Council will be the same as last year, opinion is of importance. The better way except that F. P. Dow, Bowdoin, '72, was would be to allow others to talk all they wish, elected in place of J. S. Signor. and seem interested in it. This gives them The convention and members of the the idea that they have pleased you, and they Kappa Chapter were photographed in front feel pleased themselves that they have the of Medical Hall, directly after adjourment power to do this. they then took the 5.30 p.m. train for Port- Finally, we should be neither too talkative land, where they partook of their annual sup- nor too silent. If we are too talkative, peo- per at the Falmouth. Hon. W. D. Northend ple will be apt to think that we have too high of Salem, presided, and Geo. E. B. Jackson, an opinion of ourselves, and their opinion of Esq., of Portland, acted as toast-master. The us will be correspondingly lowered. If, on following toasts were given and responded to: the other hand, we preserve silence too much, " Our Brotherhood," " The Executive Coun- " we may be thought to do so through fear of cil ; then followed a toast for each chapter, exposing our ignorance. In this as in almost " The Legal Profession," " The Medical Men everything else, the golden mean will gener- of our Fraternity," " Our Clergy," " The ally be found the safest. Press," and " The Ladies." The 43d annual convention will be held with the Psi Chapter, Hamilton College, Clin- PSI UPSILON CONVENTION. ton, N. Y. The 42d annual convention of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity was held in the rooms of The Juniors have decided to plant their the Kappa Chapter, Bowdoin College, on May ivy on the 28th of May. The exercises of 5th and 6th. Twenty-two delegates were Ivy Day will probably consist of an address, present, representing twelve of the fourteen poem, and ode. All the arrangements have chapters. Mr. F. A. Brown of the Lambda not as yet been completed. 18 B0WD01N ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. the class whom he considered suitable for the appointments,—the general scholarship and PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- ability of the student to present a creditable ING THE COLLEGIATE TEAR, AT appearance on the stage being the standards BOWDOIN COLLEGE, of judgment. From all the names handed in the different professors By the Class of 1876. by and assistants, the twenty having the highest number of votes EDITORS. were then selected, and from this twenty there Arlo Bates, E. H. Kimball, were chosen by lot ten to represent the class C. H. Clark, J. G. Libbt, on Commencement day." C. T. Hawes, J. A. Morrill, W. H. G. Kowe. Strange to say, the students are not suited

yet ; they grumble about " the decrees of the Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies, Facult3*'s helmet," as if shaking up names in 15 cents. a hat were not the fairest way of selecting Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, those best fitted for college honors. Brunswick, Maine. are glad that the new order of things For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- We son, Brunswick. here, if report may be trusted, is one which can hardly fail of being much more satisfac- CONTENTS. tory to both Faculty and students. The parts, it is said, are to be assigned as usual, Vol. V., No. 2.—Mat 12, 1875. that they may serve as now to indicate the

College Education 13 rank ; but only the first ten men will be Genius vs. Industry 15 called upon to deliver their productions. How to Cultivate the Art of Conversation 16 While many will doubtless at first be dis- Psi Upsilon Convention 17 appointed in not speaking themselves, or in Editorial Notes 18 not hearing some friend, the general result The Spelling Match 19 Local 20 will undoubtedly be a desirable improvement Alumni Notes 21 in the Commencement exercises. Editors' Table 22

May Day was ushered in with the pomp EDITORIAL NOTES. befitting so festive an occasion. From the mysterious shades of McKeen woods issued In view of the proposed change of Com- a fantastic crew, which might have been a not mencement Day exercises here, we were unworthy retinue to the " Lord of Misrule." struck with the account given by the Chron- Strange figures in scarlet, white, or motley, icle of the action of the faculty of the Uni- came trooping along, preceded by the proud versity of Michigan. The Seniors, as we strains of the Brunswick Band, re-enforced understand it, handed in a petition for the by a few of the students. Closely following abolition of Commencement parts by the stu- came "Gentle May'' as a negro damsel, dents. The Faculty are willing to grant the "black but comely," from beneath whose petition, but feared that public sentiment gaily colored robes peeped a very masculine would not uphold the change. They there- looking pair of boots. fore compromised the matter " in the follow- Want of space forbids us to mention more ing novel manner : Each member of the Fac- than a very few of the groups in this unique ulty made out a list of thirty members of procession. ; ;

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We were particularly touched by the sight ladies from the Portland High .School. Ru- of a bony horse, which continually stretched mor whispered strange reports of the study- after a bunch of hay fastened just be3r ond ing done by the young ladies. One had reach before him, the bundle bearing the committed to memory we don't know how " " legend, Thou art so near, and yet so far ! many hundred words, and another had come From one carriage window leered an im- off victorious from three or four matches mense pair of eye-glasses, which the owner however, the boys were determined to carry could not possibly have needed as much as a off three-fifths of the proceeds. At eight fat lady who rode in solitary state in a tub o'clock the contestants took their places, and for the shafts of the latter novel equipage Geo. E. B. Jackson, Esq., in the usual form, were so long that the horse could hardly have requested the audience to become quiet for a been visible to her naked eye. spell. Instructor Robinson and Tutor Chan- In another carriage two colored gentle- dler acted as judges for Bowdoin, and Messrs. men lolled at their ease while a white coach- Patten and Chase of the High School for the " man held the reins. " Civil Rights was on young ladies. Mr. S. T. Pullen began by

the placard. giving out the easy words ; after the first We would speak of the Indians, the ne- round came the harder ones, which for some

gro minstrels, the enormous scissors labeled time were tossed off with no effort ; but soon " Brunswick Telegraph," the clowns, the a young lady establishes her right to the bou-

nondescript figures of unheard-of shapes ; but quet, and a minute or two afterward Sabin we forbear. gains the primer. The words flew fast from We must add that after parading the prin- one side to the other, doing damage here and cipal streets, the procession halted at the foot there ; and at the end of twenty-five minutes of the Mall to listen to the reading of a poem six young ladies and five collegians left the and an address. We stood, the dust settling stage. Now the survivors settled themselves over us like a benediction, and pensively to work ; words of four, five, and six syllables, gazed at a party who, in open defiance of the flew from their lips; words with an e and words " inscription, We have signed the pledge," without; words with one I and words with which was conspicuously displayed upon their two. " Demijon " and " teetotaller " enjoyed ox-cart, were making merry with jug and each other's company, the millenium came to bottle. As we were thinking how national one, and another showed his ignorance of a character will make itself felt even in this " stancheon." A young lady's " remeniscence " most un-American of celebrations, a voice of her spelling book was not clear, and pro- behind us said mildly but firmly : —" Wall, I pinquity was too much for another ; a third cal'late I wouldn't giv' them steers fur the put one s in embarrassment, and abscess, whole durned lot." We returned home feel- which had already sent a collegian to the ing sure that there was a moral somewhere, floor, now proved too much for one of the though we were wholly unable to discover other side. The contest was close ; one side what it miiiht be. was never more than three ahead of the other. The partisans of the High School applauded strongly the successful THE SPELLING MATCH. efforts of the young ladies and the errors of the students. Once, City Hall was well filled last Friday night when Felch, through mistake, started to leave to witness the match between twenty -five the stage, they applauded loudly ; but, when collegians and the same number of young he again took his seat, an answering applause !

20 BOWDOIN ORIENT. warned ttiem not to be in so much haste. Fi- Copies of the Orient exchanges will be nally only one remained on each side, and the found in the College Reading Room. struggle was spirited ; but Felch won the set The Camilla Urso concert here was well of Dickens's works, and Miss Devoll the Dic- attended, and was highly enjoyed by those tionary. After singing, " It's a way we have present. Fessenden was, as usual, warmly at Old Bowdoin " and " Good night, ladies," received ; Miss Doria was endurable ; Rudolph- in the hall, the boys assembled on the sidewalk sen not more than commonly clownish ; while and marched with song through the streets, Madame Urso made up for all deficiencies by making several stops. One hospitable citizen the rare skill and sweetness of her playing. invited them into his house and offered refresh- ments, to which kindness they responded with Could not the boat -crew be awakened in the the disturbance more singing. The general verdict is that we morning without of had a jolly good time. the whole college ? Every one knows how demoralizing to a man's general good nature

it is to be troubled in his morning nap ; and LOCAL. it hardly seems necessary that we should all be awakened for the sake of saving somebody "My first." the trouble of climbing a flight of stairs. " I'll give you thirty-one." In order to vary the monotony of their " Smalts onley 1 cent a pond," is the way many adjourns, the Seniors, some time since, a sign reads down town. introduced the light athletic sport, called Payson, '76, has taken the place of Pratt, " pitching coppers." Many a one, before '76, on the University crew. virtuous, has been allured from the path of duty by the fascinations of this simple, yet Seniors think of having one of the The instructive amusement. Knowledge hitherto empty panels in the chapel filled at their useless is now of practical benefit. The expense. Senior, as he gravely weighs the nickel, tries The singing in the Chapel Sunday even- to conjure up the principles of political econ- ings adds an agreeable feature to the regular omy which have so long laid dormant in his exercises. mind, and figures on the doctrine of chances, what he will lose or win. The easy Junior, Repartee by R. "Has Prof. got applying the equations of force and velocity, through with yon yet ? " " He has got plants a cent within an inch of the stake, and through most of us." quietly resumes his pipe. The reckless Soph- A principle lately discovered in physics or omore whirls his penny in a parabolic curve chemistry is that — nothing is spontaneous and proves to the Freshman with unanswer- but — stupidity. Next able logic that he has won, though to an out- sider the contrary would seem to be the case. Where is the band this term ? No symbols The Freshman in his excitement is calmed of their existence anywhere appear. Cornet down to a sense of his position and duties as be that they have disbanded ? by his knowledge of geometrical formulas he Appleton and Winthrop Halls each boast ascertains the true positions of the coins. a first-class photographer. Likenesses can be Combining instruction, amusement, and mus- obtained at any times, and under the most cular exercise, it supplies a want long felt in unfavorable conditions. Call and see them. the college curriculum. BOWDOIN ORIENT. 21

The games of chess which Black and Geo. A. Fairfield has been on the U. S. Whitmore, '75, are playing in behalf of the Coast Survey ever since his graduation. Post Bowdoin Chess Club with Dartmouth and office address, Waltham, Mass. Kingston, are reported to be in a very favor- David Fales, Commercial business, No. 14 able condition. South street, New York. Charles S. D. Fessenden, Physician, has At a meeting of the Bowdoin Base-Ball charge of the U. S. Marine Hospital, Portland, Association, F. C. Payson tendered his resig- Maine. nation as Captain of the College Nine. His Frederick Fox, Lawyer, Portland, Me. resignation was accepted and A. Sanford Dexter A. Hawkins, Lawyer, No. 10 Wall elected to the vacant position. street, New York.

After great trouble, we have obtained one Simon J. Humphrejs Clergyman, is Dis- " of the criterions of the uproarious, glorious, trict Secretary of the A. B. C. F. M., No. 84 Daniel Pratt," which he permits us to pub- Washington street, Chicago.

lish :— Samuel F. Humphrey, Law3r er, Bangor, NEXT CENTUEY OF AMERICA. Me., has been U. S. National Bank Examiner The Centennial, July 4th, 1876, will be one hun- for State of Maine. dred years since the AmericaD Independence, July Chas. F. Merrick, Cotton Factor, Natchez, 4th, 1776. What have we but a dark and stormy

future if we go on at the same ratio for the next Miss. century as we have the last century ? I am in pos- Edw. W. Morton, Homoeopathic Physician, session of hundreds of remedies that will, when Kennebunk, Me. published, be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, G. S. Newcomb, Farmer, Westboro', Mass. for the grievances and temporal judgments of Amer- Chas. A. Packard, Physician, Bath, Me. ica the next hundred years. There is a great work Pond, Clergyman, San Francisco, for all professional men in America. 3000 diseases, Wm. C. 3000 violations of the physical laws, and 3000 dis- Cal. cords of organization. Harmony of faith and works Thos. H. Rich, Professor of Hebrew, Bates is the value of all subjects and objects in the world. College, Lewiston, Me. (Signed), Daniel Pratt, J. B. Sewall, Professor of Greek, Bow- The Great American Traveler. doin College, Brunswick, Me. E. C. Smyth, Professor of History, Theo- ALUMNI NOTES. logical Seminary, Andover, Mass. Oliver Stevens, Lawyer, Boston, Mass., [We earnestly request contributions for this Attorney, Suffolk department from the Alumni and friends of the County Co. College.] R. H. Tibbitts, PIrysician, Rosario, State '42.— E. A. Chadwick, Judge of the of Sinaloa, Mexico. Municipal Court of Gardiner, died April Chas. A. Washburn, Lawyer, Oakland, 20th, after a long sickness. His remains were Cal. Several years U. S. Minister to Paraguay. entombed with Masonic honors. Judge Chad- '54.— J. Emerson Smith has published a wick was born in Frankfort, in 1817, and novel entitled, " Oakrklge." For a review of began the practice of law in Pittston, in 1844. the book, see The Literary World for April Class of 1848. 1st. '72. John Dinsmore, Clergyman, is pastor of the — G. M. Seiders, Sub-Master in the Congregational church at Winslow, Me. Waltham (Mass.) High School, has been in- Henry E. Eastman, Merchant, resides in vited to a position in the Episcopal Academy Deny, N. H. of Conn., at a salary of §1800. : — " — " — —

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EDITORS' TABLE. "Behold! with dark, uplifted eye And slow unconscious pace

EXCHANGES. ^ The youngest and the last draws nigh And breathes upon my face. " — We find the following in the Cornell Era : Prof. The hours whirl round Wilder returned from Brunswick, Me., a short time and the poet's brain evidently, for he touchingly fulfilling his duties as non- ago, where he has heen ends in a manner worthy of the beginning : professor of physiology at Bowdoin College. resident " Day shuts us up to sense—thy touch " He lectured hefore the Senior class, the course heing Unlocks our prison bars ! the same in substance as the one he delivers here In case the latter event should ever happen, will the every year to the Freshmen." We are duly im- Record kindly publish a key to the poem ? pressed with the erudition of Cornell Freshmen, as The Targum explains that it is the imperative

with the Seniors of Bowdoin ; and the compared need of a new boat-house which forces Rutgers to prettily worded that it is with the utmost item is so be without representatives at Saratoga this year. reluctance we find ourselves compelled to state that

it is entirely—;false is an unpleasant word, let us say BOOKS EECEIVED. erroneous. Prof. Wilder's lectures here were con- English Statesmen. By T. W. Higginson. New fined entirely to the Medical School ; and the Seniors York : . G. P. Putnam's Sons. were not included in his class. Let the Era be a This is the first of a uniform series called " Brief more careful, lest it lay itself open to the trifle Biographies," of which other volumes are to appear charge either of inexcusable ignorance or of willful shortly. The name of T. W. Higginson as editor is misrepresentation. a strong recommendation, and the present volume The Yale Record has found a poet, or at least a also bears his name upon the title page. The book poem. This latest offering to the muse who may be is designed, to quote from the preface, to be one supposed to preside over exercises in prosody at " through which an American can make the needful " Yale is entitled The Triad." —It begins by pro- preliminary acquaintance with English statesmen, pounding the startling inquiry "A vision of the by way of preparation for attending or reading the year's rich prime?" which, as a conundrum, we Parliamentary debates." " It is easy enough," Mr. " are compelled to confess, we must give up ; espe- Higginson justly says, to find books which portray all written cially as the conclusion of the stanza affords no clue. these men, . . . but they are by

. . all " Three, most unlike, but with some trace Englishmen for Englishmen, . and they And impress of the same sweet race for granted a great deal that an " admit or take "Which was the fairest of the Three ? American wishes to know. In this volume the suggest that it is taking We humbly beg leave to attempt has been made to condense several of these give another connundrum an unfair advantage to books into one, ... in the hope of producing before we have found an answer to the first. Be- something which . . . may at least be more " like to know to what " sweet race sides, we should useful to Americans through its arrangement." mysterious triad belongs. The poet continues : this The result is a neat little book, which is compact, " than a dream of wight— More shadowy comprehensive for its size, and in every way which it Is " dream of wight" a euphuism for nightmare ? admirably adapted to supply the want " The firstborn stole upon my sight was designed to meet. With dew-damp tresses low." How to Make a Living. By Geo. Cary Eggleston. even a guess at We are not prepared to hazard Putnam's Handy-Book Series. what is meant by " tresses low." Not the least merit of this book is, the author Following this unsubstantial creature : says what he means without finical circumlocution. " The second born, alone and fair, The work is practical, and full of sound common Then came in breathless state ; Upon her cheek and in her air sense. All sunny beauty sat Dayton, Ohio : J. The masses of her golden hair School Festival Songs. Hung with their own warm weight." Fischer & Bro. German authors, "State—sat." Was it having her hair hung Nearly all these songs are by is Abt. The collection is with its " own warm weight " which reduced her to conspicuous among whom selections are good. the " breathless state" t Then— not a large one, but the ! ; ;

Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MAY 26, 1875. No. 3.

ODE TO BACCHUS. With ivy crown advance To cure us of our woes, Antigone, 1115-1155. And with thee rows on rows

Bacchus, many-named, Of Naxian women fair,

The son of Zeus far- famed, With vine leaves in their hair, "Who rulest in thy might "Who dance the whole night through

O'er Italy most bright, And still their praise renew

And boldest with thy band For thee their leader true! The Eleusinian land, Q. C.

And through its vales dost roam Who makest Thebes thy homo, ? The mother seat supreme, SHALL WE TEACH OR BORROW Near to the rippling stream At present, when students are beginning

"Where, on the open heath, r to seek schools for next j ear, a few words on "Were sowed the dragon's teeth this subject may not be out of place. In The fiery smoke arising — almost every Eastern college the number The cloven hill disguising, of students is large who have to decide the But not the lofty mountain — question of teaching during a part of their And the Castaliau fountain

course or hiring monej' : of mortgaging their Beheld thee at thy birth; labor after graduation, or of losing a part of When dancing in their mirth The Corybantes sung that instruction for which the}* are striving to And loud thy praises rung. pay. It is of no use to discuss the value of a The banks with ivy clad college education, as well to those looking And vines that make men glad forward to a mercantile life as to others pro-

Escort thee with thy throng; posing to study for a profession ; that is suffi- And an immortal song ciently proved by the great number of insti- Doth loud thy praise prolong, tutions claiming the name of college. But if The guardian of Thebes' streets the reader will consider the design of the Aud she thy praise repeats; course, such as we conceive it to be, and we From her sad notes ascend, can imagine no other, wo think that he will Mourning thy mother's end, agree at least in theory. And now disease impure The College curriculum is arranged so that The city doth endure. the student may obtain the most discipline Come, o'er Parnassian hills, and the best foundation for future study, and Or by the murmuring rills, obtain it to the best advantage. Every study And cure us of pur ills I has its Thou guid'st the stars' careers, appropriate place in the whole course, And music of the spheres and every one, or every part of one lost,

First had its life from thee. detracts so much from the value of the whole. O Bacchus, let us see The student consoles himself with the idea Thy beaming countenance thai he can make up those studies ami under- ;

26 BOWDOIN ORIENT. stand them about as well as if he were pres- results of teaching during a part of the course ? ent, but in the majority of cases he will be We think that the former alternative is cer- mistaken. The method of instruction, espe- tainly the better. But some, while perhaps cially in the studies of the last two years, is agreeing in theory, would fail to follow up such as to render this for the most part impossi- that theory in practice. ble. The experience of the instructor teaches Autumn is a pleasant season of the year him that there are many things which increase in which to teach ; the student generally has a the interest and profit in a study, although good time and the year passes more quickly. not mentioned in the text-book. These, if he Moreover, a young man exceedingly dislikes is earnest in his work, he presents in lect- to be under an obligation to anybody, and by ures and explanations. A student, in making teaching he relies on himself ; hence we shall up a subject, would lose all this, beside the not be surprised if full as large a number drill afforded by the recitation. teach during the coming Autumn as heretofore, Perhaps some one will say, " At least I and we are not sure but that we should do the can get the benefit of some of the earlier studies of the course, Latin, Greek, and per- haps Mathematics." Very likely you can, CHARLES DICKENS. but do you. You come back from your school in the middle of the term ; here are the reg- It is often the case that literary reputations ular studies which will .be the more difficult, suddenly gained are as suddenly lost. The favorite of one age, whose words are on the since you can not begin with the first page ; those omitted lessons act as a dead weight to lips of all men, is either wholly ignored or hold you back, and you immediately go to work treated with scornful indifference by the next. to get rid of it; by diligent studying and Literary history records an ever-moving pro- cramming you manage to pass an examination cession of authors, one reputation following and are made up. No interest has been taken another as star follows star across the sky. in the subject ; it is finished with a feeling of Especially is this true in novelistic literature. relief, and forgotten in a very short time. The public expects fresh batches of stories This may seem to one who has never taught, a daily, as naturally as hot rolls for breakfast. mere fancy, but let him ask some classmate, Thousands of novels are cast, each year, into even if he be an excellent scholar in Latin and the whirlpools of literature, swim famously Greek, how well he appreciated the authors for a time, but soon disappear, only single so studied. ones being left from hundreds. The only A few words now as to the alternative. exception to this law of ephemeral popularity Those men who come to college with insuffi- is in favor of those writings that become cient means are not in the habit of relying on classic, the work of men who write because others ; they are self-reliant, energetic, and the they must, who throw themselves into the very fact that they have their own way to broad current of human sympathies, uttering make in life, enhances the value of their four their thoughts in the language of the people, years in College. These are the men who are language not formed by any study of models, likely to obtain good positions after gradua- but coming warm from the lips of men influ- of life. tion ; and is it not better for them to repay a enced by the passions common These portion of the money, spent in obtaining an are the men who send their influence far education, with the proceeds of their labor, beyond the boundaries of nation or age than to experience to their disadvantage the while they who write in the cant of sects or BOWDOIN ORIENT. 27 castes, who reflect only the mannerisms of an suit our own ideas. He was ever on the look- age, and pander to the tastes and prejudices out for the absurd and unusual. The mental of cliques, do not outlive the time and class processes and quaint modes of speech, some- for which they write. No better example of times full of clear-cut, sentient phrases and the first class of writers can be found than sometimes ludicrously blundering, of the peo- Charles Dickens. From the time when the ple whom he met, were stored up in his well-known sketches of London life, published memory, unconsciously it maybe, to be brought over the nom deplume of "Boz," were received forth whenever the exigencies of the story by the reading public with favor, heightened demanded. Although he delights in sketch- by curiosity as to whom their authorship ing the exceptionally good and the excep- might be credited, he was cheered with tionally bad, he never reaches an impossible popularity while he lived, and now that he is extreme. His worst characters have some dead, is honored by an enduring fame. redeeming traits, and his best are not too

There is reason for this. In general a man good to be human. is honored in so far as his work is for the Although the humor of Dickens is so interest of humanity ; and who can estimate the abundant that many people never regard him good effected byr the writings of Dickens ? One as a writer of more serious aspect, his genius marked characteristic of his works is that can as readily move to tears as laughter. they are all written with a definite purpose. There is in his works an undercurrent of

He did not make men of straw to tear down. tragedy ; and no less than his mirthful writings

Realizing that the world had done with is this spirit of pathos acceptable to us, for imaginary evils and false sentiment, he aimed all men are born to sorrow and with a sense his shafts at existing abuses. Nicholas Nick- of pity for the sorrows of others. It matters elby was a startling exposition of the brutali- not that the misfortunes are of people entirely ties practiced in certain schools. Oliver Twist removed from our sphere of action ; they are is a weighty argument against the parish system not beyond our sympathy ; space and time of pauper maintenance, and contains not a can not annihilate compassion. The wail of few pertinent suggestions to officials under David over the untimely death of his son,

that system ; while the opponent of capital and the almost unspeakable agony of Caesar punishment finds in Barnaby Rudge an argu- when he saw his friend in the murderous ment after his own heart. And even the throng about him, come to us with as mourn- Pickwick Papers contain, between the almost ful a tone as they came to those who heard inexhaustible treasures of fun that is their them first. And in the same way and for the characteristic, a subtle sarcasm directed against same reasons the pathetic passages of our certain objectionable features of society. author are even more powerful and chaw us The characters of Dickens are alone nearer to him than his lighter words. sufficient to render him famous. They are The popularity of Dickens is almost un- real persons and not merely the mouth-pieces paralleled. In general the minds of men are of warring opinions. Although we may strung to different keys, and require different never have seen any people just like them, touches to make them give back an answering there is an instinctive feeling that they must chord. One writer finds appreciation among exist somewhere and arc not fantastic creations the rude and unlearned ; another among the of the author's brain ; and this, too, notwith- cultured and refined. But tin' sympathies of standing the fact that they are in many cases Dickens are well nigh universal. They range only outlines of characters that we fill up to [CONCLUDBD IN XKXT NI'MBKR.] 28 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. Not only do the students and the town boys devote their energies to the manly game, but PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE "WEDNESDAY, DUR- even the staid Medics have been detected in ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT the secret purchase of^ an inexpensive ball. BOWDOIN COLLEGE, The students have done some pretty tall kicking, but it all seems trifling when one By the Class of 1876. — reads the following from the Wittenberger :

EDITORS. " Here is a featy reminiscence. It is related for Arlo Bates, E. H. Kimball, a fact that a certain Professor of Wittenberg, while C. H. Clark, J. G. Libby, playing with the boys, kicked a foot-ball over the

C. T. Hates; J. A. Morrill, college building, which is five stories high. If any W. H. G. Kowe. college in the land can beat that kick let it lift up

its voice and cry aloud." $2. 00 a year, in advance; single copies, Terms— Either the five stories were pretty low, or 15 cents. this story is pretty tall. Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, Brunswick, Maine. For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- The Telegraph has spoken, as promptly son, Brunswick. — and as accurately as usual. It says :

" The class of 1844, of Bowdoin College, will have CONTENTS. a reunion and class dinner during Commencement Vol. V., No. 3.—May 26, 1875. week, early in July, at the Falmouth Hotel, Port- land. This class is the only one that annually has a Ode to Bacchus 25 reunion and dinner." Shall we Teach or Borrow? 25 Of course nobody expects the Tele- Charles Dickens r 26 graph to be correct in anything. We have Editorial Notes 28 Local 30 become perfectly accustomed to its mistakes, On a Pair of Pants 32 and take no particular thought when Smith

Alumni Notes 33 is changed into Montmorency, Jones into College Notes 34 Washington ; a date varied a few months ; or Editors' Table 34 some such trifling error committed. This time, however, the mistake needs correction. EDITORIAL NOTES. We can not say how many of the classes hold annual reunions, but the members of the class Secretaries or others who wish to secure of '66, at least, have clone so ever since their rooms in the college buildings as head-quar- Freshman year, '62, and it is very probable respective classes at Commence- ters for their that there are others. ment, can do so by applying to the editors of the Orient. It is desirable that this be done is proposed to issue, sometime in the as early as possible, in order that the list of It rooms may be published before Commence- present term, in pamphlet form, a collection ment week. Friends connected with the of songs of, and for, Bowdoin. The need of been felt. The collection press will confer a favor by extending this such a book has long in the old Carmina is notice. of Bowdoin songs miserably meagre, and the new Carmina is

After snow-balling came pitching coppers, still a thing of the indefinite future. and after pitching coppers has come foot-ball. Considerable difficulty has been experi- BOWDOIN ORIENT. 29

enced in obtaining copies of the older songs man than is every student now here. That is of the College. Alumni or others who are only one side of the question." in possession of such songs, or of new ones "But, the men in training," replied Nav- suitable for this book, can greatly aid the icus, " whether for base ball or boating, can work and oblige the compilers by forwarding hardly be expected to give very much time to copies to P. O. box 1009, Brunswick. other things. They are hardly to be blamed In connection with the above, a prize of for thinking they are doing their share." $10 has been offered for a new College song. " Only a few men are in training," " The song must be entirely original ; the music answered the other, and those but a small

either original, or if not, at least not yet ap- part of the year. I was not speaking of such propriated by another college. The songs are men, though they can at least show an inter- to be signed by a fictitious name, verified b}r est in what we try to do."

the genuine signature in a sealed envelope. Now, this is, slightly condensed, the report The committee reserve the right to publish of an actual conversation. It is most unfortu- songs not taking the prize, and of rejecting nate that such a feeling should arise. There

all handed in, if none are satisfactory. is no necessity for the clashing of the different Songs must be forwarded on or before interests among the students, but there is need

June 1, 1875, to " Song Committee," care of a kindlier tolerance for the preference of Orient, Box 1088, Brunswick. others. It may be true that the athletic men have been somewhat selfish in their claims. They have also been active, wide-awake, and The charge has been repeatedly made of have represented the feeling of a majority of late, though with how much justice each must the students. determine for himself, that those interested in On the other hand, the social men, if we athletic sports are selfishly negligent, or even may use that term for want of a better, are at

opposed to everything else in the way of least a very respectable minority ; and, as recreation. they are so, their wishes are entitled to " The fact is," said a Junior, speaking of consideration. Ivy Day, " the fact is that the athletic men expect us to give in aid of base ball and boat- ing, but we can never look to them for help Warm days have come now in good ear- in anything else. There are many men in nest. There is no longer any need of morning College who are not at all interested in fires except to consume the remnant of the athletics, but who like to get up dances, class coal heap. For our part we can hardly un- times, or literary exercises. They are called derstand why students will persist in having

upon to contribute for sports, but can not get a fire solely for this reason. They seem to be help in return when they try to do anything." mortally afraid of leaving a little to their suc- " But," put in Navicus, who happened to cessor, perhaps for fear of malice. But one be standing by, " athletic sports help the rep- year we had a little wood bequeathed to us, utation of the College." and we do not think we bore the donor any "I've heard that until I'm tired of it," ill-will, and we certainly used the wood well. returned the Junior somewhat testily. " That Those unsightly heaps of ashes behind the

is supposed to answer all objections. It is halls are fast disappearing, and the diligenl

line enough as far as it goes; but every man laborer has been patiently renovating the Col-

who is fitting for college is no more an athletic lege paths. A new one has been laid out from ; " '

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the north end of Winthrop, under the super- LOCAL. intendence of our Professor of Ornamental " Base ball." Carpentry. We have not examined it criti-

cally, but we fully believe the curve is laid " 8.30 p.m. to-night." out on mathematical principles. Did our " Have you got the stroke yet? readers, we wonder, ever think how insuffi- cient is the aforesaid Prof.'s title to express We have " set her back, stranger " about his many duties. We all know how his labors four columns this deal. press upon him, especially when, in cold We were glad to see one of the old editors, weather, we want a pane of glass set in the Wis well, '73, in town a short time since. bedroom. At one time he is ringing the bell The Boating Association realized just sev- for the "Medics," and at the next down by enty dollars net from the Portland spelling the woodsheds. But human endeavors are match. always imperfect, and Ave willingly avoid the task of finding a proper title for him. Recitation Room. Prof.— "The farmer is Then, there are those little piles of ashes dependent upon the state of the crop." scattered along the walk, " " which, no doubt, the Jun. (aside) — So is a hen ! traditional "bumming Freshmen" have stum- A Freshman wants to know if there is not bled over. But who can tell how many staid some " Eyetalian cockatrice " who can be en- upper-classmen, with boots polished to reflect engaged to sing at Commencement. like a mirror, and broadcloth nicely brushed, have, while treading the walks some dark '76 have adopted dark red and white as night, unfortunately measured their lengths their class color in the coming race. The on the ashes, and have been sorely tempted. flag is at present being made in Bangor. But while improvement is going on, we This is the sentiment now dedicated to the should like to see some attention paid to the Juniors. "Dost thou ~ think because ihouzxt trees on the campus. Many of them need virtuous there shall be no more cakes and trimming very much, and some could be well ale."—Shakespeare. dispensed with. There is that tree near Maine Hall, with the trunk half rotted away He beckoned to him with his blistered hand, led him out of sight, and hoarsely that bare stub in front of the chapel ; and op- in his ear, " held the ' 'versity posite the South End of Appleton there is an whispered We elm with the top broken over, which, to our a pretty good start this morning, and don't own knowledge, has been in that condition for you fail to remember it." almost two years. We are all fond of the It does not look at present as though the beauty of our campus and hope that these Class Race would come off before the last of imperfections will be remedied before the June. The Senior and Junior crews have favorable season has gone. been working regularly. The Sophomores

are just getting used to their new boat ; while

The Alpha Delta Phi Convention is to be the Freshmen are doing little or nothing. It held at Providence, R. I., under the direction has not been decided yet how much time of the Brunonian Chapter, on June 2d and 3d. ought to be given to the two gigs. Eleven H. R. Patten, D. A. Sargent, and E. H. Kimball seconds a mile per man has been claimed, but have been elected to represent the Bowdoin we doubt whether so much time will be Chapter. allowed. B01VD0IN ORIENT. 31

" " How do your sliding seats go ? '77 bears the palm for musical ability. We are glad to learn that the Glee Club have The betting seems to be all on the Junior fixed upon a regular night each week for crew. meeting. Prof.— " Is this caused by the sun or R. R. Baston, G. C. Cressey, E. H. Hall, moon ? " Student— " I think it is, sir." W. H. Holmes, D. A. Sargent, G. R. Swasey, Dana, formerly of '75, was admitted, on have been appointed from the Senior class to the 10th of this month, to the Androscoggin compete for the '68 prize on Monday evening, bar. May 31st.

The Scientific Juniors will probably, some The stories of -midnight affrays on the time in June, take their annual zoological banks of the Androscoggin, and wild threats excursion to Harpswell Neck. Wouldn't it of the " bold brakemen," which are floating be a pretty good place to study botany there? around College, are enough to make one quiet farm. " Why will you persist in drinking? " said think of home and the an irate Sophomore to his room-mate, on be- We have heard that the members of Mas- ing awakened iu the middle of the night to ter Humphrey's Clock think of loaning their find the bootjack. " Beer-beer-cause I want society to the College bell-ringer. It may be to, chummy," was the incorrigible reply. a good-time keeper, but it would raise the A sign at the entrance of a certain store dickens if it were used for such a purpose. " on East Genesee street, reads thus : Cain It is now beginning to seem like the spring seated chairs made here." We would not like to sit in any of those chairs, for fear of term, and something seems to be going on in being branded with the mark.— University College. Five boat ci- ews are in training and Herald. row on the river every clay. The base-ball Why shouldn't Cain seat the chairs made nine practice every afternoon on the Delta. there, when he had a brother able to make There has been a May Day celebration, a soci- them ? ety convention, and numerous minstrel con- At a meeting of the Peucinian Society, certs in the town. More than all that, there Ivy a the following officers were elected for the is a fair prospect of having an Day, ensuing year: President, J. A. Morrill; Vice Burial of Analytics, a Class Day, and, perhaps, Supper. If we only send our crew President, A. T. Parker ; Orator, F. C. Pay- Freshman to Saratoga all will be serene. son ; Poet, A. Sanford ; Secretary, D. B. Ful- ler; Treasurer, O. Brinkerhoff ; 1st Librarian, Field Day will come upon the 5th of June. F. Wright; 2d Librarian, C. Morrill; V. W. The following is the programme: 1. Two

Librarian, J. Thing. '>. 3d W. Mile Walk; 2. Throwing Base Ball; Two

; 5. Run- It is good exercise and healthy besides, to Mile Run; 4. Standing Long Jump kick foot-ball in the damp evening air, right ning Long Jump; 6. One Hundred Yard

best two in three ; 7. Three Standing after eating a heart)' supper ; but it is not con- Run, ducive to the good looks of the college campus Jumps; 8. Hop, Step, and Jump ; 9. Hurdle

.".'. to kick foot-ball on the turf out beyond Race over eight hurdles. feel high, and 36 Memorial Hall. The Delta, or the ground feet apart: 10. Half-mile Walk; 11. Three behind the colleges, would he much better Legged Race; 12. Half-mile Run. All entries before the 2d of places, as there the ground is harder and more for Field Day must be made free from trees. .June, to A. T. Parker, No. !'. M. II. ;

B WD OIN ORIENT.

A vein of green mica lias been discovered The following programme has been adopted on the banks of New Meadows River. It is for Ivy Day, May 28 : — mineral, and a of fine quite a rare number Order of Exercises isr the Chapel. specimens have been procured. Singing. Prayer J. M. Hill. The University crew by all accounts are Singing. Address W. G. Waitt. the getting along splendidly. They have got Singing. knack of the stroke and will soon be ready to Poem Arlo Bates. Singing. go from the barge into their shell. The slid- At the Ivy. ing seats are being made by Blaikie for their Planting of the Ivy. practice boat, and will be similar to those in Ode A. T. Parker. the new boats. Various presentations of wooden spoon, spade, &c. &c, with appropriate remarks, will We copy from one of the college doors follow before the final adjourn. what, doubtless, expresses the feelings of then many under the same circumstances, namely, The prospects of the College nine have the following: — undergone a decided change within the last

Notice ! month or two. The change of pitchers will Occasional visitors warmly welcomed. Habitual alter, it seems to us, the whole character of loungers are requested to keep away. We mean their game. They will be obliged to pay more business!! attention to batting and to their out-field play, The Portland papers gave a very good for they can not expect to keep down the account of the spelling match between Bow- score of their opponent as low as if they had doin College and the Portland High School ; but swifter pitching, and their fielders will have in our opinion, they showed very poor taste in plenty to do if they play with slow pitching appending society initials to the boy's names. against a club of their own strength. If the They would have avoided some very ludi- whole nine will only practice as honestly and crous mistakes had they omittted that feature regularly as four or five of them have, we in their reports. shall have every hope that they will come up We have heard that the Modocs think of to the expectations that they have raised, and challenging some class in College to play them give a little satisfaction to their friends and a game of foot-ball. We dislike to dig up supporters. The positions of the men at pres- the hatchet after so many moons have passed ent, though subject at any time to change, are

peacefully, but the sachems are ready to as follows : Melcher, c. ; Fuller, p. ; Wright,

assemble in council should occasion demand it. ss. ; Sanford, 1 b. and capt. ; Payson, 2 b.

It would be a good thing for the clinics and Potter, 3 b. ; Knight, 1. f. ; Waitt, c. f.

patent pain-killers. Jacobs, r. f.

The " Wandering Jew " has visited us once again on his eternal round. He has ON A PAIR OF PANTS come with a smile on his face and a vase in BOUGHT AT THE SUGGESTION OF A FRIEND.

his hand, with the same wonderful images of When these pants are gone, — 'od rot 'cm !- Parian marble and the same vases of pure I '11 procure a copper bottom With pair of leather legs: — lava. But alas! he went away sorrowfully, a They shall painted be like tricot, and left many a worn garment to gather dust And bo dandy whim or freak, oh !

for another year. He did not pay cash ! Ever more shall make me take them from my peg — —

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Then no more I '11 hear the story, r their pathwa} . The world bad honored, and That, — despisiug fame, and glory, fame proclaimed them, and in so doing had And respect of woman fair, reflected I am wandering — such a pity, honor on her. Bowdoin needed no In this God-forsaken city — man to stand up and speak for her—her grad- With the seat torn from my pants, my only pair; uates had done it in every part of this That the cold wind from the wild wood country, and even of the world. Like the Whistles freely where in childhood power of England, of which Webster had I was chastened by the rod, said, " Her morning drum-beat, following the That I, knowing not, nor caring, Go my way, and take my airing, sun, and keeping company with the hours, Disregarding Mrs. Grundy, man, and God. circles the earth with one unbroken strain of W. S. D. *7t- the martial airs of England." So the fame and honor of Bowdoin had gone around the ALUMNI NOTES. globe, and with scarcely less intrinsic charac- ter. It had been said that the production of

[We earnestly request contributions for Ibis large numbers of eminent men at any college department from the Alumni and friends of tbe was only an accident, but how strange ap- College.] peared the coincidence when Bowdoin's roll MEETING OF THE CHICAGO ALUMNI. was inspected. The speaker, however, said

The second annual dinner of the Bowdoin that he believed in a genius loci, of each col- College Alumni Association was held at the lege, and considered that of Bowdoin to be a Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, last week, and type of peculiar manliness, characterized by the occasion proved a most enjoyable one. tbe absence of anything " sloppy," and for his Among those present were ex-Gov. J. L. part he would not allow that standard to be

Chamberlain, President of the College, '52; lowered one inch if he could help it. Pass- '39 E. P. Weston, ; Erastus Foote, '43; J. W. ing over many other topics with few words, Porter, '43; the Rev. Arthur Swasey, '44; the speaker said of the College, that the au- tbe Rev. S. J. Swasey, '48; Superintendent thorities had determined to hold fast to that

J. L. Pickard, '44 ; the Hon. M. W. Fuller, which was good, and had therefore restored

'53 ; Lee Brown, '46 ; '54 the old course of studies, Edwin J. E. Smith, ; in which most of A. S. Bradley, '58; Gen. C. H. Howard, '59; those present had graduated. The establish- George N. Jackson, '59; R. G. Farnham, '60; ment of a scientific department had enabled

the Rev. E. N. Packard, '62 ; A. N. Linscott, them to do this. In closing, the speaker '62; R. W. Robinson, '63; J. J. Herrick, '60; promised his brother alumni a warm welcome and a number of invited guests. About when they came to revisit their Alma Mater. thirty guests sat at the table. In the absence The only thing she needed was the loyal love •of Judge Drummond, the Hon. E. P. Weston of her sons, and that he was sure they would presided, as the eldest graduate present. gratefully give, keeping warm and strong in

Tbe first toast of the evening was "Alma their hearts the name and fame of < >ld Mater — She summoned us to eat of the tree Bowdoin.— Argus. (if knowledge before we 'wandered into a " lower world. ' The Great American Traveler has re-

It was resp led to by Gen. Chamberlain quested us to slate that he is engaged on in a quiet vein of humor. lie said there was another greal work. "The Prattville Crite- no need of a formal response for Bowdoin; rion." —••live hundred feei of manuscript."

1 ic i ii each of 1 had responded for her along Magenta. — ; !

34 BOWDOIN OBIENT.

COLLEGE NOTES. The Beloii Monthly is fully up to its usual stand- ard of dullness.

Union College has chosen garnet as its The Era says : — color. " Our personal in last week's issue in regard to Prof. Wilder's lectures at Bowdoin, did some injust- Harvard has re-adopted its original color, ice to that college, perhaps. The course of lectures crimson. was delivered before the graduating class of the Medical School, but was somewhat more advanced The Yale crew is composed of Cook than that given here to the Freshman class." (stroke); Brown ell; Cooke; Fowler, Kellogg We shall learn in time which of our exchanges Kennedy. must be allowed a chance to modify their state- ments. The Harvard crew is as follows: W. J. We thought the correspondent of the Record not Otis (stroke) ; C. W. Wetmore (2) ; W. C. particularly courteous in his would-be-witty descrip- Bacon (3) ; W. R. Taylor (4) ; M. James tion of the visit of the Glee Club to Vassar ; but we Thayer (bow). (5); E. D. partly excused him when we read the account giveu The Seniors at Williams have voted to in the Vassar Miscellany. In speaking of the " omit the smoking of the "calumet of peace" charming concert in the chapel," the writer says : " Had the boxes only been placed at the doors, after on their class day. The Atlienceum thinks the manner of the Society of Religious Inquiry, to that a further improvement would be to have collect money for the heathen, we would have shown in private. the class history read our appreciation in another way than in applause."

The Mis. is pleasantly gotten up and well edited ;

it is pervaded by an indefinable air of feminin- TABLE. but EDLTORS' ism, and a general vagueness in matters of punctu- ation. A poem in the Magenta has this very striking — The editors of the Bates Student are so " wrapt verse : in contemplation still and deep " of the " Relativity " But the sun, the great arclibislwp." of Knowledge" and kindred subjects, that in the Speaking of poetry, we are delighted with an April number they have allowed the advertise- effusion in the Record, entitled " Heaven Bless a ments to stray into the body of the magazine ? Are Girl like Nellie Lee." It tells how they well paid for this ? "— all save sbe and Robert Brown Niagara Index, in an article headed " Hist Had left the long-contested field ;" The " when- . . . Cats ! shows how completely the writer has " ' poor boy," I'll miss, and yield to that been able to misunderstand Dickens's portrayal of Thought iSTellie in her tender mind. Carker in " Dombey and Son."

" ' Apothecary ' came to her A student writing in the Nassau Lit., upon wild ei/es her heart impressed; Robert's "College Poetry," concludes that "as a general Should she misspell it ? —and there were ' Conflicting thoughts withiu her breast. thing the lines ' which answer to that name are

" But duty in the end prevailed, mere sentimental, wishy-washy nothings." Amen ! Quelling compassion in the fight; say we, and could quote from the Lit. itself by way Aud iSTellie, who had never failed, of illustration. ISTow spelled the given word aright. Asbury Review modestly prints an article " Had ISTellie slighted duty's voice, The

' And wrongly spelled apothecary,' beginning : — Though causing Robert to rejoice, " size is She would have lost the dictionary." No journal of the same read with greater interest than this unpretentious college paper. Its This conclusion is at least a logical one. Did we editors are exhibiting great discrimination aud taste understand the Record to say that " the great Anier- in selecting themes of practical benefit to their pa- can poet was to come from the great West " ? Away trons. . . . Hence all their publications are chaste, " elegant aud refined." with such mock modesty ! Heaven bless a" poet like the author of the lines we have quoted, for he It is kind to call attention to the excellence of will hardly receive the benedictions of his follow this paper, for otherwise it would hardly be sus- men. pected. — :

Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JUNE 9, 1875. No. 4.

IVY DAY POEM. I'd have waited your call, had I not stood in fear That you never would summon me thus to appear." Some modern cynic — a class I despise, " Therein you were certainly," said she, " quite right; In attempting to prove himself wonderful wise, And now, having come, please begone from my sight," Declares that when a man begins "Ah, goddess!" I answered, "the glance of your eye To spread excuses o'er his sins, Would nerve me in combat before you to die; He rather plans to trespass more But how can I leave you?" Than sorrows for his faults before. " The road is the same," Yet I desire to have it known She answered quite coldly, " as that which you came." That not the class' choice or my own In spite of this coldness I did not despair

Has poet made me. But then who — Of gaining my end if I managed with care — And I appeal, my friends, to you 1 So I flattered the muse, and made her confess

Could steel his heart against the cry, That she only was cross to be seen in such dress. " We can find no one else, you '11 have to try!" Then I quoted, not thinking of anything new,

It 's truly flattering to one's pride A proverb that 's rather more trite thau true, To know that the committee tried About unadorned beauty. And then she grew gay,

In vain to find a worthy poet, And thought, as I 'd come, on the whole, I might stay. Before they said to him, "You go it!" I told her my errand. She sadly complained However, I think I 'm the meekest man That none of her ancient glory remained. — That has ever been seen since Moses began " Once bards," she said, " in all their song What now is the universal plan — Proclaimed my praises loud and long:

That of making a bank, when a lady you 'd win, But now each rhymster takes his pay, The base of your hope. So I put my head in And writes his rhymes in his own way."

The noose they 'd prepared. I first to the muse " Ah ! " said I, " in my feeble lays

Sent a postal card straight; for I feared she 'd refuse, I longed to celebrate your praise;

If I went without warning, to help me at all. And hoped my honor to secure As I got no reply, I determined to call. Invoking Thee." It isn't my purpose to bore you to-day " Indeed, I 'm sure,"

With all the minor details of the way. She answered, " I of your designs Must needs approve. Read me some lines." But I got to Parnassus, and there, on a stone Then I without the more ado By " Castalius fons," sat the goddess alone. Eehearsed to her a verse or two. She was washing Jove's linen; and all her back hair

She had laid on a stone with the nicest of care. TO THE MUSE.

Her cheeks were unpainted, her buskins unlaced, Muse! sweeter than any from the mouth Her boddice and kerchief were both much displaced. Of eat or kitten, on the dreary drouth

Of my ideas descend in fertile showers. It may be, indeed, that the best-natured muse Think, gentle goddess, on the weary hours All comfort and aid would full surely refuse 1 've longing sighed thy side to seek To the poet who caught her thus in dishabille; And press my kisses on thy boundless cheek! And I own for myself that I could not but feel " That I 'd followed my postal card rather too soon, Quite nice," she said, " I own you touch And the moment at least was not quite opportune. My heart a little. I 've not much To give you. .... " I truly hope, madam, I do not intrude," Here 's indeed a song,

I said very humbly, "on your solitude. But it 's neither very sweet nor long." ; — ; —

38 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

A LEGEND OP THE IVY.

Then she took from her pocket a number of things — I.

Some hair-pins, a pipe, a parcel of rings, Somewhere, in musty books, is read

And, " last but not least," the following ode, The legend of a peerless knight,

Which, were it my own, I would never have showed. Who, after years of toil, and peril dread,

I beg of the ladies to censure the muse, Of hard won victory in bitter fight,

If they to take umbrage should happen to choose. Knelt to receive a tourney's crown;

And thought to feel upon his brow THE CLASS COLOR. The laurel or the bay; and how A wreath of ivy on his forehead brown " What shall our color be?" Was placed instead! and when surprise The Junior gravely said; At garland as reward of knightly daring new While a host of dies confusedly flies Was written plainly in his eager eyes; In rainbows through his head. The tournev's queen leaned forward from her place,

" I know not which of three — And bending down towards him her perfect face, The green, the red, the blue — Said earnestly, with words that thrilled him through: " May worthily the emblem be Not till the whole of strife is done, Of seventy-six so true." Not till the whole of life is passed, Is the fair garland of the laurel won, then he chanced to see But Man's noblest guerdon ever is his last." A damsel's blushing cheek: " " II. O let it be red ! the Junior said, Years passed; and in the midst of strife With joy he could not speak. The knight fought bravely to the end.

Bed is the lovely rose, Then, when he knew that he was done with life, Its beauty freshly blown He sent to her his truest knightly friend. And in the dies of sunset skies And called the old-time tourney queen.

Our glorious red is shown. "Life — breath," he said, "are ebbing fast away. Have I not earned at last the conqueror's bay ?" Eed is the maiden's mouth; She bent and kissed his brow, her tears between. And thus to all 'tis known, " " Not yet," she answered ; still remaineth death That when we sip the maiden's lip 1 Unconquered." " Ah ! the crown " he said ; his smile We only take our own! Stilling in endless calm, as fled the fluttering breath.

hast thou rest at last, ah! truest heart," Earnest, and long, and dull was the chat "Now The lady said, " that ever felt the smart I held with the coy, perverse muse after that.

! Of earth's slow torture." Then she mused awhile " This ode to our color " I cried in dismay, And yet it can not be," at length she said, " However delightful it be in its way. " That thou wilt idly lurk in nerveless gloom." Is not very appropriate just at this time." And when they laid away the honored dead, " Very well," returned she, " you may make your own rhyme; She placed not bay — but ivy, on his tomb.

It is nothing to me." hi. " You mistake," I replied "Because I may not know," she said,

" I am honored indeed that you even decide " That he is done with striving yet.

Not to frown on my suit. And I know that beside It can not be that with the noble dead You'll write me a poem, O lovely-haired one!" He will the hour of victory forget. By that single adjective was the thing done. It well may be that in some isle The muse pulled a beau -catcher down by her ear, Full far beyond the reach of mortal ken,

Put her hand in her pocket, and answered, "Well, here; He still remembers all he did for men;

Take the thing, if you want it!" And I half fancy I can see his smile I hastened to say If he should chance to look upon a wreath

My thanks and farewells, as I hurried away; Of ivy : for it still must be the sign

And this is the muse's latest gift for to-day: Of all the foes he trod his feet beneath." —

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 39

To us the tale to -clay may mean than many sermons. And the beautiful Christ- seen That not the brows that laurel- crowned are mas Carol, with its wonderful alternations of Need be the noblest. Those where twine pathos and humor, how forcibly does it plead The ivy, symbol of aspirings high, for benevolence and Christian charity ! In the May give a promise richer for the needs book we see the man. There was nothing of Of life's hard battles, which before us lie, the prig about him. was a man whose The promise of a life of noble deeds. He tXrfatiC whole nature brightened joyously at the con- templation of forms of beauty, who enter- CHARLES DICKENS. tained a genuine relish for social pleasures and [CONCLUDED FROM LAST NUMBER.] sprightly conversation, who lived a true life from palace to hovel, from noble to peasant. and kept the atmosphere about him pure and

His writings are in the hands of the poor as clear by his example ; in a word, an honest, the rich, and both are alike moved by those true-hearted, noble-minded Englishman. And wonderful books that swept away a wall of what shall we sa}'of that genius that has given partition, and showed, beneath the England of us so varied a repertoire of masterpieces, the great, another England of people like ranging from such wide extremes as the trial- them in thought and passion and feeling. scene in Pickwick and the death of Little His works were well received because he Nell ? We may call it versatile, but the word spoke what was necessary to be spoken. His is poor and unequal to the duty put upon it. message was wanted. Unlike some of the Some one has expressed the idea that " Genius great writers of England who poured doses of in its absolute sense is alwa3r s in the superla- flattery down the throats of the delighted tive. There may be differences in kind, but people, teaching them that, as Englishmen, never in degree." Whether or not this is they were born with instincts of humanity, true as a general statement, I do not attempt and that in spite of increasing crime and to say; but it is true of the subject of this social subserviency, they were the best and sketch, and the world will wait long for another freest people of the world, he was not re- Dickens. strained from deserved censure through fear of misapprehension; he saw elements of decay beneath the apparent soundness of the " Who will play catcher now ? " is the social fabric, and the power of his genius question which every two weeks requires a was devoted to their destruction. We some- different answer. Perhaps when they find times hear it said that he was an enemy to one " with muscles of iron and a heart of religion, that wherever he introduced a cler- steel " it will be finally settled. At present gyman or other professedly religious character they are taking themselves more hard knocks he made him either an object of ridicule or a than they give others. The short stop has, hypocrite. He realized that corruption is perhaps, the next hardest position on our everywhere to be found, that even clerical newly laid out grounds. The old paths ought

robes are not always free from its stains, and to be filled up, or else a large amount of errors

it was his object to expose it wherever seen. will be unjustly charged on his account. Al-

No religion in Dickens ! Who can read though there has been more practicing done of Little Nell and say this? Her whole short by the nine than by any other since we have and stainless life was a living, breathing been in college, yet unless a marked improve- religion. Her courage and brave endurance ment takes place they will nut get the cham- of her mighty sorrows teach higher lessons pionship. " —

40 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. cheering was done. In the evening the '77 Glee Club serenaded '75, singing an original PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- ode by W. G. Beale, '77, with a burden : TEAR, ING THE COLLEGIATE AT " May God in future ever bless BOWDOIN COLLEGE, The Class of Seventy five ! By the Class of 1876. We are requested to state that the Bow- EDITORS. doin Song-Book, alluded to in our last, will Arlo Bats E. H. Kimball, , not be issued until the fall term, on account of H. Clark, J. Gr. Libby, C. a delay on the part of the Boston firm which C. T. Haws, J. A. Morrill, was to do the printing. This is much regretted W. H. G. Rowe. by those who have the matter in charge, but Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies, they will strive to compensate for the delay 15 cents. by the increased value of the collection, which Orient, Address communications to Bowdoin the extension of time will, they hope, insure. Brunswick, Maine. For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- Brunswick. son, IVY DAY.

at Bowdoin CONTENTS. There are several customs which directly tend to closely unite the mem- Vol. V., No. 4.—June 9, 1875. bers of the classes with each other and with Ivy Day Poem 37 the College. Among these we think that Ivy Charles Dickens. (Conclusion.) 39 Day has permanently assumed a place. The 40 Editorial Notes Junior class have every reason to congratulate Ivy Day 40 themselves for the beautiful day and the ex- Bo wdoins vs. Resolutes 41 cellent arrangements of the committee. At Eegatta 42 a quarter before four o'clock, Friday after- Field Day - 43 Local 44 noon, the class assembled in the South Wing Alumni Notes 45 and marched to the chapel, occupying the Editors' Table 46 Senior seats. The following— is a programme of the chapel exercises : EDITORIAL NOTES. Music. Prayer J. M. Hill. Oration W. G. Waitt. The most impressive of our College cere- Music. monies, the Seniors' last prayers, took place Poem Arlo Bates. Music. Tuesday evening, June 1. Quite a number class quartette, consisting of Bates, of friends, both ladies and gentlemen, were The Hall, and Hill, furnished excellent present; and among them several of our Burnham, music the concluding piece, " Nos Beata," vounger Alumni who happened to be in town. ;

Bowdoin claims as its ; it The Junior quartette sang the farewell was one which own is proposed to publish it in the new Carmina. ode ; and the reading of Scripture and the interesting sketch of the prayer of Prof. Packard were peculiarly sol- Waitt gave an of the past year, a brief history of the emn. The Senior class, as usual, passed out wants planting the ivy, and in conclusion singing " Auld Lang Syne." After leaving custom of the fitness of every class placing the chapel, the customary amount of mutual alluded to ;

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 41 beside our chapel a plant which shall remain " Dig " of '76. He was not ashamed to as a memorial of it after it has left " Old arrive by study at the same rjoint which some Bowdoin's halls. attained by other means.

The poem is by request published in the In a speech which would excessively try opening pages of the present number of the the powers of reporters, the President present- Orient. ed a pony to Gordon as the class " Hossist." After the poem the class proceeded to the We have an idea that the latter gentleman north side of the chapel, and there each was somewhat disturbed by the thought of member deposited a trowelful of earth around the " primordial evolution of harmony out of the plant, and a bottle containing an invita- chaotic disorder," as doubtless he had been tion, programme, and the last number of the before by striving after the " means of acquir-

Orient was placed at its root. The Ivy ing increased rapidit}r of transition." Ode, written by A. T. Parker, was then sung To encourage him in his struggle, the class " " to the tune of Dearest Mae : — presented to Stevens the mustache cup,

The tie which binds us, frbnd to friend, claiming the right, however, of seeing his To class and college deir, mustache before graduation. Alden, as 'Tis to renew the golden chain To We plant our ivy here. the handsomest man, was presented a mirror ; The emblem of our love and hope, Our trust and honor, too — and the jack-knife, for the homeliest man, was The emblem of onr loyal hearts, voted to Evans. The last presentation was To Alma Mater true. the wooden spoon to the most popular man, None knoweth how, from seeming death, The spriuging budlets swell, and the xhoice of the class gave this honor to Nor how the hand of friendship grows Sanford. In his acknowledgment he said Can sage or poet tell And yet iii every heart to-day that it had always been his aim to advance The power of love is known, "We feel the hope of every heart the interests of '76, placing them second only By that which swells our own. to those of the College. The years may scatter us afar, This concluded the exercises of the day. Tet toward the upper air Our lives shall struggle, like the vine, We feel sure that every member was con- To seek perfection there. scious of an increased pride in his class and We leave behind us, when we go To scenes so far and new, will long remember the 28th of May. A friend to speak in tones of love To keep our memory true.

After the ivy had been committed to the care of A. T. Parker, the class sung " The BOWDOINS vs. RESOLUTES. Class Color." The closing exercises of the Our nine went to Portland on Saturday, day were the presentations. The first was a May 29, and played a practice game with the for " spade the Dig " of the class ; the Presi- Resolutes. This was the first game our club dent, Bates, called upon Clark and presented had played this term, and several of the men to him in the name of the class the token of had their fingers very badly used up, which their "recognition and appreciation of his rendered good playing on our part quite im- rooted faith that the beginnings of language possible. The Resolutes seem to claim about are below the surface," expressing the wish the same for their men, and it is not at all that when he should honor us by using it, it strange that they should do so, because their might be instrumental in obtaining for him a game also was the poorest we ever saw them " ten-strike." The recipient pleasantly re- play. There was hardly an earned run dur- sponded, speaking of the dignity of labor, ing the game, and almost every score was due and of his pride in being chosen as the to an error. Knight let our first score in by 42 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

wild throwing ; Payson let two men in by THE REGATTA. misjudgment, throwing home to get the third "A conclusion in which nothing is de- man out, when there was plenty of time to cided " is always unfortunate, and the regatta a out on the first, and Wright let put man last Saturday has unhappily been an instance two men in by a wild throw. And thus we of this. As the first regatta held for some might go on enumerating error after error, time, many allowances must be made ; and, it is needless. Let us look at a few of but notwithstanding their mistakes, much praise the good plays. Waitt caught a pretty fly to is due to those who have been instrumental centre ; Wright made a good throw to the in putting it through. The course of the getting the third man out, and there home, race, three miles in length, was from the a good triple play. There was a man on was railroad bridge, passing down round Cow second, Sanford caught first and one on when Island on the Topsham and up on the Bruns- a foul bound ; and they, thinking the ball fair, wick side. The Sophomores and Freshmen started from the bases, and Sanford put the crews pulled in gigs, while the upperclassmen ball to Payson, who returned it before the had shells. The gigs were new, but the shells

time to get back to his base ; then man had had been much used before, and that of Sanford threw it to second in time to get that '75, especially, was much out of repair. By out. This was very fortunate, as the man some unfortunate misjudgment the Sopho- scored four runs that inning. Resolutes had mores and Freshmen were allowed a minute The greatest difficulty our nine seemed to and a-half as the difference in boats. There have was on the striking. Crocker, the Res- was an almost universal feeling of surprise at olute's catcher, stood so near the home-plate this decision, and among the upper classes, at that the striker could not swing his bat with- least, much dissatisfaction. '75 withdrew out fear of hitting him ; and of course this from the race altogether. '76, although per- caused much confusion. However much right haps equally convinced of the injustice of the striker may have to use all his power to this allowance, did not withdraw, but pulled hit the ball, if the catcher occupies the posi- under protest. Crocker did, the striker will not do as tion The Juniors were next the Topsham well as if he had a clear swing. shore, but took the next place which was left are in hopes that another game with We vacant by the withdrawal of the Seniors. The Resolutes soon be arranged. the may Freshmen were next, while the Sophomores' Below is the score of the game. place was next the Brunswick side. The

IB. 1b. Juniors were the last to come into line, and, Payson, p 1 Knight, 9. a 1 Wright, s. s Lei^'liton, p. ,..l with their white shirts and red head-handker- Fuller, l.f. Barnes, J., 1. f..l Sanford, lb. ...0 Crocker, c.f.... 1 chiefs, and their even, smooth pulling, were Potter, 3b Ayers, lb 2 Waitt, c.f. Barnes, F., 3b. .1 the finest looking crew on the river. The

Melcher, 2b. . . .0 Wilson, 2b 1

r. f. . .1 Jacobs, r. f.. . -.1 ('ashman, crews started at about quarter before eleven, Perry, c St. John, c the Juniors quickly taking the lead, the Totals. 11 Totals. 13 11 5 2 6 12 2T I 27 Freshmen being slightly behind the Sopho- mores. About the tenth stroke the foot-board 4 4 10 3 — 13 while the rudder was to Umpire —Mr. Dow of the Unas, of Charlestown, Mass. Time of game, of the rudder broke 2 hours and 20 minutes. 1st B. errors—Bowdoins 8, Resolutes 10. port, where it remained fixed throughout the race. The Juniors were thus completely The new base-ball uniform made, they say, crippled for the rest of the course. The a very nice appearance in Portland. Sophomores attempted to run between the BOWDOIN ORIENT. 43

outlying shoal and the island, running aground aged by Sewall, '77, and Peary, '77 ; Stevens, and abandoning the race. The Juniors led '76, and Rowe, '76, kept the time. until the turn at the foot of the island was At a quarter past three o'clock, the one- reached, when the Freshmen gained nearly half mile walk was called. Evans, '76, and ten boat lengths, '76's rudder being unman- Hall, '78, appeared. During the race the con- ageable. testants repeatedly broke into a run, but The Freshmen crew made the three miles Evans came in ahead in 3m. 28|s. The in 21m. 46s.; the Juniors in 22m. 34£s. 100 -yard dash came next, for the best A large number of spectators had assem- two out of three heats. Paj^son, '76, and bled to witness the race, and all were much Alden, '76, entered. By mistake the men disappointed at the unsatisfactory manner in were started for the first heat forty feet be- which it ended. Of course each of the yond the designated point. Alden rau this classes still claims the championship for its heat in 13 sec., and Payson withdrawing, made own crew, and only another race can settle the second in Hi seconds. Next the one- the matter. half mile run was called ; there were four

After the conclusion of the regatta, the entries : Cobb, C. E., '77, Stimson, '76, Alden, '75 crew pulled against time, in 22m. 15s., but '76, and Sanford, '76. At the start Alden with a boat leaking badly. took the lead, thus increasing the spirit of the officers The of the regatta were as fol- race ; but, laboring under the disadvantage of lows: Referee and starter, Hunter, '74; Time- being out of breath from his previous race, keepers, W. P. Walker and W. R. Field; dropped out during the first quarter of a mile. Judges at stake-boat, Profs. Carmichael and Cobb gained the race in 2m. 19£s., Sanford

Moore ; Judges at lower end of island, Hall, second in 2m. 35s., Stimson third. Throwing '75, Hall, '76, Mitchell, '77, Paine, '78. the base ball was next. Knight, '77, Payson, The prize consisted of four gold watch- 76, Crocker, '77, and Peary, '77, participated. guard slides, bearing a pair of crossed oars, Hall, '78, thinking the sports were made too and engraved with name, date, and time made. serious, furnished fun for the crowd. Peary

threw the ball the farthest, 316 ft. ; Payson came next, 306.7 ft., Knight third, and Crocker FIELD DAY. fourth. The best throw made last fall was The second semi-annual Field Day of the 304 ft. Bowdoin Athletic Association was Saturday, Peaiy, '77, and Mitchell '77, entered for the 5th inst. The sports, which were held the running jump ; three trials were allowed. upon the Topsham Fair Ground, were wit- Mitchell's best leap was 16.5 ft., Peary's, 15.3 nessed by the students en masse and a large ft. The most exciting race of the day was number of their friends. The weather was the 2-mile walk. Evans, '76, Jacobs, "77, pleasant, and, without the slight breeze which Burleigh, '78, Mitchell, '77, and Cousins, '77, influenced the throwing of the base ball, entered. At the end of the first half mile. would have been most favorable. The Board Cousins and Burleigh were abreast, making of Directors of the Association, consisting of the course in 4m. 55£s. At the end of the Waitt, '76, Hargraves, '77, and Fessenden, first mile, Mitchell came in first, in 9m. 59|s. '78, with Parker, '76, as Master of Sports, Jacobs made tin 1 mile and a-half in 15m. 4s. had charge of the exercises. Prof. Carmichael Evans, who was walking very easily, was acted as referee, and Ladd, '73, and Sargent, ruled out a short distance past the pule, and '75, as judges. The measuring tape was man- Burleigh and Mitchell stopped during the last 44 BOWDOW ORIENT. half mile. The race was now very closely The medics leave us soon. contested ; Cousins, however, received his last Straw hats will soon be the style. warning when within a short distance of the a sort of tacit all line, and Jacobs won in 19m. 40s. The prize By consent idea of Class '75. was a nice gold-headed cane, presented by a Day seems to have been given up by lady friend of the students. The second-hand furniture market is '77, Next came the standing jump. Cobb, crowded. Now is the time to buy your and Potter, '78, were the contestants. Cobb chairs and chipped crockery. won, jumping 9.5 feet ; Potter's best jump The first prizes for essays were awarded was 9.4 feet. The best jump last fall was

to E. H. Hall and H. R. Patten ; the second 9.4 feet. For the two-mile run, Hall, '75, prizes to G. R. Swasey and S. C. Whitmore, and Crocker, 77, entered. They ran the first

on the following respective subjects : " Causes mile side by side, in 6m. 26Js. During the of Religious Persecution," " Republicanism first half of the next mile, Crocker stopped, in France," " Writings of Henry Kirke and Hall came past the stand in 9m. 37s. White," and " Macbeth." He ran the last half-mile for record, coming in splendidly in 12m. 45|s. The last exercise The Seniors ought to get their autographs

was the three-legged race for 100 yards ; Hall, well fixed. Nearly half of them have chosen '78, and Jacobs, '78, won in 17Js., against Law as their future vocation. Medicine finds Thing, '78, and Baker, 78. devotees in about a third of the class, while The sports were voted a success by every Theology and Civil Engineering will each body who witnessed them, and the Association claim the labor of two. The others are too can well congratulate itself on the good young to make their choice yet awhile. management. A match game was played upon the Delta on the forenoon of Memorial Day, between LOCAL. the Bath and Brunswick High School nines. The game resulted in favor of the Brunswick " Rainy Sundays." nine on a score of 31 to 15. In the afternoon the Live Oaks played the Androscoggins. " A little one for a cent." The former were the victors, but we have not "Did you have a reserved seat at the been informed of the score. " circus ? Notwithstanding the various attractions in The last verse of the Junior " " color song other directions, and the absence of music, a seems to be the favorite. large audience assembled to listen to the com- Why must Wilkie Collins have made his petitors for the '68 prize, on the evening of mark? Because he wrote " No Name." May 31. The programme was as follows:

Political Corruption, R. R. Baston ; Richelieu, Senior examination. Z. — " When iron G. C. Cressey ; Religious Persecution in pyrites is heated the sulphur is given off and Europe, E. H. Hall ; Modern Degeneracy, forms carbonic acid." W. H. Holmes ; Does Civilization Endanger Seniors have The chosen brown for their Character ? D. A. Sargent ; Miguel Cervantes, class ribbons, the Sophomores light green, and G. R. Swasey. The speaking was fully up the Freshmen blue. White will be worn with to the average, and the parts rather above. all the class colors. The prize was awarded to D. A. Sargent. ;;

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A prize of three dollars has been offered Scene in the office of the Tontine Hotel.

by a member of '75, for the best college cheer. Prof, (searching)—" Boy, where is the boot-

brush ? " Boy—" I think it is in No. 6, sir." are glad to see that some of the col- We Prof, (smiling)—" Well, I guess I will not lege trees have at last been primed into go in there after it." decent shape. Where they add so mnch to A young man in the Junior botany class the beaut}r of a place as they do to our campus has ruined himself for life by accidentally they deserve and •will reward a great deal of

guessing a conundrum : would trees care. Why never do for almanac makers ? Because they taking While the great game was place in would leave out every spring. Portland, a large and enthusiastic crowd gath- The hand organ man attempted to soothe ered on the Delta to witness the first game of (?) the savage Modocs by playing a tune at the the champion schooner series between the door of their recitation room. They stopped Irresolutes and Dogos. Irresolutes to the bat. the recitation for fear of disturbing him, and The first strike was a liner to the umpire, who " " listened to the sweet melody, until a loud dodged it, and in recovering cried foul ! " " voice threatened to throw him, not out of tune, So is a hen ! replied the striker, and on the but down the stairs. He now wears a com- strength of his wit was allowed to score his plimentary ticket to their next clinic. run. 'T would be useless to try to describe the fine plays in this game. Owing to an The Senior appointments for Commence- error or two (twenty-three, we counted, by ment are as follows : E. H. Hall, Salutatorian the s. s.), in the third inning, the Dogos First Parts, G. C. Cressey, C. L. Clarke, W. scored 19 runs, making the total score at the H. Holmes, S. M. Carter, S. L. Larrabee end of the third inning 54 to 54. High excite- Second Parts, C. A. Black, G. R. Swasey ment prevailed. Knott stood at the bat, his Third Parts, D. M. McPherson, M. A. Floyd, fine athletic form showing through a large C. A. Dorr ; Fourth Parts, R. G. Stanwood, hole in the knee of his pants. Needless to say H. R. Patten, F. R. Upton, W. Pulsifer he knocked a fly to first base-man, who caught Fifth Parts, R. R. Baston, W. Nevins, C. H. it on the first bound. " Knott, out," yelled Wells; Sixth Parts, F. O. Baston, E. H. the undaunted, though now crippled, umpire. Noyes, H. R. True, S. C. Whitmore. One or The crowd, consisting of a small yagger in two more appointments will probabty be made red stockings, being unable, on account of a from those members of the class who have lack of a liberal education, to understand the not yet made up. play upon words, and being dissatisfied with the decision (but not promptness) of the ALUMNI NOTES. umpire, rushed in upon him and broke up the game. Upon coming to, the umpire [We earnestly request contributions for this declared a tie vote. After a few unpleasant department from the Ahunui and friends of the remarks of a personal nature, both clubs College.] retired, feeling wholly dissatisfied with the '48.— At the last meeting of the American result of the game, and in a mutual state of Oriental Society, Rev. Thomas H. Rich, Prof.

ill humor. The c. f. says he was the only : of Hebrew in Bates College, was elected a one satisfied, having been seated during the member. At the same meeting Dr. Ezra [

entire game. List of dead and wounded in i Abbot ('30) delivered an address on the late next issue. Dr. Tischendorf. — : ;

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'60.— We clip the following from the entirely outside point of view, we can not but feel the injustice Christian Mirror — of the Courant' s censure. The open disobedience of the fraternity convention by the "Rev. J. L. Phillips, his wife and sister, mission- Cornell faculty would and should have subjected aries for ten years in India, of the Free Baptist them to the discipline of the fraternity ; and it was Board, have just returned to this country. Many due to the chapters represented in the convention of our readers in Brunswick, and other sections of that such discipline be made public. Without being the State, will he interested in this news. Mr. P. at all informed of the secret workings of the Psi graduated at Bowdoin College in 1860, and during Upsilon fraternity, we can not but feel that their his residence in our State exerted a valuable influence course, as far as we can judge of it, however un- for good." pleasant it may have been, was the only one they '67.— Geo. P. Davenport has gone into the could honorably pursue. book and stationery business at the stand of The Index has exalted ideas of the number of volumes in modern libraries. "A few centuries J. G. Knight, Bath, Me. ago," says a late issue, " five or six hundred manu- '72.— William C. Shannon recently passed scripts constituted a large library ; but at the pres- a brilliant examination for the position of ent day libraries are found to contain (sic) five or Assistant Surgeon U. S. N., as we learn from six thousand volumes." the Portland Press. The Machias Republican says that the citizens of that town are taking measures to celebrate the '73.— Geo. S. Mower has been admitted 100th anniversary of the first battle of the Revolu- in Newberry, S. to the bar at his home C, tion, which was fought in Machias river June 12, and is also made a member of the law firm 1775. It is proposed to have a fitting celebration. with which he studied. The firm name is Hon. G. F. Talbot, of Portland, Bowdoin '37, is Jones, Jones & Mower. spoken of as the orator for the occasion. The Trinity Tablet is enthusiastic over the new '73. N. D. A. Clark was recently admit- ; Freshman cane, which it characterizes as the " pret- ted to the bar at Portland, on motion of tiest, neatest, and nobbiest that any Freshmen have Nathan Cleaves, Esq. ever swung." The Crimson, under the new name, is as bright '73.— We learn from the Portland Press and elegant as ever. We congratulate the editors that Loren F. Berry of Biddeford is to sup- upon the change of name, for we always have dis- Congregational pulpit in Sanford. ply a liked the false tint from which the old title was '74.— The Mirror speaks highly of the taken. " lines which Greely Institute at Cumberland, which has The Ala. Monthly quotes the eight have made Bourdillion, the Oxford graduate, fa- been under the charge of W. R. Hemmenway mous"; changes the word "love" in the- last line " for the past year. It says : The recent to " day "; and rises to explain that it " can not see examination showed thorough work and good where the fame comes in." " The first stanza," it progress. continues, " is rather pretty and not incompreusible but the second stanza seems to us to be musical nonsense." There is a passage in Matthew vii. 6, EDITORS' TABLE. which comes forcibly to mind in connection with the way in which the Monthly receives these lovely correctly. The Yale Courant would "like to know what lines ; but the Monthly might at least quote benefit there is in college fraternities holding their We are glad that the Wesleyau delegates to the conventions with closed doors, if their secret trans- Psi Upsilon Convention received so pleasant an im- actions are to be proclaimed to the wide heavens pression of Bowdoin. We thank them most heartily the nest day ;" adding, " the late Brunswick con- for their kindly praise in the Argus. vention is a good instance qf this." The allusion, we We have received a very handsome gold pen and suppose, is to the action of the convention in regard stock from Aiken, Lambert & Co. Any ouo desir- to the establishment at Cornell of a pseudo chapter ing first-class goods of this description can find an of the fraternity. Looking at the matter from an excellent assortment at B. G. Donuison's book-store. ;

Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JUNE 23, 1875. No. 5.

THE WANDERER'S SONG. we avoided more than we encountered by this FROM THE GERMAN. decision. Four o'clock Wednesday afternoon was fixed as the time for our departure. Of "Whom God would bless with favor fairest course there were the usual delays. By great He out into the world doth lead; exertion half a dozen would be assembled, To him doth show his wonders rarest, then some one would go for the missing Iu mount and wood and stream and mead. mem- bers, and after some impatient waiting another

The slothful, e'er at home remaining, messenger must needs start in pursuit of the

Know not the charm of morning -red first. But all delays ; last ; have an end at They of ehild-eare are still complaining, heads were counted and the ranks declared Of sorrow, pain, and strife for bread. full, and we set off with pleasant anticipations of a good time. The brooklets from the hills are springing, I will pass over the ride to the shore, And the larks trill on high for joy simply saying that it it was marked the Why should I not with them be singing by usual From a full breast no cares annoy '/ decorum of Bowdoin students at such

times, and that the party discoursed music (?.) To God's rule bow I uncomplaining, much to the edification of the people along Who brooklets, larks, and wood and lea, the road, who kept, meanwhile, a close watch And earth and heaven, is still sustaining, on all straying fowls. In accordance with Hath ordered all things best for me. the natural order of events, we reached our destination in time for supper, which our ride rendered by no means unacceptable. The HARPS WELL AND ZOOLOGY. evening was occupied in strolling along the The experiment, tried a year ago, of the shore and making arrangements for sailing scientific department of the Junior class and deep-sea fishing the next day. A hotly spending a few days at the sea-shore, to contested but bloodless pillow fight in the acquaint themselves by actual experience with corridor, was a pleasant episode, and prepared the various minor forms of animal life, known us for the discovery that the proprietor was to them previously only through the medium either an advocate of water cure or thought of the text-book, proved so successful in the that, because at the sea-shore, we wanted water case of '75, that it was decided by the ruling everywhere, as the beds seemed to be well powers to give '76 the benefit of a similar supplied with that useful but at the same excursion. It being thought best to avoid time not particularly pleasant article. Thurs- the discomforts and inconveniences of camp day morning brought with it a pouring rain. life, and to devote that time to study which No yachting for that day. Crustacean and would otherwise be necessarily employed in bivalve might rest in assurance of safety culinary labors, board was engaged for the from the preying fingers of amateur zoologists. party at the Mansion House. As the event Prof. White and a few other enthusiastic proved, however, it is questionable whether disciples of fzaak Walton, donned overcoats 50 BOWDOIN ORIENT. and rubber boots, and started out in defiance of ner proved a glorious success, the rather scanty the prevailing moisture, flattering themselves supplies brought from the hotel, which proved that beneath the friendly shelter of some to consist principally of spoons, being sup- wharf they might find protection from the ported by a foraging expedition to a farm rain and enjoy the luxury of pulling in the house on the island, and by the contribution gamey sculpin. Whether the first anticipation of the sea. In the afternoon the true business was realized their rather sorry figures as they of the excursion was attacked with a will. came back rendered doubtful, but they re- Gasteropod and lamellibranchiata were torn ported sculpins abundant and easily propiti- ruthlessly from their accustomed dwelling ated. As the morning wore slowly away, some places and offered on the altar of science; one proposed a visit to the neighboring district learned discussions were held in bilateral sym- school. This proposition was eagerly accepted metry, the water-vascular system, and similar by three others, and the four adventurers high-toned subjects. This discussion had started, about as hard-looking a crowd as ever some amusing passages, as when one of the invaded a country school-house. On their re- boys, after expressing much wonder that turn they brought glowing reports of their re- another did not know that a certain part of ception \>y the school-mistress,— who, strange the viscera of a fish was the lung, was some- to say, appeared by no means disconcerted by what taken back by a quiet remark of the such an array of savants,— and of the remarks professor, that true fishes were not generally made by themselves to the school, in which supposed to be provided with means for aerial they discoursed learned^ and eloquently of respiration. This exhaustive search into the the theory and practice of teaching, with so mysteries of nature was followed by recrea- much effect that four little girls were crying tion, the boys amusing themselves, each after before they finished. Whether these reports his own inclination, some sailing, others either

were not somewhat overdrawn is, perhaps, rowing, fishing, or indulging in the exciting

not certain, and it seemed to be the opinion and manly game of pitching quoits. of those to whom they were made that they A tart in one of the rooms in the evening, should be received " cum grano salis." for which nothing stronger than lemonade About noon the clouds lifted and the sun was required, finished the day in a manner made his welcome appearance. The afternoon highly conducive to our pleasure, but much was passed in sailing about the bay, very pleas- to the dismay of an insurance agent who was antly to all but one unfortunate, who was " not so unfortunate as to occupy a room on the sea-sick but had eaten something that did not floor below, and who, as he told the landlord set well on his stomach." next morning, while petitioning for breakfast Friday was taken up by an excursion to a before we came down stairs, had "always neighboring island where those members of conceited that college students knew some- the party to whom yachting had no charms thing, but that he found out last night that when accompanied by a fear of sickness, were they didn't; " which astonishing piece of infor- landed, with instructions to collect wood, and mation he followed up by the statement that make other preparations for dinner, while the he " wouldn't have cared a darn if he hadn't better seamen went in search of cod and thought they were coming right through the other deep-sea fish. This search was not en- floor every minute." He succeeded in getting

tirely satisfactory, the only fish obtained being breakfast when he wanted it, and had left for from the boat of a neighboring fisherman in Happier climes when we breakfasted. exchange for a pecuniary recompense. Din- After a forenoon employed in collecting —

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specimens and souvenirs of the excursion, field, and their boat will be one of the most formi-

Bowker's appearance at noon was not unwel- dable there. . . . "There is one little drawback iu a poor college come, as, although having had a pleasant that has a taste for boating, and that is that it is time, we were not unwilling to see Bowdoin very hard to got money, for when a student has to and a more civilized life once more. We subscribe for a class boat, he does not feel excess- came back with darker complexions than ively liberal toward the college boat. So the Sara- before, and with pleasant memories of the toga men of Bowdoin have had to practice iu a boat called a lapstreak, weighs 500 pounds. pleasures and profit of the zoological excur- which at least The difference between this boat and a shell is sion of Junior vear. excessive, for the latter only weighs 140 pounds. . .

" The question whether they will pull or not, is a BOATING AT BOWDOIN. monetary one, and has not yet been answered iu the affirmative. I do most sincerely trust that this very A correspondent of the N. Y. Times has gallant crew will not be forsaken by the old Alumni

recently visited us, and from his letter about of Bowdoin. . . It seems to me the Alumni ought the state of boating here we clip the follow- to feel intense pride in the honorable place which their college maintains in spite of its isolation from ing extracts. We would gladly give the the centres of wealth and literature. And this crew letter entire did our space permit : which goes to represent old Alma Mater is composed " I hope the men of Maine will not consider it a of such sturdy, honest, and sweet-tempered enthu- slander when I say that Bowdoin College is a little siasts, that they can not fail to win an honorable

. sit- out of the way, . . the remoteness of the place for the white banner. They do not dare to uation has consecrated this university to the people hope for victory, because they go very late to Sara- of this State alone. Looking on the records of the toga, and have some difficulties iu their way. But

students, ... I found hut few that were not tho Alumni of their college may rely upon it that from Maine. Yet, notwithstanding this isolation, it the white ribbons will not be far from the front is hut just to say that Bowdoin is fully ahreast with when the first boat crosses the line.

other colleges in its ideas. Its gymnasium . . . " For myself, whatever an individual opinion may to in any uni- is, perhaps, in essentials, second none be worth, it is very much in their favor. Their the regulations of versity at home or abroad. By coach, Mr. D. A. Sargent, is a man who evokes the institution, every student must either drill or enthusiasm without lessening the restraints of dis- attend the gymnasium for a certain portion of every cipline ; and the crew are, to a man, . . . very season the crews who are clay. During the boating muscular. ... If their Alumni, however, do not for engaged either for class races or Saratoga help them, I do not see how they can go, for they are exempted, as also are the base-ball nines. have no boat."

. . . . Boating has taken root here and is an accomplished fact. This accounts for the good crews that this college has sent to the The various Society Reunions, Commence- collegiate regattas. In 1872 . . . they took the tho following lead and held it for two miles, when the bow oar ment Week, will be held on

had a nervous spasm and fell to the bottom of the evenings : Alpha Delta Phi, Wednesday even-

boat. . . The next year, at Springfield, Bowdoin ing ; Psi Upsilon, Wednesday evening ; Delta

and Cornell were stationed on the extreme right— , Kappa Epsilon, Thursday evening ; Zeta Psi, Bowdoin on top of a sand-bar, and Cornell iu the Thursday evening ; Tlieta Delta Clii, Wedes- rushes and just behind a willow stump. It was, of Wednesday evening course, a foregone conclusion that the crews who day evening. Those on

were in the shallows could not possibly win ; but will be held immediaiely after the Commence-

these two did so well that nobody ever knew which . ment Concert.

was fourth —Columbia, Cornell, or Bowdoin. . . . The University crew take their morning Tho next year the men were in active rebellion against, authorities concerning drill, and so wcro pull at eleven o'clock instead of six as the \ not able to send a crew. This vear they enter the formerly. ;

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Bowdoin Orient. will degenerate into mere selfish obstinacy. For the honor of Bowdoin, for the promotion PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- of her interests abroad and good feeling within, ING THE COLLEGIATE TEAR, AT let every man give as he is able. A few self- BOWDOIN COLLEGE, denials will not be likely to injure us, and it is time we proved our love for Alma Mater in By the Class of 1876. some other way than by touching rhymes in our class odes. Let us have an unselfish EDITORS. Arlo Bates, E. H. Kimball, desire to promote her interests, even though Libby, C. H. Clark, J. G. each of us is foolishly sure that he could man- C. T. Hawes, J. A. Morrill, age things much more wisely than they are W. H. G. Rowe. now conducted.

Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; siugle copies, 15 ceuts. often noticed our Prize Decla- Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, We have at Brunswick, Maine. mations that the majority of the selections For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- are of a dramatic character, and have some- son's, Brunswick. times wished to attend an exhibition in which the speakers, for the most part, had chosen CONTENTS. examples of forensic eloquence for delivery. Perhaps such an exhibition would be termed Vol. V., No. 5.—June 23, 1875.

dry ; very likely it would be dry, for the cir- The Wanderer's Song 50 cumstances which were intimately connected Harpswell and Zoology 50 with the first delivery of the speech, and Boating at Bowdoin 51 which helped to make it famous, could not be Editorial Notes 52 Alpha Delta Phi Convention 54 reproduced ; but it would more nearly fur- Local 55 nish an example of what we think a college Alumni Notes 57 declamation should be. The object of our Editors' Table 58 elocutionary exercises is not to enable us to

imitate stage tones and action; it is, rather, EDITORIAL NOTES. to teach us to express what Ave have to say in a graceful, dignified manner, in exact, ele- We regret that the boating subscription gant English, and in a proper tone of voice. list is not filling up more rapidly. It will be For this end forensic rather than dramatic

a reproach to the college if money enough is selections are more suitable ; their appropriate not raised to send the crew to Saratoga. It delivery and any fine forms of expression seems to us that personal feeling is not a found in them are far more useful. The mat- thing which can now be taken honorably into ter would not be quite so bad if the selections account. It having once been voted to send were usually made from standard dramatists a crew, and that crew having been selected but the greater part of such selections, and and put in training, it becomes the duty of the most popular, were not written for deliv- the minority to acquiesce in the decision of ery on the stage ; some of these poetical the majority and support their action. We selections may rank high in literature, or may are justly proud of the independent spirit of be entertaining reading; but we do not think

Bowdoin, but there is much danger that this that they are the most suitable for Prize .

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Declamations. We would like to hear, then, see Field-day becoming a permanent institu- at future exhibitions a greater number of tion among us, and we wish it the support selections from the best efforts of distin- and the success it deserves. guished orators or pleaders. If a prize for excellence in this department alone could be are the days of second- offered, it would do much to encourage a And now come study of such examples. hand furniture sales. There is something pathetic in this yearly selling out. From many a room endeared by hours of study or Our last issue went to press too soon after of jollity, are brought forth the piles of chairs,

Field-day for- any comments, aud we may tables, lounges, and bedsteads. Chairs with therefore be excused for mentioning at this four legs, and chairs with but three, two, or late day a few thoughts which then occurred one ; chairs loose in the joints, or fatally to us. We understand the difficulties which injured in the back by mixing too freely in the directors had to encounter, and we con- student frolics. Then the tables where stu- gratulate them on the success with which they dents have toiled over honest work, rushed overcame them. We wish, however, to hint madly forward upon classic horses, or eagerly at an improvement or two which we think watched the turning of trumps. might be made. It would have been better Do you not feel in a degree as if parting if the prizes had been procured and placed from old friends, when you send off your col- upon exhibition some time before the day. lege belongings ? You can hardly forget that Both students and outsiders would have thus Fred Trueheart overturned and broke that become interested in the disposal of them, and easy chair when you were dressing for that more participants and more spectators would scrape for which he was sent off, while you, have been the result. equally implicated, luckily escaped detection.

It seems to us, too, though this is a matter Then those heel-prints on your centre-table upon which different opinions are held, that carry you back to your Freshman year, when it will soon be found best not to allow any Bill Firehead made his remarkable oration man, who has once taken a prize, to contest urging resistance to the Sophs. You smile a for the same prize again. At present, the little as you recall how meekly Bill danced number of contestants is so limited that this upon this very table only the next night, and is, perhaps, not practicable, and we do not sang his little solo from the top of the bed- wish this remark to be understood as applying room door. to the Field-day just passed. While Field- Then there are those black stains on your day is meant to be a trial of skill and not a writing-table which future possessors will popular exhibition, it might be wise, also, to point to impressively as ink-spots, and mur- yield something to the popular taste by intro- mur about '•midnight oil" and "brain-lit ducing sack or potato races, quoit throwing, parts"; sentiments which, if a thought trite, and perhaps archery or rifle shooting. These are still fondly cherished in the genuine Fresh- would attract people, and give the other sports man soul. It is quite as well that lie knows the benefit of a larger attendance and greater nothing of that night in Sophomore year, interest. Of course these must be worked in when you very carelessly set down a pot of paint upon this very table, while you gradually ; and those at least which require black practice should be announced as limn' before- trimmed your dark lantern. hand as possible. We are heartily glad to In the memories which clinir about this old — — —

54 B0WD01N ORIENT. furniture there is a strange and pungent ming- 1b. Payson, p 2 Knight, s.s.... 3 ling of sadness and pleasure ; and it is no Fuller, 1. f. Leighton, p. ..4 ftuifi.nl, lb Barnes, J., l.f. .0 that feel it sort of wonder you to be a desecra- Melcher,2b Crocker, c Potter, 3b 1 Ayers, lb tion when Booker offers only fifty cents you Waitt, c. f. 1 Barnes, F., 3b.. Knight, s. s 3 Wilson, 2b ...1 for that easy-chair and seventy -five for the Jacobs, r. f. . . . 1 Cushman, r.f..O Perry, c 1 St. John, c.f...4 table ! Totals 9 Totals 12 10 10 10 30

Bowdoins A second practice game of base ball between the Bowdoins and Resolutes took Umpire—Mr. Noble of the "White Sox," Portland. Time of game, 2 hours and 15 minutes. 1st base errors—Bowdoins 9, Resolutes 10. Scorers place on the Delta, Saturday afternoon, June —Will Alden for Bowdoius, F. L. Ilsley for the Resolutes. 12th. A large number of the Resolutes' friends accompanied them from Portland, and ALPHA DELTA PHI CONVENTION. these, together with the students and town The forty-third annual Convention of the friends, made an unusually large gathering. Alpha Delta Phi was held with Brunonian The Bowdoins, as usual,—and this is a mis- Chapter, at Providence, June 2d and 3d. take which we soon hope to see remedied, There were thirty delegates present. Bow- played loosety during the first of the game, doin was represented by H. R. Patten, S. M. and consequently had hard, up-hill work dur- ing the remainder. Carter, and E. H. Kimball. The first day and evening were entirely occupied in trans- The Resolutes seemed very confident of acting business. We condense from the Bos- an easy victory, and were not at all bashful ton Advertiser the report of the second day : about saying so. At the close of the third inning, the score stood eight to three against The following day the Convention met at nine o'clock, and after transacting some business of a the Bowdoins; and backers of the Resolutes private nature proceeded to the election of officers. expressed the opinion that " the Bowdoins Prof. Lewis Collins, of Albany, N. Y., was re-elected " were not toughened to it," could not hold President; Dr. Herrick Johnson, of Auburn, N. Y., out," etc., and that the Resolutes had accus- was elected Orator for the next Convention, and tomed themselves to all this, hence the ease Prof. Edward North, of Hamilton College, was with which they played. chosen Poet ; Hon. Rufus King, of Cincinnati, and Prof. H. L. Chapman, of Bowdoin College, were This undoubtedly had a very quieting elected Alternates. effect upon their minds for a time, but it soon The members of the Convention proceeded to wore off, for at the end of the ninth inning the steps before Westminster Church, where they a wilder and more excited set was never seen were photographed. The delegates and other than these very same base-ball backers. The Alpha Deltas then went to the American Steamboat wharf, where they took a boat chartered for Silver score at this time was nine to nine, and the Spring. Here they enjoyed the novelty of a Khodo prospect not just what they had expected. Island clam-bake. After finishing, as far as possi- Nevertheless, at the end of the tenth inning, ble, what was set before them, the party gave some they departed very much relieved and with rousing Alpha Delta songs, and a Glee Club formed feelings somewhat jubilant that they did not, from the delegates, rendered some part songs with very fine effect. party after all, get beaten, but quite crestfallen at The returned to the city, arriving there a little after six. the closeness of the game ; and well they In the evening a very fine audience assembled in might, after having made such remarks as the church to hear Mr. Hale's oration and Prof. we heard. Strong's poem. The floral decorations were very

Below is a score of the game : fine. The music was furnished by the American "

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Band of Providence. The Oration and Poem were Read the article about our crew, on the both very fine. The exercises concluded with the first page, and prepare to do your duty. singing of the Greek fraternity hymn. After bene- i diction by the Rev. Phillips Brooks, the audience D. A. Sargent, since making up, has been

j was dismissed, the Society proceeding in a body to I assigned a fourth part at Commencement. the banquet. The supper was a brilliant affair. notice an addition to our navy in the The Rev. Dr. Woodbury, of Providence, presided. We '78. About one hundred and twenty-five members of the shape of a new boat owned by French, fraternity sat down to the table. After asking It gives one faith in compulsory attendance divine grace, the party went to work and in about to see the thin sprinkling of Seniors in church an hour's time were prepared for the more intellect- ual part of the entertainment. The first toast was now. " Our Anniversary," which was responded to by A new apothecary shop is to be opened President Collins. Mr. Collins was followed by the down town, near the site of the old post Hon. Charles Hale and Prof. A. Strong, who an- swered respectively for the orator and poet. The office. Hon. John Jay, formerly our minister to Austria, " For Heaven's sake give me my break- then replied to the toast " Diplomacy." " The Star fast before that pack of h 1 -hounds comes and Crescent," found a response in the Rev. Edward — ! " down Everett Hale ; and The Clergy," in the Rev. Phillips Brooks. Various other toasts were re- He was told by a young lady, after com- sponded to, and letters were read from Geo. Win, ing from the barber's, only to look in the glass, Curtis, Man ton Marble, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bishop Huntington, and others. The Convention, Darwin would do the rest. with its festivities, finally broke up at a late hour. Jameson and Sewall, '76, have been em- The next Convention will be held with the Ham- ployed by the M. C. R. R. to level and make ilton Chapter, at Utica, N. T. a profile of the road from Brunswick to Lewiston. LOCAL. They are enforcing their marking system " Orono. One of the students has " Come here ! at been sus- " pended for a year on account of going beyond " Form a ring ! the bounds. " " Pass the corn-cakes ! McNulty, formerly of '76, passed through " " Snap your fingers and call it a foul ! Brunswick last week, on his way to the New England Sabbath-Sehool Convention, to be " Gentlemen, make your bids for this old at Weers, X. H. carpet." held "Don't stand there loafing," said a Pro- "The Doctor on the wharf and the scul- " fessor to three students. •• We ainl loafing," pin in (lie pool ! said one, "there's only three of us and it The Juniors have a "had on those eye" takes 'leaven to make a loaf." empty Senior seats. The following are the names of those who "Written examinations are frauds," say have been appointed on the Junior Prize the Juniors and Sophomores. Declamation, July 5th: ('. II. Clark, J. M. A number of "gentlemanly agents" have Hill, J. (i. Libby, J. II. Payne, F.C. Payson, been secured in College, to can vass this State C. A. IVny. (i. T. Prince, A. II. Sabin, A. ami others, for a work entitled "Christ, in Sanford, C. Sargent, O. C. Stevens, and .1. II. Art." White. : !

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The following appointments have been Treasurer, Card; Executive Committee, made to the office of Assistant Librarian : C. Bray, Gibson, and Witham. Clark, Senior; J. E. Chapman, W. C. H. No base-ball club was ever more taken G. T. Little, E. C. Metcalf, R. E. Greene, aback than the Resolutes, who came to Bruns- Peary, Juniors. wick expecting to beat the Bowdoins, at least one. " They didn't play their usual The officers of the Praying Circle for the two to ensuing year have been chosen as follows good game," say the Portland papers. Leigh- ton, their captain, remarked at the time, how- President, C. G. Burnham ; Vice President, it the strongest team that they C. H. Clark; Secretary, W. W. Sleeper; ever, that was had, that they did play a good Standing Committee, J. M. Hill, E. M. Cous- had ever and game. ins, W. E. Sargent. The New York Times reporter made us a The appointments for the Sophomore short visit a week or two since. He is mak- Prize Declamation, June 28th, are as follows: ing a tour among the Colleges that are to take F. H. Crocker, F. H. Dillingham, E. E. Dun- part in the Regatta at Saratoga this summer. bar, D. D. Gilman, L. Moulton, C. W. Mor- He had previously visited Columbia, Harvard, rill, C. L. Mckerson, C. A. Perry, J. A. Rob- Yale, and Brown, and continued on his tour erts, and A. M. Sherman. after leaving here. While here he expressed

The crew will be obliged to procure a new a very high opinion of the general physical of the students. boat if they go to Saratoga. The old one in appearance their practicing which they intended to do Soon will the silent halls and quiet rooms was found to be entirely unfit for the purpose, resound and echo while the Senior rehearses the '74 boat in and they have taken new his part in dress costume to his admiring class- will until the race. which they row mates. We know how he learns it. This is the way. First in stentorian tones he repeats The Gymnastic Exhibition will be given the first sentence, then the first and second, in Lemont Hall, Tuesday night, July 6th. then the first, second, and third sentences, The programme will be much the same as in and so on ad finem. Shout if you will in the Exhibition last winter in Portland, in daylight, and disturb our recitations, but " O which the balancing trapeze and flying " give us a rest ! at bed-time. eschelle were the most interesting features. The Sophomores have been making prepa- Each member of the victorious Freshman ration for their Burial of Analytics, to take crew sports a very pretty and expensive place on the evening of June 29th. The ex- watch charm. On one side is marked " Class ercises under the " old oak " will consist of an

Regatta, June 5th, 1875" ; name and position. " Eulogy by W. T. Cobb, and an Elegy by R. On the other a pair of oars with " Bowdoin E. Peary. At the funeral pyre a Lamentation across and " Class of '78 " above and below. will be pronounced over the dead by O. M. The graduating exercises of the Maine Lord. After the appropriate exercises have Medical School took place on Tuesday morn- been finished the class will adjourn to the prepared ing, June 8th. Dissertations were read by Masonic Hall to enjoy a supper by Brug, Foster, Keene, and Price. Dr. Greene Lucy of Portland. The Marshal of the even-

; Priest, Morrill made the closing address. The following ing is F. H. Crocker C. W. ; and. Committee of Arrangements, A. M. were elected class officers : President, Keene ; Sherman, F. H. Hargraves, and C. E. Cobb. Vice President, Stahl ; Secretary, Price ; — ;

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At a meeting of the Athensean Society the ALUMNI NOTES. following officers were elected for the coming request contributions for this year: President, O. C. Gordon; Vice Presi- [We earnestly" department from the Alumui and friends of the dent, J. H. White ; Secretary, W. G. Beale ; College.]

Treasurer, J. W. Sewall ; Poet, Arlo Bates Class of 1868.

1st Librarian, W. A. Robinson ; 2d Librarian, O. D. Baker, Attorney at Law, firm of

J. E. Chapman ; 3d Librarian, W. W. French Baker & Baker, Augusta, Me.

1st Editor, W. H. Marrett ; 2d Editor, F. H. G. M. Bodge, Principal of Westbrook

Hargraves ; 3d Editor, G. A. Holbrook ; 1st Seminary, Deering, Me.

Committee, C. G. Burnham ; 2d Committee, C. E. Chamberlain, Merchant, Bristol, G. T. Little; 3d Committee, W. W. French. Me. G. L. Chandler, Tutor in Mathematics at Bowdoin. COMMENCEMENT WEEK. C. J. Chapman, Merchant, Portland. 1875. July 4 — 9, J. S. Derby, Judge of the Municipal Sunday — Baccalaureate before the graduating Court, Saco, Me. class, by the President. T. J. Emery, Teacher in the English High Monday — Evening, Junior Prize Exhibition. School, Boston. Tuesday — Evening, Gymnastic Exhibition. Wednesday — A.M., Meeting of the Ahunui Asso- G. W. Foster, Physician, Bangor, Me. ciation in the Chemical Lecture Room, Adams L. S. Ham, Civil Engineer, Illinois. Hall, at 8.30. Full attendance of the Aluumi J. A. Hinkley, Tanner, Gorham, Me. earnestly desired. F. E. Hitchcock, Physician, Rockland, Me. P.M., Poem by H. W. Longfellow, LL.D., and C. G. Holyoke has just graduated at the Oration by G. B. Cheever, D.D., before the Al- Bangor Theological Seminary. umni, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of their class. E. S. Mason, hardware dealer, Gorham, Evening, Concert by Miss Annie Louise Gary, X. H. Miss Henrietta Beebe, Mr. W. H. Fessenden, R. L. Packard, Chemical Examiner in the Mr. H. Beckett, and the Philharmonic W. Club Patent Office, Washington, D. C. of Boston. C. A. Ring, Physician, Portland. Thursday — Commencement Exercises. Evening, L. Rundlett, President's Levee. W. Civil Engineer, St. Paul, Minn. Friday — 8 a.m., Phi Beta Kappa, business meet- ing. G. F. Shepard, Physician, Andover, Mass. 8 a.m., Examination of candidates for admis- G. A. Smyth, in Berlin, Prussia.

sion to College. C. E. Webber is in an Insurance Office, Brooklyn, N. Y. G. T. Wells, Merchant, North Wakefield, Not a bad story comes from the Savage X. H. Club, London, but it does not seem clear who C. O. Whitman. Teacher in the English first made the joke. A "Savage" was stand- High School, Boston. ing on the steps at Evans' Hotel, Covcnt Gar- Two of the class have died since gradua- den, where the club is now located, when a tion, Cusbman and Fogg. gentleman came up to him and asked him if there was "a gentleman with one eye, named

Walker" in the club. -I don't know," re- Prof. —Mr. C— , decline the pronoun ego. sponded the "Savage," " what was the name Mr. C.— Ego, egis, egit, eginc. Prof.—That of his dt her eye?" Coll. Herald. will do. — Olio. ! " • — ;

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EDITORS' TABLE. We are indebted to Jameson, 76, for a fine map of the boat course, which we received before the race, but not in season to acknowledge in the last In the midst of the written examinations which number. are now the trial of our lives, the following from the Oberlin Review is most timely and encouraging : It is wrong in the Argus to increase the terrors " One of the Professors stated, not long ago, that which timid persons feel at the thought of death. In he often gave pupils better marks than they probably an editorial note we read: "One almost dreads deserved on written exercises, because he could not death more for this reason than for any other, that read their hand-writing." there is danger of something occurring at his death- If the papers are ranked on that system here, we bed, or during the few hours that his lifeless body are willing to stand treat in advance on leading the remains above ground, which shall change the scene Astronomy class ! of mourning to one of half-suppressed laughter." take from the Amherst Student the following We For ourselves we must confess that this thought is statistics of the University crew : — new to us, and that it gives a fear of the " grisly '73 Stroke, M. A. Goodnow, 76 ; 2d, H. A. Hill, ; king of terrors" never felt before. No wonder 3d, G. H. Reed, 78 ; 4th, L. G. Beck, 76 ; 5th, S. Hawthorne commented upon the degeneracy of an R. Johnston, 76 ; bow, P. L. Green, 76. Average could not even die simply. We age, 22 years, 4 months ; height, 5 feet, 10 inches age in which one chest, 38.9 inches ; biceps, 12.8 inches ; weight, 160 fear this may have a depressing effect upon weak- pounds. minded persons. We think, however, the evil may The Tablet contains a sketch of Henry G. Cam- be alleviated, if not overcome. Let the milliners eron, the member of the University crew who was advertise "death-caps of the latest and most be- was President of the " " recently drowned. Cameron witching styles ; and the booksellers issue Eti- Junior class, and his loss is deeply felt among the quette of the death-bed, illustrated with cuts." students. Owing to his death the Trinity crew will Then if wills are only made with provisions lessen- not pull at Saratoga this year. ing the heir's income for every awkward contre- happen " the few hours that the The University Herald states that 78, at Syra- temps which may remains above ground," wo see no cuse, has established an auti-haziug society. The lifeless body reason why a death and burial may not be made as class is at present, however, engaged in a little un- affair as a wedding or a christening. pleasantness with 77. A member of 78 lost a hat, interesting an look- last fall, at the hands of the Sophomores. This We welcome to our table the bright, cheery wrong has been avenged by some bold Freshman ing Athenccum. We were much pleased with the who waylaid a couple of Sophomores who were re- "Confessions of a Sarcastic Man," and " The Boat- turning from the opera, and captured their hats. ing Campaign for 1875." '77 instantly arose in its might, and the Herald The Uni. Herald offers $5 for the best poem, draws a sad but instructive picture of a couple of handed in during the remainder of the present term. unlucky Freshmen being sent in balloon style from We shall watch its poet's corner with anxious curi- the top to the bottom of the chapel stairs. We do osity. wonder that the Herald is somewhat doubtful not We congratulate the Wittenberger upon its im- can bear the innuendoes and taunts of whether 78 proved appearance. the class beneath them, if this affair is a sample of 78 spirit. TIME TABLE. We think the following from the Record may be — Trains to and from Brunswick : appreciated : — 2.28 From Portland, ar. at 1.55 and 7.30 a.m. ; " As a pompous Junior went strutting by the and 6.40 p.m. fence, a class-mate rapturously but blasphemously From Bangor, ar. at 12.24 and 7.22 a.m.; 12.18 exclaimed, ' What a blessed thing to see the Almighty and 4.31 p.m. on the earth once in a while.' 12.33 For Portland, leave at 12.50 and 7.35 a.m. ; The Owl, with a degree of penetration which is and 4.46 p.m. at 2.15 and 7.40 A.M.; 2.38 positively startling, has discovered that " the Orient For Bangor, leave and 6.50 p.m. intimates with true Oriental politeness that The Owl For Lewiston, leave at 7.40 a.m.; 12.40, 7.00, hardly know which to admire more, is a goose." Wo 2.45, and 4.40 p.m. 2.45, the keenness of The Owl's discrimination, or the wit For Bath, leave at 7.32 a.m. ; 12.40, 7.03, of its puns and 5.05 p.m. ! — — ! ;;

Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JULY 14, 1875. No. 6.

MORITURI SALUTAMUS* How grateful am I for that patient care All my life long my language shall declare." Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. To-day we make the poet's words our own, " Fastorum," lib. vi. Ovid, Aud utter them iu plaintive undertone;

" Caesar, we who are about to die Nor to the living only be they said, " But to the other living called the Salute you ! was the gladiator's cry dead, Iu the arena, standing face to face Whose dear paternal images appear "With death and with the Roman populace. Not wrapped in gloom, but robed in sunshine here, Whose simple lives complete and without flaw, familiar scenes, groves of pine, ye ye Were part aud parcel of great Xature's law That once were mine and are no longer mine Who said not to their Lord, as if afraid, Thou river, widening through the meadows green " Here is thy talent iu a napkiu laid." To the vast sea, so near and yet uuseen But labored in their sphere as those who live halls, iu seclusion repose Te whose and Iu the delight that work alone can give. Phantoms of fame, like exhalations rose Peace be to them ; eternal peace aud rest, And vanished — we who are about to die And the fulfillment of the great behest, Salute you earth and air and sea and sky, ; " Te have been faithful over a few things, the Imperial And Sun that scatters down Over ten cities shall ye reign as kings." His sovereign splendors upon grove and town.

And ye who fill the places we once filled, Ye do not answer us ! ye do not hear Aud follow iu the furrows that we tilled,

"We are forgotten ; and in your austere Toung men whose generous hearts are beating high Aud calm indifference ye little care We who are old- and are about to die, Whether we come or go, or whence or where. Salute you ; hail you ; take your bauds iu ours, What passing generations fill these balls, Aud crown you with our welcome as with flowers ! What passing voices echo from these walls,

Te heed not ; we are only as the blast, How beautiful is youth ! how bright it gleams A moment heard aud then forever past. With its illusions, aspirations, dreams ! Book of Begiuuiugs, story without End, Not so the teachers who iu earlier days

Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend ! Led our bewildered feet through learning's maze; Aladdin's Lamp aud Fortunatus' Purse, They answer us — alas ! what have I said ? That holds the treasures of the universe What greetings come there from the voiceless dead ? All possibilities are in its bauds, What salutation, welcome, or reply ? Xo danger daunts it, aud no foe withstands Whal pressure from the hands that lifeless lie ? In its sublime audacity of faith They are no longer here; they are all gone "Bo thou removed," it to the mountain saith, Tnto the land of shadows — all save one, with ambitious feet, secure aud proud. Honor and reverence, and the good repute Aud

Ascends the ladder leaning ou the cloud ! That follows faithful service as its fruit, Be unto him, whom living we salute. As ancient Priam at the Sctcan gate Sat on the walls of Troy iu regal The great Italian poet, when he made state With the old men, too old and weak to His dreadful journey to the realms of shade, fight, Chirping like grasshoppers in their delight Met there the old instructor of bis youth, To sd' the embattled hosts, with spear And cried in tones of pity and of ruth, and shield, Trojans ami Aehaians in the field; "Ob, never from the memory of my hear) Of

So i he snowy of Tour dear, paternal image shall depart, from summits our years you in the plain as each Who while on earth, ere yet by death surprised, We Bee appears, of you, asking. " Taught me how mortals are immortalized; And question Who is he

That towers above the others I Which may be * For the advance sheets of this poem, which was delivered by Mr. Atreides, Menalaua, Odysseus, Loo^fdlow at the Srmi-CenU-nnial Ilcuni f Bowituio ( the 'bss of' lsj:>, '" ;il BmnBwIck, .Inly Tilt, WB AK tndebte 1 to Messrs. HarpT \- Itros. Ajax the great, or bold Tdomeneus ; ;! ; ; " ; ; ! . : !

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Let him not boast, who puts his armor oil "Whatever time or space may intervene, As he who puts it off, the battle done. I will not be a stranger iu this scene.

Study yourselves ; and most of all note well Here every doubt, all indecision ends. "Wherein kind nature meant you to excel. Hail, my companions, comrades, classmates, friends

Not every blossom ripens into fruit Ah me ! the fifty years since last we met Minerva, the inventress of the flute, Seem to me fifty folios bound and set

Flung it aside, when she her face surveyed By Time, the great transcriber, on his shelves, fountain she "Wherein are written the histories of ourselves. Distorted in a as played ;

The unlucky Marsyas found it, aud his fate What tragedies, what comedies are there ;

"Was one to make the bravest hesitate. What joy aud grief, what rapture and despair ! "What chronicles of triumph and defeat, Write on your doors the saying wise and old, Of struggle, and temptation, and retreat " bold ! ! everywhere bold Be be bold and be ; "What records of regrets, and doubts, and fears " not too bold ! Yet better the excess Be What pages blotted, blistered by our tears !

the defect ; better the than less Than more ; What lovely landscapes on the margin shine, Better like Hector in the field to die "What sweet, angelic faces, what divine Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly. And holy images of love and trust, Uudimrued by age, unsoiled by damp or dust! now, classmates, ye remaining few And my "Whose hands shall dare to open and explore That number not the half of those we knew, These volumes, closed and clasped for evermore ? Te, against whose familiar names not yet Not mine. With reverential feet I pass The fatal asterisk of death is set, " I hear a voice that cries, Alas ! alas !

I salute ! The horologue of time Te "Whatever hath been written shall remain, Strikes the half- century with a solemn chime, Nor be erased nor written o'er again And summons us together once again, The unwritten only still belongs to thee, The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain. Take heed, aud ponder well what that shall be."

the others? Toices from the deep "Where are As children frightened by a thunder -cloud ! Caverns of darkness answer me : " They sleep Are reassured if some one reads aloud

I name no names ; instinctively I feel A tale of wonder, with enchantments fraught, some well -remembered grave will kneel, Each at Or wild adventure that diverts their thought, from the inscription wipe the weeds and moss, And Let me endeavor with a tale to chase every heart best knoweth its own loss. For The gathering shadows of the time and place, scattered grave - stones gleaming white I see the And banish what we all too deeply feel Through the pale dusk of the impending night "Wholly to say or wholly to conceal. O'er all alike the impartial sunshine throws Its golden lilies mingled with the rose; In mediaeval Borne, I known not where, We give to all a tender thought aud pass There stood an image with its arm in air, Out of the graveyards with their tangled grass, And on its lifted finger, shining clear, " " Unto these scenes frequented by our feet A golden ring with the device Strike here ! "When we were young and life was fresh and sweet. Greatly the people wondered, though none guessed The meaning that these words but half expressed, "What shall I say to you? "What can I say Until a learned clerk, who at noonday Better than silence is ? When I survey "With downcast eyes was passing on his way,

This throng of faces turned to meet my own, Paused, and observed the spot, and marked it well,

Friendly and fair, and yet to me unknown, "Whereon the shadow of the finger fell ; • Transformed the very landscape seems to be And, coming back at midnight, delved, aud found It is the same, yetnot the same to me. A secret stairwaj' leading under ground. So many memories crowd upon my brain, Down this he passed into a spacious hall, many ghosts are in the flaming jewel the So wooded plain, Lit by a on wall ; I fain would steal away with noiseless tread, And opposite a brazen statue stood As from a house where some oue lieth dead. With bow aud shaft in threatening attitude.

I can not go ; — I pause ; — I hesitate Upon its forehead, like a coronet,

• My feet reluctant linger at the gate : "Were these mysterious words of menace set As one who struggles iu a troubled dream " That which I am, I fatal To speak and cannot, to myself I seem. am ; my aim " None can escape, not even yon luminous flame !

Vanish the dream ! Vanish the idle fears ! Midway the hall was a fair tablo placed, Vanish the rolling mists of fifty years With cloth of gold, aud golden cups enchased ! : ; ; ; ; ;

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Tilth rubies, and tbe plates aud knives were gold, As the barometer foretells the storm And gold tbe bread and viauds manifold, While still the skies are clear, the weather warm,

Around it, silent, motionless, and sad, So something in us, as old age draws near, "Were seated gallaut knights in armor clad, Betrays the pressure of the atmosphere. And ladies beautiful, with plume and zone, The nimble mercury, ere we are aware, But they were stone; their hearts within were stone; Descends the elastic ladder of the air, And the vast hall was filled in every part The tell-tale blood in artery and in vein Sinks its "With silent crowds, stony in face and heart. from higher levels in the brain ; Whatever poet, orator, or sage

Long at the scene, bewildered and amazed, May say of it, old age is still old age.

The trembling clerk in speechless wonder gazed ; It is the waning, not the crescent moon, table, his bold, The dusk of evening, not the blaze Then from the by greed made of noon ; He seized a goblet and a knife of gold, It is not strength, but weakness; not desire,

And suddenly from their seats the guests upsprang, But its surcease ; not the fierce beat of fire The vaulted ceiling with loud clamors rang, The burning and consuming element, The archer sped bis arrow, at their call, But that of ashes aud of embers spent, Shattering the lambent jewel on the wall,— In which some living sparks wc still discern, And all was dark around and overhead ; Enough to warm, but uot enough to burn.

Stark on the floor the luckless clerk lay dead ! What then ? Shall we sit idly down and say

The night hath come ; it is no longer day ? The writer of this legend then records

The night hath not 3'et come ; we are not quite Its ghostly applications in these words Cut oft' from labor by the failing light The image is the Adversary old, Something remains for us to do or dare; "Whose beckoning finger points to realms of gold; Even the oldest tree some fruit may bear Our lust< and passions are the downward stair Not (Edipns Coloueus, or Greek Ode,

That leads the soul from a diviner air ; Or tales of Pilgrims that oue morniug rode archer. Death ; the flaming jewel, Life The ; Out of the gateway of the Tabard Inn, Terrestrial goods, the goblet and the knife; But other something, would we but begin The knights and ladies, all whoso flesh and bone ; For age is opportunity no less By avarice have been hardened into stone Than youth itself, though in another dress, The clerk, tbe scholar whom the love of pelf And as the evening twilight fades away Tempts from his books and from his nobler self. The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

The scholar and the world ! The endless strife, The discord in the harmonies of life deeply regret losing one of our ablest The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, We all the sweet serenity of books and most faithful instructors, Prof. J. S. Sew- And ;

The market place, the love of gain, all, Avho has accepted the professorship of

Whose aun is vanity, and whose end is pain 1 Sacred Rhetoric and Oratory at the Bangor Seminary. But why, you ask me, should this tali- be told Theological To men grown old, or who are growing old .' Prof. Rockwood, formerly of Bowdoin,

It is too late ! Ah, nothing is too late now at Rutgers, passed Commencement week 'fill the tired heart shall cease to palpitate, in Brunswick. It gave the students great Cato learned Geek at eighty ; Sophocles Wrote bis grand CEdipua, and Simonides pleasure to meet him once more, though in a Bore "if the prize of verso from his compeers, somewhat different relation. When each had numbered more than fourscore years And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, The Sophomore Prize Declamation took liad but begun his Characters of Men. place in Lemont Hall, June 28th. The '77 Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, Glee Club furnished singing in place of the At sixty wrote tie Canterbury 'fairs; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, usual music. Some of their selections were Completed Faust when eighty yi-.n-^ were past. very fine. The prizes were equally divided These an' indeed hut they exceptions; show between C. A. Perry ami Morrill. Beale was How far the (lull' Stream of our youth may flow

one of the speakers : we accidently omitted Into the arctic regions of our lives,

\\ here little else than lite itself survives. his name in our last ISSlie. 64 B0WD01N ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. Alumni took place in Adams Hall. At half past eleven, by the request of Prof. Packard, PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- the Bowdnin Praying Circle held a meeting ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT at the Seniors' recitation room, to which all BOWDOIN COLLEGE, former members of the Association were invited. The result was very gratifying. By the Class of 1876. The room was filled principally by graduate members. The great event of the day was EDITORS. Arlo Bates, E. H. Kimball, of course the public meeting of the Alumni C. H. Clark, J. G. Libby, at the Church. A very short time after the C. T. Hawes, J. A. Morrill, opening of the church it was filled by an W. H. G. Rowe. expectant crowd, excepting those seats reserved for the a Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies, Alumni. After long time 15 cents. of waiting, more or less patient in individual Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, cases, the procession entered the house. Brunswick, Maine. Ther was not a sufficient number of seats For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- reserved to accommodate them all, and some son's, Brunswick. of the more youthful members of the body were compelled to stand. CONTENTS. In a few remarkably graceful words the

Vol. V., No. 6.—July 14, 1875. President of the Alumni Association, Prof. Egbert C. Smyth, introduced the class of 1825. Morituri Salutamus (50 Editorial Notes 64 The day was theirs. They needed no guests, Local 68 and were each other's own best company. It Alumni Notes 70 was an act of condescension for them to .' The Brown Lichen. 70 consent to make their anniversary exercises public. These would all be by the class, and EDITORIAL NOTES. as before the class. Prayer was then offered by Rev. John S. C. Abbott. Next followed —Wednesday morning opened dark and the poem by^.Henry W. Longfellow, whose gloomy, and the fast falling rain seemed to appearance on the platform was greeted by indicate a day unfavorable alike to Com- vehement and continued applause. To those mencement visitors and college denizens. As of us to whom the poet's verse has long been the morning advanced, the powers of light dear from its own inherent Avorth, it will be and darkness, of sunshine and shadow seemed doubly dear now that we have heard it from to strive for the mastery. Finally, however, his own lips. To hear Longfellow is a boon the light prevailed, the clouds made a final not vouchsafed to many, and those to whom retreat, and the sun came out with his it is granted will not soon forget, will never united light and heat, speedily drying street forget that they heard from the lips of and campus, so that the seemingly unfortu- America's greatest poet, the poem on the nate advent of the day had only a fortunate fiftieth anniversary of the graduation of his effect in that it completely allayed that dust College Class. Cheever's oration, immediately that is one of the discomforts attendant on following the poem, was one of great breadth Brunswick life at this season. At ten in the and power and eminently fitted to follow morning the regular business meeting of the the master-work which had preceded it. B0WD01N ORIENT. 65

—The literary exercises of Commencement tal after-dinner speeches which every one Day seemed somewhat cast in the shade by delights to hear. He gave good advice to the the unusual interest of Wednesday. To the graduating class. It was to think quickly personal friends of the class of '75, however, and speak decidedly, and he illustrated his we doubt not that they were very acceptable. remarks with one of his excellent anecdotes. The chosen few of that class delighted their He called attention to the array of celebrated friends with their astonishing amount of names enrolled upon the record of the Alumni, knowledge, and with their readiness in setting names known in the Senate and at the Bar, forth their views, and took their final depart- in Literature and Arms. Mr. Phillips, of ure from the College stage. Singapore, spoke of the wide celebrity of the After the conferring of degrees, the pro- revered Profs. Cleaveland, Smyth, and Upham. cession moved to Memorial Hall to discuss the He wished to see their names commemorated Commencement Dinner. The exercises had by permanent professorships in their depart- lasted until almost three o'clock, and the ments. In conclusion he wished success to Alumni showed a due appreciation of the the crew at Saratoga, and spoke a good word dinner. We noticed that two members of in favor of boating. Gen. Thomas Hubbard '76 rather prematurely took their places in spoke enthusiastically in the same strain. the ranks. Prominent among the visitors Physical exercises of every kind interested we noticed Hon. Lot M. Morrill, Hon. him, and especially did he wish to see boating J. G. Blaine, Chief-Justice Appleton, and placed on a firm basis at Bowdoin. It seemed Gov. Dingley. Among the graduates, the a reproach to any College not to be repre- clas of '25 occupied the post of honor, sented at Saratoga. He closed with an ear- to whom much of the interest was owing. nest appeal to the Alumni to aid the Boating After dinner the President called upon Association. Dr. J. S. C. Abbott to return thanks, Among the interesting events of the day and then the customary hymn was sung. was the reading, by Commodore Bridge, of a The first man introduced was Prof. Pack- letter which he had received from Mr. Haw- ard, who read a letter and a poem, addressed thorne about the time of graduation. It was to the class of "2~>, by Mr. McClellan of '26. the record of a wager between Mr. Hawthorne

In behalf of his class, Hon. S. P. Benson re- and Mr. Cilley ; the latter agreeing to furnish sponded pleasantly, and called upon Dr. J. S. a barrel of Madeira wine if Hawthorne was C. Abbott to read an account of the deceased married before Nov. 7th, 1836. When the members of the class. Of the thirty-seven seal was broken in that year, Mr. Cilley was wIki graduated, thirteen are now living, and notified of bis obligation, and was making of these only two were prevented from at- arrangements to deliver the wine when killed tending the semi-centennial anniversary of by Graves. Hon. J. W. Bradbury made their graduation. a stirring appeal to the Alumni and friends After a poem by Prof. Dunn, Gov. Ding- to aid the College out of its pecuniary ley was introduced. He did nut think it embarrassment, ami announced a subscription

fitting fur liim In speak on that occasion, but uf |1500 from Him. J. ('<. Blaine. It was he congratulated the College on account of now after five o'clock, and after Dr. Cheever the presence of its must celebrated class, and had proposed a vote of thanks to the mothers warmly welcomed them in tin' name of the and wives who had been so •• patient in observ- people of the State. Ex-Speaker Blaine was ing thf works uf their own hands," the meet- next introduced, and mad< e of those capi- in- adjourned. 66 BOWDOIN 0B1ENT.

— Class Day has always been one of the with fond remembrance upon their victories pleasantest features of Commencement week. and good times, and hastened with careful

If it had been omitted, as seemed probable at tread over their defeats and quarrels. one time, it would have been regretted not by The Prophecy, by Standish, was the most the class alone, but by all interested in them. hastily written of any of the parts. It was, The faculty had allotted them Tuesday on however, very interesting, and hit upon the which to hold it. A part of the class opposed peculiarities of the men in a manner only this very strongly, a part acquiesced to the appreciated by those who knew them. The desire of the faculty, and others wished to Parting Address was delivered by Holmes. have no Class Day at all. Owing to this It was short and to the point, expressing most condition of affairs no parts were written, no admirably the step they were about to take, and arrangements made, and no decision reached the relations which should exist between them until Commencement week had actually in after life. After the literary exercises were arrived. Then it Avas voted to hold it on thus concluded, the class arose to sing their

Friday, July 9th, in Lemont Hall. Ode, by McPherson ; and then proceeded to The day was beautiful, the hall well ven- Smoking the Pipe of Peace. The President tilated and not too crowded, and a better or lighted a huge pipe, the long stem of which more appreciative audience never assembled was gaily decorated with the various society within its walls. Young ladies with their ribbons, and after a few whiffs passed it to graduate brothers ; wives with their College his left. The trials and hardships of the un-

husbands ; mothers, fathers, friends, all came iniated were hailed with shouts of laughter, to hear the special exercises of the class, while the veterans looked on with contempt which from their earnestness and fidelity gave and passed the bowl with a sigh of regret. a most interesting picture of inner College Farewells and good wishes closed the after- life. noon, and the class adjourned until nine At about two o'clock the class ascended o'clock in the evening, when they assembled the stage, marshalled by Larrabee, and at a supper in Field's restaurant. took their places on seats arranged on each The supper in the evening was, from all side of the speaker's desk. The music was accounts, about the best ever given to a class furnished by Chandler's Orchestra, and was in town. very good indeed. The exercises were opened A class of twenty-three appeared for ex- by a prayer offered by Hill, in which he in- amination, in the morning, and were admitted voked the divine blessing upon the class and the to the next Freshman class. occasion. After selections from the orchestra, President Carter introduced Swasey, avIio read — Never has a finer programme been pre- the opening address. He referred to the sit- sented to a Brunswick audience, and seldom has uation in which they were placed, and made a better audience been gathered to hear, than a few necessary explanations. His address on Wednesday evening. The engagement of was well written and received good attention. Miss Beebe, since it was the occasion of the The Chronicler, Curtis, followed the next introduction of the English glees, was the music, and led the audience through a few of means of giving a very enjoyable variet}' to their College experiences. He imparted to the programme. Miss Beebe was well re- them information, which perhaps was not ceived, as indeed she deserved to be. Her altogether new, concerning some College mis- voice is clear and flexible, her manner good, chief and the partakers thereof. He dwelt and her taste generally unexceptionable. She BOWDOIN ORIENT. G7

did particularly well in the part-songs, for Old Oak, followed by crowds of awe-struck which her voice is finely adapted. Miss Cary Freshmen and " Yaggers." is Miss Cary, and to this title little can The literary exercises consisted of an be added. Her careful and unwearying study eulogy and elegy, which were well suited to insures not only success, hut a constantly in- the occasion and accompanied by frequent creasing nicety of finish and fineness of ex- groans and sobs from the assembled mourners. ecution. Her aria from Mignon was an The procession then marched to the funeral example in point Operatic arias are apt to pyre, where the "Lamentation'' was delivered be given by concert singers in a manner either and appropriate songs were sung. The pyre florid or flat. Miss Cary avoids both faults, was then lighted, and amid the wild, unearthly and " Non Conosei" was given with depth and 3'ells of her followers, the last remains of fire, and yet was not overstrained. "The Anna were hastily devoured by the flames. Day is Done," she rendered in a way to make After the burial the class partook of a the venerable poet who sat in the audience upper at Lemont Hall. Among the toasts feel proud, both for himself and the singer. offered were, " Our lamented sister, Anna Mr. Fessenden is not improving either in Lytics," " Alma Mater" " The Faculty," voice or method, and was hardly up to the " Our Glorious Class," " College Boating,*' standard in the glees. He has still, however. " Base Ball," " Our absent Classmates," and qualities which make him a most popular " The Ladies who Wear the Green." which concert singer, and he was warmly received. were responded to by Sherman, Chapman, Mr. Beckett's place is in the part-songs, Little, Roberts, Hargraves, Fuller, Seabury, and in these he did finely. and C. A. Perry, respectively. The Philharmonics were as admirable as Thus was brought to a happy close the usual, and what is rare, the instrumental solos celebration of one of the most interesting of were genuine additions to the programme. our College customs. Mr. Listemann played to satisfy himself rather than popular taste, and received a well merit- — The exhibition given by the first class of ed encore. proficients of Bowdoin College, was held in Mr. Belz is remarkable for the richness Lemont Hall, Tuesday evening, July 6th. and mellowness of his tones, and for the There were a good many adverse circum- good taste of his selections and manner. stances in connection with this exhibition, The whole concert was a most flattering which would have made il a failure had not success, even in a pecuniary point of view. the most extraordinary pluck and perse\ tr- ance been shown by Mr. Sargent and those — On Tuesday night, June 29th, the class of assisting him. The crew had left a few days 77 assembled I'm- the performance of the last previous, depriving them of three men, while solemn rites and ceremonies in honor of their two of the most prominent of the performers deceased friend, Anna Lytics. were detained at home by sickness, ks a The terrible anxiety which they had frit consequence the "three-high" feature had to for her welfare during her last illness of two be omitted altogether, and men were placed in long weeks, was now at an end, and the re- positions in which they had had little or no action thai followed was peculiar in its nature practice. For that reason \\ e think that, while and effects. the exhibition was certainly the lust ever At half past nine the procession was given in Brunswick, the students deserve an formed and took up its solemn march to the extra amount of praise for their courage in 68 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

daring to attempt it. As a matter of course nose and mouth were torn and bleeding by the there were a few mistakes and slips in the furious pecking with which the robin mother minor performances, but still not a single trick had defended her nest. Never having heard was attempted that was not performed. The ourselves of so remarkable a display of anger greatest features, such as summersault between in any of our common birds, we thought it bars, aerial balancing, and the triple eschelle, might be interesting to some of our readers. were simply done to perfection. Not an un- V^_ pleasant thing occurred to mar the exhibition, and every thing was well received by an LOCAL. appreciative audience. It was an exhibition such as Bowdoin may well be proud of, and Good-bye, '75. added a most interesting feature to the Com- " " Got your ticket ? mencement programme. The '76 ivy is thriving. — While we were walking in the quiet soli- Large class in prospectus. tude of the McKeen woods the other day, on the 23d of Septem- we were suddenly startled from our medita- Next term begins tions by a strange and unusual noise. Look- ber. ing into the thicket we perceived the author " How are you going to spend your " of this disturbance, a robin, vigorously and vacation ? frantically endeavoring to drive away a squir- Those writtens didn't amount to so much rel who was hugely enjoying, to all appear- after all. ances, the contents of the robin's nest. At " first the squirrel refused to obey the rather They say " Jack has filled up in a truly unceremonious command to leave, but finally, gorgeous style. evidently thinking discretion the greater part Forty Seniors were present at the Bacca- concluded to vacate the premises to of valor, laureate Sermon. the rightful owner. One would have thought the examination for Bates'College ten the robin to have been satisfied with getting At men were admitted. rid of her disagreeable visitor ; but no, she was determined to punish him effectually for Waitt, '76, pulled in the single-scull race his impertinence, and consequently chased on the 3d at Gardiner. him along the boughs, down the trunk of the The campus presents an appearance that tree, and along the ground up into another Bowdoin may well be proud of. tree, all the while pecking at the poor fellow's head with irresistible and, as it proved, fatal We hear that nearly the full amount of fury, for after a short chase she ceased her money has been raised to pay our Saratoga screeches and quietly flew back to her nest, expenses. while we pressed our way into the bushes to The next Field Day of the Bowdoin endeavor to learn the fate of the squirrel, Athletic Association will be held on the 16th when down came the victim from the tree, of October. falling at our feet. A short examination showed to us the power of an angry bird, 1st Soph.—" Had the clock struck one even slight and frail as a robin, for his eyes when you came in last night, chum ? " 2d she had picked out " one by one," and his Soph.— " Yes, several." BOWDOIN ORIENT. 69

We understand that there were six re- in the Congregational church, July 5th. porters for the Bath Daily Times present at Ballard's Orchestra, of Lewiston, furnished the Commencement Dinner. music for the occasion. The first prize was awarded to Prince and the second to Perry. The Championship Pennant is about fif- The speaking was very good indeed. teen feet long, with red border, and on a white

: ' ground in blue letters, " Championship, '75. The pictures of the Senior Class, taken by Warren of Boston, do not give as much Mr. F. K. Smyth, Principal of the Bath High satisfaction as might have been hoped. He School last year, has been elected Tutor in ought to have picked out the best looking man Mathematics and Instructor of the Gymna- in the class and taken him dressed up in differ- sium. ent clothes. They would much rather be We hope the " terminus ladies " will considered good looking than smart. take a good long rest, so that they will be able The contest for the Brown prizes for ex- to carry a broom up higher than the first temporaneous writing took place in Cleave- flight. land Hall, June "23d. About twenty applied The- printed programmes of '77's Burial their energies for an hour to the two following for of Analytics command high premiums subjects : " What is the Aim of a College memorabilia. There were only a hundred Education ? " " The Inequalities of Society." printed. The first prize was awarded to W. G. Waitt on the first subject, and the second to Arlo Brunswick ! and thy dust we shall on the second subject. remember and think of thee when far away Bates shade on sunny slopes or reclining under the A Freshman reports that he handed an ex- lofty trees. of cuse to his class officer, stating that on the The Sophomores are happy in thinking preceding day he had been absent from that they will have a good comfortable front afternoon recitation to have a tooth extracted. seat in church, next term, where they can " But," said the officer, " I saw you riding " take their so-called " Junior ease." with a young lady ; that's too thin." O no, sir!" replied Fresh., "it's tooth out."' He Prof. White leaves us this Commencement. is now on the first stage, where he will stay His relations with the students have always just long enough to cure him. " No pun ish been of the kindliest nature, and there is not ment at all," he and the Dutchman say. one who will not regret his departure. "Now Bill," we heard a graduate remark The crew left here July 2d, being the lust on coming into his old room, "don't you one to arrive at Saratoga. Probably by the remember when you were a Freshman and I time this issue is out we shall know for a chased you round this very room with a hot certaint}r how they compare with the rest of poker. That was tin- term before you were their prompter competitors. suspended for thai Freshmen drunk. Those received the Lol At length Bowdoin has were warm old times! Why, don't you re- Slate Lung Championship Pennant. may she member?" "Well. well, that's different hold it. are base let us As we ballists, show now you know." was the grave answer, as he it to the neighboring towns and give them a beckoned to his son to go out, who had I'.eii chance to take it away, if they can. standing an interested and not unpleased The Junior Prize Declamation took place listener. — ; ;

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ALUMNI NOTES. Nathaniel Pierce, Lawyer, Newburyport, Mass. [We earnestly request contributions for this Thos. J. W. Pray, Physician, Dover, N. H. department from the Alumni and friends of the Elias Sargent, College.] H. Yarmouth, Me. Class of 1844. Chas. E. Swan, Physician, Calais, Me. The Class of '44 held their reunion at the Arthur Swasey, D.D., Editor and Clergy- Falmouth Hotel, Portland, Friday, July 9th. man, Chicago, 111.

Like all their reunions, it was a pleasant AVinthrop Tappan, in Europe. occasion. We understand that after dinner Win. W. Virgin, Justice Supreme Judicial an excursion was made in Judge Goddard's Court of Me. yacht, the Laurel. The following record of Samuel M. Weston, Teacher, Boston, Mass. the class has been kindly furnished us by the Horatio Q. Wheeler, Merchant, Portland,

Secretary, H. G. Herrick, Esq. : Me. Geo. M. Adams, Clergyman, Holliston, Geo. S. Woodward, Insurance Business, Mass. Leavenworth, Kansas. Samuel J. Anderson, President of Portland Class of 1872. and Ogdensburg R. R., Portland, Me. The Class of '72 held their reunion Thurs- Albion K. P. Bradbury, Physician, Santa day, July 8th, and elected officers for the

Barbara, Cal. ensuing year as follows : President, Heath Henry K. Bradbury, Lawyer, Hollis, Me. Vice President, Wilder; Secretary, Bickford;

Chas. H. Colman, Merchant, Galena, 111. Orator, Dow ; Poet, Frost ; Executive Com- Henry K. Craig, Clergyman, Falmouth, mittee, Harris. A poem was read by Abbott Mass. amid great applause. Voted to hold a reunion Samuel Farnham, Farmer, Auburn, Me. next Commencement. Enoch P. Fessenden, Physician, Bucks- port, Me. Joseph Garland, Physician, Gloucester, THE BROWN LICHEN.

Mass. With dusky lingers clinging to the stone, Samuel F. Gibson, Lawyer, Bethel, Me. Through summer's languid days and lovely nights, Through autumn's chilluess and the spring's delights, Chas. W. Goddard, late Judge of Superior The lichen lives in grimmest state, alone. Court, Portland, Me. The spicy summer breezes o'er it go, John W. Goodwin, Manager American But from its nun -like breast wiu no perfume; Bridge Co., Houston, Texas. Brown bees, gold-dusted, seek some flower's bloom, James H. Hackleton, Teacher, Frederick, Nor pause above it, flitting to and fro.

Md. The snail glides over it with solemn pace; David R. Hastings, Lawyer, Fryeburg, Me. The cunning spider in it spins her snare But, be its tenants either foul or fair, Horatio G. Herrick, Sheriff of Essex Co., The lichen naught is troubled in her place.

Lawrence, Mass. • The fays full oft in splendid state go by, Josiah Howes, Physician, Burlington, And elfin laughter thrills through all the air, Iowa. "What cheer, Dame Lichen, grave and debonair?" Chas. W. Larrabee, Lawyer, Bath, Me. To them vouchsafes the lichen no reply. Joshua S. Palmer, Insurance Agent, Port- We pluck among the crannies of the stone land Me. The wild flowers, purple, golden, or sweet blue; But both in nature and in friendship too, Josiah L. Pickard, Superintendent of In- We leave the grim brown lichen quite alone. struction, Chicago, 111. Z. V. ! ; —— ! — —! —

Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, OCTOBER 6, 1875. No. 7.

A RETURX TO THE OLD COLLEGE AT Still rise to greet the young scholastic guest, BRUXSWICK.* And crown, with laurel -wreaths that may not die, The student's toilful quest. By Isaac McLellan, Esq., '26.

In these beloved shades, o'er earth tend, "Where'er we Where weave the towering pines their green arcades, "Where'er, o'er seas remote, life's voyagings end, I walked with friends that sleep now in the sod; the blue Pacific, or away Far in But chief, dear Longfellow, with thee I trod Iceland's cliffs o'erhang the boiling spray, "Where These sylvan haunts, where first the flaming dart dear home, will still return to thee; Our hearts, Of poesy divine sank deep into thy heart; Return from foreign isle and distant sea, "Where first was swept thy sweet, immortal lyre, ranges, or Cordillera crests, From Andes And the young heart poured out across the wire. sea-birds to their nests. Like Though years, dear friend, have laid a wreath of snow O'er the brown locks that danced about thy brow, Yet warm as then still beats thy heart, dear friend, The vast round orb of earth And will, till life shall end. Hath no elysium like our place of birth Hath no enticements potent that can wean J. S., JR. Our hearts from home and all its haunts serene. the brink The gilded walls, the shining dome may rise, A light form, poised upon And luxury spread enchantments to the eyes; Of waters running black as ink, ere could speak or think; Still the low roof, o'ercauopied with leaves, "Was gone he Where piped the songful birds at morn and eves, The sullen tide bearing off a maiden's hair, Will fill our hearts and memories with a glow Was Soft as the flush that gilds the Alpine snow. That fringed a brow as frail and fair As e'er was clouded o'er with care. The waves divide, A strong hand beats the water cold, Here is our classic Home The swimmer's stroke is firm and bold. Tho sweet, fair spot that years ago we sought, He grasps her sinking, and behold To gather lore, by ago and wisdom taught. Borne side by side, Scenes of my youth ! with joyful step once more They two will reach the distant pier; Your verdant paths and peaceful halls I tread; And, rescued from a watery bier, Once more on lovely Androscoggin's shore She'll love the man, and many a year My willing feet to ancient scenes are led; Ah, woe betide! Again we eomo thy borders to explore, A man climbs up the pier alone, And view thy wooded isles, with voices gay, With sullen step and heart of stone. And the bright sands that skirt thy bay. Another soul from earth has gone A suicide "Why saved he not the woman's life,

Dear scenes of youth ! These loving eyes o'erflow That hour in evil fortune rife? To seo ye all around me rise again: Because—he found it was his wife,

This path I tread I traversed long ago; So turned aside. w. s. d. The same deep wood, the same wide-spreading plain; Yonder the pines still heave their mournful sigh O'er tho green turf where sacred ashes rest; The hot suns of summer seem to have Yonder old walls, I once again descry, somewhat wilted '76's Ivy. We hope to see

it climbing the chapel's side, but not before * Head by Prof. A. S. Packard at Commencement Dinner, July many years. on the occasion of the Seml-Centeniilal of the Class of '25. , 1875,— 74 BQWDOIN ORIENT.

CONCISENESS OF STYLE. and delights to enlarge upon it and discover

its bearing upon the point at issue ; but It is said that a certain French writer, re- scanty is the enjoyment of perusing or listen- markable for conciseness of style, in a letter ing to those productions whose authors have to a friend which he had made rather longer labored to bring everything into such perspi- than usual, apologized for its prolixity by cuity that the mind has nothing left to do. saying that he had not time to write a Tilings may be too obvious to attract atten- shorter. tion. The sun, moon, and stars roll over our To say much in a few words is certainly a heads every day without attracting our spe- great excellence, and at the same time a great

cial notice ; but we survey with eager curios- difficulty. The mind naturally dwells on a ity a comet, an eclipse, or any other phenom- strong conception, views it on every side, and enon in nature. Military harangues derive expresses it in a great variety of ways ; but their chief beauty and power from an ex- the amplification of a sentence, though it may pressive brevity. In the histories of Livy add to its perspicuity, often diminishes its instances abound where armies were incited force ; as scattered sunbeams diffuse only a to rush on to battle and death by a few short gentle heat, but are able to burn when col- sentences uttered by their generals. But lected in a focus. There are many writers history scarcely records a more striking in- whose only aim appears to be to express their stance than that of a French king who thus views in the greatest number of words and addressed his soldiers immediately forms which they can invent. Amplification before an

attack : "I your general you are French- occupies their whole attention, while con- am — men there are the enemy." Such a general, densation is treated as a thing of minor im- — if gain the portance. he did not victory, at least de- served it. Those who have traveled say that Such productions will scarcely repay any- the Frenchman differs much from the English- thing more than a hasty perusal. One is man as regards conciseness. The former, in naturally led to think that the writers of the profusion of his politeness, makes many them are conscious of the weakness of their

offers which he expects will be refused ; and ideas, and strive to conceal that weakness by should you really stand in need of his assist- a resort to diffuseness of expression. On the ance, it is a doubt whether he will give him- other hand, the writer who labors to express self much trouble to help you out of his thoughts in the most concise manner pos- your difficulty. The latter will aid you secretly, sible, without obscurity, gains our admiration and appear annoyed at the expression of your and esteem. He can hardly fail to interest gratitude. The former will overwhelm you even the careless reader. In fact, one of the with professions of friendship, without the most pleasing and powerful effects of concise-

least real regard ; the latter will be surly, and ness is the pleasure which a reader finds in at the same time exert himself to soothe your having something left for his own sagacity to sorrpws and relieve your wants. Bluntness discover. A painting in which everything is said be one of the characteristics of brought into an undisguised, glaring repre- is to the English, and as such is accepted as a natural sentation, fails to arouse feelings of admira- consequence of their sincerity. In modern tion. There is a concealment and shading, tragedy find the heroes and heroines ex- which sets off more beautifully and displays we pressing their grief in pompous declamation more clearly many of its most charming fea- ; but notwithstanding the studied vehemence tures. Precisely so it is in written produc- and unnatural grandeur of their lengthened tions. The mind eagerly grasps at a hint, BOWDOIN ORIENT. lb periods, the -audience often sit unmoved, or interest to every student that it should re- are more disposed to smile than weep. But main where all can have access to it, and we in the (Edipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, Jo- fail to see what desire of mischief can be casta, when she discovers her own and her gratified bv removing; it. husband's condition, as deplorable as could well be conceived, retires from the stage ut-

tering only these words : "Alas! alas! wretch- College life is full of strange actions, and ed man that thou art,—this only can 1 say to not among the least of these is to see a feeble thee—henceforth forever silent." youth, bent down with hard study, tugging a heavy pail of water up three flights of stairs,

just to throw it out of the window at a luck- ASSYRIAN SLABS. THE less Freshman. Perhaps many of our readers have been The following officers were elected at the curious to learn the history of the Assyrian Bowdoin Boating Association meeting; : Com- slabs in the vestibule of the library, and their modore, O. C. Stevens; Vice Commodore, F. date. They were procured for the College H. Crocker ; Treasurer, Prof. F. K. Smythe ; through the kindness of Dr. Henry B. Has- Asst. Treas., P. L. Paine ; Secretary, A. M. kell, a graduate of the Medical School, 1835, Sherman ; Directors, Geo. Parsons, R. E. Peary, who was in the service of the American Board John M. Burleigh, with the Commodore and of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, as Captain of the crew, who is to be elected hj physician to their station at Mosul, directly the crew, ex-officio. opposite the site of Nineveh. This gentleman The officers elected at the annual Base- wrote to Prof. Cleaveland, offering to obtain Ball meeting of the Bowdoin Association, are the slabs and to see to their transportation, if - as follows : President, F. C. Pa} son ; 1st Vice the College would pay the expenses of freight.

President, W. Alden ; 2d Vice President, D. The College consented, and they were floated B. Fuller; 3d Vice President, B. Potter; down the Tigris on rafts of skins to Bassora.

Secretary, C. E. Cobb ; Treasurer, P. G. After a delay of a year they were shipped to

Brown ; Assistant Treasurer, W. W. French Bombay on vessels of the same pattern as ; Directors, A. T. Parker, T. Cobb, W. G. those used in the time of Alexander the W.

Beale ; Scorer, P. H. Ingalls ; Captain, Great, and thence were conveyed to New Alpheus Sanford. York. The whole expense to the College was about ftolo. The readers of the Orient may recollect The slabs came from the palace of Assur- that during the spring the first game of a Nagir-Pal at Nimrad, and the date assigned chess match with players in Kingston, Mass., to them is about 750 B.C. The classical stu- was published in this paper. The second and dent will immediately associate this date with last game, in which also Bowdoin was victo- that of the founding of Rome, in 753 b.c. It rious, was concluded June 21st. Both games is a curious fact that all the slabs in this coun- were conducted by Black and S. C. Whitmore try are from the same palace, and the inscrip- of '75, for the Bowdoin Chess Club. The tions on them are identical. A few months time occupied in playing this game was 188 ago a translation was made by the Rev. Selah days. The game of chess between Dart- Merrill of Andover, Mass.; at his request a mouth and Bowdoin was finished during the copy was suspended on one of the slabs, but summer vacation, bj' the resignation of Dart- it has recently disappeared. It is matter of mouth on the 35th move. 76 BO WD OIN ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. and we rejoice that its promise is so good. The fact that $100,000 has been added to the PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- endowment fund is in itself most encouraging, ING THE COLLEGIATE TEAK, AT and there is every reason to hope that the BOWDOIN COLLEGE, fund will be still further increased. Part of the sum named is for the founding of a Long- By the Class of 1876. fellow Professorship of Modern Languages, and part has been appropriated to the support EDITORS. Arlo Bates, E. H. Kimball, of the chair of Greek. The changes in the C. H. Clark, J. G. Libby, Faculty are not numerous. We think with C. T. Hawes, J. A. Morrill, deep regret of the loss of Profs. Sewall and W. H. G. Rowe. White and Mr. Sargent. Prof. Chapman has left the chair of Latin, which he has so ably Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies,

15 cents. filled, for that of ' Rhetoric ; and the former is Address communications tp Bowdoin Orient, still vacant. Its duties are at present per- Brunswick, Maine. formed by Mr. A. H. Davis, who has been For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- appointed Provisional Instructor in Latin. son's, Brunswick. Mr. F. K. Smythe has charge of the Gymna- sium, and will undoubtedly be a popular in- CONTENTS. structor. The Gymnastic department was

Vol. V., No. 7.—October 6, 1875. already so perfectly organized that little was left to be wished for in that line. A Keturn to the Old College at Brunswick 73 J. S.,Jr 73 Conciseness of Style 74 And this brings us to the students. Timid The Assyrian Slabs 75 Freshmen, bloodthirsty Sophomores, mag- Editorial Notes 76 nanimous Juniors, and dignified Seniors, have Local 79 gathered about Alma Mater to begin a new Alumni Notes 80 or pain, folly or profit. Editors' Table 81 year for pleasure The

Filchings 82 Orient gives to all greeting ; and from the bottom of a not unkindly editorial heart, EDITORIAL NOTES.- hopes that profit and pleasure will, at least, preponderate, and the incoming year be a

All subscribers will please forward their fruitful and happy one. Nor does it intend subscriptions immediately, as we are in to offer unasked the good advice which might

be spoken, and perhaps pertinently ; for the ( need of the money. Do not fail to Orient is sure that every one must be already attend to this at once. ) fully aware how entirely the nature and the

This number of the Orient will be sent fruits of the year are a matter of personal to every member of '79, and the following choice, and that all intend to make a wise election. the good resolves and the numbers also, unless notice is given to discon- May are the tinue. The price for the remainder of the vows of earnest work which made at volume will be one dollar and a-half. Back beginning of the year be remembered at the regrets numbers furnished for fifty cents. end of it, not by vain over empty garners, but by the harvesting of well-ripened

The College year is once more fairly begun, sheaves. B0WB01N ORIENT. 77

" And the sound of the tack hammer is heard in of " Bacca." This odor, and various bottles the land." — The Dartmouth. placed in prominent positions, give to the The fitting up of rooms has gone rapidly unprejudiced observer the impression that and satisfactorily forward, and already nearly the Sophomore's chief end and aim in life is everybody is comfortably settled in winter to be considered " tough " and " hard." quarters. It is interesting for one of an Only step over to the Junior's room and observing turn of mind to notice the expres- the odor of the weed becomes as intense as sion of character in the fitting up of rooms. the mellow coloring of a fine old meerschaum. The occupant can not help leaving the impress Things have, in general, a quieter look, of his character upon his room, any more although pictures of soubrettes in question- than a mollusk can avoid leaving a record of able and impossible poses and costumes, have his nature and habits in his shell. replaced the almanacs. The dust has settled Every variety of ornament, and ingenious thickly upon the horns and masks classically device for comfort and convenience, may be grouped above the door. The easy chairs are

found here. One has taken the legs of a mostly broken, and the room is evidently chair whose seat, alas! long since went for arranged more for use than for show. kindling wood, and by simply nailing one leg The Senior has cast aside childish follies, against the wall, has a towel rack at once and consigned the mementoes of Sophomoric novel and convenient. Another has stuffed raids to the murky depths of the coal closet. two discarded suits of uniform, and orna- Books are scattered over the table and often mented his room with the effigies of two of the floor also. An enormous waste-basket the late far-famed " Bowdoin Cadets." Still contains the first plan of his immortal prize a third has an owl and a skull " above his essay, and perhaps an attempt at his '68 part. chamber door." There, too, may be found the first copies of The class to which a student belongs may his poetical effusions, which have modestly be quite accurately decided from his room. shown themselves in the poets' corners of

There is an uncertainty of arrangement, a sundry country newspapers. The Senior has mingling of old furniture with new, in a a tender place in his heart for his room, for he

Freshman's domicile. Patent medicine alma- can not forget that it is his last home in Col- nacs and enormous posters are apt to be lege. And so we, boj'S of '76, reminded of abundant. The room has, too, a cold look, the brevity of time, leave this idle scribbling

as if a continual apprehension of duckings to enjoy, while we may, that place of so many and hazings had become chronic, not only deep memories — our own College room. with the unhappy Fresh., but even with the room itself. Having occasion to refer to Webster's His Sophomore neighbor, next door, has a Unabridged the other day, it became neces- room which always has the appearance of sary, in order to find that important work, to having been "rudely blown upon by nocturnal explore the various mounds of dust gathered gales." Horns and masks are conspicuousl}' upon our table. The disagreeable nature of displayed with such trophies as the daring our task in opening these tumuli, caused us young braves may have captured from luck- to fall into profound meditations upon the

less Freshmen. There is an ostentatious odor care of college rooms. of stale tobacco in the air, as if some one had We have been greatly interested in watch- been offering tine-cut upon a hot fire-shovel ing the maneuvers of the terminus-lady who,

to Bacchus, who, we take it, must be the god for a pecuniary consideration, has a general ; "

78 B0WD01N ORIENT. oversight of the dormitories. The gradual room being expected to believe that his domi- development of her system of procedure cile has been dusted. has been an epitome of all human progress. Once each week we chase a lively ma- At the outset of her career she really had a genta feather about over our carpet, sighing sort of care for the rooms. She sometimes as we throw it into the fire : " Dust to dust, went so far as to sweep, and to dust after- ashes to ashes,— but never expect an end- ward. There are vague traditions of a woman to take care of a room ! terminus-lady who used to wash the oil-cloth but such a being, if indeed she ever existed, Whatever we may say, or whatever" we was pre-historic, and nothing definite can be sometimes may delude ourselves into thinking ascertained of either her age or history we believe, we are most of us at heart loyal tradition says she broke her heart for love of to Alma Hater, and it is unfortunate that we a Freshman. are so often betrayed into saying disloyal But, to return. The sweepings of our things. We foolishly allow ourselves, half in terminus-lady became fewer and fewer, and pique and half in jest, to say hard and cutting soon were confined to the occasional flirting words of the absurdities and injustice of the of the broom about the centre-table. The action of the Faculty ; the discipline ; the next step was to sweep with the broom-handle changes in the course ; in short, about what, like the enchanted princess in the German in student parlance, has been forcibly but fairy tale. After this there was obviously somewhat profanely described as "the general nothing left but to omit the use of the broom cussedness of things." Most of us have our altogether, and to confine attention exclu- personal grievances, and all but a small and sively to the cluster. Generally her care ex- honorable class of straightforward men are pended itself upon some article of furniture. apt to look upon ourselves as personally and In one room we wot of, a lounge became grossly wronged by the Faculty. But in the favored object of her care. Several times these rare moments when we are honest with each week she swept her duster from One end ourselves, we are very sure to find that much of this lounge to the other, and then retired of our bluster is but the attempt to drown the with the proud consciousness of having done consciousness of our own shortcomings. her whole duty. Many things which we would fain believe It was about this time that she began to independent and frank-hearted, do seem much sweep the stairways with great vigor. Who- like what in other mortals would be called ever attempted to reach his room on leaving obstinacy and folly. prayers, was assailed hy a cloud of dust and Our Faculty may sometimes show an un- ashes, which drove back all but the most pleasant amount of human flesh and blood, stout-hearted. It was currently reported and but few Faculties are immaculate. Our Col- believed that the Faculty had employed the lege, too, is certainly not wealthy, but few terminus-lady to keep students from cutting are so sturdily independent. The bitterness by preventing them from returning to their of students, and even Alumni, towards Alma rooms. Mater is at once fatal to her and disgraceful

The manner of dusting now in vogue is to them. Take it in any way you please, as beautiful as it is ingenious and simple. Once every man gets more from a College than he each week the terminus-lady pulls a feather gives an equivalent for while a student. The from her duster and deposits it upon the mere paying of term-bills is but a trifle when table or floor; the unhappy occupant of the one comes to think of the efforts which have "

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 70 given Bowdoin a prestige that makes her The scientific Seniors are very much dis- obliged to recite in the diploma of value ; that have erected buildings, appointed in being collected cabinets and libraries, founded pro- afternoon. fessorships, and in short made the College A Soph, was recently overheard explain- what it is. And when the patient toil of many ing to a young lady that the scientific name r ears has prepared our Alma Mater for us, 3 for " eye-teeth" is " biceps." shall we be so ungrateful and unmanly as to The long-forgotten but now remembered revile her because she has not given us differ- " Bones " has honored us with his presence ent gifts, or in a different way ? for a few days. He wanted to see "some of the boys." LOCAL. We hear that Crooker, formerly catcher " Present ! on the Resolutes of Portland, is to enter Col- lege as a special student in Chemistry and Seniors now. Engineering. " Lights out." Scene at the Tontine: Waitress — "Roast " Take your ease, Juniors." beef or lamb?" Student — "Roast beef." " " Glad to see you back again." Waitress — " On a side dish or large plate ? Student — "No, mum." Sleeper, of '78, has gone to Amherst. " The great billiard palace is now, as ever, "No speech. No sing. Give me pump ! thrown open to the public down town. A Is it always spring in the "land of Thor?" new assortment of stick-candy has been added The Freshman Class numbers twenty-nine. to its many attractions.

A. J. Shaw of Auburn, has been admitted A Soph, who has received a quantity of to '78. ragged hose from his washerwoman wants to know "if a 'hol(e)y understanding' is con- " Blow your horns and make a joyful ducive to a 'spiritual walk"?" noise."

says that if The Freshman class seems to contain some A young mother down town Washington sit good base-ball players. Solomon had seen her George down on her fall bonnet, he would never have R. R. B. has united himself to one of said there was "no new thing under the sun." M—th's lovely daughters. When Longfellow wrote He was 3'oung, he was fat, but the Soph- " Dust thou art, U> dust returnest," omores filled his hat — full of water. he must have had in mind the classic streets Instructor is Chandler, formerly Tutor, to of Brunswick as they appear to one returning term. hear the Seniors in Geology this after the summer vacation.

" Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away Am- We understand that if all the money that bition!" "Ambition is a vice," he should has been subscribed to boating can be col- have said. lected, there will be enough to pay all the We sincerely regretted to hear of the expenses of the crew at Saratoga. Those death of Frank Dyer, of '78, soon after leav- who owe anything to the subscription paper

ing College. ought to settle it at once. 80 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Since our return the College campus has ALUMNI NOTES. been a most lovely sight. The maple trees [We earnestly have been remarkably fine in their coloring, request contributions for this department from the Alumni and friends of the and, intermixed with the lindens, the maples College.] have a peculiar beautj^. '45.— Rev. Lewis Goodrich, formerly of 'Twas a sad disappointment not to hear at Auburn, has received and accepted a call from our first Sunday service the usual sermon on the Second Congregational Church in Warren. " '53. Wm. Carruthers is pastor of fishing." This is not right ; when we come — the back we like to have everything natural, or, Congregational Church at Calais, Me. '53. if changed, for the better. — Henry R. Downes is a lawyer in Presque Isle, Me. An irreverent Soph, reports as a vacation '53.— Wm. H. Todd is practicing medicine experience a visit to a country prayer-meet- in St. Stephen, N. B. ing. Among others, an old man arose and '54.— Rev. Wm. P. Tucker has resigned solemnly urged the young people present " to the rectorship of St. Augustine College, live as they'd wish they had when they came Benicia, " Cal. to stand around their dying bed ! '54. — Chas. F. Todd is engaged in the The old Electric B. B. C. of Brunswick lumber business in St. Stephen, N. B. has been re-organized this summer. They '56.— Enos T. Luce is practicing law in have adopted a very pretty suit of grey, Boston. Office at Old State House, Room 14. trimmed with green, and green stockings. It '57— Edwin B. Smith, late Reporter of will be an excellent thing for the College Decisions of the Supreme Court of this State, Nine to have such a nine to practice with. has been appointed 1st Asst. Attorney Gen- eral of the U. S. The recitations at the beginning of the '60.— Mr. A. H. Davis has been appointed term were some of them postponed on account Professor of Latin in Bowdoin College. of the non-arrival of books. Sufficient notice '62.— Almon Goodwin is a member of the must have been given to the bookseller, and law firm of Hall, Vanderpool & Co., New if he can not ensure punctuality the orders York City. ought to be given to one of the students who '62.— Rev. C. H. Pope, who has been will make it an object to be prompt and also spending his vacation at the East, passed to be reasonable in his prices. through town last week, on his way back to

It is curious to notice how soon the Fresh- Oakland, Cal., where he will be installed men acquire that art of canting their eyes pastor over the second Congregational Church. upward, without appearing to be on the watch, '66.— Chas. A. Boardman is in business as they go along the paths by the halls. It in Warren, Penn. takes them but a short time to detect the '68.— L. S. Ham has accepted the position sound of raising windows from any ordinary of Principal of Litchfield Academy, Litch- noise, either because they have higher ears, field, Me. or because they hear it oftener than any other. '69.— Frederic H. Boardman is engaged With what a self-satisfied smile does he escape in the lumber business at Calais, Me. the softly falling water, or with what a look '69.—Albert Woodside, M.D., was recently of ill-concealed disgust does he walk back to married to Miss Alice Hunt of Brunswick. his room to change his coat after indulging in Dr. Woodside's address is Tennant's Island, a provisional shower. Me. :

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'71.— W. E. Holmes is farming in Oxford, EDITOR,? TABLE. Me. And after vacation — exchanges! We found a of the '72.— In the notice of the reunion double armful awaiting us on our return to Bow- class of '72, in the last numberof the Orient, doin, and although all were of course "heartily we omitted to state that the class cup was welcome," &c, we did wish there were not more them. However, the pile is voted to the daughter of A. V. Ackley. than half so many of once more cleared away, and the Table ready for a Ackley has been keeping a summer hotel on new (but gradual !) supply. It is singular to notice Peak's Island. how little change a new board of editors makes in '73.— A. G. Ladd is Principal of the High the general tone of a college paper. This may be publication School at Farmington Falls, Me. owing to the fact that a college is stamped with the personality, not of its individual 73.—F. S. Whitehouge has entered the editors, but of the institution which it represents. Cambridge Law School. College criticism is not at its best likely to prove a

'74.— S. V. Cole is teaching the High means of very valuable literary improvement ; but pleasant way for editors to exchange thoughts School, Bath, Me. it is a and opinions, or to give one another an occasional '74. A. L. Peny was recently admitted — sly nudge, in a sort of half-confidential way only to the bar in Augusta. possible in the exchange column. An exchange editor finds it so difficult to hit upon any recognized Class of 1875. criterion in college journalism, that he is generally R. R. Baston was recently married to Miss reduced to the expedient of pleasing himself if he and letting others be pleased or displeased, ac- Lucy Ellen Edwards of Monmouth. Baston can, cording to their fancy. has accepted the position of General Agent By some strange chance the heaviest of the pile in Montreal for J. B. Ford & Co. of exchanges came to the top, and we opened the F. O. Baston is teaching the North Ber- Vassar Mis. to an article headed " Profundity or wick High School. Versatility ? " The first sentence caught our eye Geo. C. Cressey is Assistant in Mathe- " Looking up the dim avenues of the ages toward matics in the Bath High School. the mystical temple of Art." When a young wo- " looking up the dim avenues of the W. J. Curtis is City Editor of the Bangor man begins by ages," there is no knowing where she will end, so Whig and Courier. we turned to the next article, " Profundity or Ver- C. A. Dorr is Principal of High School at satility ?" We laid the Mis. away, but we pondered Lisbon, Me. deeply. Positively the idea was new to us, but we " E. H. Hall is Principal of Bethel Acadenry, took it in at a glance. You pays your money and ! That's it ! If the reader Bethel, Me. you takes your choice " is not satisfied with the views of the first writer, he W. E. Hatch is teaching school in North has only to read the second. The plan would work Shapleigh, Me. admirably for a political paper which wished occa- E. S. Osgood is a reporter on the Eastern sionally to shift its ground. But who save a woman

Argun. would ever have thought of it ?

is in N. M. Pettengill teaching Martins- The Owl is extremely sensitive in regard to its burg, 111. name; and in a bitter and sarcastic note, headed We learn that D. A. Sargent has recovered '• Inanities of Criticism," it seems to have attempted the complete annihilation of the Univ. Review. from his dangerous fall from a horizontal bar. " Among the new styles of criticism," saitli the P. P. Simmons is teaching a High School Old, " which the present rapid development of col- in Mendon, Mass. lege literature brings, like scum, to the surface, ' the is in F. B. Osgood studying law Frye- inane style ' is undoubtedly the most appropriate burg, Me. Dame for that to which we are about to refer." It — : — — — — —

82 B0WD01N ORIENT. goes on to define " inane criticism" as punning on FILOHINGS.

the name of the Owl ! The Oriexx is next soundly all in little note by itself, as distinguished rated, a Question by a Junior : What did the son its " impertinence." confess that we for inane We say when his father was killed on a Buffalo are quite overwhelmed, but we can not help being hunt? "Thus fur and no father." Nia. glad it was not utter stupidity which distinguished Index. us, as is the case with the Owl. Lot's wife wouldn't have looked back, but The Oberlin Review notes the completion of the a woman with a new dress passed her and she $100,000 subscription, and naively remarks: "The principal of the fund is never to be impaired, and wanted to see if the back breadth was ruffled. the annual income will be sufficient, with the receipts —Southbridge Jour. from students, to meet the current expenses." The A member of the Geology class thinks Bevieiv evidently labors under the impression that each eye of the tfilobite was composed of Bowdoin has hitherto had no fund, but has depended from 40 to 6000 faucets. (Quite a weeping entirely on the "receipts from students, to meet current expenses." animal.) H. 8. Monthly. A Junior, after losing all his 'spare change The Yale Courant gives the following unpleasing " at pitching pennies, said : Did you think I picture of the morals of some of the last class for keeps?" — there : was playing Winner "Judg- "Two recent graduates before leaving New ing from the amount you kept, I should say financial shrewdness an extent Haven exhibited to not." Era. hitherto unheard of in this institution. One sold his effects twice over to some Freshmen, collected Susan B. Anthony says male is only an one hundred and twenty dollars on the sales, and incorrect way of spelling " mule." Any left town before the sheriff attached his property in the interest of still other parties. The other genius schoolboy knows that if male is ''•mule" fe- disposed of his carpet at a respectable price, received male is mulier. — Olio. payment, and sloped just in time to escape the sheriff and the impecunious ravings of an African washer- "Professor," said a bright Freshman, the woman." other day, "I have found— classical authority The Tale Record concludes an appeal headed for 'ponying.'" Prof. "Have you, indeed !

" : A Yawp to the Freshmen," as follows Let me hear it." Fresh. — "Horace says, " Whatever you think, blow vigorously and con- pone me."—Dartmouth. stantly for Yale. Pass over its faults if you possibly find any. The Record sincerely hopes that you will A "Rev." Senior has discovered, after dil- furnish men for boating and ball, that you will "searching the Scriptures," that the heartily support the best interests of the college, igently and that your class may, at graduation, have a bet- present system of demerits and its resultant ter prospect in life than the one which has just phenomena are not only just, but have the sanc- stepped out, one-half of whom are about to enter the ministry, and the other half sit idle seeing noth- tion of a text: "Of course a man who vio- ing to do, unless by some strange course of events lates the laws of ' this and all similar institu- cigarette rolling becomes a profession." tions ' is a heretic, and doesn't Paul say, 'A All this has deeply impressed upon our minds man who is a heretic, after the first and sec-

the honor of graduating at Yale ; but we have no ond admonition, reject.'"—Titus iii. 10. difficulty in understanding how such a result is Coll. Argus. brought about when we read bits like this from the Courant — " At the commons the other night they had oyster soup. A Sheffite coming in looks medita- i, %, iUMiw sow & ®o„

' tively at his plate and says : This is austere soup.' A deep and heartfelt groan breaks from the capacious chests of Sheff s most prominent boating men." College Fraternity Bates, Keys, and Meflals, Men who will perpetrate such puns will do any-

thing. No. 10 Plain St., ALBANY, N. Y. ! ; ;

Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, OCTOBER 20, 1875. No. 8.

LOVE SONGS. Sweetest, with heavenly things Dream'st thou who loveth thee ?

Deep longing fills his breast; In darkest night, the seeker knows, Knows he not sleep nor rest, By sweet perfume, where blooms the rose: Severed as now from thee So sweet about the loved one fair Fairest one, loved the best, Breathes a rich presence everj-where. "Were the sweet truth confessed,

In darkest night, by silvery fall Dream'st thou who loveth thee ? Of tinkling drops, the fountains call; But by more softly thrilling tone And deeper sigh, the maid is known. In the hnsh of the morn, before the suu, I waken to think of thee And all the sweet day thus begun

Ah, Love ! be like the rose, As hallowed seems to be. Who, whatsoever time he comes to greet, holy repose the Gives to the nightingale her perfume sweet. In the morning star "With trembling awaits the sun, Dearest, be like the rose ! And thus my heart, if near or far, Love, be not like the rose; Awaits thee, sweetest one. That to each comer, whosoe'er he be, golden ecstasy of bliss Unveils her breast that he her beauty see. In a The fair morning-star will die Ah, be not like the rose ! ; But I, immortal by thy kiss, Sweetest, be like a star, Live but when thou art nigh. That purely in its golden fairness glows, And in the moonless night most radiant shows. Fairest, be like a star The Gymnasium, under the charge of Tu- tor Smythe, will be conducted on the same Yet be not as a star, That in the gloom of tempests may be lost, plan as formerly, with the exception that there And fail the wanderer when most wildly tossed. will be no class captains. Each class has two Love, be not like a star! leaders, as follows : Seniors — Andrews and

Be e'er thyself, my Love ! Kimball. Juniors — Kimball and Morrill. Loving me only as I love but thee, Sophomores—Nickerson and Ingalls. Fresh- Thy beauty and thy radiance! all for Dae; men—Perry and Cobb. The class of profi- si ill be thyself, sweet Lovo ! cients has not yet been fully organized, but they will soon go into regular practice in While stars above thee glow, preparation for the exhibition to be given at And (be red moon sinks low year. of clubs lulu the dusky sea; the end of the A number new

Night visions come and go : have been added to the stock already in the Dearest, in dreaming so Gymnasium, and a new box has been made

Dream'st thou who loveth thee I for clubs. This box is divided into compart- Weirdly the night-bird sings, ments numbered to correspond with numbers Sailing on silent wings on the clubs. Each leader is required to see

Over the dewy lea ; thai his men put their clubs in the right places. Her note a rapture brings ; 86 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

NOVELS. It is true that most novels are written for The prejudice which formerly existed the present day, and after a few years will against novels has in the last half century cease to be read. But it is also true that been rapidly decreasing ; and the usefulness those which adhere to truth in the abstract of fiction is now admitted, at least by those will last and will serve as records to succeed- of the highest culture. The reason of this is ing generations. And this is the very class obvious when we compare the fictitious works of novels which is most valuable, as well as of to-day with the earlier productions. In the most entertaining. It is not from novels their earlier stage novels abounded in obscen- treating of historical events anterior to the ity and licentiousness to such a degree that writer that we gain the greatest amount of they could not be tolerated by pure-minded information, but from those treating of con- people. The aim was not to elevate virtue temporaneous events ; those in which the and put down vice, but seems rather to have scenes are taken from actual life, or are at been to make vice more attractive than virtue. least in accordance with the prevailing cus- Succeeding this period of licentiousness was toms. In such novels fact and fiction are so a period in which insipid sentimentality, mingled as to be both instructive and enter- superior in no respect to the vulgarity of the taining. Thus, even in our hours of relaxa- preceding age, was the leading element. It tion and amusement, we can obtain a consid- was through literature of these classes that erable knowledge of history, and a much novel reading fell into such bad repute. To greater eagerness is inspired for the dry details Scott we owe the dissipation of these styles of history itself. Thierry, the historian, is of writing and the establishment of the novel reported to have said that he learned from on a firmer and more worthy basis. He dis- Ivanhoe the true method of historical compo- carded both vulgarity and sentimentalism, and sition. And a celebrated French philosopher gave prominence to virtue and morality. His thought that " more was to be learned from aim seems to have been to elevate and excite novels and romances than from the greatest

the reader to higher action ; to cause him, by treatises on history and morality." the contemplation of noble characters, to seek Again, novels of contemporary life are of also in his own life the higher and more noble. great use by spreading before us the many He also opened to the novel a new field, phases of life, opening a greater field of causing it, to a certain extent, to take the place observation, and calling our attention to of history. From historical novels we can things we should not otherwise observe. Our obtain a more intimate knowledge of the man- views of life are broadened. In the novel ners and customs of a people than in any the story of a life, which in the reality might other way. We are introduced as it were to appear prosy, is made interesting by our being the inner life of the people ; all the details made acquainted with the means by which and minutiae of the household, the customs of the effects are brought about. Thus we are society, and the habits of thought are pictured instructed in reading character. We learn to out ; and we obtain a more thorough idea of trace effects back to causes in events which the condition of a people than could be are transpiring about us in our daily life. obtained from any history. From Scott's And they lead us to take a more lively inter- novels, for example, we derive nearly all our est in studying the characters of those about knowledge relating to the customs and man- us, and in comparing our own observations ners existing in England in the times of which with their representations. they treat. Then, too, in the novels of to-day, so ;

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much improvement has been made on the excellent discipline for the mind, although the earlier species, that a tribute, perhaps with mind itself may not be cognizant of the proc-

some writers involuntary, is paid to nobleness esses through which it attains its results. In and purity of character. The heroes and trying to detect these faults the mind of the

heroines are usually formed after the most reader is necessarily sharpened and rendered perfect models the author can command, and capable of more easily grasping after truth. vice and immorality are pictured principally But, yet, caution must be exercised in to elevate the representations of purity and reading fiction not to allow the mind to be uprightness of character b}' the contrast. Of borne along b}- the course of the story with-

course this can not be said of all novels, but out action itself. This is, perhaps, the most we are speaking more particularly of the pernicious effect of romance reading. There higher classes. As they descend in grade is a tendency to allow our minds to be entirely

their pictures of virtue are less perfect accord- passive ; to require them to make no effort

ing as the author himself is less virtuous and and they become so impaired, if this is allowed

cultivated. Hence the necessity of great cau- to go on to any great extent, that it is impos- tion in our choice of reading. sible to fix them actively on solid reading so

Another argument against novels is that as to obtain the full benefit of it. And here

their representations are not true. But is is a danger to be guarded against. So soon truth necessary to the moral influence of a as we find a distaste for solid reading growing

story? So long as it is formed naturally up in us, and a desire to read fiction alto- and in accordance with our observations of gether, we may know that we are carrying men and things we may derive just as much novel reading to too great an extent. For, in

benefit from it as though it was the history of this as in many other things, what is good for

actual occurrences. Take for example the us in moderate quantities is highly injurious history of the ancient nations. Do we receive when too freely indulged in. Let us then, any less instruction from them from the while we seek to improve our minds with en- fact that in many cases we can not draw the tertaining reading, be careful that we do not line between the false and the true? Are the let it get the mastery of us and render us si inics of noble and self-sacrificing lives any unfit for the solid work of life. Let us be less forcible from the fact that such persons careful in the selection, that we may read never existed, but that these are pictures nothing which will vitiate our tastes, and in formed by gathering together the good deeds the amount read, that our minds may remain and virtuous principles of many lives? And, healthy and active. indeed, a work of fiction may well be com- pared to a picture. For, as in the picture the painter chooses only the perfect points of At the Sagadahoc Count}7 Fair last week

mi t ure, and from these tries to build up an the premium for the Fine Arts was awarded ideal model, so the novel-writer selects the to S. A. Giirdjian, '77, for two crayon sketches. perfect points of character and attempts to A gratuity was also given to G. C. Purring- form from them the ideal character. And as ton, '78, for a painter's easel. Mr. Purring-

the paintiug is a study, not merehy for the ton also had on exhibition two paintings painter himself, but for all beholders, so the which were very highly spoken of, but which,

novel is a study In its readers. Ami the de- owing tn the fact that they were entered tection (if faults, in the plot, in the characters, solely for exhibition, did not compete for the or in any other attribute of the storv, is a most premiums. B WD OIN 0B1ENT.

Bowdoin Orient. been taken from the College at large. Each society is to elect an editor from the Junior PUBLISHED EVEET ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- class, and the non-society men one. This ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT gives six Junior editors, who are to divide the BOWDOIN COLLEGE, work among themselves as they please, the Seniors waiving their right to an editor. The By the Class of 1876. measure is a wise one, although it does away with the last meeting which the College holds EDITORS. Aelo Bates, E. H. Kimball, as a whole. C. H. Clark, J. G. Libby, C. T. Hawes, J. A. Horkill, W. H. G. Rowe. As we sat at our window the other day, looking out upon the Campus, we could not Teems—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies, help thinking of the change which has of late 15 cents. come over the foliage. The rapidity with Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, which this change has taken place is specially Brunswick, Maine. to be noticed. Only a few days ago every For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- son's, Brunswick. leaf and every twig told its own story of life

and vigor ; but the chilling frost came and stamped upon everything his impress which CONTENTS. blights and withers. Vol. V., No. 8.—October 20, 1875. While meditating upon these things we fell into a pleasant reverie, and the whole Love Songs 85 Novels 86 College course came up before us in review. Editorial Notes 88 Its pleasures, its realities, and its changes all Local 90 passed in quick succession before the mind 92 Bowdoin vs. Bates like the ever varying scenes and forms of a Society Convention.... 92 kaleidoscope. Alumni Notes 93 Editors' Table 94 The years, the months, and the separate occurrences, which gave to each its peculiar coloring, were all interwoven with such a EDITORIAL NOTES. variety of light and shadow that the view seemed complete. Surely the eye would All subscribers will please forward their never tire of beholding it. But then the subscriptions immediately, as we are in' thought would arise, " Have we realized our (:_need of the money. Do not fail to: full ideal in this matter?" During these in their bearing on attend to this at once. ) years, so important the character, have all our thoughts and acts been as we would have them ? Do we not, rather, There has been a growing dissatisfaction on looking back see many changes for the with the way in which Bugle election has better which might be made ? been managed in past years. Last year the thinking upon these ques- difficulty reached its crisis, and the result was While we were what effect it would have the publication of two magazines. This year tions and imagining picture if all these desired changes the Senior class has taken the matter in hand, upon our suddenly the bell struck for reci- and the elective power of Bugle editors has were made, ; — "

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 89 tations, and we were awakened from our been men in College who have not disdained reverie only to face the stern reality that our to interfere with the elections in the classes lesson had not even been looked at. below theirs. If wire-pulling is ever more

contemptible than usual, it is on an occasion

It is a delicate matter to undertake the of this nature. Men who mix themselves in discussion of the ethics of College politics, such business should be overwhelmed with but at the risk of being misjudged we have a deserved contempt by all well-disposed stu- word to say of the coming elections. At the dents. Let all who desire that the public present writing no class elections for the year feeling in the College should be honorable and have been held, and we are thus safe at least manly, set themselves firmly against all polit- from any charge of disappointed ambition. ical scheming and chicanery ; for in no other * For the last few years the elections, and way can it be overcome. especially those of the Senior class, have been a fruitful source of discontent and ill-feeling. The first number of the Bugle was pub- The most unfortunate aspect of secret socie- lished in July, 1858. The editors were Isaac ties is their political attitude. When a literary Adams, Jr., '58; E. B. Nealley, '58; S. J. society becomes a political organization, it Young, '59 ; J. H. Thompson, '60 ; aad Sam- becomes an injury to the college and an evil uel Fessenden, '61. The Bugle had then the to the students. Americans, learn political form of an ordinary newspaper of two leaves.

chicanery quickly enough in life ; they need The first three pages were occupied by the no instruction in this line as part of their societ3r lists, the boat -clubs, musical societies, college education. chess- clubs, and the like. The last page was In a college no larger than ours the best almost entirely devoted to the editorial, which men are easily found, since all are known was headed by an appropriate quotation. The and there is, or should be, no reason why they newspaper form was retained until 1867, should not be chosen to office, irrespective of when the nineteenth number was put into the society prejudices. pamphlet form ; which, with some modifica-

It is true that men are better appreciated tions, it has since retained. by the members of their own society, and The quotations above alluded to are inter- there will thus arise honest differences of esting in themselves. We give those which opinion in regard to fitness for office. It is were used while the Bugle still retained the not against this that we would enter our pro- sheet form : test. The fact has been patent enough that " Blow, bugle, blow.''—[Tennyson. men have been run for various offices upon " I'll be Wowed!"—[Old Play. the sole ground that their society wished for "Toot, toot, toot!"— [Maruiion. prominence and political honors. We do not " Now we'll blow our blast." " your ears right and left." [Maddocks. mean to be at all personal, but it is quite pos- Open — " I'm flat."— [Old Play. sible that the Senior class may remember " So the truth was sniffed, some notable instances since we entered Col- And the trumpet was blown."— [Hood. " lege. " Let us have a fair election ! is fast " C'est le ton qui fait l

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" 'Tis no matter how it be in tune, so it make noise LOCAL. enough."— [As You Like It. " He blew and blew."— [Tennyson. "No?" " ! " Roll up the curtain ! Let the show begin —[Whittier. How about that pennant ? There have been, Ave think, thirty num- " " bers of the Bugle published. For the first Live Oak ! Live Oak !

thirteen years it was the custom to publish Wow let's have a fair election. one in the spring and one in the fall. In crews are practicing daily. 1871, when the Orient was established, the The

spring issue was discontinued, and there has Field is postponed weeks. , Day two been but one each year since. The Senior essays are due Oct. 30th. In the fall of 1860 there were two issues of the sixth Bugle. The Sophomoric society? It is the fashion to run a coal fire now. in some disaf- Kappa Theta Mu, became way The Juniors have original declamations fected, published a Bvgle for themselves. and this term. If one may judge by the editorial, and by Ring has been chosen captain of the various signs about the paper, the struggle Freshman Nine. was a desperate one. Several of the cuts appear for the first time, and the heading is Baker has been elected Captain of the for the first time enriched with a view of the Sophomore crew. College buildings. "Better late than never" does not hold Did time serve we might give various good in morning prayers. items of fact and fun from these old Bugles, Prof.— "Give the German for scholar?" but for the present we have only space to — wish success to the Bugle of 1875, with the Student " Der Squealer."

of its honorable hope that it may be worthy " Put out that light, and don't you take it line of predecessors. " into the coal closet, either !

There are at present twenty unoccupied buildings. The following resolutions upon the death rooms in the College Franklin Dyer, who died July 27, 1875, of Haskell and Curtis have left the Fresh- were passed at Harvard College by his Exeter man Class, reducing its number to 27.

class-mates : —

Whereas it lias pleased God in his infinite wis- Chorus suggested for the musical seventy- dom to take from us our class-mate at Exeter, ! niners : " And I hope I'll join the band Fkanklin Dtek — Resolved, That while bowing to God's will we " If rocks ever bled, they would bleed deeply mourn the early death of our dear friend. Resolved, That we recognize in him all the qual- quartz." Danbury News. What a gneiss that constitute an upright, honorable, and ities joke Christian young man. Resolved, That we sympathize with his bereaved Junior says that the reason why he will parents, relatives, and frieuds, in their heavy afflic- A tion, and tender them our heartfelt condolence. not run against time on Field Day, is that Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent he runs " like time." to his parents, his Bowdoin aud Exeter class-mates, and be published in the Bowdoin Okient and 2 Exeter Neivs-Letter. The Athenean library will be open from (Signed,) J. A. Tufts, W. A. Bancroft, John to 2.30 o'clock, on Tuesday, Thursday, and O'Connor, E. W. Morse, J. A. Mead, Committee. Saturday afternoons. Cambridge, Oct. G, 1875. BOWDOIN ORIENT. 91

A reward of $5 has been offered for the uments, demanded an explanation, and discov- scalps of those howlers who make night hid- ered the "sell." " Remember, it's my treat eous with their frantic attempts at the " Swiss to-night." warble." The Bowdoin Base-Ball Association have The four members of the University Crew changed their rooms from 4 A. H. to 19 W. H. now in College have gone to work in the They are in a much pleasanter and more con- Sophomore gig under Pa}"son as Provisional venient situation than they were last year, as Captain. most of the members can already testify.

The Pencinian library will probably not In the game between our boys and the be open this term, as the College authorities Androscoggins, Saturday, the score stood 5 to have received no notice of the vote of the 2 in favor of the A.'s at the end of the third

society to give it into their charge. inning, when game was called on account of the rain, which had been falling since play A young man, a student, lately applied to began. the south end of M. H., expressing a wish to join the Reading Room Society. We presume A propos of the late base-ball game and of that he was admitted, after paying a liberal the dispute immediately preceding it, we over- initiation fee. heard the following: "Bates College, we

know, is a pretty extensive institution; but it The '77 Glee Club has been organized for does not include all the fitting-schools in the the term. The Club now comprises ten State." members, Seabury having been added to their number. Their meetings are held on Mon- Many things take place in and around our day evenings. college life that are of interest to the outside

world. For that reason no doubt it is that A bold Soph., who kicked a Junior's stove there are at present so many students who down stairs the other day, can be heard any have secured the office of reporters to the evening shouting "light out! " under a certain most prominent papers in the State. There Senior's window, who will fortunately be out are at present in College, reporters for the most of this term. Portland Argus, the Press and Advertiser, the " Senior over his cash account : Resolved, Lewiston Journal, the Kennebec Journal, and thai we have passed our life in labors, dan- a number of others yet to be heard from. If

gers, and sufferings, voluntarily undergone in this is not the means of awakening any very attestation of these in accounts—but not con- great interest for Bowdoin, it can not be de-

sequence of our belief in them." nied but that it is a good thing both for the students and the ( 'ollege. A good story is told of two " hard-work- ing members of the press '' on the Fair The annual game of foot-ball between the Grounds last week. While busily at work, Sophomores and Freshmen took place at two

one of their brother members called them o'clock in the afternoon of Oct. Ith. It was

privately aside and informed them "in con- one of the most interesting -ami's that it has fidence" that some one had slandered (hem ever been our lot to witness. The Sopho- to the officers of the Fair, saying thai thej mores undertook to make n[i by strategy for had come in " on cheek," and were not bona their lack of numbers. Their attempt to form fide reporters. They immediately rushed in a hollow square, alter a number of trials, hot haste to headquarters, produced their doc- was at length a success as far as concerni d the 92 BOWDOIN ORIENT. forming of the square in perfect order around In order to legalize this performance, these the ball; but when it came to advance against two professionals entered the Nichols Latin twenty-five Freshmen, with only two of their School. " The Nichols Latin School fits men entire number (eighteen) at liberty to keep for College, and is under the same manage- them away, then the infeasibility of the plan ment as Bates College ;" so sajr the defenders became apparent to every one. After a short of this fraud. The very statement they make struggle to hold their own, the ball was forced in defense proves the fact that these men did from their midst and the really exciting part not belong to the College. For how can a of the game began. It is something which it man belong to a college when he is fitting for is impossible to describe. Here, in one part that college ? But we will not argue the

of the field, is a man with his coat on and his point ; it is too absurdly thin, to use a com- hands in his pockets, looking for all the world mon but very suggestive expression. like an unconcerned spectator ; in another Of course the Bowdoins would consent to quarter two Freshmen are rolling in mortal no such arrangement, but they finally agreed combat, each under the impression that he is to play a game of ball with the picked nine, their claiming the cham- keeping one Sophomore from doing any harm ; protesting against while here, kicking ferociously at the foot- pionship flag in case they were victorious. resulted in a defeat ball, is the real pluck of both sides ; the one The game was played and who gets a lucky chance has to pay for it for the Bowdoins, due solely to the extra with a bruised shin, a turned ankle, in fact a playing of the two imported professionals, as general list of accidents, any one of which will be seen by a careful examination of the would be sufficient to melt the heart of a class score, which is given below. very loosely played on both officer. The match was a success ; it amused The game was the upper-classmen, occupied the greater part sides, but the errors were about equal, or of an afternoon, discouraged the Freshmen, rather in favor of Bowdoin. and afforded a topic of interesting conversa- BOWDOINS. tion to the Sophomores, who, it is perhaps Fuller, 1. f., needless to say, were, after the lapse of just Potter, 2 b. Wright, c, nineteen minutes, victorious. Waitt, c. f.. Cobb, 3 b., Melcher, s. Sanford, 1 b. Perry, r. f

BOWDOIN vs. BATES. Totals, The Bowdoin Base Ball Club received a Bowdoins, 5 3 12 1 la challenge a short time ago from the Bates Bates, 311081010 15 College Club to play a match game for the Umpire — Dr. Foster of Auburn.' Championship Flag, held by the Bowdoins. Time of game — 2 hours, 13 minutes. This challenge was accepted, and last Satur- was the day upon which the game was day SOCIETY CONVENTION. to be played. Imagine our surprise, then, when the train arrived bringing not the Bates The 29th Annual Convention of the Delta College nine, but a picked nine from the Live Kappa Epsilon Fraternity was held with the Oaks and College Club. Upon inquiry, it Phi Gamma Chapter at Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. was ascertained that they had telegraphed for 6th and 7th. W. Alden represented the two men, Crosscup and Madden, from the Theta Chapter of this College. On the morn- learn Live Oaks, to assist them. ing of the last day the delegates, as we —

B WD OIN ORIENT. 93 from the Syracuse Journal, were taken to the ALU3INI NOTES. University, and were there during the chapel exercises, after which Chancellor Haven made The Portland Advertiser has the follow-

some felicitous remarks on college organiza- ing : " The following Bowdoin graduates will

tions, and welcomed the delegates to the free- be members of the next Legislature : F. A.

dom of the College halls. After the delegates Pike and J. C. Talbot, '39 ; F. Robie, '41 ; S.

had looked over the building, they adjourned J. Anderson, '44 ; J. M. Goodwin, '45 ; E. to Yates's Castle, by invitation of the hospita- E'astman, '57; E. B. Nealley, '58; H. D. ble and gentlemanly proprietor. Here an hour Hutchins, '59-; C. E. Morrill, '60; T. W.

or so was very pleasantly spent in looking Hyde, '61 ; W. L. Warren and E. S. Keyes, over his princely castle and his rare and '65."

varied collections. '50.— Rev. A. Morrill is Pastor of the The public exercises were held in the Baptist Church at Painted Post, Steuben the House. to the evening at Opera Owing Co., N. Y. sudden illness of Hon. F. W. Husted, of '51.— A. C. Hamlin is practicing medicine Peekskill, N. Y., Prof. Winchell, of Syracuse in Bangor. University, kindly consented to deliver the '57. — Chas. Hamlin has a law office in Address of Welcome. The Oration was by Bangor. Francis Forbes, Esq., of New York City, a '66 '60.— L. G. Downes and C. B. Rounds graduate of Rochester, class of ; the sub- ('61) are lawyers in Calais. ject, Architecture. The poem was by Prof. F. DeWitt Warner of Albany. After the poem, '69.— T. H. Eaton is in Iowa National the delegates joined in singing the Fraternity Bank, Ottumwa, Iowa. Song, " Naught mars the bright household '70.— C. A. Page is Principal of the Calais where unity dwelleth." High School. fully The Convention was attended and '70.— D. T. Timberlake is Principal of the enthusiastic, twenty-five out of twenty-eight High School at Clinton, Me. Chapters being represented. '71. — Jas. L. Lombard is in the banking business at Crestor, Iowa. A Freshman was overheard the other day '74.— G. K. Wheeler is principal of High discoursing about his "Certificate of Immacu- School, Dennysville, Me. lation." — Dartmouth. '75.— G. C. Cressey is Principal of the Prof., receiving excuses for members of his Mathematical Department of Bath High ?*' class: Prof. — "Sir. C , where is Mr. R — — School, rather than Assistant, as stated in our Mr. C. — "Mr. R— says lie is sick." Prof. — last issue. '.'" ('. — "And where is Mr. M Mr. —Mr. S. M. Carter is reading law in Lewiston. is of town!" M says he out — Lafayette D. M. McPherson is Assistant at Bethel Monthly. Academy. One Senior mixes his profanity and Chris- S. W. Whitmorc is reading law in Gar- tianity. In the recitation in "Christianity diner. and Greek Philosophy," the other morning, Myles Standish has entered the Harvard " Medical School. In' remarked, somewhat excitedly : Ye gods,

It. is reading law with Hon. boys, he's coming to my name. 1) —n it, II. Patten W. hand me my Christianity." — Chronicle. L. Putnam. Portland. ; —

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EDITORS' TABLE. To think of the grave and reverend Amherst Student's breaking out into a " Wine Song," begin-

The Nassau Lit. for October has an admirable ning : — of Tennyson's " In Memoriain." "Fill high with wine! Old Time's a fraud, review " "We'll drown him in this measure ! The Niagara Index contains a pathetic wail, But then a new board of editors has just come " entitled The Grave-yard," beginning thus : — in, and who knows but the Student may become as " What emotions arise within us at the thought wicked and as jolly as the worst of us? of this sorrowful place ! What sad memories of the past crowd upon us when we hear it spoken of! The Hamilton Lit. for September, just received, • • Much is to be learned, and much benefit contains an article on "The Mission of History," gained from a visit to the city of the dead. As which is very readable. we enter it, a strange, unnatural feeling comes over us, of which all nature seems to partake." Is any man able to understand the " Reviewer's

On turning the page we come upon : — Table " in the Round Table and Beloil Monthly f " OTJE CEMETERY. A recent number contains a criticism of the Bound " Table andBeloit Monthly ; and after criticising him- Messes. Editors Index : — I have often won- dered why, among so many improvements that have self, the editor becomes more and more muddled, no thought has ever been made about our Seminary, and wanders off into a vile, rumbling flow of rhyme, been given to the beautifying of our cemetery. I interspersed with rambling sentences shot in ap- know not upon whom to lay the blame of this neg- parently quite at random. But, then, the Beloit lect, for neglect most unpardonable it certainly is. The students, I think, are to blame in this matter. Monthly was always a little vague, even before it Were they to consider, for one moment, how heart- had the Bound Table superimposed upon its head. less a thing it is to leave the dead to take care of themselves, they surely would not be slow in adopt- The Scholastic speaks of "Mrs. Charles, author ing measures calculated to reclaim that little plot." of the Odromberg-Cotta Family." The italics are ours. But what struck us most The Asbury Beview has at length a readable ar- forcibly was the beautiful similarity between the ticle. It is in the September number, just at hand, Index's idea of "grave-yards" in general and their and is headed " Gambrinus." There is hope for own cemetery. the Yale Becord and the Owl when the Asbury Be- The Uni. Herald contains some very sensible vieiu begins to mend. words to Freshmen, a few of which we quote as — The Owl is dead ! It is with the utmost regret being timely here also : that we chronicle the decease of our departed Strig- " Conform as far as you can without violence to idaceous friend ; for now we can indulge no more in your individuality, to the fashion of those around you, and by fashion we do not mean anything about those delicate allusions to its name, of which the hats and canes. If you have any unnecessary oddi- Owl was so fond ! Peace to its ashes, feathers, or in your persons ties, lay them aside. Appear neat whatever corporeal debris is least likely to rest be courteous, not servile. Do not walk into a reci- easy. Let its bones be laid tenderly away in the tation room on your heels and with a book under " each arm; such a spectacle might suggest to some musty realms of Spiritism and the Sp'ri;s," of of your imaginative beholders the thought of an which it has so wisely prated. angel with wings, or an old hen. Be not too free of Dartmouth says a word on letter-writing speech in your classes; many besides the "hypo- The crites " of old have been condemned for their much Sunday, but does not succeed in advancing any new speaking. If you have any peculiar political or ideas on the subject. religious views, reserve them for Junior logic. Walk down stairs, do not slide on the balusters. • • In striving to be agreeable do not aim at A certain watch-maker, living less than a popularity, for you will always fail. If you have popular qualities they will surely be appreciated in thousand miles from the post office, being due time." caught fishing for trout on another man's A contributor with the highly significant nom de property, a short distance from East Portland, " article in the College Herald, plume Zan," begins an the other day, completely silenced the owner, by saying that " design is everywhere apparent." who remonstrated, with the majestic answer: One thinks upon reading further that the author " wants to catch your trout? I am only might at least have made an exception in favor of Who his own essay. trying to drown this worm." Archangel. Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, NOVEMBER 3, 1875. No. 9.

IN TOE DALE. Tenus has quitted Cyprus And flown into my heart;

" 'Fire the wood, and in a dale, "War can I sing no longer, lovely sang the nightingale." For she will not depart. — Voegenwilde.

I. Glyeer will be propitious Perhaps, when I have laid Under the willow, iu a meadow, F/pou the verdant altar Where the brook was running clear, The songs of war I've made There was my pillow, darknu shadow, ; Blossom and verdure springing near. So raise the turf, aud heap it " 'Fore the wood, and in a dale, With sacred plants and wine, Lovely sang the nightingale." And sacrifice, to render Complete this love of mine.

Silent reclining the willow under,

Just as evening faded away : Sweetly shining, a heavenly wonder MACBETH. Bent above me as I lay. her face was pale. Light her form ; To each of his characters Shakespeare has " Lovely sang the nightingale.'' given a marked individuality ; no two of them are alike. We have an Othello, a Nymph of fountain, in dewy brightness Hamlet, or a Lear, with the various shades of

Rising from wave in vest of green ; disposition which in different circumstances Dryad of mountain, with airy lightness make up the complex nature represented in Flitting around the huntress queen ; Jill to that heavenly form must veil, the play. We might suppose that the actual Smiling as sung the nightingale. individuals had passed before the poet and had been dismissed, leaving no impression on Then she addressed me, " Oh, why dost linger his mind, but only their portraits on his page. thy will .'" Here in a world that chains For, as one suggests, a person would com- Softly she pressed mo with snowy finger. monly feel a tendency to attempt a second Pulse and beating heart were still. Lovely sang in the lonely dale, time that which he had once successfully per- Fainter and fainter, the nightingale. formed. But he gives as no repetition.

As regards Macbeth, this is eminently

is nowhere reproduced. HORACE. true. His character He first appears before us as a brave warrior,

Odes [., XIX., de Glycera, a loyal subject, a victorious general, and yet,

us tlir event proves, without true principle. The Cupids' oruol mother, Ami Bacchus, youth perverted, Indeed, by nature lie " was not without ambi- And frolic License, bid me tion," and il was that ambition alone which Return to loves deserted. had hitherto been the mainspring of his suc- Glycera's brilliant beauty. cess ; his loyalty consisted only in the fact Hit dangerous, Hashing eyes. that lie had never been accused of disloyalty. Her brow, which Paris marble ' In the of victory, expecting fresh honors i ';ni limine not—these I prize Hush ;

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from his sovereign, his ambition has a wider His mind, continually beset with suggestions

range, and his mind is more easily reached by of crime, with alluring dreams of future pow- evil influences. At such a time the " weird er, with his resolution not to murder his guest sisters " announce their tempting predictions. but a weak one, makes only a weak resistance With a grotesqueness, which causes a smile at to taunts against his manhood and bravery.

first, the witches reveal a depth of malignity What taunts of evil could be more artful, than and vice horrible beyond ordinary under- to accuse a man of secret cowardice who had standing. However base their intercourse just returned from a great victory, and for with each other may be, the language of their whom his sovereign had prepared great hon-

predictions approaches sublimity. They are or ! How true to the characters and the time not such as man would visit to further schemes is that scene with Lady Macbeth. That un- of personal revenge, but rather do they ap- scrupulous woman, coolly perceiving her ad-

pear to him and arouse the first thoughts of vantages, plies her reproaches artfully and

evil. In them is personified the very spirit of scornfully, until her lord, at first with broken vice, and they can only come from the source resolution, but yet weak courage, hesitates of all wickedness. By alluring promises they and fears discovery, then, with courage arouse in Macbeth that slumbering germ of " screwed to the sticking place," " bends up evil which ripens into " black and deep de- each corporal agent to this terrible feat." sires." To Banquo they make equally tempt- The character of Lady Macbeth makes a ing promises, but awaken no response in his fit accompaniment to that of her husband.

breast. His nobler nature is shocked at the While not exciting that detestation and scorn thoughts which haunt him only in his sleep. which is felt against Goneril and Regan, she Macbeth looks upon appears to us as a woman whose crimes have no connection with base passions, but spring . . " that suggestion "Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, directly from her intellect. With a counte- And make my seated heart knock at my ribs nance, which we might suppose to be indica- Against the use of nature," tive of almost manly courage, exhibiting by as something which he would wish for, and turns the deepest scorn and the sternest reso-

yet deems it unsafe ; he fears to do that which lution, and reflecting a charm of mind and he does not wish should be undone. He features which alone could have won the re-

seems to consider it impossible ; and yet, sleep- gard of a man such as Macbeth had been, she ing and waking, he broods over this project of exerts an influence upon her lord chiefly on his ambition, and is quick to see anything account of the regard which he has for her,

which renders it more difficult. and which he believes is returned. While he When the opportunity to murder the king- delays, seeing the obstacles before him and presents itself, other obstacles besides those vacillating between the promptings of duty arising from prudence present themselves and his evil purpose, she is quick to " catch loyalt}% kinship, and a sense of his hospitable the nearest way." Stifling the prickings of

duties are matched against the promptings of her conscience before the crime is committed,

vaulting ambition and want of principle. For she knows no rest after it is accomplished. the time, it seems as if his better nature would Her remorse is not the less keen because she

be successful ; he will not betray the trust can not make it known and dare not if she

imposed on him, although he does not wholly could. Not for one minute can she repress it,

relinquish his purpose ; else why should the and her life is one perpetual struggle. The

urging of Lady Macbeth so easily move him ? guilt which is silent during the day is beyond ;

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her control to repress at night. Destitute of serve ; but the image of that man, review- a nature sufficiently hardened to bear the con- ing his bloody and wasted life and express- sequences of her guilt, her reason gives way ing, perhaps, a beginning of repentance (cer- before her remorse, and she dies in incurable tainly a desire for it), excites feelings which mental agony. may for the moment overlook his crimes. By After the murder of the king the motives those faint tokens of an innate goodness we of prudence which had hindered the purposes realize more fully the nobleness by which his of Macbeth re-assert themselves with increased life might have been marked, and the horror " force ; by further crimes he strives to tram- of the course by which it has been blasted. mel up the consequences" of his deed. What As an accumulation of terrible scenes this at first may have appeared bravery, now shows play is unparalleled. It is a continual strug- its true nature, unmitigated cowardice. Un- gle between crime and retributive justice. like a truly brave man, Macbeth has no inter- The supernatural effect of the opening scene est for which he would willingly sacrifice life, appears to be a suitable portent of the fearful and lie fears death in proportion to the efforts and forbidden things to be revealed. Scenes which he makes to avoid it. of entirely opposite character are brought Drawn to the murder of the king by vis- into close contact, and the transitions are ions of his disordered fancy, he can obtain no startling in the extreme. Of the duration of peace of mind after it is committed. The the action we can obtain no definite idea simplest sounds of nature appal him, and the months, perhaps years, must have elapsed peaceful murmurings of the sleeping servants during the intervals between the prominent sound in his ears like the loudest denuncia- events, yet the scenes change with scarce a tions of his crime ; the ghost of Banquo notice, on our part, of the intervals. There haunts him in his festive moments, and the seems to be an irresistible power which push- courage which formerly could face es the events on till the final act is reached, allowing no digression from the main thread . . . " the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger," of the play, and no delay in the overthrow of now gives way before the "horrible shadow" Macbeth. ; ever uneasy, he visits the witches, that from them, who first gave him "earnest of success," he may learn his future fate, or perchance ob- Long evenings have come, and the hard- tain consolation in his anxiety. In their say- working student consumes the midnight oil ings lie imposes implicit confidence; deserted over the whist table. He can sort his cards by his friends, hearing only with mathematical precision, and bewail in

"Curses, not loud, hut deep, mouth honor, breath, quotations from the classics his lack of trumps. Which the poor heart would lain deny, but dare not," Thertvis nothing low-toned about the conver- he supports his courage with a hope in those sation on these occasions. " Wo ist mein lead " " " omens which by nature seem impossible of pencil ? Come hither, thou trilobite ! fulfillment, and when the first bad omen hap- &c, &c, are some of the phrases that greet pens, he clings to the other prophecy with a one's ears. When it comes to the odd game confidence and tenacity produced by despair. you sec the winner's face brighten up as In the extremity of his circumstances we can though he had got a Senior part, and hear not fail in have feelings "I pity for the the losers anathematize their luck in words

wretched man. True, his crimes arouse ;ill longer than any geological formations that the horror and denunciation which they de- ever existed. 100 BOWDOIN OEIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. to know the condition of the library, on ac- count of its neglected state, and it was very PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- evident that the Society was fast losing some ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT of its best books. As there seemed to be no BOWDOIN COLLEGE, prospect that matters would ever improve, last Commencement the General Society met

By the Class of 1876. . and voted to place the library in the hands of

a committee, of which A. G. Tenney, Esq., is EDITORS. Aelo Bates, E. H. Kimball, Chairman, with instructions to offer the use

C. H. Clark, J. G. Libby, of it to the College authorities for one year. C. T. Hawes, J. A. Morrill, A few weeks ago the Faculty were notified of W. H. G. Rowe. the vote of the Society, but were unable to appropriation Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies; accept the offer, there being no

15 cents. to pay a librarian ; they however voted to Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, recommend to the Boards to appropriate suffi- Brunswick, Maine. cient money to meet that expense ; at their For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- recent meeting the latter took no action in son's, Brunswick. regard to the matter. Thus the library is at present in hands of the committee, who, hav- CONTENTS. ing no authority to let out the books, will

Vol. V., No. 9.—November 3, 1875. keep it locked up.

It is certainly to be much regretted that In the Dale 97 the students should be deprived of access to Horace (Odes i., xix., de Glycera) 97 books, of which a considerable por- Macbeth 97 so many Editorial Notes 100 tion are not in the College Library. The Local 102 sooner both the Peucinian and Athensean So- Regatta 104 cieties meet and donate the books outright to Field Day 105 the College, the better it will be for all. It Alumni Notes 105 seems to be the only way. to preserve all that Editors' Table 106 is left of those organizations in which old graduates take such great pride. Indeed, we

EDITORIAL NOTES. doubt not that there is in the history of these societies many an interesting episode of hard All subscribers will please forward their struggle and some famous college victory,

subscriptions immediately, as we arei inxin' and we should much like to see a full account (^need of the money. Bo not fail^Ijo \ of them written by some competent person. attend to this at once. The Judiciary Committee having decided As there seems to be considerable misun- in favor of the Bowdoin nine in the late derstanding in regard to the condition of the game of Bates and Live Oaks vs. Bowdoin, Peucinian Library, we have taken some pains Wednesday, Oct. 20th was fixed upon for a to learn the exact situation. second game, but the Bates men did not make For some time past there has existed consid- an appearance. At 9.30 o'clock, Saturday, erable dissatisfaction among those members of Oct. 22d, was fixed upon, but again the Bates the General Society who were so situated as men failed to appear. They came down on BOWDOIN ORIENT. 101 the noon train, however, and as some of the Bowdoins. Perry to first by error of Lombard, who got first by Bowdoin nine were obliged to leave town on forced out on second by Paysou, error of Whitney. Fuller out on three strikes. the -afternoon train, the game was called Wright first by error of Lombard, Payson home, without waiting until after dinner, and result- Wright score. Waitt second on two base hit, ed in the victoiy of the Bates nine on a score Knight out on first, assisted by Whitney. Two of eight to four. scores.

Meantime it was discovered that one of FOCTKTH INNING. the visiting nine was not a member of Bates Bates. Oaks ou first by base hit. 0. B. Clason out by Sanford. assisted by Cobb. Oaks score. College, but of Nichols Latin School. The Whitney out on fly to Payson, James score. P. R. pennant was, of course, withheld. The Bates Clason first by error of Knight, Clason home, Ad- nine played a very good game, particularly at ams score. Lombard base hit, out running to the last. It is the feeling among some of the second. Four scores. students that Bowdoin had better waive her Bowdoins. Jacobs first by error of Whitney, right to the pennant rather than engage in a Jacobs score. Sanford out on three strikes, Cobb dispute with Bates College. It is understood to first on base hit, Perry out on three strikes, Pay- son to first by error of Whitney, Cobb to third, Ful- that Bates appeals to the Judiciary Commit- ler out on foul to catcher. One score. tee. Below is a report of the game. FIFTH INNING. We give notes on the game, showing the m to first on plays and the score. Bates. Xoble out on fly Waitt, Hoyt base hit, second by error of Jacobs, Hoyt score. FIKST INNING. 0. B. Clason out on foul fly to Payson, Whitney out at bat. Adams- went out on foul to Bates the a on foul to Jacobs. One score. catcher. Lombard out on a fly to Fuller. Xoble Bowdoins. Wright out on foul bound to P. R. out by Sanford, assisted by Knight. No scores. Clason, Waitt out by grounder to first, Knight to Bowdoius. Payson struck a grounder to 0. B. first on third strike, Jacobs first ou base hit, Kuight out on first. Fuller all Clason, who put him made to second, Sanford out on foul fly to 0. B. Clason. score wild of the bases and by throw Lombard. Xo scores. Wright took first by error of James. Waitt out by SIXTH INNING. fly to James. Knight out by fly to Whitney. Bates. James out fly to Perry, P. R. Clason out Wright left on third. One score. fly to Wright. Jacobs again hurt by foul tip strik- SECOND INNING. ing him in the throat. Wright again behind the

Bates. Hoyt to third on error by Wright, home bat and Melcher in the field. Lombard out by fly

as ( >;iks went to first by error of Wright. Clason, 0. to Waitt. Xo scores. B., to first. Oaks out on second by throw of Payson. Bowdoins. Cobb out on first, assisted by James, Whitney out on a foul By to Knight. At this poiut Perry base hit to first, Payson out on foul fly to 0. of the game Jacobs was hurt by a foul tip striking II. Clason, Fuller first on base hit. Perry to second, in the throat, and his place for the remainder bim Perry out on second by Oaks to second after a foul. the inning and part of the next was taken of by Xo scores. Wright, Melcher in the Seld. James nut by fly to SEVENTH INNING. «». B. left on score. Sanford. Clason third, ^w Bates. Xoble out by Sanford, assisted by Pay- Bowdoius. Melcher out on three strikes. San- son. Hoyt out on first, assisted by Fuller, Oaks to ford the same. Cobb out by '». B. Clason, assisted first by error of Puller, Oaks out on home plate by by Whitney. Xo scores. Payson, assisted by Wright. Xo scores. THIRD INNING. Bowdoins. Payson out on foul bound to catcher, Fuller out on second, assisted by P. R. Clason, Bates. 1'. R. Clason took first on base hit. W right first by base hit, Waitt out fly Adams nut by Sanford, assisted by Payson. Lom- by to Whit- ney. Xo scores. luiil to third on tWO base hit. Clason home. N'olili 1 first by base hit, Lombard score. Xoble out on EIGHTH INNING. second, Boyt out on fly to Cobb. Two scores. Bates. O. B. Clason out by foul fly to Wright, —

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Whitney out by fly to Payson, James out by fly to A young lady recently inquired of a stu- Knight. scores. No dent if he did not admire Dickens's " Kettle Bowdoins. Knight out by foul fly to catcher, on the Hearth." Jacobs out on first, assisted by Whitney, Sanford knocked a grounder to first and was put out. No Only one man was present at a recent scores. recitation of the Seniors, and it is whispered NINTH INNINGS. about that he took a dead. Bates. P. R. Clason out by fly to Payson, Ad- ams out by foul bound to Wright, Lombard first by The system of marking absences in the base hit, Noble out on first, assisted by Knight. gymnasium, by the class monitors, is the best No scores. that has yet been adopted. Bowdoins. Cobb struck to first and was put out, Perry first, Payson first, Fuller out by foul fly to 0. The Rev. G. T. Packard, now in Bruns- B. Clason, Perry to third, Payson second, Wright wick, is engaged in writing a history of Bow- out by fly to Whitney. No scores. doin for Scribners Magazine. BOWDOINS. BATES. Fresh, at a concert, lately, cried out, R. IB. P 0. A E. R. IB. P.O A. E Payson, p 1 5 2 Adams, c. f. 10 " " Bravado ! under the impression that it Fuller, 1. f 1 1 1 1 Lombard, 3b 1 2 10 4 Wright, s. s 1 1 2 1 8 Noble,l f. 10 was the superlative of bravo. Waitt,c. f. 13 2 Hoyt, r f 2 10 Knight, 3b 2 3 2 Oaks, p 1 2 1 Jacobs, c 1 1 2 5 O B. Clason, lb.. 11 «0 In a game of base ball, p.m., Sanford, lb 7 Whitney, 2b 5 3 2 Wednesday Cobb,2b 10 James, s. s 1 1 1 1 14 between the Bowdoins and Electrics, the for- Perry, r. f. 110 P. E. Clason, c ... 2 1 936

Total. .4 6 27 7 18 Total. 7 27 8 13 mer won by a score of 17 to 10.

Scorers, Bowdoins, P. H Ingalls. Bates, J W. Smith. At a meeting of the Boards, Oct. 19, A. Umpire, John Smith. Time of game, 2 hours. H. Davis, class of '60, was elected Professor of Latin for the remainder of the year. LOCAL. Alumnus—" Has the Athensean Society " " taken in any Freshmen yet ? Student " Brace up ! " No. The Freshmen are too bright to be " ' "Didn't get it yet! taken in ' by any such means."

79 versus '78 in base ball, 18 to 10. The other day, after the disastrous game " with Bates, S. was seen rushing about the " How much coal have you got in ? Delta, wildly shouting, " Show me the man Allen has got a new lot of St. James " from the Nicholas Latin School ! cigarettes. The Bowdoin Base -Ball Association has A new furnace has been put into Massa- again presented a petition to the Boards for chusetts Hall. the use of their rooms free of rent. It was Seabury has been elected leader of the treated, like the former one, with a refusal. '77 Club. Glee The Reading Room is open this term as Have you seen the grand combination lock usual, and is now running with a good general on 29 W. H. ? assortment of papers and magazines. It deserves more patronage that it gets from the The Sophomores have begun French under students, as the following list on file will show. Instructor Moore. There are taken at present, seven daily news- How about the Senior lecture course? papers, two semi-weeklies, ten weeklies, and Shall we not have one this winter? eight monthly magazines. ;

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A good instructor in landscape and orna- ton, Castner, Hanson, Henderson, Huston, mental drawing would receive a warm wel- Huston ; Theta Delta Chi, Bowker, Byron, come from a few dejected Seniors who have Johnson, and Kimball. neglected that important branch of their early It was a disappointment to the boys who education. went up to Lewiston and only had the pleas- At a class meeting the Sophomores elected ure of seeing three innings of a game, and officers for the ensuing year: President, that, too, in the rain. The " sing " on the

Jacobs ; Secretary and Treasurer, Thing train home was an enjoyable feature of the Committee of Arrangements, Potter, Pray, occasion, and reminded one of how few the and Smith. times were when the college had a song to- gether, and what pleasure we missed in the The new floats that have been made for lack of general gatherings or jubilees. the Boat Club have been in the water at the boat-house landing for about two weeks, and The season of glass-breaking has come have given great satisfaction. The cost of again, although "some time deferred. We them was eighty dollars. had noticed that this year there was no dam-

The thickly falling leaves on the campus age of this kind done for several weeks, and bear to our minds among other truths the hoped that the reform would continue ; but forcible and melancholy conviction that win- all our hopes were destroyed the other day. that if it is ter is coming on and that the base-ball season Allow us to suggest, however,

is fast drawing to a close. absolutely necessary for college students to indulge in this species of amusement, they The Boat Club are going to issue " shin- enjoy it during warm weather. gles," after the style of those issued by the

Base-Ball Association. Taken together they It is now just the right time for foot-ball,

will make a pair of pictures which no patriotic and we wonder that more interest is not taken student should be without. in a game so well suited to fall weather. Here we have three or four foot-ball elevens in The following are the editors of the next college, and yet, from one year's end to an- Bugle, who have been elected under the new other, we do not have but one regular game. arrangement: Fuller, Peary, Roberts, Sea- There is no reason why a good well-eonducted bury, Sherman, and Wiggin. Seabury has game of foot-ball should not be as interesting been elected by them as managing editor. to spectators as any other athletic sport. We One of the Sophomore theme subjects have plenty of good grounds to play on, and icads, •• Is a man's influence determined more plenty of men who would develop into good

by his character or talents?" We heard one players. All that we need is a little enthou- of them breathe a fervent hope that his influ- siamne. ence would not correspond to the characters The Annual Rope Pull between the Soph- which he had handed in to Prof. . omore and Freshman classes took place in The following men of the Freshman elass front of the Chapel, immediately after prayers.

o >- are members of secret societies: Alpha I >elta Saturday morning, Oct. 23d. The S. .] d Phi, Brown, Hastings, and Stearns; Psi Upsi- mores had much the smaller class, and despite lon, II. E. Bourne, Beane, King, and Varaey; their gallant resistance were pulled over the

Delta Kappa Epsilon, (i. W. Bourne, Corey, line by their elated opponents. It is the Brat

Davis, and Filield : Zeta Psi, Achorn, Carle- victory that has been won In- a bVeshman elass 104 BOWD01N ORIENT. since we have been in college. The occasion being recalled on a foul by the Sophomores, seemed, in spite of this unusual occurrence, they got a fair start at about three o'clook. to be rather tame in comparison with some of The Seniors took the lead from the first and the "hauling" contests we have witnessed held it during the entire race, crossing the there. The rope was too long for them to line in 21 minutes, 30 seconds. The Juniors carry on any undertoned conversation, or ex- made the course in 21 minutes, 59 seconds, change any personal opinions with good effect. and the Sophomores in 22 minutes, 45 sec- There were no rushing, no unnecessary pulls, onds. The Junior crew was, therefore, de- no ropes broken, nothing, in fact, happened to clared victorious, coming in only twenty-nine interest the upperclassmen or to amuse the seconds behind the Senior crew. The second yaggers. The only person whom we saw place was awarded to the Senior crew, and unduly excited was, we are sorry to say, our the third place to the Sophomore crew. The worthy Janitor, who watched at a distance University crew then gave a short exhibition the attempt of the Sophomores to wind the pull in the Junior gig, of which no time was rope around a tree. taken. At 4.30 the students and some of their The following report was submitted by the friends met at the chapel to witness the Treasurer, at the last meeting of the Bowdoin awarding of prizes. As soon as the meeting Boat Club:— was called together and the purpose of it To the members of the Bowdoin Boat Club I announced by Commodore Stevens, Mr. would submit the following report :— During the year I have Crocker came forward and in behalf of the '73 Rec'd. Paid. class of presented to the Bowdoin navy $899.31 $999.60 a beautiful silver cup, an emblem of the re- 10-2.50 doe from coll. subs. 37.00 due on oars. 7.00 " " town sub.* •2.00 " " printing gard in which his class held the College and 14.50 " on t'm taxes, &c 185/29 cash balance. its students. Com. Stevens, in behalf of the $1,123.60 $1,1-23.60 navy, returned thanks to the class of '73 for Actual cash bal -'$100.'29 exquisite gift, and called upon Prof. Uncollected subs 124.00 their Chapman to present the field-day prizes to $-224.29 Owed, oai-s and printing, 39.00 the several winners and the champion cup After a $185.29 to the victorious crew. few remarks appropriate to the feelings which the occasion There has also been subscribed by friends of the College, $450 toward a new boat house, and the pros- excited, he presented the following prizes : pects are that sufficient money will be collected to To Marrett '76, for half-mile walk and two- warrant our beginning work iu the Spring. mile walk, a silver goblet and a silver vase. Oliver C. Stevens, Treas. To C. E. Cobb '77, for standing jump and Bowd. Coll., Sept 30th, 1875. half-mile run, a silver napkin-ring and a silver and glass flower-stand. To Alden '76, for THE REGATTA. hundred-yard clash and hurdle race, a silver gold card-receiver, and a silver goblet. The class races took place Oct. 30th, in and for throwing base ball, a ball. To the afternoon. Three class crews entered for To Knight, Sargent, for two-mile run, an ebony cane with the race, viz. : Senior, Junior, Sophomore. silver head. To Mitchell, for running The conditions of the race were that, owing a a silver vase. Finally, to the Junior to the difference between the boats, forty-five jump, gave the champion cup, which Capt. seconds should be allowed by the Senior crew crew he Hargraves received in behalf of the crew. to the Junior and Sophomore crews. After — "

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time 18.15. The meeting then adjourned, and all went 76 competed. Won by Marrett, Wheeler's was 20.30. home amid much cheering and general good time X. Standing long jump. Roberts 77 and Cobb feeling. 77 competed. Cobb wou, jumping 9.75 feet. The regatta was a perfect success, and the Owing to the extreme cold weather, the meeting at the chapel was a most happy feature contestants labored under much disadvantage, of the occasion, The impetus that it will yet greater interest was manifested than at give to athletic sports, particularly boating, any previous Field Day, presaging good suc- is not to be overlooked ; and it should be a cess next spring. cause for general rejoicing throughout the College. Saturday evening, '77 had a class supper and dance at the Tontine, and the ALUMNI NOTES. members of " Master Humphrey's Clock

gave a supper to the Senior crew. [We earnestly request contributions for this department from the Alumni and Friends of the College.] FIELD DAY. Class of 1850.

The sports of the semi-annual Field Day John P. Abbot, physician, Warren, R. I. of the Bowdoin Athletic Association were F. Adams, lawyer, Bath, Me. held on the Fair Grounds, Topsham, Satur- Samuel P. Buck, physician, Woolwich, day, October 30th, under the management of Me. Parker '76, Master of Ceremonies, and Waitt John J. Bulfmch, minister, Freeport, Me. '76, Hargraves '77, and Fessenden '78, Di- Charles E. Butler, when last heard from, was in business in Ashport, Lauderdale Co., rectors ; Referee, Instructor Smyth ; Judges, Bates '76 and Sanford '76. Tenn. Everett, Professor in Harvard The following was the programme : Charles C. Divinity School, Cambridge. I. Half-mile walk. Marrett 76 and French P. Frye, of Congress from 78 competed. Marrett won in 4.04 1-2. Wm. member II. Throwing base ball. Payson '76, Knight Second District, residing at Lewiston, Me. '77, Paine '78, Peary '77, Roberts '77, and Metcalf Wm. S. Gardner, lawyer in Boston. '77, entered. Knight won, throwing 304.3 feet. Henry F. Harding, minister, now-residing III. Hundred-yards dash, first heat. Alden in Hallowell, Me. '76, Leavitt '76, Roberts '77, and Paine '76, were Samuel L. Hodgman, in the wholesale the contestants. Alden won the heat in 11 seconds. Leavitt camo in second. iron trade, Hodgman & Moseley, Boston. IV. Half-mile run. Libby '76, and Cobb '77 O. O. Howard, Major General U. S. A., competed. Cobb won in 2.19; Libby made 2 23. now in command in Oregon. V. Hundred-yards dash, second heat. Alden Geo. F. Jackson, physician, New York won in 11 seconds, and took the prize. City. VI. Two-mile run. Sargent '76, Payson '76, John X. Jewett, lawyer. Chicago, 111. and Crocker '77, started. Sargent won in 11.19; Payson came in second in 12.17. A. Morrill. Baptist minister, Painted Post, VII. Running long jump. Roberts '77, Cobb Steuben Co., X. V. 77, Peary '77, and Mitchell '77. entered. Mitchell P. S. Perley, lawyer. Henry, Marshall won, jumping 15.65 feet. Co., 111. Ylll. Hurdle race, over six hurdles forty feet John S. Sewall, Professor of Sacred Rhet- apart and three and one-half feel high. Mitchell Seminary. '77 and Alden 76 ran. Alden won in 15 seconds. oric and Oratory, in Theological IX. Two-mile walk. Wheeler '76 and Marrett Bangor, Me. — ; ! —

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Geo. H. Vose, farmer, San Lorenzo, Cal. Over the darkness and gloom? Why should the heart he a marsh and a fen " '53.—The Mirror states that Rev. Wra, With dissonant shriek of raven's voice ? Carruthers of Calais, has received a call to We do not know, having never had the subject the South Church, Pittsfield, Mass. thus forcibly presented to us before. But Gemini, who is '66. — S. B. Carter is President of the " Sick of the noise and the stir Common Council of Newburyport, Mass. Of a busy and heartless world Sneering at sorrow and pain, also President of the Young Men's Christian "With the banners of fraud unfurled," Association of that city. and who spends his elegant leisure '66.—C. M. Beecher is a partner in a large "In a graveyard still, so still That the pulse's beat he hears," lumber firm in Bridgeport, Conn. has without doubt given much time to the consider- '67.—Oren Cobb is at the head of the old ation of these ghostly questions. He probably established school for boys at Cornwall on knows all about the drainage, etc., necessary to the Hudson. bring the " marsh and fen" to that state of cultiva- '69.—Wm. P. Morgan is practicing law tion in which the "flowers of love" will spring and and running a real-estate brokerage in Min- spread first-class odors, in spite of any unpleasant noises the ravens and crows may see fit to make. neapolis, Minn. Will he be kind enough to give a " busy and heart- '74.—W. H. Moulton has recently gone less world" the statistics, that we may judge banking business, firm of Woodbury into the whether the crop promises to repay the outlay ? & Moulton, Portland, Me. In regard to Harvard's proposed withdrawal from the Rowing Association, the Advocate has the TABLE. following : EDITORS' " The question of Harvard's withdrawal from the Inter-collegiate Rowing Association has been de- The Crimson publishes a copy of President cided in the negative. The considerations inducing Buckham's letter to the editor of the Vermont Be- this decision were solely those of the propriety of Harvard leaviug an Association which she had tak- cord and Farmer, in which he explains why the en the first steps to form, as a member of which she University of Vermont sent no crew to Saratoga had never won a race ; by leaving which, therefore,

last summer ; and proceeds to criticise it in a man- she must render herself liable to the imputation of competitors were too strong ner at once savage and flippant. However unfortu- confessing that her new for her, and of being guilty of cowardice in wishing nate President Buckham's letter may he—and though to regain the prestige of victory at the expense of expression, it is, on the whole, not very delicate in limiting the number of her opponents to one. These a fair statement of the ground taken by the oppos- views, held by both graduates and uuder-graduates, ers of the regattas—the style of criticism in which determined Harvard's action. The question of the advantages which might be expected from a return " W. M. C." attacks it is quite beneath the dignity to the old single contest with Yale was not raised the standing of the Crimson. The of a paper of nor discussed for a moment. During the last year, Crimson should have suppressed the article from Harvard men had repeatedly expressed their belief simple and manly self-respect, and never have al- that a return to the old system would be for the and, indeed, even now there is no doubt that lowed such a departure from its usual standard of best; a majority of the boating men see greater advan- excellence. tages in leaving than in remaining in the Associa- Why will the Index persist in selecting such lu- tion. But, in recent college discussions, all such were rightly made secondary to the gubrious themes? It is now out strongly with an considerations chief points at issue, and the result was a decision article entitled, "Etchings on Gravestones." against withdrawal." That elegant little sheet with the dubious com- We have received " Selections for Reading and plexion, which rejoices in the cognomen Dartmouth, Elocution," by J. W. Keene. The book has been " is just at hand. Its poet, who signs himself Gem- prepared for the use of the classes in Elocution in ini" probably because he is too silly for anything — the Evening High School of Boston. It is in paper proposes conundrums, as follows : — covers, and is from the press of A. G. Tenney. The "0 why do licit flowers of lovo book is well printed, and the selections are very Spring up in the hearts of men, Spreading a sweet perfume good indeed. Btwitla §:

Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, NOVEMBER 17, 1875. No. 10.

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OUR ENGLISH. perhaps, some excuse for others ; but to habit- Let nobody suppose that we intend to say ually abuse one's mother tongue without any any thing about the peculiar phraseology, attempt at correction, is to put away one proof of true culture. commonly called college slang ; for, call it The old injunction to what you will, it is not English, and at a mere think twice before speaking once, is quite as hint of including that class of words in the applicable to the manner of expressing thought Queen's English, we should expect to see the as to thought itself. spirit of Dean Alford appear to utter a protest. Educated persons are, moreover, responsi- We, however, would say a few words about ble in a great degree for the corruption which the utter disregard of rules of grammar shown is continually at work in the English language. by many persons. It is incredible that this Everybod}' at all familiar with the dictionaries, should arise from ignorance, it must spring which should be the strict guardians of the purity of language, has probably noticed many from negligence ; and, from the frequenc}' of the errors, very many common mistakes go superfluous and inaccurate words, which are unnoticed until attention is called to them, received as a legitimate part of the language, even when the perpetrator, at a moment's because found in writers usually considered thought, would preceive the mistake. This authorities; and so large has this class of is exactly the ease in regard to grammatical words become that one can not be sure that he errors—they are frequent because uncorrected. is not using them. It is a favorite way with It is worse than ridiculous for students at writers on this subject to lay the responsibil- college, who are supposed to have a full ity in the matter upon the shoulders of jour- knowledge of the common rules of grammar, nalists and writers of yellow-covered novels. to forget them or to be so utterly regardless That this charge is to some extent just, is of them. For anybody to pursue a college very evident ; they give currency to what course in modern languages and yet use such might otherwise be a purely local expression, an expression as "hadn't ought," or confound or it would soon be forgotten. That the re- the cases of pronouns or the relation of the sponsibility of their final incorporation into subject and verb, which mistakes are by no the language rests upon educated persons is means uncommon, is much like studying high- also very evident. er mathematics without correctly using the Many of these corruptions arise from the

elements. Grammatical accuracy, it is true, attempts of uneducated people to use words can not be attained without great care, and whose pronunciation and significance they much more care is required in speaking than imperfectly understand. Valueless as such a in writing. The occasional blunderer is not word would be, it nevertheless is carelessly without some excuse. Mistakes directly used, and gradually finds its way from the opposed to rules of grammar are to be found works of the lower class of authors into writ- in the writings of authors who are acknowl- ings of the highest literary rank. The edu- edged masters of the English language; and cated class also originate a part of these moreover, in passages which were probably words. Many terms are thus derived from other languages, or unusual meanings are reviewed many times ; for example, Macaulay has committed the error of using " was " for given to words already in use, without con- " were," and Addison in one passage uses the sidering whether there are not words which plural number where the singular would be express exactly the same meaning. In all grammatically correct. Since writers of their cases it is necessary to prove that a word is that there is none which con- rank occasionally used bad English, there is, really needed, !; !

B01VD0W ORIENT. Ill

In jasper, opal, hornstoue, sand, veys the same meaning, before it should be Agate, and flint, always at hand. accepted. So numerous have these superflu- ous and corrupt words become, that the dic- tionaries often mislead, and even the critics Hey, diddle, diddle of those works sometimes commit the same The Ci-iuoid shall fiddle,

The Graptolites dauce 'neath the inoou ; errors which they condemn. It is, then, a The Trilohites sleep, subject of great interest and importance to And the Lingula weep, study the origin of some of our most common While the Orthis eats mud with a spoon. words, and to avoid the use of the spurious, as far as possible. "What shall we do for the Aealcphs' apatite ? words taken We have spoken of with Feed them on quartz of gneiss mica aud chert. some change from foreign languages; there Give them a beryl of superfine doleryte,

it that it do them no hurt. are many phrases which have been incorpor- Blende with whacks ated without change and without considering English words which are equally good. These An ostraeoid crustacean tire often used contrary to the demands of Is an abomination good taste, and the speaker exposes himself to The polyps aud the mollusks, We hold them much the same. the charge of being pedantic and affected. If Selachian and gauoid, our memory serves us, it is the poet Bryant With scales cycloid or ctenoid, who is reported to have advised a young- A Senior will not trouble Who is worthy of the name. writer to use foreign words with caution, stating that in his long experience he had never met with such a word whose meaning A Trilobite sat on a stone was not equally well expressed by a word And mused to itself all alone ;- " purely English. 1 do not like ale And I can not get wiue; Was ever a tale " So hard as mine .' MOTHER GOOSE FOR THE SENIORS.

To those Seniors who think their Geology Tl:r Crab loved the Plesiosaurus, (if primary importance arc dedicated these Ami was certainly nut to blame. effusions of the editorial pen. We absolutely But hi- I"\'' wd tin. Pterodactyl, refuse to answer any questions in regard to All mi accouul hi' bis name

the state cif tic Muse when they were pro- duced, and those who will persist in thinking The Is. .p. n| ate for its supper that her Muck" bottle contained anything The whole of a tufa pie.

1'' 1 1 1 1 1 -I I nl' stronger than tansy tea we shall ever regard 1 brow the ball' it up, or As as in- will die. as our natural enemies. sure fate

RymenophylliU -. [quanodon! Sin- ;i long of granite, trap, ami porphyry; liit your pencils ready, draw psilopbyton. Mica, Bctaist, ami feldspar, mixed confusedly. Stcphun&phylUa, I rocordgli! When tho beds were opened, w lerful to

if you '.inni. t do i'. then prepare to die.

ami . ami' i Lauuiontite bueideritc oi I

The qrtartz is red, the quartz is blue Here comes an Eryon to light you t.. bed,

'flu' quartz is white, ami purple too. Ami an Ichthyosaurus to bite off your head. 112 B0WD01N ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. would not wish to set up ourselves as pat- terns of good conduct. But we sometimes PUBLISHED EVEEY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUE- notice actions which are surely annoying to ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT the majority of the class as well as to the professor. BOWDOIN COLLEGE, They may not say so ; no student is willing openly to criticise another's action, By the Class of 1876. but we are sure that nobody in a thoughtful moment would countenance anything which EDITORS. Aelo Bates, E. H. Kimball, would give annoyance to an instructor, who C. H. Clark, J. G. Libby, is one of the most revered and honored of C. T. Hawes, J. A. Morrill, our professors, and to whom the oldest grad- W. H. G. Eowe. uate looks with respect. There are likewise obligations of courtesy Teems—$2 00 a year, in advance; siugle copies, 15 cents. in every recitation, due to both teacher and

Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, scholar. If one has no interest in what is Brunswick, Maine. going on, the least he can do is to leave un- For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- disturbed those who are interested; should sou's, Brunswick. he not agree with anything said, lie forfeits

by any captious opposition or disturbance all

CONTENTS. regard for himself or his views. If, in col-

Vol. V., No. 10.—November 17, 1875. lege, persons do not act as gentlemen, we know not when they will, or what considera- Orpheus 1 09 Our English 110 tion they can expect. Mother Goose for the Seniors Ill Editorial Notes 112 " No student shall eat or drink in any tav- Local 115 ern, store, shop, or victualing house, unless in Alumni Notes 117 company with his parent or guardian, nor at- Editors' Table 118 tend any theatrical entertainment, or any idle

show in Brunswick or Topsham ; . . . nor EDITORIAL NOTES. engage in any military parade, nor keep a gun or pistol near the college, nor, without per- Some men in college do not seem to re- mission of the executive government, go a-

alize in the least degree the position in which shooting or fishing ; under the penaltj' of ad- they place themselves by their conduct in monition, suspension, dismission, or rustica- recitations. We choose to put the case thus tion." Laws of Bowdoin College, 1837. mildly, because we hope that, for the reputa- Such were the dreadful laws which made tion of any students at Bowdoin, they are our fathers' lives a burden and a weariness to not so utterly unmindful of their relations to the flesh. Think of having to carry a glass

their classmates and of respect to instructors as of soda outside the shop to drink it ! Think to willfully disturb a recitation. Let not our of its being necessary for even a Senior to readers suppose that we purpose to preach a have a guardian if he wished to dine at the long sermon about conduct in recitation, and Tontine ! Think of being cut off from the to lay down rules against whispering, &c. inestimable privilege of attending the negro We are too well aware of our own short- concert, theatre comique, or other worldly comings to do anything of that kind, and show. Were it not that rustication was often a

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a most pleasant thing to take, when parsons ets and hats of the gentlemen ; when the were very near-sighted, and had uncommonly gentle box-shop damsels had become quite pretty daughters, our fathers would not have demonstrative and unrestrained in their man-

ifestations of astonishment and delight ; we lived to be our fathers ; but must have early fallen victims to the hard rule under which were informed that we were to file by the they lived. ticket office and receive each a gift. This was a climax at once of our joy and horror. " But times are changed since then, " Ami life** a different thing! With true Yankee instinct we desired the gift, and with something of a natural fastidi- "' The- " Black Crook is now patronized, and ousness we thought of being borne along in traveling performers reap a rich harvest from that unwashed crowd. We had, it is true, no students whose guardians are far away. Once choice. We were hurried powerless along, we were lured from the paths of strict recti- and received at last the gift of ye gods!— tude, and attended an exhibition in which — box of hair-pins ! We tore free from the " great and unparalleled feats of prestidigita- crowd, and sadder and wiser, rushed franti- torial legerdemain" were to delight and fas- cally home to take a bath. cinate the admiring and wonder-stricken audi- ence. We paid our bit of dirty scrip into the There are tales and tales of college life. still dirtier hand of the dirtiest doorkeeper we An old graduate recently related to our admir- ever saw, and forced our way to the seat ing ears a story of his own time, whereof the which our check indicated. Never had Le- purport was something as follows. If the mont Hall been filled by a crowd of more story is spoiled in the telling it is our fault, rank—odors ! The box-shops and the facto- for as we received it it was very jolly. ries had both contributed their wit and their Two chums occupied a room in the mirth beauty. Bad French and worse English were end M. H., and shared not only bed and board, to be heard, mingled witli very respectable but confidence and regard. So closely were , Irish brogue. All the colors of the rainbow they united that the inevitable nicknames, were displayed in the dresses of the Kanucks. Damon and Pythias, were given them by their Red and blue, yellow and green, magenta and classmates. But a cloud came over the scene. scarlet, were mixed witli the most heart-rend- Each attempted to gain the same maiden's ing contrasts and combinations. love, and neither was willing to share with At length appeared the great magician, his chum. For a long time they seemed to (lie world-renowned Monsieur Herr Signor be equally successful. If Carl took the fair Bonschmeidtteue, and the wonderful per- Blousabella to a dance. Tom was sure to ask As impossibility after im- formance began. and obtain the pleasure of her company upon possibility was displayed to our delighted a ride : and so things went on. view, a French girl behind us became mure At last, however. Call Downs look a des- and mure excited. " 3L»i (lieu."' she cried perate resolve. Tom Ilaekelt had accompan- out at last, ",/e ne piiix voir how in the nt;\ n. ied Blousabella home from some festh e scene, '." he does it thought she put the We wrong such as the good people of Brunswick delight part of her sentence in English, but forebore to honor the students with. Her home was to remonst rate. far down the Bath load, and Tom had a way And al last, when all was done, when sil- of cutting across the cemetery to shorten his ver dollars wen' no longer to lie taken from homeward way. On the night of which we ladies' ears, or packs of cards from the pock- speak, Tom came whistling along, all thoughts ;

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" " of the dead driven far away by delightful Oh, no ! returned the Baron hastily memories of the living Blousabella. " no relation whatever. You want money, " When about half-way through the ceme- don't you, Tom ? " r tery, Tom suddenly perceived a dark figure I guess 3 ou'd think so if you knew the seated upon a prostrate tombstone. It was a bills I owe," was the reply. " Have you any " clear, crisp night in November, aud the moon to spare ? " was shining clearly ; the figure was, however, Plenty of it, on good security." so seated in the shadow that it was impossible "Hum! My soul?" demanded Tom. to make it out clearly. " That's about the thing, Tom. Of course " Good evening, Tom Hackett," said the there are a few minor points, but that's the figure. chief thing. I'd like to be sure of the com- "Really," said Tom, "you have the ad- pany of a good fellow like yourself. Things vantage of me." are dreadfully dull down below. Everybody " I've been waiting for you some time," has got to speculating on the new theories,

continued the figure. " Your farewells were and then politics runs high ; I have all the long to-night." politicians, you see. 'Pon my word, Tom, I " " The devil ! exclaimed Tom. haven't a soul that I can depend upon to play " Well, yes," returned the other; "only whist of an evening but Cleopatra and Judas I prefer to be called Sir Baron, or Mephis- Iscariot. You play a neat game, Tom." topheles." " It is really kind of you to say it," replied " You are a scholar," said Tom, lighting a Tom. " You'll give me Cleopatra for a part-

cigar without offering the other any. " You've ner, I suppose ? What are the minor condi- " evidently read ' Faust.' tions?" " I used to read a good deal," answered " Why—you'll have to give up Blousa- the stranger. " I'm too busy nowadays, and bella. I can't have you in the hands of a the modern novels give me the dyspepsia. good woman, of course." Won't you be seated, Tom?" " But you'll let me take her to the dance* " Thanks," said Tom. " You're a gentle- on Thanksgiving night, Avon't j^ou?" man as well as a scholar." " I'll be d—d if I do, Tom ! " cried the " It is — cold, and we'd best finish our Baron, jumping up so quickly that his mask business at once," continued the evil one. " I fell off. must be in Constantinople by daylight." " You'll be likely to be, anyway," retorted " " " " Ah ! said the other coolly. What's Tom unmoved. Come, chum, let's go home. " up ? Blousabella told me to-night that she is en- " The sultan's going to have his sultana gaged to that Brown that was here last Com- hamstringed, and 1 must prevent it." mencement." "You are more merciful, Sir Baron, than you usually get the credit for being." This promises to be a good winter for " The fact is," returned his companion dances, though we hear that there is some with charming candor, " the sultana is carry- difficulty in obtaining enough gentlemen to ing on a flirtation with a Christian captive, make them " pay." and I can't spare her just now." " Very good, very pretty indeed," said Amasa Walker, the author of The Science lTom. " By the way, how much your voice is of Wealth, which the Seniors are at pres- " ike Carl Downs's. Is he a broth er of yours ? ent studying, is dead. BOWDOIN ORIENT. 115

LOCAL. Prof. — '• What is the bone of the Squid called? " Stu.—"The—the—the lucky-bone." "Football!" Prof.—"The bone is luckier than your an-

Gooil morning— crape. The Athenian Society have reduced their Men-at-arms—paupers. initiation fee from two dollars to a dollar and " out for the second stage." Look a-half, and their term tax from a dollar to Elections are over; no more fun. fifty cents.

r The Bugle is to he printed at Lewiston. Prof. Tenne3 , of Williams College, deliv- ered a lecture under the auspices of the Senior Where, where, is the good old skele- Class, last Friday evening. Subject : Great ton ? Salt Lake and the Yosemite. New catalogues will be out in about a Prof.—"Have we certain proof that if a week. child lives to be twenty years old he will be- " There is some talk in College of organiz- come a man ? Student—" Xo. We have ing a Bowdoin Rifle Corps. not certain proof. lie may die!"

The champion cup has been sent back to A week ago last Saturday morning a took place in front the makers to be re-lettered. | mock rope-pull of the chapel, and Giirdjian took a picture of the Hariiman, formerly of '75, has been ad- [ scene, also a stereoscopic view, which can be mitted to the Waldo County bar. | obtained from him. "When he asked him if he used a "horse," First Senior—" Well, what do you think all the answer that he received was " neigh." of specie payment ? " Second Sen. —"I think The Seniors have finished Paley's Evi- 1 just this way. —Mixed currency— is detrimental dences and have commenced Butler's Anal- to business and " First—Sen. " Yes, I know ogy. all that, butmy theory is " and so on for two

i hours. Perry, of the Senior class, has been ap- pointed by the Faculty to take charge of the The College had an adjourn from all exer-

Peucinian library. cises after 10.30 a.m. mi Nov. 15th. It was

granted to enable the students i<> attend a Fresh. —'"To be, or not to be, that is

launching at Pennellville. ' >ur adjourns thus the question.' Let's be-ah, ehiim." And they far have been tew ami far between, and we did, down at the depot. are all the more thankful for those we do get. Captain Caziarc, who is to take the place •• Small favors," etc nl' Major Sanger, has arrived at College, and Stockbridge, of Portland, is giving vocal entered upon his duties. Lessons every Tuesday to a number nl' the r — Scene in : Prof. - What mineral Geolog3 students and town people. Those who de- is generally found in chalk- beds?" Student, sire good instruction will do well id give him stroking his chin —"Plaster." a call. Judging from si. me id the evening

Scene in Butler: Prof. —"In what other singing so common of late, we should think way dn we sec than through our natural thai if all w ho needed lessons took them, be " " — w mild uet a of a hundred. c\ es 7 Student " By spectacles ! class about —;

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The Junior class has elected officers for " This is 'tile," said one of them, rapping the the ensuing year, and it is understood that edge of his late purchase, and walked off ap-

r the} will serve Ivy Day. President, Roberts ; parently as well as ever.

; Vice President, Tillson Marshal, Wiggin ; The north end of Winthrop Hall is com- Orator, Morrill ; Poet, C. A. Perry ; Chap- ing again to the front in the line of improve- lain, Chapman ; Secretary, Knight ; Treas- ments. It is now lighted by gas, and pro- urer, Brown ; Committee of Arrangements poses to regain its ancient Peary, Bolster, and Ingalls. glory by becoming the aristocratic end in College. They say When the class of '68 graduated from that you can already distinguish the men who college, a certain number of them pledged room there by a certain way in which they themselves to give to the AthenEean Library carry themselves, as though they Avere above fifty dollars apiece in books. Emery was ap- the ordinary troubles and cares of this life, pointed to make the selection of books, and and it didn't make a cent (tial) difference to has lately sent to the library part of their do- them whether their oil-cans were full or not. nation, consisting of two very fine volumes of " The Variorum Shakespeare." If there is one thing in the world which is enough " to stir a fever in the blood of age At a meeting of the Freshman class the or make infant sinews strong as steel," it is following officers were elected : President, to put a notice on the bulletin board and come

Tarbox ; Vice President, Fifield ; Orator, back in half an hour and find it gone, or to

Carleton ; Poet, Johnson ; Historian, Brown ; post one in the dead of night and have it torn

Prophet, Henderson ; Toast Master, Beane ; off by some one on his way to breakfast. It

Secretary, Smith ; Treasurer, Kimball; Com- has become a positive nuisance. There are of Arrangements Byron, Ring, mittee — and so many men who are collecting memorabilia,

Dinsmore ; Committee on Odes—Hastings, in whose eyes the notice of a class meeting or Castner, and H. E. Bourne. the advertisement of an old stove is " a thing

of beauty," that it has become reduced to The Senior class have elected the follow- a science to steal off with the precious thing ing officers : President, Sanford ; Marshal, as soon as the owner's back is turned. It is Orator, ; Alclen ; Andrews Poet, (unfilled) ; of about as much use to put a notice on one Historian, Waitt ; Prophet, Morrill ; Parting side of the bulletin board as it is to put it on Address, Hawes ; Odist, White; Chaplain, the other. There ought to be sufficient cour- Clark ; Treasurer, Wilson ; Committee of Arrangements — Parker, Libby, Burnham tesy among the students to leave such things ; alone until they have served the purpose for Committee on Music—Rowe, Hall, Prince which they were posted. Committee on Pictures—Parsons, Newcomb, Evans.

A truly affecting scene took place in chap- "Only a lock of golden hair," el the other Sunday evening. Just as the The lover wrote — "Perchance to-night hell was about to stop ringing, a half-a-dozen It formeth, upon her pillow fair, or more Sophomores walked wearily up the A halo bright." aisle, each struggling under the weight of a " Only a lock of golden hair," new plug hat. Upon coming out from pray- The maiden smiling, sweetly said, As she laid it over the back of a chair ers the upper classes formed a double line And went to bed. and allowed them to pass down the middle. -Tyro. ——

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ALUMNI NOTES. Rogers, Theol. Sem., Bangor. Married and has one child.

[We earnestly request contributions for this Sampson, graduated with '73, enters department from the Alumni and Friends of the Theol. Sem., Andover, 1875. College.] Seiders, teaching, at Waltham, Mass. Shannon, M.D., Asst. Surgeon, U. S. A., '71. —Edw. P. Mitchell is literary editor of N. Y. Sun. Buffalo, N. Y. Spaulding, M.D., Asst. Physician, City Class of '72. Lunatic Asylum, -Blackwell's Island, X. Y. address, Biddeford, Me. Abbott, Stone, farming, Jay, Me. Peak's Island, Port- Ackley, teaching, Totman, hardware, Allen & Totman. Ken- land. Married and has one child. dall's Mills, Me. wood, Principal of High School, Sau- At Whitaker, editor and proprietor of South- Centre, Mass. Married and has one gns bridge Journal, Southbridge, Mass. Married child. and has one child. Benson, practicing law at Paris, Me. Wilder, just returned from studying at Bickford, Theol. Sem., Bangor. Married. Leipsic. Address 242 Carroll Park, Brook- Principal of Nichols Coggan, Academy, lyn, N. Y. Dudley, Mass. Married and has one child. '74. C. F. Kimball, studying law in Co- Cummings, M.D., graduated at Coll. of — lumbia Law School, and in office of Brown, Phys. and Surg., N. Y. City. Address, 20 Hall & Vanderpoel, Xo. 291 Broadway, N.Y. Park St., Portland, Me. Dow, practicing law, 145 Broadway, N.Y. Frost, Principal of High School, Thomas- A Sophomore has discovered that Long- ton, Me. fellow is not an admirer of art ; for doesn't Goodwin, graduated at Amherst in '73, " he say : " Dust thou art ? Advocate. is in insurance business, Biddeford, Me. A doctor, attending a wit who was very Gross, in the Senior class of Columbia ill, apologized for being late one day by sav- Law School. Address, 29 Washington Place. ing that he had to stop to see a man that had Harris, teacher of music, 252 Sixth St., fallen down a well. " Did he kick the bucket, Boston. doctor?'' inquired the other. Ex. Heath, Principal of Washington Acad., E. Machias, Me. A professor lately disturbed the reigning Hooker, 2d unite ship '-Sterling," address, quietness of the class hall, by giving a sharp Gardiner, Me. knock on the desk, and a New Yorker who asleep " " Ireland, practicing law, Nebraska Citv, was half shouted Keno ! and ran Nrh. up to the desk with his book in both hands. Lewis, Asst. Treas. Savings Bank, Gardi- Murder will out. — /»

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EDITORS' TABLE. The Mercury is both elegant in general appear- ance and gentlemanly in tone.

The Trinity Tablet contains a very sensible arti- The Uni. Herald uses as a motto : cle entitled "American Humor." "A good college paper is worth more for the moral and gentlemanly tone of college life than a The N. W. Coll. Chronicle comes to us for the library of by-laws, and an army of faculty spies." first time in magazine form. While we are most N. Y. Independent. decidedly in favor of the sheet form for ourselves, Why do they not have ouo at Syracuse ? we must confess the Chronicle rnuch improved in The editors of the Acta Columbiana offer a prize appearance. of $25 " for the best article on any subject of gen-

The Williams Athenceum is happy ! They have eral importance, except religion and politics." a new and unique "yell." It is also simple and fit The Tufts Collegian publishes an article en- for universal adoption. The Ath. says : titled " Supply," which from the single fact that "The new 'yell,' 'Rah! Rah! Rah! Will- yums-yams-yums, Willyums,' has "been received there arc only from four to nine syllables on a hue, with general approbation. Probably no better col- we conclude to bo meant for poetry. The title —if lege yell could be fouud for use." title it be, and not a delicate hint from editor to au- How would "Rah! Rah! Rah! Bowdums-ams- thor that he wishes no more—has no connection ums, Bowdums," do for a yell here ? The yell must whatever with the subject matter of this brilliant have "been invented by an Ath. editor. effusion. It seems that the author—a Freshman we take it— " bent him in a hushed amaze," what- The Packer Quarterly is at hand, and shows ever that may be, aud about its average merit iu the selection and treat- " ment of subjects. Its appearance is somewhat Underneath his very feet Some one was singing, soft and low, " marred by the extreme carelessness of its proof- ' seed of oak, prepare readers, and its freshness by the array of old The snns have come again.' jokes which adorn its Editor's Table. The beauty of the song is enhanced when we con- opens volume The Brunonian a new with a sider the difficulty of vocal efforts " underneath his improvement in dress. If the Brunonian marked very feet." How poetical the euphuism " seed of could be congratulated on a corresponding improve- oak" for acorn! "The sons have come again," it of ment iu contents, would be one our best ex- brings to mind a thousand tender thoughts of the changes. return to college, and in the associatiou of images The Hamilton Lit. speaks very sensibly regard- lies the essence of poetry ing the action of the Faculty iu suspending the We would gladly give more of this touching- Freshman class. "We do not think, however, that production, but have only space to add that the au- thor all its conclusions are just. The Lit. says : was "Born out of time!" "It [the bolt] may seem to have united the class, but this will prove to be an illusion. Instead of He struggles manfully against his hard fate, how- strengthening the confidence of individual members ever, and exhorts all his readers to in the others, it will create mutual suspicion. Any

attempt to arouse enthusiasm will hereafter be re- . . . "Sing alway,

' garded with distrust. It is safe to predict that, if mother, mother mine ! this class return, it will be subject to factions in an Dost thou not know, thy lamps unusual degree; that disruptions will occur which Though are unlighted, Thou need'st nut stand affrighted V may bo traced directly to the iufiuence of this bolt. Our way will show.'' It has been the experience of the past, it will be in

time to come. It is simply an inevitable result." Show !

While the effect of the prompt and decided ac- " Some lives take early blight, Others run on. tion of the Faculty will undoubtedly be to make Earth musters new energy, the suspended class more guarded in its future con- Life does prevail mightily; " It recks not is duct, it is not at all a necessary sequence that the what gone.'

class shall be subject to factions. Indeed, as far as We hope this talented Freshman's life will take no

our observation has extended, the claim that the " early blight," but " run on " to bring the honor it class will bo more closely united, is a true one. promises to gain for its proud Alma Mater. ;

Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, DECEMBER 1, 187.5. No. 11.

THE SPINNER. With sudden darkness fell the night In horror o'er the sea;

T. The winds rushed on with gathering might; In deadly fear sailed be. The Spinner sought the highest room,

As downward sank the sun ; Swift, fiery flashes from the sky She took her wheel amid the gloom, Burned out amid the dark; And swift and deft she spun. Strange, fiery sparkles from the sea His vessel's course did mark. " Ho is false ! " she said upon the stair; " Most false !" as grew the thread. Blue, lurid lights along the shrouds She startled the chill silence there Like enamel bale-fires glowed; "With murmured words of dread. Most direful nioanings filled the air, She drew the flax out fine and long; The coming wreck to bode. To a wild, wistful lay She twisted into troubled song The opal stone in the Spinner's ring, A spell strange powers obey. That the Sailor wore on his hand, Began to gleam with sinister light. And shone like burning brand. The Sailor paced his narrow deck watched sun go Then straight the Spinner fin away And the down ; And of his new love did he reck, He saw in vision clear; Sewing her wedding gown. Above the storm her droning wheel Buzzed dizzj- in his ear.

Ah ! "slowly seemed his boat to go, Slow passed the hours along. And, stalking came across the deck Till lie again her voice should kuow, A ghastly skeleton most grim, Singing some well-loved song. That grinned, and chattered with its teeth, And reached its bony bauds to him. Out on the sea, pauseless as doom,

The sure tides flood and run ; Out on the sea, pauseless as doom. There in the tower's highest room The sure tides flood and run; Tlir Spinner sang and spun. There in the tower's highest room, The Spinner sang and spun.

II.

III. "When at sunset, on the land, The Spinner climbed the stair, An instant in the deepening gloom Over the sea, on either hand, Tin' Spinner left ber wheel The sky of eloud was bare. An instant lulled the hitter wind And hushed the thunder's peal.

I'.ut as she drew the fatal thread,

moaning winds she tin- Low, were blown : placed before lattice dim And as she chanted words of dread, A light which gleamed afar:

Pale, litful lightnings shone. Through the wild night it shone to him, Guiding him like a star.

The Sailor's golden love-dreams fled; It called bis bark along the Within his troubled mind In spite of helm and oar, Remembered he, with sudden dread, Until ho beard upon the lee

The Spinner lefl behind. The breakers' hungry roar. ; ;:!"

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What sights the lightning showed around, THE STUDY OF MATHEMATICS. As on toward death he drave It is with some hesitation that we under- He shrieked as one who breaks his swonnd, Borne living to his grave. take the defense of the study of mathematics, for we are aware that in so doing we repre-

For a hundred hungry, slimy shapes sent the opinion of the minority. It is a well That crawl about the sea known fact that to the majority of college Swarmed through the foam of surf-lashed capes, students the study of mathematics is the least And he their prey should be ! pleasing of all the studies of the curriculum.

The Spinner heard the Sailor's cry, It is our present purpose to inquire into the Amid her fatal song; reason of this, and to see if the reason is well And knew thereby his bark drew nigh, founded. First, then, is the of Drawn by her spells along. why study mathematics so little liked ? Is it because of

She shudderetb, as who in death the little good resulting from a knowledge Sees some most loved one laid of their rules and formulae, and of the appli- But still she saith, with panting breath: cation of these in practical life, or is it simply " ! He is false ! I am betrayed because of the obstacles to be surmounted in

Yet once again the Sailor cried, acquiring a mastery of those principles ? Do And called the Spinner's name we look to the ultimate good to be obtained, On her white lips the wild song died ; or do we regard only our present ease and She quenched the taper's flame. inclinations ? It can not be disputed that the

And with such moan as they may make masteiy of the mathematical branches requires The pains of hell who feel, a vast deal of hard labor. And it is this very The magic thread too late she brake, labor, the direction of our attention to partic- And stopped the fatal wheel. ular points, the searching out step by step

certain fixed results, that is of especial Out on the sea, pauseless as doom, advan- The sure tides flood run tage to us. The mind is disciplined and ; to enter While, in the tower's highest room, upon and follow out a course of reasoning in The Spinner sang and spun. a straightforward manner and with definite ends in view. IV. The ill -disciplined mind in its gropings The sun rose red in morning mists And tinged the flying scud after the truth is apt to be continually led ; And flecked the floating sea-gulls' breasts astray by minor objects bearing upon the "With spots as red as blood. question. The study of mathematics trains

it to keep the main point in view, and to con- A broken wreck upon the shore duct all its researches in reference to this, The Sailor's bark was laid. The breakers' roar would make no more laying aside every consideration not directly The sailor's heart afraid. affecting the proposition to be proved. Is not, then, the study of great importance to "Within the tower chamber high, us? If we but consider a moment we shall Snared in her broken thread,

The sun's first beam touched with its gleam see our need of just such training. We ven- The Spinner lying dead. ture to state that those of us who are capable of following a subject through in a logical Out on the sea, pauseless as doom, manner, keeping always in view the main The sure tides flood and run But in the tower's highest room point to be proved, and able to distinguish Nevermore maiden spun. between this and the minor points, will not — :

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by any means compose the majority of our from it all foreign thoughts, and to bring all number. We have abundant evidence of this, related thoughts into such order that a chain both in the recitation room and in our every- of logic shall run through the whole, connect-

day discussions. It is often the case that a ing each separate thought with the final con- man with a set of ideas capable, if properly clusion, so that they may not be, as some one

arranged, of proving his case, loses it entirely has fitly remarked of the reasonings of an ill- by a lack of order, a lack of perception of the disciplined mind, like so many beads strung

logical sequence of one idea to another, and on a string ; so that each thought shall be

of the exact bearing of each on the final forcible not only in its own strength, but also result to be obtained. by its connection with what goes before and

It is because of this same want of disci- what follows after. pline that so much rambling talk arises in But this better preparation for composition

discussion. The study of mathematics, and is only one of the many advantages to be especially the pursuit of geometrical reason- gained by mathematical study. In a recent ing, corrects to a great extent this fault. The paper, Prof. Newton, of Yale College, said

mind is compelled to look at a question on all " In the exact sciences, chemistiy, geology, sides, and at the same time to select the par- botairy, and in political economy, mathematics ticular point necessary for the final result. In is of the utmost importance. We are entitled no better way can the powers of reasoning be to distrust the guidance of any one treating developed, and clearness and conciseness of on political economy, for instance, who does expression be attained, than by the pursuit of not have clear conceptions of the relations of this study. quantity." " Most questions in social science," " Dr. Whewell says : No education can be he continues, "have a twofold character, the considered liberal which does not cultivate one moral, the other mathematical."' Thus both the facultj' of reason and the faculty of we see that mathematics has an application,

language : one of which is cultivated by the either direct or indirect, in our everyday pur- study of mathematics and the other by the suits. Whatever is to be our calling in life, study of the classics. To allow the student we shall come to it better prepared by a pre- to omit one of these is to leave him half edu- vious drill in the mathematical sciences. cated. If a person can not receive such cult- We would not lie understood by this to ure, ho remains in the one case irrational, in decry the classics. We acknowledge their the other illiterate." The mind can not be importance, and we do not think that they evenly and broadly expanded without a goodly receive any too much attention. But we portion of mathematics. Accustomed as it is would ask for mathematics that respect which

tn wander, unless properly disciplined, it will its importance demands. And is not the ad- not suffer confinement on particular occasions. vantage to be gained by a knowledge of it

It will not patiently regard the subject on worth the effort of obtaining that knowledge ? every side, but is apt to be led astray by some partial view. It may be able to do effective work on some occasions, but is not prepared The Princeton College (iymnasium con-

for every emergency. tains five billiard tables donated by a Presby-

Another great advantage to be gained terian merchant at the special solicitation of from mathematical study is the ability to ab- Pres. McCosh. This removes the temptation stract the mind from every other matter and to visit places where intoxicating liquors are

it on keep firmly fixed the discussion ; to drive sold. Independent. 124 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. 7. If subscribers pay in advance, they arc bound to give notice to the publisher, at the end of their time, if they do not wish to continue talcing it; otherwise the publisher is PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- authorized to send it on, and the subscribers will be respon- ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT sible until an express notice, with payment of all arrears, BOWDOIN COLLEGE, is sent to the publisher. By the Class of 1876. The subject of music in college has been EDITORS. often discussed, but the present state of affairs Arlo Bates, E. H. Kimball, calls for a word or two more. An effort has C. H. Clark, J. G. Libby, been made to establish a college glee club, C. T. Hawes, J. A. Morrill, but the students are somewhat backward in W. H. G. KoffE. supporting it. It was recently remarked that

Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies, this was owing to a prevailing indolence, but 15 cents. the zeal of the members of the '77 glee club Address communications to Orient, Bowdoin does not look like this. There is ample Brunswick, Maine. material in college for the proposed organiza- For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- tion and there is no good reason why the new son's, Brunswick. glee club should not succeed. Bowdoin is, in this respect, behind many of her sister colleges, CONTENTS. and it is time that she took a step in advance. Vol. V., No. 11.— December 1875. 1, The new song books will soon be ready, and

The Spinner 121 the glee club will thus be provided with

The Study of Mathematics 122 music. Let each member make it an individ- Editorial Notes 124 ual matter, and the club can not fail to be a Local 126

success. . , Alumni Notes 129 Filchings 129 Editors' Table 130 No manly student ever countenances the destruction of college property. That we EDITORIAL NOTES. have among us those whose sense «f the ludicrous is confined to the willful injury of

1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the the college buildings or belongings, must be a contrary, are considered wishing to continue their sub- source of regret and annoyance to the better- scription. disposed portion of the students. It is too 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals, the publishers may continue to send them until generally understand outside that the lawless all arrearages are paid. acts which are committed by a small body of 3. subscribers neglect or If refuse to take their period- evil-minded offenders, are countenanced by icals from the office to which, they arc directed, they are the students in general, and that the culprits held responsible until they hare settled their bills, and ordered litem discontinued. are sustained by college public opinion.

4. //' subscribers more other to places without inform- While there is a strong college feeling which ing the publishers, and the papers are sent to the former tends to prevent open expression of honest direction, they are held responsible. student freaks, 5. The Courts have decided thai " refusing to take disapproval of and too lax a periodicals from the office, or removing and leaving them tone of college feeling in regard to many uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud." offenses, at the bottom there is a right feeling 6. Any person, who receives a newspaper and makes which makes itself heard and felt in college, use of it, whether he has ordered it or not, is held in law to be a subscriber. although it may not be heard without. The BOWDOIN ORIENT. 125 worst feature of it is that it is not until some with the other, besides sometimes causing flagrant act arouses the public sense of right, embarrassment, as we have often noticed to that it becomes a potential energy. our amusement. With what a surprised look will the visitor utter some exclamation and

Thump, thump, thump ! sounds at our then gracefully back out, when he perceives door just as we are getting ready to write an that he has burst in upon some unexpected editorial note ; at first no answer, but then in company, conscious that he is affording amuse- fear that our door may be broken in this cold ment for them. Inasmuch, then, as we can weather, we call, " Come in." In comes our not realty " sport our oak," let each one re- " neighbor : Let me take your blacking?" says member, before thundering a second time on he, and, without waiting for a reply, takes it his neighbor's door, that perhaps that neighbor from the closet and leaves. With our temper may not wish to see visitors, and thus, besides not much improved (for if he was intent on not disturbing anyone, he may save himself disturbing us, wliy on earth couldn't he have embarrassment. given some worthy reason?) we fell to think- ing on this college enigma. Why would he The rapid scattering of the boys for the persist in disturbing us ? Not that we alone Thanksgiving recess carries with it a sombre possessed the article he was in search of—no, lesson to those who by remaining behind have that could not be ; not that ours was of better leisure to meditate upon sombre lessons. quality than our neighbors'— if so, we sin- With only a few clays' notice, and for a half cerely pity them ; but it appears to be simply week's recess, the boys have vanished like because he knew wc were at home and he dew in the sun, and the campus is left lone seemed to think that under any circumstances and deserted. One can not but reflect how we were obliged to open to him. quickly and completely the classes will be Oh, how often under such circumstances scattered by graduation: and even to those have we sincerely longed for a good stout whose class feeling is small, if there be any door, such as we used to read of in "Tom such among us, the thought is hardly a pleas- Brown," that having "sported our oak" we ant one. To those who go away from the re- might at any time be perfectly regardless of cess the tale is quite a different one. It is the outside world ! Hut that is impossible, almost always those who remain who suffer and therefore, brother students, please to think by separation. The fortunati es whose

(if this matter fur a moment. Does it not homes are within reach renew in the happy show a lack of consideration for tin 1 rights of home influences of the Thanksgiving festival others, to thus disturb your fellows? Most the bonds of feeling which restrain from evil assuredly it dues, and if we expressed the when the home is left behind. Tin' tradi- case far mm-e strongly, it would still be true. tional dinner is eaten, the traditional games That in the majority of cases it happens follow in the evening, pretty cousins and through pure thoughtlessness, we feel sure. all. A thousand separate interests and pleas-

- however much there may seem In be a < siires employ those who a few days before mmi belief that nobody has an exclusive right and a few days after are seeking common to his room, but must keep it open to every goals of prolit or fun. one when they choose to conn'. Ii is by no After all, Petruchio asks, "Is our life in means ;i mark of good fellowship, to use college anything but a dream.' Does ii not another's r i as your own. or simply to stand ill its relations with life as life does with knock with one hand while turning the knob eternal consciousness? Sec how readily we ;; !

12G B WD OIN ORIENT. drop all college interests which we have heen Yc iuuoceut, yc guileless, ye lamb-liko Freshmen. Ye rabble. pursuing as if with vital eagerness. To go out of college is to step from an ideal, indi- Ye eulogist and elegist wore dickeys of monstrous vidual microcosm into the world of men proportions, running out into triangles as sharp as universal. die which we call real and To the severest reprimand ever received by unlucky may be only to step from the world of men student neglectful of his duties, and the necks of into the world real and eternal." the distinguished speakers were environed by good When Petruchio begins to talk we usually clean white cotton neck-cloths just 3-4 long and 3-4 wide, purchased for 12 1-2 cents per yard. The resign ourselves to our fate, never pretend- mourners wore long white frocks, and some of them ing to understand him, and seldom listening hats as high as " Sugar Loaf" Mountain, with tails we are never so rash as to attempt to check of black cambric depending therefrom, as extended him, having learned by sad experience that as the wreaths which clung to the sides of " Sugar this only makes him worse. " But then, it is Loaf." .... The funeral pile was constructed in the Delta, of light inflammable stuff, and it was all one," continues Petruchio. " Many men a pile indeed, say 8 or 10 feet square, and 12 or 15 should be only too happy if their whole lives feet high. Upon the summit were deposited the bier passed over excused as a dream might be and and books, and then the order, "Apply the torch," and it ma}' be so with some of us in college. was given. Our acts are often as purposeless and ill-con- sidered as the madcap delusions of a night- " " LOCAL. mare ! " But, in heaven's name ! inter- posed we, in sheer desperation, " what has Seven students drill. all this nonsense to do with the Thanksgiving '78 '79 recess ? " " Why, to be sure," he replied, beats at whist.

musingly, " to be sure, what has it ? " And " " Was it a big turkey ? so Petruchio spoiled the whole of our edi- A fast youth—a tide buoj^. torial ! A bad bar-gain—profit on a dram. Brunsivick Telegraph of July From the Giirdjian has pictures of the ruins for sale. 29th, 1859, we copy the following order of exercises for " Calculus, his burning, July Marrett is the only Senior not present in 26th, 1859," by the Junior Class." college. Order of ye Procession. The Seniors are developing into remark- Aid. Yc Marshalle. Aid v able debaters. Chandler, his hande of rnusieke, discourseing ye dismalle tunes. The South End of Maine Hall is to have Te high and mighty Senioures. a new fly-door. Ye lugubrious Junioures. Ye grave digger bearing ye sadde implements Be sure and sit up straight when you go of his trade. to sleep in church. Ye eulogist and elegist. Junior Parts have been assigned to Little, A bier inscribed "Calculus," etc., was borne here, followed by Peary, Roberts, and Sewall. Ye inconsolable mourners. X. says he does not see how any one can Marshalle. complain of the lack of vegetables " as long Ye much-toe-bee-pitied-and-ye-tremblynge-for- ! ye-future Sophomores. as a spear o' grass is left " He expects to Marshalle. survive !

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" If you boys want to skylark you will The new base-burner in the gymnasium " a part of the " vast have to get out of this depot ! ought to warm vacuum." If there were two others just like it, the cli- On page 114 of our last issue "ham- mate there would be moderately comfortable. stringed " should have been " bowstringed." Those who wish to adorn their rooms with The South End of M. H. is the only end evergreens will do well to gather them now in college that has all of its rooms occupied. before the snow falls. At last accounts they Sophomore lately tried to prove a propo- A were hard to find, especially in the pine of the sition in regard to the concentricity woods. ellipse. The Brunswick High School, under the When are bad bo}'s like fireworks ? When charge of Chapman '73, and Robinson '76, they go off in the evening and scintillate (sin has just closed its first term. A prize exhibi- till late). tion of speaking and reading was given in A Senior being asked why he sold his dog, Lemont Hall, on the Friday evening after the said that he " could not keep' up current close of the term. expenses." Scene in Recitation. Prof. —" If you do the astounding state- A Senior lately made not use more care in preparing these lessons that the Atlantic was from thirty ment Ocean you will find that many who have not had a to forty thousand miles deep. collegiate education at all will know more Prof.—" What does that figure on the Latin than you do." Student —" Well, they " board represent?" Student — "A Blastid have better advantages than we do ! Crinoid." (Class applauds.) Prof.—" That Foot-ball has been played for a number of is correct, sir." times during the last fortnight, and seems to An Alumnus writes to his friend that he be getting quite popular. The only way to has lately taken a young lady to a dance who get up any interest in foot-ball is to choose lias "the light fantastic toe" on her head as sides and play regular games, instead of kick- well as on her feet. ing promiscuously, as has been the common custom. Owing to the explosion at the gas-works, the How of gas has been stopped for about Billiards have become an amusement of two weeks, and the town is, as it were, in the past. The boys no longer frequent Jack's, darkness despair. and and Jack no longer trusts the hoys. Thus affairs The depot is frequented now more than have come to that pitiable condition for some time past. Its attractions arc l\'\v, that one can not find eight or ten students to be sure, except on some particular occasions, playing pool every evening, but has to seek but then they are constant. for them in their rooms, where, likely as not, they are reading history, or more incredible The Athenian Society held a meeting last still, studying their lessons. Truly, "times week for the purpose of initiating new mem- have Changed since thru." bers, but no one applied fur admission. A rumor was in circulation that one Freshman In these cold November days, when one hail expressed willingness to join, bui no goes around with his chin under the top of credit whatever was given to it. Alas, poor bis overcoat, ami meditates regretfully upon Athena tilings in general and thin clothes in particu- : —

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lar, it is rather hard upon his feelings to hear The following circular has been issued, in the weather complimented. The other day, connection with the Summer course: — an over-polite Freshman informed a Junior Bowdoin College, Course of Summer Instruction for

that it was a " fine day," and we thought that the year 187G. he was justly punished when the Junior curtly On the 17th of July, 187G, a Course of Instruc- tion in Chemistry aud Mineralogy will be com- told him to " dayfine " it differently. menced, extending through six weeks. In a recitation of a class that should have This Course is designed for teachers aud others, of sexes, who are desirous of becoming practi- kept better order, the teacher administered a both cally acquainted with these sciences. mild reprimand to them, concluding with the The Course consists of laboratory exercises in quotation from the Bible : " When following Blowpipe Analysis, Qualitative Aqueous Analysis, I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood Chemical Manipulation, Crystallography, Determin- as a child, T thought as a child; but when I ative Mineralogy. became a man I put away childish things." Lectures will also be given, bearing upon these subjects. The class, to judge from their applause, keenly The laboratories are ample in their accommoda- appreciated the adaptation of the quotation tions, aud well furnished with apparatus to illustrate to the case in hand, and besides that have the most recent advances of science. since kept much better order in the class- The Cleaveland Cabinet comprises a large collec- room. tion of native and foreign minerals. The numerous quarries in the neighborhood of It is related that while Longfellow was Brunswick are noted for the large variety of min- Professor at Bowdoin, he was one day much erals which they furnish, and are well worth care- annoyed by the poorness of the recitation in ful study. Fees for Course of Instruction, $15. Breakage, French. At last a student was called upon and Chemicals actually consumed, average about $5 had evidently made little or no prepara- who extra. Use of apparatus and mineral cabinet, free. his tion. He was prompted by classmates It is hoped inducements here offered for study quite audibly. The Professor gave no heed may create a greater iuterest in scientific pursuits to the prompting, but let the student blunder among teachers, and that they may be enabled through their practical familiarity with Chemistry through his paragraph. When the young and Mineralogy, to give much needed instruction iu man was seated, Longfellow quietly said these eminently cultivating and useful sciences. " Your recitation reminds me of the Spanish Brunswick is beautifully situated, and possesses theatre, where the prompter performs a more a delightful summer climate. Board may be had at important part than the actor." from $3 to $5 per week. Applications for admission and communications At a special meeting of the Bowdoin Boat to be directed to Club, held Nov. 17th, the following resolutions H. CARMICHAEL, Ph.D. (GSttiug), were presented by Mr. Payson, and unani- Professor of Chemistry, or — F. C. ROBINSON, A.M., mously adopted : Instructor in Analytic Chemistry, Resolved, That a vote of thanks be tendered the Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me. members of the class of '73, by the Bowdoin Boat Club, for their gift of a champion cup to the Bow- doin Navy. Resolved, That the above resolution be published A newspaper tells us that a certain gentle- in the Bowdoin Orient, and that a copy of the man who came to this city without a shirt to said resolutions be sent to the members of the class his back, has managed to accumulate two of '73. It's our opinion that he A. M. Sherman, millions and a half. Secretary of Boivdoin Boat Club. will never live to wear them out. Ex. — — —

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ALUMNI NOTES. Pulsifer, reporting with his father. Ad- dress, Auburn, Me. [We earnestly request contributions for this Rice, studying medicine at Washington, department from the Alumni iiud Friends of the D. C. College.] Rogers, teaching Topsham (Me.) High : 39.— Rev. Calvin Chapman has closed School. his labors with the Congregational Church at Sargent, Instructor in Gymnastics at Yale. Andover, and has removed to Kennebunk- Stanwood, teaching at Freeport. liort, where, however, he will have no charge. Swasey, studying law in his father's office, — Press. at Standish, Me. '49. — Rev. Geo. A. Perkins, late of Pow- T Upton, studying at Princeton, X . J. nal, has received a unanimous call from a Wells, studying law in his father's office, church in Lunenburg. at Great Falls, N. H. '63. Rev. Newman Smythe, late of Ban- — A. S. Whitmore, studying medicine at gor, has been called to the pastorate of the Gardiner, Me. First Presbyterian Church, Quincy, 111. S. W. Whitmore, studying law at Gardiner. '66. — St. John's Church, Bangor, has voted to extend a call to Rev. G. T. Packard of Brooklyn, N. Y., says the Press. F1LCHISGS. 'TO.— J. W. Keene has been attending the Graduate Course of Lectures at the Harvard A natural mistake was that of a Fresh, Medical School. translating the Latin, "P. Scipio ecpiestri '73. ' — D. A. Robinson has recently been genere natus," thus : P. Scipio was born chosen Principal of the Grammar School, at a horse race." Sibyl.

Bangor. He is at present teaching in Brewer. Scene in last car to Cambridge. Crowd notice in the list of persons who read We of maudlin Freshmen. Conductor—' Harris papers at the recent Educational Convention " — Street ! 1st Fresh. " Good for you, Har- at Augusta, the names of Prof. A. II. Davis, " — ry ! 2d Fresh. " Wake up, fellows ; Har- '60; G. M. Bodge, '68; and A. F. Richard- " — !" ry's treat again ! Chorus " Champagne son, '73. — Crimson. Class of '"•">. A Freshman who overheard his Senior R. R. Baston, leaching at Standish. chum say that they would nut allow him to Clarke arrived in England, October 17th, vote was quite astonished, and wanted to after a very stormy passage of twenty-four know the reason. On being told that he was days. His address is care of Messrs. Mc- a minor the verdant looked perplexed and re- Culloch & Co., 41 Lombard St., London. marked that he "thought all working people Deering, teaching at Gilmanton, N. II. had a right to vote." ('"null Era. Hill, at Yale Theological Scl 1.

'• Hunton, at Buffalo, X. V. Logic. What can you say of the second law nf — Larrabee, Teacher of Ancient Languages thought?" Student "It can m t in Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt. bulb be and lint be. For example: the door

McQuillan, studying law in the office of over there must be either shut or open. It be — B. T. Chase, Bridgton, Me. can't both shut and open." Tutor— "Give Noyes, teaching al South Hampton, X. II. another illustration." Student " Well, take Pierce, in Harvard Law School. tin- case of another door." Yale Record. — —— —

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EDITORS' TABLE. It might bo a good plan for the Bath Times to define its idea of provocation. In a recent issue it

: The College press begins now to talk less of base- says ball, foot-ball, and boating, and more of literary "While superintending the surveying of a lot of land, Friday afternoon, Mr. George W. Drisko, work. Debating societies and glee clubs are the editor of the Machias Union, was unprovokingly order of the day. While the change makes the assaulted by one Johnson, with an axe, making a papers of less interest outside, it yet indicates a severe though not fatal wound." more valuable work within the college walls, and The Athenccum has a sonnet in its last number. the friends of literary culture may rejoice that the We give it iu full : brain work of the year is going prosperously on. " Oh ! mock me not with love whose shallow stream Give up guessing, Index. You were as wide as Mid treacherous sands doth drag its sluggish, course; possible from the fact. Nor think that e'en a sparkling rill whose source The rugged mountain hides, can, with its gleam It "was a bitter disapointment to find that the Of flashing flatter//, blot out the dream My /learning heart oft dreams : wherein appears Lafayette College Journal was not the Raihvay Guide, A hero rare, who chivalry's ensign hears which its peculiar cover led us to suppose it to be. And crowned a "knightly sovereign doth seem. The rushing tide of such a love as his The College Mercury has a good lot of college With navigable waters would supply news, and its contents are worthy of its outside My restless hark that long hath snuffed the hreeze In. haste the unknown swelling seas to try appearance. ; Theu passionate I'd revfel iu its sweep For every depth of love an answering deep." The Amherst Student says in a poem entitled "The Palace of Silence," Gr-r-racious ! We are glad that there is no more of it. The poetical conception embodied there is " There now is all iu silence, So hath it always been, heightened somewhat by the rare figures of speech, old were ever For those monks and by a certain air of mystery which enshrouds it. A curious set of men." We surely can not tell what it means, and hope its " Men " and " been " rhyme well. Farther on it is title, " Unmated," will not be falsified. The italics "... thought that they were spirits, are ours, but — Deo gratias ! — the poetry is not. Or else that they were ogres, Dread messengers of death, The Chronicle reaches us from far-off Michigan, And some affirmed that they Smelt sulphur to their hreath." and smacks of Western College opinions and tastes. We rather like the literary tone of the paper, but the The fine figure in the last line leaves us in an ecsta- editorial aud local part lacks life. sy, as it were, of doubt. Did the author mean to insin- that " sulphur," among the ancients, took the uate The College Sibyl is well edited and very pleas- seeds, or he, for of place of cardamon has the sake antly written. The locals iu the November number the instead of " euphony, used word brimstone," are unusually good. meaning that they should smell brimstone when they die, or how 1 The opening number of the American Journal of Microscopy and Popular Science has reached us, We are glad to greet the Crimson once more. and, although the magazine has a more extensive Its poetry is very good, and forms, with the editorial, name than its size seems to warrant, it is a publica- the most readable part of the paper. tion worthy of encouragement and support. We The Oberlin Review has taken offense at the would commend it to the members of the Scientific Crimson's imputation on Western Colleges, and Association. The subscription is only fifty cents a concludes with: year, and specimen copies will be sent free to any " We can stand a gentlemanly joke or a friendly address by the Handicraft Publication Company, 37 criticism, when there is point and occasion; but Park Kow, New York. such rancorous and uncourteous assaults we can not bear without the severest reprehension."

The College Argus has three columns of very Morning prayers. Good boy who is dis- practical editorial matter. Its local department is — very well conducted aud somewhat relieves the turbed by his neighbor " D n it, keep

tedium of ite first pages. We like the outside look quiet ; I want to hear the prayer and get the of the Art/us. news/' Ex. " — "

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Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, DECEMBER 15, 1875. No. 12. — NEW AND OLD. Pet. " You are not conceited, perhaps ! Let's hear one of your fine openings."

" " Hy.—"Your mouth's a fine opening for New Year," I said, Right welcome ! Bring But joy and hope." She raised the thing hash; but let that pass. Begin this way: "Wliicli like a funeral urn she sadly bore, And showed the grief she brought. Ko more ' Another brood of chickens has gone from Of joy I thought; but took with lamentation — " the ' Her gift; and without consolation, beneath wings of Alma Mater, and 1 walked till nil world cold, the was Pet.—" Never shall it be said that I called young grew old. And the year worn and " old Bowdoin a hen !

— ' " " Hy. " Twoultl be repre-hen-sible. Well Old Year," I said, Farewell ! Go by Without a token." She reply then: 'Old Time has opened another of those

Made not ; but laid her fingers on my brow In blessing, and was gone. Yet even now oysters Avhich we call years, and it is just like I feel the pressure of that benediction, the last ; the pearls are still to be in the next With hopeful foretaste and conviction Of things that sometime I shall see, one.' If that doesn't suit you, have something Of bliss that somewhere waits for me. fresh; as, for instance,—'Another set of act- — " ors have—been hustled off the stage, and ' WRITING EDITORIALS. Pet. " For heaven's sake, stop ! It is more appropriate to say ' hustled on the A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT. stage.' " * [Scene—a Junior's room in Q. Hall. Time—Fall — ' Hy. " Well, then : The exhaustive get- Term, 186— . Petruehio seated at a table covered loose papers. him enter — " with To Hypercus.] tee up and settee down of college life has ' Pet.—"Hallow! Where did you come Pet.—" Do be sensible. Why can't you " " from ? — help me—? Hy. " Come from ? Can't a fellow come Hy. " Grateful, upon my word ! Try a to bis own room without being questioned in poetical strain, then, that style ? did you from, Where come and ' Plucking a quill from our own wing, " what are you doing in my room ? At once we mean to soar aud sing ! ' Pet.— I'm trying to write that " confound- Pet.—" You forget that it is not to be ed Bugle editorial, but I can't make a begin- your editorial, and so the allusion to ' >>/r» ning.'' wing ' would be inappropriate." Hy.—" What are you writing about? " — — Hy. " Sharp ! Well, there's no suiting just it. Pet. " That's You have to write you. Why not have an end-woman solilo- an editorial about nothing." quize? Work the pathos up to a proper de-

Hy.—" That's good. It will give it an ' gree, and then end in this way : She raised airy lightness that will be refreshing. How her hand to wipe a tear that stood on her " do you begin ? — cheek, when down went the hod of ashes she Pet. ! " Confound your stupidity Didn't was carrying. Half strangled with dust and I tell you I did not know how to begin ?"

Hy.—" Why, I could give you a thousand * This may Boem an anachronism; bat Petruohio for the future, and "saw what should be in after ! wrote excellent beginnings tirue8." "

134 BOWDOIN ORIENT. tears, she rushed down stairs, resolved to no endeavor to enter into the real spirit of moralize no more.' There, that's quite in history. But the novels of Scott form a new Sterne's vein." species. They present history in its most Pet.—" I feel in a stern vein myself, and attractive form, yet do not disguise the vari- the effect may be visible on you soon." ous events and circumstances with two much Hy.—" In vain you button your coat over of fiction. Scott seems to have been fully your sternum, and— aware that truth and fiction might ally them-

[A scrimmage. The lamp is overturned. selves with mutual aclvantage. While his # Darkness. Scene closes.] real landscape has made us feel confidence in the reality of his persons and their actions,

it is equally true that fiction has given a SCOTT AND HIS NOVELS. charm to the rocks and mountains of his

The fame of Sir Walter Scott as a novel- native country which will last till the moun- ist is world-wide. He had the advantage of tains sink and the torrents cease to flow. A writing in a language spoken in different hundred years ago the Highlands of Scotland hemispheres by highly civilized people, and were as little known as the Rocky Mountains,

widely diffused over the surface of the globe ; but his pen has thrown them open as com- and he wrote also at a time when communica- pletely as a thousand military roads, and trav- tion was facilitated by peace. elers will wander over them in all generations There are those who are disposed to regret to come. that so great a reputation can be gained by- The plots in the Waverley Novels generally one who, as they affirm, does nothing more display much ingenuity, and are interestingly

than amuse the world; but let them adopt a involved ; but there are few in the conduct of different mode of expression, let them call it which it would not be easy to point out some giving happiness to the world, and they must blemish. They are usually languid in the

admit that the purpose is a noble one. It is commencement and abrupt in the close ; too too late to ask whether works of imagination slowly opened and too hastily summed up. can be safely read; they certainly will be read "Guy Mannering" is one in which these two to some extent, and the character of such faults are least apparent. The plot of works is the chief point to be considered. To "Peveril of the Peak," might perhaps, on the

Scott belongs the honor of raising the novel whole, have been considered as the best, if it to a place among the highest productions of had not been spoiled by the finale. human intellect. He made a discovery in lit- As a delineator of human character, Scott erature ; and the merit of that discovery is is an acknowledged master. When we regard evinced by its salutary effects upon succeeding him in this light we are at once struck hj the generations. He was the first to show how fertility of his invention, and by the force and history ought to be made available for the fidelity of his pictures. In variety and origin- purposes of fiction. It is true that works ality no writer but Shakespeare has ever bearing the appellation of historical novels equaled him. Others may have equaled, had existed before ; but they were historical perhaps surpassed him, in the elaborate finish- in a different sense. They merely availed ing of some single portrait, but certainly none themselves of historical names and events, save Shakespeare has ever contributed so and gave to their characters the manners and largely, so valuably, to our collection of char- sentiments either of the present period, or, acters, of pictures so surprisingly original, yet more commonly, of none at all. They evinced once seen, admitted immediately to be con- ;

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 135 formable to nature. The charge is sometimes without its having been conveyed so much by brought against Scott, that there is a sameness personal description as by the insight given us about his characters ; that one bears too much into the peculiarities of disposition. In the resemblance to another ; for instance, that description of external objects, and particu- Helen McGregor, Meg Merrilies, and Noma, larly of what ma]' be called natural scenery, are copies from the same original. But the the author has been successful beyond all author draws from nature, and there is a writers subsequent to Milton. sameness about nature. One mountain re- A distinction is to be made between mere sembles another, one valley resembles another, copiousness of descriptive diction, and a rich and we should condemn the painter as lacking and judicious selection of images; between skill who should endeavor to represent a hill passages which please the ear and those which or vale unlike anjr that ever existed or were convey a distinct impression to the mind. It

ever painted before. So the varieties of fea- is essential in a description of visible objects,

ture in the human race can not be very great that it should place the reader in the situation either in face or mind. of a spectator. We wish to be told, not the The innumerable shades of difference that objects that might ultimately excite attention, we see, depend upon expression ; and any but those which would strike the senses at hasty or unobservant eye which does not once. A multiplicity of details is tiresome notice this expression will think that every and no description, however complete, can be

man bears a resemblance to every other man. effective if it contains more particulars than The more delicate touches which make up the the mind can embrace at one view, and, with- expression of character will escape him. It out a painful effort of the memory, retain.

is such observers only who have complained From these various errors into which

of sameness of character in the Waverley descriptive writers often fall, Scott is compar- Novels. Doubtless the author has faults, but atively free. His descriptions are clear, vivid,

this is not one of them. The descriptions of and intelligible. They have none of those persons are distinguished chiefly by their affectations of diction which are the resources

picturesqueness. We always seem to behold of ordinary writers. All is written as if the the persons described. Dress, manner, feat- object aimed at was to be understood. ures, and bearing are so vividly set before us In reviewing the productions of a great

that the mental illusion is rendered as com- writer, interesting as it may be to examine

plete as words can make it. This method has their general character and the nature of those

the merit of individualizing imaginary persons merits upon which their i ime is founded it is

in a remarkable degree, and is well suited to perhaps still more interesting to trace their the nature of the: novel. influence upon literature. That of the Wav- it effects much df what, in the drama, erley Novels has been great beyond example.

is supplied by the actor who represents For novel writing in general, Scotl has doue

character on the stage'. Nor is it to he much; lie has made it a more creditable ex-

is affirmed that, although picturesqueness the ercise of ability than it was before considered : prominent characteristic of his descriptions of and thus invited toil many writers who might

persons, In- does not also display considerable otherwise have considered it unworthy of their

skill in exhibiting the disposition and qualities I. We have learned, too, how greatly the of the mind. There are several characters, Sphere of the no\el may he extended, and how such as Colonel Mannering and Bailie Jarvie, capable it is of becoming the vehicle of almost of whom we have a very vivid impression, every species of popular knowledge. 136 B WD OIN ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. petus will be given, by its presence, to college music.

PUBLISHED EVEET ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- The price of the book will be seventy-five ING THE COLLEGIATE TEAR, AT cents. It was at first understood that it would BOWDOIN COLLEGE, be issued at a smaller cost, but the expense of the music-printing was so large as to make By the Class of 1876. this impossible. Alumni or others wishing for copies by EDITORS. Arlo Bates, E. H. Kimball, mail can obtain them postpaid, by enclosing C. H. Clark, J. G. Libby, one dollar to A. T. Parker, or to J. E. Chap- C. T. Hawes, J. A. Morrill, man, Brunswick. W. H. G. Rowe.

Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies, One characteristic of good breeding, and 15 cents. a most important one, is thoughtfulness. A Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, kindly regard for the comfort and pleasure of Brunswick, Maine. others should not be beneath the care of any For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Deuni- student ; and it is remarkable how much may son's, Brunswick. be effected by a little watchfulness. Students who live in the dormitories are CONTENTS. more or less at the mercy of their neighbors ; Vol. V., No. 12.—December 15, 1875. and while every man may have a technical New and Old 133 right to turn his room into a bedlam, he cer- Writing Editorials 133 tainly has no moral right to produce or allow Scott and His Novels 134 an uproar which renders work or study im- Editorial Notes 136 possible in the End. Local 1 39 Then there is the boy who, coming home Alumni Notes 141 Editors' Table 142 after the End is asleep, wants to let the fel- lows know that he was out late, and so makes the night hideous with uncouth yells. EDITORIAL NOTES. We all know the men who practice upon the hideous intricacies of the "Swiss warble" The new song book, which was promised with such appalling pertinacity, and a shud- last term, will be ready the 18th inst. der creeps over us as we hear from afar their The book is to be called " Songs of Bow- approaching yells. doin," and will be bound in flexible brown In numberless ways and in numberless cloth. The songs have been chosen with re- places, men are made to suffer disgust or pain gard to their utility, and songs otherwise good from the mere ill-bred thoughtlessness of their have been rejected because they did not seem fellows. And these veiy offenders are often adapted to actual use by college glee clubs. so good-hearted that they would share their That Bowdoin is not an eminently musical last quarter with a friend, or take a fifteenth college, is a well-known fact, and hence the mark for prompting some luckless wight help- difficulty of getting together a collection of less in the hands of a Prof. It is impossible songs. Doubtless there will be numberless to be long or seriously angry with such men, criticisms and objections when the book ap- but we after all rather dread to have them pears, but it is to be hoped that a new im- about. A little care and thought on their BOWDOIN ORIENT. 137 part would mend it all, and they themselves a college history, of great or little importance, would after all be not the slightest gainers. will be received with thanks.

held at To the average student mind, there is a The Boating Convention was certain charm in whatever comes down from Springfield, Dec. 1st. Bowdoin sent Mr. Stevens the romantic past of college life, whether in Sargent as Senior delegate, and Mr. the form of airy and doubtful tradition, or in as second. Much of the time was passed in discussion of the merits of the various places something more substantial and credible ; a for of '76. place charm that is felt in all its force by the Fresh- proposed the regatta No man, and grows less and less as he advances was fixed upon ; Saratoga, Springfield, and are the places, one of which will in the college scale,—without, however, losing New London 7 is that all its force, even in Senior year. probabl} be chosen, and it rumored the Our attention has been called of late to latter is perhaps the most favored. certain heirlooms now in possession of differ- It was voted to row with coxswains, and ent undergraduates. The first among these in heats if necessary. associa- is a banner, now at No. 5 A. H. On the re- Trinity was re-admitted into the verse are inscriptions that tell something of tion, and the constitution so amended that its age and history. From these we leam that any college prevented from rowing by the it first came into the college world in '57, as a death of one of its crew, shall not lose its possession of a political society known as the membership. " Scott and Graham Club." After the dis- Thomas Hughes will be invited to act as banding of this association, it became in 1864 referee, and if he does not accept, Mr. Chittis, the property of the " South End Dramatic President of the London Rowing Association, Club," and from this club came through the will be asked to take his place. successive classes to its present owner. It was also voted that the regatta com-

The next heirloom is the " Zeta Psi cane," mittee at once invite the navies of Oxford, an ancient-looking banger, that, as its name Cambridge, and Trinity College (Dublin), implies, is an attachment to that fraternity. to row an international race in the United

Since the organization of the chapter in 1868, States next summer ; date and place to be it has been in the possession of some member agreed upon: each boat to be manned with of the Sophomore delegation, and is now held six oarsmen and rowed without a coxswain. at No. — A. II. Hereafter, onby one delegate will be allowed

Next on our list is a pencil drawing, with- to each college. out date or name, of the college buildings. It Officers were elected as follows : Presi- of was evidently executed some time prior to dent, Mr. Stevens Bowdoin ; Vice Presi-

1848, as it includes the old chapel. dent, Mr. Warner of Trinity; Secretary, Mr.

In the editorial sanctum is an engraving of ('aid well of Hamilton ; Treasurer, Mr. Haynes the Alpha Delta Phi arms, that since '56 lias of Williams. The next meeting will be held passed from one class to another, being always at Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, on the held by a member of the Senior delegation of 4th of January, 1876. the fraternity. We are reminded of several other " hand- Sitting in our sanctum one evening, en- downs," but are not able at this time to look gaged in looking over some book-catalogues, them up. we overheard the following dialogue from Information concerning anything that has the next mom, where '•Brown. .Tones, and 138 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Robinson " had just finished a game of tate," Avhatever reason Avas " His to Give." Avhist. Who would want their " Wives and Daugh-

" 1 hadn't any ' Trumps,' " said Brown. ters" or "Brothers and Sisters" to read a

"I had only 'Three Little Spades,'" an- book with such a title ? swered Jones, "and I 'Played Out' 'One of Many names, too, seem to us to be only

' Them ' By Mistake.' There were in either parts of sentences. As: "'Eugene, A ram'

' of our 'Hands, Not Hearts' enough for a good is on the lawn." "0 no ; it is only a Black suit." Sheep.'" " 'Anna, Hammer' in that nail."

" ' ' What's to Be Done ' next? " asked Rob- "Let 'Adam Brown' The Toast';" etc. inson. And thus, half asleep in our "Grand- " " I must mend my vest," said Jones ; but father's Chair," we mused of Men, Women, Brown broke in— and Books," and recalled, Avith " Wonder, "Never mind your 'Sowing; the Wind' Stories" Ave have heard of the " Marriage" of has gone down, and we're 'In Duty Bound' "The Midnight Sun" Avith "The Daughter to call on 'Miss Van Kortland' 'Sooner or of Night." Then Ave were reminded of our Later.'" " Brother's Wife" and " Her Lord and Mas-

" ' ? " Ought We to Visit Her ' returned ter," and speculated which of the " Tavo

" ' Robinson. Stern Necessity ' compels, I Marriages" would prove the happier. Just- suppose. Let me 'Look to the End' of this then there came " A Rap at the Door."

! ' ' " ' " book first. Now and Then ' there's A Good Come ' " Ave cried ; and in walked Dr. Thing' in it." Thorne." He lives only "A Day's Ride" "Pshaw!" said Jones. "Let's get a from the " City and Suburb," yet we had not lunch at the depot ' On Our Way' ' Through met for " One Year." the Town.'" I ate only 'A Mouthful of "I have 'No Intention,' " he said, after "A Bread' and an 'Olive' for supper." Kind Greeting," " to bore you with an auto-

"The sky is all 'Clouded; Happiness' biography ; but I fear I have been subject to is 'Inside' to-night," said Brown, looking out ' Misrepresentation.' We are ' Not so Bad

" ' ' of the window. How White Lies ' the as We Seem,' but The Way We Live Now' snow where it is 'Caste' by the wind. It you must ' Take Care Whom You Trust.' I " Avill be bad ' Underfoot.' was one of ' Three Clerks,' who, ' North and "I hope 'Miss Van Kortland' will be South,' had often been 'On Guard' 'Under " ' Quite Alone,' said Jones, as they went the Ban' -ner of freedom together. I was down stairs. 'Hand and Glove' Avith one, named 'Jack.'

We heard them no more, but Ave fell into When Ave left the army, he had an ' Inherit- a train of " Meditation" concerning the names ance' of 'Half a Million of Money,' all in " of books. Perhaps being " Too Much Alone ' Hard Cash.' ' " What Will He Do With

Ave are "Forever and Ever" "Musing," and It?"' I said to my- ' Self.' He loved 'A often are "All in the Dark" about "Common Charming Girl ' to Avhom he presented me.

Things." We " Cant " see, for instance, when She Avas ' In Silk Attire,' and had ' Three

' an author has named a book "Belial," what Feathers ' and a Blue Ribbon ' in her hat. he could say for himself if " Called to Ac- She Avore a ' White Jacket,' but she had a count." Even if "He Knew He Was Right," 'White Hart' also. Still she Avas not 'Too his " Destiny " might place him " In That Good for Him,' for he Avas 'Maid of Honor'

7 State of Life' where he Avould be thought as it Avere. I had just received ' Notice to "A Simpleton" by all "Dames of High Es- Quit' 'Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings' to make HOUD W flNMMMU

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room for ' A Commercial Traveler.' I there- A number are taking boxing lessons of

' fore took a Small House at Allington ' to be Mr. Smyth, the director of the gymnasium.

near Jack. ' Hannah ' —for so was ' His Love Prof.—" Does this world afford more disci- ' called—had Only Herself ' to consult, so the pline for virtue or for vice ? " Student—"Yes, wedding was fixed upon for ' Midsummer

sir ; I think it does." Eve.' 'For Her Sake' the young girls put

'New-comes' in their 'False Heir'; and up Waitt and Stimson are to have charge of 'Rosa' 'May-pole' 'On the Green,' around the ball at the end of the term, after the Sen- which (hey danced, as you see doves and other ior and Junior exhibition.

' Foul Play ' in the sun. Their cheeks glowed It is quite curious to notice how much im- as in a 'Blight Morning' in Autumn you proved the attendance upon recitation be- may, although ' The Last Leaf ' is ' Dead, Sea comes when a class begins to review. Fruit' still clinging to ' The Topmost Bough.'

Hannah danced with ' me Once and Again,' It is to be hoped that the custom of sing- for it for — was 'Nothing New' me to dance ing in chapel at Sunday evening prayers will 'Hard, Times' without number, with either be continued through the winter term. ' Married or Single.' Jack felt touched on 'A Point of Honor,' and lost his 'Self-Con- Adjourns from gymnasium have been quite frequent, owing to coldness of the on trol.' We, who had been together ' Night room account of the lack of proper fuel to burn in and Morning ' for years, had high words at the stoves. last. But Hannah stepped in. ' Her Face

as ' was Her Fortune,' and she was True to Prof.—" The law is, then, that virtue

Herself ' she soon made us 'Quits.' '"Put should lie rewarded, and vice punished.

' Yourself in His Place," she said. 'It was What should you say if we saw vice triumph- •'A Terrible Temptation"; "Can You For- ing?" Sen.—"It would be a violation of give Her" and me?' I said. He relented; the main (e) law." and 'After Dark' they were made 'Man and " The new " red store " on Main street of- Wife.' So it all came ' Riedit at Last.' fers rare inducements in the shape of oysters,

etc. It is said that the proprietor is obliging LOCAL. and gives entire satisfaction. It is a good chance to pay up treats, bets, and the like. Weak eyes are quite prevalent. Miss Cavendish, the English actress, is Next term begins Jan. i>, 1876. coming, and some one remarks that sin; is line-cut. Then the critics can puff her if they '• •• " " Have you got into a stage yet? chews. Norristotvn Herald.

'77 lias organized a Shakespeare Club. When she conic- the Herald will of course

be ready to back 'er. A College Glee Club is to be organized soon. Brunswick seems to offer some attractions, despite her cold winters, to her former inhab- " > Slippery ? Yes. very, ( ! only itants, I'm- quite a number of the College a slight bruise, thank you." Alumni can be seen frequenting her stn

The Juniors and Sophomores declaim to- It is so very lively at present thai we do gether. Why not have lie' rest of the Col- not wonder that they find it pleasant to In- lege present ? back once more. — — —

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First Senior— " Have yon seen the Presi- new scholarships have been added to the list, dent's message ? " Fresh, (wonderingly) and that there is a longer list of acknowledg- " " No, what message ? Second Senior ments than usual. As in the last catalogue, " Why, the message of the Prex. to the the undergraduates and their departments Faculty." Fresh.—"Indeed! Is it custom- are sandwiched in between the names of the ary ? " (Fresh, is seen paying for three stews medical class and the matter relating to their

" • of students catalogued two hours later, at the red store."} , course. The number is one hundred and forty-eight. Scene in recitation. Prof.—"What are in which see some of the common forms we A meeting of the Executive Committee of of the nickel?" Student— " Well, most the State Base -Ball Association was held in carry some round in their pockets in students — Portland, Nov. 29th, to consider certain the shape of coin." Prof. " I thought that charges which the Bates Base -Ball Associa- complaint at present was a lack of that." the — tion had brought forward against the Bow- Student " Most of them have common cents, doin Base -Ball Association, relating to the ' 7 however." 7, possession of the championship flag. Both The following addition has been made to Associations sent representatives. Sanford, the " Course of Summer Instruction for the '76, presented the Bowdoin side of the ques- year 1876." Arrangements have been made tion. After hearing both arguments and for Botanical Instruction, under the charge of thoroughly understanding the facts of the Mr. F. Lamson Scribner, B.S. There are case, the committee adjourned and brought in three distinct branches of study — Chemis- a verdict in favor of Bowdoin. Comments try, Mineralogy, Botany, any two of which are unnecessaiy. may be selected to form a course. The following is the programme of the It has been and still is quite a common Senior and Junior Exhibition, Dec. 20th, practice for the students to visit the High 1875:— recitations. School in town and listen to the Latin Salutatory Libby. Now why would it not be perfectly proper English Translation from Tacitus Little. for any of the young ladies of Brunswick, if A Century's Growth Andrews. they wish, to attend the college recitations ? Mental Discipline Bates. English Translation from Schiller Peary. It would certainly be an inducement for bet- Oliver Cromwell Kimball. ter lessons and for better behavior. Heredity of the Imagination Payne. A most lamentable ignorance of geogra- English Translation from Demosthenes Roberts. Moral Energy Perry. phy has been shown in '76, and it is proposed The Philosophy of Strikes Sargent. for their benefit that an optional course in English Translation from Napoleon Sewall. Cornell's Geography be put in action next Modern Socialism Waitt. term. When a Senior doesn't know where

Mt. Vesuvius is, or places the source of the Yellowstone river in the southern part of 1st Junior—" Jack, if I had ten uncles the United States, it is time that something whose wives were all living, and I should should be done. take your overcoat, by what right could The new catalogues for 1875-6 are out. I retain it?" Jack pauses. 1st Junior They are similar to those of 1874-5 in appear- " By the Ulster Tenant Right." Pol. Econ.

ance and arrangement. We notice that four did it. Advocate. BOWDOIN OBIENT. 141

ALUMNI NOTES. Thomas H. White, merchant, Bangor, Me. Wight, teaching somewhere in [We earnestly request contributions for this John G. department from the Alumni and Friends of the N. Y. State. College.] Webster Woodbury, clergyman, Ashland, We are indebted to the Secretary, Rev. Mass. Boston, Mass. Win. H. Pierson, for the following record of John H.Woods, musician, lawyer, Odell, 111. the Alonzo P. Wright, Class of '64. '69.—Wm. K. Woodwell has been sup- Fred H. Appleton, practicing law in Ban- plying the Plymouth Congregational Church gor, Me. at Kalamazoo, Mich. Charles Bennett, lawyer, Mattoon, 111. '73._Died in Bangor, Me., Nov. 27,1875, Charles Curtis, teaching somewhere in William A. Blake, after a sickness lasting N. Y. State. about a week and terminating in inflamma- Owen W.»Davis, engaged in manufactur- tion of the bowels. During his college ing, Thomaston, Me. course he was recognized as an earnest stu- John E. Dow, Jr., lawyer in New York dent of high ability, being especially noted as City. a graceful writer. Appointed to take part in Albert O. Fellows, practicing law in Chi- many exhibitions, he uniformly acquitted him-

cago, 111. self in an able manner ; he was adjudged the Nahum W. Grover, clergyman in Bethel, successful competitor for the '68 prize. In Me. his Senior year and at his graduation he re- John C. Harkness, teaching in Wilming- ceived an oration. Although thus devoted ton, Del. to study, he was ever ready to give encour- Myron M. Hovey, merchant, Boston (?), agement to other college undertakings, and Mass. was highly esteemed by his classmates. After Henry N. W. Hoyt, Supt. of Schools, graduation he entered upon the study of law New Brighton, Penn. at the Boston University, from which he

Edward C. Ingersoll, lawyer, Washington, graduated last Spring ; a short time after, he D.C. was admitted to the bar at Bangor. By his Charles Jewett, practicing medicine in death the class of '73 loses one of its most Brooklyn, N. Y. promising members, one whose prospects of Augustus F. Libby, merchant, with A. J. success were of the most brilliant character. Libby & <'<>., 47 and 49 White St., N. Y. The local paper thus speaks of him: "He Chas. F. Libby, lawyer, firm id' Butler & was a young man of few pretensions, but of

Libby, '.'1 Middle St.. Portland, Me. true merit and solid worth, and it was the Franklin Littlefield, merchant, Saco, Mr. recognition of these characteristics which won

James McKeen, lawyer in New York City. for him such universal esteem and friendship. Nathaniel Melcher, Professor of Mathe- Although quiet in his manner, he formed a matics in Colby University, Waterville, Me. large circle of friends, who cannot soon re- Henry T. F. Merrill, lawyer, Chicago, 111. place him." Wm. 11. Pierson, clergyman, No. Sonier-

ville, Mass. It is to be hoped that tho Adrian Coll. Recorder

A. Robbius, merchanl in New Yov\ it certainly is Dot apparent in Chas. has raison W€lret but City. outsiders. —

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EDITORS' TABLE. undoubtedly receive, as they deserve, we take pleas- ure in being the first to offer ours. "We have had the pleasure of examining advance The Vassar Mis. has a profound, but alas ! very sheets of The Bugle, and, though forced to give them incoherent comparison between Tennyson and Moth- a somewhat hasty examination, are yet fully con- er Goose. Some Vassar miss is disgusted with the vinced that this Bugle is superior to any before pub- boldness of the Beggar Maid who outwitted "the lished here. The number of cuts is unprecedentediy simple King Cophetua," and thinks that "Mother large, and most of them are very cleverly executed. Goose's heroines seem more modest maidens," but One of the wittiest hits in the book is the P Y tomb- the miss adds, " She may have more strongly felt stone on page 45, which is as happily executed as it is the necessity of modesty in our sex." Who the conceived. The cuts facing the classes in the cata- "modest maidens" among Mother Goose's heroines logue are excellent, especially the oue for '79. The were, may be an open question ; certainly not the editorial is, perhaps, all that could reasonably be "pretty lass" who

expected ; and yet one who takes up every new Bugle "Invited [her lover] to her own house, with a half-hope that it may have an editorial less Where "ft he'd been before, disappointing than its predecessors, will hardly find a And tumbled him into the hog-tnb." realization of that hope here. We think we appre- Not that arrant, jilting flirt, Jenny .Wren, who ac- ciate the difficulty of producing an entertaining cepted Robin Redbreast's attentions while she was editorial for The Bugle; yet we still live in the hope ill, and then, when of the coming of the man with originality to plan, " She trot well, and stood upon her feet, ability and independence to execute, a "new and She told Robin plainly she loved him not a bit." departure" in this line. We do not wish to be over- Not the famous lady who at Banbury-cross made critical, especially as The Bugle is really so excellent; such an indelicate exposure of her bell-furnished but it seems to us that the conception of the book, ideas of modesty may be per- toes ; and, unless our its illustrations, and general plan, are much better mitted to outrun the prejudices of modern society, than the execution of the literary work. The quota- certainly not the frank Aunis: tions are neither very numerous nor very good. A " Senior, too, might take exception to the sentiment I'll marry yon," said Thomas. " " ! said Annis " Marry me ; expressed in the account of the fall regatta : The " I prithee, love, tell me when?" rules of the race seemed to be satisfactory to all." " Next Sunday," said Thomas. Considering the well-known feeling of '76 in regard "Next Sunday," said Annis; " " I wish next Sunday were come ! to the race, it might have been in better taste to avoid such a reference. In the list of awards for The Vassar girls may be of the same ilk as the 1875, The Bugle follows the error of the new Cata- "little maid" who to au honest proposal logue in regard to the prizes for English Composi- .... replied, Some say a little smiled, tion. Two first prizes were given, oue to Hall and " But what shall we have for to eat, eat, eat ? one to Patten. Two second prizes (omitted alto- Will the love that you're so rich in

' Catalogue and Bugle) were awarded Make .a fire in the kitchen gether by both " Or the little god of Love turn the spit, spit, spit ? to Swasey and Whittemore. Wc are also at a loss —although it may arise from a misapprehension on There have not been wanting instances where men our part,—to see the beauty or advantage of call- have been foolish and headstrong in their love- ing the Jauitor of the Gymnasium an "Assistant willing to undergo most unnecessary privations for Superintendent." the object of their gushing affections; but a modern But these are, after all, mostly minor blemishes, young lady may safely be trusted in the most tempt- and if we do not particularize further the merits of ing situations without the slightest danger that she or propriety. Vet wo do the work, it is because they are so evident ; and we will forget either purse wish to warn future Buglers of faults so easily not quite understand the mood of the Vassar young avoided if noticed. lady. Has some simple Hu.ni.vR Maui displaced The typography and general appearanco of the her ladyship in the affections of her "simple King book are most excellent; ami wc may end as we Cophetua"? Alas! your ladyship, this is a world best Bugle yet issued Patience is needful even to the began, by pronouncing it the ; of vicissitudes. and a work of which '77 may justly be proud. high and mighty. Still peruse your fashion-plates, Among the congratulations which the editors will and mingle with tuo litany, comments upon your ; —

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Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, JANUARY 26, 1876. No. 13.

THE LOVERS. fine taste, his generous interest in whatever affected the welfare and good name of the "I come from golden fountains, Beyond yon sky of blue; College, his gentle courtesy and uniform The icy arms of yon mountains friendliness of disposition, and especially his I laughingly slipped through. eminently devout spirit, and his known

" And down through the clouds I darted, standing among the clergy of the State, eon- Clouds full of storm and rain spired to give him access to the confidence Thus far have I come broken -hearted, and respect of all. Several in successive Sweet Rain-Drop, to love you again." classes have been numbered among the The Rain- Drop blushed, and sadly fruits of his ministry. He is probably asso- Replied in words too true: ciated with the peculiarly vivid recollections "The Wind is my father, and badly Endures these addresses from you. of college life in the memories of two-thirds, at least, of the whole number of graduates of " And ah ! if he found us together, the College. He would slay me thee before; And then, fair Sir, you could never He was one to be remembered. His voice Come to woo me any more. of melodj', his sententious, pointed, and now and then on fitting occasions what might be "Alas! I would that his grievance —

But hark, Sky is rolling his drums, regarded as humorous, utterances, linger in And the Trees are all making obeisance — the memories of his hearers. He had a wr ay The Wind, my father, comes!" of "putting things'' which had the effect

But true hearts nothing can sever, even of wit, always refined and delicate, Wherover true hearts be may ; never discordant with his ministerial office. The Sunbeam aud Bain -Drop together His emphatic way of presenting truth, as also Leaped downward into the Sea. Omicron. the appropriateness, fervor, pathos, and vari- ety of his devotional services, and particu- larly on special occasions, readily occur when REV. (JKORGE ELIASIIIB ADAMS, D.D. wr e think of him as our pastor. We may re- The announcement of his death must have fer to one occasion of deep interest to the awakened more than common interest in a College, the funeral service over the remains large number of the Alumni. Very rarely of Prof. Cleaveland, and the prayer offered has a college community been favored with by Dr. Adams, so peculiarly affecting, and so the influence of a ministry so long, constant, admirably adapted to the impressive scene. and well esteemed. From December, 1820, He was never slow to render efficient service to ilic midsummer of 1870, a large proportion on the many such occasions which test the cif thr forty classes who graduated from the power of a minister in a pastorate so long ami College constituted an important and most so prominent, and never failed to meet them interesting part of the congregation to which acceptably ami impressively. lie preached. His attractive person, his bear- Horn in Worthillgton, Mass.. Oct. 27th, ing as a gentleman, his liberal culture and 1801, his childhood and youth spent in Bucks- ;

146 B0WD01N ORIENT. port, then Buckstown, whither his father re- December 30th. Suitable measures had been moved in 1803, and afterwards in Bangor adopted in token of respect and love. The consecrated from his birth to the ministry of church was appropriately draped, and the the Gospel, at the age of thirteen entering by business of the village suspended during the public profession upon a Christian life. He hours of service. The body of the church graduated from Yale in 1821, and from the was filled with a sympathizing congregation Theological Seminary, Andover, in 1826. gathered from all the religious societies, and From the chair of Sacred Literature, Theol- from all parts of the town, and from other ogical Seminary, Bangor, in 1829, he was towns. Portions of Scripture were read by called to the pastorate of the Congregational Rev. Dr. Wheeler of Topsham; addresses Church, Brunswick. In 1870, apprehending made by Rev. Mr. Byington, who succeeds Dr. the near approach of such infirmity as age Adams in the ministry, by Rev. Dr. Fiske of

brings with it, and feeling the pressure of a Bath, and by Prof. A. S. Packard. Prayers large and important parochial change, he were offered by Messrs. Bjdngton and Pack-

sought relief ; and, against the united remon- ard. Appropriate pieces of music were per-

strances and amidst the regrets and tears of formed by the church choir ; and the remains

his people, removed to Orange, N. J., where of the pastor of forty-six years were tenderly with renewed vigor he undertook, as a sup- borne to burial amid the graves of his house-

ply, the charge of a new Congregational hold and people, to sleep until the morning church and society. The experiment, some- of the Resurrection. P. what hazardous for one verging on three-score and ten, proved eminently successful, as shown by the prosperity of the new enterprise and THE ADVANTAGE OF A PURPOSE the strong hold he secured on the respect, IN LIFE. confidence, and warm regard of his new peo- To those who are just starting out upon ple, and of that community. His pastoral the voyage of life, the advantage of having a relation, however, to his Brunswick people fixed purpose by which to be guided can was never. dissolved except by his own death. scarcely be over-estimated. Life may be He died at the age of seventy-four years and compared to a vast ocean, whose surface at two months. times appears calm and tranquil. Its waters

In the summer of 1874, while on a visit at sparkle brightly in the sunlight, its waves Bangor, he was seized suddenly in a neighbor- gently rise and break upon the shore, and ing town, whither he had gone to supply the nothing interferes to disturb the peaceful se-

pulpit of a relative, with what seemed a fatal renity which rests upon it. But presently a illness. His Brunswick church, hearing that change comes on. Dark storm-clouds gather he was apparently drawing near death, com- in the sky, and cast their gloomy shadows municated to his friends the request that, in around like so many grim fore-runners of the the event of his decease, his remains should approaching tempest. The surface, swept by be brought and interred -in the cemetery the raging winds, becomes rough and boister- where rest those of members of his own fam- ous, and what was before only -the gentle ily, and of a generation of his former people. breaking of the waves upon the shore becomes In accordance with this request and his own the wild crashing and roaring of an angry expressed wishes, his remains were brought surf.

from Orange ; a funeral service was held in Was an_y mariner so ignorant of the nat- the church where he had so long preached, ure of the mighty deep, or so regardless of his B0WD01N ORIENT. 147 own safety, as to embark without compass or Again, a fixed purpose serves as a shield rudder by which to guide his frail ship ? If to protect one from the temptations of life. so, he now becomes aware of his folly. Noth- Events are constantly transpiring which tend ing can save him from the sure and terrible fate to draw us from the path of rectitude. Many which awaits him. His frail bark is driven a young man enters college with bright pros- hither and thither at the mercy of tiie raging pects opening upon him for the future ; but winds, and at length dashed to pieces upon the temptations which are there thrown around the rocks, a total wreck. him prove too strong for him. He yields, and But the mariner who wisely provided his oftentimes all his hopes for the future are ship with compass and rudder, sees his advan- ruined. tage when the storm arises. His ship, now A young man is starting in business. His completely under his control, bids defiance to habits are sound and his aspirations noble. the tempest, outrides the swollen waves, and But in the course of his dealings, he is thrown reaches her harbor in safety. Just so it is in into contact with men whose principles are life ; a fixed purpose is the rudder which not so good as his own. Little by little he is guides men through the storms of adversity, persuaded to yield to the enticements of the as well as the calms of prosperity, safe to the unscrupulous, and is led to adopt their princi- destined haven of success. ples and habits. Let us consider for a moment some of the These examples are not mere products of special advantages to be gained from having a the imagination, nor are they isolated cases. fixed purpose in life. In the first place, it en- They occur right about us in every-day life, ables a man to develop all his powers, and and very blind must we be if we do not see use them in the best manner; in a word, to them. make the most of himself as a man. Now we contend that if a young man has Those people who wander along aimlessly some great and worthy motive constantly in through life, resorting now to this, now to his mind, and regulates all his principles and that occupation, and succeeding in nothing, actions in accordance with that motive, the simply on account of their lack of application, chances of his yielding to temptation will be are not the ones who make life a success. greatly diminished. His thoughts will be Their very fickleness overshadows what good constantly directed towards that purpose, qualities they may chance to possess, and it is until, like some magic charm, it will gain pos- an undeniable fact that the world would be session of his whole soul, and naught can re- better off without them. lease him from its influence. Not so with the man who in early life Such are sonic of the advantages resulting fixes upon some honorable occupation, in from a fixed purpose in life. Happy is the which he intends to serve the best interests of man who has such a purpose by which in lie his fellow men. Actuated by such a motive, guided, for in this manner will he besl secure he is prepared to grapple with all (lie obsta- the great end of life. cles which may arise. All his energies are concentrated upon gaining his object, and success is as sure to follow from such a course Prof, (to his class) — "Where docs the failure its as from opposite. Such a man be- expression occur for joy of one found? I comes one of earth's benefactors, and is sure think it is in the place where it speaks of the to find his reward in his own conscience, as ninety-nine sheep thai were lost and the one " in well as the approval of others. that was stolen ! ; —;

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Bowdoin Orient. shall be obliged to call your attention to the matter. PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT The second annual oratorical contest of BOWDOIN COLLEGE, the Inter-collegiate Literary Association oc- curred on the evening of Jan. 4th, at the By the Class of 1876. Academy of Music ; eleven colleges being EDITORS. represented. Arlo Bates, E. H. Kimball, The first prize was awarded to Elliott of H. Clark, J. G. Libby, C. Hamilton, the second to Tompkins of Cor- C. T. Hawes, J. A. Morrill, nell. The prize for best essay on Dickens W. H. G. Rowe. and Thackeray Compared, was given to Heath Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies, of Cornell. Prize for essay on Universal Suf- 15 cents. frage was divided between Spencer of New Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, York and Lawrence of Northwestern Uni- Brunswick, Maine. versity. The first and second prizes for For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- Mathematics were awarded to Palmer of Cor- son's, Brunswick. nell and Halstead of Princetown, respectively. The first prize in Greek was given to Miss CONTENTS. Thomas of Cornell ; the second to Veghte of Vol. V., No. 13.—January 26, 1876. Rutgers. The Lovers 145 The college press are divided in opinion Rev. George Eliashib Adams, D.D 145 as to the success of the Inter-collegiate Liter- The Advantage of a Purpose in Life 146 ary Association—speaking of it variously as a Editorial Notes 148 second-rate baby show ; a worthy but puerile Local 151 ; and a magnificent success. Alumni Notes 353 effort Editors' Table ]53 Jan. 5th, New York had the honor of wit- EDITORIAL NOTES. nessing the adjourned meeting of the Inter- collegiate Athletic Association. Delegates We have sent notices, at least once, to were present from Amherst, Brown, Colum- nearly every subscriber among the Alumni bia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, and to most who did not heed the first notice, Trinity, Union, Wesleyan, Williams, Yale, we have sent a second one. Yet there are a and College of City of New York. It was large number who have not forwarded their decided to have the following contests: 1st, subscription. We wish you would pay atten- One-hundred yards dash ; 2d, One-quarter-

; 4th, tion to this matter and not delay longer. If mile run ; 3d, One-half-mile run One- there are any among the Alumni who do not mile run; 5th, Three-mile run; 6th, One- wish to longer continue their subscription, we hundred-and-twenty-yards hurdle race (ten wish, at least, they would now square up and hurdles); 7th, One-mile walk; 8th, Three- high 10th, give such notice. It really seems to us very mile walk ; 9th, Running jump ; negligent to delay sending the small sum of Running long jump ; 11th, Putting the shot two dollars after repeated notices have called 12th, Three-legged race. For Graduates your attention to the fact of your indebted- 13th, One-mile run ; 14th, One-mile walk. ness. We hope this will be the last time we Saratoga was chosen as the place for the con- — — — — —

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 149 tests, and the day following the University "smaller colleges" in general ruin arrived when Talc should consider Race was appointed as the time for them to The time has seriously whether, after all, she would lose much by be held. David M. Stone, of the New York withdrawing from the Association. . . . Tale Athletic Association, was selected as referee. entered the Association predicting that it would out- grow its usefulness and become unwieldy, but at the "'So much has beeu saiil, anil, on the whole, so well same time considering that to row with Harvard .'" " Mi/ said — Double," E. E. Hale. was an end outweighing all objections then existing. Being fully convinced of our inability to But the objectionable features have multiplied and do anything like justice to the inter-collegiate increased to such prominence that it is now neces- sary to decide whether the tables are not turned, embroglio, we are obliged to use our scissors, aud the desideratum for which we entered become hoping that our readers will be able to evolve too expensive. Record, Dec. 8. something from this chaotic olla jjodrida.— In the first number of this volume of the Crim- Ed. Orient. son we expressed the opinion that Harvard could To-day the annual convention of the College not honorably withdraw from the Rowing Associa- Springfield Rowing Association meets at tion of American Colleges. We still think that at We await with considerable interest the result of the time we had no cause to justify our leaving the the meeting, since it is hinted that at least two im- Association, but the action of the convention which portant changes are to be proposed by the regatta met at Springfield last week leaves us to choose now committee, viz. : that the races be rowed in heats, between two disagreeable alternatives. We must and that the crews carry coxswains. It will be either submit to seeing questions of the greatest remembered that several weeks ago wo suggested importance in regard to inter-collegiate rowing de- the first of these changes and . . . urged the cided according to the expense they involve, rather consideration of the plan In order to than the advantages or disadvantages they would insure justice aud satisfaction to all concerned, it cause; we must suffer the minority of the college absolutely necessary that this mode of racing seems world to drag the majority along by the nose ; we should be adopted. Tale Record, Dec. 1, 1875. must subscribe to measures which common sense

The annual convention of the Rowing Associa- tells us are absurd ; or we must leave the Associa- tion of American Colleges was held last Wednesday tion. The question is now, Which of these evils is at Springfield ; and its work, although not to Har- the less? Crimson, Dec. 10. vard's disadvantage, will be likely to deepen the I wish ... to consider . . . whether conviction already existing in the minds of many, it is really true that Harvard has abundant reason that the time has come for Harvard to withdraw for taking up her connection with the Association. from the Association. The chief characteristic of . . . To bo sure she can withdraw and row the convention's doings is weakness. Harvard Ad- against two or three of tho larger colleges ; . . . vocate, Dec. 3, 1875. but, inasmuch as neither Harvard nor any one of Somo confusion was caused by the President's these larger colleges who would form the new asso- ignorance of parliamentary usage, and by the efforts ciation won at Saratoga last summer, they must, iu of a Dartmouth delegate to impress the convention leaving the Rowing Association of American Col- with a sense of the importance of his college. Yale leges, likewise leave the championship behind them, Courant, Dec. 4. and any association they may form now will hold a

Most of the timo was consumed in simultaneous second place in American amateur rowing. . . . attempts to grind small axes so numerous and dull It may lie very unfair that Harvard should lie called that the process will have to be continued at another upon to consider the needs of smaller colleges whom congress. . . . Only one sentiment seemed to be Bhe has condescended to admit to the Association, at all common, and that was an unreasonable dis- and who have been ungrateful enough t'> beal her: trust of tho motives of Talc and Harvard. The but what is to be done about it .' ... If the current opinion seemed to be that these institutions Association remains as it is fur this year, or until One had entered into a most subtle and most foul con- of the colleges that wish to withdraw (not neee>sa- spiracy, and that they only awaited a favorable rilv Harvard) wins, then the new association will

opportunity to spring their mine and engulf the In. Id the championship. It may be said that Har- —— — — — — — — —

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vard and Yale do not care for the championship of were some ho had prepared at the request of a American colleges in rowing, a? they have the pres- " friend." These he produced aud read. As his tige, and the Association will not be of any account production was well salted with witticisms, con-

without them yet it will not be so. If Cornell can ceived in a manner that he no doubt believed to be ; produce the best crew, which will make the best Attic, but which people having a regard for the time, she will hold the first place in boating, and proprieties of the time and place may be pardoned the other colleges will have to take a back seat in for thinking foolish, his performance gave the con- popular estimation. Advocate, Dec. 17. vention an air of burlesque at its very beginning.

Before we issue another number, the Rowing Advocate, Jan. 10. Association will hold a meeting in New York. Wo They [the minutes] were an iusult to the Associa- can only ask them to be just. We earnestly beseech tion, and the gentleman should have been immedi- the little colleges not to be so hard on Harvard aud ately removed from office. The Treasurer's report

Yale. Really, our friends, we do wish you well. was then presented and adopted. . . . The re- We do not want to injure your interests at all. If gatta committee then reported. Mr. Rces, of Co- we stay in the Association please be kind to us, pity lumbia, read the majority report, strongly urging our faults, aud allow us a little corner in which to Saratoga for the next regatta. He also road letters do as we like in our humble sphere. If you don't, from Trinity College, Dublin, and Cambridge Uni- we don't propose to put ourselves to very much in- versity, England, the former declining the challenge convenience to stay where we do not particularly to row with us next summer, aud the latter not be- enjoy ourselves. Conrant, Dec. 18. ing yet able to reply definitely. Mr. McCall, of

Last night a meeting was held to discuss the Dartmouth, then read the minority report, which question whether Harvard should withdraw from was a strong plea for Now London. Am. Student, Jan. 15. the Rowing Association. . . . Mr. Fenno, '64,

Mr. Ames, '66, and Mr. Roberts, 71, . . [were] The convention after some debate chose Sara- appointed a committee to confer with the Executive toga, Harvard voting with the majority in the affir- Committee, to decide whether delegates should be mative as a matter of courtesy. Advocate. sent to represent Harvard at the convention that It was then voted that the regatta be the same as meets in New York, January 4, or whether an in 1875, au attempt to have it a four mile race hav- announcement should be sent that Harvard has iug failed. The positions of the various crews wero withdrawn. Crimson, Dec. 24. then drawn by lot, No. 1 being immediately next

Well, Yale has gone aud Harvard is likely to go. the grand stand. They are as follows: 1, Har- criticisms all foolish. The we have seen are very [!] vard; 2, Brown ; 3, Trinity; 4, Williams; 5, Wes-

. . . at all like the sen- Nevertheless, we do not leyan ; 0, Cornell ; 7, Columbia ; 8, Bowdoin ; 9, Am- timents expressed by Mr. Cook to a New York 10, Princeton; 11, Hamilton; Dartmouth herst; 12, ; reporter. Dartmouth, Dec. 30. 13, Union. A letter was then read from Yale, stat- " Yale's letter, read by the Secretary of the Asso- ing that she had voted to withdraw from the Asso-

ciation, was as follows : ciation. Her resignation was accepted. It was then voted that instead of each college being rep- " ' New Havex, Dec. 27, 1875. resented by a judge as heretofore, only five judges To the Secretary of the Bowing Association of Amer- appointed, aud of at ican Colleges : — be that they be graduates

least two years' standing. . . . following Sik : At a meeting of the Yale University Boat The Club, held Dec. 21, it was voted that the Club with- '73 were elected judges: E. M. Hartwell, Amherst, ; draw from the Bowing Association of American Robert C. Cornell, Columbia, '74 ; Rufus Anderson, Colleges. You will please inform the Association Cornell, '73; G. F. Roberts, Harvard, '71; and of this action at the coming New-York Convention, as Yale will be unrepresented. In behalf of the Robert K. Cross, Princeton, '63. ... A regatta Club, very respectfully yours, ball committee of five was elected. The commit- Elmer P. Howe, President.' " tee are E. S. Rapello, Columbia, '74 ; Hamilton White, Cornell, '76; E. G. Love, Hamilton, '72 The convention of the R. A. A. C. was called to ; order by the President, in a room in the Fifth Ave- Charles Isham, Harvard, '76 ; and William Questor, nue Hotel, on the fourth of the present month. Union, '76. Student. After the roll-call, the Secretary (Caldwell of Ham- The feature of this [the afternoon] session was ilton) stated that the only minutes in his possession decidedly a debate inaugurated by the motion of — — — —

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 151 the delegate from Princeton, who moved that the though they were ashamed to have their intended choice of the members of crews he limited to un- action known until it was irrevocably decided. Acta dergraduates studying for the degrees of B. A. or Columbiana. 13. S. This proposal acted like an explosion of Yale had a perfect right to withdraw, but she

dynamite in the camps of Columbia and Cornell. took a bad time to do it in. For the last two years " Their delegates quickly "rose to explain ; Captain she has been thoroughly wiped out at the Inter-col- Goodwin, of Columbia, stating that four of his pres- legiate Regattas. In the meetings of the Associa- " ent crew wore from the School of Mines," that if tion the voice of her representatives has had no more this motion was carried he should resign his cap- weight than that of smaller colleges. Strange to taincy, aud that he had no doubt his college would say, the will of the majority has prevailed, aud Yale withdraw. Captain Ostrom, of Cornell, remarked has not been in the majority. Whether her views with feeling that the carrying of such a motion be the best or not, she has failed to get them adopted.

would leave him with one man ou his crew, and She couldn't have her own way- She wanted it, and reminded the convention that, in the days when so she withdrew. This is all perfectly natural, and Columbia and Cornell were not winning races, no no one has the slightest reason to complain of the exception was taken to the composition of their act itself. But it does seem slightly amusing when " crews, and inquired if the Association if it was Yale attempts to disparage the Association and the " afraid of his crew, did not say so ! . . . When present system of regattas. College Argus. the motion was put it was decided in the negative.

. . . The question of prizes was again taken up

at this point, and it was voted that only those offered LOCAL. by the Association should be accepted. The regatta

committee, however, were to furnish a "small me- " Your bill is ready." mento" to the members of the winning crews. " in one They were also instructed to take entire charge of White to mate move." the regatta of 1876. The races are to be started at Field's store on the corner has been closed. 10 a.m. ou the third Wednesday of next July; the the precedence. Fi- sculls and Freshmen taking The fly-door in the South end of M. H. is nally, the convention adjourned to meet again at a grand success. the Fifth Avenue Hotel, on the 2d of December, 1876.—Advocate. " The melancholy days have come, the Although Yale has withdrawn from the Rowing saddest of the year." Association, she will not disband as a University. '• Will you take a glass of water?" " No, The minor exercises and functions will go on as usual. Buffalo Express. thanks. Have sworn off."

is rumored that Dr. Noah Porter, of Yale It We understand that The Baffle is as much College, thinks of atteuding the Beccher-Moulton of a success financially as otherwise. Church Council, but it is not yet known whether Captain Cook will grant permission. The matter is " Have a cigarette, won't you?" "No, I

under consideration. Providence Press. ' thank you, I don't believe in caporal ' pun- The papers of Harvard and Yale have presented ishment." a great contrast in their manner of treating tin 1 with- How about Dancing School? We learn draw al of their respective colleges from the Associa- tion, for while the Advocate wad the Crimson bavo that it is nut possible d> obtain names enough discussed the question in an open, manly fashion, to ensure the payment of the bills. clearly disclosing to the reader the general senti- The correct tiling to do now is to lock your ment of the college, the Record and the Couranl have contained no editorials on the subject, no discussions door, "sport the oak," posl six hours for as to its advisability, and in fact have acted as study, and read fifty pages of history a day. though they wished to keep the matter secret. For is par this term. all we know to the contrary, this may have been Chess quoted above their intention, but their silence looks very much as Whist just about holds its own. Poker has 152 BOWDOIN ORIENT. no stock iu the market, and Sancho Pedro and every afternoon between four and six the has dropped entirely out of sight. gymnasium is opened for their benefit.

Capt. Caziarc has the Senior Class in Con- The following subjects have been given " stitutional Law this term, and is to have them out for Senior essays, clue Feb. 1st : Is Faith in International Law during the Summer term. Opposed to Reason? " " Origin of the English Parliament ; " " Masques of the Sixteenth The Sophomores have already begun to and Seventeenth Centuries, with a Review of see the beauties of Analytics. Learn your Milton's Comus;" "Is Our Present System of lessons and perhaps you won't get conditioned. National Banks, a Good S3r stem ?" "Should The occupants of the South End of M. H. the State Undertake the Support and Control in College, but they have the best end-woman of Colleges ? " Original declamations are due of do not dare to go into the North End W. from the Junior Class, Jan. 27th. They have H. after dark. the privilege of selecting their own subjects. The Seniors are to have debates every The subjects for Sophomore Themes, due

Wednesday afternoon throughout the present Feb. 28th, are : " What Was the Distinction term. The subjects will be taken from the between Puritans and Pilgrims ? " " The Con- Political Economy which they studied daring stitution of Clisthenes;" a Summary or Re- the Fall term. view of the "Ars Poetica''; "Does College Promote Independence of Character?" The Seniors are to have their class pic- of Boston, at his tures taken by Warren There was a meeting of the Bowdoin Washington St. He has made studio, 465 Navy in the Senior Recitation Room, Satur- terms, and it is expected that he very liberal day a.m., Jan. 14th. Com. Stevens called work. will do very nice the meeting to order. Report of Secretary The Juniors are puffing at blow-pipes and Sherman was read and accepted. Report of daubing their hands with chemicals this term. Mr. Burleigh, delegate to the last Convention Most of them are rabid in the pursuit of of the American Boating Association, was knowledge, and will doubtless come out as received, and Committee discharged. Mr. wise as their predecessors. Sargent then asked whether any action had been taken relative to sending a crew to We would venture the suggestion that it Saratoga. As no definite action had been would work well if, in the Senior debates, the taken, Mr. Wright moved " That a crew be class managed the affair completely ; elected sent to Saratoga the coming regatta." The a president and other necessary officers, and motion was seconded. Mr. Sargent then proceeded according to Cushing's Manual. obtained the floor and argued, at some length, Why can we not have lamps along the against the desirability of sending a crew. paths of our campus? They are much He thought we did not have the muscle, at needed and the expense would be very slight present, to put into a boat and win the race. if this new oil were to be used — about three He then offered an amendment to the mo- cents per night. It has been very successfully tion to insert the word not befere send. Mr. used in some cities in this State. Payson followed in a few remarks, and

Although gymnasium is not compulsory strongly favored sending a crew. He thought this term, the building is by no means de- a better crew could be raised this year than serted. About forty have signed a paper ever before. Mr. Burleigh argued in the same agreeing to take proper care of the apparatus, strain, and it was final!}' voted to send a crew. — ; —

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ALUMNI NOTES. chosen for the ensuing year: President, C.

W. Goddard ; Vice Presidents—Bion Brad- [We earnestly request contributions for this bury, Geo. F. Talbot, S. J. Anderson, G. E. department from the Alumni and friends of the B. Jackson, J. M. Brown; Recording Secre- College.] tary, Fred H. Gerrish ; Treasurer, Thos. M. '41. — Hon. F. Robie has been chosen Giveen; Executive Committee—Wm, E. Don- Speaker of the State House of Representa- nell, Ed. P. Payson, Wm. H. Moulton; Ora- tives. Mr. Robie is one of the nine gradu- tor, H. H. Hunt. ates of Bowdoin who have held that position the others are Geo. Evans '15, Speaker in EDITORS" TABLE. 1829 ; Jona. Cilley '25, in 1835-6 ; J. S. Little '25, in 1841, 1856; Jno. C. Talbot '39, in 1853; We acknowledge with pleasure the address of '46, Chas. A. Spofford in 1857 ; F. A. Pike Hawkius, Esq., before D. A. Syracuse University ; '56, '39, in 1860 ; Edwin B. Smith in 1871 at Commencement last June. The subject, The His- and W. W. Thomas '60, in 1874-5. tory, Character, and Destiny of the Anglo-Saxon Race, is as ably as it is elegantly haudled. '58.—Hon. J. P. Cilley has been chosen brought us, Adjutant General of the State. The vacation among other good things, Tick's Floral Guide for 1876; and it came '61. Hon. L. A. Emery has been chosen — as an old friend, for its face is familiar to us. Partly Attorney General. from experience, and partly from the verdict of friends whose opinions on the subject '61.—Gen. Thos. W. Hyde is President of we highly respect, we have the utmost confidence in Vick's the State Senate. The following graduates seeds, and are pleased that our possession of the of Bowdoin have in the past held that posi- editorial pen gives us an opportunity of saying so. tion : R. P. Dunlap'15, in 1827-8,1831-2; Students wishing flowers for their rooms for the '18, '22, Jos. Pierce in 1835-6 ; R. H. Vose in summer term, should send to Vick's for seeds or 1841; S. H. Blake '27, in 1842; S. H. Chase cuttings.

'32, in 1846 ; Jno. Hodgdon '27, in 1847 ; C. The Tufts Collegian has a very creditable trans- " W. Goddard '44, in 1859; Jno. H. Goodenow lation of Uuland's Minstrel's Curse." By choosing a poem so often rendered, however, the translator '52, in 1861; W. W. Virgin '44, in 1866; Jos. exposes his work to comparison with previous efforts, Crosby '.35, in 1868. and noticeably, perhaps, with the graceful version '64.—Rev. H. W. Grover, lately of Bethel, of Filmore, beginning has accepted an invitation to preach for a " In olden time a castle stood, year in Topsham. Lewhton Journal. All high and stern to view." " '74. —The Journal of Education says that W. P. S." of the Dickinsonian, not only pro- vokes criticism, but seems to challenge it in the use Mr. Chas. E. Smith has decided to remain in of " lie Givcth His Beloved Sleep," as the title of the State, instead of going to Iowa as formerly his rhymes. It is doubtful, however, if a critic can reported. be found to waste many words on the trash.

'75. Floyd is reading law in the —M. A. The Volantc is somewhat erratic in its coming, office of Strout & Gage, Portland. but when it docs put in an appearance it is "a power The annual meeting of the Bowdoin Al- and a terror." ncrc is a single line from the last number: "Chicago can boast of the offalesl rivet- umni of Portland and vicinity, was held at in the world." Could mortal editors be expected to the Falmouth Hotel on the 7th inst. The keep that thing up regular]} .' President of the Association, Jno. Rand. Esq., The College Journal for January is chiefly taken presided, and Gen. C. P. Mattocks delivered up with descriptions of the holidays, and sundry the oration. The following are the officers felicitations thereon. — — "

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The Bockford Seminary Magazine has an article tributed and selected — principally the latter, setting entitled, li Is John Smarter than I?" which for wit forth the delights of the charming vice. The paper

and wisdom deserves a wider circulation than it can is to continue "so long as it is appreciated, and

easily attain in a college periodical. . . . backed " ! In theory this is all very well, but in practice we fear — but we will uot anticipate. Whether the (Woodstock) Tyro is a magazine its having for ultimate object the conversion of the I world, is a question concerning which doubt must — exist, it is to bo supposed, until we are made Prof. " Mr. Smith, what is the German acquainted with the inner workings of the " Adel- for clear?" Smith—"Oh! hell professor—

phian Literary Society." It is strange that the — " Prof. " Leave the room instantly, sir ! — talented authoress of " Nuisances," in the Decem- Institute. ber issue, forgot to enumerate the magazine itself. Scene — Ithaca parlor. Charming Sub- The Brunonian is a paper for which we always — sing have felt a weakness ; not indeed from anything Fresh, to enamored Soph. " Now, do

which it contains, but it affords such a fine chance 'Lagerbeer Horatens' once more, won't you." for readable articles, if the editors would but write Soph, grinds out the noble air of "Lauriger" them! with ill-concealed disgust. Era. The Pritchett Institute runs largely to prize es- Old Lady (who sleeps badly) — " Now, says and clippings ; the editor's scissors must be more actively employed than his pen, and his paste- Mary, if I should want to light my candle, brush than his brain. are the matches there?" Mary —"Yes,

We are obliged to the Uni. Becord (Sewanee, ma'am, there's wan." Old Lady—"One! Tenn.) for its praise, yet cannot but feel that bet- What if it misses fire or won't light?" Mary ter spelling and more regard for grammat- common —" Oh, niver a fear ma'am. Share Itried it." ical prejudices would be a decided improvement. — Chronicle. We do not object particularly to being called the " B-o-u-doin Orient," but to be told that our "affa- A washerwoman knocks at the door of one ble criticisms " " is decidedly the most interesting of the rooms in South. A well-known '75 feature of the periodical," is rather a dubious com- man is quietly keeping a chair down, and the pliment. following dialogue takes place : Female — The Yale Courant, under its present manage- "Do you want a,r\j washing done?" '75, ment, is scarcely more refined than the Becord. with dignity — "I am a tutor, madam." The exchanges are most of them full of the vari- — Female " ! of coorse then you won't ous Inter-collegiates, a disease which is fast becom- have any done." Record. ing chronic ; but none more overflowing than the Lafayette College Journal. Not that Lafayette had the honor and happiness to obtain any of the Inter- SUCCESSFULLY collegiate, etc., prizes; but Lafayette was there, and TREATED Without the use of the enjoyed everything with the naivete of " a child of KNIFE OR CAUSTICS five years." And without pain. Address,

Dr. J\.. H- :Bx-o-wxx 7 The Cornell Era has a sonnet by " H. T., '80." 203 CnAPEL St., Truly at Cornell, " the great Cornell," as the Becord NEW HAVEN, CONN., Enclosing twenty-five cents for hath it, they advance with wonderful rapidity. Pamphlet and Postage. "And the children shall die an hundred years old." From the wilds of Hanover cometh the T. D., HOW TO LEARN PHRENOLOGY. a new journal, "devoted to the interests of smokers." "THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHRENOLOGY," 737 Broad- With such an extensive aim — for the "interests of way, N. Y., (Incorporated by the Legislature of the State), will, during the " varied smokers must bo and wide — the T. D. cer- Summer vacation, 1870, instruct a class to accommodate Teachers, Students,

tainly cannot be said to lack an object. The first Ministers, and others. Circulars, giving full explanation, sent by mail, en

issue is devoted almost exclusively to articles, con- application as above. ; —

oin

Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, FEBRUARY 9, 1876. No. 14.

A LETTER never sent HOME. HISTORICAL READING. We have sometimes thought that in Col- Tone—Derby Hani. lege there was really little disposition to pur- Deal' Dal, you brought me up to be sue historical study, outside of the absolute "A happy Christian child;"' requirements of the It is But thing-: I learned at College have course. a common My innocence beguiled, occurrence to hear somebody remark on the My innocence beguiled, sir! course of general reading in which they are My innocence beguiled, already engaged, or which they are about to And since I've faced the world I've been,

Perhaps a trifle wild. undertake, naming standard novelists, poets,

and perhaps essayists ; but seldom including I wonder if you once were so, historians to any great extent. Moreover, If, in your younger days, there is the common practice of terming his- Your songs were all revival songs, " " Commingling prayer and praise, tory dry " ; very often we hear the dry Commingling prayer and praise, sir, facts of history " mentioned. If these in- Commingling prayer and praise, stances did not occur so frequently, it would Or if you tin have stepped aside, be natural to Despising wisdom's ways. suppose that either the histor- ical reading of these persons is very limited,

I wonder if like uie you've sang or that they are of an exceedingly dull tem- To alcoholic cheer perament. If it were really so dry, we could And mentioned—when the rafters rang not expect that it would have been adopted With something like a leer,

With something like a leer, sic, so early. The narrations of the story-teller With something like a leer, of the olden time, concerning the achieve- That you were but a " Rambling Rake," ments of his tribe or nation, could not have Your Dad a " Gambolier."

been uninteresting : nor could the lays of the

Well, Dad, the-years of steady work wandering minstrel, who was warmly wel-

Are sobering your son ; comed in many a lordly castle. These tales llr, too, "ill narrow tread the path. were always intermingled with popular beliefs E'er half his race is run, or colored by the narrator's art. Such are, E'er half his race is run, sir,

E'er half his race is run, indeed, now rejected as unreliable. but History

He had to sow an oat or two, is not deprived of its attractions. The critical Von know, old man, 'twas fun. spirit in which it is now written transfers the fabulous tales of Livv into the domain of And now, my father, who can tell, popular notion it is lunger filled Hut in that happier sphere, ; no with ex-

Where first is last and last is first, travagant laudations: it does not suffer dis-

And everything is queer, tance to throw enchantment upon the objeel ; And everything is queer, sir, but it strives to consider men as surrounded Ami even thing is queer, They'll take you for the "Rambling Rake" by the influences of their times, and to try " Ami mi- for the Gambolier." their actions by the tesl of the experience of

(i \ M !!. ll.IKIf. .111. the present day. Royalty is no longer unap- 158 BOWDOIN ORIENT. proachable, and to it History does not kneel. interest to know more of an author's part It considers now the affairs of the common than we can learn from the writings alone. people, which, when it wore " the mask Certainly every reader of Paradise Lost would and the cothurnus and spoke to measure," wish to know something of Milton's political were passed by as beneath notice. existence, from which he retired, poor and Some knowledge of history is needed to blind, to compose his immortal work. The understand the allusions found in every-day services of Sir Philip Sidney in the Nether- reading. While we appreciate with pleasure lands, and his death at Zutphen, give a greater mention of the poets or novelists, the allu- renown to the author of Arcadia and that sions to history appeal to us with a force generous patron of letters. which springs from their reality. None are No little value should be placed upon the more common, none are more useful, none benefit to the manner of expression derived are more forcible than allusions drawn from from an acquaintance with historical writers. history. It is a great store-house of human A command of language and elegance in experience, from which may be obtained, at using it, are of such great importance that no will, examples to give grace to an argument, means for their acquisition ought to be neg- pith to repartee, or elegance to our sentences. lected. To aid in our endeavors we go Mention of current events is made by nearly back to the time of the ancients, and read the every writer, either in regard to persons or Greek and Latin orators, historians, and poets theories, and but little satisfaction is obtained — such as were masters of their language; if they are not understood. Instead of sup- but the historians, available, are not alone plying the deficiency, notes in many cases Greek or Latin. Among English historians only serve to aggravate, deluding with the are found writers, the peers of Greek or Latin. hope of obtaining some aid, yet condensing to Macaulay, Carlyle, and Gibbon are authors of bare statistics. But aside from all allusions, works famous for the brilliancy, vividness, no proper appreciation can be obtained of the and grandeur of their style. best authors—those for whom history is often In any course of practical education, so neglected — unless we can realize the posi- often demanded, History should hold an im- tion in which they were placed, know some- portant place. It is almost too evident to thing of those for whom they wrote, and the need mention that the study of the principles

society around them. Does it not give in- of governments, to which an increasing atten- creased delight in the writings of Pope, if we tion is given, cannot be pursued without it. call to mind the galaxy of brilliant lights who In turning naturally to the history of his own then lived and wrote ? of the jealousies and country, an American is somewhat favored,

criticism of which he was the mark, and for since it, closely allied with English history,

which he took vengeance in the Dunciad ? if possesses an uninterrupted connection. The we associate with him the political events of American Revolution was not, like the the day, and the strifes of the politicians who French, a complete overturning of exist-

called to their aid their literary cotemporaries? ing institutions ; it pushed aside the barrier The intimate relation, also, of many authors which stood in the way of a progressing to the events of their day lends a new charm development of American ideas. In this re-

to their writings ; often such connection is spect the American student certainly stands but merely hinted at by themselves — some- on an equal footing with the English, for times not even a hint is given — but there is whom a like advantage has been claimed;

no case in which it does not awaken a livelier and they may feel a common interest in BOWDOIN ORIENT. 159

the idea of local self-government to must necessarily be limited yet a taste may tracing ; Saxon origin. be created for studying historical scenes, Then in the study of Political Economy, which will make history the pastime and yet no language can over-estimate the value of study of future leisure, that the wisdom

historical knowledge. The depopulation of may be derived from it which, according to districts, or the decline of industry, in conse- Bacon, histories bestow. quence of governmental policy, cannot be illustrated except from the past events of We have lately heard of a project on foot nations ; the sudden industrial growth of different communities, which have become which strikes us as quite a novelty. That is, matters of history, present most interesting to organize a company of Bowdoin Cadets, subjects to the economist. If any lessons and drill in preparation for going to the Cen-

r may l>e derived from the " dry facts of history," tennial. The} would go at the government's

economic science will certainly possess its or somebody's else expense, and would, of share. course, camp out, do guard duty, etc., while Under the critical views of many modern there. Although a great man}*- would not writers, history is np longer a mere mass of feel transported with joy over the success of facts. By their labors it has been developed the plan, still there may be enough military into a philosophy, possessing order and gov- enthusiasm in college to cany it through, and erned by fixed principles, and is thus available make it a popular affair. It will be a cheap for instruction. The theories on the subject way to see the Centennial, provided they do are many and widely different, yet all agree not have to buy a thirty-dollar uniform. in that historical events are the results of causes acting upon fixed rules. Vico was the Sexior Essay — Due March 8th. first to put forth a theory on the subject ; but that, like the theories of the ancient astrolo- 1. The Intellectual Influence of Atheism. gers, has been passed by as wild and fanciful. 2. The Policy of " Thorough " in English His- and its Author. The views of each are colored by their philo- tory " 3. Have we Innate Knowledge ? sophical beliefs ; Christian historians would construct a Philosophy of History, recogniz- 4. The Lake School of Poetry. ing a Providence guiding in the matters of 5. The Limit of State Rights under the Consti- tution. human progress. A knowledge of history, however, pos- Jrxion Theme—Due March 1st. sesses a nobler value — a moral one ; the cul- 1. Does a Man's Creed Determine his Character ? tivating of right feelings and true sympathies. 2. Ptolemaic Theory of Astronomy.

It presents, for the guidance of the reader, 3. Why is the Condition of Turkey so Important characters equal—and perhaps superior, in (hat an Element in European Politics? they are real—to any creations of the poet or 4. A Comparison of the Satires of Juvenal and Horace. novelist. Such an influence history certainly exerts upon him who will give sufficient at- Sophomore Theme—Die March 4th. tention to it. Hut a satisfactory knowledge 1. What is a Successful Life ? of history is only the result of long-continued 2. A Comparison of Tiberius and Cains Gracchus. reading; it cannot be acquired in a few 3. The Manufacture of Paper. months, except as a mere table of dates and 4. The Influence of College Habits upon Subse- events. In College, the amount of reading quent Life. 160 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. " Legends of Ancient Greece and Modern America." PUBLISHED EVEEY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT The selection of the Boating question as BOWDOIN COLLEGE, the subject of the last debate of the Senior Class, indicates the college feeling in regard By the Class of 1876. to boating. That a majority of the speakers EDITORS. were opposed to sending a crew to Saratoga, Aelo Bates, E. H. Kimball, does not signify, perhaps, since it might have H. Clark, J. G. Libby, C. been the accidental result of the arrangement C. T. Hawes, J. A. Morrill, of the disputants. It is sufficiently evident, W. H. G. Howe. however, that a large minority, at least, if not

Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies, a decided majority of all the students, would 15 cents. vote against the sending of a crew. Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, With the poor prospect of a successful Brunswick, Maine. crew organization, the entire lack of enthu- For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- siasm, and the decided opposition in some son's, Brunswick. quarters, it seems folly to entertain the idea

of going to Saratoga. It is manifest folly to CONTENTS. talk of having one hundred and fiftyy to select Vol. V., No. 14.—February 9, 1876. from, when the latest reports give four from A Letter never sent Home 157 which to select a crew of six. It has never Historical Reading 157 been the policy of the present Board of Editorial Notes 160 Editors to oppose the action of the majority Local 163 of the students ; but the vote of the last Alumni Notes 165 boating meeting has much the appearance of Editors' Table 165 Filchings 166 a minority action, allowed to pass because the majority had given the matter no particular EDITORIAL NOTES. consideration. Let us, at least, look the chances fairly in the face, and if a crew is to The Independent Course of Lectures in be sent to the Regatta, let it be done by the aid of Memorial Hall, given by the Faculty, considerate action of the mass of students. began Thursday evening last, with a very instructive and interesting " talk " by Prof. " Be sure and keep your cash account G. L. Vose. His subject was: "Our Iron correctly," the careful father says by way of Roads." He pointed out the advantages and blessing to the departing Freshman. " " sir ! his son, in disadvantages of grades ; very elaborately and Oh 3'es, replies his in- explicitly explained all the general features of most heart hoping for the greatest possible bridge building, and the strength of material amount of cash to the least possible account. the first week or two the lad strug- used ; gave exceedingly interesting accounts For of the trials and tribulations of famous gles manfully with the terrible blank-book engineers in their undertakings, and treated where all his follies in the shape of pea- the subject in a generally satisfactory manner. nuts, cigars, and soda-water, stare him in the The next lecture will be given Thursday, face whenever he opens it. After that there Feb. 10th, by Prof. J. B. Sewall. Subject: is a manifest tendency to lump all deficiencies B WD OIN ORIENT. 161 into one grand total as "postage" or "station- body is obliged to cultivate, our life would be ery." But at the end of the term there must unbearable. It is the sense of freedom from be a reckoning and a squaring. " Be sure all such care and watchfulness of ourselves, and bring home your cash-book," writes the which constitutes the enjoyment of rooming father; and the young Freshman feels the alone. The moment one gets inside the door bitterness of life steal over him as lie locks he has only himself to consult in his immedi- his door and proceeds with his task. A cash ate action ; the books may be deposited upon account is highly conducive to cynicism. the table with any amount of noise; the over- The Freshman thinks of the Apples of Sodom coat may be spread upon as many chairs as as he cudgels his brains to remember how the owner chooses, and he may whistle or hum much he lost that night at "pool," and how a tune, regardless of everybod}'. much was required for that midnight revel at But solitude is an important condition of the depot. He sees with terrible distinctness proper reading or study. Think what a slight his father's deliberative way of putting on his thing will disturb and draw away your spectacles, and going over the account, item thoughts, for the moment, when cosily en- by item. The Christmas holidays become a sconced in your easy chair before the fire, you season of bitterness, and the youth feels that are engaged with your favorite author. At his father's good will has been bought at a such a time, before all others, would you enjoy heavy price. He returns to college to learn the most profound silence ; but just then in

again that the account is about as hard to comes your chum and the door may be shut keep as the cash. with a slam, or one of a hundred other slight occurrences may happen which will interrupt During the past three years and a half we your reading. Such things are the necessary have become fully convinced of the advan- evils of having a room-mate, and you cannot,

tages of rooming alone in college. There is even to yourself, find any fault, since there is an enjoyment in being the sole occupant of a a consciousness of having occasioned him the room, subject only to one's own sweet will, same trouble many times before. But sup- and not compelled to keep in restraint either pose somebody knocks at the door ; one is words or actions lest they should disturb a obliged to say " come in," since he does not

room-mate, which is a material part of college know whether it is a caller upon himself or

life, and which disappears in the presence of chum, and thus he finds, when again at a room-mate, be he the most lamb-like Fresh- leisure, that he must re-read some lines in man, or grave and dignified Senior puzzling order to proceed intelligently, losing consider- over some abstruse point of Metaphysics. able time and experiencing less real enjoy- This lias often been remarked upon in our ment. It is much the same if one is engaged

hearing, and will be generally recognized as in study : perhaps slight occurrences do not

true. Let not anybody say that this is the so easily disturb study, but certainly when

result of pure selfishness, and of a dislike to the attention is once drawn off it is less easily

control ourselves for another's comfort. It concentrated again on the subject ; at least seems to be rather a natural feeling or reaction such has been our experience.

from the restraint which everybody is neces- And, moreover, if any of our readers ever sarily under in the daily intercourse of fellow indulge in dreaming, they will bear witness students. We meet at meals, at lectures, how necessary, in that ease, perfect solitude

and ;it chapel; and, were it not for the little becomes. Perhaps some may turn away with courtesies, the regard for others, whicb every a Sneer, at this mere mention of dreams; and — ;

162 B0WD01N ORIENT. we are aware of thus exposing ourselves, neighborhood of the editorial den, is given to since the term, day-dreamer, carries with it verse-making. In an unhappy hour he read the stigma of worthlessness. Persons of "Back-log Studies," and became convinced great activity and diligence, say they have that he might be a Tennyson if he chose. He no time for such idleness. However that may forthwith proceeded to the library and col- be, we do not think that it wholly condemns lected all the volumes of legendary lore he the indulgence, since we fancy that those of could lay hands upon, designing to write a the greatest energy, who, perhaps, have series of tales after the style of " Idyls of the attained considerable eminence, at some time King." He selected the story of St. Margaret, allowed themselves to fall into such a reverie, and wrote a quantity of parallel lines as long allow. Hav- picturing to themselves some lofty ideal ; for as the width of his sheet would what is the exercise of this truly noble power ing filled half-a-dozen sheets of theme paper of the mind, if not a kind of dreaming? But, in this way, he suddenly was seized with a nevertheless, solitude is indispensible for its doubt whether this were poetry or prose. He enjoyment. When there is the least commo- quickly invaded the sanctum with the pathetic tion around, or even in the presence of appeal,—" I wish you'd be kind enough to another, one cannot let his mind stray from tell me whether this is blank verse or not." some striking delineation while the fanciful We were restrained from uttering the old pun " thoughts follow each other in ever increasing about " very blank verse by the perfectly heights of imagination. In such flights of blank expression of his countenance. It did fancy some may first obtain a faint sense of seem to us, however, that — their capacities, or be impelled to exertion. " Sweet Margaret, whom the dragon eat up, He who delights in strolling in the fields And then burst open so that she got out again," or woods, will recognize how much freer he was lacking in some of the essential elements feels, how much wider his thoughts range, of poetry. when he is alone. If in company with one We spare the reader the convei'sation with who directs the conversation, the train of talk Swingle, which followed. Suffice it to say is not his own ; it follows his companion's that he decided to make certain researches inclinations, and, though it may be new to into the mysteries of rhyme and rhythm him, it is not like following his own feelings. before proceeding with his " Legend of St. On the other hand, if he directs the conver- Margaret." We flattered ourselves that for sation, it is less likely to be on some new this term, at least, Swingle was disposed of subject, but rather on something which has but yesterday he again burst into our sanc- previously occupied his attention. Indeed, tum bearing an enormous roll of MS. With think that while seeking to gratify we our remarkable thoughtfulness he had decided feelings for companionship and cultivating that he might get valuable practice by writing sociality and cordiality with each other, care a few parodies ; and with a degree of ingenuity may well be had not to fall into extremes by which does him great credit, he had twisted too seldom allowing ourselves the advantages "The Lady of Shallot" and " Aladdin " into of solitude. the following grotesque shapes :

" either side the campus lie To be the confidante of an aspiring young On Long streets; and I defy author is not without its advantages, but is, Any man to find deeper slosh, or spy nevertheless, a delicate task. Fences or hedges more rickety and awry Our friend Swingle, who rooms in the Than these arc. B WD OIN ORIENT. 163

Anil up and down the students go, ples of prosody. The moral is, that if he is walking slow. Gazing at school-girls to be turned out as a liberally educated man, Sometimes they wink, I'm sure it is so " it is much to be regretted that he should live Too often by far ! in ignorance of the difference between prose " 'When I was a beggarly Soph., and poetry. It is small use to tell Swingle And lived in the fourth floor of Appleton, " in I had neither a mask or a horn, that Coleridge has defined prose as words But I had a dark lantern." the best order, and poetry as the best words in the best order." He will know exactly What more Swingle might have read is as much as he did before, and no more. lost to the world forever. We fell into a " Something is evidently wrong with our swoon, and he was obliged to rouse the end course of English Literature," we said to our to help him get his victim to bed. watcher. In the silent watches of the night we "Have we one?" he asked in great sur- awoke to find Swingle, penitent and sad, watching by the bedside. " Nobody ever prise. could be said in reply ? Plainly taught me the difference between prose and What

nothing ; so we turned over and went to sleep. poetry," lie said pitifully. " Swingle," we replied solemnly, " for- give the feelings that were too much for our LOCAL. control this afternoon. We admire you ; we honor your perseverance. Yon may yet be Hard times for locals. class poet. You deserve to be. You must be.

The demand is imperative, and the supply is Medical session commences Feb. 17th.

small ; many are called, but few come ; most Prof. White has returned from the West who attain to the proud eminence would will- and is now in town. ingly exchange for a position more lucrative few course tickets for the Memorial and less onerous. All these things make it A course are still on hand. probable that you may secure the place. But Hall lecture for the love of heaven, when you write your The dance at Dirigo Hall last week was " class poem, use narrow paper! pronounced to be a very enjoyable affair. " " I learned 'em all ! the unhappy suitor When are singerslike pirates? Why, when of the muses burst out, in a somewhat incohe- they engage in sharp practice on the high CC. rent allusion to his researches in Greek and " Latin Prosody, I learned 'em all, from Dac- X. (pathetically) — " Yovi shouldn't call to Greater tylic Hexameter Asclepiadean, me a Bacchanalian, hie, chummy, just 'cause " Pherecratean and Cretic Tetrameter Acata- I've had a glass too much!

lectic and all ; but it did not help me a to good resolutions is paved particle. How was I to know whether it was "The way poetry or not? " And he cast a rueful glance with ulsters," is the revised quotation. "Til said a puny Junior. to the cinders in the grate which sufficiently steer out of them," disclosed the fate of his MS. And we could Apropos of study hours we copy the fol- only say to ourselves in repetition, " How lowing table from a card on a door in college: was he? " Studv Hours fob Room No. a. n. Now, the im-moral seems to be, thai if 5 to 6, in bod. 12 to l, at diuner. Swingle is going to write, it may lie policy In 9J to 111*, in rec. :i to .".. at rec. .mil gyin. keep him in profound ignorance of the princi- 1U to I2J, in rec. to?, at Btipper. ! ;

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Soph, translating " Vous pourriez me prSter There is an old story about college to this

les deux cent livres dont j'ai besoin: can you effect : One day, a number of students were I need." assembled in a room, when a knock was heard lend me those two-cent books that — on the door, and one of them shouted : Scene. Company assembled, just before — " ! ' Enter, ' consumption's ghastly form " The a large sleigh-ride. Lady. — "Who is to be door opened, and in walked Prof. P . our chaperon?" Student.— "Well, Mr. Fer- nald is going to drive, I believe." The rage for chess seems to be dying out, and some measures ought to be taken to keep The " long-haired Achaean " has returned. alive the interest in it. Bowdoin has more Look to jrour watches, but don't delude your- than held her own in the games which she selves with the idea that you will ever know has played with other colleges and clubs, and exactly when the bell is going to ring. we must not allow her to lose " her ancient those Cold weather makes it severe on glory." who live at any distance from college, though At a meeting of the Bowdoin Athletic after their ears get frozen and swell " they niay Association, the following officers were elected be able to use them for wings, and fly like a

for the ensuing year : President, W. T. Cobb dove.''

Vice Presidents, Chapman and Baxter ; Sec- returning from Portland Some of the boys retary and Treasurer, P. G. Brown; Directors, the midnight train, Saturday, were some- on Hargraves, Potter, and Davis; Master of cer- our respected what surprised to see one of emonies, Beale. "peelers " selling beer at the depot. He ought It is not by any means a common thing to to have arrested himself for breaking the Sab-

hear a fire bell in Brunswick ; but of late bath. we seem to be getting our share of small fires. have enjoyed our first, and probably We And unfortunately for the youth of the place, adjourn this term. It was on the " day only, they are generally of short duration, and a of prayer for colleges,'' Thursday, Jan. 27th, " long ways off. ! let me be a firemen and and was celebrated in the college about the " work on the brakes ! same as in former years. There was much One cannot help wishing that during these smoking and writing of themes. very cold mornings we could have the chapel that they have voted, in Portland, to Now properly warmed, or have the exercises in continue the Pullman midnight train through some other place, or be allowed to keep our to Bangor, there is no reason our faculty why hats on during the services. Our sufferings should not take m.s to recitation in the Port- are not like those of the early Christians, land Museum. We are also nearer to Port- " voluntarily undergone." land than New Haven is to New York. 1st student.—" Has paid his Bugle On the first morning of this term, while advertisement yet? " 2d student. —" I reckon it was scarcely light, and the janitor had just he has paid it in reality, if not in deed. I've rung the seven o'clock bell, a freshman came not bought a cent's worth of him since I rushing into the entry, and meeting him, heard of it, and a good many others have : — " exclaimed "Am I late ; am I late ? " Late taken it in the same way. He made a mis- " " late for what ? " Why, late for prayers ! take in not settling it in the first place." He returned to his couch, "a sadder, but a wiser man," and slept over after all. One of the Juniors lately sent on for a — —

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" horse " to Taugenichts. There was nothing- the Maine Industrial School for Girls, at Hal- very strange in that, except that- when the lowell. publisher sent it to him lie put it in with a '53.—Rev. Wm. Carruthers, late of Calais, number of books intended for some of the was recently installed pastor of the Congre- Profs. We fear that he will not derive much gationalist Church, at Pittsfield, Mass. or profit from his investment this pleasure '56.—Rev. Edwin B. Palmer, late of Chic- time. opee, is now settled at Ipswich, Mass.

Bowdoin boys will be thick in Boston until the third of March, when their tickets, which EDITORS' TABLE. Warren has furnished them, will cease to be good. The senior delegation of Psi Upsilon We have not had the exchanges upon our table went up in a bod}' last week, and report favor- for a year without seeiug some very poor transla- ably of the treatment which they received at tions. If the Tablet, however, claims that the ren- dering of Segar's " Les Adieux," given in the last the hands of the photographer, and also a issue, is the worst one for the year, we certainly see good time generally. no reason why the claim should be disputed.

We hardly know which to admire most, the ALUMNI NOTES. good taste of the OiieAin Review in its selection of

jokes, or the perfect coolness with which it publishes [We, earnestly request contributions for this them unacknowledged. department from the Alumni aud friends of the It is the Williams student who is now to be College.] envied, and the Atherueum breaks out into the '32. —Through the kindness of Prof. Pack- following jubilant rejoicings : " ard, we recently examined a very pleasing We are rejoiced to record another most com- meudable and worthy action on the part of the unique memorial of this class. It con- and faculty. Sunday-morning chapel is abolished for sisted of fac-similes of messages from each of this term .' This is a welcome concession by faculty orthodoxy to student heterodoxy. To say that this the surviving members to their classmates, announcement, made the first Saturday of the term, reproduced on parchment paper. From it we was received by the students as one of the most wel- come boons that could be granted them, is to express obtain the following list of members: — it mildly. The pleasure it excited in their minds Mr. Charles E. Abbott, Woodburne, Hart- was only exceeded by the hope that this order of things would continue after the expiration ford, Conn. of the present term. And it is with great confidence that Rev. B. F. Barrett, Germantown, Pa. we expect the faculty, after having experienced the Rev. C. A. Bartol, Boston, Mass. beneficent results of this exhibition of their common sense and good judgment, will not desire to return Rev. A. P. Chute, Sharon, Mass. to the old course, so happily abandoned ; but, hav- Mr. John Copp, Wakefield, N. II. ing [nit their hand to the plow, will not turn back, but press forward steadfastly to the end." Mr. A. G. Dole, Manchester, N. IT. The Targum reaches us from Rutgers, neat in Prof. I). R. Goodwin, Philadelphia, Pa. its outside looks and interesting within. We like Prof. John Johnston, Middletown, Conn. its editorial and local department particularly, and Mr. Edvv. Payson, Portland, Me. from the latter have clipped what was perhaps of C. C. Porter, M.D., Calais, Me. more real Interest to us than anything else in the Rev. Horatio Southgate, Kales ChurchjVa. paper, as conveying as news of ono of our former Professors : Rev. H. G. Storer, Oak Hill, Me. " Prof. Rock wood opened the course of Scientific Henry A. True, M.D., Marion, Marion Co., Lectures, on Wednesday, January 12th, with a lec- Ohio. ture on the Laws of Light. This course is to he delivered on Wednesday evening of each week; '35. — Rev. Stephen Allen. D. D., has Prof. Van Dyck alternating with Prof. Rockwood. accepted the position of Superintendent of Every student should hear tin- course." — — — — — — — ;

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We have the Amherst Student open before us, Scene 1st — Room in West. Senior to and truly we are at a loss what to do with it. The Soph.—" What do you think of l Morte d' length and heaviness of its articles prevent us from Arthur ? ' " Soph.— " 1 consider him the taking any reasonable enjoyment in reading it, and greatest author in English Literature." Scene yet it is too good looking a paper to be ignored alto- —" gether. So we glance it through hastily, from the 2d — Club. Senior to Club said to- fact that we find nothing to arrest our attention, day that he thought 'Morte d' Arthur' the and very little of college tone, life, or snap, in the greatest author in English Literature." Club whole paper. shouts. Soph, (scornfully) —"You blamed " Captain Ostrom of the mathematical turn of fool, do you suppose I didn't know that he mind" occurs on every page of the Yale Record. was a Frenchman." Vassar Lit. It is a hard thing to say of anybody, and we trust that if Capt. Ostrom has been too demonstrative in Two students being examined for entrance his behavior heretofore he will endeavor to tone into a Theological Seminary, were asked the down his action to that standard of gentlemauliness " following questions : 1st, Give an account of so ably presented in the editorial department of the Jezebel's death." 2d, " Describe Elijah's Record. translation. The first was answered: "The people gathered themselves together and took FILCHINGS. the woman Jezebel and threw her over the wall. They threw her over the wall once

A Sophomore has discovered that Long- they threw her over the wall twice ; three

fellow is not admirer of art ; for an doesn't times they threw her over the wall ; yea, " " he say : Dust, thou art ? Advocate. verily, and until seventy times seven times did they throw her over the wall. the A young lady says the new sewing And 1 woman died. Then gathered they of the machine is like a kiss, " because, ' she blush- fragments that remained, seven baskets full." ingly adds, " because, you see, it seems so good. Dartmouth. The second was rendered in this startling manner: "Elijah stood on the banks of Jor- Prof.—" What did the Egyptians do for a dan, and lo, and behold — two bears came out drink when Moses turned the waters of the of the woods, opened their mouths and spake Nile into blood?" Student (well-up in his unto him saying, ' Go up, bald-head, go up,' matter)—" I suppose that they took it straight an' he went up." Ex. after that."' Niagara Index.

" Henry, why don't you keep a supply of O-A-XnT be cloves in your pocket ? " said an Albany SUCCESSFULLY TREATED Without the use of the

r 3 oung lady to her escort at the Opera House, KNIFE OR CAUSTICS And without pain. Address, recently; "you wouldn't then have to run out after every act; and I don't see why you 208 Chapel St., NEW HAVEN, CONN., are so awful fond of cloves anyhow." Ex. Enclosing twenty-five cents for Pamphlet and Postage. " What can you say of the second law of thought " Student —"It cannot both be and HOW TO LEARN PHRENOLOGY. not be. • For example, the door over there "THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHRENOLOGY," 737 Broad-

must be either shut or open ; it can't be both way, N. Y., (Incorporated by the Legislature of the State), will, during the shut and open." Tutor —"Give us another Summer vacation, 1876, instruct a class to accommodate Teachers, Students, illustration." Student —" Well, take the case Ministers, and others. Circulars, giving full explanation, seut by mail, on of another door." Ex. application as above. ! —

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Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, FEBRUARY 23, 1876. No. 15.

LOVE SONGS. THE INFLUENCE OF POETRY ON CHARACTER.

Full many roses in her garden grow, Poetry may be considered in, at least, two bloom in and white; And red distinct lights. In the technical sense it is Sweet as first love the odors from them flow To greet the stars of night. the expression, in metrical words, of feeling and imagination. Bat in a broader and more Beneath the waning moon, lone and unseen, As there I last night strayed, general view, poetry is the expression of The stars, peering their cloudy bars between, Almost my steps betrayed. imaginative truth in any form, provided only that it be indirect and symbolic. Hence, I heard the happy twitter of a bird. Half wakened, as I stept,— Byron calls the stars the poetry of heaven, As if her unfledged nestlings, frighted, stirred, and a greater than he has said that "The But felt her breast, and slept. heavens speak, and there is no speech or Yet not the roses, nor the stars, nor e'en The birds, could fill my heart; language where their voice is not heard." I dreamed but of the garden's peerless qneeu,- And hence again there is poetry in painting, Ah, Love! how fair thou art! and sculpture, and music. Not in that music

which is mimicry, as when the sounds of Love's like the eglantine, which bears battle, the clangor of bells, or surf beating The sweetest rose, Whose witching perfume flows against a rocky shore, are reproduced; but in Ou summer airs. that in which we can fancy that the hidden youth longs with eager hand Ardent history of the heart finds its expression, or in To pluck the flower, And many a wistful hour which a nation's life breathes out an uncon- Will sighing stand. scious utterance, as in those slave songs that

Yet if his fortune bring him nigh, express long years of oppression in their wild, To pluck the rose, Only its thorn he knows, low wail. This generic spirit of poetry has The bloom gone by been a power in the refinement of the world,

and is still an acting power. " This ring I send thee, thrice a thousand years Says Carlyle : The poet is a heroic figure Lay buried 'mid the dust of Lybiau kings. belonging to all ages, the newest ages If it might speak, unto our eager cars whom strange tales would it tell, of bygone thing What as the oldest may produce."' There is no

"Wild, shifting scenes" of mystery and pride,— truth in the idea that poetry belongs to the The pomp of monarch* long forgotten now; earlier ages, and declines with the advance of Hut all its tales must seem as naught beside The one it brings thee — Love's eternal vow! civilization. There was a time when the Trojan war — before Homer sang it — was as

I kiss the rose-bad which you wore, the conflict of raveni uis beasts ; when Olympus know not why I love it so; Yot and Parnassus, and one more holy, which we "i'was but a simple (lower before It blushed against thy breast of snow. will pass in reverent silence, were common bills: be a time coining when Bui since, to such a wortli 'tis grown, and there may is guerdon most divine; It a they shall be as at first; and because of the Because tin' touch which it has known — The breast which it. has pressed — were thine. dying out of past glory, people imagine thai ;

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poetry has perished, and cry the decline of a power. Our ancestors have taught us the glory to come. But are all courage and high courage that lay beneath the smoke of

enthusiasm gone ? and these are the founda- battle-fields ; it is for us to show the living tion of all true poetry. It is an English army meaning that may lie beneath the smoke of custom, when the old colors of a regiment are factories, in the heroism of perseverance, in worn out, to burn them, and drink the ashes the roar of busy streets, and in the quiet pro-

in wine in solemn silence, before the conse- fessional life of the present. It is for us to cration of the new. This is a type of all we adopt as ours the peerless motto of that peer- ask. When old form sand expressions are worn less knight, the Black Prince, " Fearing God,

out, let them go and give us new symbols to ex- I serve," and to live a life of glorious service press, not what our fathers felt, but what we to the end. If we needed poets for nothing

feel. The basis of all poetry is stern necessity. else, it would be for this, that they are grand True, we find many figures of rhetoric and levelers, vindicating our common humanity,

brilliant gleams of imagination that seem to and reminding us that "for a' that and a'

spring from nothing deeper than a simple love that, a man's a man for a' that."

of beauty ; but as the Alpine gentians, grow- Poetry has silently done a work for the ing far up on icy clifts above the homes of poorer classes of which they are not aware. men, find their life only through the ministra- Did Burns teach the aristocracy no sympathy

tions" of blank, bare, rock masses, that lift with the cares, and loves, and trials, of a

them nearer to the illimitable sky from which cotter's life ? And Hood, when he wrote his they seem to borrow their color, so these " Bridge of Sighs," did he not find in that graces of imagination are dependent on the tragic suicidal death, in which the follower of grand earnestness that raises them to a purer some cold divinity might find only the text and clearer atmosphere. for a discourse on hell, something of a deeper

I have written of the permanence of the mystery not so flippantly to be solved ? influence of poetry. Another characteristic And finally, we consider the refining in- quite as marked is its universality. We are fluence of poetry in making man more manly

all susceptible to it. Many a man who thinks war, chivalry ; and passion, love. Love as a he has no taste for poetry because he does not principle came into existence only with the chance to feel it in rhymed words, is no Christianity of the middle ages. The influ- stranger to its power. Why is it that in bat- ence of imagination on the earthier feeling can tles there is always one spot where sabers be clearly seen in the single instance of Ignatius glitter faster, and shots come thicker; where Logola. There seemed nothing profane when officers and men rally in denser masses? the ardent soldier transferred his allegiance to They fight for a flag. Take away its poetry one who was " neither a countess or a duchess, and it is nothing but a bit of silk, torn with but much more ;" but how would he have shrunk shot and blackened with powder; but imagin- from the comparison as blasphemous, had he ation has made it that magic thing, colors. not been exalted by the poetry of Christianity Now go with your economic measure of values to a higher range of thought. And war became and tell these soldiers they fight for a rag chivalry guarded by refined courtesy from the that is not worth the labor put forth, and the abuse of superior strength. Some one has dangers they undergo. Think you, would said that if soldiers were dressed in a butcher's these stern workers find it easier to under- garb, war would be seen in its true light as stand your common sense or their poetry ? butchery. A truism. Take away honor and

But not alone in battle is it that poetry is imagination from war and it becomes carnage, ;

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doubtless ! and take away invisible principles win at Saratoga last summer. Here is, how- from resistance to a tax and our revolutionary ever, a good opportunity to obtain a knowledge

ancestors are mere rebels. Things become of the various "ills that flesh is heir to." noble by association. The iron cross of Prus- We have often heard students who pride sia, and the Cross of the Legion of Honor, of themselves on never presenting a sham excuse,

France,—methinks these things do not place complain that they often suffer for it, while

their wearers on a level with the hangman. others escape. They do not hesitate to call truth, poetry, The has reached the mark, while these excuses by their proper names ; they are

common sense has missed it ; through the phy- liesand nothing less. "Suppose," say they, "we sical honors of warfare it has discerned the have a leave of absence extending to Monday redeeming nobleness. Peace arising from prin- morning, but are so unfortunate as to miss ciple is blessed; but peace from selfishness is the early train, and thus are absent from the not blessed. In peace war, and among high and morning recitations ; if we state simply the low, the universal God-given spirit of poetry facts, it is probable that the excuse will be

is its ; working out results not of transient ex- rejected ; but if business is put forth as the citement, but of a spirit of self-sacrifice caught reason, it is often accepted. Does not this " from the Master's cross, lifting man toward his look like putting a premium on dishonesty ? first estate — a little lower than the angels. These cases do sometimes happen, we know, and we fail to see how the trouble can be " Lying," sa}'s Leigh Hunt, " is the com- remedied. If anybody stays bej^ond their monest and most conventional of all the vices. time, there is nothing unfair in their being It pervades, more or less, every class of the obliged to take their marks; otherwise we are community." Of course we must except the afraid that a great many trains would be college community; it would not do to ac- missed. And it appears to be going altogether knowledge it among ourselves, although tac- too far to say that accepting one of the other itly recognized. Call it b}r some other name, class is countenancing dishonest}'. If a man please if you ; but don't throw upon us the squarely says that he was necessarily detained, odium of that little word of two syllables. there seems to be nothing more to be said Others may tell lies, but here it is simply mak- the officer of course does not wish to doubt ing excuses. What a hindrance these weak his word. The same applies to all other sham bodies of ours are ! It seldom happens that excuses. It seems to us that some power to alter we wilfully "cut" a recitation; on the con- this is with those very ones who think them-

trary, t he intentiou is g 1 enough, but we are selves ill used. There is a tendency to throw takeu sick; (bus the boating man or base-ball the blame of every evil in one direction : to player, having encroached upon his study time, think that the student himself can do noth- already cul down to the smallest limit, finds ing. Now if in this very matter anybody who that he is afflicted with some serious bodily will not increase the evil himself, will also ailment which precludes further mental labor. refuse to countenance it in others, perhaps it

Coughs, colds, headaches, weak eyes, indispo- would do some good; that it would wholly sition, and, including every thing else, sick- obviate the e\il cannot be expected, nor do ness, are in turn brought into requisition. It we think that the strictest medical supervision would seem thiit the whole bodily constitution would do it: lint at least such persons would of the college seems in danger of breaking he acting consistently throughout, and the down at any moment. With this state of practice would cease to he regarded as a mat- things, it is no wonder that our crew did not ter of course and he somewhat restrained. ;

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Bowdoin Orient. receive them, but will not promise to reward the donator with an office. PUBLISHED EVERT ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- The second lecture of the Memorial Hall ING THE COLLEGIATE TEAR, AT Course was delivered Thursday evening, Feb. BOWDOIN COLLEGE, 10th, by Prof. J. B. Sewall. Of this lecture

By the Class oe 1876. it is sufficient to say that it fully sustained Prof. Sewall's high reputation as a thinker EDITORS. " Arlo Bates, E. H. Kimball, and writer. His subject, The Legacy of C. H. Clark, J. G. Libbt, Ancient Greece to Modern America," was C. T. Hawes, J. A. Morrill, treated in a manner at once entertaining and W. H. G. Rowe. instructive. He succeeded in showing con-

clusively that whatever is of value in our Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies, modern civilization finds its prototype in the 15 cents. Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, ancient; that the art and scholarship of Brunswick, Maine. Greece are closely followed hj the artists and For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- scholars of America. He traced also the son's, Brunswick. fragments of the Greek language that exist in our own, and showed them to be in no way CONTENTS. the exclusive property of literary men, but to be used alike by the illiterate and the highly Vol. V., No. 15.—Eebruaet 23, 1876. educated. In closing, he spoke of the debt of Greece Love Songs 169 owed by America to the warriors The Influence of Poetry on Character 169 of the different history of the world, had Editorial Notes 172 Marathon and Salamis resulted differently Local 176 and described briefly and eloquently the fight Alumni Notes 178 at Thermopylae, and the valor of Leonidas and his three hundred Spartan followers.

EDITORIAL NOTES. The Medical Term commenced Thursday, Feb. 17th, with the opening lecture by Dr.

It is nearly time to select the new board John D. Lincoln. A brief resume of this lec- of Orient editors. If any member of '77 ture may not be uninteresting. has any advice to offer, let him now come The speaker commenced with a pleasantly

forth and give it, or forever hold his peace. written account of the state of medical sci-

We shall select a board which is, according to ence in the then District of Maine, enlivened our judgment, constituted of the best men for by amusing anecdotes of the physicians of the the place. If any one has aught to say against time, "who waged unceasing and unsuccess- such a mode of proceeding, let him make him- ful war with the liver," and their pupils, who, self heard. The help of all is requested; but "after three months' study, were ready to at- temper your advice with common sense, and tack the most difficult cases with the greatest do not allow your prejudices to influence you. sang froid."

We have received no bribes ; no presents He then proceeded to speak of the foun- have been surreptitiously forced upon us. If dation of the Maine Medical School, and to any have presents to offer, we shall be glafl to follow its history year by year to the present —

B0WD01N ORIENT. 173 time. His description of the Medical rooms In 1813, the Athenaean was revived. The in old Massachusetts Hall, and the professors old seal and book of records were obtained, who made them famous, was of great interest the accumulation of a new library begun, and to those interested in the early history of the the society seemed more firmly established

College in its various departments. In his than ever before. The prestige of the Peu- remarks on Prof. Cleaveland, who stood so cinian, however, and its unbroken prosper- long at his post in this Eastern College, refus- ity, once more drove its rival from the field. ing more remunerative positions which his In 1816, the Athenaean was a second time

world-wide fame rendered accessible to him, divided ; its library, of about two hundred

and whose name is so closely connected with volumes, being divided as before. But if the honor and reputation of Bowdoin in the AtheiiEean had no great tenacity of life, it

past,—the lecturer was particularly happy. had a phcenix-like power of resurrection ; and He had known him as an instructor, and paid in December, 1817, it once more arose from a glowing tribute to his ability as a scholar its ashes. It had four members, who divided and teacher, and the quiet Christian courtesy among themselves the offices of President, that was his characteristic. Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and A few remarks addressed particularly to Librarian. The old constitution was adopted the Medical Class, on the responsibilities and and revised, a formal protest being prefixed duties of the profession, closed a lecture well that the society was not organized for the pur- received by the whole audience. pose of interfering with any society in college. In August, 1818, the first measures were The AtheiiEean Society was founded in taken towards the organization of the Gen-

1808, its elder sister, the Peucinian, dating eral Society, by a vote calling a meeting of back to 1805. The constitution of the latter honorary and acting members, on the clay did not allow the admission of Freshmen into previous to Commencement, " for the purpose the society, and the constitution of the Athe- of adopting measures relative to the property nian took advantage of the fact by extending of the society." the privilege of membership to all the four This meeting was held Sept. 2, when Levi classes. A temporary advantage was thus Stowell, '15, was chosen President, and C. R. gained,—the number of members soon exceed- Porter, '16, Corresponding Secretary. A vote ing that of the Peucinian, and the foundation was passed, prohibiting the distribution of the of a library being laid. The constitution of library without the consent of three-fourths the Peucinian was now amended to allow of the honorary members.

the admission of Freshmen ; this society also In the Historical Sketch published in the began to collect a library, established the cus- Athenian Catalogue of 1853, from which we tom of annual meetings at Commencement, derive much of our information, the following

and in various ways increased the aims and paragraph occurs in this connection : "The

influence of the society . society, in their strong and ardent desire to The Atheinean felt the influence of its increase their numbers, determined that there rival, and gradually languished. In 1811, the would be no impropriety, after exacting a society was discontinued, the books being dis- promise of secrecy, in reading to those whom tributed among the members. In the follow- they invited to join them, such provisions of ing October, the Peucinian constitution was the constitution as were most important, in restored to its original reading, by which mem- order to induce them to become members.

bership was restricted to the three upper classes. . . . Three individuals were thus intro- 174 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

duced, of whom one only chose to join ; and the two societies, now existing in college ; and he was initiated the same evening. The other if so, to recommend such measures as in their two required a few days for consideration. judgment may be most conducive to the har- One of them afterward became a member in mony of the students, and the best interests 1821, 'after three years of deep consideration of the college." of the matter,'' to quote the language of that The following year the committee reported date." " that in October last they visited this town, In 1820, the General Society began to act and had a personal interview with all four of

as a distinct body, having officers of its own the classes in a body ; and the next day with separate from the Acting Society. " It as- committees of the Peucinian and Atheiuean sumed the election of Honoraiy Members, Societies." The committee " used all such and the appointment of Orator and Poet arguments as they deemed proper, of a per- for the annual meetings on Commencement suasive and conciliatory character, to induce Week." them to lay aside all party feeling, and culti- At 3 p.m., on the 4th of March, 1822, vate harmony and friendship. They urged

Maine Hall, then called New College, was them to unite the societies, . . . . or to destro}'ed by fire. The libraiy of the Society unite their libraries, either as to property or was much injured. " This event," says the possession, or to make no farther additions to sketch above quoted, " was most mournfully either society by the election of new members, described by the Secretary of the College and thus permit them to become extinct in

Society, who, in the sorrow of his heart, college, . . .in September, 1835." They

recorded that 'Boivdoin College ' was con- were, however, the report continues, "notified sumed b}' fire." formally that none of these propositions were In 1825, the General Society voted that acceptable, and that the societies remain as

the library be given in trust to the trustees of before. . . . The boards will decide for the college, the library to be used and regu- themselves whether a spirit of accommodation lated by the by-laws of the society. has not been carried as far as is consistent In 1828, the society obtained an Act of with the relation between the government of Incorporation from the Legislature, and this the college and the students." In this report trust was withdrawn. The society were em- there is expression of an old but perfectly powered by this Act " to hold and possess useless endeavor to limit and direct student any estate, real or personal, to an amount not reading and thought. " These libraries," the exceeding five thousand dollars over and report proceeds, " are valuable and considera- above the value of their books." In the bly extensive, and of course they tend to same year the constitution was revised, and a diminish the .... influence of the col- diploma and seal adopted. lege library. The members of the societies

In 1830, a catalogue of the library was . read principally their own books, .

published ; the number of volumes being two selected by the societies without consulting thousand two hundred and thirty-eight. the college government; and thus the char- The rivalry between the AthenEean and acter of the books has not its sanction." In Peucinian had been constantly upon the in- consequence of this report the Trustees voted crease, and at the annual meeting in 1831, to petition the Legislature to repeal the Act the Trustees and Overseers chose a committee of Incorporation of the Athena3an Society. to consider and report " whether any regula- The Peucinian, being unincorporated, was tions are necessary to be adopted relative to already under the jurisdiction of 'the Boards. —

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The Overseers objected to the proposed presented its cabinet and other property to measure, and the matter was finally dropped. the Athenian. In the same year the two " At 2 a.m., to-day," writes Prof. Cleave- rival societies entered into an agreement to land, in his journal for Feb. 17,1836, "Maine unite in the celebration of their anniversaries, Hall was burned. The thermometer stood at furnishing the Orator and Poet on alternate twelve degrees below zero." years. In 1847, and again in 1852, the con- Out of three thousand two hundred and stitution was revised. At the latter the date twenty-one volumes, only two hundred and of the society's establishment was changed twenty were saved. from 1817 to 1808—the date of the founding

In the oldest existing record book of the of the original society : the affirmation of se-

Athenasan, the first entry, which is in the cresy was also abolished. handwriting of Gov. J. A. Andrew ('37), The most serious internal trouble of Ath-

bears the date of Feb. 17, 1836, and begins enasan arose in May, 1855. It is first shown

as follows : — in the records under the date of May 18, " The constitution and records of the when a debate arose concerning the correct- Athenian Society having been destroyed by ness of the record of an amendment to the the conflagration of this morning, said society constitution, acted upon May 11. We have was convened in Randall's ['36] room, to take not space here to enter into the details of this measures for a reorganization It disagreement, which continued for about a was voted that a committee be raised to cor- year. The society was divided into two par- respond with the Hon'y Members, and ask ties, each supported by prominent members them to remember us in our losses." of the General Society. Hon. Wm. P. Fes- Among the papers of the society is a let- senden, and Judges Howard, Sheply, and ter from Hon. P. W. Chandler, as Secretary Tenny were appealed to, and gave diverse

at a meeting of the Athenians of Bangor opinions. In May, 1856, there is the follow-

and vicinity, expressing sympathy and prom- ing entry : ising aid. Like communications came from " The committee chosen to examine other quarters. At the reported suggestions the records made during the chaotic state of

"2."), of Hon. Jonathan Cilley, it was voted to the society . . have the unpleasant duty aid from request the Legislature ; but the to perform, of stating that the men who were

vote was reconsidered. At this time occurs the leaders of l he opposing parties persisted the first instance recorded of the use of the in maintaining their own board of officers, hook's, Peuciuian in a vote of thanks to that . . . and held meetings separately. . . . society for the favor. Both parties became heartily tired of such

Strenuous efforts were made to replace proceedings, and . . . delegates from each in the library, and 1838 the Acting Society party met and agreed upon a ticket. . . published a catalogue show ing the number of At the next meeting of the two branches of the books to be over two thousand. In 1840 the society. ;dl the officers resigned, and adjourned lo Anniversary was transferred from November meet together. . . . The hoard of officers to February, and was afterwards celebrated' in agreed upon was elected, and from thai time the Spring. In 1841 a reading-room was things went on smoothly." The entry goes established, bul only continued in operation on io state thai the committee deemed ii best

fur about a \ ear. to destroy the records of both factions: and In L850 the Caluvian Society, then com- ends with the pious hope that the leaves pasted posed exclusively of Athensean members, together iii pursuance with this resolve, "may 176 BOWDOIN ORIENT.

' be ' mounmenturn ceve perennius — a monument ragged volume, was carefully protected by the erected to folly and uudue prosecution of par- usual placard: "Do not touch the books." tisan interests." In later years, the societjr Something must be done, and done at has sunk into neglect and contempt, until once, if any part of the library is to be pre- nothing remains but a name and a library. served in available shape. The only sensible

Among its papers, there are a number of thing seems to be the giving the library out- interesting autographs in the shape of accept- right to the College. The books should then ance of election to membership, letters, etc. be sorted and catalogued; and although it As we rummaged among the old and disor- would be an undertaking involving consider- dered papers to-day, we brought to light able labor, the present utilit}r and future pres- autograph signatures of Jonathan Cilley, ervation of the books absolutely demand it. Horatio Bridges, Wm. Pitt Fessenden, Frank- Bartol, Parker Cleave- lin Pierce, Cyrus A. LOCAL. land, etc. Among the acceptances of '25, have been Hawthorne's, but it had should Nice weather, this. doubtless fallen into the hands of some re- How about that company ? morseless collector. The society once pos- sessed a valuable collection of autographs, Needless labor—to pare pears. were letters of Charles Lamb; among which Chess still commands considerable atten- all disappeared. but they have tion. At the last Commencement, the Peucinian The far-famed " Mac " of '76 has been in Societj7—very sensibly, it seems to us—voted town. their library into the hands of the College

authorities. It is much to be lamented that W. H. Moulton, '74, has been in town a the Athensean Society did not follow the ex- few days. ample. Written examinations are becoming more The societies being both practically dead, and more popular. it is quite useless to expect the librarians to There is talk of Miss Cary for the Com- keep the libraries in order on their own re- mencement Concert. sponsibility. The present librarians are an efficient board, we believe, but they have A Dancing School has been started and neither power nor authority to reform abuses. promises to be successful. Books of both libraries are indiscriminately Any one having a book in the class will carried to the Athensean rooms, and gaps in deserve an "aught mark." the shelves of the Peucinian are to be ac- counted for by the confused heap of books on A peddler round college, the other day, one of the Athensean tables. wanted to know if " the phi/sic 'uns had come Many books are returned much injured, or yet." are not returned at all. Many books may be " The Party " in Topsham, the other even- described as "lost, strayed, or stolen"; and ing, was a very pleasant affair, despite the the evil is still going on. Going into the li- raging of the elements. brary the other day, we noticed that some one had wittily affixed to a half- emptied case a We are pleased to see H. H. Smith, for- sign reading: "Only 25 left; 75 cts. each." merly of '77, back again. He is to pursue Another case, in which stood one solitary and the course in the Medical School. BOWDOIN ORIENT. 177

Advice to umbrella thieves : Do not al- Pennell, and if successful in raising money ways judge by appearances. Your sins are will enter the class regatta in the spring. likely to fall on your own heads. From a letter written Dee. 21, 1875, from The Seniors are fortunate enough to be (?) Calcutta, to one of the College Professors, we required to attend Chemical Lectures with the learn that Major Sanger returns from Cash- "Modocs" for the remainder of the term. mere to Bombay, and sails about Feb. 20 for Bagdad. The members of the Senior class who were Going through Persia and Turkey, he reaches in Boston at the time of the last meeting of Constantinople about the middle of the Boston Alumni, were honored with an in- May. vitation to the dinner. During the late gale, some loose bricks " Meet me at the Parker House. I'm from a chimney on the south end of Maine coming up to have my picture taken." Quota- Hall were blown from their places, but for- tion from twelve postal cards, dropped one tunately no one was injured. The tops of the week into the mail box. chimneys on all the buildings are quite loose, and are liable to fall and inflict serious injury Students will remember that the present some day, unless active measures are adopted volume of The Orient is nearly completed to prevent. and will accordingly hand in their subscrip- tions to-morrow. Do not delay. There was a very enjoyable social at Ton- tine Hall last Friday evening, under the auspi- Thirty-nine copies of The Orient are ces of our friend from the capital. Much taken by the class of '7fi, 42 by the class of credit is due any one who will push through '77, 11 by the class of '78, and 16 by the class an undertaking of this character, inasmuch as of '70. Chance for improvement. the dancers of college are very "few and far The following are the appointments in the between," and nearly the whole force is neces- Senior class for the exhibition at the close of sary to ensure financial success. the term: Morrill, Salutatorian ; Hawes, Hill, Marrett, Payson, Sabine, and Si evens. The medical class numbers thus far about seventy-five, among which are a number of Most of the pedagogues have returned to College graduates, and many who have at- college. Making up back lessons is the pun- tended former courses both here and at other ishment which awaits them, and we believe schools. Lowell, '71: Stanwood, Virgin, and that it is about as hard a penalty as could be A. S. Whitmore, 75; Don-, formerly of "To; devised. and Smith, formerly of '77. — are those of the Scene, the Picture Gallery : Junior, show- class who have been in College. ing the picture of Cleopatra to Orono Student, The men who ate practicing in the o. S.—"'Tain't likely 't would kill her. The gym- nasium under Prov.-( apt. Payson, snakes round here aint pisen." Jim.— " Yes, are Pratt, Marrett, Crocker, Hargraves, and Burleigh. it killed her." O. S.—"Show! What 'd she '' It is by no means certain that do it for? Experiment? these are the men who will form the university crew, should The Freshman has class already subscribed one be sent on to the next regatta, bul the one hundred and twenty-five dollars towards greater pari of the crew is likely to be taken a new class boat. They a have number of from them. They have been practicing to- men practising in the gymnasium, under Capt. gether tor aboul two weeks. ; —

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The " reporters " were out in full force, Geo. C. Yeaton, Attorney at Law, South during the meetings of the Agricultural Board, Berwick, Me. and the arduous duties so affected the length The annual meeting of the Alumni of Bos- of the body that he has been unable to attend ton and vicinity, was held at the Parker House to his college duties since. We believe the on Wednesday evening, Feb. 9. About fifty trouble struck to his head, or stomach — don't graduates were present. Among the speakers know exactly which. Success to him, and of the occasion were Pres. Chamberlain, Profs. may he soon return, to cause the campus to Packard, Chapman, and Young, Mr. H. W. resound with his " harmonious discord." Fuller, '28, Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, and Rev. Dr. E. B. Webb. The following officers were

chosen for the ensuing year : President, John

ALUMNI NOTES. C. Dodge ; Vice President, Henry W. Fuller;

Secretaries, D. C. Linscott and T. J. Emery ; [We earnestly request contributions for this Executive Committee, John C. Dodge, Cyrus department from the Alumni and friends of the Woodman, Geo. Marrett, Geo. Gannett, Thos. College.] S. Harlow, Jas. R. Osgood, and A. Eastman. '10.—Rev. Robt. Page died at West Farm- ington, Ohio, Jan. 13, 1876, aged 86 years. studious Freshman wishing to keep his He graduated with the first part in his class A of his one studied theology at Andover, and graduated numerous friends out room evening, following notice pinned it preached the gospel in Maine, New wrote the and on in 1815 ; " Hampshire, Vermont, and Nebraska. the outside of his door : Not every one that

' ! sayeth Lord ! Lord ' shall enter into the '56.— I. D. Balch, in the Custom House, New York. kingdom of Freshmen. Ask and ye shall not in. Knock and it shall not be opened Rev. R. B. Howard is in New York, Editor get Cornell Era. of the Advance. unto you."— Thomas Leavitt, Exeter, N. H. (?) "A deputation from Harvard College Prentiss Loring, Insurance business, firm waited upon Mr. Samuel L. Powers, Secre- of Rollins, Loring, and Adams, Portland, Me. tary of the Boston Free Trade Club, recently, Enos T. Luce, Attorney at Law, Room 14, and expressed a desire to be allowed to com- Old State House, Boston, Mass. pete for the prizes to be given by the club, W. L. Melcher, Laconia, N. H. for the best essays on 'The Simplicitity of G. C. Moses, Agent of Woroumbo Manu- Free Trade, and the Intricacies of a Protec- facturing Co., Lisbon, Me. Address, Bath, Me. tive Tariff,' as well as upon the currency Rev. Edwin B. Palmer, clergyman, settled question — 'How to resume specie pa3mients, in Ipswich, Mass. with the least possible disturbance to the bus- Rev. Edwin P. Parker, clergyman, settled iness of the country.'" Post. in Hartford, Conn. Moses M. Robinson, Attorney at Law, New York City. SUCCFSSFULLY TREATED Without the use of the Edwin B. Smith is First Assistant U. S. KNIFE OR CAUSTICS Attorney General, Washington, D. C. And without pain. Address, 33jf. -a.. H. Brown, J. Y. Stanton, Professor of Greek and 208 CiiApni. St., Latin languages, Bates College, Lewiston, Me. NEW HAVEN, CONN., Enclosing twenty-live cents for Geo. R. Williamson, Boston, Mass. Pamphlet and Postage. ! —— ; — !

Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MARCH 8, 1876. No. 16.

PENTAMETERS. The maiden's " nay " We count it "yea," And do not hope resign clay The darkest night may bring the brightest ; Then for each his own — The fairest flowers longest their bloom delay; To him only known — The truest friend is he who answers " nay." While we pledge in sparkling wine

are slain In holiest cause the truest hearts ;

The deepest lore is won by toilsome gain ; WILLIAM II. PRESCOTT. The noblest thoughts are bom in sorest paiu. It would be difficult to find a better exam- ple of continued industry and indomitable Toward wished-for nights, how slowly days decline! perseverance under the most adverse circum-

fondest love is last to give a sigu, The stances, than was exhibited in the life of As tedious years must mellow richest wine. William H. Prescotfc. Suffering from early

manhood with that severest of all afflictions

The meed of patient lives full oft comes late; to a man of literary pursuits — the loss of

And thus for greatest good we longest wait. r sight—lie has } et made for himself a fame, They waste their lives, who pause to chide at fate. and given his name a place among the proud- est in the world of letters. In his youth, and even fur several years after he had left col- DRINKING SONG. lege, he seems to have made only an average appearance, exhibiting no signs of that genius

In maiden's eyes which afterwards made him so eminent. In What glory lies his preparatory studies, and in his college What luring looks divine! course, he seems fco have been no more fond Then a bumper fill, And. witli hearty will. of study than the average student, and was Pledge the maid in sparkling as read}' to avail himself of any excuse to lighten bis labors, as any of his associates. It

in bis Prom maiden's lip is especially noticeable preparatory Wo nectar sip, Studies thai bo never undertook anything

lie maiden or mini- ; the thine thai was not absolutely essential for admission Then we'll iill the glass, to college. He prepared his tasks well, but And the toast shall pass, Pledge the maid in sparkling win.'' careful not to go beyond the amount re- quired, fearing that more would be demanded.

In it was I bad no The maiden's glance college the same. le ambi- Invites advance, tion for a high rank as a scholar. He was

Which the maiden's words decline; 1 not willing to be anion ,; the lowest in his Then in love be bold, elass.it is true: for he considered a certain Ere the glance grows mid. to Drinking hliss like sparkling wine! amount of rank essential the charater of a 182 BOWDOW ORIENT. cultivated gentleman, which character seems he labored, going through with a mass of to have been the highest aim of his ambition reading that would have wearied the strong- at that period. It was in his Junior year that est e}r es, including the mastery of the Spanish he met with the accident which entirety de- language. After many delays from the con- stroyed one of his eyes, and was the cause of dition of his eyes, and much indecision as to depriving him of the use of the other for the what his subject should be, he finally fixed most part during his whole after life. A few upon a " History of Ferdinand and Isabella," weeks after the injury, he had so far recov- of Spain ; and his choice was truly propitious, ered as to return to his studies and com- as it was afterwards proved. He now went plete his college course. He seems to have to work in earnest, having ordered a large returned with new views of life. He now quantity of books and manuscripts from Spain, applied himself with more diligence than he and employing a reader five or six hours every had hitherto shown, and seems to have been day. It was ten years before the work was ambitious for a higher stand in his class than ready for the press. Through all these years he had before attained. To some extent he he labored as industriously as his infirmities obtained the object of his ambition, and grad- would permit. A portion of the time he was uated with considerable honor. It had long unable to use his eyes at all; and much of the been his intention to make the law his pro- time when he was allowed to use them, he fession, and he now entered the office of his was obliged to divide the time into five-min- father as a law student. But he appears to ute' periods of use, with half-hour intervals have been more occupied with literature and of rest between. At this halting pace he con- the classics than with his law books. He tinued perseveringly at his work, and at last desired to lay a broad and firm foundation in his efforts were crowned with success, such as

accordance with that trait of thoroughness in is granted to few authors. His- next work his character which was the chief element of was "The Conquest of Mexico." This was his success. He remained in the office some followed by " The Conquest of Peru," and four or five months, when the trouble with afterwards by " The History of Philip the his only remaining eye began, which ended Second," all prepared in the same slow and only with his life, and which determined what laborious manner as the History of Ferdinand his career should be. The next few years of and Isabella. These were his principal works. his life were spent in seeking relief from his They fill eleven royal octavo volumes. Be- infirmity. He visited Europe with that ob- sides these, he published a volume of Miscel- ject, but without success. Traveling in gen- lanies, and edited Robertson's Charles V. eral, and especially sea-traveling, he deemed to From time to time, also, he contributed to the be injurious rather than beneficial. He there- North American Review, besides doing con- fore returned home, and reluctantly came to siderable other miscellaneous writing. When the conclusion that he must give up the study we consider the character of his works, and of the law, and devote himself to some pur- the fact that his investigations had to be made suit which would allow of a life of retire- in several foreign languages, the amount of ment, and in which he could make use of other work involved seems almost appalling, oven eyes than his own. He determined upon the to one in the full possession of all his facul-

career of an author. As before, his first ties. But when we consider that all this was efforts were to lay a ground-work. This he undertaken, and carried through so success- did in an astonishingly thorough manner, fully, by one deprived of the use of his sight,

when we consider the difficulties under which it seems almost incredible. Few men, meet- ;

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 1S3 ing with such a calamity so early in life, and In the year of our Lord 1826, three Bow- situated as Prescotfc was, without the neces- doin College students were out on a lark up sity of doing anything for a livelihood, would the river road, to Durham, which town in have undertaken any serious employment those days was noted for venerable specimens much less an undertaking of so much magni- of the William Penn persuasion. It so hap- tude, and involving so many difficulties, as pened that tic students saw coming along one the compilation of a history from foreign lan- of those gentlemen, and they said one to the guages. And, indeed, such an excuse might other, We will have a little sport with Broad- well appear a valid one, and would be deemed brim. So when he came jogging along in his sufficient in the eyes of the world to ex- staid and sober way, one of the students hailed cuse a man from such an undertaking. But him with, "How does thee do, Father Abra- Prescott did not look upon the matter in that ham?" and another says, " How fares thee, light, lie early round that the key to happi- Father Isaac?"' and the third salutes him ness was in a steady and engrossing employ- with, " How art thou, Father Jacob?*' and ment, lie could not be contented to sit with the venerable old Quaker replies: '-I am folded hands. He must work if he would be neither Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob; but I am happy : and never was he so happy as when Saul, the son of Kish, and am seeking for my most deeply engaged in his work. He was father's asses,—and behold, here are three of actuated not only by that satisfaction which them." every one feels in doing his duty, but also by When we see the flag-man rush out from a true and noble ambition—the desire to ben- his comfortable quarters, and wave his flag eli! his fellow-men, and acquire a fame and a frantically, after the train has safely passed lasting name. Through all these years of the crossing, it gives us renewed confidence suffering and delay in his work, even when in the regard which railroad corporations man- confined I'm- months at a time in a room so

ifest fur the public I safety. But we do nol P i dark that objects could not be distinguished, able to state whether this action is intended and when there was very little hope that he to denote the joy which exists in the heart of would ever be able to see again, he main- the flag-man, or onlj to show that the way is tained the same pleasantness of manner and (dear for future accidents. evenness of disposition which characterized his most prosperous moments. In the dark- The Delta Kappa Epsilon and Theta Delta est hours, when his friends had lust all hope Chi delegations from the Senior da

the same time1 that sit for ;i pleasanl greeting ready for them when they they single pictures.

entered his room, however great the pain he ( .Mr. '. D. Jameson w a- one of i he gentle- might be in, or however dark the prospect men w ho \\ ere called upon for speeches, at before him. In this respect, he trulj exhib- the last dinner of tic Bangor Alumni. ited ii rentarl able character, and a self-con- •• ( 'ha renal extensively manufactured l>\ an trol t liai w as really \i onderful. [ndeed, his original and startling process;" for whole life was remarkable, and shows what further particulars call at 23 A. II. may be accomplished by a determined will.

A Sophomore, n ho ought to know,

The Alpha Delta Phi eating club has left that Freshman "cheek" is usually free from its boarding place. any b( e la( r )d tendency. 184 B WD OIN ORIENT.

Bowdoin Orient. of Portland, who took his auditors with him on "A Ramble in Norway." Mr. Thomas was PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- for several years U. S. Consul to Sweden, ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT and his familiarity with the wild northern BOWDOIN COLLEGE, land of which he spoke, was evident; and that his effort was appreciated by By the Class of 1876. the audience was signified throughout. The speaker's EDITORS. descriptions were, in the main, very good, Arlo Bates, E. H. Kimball, although at times marred by a too evident C. H. Clark, J. G. Libby, straining for rhetorical effect. He has an C. T. Hawes, J. A. Morrill, W. H. G. Rowe. agreeable voice and manner, and told his story with pleasant effect. On the whole, this lect-

Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies, ure partook more of the character of a popu- 15 cents. lar lyceum lecture than any that had preceded

Address communications to Bowdoin Orient, it, and as such commended itself to a large Brunswick, Maine. part of the audience. For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Denni- son's, Brunswick. The materials for a history of the Peucin- ian Society are, in some respects, meager and CONTENTS. scattered. Only a few leaves remain of the

first volume of its records, and many of its Vol. V., No. 16.—March 8, 1876. papers have been lost or destroyed. In 1817, Pentameters 181 however, Benjamin Randall, '09, chairman of Drinking Song 181 the general committee, in his report at the William H. Prescott 181 annual meeting of the General Society, gave Editorial Notes 184 a brief sketch of the early history of the Local 188 fraternity. He was followed, in 1832, by Alumni Notes 189 Cyrus Hamlin, '34, afterwards President of the American College at Constantinople. He, in an address delivered at the anniversary EDITORIAL NOTES. exercises of the College Society, in November of that year, brought the history down to his The lecture by Prof. Bert. Wilder, which own time. From these sources, and from the was the fourth in the Memorial Hall course, later records and papers, we have collected a was delivered Thursday evening, Feb. 24th. few facts, which Ave give as far as our limits " His subject was Spiders and Geometry." A will allow,—hoping they may be of service to description of several of the more common the historian who we trust will rise up to species was given, with elaborate sketches, on preserve from oblivion the earlier history of the blackboard, of their webs. our college societies. In spite of a tendency on the part of the In 1805, three years after the College went speaker to. drawl occasionally, the lecture was into active operation, a few students in the listened to with interest throughout. Junior and Sophomore classes formed them- selves into a society, which they named the The fifth evening of the Memorial Hall Philomathean. Its objects, as set forth in the Course was occupied by Hon. W. W. Thomas preamble to the constitution, were "to favor B0WD01N ORIENT. 185 a more perfect union, to promote literature ornament of this kind for their exhibition and friendship, and realize the benefits result- poetiy, —-Cambridge, in England, has its wil- ing from social intercourse." The exercises lows, Oxford its osiers, and we have our consisted in written essays, forensics, etc., and pines. . . . Every literary society can be a in debates. There are few details to be found Philomathean, . . . but every society cannot of the workings of the young organization, be a Peucinian society, nor has there been but it is on record that at a meeting held Oct. one."

28th, 1806, it was The committee supported its ground with " Resolved, to celebrate the approaching so much spirit that the name Peucinian was anniversary hy a festive agglomeration of unanimously adopted. A form for the initia- social atoms over materials of bliss. On the tion of new members was drawn up, in which report of a Committee of Arrangements, a a pine branch was held by the members and dinner was ordered to [be] provided for the the candidates while the latter took the affir- 22d of Nov., 1806, to be preceded by an mation of good conduct, co-operation, and address from the President, and succeeded by secrecy. an oration from one of the members." In 1808, to use the language of the report

Nothing is specified as to the nature or of 1817, "one of the considerable members

effects of " materials of bliss," and we learn became dissatisfied. . . . Taking with him

little more of the society until 1807, when it one or two others, [he] seceded, and unit- was re-organized. The committee appointed ing with those of the three higher classes to revise the constitution, recommended that from whom our number had been selected, the name be changed to Peucinian. Their and the entire Freshman class save one, from

suggestion was at first rejected, and a second which no elections had yet been made, report was prepared by C. S. Davies, '07, in formed a society expressly in opposition to

its support. The report is worthy, from its the Peucinian The Peucinian Society, wit, to be printed entire, did our space allow. however, was never so far subjected to the After comparing this troublous re-naming to effects of these deleterious passions as to the christening of Tristram Shandy, and notice the rival society in any of their public quoting Uncle Toby's remarks to Corporal transactions. It is believed that the name of

Trim upon that occasion ; and after likening the opposition nowhere appears on the records

the situation of the committee to that of of the Peucinians." There was a. wide and Dante when he wished to introduce Trajan happy change from 1817, when the committee into heaven in spite of the prejudices of the thus carefully abstain from the- mention of

time, the report proceeds : — the hated word 'Athenaum,' to 1836, when " Your committer did find in you a certain the Peucinians generously voted the us.' of fastidious aversion and shuddering horror to their library to their burned-out rivals. The

the term ' Peucinian,' on account of the allu- Peucinians at first extended invitations to

sion it contained. This, with your commit- Sophomores, without reference t<> their being

tee, appeared the greatest beauty it had, not members of Athenian: and the report coolly even excepting the Grecian softness and rich- savs. "the members elected from the opposi-

ness and sweet cadences of its syllables. The tion society left it, anil became members of

origin nf all generic names, and names ul' ours." S| places, were derived from some peculiar cir- In September. 1 I^. the first Peucinian

-. held, day cumstance about them. . . Besides this, all anniversary was mi the preceding

academies of note have had some particular Commencement ; and an oration pronounced ;

186 B WD OIN ORIENT.

by C. S. Davies, which, at the request of the graduates whose age and standing would give College Government, was printed in the Bos- them higher pretentions than the performances ton Monthly Anthology. It was introduced to at Commencement could claim, would so the readers of the Anthology by a paragraph, much diminish the novelty and interest of saying in effect: " The following article comes Commencement exercises, that they could from a region which we have been accus- not consent to our having the meeting-house tomed to regard as the Bceotia of New En- on the day preceding these exercises." gland; but in reading the effusion, one may From an address prepared by a well-known conclude that the writer, at least, lives nearer gentleman, who became a member in 1815, Attica than we do ourselves." we obtain a most interesting view of the con- " The motto, or theme, with which it opens, dition of the society at that date. " The

' 'Imp.vj si- A'Oq-jaq,' had become almost a college Peucinian Society," the writer says, " had not watchword," says a member of the class of '16, then rooms, nor, if I remember rightly, for speaking of his own college times. ten years after. We held our meetings, in In 1810 a seal was adopted, bearing the alphabetical rotation, in our private rooms.

somewhat clumsy design of a pine branch . . . . The exercises of the evening were

crossed by a caduceus, against which leaned a opened by a forensic by two members, . . . . bow. Below were a pair of clasped hands, and then a debate on the subject was opened, and above, a garland inclosing the legend, each member being called upon, in turn, to

"Pin. Loq. Sem. Hab." On the sides were take his part. . . . A dull, lifeless discussion the words " Pucinia Societas." The society was certainly the exception. If there was continued with somewhat varying success until not what was regarded as a good debate, enlist- 1813, when the control of the constitution ing a large proportion of the membership, it was given into the hands of the General was always a subject of remark and regret. Society, and by them revised. A new impulse .... The Society Library was was given by the interest and aid of the Gen- contained in a single case with folding doors. eral Society. And in 1815 we find a certifi- [It is reported to have consisted, in 1815, of cate from one John Perry, Parish Clerk, that five hundred volumes, valued at $700. The the Parish had " Voted, That the Peusinian authority we are quoting puts the number at Society of Bowdoin College, may have the about three, hundred volumes.] ... It had meeting-house between the hours of three and been collected wholly by individual donations five o'clock p.m., on the day preceeding Com- of undergraduates, when the whole college mencement, for the purpose off delivering an consisted of but fifty members; the society oration there, untill the Parish shall otherivise numbered comparatively few, and fewer still determine." There is no evidence that this re- could give. I remember the sensation caused markable privilege was ever carried to its limit. by the rumor that Bowdoin of the class of " Connected with these annual meetings," 1814, .... had presented Swift's works says the report of 1817, before quoted, " arose in an edition of fifteen volumes. It may an unfortunate disagreement between the excite a smile to be informed that the library legislative government of college and the of those days was a movable trust. On the society. The society wished their public per- accession of a new librarian the case was trans- formances to be held either in the chapel or ported on the broadest shoulders, sometimes meeting-house. The chapel was occupied on from one entry of Maine College to the other, the day assigned, by the college government even to the fourth story, —all helping in the and they also alleged that performances by removal of the books." BOWDOIN ORIENT. 187

The next fifteen years were rather years the project was never carried into effect. of inner interest and spirited work, than of In quite a different temper the two socie- marked outward events. The rivalry with ties had, in 1838, the most violent quarrel of the Athenian, however it may have seemed their history, concerning the use of the Senior to l)e attended with bitterness and envy, was Recitation Boom. The Athemeans had been still a spur to action, and perhaps rather bene- in the habit of meeting in that room on Fri- ficial than hurtful. day evening, and the Peucinians, unconscious In 1824 Longfellow delivered the anniver- of the fact, as they claimed, appointed a meet- sary poem, but unfortunately all trace of it ing of their own at the same time and place. lias disappeared from the archives. In 1827 At first the former compromised by claiming the constitution was amended so as to allow the room only on alternate weeks, but soon the admission of Freshmen. The committee withdrew this concession. The other society who reported on the proposed amendment at declared that it was not only their privilege, the annual meeting in 1826, having noticed lint their right to use the room, and unani- " with surprise and even regret " that the rival mously "Resolved, that the Peucinian Society society had, by zeal and perseverance, attained cannot and will never concede this claim." nearly an equality to their own more ancient The affair, however, finally evaporated in institution. words, beth parties conceding something.

In 1830, the society petitioned for the use In the records of 1841 allusion is made to a of "No. 1 N. C. [M. II.], opposite the room history of the society, prepared by Hon. W. already occupied by the society;" and the 1). Northern!, '43, but we have been unable

request was granted. There is among the to find it. papers of the Atheiuean a paper dated the The Peucinian seems to have taken the same year, containing a refusal by the author- precedence of its si>ter, in a contested elec- ities of a similar request, for a room in the tion. In 1846, upon the question of counting north end M. II. When the trouble arose, in blank votes, a division occurred in the soci- 1831, between the Boards and the societies, ety, and appeal was made to the General the Peucinians appointed a committee to con- Society. The rival candidates both finally fer with the Atheneans, in relation to the resigned, and tin' trouble was not of long terms proposed by the committee of the continuance.

Heard-. A report was offered containing a In 1 347, upon a proposition of the Phi scheme lor uniting the societies and libraries, Alpha " to merge that society into tin' Peu-

; hui it was rejected, and no compromises were cinian," and - to present the goods, tie

made either society. In I he by (.833, Peucin- net . and the monej in tic treasury" to i he ian was incorporated on the same general Peucinian. ii was voted 'Mo receive the goods, tin' terms provided in . Ad of L828, i incorpor- the cabinet, and the money I ai ing the Ai henajan. Phi Alpha Society ."

As noticed ill the sketch of the Atheiuean. The later years of the society ma when the lihiary of that society was destroyed, looked upon as its decline. The anniversary in L826, the. Peucinian very generously gave exercises, indeed, gave an additional into the members of its rival the use of its o\\ n to Commencement until a comparatively re- library, which was on that disastrous day cent date: but it was evident thai the old

to •• moved the Mansion I louse.' It was spiiit was last failing, [n our day we only also proposed that a subscription be raised for know of the .,ld -lories of Peucinian ami the replacing of the destroyed library, bm AtheiKcan by the tenderness and interest with 188 B0WD01N OBIENT.

which they are spoken of by the Alumni. The following appointments have been But, although now made from the Junior class for the exhibi- "In the dark places with the dead of old tion at the close of the term: Metcalf, C. A. They lie forever cold," Perry, W. Perry, and Sherman.

they have been a power for good in their clay Sunday-evening meetings seem to offer and generation which shall not cease to be new attractions to the Brunswick Madohen, is felt while the college remembered ; and the since the Medics, who are said to be more Peucinian will, perhaps, be especially remem- than usually good looking, have come. bered, since " Pinos loquentes semper haiemus." A select debating society is being organ- ized in '77. College debating societies have LOCAL. not of late years met with very marked suc- cess, but we hope to see this one live and " " To Freeport we will go ! flourish. " " Can you dance the ' Boston ' ? Teacher to Seniors — "When you wish anything to be done, such as opening the The '77 Shakespeare Club is dead. window or fixing the stove, don't whisper any " " How do you like your pictures ? more, please, but raise your hands and ask per- The gas in Winthrop burns brightly. mission." Atwood, '76, and Pratt, '77, have plunged Eighty-seven medical students have regis- into the depths of Aroostook forests, where tered. they propose to teach the youth of Presque Is it not time for the base-ball nine to Isle and Fort Fairfield something about mat- begin to train ? ters in the outer world. Prof. White and his famdy moved to The number of regular student boarders Taunton, Mass., last week. at the Tontine has dwindled from fifteen to Souther, formerly of '76, has made a short two. Cold weather and the recent rise which visit upon his college friends. the landlord has made in the price of board have probably been the causes of it. C. A. Perry, '77, is now at the Grand Prof. Carmichael is delivering lectures on National Hotel, Jacksonville, Florida. electricity and magnetism before the Medical Spring has come. Let us congratulate one crass and also the Senior class in College. another that rubber boots are cheap. Some of the experiments connected with the " Stranger to student, in the depot : Can lectures have been very successful and inter- " you tell me the way to the Tietont House ? esting. " The name of Clark was omitted from the After much trial and tribulation," a list of Senior-part men, published in the last dancing school has at length been success- Orient. fully started. Twenty-five couples will be in attendance, under the instruction of Mr. Gil- A Senior says that he dreamt the other bert, of Lewiston. No particular night has night that he was drilling the Modocs. We been decided upon for giving the lessons, but wish he might. it is understood that one lesson will be given The Faculty were petitioned for an ad- each week. Six lessons make up the course journ, on Washington's birthday, but declined to be followed by a grand ball at the end of to grant it. the term. B I VD OIN ORIENT. 189

" The man that hath no music in himself" the company was given to one of the Seniors,

must exist somewhere in the present Medical who is said to have " done himself ashes " on class. A few mornings since, the Seniors, hav- the occasion. ing had the good fortune to be in the lecture The hour formerly devoted to the " Out- room first, and having, as a natural conse- lines of Man " has, for the last wr eek or two, quence, taken all the front seats, struck up on been highly interesting and instructive. First, the " Gambolier." Now, instead of adding the member of the class to whom the review sweet melody to the chorus, not a solitary has been assigned recites it generally in a Modoc unclosed his mouth, but every one sat very able manner, owing, no doubt, to the glum and silent until the Janitor rang his bell kind assistance which he receives from others, for the instructor. who tug at his coat-tails and pinch his legs Besides lliose training for the University during the delivery. The remainder of the crew in the gymnasium, there are Achorn, hour is then utilized by a volunteer discussion Huston. Pennell, Tarbox, and Varney, train- on the " Relation of Mind to Infinity," " In- ing for a Freshman crew, of which Brown stinct and Reason," or some other equally

will be coxswain. There is also a light-weight entertaining topic. crew working up to pull in '75's old boat, con- sisting of Melcher (captain), C. E. Cobb, Knight, and Seabury. Everything seems to ALUMNI NOTES. anticipate success for the class races this

Spring, and there is great interest manifested [We earnestly request contributions for this in tin-' different crews. department from the Alumni and friends of the College.] It lias always seemed very strange to us that the authorities of tins town would not '37.—Albert Morrill, born in Frankfort in grani a license for another billiard hall. Un- March, 1812, fell dead in the street in Port- der the present circumstances, if two friends land, February 13th, 187(3. He taught, after wish to have a quiet game of billiards, they graduation, in the Academy at Bath prac- ; are obliged to go out of town altogether. ticed law in Bath and Portland, taking an For to expect any pleasure from going to the active part in politics; was editor of theNorth- hall connected with the Bowdoin Hotel would ern Tribune during Fillmore's administration. certainly be entirely out of the question. The The Bowdoin Alumni of Bangor ami idea of having a neat and well kept billiard vicinity met at the Bangor House, Friday hall in town ought to be looked upon with evening, 25th ult., to organize an Alumni more favor by the' town authorities. Association. The company was called to

Military exercise, like the gymnasium, is order by lion. s. H. Blake, ami proceeded to optional this term. A class of seventeen, eleel officers, with the following results: mostly from the lower classes, receive instruc- President, lion. s. II. Blake; Vic Presi- tion IV ('apt. Caziarc every Tuesday and dents, Chief Justice Appleton, Gen. C. \V. Friday afternoon, in squad movements and Roberts, and Rev. Dr. Tenney of Ellsworth; arms. ( manual of The mom devoted to that Secretary, Dr. A. '. Hamlin: Treasurer, .1. purpose is in the upper part of the Medical I.. Crosby, Esq.; Executive Committee, Prof. building, and was formerly used l>\ the col- .1. s. Scwall. F. II. Appleton, Esq., and Mr. lege as a recitation room. Capt. Caziarc was \V. .1. Curtis. Among the speakers were absent, not Ion- since, ami the command of President Allen of Orono, Prof. Carmichaelt . ;

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Prof. J. S. Sewall, Gen. Roberts, Attorney- them feel as one man, and which could never bo General Emery of Ellsworth, Judge S. F. forgotten. Professor Sewall spoke of the great pleasure Humphrey, Prof. C. M. Fern aid of Orono, which it gave him, as an admirer of Bowdoin, to and Rev. G. T. Packard. meet so many delegates from the different classes. Bowdoin was not the mere of SIXTH ANNUAL DINNER OF THE BOWDOIN ALUMNI material the buildings, but wherever they an alumnus of ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK. met the college there was Bowdoin. He then gave an interesting From the Graphic, received by the kind- apercu of the rise of modern education and the ness of Mr. Cothven, we condense an account university system. of the sixth annual dinner of the Bowdoin Professor Chapman mule a witty speech, in which he adduced some of the Alumni Association of New York, which took old Knickerbocker legends, iu order to typify the good cheer provided place at Delmonico's ou the evening of Feb- at Delmonico's on such occasions as the meetings of : — ruary 24th the Bowdoin Alumni. About fifty gentlemen were present, including a Dr. Allou, of Girard College, expressed his few invited guests. gratification at meeting his fellow-students. After

Prior to the dinner a business meeting was held reviewing the whole theory of college life, ho said iu the parlor. The meeting was called to order by the course of Bachelor and Master of Arts was the Nathaniel Cotbren, President, who said that as John best method of education. E. Dow, the Secretary, was ill and unable to attend, Dexter A. Hawkins delivered an excellent Frederic G-. Dow would -officiate in bis place. address. He said that Cornelia said her children A few alterations in the by-laws of the associa- were her jewels—the sons of Bowdoin wore the tion were adopted. jewels of their Almfi Muter. The Treasurer, William A. Abbott, reported that Professor Dunn read a poem composed for the there were no funds in hand, and no debts, the occasion. He is a member of the famous class of income of the association exactly balancing the 1825, and was the only graduate of that year pres- expenditures. ent. Letters of regret were read from President An election of officers for the ensuing year was Chamberlain, W. P. Fryo, Professor Hitchcock, and then, held, with the following result: President, the Rev. Dr. Prentiss.

Nathaniel Cotbren ; Vice Presidents, Nehemiah Among the Alumni present were the following:

IT. ( lleavelaud, William Allen, Henry P. Smith, and President William II. Allen, class of '33, D. D.,

William A. Abbott ; Corresponding Secretary, The- LL.D., of Girard College ; Rev. Dr. Cyrus Hamlin,

odore W. Bradford ; Recording Secretary, Frederic '34, President of the Roberts College in Constanti-

G. Dow ; Treasurer, Samuel G. Gross ; Executive nople; Dr. H. Q. Biitterfield, Harvard, MS; Prof. Committee, Dexter A. Hawkins, G. P. Hawes, Chas. H. B. Smith, '34, of Union Theological Seminary G. Soule, B. 15. Foster, and James McKeen. Prof. Dunn, '25; Dexter A. Hawkins, '43; ({en. The Alumni then adjourned to the dining-room. Thomas H. Hubbard, '37; lie v. John Cotton Smith. The dinner was in every respect an admirable one, '47; David Fales, '43; Kinman F. Page, '53; Prof. anil was heartily enjoyed by the guests. As soon as Sewall, '48; W. J. Tlmrber, 'ill; Prof. Henry L.

the cloth was removed the President made an Chapman, '66, of Brunswick ; Prof. C. F. Bracket*,

address of welcome to the Alumni, and expressed '59, of Princeton ; United states Assistant District his gratification at meeting so largo a number of fel- Attorney Foster, '55; Francis R. Upton, 75; Augus- low-students of Ins dear Alma Mater. He was tus F. Libby, 'G\ J. 1). Batch, '56; M. M. Robinson,

delighted to inform them that Bowdoin College was ''hi. '56 ; and Stephen Foss, in a very flourishing condition, and that the faculty looked forward to increasing prosperity. Jle re- SUCCFSSFULLY TREATED ferred with great feeling to the semi-centennial of Without lln- use of the

i In- class ol' 1825, held last year, ami which In- had KNIFE OR CAUSTICS Ami without pain. AMvess, attended. It had been <\\il that poetry was a. use- Dr. -A.- H- Brown, less thing—a mere ornament; hut when Longfellow 203 Ciiu-m, St., stood up and recited his "Morituri to Salutamus" NEW HAVEN, CONN., Enclosing twenty-live cents for ii rni a tin-ill through their hearts which made Pamphlet and Postage. —: —; ; — ;

Vol. V. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, MARCH 29, 1876. No. 17.

"AMICI, DIEM PERDIDI." AFTER BfiRAXGER. " Muliji-r la voix ilr la sagess," i tc. Thong]] bravest brave, when Fortune turns the tide, In spite of wisdom's warning voice, No man may say her nay I'll gladly get me stores of gold; Kent with a ghastly spear- wound in his side, Nor ever, losing it, rejoice, The}' bore the hero from the fight away Tnlcss my jealous eyes behold And strong men weep to hear him faintly say, It flung before my mistress' feet. With death -choked voice: "Friends, f have lost the A dele, whatever thy caprice, day!" Each day I'll make thy joys complete II. I ask not wealth from heaven above, But when, the city reached, friends round him throng, But I'd be rich — so rich in love. One puts them all aside, W. S. B. One he has loved with service vain as long: Now love and woo break down at last her pride She drew him to her arms with kisses long denied. A FEW FACTS ABOUT ANCIENT " Friends, f have f/niucd the day!" he thrilling, dying BOOKS. cried. It is our intention to present here a few facts about ancient writings, the progress that CUPID'S BARGAIN. is exhibited in the material used to write on, i. and the instrument used in writing; also, to When Love was young, the willful boy mention some of the causes which have con- His own affairs conducted, And strangest errors made, because duced to the preservation of these writings. lie would not be instructed. Of course, in treating of such a subject, we

ir. can offer nothing original, but must content But age o'ertook the rogue at last, ourselves with collecting together facts as the}r Aud stopped this wild proceeding. already exist, hoping thai we may set forth Full soon he found, throughout the world,

J lis power fast receding. something that will be of interest. At the present time, in. when books arc so abundant and

And so, fin- quite a handsome sum, sn cheap, and when facilities of communica-

Though Cupid's name for II gan tion are so good that one need not stir from Was still retained — bis business all his home to collect a library, we can hardly CjOVO traded oil' to Mammon. conceive, much less appreciate, the difficulties the ancient book-gatherer had to encounter.

WHY I DON'T RHYME ANY MORE. Then, asingle book, if obtainable at all, would " frequently cos) a fortune, ami the Lesl 1 should get "selected oul collector

Before old Heath came knocking, who was not able to purchase it was obliged I told my Muse to go about to transcribe it or have it transcribed fur him, Her business! It was shocking; a process involving an immense deal of care But I've no time to write my rhymes; and labor. Yet what immense libraries we My locks will soon be hoary. read of the ancients possessing. We must Good-bye, old Muse— I'll earn my dimes,

And "go it blind" ("or glory. bear in mind, however, when we compare the

w. s n ancient libraries with Che modern, that a large 194 BOWDOIN ORIENT. number of their volumes would in many cases able. The outermost layers were rough, and be comprised in a single modern volume. For of no value at all. After being separated, instance, the twenty-four books of Homer's these la}'ers were moistened and pressed, then Iliad would constitute so many separate vol- rolled and polished. But this, too, was very umes. The oldest writings, of which we have perishable, and something more lasting was any knowledge, are on stone, and brick, and needed. This at length was found in parch- wood. Some of the metals were also used, ment, prepared from the skins of sheep and especially brass and lead. These, however, goats, and vellum prepared from calf skins — were found to be more perishable than the a richer material than parchment. This was other substances mentioned, from the action of various colors, and was frequently written of the elements, frecpiently being destroyed on in letters of gold and silver, and richly by lightning. Wooden tablets were very much illuminated with the same precious metals. employed, at first the bare wood written upon Parchment and vellum finally yielded to cot- by cutting the letters in, and afterwards tab- ton paper, which began to be manufactured lets covered with wax. These latter served in the eighth or ninth century. Linen paper very much the purpose of modern slates, as was substituted for this some time in the four- the writing was readily erased, leaving the teenth century. The instruments used in tablet ready for use again. They were used writing were various. Of course, when the as slates by the boys at school. They were harder substances were to be written on, a often fastened together in the form of a book, chisel must be used; afterwards, an instru- and thus arranged resembled the trunk of a ment called a stylus. This was at first made tree. Hence they Avere called codex, and of iron, pointed at one end for writing, and from this we derive our English word, code. flattened at the other for erasing. From this Of course, when it was desired to preserve instrument we get the word we use when we the writing, some harder substance must be speak of the style of a book. When parch- used, and for this reason the Roman rulers ment and paper were discovered, reeds, and used ivory plates in issuing their edicts. But afterwards quills, came into use. These, of all these materials were expensive and incon- course, imply the use of inks. venient. Something was needed at the same The first method of writing was from right time easily prepared and easy to handle. This to left, then backwards and forwards, and then was first found in the leaves of trees. Upon the present method. The Chinese method is these the sibylline prophecies were written, from top to bottom. The changes in the and from their use we undoubtedly derive our method of writing, and especially in the form term, the leaves of a book. The inner bark, of the letters, are of very great use in deter- called liber, was afterwards substituted on mining the date of a manuscript. The man- account of its greater durability. From this uscripts were made in long strips, which were the Romans obtained their word for book, and rolled up on rods. From these rolls we we our word library. obtain our English word, volume, the Latin The next change was one of great advance- for a roll being volumen. These rolls, if very ment—the substitution of papyrus. This was valuable, were placed in cedar boxes. They much superior to anything that had hitherto were also sometimes rubbed with the oil of been used, and continued in use for many cedar for their better preservation. In the years. It was made from a species of large bookstores, they were usually covered with water rush. It grows in thin layers, the cases made out of polished skins. innermost being the most delicate and valu- The transcribing of books became a very " ; —; ; —:

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 195 important business among the ancients — a A MISS -ADVENTURE; large class made it their sole business. OK, CHEEK AND WHAT CAME OF IT. the Romans, slaves were educated Among Streaming hair; for and employed in this occupation. In this Sparkling eyes manner the immense libraries of the ancients Lashes long; Each look a prize. were collected. But soon the dark ages approached, and the decline of learning and A glowing cheek, That tells of bliss; the inroads of barbarians threatened the total Luscious lips; destruction of all the previous accumulations. Now —just oue kiss. To the monks we owe the preservation of all A hasty glance the ancient literature we now possess. Long A speaking flush after the transcribing of books had ceased in Droopiug lids, the outer world, the work was carried on in That fringe a blush. the cloister ; the monasteries also served as A forward step safe repositories for them when the barbarians The deed is done; Tingling ears invaded. But as the dark ages advanced, Their due have wou. the monks became more and more depraved, — Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates' Journal. and unable to appreciate the masterpieces of literature in their possession and to save ; A reverend gentleman who does not live expense in the purchase of new parchment, a thousand miles from this place, was recently they erased such writings as those of Livy on the train between Augusta and Portland, Tacitus, to make room for some trash of and when he was approached by a runner, who their own. Many rare works perished under asked him if he " had a pack of cards any- their hands. So far did the destruction go wheres about him." that, says one writer, " had the revival of The venerable book-peddler who was about letters been delayed a century longer, the college not long ago, called at a student's room, destruction of the old literature, for aught we and being asked if he had Abbott's History of can now discover, might have been nearly Maine, replied, " No. There is a new edition complete." Thanks to the laziness of the coming out soon, with something about the monks, however, many of the manuscripts centinental in it." were so imperfectly erased that by a chem- ical application they are made legible. By Scene in chemistry recitation. Prof. this means a number of ancient works have "What is an atom?" Student — "The ulti- been recovered. In the beginning of the mate constituent of matter, which exists in fourteenth century, letters began to revive, theory but not in fact." Prof.—"Hardly." and ancient manuscripts were diligently sought A Sophomore closed an exciting narrative after. invention The of the printing-press to one of the fair sex, in this town, as follows a great impetus to the gave work, and the " I then entered the chicken coop and charged masterpieces of literature which we now pos- on the (h)enemy ! sess were soon placed beyond the possibility Scene in constitutional -law recitation: of being lost. Prof.—"Which State first ratified the present ? '' — I constitution Student " Feraion*/"

" Yuu are all doubtless aware that there is A place of business — an American dinner a ranking system in American colleges." table. :

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; Vol. II., Nos. 12 Bowdoin Orient. 17 2, 7, ; and any number of Vol. III., IV., or V. The number of PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DUR- copies of these in Vol. I. and II. is limited, ING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, AT in some cases being only a single paper. BOWDOIN COLLEGE, Thursday evening, March 16th, a lecture, By the Class of 1876. supplementary to the Memorial Hall Course, EDITORS. was given by Professor Vose, at the request E. H. Kimball, Arlo Bates, of a number of gentlemen who had the C. H. Clark, J. G. Libby, pleasure of hearing the first lecture, and C. T. Hawes, J. A. Morrill, wished to listen to a continuation of the sub- W. H. G. Rowe. ject,— "Our Iron Roads." The Professor Terms—$2 00 a year, in advance; single copies, first treated, at some length, the subject of 15 cents. foundations, and then spoke of the locomotive, communications to Bowdoin Orient, Address giving an exhaustive history or its progress Brunswick, Maine. from the first rude forms to the present perfect For sale at Charles Griffin's and B. G. Dcnni- machine. The whole lecture was given in the son's, Brunswick. easy conversational manner characteristic of Professor Vose, and was illustrated by a large CONTENTS. number of drawings executed by different 17.— 1876. Vol. V., No. March 29, members of the engineering department, as well as by a device by Newcomb, '76, designed " Amici, Diem Perdidi " 193 to show the working of the different parts of Cupid's Bargain 193 the engine. Why I don't Rhyme any More 193 After Beranger 193 A few Facts about Ancient Books 193 On Friday, the 27th of June, 1862, the Miss-Adventure 195 A McKeen store, as it was called, which stood at Editorial Notes 196 the corner of Main and Cleaveland Streets, Local 200 destroyed by fire. The second floor was Alumni Notes 201 was Editors' Table 202 occupied as a dwelling by Joseph McKeen, Esq., Treasurer of the College. Quite a quantity of College property Avas in Mr. EDITORIAL NOTES. McKeen's possession, and a part of this was

lost. Among the articles burned were two As this is the last number of the present chairs which had been used Commencement volume of the Orient, it is imperative that days—one in the pulpit and one on the stage. those still indebted should forward their One had been presented to the College by a immediately. All communica- subscriptions Miss Russell of Yarmouth ; it being an ancient tions relative to Vol. V. should be addressed chair long held in the family, and originally to W. H. G. Rowe, Box 1037. brought from England. The other was pre- sented by Rev. Dr. Jenks of Boston. He his chaise from Bath to Bruns- Persons wishing to fill old sets of the brought it in Orient, may obtain from the editors any of wick, for use at the first Commencement, in every the following numbers at reasonable prices 1806. It had been on the stage at to the time of the fire — Vol. I., Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, Commencement up —

BOWDOIN ORIENT. 197 a period of fifty-six years. When Dr. Jenks Bowdoin — let us send no crew, but give our was informed of the loss of the original chair, support to the class regatta, and our money he claimed the right to present another, and for a new boat-house. By so doing we shall accordingly forwarded the one now standing have skilled oarsmen for next year, and a at Prof Packard's table in the library. This much needed improvement in rowing facilities. chair was used in 1862, but has since given place to the more stately chapel chairs. The University Magazine waxeth eloquent on the marking system. A previous issue The opinion of the Orient as to the contained an adverse criticism upon the sys- advisability of sending a crew to the inter- tem, and a new writer "feels not only in collegiate regatta is too well known, and has unison with the matter therein stated, but been too often expressed, to make its reiteration also, that much more remains still to be said." necessary. But in the light of recent devel- His grounds seem to us in the main very fair,

opments we have a word or two to say. and applicable here as well as elsewhere : Since the matter of representation at Saratoga " Marks aud college standings arc merely relative

has been under discussion, it has been rumored, results of some man's opinions. A high mark only means that the recipient thereof could repeat a cer- and even asserted, that there was no unity of tain section of a certain book better than some other feeling among the men who were expected to man could repeat a certain other section,—perhaps constitute the crew, and that the election of a of auother book ; and a high standing merely shows captain would result in a break. The truth of the holder thereof to have acquired a few more of this assertion was proved at a recent meeting of these high marks than certain other men, with whom, the men in training. This meeting was called as chance classmates he may be associated. " The everlasting craving to be first, the push- by the provisional captain, to use his own iug ambition to excel one's fellows, the unscrupu- words, " to organize for Saratoga." The lous desire for praise, are the curse of college life; resulted in the election organization of Bur- leading minds from their proper course into the leigh as captain, by a vote undeniably fair. selfish and insidious accompaniments of a race where The next morning two members of the crew egotism holds full sway, iu the place that of all oth- resigned their positions. The fact that these ers should have good-will and fellowship. On the other hand, a striving to excel one's self, a using of gentlemen had been among the most enthusi- each and every talent God has giveu, a doing of astic advocates of the necessity of represen- one's very best, form the only sure footing for man's tation, rendered their position, to say the least, rise rather equivocal, and open to the charge of a " Marks are well in schools for boys not yet predominance of personal over college inter- reached an age appreciative of a mental education's worth; for them some system for goading on to ests. The secession of two of its best mem- greater labor is an absolute necessity; but in a col- bers renders the prospect of the crew's success lege reside (presumedly) men, who have assembled even darker than before. Enthusiasm on the I'm- the cue sole cause of love of letters or desire for subject is entirely wanting in the collegers a scientific schooling, and this Love or this may be imagined. At present we understand should be the solo incentive to all college zeal and five men are in "training,"— if going into the labor. " When marks and examination standings are tho gymnasium when they feel like it ran be called criterious of men's worth, Universities arc reduced training. Now it seems to us that we express to the condition of primary schools, where boys feeling of a large the majorityof the students strive for number one. returning to the parental roof when we say that the sooner this farce is ex- to receive a mamma's kiss and blessing."

ploded the better. As we can ool scud a This is, it is true, but one side of the

cood crew — one that would do credit to old question; and perhaps it is the side more ;

198 BO TWOIN ORIENT. frequently considered by the student mind. so forcibly presented by Profs. Morse and

There is also much justice in the claim that as Goodale. American colleges are constituted, the mark- Want of space forbids mention of what

ing system is at least a necessary evil. we should be glad to say for the present in- The subject came up at the last Senior cumbents. However, they are too well known " debate, the question being : Resolved, That \>y our readers to receive less respect and the present ranking system should be abol- esteem than they deserve. ished." After a spirited debate, in which personal reminiscences were rather too prom- The quickness with which matters of his- inent, the question was decided in the tory fall into oblivion is surprising. Especially affirmative. are local matters speedily forgotten, and the historian has generally to select the most prob-

What a list of pleasant recollections, asso- able from a number of conflicting records and ciated with our first year's sojourn in Old opinions. We have had this brought home Bowdoin, was brought before our mind by to ns with some force, in attempting to fix the

looking over the picture list from which we dates and donors of the chapel panel pictures.

are to order. Among the principal of these The chapel was dedicated June 7, 1855

was the memory of scenes and incidents and it is not without a smile that we hear connected with the stay of the universally that even at so recent a date, there were not esteemed professors who have since been wanting good souls who were shocked at its called elsewhere. There was Prof. Brackett, polychrome decorations, stained glass, and a man who at once commanded the highest especially the frescoed panels, as the gaudy regard and profoundest respect from the stu- insignia of the Scarlet Woman. It was, how- dents, as well as from all with whom he was ever, not from regard to these objectors, but in any way connected. from pecuniary reasons that the panels were Profs. Goodale and Morse were also among so slowly filled,—but five out of twelve hav- the most popular and universally respected ing yet been painted. The intention was that

members of the faculty ; and although we had the south wall should illustrate scenes from not much to do in their branches of study, the Old Testament, while the north side was yet all were sensible of their pleasant and devoted to the New. winning influence. Prof. Young may also be The first picture painted was that of " Paul classed in a certain sense among these, for Preaching at Athens," which was put in in instead of being now our regular instructor, October, 1855. It was followed in June of his arduous duties in other quarters call him 1856, by " Peter and John at the Beautiful from the recitation room to a great extent. Gate." Both of these pictures are from All these professors hold the highest respect Raphael's cartoons, which are preserved at of the students who chanced to be in any way Hampton Court. These cartoons were de-

connected with them, and it is greatly to be signed by Raphael for Leo X., as the subjects lamented that they could not have been re- for a set of Flemish tapestries which were to tained. We have now, as members of the adorn the chapel of the Vatican. They are

r facultj , in the positions these men once so ably said by Vasari to have been executed by

filled, Prof. Carmichael in the chair occupied Raphael " tutti cli sua mano" and are con- by Prof. Brackett, Prof. Moore in that so sidered as among the finest works of the acceptably filled by Prof. Young, and Tutor artist. Chandler as instructor in those branches once The first, and probably the second, of —

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these panels in the chapel were filled hy the i was evidently the original intention. The liberality of Hon. Jared Sparks, LL.D., and first three of the pictures were painted by his wife. We copy without permission from Mueller, a German artist of New York. The

J a private letter of the latter, the following: fourth seems to be the work of another hand,

"Dr. Woods brought to us his beautiful ' and is of much better execution than any of

- collection of drawings for 3 our pretty chapel, i the others. in which we became most pleasantly inter- The fourth panel filled was that containing ested. Laughing, he said, 'They accuse me the "Annunciation," the original being by the j of turning Catholic on account of this fancy of French artist, Jalabert. This has been said

mine.' We spoke precisely at the same moment ' to be the gift of Hon. Nathan Cummings of

' in reply : Let us fill one of the panels.' The Portland, who, however, disclaims that honor

amusement of the occasion, and the natural in a letter from which the following is an " pleasure of President Woods at such a result extract : In 1859 President Woods wrote among those who had not been thought Cath- informing me that two of the panel pictures olic in their tendencies, gave us a very pleas- had been completed, and that the artists were ant conclusion to our interview. I am not then employed on a third, who had been en-

quite sure whether we sent two or one panel. gaged b}r him in the expectation of realizing I only remember, myself, selecting from en- the means of paj'ment from the sale of a copy gravings the centre of Raphael's cartoon of of Titian's 'Danae' [No. 4 in the Bowdoin the 'Beautiful Gate,' and hastily sketching a catalogue of paintings] or 'Shower of Gold,' list of subjects for the attendant vacancies .... which the government had authorized

around the chapel, for a copy of which he him to sell. With that view he sent it to

sent again. He had probably lost the first, Boston In the mean time the panel and I having made none this did not occur to picture was progressing, and being nearly

me ; and I only remember saying, as I think, finished, with no prospect of the sale of the

' It began with (using on opposite sides the 'Danae' in season to pay the artists. The Old and New Gospels) "The Lion of Judah," President requested me to loan him 6250 to " " The Lamb of Christ," &c, &c.' be paid on the contemplated sale of the

The Brunswick Telegraph of July 5, 185G, pledged picture. Some months after this attributes the gift of the second panel to Hon. arrangement the President informed me that

Bellamy Storer; but it is probable that this is the sale was hopeless, and proposed to cancel a mistake which may have arisen from the the debt by giving me an absolute bill of sale." fact that that gentleman had already provided Mr. Cummings afterward disposed of the for the filling of the third panel. This is "Danae" to George Hall, a New York artist. rendered still more plausible by the fact that There is evidently a confusion here, as the the Telegraph (Aug. 20, 1858) attributes the third picture, "The Adoration," was put in in

third picture to "a graduate of Bowdoin, 1858. The picture referred to is evidently the

resident in a distant State.'' Thus much is "Annunciation'" ; but by President Chamber- certain: a third picture, " TheAdoration of lain, io whose courtesy we are indebted for

' the Maui." was painted in May and June, the letter of Mr. ( illumines, it is thought

L858. It is a copy from Cornelius, a German that it was painted, or at least completed, in artist of the Dusseldorf school. 1860.

It senns something of a pity that the entire The last picture was the gifl of the elass pictures set of should not be by Raphael : and of L866, and was painted by Charles Otto, a foe the New Testament scenes, at least, this New York artist, in June, L866. It is a copy ! ! —

200 BOWDOIN ORIENT. of Raphael's " St. Michael and the Dragon." much more care upon his work, as the pictures Tradition preserves the legend that Otto had which have been received lately show. nearly completed his work Saturday night, The widow of Prof. Win. Sweetzer, for- and wishing to leave town early Monday merly Professor of Theoiw and Practice in our morning, was tempted to complete his work Medical School, has given the College, from upon the Sabbath. Upon expressing this to the library of her husband, 230 volumes and Dr. Woods, he was met by the ready response, 290 pamphlets, chiefly medical. "Would not that look a little too much as if " The Seniors now conduct their weekly the Dragon was getting the upper hand ? debates with a chairman chosen from their It is very much to be hoped that '76 will own number. Sanford occupies the chair for follow in the footsteps of '66, and that by the present. The practice seems likely to succeeding classes the whole set may be increase the interest in the debates very much. completed. Going to dancing-school twice a week was getting tiresome, and the dancists are LOCAL. rather glad it is over with. Of course it will rain " " on the night of the ball; so it would be a Wipe your chin ! good idea to engage a hack a week in advance. O ! for a penny post " The editors of the Okient for the ensuing " Have you a partner for the ball ? year have been chosen from the Junior class, The Medics never make any noise, as follows: Chapman, W. T. Cobb, Cousins, O, no W. C. Greene, Little, C. A. Perry, and Sea- bury. They will enter upon their duties It was sad to hear him go on so. But he with the issue. had just made a hole in his rubber boot, and next who could blame him ? The '77 debating club has had a mock trial, at which the eloquence of some of its Some beautiful students from Wellesley future lawyers was displayed to a remarkable College passed through the depot about a extent. The plaintiff, we understand, was week since, and created quite a sensation. convicted of perjury, and was fined nine Professor speaking of mythological A stews,—which debt he has lately liquidated. characters, lately, informed his astonished Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston, has class that Medusa was the grandfather of presented to the College Library a copy, by Cerberus. the Heliotype process, of the diploma confer- boating enthusiasts have proposed The to ring the degree of LL.D. on Gov. James on the pond within have a tub race the cam- Bowdoin, of Mass., bearing the date of 1755, rain storm. It pus, after the next will be open and the signatures of Principal Robertson " to yaggers." (the Historian), Professors Dugald Stewart, We hear that there are a pair of chums in Dalzell, Ferguson, Hunter, and others. only get three square meals college who every Student (translating das Hevz im Leibe two days, as they have only one pair of rub- lachte) — "His heart laughed in his belly.'" boots between them. ber Prof, (after some laughter from the class) — " The first lot of pictures from Warren did " Did you— translate that wrong purposely ? not give very good satisfaction; but since he Student " No, sir ; I found it so in the lexi-

has been informed of the fact lie has bestowed con." Prof.—" Well, if you consult an ana- BOWDOIN ORIENT. 201

tomical work you will find that is not the ALUMNI NOTES. location of the heart."

[We earnestly request contributions for this Prof. Wilder of the Maine Medical School, department from the Alumni and friends of the has made, within a short time, very important College.] discoveries in regard to the brain of the fish, '07.— Seth Storer, Esq., died at his home, establishing its complete homology with the at Oak Hill, Scarboro, Me., on the 22d inst., true vertebrate type. Strange to say, the aged 90. He was for many years a prominent same conclusions have been reached by other member of the York County bar, and, at the men, at about the same time, by entirely time of his deal different processes. of the College. The Swiss warble still rages in college, '14.— Dr. John Bush died at Vassalboro', and shows no signs of abating. The true Maine, February 28th, at the age of 83. effect of this epidemic can only be appreciated '36. — Rev. Howard B. Abbott died at by one who is writing a theme or getting a Waterville, Me., February 2d, aged 65. He lesson in mathematics. The wild laugh of the studied law, and began the practice of his hyena is melody compared with its fiendish profession in Columbus, Miss., but was com- intricacies. Have mercy, }'e night-wanderers, pelled to leave the South on account of the upon those who have heard it and try in vain climate. He then entered into partnership

to drive it from their thoughts ! with his brother, Hon. N. Abbott, of Belfast. A conviction of duty led him to renounce the It is about time to inform the yaggers profession, and to enter the ministry in the that a vigilance committee has been chosen Methodist Church, to which he devoted his from among the Medics, whose business it life with all his energies. For several years will be to hunt and ferret out the young men he suffered from feeble health. of this town who hang around street corners '39. — Edward P. Weston is to open a and snow-ball the unwary disciples of Galen. Female Seminary at Highland Hall, Highland They will be seized and carried off to receive Park, 111., next fall. the punishment they deserve. We present this '58.—Among the members of the class of as a friendly warning, hoping it will be heeded. 1858, Bowdoin College, holding public posi- During the severe rain storm which pre- tions in this State, are: —

vailed here last week, Appleton Had lost three J. P. Cilley, Adjutant General of Maine. of its chimneys. They were all blown over Hon. Nathan Cleaves, Judge of Probate, at about noon, at which time the gale was at Coumberland County. its height. The shattered chimneys stood on Gen. Francis Fessenden, Mayor, Portland. the north-east, south-east, and south-west cor- J. W. Phillips, Esq., member of Leg- ners. The one on the west side fell clear of islature from Orrington.

the building; but the other two were blown Edwin 15. Nealley, Esq., Representative

over mi to the roof, crushing it in and render- in Legislature from Bangor. ing the rooms immediately- below uninhabit- Hon. Edwin Reed. Mayor of Bath. able on account of the water, which ilowed in Colonel Franklin M. Drew, late Secretary stream-; through the openings. The force of of State, now United States Pension Agent the gale musl have been very great, as one at Augusta.— Portland Advertiser. would fed ai times thai the buildings them- 'ill. — Rev. W. R. Cross, of Orono, has selves were swaved. been invited by the First Congregationalist "—

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Church and Society of Camden, to become flashy pantaloous; wears his cap on the side of his

head, to look hard ; smokes a vile T. D., and indulges their pastor, at a salary of $1200. in the use of slang to an extent positively alarming. '70. — D. S. Alexander has been elected His brother Courant is far more pompous, and of hardly better manners. At first sight he seems to Secretary of the Republican State Central have little more wit than the Record, but is, after Committee, of Indiana. The headquarters of all, a fellow of some ability, if of little breeding. the Committee are at Indianapolis. The two brothers quarrel savagely, and hurl epithets at each other which are bettor indicated by dashes '70.— Edward B. Weston, M.D., of Lew- than by letters."

— ' " iston, has accepted a position in Highland S. E. " But Amherst and the great Cornell ' ? E. E. "Amherst Student is a nom de plume 111. Hall Seminary, Highland Park, behind which is concealed a very pious old spinster '70.—J. H. Gooch is in Minneapolis, Minn. of the Methodist persuasion. She sews pinafores for the neglected infants of Borrioboola-Gha, attends '71. P. Melcher —Wm. received the degree staid tea-parties where total depravity, as exhibited of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, by the average college student, is the topic of dis- cussion; administers catnip to her favorite Grimalkin, at Academy of Music, Philadelphia, March and snuff to herself, in a highly decorous and praise- 10th. He was one of ten, in a class of 125, worthy manner. The Cornell Era is ' fearfully and wonderfully made,' and has such a remarkable who received honorable mention. appearance of inflation that the spectator constautly '72. — Rev. O. W. Rogers has received a fears an explosion and a collapse." S. —" mo with the prospect of such call from the Congregational Church and E. You charm society ! Society, of Farmington, Maine. He has been E. E.—"Oh, the whole coterie of college repre- lately occupying their pulpit. sentatives have their moods of being agreeable, and are not usually all dull at once. But now that we take leave of them all, let us whisper to you a secret. EDITORS' TABLE. You may as well know now what you will find out in time,— college journalism is a delusion and a snare. It is an enterprise in which the benefit is not at all Scene — the Sanctum. Enter Exchange Editor commensurate with the labor. You will have ex- and Successor— Elect. changes like the Niagara Didex which is sometimes E. E. " There are papers and papers, and it witty, and always — may the mention of it be for- will take you some time to get accustomed to them. given ! — has a dirty face. Exchanges earnest and Tou will find yourself tempted to believe that papers school-girlish like the Vassar Miscellany ; dull and like the Williams Athenceum and the Brunonian well-meaning like Packer Quarterly ; lively and here, which look so fair outwardly, must be full of shallow like the Mercury ; exchanges little and big; something better than dead men's bones within. dull and clever. None of them will bo without You will learn better in time, however." traces of earnest endeavor and patient thought. S. E. —" But what are your chief exchanges But the endeavor has no self-reliancy, and the like?" thought is crude; both had better bo confined to E. E.—"Like? Why various things. The themes, or to the essays of the local literary society Dartmouth, for instance, always reminds ns strongly or lyceum. Our own attempts have made us in- of one of those unwasheu 'yaggers' who puts his wardly forgive the faults of others, however harsh head into the door with the cry, 'Got-a-sp'toon-yer- our speech seems; yet it cannot make us blind. want-clean-oof?' The Round Table is like that And so, though with the half-regret which always bald-headed Medic who applauds so vociferously mingles with the most joyful parting, we with a when others do, and hisses if the tide turns towards feeling of relief, take leave of the whole college disfavor — equally ignorant of the meaning of the press. Enter, oh, Successor, into your kingdom." praise or the blame." —Exit. S. E.—" You are not flattering, to say the least; S. E. (solus) —" He was always a misanthropical how do you characterise the Harvard and Yale youth. Now we arc rid of him we shall turn over a " papers ? new leaf."—Exit.

— _ E. E. "Well, the Crimson is a gentleman. , OA.3ST Somewhat pompous, it is true, and inclined to an BH over-consciousness of birth and condition, but a SUCCESSFULLY TREATED gentleman. The Advocate wants to be one, and may Without the use of the in time succeed,. although there are traces of the KNIFE OR CAUSTICS And without pain. Address, parvenu about it still. It is a fellow of ' good parts,' as the old writers say, and a deal of literary taste. 203 Chapel St., As for the Yale papers, the case is quite different. NEW HAVEN, CONN., of bhoy,' of Milesian par- The Record is a 'broth a IiiiclosiiiR twenty-five cents for entage. JIc carries his hands in the pockets of his Pamphlet and Postage.