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THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS

Member of the American Alumni Council

Published by Bowdoin Publishing Company, Brunswick, Maine, four times during the College year

Subscription price, $1.50 a year. Single copies, 40 cents. With Bowdoin Orient, $3.50 a year.

Entered as second-class matter, Nov. 21st, 1927, at the Postoffice at Brunswick, Maine, under the

Act of March 3, 1879.

Philip S. Wilder '23, Editor

O. Sewall Pkttingill, Jr., '30, Undergraduate Editor Ralph B. Hirtle '30, Business Manager

ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD

Arthur G. Staples '82 William H. Greeley '90 Dwight H. Sayward 'i6 Albert W. Tolman '88 Alfred E. Gray '14 Bela W. Norton '18 William M. Emery '89 Austin H. MacCormick '15 Walter F. Whittier '27

Contents for November 1929

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Bowdoin—An Appraisal—James L. McConaughy, A.M., 'n i

Bowdoin's 124TH Commencement—John W. Frost '04 3

Several New Men on Faculty 5

The Alumni Council Athletic Report . 6

Bowdoin's First and Only Centenarian o

— S. '29 The Footfall Season Opens Henry Dowst 1 r

Francis R. Upton—Edisonian—John Winthrop Hammond . . ... 12

The Student Committee Report—The Undergraduate Editor 14

Another Freshman Class Arrives 15

Another Bowdoin Man Goes North— William C. Kendall '85 16

Gifts Announced Since Commencement 20

The Forty Year Class Comes Back— William M. Emery 'So 21

News From the Classes .... 24 VOLUME FOUR NUMBER ONE THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

November - 1929

Bowdoin - An Appraisal

JAMES LUKENS McCONAUGHY, A.M., '11, President of Wesleyan University

An occasional appraisal of a business is Bowdoin teacher and takes pride in the deemed wise; usually an outsider serves as A.M. he received from Professor Chapman. the best appraiser. Similarly, a college may Bowdoin is small ; it is located in a rather profit such an appraisal or summary of by distant corner of the American college

world. Yet, its influence and educational

significance is equalled by few and probably surpassed by none. It has been proud to be small. Its growth has been measured in other ways than numbers. In spite of pres-

sure, it early set a limit to its student body

and maintained it.

Bowdoin differs from most colleges in the

integrity with which it has maintained its college ideal. It has no graduate depart-

ments ; of late it has not even given the A.M. as an earned degree. When convinced

that it was unable to maintain the medical

department at the standard desired, it abol-

ished it, showing bravery that few academic institutions have equalled. It has always striven to be a college of liberal arts, — as good as possible, — and nothing more. The enthusiasm for new courses, new departments, academic fads and follies, has had no

effect on Bowdoin. From the start, its cur-

riculum has been wisely limited. Today, it is quite content to offer fifty fewer courses than Wesleyan, thirty fewer than Amherst, President McConaughy twenty-five fewer than Williams, and six its distinctive assets. Accordingly, the edi- fewer than Hamilton. With the one notable tor's request for something of possible in- exception, Appreciation of Art, — in which terest to Bowdoin men, results in this very it was a pioneer among colleges, — it has imperfect appraisal, by one who looks back maintained President Hyde's purpose of with deep appreciation to his six years as a making additional faculty appointments, not [The B ow d o in Alumnus

to offer new courses, but to give existing force; it is no disparagement of the noble courses better. list, to mention particularly President Hyde,

Unattracted by new courses, it has, how- usually judged the most significant Ameri- ever, always been anxious to consider new can college President of the last half cen- methods for improving its work. The con- tury. Her faculty has had unusual respon- ference method, originated by President sibility for shaping her policies, and her Hyde as a "Pullman car" privilege to those trustees and overseers have been remark- who qualified for it, was developed at Bow- ably able and loyal. doin long before other colleges adopted it; Indeed, a Bowdoin man may well say that in its essential features, it antedates by he has "a goodly heritage." many years the Honors plan now so enthusi- astically announced by nearly every univer- THE EDITOR sity or college. Teachers from abroad have been appointed to bring a more interna- SAYS A WORD tional point of view. Institutes have been With this issue the Alumnus begins vol- established to give the campus the oppor- ume 4 and thus shows every evidence of a tunity to hear nationally noted leaders. continued existence. All that is needed to

Equipment does not make a college, but keep it going is sustained and increasing without adequate facilities, intellectual work interest and support from the alumni body. is severely handicapped. Bowdoin stands We were for the first time over-supplied at the very front, with its library, art build- with good material for this number of the ing, laboratories, chapel, recitation build- magazine and some things have been omit- ings, dormitories, gymnasium, athletic ted which we should have liked to use. We building, pool and playing fields, infirmary, hope, however, that our readers will be and home-like and unostentatious fraternity pleased with what we have provided and houses. Its faculty salary scale, while lower that suggestions and complaints will be than one or two, is more adequate to meet forthcoming if such is not the case. living costs than is true of nine-tenths of Particular thanks are due to Dr. Kendall American colleges. Her figures of endow- for his article on the MacMillan expedi- ment per student are surpassed by only two tion, for he is rushed to the extreme with or three colleges. work for the Bureau of Fisheries. We also

Although not controlled by the State, its appreciate the article on Francis Upton '75, service to Maine, as her real educational which was received within forty - eight leader, has been unique. Bowdoin has. for hours from the mailing of the request for over a century, been the peculiar pride of something about him. Maine. Today, a broader geographical rep-

resentation in her student body is natural; Dr. A. Herbert Gray of London, a promi- it would be unfortunate, however, if there nent figure in English religious life and a were a marked decrease in her Maine stu- frequent speaker at Cambridge and Oxford, dents, from which group has come an over- was at Bowdoin for three days early in whelming majority of her most noted October as College Preacher. Several dis- alumni. cussion groups were held and considerable

These and the many other unique distinc- student interest was aroused. Dr. Gray is tions of Bowdoin have not come bv chance; quite well known as a writer and as a her leadership has been remarkable. Her prominent member of the British Labor Presidents have been men of vision and Party.

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Bowdoin's 124th Commencement

JOHN WILLIAM FROST '04

Early Commencements at America's edu- An outstanding event of the week — one cational institutions were marked by exhi- that made this year one of remark, was the bitions of classical scholarship such as quarter-century reunion of the notable Class Latin orations, Greek parts and discourses of 1904. Gay and youthful they came, that on Natural Philosophy. Colleges then were famous band that once, so short a space of Bowdoin's rarities in this wilderness, and students, fac- ago, was pointed out as one ulty and alumni alike seem to have seized highest ranking classes, and among whom loud- upon the Commencement season as one well straight A's were as plentiful as the Class suited to the display of real erudition among speakers among the members of radiant, surrounded an unlettered people. Now, happily, the at- of 1903. Robust, and in tainments of students and faculty alike in by squads of progeny to send to Bowdoin fall, the for the the languages of Greece and Rome (if we the 1904 owned Campus except a few well-chosen Latin words with week. With headquarters at West Harps- which the President admits the graduates well they re-lived again with song and story in into our Society of Letters) are not laid the four eventful years they spent drink- spring, bare to profane criticism but are suffered to ing deeply at this Pierian and again be taken for granted by a generous, kindly pledged their love and fealty to Bowdoin. disposed and cheering audience. With two of their number, Cram and Wil-

der, marching with the faculty ; two of their Commencement in the year of our Lord number, Lunt and Wilder, the recipients of 1929 was no exception to this rule and those honorary degrees this year, and others se- gray-beards who re-read their Horace, and, lected to serve the college in various ca- like Kellogg's Squire Trafton, committed to pacities, 1904 felt that, for the week, it filled memory one line "Foriis dux in gutture up a rather large sector of the college fefcllit" for the edification of their less horizon. To mark their reunion, this class learned neighbors, found on arriving at has established for the library a fund to Brunswick that opportunities for exchanges be known as the Class of 1904 Book Fund. of sparks of knowledge with other classicals Class Day exercises in the afternoon, and were omitted from the program. the Senior dance in the evening were the Formally, the program for June 16th to high spots of Tuesday. 20th, 1929, was somewhat like that of other On Wednesday the Alumni Association years. The baccalaureate address on Sun- held its meeting — for the first time in the

day afternoon opened the week ; on Monday Moulton Union, and all had an opportunity evening the Alexander Prize Speaking was to see how well adapted this splendid build- held, and scheduled events followed ing is to its purposes. Lyman Cousens, throughout the next three days. 1902, was elected President of the Alumni Informally, however, this year's reunion Council and the Secretary announced that was in many respects notable. In attendance those chosen to be new members of the it was almost a record maker, 868 being Council were : George P. Hyde, 1908, Albert registered. In 1902 a larger number are T. Gould, 1908, William E. Wing, 1902, and said to have gathered, but only a few of us Frank A. Farrington '27. are left who remember those ante-diluvian Other results of the Alumni balloting days, so we will not count that one. were m :

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Directors of the Alumni Fund: Dwight the President conferred the following Hon- R. Pennell '98, Earle S. Thompson '14, and orary Degrees

George C. Webber '95. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Hayden 1902, Alumni representatives on the Athletic Master of Science. Council: William R. Crowley 1908, Fred Gerald Gardner Wilder 1904, Master of R. Lord '11, H. '12, Allan John Joy Wood- Arts. cock '12, and Charles L. Hildreth '25. Rev. Edward Roland Stearns 1889, Doc- It was also announced that the Board of tor of Divinity. Overseers had elected to its membership five Rt. Rev. Benjamin Brewster of Portland, new members, Messrs. William D. Ireland Doctor of Divinity. '16, William M. Ingraham '95, and John W. Prof. James Fleck Norris of Cambridge, Frost 1904 who were chosen by the Alumni, Doctor of Science. and Messrs. Hoyt A. Moore '95 and Walter Prof. William Edward Lunt 1904, Doctor V. Wentworth '86 to fill the two remaining Letters. vacancies. of Humane Charles Taylor Hawes '76, Doctor of Laws. Admiral William Veazie Pratt, of Bel-

fast, Doctor of Laws. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, of Brookline, Doctor of Laws. Admiral Pratt's was the notable speech at the Commencement Dinner. His few words on the subject of disarmament were enlightening and inspiring. Mr. Horace Henderson '79 responded for the fifty-year class in the happy and interesting manner of one whose years have been spent in at- mospheres of study and learning. No report of this year's Commencement mention of a DONOR and MANAGER would be complete without A. F. Moulton 73 and D. D. Lancaster '27 most note-worthy gift there announced. in the doorway of the Moulton Union Members of the Class of 1902 gave the copy of the Laws of the College which was Hon. George A. Emery of the Class of owned by Nathaniel Hawthorne while an 1863 was again the oldest alumnus present. undergraduate. Scribbled over with his He comes from Saco, and from there came autographs in which he was apparently try- also Daniel F. Littlefield of the Class of ing out various spellings of his name, this 1864 to celebrate his sixty-fifth. The 60 year rare volume would be a unique item for col- class had two men back, — Thomas H. lectors, and would excite spirited bidding Eaton, Esq., of New York, and Hon. Clar- among lovers of Americana in any auction ence Hale of Portland. But the Snow re- room. Bowdoin should be deeply grateful union trophy went to 1879 with a percentage to Mr. Noyes (1902) and others of his class of 80 present. through whose foresight this book, so inti- The festivities reached their height on mately associated with Hawthorne's under- Thursday — Commencement Day. After graduate days, has at last come back to the Seniors had had their say in the Church, remain permanently at Brunswick.

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Several New Men on Faculty

There are ten changes in the Bowdoin been made Joseph E. Merrill Professor of

faculty this fall, three new men coming the Greek Language and Literature. from abroad and three former instructors Professor Charles Harold Livingston of returning as assistant professors. Dr. the department of Romance Languages, As- Charles Bruneau of Nancy, France, heads sociate Professor Morgan Bickneil dishing the list as visiting professor of French Lit- of the Economics Department and Assistant erature under the Tallman Foundation. He Professor Roland Hacker Cobb '17 of the has made a fine impression on faculty and Physical Training Department will be on students and is a real addition to the teach- leave of absence during the entire college ing staff. Fritz K. A. Koelln, Ph.D., a year. graduate and former officer at the Univer- sity of Hamburg, is assistant professor of TALCOTT VANAMEE, M. D. German and Jean Fleury of Paris comes to Dr. Talcott Vanamee, of Portland, for the French Department under the fellow- some years orthopedic consultant of the ship given for the past four years by Fred- College, died very suddenly at his home at erick W. Pickard '94. Cape Elizabeth on Tuesday, October 8th, of Cecil T. Holmes, assistant professor of heart disease. Dr. Vanamee was a grad- Mathematics, Herbert R. Brown, assistant professor of English and Eugene M. Arm- uate of Hamilton College and received his medical education from the College of Phy- field, assistant professor of Romance Lan- sicians and Surgeons in York City, guages, return to the faculty after graduate New had a distinguished war record, and after work at Harvard and Columbia. There are his return became much interested in the four new instructors. Ralph de S. Childs, a problem of student health here at the Col- Harvard graduate and former teacher at lege. After the death of Dr. Whittier he Smith, is instructor in English. Peter B. was most helpful to the authorities of the Ferguson, also a Harvard man, is instructor College and was frequently on the campus in Psychology. William W. Lockwood, a for medical consultation and advice. In DePauw graduate, with a master's degree association with Assistant Professor Cobb from Harvard, is instructor in Economics, of the Department of Physical Training he while Malcolm D. Daggett '29 returns to made some interesting studies of postures of Bowdoin as instructor in French after a summer abroad. students, and helped to keep the department abreast of the times. He was genuinely in- Other changes in the faculty roll include terested in Bowdoin and his the promotion of Arthur Chew Gilligan sudden death deprives us of a warm friend as from assistant professor to associate pro- well as of an excellent professional fessor of Romance Languages, of Boyd consultant. Wheeler Bartlett '17 from assistant professor to associate professor of Physics, and Considerable progress has been made by Howard Kennedy Beale from instructor to the Committee on the War Memorial, act- assistant professor of History and Govern- ing under the chairmanship of Henry Hill ment. Edward Sanford Hammond, profes- Pierce '96. Circulars and subscription sor of Mathematics, has been made Wing- blanks have been sent to all alumni and it is Professor of Mathematics, and Thomas hoped that the necessary amount may be Means, professor of Latin and Greek, has subscribed and paid by December 1st.

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The Alumni Council Athletic Report

Early last January the president of the Boards of the College for action. It was Alumni Council was asked by President approved in general by the Boards and Sills to appoint a committee of five to in- again referred to a special committee made vestigate the general athletic situation at up of Harvey D. Gibson '02, chairman, the College. Lyman A. Cousens '02, now and Frederick W. Picxard '94 of the president of the Council, who had seen long Trustees, Luther Dana '03 and Wallace H. service as Graduate Manager of Athletics White '99 of the Overseers and Messrs. and as a member of the Athletic Council, Palmer and Pierce of the original Coun- cil committee. This committee has already had one meeting and will probably report to the Governing Boards at Commence- ment with recommendations. The original report traces the develop-

ment of the Athletic Department from its organization under the late Dr. Whittier to its present staff of seven full time men, including the College Physician. It considers the growth of the "athletics for all" policy and the development of intramural athletics, supports the idea that Bowdoin "is primarily an institution of learning" and expresses the belief that "there should be an earnest desire, and in order that the individual should obtain the most from his effort he should be imbued with the spirit of winning." The recommendations of the committee which are given below are supported by

exhibits including tabulated scores of all Lj man A. Cousens '02 athletic 'contests during the past thirty President of the Alumni Council years, with a comprehensive chart showing was made chairman of the group, which percentage of wins and losses, with em- included Thomas L. Pierce '98 and Harry phasis on the past five years, and by a L. Palmer '04 from the Alumni Council, detailed account of the financial organiza- and James F. Hamburger '10 and William tion of the Athletic Council, with emphasis D. Ireland '16 from the General Alumni on sources and amounts of income and of Association. coaches' salaries. Under the able leadership of Mr. Cousens, who manifolded and sent from his Here in brief are our conclusions and office nearly 150 pages of letters and other recommendations. material, an exhaustive in\ estimation was 1. That such faults as exist seem to be carried on and a report made to the Alumni primarily inherent in the existing form of Council at its Commencement meeting last administration. Accordingly we direct at- June. The report was accepted by the tention more particularly to that angle of the

Council and referred to the Governing problem as it is set forth in the following.

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2. That the College should have—as a Five undergraduates elected by the stu- member of its faculty—a general athletic dent body according to their rules. director who should havo general direction 6. This advisory council shall work un- and supervision over the following activ- der a constitution drawn up by the Alumni ities : Council and duly approved by the alumni, (a) All physical training which may be faculty and students. It shall have ad- specifically provided for in the curriculum. visory power over the whole department.

(b) All training for intercollegiate 7. All coaches shall be engaged and dis- sports activities. missed by the Athletic Director when ap- (c) All intramural sports of whatever proved by the Alumni Chairman of the character. Athletic Advisory Committee, by the Un- dergraduate Manager of the Sport in ques- 3. This General Athletic Director should tion or if available the senior un- have under his direction the following none by coaches dergraduate members of the Advisory Council subject also to the approval of the (a) Football President of the College. (b) Baseball 8. The General Athletic Director shall (c) Hockey not be a member of the Advisory Council (d) Track but shall ordinarily sit with it and have (e) Swimming the right to be heard by it. He shall as (f) Any other sports, if and when sepa- stated be a member of the Faculty and be rate coaches are provided. hired and dismissed as are other members. (g) Intramural sports—when coaches 9. The Bursar of the College should be for such sports are provided either from the custodian of all athletic funds and dis- the Faculty or student body. burse the same on order of the athletic di- 4. The General Athletic Director should rector. be an administrative officer solely, and Your committee believes should not attempt to function as a coach, as his duties are too broad and diversified 1. By this arrangement the actual ad- for such special work. Careful oversight ministration of all athletic affairs becomes unified the Athletic of all the buildings and grounds devoted under General Director, to athletics subject to the General Commit- who in turn is responsible to the President. tee of the College for that purpose would The Advisory Board serves as a balance require a considerable amount of his time. and check and a general working committee with Faculty, Alumni and Stu- 5. The General Athletic Director should be supported by an advisory council com- dents all represented. Frequent meetings posed of the following: would be unnecessary as the General Ath- Three members of the Faculty to be ap- letic Director having no coaching to do pointed by the President; but the Athletic would give his full time to the work of ad- Director is not to be one of them. ministration. Five members from the alumni, to be 2. The student representation has been elected in June 1930 for terms of 1-2-3-4-5 retained due to the long tradition, and in years respectively and thereafter one man particular due to the fact that through each year for the five year term and no the Blanket Tax the students contribute member to serve more than two successive largely to the financial support of athletics. terms. Such members to be selected by the There is also a tendency today to put ath- alumni with due regard to their geographi- letics back again more into the control of

cal location as to residence. the undergraduates so far as it is feasible

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and attempts of alumni to dominate and in Europe is unable to sign this report and control have been frowned on in some in- does not therefore necessarily agree with stitutions. it. (Signed) Included in the Department of Physical Lyman A. CouSENS,

Education is the College Physician, and the H. L. Palmer, expenses of the Infirmary are charged to James F. Hamburger, this department. We have purposely Thomas L. Pierce. omitted the College Physician from this department and recommend that the Infirm- On October 19th, at the time of the game ary and College Physician be considered with Wesleyan, fathers and guardians of separately as a Department of Health. members of the class of 1933 were invited

A table is appended which shows the to be guests of the College for a day on the costs of the Physical Department as kept campus. About 35 men were present and by the College Treasurer from 1900 to 1929. enjoyed the opportunity to meet their sons' These costs do not include the money spent instructors and other members of the fac- by the Athletic Council wT hich in itself runs ulty. There was a pleasant luncheon in the over $30,000 each year. This appears at Moulton Union and the men then attended the foot of this page. the game in company with their sons. The Your committee believes careful thought program was in charge of the Committee must be given to these figures, the increases on the Union and it is expected that a sim- in costs of this Department the past few ilar affair will be held next fall. years being out of all proportion to other costs in the College. The total cost of this On September 26th the social life of the

Department evidently is too large a part College was opened with a smoker in the of the total cost of running the College. Moulton Union. Speakers included Presi-

Efficient centralized responsibility should dent Sills, Hon. Augustus F. Moulton '73, bring the cost into proper balance. and Harry B. Thayer, Jr., 30, who wel- Your Committee has endeavored to make comed the freshmen on behalf of the stu- only constructive criticisms, and has tried dent body. Following the speaking a bronze not to embarrass the new Athletic Council tablet, erected by the College in the vesti- particularly as the personnel next year will bule of the building, was unveiled by Presi- be almost entirely new. Mr. Ireland being dent Sills.

*Physical Department Percent Increase Instruction Percent Increase

1900 1,866 30,194 J905 2,854 53 36,494 4 1910 3,955 in 51,073 23 1915 6,977 273 66,310 32 1920 10,659 471 69,633 79 1925 24,068 1 189 131,785 307 1926 27,515 1374 149,561 33i 1927 30*843 1552 166,714 344 1928 34,206 1733 181,398 452 1929 (Est) 44,810 2301 196,876 471 * Blanket Tax and Pickard Field not included.

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Bowdoin's First and Only Centenarian

Rev. Ebenezer Bean of the Class of 1857, but had prepared for college at Bridgton oldest living graduate of the College, cele- Academy, where he had also served as a brated his 100th birthday on July 20th. teacher, having been engaged in that work Messages of greeting were received from from the age of 18. During his college hundreds of friends in Maine, among them course he taught several winter terms of being telegrams from the President and the school, including some service as assistant Alumni Secretary of the College. Mr. Bean principal at Bridgton. On leaving college he returned to the academy as principal, remaining for three eventful years, well remembered by the students who studied under him. A graduate of Bangor Theo- logical Seminary in 1861, he entered the ministry of the Congregational Church, occupying pastorates in Maine from that time until 1907, when he went West to live with his daughter, who had married the son of a college-mate, Professor Benjamin F. Hayes '55. Since that time he has done some

preaching and is still ready to speak, and speak well, on any appropriate occasion.

Mr. Bean is always glad to talk about his

college days and is extremely proud of his friendship with the long line of presidents and professors who have served since 1853. He remembers well the dedication of the Chapel. It was completed but only partly furnished in his Freshman year. He was Rev. Ebenezer Bean '57 much interested in being told of the new Union, the swimming pool, and other addi- has since returned to Maine and is now liv- tions to the campus since his last visit in ing in Walnut Hill, where he was recently 1924 when he addressed the alumni at the visited by the Alumni Secretary and found Commencement Dinner. to be well and intensely interested in news There was no football at Bowdoin in the of the College. He is very proud of the old days, says Mr. Bean, and practically no fact that a relative of his, Charles S. Mead amusement except baseball, which was of Bangor, is now a member of the Fresh- played much as it is today. Relations with man class. Young Mead is the son of Dr. the town boys were friendly and there were Frank H. Mead '95. Mr. Bean was a char- occasional games including both groups, ter member of Theta Delta Chi at Bowdoin particularly at the time of the Topsham and is now the oldest member of that Fair when the College closed for a day and fraternity. such students as wished attended. All of Mr. Bean entered Bowdoin in the fall of the farmers' sons were sure to go as they 1853, the oldest member of a class of more were interested in the exhibits of stock and than sixty. He was born in Conway, N. H., farm produce.

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The Class of 1857, says Mr. I '.can, were terms and the professors often stopped to "all gentlemen" and all knew each other talk when meeting boys on the campus. He intimately. There were others in College, particularly recalls in this connection Pro- he said, there for special courses and spe- fessor Smyth and Professor Upham, with cial purposes, who did not mingle with the whom he was especially well acquainted. student body and who lived and ate some- On hearing of the swimming pool Mr. where down town. Most of the men were Bean inquired to what extent it was used from Maine and Mr. Bean was much sur- and recalled that swimming" "up the river" prised to hear how large a number of our was popular in his time. A group of 10 or present students are residents of other 15 would get together and go to Topsham, states. He is glad that the College is still where there was a convenient swimming small, particularly so as he has lived near place. and known the University of Illinois with its Mr. Bean is living near the church at 10,000 students. His nephews, who attend- Walnut Hill and will be delighted to greet ed the University, know their classmates no alumni who may care to visit him there. He better "than a crowd you meet on the 4th of is quite active and takes a short walk each July when you go to Boston," says Mr. clay, usually calling upon Rev. Jehiel S. Bean. He remembers particularly the social Richards, secretary of die class of 1872, atmosphere of Bowdoin in his day. Stu- who is a friend and near neighbor. dents and faculty were on very friendly

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The bronze tablet shown above has been stance being in 1917, when a similar bronze placed in the vestibule of the Moulton was placed in Hj de Hall. The tablet was

Union by the College. This is only the sec- unveiled by President Sills at the opening ond time that such action has been taken smoker in the Union, held on the evening by the Governing Boards, the earlier in- of September 25th.

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The Football Season Opens

HENRY S. DOWST '29

The Bowdoin eleven has completed four An intercepted pass, however, spoiled this encounters on its seven game schedule, in- effort. Bowdoin sustained a heavy loss in cluding an 18 to 6 victory over Mass. the injury of Ricker who, as he caught a long forward, was tackled with injurious Aggies as a season opener, a 27 to 6 defeat force. at the hands of Williams, a 19 to trounc- After the Williams game, Henry Philip ing of Wesleyan, and a 19 to 6 loss to Chapman, Jr., '30 of Portland was unani- Colby. mously elected captain of the Polar Bears. Grid practice got under way on Whittier It is interesting to note that his father was Field on September 10th with a rather small captain of the Bowdoin eleven in 1905. He squad in uniform. A severe blow was felt is a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity. early in the season in the loss through in- Absolutely reversing its exhibition of the Creighton Gatchell, a sophomore, jury of preceding Saturday Bowdoin completely who looked like one of the best centers to outplayed Wesleyan on October 19th to the come to Bowdoin in some time. On Octo- tune of 19 to o. The line held like "Stone- ber 5th the Polar Bear invaded Amherst to wall" Jackson's noted soldiers and the bril- win its opener over M. A. C. by 18 to 6. liant work of Dan Johnson together with In this tussle Phil Chapman, Sid Foster, a newly developed aerial attack was more Stewie Stone and Ricker constituted "Jit" than the Connecticut outfit could handle. a backfield too powerful for the Aggie boys While Johnson was not in action, Bob to cope with. The Bowdoin line held with Thayer ably filled his shoes, caging a long- machine-like precision and the Polar Bears pass that paved the way for Bowdoin's took to the air on several occasions, com- second touchdown. The line showed pleting a number of tosses, including one marked improvement, and this may have good for yards from Foster to Ricker. 35 been somewhat aided by the shifting of Playing a game at times brilliant but on Bill Lancaster to the guard berth and the the whole most inconsistent and lacking initial use of John Hay, hefty Westbrook coordination, Bowdoin lost its second bat- lad, at right tackle. tle of the season on October 12th to Wil- For once Bowdoin and Maine joinedhands liams by a 27-6 tally. Williams showed a in sorrow' on the eve of October 27th after brand of interference and sweeping end the Polar Bear's sweeping 19 to 6 defeat runs that the Polar Bear line seemed un- by Colby in the State Series opener and to able stop. Phil Chapman played in his the Black Bear's loss to Bates. To put it per- usual stellar manner and Dan Johnson, fectly plainly Colby ran rough shod over rangy sophomore, and ''Jit" Ricker went Bowdoin to score three times in the first well during the short time they were in the half, including a spectacular 86 yard run by fray. When the Polar Bears first got the Wally Donovan. The Polar Bear came back ball they drove their way the whole length strong in the last half to score, and the of the field only to lose their initial scoring line held the White Mule three times in the chance by a fumble on the two yard line, shadow of the goal. Taking to the air on and again, just before the half closed, Bow- several occasions passes of thirty to forty doin chalked up a sixty yard gain on two yards were completed, but a number were plays to reach the Williams five vard line. also intercepted.

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Francis R. Upton - Edisonian

JOHN WINTHROP HAMMOND, of The General Electric Company

In the autumn of 1878, a tall young man enthusiasm toward mathematical work of twenty-five, with a virgin brown beard, wherever to be found, he sent him, not to "of which he was pardonably proud," called the Western Union plant on Church street, upon an eminent New York lawyer, Grosve- Manhattan, but to Menlo Park, New Jersey, nor P. Low rev, at the latter's office in the with a note to Thomas A. Edison. There, Drexcl Building, corner of Wall and Broad in the early part of November, 1878, Upton streets. He gave his name as Upton — entered the service of the inventor as the latter's mathematical specialist. At that time Edison had just begun lo work on the problem of an electric light of small capacity, as distinguished from the arc lamp. His conception was already formu-

lated ; his conviction was formed ; he was just beginning his innumerable succession of experiments to produce not only a prac-

ticable incandescent lamp but also an efficient dj-namo and system of distribution. He had plenty of work for a mathemati- cian, and L^pton served him well throughout the succeeding year, which constituted the creative period in the invention of the elec-

tric lamp. There w7 ere calculations to be made as to the method of winding the armature for the dynamo; tests, involving mathematical computations, of armature cores

operating under various conditions ; the re- sistance (electrical) of various materials which seemed promising for the filament Francis R. Upton 75 (or burner) of the electric lamp; later, tests Taken in His Senior Year with a Thomson reflecting galvanometer of

Francis Robbins Upton. He stated that his voltage and of amperage; still later, tests to mission was to obtain employment, if pos- determine the current consumption of car- sible, with the Western Union Telegraph lionized cotton threads and carbonized strips Company, of which Lowrey was counsel. of bristol board, which Edison utilized in

Upton, it developed, had just returned his earliest successful lamps; and various from a year's study under the famous Pro- computations, sometimes requiring the fessor Herman von Helmholtz, at the Uni- working out of tables, of a somewhat minor versity of Berlin. He was a graduate of nature, to establish mathematical short-cuts Bowdoin College, and had done post- in the work of the laboratory. graduate work at Princeton. Upton soon became one of a little band When Lowrey learned of this collegiate of men who were intimate associates of the equipment and had sized up the young man's inventor. The others were Charles Batchel-

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lor, model-maker, who mounted every commercially and when the demand for in- filament for the experimental incandescent candescent lamps kept increasing every year lamps; Francis Jehl who prepared fila- until by the nineties the output was already ment materials and later operated the numbered by millions annually. Sprengel mercury pump used for exhaust- Upon the formation of the General Elec-

ing- air from the lamp bulbs; John Kruesi, tric Company, in 1892, Upton continued as machine-shop foreman, who was not often manager of the Edison Lamp Works for in the laboratory, having charge of the several years. .He then left General Electric machine-shop nearby; and Martin Force, for an individual business venture of his general utility man. own. These individuals saw Edison progress steadily toward his great goal and worked As we go to press plans for Alumni Day literally shoulder to shoulder with him to are being completed and it is expected that achieve the desired end. They saw the be- there will be a good attendance. In addi- ginning of the famous life-test of the tion to the usual luncheon in Memorial Hall "forty-hour lamp," beginning in the early a ladies' luncheon in the Moulton Union is evening of Oct. 19, 1879, and ending about being arranged for and it is hoped that this one o'clock in the afternoon of Oct. 21, this will encourage alumni whose families plan test giving Edison the first indication that to attend the game to come earlier and eat he had a practical electric lamp, and estab- on the campus. The feature of the morn- lishing the date now accepted as the birth- ing program is to be a faculty-alumni con- day of the invention. Upton, with the oth- ference in the lounge of the Moulton Union. ers, kept the "death watch," as they called Speakers will represent the departments of it, to see how long that lamp would last, literature, science and social sciences, and and was on duty thus while Edison slept a the Library. The committee in charge is few hours on a laboratory work table. hoping that considerable constructive dis- During the latter part of 1S79 and cussion on these phases of the College pro- through a large part of 1880, Upton, on oc- gram will result. casion, acted as Edison's spokesman and champion before the public, writing articles in the Scientific American and Scribner's During the summer the College swimming Magazine for the purpose of presenting the pool was open to the public, with special technical story of what Edison had done provision being made for boys' and girls' and of answering his critics. groups in cooperation with the American When, in 1880, Edison established a com- Red Cross. The venture was a great suc- mercial factory at Menlo Park for manu- cess, more than 7,200 admissions being re- facturing his incandescent lamp, (this plant corded, and the same plan will be followed being later moved to next year. During the winter season the Newark, N. J., at what later pool will became Harrison, where it was the be open evenings for similar nucleus of the present large lamp works of groups, with a business men's class already General Electric), Upton, with Batchellor, organized for Monday nights. and others of the laboratory staff, organized and equipped the plant and started its oper- The leading article in the October number ations. He followed this line of lamp fac- of Forest and Stream is from the pen of O. tory executive, thenceforth, during the pe- Sewall Pettingill, Jr., son of Dr. O. S. Pet- riod of the eighties, when the Edison light tingill M'08, and undergraduate editor of and system were being widely introduced the Alumnus.

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The Student Committee Report

By the Undergraduate Editor

In January of this year President Sills By means of questionnaires and sub- appointed a committee of ten seniors, rep- committees the present committee gathered resenting the different interests in the Col- the census of opinion of the student body lege, to conduct an investigation on the va- on the subjects in question. Of particular rious questions relating to the college life interest to our Alumni would be their opin- and activities at Bowdoin. Particular ations in regard to fraternities and athletics. tention was to be paid to the fraternity and The present committee does not deplore non-fraternity problem, class and college the fraternity situation but believes that elections, athletics, curriculum, and college they are becoming administrative units. publications. The committee was made up of Intra-mural sports, scholarship ratings, Dana M. Swan, chairman, of Providence, Bugle and other classifications, college R. I.; Robert C. Adams, Jr., of Long- dances, athletic programs, and announce- meadow, Mass. ; Huntington Blatchford of ments are carried on through the fraterni-

Portland; Richard L. Brown of Lynn, ties. This tends to emphasize the position

Mass. ; Edward F. Dana of Portland; Wins- of the non-fraternity men. Although at- low R. Howland of Auburndale, Mass. tempts have been made to organize the non-

Gordon D. Larcom of Dedham, Mass. fraternity men into a definite group, this is Henri L. Micoleau of Providence, R. I. not the successful method of remedying the

William B. Mills of Farmington ; and situation. Naturally there is no group feel- Harold S. Schiro of Bangor. ing among them. They prefer rather to be

This was the second committee of its kind classified as independents. Such a situation at Bowdoin. The first student report of can be improved, the Committee thinks, by this nature was made at Dartmouth in 1925. abolishing the present administrative sys- It proved so successful that on the follow- tem. To accomplish this it suggests doing ing year several other colleges, including away with intra-mural sports, the booth Harvard, Purdue, University of Oregon, system in college dances, and other activi- and Bowdoin, undertook similar investiga- ties which tend to exclude the non-frater- tions. The first Bowdoin committee, head- nity men. It recommends the return of the ed by H. Lincoln Houghton '26, drew up a social position of fraternities. This will report which contained so many valuable lessen considerably the "conspicuous and suggestions that it was printed by the Col- disagreeable position of the non-fraternity lege Boards. Four-fifths of the recommen- man." dations of the committee were carried out. In the discussion in regard to athletics, The need of courses in Biblical history and the committee advises the abolition of the literature, as well as in pedagogy, was point- intra-fraternity system under the Ives ed out, and at the present time both of these trophy saying that it not only tends to ex- subjects are offered. Another interesting aggerate the position of the fraternities but suggestion was the establishment of a also keeps men from varsity competition. It union with a commons to alleviate the diffi- is inconsistent in that it is in favor of the culty presented by the fraternity as an ob- intra-fraternity track meets provided they struction to close friendships outside of one are confined to varsity men. The Depart- particular group. ment of Athletics should be governed di-

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rectly by an athletic director, not a coach of ANOTHER FRESHMAN any varsity major sport. The Athletic CLASS ARRIVES Council should be abolished. Compulsory the class of athletics should not be required of Seniors. Bowdoin opened its doors to new Among the outstanding needs of the Athletic 1933 on September 24th, when 152 registered as freshmen and 11 Department, it mentions a covered hockey men were entering rink which could easily contain handball transfer students admitted. The and squash courts within the same build- class is about the same size as those of re- general ing, a new track, development of Pickard cent years and represents the same however, field, and the upkeep of Whittier field. geographical grouping. Maine, From the consensus of opinion gathered has definitely fallen behind Massachusetts from the student body the committee also in sending students, for 67, or nearly 45%, feels that compulsory chapel should be con- of the new men are Massachusetts resi- tinued but more cuts allowed. This point dents; 43 or 29% are from Maine. The are is of considerable interest considering the most interesting of the new men action that some of the leading universities Gunther Wilmsen of Potsdam, Germany, a in the country have taken in regard to do- senior exchange student from the University ing away with chapel exercises. of Berlin, and Kaspar Myrvaagnes, a first year special student from Norway, who comes to Bowdoin through the American MacMILLAN COMES Scandinavian Foundation. HOME AGAIN More than 25% of the freshmen are rela- tives of older Bowdoin men and 10, whose Commander MacMillan returned from names are given below, are sons of alumni. his summer expedition on September 19th, Emery C. Andrews of Brunswick. Son being met at Newagen by representatives of Philip R. Andrews '06. of the State and College who came up the Gordon D. Briggs of Skowhegan. Son of river to Wiscasset on the Bowdoin. The Francis W. Briggs '99. Commander had not been in good health Newton K. Chase of Blue Hill. Son of since leaving Sydney and retired almost Edward E. Chase '84. immediately to his home in Provincetown, Donald P. McCormick of Albany, N. Y. Mass., where he is working on two books. Son of Islay F. McCormick '00. The Bowdoin was met off Monhegan George C. Purington, 3rd, of Sanford.

Island by E. Curtis Matthews, Jr., '10, of Son of George C. Purington '04; grandson Portsmouth, N. H., who utilized his tug- of George C. Purington '78; great-grandson boat whistle in greeting, as he has done on of Rev. Dudley P. Bailey 1829. so many earlier occasions. Blanchard R. Vining of Billerica, Mass. Son of Eugene C. Vining '97.

William L. Haskell, Jr., of Lewiston. Son Alumni who have been lamenting the of William L. Haskell M'94. passing of class spirit will be interested to Cornelius F. Doherty, Jr., of St. Albans, know that Proclamation Night this fall was N. Y. Son of Cornelius F. Doherty '07. observed in old-fashioned style. There was George E. Pettengill of Saratoga Springs, a hand-to-hand battle on the upper floors of N. Y. Son of Ray W. Pettengill '05 grand- ; Winthrop Hall, with heavy damage to fur- son of George T. Little 'yy. nishings and some slight casualties among Charles S. Mead of Bangor. Son of Dr. the contending classes. Frank H. Mead '95.

[15] [The B o w d o in Alumnus Another Bowdoin Man Goes North

WILLIAM CONVERSE KENDALL '85

The MacMillan-Baffin Land Expedition felt that my age and health would make of 1929 sailed from Wiscasset on June 22nd. the trip inadvisable. My particular prob- The Bowdoin carried a crew of seven, in ad- lem was to investigate the northward dis- dition to its scientific staff, which was made tribution and habits of trout and salmon and up of Dr. Adelbert Fernald, professor of to find out as much as possible concerning Orthodontia in the dental department of the so-called freshwater cod of Labrador. Touching at several points on the Maine coast, we finally set sail from Southwest Harbor on June 27th, crossing at once to Cape Sable and skirting the coast of Nova Scotia until we reached the Bras d'Or Lakes at Cape Breton Island. Here we massed through the lock into the lakes and went through the island to Sydney. We stayed here for several days, leaving on July 3rd headed for Cape Ray, Newfoundland. We were accompanied through this part of the trip by the Grenfell Mission schooner "Maraval", captained by Albert T. Gould '08. Continuing up the Gulf of St. Law- rence we entered the Bay of Islands, where the "Maraval" was joined by Dr. and Mrs. Grenfell. We were delayed here by heavy winds, so strong that even in the harbor, the gusts sweeping down the neighboring moun- tain defiles blew the crests of the waves into mist and sent the clouds thus formed scud- ding down between the ship and the shore like a dense smoke screen. Our next stop was Port Saunders, where we waited for the "Maraval" to rejoin us and where we purchased large lobsters for 10 cents each, Doctor Kendall regardless of size. In passing through the Holding a Baffin Land Sea Trout Straits of Belle Isle, our next port was Harvard University, Dr. Samuel C. Palmer, Red Bay, on the southern Labrador coast, professor of Botany at Swarthmore College, where some of the men attended church and the writer, who was detailed by the services, in the absence of the regular pas- United States Bureau of Fisheries as icthy- tor, presided over by a local fisherman. ologist of the expedition. My going had Leaving here and continuing northward we been most unexpected and was prefaced by met our first icebergs. On our trip up the to me some more or less disconcerting cor- Newfoundland coast I was much inteiested respondence between Commander MacMil- in large schools of porpoises or dolphins lan and the Commissioner of Fisheries, who which cavorted about the ship in their

[16] The B o zv d o in A I u m mis'] characteristic way. Our next port was nine pounds. Later continuing up the coast, Battle Harbor where the salmon fishery we paused at Davis Inlet, the oldest Hud- was in full blast. The catch was so son Bay Company post on the coast, and abundant that all available boxes had been on account of bad weather making our next used and the fish were being iced in the stop at Port Manners; then successively at hulls of boats, pending the arrival of more Black Duck Bay and Saeglek Bay. boxes, ice being secured from a berg, towed Our next and last stop in Labrador was into the harbor for the purpose. Here, as at Nachvak; Bay, where we met Captain Bob in the other harbors visited along the coast, Bartlett, who was conducting a private ex-

I fished from the vessel, catching numer- pedition in his schooner, "The Morrissey". ous sculpins and so-called rock-cod, which From here we made a continuous run up are different from the cod of commerce and the coast, across Hudson Strait, to oft* the rock-cod of Maine. At Hopedale, hear- Resolution Island. After passing the island ing of a stream and lake farther up the an ice pack was sighted, but thinking it to bay, Frank Henderson and I took the steel be a belated summer outflow of ice, we outboard motorboat and made a vain trip drove the "Bowdoin" into it in hope of in search of trout there. In approaching reaching open water beyond. Here began the shore the propeller pin was broken and the unpleasant experience of the trip, char- we had no extra pins. But Henderson acterized by Commander MacMillan as the saved the situation by using some rusty worst summer conditions seen in his twenty- nails from an old boat found on the shore. one years of Arctic work. The ice pack Meanwhile the wind had risen and we had was made up of polar ice, some of the pans a rough and uncomfortable, and to me not being more than twenty feet thick, and in- very reassuring, return trip. But we finally terspersed with tremendous icebergs, many reached the harbor and the "Bowdoin", of them at least 300 feet high. In addition soaked to the skin and much relieved to be to the danger from the ice there are many safely back. rocky islands along this coast, made all the The scenery of some of the Labrador more treacherous by a tide of 30 to 40 feet which covers some of these rocks complete- coast is beautiful beyond description. The ly when high. Soon after entering the ice coast is dotted with tiny islands, many of we lost our log and in the second night a them rising to abrupt heights. The "Bow- grinding floe pinched the "Bowdoin" and doin" passed through several narrow chan- forced her hull at least six feet straight nels among them and along the mainland. out of water. Navigation in the ice is diffi- Our next harbor was Nain, where we cult in the extreme and the scientific staff, stopped to land material for the school- greenhorns as sailors, were almost useless. house, which MacMillan had brought for Later came our narrow escape from the the Moravian Mission there, and where the iceberg, which has already received consid- Hudson Bay Company has recently built a erable notice in the press. Lying sleepless hospital, finding it good business policy to in my bunk with a constant roar and crash keep their trappers and fishermen in the of ice about the vessel as the tide rushed best of health. On July 16, leaving Dr. Fer- through the floating mass, I was aware of nald ashore for his dental work on the Eski- discussion on deck concerning an approaching mos, we ran up to Anatalak Bay where berg and finally heard the captain say

MacMillan's biological station is beautifully in that same even voice of his, as if he were located. Here I secured fine specimens of offering one a cigar, "Well, Robbie, 1 guess so-called "sea trout", one of which weighed there's no hope," and all hands below were

[i7l [The B o w d o in Alumnus ordered to dress and get on deck. As quick- ice which had packed in behind us. Slowly ly as possible I somehow put on boots and we worked our devious way among the ice outer clothing' and went on deck, where in pans and finally reached Osbon Bay in com- the ghostly twilight of the Arctic night I paratively clear water. After taking on saw the berg. Hundreds of feet in height, fresh water from a small pond nearby, we it towered above the stern of the little ran down the bay to near Kane's Channel.

"Bowdoin" which almost touched it. It The swift tide through the channel was seemed ready to crush her between it and bringing down much ice some of which was the ice floe. Gradually we swung at an eddied into our anchorage.

"BOWDOIN ALLEY" Where the Ship Found Refuge from the Ice angle to the berg and there seemed a pos- From here the lower section of Frobisher sible chance to get away. Moving ahead a Bay was seen to be full of ice. Still intent little to get more room, the "Bowdoin" was on getting North, — the ice prevented backed full speed close along the berg al- us from going South had we wanted to — most near enough to touch it, and then shot Kane's Channel having failed us, after ahead and into open water just behind it. changing our berth three or four times Still among the ice, that morning we either on account of storm or ice — or both, finally found a tiny shelter between two and having bucked the ice for several miles, islands where there was comparative safety. we finally anchored under the lea of Lok's There we remained until the morning of Land, on August 14th. Here we were held August 9, when we backed out through the by a northeast storm until August 18th.

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About noon on that date we entered New Gulf ruined by nearly two weeks of battling York Press Channel and part way through with the ice, we started for home via the struck bottom and "stayed". At high tide south shore of Frobisher Bay. In strong- we were off and on our way. We worked contrast to the north shore, this side of the

through and proceeded up the coast to the bay is characterized by lofty rugged peaks, westward, anchoring that night in a small amongst which glaciers are seen extending bay. Here a beautiful red sunset aroused down to or toward the sea from the Grinnel

much enthusiasm, as it had been a long time Ice Cap. MacMillan and Henderson

since we had seen any sunset at all.

On August 19, Lupton Channel, betvveen Baffin Land and Lok's Land, was negotiated in a final effort to proceed northward, but on account of ice we were obliged to turn back. That night we anchored in a Bight near Frobisher Bay. The following day we worked through the ice into the comparatively open water of Frobisher Bay and headed westward up the bay. Later we came to anchor near Kodlunarn Tsland where Frobisher had his "stronghold" and "gold mine" (1576-1578).

leaving this locality proceeded After we The "Bowdoin" in the Ice up the bay and later picked up an Eskimo climbed one glacier and made some impor- party in a sailboat, which comprised an old tant observations on the ice cap. Later, on man, a young man, a woman with a baby, the way down the coast, we spied a deep two small boys, and five or six dogs. All indentation which promised to have a river but the dogs were taken aboard and the old entering at its head. We ran up this bay man piloted us into a harbor at Brewster's and the promise was fulfilled. Also an Es- point. Here I caught the first fish since kimo camp was found on the hillside. Here leaving Labrador, i.e., sculpins. Although some large sea trout were caught, some of I tried about every stopping place among the which weighed from 8 to 10}^ pounds. islands, the waters seemed as barren as the The homeward voyage was without rocks of the mountainside. notable incident, though marked by a couple of The following day, under the guidance of narrow escapes from collision with ice- the same Eskimo, we sailed up a narrow bergs, being stranded on beam's-end for a fjord and found a small pool separated from while, and such relatively minor incidents the salt water by a steep waterfall only a as fog and rough weather. On September few feet down at high tide, but with a drop 19th we dropped anchor at Wiscasset. at the ebb. I of nearly 30 Here had some It should be mentioned, however, that for good fly fishing and caught some fine fish, several days, some of the Bowdoin's crew strong, land. gamey and but very hard to were engaged in building the schoolhouse at However, I succeeded in taking quite a Nain. number, among them being several weigh- In the words of Harold/ McCracken : "The ing from to pounds. This 4 yYi was my red Arctic ice is one of the most beautiful letter of the trip. day whole things on this old earth of ours — to keep Our '"chances of reaching Cumberland away from."

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Gifts Announced Since Commencement

Henry Hill Pierce '96, a member of the George F. Manson '81, Boston lawyer, Board of Trustees and now serving as died at his home on October 17th, too late chairman of the Committee on the War for notice to be included in "News From Memorial, has given the College a fund of the Classes." As our last form closes news is of bequest from his estate more than $150,000 to endow a professor- received a will to than $200,000. ship of English to be known as the Pierce which amount more Professorship. No appointment will be In addition, all his books, miniatures, paintings and other such articles are left to the made this year, but the income from the College. This constitutes the largest single fund will be available for general instruc- received the College since the be- tional purposes. Mr. Pierce's family has gift by been intimately connected with the College quest from the Munsey estate. William W. Esq., '81, has executor. for more than a century. His grandfather, Towle, been named Josiah Pierce, a graduate in 1818, served as Air. Manson was born in Havre, France, trustee from 1855 to 1866 and achieved August 13, 1858, and lived as a boy in Bath, prominence in the State as president of the Maine. Following his graduation from Senate. Mr. Pierce's father, Lewis Pierce, Bowdoin he attended Boston University, was a graduate in the class of 1852 and also where he received his law degree in 1885, saw service in the Maine legislature. The being at once admitted to the bar. He prac- Lewis Pierce Book Fund, now amounting ticed for many years in Boston as an as- to about $25,000, was established in 1926 by sociate of Edwin U. Curtis '82 and had Mr. Henry Pierce. continued alone after Mr. Curtis' appointment as Police Commissioner. President Sills announced at the opening It is interesting to note that Mr. Man- of College a gift of $5,175 from Professor College library Edwin H. Hall of Harvard University, a son leaves to Dartmouth a fund of $5000 in memory of his brother, graduate in the class of 1875. Professor Robert L. Manson, a Dartmouth graduate Hall received his A.M. in 1878 and was in the class of given a Ph.D. by Johns Hopkins Univer- 1885. sity in 1880. He has been professor of Physics at Harvard since 1895 and was The Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- given an LL.D. by Bowdoin in 1905. vancement of Teaching has recently placed Bowdoin among that select group of The President has also announced a be- twenty-eight colleges, out of 112 investi- quest of $5,000 from the estate of Frederick gated, where athletics, especially football, O. Conant of the class of 1880, for twenty are not in any way subsidized. Well, that's years an Overseer of the College. A still something to take comfort in, at any rate more recent bequest is that of $22,000 from Bowdoin doesn't "buv" its football teams the estate of Frank H. Kidder of Boston.

The income from this fund is to be used for scholarships, preference being given to The College buildings were illuminated graduates of Thayer Academy and students throughout the night of October 20th in from Massachusetts. Mr. Kidder was asso- commemoration of the 50th anniversary of ciated in business with E. Farrington Edison's completion of the first successful Abbott '03. incandescent light.

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The Forty Year Class Comes Back

WILLIAM MORRELL EMERY '89

On Wednesday afternoon of Commence- This beautiful campus and these grand old ment week, as the shadows were lengthen- halls are filled with sacred and hallowed ing, twenty-six survivors of the class of recollections. As we here celebrate an im-

i88q held brief exercises at their class oak portant event of our college days it seems which they planted forty years ago between appropriate for us to join in this sentiment: and Massachusetts Halls. The Memorial "Thrice welcome, classmates, as tree, of oak, had a splendid specimen red here today with simple and previously been marked a Another milestone on our way tasteful bronze tablet, bearing this in- We mark with glad acclaim. scription : Time, the then and now in one, Tit is Tree was Planted by the And History when days are done, Class of 1889, Arbor Day, Give to our deeds a name."

May 15, 1889. It is a good thing, once in a while, for us William M. Emery of Boston, secretary to pause amid the busy activities of the of the class for the past forty years, pre- present, and instead of contemplating with sided, and Judge Sanford L. Fogg of our usual fond hopes the ever expanding Augusta, deputy attorney general of Maine, and enticing future, glance back over the delivered the address. The group was past with appreciation and gratitude for the photographed, and after the simple cere- manifold blessings and comforts that have mony proceeded to New Meadows Inn for been ours to enjoy. the reunion dinner. At a business meeting As we of '89 do this today we behold an Wilbur D. Gilpatric of Boston was elected interesting picture of a goodly number of permanent class president, to succeed our boys on the fifteenth day of May, 1889 George L. Rogers of Boston, who died dur- (Arbor Day), forty short years ago, true ing the spring. to themselves and loyal to the class and to The total membership of the class was the college, suitably arrayed in all the para- forty-seven, of whom eighty per cent sur- phernalia necessary for a pilgrimage in vive. Living members who received the search of the sturdy and majestic tree that A.B. in 1889 number thirty-two, and should sometime be a suitable companion twenty-four of these attended the reunion, and possibly a worthy successor on the col- winning second place in the competition for lege campus of the renowned and historic the Snow cup with a record of seventy-five Thorndike Oak, whose wide-spreading and per cent. Bernard C. Carroll, a telephone graceful branches have been, as it were, a official in San Francisco, made the trip benediction and a blessing to countless num- across the continent especially to attend. bers of the graduates and friends of the Among the members of the class was the college. After an arduous and long-con- late Professor George T. Files. tinued search the tree was found and The tree address of Judge Fogg was as proudly borne on robust shoulders to the follows intended spot between ancient Massachu-

This place, this day and this occasion fill setts and dear old Memorial Halls, where us with fond and tender memories which with appropriate ceremonies it was scien- strengthen the ties, already strong, that tifically planted. Our ivy, once our pride bind us to the college and to each other. and joy, had passed away, never to return.

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The Planting of the Oak — May 1889

From left to right: F. J. C. Little, E. L. Adams, F. L. Staples, F. J. Libby, B. Smith,

C. L. Mitchell, T. S. Crocker, L. J. Bodge, J. R. Clark, W. S. Elden, W. M. Emery,

C. F. Hersey, O. P. Watts, C. H. Fogg, J. L. Doherty, D. E. Owen, F. W. Freeman, L. Prentiss, F. H. Hill, G. L. Rogers.

The Forty - Year Reunion — June 1 929 B. Carroll, Back row, left to right : W. D. Gilpatric, W. P. F. Robie, L. j. Bodge, C. F. M. Russell; second row from back, left to right: Dr. H. C. Jackson, F. H. Hill, E. A. Merrill, E. L. Adams; third row from back, left to right: Lory Prentiss,

; front row, F. J. C. Little, C. H. Fogg, W. S. Elden, O. R. Smith, Burton Smith left to right: Rev. E. R. Stearns, D.D., B. L/ Furbish, Dr. V. O. White, D. E. Owen, Dr. F. C. Russell, W. M. Emery, A. E. Neal, S. L. Fogg, Rev. C. F. Hersey,

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One of my chief regrets has ever been "The flower of hope springs in each that I was not one of that noble company. heart, But my absence from those class exercises, As one by one the years depart, which as we turn back memory's pages are That truth may live and reign; productive of the highest satisfaction and Wise men be raised, great deeds be most precious thoughts, does not in the least done, lessen my interest in the growth and devel- The brotherhood of '89 be one, opment of the tree. The year following its Large strength and power attain." planting it failed to produce its usual foli- age; it appeared, like our ivy, to have died. CAMPUS CHANGES 1 talked with our old friend Booker, the work has guardian and protector of the campus, During the past summer much been done on the campus under the supervi- about it, and he agreed with me that it '20, acting superin- seemed to be dead. He said, however, that sion of Don T. Potter and buildings. Exten- he would do his best to save it. tendent of grounds trees of the I was on the campus the second year sive work has been done on the thereafter, and lo and behold, there was a campus, more than 870 having been care- lusty shoot pointing from the tree trunk fully examined and put into condilion, while heavenward, full of life and promise. 20 have been removed entirely. Consider- Friend Booker with his trusty and magic able work was carried on on the Thorndike saw had severed the top from the trunk, Oak, cavities being repaired, braces fixed and thereby had saved the tree. From that in the upper branches and one of the larger time to this I have watched with much in- limbs being removed. Another large item terest the steady and rapid growth of the of the summer program was the fencing of tree. My visits to the campus during all of Pickard Field. Nearly half a mile of heavy the intervening years have been many, and wire mesh was used and gates have been nearly always I have not neglected to view built at the Coffin Street and Whittier this oak, and have frequently with much Street entrances. A cement tennis court pride and satisfaction pointed it out to oth- has been constructed for spring and fall ers as the class tree of '89. One year ago practice and considerable grading has been it occurred to me that it should be properly carried on on the baseball diamond. marked, so that its true history might be known, and so I informed our secretary, Plans are being made to have the new who agreed with me and said it should be Quill on sale at the College on Alumni Day done ; hence this dedication. and the published table of contents is cer- The years have dealt kindly with it, so tainly a promising one. While it is yet too that today its matchless vigor, form and early to speak for the future, Mr. Fosdick, beauty are justly a source of pride to us all, the editor, has certainly and may well be a precedent for other done a fine piece of work in organizing his initial effort. classes to follow in a worthy endeavor to beautify and adorn the campus, and leave a tangible something to strengthen the ties We were pleased to note editorial com- that bind them to the college. ment in the Orient on the recent Cosmo- As we mark this noble oak and in effect politan article by Calvin Coolidge in which dedicate it to the class and to the college, he gives to Edwin U. Curtis '82 the chief gathered as we are, inspired by the spirit credit for the stand taken by the Massachu- of '89 and Old Bowdoin, we may well sing setts Executive Department in connection with the poet with the Boston police strike.

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News From The Classes

The necrology since the appearance of this famous orator. After graduating from Eow- doin Mr. Prentiss moved to Xatchez, Miss., where the May issue is as follows he practiced law. From there he went to Vicks- burg, Miss. He represented that city in the leg- 1862—John Melvin Pease, A.M. islature and in 1837 he was elected to the Na- tional House of Representatives. He was char- 1864—Nahum Wesley Grover, A.M. acterized by Daniel Webster as probably never 1869—George Frank Mosher, LL.D. having had a superior in the field of oratory. Arthur Charles Jackson, president of the Interna- 1870—Alonzo Garcelon Whitman, A.M. tional Longfellow Society, is preparing a memoir 1874—Ernest Sidney Hobbs, M.E. of him, which is expected to be ready for the press very soon. 1875—Frank Pierce Virgin, M.D. 1859 1876—Edgar Yates. Rev. Horatio O. Ladd observed his 90th birth- 1883—Herbert Elmore Cole, A.M. day on August 31st. After his graduation from Bowdoin Dr. Ladd was principal of the academv 1883—Robert Charles Washburn. at Farmington, Maine, until 1861, when he went to Olivet College as of and 1885—Lewis Hodgkins, M.D. professor Rhetoric Oratory. From 1873 to 1876 he was principal of 1890—William Trickey Dunn. the New Hampshire State Normal School and in 1881 he founded the University of New Mexico, 1903 Ralph Wellington Henderson Hel- — remaining as its president foi eight years. He lenbrand, M.D. also founded Ramona and the United States In- dian Schools at Santa Fe, N. M. He was first 1906 Romilly Johnson. — ordained in the Congregational ministry but in 1910—James Anthony Hubbard. 1881 he entered the Eniscopal Church and was ordained a priest. He has been rector of Trinity 1917—Harvey Daniel Miller, A.M. Church, Fishkill, N. Y., and of Grace Church, Jamaica, Long Island. For several years after his 192 1 —Samuel Cummings Buker. retirement in 1910 Dr. Ladd assisted Dr. Mann Med. 1863 — Delon Henry Abbott, M.D. at Trinity Church, Boston. He is now living in Brookline, Mass., with his daughter. Miss Med. 1866 Kimball, J. — Hannibal Hamlin Eirene Ladd. M.D. 1862 Med. 1878 — George Barstow Tibbetts, Rev. John Melvin Pease died on May 29th at M.D. the age of 88 years. Immediately following graduation he entered war service with the 25th Med. 1879-—Melvin Alphonso Harmon, Maine Volunteers. After the war he attended M.D. New Hampton Theological Institute for two years and then began preaching service in Minnesota, Med. 1892 — John William Connellan, later occupying several pastorates in Maine. Since M.D. 1885 he had been a resident of California where he served as pastor and teacher and in his later Med. 1904 — Joseph Napoleon Gideon years occupied himself with farming. Bernard, M.D. 1864 death of Nahum Med. 1910 — Hannibal Hamlin Bryant, Word has been received of the W. Grover. After leaving Bowdoin Mr. Grover M.D. entered Bangor Theological Seminary and graduated in 1867. He had held pastorates in Maine, Western 1826 New Hampshire, Vermont, and several states. A black steel tablet on which is written in 1869 white letters : "Sergeant Smith Prentiss, Born Here, Sept. 30th, 1808, a presentation 01 the Port- George F. Mosher, former editor and United land Historical and International Longfellow- States consul abroad, died on August 17th at his Societies/' has been hung near the entrance of residence. 107 Howland street, Roxbury, follow- the Colonial Theater on Congress Street in Port- ing a brief illness. Mr. Mosher was born on land, Maine, to commemorate the birthplace of February 12, 1844, in Weeks Mills, Maine, and

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was graduated from the New Hampton Institu- one of the leading Masons in the country. He is tion in New Hampshire in 1865. Being too young well and active. for the Union Army, he volunteered for the 1875 Sanitary Commission in the last year of the war Dr. Franklin P. Virgin died at the Eliot Hos- and took care of the wounded at Whitehouse pital in Boston on July 13th, following an illness Landing, Va., after the battle of Cold Harbor. of two months. Dr. Virgin was born in Rumford After his graduation from Bowdoin he became Falls, Maine, on October 13, 1850. He received assistant editor of the Morning Star, the publica- his M.D. from Detroit Medical College and first tion of the Free Baptist denomination in Dover, practiced in Rochester, N. H. In 1888 he moved N. H., where he was active in politics and served to Weymouth, Mass., and lived there until the twice in the State Legislature. In 1881 he was time of his death. He was widely known as an sent as United States consul to Nice, France, and oculist. in 1883 was promoted to Sonneberg. Germany. In 1886 he became president of Hillsdale College 1876 in Michigan, and from 1901 to 1912, when he re- Edgar Yates, an authority on New England of the tired from active duties, he was editor History and genealogy, and a newspaper man, Morning Star and associate editor of The Watch- died at his home in Stoughton, Mass., on October man. His wife, Frances (Stewart) Mosher was 3rd.: He was born in Biddeford, Maine, on March associated with him in his work throughout his 1, 1856, and as a young man taught school and clerk in his consular entire career, serving as his learned the printing business, which he followed work abroad and as his associate in his editorial in Portland, Providence, and other cities. He was -was a of the Phi Beta Kappa work. He member made night city editor of the Boston Advertiser Fraternity. in 1885 and two years later went to the Boston 1870 Globe. In 1894 he became managing editor of After having been in poor health since July, the Biddeford (Maine) Daily Journal, succeeding Alonzo G. Whitman died on August 19th. He his father. He retired from newspaper work some time ago, but kept writing the was born in Auburn, Maine, on September 7, up under pen 1842, and received his early education in the name of "Old Timer." When he became a mem- schools there. After graduating from Bowdoin ber of the New England Historic Genealogical he took special courses at the Massachusetts In- Society he gave a great deal of his time to his- stitute of Technology and at the Harvard Medical torical research and genealogical writing, con- School. After leaving Harvard Mr. Whitman tributing frequently to the society's quarterly. became an assistant instructor at the Edward 1879 Little Institute and then an instructor at Bow- Professor and Mrs. Henry A. Huston left on doin. Since retiring from teaching in 1914 he June 22nd for a business and pleasure trip had done a great deal of writing. through England, Belgium, Switzerland, South 1874 Germany and Italy.

A letter from Rev. Charles J. Palmer tells us 1882 the following about the other members of the Frank E. Winship died at his home in Port- class : land, Maine, on June 7th after a long illness. Cassius M. Ferguson, who has for years been After leaving Bowdoin Mr. Winship engaged in seriously afflicted with inflammatory rheumatism, the wholesale dry goods business. He was treas- is helpless in sanatorium. now and a urer of the Sawyer Barker Company at the time Ernest S. Hobbs died on June 23rd at his home of his death, having held that position for the in Fontana, Wisconsin. He was born in Saco, past 15 years. Maine, on October 1, 1850, and after graduation from College he went into the cotton business. 1883 He was for several years president of the Aurora Herbert E. Cole, for 30 years principal of Cotton Mills in Aurora, Illinois, having retired Morse High School, Bath, Maine, and from 1914 about a year ago. to 1923 at Bridgton High School, died at his home Edward O. Howard is well but confines him- in Bridgton, Maine, on July 11th. He is sur- self to administering estates and avoids indoor vived by his widow and two sons, Philip P. Cole and court work. '12 of Louisville, Ky., and Alan R. Cole '14 of Thomas Kneeland is well and tough and has a Montreal. good practice, but is getting homesick for Maine Word has been received of the death of Robert

and half wishes he had never left it. He has had C. Washburn at Portland, Oregon, some time in several terms in the legislature and has a very July. After leaving Bowdoin Mr. Washburn at- honored position in the Minneapolis Bar. tended Tufts College, Columbia Law School and Charles Stowe has moved from California to the University of Berlin, Germany. From 1887 Long Island and is now the oldest member of to 1905 he was engaged in journalistic work in the class. Seattle and Spokane and later took up intensive George Wheeler is highly honored as a banker horticultural work in Oregon. He had served on and politician in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and is the Public Library Commission of the city of

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Seattle and in the Senate and House of Repre- brother who have preceded her in the Oakes sentatives of the State of Washington. He was household, enjoys the distinction of being the '96 also a past president of the Rogue River Fruit class baby. Association and of the Oregon State Horticul- 1899 tural Society. Dr. Fred H. Albee was a passenger on tht 1885 maiden trip of the new German liner, Bremen and assisted at a serious operation performec Dr. Lewis Hodgkins, for 40 years prominent as upon another passenger in mid-Atlantic. The sur- a practicing physician in Ellsworth, Maine, and geons reported that the ship was so steady thai mayor of the city for three terms, died on August it was like operating in a hospital. 23rd from a sudden attack of heart trouble. After leaving Bowdoin, where he was a room-mate of 1900 the late Dr. Whittier, he attended and Dartmouth James P. Webber has accepted a position as received his A.B. degree, being also elected to professor of English literature, dramatics and Phi Beta Kappa. His medical training re- was public speaking at Hartwick College, Oneonta, ceived at the University Medical College in New N. Y. York City. 1901 1890 Roland E. Clark has been elected a member of Word has been received of the death of Wil- the executive committee of the Trust Company liam T. Dunn some time in October. Mr. Dunn Division of the American Bankers' Association. was born in North Yarmouth, Maine, and attend- This is a distinct honor for Mr. Clark, the comed Kent's Hill Seminary before entering Bow- mittee being composed of but 15 members repre- doin. After graduation he went into the grocery senting the entire country. The election is for a he and grain business and from 1894 to 1897 three year term. studied law with Henry B. Cleaves was ad- and Representative Donald F. Snow has gone into the Bar. After mitted to Cumberland County the movies, being one of the heroes of a film practicing in Portland for a few years he moved which will be released this fall and shown all over to California where he established the town of the country. Mr. Snow's part in the movie is Brawley. had been a banker there for several He that of a member of a congressional committee years. which heard the first plea made by women for 1892 the establishment of a Women's Bureau, back in 1910. John C. Hull of Leominster, former speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, has 1903 appointed by Governor Allen as a member been Dr. Ralph W. Hellenbrand died on August list of the Board of Industrial Accidents of Massa- at the Phillips House, Boston. He was born in chusetts. Old Town, Maine, on January 11th, 1882, and 1894 after graduating from Bowdoin entered Johns Hopkins; University, receiving his M.D. there four Associate Justice Frank G. Farrington was years later. He served his apprenticeship in two honored at a complimentary banquet tendered New York hospitals and then went to Kerhonk- him by the Kennebec Bar Association in Augusta, son, N. Y., to be assistant in the Ford Sanitarium, Maine, on October 3rd. Justice Arthur Chapman where he remained for seven years. Prior to the one of the speakers. was breaking out of the World War, Dr. Hellenbrand 1896 had spent several months in medical study in Germany and the outbreak of hostiliries stirred Homer R. Blodgett and family enjoyed a motor his sympathies for the Allies and he joined the trip through Yellowstone Park in July. French army, holding a commission as captain. John E. Frost, who has been with the John After the war he did foreign medical service for Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company for 25 the United States Government for several years years, of late as field superintendent iii the Con- and then returned to Old Town, where he prac- cord, N. H., agency, has recently resigned his po- ticed till the time of his death. sition and is living at Lakeport on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee. 1906 Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Knight made a trip Prof. Henry P. Boody, dramatic and forensic to the Northwest and Alaska this summer. Earlier coach at Ripon College, directed a large historical in the season they enjoyed a motor trip to Nova pageant, "A New Birth of Freedom", written in Scotia with Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Lyford. honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Re- John Clair Minot delivered the graduation ad- publican Party in Ripon, Wisconsin, last June. dress at Skowhegan High School on June 21st. Romilly Johnson, composer, who wrote the A daughter, Shirley, was born to Mr. and Mrs. music for several Broadway musical comedies, Harry Oakes on April 10, 1929. This young lady died on August 7th. After graduation from college as has been the case in turn with the sister anc Mr. Johnson went abroad and studied the piano

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under European artists, living in Florence, Italy, ies have included other of the chronic diseases for fifteen years. With Arthur M. Bagby he was than cancer and because of his four years' expe- author of the score of "Fioretta", the Earl Car- rience in this work here and his training pre- roll musical comedy which opened in New York viously he would seem to be eminently fitted to last February. direct this new and extremely important division 1907 in the department." William A. MacCormick received the degree of Charles R. Bennett was the American delegate Ed.M. from Harvard University in June. to the Institute of Pacific Relations held in Kyoto, Japan, in October. 1913

1908 Elmer E. Tufts, Jr., secretary of the Rhode Is- \ssociation, recently Sturgis E. Leavitt, who is professor of Spanish land Alumni has been made at the University of North Carolina, sailed on a partner of the law firm of Edwards and Angell September 18th for Lisbon, Spain, where he will in Providence, R. I. study this winter. Professor Leavitt is a member 1915 of the Harvard Council on Hispano-American George W. Bacon has been appointed associate studies, in which work he is particularly con- professor of Law at Fordham University Law cerned with the literature of Colombia and Peru School. 1909 Austin H. MacCormick has accepted an appoint- Harold H. Burton has recently been appointed ment as assistant superintendent of Federal City Law Director for Cleveland, Ohio. In a Prisons and head of the newly established Wel- statement announcing the appointment of Mr. fare Division at Washington, D. C. The Wel-

Burton the City Manager said : "The city is very fare Division will supervise the handling of edu- fortunate in being able to secure a man of such cation, medical servce, psychological and psy- exceptional character, experience and attainments chiatric work. Mr. MacCormick's previous expe- as Major Harold H. Burton. In his profession, rience gives him a valuable background for un- in service to his country during the war and in dertaking this new work. public service, Major Burton has commanded the 1916 attention and respect of everybody who has met him. He will come into the city law department Vaughan F. Burnham is wholesale manager for Northern for the with a fine record in many fields and 1 am con- New England Aluminum Cook- fident that his service in the law department will ing Utensil Company. His office is at 1027 Statler add new luster to that record." The law direc- Building, Boston. torship is the third highest paid job in the Cleve- 1917 land city service. Mr. Burton is a member of the Roland H. Cobb is on sabbatical leave from the East Cleveland Board of Education and vice- College and is doing graduate work in physical president of the Cleveland Bar Association. education at Columbia University. 1910 Announcement of the marriage of Carl S. Word has been received of the death of James Kuebler and Miss Lillian W. Miller of South A. Hubbard, but no details are available. After Orange, N. J., on June 29th, has been received. leaving Bowdoin he attended the Christian Friends in Maine were shocked to receive the Brothers College in St. Louis, Mo., receiving his report of the death of Harvey D. Miller at Kala- A.B. degree there in 1911. He then entered min- mazoo, Mich., where he was serving as assistant ing work in Nevada and other Western states, professor of English at Kalamazoo College. After having last been heard from in Versailles, Mo. teaching at Cushing Academy and at Kents Hill Lewis L. Mikels is in the oil refining business Seminary, he served on the faculty of Bangor with headquarters in Kowloon, Hong Kong, High School, and then went to the University of China. Maine as instructor in English, receiving his A.M. 1912 degree there in 1927. From Maine he went to Bethany College, West Virginia, and only last Dr. Herbert L. Lombard has been appointed fall accepted the appointment to the position at director of the division of adult hygiene in Mas- Kalamazoo. sachusetts. Dr. George H. Bigelow, commission- Sherman N. Shumway was the speaker at er of public health, in announcing the appoint- Freshman Day at the College this fail. ment said: "In 1925 Dr. Lombard came to this department to conduct the study of cancer di- 1918 rected by the Legislature, and did an astonishing- Hugh W. Blanchard received the degree of ly good piece of work in a short, time. Since then LL.B. from Harvard University in June. he has been in charge of our cancer section, or- Whitney Coombs has accepted an appointment ganizing clinics, until recently handling admis- as professor of Economics at St. Lawrence Uni- sions to our cancer hospita\, and conducting versity, Canton, N. Y. studies widely over the state on which extension Elliot Freeman and Miss Margaret Foster of our cancer service will be based. These stud- Boothby of Gorham, Maine, were married on

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September 28th in the First Parish Church in William C. Mason and Miss Esther Sterling Gorham. They will live in Kennebunk, Maine, were married in June at San Francisco, Cal. Mi- where Mr. Freeman is connected with the Rogers Mason is connected with the General Motors Fibre Company. Company in California. 1919 Lieut. Joseph H. Rousseau and Miss Anne Marie Drapeau were married in Washington, D. C, on Donald S. Higgins has been elected president September 16th. They sailed for Honolulu, where of the Bangor Rotary Club. Bertram L. Bryant Lieut. Rousseau is to be stationed, early in '95 is vice-president of the club and Sherman N. October. '17 Shumway is a director. Alexander Standish has joined the Intercolle- Donald McDonald and Miss Margaret Graham giate Alumni Club, Detroit, and is taking an ac- were married on September 14th in VVestbrook. tive interest in its affairs. The Club recently Maine. are living They in Woodfords, Maine. announced its plan to build a clubhouse in down- Leslie W. Pearson, who has served for the past town Detroit for college and university men. five years as sub-master at Biddeford High 1922 School, has recently resigned his position to enter Howard R. Emery received the business. degree of master of arts from Harvard University in June. 1920 Dr. Francisco A. Fagone, who graduated from Tufts Medical School in 1924, has recently been Friends of Jere Abbott will be interested to appointed a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps learn that he has been made the assistant director Reserves. He has been medical examiner for of the new Museum of Modern Art in New York. Cumberland County for more than three years. The museum is under the sponsorship of Mrs. Rev. Kenneth R. Henley and Miss Dorothy John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Professor Paul Sachs Gillett were married at the Maple Street Church of Harvard, Frank Crowninshield and other in Danvers, Mass., in July. Mr. Henley has been prominent New Yorkers. The director is to be pastor of the church for about a year. Alfred Barr, with whom Mr. Abbott was asso- Mr. and Mrs. Bruce H. M. White announce the ciated at Harvard and Princeton. arrival of Suzanne White on June 28th. We have been informed of the marriage of Mr. John P. Vose and Miss Helen V. Yates of Wendell H. Berry and Miss Eleanor Stedman of Waterbury, Conn., were married on September Springfield, Mass. They will make their home in 2nd. Mr. Vose is connected with the law firm of Boston where Mr. Berry is connected with the National Shawmut Bank. White and Barnes in Boston. Rev. Alexander Henderson has left the Baptist 1923 Church in Fairfield, Maine, to go to Calvary Bap- Raynham T. Bates is now Control Manager of tist Church in Lowell, Mass. the Fairfield Plant of the E. I. DuPont Com-

Dr. John J. Lappin and Miss Anna K. Riley pany. His residence is 181 Rowsley St., Bridge- were married in New York City early in October. port, Conn. Don T. Potter has been elected acting superin- Pierce U. Clark was among the ushers at the tendent of grounds and buildings at the College. wedding of John Coolidge and Florence Trumbull on September 23rd. 1921 Reginald F. Hayes is now assistant general Harold E. Beach, who is with the Great At- manager of the Hydraulic Development Company lantic and Pacific Tea Compan}', has been trans- in Boston. His business address is 296 Boyls- ferred from Boston to Montreal. ton St., Boston, Mass., and he lives at 77 Clewley News has been received of the death of Samuel Road, West Medford, Mass. C. Buker in September. He was born on Oct. 5. Dr. Gordon Hebb is now practicing medicine 1898, in Somerville, Mass. Following his grad- in Windsor, Vt. uation from College he was employed by the Clifford Parcher writes that he is now asso- United States Envelope Company in Springfield, ciated as an account executive with Badger and Mass., and was subsequently transferred to the Browning, Inc., an advertising agency located at Philadelphia office. Mr. Buker had been secre- 80 Federal street, Boston. Joseph L. Badger '20 tary of the class since graduation. is president of the organization. Leslie B. Heeney, who for several years has Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Richardson have an- been connected with the Georgian Cafeterias in nounced the marriage of their daughter, Ruth, to Boston, has gone into investment banking work. Mr. George D. Varney on September 8th at South He will be located in Western Maine. Berwick, Maine. Alonzo B. Holmes is now secretary of the Abiel M. Smith has recently become connected Maine Canners Mutual Insurance Company, with the Carter Rice Paper Company in Boston. which handles insurance for canners in Maine. David S. Smith and Miss Freda Mikels of New New Hampshire, Vermont, and some Western York City were married on September 12th. Since states. Clinton L. Baxter 'SI and Harrison C. his graduation from the Boston University Law Chapman '12 are on the board of directors of the School in 1927 Mr. Smith has been a practicing company. attorney in Boston.

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1924 10th. E. Hamilton Hall acted as best man and Lawrence Blatchford, who has been assistant the ushers included Porter Thompson '26, Charles '26, Priest '26. to the commissary of the New England Steam- P. Davis and George ship Company in New York City, has assumed Alden T. Merrill is now assistant to the New the duties of assistant superintendent of the New England Sales Manager of the Flinthote Com- Bedford, Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket line pany in Boston. He is living at 81 Willow street, of that company, with an office in New Bedford. West Roxbury, Mass. Albert E. Gibbons and Miss Arlene Helson Barrett C. Nichols and Miss Lovis Sawyer were were married on August 3rd in Portland, Maine. married at Bangor, Maine, on August 24th. Alden They are living in South Portland. Sawyer '27, a brother of the bride, acted as best Richard H. Lee and Miss Elizabeth B. Lane man. were married on October 5th at Edwards Church James W. Shea was assistant manager of New- Chapel, Northampton, Mass. Clarence D. Rouil- agen Inn, Newagen, Maine, during the summer lard was best man and Elmer W. Grenfell was season. one of the ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Lee will reside Announcement has been made of the engage- at 38 Wiltshire Road, Newton, Mass. ment of John B. Stalford and Miss Aitha Ed- A son, John Blackman, was born to Mr. and monds of Schenectady, N. Y. Mrs. Malcolm Morrell on September 12th. R. Seymour Webster has given up his teach- Harry L. Mushroe is teaching chemistry at the ing position at the Country Day School, Portland, high school in Chelsea, Mass., this year. Maine, and will devote his time this winter to Frank H. Plaisted has been transferred to the working in the interest of his summer camp. Omaha, Nebraska, office of the Aetna Life Insur- ance Company. 1926 Porter Herman J. and Miss Grace Timmerman The Class Record has been issued and anyone were married at the of Mr. and Mrs. home John who has not received one should get in touch L. Batterman in York on September 21st. New with the Secretary at 9 Page street, Brunswick, will Lane, Mr. and Mrs. Porter live at 109 Park Maine. Kew Garden, Long Island, New York. Mr. Por- Albert Abrahamson was a member of the re- ter is connected with the American Telephone search staff of the New York Commission on Old and Telegraph Company in New York City. Age Security during the month of August. Word has been received of the marriage on John A. Aspinwall is city editor of the Beacon Sept. 28th of Brooks Savage and Miss Elizabeth News in Beacon, N. Y. Harmon of Gardiner, Maine. Charles Bradeen is now connected with the Douglas W. Young was married on September Fairbanks Morse Company in Montreal. 28th to Miss Dorothy Searle of Salem, Mass. Earle C. Carll has been transferred from Port- They will live in Cambridge where Mr. Young is connected with Warren Brothers Roads Com- land, Maine, to the Montreal office of the Travel- pany. er's Insurance Company. Nathan A. Cobb, who received the degree of 1925 LL.B. cum laude from Harvard University in George P. Converse Stewart and Miss Anita June, is now associated with his uncle, Albert C. were married on July 24th in Los Angeles, Cal. Cobb '81, in Minneapolis. Word has been received of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. Cutter announce the Robert J. Foster and Miss Rosamond Palmer on arrival of Joann Cutter on September 10th. Mr. 26th. June Cutter is district manager of the Colonial Air Walter D. Hayes is teaching Science at the Transport Company in Hartford, Conn. High School in Chelmsford, this Mass., year. John H. Halpin and Porter Thompson received Charles L. Hildreth and Miss Dorothy M. Wy- Ihe degree of LL.B. from Harvard University in man were married on September 14th in Augusta, June. Maine. - Horace Hildreth was best man and the James N. Jones and Miss Edith Arnold of ushers included Bernard Lucas '28, Frank Far- Minneapolis were married on August 19th. They rington '27, William Gulliver and Barrett Nichols. are living at 11 Deveraux Street, Ailington, Horace A. Hildreth and Miss Katherine C. Mass. Mr. Jones is with Childs Jeffries Company. Wing were married on October 5th in Brookline, Incorporated. Mass. Charles Hildreth was best and Wil- man George E. Wood is teaching at the Country liam Gulliver and Barrett Nichols were among Day School in Providence, R. I., this year. the ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Hildreth are living at 51 Randolph Ave., Milton, Mass. 1927 Richard P. Jones and Priscilla A. Fortier were George A. Ballard is attending the Babson married on August 30th in Springfield. Maine. School of Business Administration in Wr ellesley, Mr. Jones is studying medicine at McGill Uni- Mass., this year. versity. Ellsworth Clark has been elected to the Har- Donald K. Mason and Miss Geraldine M. Stew- vard Law Review, one of the highest honors given art were married at South Paris, Maine, on July by the school.

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George 0. Cutter, who received the degree of Charles B. Gibbs and Miss Eleanor E. Cush- M.B.A. from Harvard University in June, is now man were married on September 14th in Port- on the research staff at the Harvard Graduate land, Maine. Philip A. Bachelder and Dwight School of Business Administration. Brown were among the ushers. Thomas Downs is doing graduate work in W. Preston Harvey and Miss Evelyn McLeod mathematics at Harvard University. were married on June 20th at Charleston, Maine. Albert Van Dekker (Al Ecke) was married last Donald A. Leadbetter and Miss Priscilla L. spring to Miss Estha Guarini of Xew York City. Brown were married on September 21st in Port- They are now traveling with a company of the land, Maine. Richard C. Davis acted as best man. Theater Guild, which will play Volpone and Mr. and Mrs. Leadbetter are living on Woodfords R.U.R. in the cities of the Middle the West and street, Portland. Pacific Coast. William C. Pierce and Miss Elizabeth N. Gay Frank A. Farrington and Miss Joan Sturtevant were married on June 19th in Xew York City. were married on August lOih at Augusta, Maine. Mr. Pierce is a second year student at Harvard They are living in Westbrook. Maine, where Mr. Law School. Farrington is connected with the S. D. Warren Paul Tiemer is Paper Company. with the research department of the Hearst Xewspapers in Xew York. The engagement of Merrill A. Hewitt and Miss F. Gaynor Brand of Elmira, X. Y.. was announced Robert Cressey and Walter P. Stewart re- this summer. ceived the degree of master of arts from Harvard A. Philip Jarvis and Miss Meredith Sheppard in June. B. were married on September 21st at Stafford Edward Simpson is with the W. T. Grant in Springs, Conn. They are living at 68 Fort Pleas- Company Houston, Texas. ant Ave., Springfield, Mass. 1929 Xews has been received of the marriage of Robert C. Adams. is teaching at Thomas Martin and Miss Dorothy Stolt on Sep- Jr.. the Taft School in Watertown, Conn. tember 12th in Franklin. Mass. Paul W. Allen is clerk in a brokerage office in Richard C. Payson is a member of the financial Boston. He is living at 12 Alcott St., Allston, and accounting staff of Skyways, Inc., in Boston. Announcement has been made of the marriage Mass. Richard A. Angus is doing graduate work in of W. Hastings Thalheimer and Miss Irma Good History at Cornell University. on September 7th. Donald W. Atwood is sales manager for the Lawrence L. Ranney is selling bonds for the T. Grant in Atlantic Corporation with headquarters in Ver- W. Company Waco, Texas. Balfour is mont. John S. with Burr, Gannett and Company, Investments, at 53 State Street, Boston. John Snyder is instructor in English at the Xathaniel Barker is with the Curtiss Flying University of Illinois this year. Donald W. Webber and Miss Lucy X'ourse Service in East Boston. Arthur S. Beatty is in the Claim Department of were married recently in Westboro, Mass. Mr. the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in Boston. and Mrs. Webber will live on Shailer Lane, Cam- He is living at 46 Montfort Street. bridge. Mass. Mr. Webber is in his second Sidney M. Bird is manager of an S. K. Ames year at Harvard Law School. store in Somerville. Mass. Walter F. Whittier is on the research staff of Bodweli is in the insurance business the Harvard Graduate School of Business Admin- Howard in Augusta. Maine. istration, in the department of Public L'tilities. is teaching at Tabor The following '27 men received the degree of Albert C. Boothby Acad- Marion. Mass. M.B.A. from Harvard University in June: Roger emy, K. is salesman for the Office Johnson, Lawrence Libby, Richard C. Payson. Harvey Boyd a Supply Company jn Bangor. Maine. Harry S. Sawyer, and Walter F. Whittier. Leslie H. Brewer is an electrical draftsman at 1928 the Trumbull Electric Compr.ny plant in Plain- Edward G. Buxton is teaching Latin at Wassoo- ville, Conn. keag School in Dexter, Maine, this year. Hayward H. Coburn, who received the degree Frank A. Brown, Jr., is doing graduate work in Biology at Harvard L'niversity. of master of arts from Harvard in June, is a Brown is doing graduate work in chemist in the research laboratories of the Her- Richard L English at Harvard L'niversitj. cules Powder Company of Kenvil. X'. J. Announcement has been made of the marriage John F. Butler is a salesman for the Xew Eng- of A. Evariste Desjardins and Miss Jeanne A. land Petroleum Corporation and is living at 70 Perna on September 21st. Mr. Desjardins is with St. Stephen Street. Boston. the Metropolitan Insurance Company in Sanford, Robert Irving Clark is with the John C. Paige Maine. Insurance Company at 40 Broad Street, Boston. Van Courtlandt Elliott is instructor in Latin Robert Smith Clark is studying at the Babson at the Episcopal School at Lynchburg. Virginia, Statistical Institute and is living at Longwood this vear. Towers, Brookline, Mass.

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Prentiss B. Cleaves, Jr., is with the Pioneer Bradford Johnson is in the Claim Department Instrument Company (makers of aeroplane in- of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in struments) of New York City. Boston. He is living at 792 Beacon Street. Victor N. Colby is studying at Worcester Poly- Apartment 45. technic Institute, Worcester, Mass. Donald E. Jones is with an investment house in Hobart A. Cole is teaching at the Country Day Boston. School in Portland, Maine. James V. Knapp is connected with the Metro- John M. Cooper is studying at Columbia Uni- politan Chain Stores in Schenectady, N. Y. versity. His address is Room 522, Furnald Hall. Meyer G. Lane is studying architecture at New Norman C. Crosbie is working in the National York University. Shawmut Bank in Boston. Gordon D. Larcom is with John Wanamaker Kenneth V. Crowther is with the Springfield and Sons in New York and is living at 124 Fire and Marine Insurance Company. His ad- Pierrepont St., Brooklyn. dress is 199 Forest Park Avenue, Springfield. Elfred L. Leech is studying medicine at John^ Mass. Hopkins University. Charles F. Cummings is teaching at Morse Chandler B. Lincoln is with the United States High School, Bath, Maine. Rubber Company in Detroit, Mich. Kingsbury H. Davis is with the Bell Telephone John D. Lincoln is with the firm of Appleton Laboratories in New York City. and Cox (marine insurance) at 8 South Williams Henry S. Dowst is associated with his mother Street, New York City. in running Camp Cathedral Pines, a summer camp Wendell P. McKown, Jr., is with Paine, Web- for girls at Winthrop, Maine. ber and Company in Hartford, Conn. James B. Drake spent the summer traveling in Henri L. Micoleau is engaged in research work Europe. for the Harvard Economic Society in Cambridge. Charles C. Dunbar is with Brown Brothers, William B. Mills is at the School of Citizen- an investment company, in New York City. ship of Syracuse University in Syracuse, N. Y. Ralph W. Edwards is teaching at Brunswick Thornton L. Moore is in the Treasurer's De- High School. partment of Lever Brothers in Cambridge, Mass. Jack Elliot was clerk at Newagen Inn, New- He is living at 71 Martin Street. agen, Maine, this summer. Waldron L. Morse is studying medicine at Henry Farr is teaching at Brunswick High Yale University. School. Herbert C. Moseley, Jr., is in the real estate William E. T. Fenderson is a clerk in the Fen- business in Arlington, Mass. derson Hardware Store at Mars Hill, Maine. William D. P. Murphy is in the insurance busi- Carter S. Gilliss is teaching at the Salisbury ness in Hyannis, Mass. School, Salisbury, Conn. Frederick H. Oakes is connected with the Carlton B. Guild is doing graduate work in American Radiator Company in Providence, R. I English at Harvard University. Samuel F. Parker is a field auditor for the Na- Royal E. Grinnell is clerk in the bank at tional Shawmut Bank in Boston. Union, Maine. Walter S. Perkins is employed in the Cost De- Frank B. Harlow is doing graduate work at partment of the Burnham and Morrill Company Massachusetts Institute of Technology- He is in Portland, Maine. He is living at 113 Oak living at 36 Massachusetts Avenue, Apartment Street 12, Cambridge, Mass. George H. Rand, Jr., is in the insurance busi- Milliard W. Hart is a sub-clerk in the post of- ness in Boston. He is living with Paul Allen fice at Rockland, Maine. in Allston. Willis L. Hasty, Jr., is employed in the eco- Paul R. Raupach is sales manager for the nomic section of the Chesapeake and Potomac Vacuum Oil Company in the State of Ohio. His Telephone Company in Washington, D. C. address is 2357 Maplewood Avenue, Toledo, Ohio. PHilip Heller is a merchandiser with R. H. Harold A. Rehder is doing graduate work in Macy Company in New York City. Zoology at Harvard University. Winslow R. Howland is with Hayden, Stone Parker H. Rice is with the Texas Company in and Company in Boston. Manchester, N. H. Lawrence B. Hunt is a chemist with The Brown William H. Robertson is advertising manager Company in Berlin, N. H. of The Robertson Company in Lowell. Mass. Herbert W. Huse is a chemist at Jackson Lab- Ernest F. Robinson is with the Boston Edison oratory, E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company in Company and is living at 76 Dyer Avenue, Mil- Wilmington, Del. ton, Mass. Bradford H. Hutchins is studying at the Law Reginald Robinson is doing graduate work at School of Yale University. New York University. Charles M. Jaycox is a statistician for the Charles C. Rogers is working for the Old American Telephone and Telegraph Company in Colony Corporation in Boston. He is living at Baltimore, Md. 129 Center Street, Brookline, Mass.

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Lee W. Rollins is a stockman with S. S. Kresgt ber 20, 1838, at Orono, Maine. During the Civil Company in Everett, Mass. War he was Hospital Steward of the 19th Maine Arthur M. Rosenbush is in the wholesale shoe Volunteers, Assistant Surgeon in the 9th Maine business in Boston. Volunteers and later Surgeon in the same com- Harold S. Schiro is a medical student at Johns pany. In 1866 he went to Vandemere where he Hopkins University. conducted a lumber business and was Mayor of Gorham H. Scott is with the Rumford Fall; the city from 1888 to 1890. He was a member Power Company in Portland, Maine. of the North Carolina Legislature in 1893 and Peter Scott is employed by the United Shoe a^ain in 1895. Machinery Corporation in Beverly, Mass. Med. 1866 Charles H. Shackley is a student at Boston University Law School. Word has been received of the death of Hanni- Walker E. Shields is with the State Bank of bal H. Kimball, M.D., for 62 years a practicing Chicago and is living at 3000 Sheridan Road, physician in Minneapolis. From 1886 to 1887 he Chicago. was president ot the Minnesota State Medical Kenneth W. Sewall and Mayo H. Soley are Association and was for a time first vice-presi- studying at Harvard Medical School. dent of the American Medical Association. Theron H. Spring is with the Lee Higginson Med. 1878 Trust Company in Boston. Dr. George B. Tibbetts died on August I3th at Irving G. Stone is a steel recorder for the his home in Orrington, Ma^ne. He was born on Bethlehem Steel Company in Buffalo, N. Y. March 17, 1854 in Searsport, Maine, and after Herbert A. Sutphin is employed in the post his graduation from the Medical School went to office at Trenton, N. J. Orrington, where he had practiced ever since. Charle§ E. Thurston is with Bailey and Wes- ton, Inc., in Boston. Med. 1879 Fay D. Timberlake is with W. R. Grace and News has been received of the death of Dr. Company, South American traders, in New York Melvin A. Harmon but no details have been City. learned. He had practiced in Lynn, Mass., and Robert E. Todd, Jr., is teaching science at the in Ossipee and Freedom, N. H. High School in Seymour, Conn. Med. 1892 Prescott H. Vose, Jr., and Miss Phyllis Schriver Dr. Connellan died on October 1st in were married on July 8th at Bangor, Maine. They John W. Portland, Maine, following a two days' illness are living at 18 Ware Street, Cambridge, Mass., with pneumonia. He was born in Portland on where Mr. Vose is a student at Harvard Uni- 21, receiving his M.D. versity. October 1868, and upon he went to Lewiston to practice. In 1895 he Charles F. White, Jr., is employed by an in- moved back to Portland, where he had practiced surance company in Boston. His address is 792 ever since. a of the School Beacon Street. He was member Board in 1917 and was appointed County Physi- James F. White is studying at the University also secretary of of Munich, Germany. cian in the same year. He was the pension budget of Cumberland County. Lawrence Whittemore is living at 195 Warren Avenue, Wollaston, Mass. He is an advertising Med. 1904 agent. Dr. Joseph N. G. Bernard died in Waterville, Ralph E. Williams is teaching at the High Maine, on May 20th. He had been a practicing School in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. physician in Waterville since the time of his Donald C. Wood is assistant paymaster of the graduation from the Medical School. Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company. Med. 1910 The following men are studying at Harvard Dr. Hannibal H. Bryant died on September School of Business Administration : Paul S. An- 12th in Gorham, N. H., following an attack of drews, Huntington Blatchford, Franklin A. pneumonia. He was born in Old Town, Maine. Burke, John D. Dupuis, Richard C. Fleck, Robert 46 years ago. He attended Colby College before B. Knox, C. Foster, W. Merrill Hunt, Jr., George coming to the Medical School, receiving his A.B. Nathaniel G. Slobin and J. Philip Smith. degree there in 1905. Men studying at Harvard Law School are as Hon. 1927 follows: Parkin Briggs, Edwaid F. Dana, Nicho- presence of many las R. Degillio, James M. Joslin, Lee G. Paul, On October 3rd, in the Wilson, chief Raymond W. Schlapp, Philip L. Smith, and Ab- friends and Federal officials, Scott Court, was ?dmin- bott Spear. justice of the Maine Supreme istered the oath of office as Judge of the United Med. 1863 States Circuit Court of Appeals. Justice Wilson Word has been received of the death of Dr. was appointed by President Hoover to fill the va- Delon H. Abbott of Vandemere, N. C, but no de- cancy caused by the resignation of Judge Charles tails are known. Dr. Abbott was born on Decem- F. Johnson '79.

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Contents for January 1930

Vol. IV No. 2

PAGE The Engineering School at — Bow,doin '78 . Alfred E. Burton, Sc.D,, . . 33 Alumni Day Program Well Received -35

Council Considers Alumni Education 36

Fewer Maine Men at Bowdoin 38

Laws and Law Makers of 1855 — Roger Bray Ray '29 39

Funds Still Needed for Memorial . 40

The Dix Reunion Plan at Williams College 40

The Bowdoin War Memorial — Halftone 41

Young Alumnus Well Known "on the Air" 42

The Curtis Gift and What it Means to Bowdoin 43 John C. Thalheimer '21, Bursar

Cyrus H. K. Curtis, LL.D. — Halftone 44

Bowdoin Entertains Alpha Delt Convention 46

Wanted: Addresses for These Men 47

This Football Business — By the Editor 49

Campus Notes 50

With the Alumni Bodies 5°

News from the Classes 5 2 VOLUME FOUR NUMBER TWO THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

January - 1930

The Engineering School at Bowdoin

ALFRED E. BURTON, Sc.D. '78

For a ten year period, 1871 to 1881, there students and at least half of this number was a unique break in the conservative of graduates later became eminent in their curriculum of our Liberal Arts College. In chosen profession, three or more now being 1871 President Charrjberlain inaugurated a internationally known engineers. This period

is an illustration of the way in which the personality of a teacher kindles enthusiasm

and overcomes all obstacles. Professor George Leonard Vose, A.M., born in Augusta, in 1831, was a practicing civil engineer from 1850 to 1871, engaging principally in railroad location and construction in the middle west. His Manual of Railroad Engineering was the first worth while publication of American railroad methods in location and bridge construction issued in this country. It soon supplanted the English Textbook on Civil Engineering in our American engineering schools. He was a clear and interesting writer on engineering and scientific subjects and a real inspiration to any student who came under his instruction. In 1871 he left Bowdoin to accept the Hayward Professorship of Civil and Topographical Engineering at the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology and the engineering episode at Bowdoin was closed.

Among the first students under Professor GEORGE L. VOSE, A.M. Vose was Augustus Luther Crocker of four years' course in Civil Engineering. Paris, Maine. After graduating in 1873 There was to be one professor, a set of sur- he became a mechanical engineer in Illinois veying instruments and a small draughting and Minnesota, was President of the Min- room. During this ten year period, Bowdoin neapolis Board of Trade and Chairman of College conferred the degree of Bachelor the Minnesota Waterways Commission. of Science in Engineering on some twenty Albert G. Bradstreet of Bridgton, Maine, [The B ow d o in Alumnus after graduating in the class of 1874, was Without doubt the most outstanding Civil Engineer for the Maine Central Rail- graduate in Bowdoin's Engineering School road and later Civil Engineer on the Mexi- was Robert Edwin Peary. After gradu- can Central Railroad. ation in 1877 he entered the U. S. Coast Charles L. Clarke of Portland, Maine, a and Geodetic Survey and in 1881 passed a graduate in the class of 1875, studied in competitive examination for the position of Europe, later was Chief Engineer for the Civil Engineer in the United States Navy. Edison Electric Light Company and was a He was in charge of the Nicaragua Canal consulting and electrical engineer in New Survey and of work on the Dry Dock at the York City. Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was given the rank Francis R. Upton of Peabody, Mass., after of Commander in 1904, made Rear Admiral graduating in the class of 1875, studied in in 1909, and retired with the rank of Ad-

Berlin, Germany, and later was engaged in miral in 191 1. His work of arctic explora- engineering work with Thomas A. Edison tion was a private enterprise, the Lmited at Menlo Park and Orange, N. J. (See the States Navy granting him periods of leave Alumnus, November, 1929). of absence for his different expeditions Charles Davis Jameson of Bangor, Maine, which finally culminated in his discovery after graduating in 1876, engaged in civil and location of the North Pole on the 6th engineering on the Louisville and Nashville of April, 1909. He received medals from Railroad and from 1879 to 1884 was Civil nearly every Geographical Society in Eu- Engineer of the Mexican Central Railroad. rope and the United States. He was Presi- In 1885 he was connected with an Ameri- dent of the American Geographical Society can dredging company on the French and the International Geographical Society Panama Canal. For a short time he in- and during the late war was in charge of structed in Railroad Engineering at the the Aeronautical Coast Defense. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Edward C. Metcalf of Brunswick, Maine, From 1887 to 1895 he was Professor in after graduating in the class of 1877, became charge of the Department of Civil Engi- a civil and sanitary engineer, working with neering at Iowa State University. From Colonel Waring of Newport, R. I. He was 1896 to 1910 he was a railroad engineer at in charge of the construction of a sewerage Tient-Tsin, China, and then became con- system for Memphis, Tenn. sulting engineer for the Chinese Govern- George William Tillson of Thomaston, ment and was closely associated with Li Maine, after graduating in the class of Hung Chang. Had Li Hung Chang sur- 1877, became City Engineer of Omaha, Neb. vived a little longer Jameson would have From 1895 to 1907 he was Chief of High- made the preliminary railroad location ways at Brooklyn, N. Y., and later became across the Gobi Desert. He was all equipped Consulting Engineer for New York City. and ready to start when the Chinese minis- He served as President of the American So- ter's death changed the plans. ciety of Civil Engineers and was sent to Alvah Horton Sabin of Norfolk, N. Y., France after the war to study reconstruc- after graduating in 1876, became Professor tion. of Chemistry in Ripon College and later at James Wingate Sewall of Old Town, the University of Vermont. He was State Maine, after graduating in 1877, engaged in Chemist for Vermont from 1882 to 1886. He civil and sanitary engineering. He was In- was also lecturer at New York University structor in Sanitary Engineering from 1884 and visiting lecturer at the Massachusetts to 1885 at Massachusetts Institute of Tech- Institute of Technology. nology.

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Lewis H. Reed of Mexico, Maine, en- ALUMNI DAY PROGRAM graduating in in mechan- gaged, after 1877, IS WELL RECEIVED ical and civil engineering at Boston, Mass. Edwin A. Scribner of Topsham, Maine, Aside from the disastrous defeat of the after graduating in 1877, engaged in elec- football team by Bates, the program ot Fall trical and chemical work in Newark, N. J., Alumni Day can be looked upon as success- and later entered manufacturing. ful and as an evidence that the institution In 1878 Alfred E. Burton of Portland, will be continued in years to come. Some Maine, served as Topographer with the two hundred alumni were on hand for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey luncheon meeting, while half as many ladies and later as Professor of Topographical enjoyed an excellent meal in the Moulton Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Union dining room. President Sills was Technology. He became the first Dean of the only speaker at the luncheon, where he that institution. discussed particularly the action of the Also from 1878 was Joseph Sewall of Old Governing Boards in assuming the expense Town, Maine, who became a civil engineer of professorial pensions to equalize the and surveyor, in Penobscot County. loss through the administrative difficulties In 1879 none of the graduates followed of the Carnegie Fund. In the morning- strictly engineering. there was a conference in the lounge of From 1880 William H. Chapman of Bow- the Moulton Union, with a reasonable at- doinham, Maine, became a sanitary engineer tendance of alumni and faculty members. and entered into partnership with Colonel Brief addresses were made by Professor

Waring of Newport, R. I. There were Noel C. Little '17, who discussed "Scientific several students in the last years of the Instruction in the Liberal Arts College", Bowdoin Engineering School who gradu- Professor Frederick W. Brown, who spoke ated and engaged directly in business. on "Instruction in Romance Languages at

It has seemed best to mention in this Bowdoin", Gerald G. Wilder '04, whose talk- short article only those who were directly concerned "The College Library" and Al- influenced by the course to take up some bert Abrahamson '26, whose subject was form of scientific or engineering work. "The Place of Economics in the Liberal Professor Vose's Engineering School at Curriculum". Leon V. Walker '03 of the Bowdoin accomplished something worth Alumni Council acted as presiding officer while but after he resigned there was ab- for the gathering. solutely no reason for its continuance. Fourteen of the sixteen members of the The writer of this article would welcome Alumni Council were present at the meet- any additions or corrections to this list of ing held on Alumni Day and both of the Bowdoin graduates in engineering. absent members submitted reports by mail. Discussion was concerned primarily with the

The Alumni Office is compiling a card Dix Reunion Plan, which is mentioned else- file of all graduates now actively engaged where in this issue, and with the matter of in college teaching. It is probable that this educational contact between the alumni and list is incomplete and we shall be glad to the College. The report of the committee hear from readers who should be included investigating this question is printed on the in the roll. following page. The matter of Vocational Day was left in the hands of the Placement The interfraternity soccer championship Committee and the date has now been set of the College was won by Zeta Psi. as March 12th.

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Council Considers Alumni Education

At the Alumni Council meeting held on With these preliminary statements re-

Vocational Day last Spring a committee lating to the disease and its causes, your consisting of Leon V. Walker '03 Chairman, Committee desires to submit for discussion George P. Hyde '08, and William E. Wing the following tentative suggestions '02 was appointed to consider the general 1st. Any attempt at intellectual guidance problems of alumni contact and guidance. of its alumni by the College will be futile At the Alumni Day meeting this Fall the unless the alumni are willing to be guided. committee presented a report upon the sec- The alumnus must be willing to place a cer- ond of these questions, sections of which tain amount of serious study above the are printed below. The Alumni Secretary social diversions before mentioned. The will welcome comment inspired by this re- most important element in inducing an port and particularly solicits the expression alumnus to continue his studies after gradu- of opinion as to the desirability of the ation is to have aroused in him before grad- four specific suggestions offered by the uation the love of learning. A student committee. whose college work is done grudgingly and The matter of alumni guidance is one in under compulsion certainly cannot be in- which there is a growing interest through- duced to continue his studies after gradua- out the colleges of America. The subject is tion when compulsion has ceased. The prob- being investigated by a Committee of the lem of arousing the student's love of learn-

American Alumni Council. An article on ing is a faculty problem rather than an

"Education of Alumni" may be found in alumni problem, and it is with extreme dif- the November number of Scribner's Maga- fidence that we make any suggestions on zine. Experiments in the way of alumni this subject. We are inclined to believe, guidance are now on foot in a number of however, that it is extremely difficult, ex- our colleges. cept in the case of exceptionally gifted and

Before prescribing a remedy, it is de- inspired teachers, to arouse students to a sirable to make a diagnosis. Is anything real love for a subject in the ordinary the matter with college alumni and, if so, course of class-room work, and we believe what is it? Do alumni need intellectual •that the present tendency at Bowdoin and guidance by the college ? We feel that most other colleges towards conferences between people will agree that the answer to both Small groups of students and teachers will of these questions is "yes". It is unfortu- result in more students reaching the end of nate but true that for the average college the college course with genuine intellectual graduate anything like serious study ends interests which will carry over into later on receipt of his diploma. Conceding the life. What a person is made to do he gen- ailment, what are its causes ? No doubt they erally dislikes to do. To be compelled to arc many and complex but a few may be recite in a class-room may be a hateful pointed out. 1st. A lack of time due to task to a student. To be allowed to vol- the demands of business; 2nd. A lack of unteer the same information at a friendly intellectual curiosity or love of learning gathering at the professor's house might for its own sake; 3rd. A multiplicity of be quite the contrary. It is our feeling that pleasant social diversions which fill the occasional meetings between small groups spare time of the alumnus, leaving small of students and the professors, entirely un- opportunity for serious study or reading. connected with class work, at which the

[36] The B o w do in Alumnus'] conversation turns from one worth while boys should be admitted to the College and subject to another and the students express in learning from the preparatory schools their opinions as they will, might be of the their particular traits of character. greatest importance in arousing in the stu- 2nd. Assuming a respectable number of dents a real and abiding interest in study alumni desirous of continuing the process of for its own sake. education after graduation, there remains

In this connection we suggest that the the difficulty of lack of time. The reading process of interesting students in study hours of the average business man are ex- cannot begin too soon after matriculation. tremely limited. Books come from the press possibly keep It is our feeling that too many freshmen in thousands. How can he fail in our colleges. In view of the exacting abreast of the times? How is he to know entrance requirements of most colleges, the which book should be read and which percentage of failure after entrance should avoided? If he reads of some asserted dis- not be great. A student who has been able covery in science or history, how is he to to meet these entrance requirements, ought judge of its genuineness? If some biog- to be able to maintain a reasonable stand- rapher makes over the character of a ing during freshman year. That the per- Washington or a Wordsworth, how is our rep- centage of failures is so great appears to us alumnus to know whether the change to reflect upon the colleges as much as on resents fact or fiction? It may be argued the delinquent students. For many students that there are plenty of book reviews. This the change from preparatory school to col- is true but does the average alumnus see lege is drastic. They have been kept at them or if he does has he confidence in their studies by parents or have come from the reviewer? Or let us assume that our small schools where they have been under alumnus is called upon to prepare a paper close supervision of the teachers. To such or an address upon some subject requiring students entering college seems a sort of extensive reading. How is he to know emancipation, and before they have adjust- which books best cover his subject, if it ed themselves to the new conditions and be a subject with which he has not kept in learned to rely upon themselves, the damage touch since his college days? These arc has been done and their rank has fallen only a few of the problems which confront below the passing mark. It is our impres- the average alumnus. We offer the fol- sion that the colleges have not given suffi- lowing suggestions as to possible ways in cient attention to bridging the gap and that which the College might be of assistance. there should be someone particularly as- (a) By getting to the alumni from time signed to watch over and guide the work of to time information as to important discov- freshmen until their feet are firmly placed. eries in any branch of learning and as to

Such guidance should be extended if neces- worth while books which an educated man sary to upperclassmen who are not keeping ought to read. Lafayette College has for the pace. In the case of our own college, some time been publishing at regular inter- we believe that this task should not be im- vals and sending to members of its Alumni posed upon the Dean whose duties are al- Association, a pamphlet of several pages ready sufficiently burdensome. This new containing reviews by its professors of officer, whom we may call for want of a bet- notable books. Such a publication, of ter name the Freshman Dean, might also course, involves expense, and in the case of serve as a contact man with the preparatory Bowdoin College where there are no regu- schools and no doubt could perform a useful lar dues for membership in the Alumni As service in that respect in determining what sociation, funds would not be available from

[371 [The B o w d o in Alumnus that source for the publication of such a with the professors' work with the under- pamphlet. It has occurred to your Com- graduates. We ask for a careful considera- mittee, however, that a beginning might be tion by the Council of the question whether made by devoting a section of the Bowdoin alumni guidance presents worth while Alumnus to contributions by professors, possibilities. reviewing notable books and achievements in their particular subjects. Such articles Editor's Note:—Since the above report would add to the value of the Alumnus and zvas prepared "Alumni and Adult Edu- might result in increasing materially the cation" has been published by the Ameri- subscription list. can Association for Adult Education. This (b) The College might suggest reading- summarises results of a survey made last courses to its alumni. The Smith College spring in some fifty of our colleges and uni- Alumnae Association, for example, sends versities, including Bowdoin. The Editor annually to all members of the Association will be glad to supply interested readers a printed list of subjects as to which read- with copies of this report. ing courses have been prepared, and any member of the Association on returning FEWER MAINE MEN such list will receive a list of the books com- prising the course on the subject which she NOW AT BOWDOIN has checked. The college catalogue for the current (c) The College might inform the alumni year shows but 217 students from Maine that a bibliography upon any subject which out of the total enrollment of 549. This the alumnus desires to investigate will be situation is particularly marked in the en- gladly furnished by the Librarian or by a tering class, less than 30% of whose mem- professor whose courses cover the particu- bers are from the Pine Tree State. While lar subject involved, and that the College it is recognized that there are many advan- Library, so far as is compatible with the re- tages in a student body made up of men quirements of the students, will loan books from different parts of the country, the from the Library to any alumnus for a fact that our enrollment from Maine is fall- reasonable time. ing off so notably is a cause for some con- (d) Lafayette College last year held "An cern and the administrative authorities of Alumni College" for one week immediately the College are taking steps to determine following commencement. During the week the cause and remedy for the situation. conferences were held at which the profes- Letters have recently been sent to repre- sors discussed a variety of subjects with the sentative alumni in the towns and cities of alumni. in Some sixty-five alumni were Maine asking them to diagnose conditions attendance. Whether such a course at Bow- as they see them and to make it a point to doin would attract a sufficient number of place the advantages offered by Bowdoin alumni to make it worth while your Com- before the preparatory school boys in their mittee does not undertake to say. respective communities. Our Maine men

Your Committee is not unmindful of the are doing well scholastically and are well fact that the carrying out of any or all of represented in the campus activities and it the suggestions outlined above will place a is to be hoped that next year's enrollment considerable burden of additional work upon will show a larger number from the state the college faculty. This burden ought not in whose history Bowdoin has played so to be imposed if it will in any way interfere notable a part.

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Laws and Law Makers of 1855

ROGER BRAY RAY '29

The laws of Bowdoin of 1855 reveal a de- bance to any citizen; nor play at cards, bil- cided clash between the hearts and the liards, or any game of hazard, nor at any habits of the law-makers. A reading of the game whatever for money or other things tome yields some choice gems that will put of value; nor shall purchase, nor bring into Mark Twain and Artemus Ward to shame. the College, nor drink any intoxicating li- The picture of a student of more recent quors; nor make any bonfire, nor play off years conforming to the rules in the follow- fireworks, nor be in any way concerned in ing extracts is delightful ; the class of 1933 the same, nor without first obtaining per- may in the course of their initiations find mission of the Executive Government, make relief from their sufferings. any illumination of the College buildings "If any student shall profane the Lord's nor engage in any military parade, nor keep day by unnecessary business, visiting, re- a gun or pistol or any gunpowder in Col- ceiving visits, or walking abroad, or by lege, nor without permission of the Execu- using any diversion, or in any other man- tive Government, go a-shooting or fishing ner; or shall be disorderly, irreverent, or under the penalty of admonition, suspen- indecent in his behavior in the Chapel or sion, dismission, or rustication." place of assembling for religious exercise; At this point I wish to produce another or shall be absent therefrom without per- extract to substantiate my statement about mission, or be unseasonable in his attend- the existence of a clash. ance; or shall unnecessarily leave the place "The Executive Government shall faith- of worship during the services; he shall be fully instruct the students in languages, admonished, suspended, or rusticated ac- arts and sciences, in the manner prescribed, cording to the aggravation of the offence." and shall faithfully execute the laws of the "If any student shall be guilty of intoxi- College and maintain discipline and order; cation, or dissoluteness; of lying or purloin- always taking care to exercise, as far as ing; of challenging, assaulting, or fighting possible, a parental government over the with any person; or shall sing indecent students, and to give them the counsel of songs, or be indecent in conversation ; or friendship; to visit them at their chambers, shall lead a dissipated life; or shall associate to superintend their deportment, to assist with any person of known dissolute charac- them always in their studies, to encourage ter; or shall be guilty of any other violation them in the practice of virtue, and to en-

of good morals ; he shall be admonished, deavor to substitute a moral power over suspended, dismissed, rusticated, or ex- the heart, as a principle of order, in the pelled." place of the fear of punishment; so that

"No student shall eat or drink in any tav- the penalties of the law shall fall only on ern, store, shop or victualing house, unless those, who yield not to higher and better in company with his parent or guardian motives, and are not influenced by a regard nor shall attend any theatrical entertain- to character, by filial gratitude, by the love ment, or any idle show in Brunswick or of excellence, and the sense of duty to

Topsham ; nor shall he frequent any tavern, God." nor resort to any house or shop after being- In the above paragraph we have found forbidden by the President; nor be guilty of words from men who for a moment have disorderly behavior, nor occasion distur- thrown aside their fear that they should not

[39] [The B ow d o in Alumnus protect young men sufficiently from the THE DIX REUNION PLAN evils of this hell-bent world. This passage stands out over and above the whole array AT WILLIAMS COLLEGE of detailed regulations of conduct, of ad- The Dix Reunion Plan, which is so or- mission, and of administration. For a mo- ganized that classes together in College re- ment the law-makers spoke as men to men turn to hold their Commencement activities before they resumed the task they had be- together, has been the subject of consider- gun in so thorough a manner. able alumni discussion and is being care- We, of today, pride ourselves as members fully considered by the Alumni Council of the latest group in the progress of com- as a result of a formal request from the mon sense ; we have only to refer to the first class of 1909. At the Council meeting held extracts for evidence. We have thrown off on Alumni Day it was voted to give the forever the old fear of life, challenged life, matter publicity in the remaining issues of and then later found him a good fellow that the Alumnus this year in order that it may did not need challenging. True, we have be kept before the minds of the alumni for progressed thus far, but turn back again to possible action at a later date. see if that one paragraph of purpose and With this in view the editor wrote to we are better men. No greater test can be Mr. Botsford, Alumni Secretary at Wil- placed on our ancestors than to place their liams for many years, and received in re- efforts alongside of one another. They turn the following letter, which seems to stand that test. men whose training, Those present as clearly as can be done the at- whose habits of action were of their time titude of Williams men toward the Dix had more important than all a purpose in Plan. life that proves once again that Bowdoin Williamstown, Mass., Dec. 2, 1929. was founded well. They wished to give to Mr. Philip S. Wilder, the nation Christian gentlemen. We may Bowdoin College, guffaw as I believe they would today at Brunswick, Maine. their methods, but we must remain silent My dear Mr. Wilder: before their ideals. The Dix Plan is an optional choice with the "old plan" STILL us and has never displaced FUNDS NEEDED of one, three, five, ten-year, etc., reunions. FOR MEMORIAL The 5-year, 10-year, 20-year, 25-year, 30- We are informed by Mr. Henry H. year, 50-year reunion periods have a very Pierce '96, chairman of the Committee on strong hold upon our alumni. the War Memorial, that up until December A few large classes have tried out the 16th there had been contributed and Dix Plan, and whenever it has been pledged nearly $12,500 toward the $15,000 thoroughly tested the classes have been fund needed to erect the memorial. This quite enthusiastic over the results. There amount represents the gifts of 532 individ- is much more work entailed than in single uals, including graduates and former stu- class reunions, since failure by one member dents of the College and Medical School of the group means general failure. Some and members of the Society of Bowdoin of our oldest and smallest classes have held

Women. It is certainly to be hoped that joint reunions with marked success, bring- subscriptions will be forthcoming to coming together a sufficient number to increase plete this fund in sufficient time to provide the interest. for the dedication of the flagpole at Com- Cordially yours, mencement in 1930. E. Herbert Botsford.

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THE BOWDOIN WAR MEMORIAL [The B ow d o in Alumnus

Young Alumnus Well Known "On the Air"

The following article was published in At the age of twenty-one Lord was ap- the New York Sun of December 16, under pointed principal of the High School in the heading "Who's Who on the Radio": Plainville, Conn., the youngest man ever to hold such a position in the State. About the same time he was married to Miss Sophie Mecorney, the wedding culminating a romance started in childhood. Rather than use the name of Ellsworth for his radio sketches, Lord chose Jones-

port, a little fishing and farming hamlet on the Maine coast. So great was the response to the "Seth Parker" broadcasts

that today Jonesport is one of the most ad- vertised places in the entire country. Its townsfolk entered into the spirit of the entertainment and started immediately to recognize "Seth" as one of the leading citi- zens of the community. The weekly newspaper duly recorded his "activities" and the town's Chamber of Commerce gave him its PHILLIPS H. LORD '25 official sanction. Drawing from a stock of boyhood Two years ago the young author came to memories of long, lazy summer vacations New York with the intention of following spent on his grandfather's farm in New a business career. His writing was at that England, Phillips H. Lord, youthful radio time solely for his own amusement. His playwright, created one of the most beloved first sketches depicting rural life were pre- characters on the air today •— Seth Parker, sented over WRNY as "Seth Parker's Old citizen of Jonesport, Me. And Lord him- Fashioned Singing School." Later this was self interprets the role on WEAF's Sunday heard on WMCA. With the opportunity to night program entitled "Seth Parker's join the N. B. C. he created the present Hymn Sing," although other Seth Parker series in which he plays the title role. broadcasts appear weekly on other stations. Lord was born in 1902 in the little town Owing to severe weather conditions the of Hartford, Vt., where his father was min- Bowdoin hockey team has had little chance ister of the village church. Shortly after for real practice as we go to press. The his birth the family moved to Meriden, schedule includes about twelve games, halt Conn., where he grew up and attended of them to be played at Brunswick. school. But it was back to the family homestead in Ellsworth, Me., where lived A varsity debate with Tufts on the ques- his grandparents on both sides of the fam- tion of "The Abolition of Jury Trial" was ily, that he went in the summer. He at- won by Bowdoin on December 3rd. tended Phillips Andover Academy for two years after graduating from Meriden's The fifty best prints of 1929 have recently high school and then entered Bowdoin Col- been on exhibition at the Walker Art lege, from which he graduated in 1925. Building.

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The Curtis Gift and What it Means to Bowdoin

JOHN C. THALHEIMER '21, Bursar

On December 15, 1929, Mr. Cyrus H. K. The plans of the Foundation, although Curtis of Philadelphia sent Bowdoin Col- based on the best actuarial estimates avail- lege a "Christmas present" of one thou- able at the time, were not sound in that they sand shares of seven per cent preferred did not immediately limit liabilities to the stock of the Curtis Publishing Company. institutions, teachers, and salary scales then His purpose was to provide means for the involved, but continued to add institutions pension and annuity plan recently adopted and their teachers, while salaries were by the College for the benefit of those teach- steadily increasing. Shortly before 1915 it ers whose expectations in regard to retire- became apparent that the funds of the ment annuities from the Carnegie Founda- Foundation would not allow the continua- tion for the Advancement of Teaching tion of the original plan and it was an- were suddenly shattered when the Founda- nounced that teachers beginning service tion announced drastic cuts in its future with an accepted institution after 1915 allowances. To understand and appreciate would not be eligible for gratuitous retire- fully the significance of Mr. Curtis' gen- ment allowances. erous gift, it is necessary to know some- To provide for these teachers, the Teach- thing of the circumstances surrounding the ers Insurance and Annuity Association of development of the present retirement an- America, was incorporated under the laws nuity plan. of New York, and endowed by the Car- In 1906 the Carnegie Foundation was negie Corporation, so that no overhead ex- established to administer a fund, the gift of pense is borne by the policy holders. Andrew Carnegie, for the retirement of In 1918, the Governing Boards of the teachers in Colleges and Universities in the College, upon recommendation of the Fac- United States and Canada. Applications ulty, voted that for those members of the were received from various institutions and Faculty, who had been elected since 1915. seventy-three, including Bowdoin College, the College would pay toward an annuity of were finally accepted. The original plan the above association a sum not to exceed provided for each teacher in an accepted five per cent of the salary provided that the institution, who should retire at the age of same sum were paid by the member of the sixty-five or over after twenty-five or more Faculty. This offer had to be accepted or years of service, a life annuity equal in declined in writing. At the present time amount to one-half his average annual sal- nineteen members of the Faculty have ary for the preceding five years, and an adopted this plan for a retirement annuity. annuity to his widow of one-half of this After several modifications of the orig- amount. Provisions were also made that a inal plan the Carnegie Foundation, on May teacher, who had taught at least twenty-five 1, 1929, announced a cut in its maximum re- years and was unable to continue his work tirement annuity from $3,600 to $1,000, because of physical or other disability, with a maximum retirement annuity for a might expect an annuity, reduced one- widow of $500. The fifteen members of fifteenth in amount for each year inter- the Faculty at Bowdoin College, who had vening between his age and retirement age reasonably expected a comfortable retire- at sixty-five. ment allowance, and had for years planned

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CYRUS H. K. CURTIS, LL.D.

The Andrew Carnegie of Bowdoin College The B o w d o in Alumnus]

their insurance and savings programs ac- sample policies, mortality tables and tele- cordingly, — suddenly found their expected phone calls from agents. Careful considera- allowance cut to a third. The Carnegie tion was given all this information as well Corporation supplemented this allowance as the suggestions of several interested with a grant of $500 for the teacher, but alumni. After a fairly exhaustive study of no further provision for the widow. the material in hand, — the committee de- It should be stated here that annuities veloped a plan for retirement annuities and of the Foundation already in force at Bow- insurance, which was approved by the doin College are not affected by this reduc- Executive Committee at their meeting tion, and there are two retired professors November 2, 1929, as set forth below. In and six widows now receiving pensions accordance with the best principles of re- totalling $9,025 a year. tirement pension methods this plan is con- The College was surely under no legal tractual, contributary and fixed as to the obligation as to the teachers affected, and amounts to accrue to the beneficiaries. it is difficult to understand any moral obli- The College contracts with each of the gation in the matter, although it is certain fifteen teachers concerned to purchase fof that the connection of Bowdoin College him an annuity of $1,500, payable monthly, with the Foundation and its expected re- beginning at age 70 — or an annuity tirement benefits, had some influence in one actuarially equivalent to $1,500 a year at or two cases where teachers might have seventy, if he retires at an earlier age; and gone elsewhere. A committee was ap- a life annuity of $750.00, payable monthly, pointed by President Sills in February, to his widow beginning with his death at

1929, to consider the question of retiring any time after the contract is written. Pro- allowances as affected by the Foundation's vision is made for the return to the teacher announcement. This group included the of all deposits for his account with interest President of the College, Henry H. Pierce if he leaves the college employ. '96, Alfred B. White '98, Philip Dana '96, The Committee enlisted the aid of the E. Farrington Abbott '03, Leonard A. actuaries of the John Hancock Life Insur- Pierce '05, and Clement F. Robinson '03. ance Company, and from them determined The committee recommended to the Boards the amount which would have to be de- at their meeting in June an appropriation posited for each teacher's account, on the of $7,500 for the payment of premiums on conservative basis of four per cent interest deferred annuity contracts, with disability allowed. This amount will be set aside an- and term life insurance provisions if ob- nually, one-half the cost up to five per cent tainable, for the fifteen members of the of his salary to be charged to the teacher Faculty concerned, providing that each of and the balance to the College. Invest- these teachers who should avail himself of ments of this fund will be under the direc- these provisions, should pay one-half the tion of the Finance Committee and will premium on his contracts up to five per cent earn the current rate of interest on general of his salary. A committee was appointed college investments. to select an insurance company, to arrange When an annuity is purchased for a the contracts, and put the plan into widow the College contributions for the ac- operation. count, together with the teacher's deposits, This committee submitted a plan to ten are charged proportionately. If any unused or more standard insurance companies for balances remain, they revert in like propor- their quotations as to cost, and in reply re- tion to the College and the teacher's widow ceived quantities of figures, suggestions, or estate so that in each case, the teacher

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is sure of a return of all his deposits with tem which may be adopted in the future, or interest. for general purposes.

Obviously the accumulation for any one This gift again demonstrates the fitness account in the next few years will not reach of the title applied to Mr. Curtis by Presi- a sum sufficient to purchase an annuity for dent Sills in a recent conversation — "the Carnegie a widow in the event of a death in the Andrew of Bowdoin College." group. To care for its liability in this Editor's Note : — Mr. Thalheimer, the period, the College has insured each mem- author of the above article, has cooperated ber of the group for $5,000, payable to trie- actively with the committee of the Govern- College as trustee, for the purchase of an ing Boards throughout the work of arriving annuity. In purchasing this insurance the at the final plan accepted by the College and Committee discovered that they could in- is responsible for zvorking out many of the sure the entire faculty on a contributary details involved. group basis, $5,000 on the fifteen members of longest service and $2,000 on all the others, for less than the cost of $5,000 term insurance on the fifteen members alone, and BOWDOIN ENTERTAINS group insurance was purchased from the John Hancock Life Insurance Company. ALPHA BELT CONVENTION

The plan has several advantages; it is On December 30 and 31 and January 1 flexible, requires no medical examinations, the Bowdoin Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi no overhead is charged for investment of was host to the 98th National Convention funds, the return on the College invest- of the fraternity. Headquarters were main- ments is larger than that now allowed by tained at the Eastland Hotel in Portland, insurance companies, and the College takes Maine, but on the second day the delegates no insurance risk except as to disability, in and guests motored to Brunswick where which event it is partially protected by the they were entertained at tea by President group insurance policy. and Mrs. Sills and enjoyed a lobster stew The retirement plan which has just been supper at the chapter house. briefly described was expected to cost the Bowdoin alumni who participated in the College about $7,500 annually, and in the program included Professor Marshall P. current year it would have resulted in a Cram '04, who delivered the address of deficit, but for the generosity of Mr. Curtis welcome to the delegates, Clement F. Rob- whose gift will make possible its operation inson '03, who served as toastmaster at the without involving the current funds of the banquet, and Rev. Harry W. Kimball '92 College. Retirements under this plan ex- and Rev. Earl C. Davis '97, who were tend over the next twenty-nine years dur- speakers on that occasion. Irving L. Rich ing which the cost will gradually decrease, '09 was chairman of the banquet committee, and more and more of the income of the while Adelbert H. Merrill '24 was in charge Curtis Fund will be available for other pur- of registration arrangements. This is the poses. It may be used to carry on the Col- first time that Bowdoin has entertained the lege share of the present arrangement with National Convention since 1906. the Teachers' Insurance and Annuity Asso- ciation, which is growing more costly as The annual interfraternity swimming new members are added to the Faculty, or meet was held on December 13th and was for the support of some other pension sys- won by Theta Delta Chi.

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Wanted : Addresses For These Men

Preparations are now being made for the 1927—John A. Lord, Jr. publication of an alumni address list and 1928—Frank H. Farnham, Benjamin H. we are anxious to reduce the number of Frazer, David Katz, Reginald Swett. "lost alumni" as much as possible. Mail has Medical Graduates been returned to us from the last addresses 1863—Parker C. Porter. available for the men whose names are 1873—William C. Clark. listed below and the Alumni Secretary will 1876—Albert L. Stanwood. greatly appreciate any information con- 1878—Edward P. Wing. cerning them which can be sent in by our 1879 John F. Manning. readers. — 1880 John A. Houston, Charles C. Graduates — Jr., Jaques. 1881—Albert L. Joyce, Esq. 1882—Albert L. French. 1883—Francis Day. J. 1889—Charles E. Harvey. 1886—William H. Stackpole, Esq. 1890—William T. Merrill. 1888—George A. Ingalls. 1 1 89 —Herbert H. Purington, Frank H. 1891—Dr. John F. Kelly. McLaughlin. 1897—Oscar E. Pease, Esq. 1892—Samuel E. Knight, Isaac Parke, 1902—Clifford H. Preston. James S. Sullivan. 1905—Walton T. Henderson, Winfield I. 1895—Harry G. Reed. Norcross, Carl W. Rundlett. 1897—Nathaniel p - Butler, Harry W. 1907—Francis R. Upton, Jr. Goodspeed, Frank E. Hoyt, Dennis 1910—Arthur A. Madison. J. O'Brion. 1912—Maurice P. Hill. 1904—Linwood M. Keene. 1913—William B. McMahon. 1915—Elmer C. Cooley. Non-Graduates 1916—Laurence W. Cartland. i860—Charles R. Flaines, Atwood Sever-

1917—Frederick J. Corbett. ance. 1918—Hugh W. Blanchard, Elton F. 1864—Charles E. Gibbs. Chase, Kuan-Shang Tang. 1866—Edward E. Jones, Charles R. 1919—William M. Fay, Fred P. Hall, Swasey. Paul R. Leech, David W. White. 1867—William H. Chadwick, Thomas W. 1920—Donald C. Randall, Harold Y. Lord. Saxon. 1868—Rev. Charles B. Besse, Elbridge G.

1921 —Francis J. Bingham, George R. Fogg. Goodwin, Robert W. Morse, George O. 1870—Charles A. Eaton. Prout, Lawrence Wakefield. 1871 —Alonzo S. Lambert.

1923—Frank E. MacDonald, Scott H. 1872—Charles J. Brown. Stackhouse, John F. Sullivan. 1876—Daniel W. Brookhouse. 1924—Harry M. Keaney, Alfred T. 1877—Osgar Brinkerhoff. Stone. 1879—Ell wood F. Varney. 1925—Roland E. Butler, Noel W. Deer- 1880—William R. Collins, M.D., Joseph ing, Frank L. Tucker. C. F. Upton. 1926—Theodore S. Michaloplos, Richard 1882—Thomas C. Lane. B. Paquette, Frank O. Potter, John D. 1883—Franklin E. Perham. Spanos. 1896—Charles M. Brown.

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1897—C. Edward Williams. 1923—Blake E. Clark, Joseph R. Curran, 1898—Benjamin Webster. Henry L. Gray, Earle K. French, Cecil C. 1899—Charles W. Bonney, George I. McLaughlin, M.D., Homer L. Mohr, Ed-

Piper. mond J. Sirois. 1900—Louville M. Stevens. 1924—Samuel S. Graves. 1901 —Charles S. Brown. 1925—John E. Allen, Albert S. Cobb, 1905—James E. White. Philip S. Davis, Roy S. Graffam, James W. 1906—Harold M. Edwards. L. Graham, Edward J. Neil, Philip M. 1907—Harold V. Goodhue. O'Brien, Andrew S. Pennell, Carl E. 1908—Ole Hanson, Christopher Toole, Roberts. George Packard. 1926—Harry Bray, George E. Crockett, 1909—Edmund R. Saunders, Horatio R. Walton P. Dyer, Lewis P. Fickett, Irwin S. Swasey, Fuller P. Studley. Gutterman, Henry L. Payson, Caleb C. 1910—Thomas C. Commins, Harold W. Rose.

Davie, Guy W. Farrar, Daniel J. Readey. 1927—Ignacio F. Hcrrerias, Leon Milli- 191 1 —Frank E. K. Davis, William E. ken. Noyes. 1928—Dwight F. Brown, Robert E. 1912—Solomon M. Blanchard, Herbert Burns, John B. Candy, Loring O. Chandler, A. Davis, Roy L. Estes, Stephen C. Perry. Paul Fitz-Gibbon, Omar A. Hall, Calvin P. 1913—Walter H. Rogers. Hubbard, Marshall F. Kiddle, Robert G. 19 14—Joseph F. X. Healey, Henry G. LaVigne, Milton H. Lyon, Ermon L. Mar- Weymouth. kella, John A. Marsh, Frederick W. Mosh- 5 191 —Prescott Emerson, Arthur H. er, Frederick J. Mullen, Clarence E. Mulli- Mahoney. ken, Richard Neil, Samuel S. Peabody, 2nd, 1916—Ralph R. Glidden, Emery B. Samuel C. Prime, Stuart E. Stanley, Ken- Poore, Walter B. Willey, Jr. neth L. Talbot, Hale C. Whitcomb, John K. 7 19 1 —Woodbury Brigham, Peter J. Buh- Winner, Quenton S. Wright. leier, Earl E. Clough, Leo F. Creeden, Gil- 1929—Wallace G. Fisher, Jr., John D. bert E. Ogle, Charles W. Pattee, Charles L. Frates, Earlon S. Gurley, Harry A. Hegel, Silverstein. Donald R. Higgons, Lawrence A. Mahar, 1918—Morris H. Atkins, Joseph B. Ronald L. Rideoutf, Charles D. Russell, Brierly, Milton W. Clarke, William H. Charles L. Stearns, Donald L. Tripp, Her-

Peters, Jr., John A. Totman. man F. Urban.

1919—Andrew J. Boratis, Merton J. Mc- Grath, William L. Tilley, Russell S. Turner. 1920—Ralph P. Davis, Forest W. Doug- On January 24th and 25th the First Dis- lass, Charles R. Harris, Thomas R. John- trict of the American Alumni Council will son, Stacy Maxfield. hold its annual conference at Bowdoin. 1921 —Roy A. Carpenter, Fred E. Jack- This district of the Council, which is made son, Roy B. King. up of alumni workers from practically all 1922—Jose E. Allarey, George Fineburg, the larger colleges and universities of the Leo L. Fitz, Louis E. Goldberg, M.D., Her- United States and Canada, includes insti- man D. Gould, Charles E. Leavitt, Fred tutions in New England, Quebec and the McConkey, Ernest K. Savage, Erwin H. Maritime Provinces. President Sills will be Stanley, Stanley Northrop, Elmer E. Trask, among the speakers at the conference and John E. Rich, Earl C. Whiting, Philip H. will discuss "Making Good Alumni in LT n- Woodworth. dergraduate Years."

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This Football Business

By The Editor

The last number of the Alumnus carried tion and to consider the matter of a new the story of the football season through the coach. All the alumni members of the group game with Colby on October 26th. At that returned for the meeting and considerable time the team had lost two games, to Wil- routine business was carried on. A liams and to Colby, and had won its con- committee consisting of William L. Crow- tests with M.A.C. and with Wesleyan. ley '08 of New York, John L. Joy '12 of 7 '17 From this point on the narrative is less Boston, Professor Boyd W . Bartlett and cheerful, for on Alumni Day the returning Charles L. Hildreth '25 of Portland was? graduates witnessed the event which caused appointed to interview candidates for the the Boston Herald to use as its headline vacant position and to report to a later "Bates Humbles Bowdoin 26 to o." A meeting of the full Council. Mr. Crowley week later the team went to Orono for the is well known as an officer and active mem- final battle of the State Series. Student ber of the Eastern Association of Intercol- morale, which had been maintained at an legiate Football Officials and went to Bos- unusually high level until the Bates game, ton the following day to officiate at the had almost disappeared and there were few Harvard-Yale game. undergraduates present to witness the Sports writers, particularly on the Port- tragedy. Sitting in a cold stand, the alumni land papers, have filled their columns with who attended were treated to another de- predictions and suggestions as to the new feat which, although by no means disgrace- coach and have thrown into the field the ful, was certainly intensely disappointing. names of dozens of men who might be The game with Tufts on November 14, chosen. The committee, however, has been although lost by a score of 7 to 6, showed consistently silent and nothing definite is new spirit in the Bowdoin team and did known as to their activities. much to raise the hopes of the Boston A second meeting of the Council was alumni who turned out to fill the stand at held on December 14, when the committee Medford Hillside. Sixteen first downs were brought in the names of more than forty scored against the six rolled up by the Tufts applicants for consideration by the full ad- eleven and the general impression brought visory body. Elimination of many of these away was that the team had somehow re- names resulted, but it is not known how gained its spirit and that the game was a many remain as possible selections. At that victory in everything but actual score. time the Council announced that a decision On November 17, the following Monday, would probably be reached within two the resignation of Coach Malcolm E. Mor- weeks' time and the editor of the Alumnus rell was announced. This action followed has patiently held open these columns until precisely his declaration to the Athletic the last minute in the hope that he might Council a year before, when he accepted run a picture and a story of the -new coach. the position for one year, "and for one year Such is not the case, however, and we can only." Mr. Morrell will remain at Bowdoin only trust that the decision will be reached as Director of Athletics and Assistant Pro- in time for announcement at the annual fessor of Physical Training. dinners in Boston, New York, Hartford,

A week later the Athletic Council met at and Philadelphia, all of which are scheduled the College to take action on this resigna- for the week of January 26th.

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The oil painting of General Thomas Campus Notes Hubbard '57, which for many years has hung in an upper lobby of Hubbard Hall, fell without warning on January 2nd, shat- On December 19th and 20th, at the time tering its frame and a case of pressed flow- when Bowdoin was entertaining scores of ers standing beneath it. young ladies as house party guests, this section of Maine was subjected to an ice The second number of the rejuvenated storm more severe than has been known in Bozi'doin Quill appeared at the Christmas the last half century. Practically all light house parties. The feature article was by and telephone service was put out of action Arthur Garfield Hays of New York, and and the campus and streets were littered other items of interest included contribu- with heavy limbs and fallen wires. Several tions by Professor Stanley P. Chase '05, by of the house dances were conducted by the Coach John Magee and by W. Powell light of candles and lights for the Masque J. Stewart '28. Illustrations were a fine photo- and Gown play were only available at the graph of the Topsham bridge by Professor last minute. Damage to the campus trees, Eugene M. Armfield and an unusual block all of which had been reconditioned by tree print by Professor Philip W. Meserve 'n. experts last fall, at a cost of over $3,000, cannot be estimated at the present time.

During January and February Professor With The Charles Bruneau, visiting Professor of French Literature on the Tallman Founda- Alumni Bodies tion, is giving a series of lectures on "Folk Songs of French Lorraine — Songs of Love and Marriage." These are being held in BOSTON ASSOCIATION the main lounge of the Moulton Union and The annual meeting of the Association Professor Bruneau is being assisted by will be held at the University Club on Jan- Madam Bruneau, who illustrates each lec- uary 30 with President Sills as one of the ture singing the by songs appropriate to speakers. evening's topic.

On January nth E. H. Sothern, the BOWDOIN CLUB OF BOSTON famous actor-producer, gave a dramatic re- At the October meeting of the Club the cital in Memorial Hall, presenting scenes speaker was John Clair Minot '96, literary from "Hamlet," "Othello," "Lord Dun- editor of the Boston Herald, who discussed dreary," and "If I Were King." This ap- in a most interesting manner the books of pearance of Mr. Sothern at the College was the Fall season. made possible through the generosity of As usual, a meeting of the Club was held Mr. Walter V. Wentworth '86 of Great on November 15th, the night before the Works, Maine. Mr. Wentworth has earlier Tufts game at Medford, with a good at- shown his interest in activities at the Col- tendance of Boston Bowdoin men. The lege by presenting a fine radio for use in principal speaker of the evening was Dean the Moulton Union and by bringing to the Paul Nixon, and remarks were also made College in 1928 a series of lectures by by Luther Dana '03, formerly president Canon Fellowes of Oxford. of the Athletic Council.

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On December 6th the Club met at the PENOBSCOT COUNTY CLUB University Club, where the gathering was The fall meeting of the Club was held on addressed by Arthur T. Gould '08, member November 8th, the night before the football of the Alumni Council and for some years game with Maine at Orono. Many of the president of the New England Grenfell As- members were on hand the following day in sociation. Mr. Gould took as his topic spite of the weather and the improbability "Bowdoin's Place in Labrador", a subject of success. on which he is well qualified to speak as he has cruised the Labrador coast on many oc- PHILADELPHIA CLUB casions as officer and seaman with the The winter meeting of the Club will be

Grenfell Mission boats. held on February 1, at which time President The regular January meeting was held on Sills will be on hand as the representative the 3rd with no speaker scheduled. The of the College. evening was given over to an informal discussion of matters connected with the BOWDOIN CLUB OF PORTLAND College. The annual meeting of the Club was held at the Falmouth Hotel on December 18th BROCKTON, MASS. when Dwight H. Sayward '16 was elected On November 26th the meeting of the president and Edward Humphrey '17 was University Club of Brockton was sponsored re-elected treasurer. Plans are now being by alumni of the four Maine colleges, with made for the annual "Bowdoin Night." a good representation of Bowdoin men present. RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION The winter meeting of the Association CAMBRIDGE LUNCHEON MEETING was held at the Hotel Narragansett on On December 6th there was a gathering December 28th. Thomas L. Pierce '98 pre- of the younger Bowdoin men now engaged sided and the speaker of the occasion was in graduate study at Harvard and other President Sills. institutions of greater Boston, with a luncheon served in the Harvard Union. Presi- WASHINGTON, D. C. dent Sills was on hand as tlie speaker of On October 28th a group of alumni met the occasion and plans were made for per- for luncheon on the invitatron of Harold petuating the organization and providing for A. Marsh '07. Those present included Col. similar meetings in the future. Marsh, A. James Voorhees '07, Howard Kane '09, Francis X. Callahan '14, Austin HARTFORD ASSOCIATION H. MacCormick '15, Guy W. Leadbetter 't6, The annual meeting of the Association Robert Michie '2J, Howard Tucker '27, and will be held on February 1, when the Col- Professor Allen Johnson, formerly a mem- lege will be represented by Gerald G. Wil- ber of the faculty. der '04, the Librarian, and by the Alumni Secretary. WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION NEW YORK ASSOCIATION Dean Paul Nixon will be the speaker at The annual dinner meeting will be held the first dinner of the year, which will be at the Hotel Park Lane on the evening ot held at the Hotel Kimball in Springfield on January 31st. President Sills will be Friday, January 17th. Sidney P. Brown '27 among the speakers. is now secretarv of the association.

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News From The Classes

The necrology since the appearance of 1881 George F. Manson died on October 17th fol- the Novemher issue is as follows: lowing a shock. He was born in Bath, Maine, 1876—Rev. Collins Grant Burnham. and after his graduation from the College entered Boston University Law School. Upon be- 1881 —George Francis Manson, A.M., ing admitted to the bar he was for many years LL.B. associated with former Mayor Edwin U. Curtis. 1884—Sherman Warren Walker. The story of his bequest to the College was included in the last issue of the Alumnus. 1885—Jesse Francis Waterman, LL.B. 1884 1891 —Lewis Albert Burleigh, LL.B. We are informed of the death of Sherman W. 1891 —Albert Kansas Newman, LL.B. Walker at Portland, Oregon, on October 3rd, N. 1894—Perez Burr Burnham. but no details are available. 1885 1894—Philip Henry Moore, M.D. Word has been received of the death of Jesse 1895—George Henry Dunton Foster, F. Waterman at South Pasadena, California, on LL.B.^ December 21st. 1888 1903 John Lincoln Mitchell. — Word has been received of the death of Frank N. 1913—Harold Edwards Carney, M.D. K. Linscott on October 26th. After his gradua- 1919—Allan Whitney Sylvester, M.D. tion from Bowdoin, Mr. Linscott was a teacher at Gould Academy, 1925—Avery Marion Spear, A.B. Bethel, but later entered Boston University Law School. Upon his grad- Med. 1885—John Herbert Neal, M.D. uation from the Law School he began the prac- Med. 1891 —Benjamin Glazier Willey tice of law in Boston, which he continued for Cushman, M.D. thirty-eight years. He had been treasurer of the First Baptist Church of Boston for twenty-seven 1857 years, and a member of the Wollaston Glee^Club for twenty-five Moses Hooper is now the oldest active lawyer years. He rarely missed a re- in the American Bar Association, according to a union of the Class of 1888. He is survived by note in the November issue of the A. B. A his wife and fovir daughters. Journal. He has not missed a meeting of the 1891 State bar in thirty-seven years and celebrated Lewis A. Burleigh died on November nth at his 94th birthday by winning a railroad damage Augusta, Maine. He was born at Linneus, suit before the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.' Maine, the son of the late United States Senator 1875 Edwin C. Burleigh and Mrs. Burleigh. He was Rev. Geo. Croswell Cressey, Ph.D., D.D., has a graduate of Cony High School, Augusta, and received a unanimous call to the pastorate of the received his LL.B. from Harvard Law School. First Unitarian Church in Geneseo, Illinois. He served as city clerk of Augusta and was Since his ministry of ten years in Greater New United States Commissioner for many years, York Dr. Cressey has been minister-in-charge besides holding many other public offices. He two years in Tyngsborough, Mass., also for a is survived by his wife and one son, Lewis A. time in Waterville, Me., and in Petersham, Burleigh, Jr., '19. Mr. Burleigh had been an Mass., during the absence of the regular incum- overseer of the College for some years. bents. In 1927 he supplied six months in Great Albert K. Newman died suddenly on Decern Britain, in Liverpool, Birmingham, London and ber 2nd in New York City. He wa3 born in East Belfast, Ireland. Wilton, Maine, the son of Mr. and Mrs. ]. Leavitt Newman. After his graduation from 1876 Bowdoin he entered Harvard Law School, where Rev. Collins G. Burnham died on December he received the degree of LL.B. in 1891. He 17th in Florida, where he had gone to spend the practiced law in New York City until four years winter. He was born on May 9th, 1854 in Saco, ago, when he went to Pawtucket, R. I., to organ- Maine and upon his graduation from Bowdoin ize the Pantex Pressing Machine Company, Inc. entered the Bangor Theological Seminary where He was on a business trip to New York at the he graduated in 1879. He occupied pastorates time of his death. He is survived by his wife, in New England and was for thirty years in two sisters and a brother. charge of the church at Chicopee, Mass. In 1909 he went to the Hawaiian Islands where he 1894 remained for some years, being pastor of the Perez G. Burnham died suddenly at his home 9th. was church at Lahaina. in Machias, Maine, on December He

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born in Portland on April 9, 1870. Upon leaving article in the Portland Sunday Telegram. Mr. Bowdoin he became associated with Burnham Libby is credited with having turned out an un- and Morrill Company, Portland packers, with usually large number of high school graduates whom his father was for a long period connected. with a sincere and intelligent interest in liter- In 1910 he moved to Machias where he was as- ature. sociated with his brother in the canning busi- 1901 ness. He is survived by his wife, two daugh- Roland E. Clark was presented with a special ters and two sons. badge by Reuben E. Lewis, Jr., secretary of the 1895 trust division of the American Bankers' Asso- George H. D. Foster died on Christmas night ciation, at the annual meeting of the Corporate in Portland, Maine. Mr. Foster was born in Fiduciaries Association of Maine. In present- Portland on September 2s, 1872 and was edu- ing the badge Mr. Lewis announced that it was cated in the schools there. After graduation in recognition of Mr. Clark's work in organizing from Bowdoin he studied law at Columbia Uni- the Fiduciaries Association, which he described versity, receiving his degree there in 1898. He as "one of the best and most interesting of its had practiced in New York City from that time type in the United States." until about six months ago, when ill health Representative Donald F. Snow has been as- forced him to retire from active work. He is signed to service in the important committee on survived by his mother, one brother and a sis- Agriculture in the recent reorganization of com- ler. mittees in the national House of Representa- A portrait of Hon. William M. Ingraham has tives. been hung in the Court of Portland, Probate 1903 Maine, where Judge Ingraham presided from Charles C. Shaw, who has completed 25 years 1907 to 1915. The portrait was painted by of service as principal of the high school In Joseph B. Kahili. Judge Ingraham was elected an Gorham, Maine, is the subject of a recent fea- Overseer of the College following his nomina- ture article in the Portland Sunday Telegram. tion by the alumni last June. 1906 1896 Chester S. Bavis was recently elected president Philip Dana was re-elected vice-president of of the Worcester, Mass., Kiwanis Club. the National Association of Cotton Manufac- turers in October. 1907 Daniel is Su- A new book by John Clair Minot, "The Bes'; Sargent Commercial Methods pervisor for the York Telephone Company Animal Stories I Know", was published by W. A. New Wilde Company this Fall. at 140 West street, New York City. 1897 1908 Charles B. Lamb has moved from Groveland, Ridgley C. Clark received the degree of Mas- Mass., to Saco, Maine. ter of Arts in Education from Yale University 1898 in June. Mr. Clark is Superintendent of Schools Commander Donald B. MacMillan lectured at at Seymour, Conn. During the past summer he Symphony Hall in Boston on November 25th for taught at the Washington State Normal School the benefit of the New England Grenfell Asso- at Machias, Maine. ciation. Dr. Carl M. Robinson was elected chairman Lieut. Edward Stanwood, Jr., has moved from of the Maine executive committee of the Amer- Wellesley Hills to Provincetown, Mass., where ican College of Surgeons at a recent meeting he is engaged in the automobile business. of the Fellows in Worcester, Mass. 1899 1909 Lucian Libby, who has for many years con As we go to press word is received of the ducted the course in English Literature at Port- candidacy of Ralph O. Brewster for the Repub- land High School, was the subject of a recent lican nomination to the United States Senate.

NOTICE

At the request of several alumni, we are to reserve space in this magazine for alumni professional and business cards. If you are interested in having your card appear along with those of other alumni of Bowdoin, please communicate with the manager of the Bowdoin Publishing Co. The cost will be small . . $1 per card per issue. R. B. Hirtle, Manager.

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which will be made at the primary elections next Monroe Fire Department, was rushing to a fire June. This places him in direct opposition to in the suburbs of the city when his car was Wallace H. White '99 whose aspirations to the struck. He is survived by his wife and three nomination were announced some months ago. children. John W. Manter is now teaching General Sci- Mr. and Mrs. Earle B. Tuttle have announced ence and directing athletics at Cony High the birth of a daughter, Eleanor Louise, on School, Augusta, Maine. October 30th. 1914 1911 Ray M. Verrill is teaching at Gilman Country Dr. Alton S. Pope, who has been connected School, Baltimore, Maryland, this year. with the Chicago Health Department as epidemiologist and chief of the Bureau of Com- 1915 municable Diseases for about two years, has "An Attic Room" by Robert P. T. Coffin has recently recently resigned to become epidemiologist on been published. The book is illustrated tuberculosis for the Massachusetts State De- by the author. partment of Health. He will also be instructor Gordon P. Floyd has recently been made sec- of in vital statistics at the School of Public Health retary of the Henley Kimball Company in Boston. Boston. is practicing in Baldwin Smith is at present abroad in con- Holland G. Hambleton now nection with classifying the art treasures of the Los Angeles. His address is 1040 South High- Vatican Museum. land Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. Alvah B. Stetson is manager of the National 1912 Credit Company in Cleveland, Ohio. His ad- Robert D. Cole, Ph.D., a former head master dress is 16315 Lakewood Heights Boulevard, at the Lawrenceville School, where he taughr Lakewood, Ohio. French and Spanish, is now head of the De- 1916 partment of Education at the University oi Professor Sydney M. Brown is on leave of North Dakota. He has recently published the absence from Lehigh University. He will re- following studies in connection with his pedagog- turn in September 1930. ical work : "Private Secondary Education for Boys in the United States" (doctoral thesis at 1917 Erik Achorn has recently published a study in the University of Pennsylvania) ; "A Review of Buswell's Laboratory Study of the Reading of Modern European History. Modern Languages" (Modern Language Journal. Boyd W. Bartlett was the principal speaker at a meeting of the Auburn (Maine) Lions Cl.ib April 1928) ; "Free Composition vs. Transla tion into the Foreign Language in Developing recently. He was introduced by Arthur G. Ability to Write a Foreign Language" (Modern Staples '82. Elwyn A. King is practicing law in New Language Journal, January 1927) ; "A Conver- sion Scale for Comparing Scores on Three Haven, Conn. His address is 416 Lighthouse Secondary School Intelligence Tests" (Journal Road. Mr. and Mrs. James C. Oliver have returned of Educational Research, October 1929) ; "The High School Teaching Population of North Da- to Portland after living for several years in Bulletin, and "The Auburn, Maine. kota" (North Dakota 1929) I Effectiveness of the Contract Method as com- 1918 pared with the Ordinary Method of Teaching" Elton F. Chase has moved to New Britain, (with V. E. Esson) (School Review, April 1929). Conn., where he is living at 64 Monroe Street. John L. Hurley has recently been appointed as Robert S. Stetson is musical director and in- special assistant United States Attorney in structor at the Thacher School at Ojai, Cali- charge of Veterans Bureau cases, of which there fornia. are 500 on the dockets. 1919 1913 Bateman Edwards is engaged in research in Chester G. Abbott, for a number of years Mediaeval Legends at Princeton University, in vice-president and general manager of the Hen- conjunction with Edward Ham '22. ley Kimball Company of Boston, has been ap- Announcement has been made of the marriage pointed general sales manager of the Hudson of Louis O. Smith and Miss Betty Steinberg of Motor Car Company of Detroit, Mich., and has Pittsburgh, Pa., on October 27th. already assumed his new duties. Mr. Abbott has Dr. Allan W. Sylvester died on January 1st at been associated with F. A. Ordway, president of his home in Portland, Maine after a long illness. the company, for the past twenty years. He was born in Harrison thirty-one years ago Dr. Harold E. Carney was killed instantly near and before coming to Bowdoin attended Bridg- Monroe, La., on November 6th, when a car in ton Academy. He received his M.D. at Harvard which he was riding was struck by a train. Dr. and served as an interne at the Maine General Carney, who was a volunteer member of the Hospital in Portland. He was a member of the

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Portland Medical Club, the Cumberland County Word has been received of the death of Avery Medical Association and a fellow of the Ameri- M. Spear on December 15th at Albuquerque, can Medical Association. He is survived by his New Mexico. wife and one son. The marriage of John B. Stalford and Miss Rev. Allan Constantine has resigned his pas- Altha Edmonds took place on November 9th al torate at the Dane Street Congregational Church St. Andrews Church in Wellesley, Mass. Bar- in Kennebunk, Maine, to accept a call to the rett C. Nichols, Alger W. Pike '24 and Joseph Congregational Church at Warsaw, N. Y. T. Small '24 were among the ushers at the Henry H. Davies is with the Founders Gen- wedding. eral Corporation in York City. New Edward R. Wait, Jr., and Miss Pauline Smith The engagement of J. Houghton McLellan, Jr., of Minneapolis were married on September 4th. and Miss Olive Page of Winchester, Mass., has recently been announced. 1926 Don T. Potter and Miss Mary D. Noyes of Burton W. Blackwell is now with the W. T. Harpswell, Maine, were married on November Grant Company in Waltham, Mass. i6th in Brunswick. Wolcott H. Cressey is teaching Romance languages at the Suffield School, Suffield, Conn. 1921 On October 16th Eldon A. Gray and Miss E. Kenneth Smiley is now dean of men at the University of North Dakota, having gone there Eleanor J. Simmons of Bloomfield, N. J., were is a from Bethlehem, Pa., where he had been teach- married in Osaka, Japan, where Mr. Gray officer of the ing English at Lehigh University. junior in the Osaka branch Na- 1922 tional City Bank of New York. It is interest- Shepard M. Emery has entered the employ of ing to note that the manager of the Osaka '06. Hornblower and Weeks, investment bankers in branch is Harold S. Stetson Boston and began his new work with them on Robert Harkness is now located in Florida December 30th. where he is working for the Pullman Company. Proctor James writes that he has opened a Word has been received of the marriage oi business under the name of James & Company, Allen H. Mathewson and Miss Alice Davies ot for the purpose of dealing in high-grade stocks West Roxbury, Mass., on December 24th. They and bonds as well as serving as investment are living at 9 Ellery Street, Cambridge, Mass. counsellors. His office is in Room 639, Graybar Leon L. Spinney has opened a law office in Building, 420 Lexington avenue, New York City. Brunswick. 1923 On Christmas day the engagement of James Lloyd W. Bishop, M.D., is practicing in Yar- E. Thompson to Miss Barbara Wingate of Brook- mouth, Maine. line, Mass., was announced. Theodore W. Cousens is an instructor in Law and Government at Lafayette College, Easton, 1927 Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Brown are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter on Norman F. Miller is now connected with the December 2nd. Lewis Manufacturing division of the Kendall Mills in Walpole, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh F. Burgess are receiving 1924 congratulations on the arrival of Hugh F. Bur- gess, Jr., on December 3rd. John Roth and Miss Caroline A. Geroe were The married on November 16th at Peoria, 111. engagement of George O. Cutter to Miss Gretchen Froelich of Toledo, Ohio, an- Raymond J. Saunders is instructor in French was and Latin at the New York Military Academy, nounced by Miss Froelich's parents during the Cornwell-on-the-Hudson, New York. Christmas holidays. Mr. Cutter has recently re- Waldo G. Weymouth and Miss Elizabeth P. covered from an operation for appendicitis per- Fowler were married in Monmouth, Maine, on formed in Boston early in December. Thanksgiving Day. Mr. Weymouth is now an Gilford Davis is instructor in Romance Lan- executive of the Somerset Shoe Company in guages at Harvard this year. Skowhegan, Maine. Sanford L. Hammond is a salesman for the Luman A. Woodruff, M.D. is resident physician Earstow Stove Company at 14 Williams Ave- at the Robinson Memorial Hospital in Boston, nue, Providence, R. I. Mass. The engagement of Donovan D. Lancaster and 1925 Miss L. Florence LaPointe has recently been The engagement of Stanley Blackmer and announced. Miss Dorothy Pollard was announced on Novem- Robert Olmstead is teaching at the Short Hill's ber 2nd. Private School, Short Hills, New Jersey. Norman Nevins is teaching history at the On December 26th John G. Reed and Mis- Oliver Eames High School in North Easton, Bessie M. Thurber were married in Wollaston, Mass. Mass. Norman Crane acted as best man.

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The engagement of Alden H. Sawyer and Miss The engagement of Charles Cummings and

Gayle Morgan of Westfield, N. J., was announced Miss Beatrice Nichols of Bath, Maine was an- in October. The wedding is expected to take nounced by Miss Nichols' parents on January place some time in the spring. 2nd. 1928 Frank B. Harlow has left the Massachusetts Philip A. Bachelder sailed on December 7th Institute of Technology, where he was doin^ for Havana where he will be connected with graduate work, and has entered the employ of the foreign department of the First National the U. S. Bobbin and Shuttle Company in Man- Bank of Boston. chester, N. H.

Fred A. Clark, Jr., is studying medicine at The engagement of Gordon D. Larcom and Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Miss Marjorie L. Elliott of Swampscott, Mass., Hayward H. Coburn and Miss Margaret Phin- has recently been announced by Miss Elliott's ney of Naugatuck, Conn., were married on June parents. 22nd. Herbert H. Smith is studying at Boston Uni- has joined the Phi Robert F. Cressey is teaching Spanish at St. versity Medical School and Paul's School, Garden City, New York, this year. Chi Fraternity. is studying English at the Edgar A. French is practicing law in Dover- Philip A. Smith Foxcroft, Maine. Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Erastus E. Strobino is a medical student at The engagement of Nathan I. Greene and Miss Hospital Esther N. Smith of Brunswick was announced New York University and Bellevue at a luncheon given by Miss Smith's parents on Medical College. January 1st. Ronald W. Wilks writes that he is in the Spe- in John Jewett is a special assistant in the Safety cial Development group of John Wanamaker Fire Protection Section of the DuPont Rayon New York and that his address is Psi Upsilon Company in Buffalo, N. Y. Club of New York, 273 Lexington Avenue, New- Bernard McGary is with the Vadsco Sales York. Corporation in New York City. Med. 1891 Walter P. Stewart is instructor in English at Benjamin G. W. Cushman, for nearly forty the University of Texas, Austin, Texas. years a prominent physician in Auburn, Maine, T. Eliot Weil is teaching History at the Scar- died on October 21st following a long illness. borough School, Scarborough-on-the-Hudson. He was born at Sumner, Maine, the son of Sam- New York. uel Gilman and Sophronia Chase Cushman, and 1929 received his education before coming to Bow- Charles W. Babb, Jr., is studying at the Low- doin at Edward Little High School and Bates ell Textile School in Lowell, Mass. College. He was adjunct surgeon at the Cen- The engagement of Albert C. Boothby and tral Maine General Hospital in Lewiston and the Miss Alice D. Aikins of Plainfield, N. J., has from 1896 on had been a major surgeon on recently been announced. hospital staff. He is survived by his wife, a Thomas S. Burrowes is now at Harvard Busi- daughter and a son, Wesley P. Cushman, who

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Volume IV MARCH - 1930 Number 3 THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS

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O. Sewall Pettingill, Jr., '30, Undergraduate Editor Ralph B. Hirtle '30, Business Manager

ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD

Arthur G. Staples '82 William H. Greeley '90 Dwight H. Sayward 'i5 Albert W. Tolman '88 Alfred E. Gray '14 Bela W. Norton 'i8 William M. Emery '89 Austin H. MacCormick '15 Walter F. Whittier '27

Contents for March 1930

Vol. IV No. 3 Page

'01 Making Good Alumni in Undergraduate Years — Kenneth C. M. Sills . . 57

Biology at Bowdoin — Olin S. Pettingill, Jr., '30, Undergraduate Editor . . . 60

The Mary Frances Searles Science Bltilding — Halftone 61

"Bowdoin Plates" in Prospect 62

The Alumni Fund in the Seventies 63

The Three-Ring Farm — Robert P. T. Coffin''15 65

New Hopes for Bowdoin Football — William R. Crowley '08 69

Daniel Arthur Robinson 72

Franklin Conant Payson 73

Charles Fletcher Johnson 75

Lewis Albert Burleigh 76

Vocational Day Proves Popular 78

College View on Ancient Currency 79

Board Walks on the Campus 79

The American Alumni Council . 80

The Chapel from the South — Halftone 81

With the Alumni Bodies 82

News from the Classes 83 VOLUME FOUR NUMBER THREE THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

March - 1930

Making Good Alumni in Undergraduate Years

KENNETH C. M. SILLS '01

Editor's Note : — This paper ivas pre- quote the phrase of another college presi- sented by President Sills before the annual dent, he made us believe that what we had conference of District One of the American to say to him was "always of interest, Alumni Council, held at Bozvdoin on sometimes of importance, though not neces- January 24, 1930. sarily conclusive." He was always ready to receive delegations or committees of It is sometimes forgotten that the young- undergraduates and almost always ready to est undergraduate as well as the oldest give reasons for his decisions ; there was alumnus is a member of the college. It is never any doubt, however, who was the likewise forgotten that loyalty which is not captain of the ship. Once a group of stu- based on knowledge is liable to become dents went to him to complain of what sentimental and vapid. If you put these two seemed to them the unreasonable demands platitudes together, you will find reasons of a new teacher. The President listened for training the students of a college along to the very vigorous protest with great lines that will make them intelligent and patience. Then he said, "Gentlemen, this

reasonable alumni. To do that effectively college makes it a practice to stand behind they should be given information not only its faculty. Good morning." And the dele- about the history and tradition of the col- gation filed out in silence. But I have reason lege, but about its present management, its to believe that a little later that professor budget, its curriculum, and its purposes and was given some good unofficial advice. Not ideals. How we do this at my own college infrequently in class-room or on the campus I shall endeavor to explain with a two-fold President Hyde would ask for opinions by hope that the topic may be of interest to questions in the most informal way, and he you, and that we may secure from your dis- left the impression on many of us that he cussions some suggestions and help. not only sought, he valued undergraduate I was brought up as an undergraduate opinion. during the administration of President That tradition we endeavor to maintain. Hyde. Somehow or other we were made A good deal of criticism has been levelled to feel that we were an important part of against undergraduate reports on the work the machine. The President would often and curriculum of the college; but, speak-

consult the leaders of undergraduate af- ing only for myself. I can say that I have fairs on general matters of college policy. found two such reports by committees of

He would ask for our opinions, and not Seniors which I appointed, one in 1926 and infrequently defer to student sentiment. To one in 1929, of very real value, and apart [The B ozu d o in Alumnus altogether from the worth of the sugges- make contacts with undergraduates. And tions there is the very real advantage of not only docs such a practice help the making the undergraduates feel that they morale of the college; it helps to build up belong to the college, that they are being the right kind of alumni support in later trained to take an interest in the intellectual years. as well as the social and athletic problems One method has been found of some ser- before us. The insight which one of the vice at Bowdoin; and it is this which Mr. most able and valuable of our younger Wilder has asked me particularly to de- teachers had into the actual workings of scribe. For some years now, on Wednes- the college from the point of view of a day morning chapels, whenever I am in member of such a Senior committee has town, I have made it a practice to give a been of real service to him and to us since talk of five or ten minutes on some topic he has been on the faculty. And others connected with the history, the traditions, serving on those committees have, I am the management of the college, or with sure, received an impetus that makes them American college and university life in more valuable alumni. general. One winter I gave a series of such Another means of making the under- addresses on the Worthies of the College. graduate appreciate his membership in the Beginning with an account of Governor college is that of making the first announce- Bowdoin, our first patron, I followed with ment in regard to gifts, appointments, and biographical sketches of my seven prede- other matters of interest so far as possible cessors in the presidential office and of a before the student body. This is possible dozen or more of the most distinguished with us because of our daily chapel ser- professors. This series on the Worthies of vices. Since our college newspaper comes the College I plan to repeat every three or out once a week only, it is not practical to four years, so that each generation of stu- withhold news for the Orient, though I dents shall know something of the person- have sometimes considered doing so. If alities that have in Dart helped to make you will pardon one very personal allusion, Bowdoin what it is. Such a series of bio- I have always been proud that the first graphical sketches naturally offers oppor- official announcement of my election as tunity to point out changes in college life, President of the College was made by the customs and policy, and also to tie up the presiding officer of the Board of Trustees history of the college with the development to the students in chapel the morning fol- of the nation. lowing the appointment. Naturally in dif- Another series of talks of much the same ferent colleges conditions vary; but I am kind has been concerned with the history of sure it is a sound policy to emphasize that the different departments of instruction. It there is a very vital connection between an has interested undergraduates to know how interested and informed student body and these different departments have been de- useful and intelligent alumni. veloped; what subjects have been taught But such a general policy as I have out- from the beginning; what departments are lined is no doubt very generally followed. the newest ; and why, for example, although

In large institutions it may not be possible we by good fortune possessed excellent as in a small college to provide always an paintings and portraits, for more than a open door for undergraduates to the Dean's, century no instruction of any kind was President's and Alumni Secretary's office. given in Art. Some of the facts brought But T believe we all do whatever we can to out in such addresses were, I discovered,

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The B ozv d o in Alumnus] unknown to many alumni; as, for example, I sometimes take the hazard of explain- that Longfellow while teaching here wrote ing to undergraduates the mysterious do- and published his own text-books ; that ings of the faculty, how new courses are Mark Hopkins, the great President of Wil- added, how faculty committees work. I liams, taught philosophy for a year at Bow- also venture to tell them how appointments doin after he had retired from Williams to the faculty are made ; how the governing that our faculty had trained very many uni- boards conduct their business; and when versity and college presidents. Very few the proper opportunity comes, I explain of our undergraduates knew that Governor also how members of the boards and of the Bowdoin was selected to lead the Massa- alumni council are chosen — telling them chusetts delegation to the Philadelphia about the methods employed and the neces-

Congress of 1776, and that had it not been sity of their taking as alumni a lively

for the sudden illness of his wife, the name interest in the use of the franchise. 1 also of J. Bowdoin and not of John Hancock endeavor to point out how much generous would have led all the rest in the list of service is rendered in their behalf by their signers of the Declaration of Independence. older brothers. After an important com-

And when a student tells his Bowdoin mittee meeting, for example, it is a good

father or uncle such facts, there is likely to plan to inform the undergraduates of the be established a not uninteresting contact personnel of the committee, of the amount between alumnus and undergraduate. of time consumed in college business, and Sometimes these informal talks deal with of the fine example of unselfish service that the traditions of the college, with changes is so often displayed. And when a mem- in college social life and customs, with ber of the boards, or a valued graduate, pictures designed to give the present under- dies, I consider it a privilege and a duty to graduates something of the background of inform the student body of his life and college history, or again they may sketch or character and service to the college. outline the religious changes of a century, A small college necessarily has about its the development of musical or literary constitution and membership something of clubs, the history of college publications, the quality of the family. More than that athletics of fifty years ago as compared the college is a great enterprise, far larger with our present day. than the teachers and students on the Then again I take for the general sub- grounds — and anything that serves to bind ject the management of the business of the together its members in intelligent service college. I explain how the budget is made may not be without avail. It is moreover up, and analyze the treasurer's report in our aim at Bowdoin to try to make our some detail. The results are not invariably undergraduates interested in their fellows happy. Only two weeks ago in explaining in other colleges and universities, to keep the financial statement for the vear ending them acquainted with the movements stir- June 30, 1929, I pointed out that for the ring educational waters all over the land first time in some years we had a deficit and abroad — to get them to realize some amounting to $6,000. Figures do not always of the problems confronting all colleges of mean much to undergraduates; and you all can imagine my dismay when I read in the liberal arts and to have reason for the faith Orient that the deficit was $60,000. It was that is, or should be, in them. But perhaps small consolation that the next sentence that is another story too intangible and read, "This was unusual. tenuous to be begun here.

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Biology at Bowdoin

OLIN S. PETTINGILL, Jr. ,'30, Undergraduate Editor.

Among the departments at Bowdoin belonging to Dr. Gross has also been added. which have been notably active during the This has been of much interest to outsiders past few years and have been increasing in as well as students as it is one of the few popularity from the point of view of the collections of its kind in the country. student body is the department of Biology. Several skins of the now extinct Heath

Under the supervision of Professors Cope- Hen are among the rarer ones. There is land and Gross a great deal is being ac- also an extensive collection of inverte- complished by the students not only in work brates and fossils. Among the valuable col- connected with their courses but also on lections loaned to the museum are those of their own initiative. This has been insti- Philip H. Pope, consisting chiefly of amphib- gated to a large extent by the excellent ians and reptiles. There is also the Alton facilities which are now being offered. S. Pope '10 collection of mammals and the Since 1910 one of the upper western Manton Copeland collection of birds and wings of the Searles Science Building has mammals. The department is also fortunate been turned over for museum purposes and in possessing a series of slides prepared by named in honor of the late Professor Leslie Charles H. Clark 'j6. A. Lee. Here are contained a large series In the western laboratory a new vivarium of models which are used chiefly for class is being constructed. When completed it work in illustrating certain anatomical will contain representatives of every divi- structures and physiological systems of the sion of the plant kingdom. A realistic pool biological kingdom. The remainder of the is being placed within it and frogs will soon exhibition cases are turned over to mounted be added, giving some naturalness to the specimens of animal life. The collection arrangement. Tn the center of this same of New England birds is fairly complete. room there is a small aquarium containing

Of particular interest is the owl group, samples of aquatic life such as sunfish, tad- mounted by Admiral Peary, in which all of poles, salamanders, and crayfish. the species in this section of the country The last two years have seen a decided are brought together. The mammals of improvement in the equipment of the de- North America, including several mounts partment. The small library containing of tropical life contributed by Dr. Gross, arc reference texts has been renovated and in the same room. A very few valuable made comfortable for those who wish to specimens of arctic fauna are the donations use it as a reading room. In the basement of Donald B. MacMillan, notable among of the Science Building a dark room has which is the Musk Ox and Calf in a case been installed including the latest ideas in adjoining the entrance. photographic technique and apparatus. A For scientific purposes a large collection room for taxidermy has been rearranged of bird and mammal skins are accessible to and continued for the same purpose as in the students. Tn addition to these a num- the past. The walls of the hall, lecture ber of private collections are also available. rooms, and laboratories have been repainted The greater part of the skins consist of and the lighting systems modernized. birds and mammals of Maine and vicinity, The opportunities for undergraduate re- but a series of tropic birds and mammals search have naturally been augmented with

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THE MARY FRANCES SEARLES SCIENCE BUILDING

Home of the Departments of Biology,

Chemistry and Physics

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this improvement in equipment. As a re- with the advance courses are planning to go sult a number of students are doing work on into graduate work or medicine. At on their own initiative. Many are working least a dozen men will enter the medical along the same lines of research as their profession shortly. professors. Under the guidance of Dr. The attention of the student body as a Copeland two students have been doing ex- whole cannot help being drawn toward the perimental work with Nereis and the Cadis Biology Department in some way. The Fly. Three men have been doing work of Mayhew and Achorn lectures which are un- their own in ornithology under Dr. Gross. der its direction are especially instructive These men have access to the equipment and interesting to those in no way connect- necessary for carrying on their research. ed with the department or college. Not a

They have also been aided by the part time little of the attention, too, is due to the pro- assistance of Dr. C. S. F. Lincoln '91. At fessors under whose supervision the depart- the present time the majority connected ment has been progressing.

"Bowdoin Plates" in Prospect

It is quite probable that a set of Wedg- talk the matter over with Harvard friends wood plates similar to those recently pre- or others who may have come in contact pared and sold to the alumni of Harvard, with the plates as prepared for other insti- the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tutions. Sales at Harvard amounted to and the Universities of Pennsylvania and almost one dozen for every tenth man on

Michigan will be prepared for sale to Bow- the entire mailing list, and a similar return doin men. These plates are made at the at Bowdoin would not only assure the suc- famous Wedgwood Potteries in England cess of the plan but would result in a sub- and would be ready for delivery at Com- stantial contribution to the Alumni Fund. mencement in 1931. If present plans are followed out the plates will be blue with a The Interfraternity Track Meet, held on border including pine branches and other March 7th and 8th, was won by Delta symbols of Bowdoin and will have six dif- Kappa Epsilon. ferent center designs picturing as many points of interest on the campus. Unless the scheme is abandoned there will be The new address list is practically print- further publicity in this connection in the ed, with the exception of the index sections, next Alumnus and alumni will also be ap- and will probably be mailed early in April. proached by direct mail. The plates would probably be sold at $8 for a set of six different plates or $15 for a The usual mid-winter meeting of the double set of one dozen. Such profit as Bowdoin Alumni Council will not be held might result would be devoted to the this year as there is no specific business re- Alumni Fund. The Alumni Secretary would quiring the attention of the Council at this appreciate hearing from any of our readers time. It is expected that a meeting will be who may have ideas as to the desirability or called some time in May when the campus undesirability of undertaking this proposi- is in better condition and it is more feasible tion and recommends that interested alumni to reach Brunswick by automobile.

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The Alumni Fund in The Seventies

It is generally considered that the lege, to make an effort to increase its gen- "alumni fund movement" at our American eral fund, that the College shall be able to

colleges is a development of the past fifteen maintain and if possible to improve the rel-

or twenty years and that the earliest of ative position it has so long held among the these funds was organized at Yale some first of the Colleges of New England.

time in the nineties. With this in view, it is "Resolved. That in this exigency in the

interesting to learn that an alumni fund affairs of the College, it is peculiarly the was inaugurated at Bowdoin in 1869 and duty of the Alumni to sustain their Alma

that it continued actively for some years Mater, and to inaugurate systematic efforts and with considerable success. The report for the aid of the College among themselves of the "Committee on the Alumni Fund of and among the friends of the College out- Bowdoin College" appointed at the annual side the Alumni. And for this purpose meeting of the Alumni Association in July "Resolved. That the Alumni be solicited 1872 and published at the Observer office in to make contributions for the College, upon Salem in 1873, states that the entire endow- the following terms and conditions ment of the College for general purposes is First, The moneys contributed by less than $120,000 and that no professor- them to be invested by the officers ship is endowed. It goes on to tell of the of the College as a distinct fund, to inauguration of the Fund in 1869 and of be known as the 'Alumni Fund', lack of success at this time on account of the income thereof forever to be the effort then being made to complete appropriated for the general pur- Memorial Hall. It then presents the fol- poses of the College. lowing resolutions, adopted at the annual Second, No Alumnus shall be ex- meeting the of Association in 1872 pected to contribute in all more "Whereas, the annual expenses of the than Three hundred dollars. College have been necessarily largely in- Third, All moneys to be paid by creased within the past few years, and the several contributors directly to whereas, the trustees and overseers have the treasurer of the College. within the past year enlarged the system of Fourth, The treasurer, upon re- instruction to the great benefit of the Col- ceipt of money from any alumnus, lege, as is apparent from the results thus will open upon his books an ac- far, but involving large additional annual count with such contributor, desig- expenditure ; and whereas the general fund, nating the class in which he was in the past scarcely sufficient for the pur- graduated, and the amount given, poses of the College, has not been increased as an acknowledgment of the con- and whereas under these circumstances it is tribution, and with a view to enter evident that the hopes of the government upon the account any additional of the College, in its increased reputation sums thereafter contributed by and usefulness in the future, cannot be real- him. ized unless energetic measures be at once Fifth, Contributions to this fund taken to obtain additional pecuniary aid — will be received from those who therefore entered college and did not gradu- "Resolved. That it is the duty of the ate, from those who have received Alumni, and of all other friends of the Col- honorary degrees, and from any

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persons in the names of deceased day and sixty years ago this is a surprising- Alumni. ly and gratifyingly large sum, comparable dollar for dollar with contributions of re- "Resolved. That a Committee of three cent years and far more significant of sac- he appointed to prepare and forward to rifice on the part of the contributors. every Alumnus whose residence is known, a The report concludes with a list of con- circular letter soliciting- contributions to the tributors to the Fund, a list headed by Rob- 'Alumni Fund', and that the several ert Page of the class of 1810, who was then classes be requested to organize and assist over eighty years of age and a retired said Committee in the performance of clergyman in the Middle West. His con- their duty." tribution of $1 is significant of the same To the present day Bowdoin men these loyalty exemplified today by some of our somewhat lengthy statements may seem older men in the classes of 1870, 1871 and prosy and antiquated, but in the next para- thereabouts who are contributing small graph of the report is a statement which sums from their small means as concrete applies most aptly to the Fund of "It 1930. evidence of a loyalty and interest which will be seen", says the report, "that there has survived through fifty and sixty years are two objects sought to be accomplished: of life outside the college walls. First, to secure a Fund; Second, to inter- Other contributors include Alpheus est all the Alumni in the success of the Col- Spring Packard of the class of 1816 and lege. There are few men among our Henry Wadsworth Longfellow of the class Alumni of large pecuniary means and it was of 1825, who is credited with a gift of $300, desirable that a plan be proposed under the maximum provided for in the organiza- which graduates could contribute even the tion of the Fund. Late in the list come smallest amounts." names familiar to younger generations,

Continuing to elaborate on these two ob- Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr., '6i, Edward jects, the committee records contributions Stanwood '61, and DeAlva Stanwood Alex- of nearly $3,000 made to the Fund in 1869, ander '70. Though not long out of College together with pledges and payments slightly these men were already exhibiting the in- in excess of $7,000 for the then current terest and devotion to Bowdoin which they year, 1872. When one considers the com- were to maintain throughout long and use- parable material wealth of our alumni to- ful years of service to the College.

Last Chapel -Class of 1923

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The B ow d oin Alumnus] The Three-Ring Farm

ROBERT P. TRISTRAM COFFIN '15

Reprinted by permission from The Virginia Quarterly Review

The life I led when I was a boy was a tility along with him. His pockets, turned three-ring circus. To begin with, geography out by his Maker when his day was done, was propitious. A farm to most people were a boy's pockets and full of all kinds means a house and barn, a meadow or two, of shining things: songs for the guitar by a brook and woods, if you are lucky, a gar- a winter hearth, stories like those of Chau- den, rides on a haycart, wood to saw and cer, jovial words, keen appetites, kindliness, water to carry. But my lucky stars planted wonder, and a heart that never dropped its me on a farm that had, over and above leaves. There may have been finer fathers these, the sea and its fish and fogs, its ten- but I have yet to run across one in the sev- dernesses and savageries, an island, un- eral literatures I read. touched forests, cliffs to climb, ruined cel- I did well in my mother also. Here was lars to explore, boats and bridges, books, a gentleness that was a perfect supplement to peculiarly zestful set of brothers and sis- my father's vigor. Cross words were as ters, and several philosophers. Maine, the rare as hens' teeth in her vocabulary, and state that offers everything but a desert, there were the ten bundles of variegated had done awfully well by me. She gave devilments of us ! I can never think of her me her whole assortment of geography in without seeing morning-glories and smell- one parcel. ing sweetpeas. She was mistress of all the

T did myself awfully well in a father, too. arts of living from love to good cooking The stork laid me down on the hearth of a and dressmaking. The stockings she must man who was an artist in several profes- have darned ! and the babies she must have sions and an adventurer plenipotentiary. covered up in the night and pulled through The farm of my boyhood was just one of croup with no doctor within miles and only many evergreened plots on the sea that the owls for neighbors i She taught us all he had opened up to civilization and sown to read ; and she taught us also that charity the laughter of seeds and children upon. My and mercy and friendliness are a little father yearned to stock an island empery. higher than the stars.

He made a fair start ; there was an even Tn brothers and sisters I was fortunate, ten of us, boys nicely balancing girls. Next too. One could draw pictures, one could to children, he loved boats; he had almost shoot, one could make dolls come alive, one as many of them as he had children; they could build playhouses, one could deck a ranged from a sloop down through skiffs Christmas tree, one could fish, one could and up to the scow in which his driving smile, one could creep, and one could be like horses rode home from the mainland. a pair of wings the best of any brothers or Though he was an explorer and a pioneer, sisters in the world. They were peculiar in he was a distinctly Elizabethan sort of one. this, that each, from him with his first dawn He never travelled so far or dug himself of a moustache to her of the first bib, took so deeply into the woods as to get out of life like a sunrise in the dew. The mischief

the reach of great books or great thoughts. we got into! Yet some of it verged on the

He had his library and his gestures of gen- sort tall Daniel Boone was master a*" °r Sir

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Walter Raleigh; some of it rose almost to the cost. No woodchuck hole was too deep poetry; some of it was Leonardo da Vinci's for him, no ramble too long for his inquisi- kind. tive snout. Twice a month he had to be

When it comes to pets, the cousins all interred to his nose; but he could never be children ought to grow up with, T swear I taught to pass a skunk by on the other side. was horn with a whole set of silver spoons He submitted to any indignity to be one of in my mouth. There was General Joshua us, even suffering a harness and bit to pull L. Chamberlain, a goose named after my our boy-size haycart. His color was not father's best friend, the hero of Little skin deep; he was pure and yellow gold Round Top; he got the name through a clean to his heart. Half the light went out subtle compromise on my mother's part. of day when Snoozer passed on to hunt the My father, having a new son toward, vowed starry, endless woodchucks on the Western he would bestow on him the name of his Isles. friend; but mother shunted the name off We had several philosophers-at-large to on one that could better bear up under it. give us our wisdom. Ben Sudbury knew all She had seen one son named for a Presi- the laws of the weather, saw the hands of dent with a not too comely name, though God in the mackerel sky, and scaled a two- Biblical. Joshua lived with us completely, hundred-foot pine to set the gilded arrow even after his voice had changed. He was there to be the thing to lift up the eyes forever being driven out of the kitchen. I to all through boyhood — and hearts, too, can see his surprise still that day he decided for I never could see the vane without feel- to bathe in the cat's saucer of milk and the ing somehow that the world was a large and hurt look he wore after the dish was lost good place. Ben's weather lore, though, did beneath him. not keep him from melancholy; he passed There were pigs and calves galore. My out of our ken after insanity smote him as brother will carry the mark of one of the he was driving home our pigs, and he used latter to the grave, for he tied its tether to the pitchfork on them. Then there was his bare leg once when he was chaperoning Cap'n Pye, who had his ships as his ances- it supperwards. One of the tragedies in my tors had had theirs before him. But his own life was the young crow I had gotten ships were the kind that sailed inside his almost to talk. I foolishly went off to town head; they would not let him sleep of

and left his menu to another hand. The pint nights ; they poked sly bowsprits through of corn the bird might have survived; but his room. He taught us the lore of pirates the pint of water he was given on top of and of digging for treasure on the full of it proved fatal. We even had a pet eagle the moon. with a broken wing that came to the name There was an uncle, too, in the offing, and of Theodore Roosevelt and that sat behind he knew a number of the seas and had us as we fished and waited with hopeful, handled big sailing boats and had a walrus's amber eyes to tear the flounders from the moustache ; but he was only in knee pants in hooks as they came in. But the best pet of his heart and could rig up ships in narrow- all was Snoozer, a dog one part hound, one necked bottles and carve surprising baskets part pug, one part terrier, but the best part out of peach stones. He schooled us in the yellow. He would bury himself and us catalogue of all the ships — brig, bark, and when once he had a hole to dig out ; he could brigantine, of all the masts — jury, main, pivot as he sank his shaft and so manage and mizzen, of all the sails — top-gallant, to pepper us all. Pie could bite off oak topsail, mainsail. He drilled us in boxing roots the size of your arm and never count the compass. He was a walking academy

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of navigation, and his pocket was Aladdin's he was a sucking dove to them ; but he was

cave. For all his gray hairs, this uncle had the Old Boy himself in the smell of onions no more grown up than Uncle Toby. He and brimstone at winning the adulation of

had the same blue-eyed innocence of a small his Holstein harem by walking off with all boy where women were concerned. He had the farm's barbed-wire fences on his neck, a wife; but she was a creature on another if there were no one to keep an eye on him. planet from his and harder to understand Before I was half through the thousand than a great ship with all her spars and and one nights, I half expected that harm- tackle. He let women alone. Our vocabu- less bull to sprout brass wings and fly off

lary was the richer for this boy grown tall. with the cows turned into jinns, or the Some of the similes we got from him took boulder stones at my feet to turn into blind- our parents by surprise. "Red as a spanked ing diamonds. The thunderclouds in the baby's bottom," — that is one of them that west built themselves up into domes of ala- got my own skin a reddening. There baster and lapis lazuli and chrysoprase, and was Hen Purinton, who let us into the best I think I should not have blinked a lash if schoolroom for teaching one manhood the a prince in a turban had suddenly ridden world has ever known, a boat-shop, where out of them on a steed of jet. My mother he built the skiffs for our small fishing and put down my devotion to the kidney beans the sloops for the taller fishermen of Grand to the bound numbers of the Youth's Com-

Manan. Nor were all our philosophers in panion I took up with me. But she little trousers. We had an aunt who put a good dreamed what sort of filler those innocent deal of granite into our souls. She de- papers served to cover ! I dug myself deeply scended upon us periodically and put such into Hawthorne's "Twice-Told Tales" on table manners into us, and such of the another occasion until my eyes swam and twelve moral virtues that Puritan New the pines and spruces acquired human

England still cherishes, that it took us shapes and voices. Another time it was weeks after her going to get back to normal Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" that led again. I read the Bible through, begat me at breathless speed through months end- chapters and all, five times for her; and I lessly and endlessly on.. The print was have her to thank that an old book which terribly fine, and often at the most desperate has meant more to our civilization than any crises pages on pages had been plucked out ten others is a part of my being. by somebody whose excitement had gotten This brings me to the books we had. My the best of him. But I could not be father had started his library with a Virgil wrenched away from those tomes. I even interlinear he brought home from Fairfax tried to read them by the light of bottled College, Virginia, where he had lain on a lightning-bugs when the lamp had been hard army bed in the hurly-burly of the taken from me. There was a life of Patrick Civil War. I followed in his footsteps by Henry, whose speech I committed to mem- picking up my first Latin from that. I read ory and brought forth to the surprise of the his "Arabian Nights," too, the forbidden family one morning at a haying time break-

unexpurgated edition, having gotten the key fast. Another life, this time of Napoleon,

to the restricted bookcase by stealth, all in twelve volumes, I also devoured. A vol- through the trance of a sun-drenched sum- ume of Dore's engravings for the "Inferno" mer while I sat alone up in the pasture to and "Don Quixote" was like ice on my spine keep a bull of ours from pushing over the even in midsummer. I even dipped into the garden fence and trampling the kidney "Family Doctor," also on the index, and

beans. That bull never harmed children; read it surreptitiously under the horsehair

[67] [The B o w d o in Alumnus sofa in a parlor that was like a refrigerator AN OLD TOAST even in June. Its charts that lifted up in At the recent dinner of the New York layers to show the various organs of the Alumni Association, the President of the body in deshabille fascinated me so much Association, in opening the post-prandial that, I am sorry to say, I tried to do as exercises, gave the following toast which much for skates and other fish I caught. was first delivered some twenty-five years But the book of books was a complete ago at a dinner of the same Association by Shakespeare, which I read through and that brilliant and versatile Bowdoin writer, loved entire for the sound and swing of E. P. Mitchell, then the editor of the New the lines even before I could understand York Sun: half of the words or make head or tail of "Bowdoin what was going on in the plots. "Here's to that good old mother down by But there. How can one hope to cap- the rising sun, who took us in and taught ture in a catalogue of books, of uncles, or us what we ought to know, and spanked us of pets, the days that had gilt upon them? needed it, or when she merely In the proper circus one needs three pairs when we — thought we needed it; who took us in and of eyes, a set for each of the rings ; and one treated us as the she-wolf treated Romulus can no more hope to reduce to a sequence,

and Remus ; who sits yonder on her campus, or order the things that glitter there, than serene and peaceful, placidly contemplating one can expect to order the bright tops our kicks and struggles as we are swallowed that spin off into the outer darkness along up by the generations she has sent out be- the Milky Way. fore us or are overwhelmed by the genera-

tions she is sending at our heels. Pro- On March ioth fire started in one of the lific, hospitable, sempiternal old lady, with a rooms on the second floor of Appleton Hall, bosom as broad as Charity's and milk left when an electric iron was inadvertently left there for all comers down to the end of heating on one of the desks. Damage was time, and whose rejuvenating influence is confined to the room in question but prac- such that when we turn our faces toward tically all of the personal effects of the oc- her at times like these, we forget the years, cupants were destroyed. — five or fifty though they be, and are close to her starched petticoats again, primed to to The Abraxas Cup, offered each year spout like a Senior, to sing like a Junior, to class the school represented in the freshman smoke like a Sophomore, to eat like a by three or more students, whose freshman Freshman, — here's to that good old mother !" group obtains the highest scholastic aver- down by the rising sun age for the first semester, has been awarded to Maine Central Institute. The Henry W. Longfellow Graduate The Student Council Cup for interfra- Scholarship has been awarded to James P. ternity scholastic competition was won for Pettegrove of Machiasport and the Charles the fourth time bv Chi Psi. Carroll Everett Scholarship has been granted to George S. Willard of San ford. President Sills has appointed a committee Both men plan to study at Harvard. of five undergraduates to confer with the faculty committee on religious interests, President Sills has again been chosen as with a view to the possible improvement of an elector of the Hall of Fame of New the daily chapel exercises. York University.

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New Hopes For Bowdoin Football WILLIAM R. CROWLEY '08

Editor's Note : — This material is taken hind the line. The distance to be gained from an address given before the Bowdoin was increased from 5 to 10 yards, and that

Club of Portland on March I, 1930. great offensive weapon the forward pass In 1905, the game of football reached a was introduced. These changes opened up most critical stage. Many serious injuries the game, making it safer for the players were sustained by the players during that and much more interesting for the spec- season and voices throughout the country tators. In 1910, the game was again radi- cally changed. All restrictions as to distance were removed from the forward pass. The game was divided into four quarters. Flying tackles, pushing and pulling and interlocked interference were abolished.

Since pushing and pulling were legis- lated out of the game, concentration of power in the backfield became unnecessary and the tendency has since been to spread the backs more with the view to flanking one or both defensive tackles. Glenn War-

ner was the first football coach to develop

the wing back idea — first one wing back and later the double wing back formation, both of which are now commonly used.

Warner is the human yardstick by whom all other football coaches are measured. From the four points of the compass come foot-

ball coaches great and small to sit at the feet of the old master. He begins thinking where others leave off. Warnerean tcchnic

is an exhibition of blended force and William R. Crowley '08 finesse, as subtle as it is devastating. The were raised in horror and protest. It was Warner system, outwardly so simple, in- strenuously urged that the game be abol- wardly so complex, requires patient re- ished. The late President Roosevelt called hearsing. The element of deception is a conference at the White House early in woven through the warp and woof of War- 1906 to which he invited representatives ner's plays. He employs the "shell game" from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Out hocus pocus without sacrificing the cardinal of the conference came many fundamental elements of offense-power ahead of the ball. changes in the rules, and the game was You say that the two phases of play are saved. Hurdling, tripping, and other rough contradictory — how does he combine these plays were prohibited. Centers, guards, opposing elements? That's where "Pop's" and tackles were not now permitted to drop genius tells. In a general way he does il back of the line of scrimmage on offense by pulling forwards out of the line without unless they retired at least five yards be- making- themselves vulnerable to a counter

[69] [The B ow d o in Alumnus attack from behind. Warner can pull two lege career, he played every position on and three men out of his line to head his the team. flanking drives and still keep the enemy Bowser attended high school in Johns- from filtering through. He protects his town, Pa., and came to Pittsburgh heralded open squares by a skillful system of cross- as a star backfield performer, which he checking and counter-blocking. The merit was. He had played every position in the of his double wing back formation lies in backfield in high school, with marked suc- the fact that a preponderance of power can cess. At Pittsburgh, Bowser was used as be thrown against either flank with start- end for a time, until there was urgent need ling suddenness. You have here the basic for a center. Charlie then became a cen- Napoleonic element of strategy — surprise, ter. It was at this position that he achieved the faculty of getting there first with most national renown in his senior year, the men. season of 1922. But before Bowser be- From Warner's "A" and "B" formations came a regular center, he was needed, at a team can run through the entire gamut various times during his four years under of offensive strategy. Long side power Coach Glenn (Pop) Warner, as a guard, drives off tackle, short side cut backs, a tackle, and quarterback, and performed old-fashioned criss-crosses, double reverses, with such outstanding ability wherever he fake reverses terminating in center thrusts, was used that he was the most valuable man quarterback sneaks, quick opening spinners, Warner had. behind the line short forward passes, bluff Bowser matriculated at Pittsburgh in forward passes followed by slants and wide 1919, graduating from the School of Busi- sweeps, triple passes culminating in down ness Administration in 1923. Following his field passes, short over center passes, flat graduation, he was appointed assistant passes, deep diagonal passes, and long shots coach at Grove City College, Grove City, down the middle alley follow one another Pa., and was named head coach the two with amazing and demoralizing rapidity. succeeding years. At Grove City, Bowser Standard plays are fired with the speed and enjoyed unprecedented success, turning out precision of a pneumatic riveter. the best teams in the history of the school. Charles W. Bowser, newly-appointed He joined the coaching staff of the Uni- head coach of football at Bowdoin, is per- versity of Pittsburgh in the Spring of 1927, fectly familiar with the Warner system. as first assistant to Coach Jock Sutherland, He played under the old master for four and remained in that capacity until he ac- years at quarterback, end, and center, the cepted the coaching position at Bowdoin in three pivot positions on a football team, and January, 1930. Like Sutherland, Bowser played them all exceptionally well. That he is a firm believer in the mastery of the is able to teach the system has been clearly fundamentals of football. His teams are

demonstrated ; his teams have never fallen versed in the art of blocking, tackling, and below the top flight. charging. He is a shrewd student of the

Mr. Bowser was one of the most versa- game, and has evolved a" number of varia- tile players ever developed at the Univer- tions from the Warner system. He has an sity of Pittsburgh. Undoubtedly, one of the inspiring personality, which, combined with big reasons for his success in the field of his knowledge of football, should bring him coaching lies in the fact that he knows the outstanding success when he has had a function of every player because, at one chance to orient himself. time or another in his high school and col- Coach Bowser and Bowdoin are to be

[70] The B ow d o in Alumnus'] mutually congratulated. Bowdoin gets a charges with the will to win. In the heat well-rounded coach. At Grove City and at of battle, Bowser never loses his sense of the University of Pittsburgh, Bowser dem- proportion nor his ingrained gentle bear- onstrated that his genius as a strategist ing, yet he is frankly a hard if graceful was equalled by his magnetic personality loser, meaning that defeat to his way of and his innate sportsmanship. Bob Zuppke thinking is not something to be lightly has been known to refer rather slightingly dismissed. to character 1 builders, implying that the term To revive a semi-conscious football pa- is synonymous with unsuccessful coaches. tient, artificial respiration must be employed. We have found a good coach, now we must use the pulmotor method of re- cruiting men, to induce prep school stars

to choose to twinkle on Whittier field. Tf Bowdoin graduates demand a rating among the gridiron's upper crust, they must pro-

vide the sinews of war. Mind you, I do not advocate proselyting. I abhor anything

that is unethical, stultifying and unsports-

manlike, but if victories are to be won, it follows logically that the material must be

found. Tell your neighbors and tell your

friends what a fine place Bowdoin is. The secondary schools in New England and New York are turning out young men every year who are qualified scholastically, morally, ethically, and financially to enter

Bowdoin. All that is needed is for some-

one to tell these boys of the opportunities

that fairly shout at the chap who is looking- for an opportunity to complete the general process of education. Don't be afraid to talk, don't be afraid to direct, and don't be Charles W. Bowser afraid to advise. Well, Bowser's career confounds such Sometimes college alumni can be as un- republics. not expect cynicism. He is a winning coach and he is grateful as We must a success. I an a character builder as well. Bowser is not premature avalanche of am a ranter, nor a bullwhip driver. He doesn't optimist — and real optimism has an ideal believe in tearing a person to tatters; has for a guide. Bowser is an ideal coach, but no use for the "blood-and-thunder" coaches. he is human. He prefers persuasion, a pat on the back, to top-sergeant bullying, yet he is anything Owing to the unusually large number of but soft. Bowser has no sentimental illu- applicants all awards of medical scholar- sions about the abstract beauties of sport ships from the Garcelon-Merritt Fund were for sport's sake. No pupil of his has ever this year made to Bowdoin men. Total been taught an unethical dodge, yet no awards amounted to nearly ten thousand coach strives more persistently to fire his dollars.

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Daniel Arthur Robinson

Daniel Arthur Robinson of Bangor, a then, the Faculty had several members of graduate of the College in the class of 1873, national reputation. Prof. Brackett, after- died at his home on January 17th after a wards called to Princeton, was head of the comparatively short illness. He had for Physics department. Professor Goodale, many years served the College as a member successor of Asa Gray at Harvard, was of the Board of Overseers and had for head of the department of Botany. Pro- some time been the senior member of both fessor Morse, distinguished as a lecturer on governing boards. The following appre- Biology, and Professor Young, head of ciation is from the pen of John F. Eliot, Modern Languages and Philology, com- secretary of the class of 1873. pleted the group of gifted men, all influen- tial in their chosen fields. In Science, evo- lution was then considered by some of the ,,m0gma Trustees a "dangerous" subject for young men. But the instruction was broad, clear, and forceful. Discussions in the classroom with professors or with classmates with frank expression of views, developed a friendly comradeship, as well as a high appreciation of the privilege of being at Bow- doin, "Nurturer of men", as so nobly phrased by President Sills at a later date. The class, though small, graduating its entire membership of 36, has the distinction of having been honored by the college with eight doctorates. These include an LL.D. to the late Judge A. P. Wiswell, Chief Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of Maine, and to Hon. A. F. Moulton, donor of the Moul- ton Union; an ScD. to Prof. Franklin C. Robinson, who won high distinction in the chair of Science at Bowdoin, and who was a younger brother of Dr. Daniel Robinson. Daniel A. Robinson '73 On the Fiftieth Anniversary of 1873 the degree of Doctor of Science was conferred The death of Dr. D. A. Robinson calls upon Dr. Robinson. On that day he deliv- attention to the career of a distinguished ered the address at the dedication of the son of Bowdoin. To me, a classmate, there memorial gateway erected in honor of his comes a very vivid memory of the four brother. years of our undergraduate life from 1869 Such, briefly, was the Faculty and class to 1873, and this persists in spite of my into which Robinson entered with serious knowledge of all the distinctions that came purpose and the will to succeed. Greatly to him subsequently. interested in athletics and military drill, he Robinson was an outstanding figure in became captain of one of the military com- our class. This was at a time when, even panies and of the four-oared crew. Later,

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Trustees, Public during his medical course, he was director years; member, Board of

; Chairman, School of physical training in the gymnasium. Library, since 1901 Deacon, Congre- Withal, he was a student of high standing Committee, for 30 years; for years; member of and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. gational Church, 45 many Masonic bodies and other fraternal He took his degree in Medicine at the organizations; President, Twentieth Cen- Bowdoin Medical School in 1881 and began tury Club; in this capacity his introductions to practice the same year in Bangor where of many famous men were not the least in- he was general practitioner and skillful teresting features of the meetings they surgeon until his last illness. The record addressed. of his interests at the time of his death is "Rob" brought to Bowdoin the home revealing. Here is only a part of the list training of a New England family, sound in of Dr. Robinson's diversified activities, and all the traditions of New England, a mind with them all he was Senior Member of the and soul ready for the culture he received, Board of Overseers of Bowdoin at the time and he responded to every gracious influ- of his death: ence to make his life the success it was. He Consulting surgeon, Central Maine Gen- was the eldest of a family that has brought eral Hospital, Lewiston, Children's Hos- distinction to its Alma Mater, two college pital, Portland, Bangor State Hospital, gates now honoring the name. Bowdoin Eastern Maine General Hospital, Bangor; may well take pride in such a career of he was Surgeon-General of Maine for four service.

Franklin Conant Payson

Franklin Conant Payson, who died in the leading scholars of his class; the other Portland on February T6th, was a graduate recording the extended service of the later of Bowdoin in the class of 1876 and had years.

served on the governing boards of the Col- One of the best baseball players ever lege since 1897. The sketch of his life as playing on a Bowdoin team, he was oars- given below has been prepared by Charles man and gymnast and track athlete as well T. Hawes of Bangor, president of the always an advocate and exponent of fair Board of Overseers and a classmate and play, earnest and enthusiastic in intellectual intimate friend of Mr. Payson. as in athletic pursuits, loyal to college and

Franklin Conant Payson was one of the to class. This is the story of the under- most loyal of Bowdoin men and one of the graduate briefly told, a sketch in a few lines most efficient in the service of the college. and without color. To write of him within the space limits The second era of special distinction as available is to attempt an outline sketch Bowdoin man began in 1897 with his elec- when one would like to paint a portrait. tion to the Board of Overseers. His service The story of his association with Bow- in that Board, like every other in which he doin may be told in two chapters, the one engaged, was distinguished; for he was including the four colorful undergraduate both able and aggressive. His opinions years in which he was not only the leading were distinct and clearly expressed and ably all-round athlete in the college but one of defended. While he was not hasty in arriv-

[73] [The B ow d o in Alumnus ing at a conclusion his conclusions were that transfer has abundantly justified the very definite. He knew both what he be- conclusion. lieved and why he believed. A "master builder" of the college, as he For some years during his service as has so justly been termed in view of his

Overseer and afterward as Trustee of the service on all its building committees for College he was a member of the Athletic many years past, the validity of the esti- Council, and thereby was well known to the mate is emphasized by memory of his ser- undergraduates of the time. It was natural vice with other important committees in that he should enjoy an association so re- which his clear thinking and his ability to recognize not only the absolute Best, the Ideal, but the best attainable have made that service very effective.

One could not be closely associated with him in work for the college without recog- nizing his absolute loyalty to that work, that

it was with him a knightly obligation.

Thoroughly self-reliant and justifiably confident of the validity of his own conclusions he did not insist upon their acceptance by others, and he was more willing to praise than to accept praise. A keen and able de- bater, he was wont to depreciate his ability to make a good occasional speech while in reality he was a delightful speaker. Some readers of this appreciation may remember a brilliant speech of his at a college "rally" in Memorial Hall in which the play of deli- cate wit illuminated an impressive plea for the best things in Life. Many will remember his fine address at the Dedication of the Gymnasium and the Athletic Building, in which he quoted, "as a concise expression" Frankliti C. Payson 76 of what the words "Bowdoin Spirit" meant mindful of his own youth, and that while to him, "and as a motto in times of discour- he accepted defeats philosophically he wel- agement for all Bowdoin men, young and comed victories. Fortunately for his peace old, in whatever walk in life or in what- of mind Bowdoin teams were frequently ever branch of college activity engaged," victorious in those days. "the glorious words" of an ancient ballad, The regret of the Overseers when his "I'll but lie down and bleed awhile, term of service in that Board was ended, in And then I'll rise and fight again." 191 1, by his transfer to the Trustees, was mitigated by the assurance that the other It was fitting that he should quote those

Board was strengthened and that with its words, for the spirit of which they are an more limited membership his work in it expression was manifest in his life. might count for even more than that as The service of the years has been con- Overseer. The record of the years since tinued through many months of increasing

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weakness of body while the light of mind For the journey is done and the and spirit has burned with clear flame. It summit attained, has been a faithful and a gracious service And the barriers fall that must be treasured among the grateful Though a battle's to fight ere the memories of the college that he has served guerdon be gained, so well. The reward of it all. Much in the man's life has been line, and I was ever a fighter, so — one it may well be that nothing in it has been fight more, finer than the placid courage with which he The best and the last." has faced death in these last years. He was The last battle has been fought and the one of those to whom we might attribute end is victory. The name of Franklin the splendid challenge of Browning's Conant Payson is recorded in the shining-

"Prospice" list of the names of the men who have done "Yet the strong man must go the most for Bowdoin.

Charles Fletcher Johnson

Charles Fletcher Johnson, a Bowdoin Court of Appeals, he was known and be- graduate in the class of 1879 and a Trustee loved throughout the State. As a Trustee of Bowdoin he had always maintained a particular interest in policies directly concerning the undergraduates and was for many years chairman of the Examining Committee of the boards. In this capacity he visited the College twice each year and built up many contacts with faculty and students. The tribute below has been written by Clarence Hale '69, a colleague on the federal bench. Judge Johnson was appointed Circuit Judge in 1917 on the death of Judge Put- nam. He had been one of our leading Maine lawyers for many years and had just completed a term of service in the U. S. Senate. He at once became a valuable addition to the Federal Court in the New England Cir- cuit. He had a distinctly judicial mind and

% temperament. He had the patience to hear %w ^& and weigh testimony and the learning which fitted him to make just decisions. His opinions have been a distinguished addition to judicial literature. Charles F. Johnson 79 His genial presence made his companion- of the College since 191 1, died in St. Peters- ship a thing to be prized by his associates. burg, Florida, on February 15. Honored by He will always be remembered by all of us Maine as a United States Senator and for as an honored member of our Court, and as some years Federal Judge in the Circuit a beloved associate and companion.

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Lewis Albert Burleigh

Lewis Albert Burleigh, for some years a married Miss Caddie H. Brown of Water- member of the Board of Overseers and a ville, Maine. Soon after his marriage he graduate in the class of 1891, died at his entered into a partnership with Joseph Wil- home in Augusta on November nth, 1929. liamson, a Bowdoin graduate of the class The following sketch has been prepared by of 1888, for the practice of law. This part- Frank G. Farrington '94. nership continued until 1912, when business affairs of his father, the late Governor and United States Senator Edwin C. Burleigh, required that he relinquish the active general practice of law in order that he might give them his entire time, and to those and other family interests he faithfully devoted himself, until in the peace and quiet of his own home, he fell asleep as he sat in his chair one eventide. He was elected from Augusta as a member of the House of Representatives of the State Legislature for the session of 1909-10 and served with distinction. He was a member of the Board of Edu- cation in Augusta from 1907 to 1914 and enriched the educational life of the schools as he enriched every one of the many phases of community life which he touched. He was City Clerk from 1894 to 1902 in- clusive and served for many years as United States Commissioner. He was a member of the South Parish Congregational Church of Augusta and one

Lewis A. Burleigh '91 of its deacons. Lewis Albert Burleigh, Overseer of the A story of the life of Mr. Burleigh, if College since 1919, whose death occurred told at length, would disclose a man of rare at his home in Augusta, Maine, on Novem- intellectual power in the many activities ber n, 1929, was born in Linneus, Maine, into which his varied experiences brought on March 24, 1870. He attended the public him. schools in that town and in Augusta, and As a student in the fitting school and graduated in 1887 from Hallowell Classi- later at college and law school, in his pro- cal Institute at Hallowell, Maine, and in fessional life as a practicing attorney, in his the fall of that year he entered Bowdoin work as a member of the State Legislature,

College, where he graduated in 189 1. He in his connection with the public schools, in then entered Harvard Law School, from the more private work as trustee of large which he graduated in 1894, and he was estates, and in every undertaking or en- admitted to the Bar of the State of Maine deavor, great or small, he was satisfied with on October 17, 1894. In that same year he nothing less than complete mastery of

[76] The B ow d o in Alumnus] knowledge relating to the particular thing NEW SCHOLARSHIPS which he was doing in order that he might FOR MAINE BOYS thereby render the most perfect and complete service. Whatever he did was done Realizing that with the decreasing num- with painstaking care and with the utmost ber of Maine boys now entering the College thoroughness. What a man is is reflected we are losing some men who should proper- in what he does and in the way in which he ly come to Bowdoin and who are in many does it, and during his entire life everything cases kept away by fear of expense, the Col- that he did gave evidence of the highest lege has inaugurated eight scholarships, to type of thoughtful, useful and unselfish be known as the State of Maine Scholar- citizenship. ships, for award in eight geographical dis-

With all that he contributed toward the tricts within the State. Each of these sum total of human happiness and better- awards, which will be made from funds ment, which all men should seek to increase, already existing for Maine boys, will be in the best gift that he gave was that of the amount of $500. influence of a kindly and generous heart Candidates for these scholarships must be filled with charity and sympathy for all and examined in four subjects on April 12th, with no thought of malice toward any man. each student taking an informational test, No one ever heard him say an unkind word an examination in English and one exami- of or to another. He was in all truth a nation each in the fields of Science and Christian gentleman whose influence, as one languages. Boys must be residents of the who by his own example unconsciously State and students in Maine schools and spreads the gospel of human brotherhood, must show need for financial assistance. It will long be potent, not only in the city is hoped that Maine alumni will call the where he lived and did his work, but also in attention of these new awards to secondary a wider circle outside, where his memory school students whom they may feel to be will ever be fondly cherished. His whole eligible for the competition. life and conduct were characterized by jus- The institution of these scholarships is tice, kindness and love for his fellows, and distinctly in the nature of an experiment

a keen sense of his obligations to the funda- and it is quite possible that if successful it mental principles of a true Christian life. may be extended to other localities in later "And what doth the Lord require of thee, years. Geographical scholarships of this but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to nature have recently been established at walk humbly with thy God." Wesleyan and at several other institutions.

Dr. Allen Johnson, a member of the Bow- On March 14th and 15th Bowdoin was doin faculty from 1905 to 1910 when he host to the New England Intercollegiate resigned the Thomas Brackett Reed Pro- Swimming Association of which Hugh G. fessorship of History to go to Yale, has McCurdy '22, now at Wesleyan, has been been appointed Annie Talbot Cole lecturer president. Contests were held at the Bow-

for the current year. Dr. Johnson is now doin swimming pool on Friday evening and editor of "The Dictionary of American Saturday afternoon, the meet being won by Biography" and his lecture, which will be the swimming team from Brown Univer- given some time in May, will deal with sity. Three New England records were

some subject in that field. broken in the course of the meet.

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Vocational Day Proves Popular

The annual Vocational Day at the Col- a particular appeal to students majoring lege was observed on March 12th and in in the Department of Chemistry. many ways was the most successful in the These Vocational Day programs, initi- series. The program was organized by the ated by the Alumni Council and begun in Placement Committee of the Alumni Coun- 1926, have been most successful in leading cil under the chairmanship of Professor members of the upper classes to realize that

Marshall P. Cram '04 and included nine they must consider what is to be done after speakers representing eight fields of activ- college and have now come to be definitely ity. Attendance at the meetings averaged recognized as an essential part of the col- about fifty and many juniors and seniors lege year. had individual conferences with the speakers. In connection with the program a RECENT GIFTS luncheon was held in the Moulton Union at which time the visitors were given an op- Since the last issue of the Alumnus the portunity to meet President Sills and College has received three gifts which will Dean Nixon. total nearly $40,000 and which bring the additions to Endowment since last Com- Law and Medicine, which are almost al- mencement to a sum of half a million dol- ways represented in these programs, were lars. From Henry H. Pierce '96 comes a discussed by Alexander Whiteside, Esq., donation of to be added to the fund and Dr. Warren Morrill, superintendent of $31,500 for the Pierce Professorship of English the Maine General Hospital in Portland. which he established last fall. From the Louis D. H. Weld '05, for some time pro- estate of Mary Springer of Boston fessor of Business Administration at Yale W. comes a bequest of together with a and now Director of Research for the H. K. $5,000, few books and works of art. Miss Springer McCann Company in New York, spoke for was the sister of the late Charles C. the advertising business, while Harold E. Springer, a graduate of Bowdoin in 1874, Verrill '15, manager of the Portland office and at one time a member of the faculty. of Hornblower and Weeks, discussed in- A second bequest is from the estate of Dr. vestment banking. Col. Arthur N. Payne, Philip H. Moore of Philadelphia and is in manager of the Industrial and Agricultural amount of $1,000. The College is also Bureau of the Boston and Maine Railroad, named residuary legatee of one-third of the outlined the possibilities in the general field entire estate following the death of three of transportation, and Wallace M. Leonard life tenants. Dr. Moore entered the min- of the United Fruit Company painted a istry on graduating from college and then most interesting picture of a career in ship- went to Philadelphia where he graduated ping and of life in a tropical enterprise. The from JefTerson Medical College in 1902. field of general merchandising was represented by Edward P. Garland '16, sales manager of the Lewis Manufacturing Com- Professor Daniel C. Stanwood, who con- pany. H. W. Boynton, distribution man- ducted a course in International Law dur- ager of the Shell Eastern Petroleum Prod- ing the first semester at the Massachusetts ucts, Inc., appeared as the exponent of that Institute of Technology in addition to his industry and was assisted by R. I. Lewis of work here, is now on leave of absence and the same company who, as technician, made is traveling in Europe.

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College View on Ancient Currency

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The interesting bank note reproduced Bowdoin in the class of 1826, and who had herewith was one of the first issued by the practiced law in Topsham until the opening Brunswick bank which was organized on of the bank. Mr. Woodman died in 1840,

August 15, 1836, the day before this note while the bank was still prosperous. was placed in circulation. The bank build- These bank notes were printed locally and ing was on the Maine Street site now occu- on but one side of the paper and Henry C. pied by McDuff's Clothing Store and was Upton of the Brunswick Record staff dis-

maintained until 1857, when it was distinctly remembers having seen the original solved on account of unscrupulous activity plate for this and other notes when a young

on the part of its cashier. G. F. Richardson, man. This note, together with others of

to whom the note is made payable, was one the same series, is now in the possession of of the original directors of the bank and Mr. Samuel B. Furbish, for many years the cashier, whose signature also appears, treasurer of the College and now First was Moses Emery Woodman, a graduate of Selectman of the Town of Brunswick.

Board Walks on The Campus!

Among the most welcome additions to the on floors caused by the tracking of sand and physical plant at the College within a long cinders into dormitories and recitation period of years are the board walks which buildings. This result has been achieved have been laid this spring. An appropria- to a great extent but the gratitude of fac- tion for this purpose was authorized by the ulty and undergraduates springs from the Governing Boards last spring and nearly more personal realization that one may now half a mile of walks were constructed in walk from Massachusetts Hall to the Li- sections and are now in use on the campus. brary or elsewhere about the campus with- Most of the main paths are covered in this out wading ankle deep in mud or slush. An way but there is still need for more as the additional saving will be made on the paths muddy sections are particularly distasteful themselves as in earlier years students when contrasted with the plank surfaces. walking on the edges have caused a great The appropriation was made by the deal of resodding to be done just prior Boards in the hope of reducing the wear to Commencement.

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The American Alumni Council

On January 24th and 25th Bowdoin acted Alumnus of November 1928 and describ- as host for the annual conference of Dis- ing the career of Harry Oakes of that same trict I of the American Alumni Council of class. First place in this phase of the com- which the Alumni Secretary is this year petition was won by the California Monthly, District Director. This meeting brought while second place was awarded to the together some forty-two alumni workers alumni magazine of Dartmouth College. from colleges and secondary schools of New The competition for the current year will England and the Maritime Provinces, be for the best editorial, the best feature thirty-two institutions being so represented. article and the best article of literary The program opened with an address by excellence.

President Sills, which is given in full in this issue of the Alumnus, and papers were Coach Charles W. Bowser, who will be also presented by the alumni secretaries of in charge of football at the College this

Amherst, Bates, Mount Holyoke, Smith and coming fall, made his first visit to the cam- Wesleyan. Dean Harold E. Lobdell of the pus on March 1st on the occasion of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology was luncheon given by President Sills to the the final speaker of the session, taking as members of the football squad and to the his subject "The Possibilities of an Alumni Athletic Council. An honored guest was Magazine." Joseph B. Pendleton '90, dean of American The American Alumni Council is an or- football officials. ganization of the men and women in charge Mr. Bowser plans to take up his residence of alumni work at the colleges of the in Brunswick about April 1st and will insti- United States and Canada and Newfound- tute spring practice as soon as possible after land, and through its conferences, conven- that date. tions and publications has done a great deal As we go to press news is received of the Inward assisting in the work being carried appointment by Coach Bowser of John on at each of the institutions represented. Roberts, a graduate of the University of Conferences are held annually in each of Pittsburgh in the class of 1928, as assistant ten geographical districts in addition to a roach. Mr. Roberts is highly recommended national convention which will this year be bv Coach Sutherland of Pittsburgh and will held in May with the colleges of the Con- come to Bowdoin with a good background necticut Valley. not only as a player but as a young man of

One phase of the Council program is the considerable character. stimulation of the alumni magazine through competition among its members. Last year The first home baseball game of the sea- prizes in the form of honorable mention son will be plaved with the University of were awarded for the best editorial, the best Maine on April 2^th according to the pres- write-up of some original idea in alumni ent schedule. Although plans have not defi- work, and for the best article or story based nitelv been made it is expected that Sub- on the achievement or work of some Freshman Week End will be observed at the alumnus. Third place in this latter class time of this game. was awarded to the Bowdoin Alumnus for the article "When Pluck Beat Luck," writ- The State Track Meet will be held in ten by John Clair Minot '96 for the Brunswick on May 17th.

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about 125. President Sills spoke as the representative of the College and William With The R. Crowley '08 discussed the football situation and the appointment of the new coach. Alumni Bodies Remarks were also made by Phillips H. Lord '25 in his radio role of "Seth Parker" BIDDEFORD-SACO and by Clement F. Robinson '03, Attorney General of Maine. The new officers of the Friday, March 14th, President Sills On Association are Roscoe H. Hupper '07, met for luncheon with a group of alumni president, and Merritt L. Willson '21, sec- were called together on the occasion who retary. addressing the student bodies of Bid- of his Members of the Association were invited deford High School and Thornton by the Princeton Club of New York to at- Academy. tend a lecture by Donald B. MacMillan '98, who spoke at the latter club on the evening BOSTON ASSOCIATION of March 25th. The annual meeting of the Association was held at the University Club on January PHILADELPHIA CLUB 30th with an attendance of almost two The Hotel Bellevue Stratford was the '95 hundred. President J. Everett Hicks scene of the annual meeting on February presided and the speakers included Presi- 1st, when the members followed their usual dent Sills, Alfred E. Burton '78, who dis- custom by inviting the ladies to be present. cussed the late Admiral Peary as an under- President Sills represented the College and graduate, John Clair Minot '96 and the was the only speaker. William C. Sparks Alumni Secretary. William M. Emery '89 N'o9, the retiring president, will be suc- was elected president and Kenneth S. ceeded by Lester D. Tyler '01, while Secre- Boardman '21 was again chosen as tary George T. Davis '24 was re-elected. secretary. PORTLAND CLUB HARTFORD ASSOCIATION Bowdoin Night was observed on March At the annual meeting, held at the Uni- 1st with an almost record attendance. Leon- versity Club on February 1st, the College ard A. Pierce '05 acted as toastmaster and was represented by Gerald G. Wilder '04, introduced Professor Wilmot B. Mitchell the Librarian, and by the Alumni Secretary. '90, who spoke for the College, Harrison M.

There was an attendance of about thirty- Davis, Jr., '30, editor of the Orient and five. President Phineas H. Ingalls 'jj and representative of the student body, Wil- Secretary Willis G. Parsons '23 were re- liam R. Crowley '08 and Charles W. Bow- turned to office. ser, newly appointed football coach, who spoke for the first time before a Bowdoin gathering. Col. George E. Fogg '02 was an NEW YORK ASSOCIATION additional speaker. Other features of the On the evening of January 31st the an- evening included several vaudeville acts nual meeting was called to order at the and the presentation to the Club by the Hotel Park Lane by President John W. Alumni Secretary of a gavel made from a Frost '04. There was an attendance of limb of the famous Thorndike Oak.

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PENOBSCOT COUNTY CLUB C. Payson. William P. Newman 'io suc- ceeds Charles P. Conners '03 as president The annual meeting of the Club was held of the Club, while E. Bowdoin Nealley '26 this year at the Penobscot Valley Country was chosen secretary. Club on the evening of February 20th with about thirty-five members present. The College was represented by Dean Paul WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS Nixon and the Alumni Secretary. The ASSOCIATION third speaker of the evening was Charles T. Hawes '76, president of the Board of The first dinner of the year was held at Overseers, who spoke most fittingly of the the Hotel Kimball in Springfield on January three members of the Governing Boards 17th. About thirty men were in attendance who had so recently died, paying particular to hear Dean Paul Nixon, who represented tribute to his classmate, the late Franklin the College.

News From The Classes

The necrology since the appearance of Adorning the rear wall of the stage were three framed pictures of Longfellow, two steel engrav- the January issue is as follows ings and an enlarged photogravure, gifts of the 1855—Daniel Crosby. International Longfellow Association to Harvard, Bowdoin the 1873—Daniel Arthur Robinson, M.D., and Longfellow University. In ac cepting the gift for Bowdoin Professor Herbert Sc.D. R. Brown said : 1876—Franklin Conant Payson, A.M., "He was capable of appealing to the mature LL.D. mind as well as to the minds of children and he caught the power of the sea as no other writer 1879—Charles Fletcher Johnson, A.M., has ever done. Bowdoin, to which Longfellow LL.D. went as a sophomore in 1822, is glad to receive N1880—Walter Allen Burleigh. this gift." 1889—Mervyn A. Rice, A.M. 1855 Daniel Crosby, for several years oldest living 1893 Rev. Herbert Lindsay McCann. — graduate of the College in point of class, died N1905—James Edward White. at his home in Topeka, Kansas on September 1925—Frank Latham Tucker. 6, 1928. Mr. Crosby was born in Hampden, Maine February 28th, 1835 an

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[The B o iv d o in Alumnus on March 30th, 1856 in South Berwick and at- He held pastorates in Houlton. Portland and tended Phillips Exeter Academy before coming Hillsboro, N. H., and it was through his efforts to Bowdoin in 1876. After a year at Bowdoin that the Congregational Church at Gray was he returned to South Berwick where he was en- opened in igoo. gaged in manufacturing until the time of his death. 1897 1882 Dr. Philip W. Davis, executive secretary of the Maine Medical Association, has been appointed Jennie A. Moody, wife of Professor William full time editor of the Maine Medical Journal. A. Moody and known to hundreds of Bowdoin He assumed his duties on March ist. alumni, died at her home in Brunswick on Feb- ruary 24th after an illness of a few weeks. 1899 Dr. Fred H. Albee performed a bone opera- 1884 tion upon a Yucatan workman as the first pro- Rev. Ernest C. Smith is an instructor at Colo- fessional act of the Aero-medical Clinic en route rado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colo. through eleven Central and South American 1886 countries to carry reports of late scientific and medical developments. The Clinic was made up George S. Berry has recently moved from of five American physicians.

Denver, Colorado, to 16 1 7 Wilmot Place, Vic- Wallace H. White is the author of "Our New toria, B. C. Goal on the Sea" which recently appeared in the 1889 New York Herald Tribune Magazine.

William M. Emery, secretary of the class, has 1905 written the following about Mervyn A. Rice, who Professor Stanley P. Chase is a contributor to died in Montclair, N. J., on January 14th: the new volume, "Humanism in America" which "Again Eighty-Nine is called to mourn. has recently appeared. His essay, which has

Colonel "Merv" Rice, as we all know, devoted 1 been well received by critics. is entitle. . most of his life to law, practicing his the pro- "Dionysius in Dismay". fession for a long period in New York, but the outstanding feature of his career was his loyal service to his country. He was an officer in the Spanish-American War and the World War, in the latter his achievements overseas winning him the Distinguished Service Medal. He was laid to rest in the National Cemetery at Arlington. Surviving are his wife and two sons, both officers in the United States Army. (Ju: classmate leaves us the pleasant memories of his qualities as a good fellow, a virile patriot, a gallant officei and a gentleman. We shall ever miss him." 1891

Henry W. Jarvis, Esq., has recently been chosen as a trustee of the public library in Need- ham, Mass. Mr. Jarvis is a graduate of the Law School of the University of Michigan and is a former president of the New England Alumni Association of that University. He was A Bit of Winter for some time a resident of Newton, Mass., and while there was a member of the Board of Dr. George H. Stone, who recently resigned Legis- Aldermen. As a member of the State as superintendent of the Eastern Maine General lature Mr. did considerable work during Jarvis Hospital in Bangor, where he had been for nine the war in connection with the maintenance of years, has been elected superintendent of the records of troops from Massachusetts. Memorial Hospital at Worcester, Mass. He as- 1893 sumed his new position on February 15th. Word has been received of the death of James Rev. Herbert Lindsay McCann, pastor of the E. White but no details are available. Congregational Church at Gray, Maine, died on March 16th after an illness of two weeks. He 1908 was born at Rolling Dam. N. B., on September Dr. Carl M. Robinson has been elected chair- 21, 1863, and attended Bangor Theological Sem- man of the Maine Executive Committee of the inary following his graduation from Bowdoin. American College of Surgeons.

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1911 1917 Franz U. Burkett and Miss Phoebe Gallant Charles W. Pattee is Alumni Secretary at the were married on February 15th at Dover, N. H. University of New Hampshire, Durham, N. H. Mrs. Burkett was graduated from the Maine Carl K. Ross is now Maine manager for the General Hospital in Portland and for the past Guaranty Trust Company of New York. four years has been engaged in nursing in Dover. 1918 Mr. Burkett, who recently announced his candi- George S. DeMott is at present in the Editorial dacy for another term in the Maine House, also Department of the Detroit Times. is a candidate for the Speakership. Professor Edward S. C. Smith is a member Mrs. Charles Merrill Hough of New York City of the committee appointed from the faculty of has announced the engagement of her daughter, Union College to edit and publish a series of Miss Nancy Hough, to Mr. Baldwin Smith. Miss miscellaneous papers prepared by the members Hough's father was the late United States Judge of that group in connection with subjects in their Hough. several fields. Professor Smith is a recent con- 1912 tributor to Science, The Maine Naturalist, and 10 Journal Science. Leland G. Means, who has been with Maynard The American of S. Bird and Company in Portland, Maine, for 1919 several years, has been named assistant vice David Erskine Turner, only child of Mr. and president of Bond and Goodwin, a Boston and Mrs. Perley Turner, died on February 23rd fol- New York banking firm which has owned May- lowing an illness of about a week. He would nard S. Bird and Company for several years. have been two years old on March 16th. Mr. Means will devote his entire time to the 1920 Portland office of the concern. Elmer I. Boardman has been transferred to Harold E. Verrill, manager of the Portland the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, office of the Na- office of Hornblower and Weeks, has been named tional Radiator Corporation. a director! of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad. Dr. Rodney D. Turner, who is an eye, ear, Mr. Verrill is probably the youngest man to be nose and throat specialist, has returned to Au- so honored bv an Eastern railroad. gusta, Maine, where he will practice. Since 1915 leaving Avigusta in 1923 Dr. Turner has been Professor Robert P. T. Coffin has had pub- located in Newton, Mass. lished in collaboration with Professor Wither- 1921 spoon of Yale, through Harcourt, Brace and The engagement of Harold Beach to Miss Jean Company, an Anthology of Seventeenth Century MacKaye of Montreal has recently been an- English Prose which is already in use at Har- nounced. The wedding will take place on April vard, Yale, Illinois, Ohio State, Nebraska, and 26th. several large schools. Austin H. MacCormick, assistant superintend- 1922 ent of Federal Prisons, is a contributor to a re- Frank G. Averill is now with the John Price cent issue of the "New Era", the magazine of Jones Corporation, educational statisticians, al the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth. 150 Nassau street, New York City. Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who was released on "The Runaway Dogteam" by Arthur C. Bart- parole last week, has been serving as editor of lett was published by W. A. Wilde Company this this publication. Mr. MacCormick's article dis- last fall. cusses the plans of the Prison Bureau regarding Louis Bernstein has become associated with

education in the penal institutions of the United his brother, 1 in the practice of law at 97 Exchange States and predicts that in a comparatively short Street, Portland. Maine. time provision will be made for adequate aca- Francis A. Fagone, M.D., was a candidate for demic and vocational training of all inmates. the School Committee in Portland, Maine, this 1916 last fall. The Fidelity-Ireland Corporation, which rep- The engagement of William K. Hall to Miss resents a consolidation of the business formerly Caro Bailey of Sidney, Maine, was announced conducted by the Bond Department of the on March 13th. Fidelity Trust Company and Ireland and Com- Francis R. Ridley is with the Bell Telephone

pany, has been formed. William D. Ireland is Company in Trenton, N. J. He is living at 340 President of the new concern and Virgil C. Mc- Beechwood Ave. Gorrill '22 is one of the Vice-Presidents. William Eben Tileston is now resident manager of D. Ireland, Virgil C. McGorrill and Leonard A. True Temper Inn at Wallingford, Vermont. Pierce '05 are among the Directors. John P. Vose has accepted a position with the Dwight H. Sayward has been taken into part- Merrill Trust Company, Bangor, Maine, as as- nership with his father, Charles E. Sayward '84. sistant trust officer. Since his graduation from as the John Hancock Life Insurance Company's Harvard Law School he has been associated with General Agents in Portland. Maine. the firm of White & Barnes in Boston.

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1923 While in College he had a brilliant record as a Earle K. French; is teaching at the Junior High football player, being selected for the All-Maine School at Belmont. Mass. teams in 1923 and 1924, in which latter year he captained the Dr. Cecil C. McLaughlin is a member of the Bowdoin team. He was a staff at the City Hospital in Worcester, Mass. prominent figure on the campus throughout his college course and served as a member of the John F. Sullivan is now cashier at the Savov Student Council in his senior vear. Following Plaza Hotel in New York City. graduation he entered banking but soon gave up Mr. and Mrs. George H. Hutchinson have an- this career as the result of poor health. Since nounced the engagement of their daughter, Miss this time he had been engaged in teaching and Velma Hutchinson, to Richard S. Willis. coaching at private schools in Massachusetts and 1924 Rhode Island and had spent his summers as a camp counselor. Joseph A. Aldred has recently graduated from Mrs. Leslie Coombs of Bath, Maine, has the Suffolk Law School and has passed the Maine J. Bar Examinations. announced the engagement of her daughter, Elizabeth F. Coombs, to Samuel H. Williams. Ralph E. Blanchard is a sales representative for the DuPont Viscoloid Company in Chicago, 1926 111. His address is 1806 North American Edmund W. Beaumont is a clerk in the Li- Building. brary of Congress in Washington. He is living Phillips Brooks is with the DuPont Rayon at 18 Third Street, S. E.

Company at 611 Johnston Building, Charlotte, J. Stewart Bigelow is teaching History at N. C Gould Academy in Bethel, Maine. Forest C. Butler is principal of the High Mr. and Mrs. John F. Loud announce the ar- School at North Woodstock, N. H. rival of John Fiske Loud on January 2Qth.

James M. Keniston is assistant merchandise The engagement of Elliott H. Pennell to Miss manager in the Basement Store of R. H. White Martha L. Wetzel of Hudson View Gardens, New Company in Boston. York City has recently been announced.

Harvey Lovell is teaching Zoology at the Hugh B. Snow, who lives at 107 West 84th University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky. Street, New York City, is employed by the New Thor Miller is studying at Boston University. York Central Railroad. Alfred M. Strout is studying at Harvard Law Frank A. Pike and Miss Katherine S. Gilson of Boston and Machias were married on Feb- School this year. E. is now district manager ruary 17th in Boston. Mr. Pike had Lawrence James Thompson the Engineering Company at 622 Towle as his best man. of Appliance Beacon Street, Boston. 1925 Emlyn S. Vose is connected with the Edwin C. Burnard has been appointed State Hollingsworth and Vose Paper Company in handicapper by the Maine State Golf Associa- Boston. tion. 1927 The engagement of S. Allan Howes and Miss Errol Buker is instructor in mathematics at Elizabeth Boyd has recently been announced. Morse High School, Bath, Maine, this year. Raymond LaCasce is now principal of the J. Stanford Kelley has recently become as- high school at Alfred, Maine. sociated with Bonbright and Company, Inc., an In the Fall and Winter numbers of the "Hound investment company in Portland, Maine. and Horn", Lawrence Leighton has signed re- Donovan D. Lancaster and Miss Florence La- views, the one in the Fall being a long critical Pointe were married on February 1st in Bruns- essay on "The Cycle of Modern Poetry" by G. wick. Robert Pollock, instructor in Philosophy Roy Elliott, formerly Henry Leland Chapman at Bowdoin, acted as best man. Professor of English Literature at Bowdoin. Paul Palmer is instructor in the Department Word has been received of the engagement of of History and Government during the absence Frederick P. Perkins and Miss Elenor C. Stur- of Professor Stanwood this semester. gis, daughter of Associate Justice Guy H. Stur- Morris Singer is manager of an Economy gis of the Supreme Court. Store in Roxbury, Mass. Joseph M. Russell is a member of the legal de- Harry Wood, who is living at 14 Lebanon partment of the Western Electric Company at Street, Winchester, Mass., is personnel director 195 Broadway, New York City. for several of the telephone exchanges in that Frank L. Tucker died suddenly on March 13th vicinity. at the State Street Hospital in Portland, Maine, from a heart attack. Mr. Tucker was born in 1928 Portland and graduated from the High School Whitfield Case has recently returned from a there in 1921, coming to Bowdoin that Fall. most interesting trip around the world, in the

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course of which he encountered many adven- Med. 1879 tures not found by the ordinary tourist. The Dr. Charles Mabry died at his home in North story of his trip has been published in a num- Vassalboro, Maine, on February 8th. Dr. Mabry ber of periodicals. was a native of Hiram and had practiced in William L. Cobb is connected with the Stand- North Vassalboro since leaving the Medical ard Oil Company in Yokohama, Japan, this year. School. Edward T. Durant is an instructor at Ebert's Med. 1880 Tutorial School in Groton, Mass., this year. Word has been received of the death of Dr. Addison B. Hastings is employed by the Burn- George P. Perley but no details are available. ham Boiler Corporation in Ossining, N. Y. Med. 1893 Earl S. Hyler tells us that he is now with the Word has been received of the death of Dr. Personal Finance Company in Bangor. Louis A. Merritt but no details are available. Howard M. Mostrom has recently become associated with the Boston branch of Shaw, Loomis Med. 1896 and Sayles, investment counselors. Dr. Albion K. P. Smith, active member of the 1929 staff of the Eastern Maine General Hospital at Bangor and also in private practice there for Richard L. Brown has contributed "Literature the past fifteen years, died on January 28th fol- and Education" which was his Commencement lowing a short illness. Dr. Smith was born at part at Bowdoin last June, to the recently pub J Newburg on March 15, 1870 and attended Maine lished volume, "Humanism in America". Central Institute at Pittsfield before coming to Eliot K. Coulter is a member of the Research Bowdoin. Upon graduation he went to Brad- Department of the Western Pennsylvania Elec- ford, where he practiced for several years, and tric Company in Pittsburgh, Pa. then to Corinna, going to Bangor from there. He Elliott is with the First National Bank Jack is survived by his wife, a daughter, Miss Dorothy of Boston. is living at the Huntington Ave- He Smith, and a son, Philip J. Smith. nue Y. M. C. A. Hon. 1894 Roger Hawthorne writes that he is city news died on Feb- reporter for the Portland (Maine) Evening Major George Haven Putnam News. ruary 26th at his home in New York. Althougn in his eighty-fifth year he had been active in his Richard B. Ketcham is with the Graybar Elec- business until two weeks before and dictated tric Company in Indianapolis. His address is from his bed until a few days before his 3720 N. Penna. Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. letters death. A veteran of the Civil War, he had for Med. 1878 many years been president of the publishing Dr. Charles E. Williams died on February 12th house of G. P. Putnam's Sons. As secretary ot at his home in Auburn, Maine. After attending the American Publishers' Copyright League he the Maine Medical School for a year he wenc was largely responsible for the present federal to Columbia, where he received his M.D. in 1879. legislation protecting writers and publishers and After that he went to Auburn, where he had was awarded the cross of the Legion of Honor lived ever since. of France for his work in this connection.

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ON THE 1930 WASSOOKEAG STAFF FROM BOWDOIN: 1. Lloyd H. Hatch, B.S., '21, Director; 2. Professor Edward S. Hammond, Ph.D. (4th season); 3. Charles E. Berry,

A.B., '26 (4th season) ; 4. Lloyd W. Fowles, A.B., '26 (3rd season — on "sabbatical" leave, 1930); 5. George J. Adams, A.B., '27 (2nd season — on "sabbatical" leave, 1930); 6. Walter O. Gordon, A.B., '28 (2nd season); 7. Norman Waldron '30 (1st season). Possible additional Bowdoin appointments. SCHOLASTIC RECORD: The 1929 summer term closed with another 100 percent college entrance examination record. Twenty final candidates entered Amherst, Bowdoin, Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, Hobart, Princeton, Williams, and Yale.

The Fleet — One Explanation of Wassookeag's Unusual Scholastic "Results" WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL Mr. Hatch, Director of Wassookeag School-Camp, is the founder and Headmaster of Wassookeag School, a Tutorial Junior College for Boys. Wassookeag School offers a Bowdoin Preparatory program for a limited group of 20 boys whose study is directed by 7 full-time teachers (4 are Bowdoin graduates and 3 formerly of the Bowdoin faculty). Early application should be made for the academic year 1930-31. THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS

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Contents for May 1930 Vol. TV No. 4 Pace

Table of Contents — Inside Front Cover

Editorial — Interpretation 89

Commencement Looms Ahead . 90

Alumni Representation at Luncheon Meetino 91

Banner and Spire — Clement F. Robinson '03 92

Homely New England — Gamaliel Bradford in the Boston Herald 98

A Student Wonders About the Class of 1940 99 John L. Snider, Undergraduate Editor

Bowdoin Prints . 100

Nineteen Twenty — Sometime in Junior Year — Halftone tot

The Case for "Liberal and Useful" Arts — John W. Leydon '07 102

The Five Year Class as Seniors — Halftone 105

'21 A Thought or Two on Business Schools — Kenneth S. Boardman . 106 Bowdoin War Memorial — List of Contributors 108 With the Alumni Bodies 112 Faculty Notes II2

News from the Classes 113

Advertisements TI 9 VOLUME FOUR NUMBER FOUR THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

May - 1930

Interpretation

It is an interesting study to observe the and their machinery have changed to an al- mental reaction aroused in individual chil- most inconceivable degree. It is hard for dren by the mention or presentation of a the old, weatherbeaten, bectlcbrowed mari- given word or object. The same stimulus ner to understand the attitude of the young presented to a dozen boys may elicit as officer of our modern merchant marine. It many responses, each arising not merely is hard for the "dirt farmer" to accept the from the stimulus itself but from the stim- suggestions of a youthful County Agent ulus as interpreted in terms of the previous who talks in terms of chemical analysis. experience of the individual. Examples of It is equally hard for the college man to this arc too numerous to mention as such, recognize the situation in which his son, his but the average college graduate often for- nephew and the children of his classmates gets that the same condition applies to him arc living at the institution which he still in his response to the stimuli of news from claims as his own. Facts of many kinds the college world. and strange stories of all sorts come to his

All Bowdoin men, all Harvard men, all ears from this modern undergraduate world. veterans of a given war or members of a The alumnus must seek to look at them not given order hold something of importance through the glasses of his own student days, as a common heritage, but with that com- but rather with an eye which recognizes mon heritage there are in each case many the changed environment which includes particular and purely individual ideas aris- the automobile, the radio, the moving pic- ing from personal experience and especially ture and the multifarious intangible ma- from the conditions pertinent to the time terial which is today affecting the lives of when each individual was an active mem- young men and which in his day was ber of the group in question. unknown. The college student, the sea captain and the farmer of today are living under con- President Alpheus Sanford '76 of the ditions as different from those common to General Alumni Association has chosen as their prototypes of the late 19th century as judges for the annual Pray English Prize they are different from each other. The competition Rev. Chauncey W. Goodrich, students may study and live in the same Hon. '15, Emerson W. Hunt '23 and Paul ivied buildings, the seamen sail the same A. Palmer '27. The subject selected for charted courses, the farmers till the same this year's contest is "The Poetry of A. plowed fields, but their books, their ships E. Housman." :

[The B ow d o in Alumnus Commencement Looms Ahead

Commencement this year will be marked in charge of reunion arrangements for the by no particularly unusual feature unless class and has secured headquarters and one considers as such the return to Eastern sleeping rooms in Hyde Hall. According Daylight Saving Time after a number of to last reports there should be an attendance years on the more conservative standard of about twelve of the seventeen members schedule. There will be none of the dedica- of the class. tions or similar ceremonies which occasion- 1890—Professor Wilmot B. Mitchell is ally take place at this season, and the usual general manager of the forty year reunion alumni parade on Wednesday morning will and has organized an excellent program in also be omitted. The reason for this latter which about 25 of the 31 members of the change from custom is that the baseball class are expected to participate. The men game scheduled for Wednesday will take and their wives have been given rooms in place on the Delta, accessible to everyone Hyde Hall but arc planning no class head- without the need of martial music as a mag- quarters as such. Plans include a breakfast net. The game will be between iqio and at Professor Mitchell's residence on the

19 1 5, following a challenge by the former morning of Commencement Wednesday, a class, and will be conducted with indoor dinner at Dingley's Island on the evening baseball equipment. It is hoped that this of that day, and a second dinner Thursday contest will be the center of interest for evening as guests of Charles L. Hutchinson. those on the campus at the time and that 1895—Dr. Alfred Mitchell is chairman of both sides will be supported by large the reunion committee for the 35 year class galleries. and will be assisted by Judge William M. Reunions are being planned by practically Ingraham and Philip D. Stubbs. Headquar- all of the five year classes as well as by the ters will be at 6 Potter Street and the re- Class of 1929. The schedule of arrange- union dinner will be held at 6.30 on Com- ments as we go to press is given below mencement Wednesday at the Gurnet 1875—Plans for the 55 year reunion arc House. in the hands of Professor Edwin H. Hall, 1900—The reunion committee for the 30 as Lincoln Rogers, the secretary of the year class is made up of Arthur B. Wood, class, is now traveling in the East. The Robert S. Chapman, Burton N. Clough and class will have no definite headquarters but John R. Bass. Headquarters will be in Professor Hall expects an attendance of at Hyde Hall, as will also sleeping rooms, and least three and will probably organize a the class dinner will be held on Wednesday reunion dinner. evening at Gurnet. Several of the members 1880—Secretary Edwin C. Burbank is of the class are planning to bring their chairman of the 50 year reunion committee, wives for the reunion. which also includes William P. Martin and 1905—Leonard A. Pierce is chairman of Thomas H. Riley. A headquarters room has the reunion committee and headquarters been secured in the Moulton Union and ar- have been secured in Hyde Hall. Plans rangements are being made for a shore din- include a luncheon at the Gurnet and a ner, probably at New Meadows Inn. Secre- supper as guests of Prof, and Mrs. Stanley tary Burbank expects an attendance of at P. Chase. least ten of the twelve members of the class 1910—William E. Atwood is chairman of 1885—Eben W. Freeman of Portland is the committee on the 20 year reunion of

[90] The B ow d o in Alumnus J this class, the committee including Robert ALUMNI REPRESENTATION Hale, William P. Newman, Secretary E. C. AT LUNCHEON MEETING Matthews, Jr., and President James F. of the class. Mr. Hale has ar- Hamburger On Saturday, May 17th, the day of the headquarters at 86 Federal ranged for State Track Meet at Brunswick, a "Quadri- the class has issued a challenge Street and lateral Conference Luncheon" was held in indoor baseball to the class for a game of the Moulton Union with nearly sixty in at- been accepted of 191 5. The challenge has tendance. Representatives were invited Delta at and the game will be played on the from the Alumni Council, which sponsored 10.30 Wednesday morning. the meeting, from the Governing Boards,

191 5 —Secretary Gilford T. Perkins is from the Faculty and from the student being assisted by Harold B. Verrill, Edward body.. Everything in the nature of a formal R. Elwell, Gordon P. Floyd and Ellsworth program was specifically avoided, the guests A. Stone in making arrangements for the being placed at tables of four, with the ex- gathering of the 15 year class. The com- pectation that discussion might flow freely mittee has decided to maintain no regular and that the members of the four partici- headquarters but has scheduled a supper at pating groups might gain increased mutual the Lookout Point House in Harpswell Cen- understanding of the problems common to ter for Wednesday evening. Mr. Perkins them all but best known to only one expects about twenty-five men to be on division. hand. Alumni and Faculty attending the luncheon seemed generally satisfied with the re- 1920—Emerson W. Zeitler is making ar- sults of the affair Orient editorial rangements for the ten year reunion but has and an has already commended it. divulged little real information as we go to press.

1925—Charles L. Hildreth is chairman of Clifford Smyth, husband of Nathaniel the five year reunion committee, which com- Hawthorne's granddaughter and the father prises Edwin C. Burnard, Alden G. Smith, of two boys now members of the Junior

Gilbert M. Elliott, Jr., Robert J. Foster and class, has loaned to the College a remark- William Philbrick. It is expected that the ably valuable and interesting collection of headquarters tent will be erected on the documents dealing with American men and campus in the rear of the Swimming Pool. women of letters of the last century. The Rumors of elaborate costumes and of a collection will be on exhibit in Hubbard band are in the air and the committee antici- Hall during the Comemnccment period and pates an attendance of between forty and should be well worth a careful examination fifty. The class supper is to be at the Look- by alumni returning. out Point House. In addition to many valuable first edi- 1929—Secretary H. LeBrec Micoleau has tions the collection includes letters from recently sent to his class a questionnaire Hawthorne to his wife and from Long- preliminary to holding a class dinner in con- fellow to Hawthorne; letters from Herman nection with the Commencement celebra- Melville, Louisa M. Alcott, Margaret Fuller tion. Returns have not yet come in but it is and Ralph Waldo Emerson, together with expected that the affair will be held at an the original deed transferring ownership in inn not far from Brunswick on the evening the famous Old Manse from Emerson to of Commencement Wednesday. Hawthorne.

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Banner and Spire

CLEMENT F. ROBINSON '03

From the ground to the tip of the light- Gleams with its rays of fire ning rod which used to protect the northern Upon a banner that doth make spire of the Chapel was a distance of one The Sophomore rejoice, hundred and twenty-five feet. The rod was And in their shoes the Freshmen shake stapled to the spire at intervals of about six At his exultant voice/' or seven feet. Jonathan P. Cilley, one of the most bril- College tradition has it that during the liant members of the Class of 1891, was the ninety years since the chapel spires were bold Freshman who made this first ascent. built various daring individuals have This class was the largest in numbers to climbed them. There are definite records enter the college for many years, and its five of these escapades. of members, as Freshmen, were quite con- first of these is referred to in the The scious, as they not too modestly expressed following verses in the Orient of October it in their class yell, — that they were "Sec- 12, 1887: ond to None."

"A Freshman bold, the other night, There is no record of the manner in Displayed unbounded brass, which he made the climb. His death within By fixing to the chapel spire, a few years after graduation apparently The banner of his class. came before he had written an account of

The Sopho raves, but raves in vain, the affair. It is told that he went up the As that gay flag he sees lightning rod hand over hand, severely lacer- How proudly now that pennon floats ating his hands and sustaining some injury

Upon the swelling breeze from a fall of about twenty feet on the way

"Later. down. One who knew him in college writes :

"No more the flag of 'Ninety-One "It was the characteristically Adorns the chapel spire, daring act of a resolute spirit. His But in its stead the autumn sun memory lives with those who knew

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him in and out of college as that of moonlight night, his associates being E. E. a masterful, persistent character, Briggs, a member of the class who died tempered with gracious courtesy during his college course, and Henry H. and a high ideal of personal Hastings, now Judge of Probate in Ox- honor." ford County, a member of the Maine State Prison Commission and of the Bow- The flag was replaced the next night by doin Alumni Council. They were watched the flag of 1890, the Sophomore class, in- by an upper classman from a neighboring- stalled by George B. Chandler, now of the window, probably Mervyn A. Rice of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce at Columbus. Class of '89, who has recently died. He was not an athlete, like Cilley, but he The next of these escapades is referred had unlimited courage, and a keen sense of to in the following editorial in the Orient the insubordination of the Freshmen who of November had brazenly flaunted their banner in this 14, 1894: apparently inaccessible place. "Perhaps the most novel form of

In a letter to the Orient, printed in the is- higher education is one which sue of January 17, 1901, he describes the has recently been revived at Bow- incident and tells of his method. doin, and which has made no little He says that Dr. O. W. Turner, now of sensation throughout the state. Augusta, first conceived an ingenious plan Reference is made to climbing to of shortening the route by starting from the the dizzy apex of the spire of belfry. This having been found impracti- King's Chapel for individual fame cable, Chandler put his head to the mechan- and class glory. At one time the ics of the situation and developed what he epidemic promised to be general, calls "an easy and practicable plan for the but now it seems to have abated, ascent." He prepared two light, strong- and there seems no need, as one poles, each equivalent to the length between paper has suggested, of keeping a the staples of the lightning rod, and each special policeman at the foot of the with a hook at the upper end, and with an tower to prevent ambitious stu- eyelet to which was attached a rope ladder dents from rising so high in the with loops. To the upper end of each of the world. But, seriously, now that contrivances was also attached an extra honors are even between the lower loop by which it might be hung upon the classes, it is to be sincerely hoped forearm, leaving both hands disengaged. the matter will drop where it is; With these two simple appliances Chandler and that steeple-climbing, unless made the ascent. Standing upon the ground for a more worthy object than rais- he attached number one to the nearest sta- ing a class flag, will hereafter be ple, climbed the ladder until by reaching up- only a tradition in the college. It ward he could attach the second ladder to is a custom that cannot be safely the second staple, transferred his weight to perpetuated. While all admire the the second ladder, unhooked the first ladder, nerve and pluck possessed by the hung it upon his forearm and proceeded as young athlete who can perform the before. He expected to have considerable difficult feat in question, yet none difficulty in rounding the turn at the main can approve of the utter reckless- roof of the chapel, but found the staples ness that will expose human life to well placed for this purpose. so terrible a risk to accomplish so The ascent was made during a bright trifling an object."

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The protagonists in this affair were is to be hoped that no member of Moulton of the Freshman class of 1898, 1904 will be reckless enough to now Dr. Charles D. Moulton of East repeat the attempt." Orange, N. and Don MacMillan, the J., A fortnight-later another of the editors, Arctic explorer, then of the Class of 1897. a member of the Class of 1903 who was No record of their method has been printed, but here also the current impression was that each man went up hand over hand.

Moulton having first placed the flag of his class on the spire, MacMillan on the next night removed it and installed in its place not only the flag of the Sophomore class, but also a plug hat, then the symbol of Sophomoric superiority.

The last time a class flag decorated the spire was on the morning of June 8, 1900, now thirty years ago. The Orient of Sep- tember 27, 1900, bears the following allusion to the incident in an editorial written by the Editor-in-Chief who was a member The Four Conspirators of the Class of 1902:

"The Orient in its last issue himself connected with the affair, came omitted to speak of the 1903 ban- back in the Orient with the following which ner which appeared on the north he inserted without the knowledge of the chapel spire on the morning of Editor-in-Chief:

June 9. More or less excitement "It now appears that the Orient was caused by its appearance, and was mistaken in a statement made

much speculation as to who in its first issue of the term. The climbed the tower was indulged in. Faculty never made any resolution

Who did it has never been made to expel the 'fool' who should known and probably never will be, next try the ascent of the chapel- as the Faculty some years ago vot- spire. Perhaps the Faculty real-

ed to expel any man who should izes that what is foolhardy for one be known to make the attempt. Not man is quite incidental for anoth- since '94 has this been tried, when er; anyway no notice of these three the ascent was made by two men. successful attempts has ever been "To ascend the chapel tower by taken. Far from being a closely- means of the lightning rod and to kept secret, it is pretty well known,

fasten a banner upon the spire is to 1903 at least, that this last affair an act foolhardy in the extreme was carried through by four mem- and one which calls for the con- bers of that class, each of whom demnation rather than the praise had an equal share in the planning of the student body. Class spirit and execution of the deed."

is a good thing when it is not car- Before 1903 graduated the names of the

ried too far, but when it develops four men who had been concerned in it

into rashness it is time to stop. Tt became known, but otherwise little was di-

[94] The B o w d o in Alumnus] vulged about the affair. The full story can secrecy, and was permitted no further share now be told. in the councils of the conspirators. Occu- Among the members of the class were pying as he now does a distinguished educa- two rather bookish members. One of these tional position, he may not care to have the was Philip T. Harris, now of the Federal matter unearthed after all these years. Forestry Service at Okanogan, Washing- As with Chandler before them, the plot- ton. The credit for suggesting the scheme, ters considered many devices. They dis- if credit it can be called, is his. He men- cussed the possibility of obtaining access to tioned it to a classmate who was particular- the outside of the spire through the shut- ly well steeped in college traditions and ters at the top, having disregarded the con- history. They talked it over carefully and temptible suggestion that they should mere- easily convinced themselves that such a ly hang the flag from a window opening. class as theirs deserved to have its fame During the warm spring evenings of May perpetuated by a repetition of events which 1900 they met on at least six occasions and had made four other classes famous; but considered ways, means and devices. One neither of them had the physique and nerve night the ascent was attempted by extension to put the effort through. ladders borrowed from a painter. These Looking over the class for men capable fell far short. of carrying out the plan, they selected two Another night the project of shooting a who were understood to have had some sea- light line across the spire with the expec- faring experience, — both men of daring tation of drawing up heavier ropes was dis- light- and athletic build, — Daniel I. Gould, now a cussed and discarded. To climb the ning rod hand over hand, however practi- lawyer at Bangor, Maine, and Leon J. Emerson, who did not finish his course and cable it may have proved for some of their died a year or two later. Emerson was predecessors, proved impossible. One night little known to the class in general, but was Gould went up the rod as far as the roof highly regarded by those few who knew him of the body of the chapel, some forty or well. Except for his association with this fifty feet, but could go no farther. At this prank he played a lone hand throughout his spot he found that some of the staples were brief college course. He earned his way by loose. Emerson, the most daring of the four, working at the Elm House on Bank street, though lighter in weight than Gould, where he had a room, and was daily to be declined to make such an attempt. seen riding on the campus paths on an old Eventually much the same expedient was bicycle, smoking a long-stemmed pipe, hold- adopted as had been used by Chandler, al- ing the bowl in his hand as he rode. though this they did not know. Two rough, With these four the conspiracy was defi- home-made scaling ladders were prepared nitely formed. Harris furnished the ban- from scantlings, each of approximately the ner; Gould and Emerson the brawn and length between the staples of the lightning- nerve; the fourth acted as treasurer and rod, and each with a hook and a loop at the inciter. All four, as the plans began to ma- upper end and studded with strong spikes ture, went down one afternoon to the glade at a distance of sixteen or eighteen inches below the Cleaveland House on Federal apart. Early in June Gould made a trial street and had their photograph taken by a ascent and found the appliances effective. prospective member of the Class of 1904, About midnight on the evening of the 7th holding the banner in their hands. This of June the conspirators gathered at sub-freshman photographer was sworn to Gould's room at Mrs. Mustard's house on

[95] [The B ow d om Alumnus the corner of Page and Maine streets and close enough to the spire to discern plainly reconnoitered the campus. A card party what was going on, he turned on his heel was going on in a room with windows open and walked off toward the Science Building, in South Maine, so the four adjourned to calling the treasurer by name, and saying the Elm House, and Emerson ohtained a to him as he went: "I hope you are not do- custard pie from the hotel pantry, — wheth- ing anything to get into any trouble." Ear- er with the knowledge and consent of the nestly assured to the contrary, he made no proprietor was not inquired into. This they further comment, but the next morning he- ate in a quiet spot on Maine street. Then was early at the Science Building with a they sauntered up the street, by this time as telephoto lense to take a picture of the spire deserted as the main street of any New with the flag flying. As far as is known he England town should be at that hour of never mentioned the matter again, although night in those Victorian times. They he had ample opportunity to do so when the stopped at the railroad station to pass the subject came up for discussion and con- time with Mike Madden, then, as now, in demnation at the next Faculty meeting. charge of the railroad domains for the Slowly up the spire climbed Emerson. night. By this time it was well after mid- At least twice on the way he encountered night, and all four, with the custard pic staples pulled from the stone work, around safely disposed of, were properly fed as which he carefully manipulated himself well as primed by the mystery of starlight with his implements. Eventually he reached and a warm spring evening, with the ro- the top, just as early dawn was breaking. mantic spirit necessary for putting through Clasping his legs around the ball he pains- the undertaking. takingly wired the flag to the top of the On the way to the campus they unearthed lightning rod. Then with characteristic their appliances from Mrs. Mustard's wood- bravado he waved his hand to those waiting pile, and carried them to the foot of the below and slowly began to come down in spire. The card party in South Maine had the same manner as he had gone up. quieted down, the guests were leaving and The descent did not take as long as the the hosts retiring for the night. ascent, because losing patience when fifteen

At the foot of the lightning rod it was or twenty feet from the ground, he threw finally decided that Emerson should have the ladders to the ground and jumped, land- the privilege of making the ascent by reason ing safely. Throughout the proceeding of his lighter weight. After everything on from first to last, there was not a doubt in the campus appeared to be quiet, the first the mind of any of the four but that he scaling ladder was placed and Emerson was would go through safely. Expectation, not well up the second one, carrying the first apprehension, was the emotion of the three over his back by the loop, when the only on the ground. As for Emerson himself, event occurred which bade fair to have an his only comment was that it was worth untoward outcome. Hearing footsteps ap- while going up the spire to realize that from proaching up the main walk from the Class the top one could see the waters of Casco

°f '75 gates, the treasurer of the party cau- Bay. Whether this is poetic license or tioned the others to silence and went to literal truth T for one do not know. Per- meet the sound. Emerson flattened himself haps Chandler, Moulton or MacMillan against the wall, but was conspicuous can tell. against the white stones. The visitor was The four adjourned to Mrs. Mustard's the Professor of Chemistry. Approaching house, where they destroyed the evidence

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by driving in the spikes, sawing up the 1902 Bugle a year later, along with the scaling ladders and mixing the remains with following poem,: the good lady's firewood. The hooks were "The Cry of the Children buried, and the party separated with re- "Four little boys from school are we, newed pledges of secrecy. Aren't we as cute as we can be? This undertaking which seemed so well And this is our banner, 1903. worth while to those who had a part in it was unanimously criticized and condemned "We stuck it way up in the air; not only by the newspapers of the state, but To ourselves said, 'No one will daic by everybody else except the members of Ever to climb away up there.' the Class of 1903. Either lack of ingenuity "But a bad Soph, just for fun, or fear of the consequences deterred every Shot it away with a loaded gun member of the Sophomore class from re- And we were left without our fun." moving the banner .as Chandler and Mac- This "Bugle" came out at the end of the Millan had done. The banner of the Class college year, however, and by the following of 1903 is the last which ever graced the fall, 1903 being Juniors, the affair was suf- spires. ficiently ancient so that no investigation the disdain of upperclassmen and To was held. The three members of the party Freshmen alike, the Sophomores removed surviving in college successfully parried most of the banner by long range shooting, such inquiries as were made. drilling away at it with shotguns at inter- Of course, it was a foolhardy undertak- vals during the next few days. But so well ing. Abstractly everyone must admit it. had Emerson done his job that it was a Those who were concerned in it did not ap- decade before traces of the banner entirely preciate it at the time, and even from the disappeared. perspective of thirty years cannot bring While the Sophomores their were testing themselves wholly to regret that they had a marksmanship no to Freshman was allowed part in it. pass by or approach the spires, but one member of the class, John A. Harlow, Editor's Note:— Contrary to a statement made a photograph from the rear which in the body of the article, a class banner has plainly shows the flag flying from the spire. been placed on the Chapel Spire at least A print of this, autographed by him and by once since 1900 and quite probably more the four conspirators, is still preserved. than once. Tradition also has it that Elijah Prior to the Freshman class banquet at Kellogg once placed the hat of President Riverton a fortnight later, the four met to Allen on one of the pinnacles, but there is determine whether the time was ripe for re- little support for this story. vealing the secret; but the sentiment was adverse to this. After all, the administra- John Lincoln Snider '31, who becomes tive authorities might not look at it as the undergraduate editor of the Alumnus with conspirators did, and none of them wished this issue, is the nephew of William E. to take the chance that their future college Wing '02. His initial contribution, which course might be cut short by administra- is printed herewith, has been in no way tive fiat. suggested or altered as the Editor believes Someone in the Class of 1902 did get hold that his undergraduate associate should feel of the picture of the banner with the four free to present the student point of view youths holding it, in time to print it in the without fear of any form of censorship.

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Homely New England

GAMALIEL BRADFORD in The Boston Herald

The boy of today has more stimulating ingenuity in turning their hands to what- and highly seasoned amusements than read- ever the day might call for. ing about the humdrum doings of his But the best thing in Kellogg's books, grandfathers. The jangle of the radio, the and what really gives them enduring signifi- varied excitement of "necking," the rush cance for us today, is their study and depic- and crime and color of the movies, must tion of the primitive New England char- make Elijah Kellogg's stories seem tame acter. The Elm Island books are full of and dull. But those of us who were boys sturdy, energetic, resourceful men and fifty odd years ago and had neither movies women, who might have been your ances- nor radio found the Elm Island books di- tors or mine, ancestors to be proud of. verting and delightful, and some of us read What a salient figure is Lion Ben, the un- them over and over. It may be worth while couth, muscular, burly giant, so gifted with to recall them now that these tercentenary strength that he hardly knows how to man- days are turning our eyes toward the past. age it, yet gentle, tender and kindly as a The Reverend Elijah Kellogg preached woman. Again, there is Joe Griffin, with his endless store till he was past ninety in the little village of practical jokes, clown- of Harpswell, Maine, and it cannot be ing it through life in a succession of mad denied that some of his preaching got into pranks, yet able to hew his way to success his stories, but for the most part they are with an axe or hammer as well as with a full of the bustle and the activity of this jest. And there is Capt. Rhines, the very world. Kellogg's best known literary effort man to have by you in an emergency, with in his own day was the Speech of Spartacus that quickness of infinite resources, which to the Gladiators, which was long a favor- in the end was what set America free. Best ite piece of declamation in school readers. of all, there is Uncle Isaac Mtirch, a real But his narratives of common New Eng- character creation, with his Indian training land life are not declamation, but a genuine, and his Anglo - Saxon intelligence, the sympathetic record of the feelings and say- model of that Yankee gift for doing things, ings and doings of the humble people about all sorts of things, which was the prime him, the people to whom you and I and all agent in making New England what it is that is best in us owe our origin. Kellogg today, or as some carpers are disposed to understood these people, and he rendered murmur, what it used to be. their ordinary lives, their struggles, their So, through all these Elm Island books ambitions, their rough diversions, and their there runs the strong, wholesome, natural, kindliness with admirable fidelity. outdoor savor and relish of primitive life. The boys of his stories had their play as If the boy of todav could be persuaded to well as those of today, and the play was read them, perhaps they would do him good. hardy and muscle-building. They jumped, and ran, and wrestled, and threw, with in- The Ivy festivities of the Class of 1931 exhaustible skill and vigor. They worked, were held under practically ideal weather also, learned to do things because they had conditions. Everything went well except to do things, they farmed, and built boats, the baseball game, lost to Bates, by a 15

and built houses, and developed an excellent to 5 score.

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A Student Wonders About The Class of 1940 BY THE UNDERGRADUATE EDITOR

Not long ago a high school acquaintance, tory school men, and as a result many a

who is seriously considering the problem of good student has gone elsewhere. It is true choosing a college where he may continue that a sub-freshman week end has been his study, questioned me about various col- sponsored every year, but for various rea- leges with regard to their requirements, ex- sons these occasions have not proved com-

penses, scholarships, opportunities for self- pletely successful. It is difficult to arrange aid, and the worth of the courses offered. a time which will be convenient for men of Naturally enough the conversation turned all schools. This year the week end came to Bowdoin. I endeavored to point out the when the seniors of no less than four of advantages of a small college such as Bow- the larger Maine preparatory schools were doin, but my friend was not absolutely con- making trips to Washington. As a result, vinced. He agreed that Bowdoin has ex- there were only about fifty guests for the cellent equipment and high scholastic stand- occasion. Often a man gets a false im- ards, but like many another prospective un- pression of the college from such an abbre- dergraduate he was under the impression viated stay. He does become acquainted

that Bowdoin is a rich man's college, and with the physical plant of the college, but he was not at all sure that a liberal arts at best he learns little about the normal

education is the type to be sought. "What operation or activity of Bowdoin. The

is the value of studying languages, philos- equipment of a college is of course highly ophy, or art if you are planning to go into important, although the mere fact that Bow- business?" he asked. "Would not a busi- doin has an excellent swimming pool or a ness school or work in some large organi- well equipped Union is not in itself a suffi- zation be a more profitable training than cient reason to influence a man to come here four years spent in studying Latin, French, to college. The purposive man, who wants or Greek?" to know what Bowdoin can offer in the way

The problem which confronts this high of preparing him for a life work, does not find school man is not a novel one, but it has set an answer to his problems at an inter- me thinking about Bowdoin more than ever fraternity vaudeville show, however fasci- before. How many other high school stu- nating it may be. dents are skeptical about Bowdoin because Bowdoin needs a closer contact with pre-

of an impression that it is a rich man's paratory school men both in the State of college, and because of a feeling that a lib- Maine and throughout New England. Sub-

eral arts education is not as valuable as freshman week end and the Interscholastic some other? Is Bowdoin not losing many Track Meet are excellent in so far as they good men every year simply because they go, but they are inadequate. The newly have a false impression of the college, or conceived idea of awarding scholarships to because they are skeptical of the merits of a the winners of competitive examinations in

liberal education? Other colleges attempt various districts in Maine is laudable, and to remove such impressions and doubts by will undoubtedly bring more good men to establishing an intimate contact with va- Bowdoin. Even this, however, is not suffi- rious schools. In the past, Bowdoin has cient. If Bowdoin really hopes to interest failed to show sufficient interest in prepara- the right type of men, something more must

[99] [The B ow doin Alumnus be done to correct false impressions which BOWDOIN PRINTS seem to be so prevalent. The alumni in Hawthorne Smyth, a member of the some cities are doing much by holding" Bow- Class of 1 1 and great grandson of doin Nights for preparatory school men. 93 Nathaniel Hawthorne, has recently com- This is a worth while practice, and one pleted a set of eight linoleum which should be more widely adopted. As a block cuts representing eight of Bowdoin's most dis- further aid, would it not be possible for tinguished alumni. The list includes someone connected with the college to visit Nathaniel Hawthorne himself, his the principal preparatory schools through- class- mate, Henry W. Longfellow, Franklin out New England and to tell the students Pierce 1824, William Pitt Fessenden first-hand something about Bowdoin? It is 1823, Thomas B. Reed i860, Melville W. Fuller all very well for the undergraduate to J853, Gen. O. O. Howard 1850, and Robert know that Bowdoin is not a college of snobs E. Peary 1877. or a rich man's college ; it is all very well The prints have been well received by for him to know that the value of a liberal critics at the College and elsewhere, a re- education is to develop the capacity for production of the one of Hawthorne having clear thinking, and, as President Hyde so appeared in the Boston Herald not long ago. aptly put it, "to be at home in all lands In order that interested alumni may se- and all ages", but the preparatory school cure copies of these prints a limited number man is not likely to know these things un- of portfolios containing the set, prepared on less someone tells him. Japanese paper, have been made up and may Bowdoin desires to maintain the position be secured through the Alumni Office at the which has been hers in the past, and which College. The price for the portfolios is she so rightfully deserves. To do so she $6, but single prints of any of the group may must have the right type of undergraduates, be had at $1 each. Mr. Smyth has been and this type can be secured only by a more assisted in his work by Ronald P. Bridges intimate contact with the men of the pre- of the Senior class. paratory schools.

Realizing that Boston's facilities for en- A final design for the border of the Bow- tertainment will be taxed to capacity during doin plates mentioned in our last issue has the observance of the Tercentenary this been accepted and will be on exhibit at summer, the Board of Governors of The Commencement, when orders for the plates University Club, has voted to open the will be taken. Delivery will probably be Clubhouse, by guest privileges, to college made early in Plates June, 1931. may be men throughout the country. The Club in- ordered in either blue or black, the latter cludes a lounge and dining-room for ladies, color having been requested by a number or ladies with their escorts. There are no of alumni. sleeping rooms available for women guests.

The University Club of Boston is a new Results in the State Track Meet and the $2,500,000 plant, including first-class bed- New England Meet were about as expected, rooms, dining-rooms, private rooms for Bowdoin finishing third in the former and lunches, dinners and parties, swimming- fifth in the second contest. Better things pool, squash courts, badminton courts, can be expected next year from several bowling alleys, and the service and appur- excellent men in the lower classes. tenances found only in the best clubs.

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The Case For "Liberal and Useful" Arts

JOHN W. LEYDON '07

Some time ago a committee submitted a alone for the vocational value but also for report upon the needs of Bowdoin College the lively interest which facts and things for the next ten years. Under the heading: arouse in comparison with words and ideas.

"General Policies of the College", section I believe it is a mistake to leave the prac- one, the report states: "Bowdoin College tical preparation for life to the universities can best fulfill its purposes and serve the and to stress fundamental courses through-

cause of education: I. By giving instruction out the four college years. I think the col-

only in such basic subjects as History, lege should plan its courses as if the stu- Literature, Science, Philosophy, and Art dent were to stop his formal education with without attempting on the one hand to his graduation and were to enter into life usurp the province of the universities by work, in business, banking, teaching, or pursuing these studies in their own more politics — but not law or medicine — as limited or specialized aspects or on the other soon as he received his degree. This sup- hand to depart from the more fundamental position would not be far wrong, because subjects by giving instruction along more the majority of our graduates do not con- practical lines." tinue at the universities, with the exception However, the conception of the founders of a few classes. This continual postpone- of the college was that it should promote ment of the practical application of studies, "Virtue and Piety, and the knowledge of this passion for laying foundations which such of the languages and of the useful and may never serve to rear a respectable struc- liberal arts and science as shall hereafter ture, is the reason why useless things are be directed." In accepting the name of dismissed with a scornful : "That is a mere "Liberal Arts College" we must not forget matter of academic interest." As if reali- our obligation to serve useful ends; the ties were not of academic interest, as if the parents who sacrifice to send their boys to useful were ignored, as if facts did not college and the boys who sacrifice to attend, enter into the college scheme, as if only trust the college to give them a useful as theory, the dead past, philosophical specu- well as a liberal education. To me the col- lation, visionary Utopias, were the favorite lege has a three-fold function : To give an concern in college accurate knowledge of the present, an ap- I preface my suggestions with the above preciation of the past, and a preparation paragraphs because I fear that some may

for the future. The dangers inherent in say : "Bowdoin cannot give the courses you college education are due to an over- advocate because it is a Liberal Arts Col- emphasis upon the past and a neglect of the lege and has not the facilities for vocational present and future. We must not despise or practical training." The general answer the practical practical things possess an in- is that Bowdoin can and ; to that objection terest and an educational value superior to ought to do the things which will enable its theoretical matters in many cases, else the graduates to function ably and at once in case system in vogue in Harvard Law the life they are to enter when they leave

School would not have been so successful. its halls. Its charter requires it ; as a human

Tt would not be too much to ask that all institution it has the human responsibility subjects be taught in a practical way, not of fulfilling its covenant.

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The one particular phase of training I exercised, great personalities do not find should like to see stressed in Bowdoin is the their way into the profession. The liberal courses in Education. A great many Bow- arts colleges have a grave responsibility to doin men teach in secondary schools or col- their states to correct this condition. leges. Professional courses are required A continual flow of good material to the for state certificates to teach. They are college is a by-product of well-trained men necessary for appointment to public school teaching in New England schools. This systems. They are helpful in private may sound like a selfish motive, but it is schools. They contribute to advancement. selfish only in the degree that all good ser-

They are a prime requisite for executive vice is selfish, — it brings its reward. It is positions, and they are a sensible prepara- not as if teachers were badly paid and the tion for the profession to which many grad- college were preparing them for blind alley uates devote their lives. They did not used positions. The rewards in teaching com- to be required and many men have achieved pare well with the other professions and success without professional courses in business. Salaries from five thousand to

Education. That day has passed; it is im- twenty thousand a year can be expected by perative for us to realize that a college de- well trained teachers. A great many col- gree by itself is not enough to insure lege men will teach anyway; they like the appointment and advancement. scholastic life, are willing to suffer its

A great function of the college is to fur- privations, if need be, to enjoy the work nish educational leadership to the State of with youth and the contact with books. Maine. Without the background of educa- They have a flair for that particular pro- tional studies any potential leadership is fession. They must be given during their inarticulate and impotent. When the lib- college years the things which will make eral arts college relinquished its task of them most effective in it. supplying educational leaders, principals, I am afraid' that the attitude of the liberal superintendents, department heads, other arts college is "high-hat" regarding profes- and less capable institutions moved forward sional courses in education. It minimizes to fill the breach. The methods, aims, and their importance; it is prouder of its grad- ideals of American education are getting to uates who take university courses and teach be in the hands of those who have not had in colleges ; it thinks the secondary school is the broad influence of colleges like Bow- so elementary that no training is necessary doin, and who undervalue all liberal studies. it regards teaching as a makeshift; it pre-

They tend to eliminate Latin and Greek, fers business, medicine, or law ; it cannot they modify and cut down Mathematics, adequately prepare for these professions so they undervalue foreign languages. Why it will not prepare for teaching. should they not? They have had little or Even if a college man were not to teach, nothing of these studies and have managed adequate courses in education would be to get along well enough without them. The justified. He is to be a citizen of some com- liberal arts colleges have simply withdrawn munity where education is an important from the field and left it to the normal activity. As an educated man he will be schools and normal colleges. The danger called upon to help determine its trends. is that such men are peculiarly susceptible He will have children of his own to super- to fads and soft pedagogy. The love of vise. Contact with education will surely learning is not encouraged, sound scholar- come. He ought to know its aims, the phil- ship is not required, critical judgment is not osophy underlying it, the methods in vogue,

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and to be able to exercise critical judgment At a number of our American college; in this as in every other matter of public where the Alumni Fund plan is in operation welfare. various prize awards have been instituted Another question arises: Will the stu- with a view to spurring on competition between Class Agents and a general increase dents elect these courses? That will depend of interest in the Fund. Prizes have been upon their guidance and upon the adequacy offered for the best Agent's letter, and for of courses given, as well as upon the ex- the best results express< d contributions perience and power of the professor giving m on various mathematical bases. It has been them. If these courses are treated as step- decided to make an award of this latter children, offered one year and not another; sort at Bowdoin and at the Commencement if they are given a grudging reception by Dinner President Sills will present a walk- other members of the faculty, allowed as ing stick of Thorndike Oak to the Class a concession rather than welcomed as a Agent in whose class is found the greatest forward step in the service of the college numerical percentage of contributors, re- to the community and to the students, they gardless of the total amounts involved. This will be elected by few. But if the college percentage will be computed as a fraction, gets an outstanding man around whom the with the number of living graduates as de- department can be built he will attract his nominator the number of graduate con- following. College students are not adverse and tributors as numerator. The number of to counsel. They are rather docile than non-graduate contributors will be added to otherwise. They respect the advice of those both numerator and denominator. who are placed over them. They will be In making this award the Fund Directors quick to see the logic of professional courses seek to recognize the principle that the in Education. Alumni Fund is successful more as it is History of Education, Educational Phil- measured in number of contributors than osophy, Psychology, Methods of teaching in in total funds raised. Secondary Schools, Educational Adminis- tration come to my mind as courses suit- The editorial in the Alumnus of a year able for a liberal arts college. Education ago, written by George E. Minot '19 and as a Major should be a favorite for some, headed "Ten Years Out," was judged the as a Minor for those who specialize in lan- third best editorial of the year in competi- guages, mathematics, science, or historv. I tion with practically all the alumni maga- have stressed secondary school teaching in zines of the country. The award was an- advocating this new department. The time nounced at the meeting of the American is coming and will soon be here when col- Alumni Council at Amherst early in May. lege teachers will need similar training. One fourth of their college courses is not too much to devote to the training for the Gavels made from limbs of the Thorndike skilful exercise of their profession. Oak have been presented to nearly all of our alumni organizations during the past practice will be con- Five students in Maine secondary schools few months and the have been awarded scholarships of $500 tinued until all have been supplied. each, under the plan announced in the last issue of the Alumnus. Nearly fifty boys Bowdoin has been named as residual took the competitive examinations on which beneficiary to the estate of Dr. Charles S. the awards were based. Wright '91, who died on April 13th.

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A Thought or Two on Business Schools

KENNETH S. BOARDMAN '21

"Trade must not be entered into as a his livelihood, has recently been most aptly thing of light concern; it is called business stated by Mr. Fosdick of the Class of 1930 very properly, for it is a business for life, in the American Magazine. It may be that and ought to be follow'd as one of the great Business schools furnish a part of the an- businesses of life; I do not say the chief, swer to his queries. Probably many men but one of the great businesses of life it attend business schools simply in the hope certainly is ; trade must, I say, be work'd at, of finding what they really want to do. This not play'd with; he that trades in jest, will alone, might almost justify the time and certainly break in earnest; and this is one effort spent, if satisfactory solutions of the reason indeed why so many tradesmen come problem could be assured. to so hasty a conclusion of their affairs." While business schools cannot completely — Daniel Defoe, The Complete English solve this problem, they may, by making Tradesman, First Edition, 1726. their students more familiar with the multi- Thus, nearly 200 years before "Business tudinous forms of business activity, tend to Schools" were instituted did Defoe fore- crystallize natural aptitudes and help in the cast their coming, for that which is "one process of finding the proper niche. One of the main businesses of life" surely war- thing is surely accomplished, if the student rants all reasonable preparation. Generally absorbs the first principle of business train- increasing enrollments in both undergrad- ing; that is, a realization that modern uate and graduate business schools during business is a highly complex organism, and recent years indicate their acceptance by there is hardly a business problem which students as another means of preparation can be dealt with strictly as of a specialized for active life. Increasing pressure has field. been felt, I believe, by many faculties to In a number of interviews with business widen the curriculum and provide more op- men, while engaged in research work for portunity for the undergraduate to prepare the Harvard Bureau of Business Research, himself for business. I have been quizzed as to what the School Even justly conservative Bowdoin, with is all about. These men, without exception, its liberal arts traditions, has seen a marked have confirmed the suspicion that one of the expansion of its economics department and most difficult problems of the business the introduction of courses and texts which executive is to develop perspective in those tacitly admit that "trade is not a thing of having junior responsibilities; to make light concern." Bowdoin, however, has them realize there are other phases of the steadfastly adhered to its general cultural business than the one with which they hap- traditions and, I believe, has studiously pen to be familiar. avoided overemphasis on the vocational It probably is only natural that a man type of course. The interest of Bowdoin entering the sales department, and receiv- men, then, may be expected to be primarily ing all of his early training in that divi- in graduate business training, rather than sion, should feel that it is preeminent in im-

in undergraduate schools. portance ; that any moron can make the

The problem of the liberal arts graduate, product, while it takes keen brains to sell as he faces business as a field for gaining it. The other side is probably equally to be

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expected: that the junior factory executive, basis for the claim, however, seems to me from his experience, has reached the fixed to lie rather in the method employed than

conclusion that it takes real ability to make in the subject matter; that is, the so-called good in the plant, while a glib tongue is the Case Method of teaching. The value of this only requisite for selling. When these two method seems to be practically unanimously viewpoints are forced together by such a agreed upon by those who have experienced question as whether or not to make a new it, either as teacher or student. Traditional

product, friction is a distinct probability. methods of lectures and readings, while ad-

Can a business school solve this problem ? mittedly affording much factual content to

Tt, at least, can make a sincere effort, and one who has a retentive memory, do not

does by the organization of its curriculum. assure the development of reasoning ability At the Harvard Business School each first nor prepare the student to face a problem,

year student is required to take the follow- the solution of which does not depend on

ing five courses : Marketing, Industrial what some eminent authority may have Management, Finance, Accounting, and written on the subject. Statistics. In this schedule we find repre- To be given merely a set of facts, and to sented the two major operating divisions, be expected to present and defend a logical Production and Distribution; the activity decision without the "sanctity of the printed

which provides the essential capital, Fi- page" as a bulwark, is an unique and stim- nance; and the two tools by which manage- ulating experience annually undergone by a

ment checks its progress and plans the substantial number of first year graduate future, Accounting and Statistics. business students. There have been frequent cases of stu- Sharing^ this experience with men from dents definitely planning to enter a specific pretty much all over the country, all of business which would not seem to involve them college graduates, while nerve-wrack- one or more of the required subjects; but ing to the self-conscious, makes for the de- exceptions granted to the schedule as out- velopment of poise and quick thinking. It lined have been very rare. The wisdom of also establishes a bond of sympathy which this policy is substantiated by the large seems to hold business school men together number of men who have specialized in one with a surprising community of interest, in field, and have finally landed in another, spite of the widely diverse fields into which but without voicing noticeable regret at the they finally go.

courses which they took. Business school training is costly, but on The second year schedule at Harvard the basis of the records established by a

allows for considerable latitude in the number who have taken the time it seems choice of courses, but even yet, a course in to have justified the investment. Doubt- Business Policy attempts to coordinate the less many of these men would have reached various divisions and activities which to- the same positions which are now held, in

gether comprise the average business of time, but there is distinct probability that today. the time would have been materially longer. The statement has often been made that Business training, however, does not, and

"The Harvard Law School is the best I believe, can not, teach any individual the training for business." With this statement technique of a particular job. This must be I have much sympathy, as proved by the ex- learned on the job, and the business school perience of many of its graduates who have graduate expects to undergo a gruelling made marked successes in business. The period of apprenticeship in business, before

[ 107] [The B 07v d o in Alumnus he will have an opportunity to make use of reasoned a solution to a particular situation. much of the training which he has acquired "It was obviously the thing to do," is their in school. answer, when questioned as to why a par- Business men are more and more realiz- ticular decision was made. Further queries, ing that business training, of an academic however, will bring out that objections to nature, attempts to develop a viewpoint alternative plans have been carefully, even which facilitates intelligent analysis of though semi-consciously, weighed and that business problems, rather than to furnish a sound decision can usually be found to instruction for any particular job. have sound reasoning behind it. No school, furthermore, can hope to Business has been called "the oldest of teach a man how to be an executive. It the arts, and the newest of the professions." can, however, instill habits of thought Tf this be so, is it surprising that business which should aid a man in securing the schools are today beginning to occupy the point of view of administration, rather position which was held by the college of

than the narrower viewpoint of divisional yesterday ; a place to secure specialized bias which seemingly is so naturally training, by those who take a long-run view, acquired and so difficult to overcome. and are willing for the moment to sacrifice

Many business men pride themselves on the time, and still further expand their their ability to make quick decisions, and mental capital, in anticipation of greater seem to be totally unconscious of having ultimate dividends ?

Prominent Clubmen of the Early Twentieth Century

W«bb Henderson W. Finn Stone Cole Randall Shorey Philoon Brett Lermond Davis Robbins

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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TO THE FUND

HONORARY ALUMNI OF THE 1883 Albert K. Newman T. Powers GRADUATES COLLEGE W. J. Collins H. S. Gannett Frank M. Tukey, M.D. Mrs. Francis G. Allinson 1866 S. Charles C. Hutchins 1892 Charles T. Copeland In memory of Cyrus H. K. Curtis N. B. K. Pettingill Percy Bartlett Henry W. Swasey Arthur J. Russell George R. Elliott Will O. Hersey ChaunceyW. Goodrich, DD 1869 1884 John F. Hodgdon Miss Heloise E. Hersey Clarence Hale Charles E. Adams, M.D. Lyman K. Lee Charles H. Payson 1871 John E. Cummings Alfred M. Merriman Charles M. Pennell FRIENDS OF THE Col. E. T. Brown Rev. Oliver W. Means 1872 John A. Waterman 1893 COLLEGE Byron F. Barker, M.D. Anonymous Simeon P. Meads 1885 J. S. Richards Boyd Bartlett Harry C. Fabyan Charles T. Burnett John R. Gould Jesse W. Lambert Flint 1873 F. M. William Converse Kendall 1894 Alfred Johnson John F. Eliot William P. Nealley Henry E. Andrews Allen Johnson Addison E. Herrick John A. Peters R. H. Baxter Benjamin T. Pierce 1875 Rev. Charles L. Skinner Trelawney C. Chapman Henry H. Pierce, Jr. Edwin H. Hall W. Eugene Currier, M.D. Arthur W. Sewall William G. 1886 Hunton Francis W. Dana Loyall F. Sewall Christopher H. Wells George S. Berry Walter V. Wentworth H. L. Horsman, M.D. SOCIETY OF 1876 F. Pickard 1887 W. BOWDOIN WOMEN Tascus Atwood Rev. Robert L. Sheafi Charles T. Hawes Freeman D. Dearth Edgar Mrs. El Farrington Abbott M. Simpson John G. Libby John V. Lane Emery H. Sykes Mrs. H. C. Baxter Arthur John A. Morrill W. Merrill Elias Thomas Mrs. Charles T. Burnett A. T. Parker F. L. Talbot William W. Thomas Mrs. Stanley P. Chase Franklin C. Payson 1888 1895 Mrs. R. H. Cobb A. H. Sabin Mrs. Lyman A. Cousens Thomas H. Ayer A. G. Axtell Alpheus Sanford William L. Black Mrs. W. J. Curtis Bertram L. Bryant H. Mrs. Harold F. Dana 1877 S. Card Charles S. Christie Mrs. Luther Dana Philip G. Brown George F. Cary H. J. Dudley T. Mrs. William S. Dennett William Cobb 1889 Louis C. Hatch Mrs. Frederick E. Drake F. H. Dillingham Emerson L. Adams J. Everett Hicks Mrs. J. B. Drummond Rev. George A. Holbrook Bernard C. Carroll William M. Ingraham Mrs. A. A. French P. H. Ingalls, M.D. Charles H. Fogg N. Gratz Jackson Mrs. John W. Frost Samuel A. Melcher Earle A. Merrill Edward S. Lovejoy Mrs. Ralph M. Greenlaw George W. Tilson Daniel E. Owen Frank H. Mead Mrs. C. L. Hagerman 1878 William P. F. Robie Alfred Mitchell, Jr., M.D. Mrs. Roscoe Ham Hartley C. Baxter Edward R. Stearns, D.D. Hoyt A. Moore Mrs. E. Eugene Holt, Jr. Isaac W. Dyer V. O. White Ralph T. Park-r Mrs. Ralph H. Hunt Samuel E. Smith Frank A. Wilson Philip D. SHibbs Mrs. William D. Ireland 1879 1890 George C. Webber Miss Rachel Israel Heber D. M. Bowker H. E. Alexander 1896 Mrs. Henry Johnson Frank M. Byron P. W. Brooks W. S. Bass Mrs. Mary L. Johnson Edward E. Hastings Edgar F. Conant, M.D. Homer R. Blodgett Mrs. Franklin Lawrence Charles F. Johnson Albert B. Donworth Ralph W. Mrs. Norman MacKinnon Crosman 1880 Daniel Evans, D.D. Philip Dana Miss Bessie M. Mikels Walter L. Dane Capt. George F. Freeman Francis S. Dane Miss Esther T. Mikels Horace R. Given W. H. Greeley Chase Miss Sophia M. Mikels Eastman Frederic W. Hall H. H. Hastings Angus G. Hpbb, M.D. Mrs. Edward F. Moody Walter P. Perkins M. Charles A. Mrs. Paul Nixon W. Hubbard Knight Thomas H. Riley Rev. Walter Preston Kyes Mrs. Sidney W. Noyes R. Hunt Virgil C. Wilson Charles L. Ralph W. Leightnn Mrs. F. W. Pickard Hutchinson Wilmot B. Carlton P. Miss Emily W. Pierce 1881 Mitchell Merrill Mrs. Emma A. Pierce Edgar O. Achorn Albert S. Ridley John Clair Minot Miss Evelina Pierce William M. Brown Frank E. Simpson, M.D. Harry Oakes Mrs. Henry H. Pierce Albert C. Cobb E. P. Spinney Henry W. Owen. Jr. Mrs. Thomas L. Pierce C. H. Cutler Aretas E. Strarns Henry H. Pierce Mrs. Thomas H. Riley Frederic A. Fisher Henry W. Webb Richard T. Plnmstcad Charles Mrs. Thomas H. Riley, Jr. Dr. Robert H. Greene 1891 T. Stone Mrs. Clement F.Robinson John W. Manson Lewis A. Burleigh John B. Thompson, M.D. Mrs. Arthur Sewall William T«wle Richard F. Chase, M.D. Alfred P. Ward Mortimor Mrs. Charles Morton Sills John W. Wilson Benjamin L. Furbish Warren, M.D. Mrs. Kenneth C. M. Sills 1882 Edward N. Goding 1897 Miss Anna E. Smith W. W. Curtis C. H. Hastings Eugene L. Bodge Miss Belle Hawes Smith William C. Merryman Chas. S. F. Lincoln, M.D. George E. Carmichacl Mrs. WalterV.Wentworth William A. Moody W. G. Mallett Alfred P. Cook Mrs. F. N. Whittier George H. Pierce, M.D. George C. Mahoney, M.D. D. Weston Elliot Mrs. Philip S. Wilder Arthur G, Staples Henry Nelson A. A. French

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Prof. J. W. Hewitt Philip O. Coffin T. R. Winchell George F. Cressey Rev. Hugh MacCallum Charles P. Conners J. F. Wogan A. L. Grant, Jr. San Lorenzo Merriman Luther Dana 1908 M. H. Gray Reuel W. Smith Harold W. Files Joseph M. Boyce William Holt, M.D. Josepn S. Stetson S. B. Gray James M. Chandler John H. Joy A. Greene, 1895 John M.D. William R. Crowley Herbert E. Locke J. A. Harlow Percival P. Baxter Albert T. Gould Leland G. Means Franklin Lawrence John F. Dana Arthur H. Ham Joseph H. Newell Edward F. Moody Frederick E. Drake Arthur H. Huse Frank A. Smith, M.D. James B. Perkins Albert C. Eames George P. Hyde Allan Woodcock, M.D. Niles L. Perkins Guy C. Howard C. A. Leighton 1913 Grant Pierce C. F. Kendall, M.D. Kent Packard Chester G. Abbott J. R. Ridlon, M.D. H. C. Knight In memory of Edwin C. Burleigh T. H. Riley, Jr. William W. Lawrence Arthur L. Robinson Frank I. Cowan Clement F. Robinson C. L. Lynch Carl M. Robinson, M.D. Laurence A. Crosby George S. Sabin P. E. Stetson, M.D. Cedric R. Crowell Wendell McKown George H. Stover Rufus Dwight R. Pennell Nathan S. Weston Albert P. Cushman Blaine S. Viles Theodore Daniels Charles S. Pettengill Leon V. Walker 1909 W. Thomas L. Pierce Stanley F. Dole Francis J. Welch, M.D. Harrison Atwood William E. Preble, M.D. Emery Jesse D. Wilson P. G. Bishop Theodore E. Ellis Spear, Jr. Harold H. Burton Neil A. Fogg, M.D. 1904 William W. Spear- Reed H. Ellis D. Earl Gardner O. Frank H. Swan Emery Beane Carl R. Green, M.D. Winthrop S. Greene Alpheus G. Varney E. L. Brigham Gardner K. Heath Benjamin D. Holt Edward W. Wheeler Myrton A. Bryant Walter Palmer Hinckley V. R. Leavitt Alfred B. George Burpee White W. Howard F. Kane, M.D. Albert E. Parkhurst Ralph L. Wicrein Thomas E. Chase Lucius D. Lumbard James E. Philoon Stephen E. Young Marshall P. Cram Harold N. Marsh Sumner T. Pike John W. Frost 1899 C. Earle Richardson, M.D. Lester B. Shackford Clyde F. Grant Fred H. Albee, M.D. Arthur L. Smith John A. Slocum Chester T. Harper L. L. Cleaves Jasper T. Stahl A. H. Sweet E. P. D. Hathaway Royal S. Cleaves Kenneth R. Tefft Elmer E. Tufts, Jr. H. L. Palmer Harold F. Dana John A. Wentworth, M.D. W. F. Twombly William T. Rowe Edward R. Godfrey Philip S. Wood Ralph M. Greenlaw H. C. Saunders 1910 R. E. G. Bailey 1914 Francis L. Lavertu Arthur C. Shorey A. E. Spear Stuart F. Brown Hebron M. Adams L. Brooks Leavitti S. A. Cary A. Lucien P. Libby Donald Walker Charles C. Brown John D. Clifford, Jr. Samuel W. Chase W. T. Libby 1905 Gardner W. Cole William H. Farrar H. E. Marston, M.D. Stanley P. Chase Clyde Leroy Deming Vernon Marr Roy L. Marston Charles P. Clpaves W. Cony Sturgis Ralph N. Cushing F. C. Evans Leo W. Pratt Robert Hale Clifford L. Russell 1900 James G. Finn H. W. Garcelon James F. Hamburger Earle S. Thompson J. R. Bass Hawes Robert F. Chapman' Henry Lewis Henry Q. 1915 H. B. McLaughlin Robert S. Edwards Leonard A. Pierce H. Everett Allen, M.D. Burleigh Martin George F. Goodspeed John W. Riley George W. Bacon Curtis Matthews James F. Knight Col. Keith Rvan F. Philip L. Card Thomas Otis Rev. Frederick C. Lee William B. Webb H. G. Cross Rodney E. Ross T. F. McCormick L. D. H. Wpjd Edward R. Elwell Smith J. C. Pearson Donald C. White Leon H. Harry P. Faulkner Philip L. Pottle — Ralnh L. Thompson 1906 O. R. Folsom-Jones G. Conv Weston Clarence C. Robinson Henry P. Frank E. Knowlton Chapman Harry W. Woodward, M.D. 1901 Melvin T. Copeland Paul J. Koughan Harold Lee Berry C. H. Cunningham, M.D. 1911 Austin H. MacCormick Roland E. Clark R. J. Hodgson, Jr. Charles F. Adams F. P. McKenney Ripley L. Dana Currier C. Holman H. M. Berry Ralph Reid M^Hoon Murray S. Danforth. M.D. Charles F. Jenks W. H. Callahan Dana K. Merrill Edwin M. Fuller. Jr. Rev. O. W. Peterson John E. Cartland, M.D. Charles C. Morrison, Jr. Alfred L. Laferriere Frank D. Rowe William H. Clifford Clifford T. Perkins Edward K. Leighton James W. Sewall John L. Curtis John F. Rollins Albert D. Page A. H. Staples Willard H. Curtis Georgp C. Thomoson John A. Pierce Robie R. Stevens Lawrence Davis Harold E. Verrill Walter L. Sanborn E. E. Wing Walter N. Emerson Robert T. Weatherill Kenneth C. M. Sills 1907 O. P. Haley George C. Wheeler 1916 Lester Adams Hugh W. Hastings Clemens A. Yost Ralph L. Barrett Chas. R. Bennett Stetson H. Hussey Bate 1902 Francis H. Jos. B. Drummond, M.D. F. R. Lord Adriel U. Bird Ben Barker Edward A. Duddy Charles L. Oxnard Bodwell John D. Churchill Ralph P. Lin wood M. Erskine Lawrencp P. Parkman Lyman A. Cousens Eugene J. Cronin John H. Halford Alton S. Pope James A. Dunn William L. Flye Roscoe H. Hupper Fdward W. Skplton Edward P. Garland Col. George E. Fogg Henry L. Johnson, M.D. Harold S. White Chauncey A. Hall Harvey D. Gibson Charles P. Kinsman 1912 Donald C. Hight Harrison K. McCann William S. Linnell William D. Ireland Sidney W. Noyes Fnsign Otis C. C. Abbott A. Andrews G. Leadbetter J. H. Sinkinson Fulton J. Redman Harold W. George R. Walker William A. Robinson Harold C. L. Ashey J. B. Moulton 1903 Blinn W. Russell, M.D. Prof. Eugene F. Bradford Hayward T. Perkins E. Farrington Abbott Ralph E. Sawyer G. Clark Brooks Dwight H. Sayward R. C. Bisbee Aubrey J. Voorhees Robert D. Cole Carl A. Weick Philip G. Clifford M. A. Webber, M.D. Edgar F. Cousins W. P. Woodman

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1917 Don T. Potter Harold F. Eastman 1893 Charles E. Allen Avard L. Richan G. M. Elliott, Jr. Loring S. Lombard, M.D. Boyd W. Bartlett Ezra P. Rounds Philip H. Gregory 1894 Earle W. Cook Arthur Sewall Charles L. Hildreth William L. Haskell, M.D. Clarence H. Crosby Cloyd E. Small Horace A. Hildreth 1895 Leigh D. Flynt Henry Sprince, M.D. Howard E. Kroll C. W. P. Foss, M.D. Edward Humphrey W. A. Sturgis Henry L. C. Leighton Frank W. Lamb, M.D. C. S. Kuebler Emerson W. Zeitler Harry F. Smith Benj. L. Noyes, M.D. Edward C. Moran, Jr. Newell C. Townsend 1921 Wallace E. Webber, M.D. Donald W. Philbrick Carroll H. Clark 1926 Carleton M. Pike Donald K. Clifford Lloyd W. Fowles 1896 H. H. Sampson Paul H. Eames M. Gordon Gay Frank W. Morse, M.D. J. Burton Stride John F. Flynn E. Lee Goldsborough, Jr. 1897 Marcus A. Sutcliffe A. B. Holmes Carl K. Hersey Charles W. Bell, M.D. Ralph B. Thayer, M.D. Philip R. Lovell Joseph W. Higgins, Jr. C. C. Peasley, M.D. Isaac M. Webber, M.D. Ralph T. Ogden, M.D. Leland W. Hovey 1898 Winfield M. Wight Alexander Standi sh Robert Pitman W. J. G. Hanson, M.D. Harold S. Young C. Thalheimer Cyril H. John Simmons E. G. A. Stetson, M.D. 1918 John H. Williams Alan F. Small A. I. York, M.D. Edwin C. Call Milton J. Wing G. A. Spear C. Lloyd Claff John G. Young Leon L. Spinney 1899 William F. Hayward, M.D. Joseph F. Clark 1922 Edward H. Tevriz A. Brooks Libby, M.D. John B. Freese Frank G. Averill L. M. True Albion H. Little, M.D. Frederick F. French Paul G. Bagdikian 1927 Philip L. Pease A. S. Gray William F. Clymer Charles R. Campbell Julian E. Gray Clyde T. Congdon Lawrence R. Flint 1900 Oscar Lawrence Hamlin F. A. Fagone, M.D. D. D. Lancaster Carl R. Doten, M.D. Henry C. Haskell Waldo R. Flinn Don Marshall Wallace W. Dyson, M.D. Franklin D. MacCormick Cecil R. Getchell Thomas Martin James W. Loughlin, M.D. J. F. Mcintosh William K. Hall David K. Montgomery John S. Milliken, M.D. Bela W. Norton Carroll H. Keene, M.D. Mahlon C. Rowe Henry K. Stinson, M.D. Roderick Pirnie Virgil C. McGorrill Alden H. Sawyer 1901 Edward S. C. Smith Allen E. Morrell Edgar K. Sewall S. L. Andrews, M.D. T. R. Stearns G. Howard Noyes 1928 Robert H. Donnell, M.D. 1919 Standish Perry George G. Beckett Joseph J. Pelletier, M.D. Raymond G. Lewis A. Burleigh, Jr. Putnam William M. Dunbar 1903 J. Wesley Coburn, Widgery Thomas M.D. Edward M. Fuller Robert J. Wiseman, M.D. James C. Doherty Eben G. Tileston Donald B. Hewitt 1904 Louis W. Doherty John P. Vose C. H. Johnson „ Ernest V. Call, M.D. Robert P. Ewer Evarts J. Wagg B. Lucas Robley C. Rolland G. Farnham Wilson G. Fletcher W. Means 1908 Roliston G. Lincoln B. Farrar Woodbury William C. Pierce Seth S. Mullen, M.D. Edward B. Finn 1923 Robert H. Tripp John G. Potter, M.D. Roy A. Foulke L. C. Allen 1929 1909 Norman E. Robbins David W. Berman Robert C. Adams, Jr. Charles L. Curtis, M.D. John R. Gardner Allen Q. Christie Waldron L. Morse Ellsworth M. Gray Morris Dannis 1911 Walter S. Perkins Jacob B. Ham George T. Davis E. H. Jackson, M.D. Wolfgang R. Thomas Gordon S. Hargraves Edwin Gordon Hebb 1913 John H. Kern Elliott P. Perkins GRADUATES OF THE Edward R. Roberts, M.D. Leon Leighton, Jr. Karl Philbrick R. MEDICAL SCHOOL 1914 Louis B. McCarthy Richard I. Small Hudson R. Miller, M.D. John A. E. McClave Abipl M. Smith 1876 John H. Moulton, M.D. Hugh A. Mitchell Philip S. Wilder H. R. Corson, M.D. Howe S. Newell 1915 1924 1882 W. P. Racine H. D. Asdourian Frank D. Rollins, M.D. Isaac L. Gordon. M.D. Andrew M. Rollins L. Crawford R. C. Pletts, M.D. Harry M. Shwartz Churchill 1885 Carl E. Dunham James B. Thornton, M.D. 1916 1920 G. S. Gilpatrick N. S. Kupelian. M.D. 1 886 Robert H. Adams E. Malcolm Hardy Willis F. Hart, M.D. Gard W. Twaddle, M.D. Willard M. Cook George E. Hill 1917 S. B. Cousins Irvine- W. Jardine 1890 Loren F. Carter, M.D. William W. Curtis, Jr. C. Manson Allan L. Shirley, M.D. W. Ralph W. Haywood, M.D. Arthur A. Demuth A. H. Merrill 1891 F. N. Knapp, M.D. Edward H. Ellms William Rowe Daniel C. Dennett. M.D. Leland M. Goodrich Joseph T. Small George F. Libby, M.D. 1918 Stanley M. Gordon A. G. Ireland, M.D. 1925 1892 Henry W. Lamb, M.D. F. Webster Browne Luther G. Bunker, M.D. 1921 Clarence R. Lindner Athern P. Daggett Owen Smith, M.D. E. N. Giguere, M.D. Warren F. Millard George E. Davis A W. Sylvester, M.D. William E. Hill, M.D.

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ditions at the College and then answered such questions as were presented by the With The alumni present.

Alumni Bodies ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS BATH CLUB The second meeting of the year was held at the Hotel Northampton in Northampton The annual meeting- of the group w?s on Wednesday, May 7th. About fifteen held at the residence of President Frederick members were present to hear Professor E. Drake '98 on the evening of May 26th. Stanley P. Chase '05, who spoke for the Dean Nixon and the Alumni Secretary were College. George P. Hyde '08 was elected on hand to represent the College. About president for the coming year and Sidney twenty men were in attendance. P. Brown '27 was re-elected secretary.

BOSTON CLUB WORCESTER CLUB The April meeting of the Club was omit- The annual meeting was held on Monday, ted this year but a large gathering was held May 5th, with an attendance of about fif- on Friday, May 2, when Charles W. Bow- teen. The College was represented by Pro- ser, newly elected football coach, was on fessor Thomas C. Van Cleve. Dr. Frank hand as guest speaker. Officers for next L. Magune M'04 will be president of the year were elected, James A. Dunn '16 be- Club next year and John L. Crosby '10 was coming the new president and William H. re-elected secretary. Gulliver '25 assuming the duties of secretary. Faculty Notes KENNEBEC ASSOCIATION

President Sills was the guest of honor at Professor Mitchell will teach at the sum- the annual meeting held at the Augusta mer school at Bates this year for his tenth

House on Saturday, May 3. Other speakers consecutive season. included Attorney General Clement F. Rob- Professor Howard K. Beale has recently inson '03 and Lewis A. Burleigh '19. An published "The Critical Year" which dis- interesting account of the first meeting- of cusses the time immediately following the the Association, in 1898, was read by the Civil War when reconstruction in the retiring president, Ralph W. Leighton '96. South was being carried on under the con- Dr. R. H. Stubbs '98 will serve as president flicting direction of President Andrew for the next year and Leigh Webber '16 of Johnson and the leaders in Congress. The Hallowell will act as secretary. book has been very well received by critics as an authoritative work on this most inter- PORTLAND CLUB esting period of our history.

On Tuesday evening, May 6th, the Port- Herbert Hartman, instructor in English, land group met at the Cumberland Club for will be married early in July to Miss the annual President's Smoker. Following- Cornelia Stanwood, daughter of Professor dinner the meeting was turned over to Daniel C. Stanwood. The wedding wr ill President Sills, who spoke at length on con- take place near Oxford, England.

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The necrology since the appearance of Judge and Mrs. Clarence Hale, who spent the winter in the South, were guests of honor at the March issue is as follows a reception at their residence, given by their 1869—Frederick Augustine Fogg. daughter and Mrs. Robert Hale on April 8th. The affair was in observance of their 50th wed- 1875—Edward Serburne Osgood. ding anniversary and also the occasion of the 1880—Thomas Frederick Jones, D.D. 82nd birthday of Judge Hale. 1884-—Horace Coleman Phinney, A.M. 1875 1891—Charles Silas Wright, M.D. Edward Sherburne Osgood died at his home NT895—John Henry Richardson. in Portland, Maine, on May 27th. He was born on May 18, 1848 at Shelburne, N. H., and upon 1897—Samuel Page Ackley. his graduation from college went into newspaper T898—Alpheus Gould Varnen. work. He was at one time City Editor of the Med. 1870 — William Oliver Junkins, old daily Eastern Arpus in Portland and later paper. He M.D. became an editorial writer for that was greatly interested in the affairs of the Maine Med. 1871 — Frederick Granville Wil- Historical Society. liams, M.D. 1876 Med. 1880—John Aiken Sweat, M.D. Bion Wilson is now connected with Guibord, Inc., at State Street, Med. t 880—Samuel Brackett Thombs, White and Company, 30 M.D. Boston. 1879 1863 Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Huston sailed on May Judge George A. Emery of Saco, Maine, oldest 24th for a visit to Italy and Adriatic ports. They living member of the York County Bar Associa- plan to be gone several months. tion and one of the oldest living graduates of 1880 the College, relates that he first met the late Kate Douglas Wiggin in 1868, while he was seek- Rev. Thomas Frederick Jones died in Augusta, ing an acquaintance with Charles Dickens, fa- Maine on May 6th folowing a shock. He was mous author, who was then touring Maine. He born on January 23, 1854, in Tredegar, Mon- was informed that Mr. Dickens was a passenger mouthshire, England, and came to this country on the same train with him. Desiring to talk with his parents in 1862. Following his gradu- with the widely known writer, the judge, wear- ation from College he taught school and later ing his tall silk hat which gave him a height of joined the Maine Conference of the Methodist at least seven feet, started to walk through the Episcopal Church, receiving his first appointment cars. Entering one, he forgot to stoop and his to the Durham Circuit. He had various pas- hat was knocked off. A little girl sitting near- torates, including those of Augusta, South Port- by, looked up at the judge- and said politely, "You land, Lewiston and Bucksport. For six years he lost your hat, Mr. Man." Laughing, the judge was superintendent of the Rockland District of thanked the little one, picked up his hat and the Maine Methodist Conference and after his walked off. After exploring the entire train retirement from active participation in confer- without obtaining a sight of Dickens, he started ence work he was librarian of the Maine Con- back to his car and on the way saw Charles ference Seminary at Bucksport. He was given Dickens talking to the same little girl who had the degree of Doctor of Divinity by the college previously spoken to him. The little one proved in 1905. to be Kate Douglas Wiggin. This was the ex- Thomas H. Riley was elected president of the perience she wrote about years after in her "Lit- Brunswick Savings Institution on May 28th. Mr. tle Journeys with Dickens." Riley has been treasurer of the bank since June 1869 9, 1886. His position as treasurer has been filled by the election of his son, Thomas H. Riley, Jr., Frederic Augustine Fogg died at his home in who has been assistant treasurer since [918. St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 27 following a long- illness. He was born in Portland. Maine, on 1884 July 12, 1850 and after his graduation from col- Dr. Charles E. Adams and Albert W. Tolman lege went to St. Paul where he taught school for '88, accompanied by their wives, are in Europe ten years. In 1877-78 he was County Superin- for a three months' trip. tendent. Since that time he had been in the real Horace Coleman Phinney died on May 30th estate business, retiring a few years ago. He is at his home in New York City. He was born survived by a son, Frederick M. Fogg. on June 28, 1861 in Portland, Maine and upon

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his graduation from College went to New York, Maine, where he was on the staff of the U. S. where he has been in business ever since. Marine Hospital at the time of his death. 1886 1892 It was erroneously stated in the March Alum- John C. Hull, former speaker of the Massachu- nus that George S. Berry, Esq., had moved to setts House of Representatives and now a member of Victoria, B. C. Mr. Berry is still at 327 Kit- the Industrial Accident Board, has been tredge Building, Denver, Colo. appointed Director of the newly created Sale of Securities Division of the State Department ot 1888 Public Utilities. The work involves the regula- Willard W. Woodman of Peabody, Mass., has tion of the sale of stocks and bonds and the recently been elected president of the Old Salem registration of brokers and salesmen. Mr. Hull Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolu- will resign from his position on the Industrial tion. Accident Board before assuming his new duties. 1889 Rev. Harry W. Kimball of Needham, Mass., The following newspaper clipping has been will deliver the baccalaureate address at North- received : land College in Wisconsin on June 7th. Mr. !" "Of course Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays Kimball is completing his eighth year as pas- And this from no less a Shakespearean authority tor of the Needham Evangelical Congregational than Dr. Daniel E. Owen, professor of English Church. Since his assuming the pastorate there at the University of Pennsylvania ! the membership has increased from 200 to neariy But Dr. Owen, be it known, is a past master 700 and the physical value of the plant has been at sly expression of things by saying the exact built up to nearly five times its former valuation. opposite. And when he had uttered the above 1894 words his eyes slowly revealed a twinkle and his Rev. George A. Merrill writes that his wife, mouth evoked into a smile. Emma Merrill, died on January 15th at Littleton, "Of course he did," he continued. "Why, in N. H., where he is pastor of the Congregational one of girl's is as 'a the plays a face described Church. strip of red and a strip of white.' There you are 1895 —bacon !" William M. Ingraham has been re-elected Another story in which Dr. Owen takes de- president of the Maine State Society for the light concerns Coleridge's reputation as an inex- Protection of Animals. Lyman A. Cousens '02 is haustible talker. Treasurer of the Society. Early one morning while Charles Lamb waj» Word has just been received of the death on his way, to an office in which he was employed of John Henry Richardson at Glendale, Cali- he met Coleridge. The latter started talking fornia, in August 1928 but no details are avail- immediately and persisted, despite all Lamb's able. Mr. Richardson was born on September 5, efforts to edge away. Lamb finally maneuvered 1 87 1 in Brunswick and upon leaving College en- into a small alley, but Coleridge then grabbed a tered the employ of the U. S. Civil Service. He button on his coat. Lamb, not to be outdone, moved to California in 1908 and has lived there drew a knife from his pocket, quietly cut off the until the time of his death. button and sidled away—with Coleridge still Arthur H. Stetson has opened law offices at talking to the button ! 310 Sansome Street, San Francisco. But Dr. Owen doesn't really begin to laugh at this tale until he has gone ahead and told the 1897 Word has been received of the death of Sam- rest of it. For when Lamb finished work for uel Page Ackley details are available. the day he returned home by the same route but no Mr. Ackley was born on 28, in Prince- taken that morning—and there was Coleridge July 1873 ton, Maine, and upon graduation from College still holding the button and talking to it. entered the teaching profession, which he fol- 1890 lowed until 19 10 when he became a draughtsman. Rev. Walter R. Hunt, D.D., for several years He was living in Alameda. California, at the an administrative vice-president of the Ameri- time of his death. can Unitarian Association, was elected secretary Frederick H. Dole is the author of "A Manual of the Association at its annual meeting in Bos- of English Grammar", recently published by Al- ton in May. bert M. Jones '93.

1891 Archie S. Harriman writes : "I am now Grand Word has been received of the death of Secretary of all the Masonic Bodies of Ver- Charles Sias Wright, M.D., on April 13th. Dr. mont. My address is Masonic Temple, Burling- Wright was born on October 17, 1868 at Winter- ton, Vt." port, Maine. Upon his graduation from Bowdoin Charles S. Sewall and Mrs. Grace Merrill York he went to Harvard Medical School where he were married at Bath, Maine, on May 27th. received his M.D. in 1895. He practiced in Reuel W. Smith, secretary of the Auburn Boston for a time and then moved to Portland, (Maine) Loan and Building Association, has

["4] The B ow d o in Alumnus'] been appointed vice president of the Maine Chester C. Tuttle has recently been re-elected League of Loan and Building Associations. superintendent of the Kennebunk-Kennebunkport 1898 School Union, the vote for his sixth term being unanimous. Rev. Hugh F. Graham writes that he is now living in Gettysburg, Pa., where his ad- 1908 dress is Route 6. "Among the Deep Sea Fishers"', the monthly Eight Chicago boys, ranging in age from 10 to magazine of the Grenfell Association, contains 1 8 years, have been selected to accompany Com- in the April number an article, "Winter Coast- mander Donald B. MacMillan on his trip to ing on the Cluett", an interesting account of a chosen Labrador this summer. The boys were trip taken by Albert T. Gould from Rockland to from a list of ioo applicants for their seaman- Gloucester as one of three men on board an ship and knowledge of radio by Dr. William A. old schooner being towed behind two barges in Thomas, mate and physician of the expedition. decidedly wintry weather. The leading article will sail on 21st from Wiscasset, The party June in this same magazine is "MacMillan's Tribute to Maine, and will be gone about three and one- Grenfell", being a reprint of the radio address half months. The "Bowdoin" will pay a call at given by Commander MacMillan before his Sym- be Iceland this summer so that the party may phony Hall lecture for the benefit of the Gren- of the 1 oooth present at the world celebration fell Association. anniversary of the parliamentary government 1909 which that country gave to the world. Ralph O. Brewster recently underwent a suc- Frank A. Thompson is secretary of the Levis- cessful Robinson Company, Inc., with offices at 39 Cort- operation for appendicitis at St. Barnabas landt Street, New York City. Hospital in Portland. Alpheus Gould Varney died suddenly at his Harold Marsh was seriously injured in an au- home in Cynwyd, Pa., on May 19th. Mr. Varney tomobile accident near Washington on May 2nd. suffered a of was born on March 29, 1874 at Windham, Maine. He fractured jaw and concussion Following graduation he began work as an ac- the brain, but is recovering in the Georgetown countant in Philadelphia, retaining his connec- University Hospital. tions with financial institutions from that time Leonard F. Timberlake has recently been on. Since 1906 he has been an investment banker, elected president of the Chapman Bank and also holding many positions as officer and direc- Trust Company in Portland, succeeding Philip tor of civic and commercial organizations in and F. Chapman '06. about Philadelphia. 1912 1901 Loring Pratt is connected with the Erwin, Wasey Company at Lexington Avenue, New Thomas C. Randall is conducting an active 420 York City. campaign as a candidate for the office of County Commissioner of Cumberland County. A resi- Edward W. Torrey is now living at 58 Carter dent of Freeport, Mr. Randall represents a sec- Avenue, Sierra Madre, California. tion long without representation on the Com- 1913 mission. Lawrence W. Smith has recently become con- 1903 nected with the Equitable Insurance Company. Scott C. W. Simpson has purchased "Wind- His territory includes all of the State of Maine. William R. Spinney is now living in San over", a country estate in Intervale, N. H. r which he plans to use for his permanent home. He Francisco where his office is at 306 Standard Oil Building. writes : "Mount Washington is right off the back terrace and Bowdoin is less than 100 miles William F. Twombly has severed his connec- !" tion with the duPont Company after fifteen away ! Eureka years in their research chemical department, and 1904 has joined his father in the management of the John W. Frost announces the removal of his Reading Chronicle Press, which was established office to the Bank of Building, Manhattan 40 by his grandfather in 1870. Wall Street, New York. 1914 1905 Harold M. Hayes of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, Everett W. Hamilton is now connected with has been reappointed Judge of the Piscataquis Watson and White at 149 Broadway, New York Municipal Court. City. The April number of the Journal of Adull 1906 Education contains an article by Robert D. Leigh David R. Porter will sail for Germany in Au- on "Reducing Academic Formalism". The ar- gust to attend the meeting of the Executive Com- ticle has also appeared in pamphlet form. mittee of the World's Student Christian Federa- Ray M. Verrill is this year teaching at the tion, of which he is the American member. Nichols School in Buffalo, N. Y.

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1915 New York State Geological Association. This Robert P. T. Coffin tells us that he has re- Association is made up of the Departments of cently published a biography through Brentano's Geology of all colleges and universities in New in New York City, called, "Laud : Storm Cen- York State. He has also been carrying on re- ter of Stuart England". He spent a part of search in the application of moving pictures to his year of sabbatical leave abroad last year modern educational problems, especially those collecting the material for this book. connected with the science of geology.

Max V. MacKinnon writes : "Any Bowdoin 1919 men who may come to Detroit will be cordially George E. welcomed by M. V. MacKinnon, resident man- Minot, night city editor of the Bos- ton Herald, was a guest of the Canadian ager of The Wardell, Detroit's largest and finest Na- tional Railways on board the International apartment hotel. Be sure to look us up if you Limited, do come to Detroit." which made its first run from Toronto to Montreal in 350 minutes, the distance being Philip W. Porritt is connected with Hoey and miles. Through an ingenious telephone Ellison, insurance agents, at 99 William Street 334 in New York. hookup Mr. Minot wa'fe able to telephone the Herald office while the train was traveling at a William O. Van Keegan has recently moved to North Hampton, N. H. 70 mile speed. Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Nelson announce the Vernon P. Woodbury is now living at 47 West Street, Leominster, Mass., having moved there arrival of a daughter, Carol Hope, on December from Bennington, Vt. 22nd. Mr. Nelson is vice-principal of Windham High School in Willimantic, Conn., where he has 1916 been teaching for the past seven years. Paul K. Niven, long prominent in the fields of advertising and sales promotion, has become 1920 a member of Walter B. Snow and Staff, Inc., Edward J. Berman of Portland is a candidate advertising counsel, at the Statler Building in for the office of County Attorney of Cumber- Boston. land County. 1917 Howard L. Chick is the proprietor of a drug store in Norway, Maine. Roland Cobb who is doing graduate work in Willard M. Cook, is on sabbatical leave physical education at Columbia University this who from St. George's School at Newport, R. I., has year tells us that on April 4th he read a paper been cruise is studying at the American Physical Education Association making a world and now at Tours, France. in India he the convention in Boston. While was guest of Albert R. Bartlett, represents Frank E. Noyes has resigned as acting exec- who now Motors, Inc., in that country. utive secretary of the Ohio State Association Nash of Dyers and Cleaners to accept the appointment 1921 as secretary and business manager of the Ohio We have received the following from Ken-

Bakers' Association in Columbus, Ohio. neth S. Boardman : "On July 1st we took over Frank E. Phillips announces the opening of the Statistical Service Division of Library Bu- Phillips and Company, Inc., Investment Secur- reau and consolidated the two organizations un- ities, at Room 801, Bridgeport City-Trust Build- der the name of L. B. Recording and Statistical ing, Bridgeport, Conn. Corporation. On April 1st we moved our offices 1918 to 177 State Street (Boston)." The marriage of C. Lloyd Claff and Miss Harry Helson has recently contributed an article to Science, in which he discusses the psy- Frances Staska of Lake Forest, 111., has recently chological factor as the Phenomena, been announced. Mrs. Claff is a graduate of known Tau Northwestern University. which interprets space in terms of time, as the relativists doing in other Dr. Archibald S. Dean and Miss Eleanor C. modern have been Genthner of Newton Center, Mass., were married fields.

: "I have recently beer on June 8th, 1929, and are living at 20 East John G. Young writes elected a Fellow of the American College of Fifth Street, Jamestown, N. Y. Mrs. Dean is a Physicians. teaching pediatrics in Baylor sister of Gordon C. Genthner '26 and is a gradu- Am Bowdoin Club is ate of Wheaton College in the class of 1921. Medical School. The Texas more good Bowdoin Richard P. Keigwin has moved from Mt. Ver- not very active. We need non, N. Y., to Great Neck, Long Island, where men. Send them to Texas!" his address is Westminster Hall, Maple Drive. 1922 Richard T. Schlosberg has been promoted to Francis P. Freeman was elected president of the rank of captain, Signal Corps, U. S. A. He the Deering High School Alumni Association at a is now stationed at Fort Monmouth, Oceanport. recent meeting of that organization held in Port- N. J. land, Maine. Professor Edward S. C. Smith writes us that Word has been received of the birth of a son he was this year elected to the presidency of the to Dr. and Mrs. Leopold F. King.

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Morris Smith, M.D., is now practising in Eleanor Schranz took place at Overbrook, Phil-

Bethlehem, Pa. where his address is 86 1 East adelphia, on June 4th. 4th Street. George Craighead writes that he is with the Theodore Nixon has recently become con- Aluminum Company of America at 714 Mer- nected with the Wall Street Journal. He is liv- chants Bank Building, Indianapolis, Ind. ing at i Bank Street, New York City. Albert B. Goodhue is selling bonds for Dow- Street, Evarts J. Wagg writes : "Evarts Judson Wagg, ling, Swaine and Shea of 27 State Jr., class of 1952 (potential), was born on Feb- Boston. ruary 17, 1930-" Paul Sibley tells us that he will be married on 1923 June 1 2th to Miss Nancy P. Norton of Shaker Lloyd W. Bishop, M.D., has moved to South Heights, Cleveland, Ohio. Portland, Maine, where he is practising. 1926 Ernest G. Fillmore, who was forced to give up Lloyd W. Fowles will go to Honolulu next his position with Western Union in Hartford, fall, where he is to be an instructor at the Conn., some time ago because of ill health, has Punahon School. now recovered and is vice-president of the Henry A. Jensen, who is with the W. T. Guardian Plan, Inc., a small loan company, at Grant Company, has been transferred to one of 2 State Street in Hartford. their stores in Salt Lake City. The engagement of Richard Small and Miss Mr. and Mrs. E. Bowdoin Nealley announce Dorothy Sncll of Portland has been announced. the birth of William Bowdoin Nealley on March The wedding will take place late in June. 1 St. F. King Turgeon writes that he received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard in March. His 1927 thesis was entitled "Madame Fanny de Alister R. Ballantyne is assistant manager of Beauharnais". Audet Bakery, Inc., in Salem, Mass.

1924 Samuel J. Bargh is now in Havana, Cuba, Malcolm E. Hardy and Miss Hannah Eliza- where he is connected with the Compania De beth Spolm of New York City were married on Acqueductos De Cuba, a subsidiary of the Ameri- January 9th at the Church of the Transfiguration. can Water Works and Electric Company, Inc. Joseph T. Small and Roderick L. Perkins '21 Donald A. Brown writes : "I entered the em- were among the ushers. Following a trip to ploy of Stone and Webster, Inc., in March 1928, Europe Mr. and Mrs. Hardy returned to New being appointed a transfer officer in the fall of York, where they living at East are 444 52nd that year. In April I was transferred to the Street. Baton Rouge Electric Company in the capacity H. is the Richard Lee now associated with law of statistician. My present address is 2805 Jack- firm of McLellan, Brickley and Sears at 1 Fed- son Avenue, Baton Rouge, La." eral Street, Boston. Hugh F. Burgess has moved from Berlin to Archie C. Mason is employed at the First Gorham, N. H. National in is living at Bank Boston and 154 Hodding Carter is now connected with the Nonantum Street, Brighton. United Press at New Orleans, La. Clarence D. Rouillard has been awarded a We hear that Briah Connor is now living at Fellowship by the C. R. B. Educational Founda- 86 Church Street, South Manchester, Conn. tion (established by the Commission for Relief Thomas L. Downs, Jr., has been awarded the in Belgium) and will spend next year studying in George William Sarvin Fellowship at Harvard Brussels. He expects to return to the French University for the coming year. Department at Amherst College after his year Albert Ecke is now playing under the direc- abroad. tion of Norman Bel Geddes in Philadelphia, George W. Rowe writes : "After two and a where he has a part in "Lysistrata". The com- half years of practice in I left the Atlantic City, pany plans to move to New York on June 4th. balmy breezes of that sinful resort for the Merritt A. Hewett writes: "I am to be mar- metropolis (adv.) of New Jersey. Newark is ried on June 1 8th to Miss Gaynor Brand, the probably not much less sinful, but it seems to daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Herbert Brand offer more by way of honest gain. I am as- of Elmira, N. Y. Miss Brand is a graduate of sociated with the firm of Lindabury, Steelman, Knox School and Ogontz. We plan to live in Zink and Lafferty, in general practice." Cambridge." Alfred J. Westcott has become associated with Thomas Martin is department sales manager the Blackstone Valley Gas and Electric Company for Everlastik, Inc., of Chelsea, Mass., manufae- in Pawtucket, R. I., where he is Assistant to the turers of elastic and non-elastic webbings. His Superintendent of Production of the Pawtucket work includes the direction of sales of elastic- Gas Company. webbing for clothing and underwear, style de- 1925 velopment, and advertising of these lines. He The marriage of Joseph I. Borneman and Miss is living at 105 Holden Green, Cambridge.

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Benjamin G. Proctor tells us that he is now years. He moved to Portsmouth, N. H., in 1893 living at 19 Elliot Street, Springfield, Mass. and practiced there until about fifteen years ago, The ushers at the wedding of Alden H. Saw- when he retired. He was mayor of Portsmouth yer and Miss Gayle Morgan, which will take twice, in 1895 and 1896, and a member of the place on June 7th at Westfield, N. J., include staff of Portsmouth Hospital. He was honored by Barrett C. Nichols '25, Lawrence Libby, Paul having the avenue which leads to the hospital Tiemer '28 and Bowdoin Nealley '26. Albert given his name. He had been in poor health for Ecke will act as best man. about a year at the time of his death. Walter Whittier is now associated with the Medical 1871 Fidelity Ireland Corporation in Portland, Maine. Word has been 1928 received of the death of Fred- erick Granville Williams of Bingham, Maine, Rossiter Drake has been teaching in the J. but no details are available. High School at Essex, Mass., this year. Van Courtlandt Elliott writes that he was Medical 1875 awarded his A.M. from the University of North Calvin Philbrick Thomas died on March 12th Carolina last year. He was born on December 5, 1850 at Newburg, Edgar A. French is now connected with the Maine, and attended the Medical School from law firm of White and Barnes at 85 Devonshire 1874 to 1875, receiving his M.D. from Dart- Street, Boston. mouth Medical School in 1876. Richard W. Merrill has this year been study- Medical 1880 ing at the University of Keil, Germany, under John A. Houston has for the last few months an exchange fellowship administered by the In- been touring the United States and expects to stitute of International Education. He has been return to his home in Northampton late this appointed instructor in German at the University summer. of Maine and will take up his duties there in John Aiken Sweat died recently at Great September. Falls, Montana. He was born on October 2s, Kenneth K. Rounds, who is with the National 1856 at Brownfield, Maine. Upon his graduation City Bank of New York in Hongkong, China, from the Medical School he went to Brownfield, entertained Willard M. Cook '20 while he was in where he practiced for a year. He then went Hongkong. Mr. Cook, who is on sabbatical leave to Minneapolis and commenced practice with from St. George's School, is on a trip around his father. Three years later he became sur- the world. geon for the Pacific Division of the Canadian 1929 Pacific Railroad. He moved to Great Falls in

Earlon S. Gurley is a clerk in the office of G-2, 1890 where he was prominently associated with Headquarters Detachment, First Division at Fort the medical profession until the time of his Hamilton, N. Y. death. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and a son. A longing for his yacht in Sweden to fly the Samuel Brackett Thombs died suddenly at his colors of the club of which his father was one home in Portland on 8th from a heart at- of the founders was the incentive of a visit to May tack. He was born at Gorham, Maine, on April the office of Frank W. Wardell by Wolfgang R. 22, and after graduating from the Medical Thomas recently. Due to the unusual visit of 1853 Portland, where he Mr. Thomas, the Portland Yacht Club estab- School settled in South practiced until Portland in lished a precedent by voting him a member, he moved to 1893. is survived his wife. permitting his yacht, The "Polar", although undrr He by Swedish registry, to fly the flag of an American Medical 1890 club. Mr. Thomas is also a member of the William T. Merrill is now a member of the Swedish Royal Yacht Club. staff of the U. S. Veterans' Hospital at Bed- Medical 1860 ford, Mass. An anonymous gift of $2500 in honor of the Medical 1891 late Jere G. Hall, who practiced medicine in George F. Libby, former president of the alum- Alfred, Maine, until his death over ten years ni association in Denver, Colorado, has moved B. ago, has been made to the New England Medical to 16 1 7 Wilmot Place, Victoria, C. Center in Boston. The gift will be used to en- Medical 1898 and 1878 dow a nurse's room at the Medical Center and a Through error, a group of the Medical Class Hall. tablet will commemorate Dr. of 1898 is listed in the Address List under the Medical 1870 heading of the Medical Class of 1878. W'illiam Oliver Junkins died on April 10th at Medical 1914 his home in Kittery, Maine. He was born on John H. Moulton is now with the Judge Baker May 13, 1845 in Berwick, Maine and upon his Foundation in Boston. This Foundation is an graduation from the Medical School went to institution engaged in dealing with delinquent Greenland, N. H., where he practiced for twenty children referred to them by the Juvenile Court.

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The Bowdoin Group within the 1929 Group totaled 22 WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL-CAMP

1930 Summer Term — July 10 to September 5

Lloyd Harvey Hatch, Director Lake Wassookeag, Dexter, Me.

STAFF OF 16 COLLEGE AND SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR 50 OLDER BOYS

ON THE 1930 WASSOOKEAG STAFF FROM BOWDOIN: 1. Lloyd H. Hatch, B.S., '21, Director; 2. Professor Edward S. Hammond, Ph.D. (4th season); 3. Charles E. Berry,

A.B., '26 (4th season) ; 4. Lloyd W. Fowles, A.B., '26 (3rd season — on "sabbatical" leave, 1930); 5. George J. Adams, A.B., '27 (2nd season — on "sabbatical" leave, 1930);

6. Walter O. Gordon, A.B., '28 (2nd season) ; 7. Edward G. Buxton, A.B., '28 (1st season) S. Robert D. Hanscom, A.B., '23 (1st season); 9. Norman Waldron, '30 (1st season). SCHOLASTIC RECORD: The 1929 summer term closed with another 100 percent college entrance examination record. Twenty final candidates entered Amherst, Bowdoin, Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, Hobart, Princeton, Williams, and Yale.

The Fleet One Explanation of Wassookeag's Unusual Scholastic esults WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL Mr. Hatch, Director of Wassookeag School-Camp, is the founder and Headmaster of Wassookeag School, a Tutorial Junior College for Boys. Wassookeag School offers a Bowdoin Preparatory program for a limited group of 20 boys whose study is directed by 7 full-time teachers (4 are Bowdoin graduates and 3 formerly of the Bowdoin faculty). Early application should be made for the academic year 1930-31.