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Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 4 (1929-1930) Bowdoin College Bowdoin Digital Commons Bowdoin Alumni Magazines Special Collections and Archives 1-1-1930 Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 4 (1929-1930) Bowdoin College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/alumni-magazines Recommended Citation Bowdoin College, "Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 4 (1929-1930)" (1930). Bowdoin Alumni Magazines. 4. https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/alumni-magazines/4 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections and Archives at Bowdoin Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Bowdoin Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of Bowdoin Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 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 Vol. IV Xo. i PAGE 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 depart- ments, 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. [2] : The B o w d o in Alumnus] 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.
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