Colby Alumnus Vol. 38, No. 3: January 1949
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Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby Colby Alumnus Colby College Archives 1949 Colby Alumnus Vol. 38, No. 3: January 1949 Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "Colby Alumnus Vol. 38, No. 3: January 1949" (1949). Colby Alumnus. 319. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/alumnus/319 This Other is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Alumnus by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. [HE COLBY 0 A L u M N u s TANUARY, 1949 "T "-SHIRT HOCKEY New Modern Equipment Enables Us to Handle BOOTHBY and BARTLETT Any Kind of General Insurance PRINTING MAY WE SLBMIT OUR ESTlJ\fATE 0 i 185 Main Street YOUR - 1EXT JOB? The Knowlton & Mcleary Co. WATERVILLE MAINE Farm ington, Maine 7M, rl� Puu 339 WATER STREET. AUGUSTA, MAINE FOLDERS - BROCHURES - BOOKS STATIONERY - BUSINESS FORMS FOR ESTIMATES Monotype Composition School and College Publication Complete Printing Service Hotel and Camp Folders �C�tsrA 440 THE ELMWOOD HOTEL LEVIN ES The Lead ing Hotel in a The Store for Men and Boys Progressive City WATERVILLE, MAINE MODERN EUROPEAN 150 ROOMS Ludy, '21 Pacy, '27 Dine in the Distinctive Versailles Room Uphold ing Maine's Trad ition CASCADE WOOLEN MILL for Hospitality and Fine Food Oakland Maine SPLENDID BANQUET FACILITIES Manufacturers of AM PLE PARKING SPACE WOOLENS HENRY D. McAVOY, Manager FOR PRINTING We hove the skilled crafts Compliments of OAK GROVE men and modern presses to Emphasizes Preparation for College and Gracious, Purposeful Living in a do fast, high grade work. Waterville Program devoted entirely to Girls. Excellent Departments for the Girl Kennebec Journal with Talent in Music Art, or Drama Savings Bank tics. Joyous Recreational Life with Printing Department Riding included. 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Chicago, Illinois for Over a Century MILLS at WINSLOW and MADISON, MAINE and MOBILE, ALABAMA Compliments of Harris Baking Co. KEYES FIBRE COMPANY Harris Better Bread, Cake MANUFACTURERS OF Molded Pulp and and Donuts Fibrous Plastic Products Waterville Maine WATERVILLE MAINE You Can Always Depend on Compliments of FRO-JOY WATERVILLE HARDWARE IfBl & PLUMBING SUPPLY COMPANY . • 20 MAIN STREET - WATERVILLE, MAINE Tel. Waterville 1320 Ralph Good, '10, Mgr. The Waterville R. J. PEACOCK CANNING Morning Sentinel - COMPANY is the paper carrying the Lubec - Maine most news of Colby Col lege. If .you want to keep Canners of in touch with your boys, • MAINE SARDINES read the SENTINEL. I] The Colby Alumnus FOUNDED 1911 When it's June in January in Maine and there's still ice on "Johnson Volume 38 January 15, 1949 Number 3 Pond" Colby's Hockey squad tractices in appropriate attire - (l. to r.) Sopho mores George Wales, Auburndale, Mass.; Chet Harrington, Belmont, CONTENTS Mass., and Danny Hall, West Newton, The President's Page 4 Mass. Those two new buildings in the Talk of the College 5 background are the ATO and DKE Roderick "Scoops" the World ....................... 6 houses. Date: January 7, 1949. On the Average .. By Reginald H. Sturtevant, '21 8 Development Fund Notes 9 The French Remember the Friendship Train 10 Among the Faculty 11 To the Editor of the ALUM US: '87 Did Not Forget ..... ..... ....... ...... 12 I h::i\'e read with a great deal of in Albion Marks Martyr's Birthplace . 14 terest the tatement by the two Deans The LYRICAL BALLADS After 150 Years on policies of admissions. I note they By Dr. Alice Comparetti 15 haYe both very religiously dodged the The Chairman's Comer and Club Notes 16 question of "legacies " concerning On Colby and Evolution ... By Dr. Henry Moor, '10 17 which I ha\'e heard more criticisms than on any other count. Colby Sports By Sid McKeen, '49 18 T. RAYMO D PIERCE, '98 Class Notes ...... 20 Milestones . 22 New Alumni Addresses ..... 23 The question of " legacies " in the November cliscussions of selection for Necrology 23 admission was not omitted intention Caroline R. Bill, '84 ally. Tn fact, the writers assumed that Arthur L. Doe, '84 Colby graduates would understand William Fletcher, '91 that Colby sons and daughters received Alfred E. Hooper, '94 prior consideration if they were well William B. Carroll, '13 qualified for college work. In any George L. Holley, '17 event, this is absolutely the case; and it is always a matter of regret and em EDITOR SPENCER H. WINSOR, '40 barrassment when sons and daughters BUSINESS MANAGER G. CECIL GODDARD '29 have to be rejected. The following figures give facts for ASSISTANT EDITOR VIVIAN MAXWELL BROWN, '44 the fall of 1948: ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD Colby Colby Sons Daug/iters TERM Exl'IRE.s JN 1949 TuM EXPIRES 1 1950 TERM EXPIRES IN 1951 and and Gra11d- Marguerite Chamberlain, '15 Charles H. Gale, '22 Ralph E. Delano, '40 Gra11dsons daughters Jane Montgomery Cole, '38 Richard G. Kendall, '32 Ldand D. Hemenway, '17 Applic<l for admission '13 '39 William Finkeldey, '43 Diana Wall Pitts, Dwight E. Sargent, in 194 28 18 '44 "47 H. Warren Foss, '96 Richard S. Reid, Josephine Scheiber, Accepted 19 12 '37 '42 R. Irvine Gammon, John M. Richardson, '16 B. A. Royal Spiegel, Withdrew voluntarily 6 6 John J. Pullen, '35 Elizabeth F. Savage, '40 Charles W. Weaver, '30 Rejected but urged to take one more pre PUBLISHER --The Alumni Council of Colby College. Entered as second-class paratory year mail matter Jan. 25, 1912, at the Post Office at Waterville, Me., under Act of March 3, 1879. Since for the women about one in ISSUED eight times yearly on the 15th of October, November, January, February, seven applicants are accepted and for March, April, May and July. the men about one in six, the above SUBSCRIPTION PRICE- $2.50 per year. Single Copies, $.35. Checks should figures are rather significant. be made payable to THE COLBY ALUMNUS. Correspondence regarding subscriptions or advertising should be addressed to G. Cecil Goodard, Box 477, Waterville, Maine. GEORGE T. NICKER ON Contributions should be sent to The Editor, Box 477, Waterville, Maine. NINETTA M. RuNNALs A subscriber who wishes to discontinue his or her subscription should give notice December 31, 1948 to that effect before its expiration. Otherwise it will be continued. 2� tp�'d, tp,,aqe .fl new. o�r;an &().4 £o.4imeA ePicquL Some months ago it wa· my privilege to announce the gift from Dr. l\Iatthew T. Mellon, a member of our Board of Trustee , of an organ for the Lorimer Chapel. It i t be made in Germany 1 y the E. F. \Valcker factory and to be in tailed at Colby probably in the spring of l!l·±ll. Because it will attract attention n account of many tum ual qualitie I think uur alumni will be intere. ted t hear some of the details . \t about the turn of the century a number of mu ·ician and mu ic-lovers in Europe had the idea that organ were being built in the wrong ' ay. It wa ielt that the trend t \\'ard o-reater orchestral effect and toward the introduction of top imitating tringed in tru ments was bad. All agreed that it was natural and proper to have some top with tones like tho e of violin, violoncello, and double-bass. But the organ after all i a pecial in tru ment with a special job to do. .:\[ore than anything el e it mu ic hould re emble a chorus of flute . To make it compete with a large and varied orche tra i ion for clarity. Consequently a few builders et them elve to rever e the trend by empha izing the reeds and al o by regulating and teadying the "·incl pre sure. l\Iuch wa made of the diapasons. The new type of instrument was de igned to play polyphonic a contra_ted with harmonic music. The mu ic of Bach, for example, i polyphonic in that eYeral voice or melodies are heard simultaneously. The new organ make it po sible to hear the different voice more di tinctly and therefore to play Bach a he hould be played. The one that i being made for us is thus an organi t' organ, con tructecl to produce the effect a true organ-lover require . Becau e thi. type i so rare on thi ide of the . \tlantic it will un questionably attract the attention of musical speciali t throughout the country. One of the leader in thi movement for reform i the famou Dr. lbert chweitzer theologian, musician, and medical missionary who in rnOG wrote a pamphlet called ' The • rt of Organ-building and Organ-playing in Germany and France." In hi autobiography Dr.