Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 1-1899 The aB tes Student - volume 27 number 01 - January 1899 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 27 number 01 - January 1899" (1899). The Bates Student. 1942. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1942 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. OoL SIID11. 3anuarg, 1899. Ho. 1. The BATES STUDENT IS published each month during the college year. Subscription price, $1.00 in advance. Single copies, 10 cents. Llterarv matter should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief; business communications to the Business Manager. CONTENTS. Congressman Dingley A Winter Sketch 7 Edgar Allan Poe 8 The Fault Our Own U TUTKS VERSE: The Violet's Secret u If They But Knew 14 A Country School .... ... 15 AROUND THE EDITORS' TABLE. 16 EDITORIALS ALUMNI ROUND-TABLE: Personal 20 LOCAL DEPARTMENT: Memorial Service • 22 Glimpses of College Life 24 Gymnasium Work 26 COLLEGE EXCHANGES 2° OUR BOOK-SHELF ^ Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter at Lewlston Post-Office. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 41 — Q Lisbon St., John H. Whitney, Lewiston. Physicians' Prescriptions Apothecary, a Specialty, £}. W. WIG GIN & CO., Apothecaries. PHT8ICIAN8' I'BESCRIrTIONS OUB SPECIALTY 213 Lisbon Street, Corner of Fine, LEWISTON, ME. W. C. BAND. O. E. HABVEY. E. & M. S. MILLETT, RAND & HARVEY, <* Stylish Millinery, MACHINISTS. •• All kinds of Machine Work, Including Mill, Steam- 13 X-l*"b©». Street, boat, Shoe Shop, Printing Office, etc. Fitted for Bicycle Repairing, Including Brazing. LEWISTON, ME. Bear of 166 Main Street, - LEWISTON, ME. pOR NICE PURE CANDIES ~ ~ OO TO A. E. HARLOW'S, 149 LISBON ST, LEWISTON, ME. Where a large stock and variety la always on hand. COMPLETE BUSINESS AND SHOUT-HAND Courses. Ice-Cream Soda, 5 cents. Business Practice for beginners. •CNO rOR OATALOOUl. A. E. HABLOW, - 58 Lisbon Street. N. E. RAN KIN. PRINCIPAL GENTLEMEN FURNISHERS and Dealers in ^ .B00T5 ij$ SHOES. THE GLOBE HAT STORE. Sole Agents of Auburn for the GLOVES AND LAMSON A UUBBABD HAT. Sole Agents for the K. & W. Collar. GENTS' FURNISHINGS, ATTWOOD & BARROWS 68 Lisbon Street, LEWISTON, ME. 60 Court St., AUBURN. GEO. V. TURGEON & CO., WAKEFIELD BROTHERS, mm JEWELER; 114 Lisbon St., LEWISTON, Scientific Watchmaker and • Apothecaries, Graduate Optician. DBALBBS U Repairing neatly and promptly done. Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, etc. Cash paid for old gold and silver. Perfumery and Fancy Toilet Article*. 7ft Lisbon Street. Sign, Electric Clock. Physicians' Prescriptions Accuratoly Compounded. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. THE BRIDGE TEACHERS' ACENCIES, C. A. SCOTT & CO., PKOPRIKTOK8, 2 A Beacon Street, BOSTON, and 169 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. We have secured 112 positions for graduates of Bates at salaries ranging from $400 to $2,000, and aggregating $103,000. In 52 of these positions the salary has been not less than $1,000. Send for Agency Manual. One Fee Registers In Both Offices. IF YOU WISH TO BUY The Paris Exposition Tourist Co. HIGH-CLASS EXCURSIONS under Superior Conductorship. "Vacation Party" for Preachers and Teachers arranged for June, July, and August, 1900. Select Parties. First-class Travel. Best Hotels. In order to secure cheap rates in advance, write Immediately to BOOKS PARIS EXPOSITION TOURIST CO.. Pittsburg, Pa. Send to us for Prices TEACHERS WANTED. or other Information. We carry the largest stock of any store Union Teachers Agencies ^America in New England, and can furnish any ROT. L. O. BASS, D.D., Manager, books in print at the shortest notice. Pittsburg, Trenton, New Orleans, New York, Wash- ington, San Francisco. Chicago, St. Louis, and Denver. There are thousands to he filled. We had over 8,000 vacancies during the past season. WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. Teachers needed now to contract for next term. Unqualified facilities for placing teachers In every Catalogue of Special Bargains part of the United States and Canada. Principals, Superintendents, Assistants, Grade Teachers, Pub- mailed free. lic, Private, Art, Music, etc., wanted. Address all Applications to DE WOLFE, FI5KE & 00., Washington, D. C, or Pittsburg, PH. Bureau of Civil Service Instruction 361 & 365 Washington St., 123 Fifth Street, N. E., ■^ - WASHINGTON, D. C. We aid those who want to secure a position in BOSTON, MASS. the Civil Service Department. 8.5,000 positions filled through the Civil Service by examinations. War creates a demand for large increase of employees. GEORGE H. CURTIS, GOOD, CI.EAN, CLEAR, LIVERY, BRILLIANT HACK, and Photos BOARDING Stable that are guaranteed to please, and your WHOLE ORDER UNIFORM. 48 Ash St., LEWISTON. THE BEST FUNERAL OUTFIT IN MAINE. Hacks for Weddings and Private CURTIS STUDIO, Parties a Specialty. Also, Hacks to and from All Trains. Orders left at 102 LISBON STREET, Stable, 48 Ash St., Gerrish's Drug Store, and G. II. Curtis' Residence, 107 College St., One Flight. will receive prompt attention. TELEPHONES : Stable, 382-13 ; Residence, HARRY CURTIS, 128-2; Gerrish's Drug Store, 29-2. Photographer. 11 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 116 Lisbon St., LEWISTON In 1-2 S. F. Robie's Store, Carry some of the leading lines of BOOTS AND SHOES to be found. THE W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES for Men cannot be easily excelled; also the DELSARTE BOOTS for Ladies are the leading $3.50 boots in the market. We carry the latest styles to be found. C. O. MORRELL. A. R. PRINCE. is all we are asking for our $14.50 $18.00, $20.oo, and $22.00 Suitings. JOHN G. COBURN, Fine Tailoring, Lowest Prices. 240 Main St., LEWISTON, ME. YVRICHT & DIT80N Athletic outlitters to the leading S.P.ROBIE colleges, schools, and athletic clubs of New England. Athletic Outfitter to Bates College. Gymnasium EVERYTHING FOR POLO. Supplies of Equipments, Every and Description Do not Shirts, Field Collars, for Supplies. fail to Base-Ball, see our Neck-Wear, Tennis, Estimates Gloves, Golf, and SWEATERS Hosiery. Foot-Ball. Samples for before House Coats and CATALOGUE Team buying. Bath Robes. FREE. Uniforms furnished .Secure our SPECIAL UOOO VALUES AT POPULAR PRICES. rates before on purchasing. short notice. Men's Furnishings, 9 S.P. Athletic Outfits. WRIGHT & DITSON,J *3Ba**B& BOSTON, MASS. S. P. ROBIE, Local Agent, Lewiston, Me. LOCAL AGENT FOR WRIGHT & DITSON. ON SALE! J. L. MERRILL & CO., 49 Lisbon Street, LEWISTON, Lewiston Daily Papers. Boston and New York Daily FINE CLOTHING and Sunday Papers. FINE CUSTOM CLOTHING All the Popular Magazines, at Made from Measure. BUY YOUR We lit anybody CLOTHING and please SMITH'S PHARMACY, everybody in J. L. MERRILL & CO. Corner Haiti and Bates Sts., Because it Fits Well, Wears Quality, Well, and you Pay Style, and Less for it. LEWISTON, ME. Price, NELSON DINGLEY, Born in Durham, Me., February 15, 1832, Died in Washington, D. C, January 13, 1899. THE BATES STUDENT. VOL. XXVII. JANUARY, 1899. No. 1, Published by the Class of 1900. BOARD OF EDITORS. HOWARD G. WAGG, Editor-in-Chief. It. STANLEY EMKICH. MABEL E. MAKR. LEKOY G. STAPLES. BERTHA O. TRUE. CHARLES L. FOSTER. BUSINESS MANAOERS. BERTRAM E. PACKARD. MILTON G. STURGIS. CONGRESSMAN DINGLEY. ^^TOT since the tragic death of President Lincoln has the ■*■ ^ close of an American statesman's life been the occasion of tributes at once so general and so unreserved as those we have just seen paid to the life, character, and services of Governor Dinglev. Few of our political leaders at their departure from earthly scenes have not seemed to involve the injunction "nil dc mortuis nisi bomim." But the most careful scrutiny of the youth and manhood, the private life and the public career, of our "lost leader," reveals nothing that calls for the charity of silence. On the contrary, the more his character and conduct are studied, the more they impress us by their harmony and consistency. And they have for the alumni and students of Bates a lesson that has not yet been fully stated. The General Catalogue of our institution gives the names of the thirty-two men who seem to have been the charter members of its corporation,—twelve constituting the President and " Board of Fellows," and twenty, the "Overseers." Of the entire thirty- two, but seven or eight, if T mistake not, and of the Board of Fellows, but three or four still live. In the list of the twelve members forming the President and Board of Fellows in 1863, Mr. Dingley's name stands last. Among those original mem- bers of the "upper board," who have died, were Ebenezer Knowl- ton, Benjamin E. Bates, and James G. Blaine. The three still THE BATES STUDENT. surviving, and still members of the corporation, are Oren B. Cheney, Alonzo Garcelon, and Abial M. Jones. Of the twelve men, Mr. Dingley seems to have been one of the youngest. Most of them were his seniors by many years. On what grounds was he selected to share the responsibility of founding and build- ing up a new college in conservative New England? Doubtless, President Cheney, in choosing his associates in the new enter- prise, was attracted to Mr. Dingley in part by prudential con- siderations. The young journalist had already, at the age of 31, become one of the first citizens of Lewiston. Under his control and editorship the Lewiston Journal had begun to give promise of leadership among the newspapers of Maine, and the young editor, as Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, had proved himself also a legislator and a parliamentarian. But while these considerations made Mr.