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Number 210 May, 1933

PRESIDENT'S REPORT

193 2- 1933

Brunswick, Maine

Entered as second-class matter, Jane 28, 1907, at Brunswick, Maine,

under Act of Congress of July 16, 1894

PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE COLLEGE

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT of BOWDOIN COLLEGE FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR, 1932-1933

TOGETHER WITH THE REPORTS OF THE DEAN, THE LIBRARIAN, AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS :::::::::::

1932 1933

BRUNSWICK, MAINE PRINTED FOR THE COLLEGE, MCMXXXIII

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

To the Trustees and Overseers of Bowdoin College

I have the honor to submit the following report for the academic year 1932-1933.

I. DE MORTUIS

Augustus Freedom Moulton, LL.D., of the Class of 1873, died at Westbrook, Maine, March 16, 1933, in his eighty-fifth year. He had been an Overseer of the College since 191 1. His chief benefaction, and one that for many years will associate his name with Bowdoin, was the gift in 1927 of funds for the erection of the Moulton Union. In all, he gave for this purpose $200,000; and, furthermore, in his will, after providing a scholarship fund of $10,000 in memory of his mother, and making other bequests, he left his residuary estate to the College, — the fund to be known as the Augustus F. Moulton Fund, and the income to be used for the maintenance of the Moulton Union. In these days of depreciated securities it is impossible to say what amount, if any, will ultimately be realized for that purpose. But the won- derful generosity which prompted the gift in the first place was continued to the end. On Sunday, April 9th, a memorial service was held in the College Chapel and addresses were given by the President of the College, Professor Burnett of the Faculty, and Mr. Gordon E. Gillett of the Junior class. Not only by his gift but by his life we like to think of Mr. Moulton as one of those loyal, devoted members of the College, whose loyalty will be a source of inspiration to many students for years to come. Giles Mallalieu Bollinger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry, died at the Baker Memorial Hospital in Boston, August 22, 1932, in the thirty-sixth year of his life. He graduated from Allegheny College in 1920; and did his graduate 4 Bowdoin College

work at Harvard where he obtained his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees. He came to Bowdoin in 1930 as Instructor in Chemistry and was promoted to an assistant professorship in 1931. He was an excellent teacher and a thorough scholar, showing in his brief career great promise. What is more important, he had a character that was in every sense of the word fine. There has been one death among the undergraduates. Joseph Nealley Fernald, of Nottingham, New Hampshire, of the Class °f T 935> died at his home, March 31, 1933, after a brief illness. A very quiet, very modest lad, he was well liked by his teachers and his fellow students.

II. GIFTS FROM APRIL 1, 1932, TO MARCH 31, 1933

For Designated Purposes

Fellowship in French, Frederick W. Pickard '94 $ 2,100 00 Fellowship in Spanish, Frederick W. Pickard '94 .... 1,350 00 Pickard Field, Frederick W. Pickard '94 J^ 00 Institute of Modern Literature, Society of Bowdoin Women 350 00 Library—Books, Professor Stanley B. Smith 50 00 James E. Rhodes, 2nd, '97 50 00

Mrs. William J. Curtis 116 68 Binding, John F. Dana 1 85 Lectures, Delta Upsilon Fraternity 100 00 Anonymous 200 00 Chapel Window, Mrs. Albion Howe 1 60 Hawthorne Prize, Nora Archibald Smith 40 00

Forbes Rickard, Jr., Prize, Mrs. Forbes Rickard 10 00 Curtis Portrait, Hoyt A. Moore 500 00 Rotograph Work, Anonymous 25 00

$ 6,445 13 Alumni Contributions for the Alumni Income Fund 9,156 92

For Endowment Purposes

Alumni Fund, Contributions 297 50

Nathan Cleaves Fund, Estate of Henry B. Cleaves . . 6,008 71 Report of President 5

George F. Manson Bequest, Estate of George F. Manson 4>727 ^ Eva D. H. Baker Scholarship, addition, Guy P. Estes 500 00 Agnes L. H. Dodge Bequest, Estate of Agnes L. H. Dodge 10,781 54 Harriet I. Doherty Scholarship, Estate of Harriet I. Doherty 5,000 00 Ellis Spear Fund, Ellis Spear, 3d, '29 7 50 President's Loan Fund, addition, Albert Abrahamson '26 100 00

$27,423 11

Total $43,025 16

As I predicted last year, the College has not received many large gifts this year, and is not likely to do so during the present serious financial depression. The increase in our funds through these benefactions is less than it has been for very many years. The recent death of Mr. John Hubbard, the son of General Hubbard, of the Class of 1857, makes it now possible to state that for many years he had been contributing most generously to the funds of the Library. He insisted that all these gifts should be made anonymously and should be handled by the Librarian. His total benefactions amounted to about $50,000. Mr. Hubbard had a filial devotion to his father's memory and had the Library and its work much on his mind. His gifts were made after consultation with the Librarian and the President and were always practical and helpful ; for example, the building up of the learned periodicals which has been one of the features of the Library for the past three years has been accomplished through his generosity. The Librarian speaks o*f these gifts more in detail in his report.

The gateway erected and presented by the Class of 1907, to be known as the Presidents' Gateway, as a special memorial to President Hyde, was dedicated on Alumni Day last fall with appropriate ceremonies. The gateway makes a dignified en- 6 Bowdoin College

trance, and the College is deeply grateful for such an appropriate class gift. Very recently the president of one of the leading universities of the country has stated that it was expected that no large gifts will be made to universities in the near future and that the prob- lem of financing our educational institutions will have to be somewhat altered because of the absence of such benefactions.

He may be right or he may be wrong ; but it is well for friends of Bowdoin to keep in mind the probability that our funds will not increase in the next quarter of a century in the same ratio as during the last.

III. CHANGES IN THE FACULTY

Since my last report the following promotions have been made: From Assistant Professor to Associate Professor: Nathaniel Cooper Kendrick, Ph.D., Associate Professor of His- tory. From Instructor to Assistant Professor: Philip Sawyer Wilder, B.S., Ed.M v Assistant Professor of Education; Ralph de Someri Childs, A.B., Assistant Professor of English; William

Wirt Lockwood, Jr., A.M., Assistant Professor of Economics; Newton Phelps Stallknecht, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Phil-

osophy ; Ernst Christian Helmreich, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History and Government. There have been the following new appointments : Elbridge Sibley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology; William Campbell Root, Ph.D., Instructor in Chemistry; Jean Nicolas Georges Pierrot, Lic.-es-Lettres, Fel- low in French. Athern Park Daggett, Ph.D., who had pre- viously been on the Faculty, was appointed Instructor in History and Government

During the first semester Donald Baxter MacMillan, Sc.D., of the Class of '98, was the Visiting Professor on the Tallman Foundation, and gave a course of lectures three hours a week on Arctic Exploration, Geography, and Life, to a very large undergraduate class. The students were most enthusiastic about this course and profited greatly both from the material in the lectures and from contact with a teacher of Mr. MacMillan's personality and force. Report of President J

For the next academic year we hope to get an English or Scottish teacher of the classics under the Tallman Foundation, although at the time of this report it is not possible to give further details. Professors Hormell and Stanwood have been absent on leave throughout the year and Professor Ham during the second semester, and Associate Professor Wass was absent on sick leave the first semester. During that time the courses in music were omitted, and the Committee on Music made provision for carrying on the chapel exercises and for training the glee club and college choir, securing for the former the services of Mr. Alfred Brinkler, of Portland, Mr. Donald E. Lewis, of Brunswick, and undergraduates; and for the latter Mr. Philip L. Garland, the principal of the local high school. Professor Wass returned to his duties the first of February. Early in May Charles Harold Gray, Ph.D., Pierce Professor of English, resigned to accept a position at Bennington College. Mr. Gray who has been with us for eight years has been an in- spiring teacher and a force for good in the whole college community. Possessed of a very interesting and well-trained mind, deeply sympathetic with the liberal point of view in literature and in life, not afraid of experimentation, Professor Gray has made a unique contribution to the College and will be greatly missed.

IV. CHANGES IN THE CURRICULUM

Bowdoin is a conservative college but has never been afraid of making changes and trying experiments within reason. The work of the Freshmen has been recently modified by the inclusion of an outline course in History instead of the traditional course in Government. Next year we hope to do something to check the restlessness of Sophomore year by increasing the number of courses that must be taken from four to five. In this we have a twofold purpose, not only to make the Sophomore year of more substance, but to free the Junior and Senior years so that there will be more time then for work along the lines of concentration. A Faculty committee is constantly studying the problems connected with the Freshman-Sophomore curricu- 8 Bowdoin College lum. Some institutions are making a very abrupt change at the end of Sophomore year. Personally, I feel that there should be progression rather than a halt there. It has been proposed that the major subject be chosen at the end of Freshman year rather than at the end of Sophomore year; and if our staff were large enough to exercise the proper supervision over its major students for another year I should personally be in favor of that change. It will be interesting to see if the requirement of more work from Sophomores will have any effect on overcoming the well-known Sophomore slump.

• V. INSTITUTE OF MODERN LITERATURE

Since the Bowdoin Institutes were started in 1923 there has been none that has been a greater success both in the attendance of the general public and in the interest of students than the Institute of Modern Literature which began with a lecture by William Butler Yeats in November, and closed on April 13, 1933. The programme follows:

Wednesday, November 2, William Butler Yeats. Subject: "The Irish Literary Renaissance".

Wednesday, January 18, John Masefield. Readings from his poetry.

Tuesday, April 4, Theodore Dreiser. Subject: "American Realism".

Thursday, April 6, T. S. Eliot. Subject: "The Poetry of Ed- ward Lear".

Friday, April 7, Elmer Rice. Subject: "The Theatre as a Social Force". Monday, April 10, Norman Foerster. Subject: "The Humani- tarian Illusion".

Tuesday, April 11, Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Subject: The Short Story".

Wednesday, April 12, Marc Connelly. Subject: "The Author- Director".

Thursday, April 13, Carl Van Doren. Subject: "Criticism as Experience". : ;

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In opening the Institute on April 4th I spoke as follows

Once more it is incumbent upon me as President of the College to say a few words on the purpose and plan of a Bow- doin Institute of Modern Literature. By this means we aim to place before our students, graduates, and friends something of the abiding charm and value of good books. We wish to bear our testimony to the truth of the words of good Sir Philip Sidney, uttered in the very heighday of English poetry, that the writer "with a tale forsooth cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner and pretending no more doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue. " It is surely one of the chief duties of the College to foster the love of literature. We try to do so by precept and example, by teaching, — of the 226 courses de- scribed in our present catalogue 102 deal with letters and the arts, — and through the Library, — the heart of the College.

The College in its corporate capacity also does what it can to encourage literature. One effective means is by bringing to the community and to the state, from time to time, men and women distinguished in varied literary fields.

We have been highly favored in having on our rolls in this course of lectures the great Irish poet, William Butler Yeats and the laureate of England, John Masefield. Their appearance illustrates our literary debt to Great Britain. But we do not forget that, since the foundation of this country, Bowdoin Col- lege has been associated with American literature, nor that, in the words of young Longfellow on the Commencement platform of 1825, "if we would have a national literature, native writers must be patronized". And so we are glad to welcome a famous

American novelist and realist ; a native born and Harvard bred poet and critic; two playwrights, both winners of Pulitzer prizes, one of whom draws his plots from the teeming streets of our metropolis, the other from southern folk-lore ; a woman novelist and short story writer from the hills of Vermont; and two virile American critics, one from the Middle West and the other from Columbia University, — a variety of speakers and teachers that does credit to the hard working faculty committee under the ;

io Bowdoin College effective chairmanship of Professor Mitchell and honor to us by their presence here. May I also express the hope that some of you will find in these various lectures a refuge from the slings and arrows of Fortune which seems to so many of late unusually outrageous? You may recall that in the School for Scandal Sir Peter Teagle remarks to Sir Oliver Surface, "Sir Oliver, we live in a damned wicked world." Well, that seems to be true whether our home is in Maine or Michigan. That fact is driven home to us by our experience; I wonder if it needs to be so overwhelmingly emphasized in our literature ; do we not get enough of the sordid in life itself? The President of the United States has recently demanded that the selfish money changers be driven from the national temple of finance. It might not be a bad plan to have a literary housecleaning and to refuse our confidence to those who are falsely cynical or hypocritical or unclean. An English poet has recently told us that true literature helps us to re-integrate our world after the specialist has dissected it and perhaps we have had something too much of the specialist. And literature too, our friend goes on, quickens our senses and perceptions not to airy nothings but to miraculous realities. Suppose, for example, to use his illustration, that spring would happen not every year but only once in a century. "How we should wait for that miraculous appearance, how we should walk in awe and wonder through fields and woods, and how an apple bough in bloom would be revealed as the stupendous miracle it really is." Something of a lost wonder we need to regain; and it is because we hope that through literature, through poetry, through good books, our race will come to a surer stay, to a veritable refuge and strength, that we summon our friends to this Institute. The Faculty committee on the Institute consisting of Wilmot Brookings Mitchell, Litt.D., Edward Little Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory (chairman), Frederic Willis Brown, Ph.D., Longfellow Professor of Modern Languages, Stanley Perkins Chase, Ph.D., Henry Leland Chapman Professor of English Literature, Charles Harold Gray, Ph.D., Pierce Pro- :

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fessor of English, Stanley Barney Smith, Ph.D., Professor of the Classics, Herbert Ross Brown, A.M., Assistant Professor of English, Philip Sawyer Wilder, B.S., Ed.M., Alumni Secretary and Assistant Professor of Education, Herbert Weidler Hart- man, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English, and Ralph de Someri Childs, A.B., Assistant Professor of English, is to be warmly congratulated upon the success of this undertaking. To have brought to the College in one series the Poet Lau- reate of England, the most widely known poet of the English speaking world, popular playwrights, short story writers, and critics of the caliber shown in this programme is something of which we are all proud. As I remarked on the closing evening of the Institute we had three things in mind : first and foremost, to stimulate interest among the undergraduates by giving them the opportunity of round table conferences following the lectures, to meet the speakers informally ; secondly, to make it possible for members of the Faculty to have some acquaintance with authorities in their own particular field; and in the third place, to contribute to the intellectual life of the community. Memorial Hall was crowded on every evening of the Institute, and many friends were made through this means. Whatever may be the financial limitations of the College in the future I trust that this experiment of ours will not be abandoned.

VI. NEEDS OF THE COLLEGE

In these days of financial restrictions it is perhaps a work of supererogation to include the list of needs of the College. Never- theless so often has the College profited by the publication of this list that I am repeating it this year as usual

1. First, last, and always, additions to the endowment fund for general collegiate purposes, supplemented by a large number of small annual gifts to income.

2. Funds -for the erection of a covered hockey rink.

3. Funds for the erection of a little theatre.

4. Funds for a Senior dormitory.

5. Funds for additional graduate scholarships.

6. Funds for a new Chemistry Building, adequately endowed. 12 Bozvdoin College

7. Endowment of a professorship in Biblical Literature or the History of Religion, $100,000.

8. Funds for the development, improvement, and beautifying of the campus.

9. Funds for modernizing the observatory. 10. Funds for the electrification of the college chimes, $2,000; for adding bells thereto, $3,000 ; and for concerts. Last year, a suggestion under this heading, that we need more provision for excellent music, resulted in our being given two beautiful concerts by Mr. Daniel C. Linscott of the Class of 1897. The College should be glad to have more of her sons take this very practical way of displaying their loyalty.

VII. THE YEAR AS A WHOLE

It will be no surprise to the alumni and other friends of the College to hear that in many ways the past year has been full of difficult problems. When the Treasurer closed his books in June, 1932, he was able to report a very small balance on the right side; but by January, 1933, the income of the College had fallen off so seriously that it was clear that steps must be taken to avoid an alarmingly large deficit. Consequently the members of the Faculty were requested by the Executive Committee to cooperate in keeping the deficit down, the Committee voting at its meeting on January 16th to ask all members of the Faculty and all other officers of the College receiving salaries in excess of $2,000, to contribute 10% of their salary for the rest of the present academic year to the income of the Alumni Fund. As was to be expected every member of the Faculty and every other officer immediately signified his willingness to make such contributions. In February, a month after these provisions went into effect for the Faculty and other officers, a cut of 10% was made in the compensation of the wages of all other employees of the College, care being taken, however, to maintain a decent minimum wage. In addition to these provisions the College has been trying to effect other minor economies so that we have hope of making a fairly good showing at the close of the present financial year ending June 30, 1933, although undoubtedly we Report of President 13

shall have to face a considerable deficit. Besides these contributions, which of course amount to a 10% reduction, the Faculty has also been affected by the passing of the dividends of one fund which has given additional compensation. Furthermore, the closing of the banks in Brunswick and Portland has worked additional hardships. It can therefore be seen that the members of the Faculty have not been without the experience so common elsewhere. If the income of the College from invested funds

falls off still more it will be necessary of course to make still further readjustments. Our tuition is so low, — $250, — com- pared with that of other institutions of our class, that the amount of money received from that source is less than that of other colleges ; and yet it would be folly to think of making any increase in tuition at the present moment. We have to depend therefore very much on the income from the invested funds. Like a city and like a state, the College has fixed charges which it cannot avoid. The grounds have to be kept in order, buildings have to be maintained, books and apparatus must be bought, and the only place where real economies can be made now is in salaries. The Faculty, I think, is unanimously of the opinion that it would prefer to take still further reductions rather than to have the numbers of the staff cut down. At the present time the ratio of teachers to students is not bad, although many colleges of our type have more instructors than we have in proportion to the number of undergraduates. The College is not entirely a business enterprise. Certain economies of course can be carried out, but unless there has been wasteful and extravagant administration in the past not very much can be done in the way of reduction of expenses without entailing actual impairment of the education given, and that if done will of course affect attendance. It seems to me to be wise to hold the lines for the present, avoid expansion, carry on as simply and economically as we can. To quote the old New England adage, "Any fool can work with good tools; a skillful workman is the person who can accomplish things when he has to use ingenuity".

It is very hard to say whether the morale of the College has been helped or hindered by the depression. On the one hand, this year we have had a very large number of students on proba- 14 Bowdoin College

tion for scholastic difficulties. There has been a good deal of restlessness caused in no small part by anxiety over conditions at home and wonder as to the future. Naturally the demand upon the scholarship funds has been greater than ever. I have also made more loans than in any previous year from the loan funds, and in order to help some boys have violated the usual ruling which does not permit the granting of loans until well into the term. No undergraduate has come to me to ask for help without making it clear thaf he did not wish to receive such aid if any other boy in college needed it more. In reviewing the year as a whole I ought to state that there has been a very great deal of sickness since January. The report of the College Physician will furnish the details. Several cases of influenza and pneumonia have caused grave anxiety; but in every case there was satisfactory recovery, thanks to careful nursing and above all to the professional skill of the College Physician. I can only speak in terms of the highest praise of his devotion to his task, of his good judgment and helpfulness to the students in sickness and in health. The matron of the Infir- mary and the other nurse are also entitled to great credit because of the cheerful and able way in which they took on additional burdens during periods when the Infirmary was "full up". During the year there has been a change in the Bursar's Office. In the summer time some unfortunate developments made it necessary for the Finance Committee to retire the former Bursar and Mr. Glenn R. Mclntire of the Class of 1925, was appointed Acting Bursar for the year. A bonding company made repara- tion for the financial loss involved. In athletics there has been a decided gain of interest and efficiency. The college periodicals have been carried on with a good deal of ability, and the Orient has been an excellent journal of undergraduate opinion, although it is always well to remember the wise saying of Benjamin Jowett, "We are none of us infallible, not even the youngest". It is pleasant to add that debating has had a better year. The production of the Greek play last Com- mencement was an indication of a lively interest in the classics Report of President 15 and a tribute to the enthusiasm and skill of the director, Profes- sor Means. The publication by the undergraduate members of Professor Chase's class of an excellent edition of the medieval poem "The Pearl" is an indication of a scholarly interest almost without precedent in recent years. There has been excellent attention in chapel. The variety of speakers on Sunday and the willingness on the part of formerly reluctant members of the Faculty to take the service on week- days, have all contributed to make the year in this respect excellent. We are looking forward next year to a Freshman class of normal numbers; but it is extremely doubtful if the enrollment in the upper classes will keep up to the figures of this year. From

February to June, 1932., not a student was obliged to leave Bow- doin College for financial reasons alone. During this year the number has not been more than a dozen ; but with the incerasing financial stringency it is doubtful if the record next year will be as good.

VIII. 1918 - 1933

I am writing this report on the fifteenth anniversary of my election to the presidency of the College. In May, 1918, we were in the midst of the World War; undergraduates were leaving the campus every day to enter the service; some never returned. There was great uncertainty and restlessness. But whatever we may now think about the war the young men then left college with the conviction that they were starting on a high adventure; and with a certain sense of unity of effort since they were joining hundreds of thousands of their comrades both in college and outside in what seemed then a noble and patriotic cause.

Today there is again much restlessness on our campus ; but it is a different kind of restlessness. Many students are wondering if they have a right to be in college when things are so bad at home, yet wondering what good it would do to go home with no work in sight. Others are looking ahead into a very grim and doubtful future. For the fourth successive year graduates are 6

1 Bowdoin College leaving college with no certainty of employment or with tasks in sight that require no particular skill. All their lives they have done what their elders told them to do ; many have worked hard and saved money, now to see their efforts frustrated and much of their earnings dissipated by the mismanagement of banks. Others have taken their training seriously, have done excellent work in their classes and have been good college citizens, going into athletics or other college activities with enthusiasm. But no matter how hard they have worked in college, how good college citizens they have been, how fine their record as students, or athletes, there is no more place for them in our present social order than for a graduate of a second rate high school.

Is it any wonder that youth all over the land is seriously ques- tioning the worth of our present social order? In the past fifteen years there have-probablv been more social, economic, and governmental changes in the United States than for the one hundred and fifty years previous. To be sure every age is transitional ; but today changes are going on with light- ning speed. As I look back over the past fifteen years I find in our American life some weakening of the moral fibre, a real failure on the part of individuals in places of trust to live up to the responsibility of one who in the words of the Psalmist, "sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not", and a highly critical spirit that is a bit inclined to substitute criticism for action. All these things affect the college and college life. But there is one great gain. As in the years before we entered the war, so many young American undergraduates volunteered for ambulance service and set the pace for their fellows a few years later, so beginning in 1927 and IQ28 many college undergraduates were turning from the current American materialistic philosophy and were forsaking careers that led to "big business" or great wealth. Today, unless I am utterlv mistaken, the undergraduate has even less use for that kind of life which has been designated as that of the rich and successful business man. He wants to be independent, to earn a decent competence ; but he does not care to be included among those who have in his eyes, rightly or wroncrlv, brought the world to its present pass. And with a good many others he feels that our human instruments, the Report of President ij church, the school, the college, the home, have somewhat failed in the development of character and of personal responsibility. In that attitude, and in that feeling, there is much to give en- couragement. For it means that in the getting of knowledge we must not forget wisdom; and that if we develop the intellectual life well, we must not delude ourselves by believing that such training is sufficient. Without .character it is as tinkling brass or a sounding cymbal.

Respectfully submitted,

Kenneth C. M. Sills.

May 14, 1933. 8

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APPENDIX A

Report of the College Physician

To the President of Bowdoin College :

The group examination of the Freshman Class was made by the College Physician during the opening week of college. This was a routine examination including X-rays of all questionable lung conditions and all those markedly underweight. This has been the most active year in the history of the Infir- mary, and in January alone 87 patients were admitted and cared for. The largest number at any time was 26. To date there have been 180 admissions, totaling 825 days, an average of about four and one-half days each. Of this number there were 27 cases of German measles, 53 cases of influenza, two broken legs, a serious infection of the veins of the leg, six pneumonias, and five acute appendices complicating influenza. The number of clinical cases has been necessarily large this year, an average of 10 visits per student, and the Faculty has made 130 professional calls at the Infirmary. The change in personnel from a nurse and a cook to two nurses has been very satisfactory and over 300 hydro-therapeutic treatments have been given for all kinds of injuries. Notwithstanding the large number of admissions the Infirmary has kept within its endowment and much credit is due Miss Barstow for her strict economy and efficiency. During the College Physician's more or less enforced vacation, Dr. Clement Wilson carried on the work at the Infirmary in a most satisfactory way. As to our physical equipment, some changes in the heating of the first floor rooms are greatly needed and it is hoped that this may be accomplished during the summer vacation.

Respectfully submitted,

Henry L. Johnson, College Physician. Report of President 19

APPENDIX B

Religious Preference 1932-1933

Congregational • I7i •

Episcopal • • ill

• Unitarian t . 58

Baptist • • 50

. Methodist » • 43

Roman Catholic » • 39

Jewish • 27

Presbyterian 4 23

Universalist » • 19

Christian Science • 12

Lutheran 1 • 2

Dutch Reformed » • 2

Swedenborgian » • 2

Greek Orthodox » • 1

Reformed Church of Ameria1 1

Christian » • 1

New Jerusalem 1 • 1

No preference • • 20

580

TENTATIVE PROLEGOMENA

FOR A FORTHCOMING REPORT OF A DEAN

Once upon a time the Junior class of a certain college dedicated their year book, "WITHOUT HER CONSENT OR KNOWLEDGE," to a certain lady "WHOSE GRACIOUS FRIENDLINESS AND GENEROUS HOSPITALITY TO * MEN HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO FOSTER CORDIAL RELATIONSHIPS THROUGHOUT THE COLLEGE." No one who ever knew that lady could for one moment doubt that those words of appreciation, and many more, were well deserved. Twelve months later that lady's husband was to complete his fifteenth year as president of that college, and it was rather widely rumored that he, too, well deserved some written words of appreciation. To certain members of that college, therefore, it seemed fitting that the dean should write those words and should that year make his customary Report TO that president a Report ON that president, necessarily WITHOUT HIS CONSENT OR KNOWLEDGE. The dean accepted the suggestion with alacrity and enthusiasm. That president, as professor and dean and acting-president and president, had been his immediately superior officer for nearly twenty-five years without once appearing to be anything but his friend and colleague. That president, without once even seeming to mean to, had unconsciously let him observe any number of things that every professor and dean and president and gentleman should do and know and be. That president had praised him, promoted him, raised his pay, revised his manuscripts, counselled him (when asked), beaten him at bridge and golf, tried to beat him at tennis and handball, accompanied him to track meets and

*Here followed the obliterated name of the institution.

21 football games, substituted for him, shared inadequate office space with him, travelled with him, mealed, smoked and bull- sessioned with him, done everything a friend could do with him — except get drunk with him and lend him money — for nearly a quarter of a century. And no doubt he would have lent him money, too, if he'd ever been asked — and had any, after disposing* of the needier cases that constantly came his way. As for getting drunk with him — well, apparently one must assume that the dean never encouraged it. Naturally, the opportunity to make a Report ON such a president and friend was a real holiday for the dean. He took his pen in hand. He got as far as the traditional term of address, "Sir" — and paused for self communion.

How about my addressing him this time by his first name and telling him in simple style straight from the heart just how much, and why, his whole faculty, unanimous for once, admire and value him? But — no, I can't do that. That isn't done these days. That's sentimental. Hearts are for breathing. This is an age of analysis and realism and doubt and disparagement — and discontent. Besides this Report goes to all the alumni. Com- paratively few of them know him as well as we do, and nearly half of them were here under another president, a great one, and may not realize even yet that there's another great one here, great in other ways. They might look with dreary eye on the whole performance as being mushy and absurd. No, that won't do. Besides he's such a modest cuss himself, he'd get awfully uncomfortable, blush in the very back of his neck, as usual, at being written about that way, no matter how sincere and heart- felt it was. No, that won't do. Hml Let's see. Well, how about something in bluff, familiar, he-man vein, that couldn't possibly be considered moist? "Sir:— Only a dozen or so of us members of your faculty were here at the beginning of your presidency, but the whole fifty of us have seen enough of you to be dead sure that you're a mighty fine man and a mighty fine president. We've all observed you sufficiently as a person to know that if you ever had, humanly speaking, the least streak of meanness or pettiness or insincerity

22 or selfishness or self-indulgence in your carcass, or anything but the highest sort of rectitude, you have concealed it so well from even your most intimate friends — and you've got a danger- ously long list of them — that we might as well call it a day and admit you're just about the most sterling and magnanimous customer we've ever dealt with. Whether we ascribe it to your good luck in being born that way, or to your will power, or to your sturdy religiousness, or to all three, you certainly do appear to have the kind of character that people read about. Your big- gest defects personally seem to be that even yet you don't always keep your hair properly concentrated, — and can't always be counted on to wear the right haberdashery. (Allow us to add that we hope you won't continue to improve in these respects. We want something about you to smile at and patronize. Well, anyhow, we shall always have your scandalous handwriting to deplore).

And we've all observed you sufficiently as a president to know that you're just about the best chief any faculty could have. By the "best" we don't mean the softest-hearted. There have been times when you couldn't be soft-hearted. The college comes first — ahead of your own interests, even ahead of the interests of your closest friends. But even the instructors you have had to let go must regard you as an executive who gives everyone every reasonable chance, a man utterly fair, generous, big enough to see all the elements in a situation, or in an individual, and big enough to measure both by their sum total of good or ill. And by the "best" we don't mean the most easy-going. You give us -a free hand with our jobs — but we know that you know how we're doing them and that you'll be passing on to us anything significant you've heard in way of complaint, or compliment. We've noticed that you do your own job — and always stand ready to help us with ours — without letting weariness of the flesh or even illness in the family interfere. We've noticed that you seldom dodge even the little duties that enter into your conception of your job, — from attending a fraternity tea, or presid- ing at a lecture, to being present at a Major oral, or listening to Tom Jones's sister's aunt telling of Tom's precocities, ailments, and inhibitions ten years before he entered your college. We've

23 noticed that you're always ready to take far more than your share of the dull routine tasks of all faculty members, that your knowledge of the minor, as well as of the major, problems of the college is amazing, that you're never too busy to help solve them. Seeing how rigorously you treat yourself, we are the less inclined to spare ourselves.

We like the way you give us all a hearing on matters that are our own business, or aren't. We like the way you encourage our ambitions to do anything that may advance us or the college. We like the way you lead us, rather than drive us, to want what you want, reserving your "College Policy'' ultimatum for rare and special occasions. We enjoy the fact that you're a total abstainer from the "grand manner", both with us and with the students and with friends, or possible friends, of the college. We enjoy the fact that you're the kind of president we can go to with our literary emanations, expecting, and getting, judicious counsel on matters of style, and of content, too, very likely. More than anything else we enjoy the fact that you're the kind of president we can go to with our personal perplexities, knowing that we'll get both sympathy and sound advice. In short, we are not much impressed by The President of The College, but we are very deeply impressed indeed by the man who's doing most to make the college what it is. We are more than impressed; we both esteem and" —

Hold on! Hold on! This'll be getting sentimental again. Got to try a different tack — absolutely different. Now whafll it be? How about pretending to damn him for his very virtues? Mock abuse? I wonder if that would work. Probably his mod- esty could endure it better, anyhow. "Sin-

Fifteen years is quite a time to stand being a college president, or being stood. There are only three or four in this part of the country who have been kept in captivity that long. Generally they succumb to bad treatment and retire at the end of a very few years, in two or more pieces. How is it that you are not in this honorable group? How is it that those four factions —

-.* 24 alumni, undergraduates, faculty, and trustees — that usually draw and quarter college presidents, have left you pretty much intact? Why take all the pains you do to keep those four factions working together in harmony by inviting criticism and appealing to such antediluvian traits as love and loyalty in a ,, "common enterprise ? This is the day of the strong man, the dictator. Reason, tolerance, self-control, justice, friendliness, and so forth and so forth, are all very well, but why don't you dictate? Why don't you rise in your wrath and tell everyone that opposes you just where to get off? You're the President. When you get a nasty letter from an alumnus, why don't you answer him in kind (you know all the words needed) instead of writing a patient reply explaining your position ? How is it that you allow a young whippersnapper of a student, a young instructor, to tell you just what he thinks, no matter if it's just the opposite of what you think, and he knows it? Why don't you put him in his place — with a bump ? Oh well, probably you're saving up your smouldering resentment till you retire, like that respect- ed peer of yours who was asked, after his resignation, how he enjoyed not being a college president. "Fine ! Now I can feel free to tell some of — just what I think of them." If that's the case with you, we hope you'll have a similar chance to express yourself — twenty or thirty years from now. Yet, after all, that does not seem to be the case with you. It seems to be genuine good will on your part and genuine regard for the views of others. If so, get such ideals out of your system. This hard-boiled world is no place for 'em. And outside the college — why bother about building up pleasant intercollegiate relationships within the state ? Why be so ready to put the college plant at the service of community, and heaven knows what, organiza- tions? It's ours, isn't it? We're strong enough to be independent, aren't we? Get down to earth. And why don't you censor student publications? And why don't you refuse college platform space to radicals and iconoclasts? It's the iron hand we need these days, the mailed fist. And why don't you have rules for everything and everybody, and stick to them? How can you expect to run 550 undergraduates and a faculty and let individual circumstances affect a de-

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cision? "Jim Jones still in college, after all his antics?" "His fraternity president sure they could straighten him out," eh? Nice situation, when the president of a college asks the president of a fraternity for advice, or has the dean ask for it And what's the use of your being so interested in poor boys and non-fraternity boys and in average students and campus un- knowns? Aren't you aware that colleges exist for academic giants and "big men" only, that average citizens never do the world any good anyhow? And why your attempted justifications of large expenditures for physical training and athletics? Why your announcement that every undergraduate should be outdoors playing some game for a couple of hours every afternoon? What has all that stuff to do with making great scholars or great

Americans ? And what did you mean by refusing advances in salary while all the rest of us took them? And by turning over 15% of your current salary to the Alumni Fund while the rest of us were allowed to contribute only 10% of ours? Furthermore, what does that item imply in that Treasurer's Report, showing a return to the college of an "Honorarium Praesidis" of $1,000? And you can't fool us, either, by making bigger subscriptions to chari- ties than you should. Things of that sort hardly check with your going without a car all these years and then buying a Ford — on time, too, we suspect. In the future you'd just better take any salary advance you're offered, if such days ever come again.

You need it, and you needn't fancy we don't know it. And after you've adopted people's suggestions for improving the college, why on earth don't you take the credit for them yourself? That's the approved method. Fathers' Day, Voca- tional Day, Employment Bureau, Reading Room — a lot of such minor additions seem to have been made in your administration. Why don't you speak of them as "my policies" and ''my meas- ures", as certain other presidents have done, national and not? But worse, why don't you do something educationally advanced and spectacular? This is an era of "Plans", hot off the griddle. Comprehensive Examinations and Institutes and such modest means of progress are all very well, but don't you realize that all we need nowadays to create an academic millennium is some-

26 thing novel, something that's at least a complete rearrangement of the same old blocks, something preferably of large publicity value? Why stay content with "liberal conservatism" ? Why keep insisting that it's primarily a matter of the sort of students you get and the sort of faculty you give them, and trying constantly to better both? Take an afternoon off and think up some brand new "System". Then try it on the college. If it doesn't work, think up another and try that. Don't so often wait to profit by the best parts of other people's experiments, and fail- ures. Be bold, be brash. Never mind the expense — in time, money, and false expectations. Tint the pills differently, anyhow, and put them up in a different package that may temporarily arouse the interest of the takers and will certainly arouse the interest of the press. " And, worst of all your faults, why don't you — Oh, Lord! Less of this goes a long way. A whole Reportful would be the death of me, and everyone else. No, that method won't do. Now zvhat? Ho hum! Something in narrative form?

Historical . . . dignified . . . third person. Maybe it's worth trying. "Sir:— Fifteen years ago a young man was made president of this college. He was in his late thirties, the youngest college president in the whole country, or thereabouts. The man he suc- ceeded was a very hard man to succeed. He ha.d been in office over three decades. He was a notable teacher, the author of books of more than national repute, a public speaker greatly in demand, a small college president who had been asked to take the presidency of many other larger institutions, a man of such standing that educators all over the country knew of his college, old and famous though it was, chiefly as the place where he was president.

Into the office of such a man stepped this young president. To be sure, he had certain assets of his own. He had graduated from that college himself, graduated Summa cum Laude and with more prizes and honors to his credit than several men should win. For some fifteen years as professor and dean under his predecessor he had learned from him a great deal about the demands of a presidency, lessons which later stood him in good

27 stead and were gladly acknowledged. He wrote verse and prose with facility and distinction, published a bit of both, and if he had not become engaged in executive work from the very first years of his teaching, he would probably have gained recognition as a scholar and writer. He had wide intellectual interests and a very special interest in public affairs. He not only took the Congressional Record, but read it. He had even been a can- didate for the United States Senate — and had run well ahead of his ticket. He understood and liked young fellows, and they appreciated his reasonableness and square dealing. His personal traits were such as to win him the high esteem of his colleagues and make all those who came in closest contact with him regard him with still higher esteem and affection, as years went by. People always knew where to find him, knew that they could always count on his being friendly and sincere, sane and solid, broad- minded and upright. He had an unhesitating willingness to accept responsibility. He got things done. He loved the college. He had an unusual sense of duty to his job and whatever it called for. He also had a very ample sense of humor.

No mean list of assets. But as the successor of a president so long established and so eminent? He was not well known in the country at large. He was an earnest Episcopalian in a Congre- gational college, a vigorous Democrat in a Republican state. He was sometimes a bit ill at ease socially. He had small conversa- tional fluency, and less patter. Even decanal interviews of the sort that usually are awkward for the other fellow, often were awkward for him. Students would joyously tell of his "chewing up half a dozen handkerchiefs" in his embarrassment. They exaggerated. He carried only two. He was not a ready speaker even after his senatorial campaign, though that much improved him. He invariably had something to say, and it was well phrased — eventually. But on first hearing him one might wonder whether that next word would ever be found, delivered, and right. It always was.

With some such list of assets and liabilities he took office, at a time when the world was racked by war, fully conscious of the

28 magnitude of that office and of its previous incumbent, and of his own limitations. During the next few years he had to make many speeches, meet many people, entertain many guests. It was part of his job. Each year he did it all better than the year before. His hesitancy of utterance wore off; his uneasiness of manner dis- appeared; his handkerchiefs remained intact. Despite his own fears that "when a man is called upon to make formal addresses on all sorts of subjects in all sorts of places, he may become a facile speaker, but he is pretty sure not to have much to say", his outside audiences, during this last decade, could seldom feel that his speeches were anything but admirable speeches, sound, appropriate, well packed, and well composed. And inside the college his Baccalaureate sermons and Sunday Chapel addresses, his introductions of other speakers, his presentations of honorary degrees, were of very high quality indeed. "The Sunday talks of the President I have often wished — did while I listened to them — might be bound for review later again and again as we go through life", wrote one of the college's able young alumni. 'Those late Sunday afternoon chapels strike a silver chord in my soul even today", said a non-graduate. "Sunday chapel remains as perhaps the most vivid impression of my college life". a burly athlete admitted. But despite facts such as these, despite the constantly increasing attention paid to his speeches by public and press, he has never rivalled his precedessor as a speaker, and probably never will. Nor as a writer has he ever attempted to compete with his predecessor. The best of his many addresses on all sorts of themes would make several volumes of very readable essays, but they will probably not be published with his consent, and probably would reach no such circle of readers as his predecessor's, if they were published.

Nor as a teacher can he be said to rival his predecessor. He has always been a very fine teacher, to be sure ; but his predecessor was superlative, and moreover taught a subject which more readily elicited interest and discussion. Still, his course has long been one of the largest free electives in the curriculum, and many alumni believe it to be the best course they ever took. His

29 dean recently asked a class that graduated a few years ago these two questions, among others : "Which of your instructors were, or clearly wanted to be, of real use to you? ,, "Which of your instructors would you most regret seeing the college lose?" This president as an instructor, with one other member of his faculty, easily led both lists. Distinctly inferior to his predecessor as a speaker, writer and teacher, he realized from the beginning that he could not be a great president in the ways his predecessor had been a great president — though being a "great president" was not on his mind. What was on his mind was simply to do every last part of his job to the very best of his ability. But his conception of the duties of that job gradually assumed such massive propor- tions that just doing them increasingly well was bound to bring a very real greatness.

Naturally interested in others, and believing that a small college should be something like a large family, he naturally culti- vated close relationships with the students, with the faculty, with the alumni, with friends and possible friends of the institution. One year, for example, he spent an evening at each fraternity house talking over college problems with the boys. Annually all the Freshmen and all the Seniors are invited, in small groups, to dine at his home, while other groups of undergraduates — a Student Council, a football team, an honorary society — also are invited from time to time. When distinguished visitors are his house guests, an appropriate party of students is apt to be asked to meet them. One afternoon each week he and his wife are at home to such undergraduates as care to drop in, and their recep- tions for all members and friends of the college, and for their friends, after various athletic and academic events of the year are so frequent that the procession seems to be almost contin- uous. At the times of college dances their house is always filled with the guests of students, and before the days of the Union the ballroom of that house was available for the parties of boys who belonged to no fraternity. In short, if the bulk of presidential food in the undergraduate stomach, and the volume of presidential converse in the undergraduate ear, are any measure of

30 presidential interest, students in this college have cause to congratulate themselves. With his faculty it is the same. With groups of alumni the same. With groups of the townspeople the same. With many casual visitors to the college the same. There may be some other college president in the country whose house is as literally "college property" as this one's, but it may be doubted. Yet with him and his wife it is not a hospitality made easy by independent means, or an ample entertainment fund, or a large establish- ment. It is one of the many ways in which they ungrudgingly give time and labor and money to keep in the whole college a sort of — a sort of — yes, a sort of family atmosphere. At the inaugural luncheon of this president one of the speakers, dean of another institution, dryly remarked: "The president of a ,, college does the talking, the dean does everything else. That epigram may be veridical, as well as witty, in some cases, but in this particular case, as veracity, it is merly ludicrous. This president's "talking" is a bare fraction of his day's work. He is by far the busiest man in the institution, doing pretty much everything that anyone else does, and generally doing it better, as well as doing a great many things that nobody else does. The number and variety of the routine jobs, small and big, in town and out, — college, community, state, and national jobs — that are on his daily docket year after year would make his dean much dizzier than ever in less than a week.

But in addition to all the routine jobs (or jobs which he, with his self-abnegating notions of what a presidency demands, would call "routine") there are the countless little occasional jobs which he would not call "jobs" at all — the many little kind- nesses, prompted by his interest in other human beings, but multiplied in number by the fact that he is the president of a small college, the head of a very large family. Notes of congratu- lation to alumni on some achievement that has come to his attention, or to undergraduates who have attained some scholastic or athletic distinction, or to their parents. Notes of sympathy in some bereavement. Calls on sick students or faculty members or college workmen. Weddings, baby letters, funerals. I wonder how many other college presidents and their wives do any-

31 thing parallel to walking around to all the faculty homes with Christmas wreaths? I wonder how many other college presidents are so genuinely glad to meet the humblest parents of the least conspicuous students? I wonder how many other college presidents are so obviously and sincerely appreciative of service rendered to the college by anyone — whether football captain, alumnus, campus laborer, faculty member, or member of the Boards? Of a .Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings he wrote : "In the seven years that he had charge of the grounds and buildings he was constantly at work, constantly striving to increase the efficiency of the plant and to save money for the Col- lege. He was as honest as the sunlight, and he was not only honest himself, he was indignant and outspoken about dishonesty in others. His advice to the President and the Visiting Com- mittee was invaluable, and undoubtedly he saved the College thousands of dollars. He was popular with the students and with the faculty; and in his service of seven years he put every friend of the College deeply in his debt." Of a member of the

Boards he wrote : "Able and independent, he never hesitated to take a stand nor to be in the minority if he felt he was right. Time and again the College has had reason to be grateful for wise decisions that were due to his initiative . . . Time and again I have, in my plans, been encouraged by his support, the support that never once failed. On the other hand, his advice often pre- vented the doing of foolish things ... I do not believe that any college president in the country has had finer men to direct and advise him than has fallen to my lot."

Yet with all his extraordinary, if not unmatched, attention to the minor things that breed a greater ,sense of intimacy among the members of the college, he sees in very clear fashion indeed the big needs of the institution. One by one most of those needs, formulated with the aid of various committees which he appointed, and presented by him during the last fifteen years, have been met. If a college president's success can be measured by the material improvement of his college, he has been excep- tionally successful. His institution outwardly is one of which to be rather proud. Attractive and desirable buildings, gate- ways, and athletic facilities have been added during his period

32 of office. Yet he has always contended that "poor buildings and excellent teachers are much to be preferred to beautiful halls and wooden instruction". His chief concern has been for increase in general endowment. It has come, in signal fashion,

and generally speaking, it came, as it should, before the buildings came. He took the college with an endowment of only two and one- half million dollars. It now has six and one-half millions. This in itself means much. It means, for instance, that the college, instead of having the annual income of $7,000 to spend on each undergraduate, now has the income of $12,000 to spend — and that figure is one of the very highest college, or university, figures of the sort in the whole country. This president is of course one of the last people on earth to take any personal pride in the remarkable financial growth of his college. But the fact remains that while the institution had a couple of lean years during his early administration, when only twenty thousand dollars was added to its funds, the average yearly increase during his period of office has been about three hundred thousand dollars. He fully expects many lean seasons in the future. But the record of $928,000 received in one year will probably stand for very many decades as a record made in his administration. Maybe such gifts would have come if he had been the weakest college president above ground, though that does not seem to be the ordinary connection between presidents and gifts. At any rate, while he disclaims all credit for donations, he certainlv is interested in their receipt. One afternoon he happened to find time to play golf with his dean. Just that morning he had heard of another $500,000 coming to the college. It quite upset his game. It's odd how lightly some people take their golf. The dean almost beat him. Yet that day the president never swore once often, — that is, violently, — anyhow, not as impressively as he" —

No, confound it! I can't say that. My conscience won't lei me. This is no place for half-truths. This Report is supposed to be historical, not merely dignified. And historically speaking, I remember perfectly well that he didn't swe-ar one iota less than usual that day. In fact, when did I ever hear the old

33 Spartan really szvear, I wonder? Another bad habit he never had, most likely. I must check up on that point, though, with more of his classmates. Maybe some of them have that much on him — something, anyhow. I hope so. De mortuis nil nisi bonum — but only de mortuis. I've simply got to find a fezv mala to hang on him, minora mala, at least, or people might think there's no such animal. Yet if I inquire too widely, he may get wind of what I'm doing to him. He'd certainly dish the whole performance, unless the thing's printed and in the mail before he finds out about it. Even as it is, I'll have to bribe the librarian to put it through the press and into the post office before he gets his copy. And bribing that librarian will blamed near ruin me. Ugh! What's the use of laboring any longer over a Report that'll never be allowed to see the light, if the report ee sees it first?

34 REPORT OF THE DEAN

I. ENROLLMENT

Number of Students enrolled Sept. 24, 1932 .... 584 (Sept. 24, 193 1 —570) Students enrolled Dec. 1, 1932 .... 577 (Dec. 1, 1931 —564) Left between Sept. 26th and Dec. 1st 6

Students enrolled March 1, 1933 556 Left between Dec. 1st and March 1st, 1933 19 Seniors finishing work for degree 5 Students re-admitted 2

Special student 1

Sept. 24, 1932 March 1, 1933 Students in Senior Class 102 98 Students in Junior Class 141 132 Students in Sophomore Class 157 153 Students in Freshman Class 180 168

Special Students 1 2 Graduates Pursuing Special Courses 3 3

S84 556

II. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF STUDENTS

Massachusetts 233 Maine 202 New York 43 New Hampshire 22 New Jersey 21 Connecticut 19 Pennsylvania 14 Rhode Island 6

Illinois 5 36 Bowdoin College

Ohio 4 Michigan 3 Nebraska 2 Alabama California District of Columbia Minnesota Missouri Vermont Wisconsin Canada 2

Chile 1

584

III. MAINE RESIDENTS AT BOWDOIN COLLEGE

County No.

Androscoggin 12 Aroostook 12 Cumberland 75 Franklin 3 Hancock 4 Kennebec 10 Knox 4 Lincoln 5 Oxford 9 Penobscot 17 Piscataquis Sagadahoc 9 Somerset 13 Waldo 6 Washington 6 York 17

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IV. ENROLLMENT IN COURSES 1932-1933

Course First Semester Second Semester

Anthropology I 88

Art 3, 4 29 29

Art 7, 8 8 31 Astronomy 1, 2 7 43 Botany 42 Chemistry 1,2 67 71

Chemistry 3, 4 37 34 Chemistry 5, 6 14 14

Chemistry 7, 8 25 22

Chemistry 9, 10 • 13 6 Chemistry 11, 12 7 8 Chemistry 12R, 11R .2 1 Economics 1,2 105 99

Economics 3, 4 19 18 Economics 5, 6 9 12 Economics 7, 8 15 15 Economics 9, 10 21 22 Economics 13, 14 20 9 Education 1, 2 23 22 English 1, 2 187 175 English 4 184 English 6 20

English 7, 8 13 11

English 9, 10 5 6 English 11, 12 47 47 English 13, 14 31 30 English 15, 16 22 23 English 19, 20 2y 26 English 23, 24 12 12 French 1,2 22 20

French 3, 4 .153 142 French 5, 6 85 85 French 7, 8 18 17 French 11,12 9 9 French 15, 16 11 10 38 Bowdoin College

German 1, 2 124 109

German 3, 4 22 26 German 5 16

German 7, 8 11 14 German 11,12 7 7 German 13, 14 4 4 German 15, 16 5 4 8 11 10 Government y f Government 11, 12 13 12 Greek 1,2 14 14

Greek 3, 4 13 12 Greek 5, 6 8 8 Greek 11,12 4 2 Greek 12 2 2

History 1, 2 119 107 History 6 6

History 7, S 57 54 History 9, 10 12 18 History 11, 12 42 40 History 14 6 History 17, 18 35 32 History 19, 20 7 6 Hygiene 176

Italian 1, 2 8 8 Latin A, B 19 17 Latin 1,2 56 54 Latin 3 4 Latin 6 5 Latin 7 6 Latin 10 2

Latin 12 . 20 Literature 1,2 60 72 Mathematics 1, 2 158 137

Mathematics 3, 4 27 2^

Mathematics 5, 6 13 13

Mathematics 7, 8 9 7 Mathematics 11, 12 11 9 Mineralogy 9 Report of Dean 39

Music 2 19 Music 4 3 Philosophy 1,2 55 54 Philosophy 4 14 Philosophy 5 7

Philosophy 7, 8 5 6 Physical Education 5 4 Physics 1,2 48 45

Physics 3, 4 . 18 17 Physics 5,6 11 11

Physics 7, 8 10 10

Psychology 1, 2 80 78

Psychology 3, 4 23 20

Psychology 5, 6 6 6 Sociology r, 2 58 46 Sociology 4 3 Spanish 1, 2 5 4

Spanish 3, 4 3 3 Zoology 1,2 61 55 Zoology 3, 4 38 39 Zoology 7, 8 2 3 Zoology 9, 12 24 15

V. STUDENT COUNCIL CUP STANDING

February, 1933

Non-Fraternity 1 1.644 Alpha Tau Omega 11.500 Kappa Sigma 10.606 Theta Delta Chi 9.958 Sigma Nu 9-837 Delta Upsilon 9-440 Chi Psi 9.200 Delta Kappa Epsllon 0.081 Zeta Psi 8.700 Psi Upsilon 8.533 Alpha Delta Phi 8.409 Beta Theta Pi 7.628 . 1

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VI. STUDENT COUNCIL CUP 1911-1932

High General Date Fraternity- Average Average

Feb., ][911 Delta Upsilon 1.9683 10.0209

June, i [911 Delta Upsilon « ...... 5.3050 12.2834

Feb., i[912 Delta Upsilon ...>.. 2.1700 10.0515

June, i [912 Delta Upsilon 5-7500 13.1750

Feb., ] 9i3 Delta Upsilon 2.7750 10.4801

June, :1913 Delta Upsilon ...... 5.9700 13.6332

Feb., ] [914 Delta Upsilon 1. 6150 9.7038

June, : [914 Delta Upsilon 3.6700 12.4385

Feb., ][91S Bowdoin Club 1-3513 9.9176

June, i 9i5 Bowdoin Club 4.I350 12.8082

Feb., i 916 Beta Chi (now Sigma Nu) ...... 2.1360 10.3430

June, i 916 Alpha Delta Phi 4.9400 12.9990 Feb., [917 Phi Theta Upsilon (now Chi Psi) ...... 2.6890 10.6470 June, 1917 Phi Theta Upsilon (now Chi Psi) 5.9190 12.4940 Feb., [918 Phi Theta Upsilon (now Chi Psi) 3.1000 11. 1353 June, 1918 Phi Theta Upsilon (now Chi Psi) 7-0830 14.2610 Mar., 1918 Chi Psi 1.7000 10.1637 June, [919 Not available

Feb., : [920 Zeta Psi 0.1818 9.2534 June, 1920 Theta Delta Chi 2.6000 11.5920 Feb., [921 Zeta Psi 3.6666 12.5949

June, ][921 Phi Delta Psi 3.6666 12.5949

Feb., ][922 Phi Delta Psi 0.3673 8.1516

June, : [922 Phi Delta Psi 1.2800 9.0321

Feb., : [923 Chi Psi 9.2179 7.9641 June, 1923 Delta Upsilon 2.1143 10.5400 Feb., [924 Phi Delta Psi 1. 2419 9.1254

June, [924 Phi Delta Psi 4.0500 1 1. 424

Feb., : [925 Phi Delta Psi 1.0270 8.9190 June, [925 Phi Delta Psi 3.7297 11.7922

Feb., : [926 Phi Delta Psi 1.5520 9.4346

June, [926 Phi Delta Psi . .. 1. 1527 9.8634

Feb., 1927 Delta Upsilon 1. 3610 9.6465 June, 1927 Beta Theta Pi 0.3680 9.3943 Feb., 1928 Zeta Psi 0.7090 9.4000 June, [928 Chi Psi 0.5312 9.4440

Feb., [929 Chi Psi . 1.7352 8.9791

June, :1929 Chi Psi 2.2420 9.6300 Feb., [930 Chi Psi 2.3870 10.4080 June, 1930 Chi Psi 1.2900 9.3301 Feb., 1931 Chi Psi [.3010 9.7989 June, 1931 Chi Psi 0.3030 8.8336 Report of Dean 41

Feb., 1932 Zeta Psi 10.9280 10.2236 June, 1932 Kappa Sigma 10.1935 9-0375 Feb., 1933 Alpha Tau Omega 1 1.5000 g.7622

This cup has been awarded 44 times, 10 times to Delta Upsilon, 4 times to Phi Theta Upsilon, which is now Chi Psi, 10 times to Phi Delta Psi, the local fraternity (now Alpha Tau Omega), 9 times to Chi Psi, 4 times to Zeta Psi, twice to the Bowdoin Club which no longer exists, and once each to Alpha Delta Phi, Theta Delta Chi, Beta Chi which is now Sigma Nu, Beta Theta Pi, and Kappa Sigma. The non-fraternity group had the highest average for 11 semesters but since the cup is awarded to a fraternity or club, this fact does not appear above.

The general average is the average of the whole college at the time of each award.

The average of the general average, or the average of scholarship since 191 1, is 10.5073.

The average of the winners' averages is 12.3386.

VII. ABRAXAS CUP STANDING

February, 1933

Portland High 17.142 Belmont High 15.666 Sanford High 15.000 Deering High 14.500 Newton High M-333 Moses Brown School 1 2>-75° Framingham High 13.000 Presque Isle High 13.000 Good Will High 13.000 New Rochelle High 1 1.333 Brunswick High 1 1.000 Boston English High 10.800 Winchester High 10.333 Hebron Academy 9.250 Deerfield Academy 7.000 Fryeburg Academy 7.000 42 Bowdoin College

Loomis Institute 5.600

Governor Dummer Academy 5-S 00 Tabor Academy 4.500

VIII. ABRAXAS CUP — 1915-1933

Average of Winning All Schools Date Winner Average Competing

Feb. J Exeter Academy 10.0740 . 9iS 15.1250 Feb. 1916 Portland H. S 11.9000 9.1 180 Feb. Dexter H. S . 1917 12.8333 9.6207 Feb. , 1918 Skowhegan H. S !5-8333 10.6560 Feb. Edward Little H. S H-3333 10.0694 . 1919 Feb. 1920 Jordan H. S 1 1.3333 8.6548

Feb.,• 1921 Brunswick H. S 15.1250 8.7295 Feb, 1922 Portland H. S 13.6600 8.4650 Feb., 1923 Deering H. S 12.6000 6.66j6 Feb., 1924 Brunswick H. S \2.2727 9.0245 Feb., 1925 Bangor H. S 8.8423 8.0235

Feb. , 1926 Livermore Falls H. S 12.6250 8.5400 Feb. T Deering H. S 16.0000 10.6100 . 9^7

Feb. , 1928 Deering H. S 15.1666 9.6254

Feb. , 1929 Deering H. S 14.7500 9.2032 Feb. Maine Central Institute .. 17.6660 11.5360 . 1930 Feb. i93i Bangor H. S 13.2500 7-53^2 . Feb. Portland H. 16.0000 . 1932 S 9.2490 Feb. Portland H. S 17.1420 11.4470 . 1933 General average—9.3079. Winning average— 13.8655. The averages are obtained on the basis of, A equalling 4;

B, 3 ; C, 2 ; D, 1 ; and E, —2.

Respectfully submitted,

Paul Nixon, Dean. :

REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN

To the President of Bozvdoin College

In accordance with the laws of the College I present herewith my 18th annual report on the condition and progress of the College Library for the year ending 31 March, 1933, the same being the 33rd-34th year of my connection with the Library.

SIZE AND GROWTH

The number of volumes in the Library is estimated to be 158,000. The accessions for the past twelve months were 3,118 volumes; of which number 1,884 were purchased,— 1,435 at an average cost of $3.12, and 449 by subscription to periodicals that were bound; and, 1,234 came by gift,—221 from the State and National governments by provision of law, and 1,013 from various persons and institutions. As heretofore, the Appendix to this report gives an itemized statement of the growth of the collection during the year and its contents by the various classes in which it is arranged.

JOHN HUBBARD

By the death of John Hubbard, the Library has lost its staunchest anchor to windward. Mr. Hubbard died on Sunday, the 7th of May, 1933, at his home in New York, N. Y. He was the only son to grow to manhood of General Thomas Hamlin Hubbard, of the Class of 1857, and his wife, Sibyl Fahnestock Hubbard, who jointly presented the Library with its present home, Hubbard Hall. Mr. Hubbard, himself a Harvard graduate, began to express his interest in the library of his father's college in 1919, four years after the death of the General; and from that time, to within six weeks of his death, the Librarian always knew where to turn for a sympathetic ear for his plans. 44 Bowdoin College

Never once did the Librarian ask Mr. Hubbard for a contribution, or suggest that he assist in a particular project; but, in response to frequent requests for information, he received more than fifty thousand dollars, for endowment, construction, and the purchase of books. The donors of Hubbard Hall had provided a fund of $75,000 "for the maintenance and improvement of the library building and the library ;" but John Hubbard believed that conditions had so changed, that this fund should be at least $100,000. He saw this goal passed. In the meantime physical conditions within Hubbard Hall had changed, and new construction became necessary. Mr. Hubbard became acquainted with this fact through one of his visits to the Library, and provided more than $10,000 for the new basement periodical room, and additional floors in the stack. On the day after his death actual construction of the sixth floor of the stack was begun. Not only in these ways was his interest shown, — always effacing himself and saying that he thought his father would like to have done these things, — but in helping to build up its periodical and book collections, he hoped to see the library of his father's college one of the best of the small college libraries. Enthusiastically seizing upon a chance sentence in one of the annual reports, Mr. Hubbard entered upon a plan, in coopera- tion with the Librarian, to build up the periodical sets, — com- pleting old files and adding new titles, some of which had been desired for half-a-century. This work has been prosecuted during the past three years,, with gifts amounting to $17,500.00, and was actively going on at the time of his death. The defini- tion of periodical was gradually broadened as time went on to include works appearing at irregular intervals, such as the publications of the Scottish Text Society and the Corpus Inscrip- tionum Latinarum. For a permanent record, as well as an expression of gratitude, I am adding a list of the titles which Mr. Hubbard presented in full or nearly complete sets, and another list of titles to which he added many volumes and long runs. Report of Librarian 45

Titles Presented in Full, or Nearly Complete Sets

Agricultural History Beitrage zur Kultur d. Mittelalters u. d. Renaissance Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes Candadian Forum Circolo Mathematico de Palermo Classical Association, Proceedings Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Criterion Dalhousie Review Englische Studien Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana Hermes Historische Zeitschrift Inscriptiones Graecae Consilio et Auctoritate Academiae Lit- terarum Regiae Borussicae Editae Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres Jahresbericht uber die Fortischritte der Klassischen Altertums- wissenschaft (Bursian) Jahresberichte der Deutschen Geschichte Jahresberichte fur Deutsche Geschichte John Rylands Library, Bulletin Journal of Economic and Business History Journal of Experimental Psychology Klio Kritischer Jahresbericht uber die Fortschritte der Romanischen Philologie Levy's Provenzalisches Supplement-worterbuch Liebig's Annalen der Chemie Le Moyen Age Philologischer Anzeiger Philologus Physiological Zoology Revista de Filologia Espanola Revue des fitudes Grecques Scottish Text Society Publications Sewanee Review 46 Bowdoin College

Supplementum Epigraphieum Graecum Zeitschrift fur Franzosische Sprache und Litteratur Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie Zeitschrift fur Physik

Titles Presented in Part Academy All the Year Round American Academy, Proceedings American Journal of International Law American Journal of Theology American Law Review American Statistical Association, Journal L' Annee Psychologique Astronomy and Astro-Physics Athenaeum British Association for the Advancement of Science, Annual Reports British Journal of Medical Psychology British Journal of Psychology Chemical Reviews Commercial and Financial Chronicle Contemporary Review Current Literature English Review Franklin Institute, Journal Gentleman's Magazine Hansard's Parliamentary Debates Hound and Horn Journal of Applied Psychology Journal of Philology Journal of Physical Chemistry Journal of Public Administration London Mercury Macmillan's Magazine Magazine of Art Mentor Mind Report of Librarian 47

Modern Language Association, Publications Modern Language Notes Monist Overland Monthly Philosophical Magazine Poet Lore Presbyterian Review Review of Reviews (London) Revue Historique Rheinisches Museum fur Philologie Rhode Island Historical Society, Collections Round Table Royal Statistical Society, Journal Social Forces Sociological Review Westminster Review PURCHASES

During the past three years income from endowment funds and appropriations available for the purchase of books has de- creased about $3,000; it is, therefore, quite apparent that the purchases have been rather strictly limited to the current needs of the several departments of instruction.

GIFTS

James E. Rhodes, Esq., of the Class of 1897, has continued his annual practice of many years' standing by sending $50.00 for the purchase of books. Mrs. William J. Curtis has sent her check for $116.68 to continue the League of Nations publications, started at their beginning by her husband, a member of the Class of 1875. Professor Stanley Barney Smith has increased the unrestricted income by gifts amounting to $50.00. John F. Dana, Esq., of the Class of 1898, has continued his gift of the United States Law Review. Edward S. Dodge, Esq., of Boston, sent many volumes to the Library during the summer; the largest item being a set of the Federal Reporter in 300 volumes. This set was partly from the 48 Bowdoin College libraries of his father, the Hon. John C. Dodge, of the Class of 1834, and his brothers, William Walter Dodge, Harvard 1870, and Hon. Frederic Dodge, Harvard 1867 and Bowdoin, LL.D., 1908; and partly a gift from himself.

CIRCULATION

The number of books charged to borrowers for use outside the library building during the past year was 14,656. The largest number of loans in a single month was 1,782, in January; the smallest, 590, in August. Again the use of the Library has been greater than ever before. The circulation of books outside of Hubbard Hall increased some seventeen hundred volumes, and on very many occasions all the seats in the reading rooms were occupied by students. In connection with the doubling of the circulation during the last six years, it is interesting to note that the circulation in the summer vacation months also has more than doubled. The circulation in August last year exceeded the circulation in May half-a-dozen years ago. The old question, "Do you think it is worth while to keep the Library open during the long summer vacation?", is no longer asked.

STUDENTS' READING ROOM

A steady increase in the number of students using this room is recorded. The room has now been open seven vears, and the number of readers has reached 3,725. No year has failed to show a real increase in readers, and more than 900 others visited the room during the past year. FINANCIAL STATEMENT

The following table presents a classified statement of the sources of the income and the nature of the expenditures of the Librae, arranged substantially along the lines recommended by the American Library Association. Report of Librarian 49

Receipts 1929-30 1930-31 1931-32 1932-33

Appropriation, salaries . . $9,550 00 $9,600 00 $9,600 00 $9,600 00 Student assistants .... 1,624 46 1,810 04 1,850 00 1,850 00 Books, etc 5,325 00 5,200 00 5,125 00 4,605 00

Special reading-room . . 2,000 00 2,000 00 1,850 00 1,665 00 Endowment funds, consol. 2,071 22 2,078 24 1,976 30 1,711 34 Appleton fund 537 90 539 71 509 91 444 38 Chapman memorial .... 333 11 334 26 315 So 275 19 Class of 1875 fund .... 89 82 89 61 84 35 73 25 Class of 1888 fund .... 64 69 64 97 61 37 53 49 Class of 1899 fund .... 106 94 107 27 101 40 88 34 Class of 1904 fund .... 27 58 Darlington fund 53 46 53 70 50 73 44 21 Drummond fund 162 90 163 50 154 46 134 62 Hatch fund 53 46 53 70 50 73 44 21 Hubbard fund 5,704 59 6,081 44 5,745 47 5,007 09 Thomas Hubbard fund 176 89 177 52 167 73 146 18 Lufkin fund 13 79 22 10 Lynde fund 79 52 79 85 75 38 65 70 Morse fund 53 46 53 70 50 73 44 21

W. A. Packard fund . . . 267 55 268 52 253 62 221 03 Pierce fund 1,712 82 1,718 56 1,623 68 1,415 00

Smyth fund . .., 70 82 74 50 71 92 42 34 Stanwood fund 67 97 68 11 64 42 56 14 Gifts, etc 453 33 655 54 492 36 408 53

$30,559 9i $3**272 74 $30,289 15 $28,044 93 Expenditures Books $6,787 20 $8,022 68 $5,698 82 $4,485 23 Periodicals 1,566 26 1,701 52 1,693 65 1,845 71 Binding i,447 18 1,301 37 1,278 46 1,217 22 Express and postage .... 264 45 228 92 235 98 205 29 Increase of Library ..[10,065 09] [11,254 49] [8,906 91] [7,753 45] Library supplies 543 62 456 27 463 56 573 47 Salaries, regular staff .... 14,842 56 14,937 50 15,065 05 15,062 35 student assistants 1,909 65 2,110 87 2,089 89 2,116 92 janitor service .. 1,147 64 1,126 97 1,245 89 1,227 14 New equipment 1,029 43 556 83 116 05 574 80 Repairs 666 78 1,713 13 1,154 85 900 68 Supplies for building .... 28 49 61 55 53 52 33 29 Telephone 57 58 79 39 73 35 70 81

$30,290 84 $32,297 00 $29,169 07 $28,312 91

The receipts and expenditures for the Students' Reading Room are included in the foregoing tables. 1

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ENDOWMENT FUNDS

I add a table of the Endowment Funds of the Library in order that the preceding" table may be more intelligible and that the various funds and their donors may be recorded.

Name of Fund Established by 1932 1933

John Appleton Fred'k H. Appleton $ 10,052 50 $10,052 50 Samuel H. Ayer Athenaean Society 1,000 00 1,000 00 Bond Elias Bond 7,082 00 7,082 00 Bowdoin George S. Bowdoin 1,020 00 1,020 00 Philip H. Brown John C. Brown 2,000 00 2,000 00 Chapman Memorial Frederic H. Gerrish 6,218 75 6,218 75 Class of 1875 Class of 1875 1,662 78 1,662 78 Class ot 1877 Class of 1877 1,013 34 1,013 34 Class of 1882 Class of 1882 2,300 54 2,300 54 Class of 1888 Class of 1888 1,210 00 1,210 00 Class of 1890 Class of 1890 1,000 00 1,000 00

Class of 1901 Class of 1 90 713 34 713 34 Class of 1904 Class of 1904 310 00 310 00 Cutler John L. Cutler 1,000 00 1,000 00 Darlington Mrs. Sibyl H. Darlington 1,000 00 1,000 00 James Drummond Mrs. Drummond and daughter 3,045 00 3,045 00 Henry Crosby Emery Class of 1899 1,998 52 1,998 52 Fiske John Orr Fiske 1,000 00 1,000 00 General Fund Several persons 3,093 78 3,093 78 Hakluyt Robert Waterston 1,100 00 1,100 00 Samuel W. Hatch Miss Laura A. Hatch 1,000 00 1,000 00

Hubbard Thomas H. Hubbard 1 13,267 23 113,267 23 Thomas Hubbard His sisters and brother 3,167 86 3,167 86 Lufkin Solon B. Lufkin 500 00 500 00

Frank J. Lynde George S. Lynde 1,486 24 1,486 24 Morse Edward S. Morse 1,000 00 1,000 00 Alpheus S. Packard Sale of publications 500 00 500 00 William A. Packard William A. Packard 5,000 00 5,000 00 Patten John Patten 500 00 500 00 Lewis Pierce Henry Hill Pierce 32,009 00 32,009 00 Sherman Mrs. John C. Dodge 2,176 92 2,176 92 Sibley Jonathan L. Sibley 6,958 37 6,958 37 Stanwood Edward Stanwood 1,269 72 1,269 72 Walker Joseph Walker 5,248 00 5,248 00 Wood Robert W. Wood 1,000 00 1,000 00

$222,903 89 $222,903 89 Report of Librarian 51

HUBBARD HALL

Elsewhere in this report I have mentioned that work on the sixth floor of the stack has begun. The present construction will be but a third of the whole floor, but the very advantageous prices prevailing makes it economical to erect even this small part, and the resulting increase in shelf room is much needed.

Respectfully submitted,

Gerald G. Wilder, Librarian.

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APPENDIX

The Library, as Classified, showing Accessions for the Period

From April 1, 1932, to March 31, 1933.

id bJO *0 Divisions 53 > 3 3 i O • i-i *o O oo£ PQ O < H

Bibliography oio 20 19 39 i,576 Library economy 020 10 3 13 759 General encyclopaedias 030 I 1 986 General collected essays 040 46 General periodicals 050 93 13 106 8,063 General societies 060 1 3 4 227 Newspapers 070 44 9 53 1,730 Special libraries 080 390 Book rarities 090 2 2 4 96 Philosophy 100 20 9 29 558 Metaphysics no 1 1 69 Special metaphysical topics 120 2 1 3 70 Mind and body 130 16 1 17 492 Philosophical systems 140 1 1 47 Psychology 150 22 1 23 648 Logic 160 3 3 in Ethics 170 IS 5 20 967 Ancient philosophers 180 2 2 151 Modern philosophers 190 6 1 7 804 Religion 200 13 1 H 1,986 Natural theology 210 326 Bible 220 2 2 i,9i5 Doctrinal theology 230 1,014 Practical and devotional 240 439 Homiletical, pastoral, parochial ...250 1 1 2 886

Church, institutions, work 260 5 2 7 956 Religious history 270 8 1 9 939 Christian churches, sects 280 3 1 4 1,219 Non-Christian religions 290 4 1 5 410 Report of Librarian 53

Sociology 300 39 2 4i i,3i7 Statistics 310 9 27 36 934 Political science 320 73 34 107 5453 Political economy 330 103 70 173 5,105 Law 340 23 333 356 4,030 Administration 350 22 14 36 3,066 Associations, institutions 360 11 15 26 1,230 Education 370 39 21 60 4,337 Commerce, communication 380 19 55 74 2,354 Customs, costumes, folk lore 390 7 7 297 Philology 400 12 2 14 705 Comparative 410 96 English 420 5 5 548 German 430 5 5 4T3 French 440 12 9 21 515 Italian 450 1 1 52 Spanish 460 1 1 79 Latin 470 1 8 9 388 Greek 480 9 2 n 626 Minor languages 490 165 Natural science 500 45 33 78 3,190 Mathematics 510 14 7 21 1,462 Astronomy 520 28 16 44 i,434 Physics 530 41 25 66 1,178 Chemistry 540 51 15 66 1,878 Geology 550 5 14 19 i,539 Paleontology 560 3 3 95 Biology 570 15 12 27 923 Botany 580 2 1 3 771 Zoology 590 to 7 17 1,838 Useful arts 600 3 2 5 846 Medicine 610 24 4 28 5,5i7 Engineering 620 4 53 57 1,028 Agriculture 630 6 8 14 1,306 Domestic economy 640 44 Communication, commerce 650 13 2 IS 446 Chemical technology 660 2 2 222 Manufactures 670 1 2 3 149 Mechanic trades 680 1 1 17 Building 690 29 .

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Fine arts 700 9 7 16 805 Landscape gardening 710 128 Architecture 720 7 3 10 377 Sculpture 730 34 7 4i 259 Drawing, design, decoration 740 94 Painting 750 9 9 543 Engraving 760 IOI

Photography . 770 79

.' Music . 780 4 4 8 609 Amusements 790 6 6 474 Literature 80O 21 36 57 1,664 American .810 77 IS 92 6,127 English 820 102 6 108 7,686 German 830 70 6 76 3,875 French 840 1T2 7i 183 6,158 Italian 850 7 7 1,236 Spanish 860 3 3 489 Latin 870 10 6 16 2,214 Greek 880 29 2 3i 2,001 Minor languages 890 2 2 375 History 900 25 6 3i 1,738 Geography and description 910 55 9 64 6,273 Biography 920 43 9 52 3,183

'. Ancient history . . . .930 21 6 27 ^73 Modern history, Europe 940 166 28 194 6,309 Asia 950 10 2 12 296 Africa 960 2 2 158 North America 970 34 L5 49 3,417 South America 980 1 1 101 Oceanic and polar regions 990 102 Alumni collection 1 8 9 i,45o Maine collection 75 44 119 5,103 U. S. Documents (serial set) 72 72 6,052 : : —; :

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

To the President of Bozvdoin College

The Director of the Museum of Fine Arts has the honor to submit the following report ACQUISITIONS

June—A large engraving of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow given by Mr. Arthur Charles Jackson, Longfellow University, of Washington, D. C, and Portland, Maine. The fourth etching published by the American College Society of Print Collectors, "The Gondolier", Ed. 125, No. 26, by Arthur Wm. Heintzelman. September—A Georgian silver funnel and strainer for filling a decanter, a Georgian silver pocket nutmeg grater, and a Nor- wegian wine beeker, several hundred years old; given by Mrs. Albert E. Davies for the Cony Memorial Collection. The George Washington Bicentennial Bronze Medal, designed by Laura Gardin Frazer, and "presented to Bowdoin College by the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Washington". An oil portrait of Cyrus Herman Kotschmar Curtis, by Joseph B.

Kahili ; given anonymously. October—The gold watch of Reverend William Allen, D.D., LL.D., President of Bowdoin College, 1819-1839; given by his grandson, Mr. William H. Allen, of Rochester, N. Y. An oil painting, "Silence", and a pastel, by William H. Singer, and a bronze nude figure by Paul Wayland Bartlett given to Bowdoin ; College by Mr. Walter Griffin. November—Acquired as additions to the Baxter Collection, from the income of the fund bequeathed by Honorable James Phinney Baxter for the purchase of works of art in memory of

Professor Henry Johnson : The Henry Johnson Collection of Drawings by old masters, and the following aquatints "Entrance to Oxford", by E. Nash and F. C. Lewis; "St. ;

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Aldgates, from Carfax", by A. Pugin and J. Hill ; ''Westminster

Hall and Bridge", by Pugin and Rowlandson, colored by J. Black; and "The Kitchen at Christchurch", by A. Pugin and F. C. Nash. Two aquatints, given by Mr. Gordon Dunthorne, of Washington, D. C. : "St. Andrews, Fifeshire", drawn and engraved by W. Daniell ; and "The Tower", by J. C. Stadler, after a drawing by J. Farington. February—The fifth print published by the American College Society of Print Collectors, the "Hotel de Ville", by Louis Conrad Rosenberg. The sixth print, published by the same society — a wood block print, "Jack and Jinny", by Douglas Hall. March—Acquired as additions to the Baxter Collection, in memory of Professor Johnson, and hung in the Moulton Union, the following aquatints : "Charles Davis on the Traverser", and "Will on Bertha", both by Edward Hacker, after W. and H. Barraud; "The Royal Mail Coach"; "The Earl of Derby's Stag- hounds", by R. Woodman, after J. Barenger; "Hare Hunting,

Soho ! Plate I", by R. G. Reeve, after the drawing by W. P. Hodges; and "The Lunch", by W. Reeve, after Daia Wolsten- holme.

April—Acquired for the Baxter Collection : A Medal, gilt- bronze, two inches in diameter, showing on obverse, the relief bust of Governor James Bowdoin, with the inscription : "Jacobus Bowdoin Armig. AA Praescns. S.R.S. LLD. Reip. Mass. GVB. Natus MDCCXXVI Mortuus MDCCXC" and inscribed on re- verse "Senatus Academicus Cantabrigiensis Ex Testamento V.C. Jacobi Bowdoin Haec Praemia Bene Merenti". Every effort will be made to trace the occasion and history of this extremely interesting medal. WITHDRAWALS

November—An inlaid silver snuff-box, dating about 1840 withdrawn by Mrs. Edward T. Little, of Walpole, Mass. December—A Piano Forte, made by Wm. Kearsing, London, about 1800; withdrawn by Mrs. Charles W. Porter, of Wash- ington, D. C. January—Transferred to Mrs. Stanley P. Chase, No. 630, of the Johnson Collection, a drawing, "The Stag", by Salvator Rosa. Report of Director of Museum of Fine Arts 57

March—A set of Chinese ivory chessmen, imported about 1880; withdrawn by request of Mr. Aldcn S. Hichborn, Class of 1911. EXHIBITIONS

An exhibition of English Aquatints, lent by Mr. Gordon

Dunthorne, was held from Oct. 21 to Dec. 6, in connection with which Mr. Dunthorne gave a talk on the process of aquatint in the lecture room of the Art Building, Oct. 21. A complete set of excellent colored reproductions of Mr. Gerrit A. Beneke's Industrial Paintings has been on display in the Bowdoin Gallery through April, accompanied by the artist's commentaries; students have shown much interest in this exhibition.

Two Greek vases belonging to the Warren Collection, which reached the Museum in fragments, have been perfectly restored by Mr. W. J. Young, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and replaced in the Collection. Mr. Warren requested Mr. J. D. Beazley to prepare a definitive catalogue of the collection, which, it is hoped, may eventually be received.

On May 4 the Maine Federation of Women's Clubs observed an "Art Day" at Bowdoin, spending the forenoon in the Museum, lunching at the Moulton Union, and listening in the afternoon to a lecture, by the Director, in Memorial Hall, on "Gilbert Stuart, Portraitist of the Early Republic", which was followed by a tea at the house of Pres ; dent and Mrs. Sills.

Under the auspices of the Parent-Teacher Association, the Director, on Feb. 21, gave a talk on "Spiritual Values in Art", in the museum lecture room.

The attendance during the calendar year was 7,455-

Respectfully submitted,

Henry E. Andrews, Director.