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For more information, please contact [email protected]. $<)\N «» BOWDOIN COLLteG^E 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 grad- uated 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 ex- cellent teacher and a thorough scholar, showing in his brief career great promise. What is more important, he had a char- acter 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 ill- ness. 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 under- graduate class. The students were most enthusiastic about this course and profited greatly both from the material in the lec- tures 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 sec- ond 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 provi- sion 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 commu- nity.