Bates College SCARAB
The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections
5-1897 The aB tes Student - volume 25 number 05 - May 1897 Bates College
Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student
Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 25 number 05 - May 1897" (1897). The Bates Student. 1966. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1966
This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected].
For Positions to Teach, APPL V TO • • • • TEACHERS' CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND, 36 Bromfleld Street, HOSTON, MASS. Rates Students have boon very successful with us. P. B. SPAULDING, Manager. Positions Oiled, 2,178. Bond for Manual.
WIG GIN & CO., Apothecaries.
PHYSICIANS' PKESCKIPTIOSS OUK SPECIALTY.
213 Lisbon Street, Corner of Pine, LEWISTON, ME.
P. S. MARTIN, Finest Grades of Men's, Youths', and HAMMOND Children's IS AT THE FRONT Complete line of with all tin1 Latest Novelties In Gents' Clothing Furnishing A SPECIALTY. CLASS WORK. CALL AND SKI: DIM. Goods, Hals, Caps, ,iinl Mnt'kllltOfll Coals. 172 Lisbon Street, - LEWISTON, ME. 76 Lisbon St., Opp. Music Hall, LEWISTON.
IC< Fernaifl's Bookstore, E» Is tllO place In get 149 LISBON ST., LEWISTON, ME. Complete DUBINE8S anil SHORT-HAND Courses. College Text-Books, SENO FOR CATALOGUE. Stationery, Note-Book*, etc., ;ii Lowest Prices. N. E. RANKIN, PRINCIPAL. 29 Lisbon Street, LEWISTON, ME.
GENTLEMEN FURNISHERS BTAUGH1TAUGHT TO DO BY DOING And Dealers in PBnTLHND BOOTS mr^- SHOES. BflYS BUSINESS Sole Agents of Auburn tor the I.AMSON & IIUBBAUD llA'l'. SHORTHANISHORTHAND & TYPEWRITING SCHOOLJ ATTNA/OOD 8c BARROWS OFFICE PRACTICE FROM THE START. Dry Theory Discarded. Send for Free Catalogue. 60 Court St., AUBURN. L. A. GRAY & SON, Portland, Me. J. L. MERRILL & CO. WAKEFIELD BROTHERS, 114 Lisbon St., LEWISTON, Arc showing the Finest Lines of up-to-date DEAl.Klis IN H)ru(jst xBcoicincs, Cbcmtcals, CLOTHING Fine Toilet Sonps, Brushes, Combs, etc. to he found in any market. Perfumery and Fancy Toilet Articles. i;» Lisbon St., LEWISTON. ME. Physicians' Proscriptions Accurately Compounded. ■
B^b
HON. J. L. H. COBB.
_ BUSINESS DIRECTORY. THE BRIDCE TEACHERS' AGENCIES, C. A. SCOTT & CO., PBOPBIBTOB8, 2 A Beacon Street, BOSTON, and 169 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. We have secured 101 positions for graduates of liatcs at salaries ranging from $400 to $2,000, and aggregating $98,710. In 48 of these positions the salary lias not been less than $1,000. Send for Agency Manual. One Fee Registers In Both Offices.
IF YOU WISH TO BUY BATES Students are always WHIP in demand. BOOKS Register now. ••• Send to us for Prices or other Information.
We carry the largest stock of any store in New England, and can furnish any books in print at the shortest notice. WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. WM. F. JARVIS, Catalogue of Special Bargains mailed free. MANAQRR, DE WOLFE, FI5KE & GO., (N. E. Bureau of Education), 3 Somerset St., BOSTON, MASS. J6I & 365 Washington St.,
Og~ Western Office, Topeka, Kansas. Members ».m. BOSTON; MASS. registered in both offices with one fee if desired. WHEN YOU WANT A RIDE KEPIIHIIB DONE NEATLY Come To Me At HENRY C. WESTON'S, For Hacks, Barges, Buckboards, fSSESS?** Also, Boots and Shoes. Main Street, Qoddard Buggies, Top Carriages, Carryalls, Sur- Opposite Catholic Otraroh, reys, Haggage Wagons, or anything wanted in the line of Carriages and Horses. Reliable drivers and best of service at night and day trains. Parties, Receptions, Balls, Weddings, Banquets, Funerals, etc Qlenrock Water Personal Attention given to Funeral Occasions. liest llenrscs and Hacks at Shortest Notice. Every- thing first-class. Sparkles CEO. H. CURTIS. A. B. Parker . . g ■. g . . OFFICES: 48 Ash Street, and at Gerrish's Drug Store, 145 Lisbon Street. josons with Health Greene, Me. Telephone Number 28212 and 29-2. ii BUSINESS DIRECTORY. COOK St WEST, INSURANCE AGENTS Room No. 1, Garcelon Block, 194 Lisbon St., LEWISTON, ME. Local Agents for the Mass. Mutual Life Ins. Co. and The N. E. Mutual Accident Ass'n, OF Sl'KINOKIELD, MASS.. <>*" BOSTON, MASS., Two of the most conservative and fair-dealing companies in New England, as they are both regulated by the Massachusetts Insurance Laws. We also have the State Agency for the STANDARD DICTIONARY. ■■* which Is undoubtedly the best Dictionary of the Knglish Language. THE BATES STUDENT.
CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1897. The Motley. 105 The Organist. ion Napoleon and Joan of Arc. 10'J Quebec. Ill A Thought 11:{ The World's Student Conference at Nortliiield. 113 ALUMNI DEPARTMENT 114 ;i EDITORIAL. H IN MEMORIAM. 121 UOLLKOK NKWS AND INTERESTS 123 COLLRQK EXCHANGES. ' 127 A CHAT ABOUT NEW HOOKS '29
The BATES STUDENT is published each month during the college year. Subscription price, $1.00. Single copies, 10 cents. Literary contributions are cordially invited, and should be addressed, Editorial Department, Bates Student. All business communications should be sent to the Business Manager. Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Pust-OIHcc «t Lewiston, Mo. REIN IN Do You Intend to Teach? If so, you will do well to investigate mutual Life insurance Go., our new system. OF PHILADELPHIA, PA. No Commission POSITIONS yt Charged Unless Jm Actual Assistance After the Cash Values. GUARANTEED. second Year I Loan Equal to Cash Values. Is Rendered. Policies nwu n_ ii.i.... Paid-Up Values. Correspondence In all parts of the United States. Contain Extension Features. For particulars inquire of J. P. SPHAGUE, Bates, ".18, or write to Insure while young, when premiums are low. J. P. SPRAGUE, Agent, UNION TEACHERS' BUREAU, No. 23 Parker Hall, Bates College. No. 1 Beacon Street, - - BOSTON, MASS. THE BATES STUDENT.
VOL. XXV. MAY, 1897. No. 5.
THE MOTLEY. swept away in the sea of sound; and As light as arrow, shot tho silver deep the unconscious wood under her fingers An osprey's Hashing wing; thrilled like a sounding-board to the A splash, a graceful lling, A shining flight to heaven. mighty vibrations. The ruffled surface seemed to calm in sleep, The earnest minister, who had spent As ne'er a hreath were given. his whole soul in the day's theme, real- A silent glance, unconscious, robbed the heart. izing for himself with overwhelming A sad, sweet fancy slipt, intensity the sacrifice and the triumph Where those bright eye-gleams dipt, To dreamless isles of death; of the Redemption, was uplifted in A deep, dull calm whose surface may not part, thanksgiving and adoration like a rapt Dim years of woe beneath. saint of old, on the wings of the music. Yet while the sunlight seems to fall, T'll gaily dance and smile, Allelulia! Allelulia! As joyous all the while, Victorious he liveth evermore! Nor list to mocking Grief's wild call. I'll wile the envious throng The breathless hush that the ceasing With sip and soaring song, anthem left behind it was broken by Till slumber steals for aye the rustle of a people released from At twilight of life's day. —''M. strong tension before the Easier bene- diction dismissed a reverent congre- THE ORGANIST. gation. THE musical portion of the congre- " Now the God of Peace, who brought gation held its breath, not to lose again from the dead that great Shep- a single note of the surging harmonies herd of the sheep, Christ Jesus, make of the closing Easter chorus. Higher you perfect in every good work to do and higher rose the carol of the vibrant His will . . . through Jesus Christ, sopranos, weaving with the mellow ten- to whom be glory forever and ever. ors a glorious shining maze of melody Amen." against the strong, deep tones of alto Over the motion and hum of the slow and bass, and surrounding the whole progress to the doors, rose the tones of figure, sustaining it, and bearing it the organ once more, in a theme so onward and upward, swelled the mighty grand, so solemnly joyous, that it was manifold voice of the great ore an, a fitting culmination for the mingled A melody-starved little teacher in the emotions of Passion Tide. Forgetting congregation gripped the arm of the everything but his music, till he almost pew beside her, as if she feared to be felt himself one with his instrument, lOfi THE BATES STUDENT. the organist mounted from height to And the organist let his love for sweet height of exaltation, till the slam of sounds conquer his shyness, and sat in the vestry door warned him that the a silent rapturous corner through one sexton had began to close the building, or two red-letter evenings, and in his The intricate harmony modulated gently gratitude endeavored bravely at the into one deep, long-drawn chord ; and next choir rehearsal to discuss these after the minute of unearthly hush that heavenly occasions with his patron, succeeds the postlude, the man rose who, not wishing his protSgt to feel and, leaning against the great organ, embarrassed by obligation, promptly his cheek upon the fretted panel, looked turned the subject, with the ease of a slowly about the dimming church. man of the world, and left the organist Half a dozen of the younger singers stranded high and dry by the retreating still lingered in the far end of the gallery, tide of talk. Bat this had the effect of settling hats and shouldering into coats rendering him so shy before the other's with a pleasant bustle. The organist superior culture and resource that his gazed after them a-little wistfully as next attempt was even more constrained they trooped away. Below, the min- than the first, and the busy chorister, ister was talking with the chorister in his increasing prosperity and popu- while he put on his coat. The chor- larity, gradually forgot to do more than ister received a great deal of well- nod to his silent, faithful colleague on deserved praise for the invariable ex- entering the organ loft, when the latter cellcnce of the music at Summer Street. was not, as usual, turned unsociably His choir was composed of unprofes- face about to the organ desk, sional singers, men and women with Five or six pews away, the minister's good voices, and the love of music in wife was wrapping their little girl in their hearts, who praised God six days her cloak, Tommy standing by, proud in the week by honest work with ham- of his recently acquired ability to put mer and needle and account book, and on his own coat and rubbers. The chil- oa the seventh, no less honestly led the dreu's excited chatter, and mamma's worship of a congregation in song, in low, laughing call to John to postpone a manner that was rapidly increasing the rest of his business till to-morrow, their chorister's reputation. rose to the solitary man in the choir But being a righteous man, the chor- loft. He started suddenly from his ister valiantly essayed to render honor inaction, gathered up his music with where honor was due, asserting stoutly quick, nervous hands, and locked the that half the credit of the music be- organ, closing the lids of the desk as longed to the organist, and being a gently as mamma had fastened little kindly man, he attempted to give to Mary's cloak, and for a moment his the poorer musician of his own abun- lips lost their bitterness hi a Hashing dance, inviting him to a private musical smile. He locked the doors of the or a recital very much as he would have gallery and went down to the street, iuvited a needy neighbor to dinner, out into the early April night, where THE BATES STUDENT. 107 the cool, damp air washed softly against There was not a sound, save the pound- his face. ing of his own heart, and he was about He trudged through the thin mud of to lie down again, when the rapid clang the brick walks, noting eagerly the of the lire-alarm rang out above the tracery of the lofty, budding boughs sleeping city. " One-two-three-four! " against the starry sky, the pearly tone counted the organist. " One-two-three- of the tiny cloud near the moon, dart- four-five-six-seven ! Forty-seven— ing quick glances to left and right as where is that?" The fire-engine clat- he threaded the tenement streets, where tered past the head of the street, and the mill hands were parading in couples. a man's voice called as if in answer Once he stopped, to direct one whom from the midst of the receding noise, he saw to be a stranger out of his " Up by Liberty Square—Summer course, and again, to carry a sobbing Street Church, they say it is ! " child safely past a huge shaggy dog The organist sprang from his bed lying crouched athwart the walk. and tore his clothes from the hooks, He shook himself, very much as the reaching for his keys from the table. dog might have done, when he stood The sexton's key to the organ loft had before the door of his lodging house an been mislaid, and the safety of the hour later, and in the beam of the arc- great organ might depend on him ! light his lonely eyes were kind, and the " It's no use," a bystander was say- bitterness had faded from his lips, leav- ing, when the organist ran up, breath- ing his face strong and quiet. He less, " it's got to go. The steeple hugged his music roll closer under his can't stand much longer. That's where arm as he felt for his key, and looked it caught, and it'd been burning inside fondly at a great drooping elm across nobody knows how long when the alarm the street, whose thickening net-work was pulled in. They've saved—" of budding twigs spread graciously The organist did not hear what. He above a dingy tenement. forced his way past the police, past the " The lines are fallen to me in pleas- fire chief, and rushed into the burning ant places," said the organist softly. building. Men were tearing up the " Yea, I have a goodly heritage ! " carpets and gathering the cushions He found his key, and unlocking his from the pews. door went quietly into the dark, stuffy 41 Take holt there ! " ordered a smoke- entry of his lodging, and passed up the blackened fireman. "Pile these out' shabby stairs to his lonely room. the organ. Gallery door locked ? Break it down—I'm coming ! " In the chill, lonely stillness between The organist, his teeth set and his midnight and morning, when courage breath coming in great gasps, had ami faculties are at their lowest ebb, ripped up a length of the heavy red the organist found himself sitting up in carpeting, and staggered towards the bed, every nerve tense, listening, but stairs, loaded with the burden of two with no idea of what had waked him. men. 108 THE BATES STUDENT. All one side of the church, including window next the boy. The organist the tower corner with its staircase, was heard his cry, close at hand it seemed. already a seething mass of flames, and One glance from the window of the despising the puny opposition of the square corner belfry where he stood engines, the fire was roaring down the showed him the whole—showed him gallery toward the great organ, which that before the ladder could he replaced loomed vast and shadowy in the fierce it would be too late. There was only flickering light. The roar of the flames one chance of rescue, and all in a and the hiss of the water gave way to moment the lonely, gloomy man, whose the mighty roll of the Easter chorus in only comrade was his organ, who had the ears of the organist, when he looked no memories of beloved human friends t up at the silent music prophet, and at the to sweeten sacrifice for another, became thought of the great organ's swan song, a hero, forsaking what was dear to him he felt the strength of ten in his muscles. as life itself for the sake of this waif of "You can't break that in," he the streets. shouted. "It'soak—I'vegotthekey!" The men were crowding on the wind- He rushed through the smoky vesti- ing stair; he ran to a narrow passage bule dragging his burden, and flinging back of the organ loft, crying that the the chief aside, fitted his key with hands key was in the door—they must not that never trembled. The door flew put it in too far! He ran headlong open, and the organist ran up the through the passage and burst into the narrow, winding stairs to unlock the narrow open space beyond in the blaz- second entrance to the shrine where ing gallery, and flung up the window the music prophet dwelt, while the men nearest the advancing flames. The boy tugged after him with the carpets. was not three feet away, clinging to a The key was already in the lock—the narrow ledge that broadened where it loose, ill-matched lock that demanded joined the window sills. The organist so much gentle, practiced coaxing, and leaned far out and grasped the child's the men were calling hi03 to help, when shoulder. "Come! "said he fiercely. a child's shrill scream rang on the "Come!" The boy crept over, held organist's ears. securely by that tense grip, and the A little street Arab from the ship- organist dragged him in and pushed yard, slipping past the line of excited him to the passage. police, had daringly climbed the long The men were thundering at the loft ladder set against a projecting spur of door in a vain attempt to break it in, the wall to enable the liremen to reach for the key resisted their impatient the inner tower window with their hose, fingers. Just as the organist and the and thence crawled out upon a ledge, boy, begrimed with smoke and covered where he clung, triumphant, but unno- with dust and cobwebs, came ifpon ticed, when the ladder was suddenly them, the chief called from below— removed. The fire had gained inside "All out, boys ! The steeple's going the church, and now hurst from the to fall!" THE BATES STUDENT. 109
The organist sprang at the loft door, neighbor. Hut the organist was lying but the men swept him away, together prone where he had stood when the with the boy, in a mad rush for the rest shrank back at the fall of the stairs. tower, and beside him was a shattered ** We must save the organ—there's mass of stone that had fallen from the plenty of time — the fire's nowhere base of the cross. near it!" cried the organist. Organ and organist would never lead " All out! " shouted the chief again, the worship of song again. and wrestling like a madman to push D., 1900. his way back to the loft door, the organist was forced out by two stalwart NAPOLEON AND JOAN OF ARC. firemen. The crowd was still cheering the TjN the early part of the fifteenth cen- rescue of the child when the men rushed ^ tury, the blackest, the most brutal out from the doomed church, but the and wicked in history since the dark shouting was hushed in awe, for the ages, the little village of Domremy, great tower, wrapped in flame to its France, the home of humble peasants, summit, where the cross was hidden in though noble patriots, presented to the upstreaming fire and smoke, was totter- world the most remarkable woman it ing to its fall. has ever seen. Joan of Arc lived at The organist wrenched himself free the time when her country was in the from the guards, who mopped their sorest distress, when it most needed a grimy, sweaty faces and regarded him great leader. From her earliest child- curiously. hood the condition of France lay heavily " It's no use," said one, kindly, when upon her soul. Even in her village, he recognized the man whose music had where patriotism was the sentiment of given wings to his own Sunday worship every heart, by her marvellous enthu- for many years, "I'm sorry, but the siasm and utter devotion to her country, poor old organ's got to go. What a she won the name of "The Patriot." sight that steeple is ! Look ! Although a shy, loving, happy child, The great tower reeled on its base, the favorite among her companions and amid a whirlwind of flame, the cross their leader, yet dearer to her than even flashed out, outlined in fire, and no friends and home was the freedom of sound was heard but the crackle of the France. flames; then, with a noise of rending Almost four hundred years later, on timbers, and a crash that seemed to the island of Corsica, when that country shake the solid earth, the tower and was perishing under the oppression of half the front of the church fell in the French, amid the cries of the together, burying the great organ in wounded, sighs of the oppressed, and their ruins. tears of despair, was born that extraor- The crowd drew a long, shuddering dinary man who operated upon the breath, and each man looked at his world with unprecedented power during 110 THE BATES STUDENT. his life, and is to-day influencing it by where, but she was greatest at the his character. Born, like Joan of Arc, Rouen trials, rising above the limita- at a time of national distress, Napoleon tions and infirmities of human nature Bonaparte, too, became inspired, at a and accomplishing under hopeless con- very early age, with a spirit of patri- ditions all that she would have accom- otism, a contempt for submission, and plished had she been aided by life and a love for liberty. When at school in cheer and light and the presence of France, his companions taunted him kindly faces. Great as was Joan of with the fact that his father had sub- Arc, the general, greater still was Joan mitted, he answered bitterly, " I shall of Arc, the martyr. never forgive him for it." In child- Behold Napoleon, the victorious gen-
FRANK L. NOBLE, '74. veloped with relentless rapidity. All IT is seldom a man dies at forty-four that medical science, skilled treatment, years of age and leaves behind him and care could do availed not to stay a more brilliant record or a larger its progress. Early in January he had number of friends than did Frank L. taken his seat in the Legislature, appar- Noble. ently in his usual health. He was His illness was not of long duration, a candidate for the office of attorney- but the disease, Bright's disease, de- general, not, however, with the expec-
tation of an election at the present can, and was House Chairman of the time, but that he might be in line for Judiciary Committee. On the 15th of the promotion in the future. He re- March, 1897, he was for the fourth suc- ceived a flattering vote from his legis- cessive year inaugurated Mayor of lative associates for this high office. Lewiston after a canvass that must have He was the admitted Republican leader taxed his energies to an unusual degree. on the floor of the House, in a House Rumors of his illness had gone abroad that was almost unanimously Republi- during the last week of this canvass, THE BATES STUDENT. 115 but it was not until the day of inaugu- he had grown from boyhood to mature ration, when it was understood that manhood, honored and beloved. Mayor Noble would not be able to He never had exceptional advantages. deliver his inaugural in person, that Frank Low Noble was born at Fairfield the public had any intimation of his Corner, Somerset County, Maine, July serious illness. He was present at 22, 1852, and was the only son of E. R. City Hall at the organization of the and Harriet (Lamb) Noble. His two city government and took the oath of sisters, Mrs. Hall and Mrs. George B. oflice. His inaugural was read by the Stetson, live in Lewiston. His mother President of the Board of Aldermen, died a few years ago, and since her but he himself administered the oath death the father has lived with his son. of office to his City Council and spoke His parents left Fairfield when Frank a few words to them at the close of the was six years old and moved to Port- ceremonies. Although the old grace land, Me., where they lived for a year and ease of manner were there, and or more, when they came to Lewiston, his splendid voice was clear and full, first occupying the house on Park Street there was a pallor upon his face and a where Dr. J. M. Small now lives. haggard cast of countenance that boded Frank was then nine years of age. ill. In a few days, acting upon medical They soon moved into one of the Hill advice, he started for the South, with Corporation boarding-houses, where the hope that a sojourn during the they remained over twenty years. In spring months in a warmer climate those early days the factories were filled would be beneficial. His wife accom- with the sons and (laughters of the vil- panied him. They stopped on the way lagers and farmers round about, who at Everett, Mass. But here he con- boarded on the Corporation, as it was tinued to fail. Tortured by excruciat- called, through the week, and often ing pain, his nights were sleepless and spent the Sabbath at home. It was in the hours passed in the struggle that a the midst of these surroundings that strong man, with much to live for, the future lawyer, legislator, magis- makes for life before hope dies within trate, and orator grew to maturity. him, before the spirit surrenders, before He attended the public schools in the heart yields to resignation and peace Lewiston, then for a short time the comes. He returned to his home on Edward Little Institute in Auburn, and Frye Street in Lewiston, Friday morn- later the Nichols Latin School, where ing, March 26th, prostrated, unable to he completed his fit for college. He walk unassisted from the carriage to was graduated at the Latin School in the house. 1870, and for merit was given the On Monday, March 2i), 1897, at salutatory at the graduation exercises. 1.30 o'clock A.M., the end came. He From his earliest boyhood there was died at his own home, with his faithful never any doubt as to what his occupa- wife and attendants at his bedside,— tion was to be. To become a lawyer the chief magistrate of the city in which was the goal of his ambition. Toward 116 THE BATES STUDENT. this his every energy was bent. He a co-partnership with James Nash, a entered Hates College in the autumn of Hates graduate of the Class of 1875, 1870 in a class of twenty-six and took which lasted until 1871). Growing good' rank from the start. It was restless for lack of business he then generally believed among the students started for the West and settled in he could easily have led his class had Minneapolis. After trying his fortunes he applied himself more closely to his here for a year and a half he went to studies. He was fond of out-of-door San Francisco, where his sister, Mrs. sports. In those days base-ball, foot- Hall, then resided. Here he remained ball, and college athletics generally but a few months, when he decided to were in a crude state, but there was an return to Lewiston. This was in 1881. occasional game of ball between the Since then he has resided here in the different classes on Saturday after- practice of his profession, in which he noons. Noble was always prominent won his way steadily and surely to the in whatever he undertook. He was front rank. full of vigor and animal spirits, and In 1885 he formed a co-partnership his mind was no less vigorous than his with J. F. Merrill of Hates, '82, which body. A keen, powerful intelligence, lasted about one year, when Mr. Merrill a cordial, sincere manner, made him went West. Mr. Noble was alone in popular and won for him warm friends. business for some years after, but He excelled in deelamation and de- in 18i>4 formed a co-partnership with bate. His voice was loud, clear, and Mr. Ralph W. Crockett. The (inn of resonant, a splendid voice for public Nohle & Crockett has done a prosperous speaking after it was once trained business, increasing from year to year down, but in the college days we in amount and in the importance of the thought it too loud and strong for the cases submitted. best effects. Its well-rounded periods Mr. Noble was perhaps the best have since been listened to from many criminal lawyer at the Androscoggin a public platform and in many a court- Bar. His services in capital cases room, when his listeners have felt upon were in demand not only in his own them the spell of the orator. but in adjoining counties, and in the He was graduated from college in trial of civil causes as well. the Class of 1874 with honors, and The Leiviston Journal of March 2i>, then for a time taught school, first at 18(.)7, says of him : Garland, Me.—a winter school—after- For ten years of active law business before wards at a private school at Topsham, jurors be bas been one of the most expert of Me., where he and his classmate Stan- our attorneys, wise, sagacious, cool-beaded, quick-witted, dangerous Man adversary, versed ford taught together. in technicalities of the law, strong before a He studied law with Strout & Holmes jury (one of the best and most eloquent jury in Portland, and in 1877 was admitted lawyers in New England), with the physique to stand the wear and tear of long trials with- to the Cumberland Bar. He came to out a sign of breaking down, and peculiarly Lewiston, opened a law office, formed fortunate in the various accidents and happen- THE BATES STUDENT. 117 ings of trials in court. Ho was especially during the sessions of the Legislature, versed in "personal damage suits," having tried some of the most notable ones in the and at all social functions Mr. and state in late years. Mrs. Noble were most welcome guests. As a public speaker his services were A finer-looking couple were seldom in demand on all political and patriotic seen. Their last public appearance occasions. He delivered memorial ad- together was at City Hall, Lewiston, dresses in many cities and towns on March 2, 1897, upon the occasion of throughout the state, and had more the Governor's reception. invitations for such service than he He was an industrious man. In the could accept. In March, 1896, he was ten years since he first went to the an invited guest, the only one from Legislature in 1887 he had won dis- Maine, at a banquet given at the tinction in an exacting profession; Qalocy House in Boston by the Mar- attended well to the manifold duties ketmen's Club, and made the speech of that ,lis increasing prominence as a the evening. He was invited to speak public man entailed upon him : a mem- at the opening exercises of the World's ber of t,ie Republican County Corn- Fair at Chicago. In 1895, during Mr. mittec, chairman of the City Committee, Noble's second term as Mayor, Lewiston responding to frequent calls for public celebrated her centennial. Mayor Noble speaking both on the stump and on the presided at the afternoon meeting on platform, again in the legislatures of July 4th on the Park, and made a speech 18!"' 18!'"'' :llul 18;'7 taking a promi- notable for its eloquence and patriotic neilt Part as l,ie leading representative fervor. Other speakers upon the occa- of tll(; largest manufacturing city in sion were Senator Frye and ex-Gover- t,lc' »t*te, just entering upon the fourth nors Garcelon and Dingley. successive term as mayor—what won- As a presiding officer Mr. Noble de1*' with so m,lch already achieved was not excelled. His manner was in tlle line of 1,is ambition, and with so graceful and easy, yet forceful and nianv flien(,s P»od of his successes, dignified. He despatched business rap- that tl,e fl,tme looked bright to him idly without apparent effort, and had and he longed to live. a fine faculty for clear and concise He was one of the most notable men statement. ever graduated at Bates, and his un- In 1882 he married Miss Clara P. timely end cut short a brilliant career. Spofford, daughter of Mr. P. M. Spof- Never before were there such popular ford of Webster, and sister of the manifestations of sorrow in Lewiston, architect Spofford of Boston. They from the humblest to the highest, as at have been devoted to each other. Upon his funeral. On the afternoon of April all occasions, whether of business, 1, 1897, at the Pine Street Congrega- public speaking, or pleasure, which tional Church, the Rev. George M. Howe took him from home over night, his Paicl llie mui1 tribute to his memory,— wife almost invariably accompanied tne cIuilen packed to the doors with him. She was with him at Augusta men, —the casket and pulpit over- 118 THE BATES STUDENT. whelmed with flowers. Not only the '74—Robert Given now resides in sidewalks but the streets lilled with Denver. He is lecturer on the Irriga- people —men, women, and children tion Laws of the West, in the Law thronging about the doors with sad School of Colorado University. faces to pay their last tribute of respect '74.—H. H. Acterian is organizing to one whom they all knew and loved, University Extension Work in Ohio. who had befriended many of them. His address is University Association The flags were at half-mast in Lewiston Building, Chicago, HI. and Auburn, the factories and places '7;-,.__j. R. Brackett is Professor of of business closed. The Androscoggin Comparative and English Literature in Bar, delegation of attorneys from other Colorado University and Dean of the counties in the state, from the State College of Liberal Arts in that institu- Senate and House of Representatives, tion. civic and military organizations, and '75._A. M. Spear of Gardiner, has secret orders were present and joined been chosen Grand Captain General the sad procession that followed his of the Knights Templar of Maine. remains to their final resting-place, the '70.—At a recent meeting of the Oak Hill Cemetery in Auburn. Cumberland County Sunday-School His vigorous, energetic personality, Union, at Scarhoro, Rev. T. II. Stacy his kindness of heart and broad sympa- of Saco, delivered an address on "The thies, his genuineness and his talent, Sunday-School an Evangelizer and - were in rare combination. The people Christianize! ." believed in him and were loyal to him. '78.—j{ov. .1. Q. Adams died at his The future seemed to have for him home in G nil ford, N. II., on April 16th. much of usefulness and honorable serv- A sketch of his life will appear in the ice in store. But the finger of Death June number of the STUDENT. beckoned him, ami in response to the '80.—W. H. Judkins has been elected dread summons he has laid down his Mayor of Lewiston by a large majority. work. Full of honor and sincerely '81.—Rev. B. S. Hideout, pastor of mourned, he has gone to his rest. the Congregational Church at Norway, N. W. HARMS, 73. recently received six persons into mem- bership. PERSONALS. '84.—Prof. A. Beede of Redfield '07.—Dr. F. K. Sleeperof Sabatis, has College, is at present supplying the been chosen Deputy Grand Commander German Methodist Church of Redfield, of the Knights Templar of Maine. South Dakota. He preaches in Ger- '72.—E. J. Goodwin delivered an man wholly without manuscript. address before the teachers' conven- '87.—Rev. C. S. Pendleton is pastor tion, at Nashua, N. H., on April 21st. of the Baptist Church at Oneonta. N. Y. '73.—N. W. Harris has been elected '8D.—p. M. Baker is principal of President of the Lewiston and Auburn Green Mountain Seminary, Waterbury Railroad Co. Centre, Vt. BATES STUDENT, Published by the Class of 1898.
BOARD OF EDITORS:
FRANK PEARSON. OLIVER II. TOOTHAKER. SADIE M. BRACKETT. RALPH H. TUKEY. ADAH M. TASKER. MYRTLE B. MAXIM.
BUSINESS MANAGERS: LOUIS B. COSTELLO. HARRY W. BLAKE.
JURING the last few years educa- of how the pupil can, unaided, do the tion has received new impulses. things he has been taught. The progressive spirit of the age has It is often impossible, especially in caused old methods and plans of work college, to review the term's work; to be discarded. From the first the and the final examination must take examination system has been attacked ; the place of this review. There is and the mental excitement and strain nothing better to fix important points of the examination period has been in the mind. Learning one lesson held up as one of the most injurious after another gives, at the best, but things a student can undergo. In disconnected ideas, which soon pass accordance with this idea, many schools away. and colleges are doing away with exam- inations in a measure and basing pro- IIRING our student days we should motion upon daily rank. lay the foundation for a future But every question has two sides. library. A good working library, we Often as much good may be derived conceive, should consist of two distinct from following the beaten path as by parts ; that is, books of reference and straying out into an unfamiliar way. those bearing along the line of one's Under the system mentioned above, it chosen work ; and secondly, works of is more easy for the teacher to do mere standard literary value. automatic work. There is no time for The first part is essential to accom- teaching, only for marking. Monthly plish what is required of educated and term examinations are abolished workers of to-day. A few works of and daily ones substituted. Many a reference may, with careful manage- diffident student, thoroughly familiar ment, lie acquired by most students with his lesson, is unable to recite in during the collegiate course, and also class because of his timidity. The those books most necessary in the papers he passes in are the only way profession or life-work chosen. he can give an idea of what his abili- Care should likewise be exercised ties real I v are. Examinations are tests that the second part, standard literary \-20 THE BATES STUDENT. works, be not neglected. A few of wholesome book we read, every science, the world's masterpieces of literature every art we pursue, holds the key to a may-easily find their way to our shelves keener understanding of the world and to be a constant source of mental stim- a more concentrated grasp of the sys- ulus and help. tem of matter; and by thus reading and studying we may some day see FACTS, phenomena, general laws, that our education has attained unto become day by day more easily something of its possibility. acquired by every college student; the retentive faculty is exercised and iE fear that there are a few stu- strained to its greatest capacity ; but dents here among us who need does the power of reflection increase to be reminded of the purpose for daily? We often wonder if the famous which such organizations as the Bead" philosophers of the past and present ing-Room Association and the Ath- were such thoughtless individuals as letic Association exist. They are not the average college student of to-day ! intended to furnish gratis the same We think not. Their habits of reflec- opportunities to some who are not tion must have hegun before they members, that they furnish to others left their schools. They studied to who are members of the associations and acquire the facts, hut more than this, pay their regular dues. The constitu- they studied that by this acquirement tions of these associations say that no they might lit themselves to go on to one who is not a member in good stand- hidden knowledge and understanding. ing shall be admitted to their privileges. Let as realize that without thought— This clause should be enforced ; else though parrot-like, we may be able to why does it exist? It is unfair; it is repeat books from cover to cover—our presumption on the part of any stu- study fails of its highest possibility. dent, to disregard this requirement. Our educational practice of to-day is faulty. Far too prominent a position STRANGE, when the limits of our in the class-room is given to the mere own beliefs are so variable, we can- process of sense perception. With us not tolerate those who have other bound- as students lies the partial remedy. aries. To-morrow we go a step beyond, Let us study not that we may be and, turning, rebuke the brother who able to make a faultless recitation, hut is standing in the place we left. Or, that we may render our minds more beholding one who has outstripped us acute and more comprehensive. in the inarch, we cry "Fanatic." Ah, So, too, in our reading—''Read not we need a clearer vision of the human. to find talk and discourse, hut to weigh Fierce opposition strengthens the opin- and consider," should be the principle ion of another. It will never win him of every Bates man and woman. Every to our position. THE BATES STUDENT. 121 nn flfcemortam. HON. J. L. H. COBB. Advancing thus by steady strides from 1r is an instance not often, if ever, a farm lad to a wealthy manufacturer, repeated, for the theological seminary Mr. Cobb did not permit his material of one denomination to bear the name resources alone to increase. He iden- of a deacon in another denomination, tified himself with the higher welfare In 1888, in recognition of the generous of the community. He has been a gift of $25,000 to the funds of the member of the Lewiston City Govern- institution, the Trustees through the ment, and as representative and senator President designated the department, has served his community in the State previously known as the Bates Theolog- Legislature. As deacon of the Pine ical Seminary, Cobb Divinity School, Street Congregational Church, Lewis- in honor of Hon. J. L. H. Cobb. It ton, where his fidelity to the interests was a distinction due not to the gift of religion, and his generosity to the alone, but no less to the spirit of the financial needs of the church and de- giver, nomination were conspicuous, and as A resident of Lewiston since 1852, Trustee of Hates College and member Mr. Cobb was closely identified with of the Committee on Oversight and all of its best interests, financial, social, Control of the Divinity School, Mr. educational, moral, and religious. Be- Cobb contributed effectively to the ginning on a farm in Poland, Me., he higher life of man. soon developed into a district school For his friendship to the college the teacher. At the age of twenty-one, in college can never be too grateful. Saco, for sixty cents a day he became Long a member of the Executive Com- a dresser in the weaving-room of a mittee, chairman of the Building Corn- large mill. After five years of expe- mittee of Roger Williams Hall, gener- rience there he was promoted to full oits benefactor with funds, and warm charge of a weaving-room at Hadley sympathizer with young men, Mr. Cobb Falls, Mass. Then when the Bates aided the institution through all its Mill of Lewiston was opened in 1852 existence. In its early days he gave the young man came to this city, still one-tenth of the amount necessary in as foreman of the weaving-room. After endowing a professorship. Ever since four years in this position, one year he has given many sums, great and was passed at Casco, Me., in the grocery small, for various purposes. In 1884 business, and then followed various the writer of these paragraphs went as changes involving the clothing business a delegate to the Inter-Seminary Mis- and the manufacturing of woolens in sionary Alliance at Princeton, N. J. ; North Gray, until in 1868, with some Mr. Cobb generously aided in paying business associates, Mr. Cobb estab- the bills. And so he was ever ready to lished the Cumberland Mills of Lew- respond to appeals. Exact with him- iston, in which his fortune was made. self in business methods, he demanded 122 THE BATES STUDENT. exactness of others, but he was generous ing an education, and strove earnestly and sympathetic toward all need. for that object. She was fitted for Mr. Cobb's home has long been a college in the Lewiston High School, student's home. Without children him- from which she was graduated with self, he has taken to his fireside and high honors in the Class of '1)5. Her heart many a young man. For almost parents had some hesitation about her a score of years his home has hardly entering college in the following fall, been a month without a student inmate. as she did not theu seem strong, but Rev. H. C. Lowden, College Class of they reluctantly consented to her earnest '86 and Divinity Class of '81), passed desire to continue her studies. Early seven years in that home, and, as Mr. last fall she was obliged to leave her Lowden said with much feeling at the work, and went to Denver, Col., where funeral, almost as a son. she hoped to recover her health ; but Mr. Cobb died April 12, 181)7, at she was beyond help. A short time seventy-two years of age. His funeral before her death she was brought back was attended on the loth by a large to Lewiston that she might pass the gathering of neighbors and friends, last few days of her life at home. including the Faculties of the College She was a faithful student, never and Divinity School and many students, allowing any interest whatever to take particularly of the Divinity School. her from her work. She also pursued By his will Mr. Cobb prescribed that the study of music with the same in the final settlement of his estate decree of faithfulness. Her friends, one-third should be given to the Bangor and especially the members of the Theological Seminary, one-third to the Eurosophian Society, thoroughly appre- American Missionary Society, and one- ciated her musical talent. For several third to Bates College. While dead, years she had been connected with the therefore, the interests which he loved Main Street Free Baptist Church. All he will still care for, one-third of his who knew and loved her have the property aiding church extension in consolation that she lived a true Chris- America, and two-thirds the higher edu- tian life, the influence of which will cation of young men. A. W. A. still live on. —'99. GLASS RESOLUTIONS. ANNIE MAY ALDEN. Whereas, In the providence of God our beloved classmate, Annie May Alden, lias IjOR the first time the Class of '99 is been taken from our number, be it Resolred, Tliat we, the Glass of '99, deeply saddened by the death of one of lament the loss of one who was a true friend and a faithful student; its members. April loth, Miss Annie Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt .sym- May Alden died at her home in Lewiston. pathy to her parents and friends in their afflic- tion ; Miss Alden was born at Monniouth, Resolred, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of the deceased and that a Me., May 5, 1H7G, but her parents copy be printed in the BATKS STUDENT. soon removed to Lewiston, where they GKOKGIA M. KNAPP, W. S. BASSETT, have lived since that time. From her A. C. WHEELER, childhood she looked forward to gain- Committee on Resolutions. THE BATES STUDENT. 123 GOIISCJG Dsws and IntGrssts. HEARD ABOUT THE CAMPUS. books, considering in the award origi- QUKKIKS. nality, amount of work, and general Did tlie Freshios or the Sophies appearance. Sleep the most that night? Are the girls who keep in fashion At the annual business meeting of The only ones who're bright ? the Y. W. C. A., held May 3d, the fol- Was the Lab. so very dirty, lowing officers were elected for the Or those maids so very nice, ensuing year: President, Miss Files, That to he clean enough to suit them It all must be swept twice? '98 ; Vice-President, MissEdgerly, '99 ; Recording Secretary, Miss Baldwin, Do the cow-boys down in Texas Miss their beautiful chapcaus 1900; Corresponding Secretary, Miss That the boys of Bates are sporting? Blake, '99 ; Treasurer, Miss Files, 1900. Alas! Qutaaitf Who knows? Track athletics are receiving more The latest organization is the Cycle attention this spring than ever before, Club. and, judging from present indications, Many of the students attended the we shall send out by far the strongest concert given by Sousa's Hand in City track team that we have ever had on Hall, May 1st. the athletic field. We lost none by Dr. Geer occupied the pulpit at the graduation, while the Freshman Class Pine Street Congregational Church, brought in a large number of good Sunday, May 2d. men. Thirty men are training under A second base-ball nine has been the direction of the physical instructor, organized, with J. P. Sprague, '98, W. W. Holster, Jr., assisted by W. F. manager and captain. Garcelon, '91. The Class of '97 has repaired the The Students' Building Fund Asso- co-educational walk between Hathorn ciation held its annual meeting, April Hall and Hedge Laboratory. 28th. Officers were elected as follows : President, Costello, '98; Vicc-Presi- The Colby-Hates debate has been dent, Roberts, '99 ; Executive Com- postponed to May 21st. Owing to Mr. mittee, Costello, '98, Roberts, '99, Miss Milliken's illness, Mr. Hassett, '99, will take his place. Perkins, '98, Hruce, '98, Miss King, '99, Merrill, '99, Dennison, 1900; Cor- First Student—"Do you take prac- responding Secretary, Miss Tasker, tical physics this term?" Second Stu- '98; First Assistant Corresponding dent—" No ; I took impractical physics Secretary, Hassett, '99 ; Second Assis- last term, and that was all I could tant Corresponding Secretary, Miss stand." Odiorne, '99 ; ' Recording Secretary, Four prizes have been offered by Miss Roberts, '99 ; Assistant Treas- Professor Strong to the Sophomores in urer, Blake, '98 ; Collectors, Hinkley, botany for excellence in their note- '98, Calhoun, '99, Packard, 1900. 124 THE BATES STUDENT. Arbor Day was observed, perhaps have a hard-hitting and clean-fielding we might say celebrated, at Hates this team, with three good pitchers and an year.' The college furnished the trees, excellent man behind the bat. and the students did the rest. The Harvard, 7; Bates, 4. ceremonies that attended the work defy The season opened Past-Day, April description. Some sang, some howled, 22d, with a game with Harvard's sec- some yelled, some blew tin horns, some ond nine. In spite of the fact that played on instruments of brass, some our boys had had but little out-door solemnly invoked Pomona and Pan. practice, while the visiting team had But to relate all that took place on been playing for several weeks, they that eventful forenoon would fill many showed that we had material for a win- pages; and it would not be kind to ning team. The detailed score follows : mention how the Seniors looked on the HARVARD. A.B. B. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E. remains of their last year's ivy and Holt, 2b. . . 5 1 .'5 I 1 0 0 Sears, l.f. . . 4 1 0 0 5 0 0 sighed; how the Juniors hilariously Morse, c.f. ..4000100 paraded the campus with plug hats and Litohfield, 3b. 5 1110 10 Vincent, s.s. .82*2151 shovels ; how the Sophs climbed the Foster, 11). . .4 2 2 8 12 0 0 Gregory, p. . 4 0 0 0 1 8 mountain and offered their sacrifices to Slade, c. . . 8 0 0 0 4 1 1 the Furies ; and how the poor Presides Qabbralth, r.f. 8 0 2 2 2 0 0 wept over the lowly grave of their Totals, 35 10 11 27 10 3 departed foe. BATES. A.Ii. K. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E. The Junior Team Debate took place Slattery,2b. -3000002 I'ulsifer.p. .-4000130 Saturday evening, April 24th, at the Burrill.l.f. . -4122001 Main Street Free Baptist Church. QuiQuinn, Sb. . . 4 1 0 0 2 8•> 1 Purington, o. . 4 & 4 6 0 Music was furnished by the college Johnsoni s.s. .4 o 1 1 1 1 Bennett, c.f. .4 0 2 2 0 0 orchestra. The question, " Should the Lowe, lb. . . 4 0 1 12 1 2 United States maintain by arms, if nec- Hinkley. r.f. . 8 0 0 0 0 0 essary, the doctrine that no European Totals, 34 4 7 10 24 10 8 SCORE BY INNINGS. power shall acquire territory in Amer- 123456789 ica?" was discussed by 0. H. Tooth- Harvard ... 3 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 x—7 BatJs ... 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3-4 aker, P. R. Griffin, and T. E. Woodside Two-base bits—Bennett, Foster. 3-basehit— in the allirmative, and by L. B. Cos- Purington. Stolen bases—Jobnson, Holt, Fos- ter, Gregory. Rases on balls—by Pnlsifer, tello, A. A. Knowlton, and P. Pearson Sears, Morse, Vincent, Slade, Galbraitb; by Gregory—Slattery. Struck out—by Pulsifer, in the negative. The judges awarded Gregory 2, Litcbfield, Sears 2, Holt 2; by Greg- the prize to the negative, considering ory, Slattery 2, Bennett. Umpires—(ierrisb and Jenney. presentation of side, logic, rhetoric, Bates, 12; Murphy Balsams, 5. and delivery. On Saturday, April 24th, the team A comparison of the work of our played the Murphy Balsams of Port- base-ball team with that of the other land, winning easily. Maine colleges indicates that Bates will SCORE BY INNINGS. have something to say about the dis- 1 2 3 4 5 (5 7 8 9 Bates ■ .00030300 0-12 posal of the pennant this year. We Murphy Balsams. 0 0 0 0 10 2 2 0-5 THE BATES STUDENT. 125
Bates, 11; New Hampshire College, 4. BATES. April 80th, New Hampshire College A.B. K. B.H. T.B. P.O A. R. Pulsifer, 2b. . 8 1 2 3 1 1 0 played on our grounds and gave us an Burrill, p. . . 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 Quinn, 3b. . . 4 0 0 0 3 8 1 opportunity to practice our pitchers, Purington, c. 4 0 0 0 B 8 0 but failed to make the game interesting. Slattery, l.f. . 4 0 1 1 2 8 1 Johnson, s.s. . 3 0 0 0 1 2 1 RATES. Bennett, c.f. . 8 0 0 0 2 0 0 R. B.H. T.B P.O. A. E. Lowe, lb. . . 8 0 0 0 !) 0 0 Pulsifer, p., 2b. (i 2 4 5 0 8 0 Mason, r.f. . 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 Burrill, !.(., p. 6 2 8 4 1 0 0 Quinn, 3b. . . 6 1 4 4 1 2 0 Totals, 31 1 3 4 24 12 3 Purington, c. . 5 0 1 1 18 0 1 Slattery, 2b.p.l.f. 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 SCORE BY INNINGS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Johnson, s.s. . 6 1 4 0 0 5 2 Bennett, c.f. . 4 1 2 2 2 0 0 Brown . . . . 4 1 2 0 0 0 1 3 x- -11 Lowe, lb. . . 5 2 2 9 10 1 0 . . 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0- - 1 Bean, r.f. . . 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 Two-base hits—Pulsifer, Phillips. Three- base hit—Cook. Stolen bases—Phillips, Fulty, Totals, 46 11 20 23 27 12 Gammons8, Casey, J. Dunne. Bases on balls— Slattery, Phillips, Fulty 2, Gammons, Cook, NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE. Casey 2, J. Dunne. Struck out—by Slattery, A.B. It. B.H. T.B. P.O A. E. Fulty, Lander, Boyd 2; by Sominersgill, Haley, s.s. . . .'{ 1 0 o 5 9 1 Purington, Bennett 2, Lowe; by Dunne, Pul- Languor, lb . 3 1 2 3 11 0 0 sifer, Burrill, Quinn, Bennett, Lowe, Mason. Smith, 8b. . . 4 1 0 0 4 2 1 Umpire—G eorge. Nelson, c. . . 5 0 1 l 1 1 1 Hayes, l.f. . . 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 Bates, 11; Tufts, 6. Wright, c.f. . 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rane, 2b. . . 4 0 1 1 5 3 1 On the following day we had the Mather, r.f. . 4 0 0 0 1 1 0 pleasure of defeating Tufts, a thing Richardson, p. 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 which we have not done for several Totals 33 4 o <; 27 10 5 years. SCORE BY INNINGS. 1 2 8 4 5 6 7 8 it BATES. Bates . . . . 0 4 5 0 2 0 0 0 0—11 A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. B. N.H. C. . . . 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 10—4 Pulsifer, 2b. .8 2 0 0 8 3 Two-base hits—Pulsifer, Burrill, Johnson, Burrill, p. . 4 1 1 1 D 0 Langlier. Stolen bases—Quinn, Haley. Bases Quinn, 3b. . 4 1 1 0 2 0 00 balls—by Pulsifer, Haley, Langlier; by Purington, c. 4 1 3 (i 1 0 Burrill, Smith; by Richardson, Purington, Slattery, l.f. 3 1 1 0 0 1 Slattery, Bennett. Struck out—by Pulsifer, Johnson, s.s. 4 2 2 0 1 0 Smith, Hayes 2, Wright, Mather; by Burrill— Bennett, c.f. 4 1 1 2 0 0 Haley 2, Smith, Nelson, Rane, Mather; by Lowe, lb. . 4 2 3 12 0 0 Richardson, Slattery. Umpire—Casey. Mason, r.f. 4 0 0 0 0 1 Brown, 11; Bates, 1. Totals, 36 11 !) 12 24 12 2 At Providence, May 3d, we met the TUFTS. Brown University team, probably the A.B K. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E. Greul, lb. . . 4 1 1 1 10 0 1 strongest college nine in New England, Larkin, 2b. . 4 '2 2 2 2 4 1 Richardson,3b. 4 2 3 3 2 2 0 and suffered an honorable defeat. Butterlield.r.f. 4 1 2 3 0 0 2 BROWN. Bean, c.f. . . 4 0 2 2 3 0 1 Meader, c. . .4 0 0 0 7 1 0 A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E. Crowley, l.f. . 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 Phillips, s.s. . 4 0 2 8 1 8 0 2 Fultv, 2b. . .3 1 1 1 2 4 0 Patterson, s.s. 8 0 0 0 0 1 Lander, 3b. . 5 2 8 8 2 3 0 Sanborn, p. . 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 Gammons, c.f. 4 2 1 1 1 0 0 Cook, r.f. . . 4 0 2 4 0 0 0 Totals, 88 6 10 11 24 10 7 Boyd, l.f. . . 5 2 0 0 1 0 0 SCORE BY INNINGS. Casey, lb. . . 3 2 1 1 12 0 1 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 J. Dunne, c. . 4 1 1 1 8 2 0 Bates 2 0 3 3 10 2 0-11 Sommersgill, p. 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 Tufts 2 0 10 3 0 0 0—6 T. Dunne, p. 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Two-base hits—Lowe, Buttertiold. Three- Totals, 36 11 11 14 27 12 base hit—Purington. Stolen bases—Pulsifer, 12G THE BATES STUDENT. Quinn 2, Purington, Slattery, Johnson, Lar- The finances of the Association are kin. Struck out—by Hurrill, Grc.ul, Larkin, Butterfield, Crowley, Patterson, Sanborn; by on a firmer basis than ever before, Sanborn, Purington, Slattery 2, Bennett 2, owing to the untiring efforts of the Lowe. Bases on balls—by Sanborn, Quinn, Slattery. Umpire—Stroud. Finance Committee and Treasurer. Our expenses have been unusually Portland League, 8; Hates, 3. heavy this year on account of refur- On the next day the Portland League nishing the Y. W. C. A. room, but our team was shut out for seven innings, bills have all been met. Several meth- but won in the last two. ods have been tried, also, for raising SCORE BY INNINGS. 12 3 45 6 789 money to send delegates to Northfield. Portland League 00000004 4—8 It is extremely desirable that we send Bates .... 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0-3 at least six delegates this year. The Executive Committee have en- Y. W. C. A.—BRIEF OF PRESIDENT'S deavored to reduce the records of the ANNUAL REPORT. Association to a systematic condition, THE work of the Assoeiation during and in order to do this, statistical the past year has been, for the blanks have been arranged, which the most part, a continuation of the recon- chairman of each committee will be structive movement undertaken during asked to fill out monthly. According the year preceding; and though we to the reading of the Constitution, each have not yet reached the state of prog- committee is to hold regular monthly ress that we had hoped for, some meetings, and in connection with these advance has been made. it is advisable that a record be made In the Bible Study Department the and placed on file in the Secretary's same course has been followed which book of reports. was begun during the year 181)0. The The devotional meetings have been aim of these classes is to promote the well attended and interesting, and the study of God's word in the spirit of daily prayer-meetings, though small, devotion, and it is necessary that this have been very helpful to those who feature of the work be made prominent. have attended them. I feel, too, that The Bible study and prayer circles are all these meetings have been conducted the life-center of our association work, in the true devotional spirit, yet we and I would urge that many others of have not had the joy of knowing that the students enter these classes. one soul has been converted to God There has been a new interest in in our meetings this year. Shall we missions this year; and while fewer not in this coming year consecrate missionary meetings than usual have ourselves so entirely to Him that He been held, the work has gone quietly may work through us with power in on, and the foundation of a greater this college? interest, I believe, has been laid. SUSAN MERRILL. THE BATES STUDENT. 127 GOIIGQS SxaharjQss. PRIL is noted for its variableness, Our Gates," which deals in a practical, and we wonder if there is not straightforward manner with the ever- some peculiar destiny for all things prominent question of immigration. belonging to April. Still, April—and This oration recently won for Miami then we see in nature a promise of first place in the Ohio state oratorical better things, a hint of summer, the contest. We extend congratulations. perfection of all God's seasons here in From the same comes this poem : this northern clime. So it is with our "WHEN THE LIGHT BURNS Low." exchanges. They are a variable com- When the light burns low, in my cottage by pany ; scarce two among them all the sea, could be found to agree in outward What a host of shadow memories come float- ing into me; aspect or contents, and yet, perhaps Of the days when all was sunshine, free from for this very reason, harmony is pre- every shade of gloom, served among them, and we perceive And life was just unfolding like a rosebud to the bloom; that they are all working toward the When Providence was gracious with her boun- one goal—the perfection of the college teous treasure trove, magazine—and something tells us that And you and I were happy in the meshes they are in the April of their existence. Cupid wove.— Were ever hours so blessed as the hours of We clip the following dainty poem long ago, from the Peabody Record: When we builded fairy castles while the light burned low! FORGET ME NOT. The earth was agleam with the likeness of When the light burns low; when the light Heaven, burns low; All Paradise smiled 'neath the bright morn- How fond and sweet the memories of the life ing sun; I used to know! For God had its name to each sweet flower- They dispel the cloud of sadness resting o'er child given, my weary head, And gladly they blossomed their praise— As I weep above the ashes where my cher- only one ished hopes lie dead; And I still find joy in living as I learn to look One poor baby flower stood sad in the gladness, on high, The sweet head drooped low, and the blue Where the golden beams of mercy never fade eyes were wet, and never die; And it whispered the brooklet the cause of And I calmly wait the moment when my sum- its sadness, mons comes to go, Its God-given name it had chanced to forget. In my cottage in the evening when the light Then the brook told the wind, and the wind burns low. the All-father, The first chapters of a serial story, And he said to his flower, in pitying tone, " Be thy tears changed to smiles, for, my sweet "A Debt of Justice," which appears blue-eyed blossom, in the Tennessee University Magazine, As Forget-me-not, hence, thou shalt ever be are well written, and the story bids known." —Fannie Wyche J)tmn. fair to be interesting and wholesome. In the Miami Student we find the The farce in two acts, "An April prize oration, "The Stranger Within Romance," is but slightly amusing, 128 THE BATES STUDENT.
and possesses but little real literary Who conquer wrong in their own quiet way, Uncheered by people's shout or comrade's merit. However, the number furnishes plaudit, a good amount of readable matter. They right the shadowy foe-ranks of to-day. The. sketch, "What's in a Name," And she who takes in love a child's small off'ring, in the Sybil, is natural, and the poem, With kindly word, that in the child's heart " Our Angel Unaware," is admirable in lives Through after years, like some sweet strain of thought and expression. This is the music, Is not less great of soul than she who gives. accepted time for spring poetry, but —Anna P. Chandler, '98. we seldom find one like
SPRING AND I. The Mount Holyoke usually has a All the poets sing of spring, refreshing message for us. In this And so do I; number the most conservative of read- They sing its beauties and such things, Hut not so I. ers would be charmed with the artless However green the grass may be, enthusiasm of "A Glimpse at the Mod- However blue the sky, ern Art of Illustrating," which is not There's always mud beneath the trees And showers from on high. in the least prosaic, as the title might suggest, but is a vivid portrayal of the Poets praise the robin's song, And so do I; writer's own personal preferences. In They like it in the early morn, a unique sketch, "A Kiddle," a curious But not so I. train of thought is suggested by the However musical its tune, However bright its lay, words of Ian Maclaren's familiar book : It rouses me from dreams too soon "A hear that they have nae examina- To meet the coming day. tions in humour at the college ; it's an —E. T. S. awfu' want, for it would keep out mony In the same number an ingeniously a dreich body." The ideas are well contrived sermon, "Strange as Fic- carried out, however, and we are con- tion," attracted our attention. vinced that the writer is not lacking in The Wellesley Magazine is note- original thought. Under the Kodac worthy, and contains several articles we like the last sketch by M. L. E. and of merit, for instance: "The Divine the following : in Philosophy," "Why Miss Betsey Forgot Choir Practice," and "A Story THE DANDELION ARMY. A gallant little army went fortli to meet the of Old Boston." We like the last sun, especially. There is not the usual With grassy spears and banners, as brave as Washington. amount of poetry. We copy the only Each doughty little roundhead was yellower poem : than gold, And cried with pride, " We'll beat our foe; PAST AND PRESENT. They say he's growing old." Say not, O ye who read in ancient story Of knights who died for truth, or maid who Alas! the little braggarts knew nothing of the gave sun; His rays for scarce a fortnight had shone upon All worldly wealth to famine-stricken people, each one, " We have no maids so true, no knights so When all that golden glory that made them brave I" feel so proud Was white and light as thistle-blow We still have knights, men strong and loyal- Or any summer cloud. hearted ; —1). B., '93. THE BATES STUDENT. 129 H (3tiat .Hkout D@w Ioooks_ FROM childhood Hawthorne's poetic that his custom-house duties keep him prose has thrilled my fancy. from literary labor and hamper his Although understanding little of their ability to give to others. What a pity deep meaning, the purity and pathos that some of the world's vast wasted of his characters have moved my heart; treasure might not have been used to and the Gentle Hoy, Marigold, Hilda, give Hawthorne that leisure and envi- and Priscilla, have long been my friends. ronment which would have best enabled So valuable a book as Memories of him to give permanent expression to Hawthorne,1 containing many of his all his inspirations ! private letters and the recollections of Letters from George W. Curtis, his daughter, wins a prominent place Ralph Waldo Emerson, A. B. Alcott, upon my book-shelves. George Bradford, J. L. Motley, etc., Mrs. Lathrop says in her preface give us a larger view of the man. We that the volume is really written by her see his genius and his humanity. We mother, and surely many of the best learn to interpret more truthfully the pictures of Hawthorne's white soul are hidden meaning in his writings by seen through his wife's letters. knowing something of the conditions Their courtship is not long dwelt under which he wrote. upon, but a few love letters give us an His daughter's memories of their i enchanting glimpse of the days of days spent in Italy make an ideal their engagement. He tells her, "Your supplement to "Italian Notebooks." soul and intellect breathe forth an She is a pleasing writer, and yet wc influence like that of wild flowers, to do not think of her style. From which God, not man, gives all their beginning to close, Hawthorne's noble, sweetness." inspiring character is before our eyes. Poverty was cheerfully borne, as Mrs. Somewhere I have read that Black, Hawthorne's letters to her mother indi- in speaking of Coquette, in his " Daugh- cate. "Apollo boiled some potatoes ter of the Heth," said, "I didn't want for breakfast. Imagine him with that to make her die, but I had to. If she magnificent head bent over a cooking had lived, the reader would not have stove, and those star-eyes watching remembered her six hours after closing the pot boil! In consequence, there the books." never were such good potatoes before." Perhaps something of that feeling This adoration is shown by all who influenced Mr. Hurst in writing Stephen talk of Hawthorne. Noble must have Lescombe, B.A.2 Certainly it is hard been the soul that could command such to forget the hopeless young tutor. loving reverence from wife, children, He goes from reverse to reverse until and friends in all the difficult situations he reaches the extreme of poverty and of life. despair, and dies just as love and There is an occasional note of pain fortune prepare to smile upon him. 130 THE BATES STUDENT. This is not a healthy book. There flora, customs, etc., are sometimes is a heavy cloud of doubt and bitter- instructive, sometimes amusing. ness enveloping it. The young grad- Hermit Princes4 is a very pleasing uate's-start in life is from the little little book. It is a clean, pleasant parsonage where his parents had lately story, well written and original. Japan died. Their goodness and simplicity is the scene of action, and the writer are assigned as the cause of their mis- teaches us much indirectly of that fortunes. The young man's cynical fairy-land. So much has been written reflections are painful. He passes to excite our fancy in regard to that through "the nethermost hell of unbe- progressive little country that we gladly lief" and only partially emerges. The welcome new thoughts concerning it. character of Edith Gascombe might Rupert Lauristan, the chief char- relieve the gloom. But she is too self- acter, is a very natural boy who runs sufficient! away from his step-father and goes to The side play in the book is depress- sea on a whaler. The ship is wrecked ing. A fiendish spirit of revenge is off the shore of Yezo. Rupert falls exhibited by two of the characters. in with some fugitives, who were The writer treats uselessly of sin in its involved in a civil war, and through worst forms. them meets witli many adventures. It seems to me that useful books are The dainty Ume and the other Jap- either to inspire, instruct, or amuse. anese ladies add much to the beauty. I cannot And a place for Stephen Les- The best description is of the temple combe, B.A., among them. at Nikko, with its windbells on the Capt. Cook's Voyages Around the roofs of gold, and the dancer in her World3 appear again in'good readable pure white satin robes. form under gay purple covers. The In places the style is faulty and the illustrations are not worthy the rest of conversation unreal; but there are the make-up, but the frontispiece of many good touches of life. A sequel the captain studying his chart is best. is needed to round out the plot satis- Material is taken from the original factorily. We have to leave the young MSS. of Capt. Cook's journal, first hero too soon. published in 1893. H. M. barque, 1 Memories of Hawthorne. By Rose Haw- Endeavour, started in 1768 from Ply- thorne Lathrop. Boston: Houghton, MifHin mouth Sound and explored the islands &Co.; $2.00. of the Pacific. The narration of their 2 Stephen Lescomhe, B.A. By Julius Hurst. adventures is curious and interesting. New York: G. P. Putnam & Sons; $1.00. 8 There is something invigorating in Capt. Cook's Voyages Around the World. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons; $2.00. the personality of the keen-sighted * The Hermit Princes. A Tale of Adventure explorer. His opinions of the savage in Japan. By Eleanor Stredder. New York: inhabitants of the islands, the strange T. Nelson & Sons; $1.00. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 111
BLUE STOIRE,
Young Men's Nobby Clothing a Specialty. We Carry the Largest Stock. We Name the Lowest Prices. BLUE STORE, - - - Lewiston's Only One-Price Clothiers.
$4.00 Cabinet Photographs $1.00 PER DO^EIN. $1.00 The C. A. Smith Photograph Company 164 Main Street, LEWISTON, ME. mmm m A£\HMaap*M "The Best Operator in Maine," BEHIND THE CAMERA. In t\ ^^ ^^ im I I We are the First and Only first-class artists in New England to make rTwWta I I Cabinets for $1.00. Rta $15.00 Measure&l Suit. Guaranteed in every particular. LAUGH ASSORTMENT to choose CLOTHING. from. Blanchard Block, CO BURN BROS., 240 Haiti St., LEWISTON. # jfotograpber.
The Largest and Best Appointed Studio in Maine. We don't advertise to LEAD, but let our work speak for itself. Class Photographer of Bates, ".Hi, and others. LOWERS Rensselaer \ For all occasions at .^Polytechnic^ > GREENHOUSES, *%% Institute, • S74 Maln Street, % Troy, N.Y. TELEPHONE CONNECTION. LEWISTON. Local examinations provided for. Send for a Catalogue.
STUDENTS, ATTENTION! MAINE CENTRAL INSTITUTE, IK YOU WANT EMPLOYMENT during vaca- tion, call and see PITTSFIELD, ME. COOK & WEST, O. II. DRAKE, A.M., 194 Lisbon St., - - LEWISTON, ME. l'KINCU'AL iv BUSINESS DIRECTORY. LATIN SCHOOL. This Institution is located in the city of Lewiston, Maine. The special ohject of the school is to prepare students for the Freshman Class of Bates College, though students who do not contemplate a College course are admitted to any of the classes which they have the qualifications to enter. The School is situated near the Col- lege and Theological School, and thus affords important advantages of association with students of more advanced standing and scholarship. The Course of Study comprises three years and as many classes; that is, the first year, or third class; the second year, or second class; the third year, or first class. The classes are so arranged that students can enter the school at any time during the year. BOARD OF INSTRUCTION. IVORY F. FRISBEE, PH.D., PRINCIPAI Latin and Greek. F. A. KNAPP, A.R Latin and Mathematics. F. U. LANDMAN Rhetoric and Elocution. 0. C MERRILL Mathematics. W. S. BASSETT Mathematics. For further particulars send for Catalogue. j « pmgBEE Trincipal. COBB DIVINITY SCHOOL, A DEPARTMENT OF BATES COLLEGE. FACULTY. GEORGE COLBY CHASE, D.D., LL.D., PRESIDENT. KKV. JAMES ALBERT HOWE, I).I)., DBAN, Professor of Systematic Theology and HorolleUcs. REV. BENJAMIN FRANCIS HAYES, D.D., Professor of Apologetics anil Pastoral Theology. KKV. ALFRED WILLIAMS ANTHONY, A.M., SKCRKTARY, Kullonton Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Criticism. REV. HERBERT RONELLE PUIUNTON, A.M., Professor of Hebrew anil Old Testament Interpretation. REV MARTYN SUMMERRELL, D.D., PH.D., instructor in Church History. ERNEST EARLE OSGOOI), A.M., Instructor in Oratory. This is a department in the College, established by vole of the corporation July 21, 1870. It occupies Roger Williams Hall, a new and lieautiful building, and is in charge of a social Faculty appointed by the College corporation. Candidates for admission are required to furnish testimonials of good standing in some Christian Church, and to give evidence of their duty to prepare for the gospel ministry, certified by the church of which they are members respectively, or by some ordained minister. Those who are not graduates from College, previous to entering upon the regular course of study, must IK- prepared for examination in the common English branches, Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Chemistry, Geology, Astronomy, Algebra, and in the Latin and Ureek languages. Tuition, room ront, and use of libraries free. THE BIBLICAL TRAINING SCHOOL. This school was established by vote of the Trustees, June 27, 1894, to provide for the needs of students not qualified to enter the Divinity School. Its students have equal privileges in the building, libraries, lectures, and advantages already' described. Its classes, however, are totally distinct from those of the Divinity School, the students uniting onlv in common ch ipel exercises and common prayer-meetings. This department was opened September 10,1895. The course of study is designed to be of practical value to Sunday-school superintendents, Bible class teachers, evangelists, and intelligent Christians gener- ally, as well as to persons who contemplate the ministry. Certificates of attainment will be granted to those who complete the course. BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
JOHN GARNER, GENERAL Insurance AGENT. (Fire, Life, ami Acci- dent.) Passenger and Exchange Agent. Passengers booked to or from all parts of the world. DRAFTS on all parts of the world for sale at low- PLEHSE est rates. 213 Park Street do not think wo cannot fit you. If the above size is not large enough, we have all sizes made, and in goods that ought to suit CUT FLOWERS^ FLORAL DESIGNS you. AT 9 GREENHOUSES, C-7A Main Street, 1.KWISTON. C. 0. until STIOB Go. TELEPHONE CONNECTION. • 60 YEARS* EXPERIENCE. WHITE & LEAVITT, Dentists, — No. 1 Lyceum Block, Lisbon Street, TRADE MARK8, LEWISTON, ME. DESICNS, COPYRIGHT8 &c, K. II. WHITK, D.D.S. V. I.. 1.EAV1TT, D.D.S. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain, free, whether an invention Is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. Oldest agency for securing patents in America. We have a Washington office. CHANDLER & WINSHIP, Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice in the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, beautifully illustrated, largest circulation of Books, Stationery, etc., any scientific journal, weekly,terms$3.00 a year; ■UOSIX months. Specimen copies and HAND ' BOOK ON PATENTS sent free. Address 100 Lisbon St., Lewiston. MUNN & CO., 361 11 road way. New York.
J. P. MURPHY, MANAUEK.
Wholesale Dealers and Workers of Granite, Marble, and All Kinds of Freestone, 2 to 10 Bates Street, Near Upper M. C. It. B. Depot, Estimates furnished on application. L.EWISTOIM, IN/IE. Tslophone No. 300-1. VI BUSINESS DIRECTORY. • CHARLES A. ABBOTT, • Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Fine Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs, &c. Corner Lisbon and Main Streets, ... - Lewiston, Maine. Perfumery and Fancy Toilet Articles In great variety. Physicians' Prescriptions accurately compounded.
1862. 1897. R. W. CLARK, Apothecary;
Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals, G Electric Fancy and Toilet Articles, M r ee 258 ^„ „l Bates, LEWISTON, HE. Book r r !® AND PRINTER, Job I). I). MEKKII.I., JOHN C. WOODKOW, WILFRED IIAUHIS. 21 LISBON STREET, .4. LEWISTON. * iIGH ST. LAUNDRY FINE COLLEGE AND SOCIETY PRINTING A SPECIALTY. D. D. MERRILL & CO., Prop'rs.
O. A. NORTON, FIRE WORK WITH PROMPTNESS. Coal and Wood, LBW18TON, MAINK. Teams will be run to and from OFJF-XOE, 82 ASH STREET. the College, collecting Tuesdays and Van! on Line of M.C. It. U., between Holland and Kim streets. Telephone No. 167-6. delivering Fridays. Students of Bates! Bundles may be left at Room 7, DO you always bear in mind that " turn about is fair play," and that if I advertise in your magazine year after year, it would be the proper thing for you Parker Hall. to drop in ami see me when you need anything in my lines. To make it dead sure that you have read and appreciated this advertisement, just mention that you came in on that Recount Yours truly, D. D. MERRILL & CO., £. H. GERRISH, Proprietor of Auburn, Maine. GERRISH'S DRUG STORE, 145 Lisbon Street. TEACHERS WANTED! We have over four th uisand vacancies for teachers each season -several times as many vacancies as members. We must have more members. Several plans: two plans give free registration; one plan UllAU- ANTKKS a satisfactory position for the coming Fall. Ten cents, silver or stamps (the regular price is 2"> cts.) pays for a l(K).page book, explaining the different plans, and containing a complete 1000.00 Prise Story, a true and charming love story of College days. No charge to employers for recommending teachers. Address EEV. DE. 0. M. BUTTON, A.M., Prest. and Manager, Southern Teachers' Bureau, Louisville, Ky. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. vii BATES COLLEGE.
FACULTY OF INSTRUCTION AND GOVERNMENT
GEORGE C. CHASE, D.D., LL.D., JOHN H. RAND, A.M., PRESIDENT, Professor of Mathematics. Professor of Psychology and Logic. REV. ALFRED W. ANTHONY, A.M., •REV. JOHN FULLONTON, D.D., Fullonton Professor of New Testament Greek. Prof, of Ecclesiastical History and Pastoral Theology. LYMAN G. JORDAN, PH.D., JONATHAN Y. STANTOX, LlTT.D., Professor of Chemistry. Professor of Greek and Latin Languages. WILLIAM H. HARTSHORN, A.M., Professor of Rhetoric. REV. BENJAMIN P. HAYES, D.D., Professor of Apologetics and Pastoral Theology. I WILLIAM C. STRONG, A.M., Professor of Physics. THOMAS L. ANGELL, A.M., Professor of Modern Languages. ! HERBERT R. PURINTON, Professor of Hebrew and Church History. RKV. JAMES ALBERT HOWE, D.D., GROSVENOR M. ROBINSON, Professor of Systematic Theology and ilomiletics. Instructor in Elocution.
■' CLASSICAL DEPARTMENT. TERMS OF ADMISSION. Candidates for admission to the Freshman Class are examined as follows: LATIN : In six books of Virgil's .Kueid | four books of Csssar; six orations of Cicero; thirty exercises in Jones's Latin Composition j Latin Grammar (llarkness or Allen & Greenougli). GREEK : In three books of Xenophon's Anabasis : [wo boon Of Homer's Iliad ; twenty exercises in Jones's Greek Composition ; Goodwin's or Hadley's Greek Grammar. MATHEMATICS: in Arithmetic, in Wentworth's Elements of Algebra, and Plane Geometry or equivalents. ENGLISH : In Ancient Geography, Ancient History, English Composition, and in English Literature the works set for examination for entrance to the New England Colleges. All candidates for advanced standing will lie examined in the preparatory studies, and also in those previously pursued by the class they propose to enter, or in other studies equivalent to them. Certificates of regular dismission will be required from those who have lieen members of other colleges. The regular examinations for admission to College take place on the second Saturday before Commencement, on Wednes- day preceding Commencement, and on Monday preceding the first day of the Fall Term. The examinations for admission to College will lie both written and oral. Hereafter no special students will be admitted to any of the College classes.
EXPENSES. The annual expenses for board, tuition, room rent, and incidentals are |200. Pecuniary assistance, from the income of thirty-seven scholarships and various other lienefactions, is rendered to those who are unable to meet their expenses ' otherwise. Students contemplating the Christian ministry receive assistance every year of the course.
For Fine Writing, Nos. 303,170, 604 E. F. For General Writing, JOSEPH GILLOTT*S 332,404,601E. F., 1044,104o, 1046. For Broad Writing, 1008, STEEL PENS. 1009,1043. For Vertical Writ- COLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878 and 1889. ing, 1045 (Verticular),nt 1046 HIGHEST AWARD, CHICAGO, 1893. >( Vertiexaollor/') * * purposes.°'henj for all Ylll BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
NEW STYLES.
Bicycle MURPHY,» THE HATTER AND Ikodahs FURRIER.
NOTHINO SO FITS INTO THE PLEASURES OF BICYCLING AS PHOTOGRAPHY. Sign, GOLD HAT, Pocket Kodaks, Cartridge Kodaks. Cor. Lisbon and Ash Streets, Bullets and Bulls-Eyes, $5.00 to $25.00. LEWISTON, MAINE. Especially adapted to the wheelman's use. They use our light-proof Film Cartridges and can be LOADED IN DAYLIGHT. F. W. BOWLEY, "Bicycle Kodaks" booklet free at agencies or by mail. DEAl.EK IN $2,853.00 in Prizes for Kodak Pictures. EASTMAN KODAK CO, Coal and Wood $1.475.00 in (iold. Every grade of Hard anil Soft Wood, Fitted Send for "Prize Contest" or Unfitted, at Lowest Market Prices. Circular. Rochester, N. Y. OFFICE AND YABP: Rear of 270 Main St., LEWISTON, ME. J. T. RICHARDSON, Successor to Richardson, Farr k Co., DEALER IN Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, Gloves, Umbrellas of all kinds. SAMPLE AND DAMAGED SHOES a Specialty 137 Main Street, - LEWISTON, ME. Repairing Promptly and Neatly Executed. I will scratch your back if you will scratch mine.
"D C. PINGREE & CO.,
136 Main St., LEWISTON,
LUMBER YARD—PLANING MILL COTRELL & LEONARD, ALBANY, N. Y.,
And all kinds of intercollegiate makers of WOOD WORKING. GAPS, GOWNS, AND HOODS, Including Yale,'9G; Harvard, '96; INDIAN-CLUBS TURNED TO ORDER. Princeton, "JO; and Bates, "J6. BUSINESS DIRECTOR t. FLHfifi & Fisk leaders' (pies
EVEEETT 0. FISK &. CO., LEADING PROPRIETORS.
Send to any of the following addresses for Agency Manual Free.
4 Ash burton Place, BOSTON, MASS. 70 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK, N. Y. 1242 Twelfth St., WASHINGTON, D. C. 355 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO, III. 25 King Street, West, TORONTO, CAN. 420 Century Building, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 525 Stimson Block, Los ANGELES, CAL. 107 Keith & Perry Building, KANSAS CITY, MO. 728 Cooper Building, DENVER, COL.
•paa}nBJim3s^BMpjg3DU,i raojjoa-** N01SIM31 'SJ984S se*EH PUB U!BW ,J03 We Make the FINEST CARBONS in the State Our prices are right. Come in or correspond for 'HS^IIW W A31V3N rates in classes. Send to us for all your PHOTO m!« panoj aq u«o '^l!0 am ui SUPPLIES. We have everything" for the Ama- teurs' use. 15 Styles of Cameras, from $5 to $50. "3ia 'suoisiAOJrj 'sauaoojg 'jnou A few Second-Hand, at a great bargain. * 138 Lisbon St., LEWISTON, ME. aoiono ao aooxs isaoMva HHX THE Oak Hall Clothing C°- Of Boston is the successor to the old established house of G. W. SIMMONS & CO., for over fifty years established in the clothing business. Everything that is worn by Men or Hoys is produced by this house, and special attention is paid to Military Work, Firemen's Outfits, Police Uniforms, Band Equipments, and a special class of work for Students, namely: CAPS AND GOWNS FOB GRADUATING CLASSES. ATHLETES too can find everything used in the GYMNASIUM. BICYCLE RIDERS and POLO PLAYERS can get correct outfits at small expense, and it may be depended on that ANYTHING in way of
of a First-Class Style of Cut and Make can be bought at a CLOTHING fair price, at'.the 0>K HALL CLOTHING CO., 32 to 44 lorti St, Boston, mass. BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
\Y. H. WEEKS, DR. EMERY BAILEY,
32 Main St., DENTIST, LEWISTON, MAINE, No. 20 LISBON ST., - LEWISTON. Gas administered to extract Teeth. Letter Heads, Note Heads, Statements, Bill Heads, • jflNE /IfolLLINERY. Envelopes, Catalogues, By-Laws, etc. • Special redaction given to Students mentioning this advertisement. Orders by mall will receive prompt attention. 13 Lisbon St., LEWISTON. Webster's International The One Great Standard Authority, So writes Hon. I>. J. Brewer, Justice U. S. Supreme Court. Dictionary IT IS A THOROUQH REVISION OF THE UNABR1D0ED, The purpose of which has been not display nor the provision of material for boastful and showy advertisement, but the due, judicious, scholarly, thorough perfecting of a work which in all the stages of its growth has obtained in an equal degree the favor IT IS THE BEST FOR PRACTICAL PURPOSES, BECAUSE Words are easily found * * * Pronunciation Is easily ascertained, Meanings are easily learned * * * The growth of words easily traced, and because excellence of quality rather than superfluity of quantity char acterlzes Its every department. * * * PET THE BE5T. G. & C. Merriam Co., Publishers, i'amphletfree. SpritiRffielel, Mass., U.S.A. Protect your family, $TUPENTS Provide for the future, If you want to Secure low rates, Insure while you're young Get your Magazines and Periodicals Hound, and your School Hooks Repaired at MAINE MERRILL & WEBBER'S BENEFIT LIFE ISSOmHHOl BOOK-BINDERY, OF AUBURN, ME. ON THE NATURAL PREMIUM PLAN. 88 Hain St., All Machinery New, I Cash Assets, $120,000.00. which insure- best of ' work ui eat v pricei. , ; Paid Beneficiaries, $1,133,800.00. AUBURN. Send for applications or circulars. Agents wanted at liberal terms. PRINTING of Every Description. Book OEO. 0. mm, U. F. BICKER, IT. W. EA.BBI3, and Job Work. Each a Specialty. President. Manager. Sec'y and Treis. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. XI — Q Lisbon St., John H. Whitney, Lewiston. Physicians' Prescriptions Apothecary, a Specialty. College Men The belong to the limited and distinguished class of men with trained and cultured minds. FOR YOUR MONEY When you buy Bicycles FURNITURE, belong to the limited and distinguished class of great mechanical creations. CARPETS, &> WORTHY STEEDS for WORTHY RIDERS DRAPERIES. *< to all alike To do this you must go to some one with a rep- '100 utation for selling good things at Low Prices. STANDARD OF THE WORLD Believing we have a stock that will answer every desire of the careful, economical buyer, we invite you to come or write to us for particulars. Hartford Bicycles, second only to Col- Our stock covers a floor space of 25,000 square umbias, $60, $50, $45. Strong, feet, and we think it offers more advantages than handsome, serviceable and at prices within any similar line in Maine. reach of everyone. POPE MFG. CO., Hartford, Conn. BRADFORD, C0NANT & CO. Greatest Bicycle Factory in the World. ■ Branch House or dealer in almost every city and town. 199-203 Lisbon Street, Send one 2-cent stamp for handsomest bicycle catalogue ever issued; free by calling on any Columbia dealer. LEWISTON, ME. WALKER BROTHERS, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in <* The Union Oil Co., Wholesale mid Retail Dealers in Oysters, Clams, and Lobsters KEROSENE OILS, GASOLENE, NAPHTHA. Goods Delivered Without Extra Charge. Two Grades of Oil always Carried In Stock. 55 Bates St., Near Main St., Lewiston, Me. Try the Better Grade of Oil. It will Give More Light. A Five-Gallon Can Fur- nished Each Customer. JORDAN-FROST LUMBER CO., Goods Delivered within the City Limits of Lewiston and Auburn. Your Patronage Is Solicited. Lumber, Coal,^Wood, HOLMAN GOULD, Prop'r, 11 Miller Street, - AUBURN, ME. Foot of Cross Canal, Lewiston. XII BUSINESS DIRECTORY. &TONE PHOTO WOOD CLECTROTYPING ALL DONE ON THE PREMISES A. M U G FO R ty HSRTFORD'CONN. F. C. FARR & CO., WRIGHT & DITSON Dealers in Athletic outfitters to the leading colleges, schools, and athletic clubs of New England. SAMPLE AND DAMAGED SHOES. Rubbers of all kinds. BASE-BALL Haymarket Square, - LEWISTON, ME. Special terms to Students. Supplies of Every Tennis, Description Golf, for Cricket, J. D. GILBERT'S Athletic Track, and Sports. Field Supplies. BOOK-BINDERY, Discus Throwing. JOURNAL BLOCK, Full line of sup- Gymnasium plies for this Equipments. popular sport. LEWISTON, .... MAINE. Estimates and samples for team uniforms, etc., furnished on short notice. Secure Magazines, Music, etc., Bound in a Neat our rates before purchasing. Special attention to mall orders. Catalogue free. and Durable Manner. Ruling and Rlank Book Work of Every Description WRIGHT & DITSON, "UHMBf- Done to Order. Also, Edge Gilding. RIDE A l(^s«^©€ LIJirilR ^NDKEE P\IM/FRONT^^mssn^ MONARCH CYCLE NFG CO. CHICAGO. NEW-YORK **t^^^™~»^ LONDON XIV BUSINESS DIRECTORY. A NEW DEPARTURE AT THE COLLEGE BOOK-STORE. HAVK YOU SII \ our Tennis Rackets. We have the best make we could find. HAVE YOU SEEN our Sweaters. We have all grades at satisfactory prices. HAVE YOU SEEN our Tennis Shoes. We can trade with you if you are going to buy. HAVE YOU SEEN our Tennis Pants. We have White Duck and we have others. HAVK YOU SEEN our Golf Suits. They are nobby and the bovs say they arc " all right." HAVE YOU SEEN our Stock and compared our prices with those down town. We have put in a line of Rackets, Shoes, Pants, Sweaters, Golf Suits, etc., on which we can save you money, and which will interest, you whether you think of buying or not. Wc will also show you a line of Stationery, Note Books, Blanks, and Tablets which will Supply the wants of the students. We represent reliable clothing houses and guarantee .satisfaction if we take your order for a suit, pall1 of trousers, or overcoat. We can furnish READY and CUSTOM-MADE CLOTHING at prices that draw trade. We solicit the patronage of the Glee Club for dress suits. You cannot buy New or Second-Hand Books, neither can you Exchange so profitably, as at 43 Parker Hall, COLLEGE BOOK-STORE. Frederick Q. Payne, You Get COLLEGE AND SOCIETY PRINTING the Profits 138 Lisbon Street, Of Dealers, Agents, Jobbers Corner Lisbon and Ash. and Middlemen by buying di- rect from the manufacturer. BOSTON New Hall, Ashburton Place, UNIVERSITY BOSTON, MASS. LAW K. II. BENNETT, Dean. SCHOOL OPENS OCT. 7. AMES & MERRILL, No better wheel made than the DEAI.KK8 IN Fine Teas, Coffees, and Spices, Acme Bicycle All kinds of Fruits, Meat, Game, anil Poultry, Built in our own factory by Flour and Molasses. skilled workmen, using the best 187 Main Street, - LEWISTON, ME. material and the most improved machinery. I/Ve have no agents Sold direct from factory to the flew Hampton Literary Institute, rider, fully warranted. Shipped anywhere for examination. NEW HAMPTON, N. H. WRITE FOR KKV. A. 1$. MESERVEV, A.M., PH.D., Our Interesting Offer PRINCIPAL. Acme Cycle Co., Elkhart, Ind. can be done thoroughly, with the very best work BTKe™ NAPHTHA...... ■ ...-. CLEANSING«aa>nnwiiKM men and all the modern Improvements in the way of machinery, fixtures, and tools. Wc can do llrst-class work, and as low as it can be done. Lace and Muslin Curtains Done Over to Look Like New. DYEING, CLEANSING, AND REPAIRING in all its Branches. LEWISTON STEAM DYE HOUSE, 141 Main Street, Lewiston, Me. JOSEPH LeBLANC, Proprietor. BUSINESS DIltECTOltY. THE HORACE PARTRIDGE COHPANY, Bicycles and Athletic Goods, Everything for Health and Sport. Agent for Bates, A. T. HINKLEY. CALL BEEJftfi" WHITELY EXERCISER. Reduced Prices, $2.00 nnd $3 00. f Men's Furnishings < AM) S.P. 9 [ Athletic Outfits. Agent, LEWISTON. ... I have boon using one of those exercisers for twenty minutes e.icli night nnd like it bolter nnd belter the longer I have it. ... Yours for health, RoiiKKT J. Romans, Physical Director Boston V. M, C. A. s DENTIST. GEO. V. TURGEON & CO., JEWELER; Percy JR. HoWe, D.D.S., Scientific Watchmaker and Osgood Block, LEWISTON. Graduate Optician. OFFICE BOORS: S to 12 A.M., 1 to 0 P.M., and Repairing neatly and promptly done. evenings. Cash paiiI for old gold and silver. 78 i.ishon Street, Sign, Klectric Clock. -:oc- •:«;• F OR NICE PURE CANDIES CALL ON *• GO TO A. L. GRANT A. E. HARLOW'S, FOIl Where a large stock and variety is ahviiys on hand. Hot Soda and Iee-Creain Soda, .r> Cents. A. E. HARLOW, 58 Lisbon St. [CB-CREAM, FRUIT, AND SODA. Hathaway, Soule &/ Harrington's Hot Chocolate and Coffee. Men's Fine .Shoes. ALTON L. GRANT, FESSENDEN I. DAY ^ Journal 1: lock. 170 Lisbon St., LEWISTON. YOUNG MEN We Want Your Trade. AVilli a new, clean, up-to-date stock, and the lowest prices consistent with mod materials and workmanship, we believe we ;hi to have it. COVERT TOP COATS SPRINC SUITS Are the proper outer garments in the popular plaids, scotch mix- for young men's wear. tures, and whip cords. A medium brown Covert, strictly A neat brown effect, all - wool all-wool goods, made with strap cheviot, stylishly made with patch seams, $8.50 pockets, cnly Q-Q QQ Finer grades for S10, $12, $14, and $15. Finer grades at $10, $12, and $15. SYKES CLOTHING CO., 54 Lisbon Street, LEWISTON, ME. DRESSING WELL is a science—it requires lots of study and thought. It requires a little time ami trouble—looking about—finding the store which offers the best values. Don't you know some man who always looks particularly well.' Why do you sup- pose it is'.' it's because lie understands the art of dressing—because he appreciates a good clothing store, and buys here year after year. We have spent lots of time, money, and brains, in making this store what it is, but we have never had cause to regret it. riaines & Bonnallie, ONE-PRICE CLOTHIERS, no Lisbon Street, LEWISTON. J. N. WOOD & CO... TELEPHONE 160-2. PRINTED AT JOURNAL OFFICE, LEWISTON.