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THEEdited by HERBERT CARLYLE LIBBY, Litt.D., of the Class of 1902

VOLUME XV NUMBER 3

CONTENTS FOR THIRD QUARTER, 1925-1926

EDITORIAL NOTES: The Commencement Call...... 14g A Board of Overseers ...... 149' The Colby History ...... 149 Breaks in the Ranks ...... 149' The Week-end Commencement ...... : ...... 150 An Alumni Secretary ...... 150 The College Home ...... 151 College and Politics ...... 151 Sabbatical Years ...... 151

SPECIAL ARTICLES: Some Reminiscences, By William. Smith Knowlton, Litt.D., '64...... 152 Education, Then and Now, By Clarence Edmund Melene)', LLD., '76...... 153 New Academic Standards, B)' Frederic Morgan Padelford, Ph.D., '96...... 158 A Trip Abroad, By Robie Gale Frye, B.A., '82...... 160 An Editor's View of the Colleges, By Harland Roger Ratcliffe, B.S., '23...... 165 Elijah Parish Lovejoy, 1826, By Louise Helen Coburn, Litt.D., '77...... 169 Retiring Allowances for Colby Professors, B3• Fran/din TrVinslow Johnson, L.H.D., '91 ...... 174 The Week-end Commencement Plan, By Percy Fuller Williams, B.A., '97...... 175 April Meeting of the Board of Trustees, By Edwin Care31 Whittemore, D.D., '79. . 176 Some Colby Gatherings : At Portland, By Ralph Benjamin Young, B.A., '07 ...... 17 7 At Boston, By Harold L. Hanson, '99...... 178. At New York, By Arthur Livingstone Berry, B.S., '23...... 178. At Washington, B31 Elwood Ta·ylor Wyman , B.A., '90...... 179· At Hartford, By Royden K. Greeley, B.S., '13...... 180 In Memoriam, By the Editor ...... 181 William Smith Knowlton, '64 ...... 181 Albion Woodbury Small, '76...... 182 Mary Low Carver, '75 ...... 183 John Harris Barrows, '72 ...... 184 Julia Maria Elwin, '79 ...... 185 Bela Malcolm Lawrence, '82 ...... 185 Dana Warren Hall, '90 ...... : ...- ...... 186 Prentiss Mellen Woodman, '70 ...... 186 Henry Sweetse::- Burrage, Trustee, '8 1-'06...... 186 Ralph Howard Pulsifer, '86 ...... 187 Frank Leslie Besse, A· Friend of the College...... 187 The Alumnae Fellowship Fund, By Jennie Merilees Smith, B.A., '81...... 187 Dr. Small's "Outlook on Life'', By Nor man Lesli e Bassett, '91...... 188 The Next Commencement, By Chairman Comniencc11lent Committee...... 189 Among the Graduates, B·_y the Editor ...... : ...... 192

TERMS :-Issued four times during the College Year. Subscriptions at the rate of $2.00 per year. Entered as second-class mail matter January 25, 1912, at the Post Office at Waterville, Maine, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Address all communications to Herbert C. Libby, Editor, Waterville, Maine. ALBION" \\'OODRCRY S�[ALL, D.D., PH.D., LLD., Class of 1876

Professor of History and Political Economy, Colby. 1881-1888; President Colby -Cni­ versity. 1889-1892 ; Head Department of Sociology, l:niver. ity of Chicago, 1892-192-t; Editor American Journal of Sociology Since Its Founding in 1905 ; Born, Buckfield, Maine, 1854 ; Died, Chicago, Ttlinois, 1926 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Volume XV THIRD QUARTER, 1925-1926 Number 3

EDITORIAL NOTES

The The annual When the Board of Trus­ That Board of ��::nc�'tt call for the Overseers, tees vote to introduce a Colby sons Board of Overseers for the and daughters to re­ College-a purely advisory body whose large turn for the Com­ interests in the affairs of the college war­ mencement exercises rant their election to such a Board-the has been issued. :More ALUMNUS is ready to suggest a group of than 3,500 personal men and women for membership ! It will letters have gone to be a long list because there are scores who the four corners of would be eligible. Nothing should be left the earth, each con­ undone to put Colby in the way of exerting taining its appeal for upon society a greater influence, and cer­ continued interest in tainly a body of men who give of their the College. Nothing treasure would exert an influence if given can show this better opportunity to help direct the general policy than a re-visit to the of the College. college campus, unless, It is evident that the Colby perchance, it is evi­ The Colby History. " . denced in the gift of H istory \vhtch we so confi- money. But w h i l e dently expected to read at gifts in money are the end of the academic year will not then extremely valua b 1 e , be published. Just how soon it will be out those re-visits to the and in the hands of the readers is not campus, those r e - known. It is sorely needed-has been need­ pledgings of the an­ ed for, lo, these many years. Graduates cient vowsj somehow and undergraduates in their search after lay the foundation for college lore have been obliged to go far greater and greater a-field, to search in many obscure places, service. It is often too true that from those to guess at much, and to fail to find even more. Nothing gives graduates who never come back to their so much substance and background and character to an insti­ reunions and who never get back to their tution as a well written history. Not pos­ commencements little in the way of college sessing it, the College is that much the weak­ personal service ever comes ; but from that er. vVe need it. It is devoutly hoped that ever incr easing number who rarely miss the steps may be ta ken to have the volume out, opportunity to keep in close touch with the even though it may not contain the last life of their college much in personal ser­ word possible to be written. It will be well vice constantly comes. It is largely for this written, there is no doubt of that ; but no­ reason that the ALUMNUS would urge upon body can appreciate this fact until the book is actually in print and in hand . .a11 of the great company of graduates to plans to spend a few days on the make their The ALUMNUS prints with campus, to live again the delightful days of Breaks in the Ranks. deep regret the long list of youth, to renew old acquaintances, to meet those of the Colby family again old classmates and college mates, to who have answered the summons and have make new friends, and to pledge again loy­ been called home. And what a list it i ! alty to the old college that has played so To mention a few only is no disparagement large a part in the lives of us all. Let the of the great worth of them all. The Old call be heard and answered. Schoolmaster, William Smith Knowlton, 150 The Colby Alumnus known to generations of Colby men and center largely on the fact that school teach­ women, and known and loved by a great ers, of whom there are a considerable num­ company of men and women who but for ber in the graduate body, can. more easily his wise encouragement would never have slip away from their duties on a Friday been college trained-the Old Schoolmaster, night to attend Commencement exercises on poet and philosopher, teacher and wit, is Saturday and Sunday, possibly remaining gone. He will never again entertain the over for the Commencement Day exercises undergraduate with his rare and sparkling on a Monday. It may well be questioned gems of wit and satire. Then, too, the whether the exact day or days enter so great teacher and former President of the much into the whole matter as the particu­ College, speaker of rare ability and power, lar season of the year. June is an extreme­ writer of renown, editor of scientific jour­ ly busy month for everybody, especially for ' nals and papers, a leading factor in the teachers who are cleaning up the work of great University of Chicago, and best of all, the year, conducting examinations, or pre­ loyal friend of the College, a contributor to paring for their own school commencement and admirer of the ALUMNUS-Albion exercises. If week-end Colby Commence­ \Voodbury Small is now counted among ments will bring about a larger attendance,. those who "have fought the good fight. fin­ no one should oppose a fair trial of the plan. ished the course." How great is his loss to It ought not to be a very difficult task how­ the College no one can easily estimate. And ever to ascertain from the Maine and Massa­ Dana Warren Hall, of a younger genera­ chusetts teachers just how they feel on the tion, stalwart, robust, genial, lovable, tho­ subject. and then to act upon the findings. roughly alive to all of the needs of the Col­ Then the same inquiry should be made of lege, and intelligently active in seeing those the great number of preachers in the Colby needs met, a figure present at almost every family. It would mean for them the se­ Commencement, offering here a word of curing of "supplies" and thus an additional praise, and there a word of constructive expense. The same inquiry should be made criticism, classmate and admirer of our of the great number of men holding busi­ President-gone from among us almost be­ ness positions. It may be that Saturday is a fore any one of us knew that any physical good day to leave town and Tuesday a good ailment had made claims upon his useful day to get back. A preliminary inquiry life. \Vhat a place he was filling on the would clear the whole matter up. Board, how willing to assume responsibili­ Let the College pay half the ties, how deeply concerned that the College. An Alumni his College, should take the lead in all Secretary. expenses and the Alumni things ! No man will be more sadly missed. Association half the ex­ And with what deep regret is the passing penses and an Alumni Secretary becomes an oi the first woman graduate of the College established thing. Here we have approach­ recorded. It seems like pulling aside one of ing 4,000 graduates scattered all over the the pillars of the College. Mary Low world. \\ e have a first-class college, con­ Carver has been the ideal for the Colby stantly growing better-and constantly in girl for generations. A rare soul, a lady need of more support. of the moral kind in the full sense of the term, a leader, and of the financial kind. Every one of counselor, writer of merit, and one who the graduates should be tied up to the Col­ carried the honor that College had brought lege in the strongest kinds of bonds. An to her \Yith great humility and yet with Alumni Secretary, of the right type, travel­ most becoming dignity. She was the bea­ ing hither and yon, calling here and calling con light. Mention cannot be made of the there, taking in all the alumni and alumnae others whose passing we chronicle in an­ gatherings, carrying the message of the new other column. The College mourns at their and greater Colby to each and all, what going. could he not accomplish? All this work is quite beyond the President of the College, ''To be, or not to be, that physically speaking. He ought not to be Week-End Commencements. is the question," whether called upon to enter upon such an endur­ 'tis best to change from the ance test. It is for a young man to do, a present plan and take up with a new plan young man of enthusiasm, of striking per­ that may or may not be better than the sonality, and of vision. The General Aiumni old. The College tried the week-end plan Association could well give this matter its �nee ; it did not accomplish all that its immediate intelligent attention. It could friends hoped for it. The times may have accomplish no greater good than by urging been against it. The argument seems to the Board of Trustees to• create such an The Colby Alumnus 151

office. Certainly to try the plan out could mean· a broadening education for the do no harm. teacher, the assumption of obligations not hitherto borne, then all the better. There The College Home ! \V hat The College Home. ought not to be anything about the teach­ a wealth of meaning in the ing profession that should procluce a type . words ! The place where of citizen totally unfit for the ordmary du­ youth spent its richest years, where friend­ ties of citizenship. If there is, then the ships were formed that have lasted a11 the sooner the fact is known and the remedy way down the years, where characters were discovered the more useful will be the formed never to be changed by the harsh teacher i1; the community where he lives. influences of the world, where ideals were Like it or not, the teacher in public school glimpsed, and though never to be attained and in college becomes all too often, per­ yet ever to be striven for ; where the cold haps, the exemplar for the student, and and calculating spirit was unknown but when that example fails to measure to the where the ingenuous and generous made it­ true standard of citizenship, an irreparable self constantly manifest ; where relative injury has been clone. The elevation of an values were studied quite apart from pecu­ ordinary college teacher to an ordinary niary considerations-Home, the dearest political office in an ordinary college com­ place to where weary feet i ay tu n, where . :n � munity ought not to serve as somethmg so weary minds may find re1uvenation. The extraordinary as to elicit applause and com­ Co11ege Home makes its appeal to the ment in all sections of the country. imagination of every son and daughter, and it is well that it does. Sentiment about it There is no rule of the Sabbatical Years. should be cultivated with delicate care that Trustees allowing teachers its influence may never be lost out of life. on the college staff to take sabbatical years. There ought to be. It is The election of a member Teachers in a good thing for the teacher to get a year of the Colby faculty as Politics. off for travel and study once in a while, mayor of Waterville has and it is an even better thing for the stu­ been heralded far and wide as a most un­ dent. Teachers grow stale. Anybody does usual occurence. Clippings and pictures of if he keeps everlastingly at a certain trade this "new" politician have been sent him or calling. The vacation season is too short from about every state in the union, and for both recuperation and constructive work. letters in the hundreds testify to the un­ There are teachers on the staff at Colby usualness of the experience. And yet why who have taught for 20 years and more should the choice of a teacher to the posi­ without taking a single week off to better tion of chief magistrate of a city be an equip themselves for their particular line of event so remarkable? Is it the old idea of teaching. The salaries paid do not warrant theory and practice-that teachers are cessation of labor : little can be saved up wholly theorists and never practicalists ? against a year of study for self improve­ Is it the resurgence of the idea that teach­ ment. Such a year must be at the ex­ ers are ever of the "absent-minded'' sort, pense of the College, and ought to be. By never feeling the earth ui1der their feet, and large, the members of the Faculty have walking as in dreams, gaze fixed as upon served well the College, for many years distant hills, etc., etc ? It is a curious no­ at a salary that was no salary at all, and tion. Strange that ever teachers should be only in very recent years at a salary that elevated to administrative positions in col­ just about meets the day-by-day expe1 ses � f leges ! And yet the widespread feeling that � life, let alone any slight accumulation m teachers are unfitted for public office hold­ "the savings departments". It is worth ing is in the nature of a challenge to the thinking about, this occasional year off for profession. There is but one way to get the notion that teachers are unfitted for teachers of the College who have years of politics out of the heads of people and that service behind them. The suggestion 1s is to show people that teachers can should�r handed on to the members of the Board of public burdens and carry them. If this Trustees. 152 The Colby Alumnus

SOME REMINISCENCES

BY \VILLIAM SMITH KNOWLTON, LITT. D., '64

[NOTE : These brief notes were sent to students owed two or three thousand dollars. me by Dr. Knowlton just before his death. I asked him one time some fifteen years They were largely in his own hand-writing. after my graduation if he lost much in his Death made impossible their correction by transactions with the students. He said the author. Several letters from him urged only two small sums. It speaks well for that I exercise great care in using these the honesty of the boys in those days. notes lest any offense be given to those men­ tioned.-THE EDITOR.] There was a good deal of friction be­ On a bright sunny day in June, 1860, two tween "Town and Gown" at that time. We boys drove out of Foxcroft Yillag·e in a called the town boys "Yag gers'' and two carriage, bound for Waterville. The boys or three free fights occurred. On one oc­ were Stanley T. Pullen and \V illiam S. casion some boys caught a y agger and Knowlton. Knowlton furnished the horse threw him into a mud-puddle. When he and Pullen the carriage. On the next day came out he used some profane language. they appeared with thirty other boys in the Mayo shouted, "Look here, this is a Baptist chapel to be examined for admittance to institution, wash it out of him, boys ;" and Waterville College. Four passed the full in he went agam. He was cured of pro­ test. Among these were the F oxcroft boys. fanity. The rest were admitted with conditions. It was a peculiar class. A little affair occurred in my Sophomore Littlefield was the best looking boy and year that showed the Faculty enjoyed a one of the brightest. He graduated, went to joke if it did not hit it. The Juniors had Newton and supplied a church in Boston. to speak original pieces in the Chapel. The He broke dovm and died in the second year. affair was a bore to the other classes. We Glorious Littlefield, we all loved him and were fined 10 cents if absent. The night expected him to make our class famous. before the class of '62 were to speak, Brackett was a good baseball player. Merriman and another went down town Merriman became a general in the army. and "borrowed" a big sign with an ele­ Pullen was for a time editor of a Portland phant on it. Mr. Merrifield left it in his paper. One became a very wealthy man out back office. \\'e took it to the Chapel and west. placed on it "Big show-lOc admission," There were some men in college at that and nailed it up high above the Chapel time who became somewhat noted. 1Iacom­ door and hid the ladder. The Juniors had ber became a preacher. I heard him preach to walk in under it, much to their wrath. one Sunday. He had hunted up a text and I heard one of the faculty say that it was tuck it on to his graduation e say. But the best joke of the season. It wasn't on a few years later he showed that he wa a the Profs. merciful man. He gave up preaching and bought a farm in Vermont. The atmo phere around the college was conducive to culture. It showed its power Dr. Champlin was not a good mixer. He on every Freshman class. The new clas was a learned man and good instructor but came from various schools and was some­ seemed to have little personal interest in the times a little rough. The mental atmos­ students. But we misjudged him. I bad phere or influence is the combined of all the him a guest at my home later and found him students and the mass are affected by that a very interesting, desirable guest. It did general influence. eem strange to me to see him holding my Every institution. town and state has an little girl on his knee. I wrote d sonnet to atmosphere of its own which newcomers him in My Old Schoolmaster book. recognize and conform to it. Hence it is of utmost importance that there should per­ Sam Mathews was a bookseller down vade the halls, the campus and study rooms town. He was our banker. \Ve all gave of a college an unseen power leading to our money to him and drew on him \\:hen high and noble deeds and thoughts. we wanted money. Very of ten we over­ vVere I an artist I would draw a picture drew but it was all right. Sometimes the of a student at \\Tate rville in 1864. I The Colby Alumnus 153

would give him the thought ful face of Prof. cents if not present at prayers. \\'hen the Taylor. I would have him surrounded by bell stopped tolling we jumped out of bed, the spirits of Homer, Virgil, Shakesperc pulled on trousers and boot , wrapped a big and others, and his eyes fixed on a distant shawl about the shoulders and ru hed to �oat. Almost every one had decided what the Chapel. One would hold the door open his future profession would be. vV hat for the next and so we all got in, much would the modern student's bearing and to the wrath of the janitor. Then we read personal appearance be in a mental picture ?. an hour before breakfast. No man would We talked about the Latin and Greek and be allowed to treat his dumb aqimal so our studies as they came along-but still we barbarously nowadays. had our fun and sometimes follies. Our Latin teacher was Prof. Foster. On I spoke of Homer. I am a crank on one oc casion we were reading the Odes of Greek. I have always admired the Greek Horace. One commenced 0 filia fulcriis language. I believe a knowledge of Greek matre, &c. I translated it this way- will refine the taste, improve the style and "O daughter fulcrar, lead to eloquence and good English. I am Handsomer than your Mama ; very sorry that Greek has ceased to be How could I such an onus prove I studied in our "fitting" schools. Better To write iambics 'gainst my love. drop out the French and put back Greek Burn those verses every spec, The study of French in our academies and Dump them in the Kennebec,"- : high schools is a farce. A mooern teach­ "Sit clown, sir," yelled Foster. I got er of French could talk with a Madawaska zero that day. l Frenchman with great difficulty. In 1863 Col. Shannon and I taught school in Atkinson and boarded at the same place. 1. There were only two colleges 111 1864, The proprie tor was a retired captain. He Bowdoin and Waterville. There were no brought home much of the army style with college games. We pl ayed baseball and cro­ himself. His wife was a sweet, lovable quet at the college and sometimes visited little woman. He used to bawl at her in the other college. a most shameless way. Shannon and I The parson of the Baptist Church was a determined to rebuke him. One day at the remarkable man, George Dana Pepper. We table he called her some very harsh names. called him "Longitudinal" Pepper. I have I arose and said, "Captain Trask, we have never heard his equal. He regarded his stood your abuse of your wife all we are "text" as the embodiment of ideas and de­ going to ; the next time you do so I will veloped those ideas in logical manner. With slap your mouth." I expected a fight. He many modern pre achers the text is lost in arose, looked at his wife, bowed and said, the work of general exhortation. "Wife, forgive me," and turning to us said, More than half the class enlisted in the "Never again." The real man showed it­ army, only five graduated. I am the only self. I learned to love the man. survivor of the class. College life was some different in those I am the oldest graduate of the College days. We had prayers at the unholy hour with one exception. There is somewhere of six in the morning. My room was in a man who belonged to the class of 1862. the fourth st ory. An old Frenchman was He was so slow that he celebr ated his janitor. He stood at the Chapel door Fourth of July at Christmas time. He will ready to lock the door. We were fined ten not die for some years to come.

EDUCATION THEN AN D NOW

BY CLARENCE EDMU. D MELE JEY, LL.D .,'76

In accepting the invitation of the Editor part without using the first personal pro­ of the Colby AL l\INUS to write an article noun rather freely ; but this may be over­ on "Education Then and Now" I shall have looked in a paper to be read by fellow to treat the subject from a more personal alumni. point of view than I should prefer doing. I have been an observer of college prepa­ It i difficult for one to write as an observer ration in high school a Superintendent, of developments covering many years in and as, a father of six children living under which he has taken a somewhat intimate the paternal roof during their high school 154 The Colby Alumnus courses and after college, through profes­ cost me two years of the languages and six sional schools. \Ye often burned the mid­ weeks in Algebra at the Institute. I have night oil together in reading, quizzes and very little recollection of what I studied in discussions. In looking back fifty years, I high school before going to \Vaterville, but now visualize the old oil lamp in the upper that was taken for granted by the college room in \Y aterville, under \vhich the pages examiners. In English, I had read por­ of Hanson's Caesar, Cicero and Yirgil : tions of the Bible, and committed verses to Harkness' Latin Grammar; Zenophon's memory ; some of Cooper's Leather Stock­ Anabasis and Hadley's Greek Grammar, ing Tales, some of Scott and Dickens, and dulled by constant "review and review", could write a letter to the home folks. My challenged the mentality of a duller stu­ lack of a fundamental knowledge of Eng­ . dent. \\Thy these foreign languages were lish and Mathematics was a handicap all not illumined by English Classics and through my college course and was revealed Ancient History in the preparatory school to me when I tried to teach, in Benton, a is punctuated by a large question mark. country school composed of boys and girls The period of tv.·enty years covered by from the farms, some of my own age. I six boys and girls from high school through had to begin the study of Keri's Grammar engineering, medicine, law and science up and cipher out the problems in Greenleaf's to manhood and womanhood off er the op­ Arithmetic to keep up with my pupils. p·ortunity of a parental observer to improve History was practically an unexplored field, his scholastic limitations if he is able to and Geogrw.phy a patchwork of countries keep the pace. Thirty years panned the of Yarious colors spotted \.vith cities and period between my entrance to college and traced by rivers. Fortunate ·was the young that of my oldest on. \Ye may then com­ freshman, applying for a license to teach his pare the attainments of the youth of two first school, that the examiner was an old succeeding generation upon entering college. graduate of \Vaterville College and a fra­ The examination for admission to col­ ternity brother. lege in 1872 "·as limited to Latin, Greek Tl1ere was no waiting list of applicants and Elementary Algebra. 1Iy preparation for admission in that year and consequently college preparation except in Latin and Greek was of little account. The number of applicants was so small that no intelli­ gence quotients were calculated, though the personal equation had some weight. The boy of the next generation had suc­ ce sfully completed four years of Latin ; three of German or French, often both ; four of English literature, including works of Bryant. Erner on. Lowell. Irving, Shakes­ peare, Milton, Addison, Dickens, Thackary, Burke, 11acaulay, Ruskin. He had been trained in English composition, oratory and debating. In Mathematics, three year in­ cluding Algebra, Geometry and Trigonome­ try ; in Science, Elementary and Advanced Biology, Physics and Chemistry with labo­ ratory practice ; in History, Ancient, 11od,­ ern, American and Civ:cs. These studies, "·h'.ch were thoroughly done, required usually an average of five periods daily, besides preparation, and were supplemented by Drawing and Music for two years and Physical Training four years. This was broader in scope and more intensive than the college course of his father thirty years before. My surviving classmates will corroborate, if they remember our accomplishments fifty CLARENCE EDMUND MELENEY. LL.D., '76 years ago, that we read some Latin, Livy and Contributor to Alumnus Horace ; some Greek which I am not able The Colby Alumnus 155

to recall ; Whately's Rhetoric and Logic, hope revived, new life was awakened. They wh ich we committed to memory but failed opened the doors to the fir. t woman who to apply in practice ; Anglo Saxon with the applied for aclmis ion. ._he alone in the Bible as a pony ; some of Shakespeare's class of 1875 held up the honor of womanly plays ; Mathematics of the present high dignity, cholarship and culture, that ha· school course, which I had to learn over been the inspiration of the ho t of young again before teaching in high school. In women who have since maintained the tra­ Science, we committed Gray's Botany and dition. At the commencement dinner in Huxley's Physiology. I recall with what 1873, Profes or Smith, of ble ·secl memory, reserved patience our professor listened to voicing the optimism of the faculty in com­ our literal recitations. menting on the rejuvenizing of the college, To his credit may it be said that our clear facetiously remarked : "The Tru stees have Professor Elder introduced real science in­ galvanized the old institution and now arc struction in his Chemistry laboratory. That doctoring the Faculty." was a veritable oasis. Would that Physics When the class of '76 entered, the college and Biology had been opened up in the same . had arrived at the bottom of its decline, method ! Do you, classmates, remember but all were animated by a determination to how we tried to recite the text book de­ begin the ascent to high attainments. Not­ scription of various mechanical machines, withstanding the necessary absence for finan­ principles and operations while apparatus cial reasons of most of the students several was locked up in a show case ? weeks each year, scholarship within the I remember and appreciate the earnestness range of established courses was maintained of our esteemed new President, Dr. Robins, to a degree at least sufficient for passing in the senior year, endeavoring to have me marks. The records show that no one left comprehend some of the Psychology from college through failure. Seventy-five per­ Porter and Moral Philosophy from Champ­ cent of our class graduated. lin, our profound and stoical ex-p�esident. In those days, almost all the student hacl I think the treatises were quite beyond me to earn their way, for the most part hy keep­ owing to my lack of understanding of the ing school in the country districts of Maine English language and the operations of the during the winter months. To accommodate human faculties. them the long college vacation was in Here was a college library with shelves December and January, and the short one and stacks of wonclerf ul books an all sub­ in July. Every fellow went out te teach and jects of human knowledge and culture. How extended his vacation to three months. That I lament the fact that few of their covers experience aided in acquiring knowledge and were opened by me, and that no courses in self-reliance that contributed to growth and History, Biography, Literature, Science, efficiency as a complement to college work. Industry, Economics, etc., were suggested ! It was by preparing to teach that deficien­ Here was a gymnasium with no physical cies in Mathematics, English, History and and health education, no director, no ath­ Literature were partly made up. We each letics, no interclass or intercollege competi­ took with us a box of books from the socie­ tion. Jenkins batted balls to the crowd and ty library and in teaching the older boys and Woodsum hurled balls too swift and diffi­ girls, of which these winter schools con­ cult to catch. There were no mits to pro­ sisted, we reviewed some of our prepara­ tect soft hands in those clays, as one of my tory subjects. In one high school which I little fingers can now testify. conducted in my sophomore year until the I do not wish to disparage the colleges end of April, I read with a class of older of fifty years ago. We were to blame who pupils the same French book that my class­ were blind to the opportunities they fur­ mates were reading in college. I also led nished. To them we owe the men and a Shakespeare society of the town composed women who today are the leaders in the of men and women interested in literarv learned professions, in business, in world culture. The school master was expecte�l progress, except of course those men of to take a class in Sunday school, lead the genius who attained success as captains of church choir, and teach an evening singing industry, commerce, finance through toil and school of young and adult people. Three hard experience in the university of life. or four of my classmates spent their vaca­ The college of our clay was handicapped tions preaching in country churches. by lack of facilities, equipment, revenues, In those country school , ome boy. \v ere teaching force and students. At that time beginning to fit for college, and it was the a small gift from Gardner Colby saved it natural impulse of the college tuclent to from suspension. With that the Trustees' pick out every promising youth ancl en- 156 The Colby Alumnus

courage him to acquire an academic and col­ the academic type were organized, two in lege education. I believe that much of the Manhattan, one for boys and one for girls, incentive of the country boys and girls of and one in the Bronx for boys and girls. Maine to obtain an education was prompted These schools were housed in abandoned by the enthusiasm of the students from the elementary school buildings and opened Maine colleges, just as now the principals their doors to less than 1200 pupils. The and teachers of the high schools and acade­ chairman of the first committee on high mies are recruiting with the same object in schools of the Board of Superintendents view. was Dr. Albert P. Marble, a graduate of Considering the fact that for many years \Vaterville College, class of 1861, for many the students of the colleges in Maine were years superintendent of schools in W orces­ depended upon by country towns to provide ter, Mass., and one of the leading school the education of their youth during three men of the country. To his wide experience, winter months each year, which was all the organizing ability, breadth of scholarship time allowed or could be afforded, and that and recognized ability, New York City owes most students depended upon this source of the foundation of its great high school devel­ revenue to finance them through the year, it opment. He chose for the head of these would have been the part of wisdom for the schools men of national reputation from colleges to have established courses in the Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Newton, science and art of teaching. In those days Mass. The following year New York City teaching country schools \\1as not considere:l was enlarged by the admission of Brooklyn, either a science or an art. Queens County and Staten Island. Today The limits of this article will not permit from the three parent high schools have a discussion of elementary schools. In cities grown twelve new ones and as many more primary and grammar schools were in the other Boroughs. The rapid growth thorough in fundamental subjects where of the original schools, stimulated by the memory and drill work in a limited field con­ demands of business and the broader outlook stituted the curriculum. In Ne,,. England, upon life by the pupils. necessitated the or­ the enrichment of the grammar school ganization of special high schools of com­ course was inspired by President Elliot in the merce and technology for girls and boys. late seventies and by reports of the Mas a­ The enrollment of students in the high chusetts State Board of Education. Re­ schools of Greater New York is over 123,000 cently I found in an old scrap book, copies boys and girls. of examination papers for graduation from The establishment of high schools in the grammar schools of some � fassacbusetts old City of New York was one of the re­ cities of fifty years ago, in Arithmetic. sults of the change in law in 1896 by which Grammar, Geography and History that a Board of Superintendents was createJ, would challenge the pupils of the same age charged with the authority and responsi­ today. bility for initiating educational policies and The high schools were of the classical procedure in organization, subject only to type. In Somerville, Mass., between 1888 approval and financial ability of the Board and 1893 our high school had only one aim, of Education wh:ch at the time was newly the fitting of boys for Harvard and girls for appointed tmcler a new city administration. Wellesley, which it did to the complete satis­ Formerly Boards of Education throughout faction of the college examining boards. It the country for the most part were composed required three years of agitation to convince of laymen, experienced only in professional the school committee and the common coun­ and business life and trained under the olJ cil of the need of an English high school traditional ' system of an earlier generation. designed to prepare students for industries The progre s of education during the last and business and household arts. twenty-five or thirty years shows the result The evolution of the pub1ic high school of emanc:pat1on of the professional superin­ during the last thirty years has been re­ tendent and progressive teacher from this markable. In the old City of New York re training conservatism. before consolidation prior to 1896, boys The earlier retardation of the gro-wth of passed from the grammar schools to the City high schools and broadening of course of College and girls to the Normal College. instruction and training was partly due to From these institutions were recruited the the controlling influence of the colleges in teachers of the City's elementary schools. prescribing narrow qualifications for admis­ In 1897, on the recommendation of the sion. It has been the experience of every Board of Superintendents, which \;o,•as estab- educator with ::t vision and aspirations to 1 ished the year before, three high schools of improve both high and elementary schools The Colby Al umn UIS 157

to have been retarded and uften defeated that the higher standard girls aspired to be­ in his ambition on one hand by the conserva­ come high school teacher through college tism and want of appreciation and under­ courses and the lower group were satisfied standing of lay Board of Education and on to teach elmentary schools. the other hand, by the static conditions of The growth of public high schools in the higher institutions bound by scholasticism United States is explained by the following and tradition. conditions : The great cities of the country parallel 1. The extension of the compulsory age in the development of the New York High many states. School System. In spaciousness of grounds, 2. The enlargement and enrichment of the: elegance of buildings and completeness of curriculum to include instruction designed to equipment many of them surpass New York. prepare boys and girls for a greater variety But in the number of pupils per school, in of occupations and to adapt the training to the economy of administration, and in the individual abilities and inclinations. scope and adaptation of technical training 3. The growing appreciation of the value our schools are not excelled. of high school training by parents and em­ The growth of high schools in the United ployers. States is the most pronounced f eatu re of 4. The increase since the war in general educational expansion and evolution in the prosperity of masses of the population. country as shown by the following statistics, 5. The expansion of state institutions and taken from a compilation made by Professor state support of small and large communi­ Franklin W. Johnson of Colum bia Univer­ ties. sity, one of our Colby men : 6. A closer articulation of state universi­ His data compiled from the reports of the ties with public supported secondary schools. Commissioner of Education show that the The public high schools and the college of high schools of the country have increased today are communities of large interests and greatly during the last thirty years ; the activities. The curricula are greatly broad­ greatest growth has been during the last ened and the school as a social center en­ five years. In 1918, the enrollment in higr gages the interests and talents of the pupils schools was 1,933,800 which was an increase. as an arena for worthy endeavor. Art in­ of over 477,700 in two years or about 33 per struction, music, the drama, civic organiza­ cent. In New York City in 1917-18, the tion, literary clubs, school publications as registration was 65,690. In 1925, 123,000. well as athletics are recognized as essential Within that time the number of high schools features of a broad training for culture, has increased from 24 to 32, with an average ·efficiency and citizenship. of about 4000 pupils to a school. The administration of our high schools, From 1900 to 1920, the enrollment of the principals and teachers who have vision pupils in private secondary schools increased strive to realize the objectives of education ; in round numbers from 108,000 to 165,000. ( 1) worthy home relationship (2) sound In most cases these schools include pupils health and physical fitness ( 3) the mastery corresponding to those of public junior and of the arts and tools of learning ( 4) voca­ senior high schools. The public high school tional efficiency ( 5) intelligent and active has become the more prevailing type or sec­ citizenship ( 6) appreciation of culture and ondary school, not only as feeders for col­ economic use of leisure (7) development of lege but especially for preparation for the moral and religious character. wider field in life. Formerly comparatively The rank and file of the teachers of the few graduates of high school prep ared for country have taken up a serious scientific college, the academies and special prepara­ study of education. About forty years ago tory school were the feeders. Ten years ag ) a friend who had rece ntly returned from the statistics show that about 36 per cent of high study of education in universities in Europe, school graduates went to col lege and 16 per discussing with me the limitations of teach­ cent to technical and normal schools, show­ er training, expressed his surprise that there ing that over one half advanced to higher in­ was so lttle professional study of the history, stitutions. In a recent report of the New science and art of teaching. At that time York City High Schools, I showed that this there were not many books on the subject. proportion still held, and that these students Dr. Harris edited the international Educa­ in scholarship stood at graduation in the tion Series and later other books came out. highest third of their classes. We found We set about to stimulate an interest in that that of the girl graduates those entering col­ literature and soon organized the New J er­ lege stood much higher in scholarship than sey State Teacher ' Reading Circle, which those entering normal and training schools ; soon had branche in every country. Two 158 The Goloy Alumnus or three other states had been pioneers in earnestness on the part of teachers to im­ that work. There are now about forty prove their equipment and qualifications for states in which reading circles are main­ their work than the present. Never has tained and officially recognized. Teachers there been a more serious determination to who had not been profesionally trained attain the ideals of professional service, or eagerly availed themselves of this opportu­ to realize the tremendous responsibility of nity and have attained a broader attitude developing the character of the present gen­ and outlook. They owe much of their suc­ eration. cess professionally to the foundation laid in At the recent convention in Vvashin gton, the work they voluntarily took upon them­ over 12,000 superintendents, principals, teach­ selves and in which they found inspiration. ers, college presidents, and professors were The demand for text books on education in attendance through · an entire week, in thus created was met by experienced authors gatherings from morning to night to discuss and enterprising publishers. It is not un­ the problems of all phases of education. usual for these firms to issue two or more State, county and city teachers' assoc1at1ons books a year to supply the demand for the are alive and enthusiastically maintained most recent contributions to this study. No everywhere. progressive teacher today neglects to keep The appreciation of the service rendered ahreast of the times in professional reading. to the youth of our nation was generously Another evidence of and stimulation to expressed by Secretary Herbert Hoover in progress is the growth of teachers' insti­ his address at the \Vashington Convention tutes, schools of education offering summer when he said, courses, and po tgraduate work, state normal ''To you school men and school women is schools and city teachers' training schools. intru ted the major part in handing on the It was my privilege to be on the adminis­ traditions of our republic and its ideals. Our trative and teaching staffof the first summer greatest ideal is democracy. It is your func­ school for teachers established in this coun­ tion to keep democracy possible by training try at Marthas Vineyard, where hundreds its children to its ways and its meanings." of teachers from east, west and south as­ "In all these great tests of your work. sembled year after year. The normal the maintenance of our national ideals, the schools and colleges have taken over thi building of character, the constantly improv­ service by postgraduate and summer courses, ing skill of our people, the giving of equip­ leading to college degrees. The opportuni­ ment which makes for equality of opportu­ ties opened to teachers have been voluntarily nity, the stimulation of ambition to take ad­ accepted and have been encouraged by the v antagc of it, no greater tribute can be paid school authorities in cities and town all you than to ay that you are succeeding bet­ over the land. ter than ,,·as ever clone before in human There never has been a time when greater history."

NEW ACADEMIC STAN D ARDS

BY FREDERICK MORGAN p .\DELFORD, PH. D., '96

The nineties may indeed have been the luxurious abandon on sunny decks. In the "gay nineties" for society at large, but for hold of the academic leviathans great en­ those of us who then embarked upon the gines feel by the fortunes of the beneficent : educational sea it was no such matter. \Ye on the main deck sumptuous staterooms, lived in humble quarters and on simple fare, each with its private bath and telephone, like good sailors endured hardness of wind and the great dining-saloon where the tables and waters, and had for our officer a fear­ would groan with every variety of intel­ ful regard, carrying out their c )mn1ancls lectual food, while professional waiters with alacrity and care. would urge fresh pre-digested novelties up­ Vve may sometimes have heard reports of on the jaded appetites of capricious youth : gilded galleys putting to sea in softer climes, on the promenade deck easy chairs and pipes but little did we deem that in a short gen­ and the ship's own comic magazine, or eration the crews of all the college craft diverting games suited to either the lusty would be transformed into care-free passen­ or the languid, and by night, moonlight and gers, living in pampered ease, lolling with jazz and dancing. Anxiety nowhere save The Colby Alumnus 159

the bridge, study the stars, and wonder what fol, other institutions fell in line. Thus the distant port might be. California and Stanford have adopted virt­ Two decades of such a novel academic ually the same standard-Stanford even a situation, and educators began to recover little higher-so that the three leading uni­ from their bewilderment and to find effective versities of the Pacific coast present a solid words to voice their protest. "Our ships", front. Initiated in the west, this reform is said they, "were designed to train hardy affecting the whole countrv. mariners, not to furnish soft winter voy­ Coincident with this raising of entrance ages to all the indolent youth who could requirements, was the raisin g of standards crowd aboard ; away with this high living of enrolled students. The University of and plain thinking ; let us once more have Washington again took the initiative by ap­ order, discipline and industry. Let us thank plying a similar rule-two thirds C or better God that the worst is over and make our on a grading system of A, B, C. D or E craft ship-shape against the future." (failure )-for continuance in the university, The first thing to be done was to recognize subject of course to modification for stu­ that every one that could cry "Rah, rah, dents who were ill or who for one reason or rah" was fit for the kingdom of learning. another had not had a fair show. Minne­ With this conviction the reform began. sota forthwith adopted the point system, For those colleges and universities which which in practice works out about the same, admit by examination alone, this problem requiring for graduation 120 points as well was not so difficult, since they had but to as 120 credits, each A counting for three increase the severity o·f the entrance exami­ points, each B for two points, each C for nation ; for those admitting by certificate, one, and D credits earning no points. By and especially for those which are a part of this system a straight C just graduates a a state system of education, the problem student. Stanford adopted in effect both the was a more baffling one. Certain small col­ two thirds system and the point system, and leges, such as Reed, instituted a system re­ California has followed suit the present year. quiri11g the prospective student by personal The defect of the two thirds system and conference to satisfy a committee of the of the point system is that they require as faculty as to his intelligence and earnestness. much of the freshman as of the senior, or, In l;irgc institutions this was manifestly out looked at from another angle, require no of the question. Among these the Univer­ more of the senior than of the freshman. sity of Washington was the pioneer in Experience has demonstrated, I believe, that meeting the problem. The great influx of these systems exact too much of the fresh­ 8tudents which followed the war found this man and not enough of the senior. The university face to face with the fact that, freshman, especially if he comes from a despite the most careful and scientific small high school, suddenly finds himself in financing, far more students were seeking the midst of a complicated and confusing admission than could possibly be trained institutional life, with all kinds of adjust­ with the income provided by the state. If ments to be made, and if he is sensitive at all admission were to be limited, it was obvious to his environment, his mind and his feelings that the university could be no respecter of are so absorbed with these adjustments that persons or of class and that intellectual ear­ he finds his studies less urgent and less in­ nestness and capacity must be the basis of teresting. He can have no peace of mind �election. The university therefore accepted until he has oriented himself in his new only those applicants who, in their prepara­ social environment. To establish a fresh tory schools, had made eighty per cent, or sense of values, to interpret other men, to a grade of C or better, in at least two learn to adapt himself to novel social de­ thirds of their work. This reduced the next mands, these are the pressures that he feels entering class by five or six hundred. Other most keenly. In this he follows a sure in­ institutions were loud in their pronounce­ stinct, and a very American one. Judged ment that the public would never sanction by his total growth-growth of character suclt a policy and that the University would and practical wisdom as well as of intellect, be punished by its own constituency. As a a· freshman may make satisfactory progress matter of fact, the people of the state have on the whole and yet make a poor showing stood by their institution and have consist­ in his studies. A good deal of allowance ently increa eel its appropriations. Last fall should therefore be made for the first-year aw Washington with an entering class of student. Conversely with the c adjustment. 2<>00 de pite this high standard. accomplished, men should be required to Once the experiment was found success- measure up to an increasingly exacting stancl- 160 The Colby Alumnus among the troubled officers who would pace which a young man goes immediately after _ ard. he leaves college, should be able to exact To Princeton belongs the credit for hav­ from him eight to ten hours of dilligent, ing worked out a graduated system whereby faithful and efficient work each day, and no a student must thus meet a severer standard one thinks of criticising it ; whereas, many with each academic year. This is now the of our young men here at Princeton, or in second year of an experiment which on the fact in all other universities, will complain whole is proving to be very successful. The that, if they do every day three hours of details of the program are too complex for work outside of their classroom duties, it is concise summary. In general it may be placing too heavy a burden upon them." said, however, that Princeton regards the Future improvement of standards would freshman as in the period of boyhood, the seem to lie along the Jines upon which sophomore as in a period of transition from Princeton is working. boyhood to manhood, and the juniors and Sooner or later every university or col­ seniors as men, and therefore ready to ap­ lege in the land must adopt some system of proximate the standard of responsibility to higher standards if we are not to continue which they will be held in subsequent pro­ doing irreparable injury to thousands of fessional or business life. young men and women who are incapable of "We feel,'' says President Hibben (The profiting by more than one or two years ['ppcrclass Plan of Study, Intercollegiate of advanced training, and if, on the other \Vorlcl, January, 1926), "that by the end of hand, we are going to provide a proper in­ sophomore year he has become a man and tellectual environment and effective training that we must treat him as a man and that for those men of real capacity upon whom we have a right, as a university, to expect the future leadership of the country must of him a man's work. dtpend. \V ithout such leadership there is "At the beginning of sophomore year the no hope for the Republic, and the patriotic undergraduate standing in his class need no duty of our institutions of higher learning longer be estimated merely in marks and his is perfectly clear. ability to escape actual failure ; his work is Of course this mechanical improvement of to be estimated from now on by the quali­ standards must be attended by equally im­ tative as well as the quantitative standard. proved curricula and methods of teaching. We expect him to begin to do something a That, however, is another chapter, upon little better than merely escape actual failure. which the limits of this article hardly per­ "It seems absurd that a corporation into mit one to enter.

A TRIP ABROAD

BY ROBIE G ALE FRYE, B. A., '82

Dear Alumnus: our ancestors and our language, experienc­ I have been asked to write the story of a ing a thrill as we passed through Gaen, trip to Europe made last summer by two where \V illiam the Conqueror is buried. men of the class of '82, Will Crawford and There is so much to see in Paris that in mysel f. Almost every one has been in a week one can get only fleeting impressions, Europe, or at least has heard all about it. mere glimpses of the more obvious points of It is an old story. However, touring Europe interest, Notre Dame, Sain te Chapelle, with Will Crawford is an event. I will try Sacre' Coeur, the Seine, the Bois, the boule­ to tell the story of our anabasis. vards. However, with the aid of the taxi The best part of going to Europe is the it was possible to get about very rapidly. voyage. Even if one did not land at all Perhaps the th ing that impressed us most it would be worth while, especially in such was the cheapness of the taxi. The meter perfect weather as we had, clear skies and would generally read about three francs : smooth waters both ways, the Captain of Adel one - for a "Pourboire'' and it has cost the Cunarder "Andania" on the outward trip four francs, twenty cents, for two people. lengthening the voyage by a clay to give us It is difficult to see how it can be done on summer seas. 50 cent gasoline. ° Landing at Cherbourg at midnight we pro­ Paris is big and noisy and wonderful. ceeded next morning to Paris, getting The taxis toot their little horns almost con­ glimp. es of Normandy, whence came in part stantly day and night. One is impressed The Colby Alumnus 161

with the crowds of people in the streets and at the Sabfoe Farm. But we had not time ca fes. We had several trips on the Seine for that nor for Tivoli. boats going as far out as St. Cloud. There The white or clay-colored oxen, knock­ was excellent opera, Aida at the Grand kneed, with wide spreading horns, probably Opera House and Tales of Hoffman at the look just the same as their ancestors of two Opera Comique. There was a delightful day thousand years ago described by Virgil. By at Malmaison and Versailles and a long and the way Virgil's description of the good interesting one in the battlefield gion,re points of a milch cow stand today as Rheims, Chateau Thierry, Belleau Woods. correct. Tb� Louvre is hopeless, but we managed to In Rome we were constantly reminded of see the high spots and found time for Cluny, Professor Taylor and were filled with re­ and the fine collection of modern art in the grets that we had profitted so little by the Luxembourg and other art centers. wonderful opportunities which his inspiring The ride from Paris to Marseilles, where instruction offered. Our ignorance of Ro­ stop was made on the way to Nice, gives man history was appalling, only exceeded by one a good idea of France, its fields and our ignorance of everything else. ("Speak vineyards, its villages and cities. It is in­ for yourself" says W. C.) teresting to see how in France, and still At this rate my story will be far too long. more in Italy, every inch of land is culti­ I must barely mention the places visited. vated, the terraces reaching to the tops of The visit to Napl es was memorable for the hills that look too barren to produce any­ beautiful Bay and its surroundings. Capri thing. with its Blue Grotto and its tradition of Marseilles, the ancient Marsilia, proved Ti lJerius, Pompeii buried from sight since to be surprisingly attractive and we hope that day which Pliny describes, the wonder­ some day to spend a week there exploring ful Amalfi Drive, The Capucin Monastery its harbor and the neighboring coast. and Sorrento Nice is memorable for the Corniche Drive I:'lorence is remembered for its marvelous and the visit to Monte Carlo and the many art collections. Such of the paintings of attractive villages stretching along to the Raphael and other old masters as were not I talian frontier, where we encountered a in the Louvre or the Vatican, seemed to be most amusing comedian. here, though Amsterdam and London possess The route from Nice to Genoa was that a large number. We paid $4 to drive out which Hannibal must have followed and no to Fiesole in an automobile when we could doubt some of the roads were those blasted have gone by train for five or ten cents. out by him with "vinegar", as the history But it was worth it to see the Monastery has it. and cell where St. Francis of Assisi lived \Ve had been advised to look well to our and the old Roman Amphitheater and much baggage in Italy, as the Italians were unre­ older Etruscan ruins and to enjoy that great liable, but our experience was otherwise. view over Florence and the Valley of the At Ventimiglia I left a small handbag on Arno, one of three great views, the others the station platform. It was returned to me being from the front of Sacre' Coeur over­ in my compartment within five minutes. In. looking Paris, and the one from the J anicu­ Rome W. C. left his overcoat somewhere in lum Hill in Rome. the big railway station. The porter took no Venice was full up and we were unable end of trouble to help search for it and it to get into any hotel the first night, finding - was soon recovered from the "Lost and quarters, however, in a narrow and dark Found". alley not far from the Grand Canal. There Rome, ancient, medieval and modern is is much to see in Venice. It is fascinating interesting in all its aspects, but the Rome because so different. There are pleasant of the Romans appeal most to the imagina­ memories of evenings on the Canal and skil­ tion. Cicero's thunderings in the Forum fully guided gondolas. take on a new meaning when one is on the With only a day's stay in Milano to see spot and Spartacus (born in Harpswell, that beautiful cathedral our course was laid Maine) becomes a real person age. The for the Italian Lakes and Switzerland. It spirit of Horace seems to pervade. \Ve took less time to negotiate the Alps than rnucli desired to visit the Sabine Farm at was required for the pa sage of Caesar', Tihur legion's, but I imagine that the mountains "Put wood upon the fire, look ju t the same as in hi clay. Bring forth the dark red wine." witzerlancl is the neatest, tidiest, mor..,t must have been inspi recl hy frosty evenings thrifty looking country in Europe. L11cL'nw i62 The Colby Alumnus

is a delight for its clean and orderly ap­ pie would get on board, it would take the pearance and beautiful setting. Of course air and in a moment or two be lost to sight. the first thing we did was to visit the Lion ·where to? Muni ch or Paris. Several such of Lucerne. Our stay in Helvetia was all arrivals and departures took place while we too short, but packed full of interest. In were awaiting our turn. Planes came and Interlaken occurred the only rainy day in went like railroad trains. The company our two months' trip, but it did not spoil had carried 52,000 passengers with only the day in the Lauterbrunnen Valley. seven accidents. \Vhy can't we do that in Next time we are going to stop in that this country ? wonderland as long as the money holds out, We got away at 3.42 in a Fokker Mono­ for it is expensive, especially when one plane with a four bladed ptopeller. Taxied comes from Italy and a four cent lira. Our clown the field, turned and came back leav­ room in Paris was 25 francs a clay, equal to ing the ground about 3.44.. but I was un­ $1.25. In Lucerne it was also 25 francs, able to determine just when. In twelve but the franc was 20 cents instead of five minutes we alighted gracefully on the field and the cost was $5.00. again and the eight passengers got out. The journey down the Rhine by rail and There had been engine trouble and a leaky steamer was most delightful, made more radiator. A few minutes after five we were so by a family of Australians who adopted off again in two small monoplanes, four us. As the boat touched at Bonn, the passengers in each. It was a Dutch built birthplace of Beethoven, \V. C. chanced to Fokker, with two bladed propeller, total relate to the daughter of the family the weight loaded 2200 Kilos. story of how Beethoven happened to write The passengers sat in ordinary wicker the Moonlight Sonata. It then developed chairs, unattached. The sliding windows of that she had been studying singing in Lon­ the little cabin were kept open. Cotton was don, \Tienna, Milano and elsewhere and that stuffed in the ears to deaden the noise but evening in the hotel dining room in Cologne we could and did converse. It is difficult she sang for us. From this young, slight, to describe the wonder and beauty of the modest girl came a wonderful grand opera panorama. The route followed the coast voice. line across Belgium and as far as Calais In Amsterdam there were more Fords where it turned north to Dover the crossing and Chevrolets and Buicks than in all the of the channel taking 16 minutes. Passing rest of Europe. The Dutch got rich out of over the beautiful landscape London soon the war. But the chief menace to the rame in sight and tipping up on edge the pedestrian was the bicycle. The traffic was plane descended in graceful spirals and like Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. landed on Croyden Field at about nine The Museum in Amsterdam is a surprise. o'clock. It was a great experience. There Not particularly attractive without it is full were no unpleasant sensations, in fact hardly of the finest works of art, especially, of ?.ny sensations at all. course, paintings of the Dutch school. \Ve discovered a remarkable hotel in My two chief memories of this museum are London, the Regent Palace, in every way of "The Night Watch'' and a dish of dough­ admirable and very cheap, only about $3.75 nuts painted in 1620 true to life even to the per day for room and three meals, excellent fried holes. I wonder if our New Eng­ living and absolutely no tips. land doughnuts were brought by the Pil­ London seems homelike. \V e had both grim Fathers from Leyden. been there before and it was gratifying to The real "high spot" of our journey was see how well we remembered it and hnw the flight from Amsterdam to London by easily we found our way about. Our week airplane. It was certainly a modern touch, there was most delightful. For the first a sharp contrast to the antiquities of Rome. time during the two months we were sepa­ The flying field is about six miles out of rated for two days while vV . C. made a Amsterdam. About a dozen planes of vari­ pilgrimage to Sulgrave 'Manor and to the ous sizes and styles were in the hangar or Shakespeare country, while I. who had been on the field. Now and then one would ap­ m Stratford before, "did'' the British pear out of the ether, spiral down and land Museum and the Galleries, discovering, and passengers would get out. Inquiry among other things, over 100 paintings by would bring the information that they were Turner which interested me very much. from Berlin or Copenhagen. An airplane It was a beautiful morning on which the would be wheeled out of its hangar, the gigantic Berengaria steamed out of South­ pilot would make a preliminary flight, peo- ampton whence my first American ancestor The Colby Alumnus 163

had set sail 287 years before. The home­ false ones. People generally bring back ward voyage was almost as pleasant as the the opinions and to a degree the impressions outward one and we arrived home exactly ,vhich they took with them. on time after a most delightful two months vVe got the impression, for instance, that packed full of interesting scenes and ex­ France is poor and Italy poorer, while pt>riences. There may have been people in Germany is prosperous and Switzerland i Europe last summer who saw just as much thrifty and contented. England is hard hit, and had just as good a time as we did, but is struggling under a heavy load of debt none who saw more or had more real pleas­ and unemployment and high costs, but they ure. Perhaps the secret is that I had the do not complain. The Englishman is the best travelling companion in the world, al­ best true sport in the world, if not the only ways in good humor, al ways on time. What­ one. ever we saw or did we were glad we saw One indication of prosperity or the lack or did it and what we didn't see didn't of it is the automobile. Outside of the cities trouble us. we did not see half a dozen automobiles in One of the chief satisfactions of travel all France, and not many more in Italy nor is learning how to do it, managing the were they numerous in England. There journey yourself, finding out how to buy were more of them in Germany. In Holland your transportation and make the necessary they were numerous and not scarce in Switz­ changes, secure hotel accommodations and erland. how to see the things you came to see. Throughout the journey I was devoted Travelling is easier in Europe than here to churches. Whenever we passed a church because so much is done for you. The W. C. had to hold on to me and I had equal porter and the concierge are always ready trouble to keep him out of the shops. Not to help and there are so many signs and that he bought anything, but he wanted to directions which one can generally read in know the prices.t There are "Five and no matter what language. Our hotels Tens" everywhere. \i\Toolworth and Henry ranged from fourth class to first, but all Ford and Charlie Chaplin are well known were good. \Ve ate the food of the country the wor Id over. and everywhere drank the water without If one will settle down for some time fear and without unpleasant results. The in a place one could live very cheaply in wine and the beer are good and refreshing France or Italy, due chiefly to the exchange. and entirely harmless.* The only persons It is the moving about that costs. Food is whom we saw under the influence of drink not cheap, but almost eve:ything else is. were some American youngsters just landed The bus and the tram car cost next to in Cherhourg. nothing and the taxi in France and the The one thing I most regretted was my horse and carriage in Italy cost ridiculously inability to speak the language of the coun­ little. try. Not that one needs any language but The people in all the countries are most English to get about over Europe but it kind and courteous and patient with the would add so much if one co uld talk with foreigner who does not speak his language. the people. I was chagrined to find that Quite a contrast to the way a foreigner the French could not understand me nor is hustled and shouted at in this country. could I understand them. My most success­ We liked every country visited but I ful conversations in French were with an tlm:k we would agree that we enjoyed Italy Italian guide at Fiesole and a Dutch waiter most, especially Rome. If or when we go in Amsterdam. \Ve were on neutral ground. again we shall spend all of our time in I do not feel qualified to express opinions Switzerland, or will it be France, or per­ on the conditions in Europe. Our conversa­ haps England or may be Italy. How can tions were with porters, concierges and taxi one make up his mind when each is so at­ drivers and Americans. Of course one must tractive? get impressions though they are apt to be tMr. Frye had considerable back work to make up in church attendance. I know that religion flourishes •Let Mr. Frye speak for hirnself.-W. C. C. where industry thrives.-W, C. C. 164 The Colby Alumnus

::!lllllllll!llllllllllllllllllllllllll:llllllllllllllllllllll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll1illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllflllllllllllfllllflllllllllllllllllllfllllllllllllllllP'.: � � The Two Hundred Thousand Dollar Scholarship Fund Pledges towards the Scholarship Fund of $200,000 to be se­ cured by Commencement 1926 now amount to $69,500. It is hoped that in the last weeks of this effort the desired sum will be secured. The detailed report of the canvass we are now mak­ ing is as follows :

Donor A111ow1t Name of Sclzolarship Fannie H. Cornish $1000 To be added to the Leslie C. Cornish Scholarship of $1000. L. C. Corni h, '75 3000 In memory of his wi fe, Fannie H. Cornish. G. P. Fall, '92 1500 In memory of his mother, Hannah Ellen Starbird Fall. 1Irs. Hannah E. Gray 1500 In memorv of her son Herbert L. Gray, 'OZ. Mrs. Ha rriet A. Pratt 1000 In memory of her brother Charle, A. Russell, '76. Dr. George G. Averill 1500 In memory of his mother, Leah S. Averill. W. H. Snyder, '85 1000 To be added to Mr. Snyder's scholar­ ship of $6000 in memory of his father and mother, Abram and Harriet Snyder. Mrs. E. S. Small 3000 In memory of her husband, Edwin Sumner Small, '68. Mr. A. w. Perry 1000 Alonzo \V. PerrY. G. E. Murray, '79 1500 George Edwin 1Iurray. Mr. H. G. Fo s 2500 Horatio G. Foss. E. B. Putnam, '01 1500 Edgar Burnham Putnam. Mr. J. F. Sprague 1500 John Franci Sprague. R. \V. Dunn. '68 2000 To be added to the Reuben \\.esle\· Dunn Scholarship of $1000. D. W. Hall, '90 12,000 To be added to the Dana \Varren Hall Scholarship of $2000. A. J. Roberts, '90 1500 Ada L. Roberts. A Friend of olby 25.000 Not yet designated. · H. E. �Wads\ orth, 92 2000 To be added to the Herbert E. Wads­ worth Scholar- hip of �1000.

H. \V. Dunn, '96 2000 To be added to the Reuben \Vesle-v Dunn Scholarship of 3000. Mr. W. E. Reid 1000 Walter E. Reid. S. J. Nowell, '82 2000 Samuel J. Nowell. Three kinds of pledges are solicited : first, those payable in cash, the income to be at once available for student uses ; second, those payable in cash, the income to be retained by the donor through life or through the don or's life and another's ; third, those payable by bequest. · Every scholarship Jift serves the double purpose of helping some deserving student and of increasing the general endow­ ment fund of the College. At present two-thirds of the fifteen thousand dollars a year appropriated for scholarship aid has to be taken from the general income of the College, every dollar of which is imperatively needed for other uses.

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AN EDITOR'S VIEW OF THE COLLEGES

BY HARLA �D ROGER RATCLIFFE, B.S., '23

There is a growing manifestation of the vocation i:, to be. And so they drift from university spirit. J. St. Loe Strachey, dis­ one position to another, dissatisfied, some­ tinguished Engl ish editor and educator, what discouraged, totally disappointed. speaking at Swarthmore College, on Found­ Then, like a bolt from the blue, perhaps not ers' Day, said : ''If I were to be asked, and until four or five years have gone by, they it is conceivable that I shall be asked, by my discover the opening they have been looking brothers of the English press, what I think for ; "opportunity knocks at the door," they the greatest thing in modern America, I chance upon the vocation for which they are should tell them without hesitation the grow­ best fitted and for wh ich they have certain ing manifestation of the university spirit. As definite aptitudes ; in short they find them ­ an illustration of what I mean : did not one selves. The longer I ponder over these of your most prom inent statesmen declare by somewhat disconnected incidents, the more his epitaphs that his claim to fame and to the forcefully am I struck with the significance gratitude of his fellow-citizens was not that of this word self. he had been twice President of the United And the more I give myself up to in­ States and one of the moulders of the Con­ specting the significance of this word self, stitution but that he was the founder of the the clearer becomes to me the true duty and University of Virginia? Jefferson's monu­ purpose of our colleges and universities. Our ment, if I am not mistaken, by the direction institutions of higher learning cannot, as so in his will states that fact, while it omits many people apparently think they can, take his official services to the Republic as being a boy of eighteen or nineteen who is bad and of far less importance." make him good ; they cannot have given into There is a growng knowledge about and their care a lad who is lazy and forthwith cognizance of the true purposes of colleges make definite promise to turn him out, four and unversities. And yet there are still years later, industrious ; they cannot make a hundreds and thousands of persons totally weak youngster strong nor an inefficient boy ignorant of the rason d'etre of our institu­ efficient. But they can enable a boy to dis­ tions of higher learning. Explaining the tinguish between his baser and better char­ passage in the Bible, ''and when he came to acteristics ; they can aid a boy to discover himself," a colored preacher said : "What those qualities, attainable to him, which will else could he come to, bredren ? Dat prodi­ make him of more use, both to himself and gal son had pawned his last shirt." Out at to his fellows ; they can point out the way Harvard last fall one of the hardest-working to the development of all those moral traits youngsters on the varsity eleven had been which will make of him a useful citizen, one knocked unconscious in a particularly fero­ who may become of service to all with whom cious scrimmage between the first team and he is thrown in contact. In other words the scrubs. They carried him off. Later, neither the college nor the university can after supper, I chanced to meet one of the make a man ; they can simply help him to - Harvard coaches. "How is H-," I asked, find himself. And the answer came : ''Oh, he's himself America's colleges are growing, and grow­ again." ing steadily, both as regards enrollment, A friend of mine recently had a long siege equipment and financial resources. When of sickness. The other day I met him out this century, which now a quarter th rough walking, getting his st rength back again. has run its astonishing course, was ushered And I asked him how he was. "Well, I'm in, the colleges and universities knew naught almost myself again," was his answer. I of the future. They didn't know, nor could heard two undergraduates arguing some they guess, to their own or to anyone else's minor point the other day. They went at satisfaction, whether they were to become it hot and heavy, for several minutes, and smaller or larger. And, what was perhaps finally one of them ended the discussion with even worse, they couldn't do a thing about an "Oh, be J'Onrself.'1 Every June hundreds it. But in the last dozen or fifteen years the of youngsters leave our colleges and univer­ situation has assumed entirely different as­ sities and go out into the world to make a pects, N owaclays, it is simply a question as living. Scores of these have no program to how great an increase in enrollment i · to whatsoever ; they don't know wh�t their be recorded ; not in many year , it appears, 166 The Colby Alumnus

will our colleges have to concern themselves in a single year, it is altogether probable with dropping registration, temporary or that while the new faculty can hold the permanent. We may say, with very little additional classes more conveniently than danger of being proved wrong, that our col­ could the old, it will be found somewhat leges and universities are going to increase lacking in inspiration, in depth, in resource­ in enrollment year by year for some time to fulness. Furthermore, because college en­ come. This increase in the number of col­ rollments have doubled since the war, and lege students is not elusive in any sense of the buying power of the dollar has been the word ; it is surprisingly substantial ; this cut in two since 1913, an endowment of rate of growth is much faster than the four million accomplishes no more for a rate at which the country's population is representative college today than did a sin­ mcreasmg. gle million a dozen years ago.' It costs Year by year ,.,,.e are becoming a better more to build college buildings than it used educated people, and there is no more en­ to. A new classroom in the Chicago pub­ couraging f ea tu re of our whole national lic schools was reported to have cost $7000 life than the fact that the proportion of in 1916 and $20,000 in 1923. Thus it is children in the grade schools, the propor­ fairly safe to say that the cost of erect­ tion of boys and girls in the high schools ing college buildings has doubled since 1917. and the proportion of young men and President James R. Angell of Yale has women in colleges are all steadily grow­ said that in general American colleges are ing. There cannot come increased enroll­ no longer merely teaching institutions-i f ments without increased facilities for in­ they ever were-but are increasingly em­ structing and housing those who come to bodiments of a form of community life learn. Hardly a college or university which touches practically every side of the there is which has not, at some time or student's nature. This fact, he urged. must other in the last three years, built one or be frankly recognized and held in mind in more dormitories and one or more halls all attempts to control and regulate the great of learning. In fact at a score of the variety of so-called extra-curricular activi­ larger institutions whole groups of build­ ties-dramatics, music, journalism, athletics ings have altered the aspects of the cam­ and dozens of different forms of clubs and puses. Great construction projects have societies. The college must decide what been underway at a host of colleges. type of community life it e teems most Then. too to keep up in the race, there highly and then et about the creation of have been brought into exi tence new conditions in which such a life may be courses and new departments, new de­ realized. In the process, student coopera­ grees and new requi rements. As large a tion will be indispensable. If the move­ percentage of the population obtains a col­ ment were to result in a simplification of lege education today a obtained a hio-h the at-present much over-organized student school education fifty year ago. College life and in a lowing up of the pace at administrators and teachers note that their which that life is now carried on, it might students come from a wider distribution of well exercise an influence of utmost conse­ homes than was formerly the case. The quences. proportion of college students who e fath­ Dean Yirginia C. Gilder leeve of Barn­ er and mother are college graduates i ard College advances a plan for dra tic sma11er to day than a o-eneration ago. not overhauling of the curriculum. At present because college alumni are failing to send she says, it is a "patchwork of accretions their sons and daughters to college, but be­ and amendments which have become un­ cause while their families are smaller their duly complex." Dean Gildersleeve wants neighbors who did not attend college them­ simplification, with no prescribed cour-es selves are desir ous of a college education beyond certain "fundamental tools" useful for their children. College classes proba­ in any field of endeavor-"a command of bly have more students from fa milies to written and poken Engli h, the ability to ·whom "going to college'' is a ne\ experience read at sight one foreign language, a than at any time in the past fifty years. healthy body and a knowledge of hygiene." Many new fields of endeavor have been The wide scope of correspondence study opened up ; the students' aims and prospec­ i indicated by the succe s of the Univer ity tive voc ations are more diversified than of Chicago in this field. More than seven hitherto. thousand students in this country and in If a college with an established faculty twenty-one foreign countrie were regis­ must increase that faculty twenty per cent. tered for correspondence courses given by The Colby Alumnus 167

the university during 1924-25. Ninety­ for the twenty-five smallest colleges on this three per cent. of those who finished courses list is nine per cent. over last year while for gained credit fof them by passing a final the twenty-five largest universities the simi­ examination. Of the seven thousand, 1893 lar increase is four per cent. Higher edu­ had not been previously connected with the cation in the Cnited States has become cen­ University of Chicago, and constituted tralized to a marked degree in state and twenty-nine per cent. of the whole number urban universities. The present figures re­ of those who first entered into student re­ veal that the twenty-five largest universi­ lations with the university during 1924-25. ties have a total of 17 2,678 full-time stu­ President-emeritus, Charles F. Thwing dents, as compared with 150,287 for the 159 has some very interesting things to say others on the list of the Association of about the new trends of the university. American Universities. In other words, The tutorial system continues in many col­ fourteen per cent. of these 184 institutions leges. Dean's lists are more and more in have fifty-four per cent. of all the students. vogue. There has been a much stronger \i\Then statistics were considered for all the emphasis placed upon the interests of the 780 colleges, universities and professional ordinary seeker for knowledge. One-third, schools of the country, the proportion is still if not more, of all those who enter college more striking. It appears that these twenty­ drop out. The chapel fight continues at five largest universities-less than four per many colleges. Administrative officers, at cent. of the total of 780 collegiate institu­ least a great many of them, are becoming tions-now give instruction to approximately firmly convinced that athletics may be, not forty per cent. of all the collegiate, graduate an asset, but a menace. College morals are and professional students of the United improving. More and more colleges are States. assisting their juniors and their seniors in At not one of the many alumni gather­ the selection of their vocations. College ings which I have attended in the last six salaries continues to rise ; tuition rates are months has football failed to win consider­ on the increase. Although the number of able attention. Is it over-emphasized or is students in our colleges and universites is it under-emphasized ? Is it an asset or is it constantly on the increase,. and despite the a liability? Is it a blessing or a curse ? Is fact that the increase in the number · of stu­ it good for the undergraduate or is it bad dents in the liberal arts colleges in thirty­ for him ? Are our colleges paying too much five years has been 500 per cent., "yet", Dr. attention to the gridiron and too little to the .Thwing points out "the emphasis is passing classroom ? These are some of the ques­ from the quantitative to the qualitative re­ tions which have been asked and to some lation, from the physical to the intellectual extent, answered. And although, so far as I aspect, from the element of means and have been able to discover, this great hue methods to the element of the students and cry over intercollegiate athletics has themselves." This, too, despite the fact not invaded Maine to any very great extent. that the "athletic madness" continues and I am not at all certain that it will not do though campaigns for large endowments so in the near future. It hardly seems to us still are waged. who are fairly well acquainted with con­ An increase of seven per cent. in enroll­ ditions that football is over-emphasized in ment of full-time students has been noted the state of Maine. There are no mammoth in our colleges and universities for the stad"iums; the majority of the crowds at the present academic year over 1924-25. Of the state series games are still of collegiate ex­ 184 colleges and universities on the ap­ traction ; down in Maine, at least I never proved list of the Association of American heard "Tubby" Ashcraft say so, they don't universities all but twenty-seven report en­ find it necessary to provide a ton truck to rollment increases ; the largest is that of the .haul away the money which they take in at University of Illinois, which has 1,123 more the gate ; the Maine colleges don't start students than a year ago. The 1925-26 ad­ formal practice in the middle of the summer ; vance over 1924-25 is full-time students in �hey don't overpay their athletic directors 159 institutions which reported both last and coaches (do they Harry?) ; they don't year and this is seven per cent. ; for grand wave the big stick over the board of admis­ total enrollment, which includes summer sions in order that star athletes, without a school and extension students, the gain is single brain in their heads, may matriculate. 4.8 per cent. It is of interest, Dean Walters No, they don't do any of these, the thing of Swarthmore, who compiled these statis­ upon which most of the enemies of football tics, points out, that the full-time increase base their arguments. If such conditions dQ 168 The Colby Alumnus

exist, there has been a startling change take pitied ; student life was no more free from place since the spring of 1923. All of the dissipation before athletics thci:n now ; the Maine colleges now have year around coach­ greatest single element in a college for the ing staffs ; they all have the one year rule, development of character is intercollegiate barring freshmen from participation in ath­ sport. That is what some of our· "educa­ letics of an intercollegiate nature. They tional great'' think of this game of football. are keeping up with the most progressive. Almost all colleges now have the one year And they are not over-emphasizing the rule, keeping freshmen out of intercollegiate sport. sport ; there is less heard about the tramp It is my humble opinion, moreover, that athlete ; Pennsylvania has gone so far as to nowhere in the East is football over-empha- say that no man who has _played intercolle­ ized. Dean Craven Laycock of Dartmouth, giate athletics for any other college can ever speaking at the Yale Club banquet in Boston, play for it. said that if the members of the Dartmouth Methods of. admission to colleges are football squad constituted the entire student changing. The college board examination, body of the college there would be no need formerly the only means of judging a candi­ for a Dean. He "whispered" that football date's abilities, is now only a part of what is the finest game of them all. The game a man must think of when he decides to go has some blemishes, he admitted. It is like to college. Nowadays he must prepare to a girl, otherwise fair, who has a wart under take a mental and physical examination ; he her left ear, or a blemish on the back of her must undergo a psychological test ; he must neck. "But we would apply a little salve ; submit his marks for the whole four years we wouldn't decapitate her." of preparatory school ; he must be inter­ E. K. Hall, a vice president of the Ameri­ viewed ; he will have more chance of being can Telephone and Telegraph Company and admitted if he is an athlete, a team manager, chairman of the Intercollegiate Football a student editor. The well-rounded, fair Rules Committees, the same gentleman who ranking man goes ahead, sometimes of the has given Dartmouth $150,000 for a new high ranking man, when it comes to squeez­ health house, speaking at the second annual ing a last half dozen through the academic Potlatch of the Boston Dartmouth Alumni barrier. Association, refused, he said, to get Yery Dartmouth v;as one of the first of the much excited over the fate of football, be­ larger institutions to put into effect, on a cause its worst enemies are its friends. He large scale, the selective system. By means begged the alumni to remember ahvays that of this arrangement, all condidates for ad­ the gridiron sport belongs to the undergrad­ uates. He urged the undergraduates to stay mis ion are "looked over" by an alumnus or at home when their team was visiting a alumni of the college. No matter what his weaker team but to trail along when their ability as a scholar, he may be thrown down team was in clanger of being whipped. unless he can convince these informal yet He urged the undergraduates not to judO'e official investigators that he, by his presence a fellow's loyalty to his college by the at the college, will there contribute some­ amount of football dope he could unleash, thing to the development of his campus fel­ about his own team and all others. He lows. This new selective system is a hard urged sport writers to pay less attention to thing to explain. It simmers down in tile individuals and more to teams. He suggest­ final analysis, I think, to an arangement ed that the alumni drink their liquor some­ whereby the candidates for admission consid­ where else than in a stadium. ered most 1 ikely to prove an asset and not a Those who attended the National Collegi­ liability to society, both while within and ate Athletic Association's convention in New without the college walls, will be admitted, York City, at which Harry Edwards was instead of welcoming only those youngsters Colby's representative, were agreed that the who gave indication that, for the greater address made by President Ernest M. Hop­ part of their academic career, they will sport kins of Dartmouth was one of the best de­ a long string of A's on their report cards. livered before the convention. What did he \Ve hear much of honor courses, honor say ? Briefly, that intercollegiate athletics rolls, dean's Ii�ts, the granting of cuts to all can teach a man things that no other subject upper classmen, the tutorial system, under­ on the curriculum can ; that standards of in­ graduate, faculty, and alumni advisers. tercollegiate athletics are higher than ever There is much new in the field of education. before ; that those college stars who turn These new wrinkles are most certainly a re­ professional should not be condemned but sult, in part at least, of the ever increasing The Colby Alumnus 169

t hrong- of hoys ancl girls who . eek admit­ ::;igned to go to Brown, there to replace Ed tance to our colleges and universities. Robinson who was treated so cavalierly by \Vhat arc some of the other .Kew England the Brown athletic committee. Clark con­ colleges doing ? .Maine has a new president, tinues to add tc• its laurels as one o{ our or rather acting president, and the universi­ best graduate schools, excelling especially in ty's new gymnasium is under construction. the ..;ciences. Holy Cross is to have soon a Bates' new athletic house is being built. stc.,limn where the football teams of Cleo Bowdoin is to have an Institute of Modern O' Donnel! and the baseball teams of Jack Art next spring, following after its Insti­ ] 'ar ry c<: n Jisport themselves. tutes of Modern History and Modern Lit­ 1[. I. T. i3 achieving greater and greater erature, held in 1924 and 1925 respectively. rekitown as the center for scientific research ; :i utt Jack Cates has come to Bowdoin. Dart­ tht: lmi · is one of the greater centers in mouth won the eastern football champion­ the country for aviation, its Professor ship, its sixteenth annual winter carnival, has \i\Tarner be'.ng one of the gr eatest experts been given funds with which to build a new on aviation we have. The Institute is bene­ field house and a new health house, is to fitting greatly from the gifts made it by erect a new library. President Hetzel of George Eastman, the Kodak manufacturer University of New Hampshire said the of Rochester, known far and wide as the In­ other clay that the institution at Durham is stitute's "Mr. Smith." At Mount Holyoke, in better shape than at any time since the President Mary R. Woolley has just com­ war. University of Vermont has reorga­ pleted the twenty-fifth year of her presi­ nized its athletic department and Middlebury dency. Work on Harvard's new Fogg Art has made famous its French house, a place Museum is progressing rapidly. The uni­ where they not only teach French but also versity has a new counting house, a handful "eat it, sleep it, and talk it." o{ new dormitories, and, across the Charles, Norwich continues to enjoy its rating as on the opposite side of the street from the one of the distinguished colleges among Stadium, are going up the new business those institutions which include military school buildings, the cost of which are de­ training in their curriculum. Boston Uni­ frayed by the gift to the universjty of versity has a new president in the person of $5,000,000 by George Baker, the New York Daniel Lash Marsh, formerly a Pittsburgh philanthropist. minister. Bishop v\Tilliam F. Anderson of Smith has a new personnel director and the Greater Boston Area of the Methodist Simmons a new library course. At Wil­ Church has been acting president since the liams continues, each summer, the Institute resignation of President Lemuel H. Murlin of Politics, to which are drawn statesmen, a little over a year ago, when the latter left teachers, and national leaders from all over the Boston institution to go to DePauw. the world. Worcester Tech is soon to build Boston College has a new president and its a new dormitory. Captain Ralph Earle, U. beauti ful new library building has just been S. Navy retired, has become president of the put in service. President Olds of Amherst \Vorcester institution. Massachusetts Aggie has endeared himself to al l Amherst men in continues its fight against legislative control. the brief time since the resignation, at com­ Brown has let Ed Robinson go, has built mencement time in 1923, of Dr. Alexander several new dormitories, dedicated its new Meiklejohn, who has joined the faculty of stadium last fall. Wesleyan has new build­ the University of Wisconsin, that great ings and a new president in James Lukens Western university, at Madison, now pre icl­ M cConaughy. Yale stole Professor George · ed over by Dr. Glenn Frank, former editor P. Baker from Harvard, has recently opened of Century Magazine. "Tuss" MacLaughry, its Peabody Museum, failed to defeat Har­ 1\mherst's successful football coach, has re- vard in the Stadium.

ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY, 1826

BY HELEN LOUISE COBURN, LITT.D., '77

(Norn : This year marks the hundredth zens of Maine, a carefully written article anniversary of the graduation of Colby's on Lovejoy by Louise Helen Coburn, Litt. famous graduate and martyr, Elijah Pari h D., of the class 1877.-THE EDITOR. ) Lovejoy, of the cla s of 1826. The ALUM­ "Fir t American martyr to the freedom NUS is privileged to reproduce from a book of the pr e s and the freedom of the sla vc." entitled "J ust Maine Folks", written by citi- -! aim QHiHCJ..' Adams. 170 The Colby Alumnus

There are many kinds of freedom over In college he especially liked the languages,· which our starry banner waves. Freedom and was a fine classical scholar. He had from kings and lords, freedom of person been in the habit from childhood of writ­ and property, freedom of religion, freedom ing verse, and his Commencement part was of speech and of the press, freedom of the a long and well written poem, called "The slave-all these have been fought for and Inspiration of the Muse." toiled for and won at great price. They After teaching for a few months, he are implanted in the Constitution of the heard, as did so many of the young men of l:nited States and the shining foundation those years, the call of the \Vest, and stirred stones of free government. These great with the spirit of adventure left home and freedoms ought to be cherished � all parents and native state for the great Americans, for Americans in every genera­ :Mississippi valley, and what was then the tion have died for them. The people of frontier town of St. Louis. Here he taught Maine should always remember and honor for a while, writing a few poems and prose the name of the 1Iaine country boy, born articles for the papers, and then became and educated in our state, who shed the editor of a political newspaper which was first blood for the freedom of the slave, and supporting Henry Clay for the Presidency. who '"';as the champion and martyr of the The prospect of a political career, doubt­ freedom of the press. less a brilliant one, was opening before this Elijah Parish Lovejoy was the son of a talented young man, when at some revival Congregational minister, and was born in meetings the religious impressions of his the town of Albion, Maine, November 8, childhood were rene,ved, and the direction 1802. His home was on land which had of his life was changed. He decided at been cleared out of the wilderness only once that it was his duty to be a minister, twelve years before his birth, so his boy­ and came east in the spring of 1832 to study hood was that of the pioneer. The ax, the in Princeton Theological Seminary in New plough, and the scythe were familiar to his Jersey. \Vhile there he was able to make hands, but every spare hour was devoted a visit-his only one-to his parents and to reading and study. Like many another brothers and sisters in the old home in famous man, he learned to read at his moth­ :Maine. After a year of study and a few er's knee, asking her for the name of each months of preaching in K ewport, R. I., and letter, and learning in this way the letters � ew York City, he returned to St. Louis. and the words, o that at four he could Some of his friends were arDcious that his read the Bible easily. He v.. ·as always first ability and literary talent should be used in S(:hool. and had a remarkable memory. to the best purpose, provided the money for He could repeat long passages from the starting a religious weekly paper in St. Bible, and a great deal of poetry, of which Louis, of which he should be the editor. he was especially fond. His brother re­ The first number of the ''St. Louis Ob­ membered having heard him say from server." as it was called, was issued in memory a hundred and fifty hymns at one Xovember, 1833. time. But he was also a leader in all kinds "Missouri was a slave state, and the more of boyish sport, such as swimming in the intolerant because it had for next neighbor pond beside which he lived. The boys used the great free state of Illinois. The soul to practice deep diving, sometimes going of the young man from Maine was deeply down twelve or fifteen feet, and bringing moved by the wrongs of the slave, and the up mud or clams to prove they had touched cr�me of slavery, as he saw it, and as he the bottom. At one time Elijah swam saw he spoke and wrote. He printed in the across the pond, three-quarters of a mile, "Observer" a series of editorials, describing and back again. and condemning the evil of slavery. and \Vhen he was eighteen he became eager pleading for freedom for the slave. Great for more education than the district school Britain had just passed the act abolishicr could give him, and went to Monmouth slavery in her colonies. The north of the Academy, where, so the story goes, al­ United States was agitated with this sub­ though he had studied Latin for only a few ject, and abolition sentiment wa rapidly weeks previously, he read the whole of spreading. Lovejoy was in fayor of gradual Virgil and parts of Cicero and Sallust in a emancipation, which hould be carried out single term. He also attended China Acade­ by the slave states and the slave owners my for a while, entered vVaterville (now themselves, and for this he argued and en­ Colby) College as a sophomore, and was treated. graduated from it with first honors in 1826. 0 f course he soon made enemie who did The Colby Alumnus 171

THE ALTON MONUMENT TO COLBY'S MARTYRED SON, ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY, GRADUATE OF THE COLLEGE ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

"! Jza'i.'C s·worn rtrrnal o/1J'ositio11 to slm.1N31 and b;.1 the blessing of God l ·will 11c"Nr go bacl/' 172 The Colby Alumnus

all they could to injure him, until even his the "Alton Observer" was issued for some­ friends were afraid to take his part. His thing less than a year. The editor continued printing-office and his Ii f e were frequently to urge the abolition of slavery, helped in threatened. During an absence of the edi­ organizing a state Anti-slavery society in tor from St. Louis, the owners of the paper Illinois, and was one of its officers. He printed the statement that no more slavery often preached on Sunday, always speaking articles would be published until his return, frankly about slavery. But here in a free and that when he came back he would no state, he was still repeatedly threatened, and doubt follow the course they wished. At knew that his press and his home were in the same time nine prominent citizens sent danger. However, he felt only more the editor a personal letter, urging him so strongly that he had a duty to God and far to change the character of the "Ob­ humanity to perform.. to_ hold up the cause server" as to pass over in silence every­ of freedom in the borderland of slavery. thing connected with the subject of slavery. He wrote in August, 1836, "The cry of the They found they had mistaken their edi­ oppressed has entered not only into my ears, tor. When Lovejoy returned to the city, but into my soul, so that while I live J he printed his famous Appeal, in \vhich he cannot hold my peace." said : "I cannot surrender my principles, As the months went by the hostility to though the whole world besides should vote Lovejoy and the "Observer'' became more them down-I can make no GOmpromise be­ furious. He was waylaid on the street in tween truth and error, even though my life the evening by armed men, and threatened be the alternative," and added, "I do there­ with death, but finally allowed to go. \\'hen fore as an American citizen and Christian he was on a visit to his wife's mother in citizen and Christian patriot, and in the St. Charles, Missouri, a mob entered the name of Liberty and Law and Religion, house, and he was only saved by his wife solemnly Profl'st against all these attempts, throwing her arms around him, and by howsoever or by whomsoever made. to friends aiding him to escape. His second frown down the liberty of the pre s, and printing-press was destroyed August 21, forbid the free expression of opinion. I 1837, by men who entered the office of thi:.­ declare it to be my fixed purpose to sub­ "Observer" and wrecked everything. The mit to no such dictation. A11d I 0111 prepared third press, which was sent for immediately, to Abide the coJ1scq11cncl's. I have appealed was taken from a warehouse near the river to the constitution and laws of my country : on the night of its arrival. September 21. if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God. 1837, broken to pieces, and thrown into the and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. Mississippi. A few days after this, Love­ I ca11 die at 11iy post, but I callnot desert it." joy wrote, ''By the blessing of God I will At this crisis an unexpected friend rose never abandon the enterprise so long as I up who took over the ownership of the live. and if I die it cannot be in a better paper, and Lovejoy continued for a number cause." And a little later he wrote, "I have of months longer to publish the "Observer'' sworn eternal oppostion to slavery, and by in St. Louis, and to speak his mind about the blessing of Goel I ·will never go back." slavery and anti-slavery. On November 3, when the fourth press Finally he decided that it was best for was expected ,·ery soon to arrive, a meeting him to leave Missouri, and in July, 1836, he of citizens of Alton wa held, at which moved to Alton, Illinois, a city about twenty­ resolutions were passed demanding that five miles from St. Louis, and also on the Lovejoy should no longer be connected w:th shore of the Mississippi river, upon its other side. where he had the promise of the any newspaper in the city. Lovejoy made a support of friends. A few clays before he speech-the last appeal of hi life-in wh :ch left St. Louis his printing office was partly he broke down weeping and moYe3 many wrecked by a mob, and he himself narrowly who heard him to tears. He said in clo:>­ escaped. ing : "If I am not �afe at Alton, I shall not The press was sent to Alton by boat and be safe anywhere. I have no more cla:m landed on the bank on Sunday morning, and upon the protection of any other community on Monday morning, ] uly 21, 1836, it was than I have upon this ; and I have conclu

die, I have determined to make my grave in word. His companions surrendered the Alton." press and made their escape. There was no police force in Alton, so a So died the son of Maine, the bold de­ Yolunteer company was formed of sixty fender of human freedom and a free press. men, who were opposed to mob violence, to This was November 7, 1837, the clay before protect the new press when it should come. what would have been his thirty-fifth birth­ It was organized with a captain, and acted day. :..nder the direction of the mayor of the city. In appearance Lovejoy was of medium The expected boat arrived in the night of height, broadly built, had a dark complexion, � ovember 6, and the press was taken to the and piercing black eyes, with a sort of upper £1001 of a stone warehouse that stood twinkle in them. He had a round, pleasant ht.side the river. The Mississippi runs at face full of good humor and beaming with 1his point nearly east. The warehouse was kindness. He was always calm when others a John Quincy Adams away, but twenty men remained, including said that it had given a "shock as of an one of the owners of the warehouse. About �arthquake throughout this continent, which ten o'clock in the evening a mob arrived, will be felt in the most distant regions of armed with stones and guns and pistols, and the earth." Sermons were pre ached about demanded the press. Those in the building it in cities and country towns all through the replie d that they were ready to defend it north, and a number of them were printed. with their lives. The attacking party threw Newspaper editorials in many states paid stones and tried to batter down the stout honor to the man, who, as one of them said, north door. Shots were fired and returned - "fell a martyr to the liberty of the press and by the defenders, and one man of the mob to the cause of the slave in the land of the was killed. The mayor commanded the mob free." to disperse, and when he was laughed at for Public meetings were his pains he carried back and forth the de­ held in the cities of mands of the mob and the answers of the the north, with resolutions and speeches de­ def enders. He told the men in the building nouncing the crime, and pledging loyalty to that they had a perfect right to def end their the great principles of fr eedom. At an in­ property, but refused to call upon the citizens dignation meeting held in Faneuil Hall, Bos­ for help. ton, the Attorney General of Massachusetts spoke By this time the city bells were ringing, of Lovejoy's "imprudence," and said, "He died as the fool dieth." The n a and the citizens in large numbers were young lawyer of the city sprang to his feet, standing around and looking upon the scene. and made on the spur of the moment a speech A new method of attack was now adopted. that thrilled his audience, for A ladder was raised on the east side of the this was Vven dell Phillips' first speech building, where there were no windows, and for freedom, the beginning of his life work as an anti­ a man was sent up to set fire to the wooden slavery orator. roof. Uuon this, several of the defenders went out of the south door and around the George William Curtis said at Phillips' corner of the warehouse, fired at the man on funeral that there had been three great the ladder, and came in again to reload. speeches in the history of our country,-the Then Lovejoy and two or three others again one of Patrick Henry that closes with ''Give stepped out of the same lower door on the me liberty or give me death," Lincoln's Get­ river side. Lovejoy stood a moment, a little tysburg address, and this of Wendell Phillips ahead in the light of the full moon, when al" the meeting held in Faneuil Hall to de­ two or three men who had concealed them­ nounce the murder of Lovejoy_:__"These selves behind a pile of lumber near the river three and there is no fourth." fired, and Lovejoy received five shots. He Twenty years after Lovejoy's death, and turned quickly, ran through the door up a four years before the great conflict that gave flight of stairs into the counting room, and freedom to the slave, Abraham Lincoln said, with arms across his breast, fell, crying, "O "Lovejoy's tragic death for freedom in ev n· God, T am shot", and died without another sense marked his ad ending- a the greatc ·t 174 The Colby AlumnUJS

single event that ever happened in the new the four sides of the square die, from which world." the round column rises. Each of these Thirty years after Lovejoy's death, and panels carries an inscription, one in honor two years after the Civ] \Var, \\'eadell of the hero, the others quotations from his Phill:ps visited Alton, and wrote in a letter, speeches or writ:ngs. The panel on the ' 5-lnw prudently most men creep into name­ north side p:ctures the old press, beneath less graves, ,,.,·hile now and then o:ae or two wh:ch are Elijah Parish Lovejoy's historic forget themselves into immortal;ty." words : "As long as I am an American citi­ Sixty years after Lovejoy's death th� sta'_e zen, and as long as American blood runs in of Illinois, citizens of Alton, and others erected a stately monument over his grave. these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to lt is ninety-three feet high, and entirely of speak, to write, and to publish whatever I granite, except for the bronze statue of Yic­ please on any subject, being amenable to the tory upon its summit, and bronze panels on laws of my country for the same."

RETIRING ALLOWANCES FOR COLBY PROFESSORS

Bv FRAKKLTN \\'rNSLOW ]OH KSON, L.H.D., '91

The trustees of the College at the June, legal reserves, the paid-in cap:tal and surplus 1925, meeting adopted a resolution authoriz­ furnish an income for the expenses of man­ ing a plan for retir:ng allowances through agement resulting in large annual savings to the Teachers' Insurance and Annuity Asso­ policy holders. The cost of insm ance in or­ ciation of America. The necessary details dinary companies includes large items for for perfecting the arrangement are being salaries, office overhead, and solicitation by carried out and the plan should be in full agents. In this case the overhead expense operation at the opening of the next acade­ is met by the contribution of the Founda­ mic year. \Vhat this will mean in the added tion, and there is no solicitation by agents. tability of the teaching staff and in the The Charter of the Association states : content of mind of the individual instructors "The purpose of the corporation is to will be apparent to all. provide insurance and annuities for teachers The financial returns for teaching are and other persons employed by colleges, by relatively small. This is particularly true of univer ities, or by institutions engaged pri­ the small college. There is practically no marily in educational or research work ; to possibility that the college professor can offer policies of a character best adapted to make a sufficient accumulation to provide the needs of such persons on terms as ad­ against his own and his family's needs in old vantageous to its pol icyholders as shall be age, however prudent he may be in saving practicable ; and to conduct its business with­ and however wise or fortunate he may be out profit to the corporation or to its stock­ in investment. The plan which has been holders.'' adopted offers incentive to regular and con­ Frank A. Vanderlip, the well known sistent saving and the assurance of sound banker, is chairman of the board of trustees investment and liberal returns when earning which also includes George \V hitney of the power is diminished or completely lost. firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. One fourth of The Teachers' Insurance and Annuity As­ the trustees are elected upon direct nomina­ sociation of America is incorporated under tion of the policyholders. Among those the laws of the State of New York, as a thus elected are Pro fessor S. M. Lindsay of life insurance company, and is subject to the Columbia, T. S. Adams of Yale, J. \Y. supervision of the State Superintendent of Glover of the University of Michigan, and 1nsurance. It was organized in 1918 at the President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore instance of the Carnegie Foundation for the College. Advancement of Teaching and takes the The number of different institutions repre­ place of the system of pensions inaugurated sented by policyholders last year was 470. and carried on by the Foundation up to that Of these institutions, 126 contribute toward time. Its paid-in capital and surplus of retiring allowances for their officers and $1,000,000 contributed by the Carnegie Foun­ teachers on the basis adopted by Colby. dation are respectively five and ten times These include such privately endowed uni­ the legal requirement. Besides giving a versities as Chi cago, Columbia, Princeton, large additional margin of safety beyond the Stanford, and Yale ; the state UniYersities The Colby Alumnus 175

of Colorado, l\f ichigan, and Pennsylvania. Among New England col leges are Bates, Boston Vniversity, Bowdoin, 11ount Holy­ oke, and Smith. The plan adopted by Colby involves the annual payment by the College of an amount equal to five per cent and by each pro fessor uf an equal amount of his alary. This means an increase of five per cent in the salary of each profes or and the investment of this and an equal amount of his regular salary. At such age a is agreed upon in each case, a monthly annuity is paid to the instructor on his retirement or to his family in case of his death. Just what this would mean may be seen from the following : At the present rates of salary, ass uming retirement at 68 years, the men now over forty years of age would re­ ceive annually an average of $1230.., varying with the age and salary of each. The largest amount would be $1806. On the same basis the instructors under forty years of age \.v ould receive on retirement at age 65 an average annuity of $1930. It is, of course, probable that the younger men. in case they continue on the College staff, would have their salaries increased from time to time. PROF. FRANKLIN WINSLOW JOHNSON. L.H.D., '91 The amount of their retiring allowances Contributor to Alumnus would correspondingly increase. \Vhether or not one \v ill enter into the of the teaching staff. Those of us who are plan is optional with the individual m­ teachers know well how meagre are the structor. As a matter of fact, no one can financial returns of our lab or. It would be afford to give up this opportunity for an well for those whose incomes are larger increase of five per cent of his salary and to reflect upon the income of the college the opportunity for inve tment of his sav­ pro fessor and the scale of living which is ings. A great many of the policyholders of regarded as appropriate to his position. the Association are from non-participating \Vhile the salary schedule has been increased institutions and meet the entire cost from in recent years, in the year 1924-1925 the their own incomes. In case all of the average salary of the entire Colby staff was faculty at the present time should enter upon $2676. An appeal to the alumni to increase the plan, the total cost to the college would their Chrir.�tmas offerings by an amount be about $4,000 per year. The tru tees have sufficient to cover this additional item in the pursued a wi e policy in clec icling to in vest budget ought to meet with a hearty and ade­ this amount for the future financial relief quate response. Perhaps some to whom the of the staff. rather incle�nite purpose of the Christmas The alumni of many colleges in recent fund has not appealed, might be moved to vears have contributed large urns for the add their names as giver for this specific �xpre s purpose of increasing the salaries purpose.

THE WEEK-END COMMENCEMENT PLAN

BY PERCY FPLLER \VrLLIA1'1S, B.A., '97

At the meeting of the general alumni as­ mencement. It is recngi1.ze·I, of cD•·�e. that

sociation last June it was voted that the final action upon such a matter i � in the President appoint a committee to investigate hand of the board o ( Trustee .. but clnuht­ and report at the next meeting upon the le. s, if a con ·iderablc majority of the advisahility n f adopt ing the ,,·eek-end com- alumni cle·ire the change, the trustees \\ 0<11

take such action. This committee has re­ selves to the week-end commencement idea. cently been appointed and is now at work. Among the colleges holding the week-end Through the courtesy of the editor of the commencement are Wesleyan, Williams, ALrM:N"US, a presentation of the week-end Xorthwestern, Tufts, and Bates. The re­ commencement plan is here being made. ports already received from the first two The committee hopes that it will be the named indicate that 1he plan is working well means of starting a discussion through the there. \V hile the committee has not as yet columns of the ALUMNUS. made an exhaustive investigation, U1e con­ The week-end commencement plan pro­ census of opinion so far obtained seems to vides that Alumni Day shall fall on a Satur­ approve rather strongly the proposed plan. day, the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, This opinion has been expressed in talks and commencemen t on Monday. As much with members of our alumni, faculty, and time preceeding the Saturday may be used trustees ; in answer received from inquiries as the commencement committee deems ad­ to \Vesleyan, \Villiams, and Bates ; and in visable. The details of the program would talks with the alumni of at least three of the of course be worked out by the commence­ above mentioned colleges. ment committee. As to the trial of the plan which was The objections to the plan that have been made for a year or two some years ago, it made are, ( 1) the traditional commence­ may fairly be said that the plan did not have ment period brings commencement day in the a fair trial. It was undertaken under war middle of the week and for this reason the conditions with the Dix plan of holding class change should not be made, (2) the minis­ reunions along with it. No doubt the Dix ters among the alumni cannot attend over plan was a hinderance rather than a help to the week-end, (3) it has been tried at Colby it success. and did not prove a success, ( 4) the events The committee would like to have an ex­ are too crowded in a week-end commence­ p1·ession of opinion from as many of the ment. alumni as possible either sent direct to the On the other hand those who favor the committee or through the columns of the plan claim, ( 1) that it will enable a much ALu�1xus. It wants the opinion of those larger number of the alumni to attend the who object to the plan as welt as of those commencement for at least two days, (2) '':ho favor it. The plan, if finally adopted - that business and professional men can leave by the tru tee . could not go into effect be­ home Friday afternoon or evening and ar­ fore 1927. rive in \V aterville Friday evening or early At the meeting of the Colby Alumni Asso­ Saturday morning, have Saturday and Sun­ c1at10n on February 19, the plan was ap­ back day in Waterville and if necessary be proYed by a unanimous Yote. on the job Monday morning, (3) that there The committee appointed by President will be a number who will be able_ to extend their week-end, take in commencement day, Fred Lawrence of the alumni association and be back home Tuesday morning, ( 4) consist of Percy F. \Yilliams, '97, The Fes- that in point of time away from bu iness enden School, w· e t Newton, :Mass. ; J. this plan is the most economical, (5) that Colby Bas ett, '95, 30 Federal Street, Boston, the week-end practice is so general and the �Jass., and Leon C. Guptil. '09, 11 Beacon automobile so practical that both lend them- Street, Bo ton. Ma .

APRIL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Bv Enwrn C. 'NHITTE::\fORE. D.D.. '79, Secretary

The adj onrned annual meeting (spring was elected Chairman pro tem. Prayer was ession) of the Board of Trustees of Col­ offerecl by Dr. C. E. Owen. by College met as per adjournment in the The records of the meetino- in November, falmouth Hotel at 9.30 A. M., April 17. 1925, as printed and sent to the memhers

There were present members Crawford, of the Board, were by vote approved. · Drummond, Edmonds, Guptill, Gurney, Regrets for enforced absences by mem­ Nf ower, Murray, Owen, Page, Roberts, bers Alden, Bailey, Bradbury, Condon, Tra fton, Wadsworth, Wing, Whittemore. Dodge, Getchell, Philbrook, Seavern , and The meeting was called to order by the Smith were reacl. The very seriou illnes Secretary. Hon. Herbert E. \Vad worth of Dana \Y. Hall was reported. The Colby Alumnus 177

The Committee on Resolutions on the ser­ for professors in connection with the Carne­ vice of Judge Cornish wa directed to re­ gie Association reported that schedule had port at the June meeting. been worked out, and that the College wa The President made verbal report on the ready to fulfill its part in all cases where conditions of the College. Matters on the application should be made by the prof e sor . campus were moving well, with excellent President Roberts also presented the mat­ cooperation on the part of faculty and stu- . ter of "Group Insurance", as providing rea­ dents. sonable protection at a very low cost. The The campaign for the Scholarship Fund report was heard with interest and it was was moving slowly and needed the active voted that the matter of Group Insurance cooperation of the alumni, Trustees, and on the part of the faculty be ref erred to the friends of the College. Finance Committee with powers. The report of the Treasurer was included The College Historian reported the first in the printed report of the Finance Com­ draft of the History practically complete mittee and thus presented was accepted. and time was granted for revision and car­ The Finance Committee made report in rying the work through the press. Ques­ print, which was explained by its Chair­ tion was asked as to the size of the edition man, Judge Wing. and the cost of publication. The Historian Voted that the report be accepted, and be was directed to secure estimates of cost, to spread upon the records. be presented at th.e June meeting. The Examining Committee reported by Announcement was made of the death Mr. Crawford. of Dr. Albion W. Small, '76, ex-president The Committee on Improvements of the of the College. The Secretary was direct: Athletic Field and the Committee on Secur­ ed to prepare a suitable minute for presen­ ing Additional Grounds for Athletic Pur­ tation at the June meeting and to send to the poses made joint report by Mr. Drummond. family. They recommended Judge Wing reported concerning the in­ 1st. That the matter of securing addi­ terests of the College in the estate of Samuel tional athletic grounds be left in abeyance, J. Nowell, late of Sanford, that matters pending a definite report by the Committee. were proceeding in regular course and that 2nd. That as a temporary measure, the the bequest doubtless would be paid. field back of Roberts Hall be smoothed and The Committee on Buildings and Grounds. made available for athletic uses by the stu­ in the absence of the Chairman Justice Bas­ dents, for whom the present field is inade­ sett, reported by Mr. Wadsworth, who stat­ quate. ed the various improvements that were un­ Recommendation 1st was approved. der consideration. This was accepted as a Recommendation 2nd was approved and report of progress but no further action was adopted, with the vote that its carrying out regarded as necessary. be left in the hands of the Athletic Council A petition was received from the men of with the approval of the Committee on the College asking that immediate steps be Bui1dings and Grounds. taken to provide an adequate and suitable The report of the Special Committee on gymnasium. It was unanimously voted Academies was presented by Secretary that the Secretary acknowledge the receipt Whittemore. Report accepted and Commit­ of the petition and express to the petitioners tee continued, to make further report at the the entire sympathy of the Trustees with the meeting in June, 1926. spirit and object of the petition. They will The Committee on the Observance of the take the matter up in good faith at the June ISOth anniversary of Phi Beta Kappa re­ meeting, to consider and determine what ported by President Roberts that the matter action should be taken to accomplish the encl i · well in hand. desired. The Committee on Retiring allowances Voted to adjourn.

SOME COLBY GATHERINGS

AT PORTLAND day evening, March 6th, at the Columbia Hotel. The guest of honor wa Judge BY RALPH BENJAMIN YOUNG, B.A., '07 Freel F. Lawrence, '00, who has recently taken up The Portland Colby Alumni As ociation his residence in this city. The faculty wa. held its fir. t banquet of the season Satur- repre entecl by President Roberts. Dr. Vl. J. i78 The Coiby Aiumnus

\Vilkinson of the history department and Agent of the Massachusetts Board of Edu­ Coach Roundy. President Roberts, in his cation, was elected President of the Asso­ address, emphasized the present needs of the ciation and Stanley Estes, '23, Secretary. college, stressing especially the $200,000 AT NEW YORK Scholarship Fund, and the new gymnasium. Dr. Winkinson gave a resume of present­ Bv ART HUR L1nNGSTONE BERRY, B.S., '23 day ings in the field of international happen "Colby Dinner ? Yes, sah, on the fourth and Coach Roundy spoke of the politics, floor.'' evements of the various athletic teams achi This declaration was clinched by the and of his plans fo future teams. Judge r sudden splitting of the atmosphere about Lawrence voiced the need of loyalty to the one hour later with the vociferous rendition college on the part of the alumni. of the "Colby Marching Song" by the It was voted to send a telegram of greet­ younger set. For it was the 30th Anniver­ ing to Rex Dodge.. '06, who is recuperating sary Dinner of the New York Alumni As­ from a nervous breakdown at the Battle sociation and the members of the "Down Creek Sanitorium. The secretary was Town club" who might have been seated authorized to send congratulations to Dr. in the lobby one floor below were conscious Herbert C. Libby on his election to the of the fact that something was going on. office of mayor of \Vaterville. Indeed the gathering of over 100 loyal The following officers were elected for Colby people were treated to one of the the year : President, Leo G. Shesong, '13 ; most interesting programs that could have Secretary and Treasurer, Ralph B. Young, been provided. '07 ; Executive Committee, Ralph N. Good, A ft er a sumptuous repast, the President '10, Fred F. Lawrence, '00, Chester C. of the Association, \V illiam 0. Stevens, '99, Soule, '13, Ernest H. Mating, '99, Glenn acting as toastmaster called the gathering to W. Starkey, 'OS. order. An inno\-iion was presented by the AT BOSTON rendering of his remarks entirely in rime. Frank Edmunds spoke of the founding of HAROLD HANSON, BY L. '99 the Association in the early part of January, The Boston Colby Alumni Association 1896, at the St. Dennis Hotel by Frank held its annual meeting and banquet at Hotel Hanson, Harrington Putnam, Edward F. \'l\Testminster, Copley Square, on Friday Stevens, Clarence :Meleney and himself. evening, February 19th. A large and en­ The first dinner was held in April of the thusiastic gathering was present. Rev. same year with 24 present. From that time Harold L. Hanson, '99, presided. Stephen until the ladies were admitted the attend­ G. Bean, 'OS, led the singing. The college ance was well under 100. However when was represented by President Robert and the ladies obtained their rights the gather­ Prof. Wilkinson. In his widely quoted ings began to grow. The meeting-places speech President Roberts said "vVe do not became transcient but it is the sincere hope have to win. Athletic victories are desira­ that some place may be found where Colby ble. Colby has had her share of athletic people can look forward to seeing one an­ triumphs. But we do not have to win to other. Of the founders two were present, succeed." Prof. Wilkinson expressed his Messrs. Edmunds and Stevens. appreciation of the college. Coming from Mrs. Annie Pepper Varney spoke of the another section of the country he had re­ Progress of the \i\Toma n's Endowment Cam­ ceived a most cordial welcome from the paign and her hopes for its successful com­ citizens of Waterville and Maine. Melvin pletion in the near future. C. Freeman, '94, urged the graduates to After an enthusiastic reception "Prexy" take more active part in politics. Leaders spoke on college growth, the new scholar­ of thought should be leaders in civic life. ship fund, need of a new gymnasium and The younger alumni were represented by the status of athletics in the college. It H. R. Ratcliffe, who has been highly suc­ was the sound philosophy of a man en­ cessful as editor of the School a1 :I College dO\ved with a great purpose and filled with Department of the Boston Transcript. He love for his task-namely the betterment gave an interesting account of recent active­ of Colby College. ments and movements in the college world. At the close of Prexy's address, Merle Percy F. Williams, '97, presented the matter Crowell, '10, as spokesman for the Associa­ of the week-end commencement. The pro­ tion presented to him a silver loving cup. posed plan met with the unanimous approval It was a fitting tribute to one "revered as a of the alumni present. Burr F. Jones, '97, college president and loved as a man." The Colby Alumnus 179

Due to the efforts of Thomas G. Grace, more difficult courses, commended the spirit '21, the entertainment was one of the big of the students and their attitude toward f catures of the evening. "Sammy" Fain college work, and praised hi associates of and "Al" Dunn known to radio audiences the faculty, paying a warm tribute to Prof. as the ''Yama-Yama Boys" gave several of Julian Taylor. Dr. Taylor would have en­ Mr. Fain's own compositions. Geoffrey joyed hearing the round of applause that O'Hara, the composer of "K-K-Katy" like­ followed these words of praise, as the men wise displayed his wares. The last feature and women present thought back to the days of the evening was the appearance of in his classroom. "Ukelele Dick'' Hughes of WMCA and President Roberts told his hearers that other N. Y. stations who gave a very inter­ Colby does not get unduly excited over ath­ esting program. letic sports, having reached two conclusions The officers elected for the ensuing year -one in the president's sententious phrase : were : President, William 0. Stevens ; Viet ''We don't have to win ;" the other, equally President, Hannibal Chapman ; Secretary pungent : If we lose, we lose only a game.'' and Treasurer, Thomas G. Grace ; Execu­ Those present at the reunion were : tive Committee, Merle Crowell, Helen D. Mr. Randall J. Condon (1886) Supt. of Cole, Lewis W. Dunn. Schools, Cincinnati, 0., and wife, and daughter, Mrs. F. C. Foster, wife of Prof. AT WASHINGTON Frank C. Foster (1916) Hampton Insti­ tute, Hampton, Va. She is student secre­ B Y ELWOOD TAYLOR WY"}.{AN, B.A., '90 tary of the Baptist Board of Education, There were so many Colby men in \Vash­ New York. ington at the meeting of the department of Prof. H. E. Donnell (1912) Supt. Mary­ superintendence of the N. E. A. that some­ land Training School for Boys, Loch Raven, body conceived the plan of having a Colby Md. reunion. It may have been Richard A. Mr. E. G. Holt (1915) 2308 N. Capitol Metcalf, '86, head of the high school and Street, Washington, D. C. college department of the Johnson Publish­ Mr. Richard A. Metcalf (1886) Director ing Co. of Richmond, Va. At any rate he High School and College Dept. Johnson carried the plan along, passed the word Publishing Co., Richmond, Va. around that there was to be such an affair Dr. George P. Phenix (1886) Vice-Prin­ and presided as toastmaster, after the good cipal Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. dinner served at the Mayflower hotel. Mrs. A. F. Robinson, wife of A. F. Rob­ Some of the men that were in the city inson (1919) \V ashington, D, C. earlier in the week had to leave before the Mr. C. W. Robinson (1920) 1400 Fair­ meeting, much to their regret. Among mont St., N. W. Washington, D. C., and these were Dana W. Hall, '90, of Chicago, wife. and Franklin VI/. Johnson, '91, of Columbia Mr. C. ]. Ross (1892) Q Street N. W. University. It had been hoped that Gen. \Vashington, D. C. Herbert M. Lord, '84, might be present and Dr. George Otis Smith (1893) Dir. U. S. speak but he was on a speaking tour of the Geological Survey, Washington, D'. C. middle west and could only send regrets. Mr. Clarence A. Tash (1920) Y. M. C. But there was no dearth of addresses, A., Wilmington, Delaware. for the toastmaster called on every man Mr. George E. Tash (1925) 805-18th St., around the table. Many spoke briefly but N. W. Washington, D. C. all interestingly. Mr. Ernest G. Walker (1890) 1406 G President Roberts had come up from Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. Maine for the convention. He was of Dr. William H. Holmes (1897) Supt. of course the chief speaker of the evening. He Schools, Mount Vernon, N. Y. dwelt in a delightfully informal way with Dr. Clarence E. Meleney (1876) Supt. of affairs at the college, telling of its present Schools, Great Neck, L. I., N. Y. condition and its future prospects. Mr. Stanley Holmes ( 1887 ) Supt. of He told of the growth of the college, Schools, New Britain, Conn. of its continued and continuing need of Mr. C. E. Dobbin ( 1916) U. S. Geological money, and of his special desire for a fund Survey, Washington, D. C. with which to aid boys forced by circum­ Mr. Alfred Robinson (1893) Supt. of stances to fight their own way through col­ Schools, Peabody, Mass., and wife. lege. Mr. Linville W. Robbins (1894 ) Supt. of The president referred to broader and Schools, E. Northfield, Mass. 180 The Colby Alumnus

Dr. Arthur Jeremiah Roberts (1890) re-election of the officers of the club as fol­ President Colby College, Waterville, Maine. lows : Mr. R. D. Robinson (1915) Canton, Me. Charles F. T. Seaverns, '01, President ; Mr. W. A. Cowing (1904) Prin. West Royden K. Greeley, '13, Secretary ; Harry Springfield H. S., W. Springfield, �fass. E. Hamilton, '96, Executive Committee. Mr. Albert F. Robinson (1919) Buffalo, The list of those present follows : New York. I. L. Cleveland, '13, 158 Lincoln Ave., Mr. E. L. Chaney (1902) 2700 Ontario New London. Road, N. W., Washington, D. C. Fred B. Dunn, '15, 143 Elm St., New Mr. E. T. Wyman ( 1890) Supt. of Haven. Schools, Warwick, R. I., and wife. J. Elliott May, '12, Yatesville, Conn. A. F. Drummond (1888) Waterville, C. Brownell, '13, Moodus, Conn. Maine, and wife. T. Callaghan, '23, Willimantic, Conn. Thos. R. Cook, '22, Buckeley School, New AT HARTFORD London, Conn. John W. Brush, '20, 195 Livingston St., BY RoYDE N K. GREELEY, B.S., '13, Srcrctar·y New Haven. It was in an atmosphere of good-will and Wilbur G. Foye, '09, 1 Miles Ave., Mid- sociability that the graduates of Colby, who dletown. live in close proximity to the Connecticut Royden K. Greeley, '13, Midclletown. River, gathered at the Hotel Bond at Hart­ Charles F. T. Seaverns, '01, Hart ford. ford, Conn., for their annual meeting. It Daniel W. Ashley, '15, Hingham, Mass. was a small meeting in a small room but it G. S. Stevenson, '02, Hartford, Conn. lacked nothing in spirit and good fellowship. Adelbert Bowdoin, '06, Collinsville. Considering the number of graduates in this Arthur E. Gregory, '16, Unionville. vicinity a very good showing was made, D. B. Cragin, former College Physician, there being 32 present. Hartford. Irving L. Cleveland, '13, acted as cheer Major C. H. Witherell, '01, Med. Corps. leader and song leader. Dan Ashley, '15 en­ San Juan, Porto Rico. tertained with a truly remarkable program Albert R. Keith, '97, 30 Farmington Ave., of sleight-of-hand and mysticism. Hart ford, Conn. John W. Brush, '20, made a short but very William Hoyt, 'OS, \Vindsor, Conn. interesting talk in which he brought out C. P. Chipman. ' 06, 26 Henry St., Man­ some ideas' concerning "The conflict of loy­ chester. alties." To his mind there could be no con­ Arthur D. Craig, '16, 132 Central Ave., flict with loyalty to Colby. Waterbury. Dr. Albert R. Keith, '97, entertained with H. S. Allen, '98, 442 Farmington Ave., a few good stories and then introduced the Waterbury. week-end commencement plan as recom­ Geo. A. Ely, '98, 8 Pine St., Florence, mended by Percy Williams, '97. Mass. President Roberts, '90, wa the center o [ Leon C. Staples, '03, Suffield, Conn. interest. His address occupied the greater John R. Gow, '23, \Vestminster School, part of the evening and was listened to with imsbury, C 1111. interest and earnestness. Russell V. Dunne, '26, 18 Norfolk St., Charles F. T. Seaverns, '01, president of Hartford, Conn. the club, acted as toastmaster. Mr. Seaverns Fred A. Hunt, '13, Terryville, Conn. was latg-ely responsible for the arrange­ Frank J. Rois. '21, Bethel, Conn. ments at the Bond Hotel which included a Harold C. \Vhite, '20, Bethel, Conn. very excellent dinner and good music. Hiram Moody, '23, 103 Church St., Hart- A short business meeting resulted in the ford, Conn. The Colby Alumnus 181

Foxcro ft Academy, Houlton, Pre que Isle, Caribou, and in Mas achusetts. • • He was a graduate of the College, class of 1864, and was the last mem­ ber of his class and the oldest alum­ nus. He was the author of several books, the best known being "The Old School Master." He passed the examinations for physician and was also admitted to the bar, but did not take up either of these professions. He held the record of the longest continuous service of any teacher in the state, being actively engaged after he reached the age of 80. He is survived by his widow, two daugh­ ters, Miss Ethel Knowlton, principal of the commercial department in the Newport high school, and Mrs. E. S. Genthner of Boston. A fuller account of his life ap­ peared in the Boston Globe of April 9: Funeral services for Hon. William S. Knowlton whose death occurred yesterday in his 87th year, will be held Saturday afternoon. Mr. Knowl­ ton was the dean of Maine High School teachers, having been active until long past his 80th year. He was known far and wide as "The Old Schoolmaster" and had written a number of books of reminiscences, one "The Old Schoolmaster," having a large sale. He was born in East Sangerville, October 31, 1839, a member of an old Massachusetts family, .one of four­ teen children of Isaiah and Lydia Pollard Knowlton, who came to Maine from Sherborn, Mass. Col. Knowlton, in command of troops at Bunker Hill, and Luke Pol­ lard, the first to fall in that battle, were of the family. HE:5E Mr. Knowlton prepared at Fox­ croft Academy and was graduated from Colby University, now Colby College, in the class of '64. He was JiAvC:.CR. osst.o the last survivor of that class and the oldest alumnus of the college. He THE. J3AR studied medicine and passed examina- tions for a degree, but never prac­ ticed. He also studied law and was ac \VrLLIAM SMITH KNOWLTON, '64 lmitt­ ecl to the bar, but did not follow the pro­ On April 8, William Smith Knowlton, '64, fession, turning to religious and edu cational known widely as "The Old Schoolmaster," work. He was ordained a minister of the died at his home in Newport, Maine, after Baptist denomination and, while for 12 year a short illness, at the age of 86. He was principal of Monson Academy, acted a pa - one of the oldest and best known teachers tor of the local church. His active teaching in Maine, having taught in Monson, Dover, covered nearly 60 years. He was two year. 182 The Colby Alumnus in Foxcroft Academy an

DR. ALBrox \VoonBURY SMALL, '76 ALBION WOODBURY SMALL, LL.D., '76 All Colby men and women ·will grieve over When President of Colby University the passing of one of the most di tingui heel graduates of the College, Albion \Vooclbury of Berlin, died in 1916. They \Vere married Small, of the cla- of 1876. Dr. Small was in 1881. long the head of the department of Sociology A daughter, Mrs. Haydon Harris of Paris, of the University of Chicago, relinqu.i bing and a brother, Dr. C. P. Small of Chicago, his duties only a short time ago becau e of survive him. ill health. At some future time, the ALUl\I­ Dr. Small was born in Buckfield, Me., NUS will give a fuller account of his life, 1Iay 11, 1854. Hi father was Rev. Dr. A. omething about hi work, and an apprecia­ K. P. Small. A O"racluate of Colby College tion of the scholar and the man. Thi i sue in 1876, he served as it president from 1889 will contain but this brief notice and the to 1892. He wa graduated also from New­ letter which he sent to the late Judge ton Theological Institution, from German Cornish at the time of the death of Mr . universities and from Johns Hopkins. He Cornish. had been editor of the American Journal of The press announcement of hi death fol­ Sociology since 1895, and author of everal lows : books on sociology. Chicago, 1J arch 2-t.-Dr. Albion \Voocl­ And the following is taken from the last bury Small, nearly 72 year old, head of the General Catalogue of the College : department of sociology of the University of Albion \Voodbury Small, A.B., A.M., Chicago since 1892 and formerly pre iclent 1879 ; LLD., 1900 ; Ph.D .. Johns Hopkins of Colby College, was found dead i; bed to­ Univ., 1889, and \i\'estern Reserve Univ. day. He had been ill for some time. Born,. Buckfield, 1Ie., May 11. 185-t. Newton Dr. Small, a leader in the sociology field, Theol. Inst., 1879 : Univ. of Berlin, 1879-80, had been professor emeritus since his re­ and Univ. of Leipzig, 1880-81 ; Prof. of tirement last year. He had been clean of the History and Polit. Econ., Colby Univ., 1881- Graduate School of Arts and Literature at 88 ; Reader in History, Johns Hopkins Cniv., the university since 1905. 1888-89 ; President Colby Univ., 1889-92 ; His wife, who was Valeria von }.fassow Head of Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Chi- The Colby Alumnus 183

cago, from 1892, ancl Dean of the Graduate his personal relation ·hip with �lrs. Carver School of Arts and Literature, since 1905 ; and of her great ability in organization Eclitor The A 111crica11 !uumal of Sociology \\'nrk, one of her greatest achi evements be­ from its founding, 189S ; Author of Th e Bc­ ing the organization of a great college soro­ yh111i11.<;s of American Nationality (1890') ; rity, Sigma Kappa, founded at Colby. Gc11cral Socioloy31 (190S) ; Ada111 Smith and Mrs. Carver's favorite mu ic, the hymn Modem Socioloy}' ( 1907 ) ; The Ca111cralists ''Blessed Be the Tie that Binds" and (1909) ; The Mcaniny of Social Science Handel's "Largo" was played on the organ (1910) ; Bctiocen Eras, fro111 Capitalism to by Mrs. George Cushing. Dcmocrac}' (1913) ; many sociological A very beautiful set piece representing monographs, etc. Res., SOS3 Blackstone the Sigma Kappa sorority pin was sent by Ave., Chicago, Ill. the Colby chapter of the sorority and an­ other very beautiful set piece was sent by Colby College of which Mrs. Carver was MARY Low CARVER, '75 the first woman graduate. Announcement of the death of the first A group of about SO members of the woman graduate of Colby appeared in the Sigma Kappa sorority attended the services morning papers of March 4, as follows : in a body and there were many there repre­ Cambridge, Mass., March 4-Mrs. Mary senting the college and the city. Low Carver, first woman student of Colby The honorary bearers were President College, member of Phi Beta Kappa and Arthur J. Roberts of Colby ; Dr. Herbert C. one of the five founders of Sigma Kappa Libby and Dr. Julian D. Taylor, members sorority, died today at the home of her of the college faculty ; Frank Noble and daughter, Mrs. R. D. H. Emerson. She Judge Norman L. Bassett of Augusta. was 76 years old. Burial was in the family lot in Pine Grove Born in Waterville, Me., she entered cemetery bes.ide the husband and a son. Colby in 1871, was the only girl student Services were held Saturday afternoon at in the college for two years and was gradu­ Cambridge and the body was brought to ated in 187S, one of the first women in New Waterville on the Saturday evening train. England to re ceive a regular A.B. degree. Among those from away who attended She won the right to a Phi Beta Kappa key by leading the 19 male members of the class in scholarship, and in 1916 her alma mater awarded her the degree of Litt.D. After an interval of teaching she mar­ ried Leonard D. Carver, Colby, '68, civil war veteran and state librarian at Augusta for lS years. He died in 1905. Mrs Carver studied cataloging and indexing and for 20 years was cataloger of the Maine State library. She catalogued the Augusta library and for SO years indexed the c�y records of Augusta and the proceedings of the Maine board of agriculture. She was dr.e!JlY interested in the speculative side of religion aud was an ardent church worker, having been superintendent of the church school in Augusta and a life member of the Unitarian association. When Colby observed in 1921 the 50th anniversary of the admission of women to the college, Mrs. Carver, as historian, de­ livere(� the principal address. Funeral services were held yesterday from the First Unitarian church at two o'clock. Rev. Arthur Buckner, pastor, conducted the services and the prayer and eulogy were de­ livered by Dr. Samuel Emerson, of the Uni­ =MARY LOW CARV ER, Litt.D.. '75 versity of Vermont, father-in-law of Mrs. Fii st Woman to Graduate from the College Carver's daughter. Dr. Emerson spoke of 184 The Colby Alumnus

the funeral were Dr. Emerson ·a nd daugh­ 1851, son of Rev. Allen Barrows, who was ter, Mrs. Margaret Emerson ; Mrs. Carve r's a preacher in that State for more than 40 daughter and husband of Cambridge, Mr. years. He fitted for college at Hebron and Mrs. R. D. H. Emerson ; Hortense Academy. He was graduated from Colby Bowman of St. Pe tersburg, Fla. College with honors in 1872, and from New­ The New York Times of March 7, under ton Theological Institution in 1875. The the caption, "She Ventured vVhere None same year he accepted a call from the First Had Been," commented as follows upon the Baptist church of this town, where he was death of Mrs. Carver : ordained and served three years. Mary Low Carver, whose death in Cam­ In 1878 Rev. Mr. Barrows accepted a call bridge, Mass., was announced in The Times from the -Baptist Church of South Boston. yesterday, belonged to one of the so-called The same year he married Miss Hannah Brah min families of New England. She Hanson of this town. From South Boston was of the "old stock''-indeed, of the old­ he went to Marlboro, and after a term of est that the United States has-and among service there he went to his native State, her ancestors had been many practitioners. where he was in charge of several churches It is not the less remarkable on that account during 20 years' stay. He was at Yarmouth. that in a day when "girls did not go to I\fe., six years, and Brewer five years, com­ college," Mary Low did. ing back to this town from Brewer in 1908. Living in Waterville, Me., she naturally During his second pastorate here the entered there what is now Colby College, church prospered greatly, and it was largely then less modestly called Colby University, through his effortsthat the mortgage debt of where the curriculum consisted almost en­ $2000 on the church was canceled and tirely of Latin, Greek and mathematics. As burned upon the lOOth anniversary of the she was among the first of American girls church, February 28, 1910. On April 25, to seek the highest education available, so 1913, he accepted a call from the Baptist Colby was among the first to open its doors Church in Bolton. to women and put them on exactly the foot­ The following is an appreciation of Mr. ing of men. Barrows written by his classmate, Howard \\Then girls go to college nowadays, it is Rogers Mitchell : taken as a matter of course. In 1871, and "It was with more than passing interest in rural Maine, it was different, and the an­ that I read in yesterday's Selltinel the brief nouncement that one of \Vaterville's daugh­ Associated Press report of the death of John ters had done what none of them had done Harris Barrows at the home of his daugh­ before made no end of talk, far from all ter, Mrs. Herman Martin, in Marblehead, of it commendatorv. To the conventional - Mass. He was a classmate of mine for · folk it was not quite ' 'nice'', not quite seven years, graduating from Colby Col­ "womanly," for a girl to break sex tradi­ lege in 1872, and the Newton Theological tions in such a way. Institution in 1875. His father, Allen Bar­ was nothing definite in thi dis­ There ro\.\'S, and brother, \Villiam C., were Baptist but it took some courage and more pleasure, ministers in �I aine c:i.nd a sister, Sarah Bar­ nation to ignore it, as Mary Low did, determi rows, was a missionary in Burmah for nearly for what must have been two pretty long thirty years. vears until she was joined by a few other ' "John Harris held pastorates in \\. arren, girls. the first of a long procession. She Buckfield, Tenants Harbor, Yarmouth and ·was graduated with high honors, and as the Brewer, Maine, and in Marblehead, Marl­ years went on she became something of a boro, South Boston and Bolton, Mass. He heroine as leader in the path of education had two pastorates in Marblehead for thir­ women. for teen years. He retired from active service in 1918. He was a strong preacher and ]OHN HARRIS BARROWS, '72 faithful worker. He passed the three quar­ The following announcement of the death ter century mark, February 14, 1926 . . of John H. Barrows, '72, appeare in the ''Mr. Barrows was a member of the Colby Bo ton Globe of March 22 : class of 1872 which was famous for two Marblehead, March 22.-Rev. John Harris things. In June, 1912, the class celebrated Barrows, 75, a retired Baptist minister, who its fortieth anniversary during the com­ had served in Maine and Massachusetts pas­ mencement exercises and every member was torates for 45 years, died suddenly at the living and present on that occasion. Of the home of his daughter, Mrs. Herman Martin. eight men who graduated six entered the He was born in Leeds, Me., February 14, ministry and the other two were officials The Colby Alumnus 185

in the Baptist and Method i�t churches. Two department. She soon a f terwarcls came to of the members besides Mr. Barrows have \Vaterville. and atte nded the memorable died since 1912. Rev. Al f red S. Stowell celebration of Colby's Centennial which she died in North Egremont, Mass., March 7, with all who were privileged to be there, 1915, and Dr. Horace W. Tilden in Dillin, greatly enjoyed. She rejoiced, with us all, Montana, October 11, 1916. at the evident prosperity of our dear old "The remaining members are E. R. Has­ college, and the fine promise of yet greater kell of Sturbridge, Mass., W. W. Perry of enlargement and usefulness in the century to Camden, Rev. Thomas G. Lyons of Lowell, come. Mass., Louis A. Wheeler of Hollywood and In the spring of 1922 she taught a term the writer." of 16 weeks of public school in Plymouth, N. H., but this so severely taxed her strength that she was obliged to spend all JULIA M AR IA ELWIN, '79 summer in recuperating. In the autumn of ( Co11trib11ted b31 Henry E. H C)'wood, '75 ) that year she came to spend her declining Miss Elwin was born in \i\Tinslow, Maine, years in The Geo. Nugent Home for Bap­ February 5, 1857. When quite a young girl tists located in Germantown, Philadelphia. she entered Coburn Classical Institute where She soon united with a neighboring church, she prepared for college. While in the Insti­ and, still anxious to be about our "Father's tute she became a Christian, was baptised by business", she gathered a class of young Dr. H. S. Burrage, and united with the First women in the Sunday School to whose spirit­ Baptist Church in Waterville. ual enlightenment and welfare she un­ She entered Colby College in the class of sparingly devoted herself until the advance '79, but remained in Colby only about a year. of insidious and fatal disease forced her to After leaving college she taught for some cease from her labor of love. time in the public schols of Maine, and, During the last few months she suffered later, took a course of study in Syracuse · intensely from cancer of the stomach and University in the state of- New York. very painful complications, and, on the Feeling a call to engage in our foreig11 morning of March 16, the angel of death missionary work, she obtained an appoint­ brought her welcome and blessed release, ment from the American Baptist Missionary and she departed to be with Christ, and she Union, and about 1880 went to Burma, went in the full, sweet confidence that to where she labored faithfully and devotedly be with Him is far better. for four years, when failing health compelled Funeral services were held in the Home her to return home. on Thursday, the 18th, conducted by her After a period of rest and recuperation pastor Dr. A. E. Harris, who gave a fitting sh<.: traveled in several states giving addresses tribute to her worth. The record of her concerning our , foreign missionary work. life and work is in the Book of Life, and She also studied medicine that she might be there is much therein that all we who re­ better prepared for usefulness should she main here and have strength to serve a return to her work in Burma. But in the little longer may well endeavor to emulate. providence of Goel she failed to return, and Faults and failings she had in common so she most reluctantly gave up her long with us all, of which she herself was not cherished expectation of again engaging in wholly unconscious. But we will draw the tlic w(irk she loved. vei.1 of christian charity over them all, and But her mind and heart were deeply im­ think chiefly of the strong ruling passion bued with the missionary passion, and so and the high abiding purpose of her life, she turned to the very important home mis­ and of all she was able to do for the fur­ sionary work of teaching in our schools for therance of the interests of the kingdom of the Negro race in our own Southland. our Lord and Sa viour in this worl d. She first taught in ] ackson College, ] ack­ We feel sure that the Master she served son, Miss., and later, for several years in will say, "She hath clone what she could." Leland University, which was then located in New Orleans, La., and finally she taught for two years in the Normal department of BELA MALCOLM L A WREN CE, '82 Hartshorn Memorial College for girls m The ALUMNU ha received notice of th Richmond, Va. death of Bela Malcolm Lawrence, of the She closed her work there at the end of class of 1882, in Madison Ho pital, Madi on, the spring semester in 1920, when she grad­ S. Dak., on March 31, 1926, of pernicious uated a class of 19 promising girls from her anaemia. He spent the winter in Florida 186 The Colby Alumnus

with his family. He leaves a wife and one in M iddleboro, he was graduated from daughter, the latter a teacher in the North Brown University in 1861 and entered the High School, Minneapolis. Newton Theological Institution the next The following is taken from the General year. Catalogue : He was chosen pastor of the First Bap­ Bela Malcolm Lawrence, A.B., A.M., tist Church in Waterville, Me., in 1870, serv­ 1885. Born, Cherryfield, Me., January 1, ing three years, and then became editor of 1857. Instructor Pillsbury Academy, Owa­ Zion's Ad·vocate, serving as such until its tonna, Minn., 1883-87 ; Prin. High School, merger with another religious weekly 111 Farmington, 1887-92 ; Prin. Dakota Coll., 1905. Lisbon, N. Dakota, 1892-93 ; Supt. Schools, He was a member of many patriotic and 1893-96 ; Graduate Student, Univ. of Chi­ historical societies. During his chaplaincy cago, Ill., 1899-1901 ; Supt. City Schools, he comple ted the compilation of the official Flandreau, So. Dakota, 1901-05 ; Madison, Civil War letters of Maine, involving the So. Dakota, 1905-. handling of about 40,000 epistles. Since retirement from Togus, Major Bur­ PRENTISS MELLEN WooDMA"N", JR., '70 rage has dwelt principally at Kennebunkport, Me. Because of his researches he has been The ALUMNUS has been informed of the looked upon as the official historian of the death of a former member of the class of State of Maine. 1870, Pren_tiss Mellen \Voodman, on Septem­ He is survived by his second wife, who ber 14, 1925, at his home in Minneapolis, was Ernestine Marie Giddings of Ba ngor. Minn., after a long illness. His first wife, Caroline Champlin of Water­ No facts are available except those con­ ville, died in 1875, two years after their tained in the General Catalogue : marriage. Prentiss Mellen Woodman, Jr., 1866-68. He served as recording secretary of the A.B., Brown, 1870 ; A.M., Miss. Col. Born, Maine Bap tist Missionary convention for 30 New Gloucester, Me., Oc tober 29, 1846. years until 1905 and of the American Bap­ Teacher, 10 years ; Lawyer, 1880- ; Supt. tist Missionary Union for a similar period. Schools, Minneapolis : Ed., \Voodman's Law­ He was recorder of Maine Commandery, yN's Diary (annual) ; ad., Lumber Ex­ Loyal Legion, for 23 years, secretary of the change Bld., Minneapolis, Minn. Maine Society, Sons of the American Revo­ lution, for 15 years and of the Maine Society of Colonial Vv' ars, seven years. He had E T ER BURRAGE HDrnY S W E been chaplain-in-chief of the Loyal Legion Trustee '81-"06 since 1899. Rev. Dr. Henry S. Burrage, editor, He was a dominating force in the trustees author and Maine State historian, formerly of Colby College from 1881 to 1905, and has of this city, died at his home at Kennebunk­ been a trustee of Newton Institution from port on March 9 at the age of 89. 1889 to 1906, and of Brown University since Death resulted indirectly from an acci­ 1889. He had published 14 historical books dent several weeks ago, when he was and many papers in reviews and magazines. knocked down by an automobile near his home. Bronchial pneumonia developed. He DANA \VARRE� HALL, '90 had just finished typewriting the last page of an article he had prepared, when the acci­ Dana \Varren Hall, of the class of 1890, dent occurred. The funeral was held here a trustee of the College, serving on a num­ Thursday afternoon. ber of very important committees, and one Rev. Dr. Henry S. Burrage had been con­ whose loyalty to his alma mater was ever spicuous in Maine life ever since 1870, be­ uppermost in his thoughts, died in Chicago ing a leader in the Baptist denomination and on April 23. This announcement will come editor of the denominational organ, Zion's as a distinct shock to all graduates who Adt.•ocate, until 1915. He was aiJpointed have known him well and who never for a chaplain of the Home for Disabled Soldiers moment thought that he was afflicted with at Togus, Me., January 1, 1905, serving until an incurable disease. Indeed, Mr. Hall 1912, and had been State historian of Maine knew little of this up to within a very few since 1907. \\·eeks of his death. Of robust physique, He was born in Fitchburg, J\fass., J anu­ full of energy, industrious, always on the ary 7, 1837. After attending the Chauncy firing-line mentally, resourceful in plans for Hall School in Boston and Pierce Academy the upbuilding of the College, it is not easy The Colby Alumnus 187

. to think of him as gone. No trustee will be more constantly missed. A summary of his highly useful life is given in the General Catalogue as follows : Dana Warren Hall, A.B., A.M., 1898. Born, East Dixfield, Me., April 4, 1866. Prin. High School, Skowhegan, Me., 1890- 94 ; Field Rep. Ginn & Co., Publishers, Chi­ cago, Ill., 1894- 1905 ; General agent, 1905- 1908 ; Managing Partner, 1908- ; Bureau of Awards, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 ; Ad., 6127 Greenwood Ave., Chicago, Ill.

RALPH HowARD PULSIFER, '86 Ralph Howard Pulsifer, of the class of 1886, dies at his home in Belgrade in March, last, after a brief illness. Dr. Pulsifer was the son of the late Dr. N. G. H. Pulsifer and Ann Pulsifer, of Waterville, one of the city's most prominent families, and one known throughout the State as a physicia11 of the old school. Dr. Pulsifer has been in ill health for a number of years, but con­ tinued in practice up to the time of his death. He leaves one sister, Nora Pulsifer Thayer, of Waterville. The following is FRANK LESLIE BESSE taken from the General Catalogue : Benefactor of the College Ralph Howard Pulsifer, A.B., M.D., Bos­ ton Univ., 1889 and Hahnemann Med. Col., 1890. Born, Waterville, Me., August 19, of the state for not only was he a very 1865. Physician, Skowhegan, 1890-98 ; Wa­ successful business man but he was an active terville, 1898-1902 ; Vassalboro, 1902-07 ; worker for the good of his fellow men. Waterville, Me., 1907-15 ; Belgrade, 1915-. Everywhere in this vicinity can be found evidences of his generosity and good heart­ edness. He will be sadly missed not only FRANK LESLIE BESSE, FRIEND OF THE in Clinton where he had made his home COLLEGE since 1890 but in Albion, his native town, in On March 26, Frank Leslie Besse of Clin­ Waterville and in many other cities am' ton died in Ontario, Calif., where he was towns where he was known. spending the winter with Mrs. Besse and Mr. Besse had always manifested keen his brother and wife. Telegrams were re­ interest in Colby, and had given liberallv ceived in V\7ate rville and Clinton announcing toward its support. His will provides th�t Mr. Besse's death. Mr. Besse had long an additional sum of $25,000 shall eventually been one of the best known men in this part come to the College.

THE ALUMNAE SCHOLARSHIP FUND

BY JENNIE MERRILEES S M ITH , B.A . . '81

Probably it is not generally known that year according to the response from the for fifteen years, beginning in 1911, among alumnae, to whom letters are sent annually the alumnae of the college a quiet work has making an appeal for the needy girl. been going on of raising a sum of money Great care is taken by the committee to each year by contributions from among whom has been intru stecl the raising and dis­ their own members for the purpose of bursing of this fund to find out who is mo t helping college girls who are in need. in need, as well as deserving of help, and This Alumnae Scholarship Fund, as it eYery year it is found that at lea t two or has been designated, varies from year to three girls meet these two requirements, and 188 The Colby Alumnus

the committees as well as the contributors beneficiaries of these annual gifts. We say feel more than repaid for their expenditure annual gifts because there is no accumula­ of time and money when they have the let­ tion of funds from which to draw. Each ters of gratitude and appreciation from the year the money that has been received is recipients. and still more when after gradu­ used, only enough being kept back to meet ation many of these girls so gladly pay back the small expense of printing and postage as fast as their circumstances permit the for the following year. amount they received that it may go to The majority of the thirty-three girls help some one else as it helped them in their would have been obliged to leave college extremity. were it not for this help extended at the As said before a circular letter is sent critical time in ·their course. each year to all former students of the The whole amount of money contributed \"f\Tom en's Division making an appeal for aid during these years is $2,317.21. an average for the · college girls. The smallest sum of $154.48 a year, of which $2,153.00 have contributed in any one of the fifteen years been loaned and thus far $533.50 of this has was $50.00, the largest sum, $250.07. The been returned by the recipients. money is loaned without interest and with \Vhile this cannot claim to be "big busi­ no promise being extracted from the recipi­ , ent to pay it back, but she is told that she ness . the appreciation expressed by the is expected to do so when she is able. beneficiaries of the funds leaves no doubt Thus far there have been thirty-three that it is a profitable business.

DR. SMALL'S ''OUTLOOK ON LIFE"

Bv NORl\IA� LE � LIE BAS SETT, B.A., '91

Augusta, Maine as I had mislaid mine. Day before yester­ March 27, 1926. day morning I react. at home, in the morn­ Dear Al1111111 11s : ing paper, that Dr. Small had suddenly gone. Between J uclge Cornish and Dr. Small I was deeply grieved for I was very fond \Vere the strongest ties of friendship. It of him and he was one of the men to whom began i-n college, one entering in 1871 and I l:aYe always considered myself greatly in­ the other in 1872. They were brothers in debted for help in life. the same fraternity. One graduated in \Vhen I reached my office I found on my 1875 and the other in 1876. They were desk a copy of his letter which had just later closely connected with the college, the arrived in the morning mail. It came as a one as trustee and finally president of that remarkable coincidence, for with my mind board the other as professor and finally filled with thoughts of him there were his President of the College. own words, his own philosophy of life. It They always kept in touch with one an­ seemed as if "by it, he being dead, yet other. Their correspondence was delight­ �pEaketh." £ ul. They were ''Leslie" and "Al" to each Every Colby man ought to know what other all their lives. They both died sud­ that philosophy was, for it was wrought out denly and of the same disease. Each wished by the mind and heart of a great teacher so much to attend the fiftieth reunion of his and a great thinker. class and planned for it ; but to each, that I therefore send this letter, which our was forbidden. One lived beyond that time family and friends prize so much, to you. one week ; the other fell short three months. for the next edition. Mrs. Small and Mrs. Cornish died of the Yours sincerely, same malady and not many months apart. NORMAN L. BASSETT. Shortly after Mrs. Cornish's death, Dr. Small wrote a letter to the Judge, '"ho con­ ALBION \V . SUALL sidered it a great letter, none that he had 5551 University Avenue ever read moreso, and from it he drew he! p Chicago and consolation. He shared it with his family August 23, 1924. and friends on all of whom it made the same Dear Leslie : strong, unforgettable and inspiring impres­ Dana Hall told me yesterday of your sion. A few days ago I wrote to my broth­ great loss. In the Ar.uMxus that reached er in Boston to send me a copy of the letter me thi week I had noticed the reference The Colby Alumnus 189

to Mrs. Cornish's ill health, and was 111- great completeness to mortal v1s10n. How tending to write tomorrow expressing the we feel about it a we go along may not hope that full health would soon be re­ be a very important item in the cheme. It stored. It now appears that the end was seems to me probable that the upremest very near. attainment of any individual as a factor in With all my induction into the meaning of the evolution is such fitting into it require­ such collapse of one's life structure, at each ments that the expanding proces will move repetition of the experience by an old or on with a minimum of slacking at his po t. recent friend I find myself baffled between That may mean the captain's stay on the spontaneity of sympathy and impotence to bridge so long as his ship is afloat, and the say an adequate word. The first pathos of feeling he is entitled to, and doubtless feels, sorrow is its solitude. The best intentions is an exaltation over ability to end life with­ cannot penetrate it. At the first shock the out being a quitter. It is a noble satisfac­ sufferer is unable to place himself except tion, which can hardly be called happiness. in a vast blank such as no one before him Something of that sort, however, loyalty, has ever entered. Not always, at our age, using one's place in life for all it is worth, does this feeling wholly disappear. Pre­ whatever the guantlets of pain which must sently, however, there comes along with it, be run in order to do one's part, not a bal­ more or less mitigating it, a new sense of ance sheet of pain and pleasure, seems to me solidarity with one's fellow men, a new to furnish the most credible pointer towards appreciation of the common lot, a realization the final values. This gives me too a clue that separations no less than unions are to the familiar fact that the most efficient factors in an economy that may present soother of sorrow is work. Work seems to many possible aspects, with the one cer­ be to on e's mental and moral nature what tainty that it is inevitable. I was long ago circulation of the blood is to the body. It convinced of the futility of trying to reason heals wounds that at first look fatal and it out a philosophy that wo uld conclusively restores functions that seem to be paralyzed. vindicate life. Whether the last word in a Allegiance to life as long as life lasts, re­ given debate is uttered by pessimist or opti­ constructions of plans so far as our power mist, it is not convincing. The other re­ reaches, even after they have been th warted mains of the same opinion still. I can de­ by powers beyond our control-this does voutly thank God, however, that my outlook bring serenity, if not happiness. At your on life has brought into the field of vision two chief posts you have in the past, and more reasons to believe that a benign than you will in the future, put into the life of that a malignant destiny will prove to be others more than has now been substractecl the ultimate explanation. All the attempts, from your own life. I hope from the Hedonists down, to express life in you will gradu­ terms of happiness affect me more and more ally ·find in the consciousness of this fact all as abortive. Life seems to me to be an evo­ the restoration that is possible. lution of something which does not appear, Sincerely, and which quite likely will never appear in (signed) Albion W. Small.

THE NEXT COMMENCEMENT BY THE COM MENCEMENT COMMITTEE

Following is the official announcement of SUNDAY, JUNE 13 the program for the 1926 Commencement, 9.45 A. M. Faculty of the College and June 12-16 : Senior Class assemble at the College Chapel. 10.30 A. M. PROGRAM Baccalaureate Sermon deliv­ ered by President Roberts. No seats will SATURnAY, JuNE 12 be reserved after 10.15. Tickets required. 2.30 P. M. Presentation of the College City Opera House. Play, under direction of Miss Exerine L. 3.30 P. M. Memorial Servic es for Leslie Flood. First production for townspeople. Colby Cornish, LLD., of the class of 1875. No admission charged. Tickets required. Speakers to be announced. College Chapel. City Opera House. 7.30 P. M. Boardman Sermon, by Rev. 8.00 P. M. An nual Junior Prize Exhibi­ Everett Carlton Herrick, D.D., class of 1898. tion, President Arthur J. Roberts, LL. D., President Roberts, presiding. Fir t Bapt ist presiding. First Bapti t Church. Church. 190 The Colby Alumnus

MoxDAY, J U NE 14 3.00 P. M. Presentation of Gift of the Senior Class. Seaverns Athletic Field. 9.00 A. M. Morning Prayers, Rev. Rob­ 3.30 P. M. Concert by Chandler's Mili­ ert Atherton Bakeman, B.A., Class of 1901, tary Band of Portland, C. M. Brooks, Con­ President Roberts presiding. The Junior ductor. College Campus. Class will attend in a body. College Chapel. 8.00 P. M. Exercises commemorating the 9.30 A. M. Junior Class Day Exercises. one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Addresses by members of the class. Col­ founding of Phi Beta Kappa. Speaker, Mr. lege Campus. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, Editor of the Bos­ 11.00 A. M. Address by Richard Austin ton Herald. Tickets required. First Bap­ Metcalf, B.A.. Class of 1886, Guest of tist Chun:h. Honor of the Junior Class. Co11ege Cam­ pus. WEDNESDAY, JUNE l6-Co111111cncement Da'),' 2.30 P. M. The College Play under di­ rection of Miss Flood. Second production 9.00 A. M. Academic Procession. Mem­ for undergraduates, graduates and their bers of the Board of Trustees, members of guests, and guests of the College. No ad­ the College Faculty, Graduates and Under­ mission charged. Tickets required. City graduates are expected to have place in this Opera House. Procession. Academic dress is requested. 5.00 P. M. Annual meeting of the Colby College Campus. Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa, Professor Formation of Procession m the following William J. Wilkinson, LLD., presiding. Divisions : Lecture Room, Chemical Hall. (DffISION I) 8.00 P. M. The President's Reception. Invitation is extended to all Commencement Escort of Police. guests, members of the Facultv and their College Marshal and Honorary Marshal. wives, graduates and former students, stu­ Band. dents of the College, and citizens of \Vater­ College Standard Bearers. ville. Chemical Hall. Student Marshal and Class Marshal. Gndergraduate Classes in the order of TUESDAY, JuNE 15-A lunmi Day Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior and Senior. 9.00 A. M. Morning Prayers. Speaker to be announced. President Roberts presiding. The Senior Class will attend in a body. College Campus. 9.30 A. M. Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees. Chemical Hall. 9.30 A. M. Senior Class Day Exercises. Addresses by members of the Class. Col­ lege Campus. 10.45 A. M. Address by Clarence Ed­ mund Meleney, LLD., of the Class of 1876. Guest of Honor of the Senior Class. Col­ lege Campus. . 11.30 A.M. Annual meeting of the Gen­ eral Colby Alumnae Association. Lecture Room, Chemical Hall. 12.00 M. Alumni Lunch and annual meet­ ing of the General Colby Alumni Associa­ tion, President Fred Foss Lawrence, B.A., Class of 1900, presiding. Open to graduates, all former students of the College, members of the Faculty, and members of the graduat­ ing class. Tickets required. Colle �e Gym­ nasium. 1.00 P. M. Alumnae Luncheon, President Gertrude Ilsley Padelford, presiding. Open to all graduates, all former students, wives of Trustees and members of the Faculty and members of the Senior Class. Tickets on EVERETT CARLTON HERRICK, D.D., '98 sale at the Dean's Office. Foss Hall. Sundny Night Speaker The Colby Alumnus 191

(DIVISION II) GE NERAL COM M ITTEE FOR Col\nIENi=EMENT OF Assistant College Marshal. 1926 His Excellency, the Governor of Maine, Prof. Herbert Carlyle Libby, '02, Clzair- escorted by the President of the College. 111011. \Vaterville. The Governor's Staff. Prof. Erne t Cummings 1Iarriner, '13. The Commencement Day Graduate Speak­ /lcti11y Chairman, \V aterville. er accompanied by the Chairman of the Judge Norman Le lie Ba sett, '91. Board of Trustees. Augusta. The Judges of the Supreme Court and Hon. Charles Edwin Gurney, '98, Port- other State Officials. land. The Mayor of Waterville. Prof. Thomas Bryce Ashcraft, \i\T aterville. (DIVISION III) Prof. George Freeman Parmenter, Water­ ville. Student Marshal. Recipients of Honorary Degrees. CHAIRMEN OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES The Board of Trustees. On Class Re1111 io11s (DIVISION IV) Prof. Ernest Cummings :Marriner, '13, Assistant Student Marshal. Waterville. The College Faculty in order of seniority. On Decora tions and Ill1wzinatio11s (DIVISION V) John Foster Choate, '20, \Vaterville. Assistant Student Marshal. The Alumnae of the College in the order MARSHALS of their graduation. College Marshal, Prof Carl Jefferson (DIVISION VI) Weber. A�sistant Student Marshal. Assistant College Marshal, Pro f. Thomas The Alumni of the College in the order of Bryce Ashcraft. their graduation. Honorary Class Marshal, George A. Marsh, '01. 9.30 A. M. Commencement Exercises. Addresses by members of the Graduating IMPORTANT REQUESTS AND NOTICES Class, followed by the Commencement Ad­ 1. It is earnestly requested that all who dress. Speaker to be announced. march in the Academic Procession should Announcements of Prizes and Conferring find their places, designated by signs, on the of Degrees, first upon members of the gradu­ west walk of the Campus, promptly at 9 ating class, and then upon the recipients of o'clock, Wednesday morning. The Proces­ Honorary Degrees. Tickets required. City sion must move on time. Academic dress is Opera House. requested for this Procession. 2. Tickets will be required for all the 11.30 A. M. Procession re-formed, pro­ exercises so specified above. Please do not ceeding to the College Campus. complain if ushers refuse to admit you with­ 12.00 M. (Sharp) Commencement Din­ out tickets ; they have expl icit instructions. ner with addresse:; by guests of the College, 3. Commencement badges, tickets for all and representatives of reunioning classes, the functions, fraternity and sorority colors President Arthur J. Roberts, presiding. All should be pr omptly secured at the College graduates, former students, guests of the Office in Memorial Hall. College, and members of the Faculty are in­ 4. All Colby men and women are asked vited. Tickets required. College Gymna­ to REGISTER at the College Office before sium. leaving the city. 192 The Colby Alumnus / _i i AMONG THE GRADUATES BY THE EDITOR 1 T 1

Frank E. \,\Tood, '04, has been in North James King, '89, with Mrs. King, spent Carolina for about ten years. His address the winter in Mexico, Cuba and Central is 214 Vail Ave., Charlotte, N. C. America. Beulah E. Withee, '11, 26 Butler Place, Florence Totman Freeland, '09, was mar­ Brooklyn, N. Y., is teaching Latin in ried on July 23, 1925, in Duluth, Minn., to Thomas Jefferson High School, the largest \Vatter N. Totman. Her address is 308 high school in New York City if not in the Kenilworth Avenue. world. Merrill S. F. Green, '20, graduated from Leo G. Sh esong, '13, is now associated in Harvard in 1924, spent one year at Harper the general practice of law under the firm Hospital in Detroit, and is now Resident In­ name of Hinckley, Hinckley & Shesong with terne in Internal Medicine in the University offices at 119 Exchange St., Portland. Me. of Michigan Hospital, Ann Harbor, Mich. Elihu B. Tilton, '07, who has been princi­ Rev. C. F. Mcintire, '80, is located as pas­ pal of the high schools at \Vinslow and tor in North Orange, Mass. Limestone, Me., has been engaged to teach Alice H. Clark, '21, is now living at 430 plain geometry and algebra at Hebron Main St., \Vethersfield, Conn. Academy. Gertrude G. \Villey, '22, is teaching Latin Helen D. Cole, '17, is director of the in the Brockton High School, address 31 department of boarding homes of the New Nye Square. York Children's Aid Society. Her address H. E. Umphrey, '14, \Vashburn, Me., re­ is 152 East 45th St., New York City. ports that he is "still growing and shipping Iva B. Willis, '13, expects to receive her certified seed potatoes and table stock." master's degree from Columbia University Ernestine Peabody Bernard, '19, is living in June. She spends her summers traveling in St. Louis, Mo., 3902 Humphrey St. She in Europe. Miss Willis' address is 656 East has one son, Harvey Roland Bernard. 24th St., Paterson, N. J. Florence M. Smith, '25, is teaching in the Harold M. Morse, '14, who is at present \Vaterboro high school. assistant pro fessor of mathematics at Brown University has been called to Harvard as Andrew Colby Little, '17, is Sales Repre­ assistant professor of mathematics. sentative of the Socony Burner Corporation at Providence, R. I. Mr. Little sends a C. E. Dobbin, '16, has recently been ap­ kind word to the ALUMN"US. pointed Assistant Chief of the Fuels section of the U. S. Geological Survey. John F. Flynn, '24, is ·attending McGill Medical School, Montreal, Canada. Mrs. Elise Fellows White, '01, was re­ cently made a privileged member of the E. M. Woodward, '15, is instructor in Portland Rossini Club. In the Musical mathematics in the Medford high school. Quarterly for July, 1925, appeared an article He is also instructor in theoretic optics at from her pen, entitled "The Anaesthetic of the Massachusetts School of Optometry in Conceit." Her greatest source of pride, Boston. however, is in her two grandchildren, aged Edgar \V eeks, '81, Marlborough, Mass.. two years, and one year, respectively. The has been a Special Justice of the Marlbo­ little boy is named Bruce, for his father rough District Court since 1902. and grand father. Raymond Spinney, '21, is assistant bond William C. Schuster, '16, is teacher of trader wjth Lee, Higginson & Co., 70 Fed­ physics in the Providence Technical High eral St., Boston, Mass. School, Providence, R. I. Mr Schuster has Bessie M. Chadwick, '21, graduated from two girls and a boy, all of whom he hopes the Massachusetts General Hospital in "some day will follow their Dad and enter September, 1925, and at present is teaching Colby." He plans · to take m the Colby theory at the \Vesterly Hospital, ·westerly, Commencement this year. R. I. The Colby Alumnus 193

and most loyal members of the Class of 1886, was omitted from the list of that class published in the previous issue of the ALUM NUS. Not only has Mr. Metcalf kept in constant and enthusiastic touch with the college during the forty years since his graduation, but he will this year honor the college with his presence at Commence­ ment as the guest of the Junior class, whom he will address at their Class Day Exer­ cises on Monday of Commencement week. R. B. Huber, '17, 130 South Pearl St., Kent, Ohio, is chief chemist for the Ma­ son Tire & Rubber Co. of Kent, Ohio. J. W. Hammond, '09, is in the insurance and real estate business in Van Buren. He has twice represented his town in the legisla­ ture and is a candidate for higher honors. Roscoe E. Johnson, '14, represents the Chilean Nitrate of Soda Co. of New York City. Mr. Johnson's home is in Barre, Mass. Dorothy Carter Weber, Colby, '46, ar­ rived in Waterville on February 25, 1926, and is now residing at the home of her parents, Professor and Mrs. Carl J. Weber, HAROLD M. MORSE, Ph.D., '14 at 42 Burleigh Street. Called to Harvard Ernest H. Cole, '12, was elected Secre­ tary-treasurer of the Pennsylvania Confer­ ence of Social Welfare which met recently G. R. Skillin, '20, is now head of the de­ in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During the partment of mathematics of the Lynn next year, Mr. Cole will give a portion of Classical High School. his time in developing this State-wide Con­ Edward D. Mathews, '91, is in Europe to ference. He is a member of the staff of attend the 14th International Geological the Public Charities Association of Penn­ Congress which co�venes in Madrid in the sylvania, in charge of the branch office, month of May. which he established in Pittsburgh, dur­ Axel J. Uppva11, '01, is carrying on re­ ing 1925. search work in Old Icelandic. He is pre­ Bernard E. Esters, ':21, has just been sently to bring out a book on Scandinavian officia11y appointed Advertising Manager of languages and literature. the Chester I. Campbell Organization. This Everett A. Rockwell, '20, is located at 19 organization conducts from six to ten large Grove St., Concord, N. H. expositions in all parts of the country. The Jam es A. Wilson, '24, is assistant foreman Boston address of Mr. Esters is 14 Ivy St. of the Sulphite department of the Great Carolyn L. Hodgdon, '24, is teaching m Northern Paper Co., Millinocket, Me. Mr. the Alfred high school. Wilson was married on February 6, last, Helen Raymond Macomber, '22, is now at to Helen E. Russell. 508 Independence Ave., Philadelphia. Her Frederick J. Pope, '20, is now located at husband is director of health education at 10 Oak St., Reading, Mass. the Cheltenham High School, Elkins Park. Dr. Charles P. Small, '86, is president Philadelphia. Mrs. Macomber is teaching of the Chicago Opthalmological Society. French at the Benjamin R. Myers Junior This is the largest society in the country, High School, Elkins Park. probably the largest in the world, devoted Henry Trowbridge, '83, is to l;e a:l

John N. Harriman, '16, has returned to versity. He has recently been appointed a the United States after two years in the member of the local committee which is co­ Orient. He is now located at Naval Oper­ operating in the national investigation of ating Base, Hampton Roads, Va. engineering education now being conducted The ALUMNTS has received the announce­ under a grant by the Carnegie Foundation. ment of the wedding of I van M. Richard­ Elizabeth B. Carey, '20, 1418 Chapel St., son, '23, to Millicent EI1en Moshier on Fri­ New Haven, Conn., writes, "The ALUMNUS day, December 25th, Livermore Falls, Me. is a welcome visitor. It bridges the years A. F. Caldwell, '91, is at present in St. and distance to Colby." Petersburg, Florida, convalescing from sur­ John A: Shaw, '88, after a pastorate of gical treatment at the Mayo Hospital at six years at Kennewick, Wash., has moved Rochester, Minnesota. He expects soon to to Palo Alto, Cal., to be near his youngest resume his work at DePauw University, son, a member of the Freshman class at where he has for many years been head of Stanford "Gniversity. His oldest son, Rob­ the department of English. In a letter to ert C. Shaw, is teacher of Latin at North­ one of his classmates he expresses the hope western Military Academy and the younger that he may see all his classmates at their rnn, John A. Shaw, Jr., is Vice Principal thirty-fifth reunion next June. of Korth Central High School, Spokane, On a recent visit to Spelman College in \\rash. Atlanta, Franklin \V. Johnson, '91, reports Mrs. Vv. P. Brenneman, '93, is to be his pleasure in finding four Colby girl on reached at 45 South 6th St., Columbia, Pa. the staff and in hearing expressions of warm 1Ir. Brenneman is engaged -in the manufac­ approval of their work by the administrative ture of brushes. offices of the institution. These are Anna \Y illiam M. Harriman, '17, reports the C. I. Erickson, 1924, and Marjorie A. Ever­ birth of John Pope Harriman on June 1, ingham, Nellie E. Pottle, and Leota Schoff, 1925. of the class of 1925. Vernon H. Tooker, '19, is now to be Stanley G. Este , '23, is teaching in the reached at 206 Masonic Building, Portland, Engineering School of Northeastern Uni- Me. Joseph Chandler, '09.. is now Associate Prof eessor in the Boston University School of Medicine. He is also a Research Asso­ ciate in the Evans Memorial of the Massa­ chusetts Homeopath:c Hospital. For the past two years he has held a commission as Captain in the Chemical \i\Tarfare Reserve and has been much interested in Chemical \Varfare affairs in the First Corps Area. He is at present Secretary of the New Eng­ land section of the U. S. Chemical \Varfare Association and Executive Officer of the Crossed Retorts School of the Chemical \Yarfare Reserve Officers of the First Corps Area. Raymond I. Haskell, '14, has merged two successful private day schools in one of the finest suburbs of Pittsburg. He is expect­ ing the erection of new buildings on a new site and an attendance of more than 300 boys and girls for the coming year. He is at the head now of Swickley Academy. E. L. Chaney, '92, has a new address : Ontario Road, N. vV ., \Vashington, D. C. Frederick D. Blanchard, '19, is to be ad­ dressed at Box K, Sherbourne, Mass.

RAY I. HASKELL, B.A., '14 W. E. Lombard, '93, has a son in the Head of Private School Sophomore class at Colby and a second son \v ill enter within a year or two. The Colby Alumnus 195

C. F. Smith, '93, served on the faculty of the school for Methodist ministers at Lake Cobbossecontee, teaching Church History. He is now serving his fourth year as pastor of the Baptist church in Milo. Eva L. Alley, '25, is preceptress and head of the Latin department at Higgins Classi­ cal Institute. Laura V. Baker, '21, is teaching French and Latin in the Bridgton High school. Jennie Farnum Collins, '15, is now at East Wilton, Me., her husband being engaged in the garage business and trucking. Donald W. Miller, '25, is taking graduate work in education at George Peabody Col­ lege for Teachers, Nashville, Tenn. He ex­ pects to receive his master's degree in June. He is teaching three classes in Trevca College, Nashville, having charge of the physics department. HERBERT M. ROCKWELL. B.A., '16 Harold W. Goodrich, '20, is teaching at Pastor in Concord. N. H. Dupont Manual Training High School Louisville, Ky. He is also studying for his master's degree at the University of Louis­ ville. Educational Travel. He will give instruc­ tion in the English Tour for 1926 on The John P. Kennedy, '13, should now be ad­ Background of English Literature. dressed at 15126 Munn Road, Cleveland, Ohio. Jesse Knight, '14, is now a member of the firm of Scammell, Knight & Reese, Me­ Marian E. Lewis, '18, is doing public chanics Bank Building, Trenton, N. J. This health work at the Judson Health Center firm engages in the general practice of law. near Washington Square, New York. The little community is composed entirely of Merle R. Keyes, '08, is Superintendent of Italians and people· greatly in need of in­ Schools in Patten, Maine. struction. Miss Lewis' address is 94 Mac­ Elvira Royle Howard, '26, is to be ad­ Dougal St. dressed at 5522 Chamberlain Ave., St. Philip A. Mason, '07, was appointed in Louis, Mo. June, last, Supervisor of the Building De­ Mrs. Grace V. Grube, '12, missionary, is partment for the city of Hartford. The home from French Indo China on a fur­ position is non-political and permanent, lough. Her address while in this country is created by state law. All building work in 2024 Sherman Ave., Omaha, Neb. the city is by permit and under sup ervision Amy V. Robinson, '25, is teaching mathe­ of his department. Twelve special inspect­ matics and history in the Houlton high ors are employed, a clerical force of five, school. and three structural engineers. The value Doris D. Dow, '25, is Home Demonstra­ of the work handled by his department for tion Agent of Penobscot County with offices 1925 was over $20,000,000. Mr. Mason also in the Court Building, Bangor, Me. has the administration of the zoning law, Norman L. Lattin, '18, is now an assist­ state building laws, and is the advisory ant professor in the College of Law, Ohio architect for the city. State University. James Dunn, '18, is head of the History Phillis Prescott Schroeder, '19, is now to department in the Lynn Classical High be addressed at 1063 68th St., Brooklyn, N. School. Y. Mrs. Schroeder has two children, Paul, Everett H. Gross, '21, is with the Jewelers' two and one-half years, and Harriet, one Safety Fund Society, located at 22 West year. is 308 48th St., New York. His address Chellis V. Smith, '15, was president of Ditmars Ave., Astoria, L. I., N. Y. the Boston Ministers' Conference for 1925. Prof. Charles H. Whitman, '97, is one of He is Chaplain in Chief of Uniform Rank the lecturers in the American Institute of K. of P. of the United States, 196 The Colby Alumnus

Col. Otho Willard Burnham Farr, a re­ l tired army officer and once a student at Colby College, is visiting relatives in this city. Mr. Farr was born in Oakland in 1871, the son of \V arren A. Farr and fs well known by many of the older residents of ·waterville and Oakland. For the past two years, Col. Farr has been in Honolulu and a week or so ago came across the con­ tinent 'to visit relatives in Massachusetts and this state. Col. Farr plans to leave for Europe in the near future. Col. Farr en­ tered Colby College in the class of 1888 and after studying here for a year received an appointment to \Vest Point where he graduated in 1893. At the time of his gradu­ ation, he was made a 2nd lieutenant in the artillery. The remainder of his army ca­ reer is as follows : 1st Lieutenant, 1899 ; captain, 1901 ; major, 1911 ; Lt. Colonel, 1915 ; colonel, 1917 ; served as second lieu­ JOHN R. MUNROE, B.S., '25 tenant, light Battery A, second artillery in Teacher at Waterville High School Santiago campaign ; commanded 18th F. A., Third Division in France from May to August in 1918 and Slst F. A. Brigade, Ethel P. Mason, '25, is teaching mathe­ 26th Division from August to December. matics in the high school in Rochester, Vt. 1918.-Watcrvilfe Se11ti11el, :May, 1 926. Fred F. Lawrence, '00, is now a member RANDALL J. Coxoox, '86, HEADS IMPOR TA.NT of the firm of Cram & Lawrence, lawyers, 0RGAXIZATIOX 102 Exchange St., Portland Maine. Dr. Randall J. Condon, '86, the newly George \V. l\IcCombe, '02, is pastor of the elected president of the l\ation al Education First Baptist Church, South Amboy, N. J. As ociation i one of the mo t noted of the Nathaniel \Veg, '17, writes the ALu .M xus living alumni of Colby and at the present a very appreciative note. He says that he time is uperintendent of the Cincinnati pub- comes in touch with a number of former 1 ic school . He i · a Maine product through students by reading the notes concerning the and through, and is a credit to the Maine alumni. Caroline Boyer, '23, is tuclying French for the year at the University of Pari . Harold E. Brakewood, '20. reports the ar­ rival in the Brakewood family of Anne Elizabeth on October 16 last. Cyril M. Joly, '17, ha been admitted to the law firm of Andrew , Nelson & Gardi­ ner, Mr. Joly being the representative of the firm in Waterville at 165 Main St. Helen A. Bragg, '84, is now to be ad­ dressed at 892 Elmwood Ave., Providence, R. I. Linna C. V\'eidl icb, '21, teaching this year in Titusville, Florida. H. Chesterfield Marden, '21 . report the arrival of Roberta Aileen on Monday, September 21, 1925.

Catherine Tuttle, '17, is teaching in the HARRY H. UPTON, B.A., '19 English department at Brockton High Hymn-Writer School. She attended during the past summer the Harvard summer school. The Colby Alumnu� 197

college fr om which he graduated 111 1886, ref used to let him go to thi, tremenclou ·Jy and to the State. important work. Born in Fr iendship, Mai ne, July 16, 1862, Mr. Condon had the honor of confcrrino of a family of fishermen, Mr. Condon upon President \V ilson the first honorar�· s�emed destined for a sea-faring Ii f e. He degree that the President would accept after

"Rev. Dr. Burbank was born in Jefferson, vention and by President Nathan R. Wood Maine. He entered Colby Col lege at the of Gordon College. The Church ch oir un­ age of 18 and was graduated in 1889. After der the direction of Whitman Sinclair a short pastorate in Bowdoinham. he came Frowne rendered appropriate musk for the to this city in January, 1891, and bas served occasion at both services." here since. He received the honorary de­ Editorially, The Joumal says : gree of Doctor of Divinity from Colby Col­ Rev. Dr. Burbank of Revere has served lege about 15 years ago. his church longer than any other pastor in "Rev. Dr. Burbank has served as trustee Massachusetts connected with the Baptist of the Public Libr ary for 25 years. He is denbmination and this fact has brought him president of the Revere Cooperative Bank much distinction. and a trustee of the Revere Savings Bank. He has shown his splendid loyalty to Re­ He is serving his 12th year as secretary of vere by remaining here year after year, not­ the Boston East Baptist Association and is withstanding the rapidly changing conditions secretary of the Baptist Ministers of Massa­ here and in spite of the fact that he had chusetts. been frequently called to take charge of "The morning program included words of other large and prosperous churches. His appreciation from the Church by Dr. \Villis \\ ork here has been notable in many respects G. Bond, "11.D., from the Church School by and it is with pleasure that so many. people the Superintendent James vV . \i\Test, f ram of this city have joined in tendering him the Ladies' Aid by Mrs. Elizabeth H. Wood­ their sincere congratulations. land and an address by Rev. Hugh A. A.NXI\'ERSARY Y.MXS Heath, D.D., General Secretary of the H Massachusetts Baptist Convention. The The followin g are the lines of two An­ evening service was under the auspices of nivetsary Hymns written by Harry H. the Young People's Society of Christian Cpton, '17: Endeavor and there were addres es by Rev. 1. Isaac Higginbotham, (Colby, 1911) Field Thy gracious spirit, Father, our feet hath Secretary of the :r..Iassachusetts Baptist Con- hither led, Our soul's deep hunger easing with thine own living bread : As now within thy presence we seek to learn thy will, \Vith power, by thy spirit, our lives for service fill.

Our heart's sincere desire we bring in prayer to thee, Oh make u faithful stewards whate'er our tasks may be ; The joy of our communion with all men we would hare, And with Christ-like compa ssion ease hearts of pain and care.

Apart from thine own spirit, we can do nothing, Lord, He only can interpret to us thy holy word ; Our feet in paths of service, He still must surely lead, If aught we plan and purpose may aid the soul's deep need,

Thy gracious spirit, Father, be evermore our guide, As earnestly we labor for those for whom Christ died ; Unite our hearts, we pray thee, and make our church a place, COL OTHO WILLARD BURNHAM FARR, '92 \\'here all may seek the ::\faster and find On Visit to His Old Home in Oakland His savin g grace. The Colby Alumnms 199

2. God, our Father, who hast called us, thou hast work for us to clo, God, our Father, who hast called us into Give us ears to hear thy message, make our fellowship with thee, love deep, strong and true ; And hast giv'n us rightful freedom where­ Fields already white to harvest, all about with Christ doth make men free ; us, Lord, we see, Hear us as we join our voices, in a song of Lead us by thy spirit, Master, and we pledge joyful praise, to follow thee. Giving thanks for gracious guidance o'er life's pathway all our days. DR. TAYLOR oF CoLBY Is STILL TEACH ING In our seasons of communion with the Fath­ er and the Son, An apology is due, and here publicly As in fellowship together, may we be in made, Dr. Julian D. Taylor of Colby, all spirit one ; of his friends and none of his enemies-for Not by statement signed or spoh;n, ask we he has none of the last. In these columns, that our faith be shown ; on January 29th, was printed announcement Make our lives thine own epistles, by our that Dr. Taylor, Taylor Professor of Latin brethren read and known. Language and Literature at Colby, had re­ Guard our lips and may our actions more tired on his eightieth birthday, which fell than words show firm belief, ou that date after having been an active While our hands are ever busy bringing member of the college's faculty for fifty­ needy souls relief ; eight years. The announcement erred griev­ Grant the Master's loving spirit may be in ously. Dr. Taylor still leads his classes, as our hearts alway. he has through all of these nearly three Till earth's little time of service fades into score years. The erroneous announcement eternal day. was due to a particularly unfortunate mis­ As the Master bore thy message to the take in the transmission of a telegram, sent wand'ring sons of men, to The Transcript by President Arthur J. Leading from life's lone far country, stray­ Roberts of Colby, in answer to a request ing souls back home again ; for information as to whether Dr. Taylor So would we, thy love proclaiming, follow was to continue his active service at the in the path He trod. college. Seeking still and guiding others to the out­ H. R. R. stretched arms of God. (Inthe Boston Transcript)

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EVA PRATT OWEN Vassalboro, Maine. Hebron Academy

"THE MAINE SCHOOL FOR BOYS"

FOUNDED 1804

Located among the hills of Oxford County. Fifteen miles from Lewiston, and sixteen miles from Poland Spring.

All branches of athletics, healthful and varied outdoor life. Winter sports. Fine covered skating arena.

A BOYS' COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL

High scholastic standards, certificate privilege. Twelve male instructors.

Only boys of good character accepted. Clean living, high ideals ; character development considered fundamental.

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BIGGINS CLASSICAL INSTITUTE RICKER CLASSICAL INSTITUTE Charleston, Maine Houlton, Maine AN EXCELLE!!T PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR COLLEGE. ''The Best Known School in Aroos­ Ttacher's Training and English to. !.-" courses. Ideal location. Large and pkasan t grounds. Athletic field on campus. Expe 1.ses moderate. Elec­ Ricker presents :ir.e opportunities for tric car service. Christian ir.fluence. en terprising boys and girl s.

Strong Faculty, Excellent Courses Prepares for College For information, address For information apply to the Prin­ Prin. WILLIAM A. TRACY, B. A., cipal, Charleston, Maine. ERNEST C. FULLER, B.A.

Directory of Leading Teachers' Agencies

The INTERSTATE TEACHERS' AGENCY

500 Dully Powers Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. T. H. ARMSTRONG, Prop.

Has successfully placed several graduates of Colby College during the last few years. If you want to teach, write fer information.

KELLOGG'S COLLEGE AGENCY H. S. KELLOGG, 1U anager, 31 Union Squa re. New York Established 31 years ago. Durin:.: the last yea1· or two there has been an incessant demand for Coll ege ass is tan 1 s, High School and Prh· ate School teachers at splendid sa laries. � o charge for registration. Sen

I · WINSHIP FREQUENT CALLS FOR HIGH SCHOOL, ACADEMIC AND TEACHERS' COLLEGE POSITIONS SEND l!' Olt BLAN K G Beacon Street, Boston, 1'IWis AGENCY ALYIN F. PEASE . . . . Directory of Leading Teachers' Agencies ....

THE CARY TEACHERS' AG ENCY

TWO Ot'FIC ES rs Nl•; w E'N GLA �n.

Our busine� is done by recommendation in answer to dir· ct call!> from employers. There is not a dny in the year that we don>t h:we desirab'e p0<� i tions fo1· wh.ch we need suitable cand idate:-:.

C. WILBUR CARY. Manager. Co:tn. Mutual Bldg., GEO. II UKIUBEE, Manager, 614 Clapp Memorial Bl<'g Jhrtfora. Coitn. Portland, Maiae

' REPUTATEasternION FOUNDED Teac ON hOVERers THIRAgiY YEARSency, OF SUCCE Inc.SSFU L EXPERIENCE B. S. Baldwin 6 8 eaCOD Sf. , 8 OS I OD, M 3SS. I T. M. Hastin�s

'iT HE HOLMAN TEACHERS' AGENCY 325 Williams Street, New London, Conn. ANDREW W. BOLMAN, Prop.-Manager TEACHERS,-Are you steadily advancing professionally and financially, or are you still in the same "old rut ?" Old age will soon overtake you. Better try for more salary NOW before it is too late ! Send at once for free membership blank.

NATIONAL TEACHERS' AGENCY, Inc. Teachers for Schools EVA M. BISHOP, Manager Schools for Teachus I 4 MECHANICS BANK BUILDING, AUBURN, 'MAINE Home Offices : PhUadelphia, Pa. Branch Offices : N or•thampton, Mass., Syr·ac.use, N. Y. D. H. COOK, General Manager Pittsburg.h , Ba., Indianapolis, Ind.

THE MAINE TEACHERS' AGENCY This Agency, the OLDEST and LARGEST Teachers' Agency in Maine, has placed THOUSANDS of college men and women in the BEST PAYING POSITIONS throughout New England. We maintain two offices in the State. Teachers and school officials everywhere are cordially invited to communicate with either or both offices. W. H. HOLMAN) LL.B., PED.M., Manager, Bangor Office, Exchange Bldg., Bangor, Me. H. H. RANDALL) A.B., Manager, Portland Office, Y. M. C. A. Bldg., Portland, Me.

THE FISK TEACHERS' AGENCIES Boston, Mass .. 120 Boylston Street Sew York N. Y., 225 Fifrh Avenue Cleveland, 011io. Schofield Build inf:' Syracuse, N. Y., 402 Dil Jaye Ruilding Chica&:o, Ill., 28 E. J ac k son Boulevar49 Un ion Trust Bldg. Portland, Ore., 409 Journal Building Blrmin�ham, Ala,, 210 Title Building Los An�eles, Ca l ., 548 So. Spring Street Directory of Leading Theological Schools •

ROCHESTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY DIVINITY SCHOOL ROCI-IE·STER, N. OF THE Y. FACULTY of ten members. Thorough and com­ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO prehensive curriculum. Wide choice of electives. A graduate school of the University, EQU IPMENT. Dormitory building with parlor, granting A.M., D.B., and Ph.D. music x:oom and bowling alleys. Library of 50,000 Its courses give practical training in volumes. Attractive chapel ard c1ass rooms. DEGREE of B. g. anted at graduation and I preaching, social service, religious edu- D. degree of M Th . for special graduate work. · cation. I ROCHESTER a beautiiul and prosperous city Exceptional opportunities for prepa- • of 300,000. Many varieties of religious and ph ilan­ ration for missionary fields. thropic work. Approved students given guarantee All courses in the Universit) of Rochester avail­ of remunerative work so directed as to I able to Seminary students. become part of vocational training. Correspondence welcomed . Illustrated cata­ Address logue for the asking. Address CLARENCE A. I BARBOUR, President, or J. W. A. STEWART, SHAILER MATHEWS, Dean. I Dean.

BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY CROZER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY NOW OFFERS Tuition and Room-Rent Free. ScholarshiJ s available to apJ roved students. YOUNG MEN DESIROUS OF BECOMING MINISTERS: 5Pminary0s relation to University of Pennsylvania warrant offerof thP following courst>s: 1-Courses adapted to college and non-co1lege men. I 2-A course (three years) having a diploma. Reg-ular Course for Preachers and Pastorr. 3-A cc•urse (three or four years) leading to the Seminuy. Deg-ree of 8.D. or Diploma. degree of Bachelor of Divinity II 4-A graduated and attractive �ystern of elec­ Course with si: ecial emphasis on Relig-ious Education. tives. 5-"Convocation Week,"with unexcellecllectures. Semin�ry and University. Deg"rees of B.D, 6-A large, varied and gr owing theological or A.M, library. Ill 7-The best currenttheologial magazines, Ameri­ Training" for Advanced Scholarship. Grad· can and Foreign. uate Course. Seminuy and University. Deg"rees of 8-A good gymnasium, with regular drill under Th. M. or Ph. D. a trained physical instructor. Address MRTON G. EVANS, U..D., President -Association with an earnest, hard-working, Chester, Pa. aspirng set of students. 10-All the above at very reasonable expense. Extension Course.-Seminary maintains a Corresoond­ For detailed infor1TJation address: ence department for men unable to ta ke a course i� resi­ dence. Cost, including books, �I 0 a year. Certificate WARREN J. MOULTON. President, on comple1ion. Address EU S. RE INHOLD ' ·A M ·• Bangor, Maine Director, Chester. Pa.

THE KENT'S BILL SEMINARY NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION Kent's Bill, Maine A SCHOOL FOR LEADERS

Courses Leading to B. D. Degree Special provision for Post Graduates One of the best equipped schools in New England. Modern buildings. Extensive Many opportunities for Missionary, athletic fields, 500 acre farm. Courses Philanthropic and Practical Work preparing for college, scientific srhools Harvard University offers special free and business. Music.

privileges to approved Newton Catalogue and 111ustrated Booklets Students

Newton Centre, Mass, Address the Principal