Bowdoin Orient V.10, No.1-17 (1880-1881)
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Bowdoin College Bowdoin Digital Commons The Bowdoin Orient 1880-1889 The Bowdoin Orient 1-1-1881 Bowdoin Orient v.10, no.1-17 (1880-1881) The Bowdoin Orient Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoinorient-1880s Recommended Citation The Bowdoin Orient, "Bowdoin Orient v.10, no.1-17 (1880-1881)" (1881). The Bowdoin Orient 1880-1889. 2. https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoinorient-1880s/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the The Bowdoin Orient at Bowdoin Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Bowdoin Orient 1880-1889 by an authorized administrator of Bowdoin Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. lia VOLUME X. EDITORIAL BOARD. Peederick C. Stevens, Managing Editor. Charles H. Cutlee, Chaeles Haggeety, Caeroll E. Haeding, K[oEACE B. Hathaway, John W. Manson. Feedeeic a. Fishee, Business Editor. BOWDOIN COLLEGE, BRUNSWICK, MAINE, 1880-81. PRINTED AT THE JOURNAL OFFICE, LEWISTON, MAINE. INDEX TO VOLUME X. PAGE Editorial Notes 1, 13, 25, 37, 53, 63, 79, 91, Alumni Association, The Portland 143 103, 115, 127, 139, 151, 163, 175, 187, 197 Alumni, Bowdoin 169 Editors' Table 12, 24, 36, 50, 62, 90, 113 Athletic Association, The . 20 126, 150, 174,208 Athletics 11, 23, 35, 50, 62 Exhibition, Senior and Junior 10, 143 Base-Ball 20, 48, 61, 77 Exhibition, The Sixty-Eight Prize 58 Experiences, Our 57 Beldagou, Our 1 54 Boards, Meeting of the 102 Field Day 47 Boating 32 Freshman Year, My 166 Bowdoiu's Boom (Base-Ball) 36 Bowdoin Stories 118, 130, 179, 203 Ivy Day 46 Bugle, The 138 Junior Customs 43 Cheating in College Studies 142 Medical School, The 31 72 Class Day .j Memorial Hall 121, 204 Class Day Oration, The 66 Class-Eoom Characters . : 28 Necrology, '79-'80 88 Cleavelaud Cabinet, The 6 Clippings 11, 24, 36, 50, 62, 89, 102, 112, Personal ....10, 23, 35, 49, 61, 78, 88, 102, 111, 125, 150, 162, 173, 186, 208 124, 138, 149, 163, 173, 186, 196, 207 Commencement Day 73 Psychology 165, 177 College Friendships 4 Race, The Boat 45 College Glee Club, A 33 Race, Bowdoin Fall 97 College Items 9, 21, 34, 44, 59, 75, 87, 100, Resolutions 78 108, 123, 137, 148, 161, 171, 184, 195, 205 College Room, What I saw in a 120 Secret Societies 83 College Singing and Musical Organization ... 41 Secret Societies, Early History of Our 29 College World 1 1, 23, 35, 49, 62, 89, Sketch from Real Life 17 102, 125, 149 Some Objections to Our College in the State. 168 Convention, Alpha Delta Phi 60 Sophomore and Freshman Contests 85 Convention, Delta Kappa Epsilon 110 Sophomore and Freshman Customs 56 Convention, Psi Upsilon 60 Sophomore Year, My 181 Convention, Theta Delta Chi Ill Sports, Our 105 Crews, The : 19 Stanwood, Robert G 84 Curriculum, The New 74, 83 Stump Speech, My First 94 Drill, The 200 Sunday Services 71 . INDEX. COMMUNICATIONS. PAGE : Some Present Needs of Our College 191 Reply to • Bates Student, A 132,147 gports Our 135 EuDDing Base 8 subjects, Our 159 Bugle, Support of the Wanted, a College Dictionary 183 Boat-House Debt .135 POETRY. Composition Writiug 144 Cash Account, My 6 Curriculum, The New 106 Clara 142 District School Teacher, The 145 Class Poem 69 Drill, Letters 192 Important on Fragment, A 31 Drill, The 86, 98, 133 Genius and the Fish 16 Editorial on Psychology, A Reply to 182 Hazy Past 82 Evangeline 190 Ivy Poem 40 Field Day 21, 160 Kiss Me, Lucile 179 Good Manners 33 ^ . „ LatTu Poets, I ranslations from . Library Catalogue 7 Local Lyric 28 Mail Box, The 122 Moonlight ...^ 166 Musical Association 134 „ Orpheus, 203 Needed Reforms 146 Our New Neighbors 56 Out-Door Seats 33 Passage, The 19 Positiveness 157 Rec[uited 57 Reading-Room 122 Voices of Spring .204 ,#in Vol. X. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, APRIL 28, 1880. No. 1. BOWDOIN ORIENT. If we modestly wear a hat that fits us now, it may yet rest uneasily upon our expanding PUBLISHED EVERY ALTERNATE WEDNESDAY, DURING THE COLLEGIATE YEAR, BY THE CLASS OF '81, OF brow; on the other hand, should we assume BOWDOIN COLLEGE. a hat of pretentous proportions we may become the objects of ridicule. With chilling EDITORIAL BOARD. sarcasm an exchange remarks: "The new Charles H. Cutler, Horace B. Hathaway, Board of Editors enters the arena of college Frederic A. Fisher, Carroll E. Harding, Charles Haggerty, John ~W. Manson, journalism with a becoming bow, modestly Frederick C. Stevens. declares its intention to make the the Terms — $2.00 a year in advance single copies, 15 cents. ; true representative Remittances should be made to the Business Editor. Communications of Alma Mater, etc. It in regard to all other matters should be directed to the Managing Editor. is Students and Alumni of the college are cordially invited to contribute amusing to note how these new editors fill articles, personals, and items. Contributions must be accompanied by the writer's real name. their paper with promises which they never Entered at the Post Office at Brunswick as Second Class mail matter. fulfil." In our nringled perplexity and enthu- siasm we may affirm that we expect to gain as CONTENTS. we go, and receive support as we deserve. Tol. X., No. 1.—April 28, 1880. Editorial Notes 1 The past year has been one of considerable Literary : Translations from Latin Poets (poem) 4 change and activity in our college life, and, from College Friendships 4 My Cash Account (poem) 6 indications, the next will witness this in a still The Cleaveland Cabinet.—1 6 greater degree. The Orient, during the next Communications : Librarj' Catalogue 7 year, will continue to strive to preserve all Support of the Bugle 8 Base Running 8 that is good from the past, and to further the College Items 9 true interests of the college and its students. Senior and Junior Exhibition 10 Personal 10 College World 11 Athletics 11 We ouglit, perhaps, to give early notice Clippings 11 that, in accordance with the constitution Editors' Table 12 adopted by the retiring Board of Editors, we shall select our successors with regard to the EDITORIAL HOTES. worth of their communications, and no one shall be eligible who has not contributed. It The preface is rarely written until the has always been understood that the high and author has finished his work ; the reason is mighty editors of the Orient look with favor obvious : The preface and. the work m ust be upon those who write for their columns, but harmonious, and it is easier to fit the hat for until the last year the above-mentioned plan the head—to adapt the preface to the work. has not been a well defined and established As we attempt to raise our hats, in a principle. As has heretofore been remarked, graceful manner, to " our friends and patrons," this regulation is adopted in some of the we are conscious that our editorial head has larger colleges and it is one which commends not matured in its breadth and profundity. itself. Allow us to say to the members of '82 ! BOWDOIN ORIENT. that it is very difficult to judge of the merits spicuous only by their absence. In their of a writer by one communication. Modesty final decision we hope that the Faculty will forbids us to add that we hope to show the take into consideration the advantage which same good sense in the choice of our success- we might derive from these lectures. ors which the preceding Board have evinced We feel sure that we express the feelings We send the first number of tlie new vol- of every member of the Junior Class when ume of the Okient to many Alumni. To all we speak in praise of the faithful and pains- interested in the welfare of the college and taking manner in which the Chemistry and its work, it is of the highest importance that Astronomy of last term, under Prof. Robin- they should take our college paper, and thus son, were conducted. In Chemistry, lectures keep informed of what is going on here. alternated with practical work, and, at the Those who have been out of college fifteen close of the term's work, Astronomical talks years or move can hardly realize the important were given on points not fully treated in the place college journalism now occupies in the text. The lectures aimed at practical instruc- modern college, yet the way in which to tion on the subjects taken up. The manner understand college life of to-day is hj reading in which the practical work in Chemistry was the college papers. Occasionally the Orient conducted must have involved no little trouble has received communications from Alumni. in preparation of materials, to say nothing of These have always been favorably received the martyrdom the instructor must go through here and elsewhere. We shall be glad to in examining nasally the contents of number- receive these contributions at any time. less test-tiibes. Under Prof. Robinson, a student may be sure of learning all of which We regret to learn that the plan of his receptive faculties are capable, and of get- opening the lectures before the Bowdoin ting ftill credit for what he does know. We Philosophical Club to the upper classes, as are sure that all who have been under his announced in the local columns of the Orient, instruction will unite in a vote of thanks for has been given up. We are informed, not by pleasant and faithful treatment.