Maine Alumnus, Volume 7, Number 3, December 1925 - January 1926
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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine University of Maine Alumni Magazines University of Maine Publications 1-1926 Maine Alumnus, Volume 7, Number 3, December 1925 - January 1926 General Alumni Association, University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines Recommended Citation General Alumni Association, University of Maine, "Maine Alumnus, Volume 7, Number 3, December 1925 - January 1926" (1926). University of Maine Alumni Magazines. 65. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/65 This publication is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Maine Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. » Maine A l u m n u s Member of the Alumni Magazines Associated VOL. 7, NO. 3 DECEMBER, 1925—JANUARY, 1926 TWENTY CENTS ii In This Issue STUDENT-FACULTY-ALUMNI BANQUET—Page 35 TRACK TEAM USES FIELD HOUSE UNIT—Page 36 BASKET-BALL REVIEW—Page 38 CROSS COUNTRY CONTROVERSY—Page 39 < Entered «a second-class matter nt the post office at Bangor, Maine, under act of March 3, 1870. c 7i*. 34 THE MAINE ALUMNUS December, 1925- January, 1926 * UNIVERSITY STORE COMPANY ORGANIZED in 1911 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 0 and conducted for the Benjamin C. K ent, ’ 12 past fourteen years in the R obert P. Clark, ’ 15 interest of the Athletic As sociation, contributing yearly Archer L. Grover, ’99 from its profits to the support James A. Gannett, ’08 of athletics. Henry B. Eaton, ’26 Taking many mail orders Store Manager, F. L. M anwaring from the Alumni for books Store Treasurer, Irving Pierce and supplies; making special reunion banners. 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Used in the Alumni Office University Store Co., Orono, Me* || * ■—■ — ... »— The Maine Alumnus Vol. 7, No. 3 December, 1925-January, 1926 ST UDENT-FACULTY-ALUMNI BANQUET IS SUCCESSFUL EVENT With Governor Ralph 0. Brewster the guest of honor, Acting President Harold S. Boardman, Dean James S. Stevens, Kenneth W. MacGregory, '26, speakers, and Harry A. Sutton, president of the General Alumni Asso ciation, toastmaster, the third annual Student-Faculty-Alumni Banquet sponsored by the Senior Skulls of the Univer sity of Maine at the Bangor House, January 15, registered itself as one of the best get-together meetings of University sons and daughters ever held. “ The Ideal State University” was the topic of the evening. Over 200 were present, and for the first time in the history of these mid-winter banquets, representatives from the woman’s division of the student body attended __________________________ In the main address of the evening, be so equipped that we c an take care of not be forced to spend their time and Governor Brewster discussed the growth the demand,” said the acting head of the effort in going to Augusta every two years of the University of Maine and tried to University. He plead for sufficient funds to fight for funds A settled policy should picture what the future held instore He to put our plant” in first-class condition, be decided upon and lived up to by both expressed a firm conviction that the stating that in order to turn out a first-c parties I believe that a policy can be University of Maine h ad a place in the lass product, the equipment and operatives worked out which after the institution is educational system of the State, he praised must be of high grade In conclusion once placed in a first class condition will the work of the College of Agriculture, the Acting President Boardman said — result in an elimination of the disagree Extension service, and argued for the able misunderstandings which have too " A fair and impartial examin ation will existence of the College of Arts and often appealed m the past This is an soon show that in order to keep our Sciences which, of l ate, has been the ideal worth striving for standards of excellence high we should subject of considerable verbal attack have more buildings, pay better salaries, His Excellency spoke of the growth of the “In closing I desire to reiterate my free public school, and later the f r ee high and obtain considerable new equipment. belief in M aine, my native State, and school, tracing the demands for higher It is also common knowledge that our the University of Maine, my Alma Mater. education to the door of colleges in the May they glow hand in hand and each State and to the State University The fulfill its destiny.” Governor pointed out that the appropria-tion D ean Stevens, as the faculty representative in 1905 when there were 554 students , explained the growth of the College registered at Maine was $12,000, while of Arts and Sciences and named what he the appropriation for 1925, with 1441 considered the tour important points in students, was $400,000 ‘ Great demands the upbuilding of a “ bigger and better will be made by those who seek higher M aine” Those were the elimination of education, at the doors of our University loafers, the segregation of the dullards who in the next few years The question is retard the more capable students, more how to meet these demands How much attention to be paid to the better students can we afford to pay? This is a matter and last, insistence that scholarship be which must be faced by all with open fully recognized as a “collegiate activity.” eyes.” Governor Brewster gave interesting Kenneth W. McGregory, able editor-in-chief statistics to show that the agricultural of the Maine Campus, spoke on the interests are turning back from western three phases of student fife, the moral, farm lands to lugged New England He physical and mental, and pictured in a said that Maine may look forward to an humorous vein, the often times misjudged agricultural renaissance that will result “ collegiate” term as applied to students of in the up-building of the State so that we colleges and universities in the present may in truth have a “ bigger and better day. Maine” Past unpleasantries in educa President Sutton of the alumni associa tional circles have passed, he said, and as tion introduced the speakers in an able healing plant is in a very questionable he closed, he made it clear that the time manner after being introduced by Edward condition Where is the money coming had come to meet on common ground, F Stanton, ’26 of Hartford, Conn , from to meet this demand? realize the full situation, and meet it in president of the Senior Skulls which the best manner possible “The answer appears to be that the organization was paid tribute for the The State executive followed Acting greater part must come from the State successful promotion of the meeting of the President Boardman who spoke of the How much can the State afford to give three University forces. Music by future plans of the University as not proposing toward the support of its State University? Kane’s Orchestra, a short sketch by under any great expansion in numbers The question has never been answered graduates and singing by an under of departments, nor offering undue encouragement and I believe it should be, and then the graduate quartet were other features of to out-of-state students “Our garment should be cut according to the the evening, not to mention the splendid chief duty is to our state, and we should cloth. The Trustees and President should repast as served by the Bangor House. 36 THE MAINE ALUMNUS December, 1925-January, 1926 TRACK TEAM BEGINS TRAINING IN FIELD HOUSE UNIT (The viewpoint of an alumnus on any University of Maine matter dear to all alumni, is probably better taken by other alumni, than if the opinion comes from a student, a faculty member or an outside observer. Accordingly, the Editor was overwhelmed with joy when “ one of our own” volunteered to put his thoughts on paper after he had paid his first visit to the Field House unit of the Memo rial Gymnasium-Armory and had seen action in the form of undergraduate activity within the huge structure. His thoughts, expressed in printer’s ink, are broadcast for the benefit of those 6,000 odd who make up our big alumni family.— EDITOR’S NOTE.) BY ALUMNUS Practically all of the work of smoothing true,—but nevertheless a start on what the indoor field within the track has been will be the alumni’s gift to Maine,—the Over one hundred students in track completed. The building is heated to a Memorial Gymnasium-Armory. uniform in action under competent coach comfortable temperature, and on the If you are any where near Orono, don’t ing methods in early January! Was I particular afternoon I visited the field miss the opportunity of looking over the dreaming? It seemed as if I was, and I the warmth brought considerable relief field house unit.