Bowdoin College Bowdoin Digital Commons The Bowdoin Orient 1870-1879 The Bowdoin Orient 1-1-1874 Bowdoin Orient v.3, no.1-17 (1873-1874) The Bowdoin Orient Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoinorient-1870s Recommended Citation The Bowdoin Orient, "Bowdoin Orient v.3, no.1-17 (1873-1874)" (1874). The Bowdoin Orient 1870-1879. 3. https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/bowdoinorient-1870s/3 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 1870-1879 by an authorized administrator of Bowdoin Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VOLUME III. EDITORS : S. V. Coi.E, W. T. GooDAi.E, F. W. Hawthorne, L. H. Kimball, D. O. S. Lowell, F. K. Wheeler, H. K. White. BOWDOIN COLLEGE, BRUNSWICK, MAINE. 1873-74- f--^^ I^UM/^ yiifZfCM PRINTED AT THE .TOURN'AL OFFICE, LETflSTON, MAINE. INDEX TO VOL. III. PAGE .' A. A. A. S 82 Colleges, Early American . - 194 Acquaiutances 51 Commencement 66 Affairs of the Day 125, 136 Commencement Week, Programme of 55, 69 Aluaini Association of Bo.ston 178 " " Review of 78 " " " New Yorli 165 Communication 29, 44, 63, 79, 100, 122 Alumni Eecord. Cornell Tragedy 115, 137 9,22, 94, 119, 130, 142, 155, 177, 191, 202 Crosby, Professor Dixi 113 Alumni Record of '70 165 " " " '72 130 Day Dreams (poem) 109 " " " '73 94 Degrees 195 Amorum Amor (poem) 67 Dryad (poem) 85 Aualytics, Burial of 69 Editorial. -.6, 18, 30, 42, 54, 66, 78, 90, 102, 114, Base Ball, Bowdoins vs. Bates 117 126, 138, 150, 162, 174, 186, 198 Base Ball CouventioQ 10 Editors' Table. ..129, 141, 153, 167, 176, 190, 201 Blouses 91 Education at Bowdoin 30 Blunders 67 England, Changes in 58 Boating 75 English Branches 54 Boating Convention 9 Ennui (poem) 157 Boating Meeting 93 Ei)itaphs 85 Bolting, Right of 112 Epitaph on a Goody 17 Book Table 11, 1 05 Exclianges 33, 142 Bourne, Hon. Edward Emerson 97 Bowdoin in the East 157 Female Education 37 Bowdoin in the Past 172 Fisher's Wife (poem) 133 Bowdoin in 1852 187 Foot Ball 128 Brook, The [poem) 110 Four Years' Fight on our Campus Martius . 183 Brown Prizes 52 Freshman Base Ball Convention 10 Bugle 140 Freshman Class Officers 93 Burial of Analytics 69 General Societies 16, 29, 95 Carcassonne [poem) 70 German University Life, Incidents from. I. 98 " " " " Changes in England 58 " II... 110 " " " " Changes in Faculty 78 " III... 121 Claribel [poem) 73 Gleanings 131, 143, 156, 166, 179, 191, 203 Class Elections 89 Gower, Godfrey Noel 179 Class Excursion 39 Gutenberg, John 87 Class OfiBcers of '74 175 Class Ode of '73 68 Hale, John P 139 College News 11, 23, 46, 59, 70 Helicon College, Story of 61 College Regatta 173 Heroes, Our (poem) 193 INDEX. PAGE Hope, Noel 179 Principle, A Wrong 193 Hyena 19 Proverbs. 1 2 II 52 Imitation in Literature 184 Psi Upsilou Convention 70 Influence of Bowdoin iu the West 38 Inter -Collegiate Literary Convention. Eeading Eoom 102, 123 161, 163, 169 Eed Cotton Night Cap Country 17 Inter -Collegiate Literary Contests 181 Eegatta 34 Invalid Corps 43 Eeligious Intolerance 5 Eeminiscences. 1 13 Johnson's Dictionary 5 II 26 III 49 Lectures, the Bowdoin 114, 138 Eeview of Commencement Week 78 Let us Have our Work Better Done 1 Eichest Prince {pioem) 169 Letter 74 Eight of Bolting 112 Library of Dr. Woods 107 Eockwood, Professor 162 Life Song, The {poem) '. 135 Local 7, 19, 31, 45, 56, 68, 80, 91, 104, 118, Sackcloth and Ashes {poem) 25 127, 141, 152, 164, 175, 189, 199 Scientific Observations 86 Lost [poem) 1 Senior Class Election 171 Smith, George E 77 May {poem) 17 Social Science, Society of 58 May-Day 15 Society Campaign 93 Memoria {poem) 197 Sonnet 185 Memory 29 Spring {poem) 195 Mezzofauti, Cardinal - 40 Military Department 63, 145 Teachers 100 Mistaken {poem) 145 Telegraph 44, 150 Mohammed 4 " TelegTa[)h " and the Drill 135 Morning Star 151 Telegraph Company 175 My Friend Sykes 76 Theories 160 To a Blauk Leaf {imem) 73 Necrology of Bowdoiu College for 1873 .... 67 To-morrow {ijoem) 133 New, The {poem) 145 True Story of Helicon College 61 Noel - Hope 179 Trustees and Overseers' Meeting 140 Tweed and Stokes 136 Origin of " Old Crimes " 124 Origin of Things 53 Valedictory 196 Original Thinking 185 Vassar College 139 Virginius, The 137 Pain and Pleasure 176 Volaute 82 Petition before the Boards 159 Peucinian and Atheuean 54, 55 Walker, CM 68 Pledging Freshmen 79 Warner, CD 65 Post-Graduate Course . 64 What Was It? 132 Price, George, Presentation to 113 Woods', Dr., Library 107 —— " —; — Vol. III. BRUNSWICK, MAINE, APEIL 30, 1873. No. 1. LOST. LET US HAVE OUR WORK BETTER " Dearer than gold or pearl to me," — DONE. T]ie u-ind slipped down to the sea so cold,- A house divided against itself cannot " The Past that is uever more to be," — stand. But while the Orient is the same old Clouds orcr the mountain rolled. house, a new family has moved in, the old one The heart sat lone at fall of day, moved out. The former editors of the Orient The wind slipped down to the sea so cold,- will pardon us for the following criticism upon thought shone in from the far away, A a leading article in one of last term's issues. Clouds over the mountain rolled. " Let us have more work " is the stirring motto of the writer. Whether it be laziness "He is gone: I never shall see him again," — or sober sense after all, we earnestly plead The wind slipped down to the sea so cold,— " I have sought from mountain to sea iu vaiu,"- that the threatened reform (if reform it be) Clonds over the mountain rolled. may be delayed at least one year longer. The great need of oiu- College curriculum is not " In through the gold doors of the sun " more work," but the same work better done. Flmig open for his coming wide. The course, as laid in the catalogue, Bearing my work in his arms undone down He entered at the eventide. already inspires enough dread in the timid hearts of coming Freshmen. Although hard- " To whom will ho show my work undone 1 worked at the fitting school, we well remember No eye could follow whither he went; how we wondered that so much work could Of all the birds that fly, not <me be done iu a single term of the Hath brought a message backward sent. college year. Nor does the faithful, tliorough-going student " Love only may pierce, for no sound hath after entering College find himself harassed The curtain of silence across his path; by leisure hours and easy lessons. Oftener But 'love is blind' aud hath no sense will he be obliged to leave one task half fin- To tell tlie whither, when and whence. ished to hasten to another. We appeal to the experience and good judgment of every stu- " We have, yet sock, aud not till lost Does that we have display its worth dent, Will not a thorough mastery of the pre- Is it because what we love most scribed branches of study consume every hour 'Was never meant to be of earth ? which should properly be devoted to them ? Do the Freshmen need a deeper draught of The heart knocked long at the Future's gate, Latin and Greek or a stronger dose of Math- The wind slipped down to the sea so cold,— No answer but to watch aud wait, ematics ? Do the Sophomores grow luzy be- Clouds over the mountain rolled. cause Analytics is not hard enough, or pine in idleness for more lines of Ajax ? Juniors, are To wait how long for the vanished host ? — 3'ou ready to strike for more work ? Did your The wind slipped down to the sea so cold,— righteous indignation rise at the facility with Or is the lost forever lost? — Clouds over tlie mountain rolled. which fifty pages of Physics were learned in ^ a single day ? Seniors, you, we know, have sy^'7 BOWDOIN ORIENT. little to do. Worn and exhausted by the toils ity to those who desire mainly to pass the ex- of three years, the Faculty dare tax you no aminations and graduate. Students Avill not further. But even in your case may it not be scholarly till scholarship is not only made be that a little less study in the past would an object of ambition but a necessity. If a have left more strength for future attaui- college is too poor or unpopular for this stern ments ? We do maintain that the men who course, it is its own misfortune. The only resolve to fearlessly grasp and thoroughly alternative is a few. good scholars or many master the difficulties of the College course poor ones. need have no idle hours. And these are the men to whom the cur- riculum must be adapted. The question is not PROVERBS. how many books or lectures can the most cas- ual student run over in the most casual way, The man who invented proverbs deserves but how much actual attainment can be made to be classed among the greatest benefactors of by those of patient application and thorough the human race. As a substitute for thinking, scholarship. The men of talent and industry they are ahead of everything, surpassing even must not be forced to neglect duties which the complete letter-writer.