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

VOLUME XVII SECOND QUARTER NUMBER 2

CONTENTS FOR SECOND QUARTER, 1927-1928 EDITORIAL NOTES:

Colby s Next President ...... 79 Salaries for College Teachers ...... 79 Recruiting the Staff ...... 79 Special Articles ...... 80 The Gymnasium Fund Campaign ...... 80 One by One ...... 80

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

History in the Making, B3 William I. Wilhnson, LLD...... 80

Albion Woodbury Small, By Cllrt'.s Hugh lforroi, Ph. D ...... 83 Plans for the 107th Commencement By Co11.-i11u:11ce111cnt Co111711iftee...... 87

The History of oby College, By Ernest Cummings Marriner B.A . '13 ...... 89

With the College Faculty, B31 Lester Frank Weelu, A.M. . '15...... 91 Among the Graduates, By the Editor...... 92 Annual Banquet Colby New York Alumni Assoc:at:on, By fruerett T. Condon '26.. 94 Need of a New Gymnasium, B3 C. Harr3 Edwards, B.P.E...... 97 In Memoriam, B31 the Editor...... 101

Fred Myron Preble, '81 ...... 101 Dudley Perkin Bailey '67...... 102 Henry Ware Hale, 67...... 102 Andrew Judson Sturtevant, '77...... - ...... 103 Elihu Nurritt Haskell '72 ...... : ...... 103 · Nathan, Butler, '54 ...... 103 I van Cecil Hight, 93 ...... 104 James Otis Fish, '82 ...... 104 George Lora Dunham '82 ...... "...... 104 Fred William Peakes,· '96 ...... : ...... 104 Amos Barton Lunt 67...... 104 Nathaniel Bryant Coleman, '63...... 104 Roscoe Green Ricker, '84 ...... 105 William Prentiss Morton, 86...... 105 Ralph Winfred Tower, 92 ...... , ...... 105 Isaac Selden Clifford, 62 ...... 105 Profe sor Libby Announces Candidacy for. Governor of Maine ...... 105 High Honors for a Colby Graduate ...... 108 A Roberts Memorial Volume, BJ, Carl J. Wcber M.A...... 109

The Gymna ium Fund Campaign By the pccial Comlllittce ...... 110

TERMS :-Issued four t;mes during the College Year. Sub cription 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. Heed the Call!

HE Special Committee of the Board of Trustees, charged with the im­ portant work of completing the cam­ paign for funds for a new Gymnasium---a cam­ paign begun by our late President Roberts--­ urgently requests every Colby man· to make an immediate contribution.· More than one thou­ sand Colby men have not yet responded; more than eight hundred Colby men have! I Don't burden the Committee with extra labor

and expense involved Ill circularizing the one thousand.

The need is real. The campaign ·will be pushed to a conclusion, and all must give! I Heed the call!

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Colby's Next Marked interest is being data, and with this in hand they will President. shown by students and presently recommend a schedule of · graduates of the College salaries. Our 'only suggestion is that in the man who will be named as the the maximum salary be put high next president of Colby. No man in enough so that teachers have something particular is in mind, and therefore no to aim at. Incentive is as necessary to one has the remotest notion from what the college teacher as· to the college part of the country he may .be called, athlete. Dead levels are always mo­ or from wh�t vocation ; this doubt that notonous ; the hills always attract. It surrounds the work of the special com­ is doubtful if there is any group of men mittee named to propose a president on the face of the earth more impracti­ makes the specula.tion all the more volu­ cal than colleg� teachers, and it may be ble and interesting. There seems to be well that they are. They ought to show general agreement about one important a little good sense in making sugges­ factor, and that is that the new presi­ tions about increases in salaries. If dent mu.st be an outstanding man­ they cannot, then their wives better be strong, business-like, in sympathy with called into consultation. A good salary youth, ambitious· to see the college pays bills, keeps the teacher from need­ stride forward, and a judge of men. less worry, purchases needed books, He alone cannot carry all the burdens provides a little recreation, a new suit that will fall upon his shoulders ; he of clothes now and then-just the ordi­ must surround himself with a group· of nary comforts that should conspire to far-visioned assistants, a faculty that make better teachers. The· ALUMNUS concerns itself with the large things has. pointed out again and again that and not with the petty, who count their when good salaries are paid then a worth not in degrees received but in higher grade of work can be demanded. character, who are willing· to teach not The board of trustees should match the for the sole sake of the dollar but for Colby salaries with any schedule of the good they can do the young men salaries paid in New England. Until and women who are seeking an educa­ she does do this , the College must take tion. As suggested in these columns an inferior rating. before, the new president will f.ace - problems and conditions that will tax Recrui.ting Altogether too many of his resources to the full. The special the Staff. our new recruits on the committee of the trustees may well can­ faculty tarry on for a vas the field of candidates thoroughly year or two and then depart, when the before venturing to submit their recom­ recruiting begins all over again. Tak­ mendations to the full board. The ing on three or fo ur ne w men every committee has a task that few covet. year or two and letting them e�peri­ The right man for the big job exists ment with freshmen, the while the raw somewhere, and he must' be found. recruits gain. a little good teaching ex­ perience, is· a policy that is wholly Salaries for The board of trustees of wrong. A faculty isn't recruited sat­ College the College are interested isfactorily in that fashion. It is all Teachers. in securing la:riger sala­ well enough to take on young instruc­ ries for our college teachers. A com­ tors, but they should be men who have mittee is at work securing all possible acquired their training and are read� 80 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

for their life's work. They should be committee charged with raising the selected with infinite care, no mistakes money. The response on the part of made, no "half wits" employed. Then those who have already made their they should be kept just as long as they pledges is generous enough; the aver­ show ability and grow th. A faculty age gift is· high enough to insure the becomes of value as it remains a per­ success of the Fund-provided, of manent force year by year. The older course, that aJl others respond as gen­ faculty men are the ties that bind grad­ erously. It is probable that within a uate to college. Let us not continue to very short time another appeal for have a shifting population amcng our funds will go forth from the cpmmittee, new teaching recruits. and it is hoped that no Colby man will neglect a plain duty to his alma mater. Special Attention is called to the · Articles. excellent special articles In the last few weeks that appear on other 011,e by 011e Colby has lost from her pages of the ALUMNUS. Each and all trustee membership two of them ar e worth reading for they strong men-Dr Fred M. Preble, of the bear di rectly on the life of the institu­ class of 1881, and Mr. Dudley P. Bailey, ALUMNUS tion. From time to time the of the class of 1867. Both men were intends to devote some pages to such devoted to the interests of the college, articles that our readers may get a lit­ and both men rendered long and faith­ tle better conception of the larger hori­ ful and distinguished service on the zons that lift about the college campw;. board of trustees. Presumably at the The Gymnasiitm If there is the least likeli- next meeting of the Board the usual Fwu/, . hood that the necessary resolutions will be written, presented, C anipaign. money for t h e new gym- and accepted, and the book will be nasium will be forthcoming by next closed. It is about the only way that June, then about 1,000 graduates will constituted bodies have to show their need to contribute about $40 each. regard for those who drop by the way­ Elsewhere the figures are given of the side. Let it be said again and again amount thus far raised, and a full list of those who have rendered faithful of the givers printed1• While the list service that their lives live on in the seems long it must be three times as hearts of those who knew them best, long before next June. More than a that their influence for good abides, and thousand Colby men have failed to re­ that their richest legacies exist in the ' of college ply in any way to letters that have been successful lives of hundredS and girls whos lot in life these sent out from the college office. It may boys e be that these thousand loyal sons in­ faithful servants helped to make easier. tend some day to give, but these good What faithfulness they showed through intentions are not ver y helpful to the the years to the cause they loved best!

History in the Making BY WILLIAM J. WILKINSON, LL.D.

The most significant his.tory which is ten in the future the Chinese revolution being made at present is to be found in will be regarded as more important China, Russia, and Italy, the Chinese than the World War. "It is the most scene of action being the most import­ momentous event of a 1000 years" says ant. At least such is· the view of Mr. Dr. Dillon, a noted student of world H. G. Wells who is both a historian and politics. There is nothing comparable student of current events. Indeed Mr. to it in modern history, remarked Pro­ Wells asserts that when history is writ- fessor Dewey a few months ago. This THE COLBY ALUMNUS 81

remember the vast extent of that coun­ try with its. population of approximate­ ly 438,000,000 people comprising one fourth of the human race. At present these peop1le are engaged in a Civil War. It is a conflict between the North and the South. Unlike our Civil War, however, the North, under the leadership of Chang Tso Lin, is fight­ ing in behalf of the old and archaic feudal system .with its many intolera­ ble abuses. The South of China under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek is carrying on a crusade for a new and better political and economic system. The principles which this young and brilliant leader of the Nationalist movement would im1pose on China are those bequeathed 1by the great Sun Yat­ sen, who since his death a few years ago is already revered as the George Washington of his country. These principles as contained in his famous will consist in nationalism, democracy and a better social statu.s for the PROF. WILLIAM J. WILKINSO ' LL. D. Head of Department of History masses of the people. Of course there are many complicat­ fiilllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllJllJIJlllllllllllllllllllll11� ed phases in the ci vii conflict now in progress among the Chinese which can­ estimate of China was anticipated more not be included in any abbreviated ac­ than a century ago when Napoleon ex­ count. Mention, however, must be hibited one of those flashes of intuition made of the interesting General Feng, for which he was so notable, by declar­ frequently referred to as the Christian ing, "There lies a sleeping giant. Let general. This contradictory personage him sleep, for when he wakes he will has ·been pictured in a recent cartoon move the world". John Hay, one of as holding a Bible in one hand and a our greatest Secretaries of State gave copy of the Soviet constitution in the expression in his time to a similar other. The attitude of Feng is always dictum when he asserted, "The storm uncertain, but at the present moment, center of the World has shifted to he is inclined to be sympathetic with China. Whoever understands that the cause of the Nationalists or Kuom­ mighty empire has a key to world poli­ intang. According to last account he tics for the next five centuries." Five is ready to come to the aid of the hundred years seems a long period for Nationalists in their projected effort to any nation to be the dominating factor capture Peking, which drive is sched­ in World affairs but no less an authori­ uled to take place this spring. Those ty and student of Eastern politics than whose sympathies are with the cause of Count Sforzia has recently expressed progress in China devoutly wish suc­ an opinion similar to that of Mr. Hay. cess for Chiang Kai-shek in his ap­ Theodore Roosevelt, then, was near the proaching contest with the super truth when he de�lared that "the age bandit Chang Tso Lin. of the Mediterranean has passed, the In addition to the civil war certain age of the Atlantic is passing and that revolutionary movements are in pro­ of the Pacific is upon us." cess which are changing· the country To properly comprehend what is from a state of medievalism to modern­ transpiring in China it is necessary to ism. Perhaps the main cause of chaos 82 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

,consists in the fact that both an indus­ poem, describes the dawn which "comes trial and religious revolution are at up like thunder out of China 'cross the work. When we remember ·that in bay." Today the world is witnessing Europe the industrial and religious re­ in China another kind of dawn than volutions were spread over a long that depicted by the poet. It is the period of years and more or less con­ dawn of a new epoch, the ushering in fined to small areas and then realize of a new era. But it is a troubled, that these same phenomena are crowd­ threatening dawn, a period of storm ing ·upon a vast population in a few and stress. This dawn, like that of years we begin to appreciate the real Kiplings, also "comes like thunder out significance of the Chinese revolution. of China 'cross the bay." What is the cause of this ferment Next to China, history is being made and revolutionary upheaval ? To this in Russia which the future historians question many answers have been giv­ will recount in a multitude of books. en. Some attribute it to the work and And this record, like that of China's personality of Dr. Su.n Yat-sen and the will be full of chaos, turmoil and success of his revolutionary activities human sufferings. Last November the in 1911. The leaven of missionary Russians celebrated the tenth anniver­ schools and the education of Chinese sary of their bold experiment in gov­ youth in America and Europe is offered ernment. As to the virtues or evils of as another explanation. Upton Close the Soviet regime during the past de­ in his interesting volume "The Revolt cade many conflicting voices are heard. of Asia" partly attributes the awaken­ Among those who have condemned the ing of China to the World War. The Bolshevist rulers are H. G. Wells and decline of European prestige, by rea­ Bertram Russell, both of whom by rea­ son of its weakened condition after· son of their temperaments and well­ four years of destructive violence has known views might be expected to re­ had its effect throughout the entire gard the ways of Moscow with ap­ East. This accounts for the determi­ proval. To be su·re Mr. Wells, after a nation of China to be master of its own visit to Russia a few years ago said house (according to Upton Close) and complimentary things a;bout the Sovi­ put an end to the foreign domination ets. But in a recent composite volume imposed on her by European nations in containing articles, or more properly her hour of weakness. The example speaking, protests, Mr. Wells, Bertram given by the Turks at Chanak has Russell, and the other contributors ex­ awakened and emboldened the entire press their horror because of the harsh Orient. Already Chanek is regarded punishment visited upon honest men by historians as an important event in whose sole crime consists in refusing to history. One authority speaks of this bow the knee to the economic and polit­ incident as marking "the beginning of ical creed of those who happen to con­ the end of the white man's dominance trol the machinery of government. It of Asia". When a hundred thousand is this spirit - of intolerance which starved and ragged Turkish soldiers makes Mr. Wells very angry. Men and defied the British at Chanak and dis­ women who had suffered exile and im­ covered that Great Britain was too prisonment under the Tzarist regime weakened and impoverished as a result are today subjected to harsh treatment of the World War to take up that chal­ in Soviet jails for daring to differ from lenge, the Chinese believed that their the group in power. Strangely enough, day had arrived to settle many long the most recent victim of this intoler­ standing grievances. This changed at­ ant and undel'Il\ocratic regime is none tidude from subserviency to one of other than T'rotsky who with Lenin National integrity and assertion of in­ made the revolution. Be cause he op­ dependence is eloquent· of the great posed Stalin, who is at the moment change which is transpiring in distant supreme, Trotsky has been banished to

China. · A new day is dawning in that the most remote and barren part of ancient empire. Kipling, in a familiar Russia. This is another exhibition of THE COLBY ALUMNUS 83

how "revolutions often swallow their who profess devotion to the principles children." History relates many such of Governm\ent as expressed by Lincoln instances, that of Danton's during the at Gettysburg, are among those who French revolution resem bling in strik­ applaud a type of government which ing fashion the fate which has over­ displays arrogant hostility to any par­ taken Trotsky. ticipation in government by the people. The indictment which Wells and Ber ­ Nor is Italy the only horrible exam­ tram Russell have urged against Russia ple of a government denying the is to 1be brought against Mussolini and American principle of democracy. his dictatorship of Italy. Nitti, a for� Within the past month the world has · er premier of Italy and one of Europe's had the dictatorship of Spain vividly foremost statesmen, has recently writ­ advertized by the circumstances sur­ ten a volume entitled "Bolshevism, rounding the death of Ibanez, Spain's Fascism and Democracy." This book foremost man of letters. Like so many shows how the spirit of the Italian of Italy's scholars and writers, Ibanez regime does not differ a particle from was an exile because he refused submis­ that of the Russian. Both are the sion to the dictatorship of Primo de antithesis of Democracy.. Immedfate Riviera. Poland likewise has its dicta­ and dire punishment awaits any man tor in the person of Marshal Pilsudski. or journal daring to raise the voice of In Rumania the role of dictator has criticism or- opposition to the self con­ been . played by the elder Bratiano stituted ruler of Italy. Nitti, himself whose rule· approximated an intolerant is an exile, and were he to return to his tyranny. With his death the younger 1native land, arrest and imprisonment brother is playing at the game of dicta­ would immediately follow. Matteoti, tor but his performance is much weak­ because he dared voice his opposition er and more juvenile than that of his in the Chamber of Deputies was mur­ predecessor. .Hungary, too, must be dered by the Fascisti. Salvemini, an added to the list of European nations eminent scholar of Florence is an exile which are enjoying the very dubious because he demanded the right of benefits of a dictator's rule. In that differing from the party in control-a unhappy country Admiral Horthy is in right which is an integral part of supreme control. In the meantime democracy. But Mussolini has nothing America with its democratic institu­ but brazen contempt for democracy tions is forging ahead and is taking a and flaunts it at every opportunity. position of primacy among the nations Strangely enough, many Americans of the world.

Albion Woodbury Small 1854-1926

AME-RICAN PIONEER AND GREATEST PROMOTER OF SOCIOLOGY : AN APPRECJATION

BY CURTIS HUGH MORROW, PH.D

Institutions like individuals are examples" a few stand out as leaders, judged largely by their works. They either because of their innate ability or differ however in that a much longer because of their unswerving devotion time must elapse before the full signi­ to duty. Among institutions Colby ficance of their la1bor is br ought to College has been indeed fortunate in light. This is P.specially true of an in­ the success of her sons. In the field of stitution of learning whose product is, letters none of these sons have attained for the most part, incorporated into the greater eminence than he who was one lives of its graduates. . Of these "living of the first great pioneers in and by far 84 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

the greatest promoter of the science of �1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111illlllllllllllllll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllll� Sociology. Albion W oodbu,ry Small was a pro.­ duct of Maine and of Colby College. He was 1born in Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, May 11, 1854. He was the son of the Rev. A. K. P. Small, D.D., and Thankful Lincoln Woodbury, both of whom were of tl)e stalwart, devout, New England stock whose ancestors I I had settled in Maine in the year 1632. From) these devout parents who "Took their religion seriously as a high-mind­ ed manner of life," the boy learned the ! I value of a religion of beau,ty, love and cheerful faith. Very early in his life he began to re­ veal his superior mental ability. The need of a proper development of this ability eventually brought him· to l ROF. c. H. 1\foRROW, PH.D. Department Economic and - Waterville College. During the four ociology

years of his residence in the college - Albion W. Small was easily the out­ �1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111� standing student. In order that his preparation for life should be still fur­ himself had prepared. As President ther perfected he devoted the next five he conducted one of the first, if not the years to graduate study. Three of first, courses in Sociology ever given in these years were spent at Newton Theo­ an American University. The stu­ logical Institution from which he grad­ dents who had -the good fortune to uated in 1879. The two remaining study under him at that time were pro­ years he studied at Berlin, Leipzig, vided with a book which he called, "In­ and the British Museum. In Europe troduction to· the Science of Sociology." he came into contact with the European This book was the first foundation of a masters of social thought. At Weimer course in Sociology ever printed in he met Miss Valeria Von Massow, America. It was the pioneer textbook whom he married and with whom he in the newest of the sciences. returned to America in 1881. Dr . .Small was elected to the Head In the fall of the same year he was professorship of the department of elected to the chair of History and Social Science at the University of Chi­ Political Economy at Colby University. cago early in the year 1892. Here he For the next seven years he was one of interested President Harper in estab­ the most popular members of the fac­ lishing a graduate department for the ulty. The year 1888-1889 was devoted developing of the Science of Sociology. by Professor Small to study at Johns Such a department existed nowhere Hopkins University. After receiving else in the world. There were not a the degree of Doctor of Philosophy he few leading educators who had grave returned to Colby to be this time Presi­ doubts that any University could draw dent of the institution. This position enough graduate students to make a de­ he held for the next three years, or un­ partment possible. This hardy pioneer til he was called to become the Head of had to make his own trails. There the department of Sociology at the were no roads' open into the wildern�ss newly organized University of Chicago. of social fact and theory. The few It was while still Professor of His­ traces were hardly fitted to serve as a tory and Political Economy at Colby highway upon which a well organized that Dr. Sm all began the method of Graduate School of Sociology could giving his classes material which he travel. This venturesome pioneer, THE COLBY ALUMNUS 85

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nevertheless, established not only the gree of Master of Arts. These gradu­ first ·but in every respect the most ates, the first thoroughly trained Soci­ thorou,ghly equipped department of olugists, are today the leading educa­ Sociology in existence. That he was tors in that subject. correct in his belief that there was a To establish a new science a litera­ need for the department he established ture must be brought into being to is proven 1by the fact that each year serve as a means of disseminating its there were three hundred undergradu­ findings. Such a literature did not exist ate and over two hundred graduate stu­ in the field of Sociology . To meet this dents taking courses in Sociology at the need Dr. Small established the Ameri­ University. Since the founding of this can Jo urnal of Sociology. This again department sixty-eight students have was a pioneer work. Much of the received the degree of Doctor of Phil­ earlier issues of this journal were filled osophy and one hundred seven the de- with the writings of the founders of 86 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

the science of whom Dr. Small was one the subject he was without any close of the greatest. His venture was again rival. He was one of the founders of successful. In the thirty years of its the American Sociological Society and existence under the editorship of Dr. as such he did\ more than any three Small it has been, in the words of Dr. men to make the Society and its jour­ Harry Elmer Barnes, "by all odds the nal, of Sociology, a success. most important Sociological Journal in Aside from the arduous task of the World." To even make a list of the creating a department in an untried numerous articles which Dr. Sm;all field andl of bringing into being a lit­ wrote for this and other journals would erature for that field Dr. Small gave take more· space than the limits of this considerably more time than could have paper will allow. In his attempt to been reasonably required of him to ad­ promote the subject matter of Sociol­ ministrative and teaching duties. As ogy he was surpassed only by Lester F. an administrator he was Dean of the Ward of Brown University and by Dr. College of Liberal Arts, then, Director Franklin H. Giddings of Columbia Uni­ of Affiliation, and finally Dean of the versity. Grad!uate School of Arts and Litera­ His writings for the journals were ture. He was a teacher who impressed however only a part of his work in his students with his personality, his promoting his chosen field. From the vigor, his humor and his amazing eru­ very beginning he had the material dition. His field of work was neither that he was preparing printed. In for the man of the street nor for the 1890 he published "An Introduction to man of slight liking for vigorous men­ the Science of Sociology" which is con­ tal exercise : but for those individuals ceded to be the first textbook on the who like himself could follow truth to subject printed in America. A few the end. In the words of one of his years later an "Outline of Course in students, "Research under him became Sociology. Privately Printed: for the a zestful enterprise." His human ap­ Use of the Class of '93 in Colby Univer­ proach, his thoughtfulness and consid­ sity," appeared. Beginning with 1905 eration for the beginner and the in­ when "General .Sociology" was pub­ spiration of his burning quest for truth lished and ending with 1924 when the won the admiration of all who came in­ "Origins of Sociology" came from the to his classes and stimulated many an press Dr. Small wrote and published individual into continuing a very dis­ six of . the most important books on couraging· piece of research. He had Sociology ever written. While his a very liberal attitude toward all who books were never intended to be popu­ were working with him on disputed lar in character or to appeal to the gen­ ground. He was not however so much eral reader they are of that enduring interested in proving his title to discov­ type that will be consulted, and utilized eries as he was in having the discov­ long after the more popular books are eries themselves made. forgotten. Colby College may indeed give its ap­ In summ(arizing the pioneer and pro­ preciation of this master in the society moting work of Albion Woodbury of letters. For some time the writer Small it is important to note that this has been collecting the writings of Dr. son of Colby was one of the first three Sm,all with the hope that eventually the leading Sociologists in America. He College may have a complete file of hi& was the first to indicate the importance works. Such a collection properly ar­ of the historical method in devoloping ranged, indexed and bound will be a the subject and in interpreting the fitting memorial to the author and at ·writings of the German masters to the same time may serve as a visible American Scholars. He was the first inspiration to the. generations of stu­ and most important advocate in justi­ dents who study in these Halls. The fying the existence of Sociology as a writer believes that in addition to this subject of academic and professional collection there should ·1Je a portrait of standing. In promoting this aspect of Albion Woodbury Small in the College THE COLBY ALUMNUS 87

Chapel. It is exceedingly embarrass­ Woodlbury Small, former President of ing to be asked by visiting profes sors Colby College and founder of Soci­ "Where is the picture of Dr. Albion ology?"

Plans/or the I Olth ·Commencement

BY THE COMMENCEMENT COMMITTEE

It seems a long time from the cold The principal speaker at the class winds of March to the balmy breezes Day exercises and the guest of honor of June, but days fly swiftly even un­ of the senior clas·s will be Merle der acad�mic shades, and the home­ Crowell, 1910, editor of the American coming time of commencement will Magazine. The most prominent of - soon be upon us. Very soon the call Colby's younger alumni, Mr·. Crowell will go out to the secretaries of re­ has made rapid advancement in jour­ unioning classes, urging them to re­ nalism until he has reached the editor­ cruit their numbers for class reunions. ship of America's best known monthly. o Profess r Lester F. Weeks, 1915, is in Hi's touching tribute to our late Presi­ charge of the reunion schedule, and he dent Roberts in the January issue of will cooperate with the class secreta­ his magazine has probably brought the ries, seeing that they have address lists, college wider and more favorable pub­ information about luncheon quia,rters, licity than it has ever before enjoyed. and any other assistanc-e they mlay Mr. Crowell is also well known as an need. The classes which hold official interesting and polished public speaker, reunions this year are 1878, 1883, 1888, and a rich treat is in store f.or all who 1893, 1898, 1903, 1908, 1913, 191� attend the Class Day exercises this 1923. year. Three of the principal speakers for The baccalaureate preacher will be the 1928 commencement have already Rev. Charles N. Arbuckle, D.D., pastor been en.gaged. The commencement of the First Baptist Church at Newton address will be delivered by Dr. George Center, Mass. Regarded as one of the Otis Smith, 1893, Head of the U. S. best pulpit orators in the East, Dr. Geological Survey. Already interna­ Arbuckle has won wide popularity with tionally known as a scientist and a student audiences. His. long associa­ scholar, Dr. Smith has recently been tion with Newton Theological Institu­ the recipient of new and significant tion has :brought him in touch with honors. He has been appointed a many Colby grad uates, all of whom are member of the American Committee enthusfastic in his praise. on the World Congress of Engineering. The speakers· for Sunday evening He has also been elected president and for the Saturday morning chapel of the American Institute - of Min­ service will be announced in the next ing and Metallurgical Engineers, the issue of the ALUMNUS. large t and most prominent society of On Sunday afternoon will be held the mining engineers in the world. One of memorial service for President Rob­ the most important of Dr. Smith's re,_ erts. Arrangements are in charge of cent honors has been his appointment a special committee : Fred F. Lawrence, by President Coolidge as chairman of 1900, of Portland, Prof. Carl J. Weber, the Naval Oil Reserve Commission. He and Albert F. Drummond, 1888, of has for some time been chairman of the Waterville. Under their direction the advisory technical committee of the returning graduates will assemble in Federal Oil Conservation Board. For the chapel, the scene of our beloved twenty years Dr Smith has been a trus­ President's daily labors, and will there tee of the college and has given much pay their tribute· to his memory. The time and thought to its welfare. graduating class will pay a special 88 THE COLBY ALUMNUS tribu,te of their own in the form of a 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111� permanent memorial, the · nature of � � which cannot be announced at this time. The college play will, as usua l, be under the able di rection of Miss Exerene L. Flood. Each year these productions have been of higher and higher quality. With abundant and skilled· dramatic talent among the un­ dergraduates, Miss Flood has no diffi­ culty in getting a competent caste, whom her expert training turns into actors and actresses worthy of the pro­ fessional stage .. The week-end plan of commencement was so successful last year that the same general schedule will be followed next June. The program, so far as now arranged, is as follows : FRIDAY, JUNE 15 2.30 P.M. College Play. Production for the people of Water­

ville. 1ERLE CROWELL, 10 Edito1· American Magazine-Guest of 8.00 P.M. Commencement Reception. Senior Class SATURDAY, JUNE 16 9.00 A.M. Prayers at the College Chapel. SUNDAY, JUNE 17 9.30 A.M. Annual Meeting of the 10.30 A.M. Baccalaureate sermon by Board of Trustees. Rev. Charles N. Arbuckle, 9.30 A.M. Senior Class Day Exer­ D.D., of Newton Center, cises. Class par t s b y Mass. elected members of the 3.30 P.M. Memorial service for the graduating class, and ad­ late President Arthur dress by the Guest of Jeremiah Roberts, 1890. Honor; Merle W. Crowell, 7.30 P.M. Boardman Missionary Ser­ 1910. mon. (Speaker to be an­ 11.30 A.M. Annual Meeting of the nounced) Alumnae Association fol­ lowed by Alumnae Lunch­ MONDAY, JUNE 18 eon. 9.30 A.M. Commencement Exercises. 12.00 M. Alumni Lunch, Leon C. Conferring of diplomas Guptil, 1909, President of on the Class. of 1928. Com­ the Alumni Association, mencement address by presiding. George Otis Smith, Ph.D., 2.30 P.M. College Play. Presenta- 1893, Head of the U. S. tion for graduates, under­ Geological Survey. graduates, trustees and 12.00 M. Commencement Dinne r. guests. Hon. Herbert E. Wads­ 5.00 P .M. Annual Meeting of Colby worth, 1892, chairman of Chapter 'of Phi Beta the Board of Trustees, Kappa. presiding. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 89

The History of Colby College DR. WHITTEM ORE'S BOOK REVIEWED BY THE COLLEGE LIBRA­ RIAN, PROF'ESSOR ERNEST C. MARRINER, B.A., 13

(The His tory of Colby College, by harness on his back". The book leaves Edwin Carey Whittemore. Port­ him the Ii ving, vigorous, magnetic land, 1927, The Southworth Press. "Rob" we all knew and re vered. $4.00.) Dr. Whittemore's work does not suffer from that bane of much histori­ Colby College owes much to Edwin cal writing, excessive docu.mentation. Carey Whittemore of the class of 1879. ,Just enoug h source material to illus­ He has given her more than half a trate and authenticate the narrative century of devoted labor. For many finds its way into these pages. The . years he was pastor of the college printing of such type-filling lists as church, the First Baptist of Waterville; that of "Colby Men in the Great War" and longer still he has been secretary is j us.tified by permanency and accessi­ of the Colby board of trustees. During bility of record. Best of all, the the last decade, in his capa city as- state author's direct and pungent style so in­ secretary of the Board of Promotion of vigorates his story that there are few the Northern Baptist Convention, he dull passages between the covers. In has helped many a young man find bis this respect the opening chapters are way through college into the ministry rather better than those that follow. or into other religious work. And now Replete with interesting details, they he has written the first official history are less a mere catalogue of collegiate of Colby College. and extra-curricular facts: than are the The writing of an institutional his­ later chapters. Yet, in all fairness, it tory is not an enviable task. Not only should be pointed out that in the latter is the field of readers limited by the half of the book we find ".Samuel Os- subject, but many of those readers . borne, Janitor" ; the dramatic account think they know quite as much about of Col. Shannon's offer of $125,000 to that subject as the author himself. the centennial endowment fund ; the Sins, both of omission and of commis­ patriotic picture of Colby as a war col­ sion, are charged with acerbity. The lege in 1917-18 ; and the thrilling story alumnus whose name has inadvertently of the great home-coming of a thousand been omitted from some roll lets out a graduates to the centennial in 1920. roar of condemnation. "Where is the But it is for his sympathetic account story of that famous 1888 cane rush? of those years when the college was Where is one of 'Dutchy's' Co lby Night young that Dr. Whittemore should be speeches? Why is there no mention especially commended. Out of a dis­ of Phi Chi? Why not a word about the ordered mass of documents, manu­ strike of 1909?" Everyone picks a scripts, and letters he has patiently se­ different flaw, and none of them realize lected and sifted his material and has that the inclusion of these and similar woven it into a gripping story of pov­ suggestions would fill many more pages erty and want, struggle and strife. de­ than the 27 5 of Dr. Whittemore' s votion and prayer. The poverty is re­ volume. vealed by the salary list: "It is expe­ Colby men may well be proud of this dient that a professor of Theology and narrative of their college. On the a Professor of Lang·uages, or a tutor, whole it is admirably done. It has be appointed at the following salaries balance, proportion, and order. It respectively ; $600, $500, and $40 0." progresses from a real beginning to a As for struggle and strife, listen to fitting conclusion-the death of Chief President Champlin's words : "Mr. S., Justice Cornish. Our beloved Presi­ who contracted to build our college, has dent Roberts had not yet "fallen with absconded. The work has stopped and 90 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

the masons will not lay another brick naive excuse for absenting himself until a new contract is ma de." Or from the twice-a-d·ay religious services. note this: "In 1831 an effort to raise "Calvin teaches", he wrote, "that the $2000 for the college had practically nu,mber of the saved in proportion to failed on account of the indifference of the number of the dammed is very the people generally and the lack of small. Of course all of the faculty are favor with which the school was held among the saved. My chances, there­ by the Baptist churches." fore, being so small, I humbly request ·The_ favor of the Baptist churches to be excused from morning and even­ was not, however, perm'anently with­ ing worship". What was the effect of held. Over and over again l,\1aine and northern New England poverty upon Massachusetts Baptists, few of them the young Colby, laying aside its swad­ richly endowed wi th worldly goods, dling clothes just at the time when came to the aid of the college. If what western farms: were beginning their de­ they furnished had been merely devo- vastating competition, and when the . ti on and prayer, the profes so rs would lure of a rock.less, loamy soil was call­ have missed more than one square ing away the back-bent sons of rock­ meal. Dr. Whittemore shows con­ picking New England farmers ? What clusively that, through the crucial of the social conditions in these New years of Colby's history, it was Baptist England villages ? What did Emerson dollars and the nickels and dimes from say about Waterville provinciality Baptist Sunday .Schools that kept the when he delivered here his famous lec­ wolf from the door. ture on "Nature" ? Yet he has not overemphasized our Especially enlightening of oonditions Baptist heritage. With eminent fair­ in the '60's and1 '70's are extracts from ness, considering his position as an the diary of Professor C. E. Hamlin. official of the denomination, he has told Writing of a night spent in Amherst, the story of denominational loyalty side only fifteen _miles from Bangor, he by side With the liberal, undenomina­ says : "The wolves howled so long and tional academic life. so persistently that we could not sleep.'' One could wish that the author had In another p·as_sage, relating the expe­ used a more lavish brush upon his back­ rience of his travels about Maine to grounds, especially the social and eco­ raise money for the college, he writes : nomic setting behind college events. He "Having labored in East Trenton till need not subscribe to Buckle's theory evening of the 23rd and having taken that intangible influences rather than subscriptions for $325, Mr. Durfee, men make history, that the Napoleons with whom I stopped, took me to Ells­ and the Lenines are puppets of circum­ worth over a trackless road. We were stances, the logical result o.f unseen bu.t two hours making the six miles through potant forces. Yet with all the worthy the snow. Because of division of ·the emphasis on p.residents and trustees people in politics and religion a very and noted alumni, there is much to be hard place to secure subscriptions.'' said for the part that economic and Colby College grew out of the devout social background played in Colby's hearts and loosened purse-strings of history. What Don Seitz did in· "The New England Baptists, but in her Dreadful Decade", what Mark Sullivan growth economic, political and social has done in "Our Times"-the painting tendencies played their subtile but per­ of gr eat sweeping movements against sistent part. What those tendencies which events are set-this sort of thing were and how their effectbecame mani­ has its part in a college history. fest, a history of the college ought Nor are the source materials for faithfully to record. such treatment lacking. How did the Many who have read Dr. Whitte­ stern creed of John Calvin influence more's history have been critical of Colby's years? Dr. Whittemore would errors in transcription, such as the have found a partial answer in "Ben words on the Civil War tablet in the Butler's Book", where Ben relates his Seaverns Reading Room. Here the THE COLBY ALUMNUS 91 author has been the victim rather than real man, a man of talent and devotion, the perpetrator of some careless proof­ of energy and zeal, to write a college reading. Yet in all probability he will history in which the merits far out­ never again assume that a clerical as­ sistant can be re lied ·upon to copy a weigh the faults. And that is just Latin inscription correctly. what Dr. Whittemore has done. Many Anyone can pick flaws. It takes a years more to his facile pen !

With the College Fac uity

BY LESTER FRANK WEEKS, A.M., ' 15 ·

Professor Taylor looks just as he did Professors Wilkinson and Marriner fifteen years ago. He_ seems just as continue to act as our ambassadors of vigorous. He is taking an active in­ good will. They carry our messages to terest in the administration of the col­ the people outside of the college. The lege and has recently visited classes in service clubs and various organizations several departments. I suspect that as of Waterville would be almost program­ catalysts for the shooting idea, some of less without them. Either of them can us appear as rather strange laboratory talk on any subject, at any time and specimens of "homo sapiens". without previous notice. The peculiar Our Mayor, Professor Libby, is thing rubout it is, that they always have building political fences and laying the something to say and know how to say foundations of a road leading from it. vV aterville to Augusta. I never have On January 18 the faculty met for a been a visitor at the Blaine Mansion ; social evening at the Chemistry Build­ now I hope that I may receive an invi­ ing. The unmarried men on the fac­ tation to break bread over state china. ulty, under the direction of Professor 'The No vember number of the Eustis, furnished the refreshments and "American Journal of Science" con­ tains an article by Professor Perkins on "The Evolution of The Drainage of The Waterville Region". Professor Perkins reconstructs the J)robable course of the streams during late Pre­ glacial time : when Waterville was a wet village in fact, as well as in name and when our surrounding hills were small islands. Professor Perkins has spent a part of his time for a period of several years collecting data for this article. Such work is valuable to scienc and to the college and should be encouraged. Professor Weber is the literary apos­ tle of Waterville. As Prospero and with the motto "My library was duke­ dom large enough ; I loved my books" he leads the columns of The Waterville Sentinel to fight for a better apprecia­ tion of the best literature. We all en­ PROF. E. H. PERKINS, PH.D. ri­ Department of Geology joy his varied. and stimulating cont - butions. The circulation of the public - library must be increasing. �llillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUlllllllllllllllllllllll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!llllllllflllllllllllllllll� 92 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Professor Wheeler gave an interesting Association and the Political Science illustrated talk on his recent trip to Association which were held in Wash­ England. Professor Wheeler spent last ington during the last week of Decem­ summer traveling in England and ber. From June 21st to July 2nd he is studying Optics (he says by the light to conduct a Conference on Interna­ of two candles) at the University of tional Relation at Maqua after which Cambridge. he goes to the University of Vermont Professor Wilkinson attended the to conduct courses in history during the meeti�gs of the American Historical summer session.

� ; AMONG THE GRADUATES � I :·. BY THE EDITOR . '�-=---�--'---�I Mr. and Mrs. Donald 0. Smith, '21, Evan Johnson, '27, was married to announce the birth of a daughter, Lois Clara E. Kyle, '29, on Saturday, becem­ Marjorie, on September 28, 1927. Mr. ber 17, 1927. They will be at home and Mrs. Smith are now located in after January 31st, Newport, N. H. Waterville, Maine, 22 School Street. Elsie M. Lane, '17, formerly living in Nathan Levine, '21, is in business in Barrington, Rhode Island, is now locat­ Boston with addJress· at 17 Michigan ed in Rockport, Maine. Ave., Dorchester, Massachusetts. Ruth A. Allen, '24, was Director of John E. Cummings, '84, of Burma, the Alice Libbey Walbri dge Camp dur­ writes the ALUMNUS to express his ing the past summer. This camp was deep sense of loss over the death of given to the Toledo Y. W. C. A. with President Roberts. Dr. Cummings is which Miss Allen is connected. She is the Chairman of Board of Trustees, now Associate General of the Associa­ Judson College, and of its Executive tion staff. Committee. He is also Chairman of Joel Erastus Taylor, Jr., '21, was the Burma Christian Council, and a married to Miriam Louise Thomas, on member of the Reference Committee, .Saturday, October 29, in Calcutta, and the Education Committee of the India. Their home address is 64 Gaul­ Mission. staun Mansions, Calcutta, India. Helen F. Lamb, '97, who is President F. H. Hanson, '83, retired on Febru­ of the Lamb's Business Training Sch9ol ary 1st as Principal of the New Jersey of Brooklyn, New York, should be ad­ schools after a service of forty-three dressed to 522 2nd Street, Brooklyn. years and one month. For thi rty-nine Adelaide M. Lakin, '04, was married years and over he has been connected on Tuesday, December the 27th, to Mr. with the Newark schools. He will Pearl D. Lakin. They will be at home henceforth make his home in Florida. after May 1st, 1928, Peru, Vermont. Mary Weston Crowell, '11, of Lud­ D. W. Tozier, '17, is Fire Special low, Massachusetts, gives instruction Agent, State of Maine, Insurance Com­ in Americanization Work in the Even­ pany of North America. His home ing School of Ludlow. 522 2nd Street, Brooklyn. dressed at F'red Ballantyne, Jr., is the name of Clarence R. Johnson, former in­ the young son who arrived on January structor in the Department of French ?. �. 1928, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. at Colby, is now to be addressed at 1225 Fred B. Dunn, '15, of New Haven West 36 Place, Los Angeles, California. Connecticut. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 93

W. W. Mayo, '79, formerly of New tionS' with office in the Star Building. Gloucester, Massachusetts, is now liv­ St. Louis. ing in F'reeport, Maine. T. B. Briggs, '64, writes from his John I. Liscomb, '20, is connected home at 306 Oak Grove Street, Minne­ with the Chapman National Bank, apolis, Minnesota, as follows : "I am Portland, Maine. His home address . is sending to you notice of the death of 17 Glenn Av&., Cape Elizabeth. Nathan Butler, a graduate of Colby, Fred C. English, '16, Superintendent class of 1854, and oldest member of the of schools in Mars Hill, Maine, visited Zeta Psi fraternity. I was home two Europe last summer in company with years ago, and he was quite smart at Mrs. English. While abroad he visited that time. I suppose I must be among Ireland, England, Belgium, .Switzer­ the oldest members of the fraternity, land, and France and took an airplane admitted to its membership in 1860. flight from London to Brussells. The Civil - War interrupted my short Ralph C. Hughes, '19, of Sidney stay in College which in one way has Australia, writes the ALUMNUS as fol­ caused me many regrets." lows : "I am living· in Australia most Charles H. Whitman, '91, who is of the time, working- as General Mana­ Professor of English in Rutger's Col­ ger for Australasia for the J. B. Ford lege has an appreciation of the late Company. Get back to the U. S. A. Professor Albert S. Cook in the N ovem­ every couple of years or so for only a ber, 1927, Rutger's Monthly. few months." Neil Leonard, Jr., was born to Mr. r Clara Norton Paul, '06, has moved and Mrs. Neil Leonard, '21, on Decem­ from Hinsdale, Illinois, to Michigan ber 3, 1927, at their home in Cam­ City, Indiana, 215 Miller Street. bridge, Massachusetts. William B. Tuthill, '94, has changed his residence from Lowell, Massachu­ Alice Cole Kleene, '98, is serving on setts to 424 Edgewood · Street, Hart­ the Hartford, Connerticut, Board of ford, Connecticut. He goes to Hart­ Education to which she was elected ford to become pastor of the Windsor last spring. Avenue Cong regational Church after a Haven Metcalf, '96, is credited with pastorate _in Lowell of eight years. the following statement in the Decem­ Ralph C. Bradley, '23, writes the ber World's Work under the caption, ALUMNUS a highly appreciateve note of "What I Am Reading and Why" : the late President Roberts. Mr. Brad­ "Haven Metcalf, Plant Pathologist, U. ley is located at 4037 Spruce Street, S. Department of Agiculture. In news­ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is con­ papers I read only news summaries, nected with the University of Pennsyl­ headlines, and Abe Martin ! I regular­ vania. ly read only two current magazines, the Clarence S. Roddy, '25, is now to be English scientific weekly Nature, and the (London) Times Literary Supple­ �.ddlresf:ed at 94 Rackliffe Street, Wood-. fords, Maine. ment. As to .books, I have within a month reread 'Pickwick Papers', parts Everett C. Marston, '24, should now of Thoreau's Diary, 'The Shepherd of be ad dressed at 42 Joy Street, Boston, Herrnas', W. F. Prince's 'Doris Case of Massachusetts. He is instructor in Multiple Personality,' and Gaines's English at North eastern Unversity. 'Gorgo' ; and have read for the first Edna M. Chamberlain, '22, is now time Dunsany's 'Book of Wonder', teaching· in the Robert Louis Stevenson Pauline Johnson's 'Legends of Van­ Junior High School of Los Angeles, couver,' Gaboriau's 'Monsieur Lecoq' , California. Her home address is 960 Lagerlof's 'Girl from the Marsh Croft', Wiltshire Boulevard, Van Dyke Apart­ Esther B. Carpenter's 'South Country ments. Studies', and Gerstang's 'Land of the Foster Eaton, '17, is the St. Louis Hittites.' I have not listed reading Manager · of the United Press Ass ocia- along the line of my specialty." 94 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

Viola J odrey, '25, is now to be ad­ Needham, Massachusetts, at her home dressed at the Faculty Club, Croton-on­ in Wellesley, Ma ss., by Rev. George B. Hudson, New York. MacDonald. Mr. and Mrs. Norris are Harold G. Scott, '18, formerly of spending the winter in Florida. Weymouth, Massachusetts, has moved Mr. and Mrs. David M. Young, '07, to Bruton, Alabama. (Mad:ge Tooker, '20) announce the Alice M. Pierce, '03, was married on birth of a daughter, Christine Elva, on December 28, to Mr. Z. A. Norris of November 24, 1927.

Annual Banquet New York Colby Alumni Association EVERETT J. CONDON, '26

The annual banquet of the New York Thomas G. Grace, '21, proved him­ Alumni was held in the Town Hall self to be an able toastma ter and intro­ Club, West 43rd Street, New York City duced Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, '84 the night of February 21st. as the principal speaker of the eve­ . It is interesting to note that the at­ ning. Gen. Lord's subject was appro­ tendance broke all existing records of priately "The Nation's Business." Be­ the association when one hundred and fore commencing his address Gen. Lord two enthusiastic alumni sat down to prefaced with a brief review of his own dinner. college days in Waterville some 40 The banquet was rather late in years ago and interestingly outlined the getting started as everyone seemed to customs and sentiments current in that be waiting for Dr. Libby to arrive from day, and wondered whether that sort Maine. Finally Toastmaster Grace, '21, ·of college spirit still exis ted or not. He explained that Dr. Libby's pre-election closed that phase of his speech by re... activities p,revented ·his being present marking that his love for Colby, her and things got under way. traditions, and for Colby men will last as long as life itself. He then proceed­ ed at once to the topic of his address, "The Nation's Business." Gen. Lord declared that he wished we all would take more interest in the United States as a corporation in which we were all stockholders. He then explained the United States Budget System and its work to date. He first startled his audience bry telling us that for 130 years the nation's business was con­ ducted entirely at random with no one knowing how any money was actually spent or whether there would be a sur­ plus or a deficit from one year to the next. Since the in ception · of the budget system that has all been changed. We no longer S'pend what we haven't got and what we have we spend wisely and we ll. Gen. Lord declared there has been no deficit since 1919 but EVERETT J. CONDON, A.B., '25 in that year it was $13,370,637,000. Of the . Y. Alumni Association In 1920 that deficit was turned into a I surplus of $212,000,000 and we have :�lllllllllllllllllllllJlllllllllllllllJllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllJllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll� had ·a surplus every year since then THE COLBY ALUMNUS 95

in the canvas mail-sacks of the Post Office Department last year netted the goyernment $47,000. Mr. Lord told many other interesting stories and anecdotes of · how the budget system '.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1 is saving the government money. The first speaker of the evening was - Frank W. Alden, '98, president of the New York association. He paid a glow­ ing tribute to the late President Arthur J. Roberts,· reviewed the one hundredth anniversary celebration in 1920 and pointed out some of the advantages of the young men who were in Colby dur­ ing Pres. Roberts' administration. Mr. Alden then introduced Thomas

G. Grace, '21, · as toastmaster of the evening and recalled that his first pub­

PAUL M. EDMUNDS, B.S., '26 lic appearance was 2t the one hun­ Officer N. Y. Alumni Association dredth anniversary when Mr. Grace

- impersonated Sam Os.born the colored janitor of a former day. The toastmaster introduced Dr. � until the record breaking surplus of Franklin W. Johnson, '91, professor of 1927, which amounted to $635,806,000. Education, Teachers' College, Columbia The budget system has in all saved the University, New York City. Prof. United States Government two and one­ fi1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111lilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll� Johnson delivered a touching eulogy of half billions of dollars since 1°919. Gen. Pres. Roberts and said that he had been Lord's command of figures is amazing and in the whole one-half hour he spoke he did not use a note and was continu­ ously quoting figures starting in the biL lions digit and running it right down to the odd cent. He said the American people are too used to hearing lar,ge figures however, . and claimed that none of us could begin to appreciate how much a million dollars was. He made a startling illustration by telling the alumni that any one of them if he . had been living in the year 800 B. C. and had been presented with a billion dollars on that New Year's day could have spent or thrown away a thousand dollars a day from that day to this and still had over three million dollars left. After many concrete and interesting illustrations of just how the govern­ ment is saving and trying to save money through its budget, Gen. Lord concluded his address by stating that the United States Budget Bureau has been such a phenomenal success by "coordinating chaos" and, "making general committees and creating a sys­ tem of competition in constructive FRANK W. ALDEN, B.A., '98 economy."' Eliminating the blue stripe Officer New York Alumni Association 96 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

out a break, efficiently and well, at his l""""""'"'"'""""'"'""""'""'""""""""""""'""""'""'""""'"'"""'""'""''""'""""'"'"'""'""''""""I own passing. Dr. Johnson said the New York Alumni wished to pay a tribute to Dr. Libby and his ALUMNUS magazine. He declared it to be a model of alumni magazines and a labor of love on Dr. Libby's part. In closing he said : "it is with a heart full of love and loyalty, - a heart full of love and tradition, that the New York Alumni wish to extend their congratulations to the college on what it is doing under such trying cir­ cumstances, and assure them that they may look to u.s at any time for assist­

-- ance and cooperation in securing a big­ ger and better Colby." The Hon. Herbert E. Wadsworth, '92, gave a report for the trustees and read excerpts from letters sent to him by various members of the faculty. Mr. Wad worth called forth a hearty round of applause when he said he was quot­ ing the faculty in saying that this was PROF. FRANKLIN w. JOHNSON, L. H.D., '91 Speaker at Alumni Banquet the best Freshman class Colby ever

- had. He closed by telling of the won­ fii111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111� derful work that Dr. Taylor is doing in the President's place. attending college dinners for 17 years in Boston, Chicago and New York, but this was the first Colby dinner without "Prex." He called attention to what he thought was Pres. Roberts outstand­ ing quality namely-"gentleness." He told the alumni that Prex was only one class behind him in college, that they were friends throughout their college days and that after college he had lived with the President and Mrs. Roberts on Appleton St., in Waterville for several years. Dr. Johnson declared that Prex was "the gentlest man he ever knew with a heart as soft as a woman's though often gruff and sometimes rough on the su:rface." He ass:erted that probably the greatest service President Roberts did for Colby was in breaking down pettiness in the faculty and dissipating the cliquishness of the "frat system" in Colby. He went on to say that Prex was in many ways a paradox, a prince of democrats yet an absolute despot," "a benevo­ lent Mussolini as it were." Yet the GEN. HERBERT M. LORD, LL.D., '84 highest tribute that can be paid to him DI.rector of the Bud�et-Speaker at Banquet is that the college is carrying on with- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 97

1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 voted elected, unanimously. The nomi­ nating committee_ then reported the � 1111 following slate of officers : Thomas G. Grace, '21, to succeed Frank W. Alde�, '98 as president of - the association ; Lillian Lowe ll, '10, to

- succeed Martha M. Gould, '96, as vice­ president, and Paul M. Edmunds, '26, to su1cceed Thomas G. Gr ace, '21, as - secretary. They were all elected unani­ mously. "Bert" Drummond, '88, of Waterville, Maine, was called upon to speak ex­ temporaneously by popular acclaim. He THOMAS G. GRACE, A. B., '21 emphasized the T'rustees' plea for a Pres. . Y. Alumni As ociation new gym and told of the wretched con­ ditions of the present one and com­ fii111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111� pared it to the Gyms of Maine, Bow­ doin and Bates. He praised the "good At the suggestion of Fenwioke and able all year round coaches of Holmes, '06, the New York Alumni Colby" and said all they need was the voted to pledge itself 100 in contribu­ proper equipment to produ.ce champion­ tion to the new gym fund. The pledge ships. 1 is underwritten by Fenwicke Holmes, Mr. Grace the toastmaster, brought '06 and Frank W. Alden, '98. the banquet to a close with his speech The outgoing executive committee accepting the presidency of the asso­ through its chairman, Merle Crowell, '10, Editor of the American Magazine, ciation. He said all that Colby needed nominated the following committee to now was some good advertising and succeed it : Alan Mercer, '23, chair­ said he would do everything in his· man, Phineas Barnes, '20, secretary, power to see that Colby got some in and Clark Drummond, '21. They were New York.

Need of a New Gy mnasium

BY C. HARRY EDWARDS, B.P.E.

Some of the outstanding needs, are enrolled 171 men of whom 94 are roughly sketched and not elaborated, taking part either in voluntary physi­ can be fo und in the fo llowing state­ caJ education or in training with the ments : different varsity teams. 1. Physical education has been re­ This leaves a discrepancy of just 100 quiI ed for graduation to the extent of men to find accommodations in our courses covering the first two years at present building. This does not take college. into consideration the proper facilities (a) All activities cove red by this covering locker and dressing rooms for requirement should be adequately any visiting teams which might be the housed in a gymnasium and its acces­ guests of Colby varsity teams. The sory equipment. impressions carried away 1by these visi­ ( b) There are now 251 men enrolled tors are many times of great advantage in the two lower classes, and the or disadvantage to the college, as the greatest number of lockers we can offer case may be. in the present building is only 245. ( d) There are only eight shower ( c) In the two upper lasses there baths of very ordinary condition for 98 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

�11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.!!. ern depar tments of physical educ ation are providing equipment for the proper carrying on of this type of work. �.. � 2. Elective or purely recreational I I work, outside of participation in varsi­ ty team preparation is greatly ham­ pered. (a) w� have inter-fraternity basket­ ball occupying about eighty men in val­ uable recreational work each week dur­ ing about three months of the winter. While an y of these games averaging four to six per week, are in progress, all other activities in the gymnasium must cease. There have been as many as 190 students, either participating in

PROF. c. HARRY EDWARDS, B.P.E. or watching the progress of games dur­ ing one afternoon very recently. As - filllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll� this takes care of almost half of the student body, the value of centering service, which, together with the 700- activities on the campus must here be gallon hot water tank, and old heater, realized. make the shower system one of ques­ ( b) There are also many groups en­ tionable efficiency. Many times, with a deavoring to find recreational outlet in season of variety sports, such as the hand ball, boxing, wrestling and other fall or spring 'seasons, it has been im­ bmall group activities, who must await possible to supply enough hot water to their turn, until the whole gymnasium satisfy the demand. is free, or forego the benefits of volun-

(e) With rquired physical educa­ tary physical exercise. _ tion a part of the curriculum, and the (c) We have been able to offer ex­ increasing large classes, the floor space pert instruction in fencing this year. of the old gymnasium, approximately A member of the faculty, himself a 60 by 40 feet, conditions are very good fencer and teacher, has been con­ crowded, and good work is hampered to ducting a class numbering more than a very great extent. There are now fiftC'en men, en four ct.· five days a week, being .carried on fifteen gymnasium under very trying r.011ditions, due to the classes per week, with an average at­ lac:k of proper f-.!Htce. tendance of forty to each class. (d) With the appreciation of the (f) Due to the lack of storage space great need of a healthy body with for gymnasium equipment, such as which to make a college education moveable heavy apparatus and of the worth the endeavor, more and more necessary accompanying mats, the men are becoming interested in the work must consist of calisthenics, active care of the body through proper marching and light apparatus work. exercise. This should be provided in This offers a very small variation and order to round out the excellent schol­ during the long winter season a very astic possibilities at Colby. monotonous task. ( e) During the past four or five ( g) There are no provisions made years the number of men voluntarily for ventflati ng the present building, so participating in physical work has in­ that at times the hygiene value of the creased very noticeably. This is in work is greatly questioned. keeping with the general trend of the (h) There are no places where pri­ modern man to accept the challenge of vate or small groups of men may work the new physical conditions under on corrective exercises. This is one of which his body and mind must meet the most important phases of physical competition in all business, professional education in colleges today. All mod- and social line� of life today. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 99

3. The gymnasium as a central high schools. Colby suffers more than . clearing house for social affairs is now we can measure, through the compari­ almost impossible. We are endeavor­ son of our physical and athletk equip­ ing to use it as such on all occasions ment with that of other colleges. Par­ but find many drawbacks. ticularly is this true when the recent No ventilation. additions in the other Maine colleges No facilities for dressing, cloak or are taken into consideration. Univer­ retiring rooms for any lady guests. sity of Maine with its spacious and (a) The use of the gym in the above modern indoor field and plans for an can be made a great factor in the devel­ additional gymnasium and other equip­ opment of greater loyalty and coopera­ ment ; Bates with its new plant includ­ tion among the students. This can ing indoor field: gymnasium and neces­ also add greatly to the educational sary accessories ; Bowdoin with its fine features for social advancement and equipment and recent addition of a accomplishments. most attractive and useful swimming ( b) Most large student gatherings pool. entertaining more than one fraternal Upon inquiry among teachers, both group must now be held off campus. those who have graduated from Colby .Students would be only too glad to hold and those from other institutions, it is all activities on campus if space and found that not only boys who have at­ facilities could be provided. This would tained some athletic success, but other tend to make possible better supervi­ active, healthy and otherwise desirable sion and administration of this import­ students, not of outstanding athletic :ant phase of college life. class, are very much impressed and 4. A most important need of proper many times won over to choose an in­ gymnasium facilities must be realized stitution with more modern physical when it comes to the recruiting of new equipment as their Alma Mater. This students from the preparatory and last reason may well be considered as

THE GYMNA SIUM Colby is the Last of the Maine Colleges to Raise Funds for a New Gymna ium 100 THE COLBY ALUMNUS the most important, for a college like of men having an opportunity to try any business institution must meet out for representation at Colby, as well with and provide for the inducements as lessening greatly the training sea­ offered by its ·competitors, if it is to son. The training season can be carry on successfully. looked on from two angles,-first defi­ Probably the most outstanding exam­ nite preparation for a varsity team, ple of the foregoing reason may be second, greater recreational outlet for brought forcibly to mind when we the entire group who may have even realize that the son of a very prominent only mediocre ability. Colby .man, chose Bowdoin as his Alma In track, we are so greatly handi­ Mater in spite of the Colby traditions ca'Pped that it seems quite impossible woven into his life. This boy has al­ to set on paper with any amount of ready proven to be a very valuable added persuasiveness the great need of asset to the college he has chosen, not an indoor field. Every week the other only in football and hockey, but along colleges of the State are having com­ other lines. petition among themselves, and also Most of the material used in favor of with outside institutions, taking in an a gymnasium might also carry over as almost complete list of track and field very important in case of the indoor events. From the standpoint of prepa­ field. The added educational facilities ration for varsity competition later, are very important. this of course is most valuable. Outstanding in favor of the indoor From an education and recreational field comes the argument regarding the standpoint, think of the great number unfair advantages which our rivals of men deriving beneficial and well have in preparation for varsity com­ supervised expression under such ar­ petition. rangement, whether they make the In football, the greatest considera­ varsity grade or not. tion is, of course, modified to a great The greatest argument that could be extent by the kind of weather we have. produced would be for one to spend a However, within the past three years day at each of the institutions and com­ there have been at least two, and we pare what they are doing along the line might count four important State of track preparation with what · Colby series games for which we have been can do with her present equipment. able to have little or no real football The old board track, used now for over practice, due to a very severe spell of six years, is in very poor shape, and in rainy weather b€tween one Saturday need of constant repa ir. It seems al­ and the next on which we were to play I]lost a waste of money to keep "peg­ some of our State rivals. Our oppo­ ging away" at the continually increas­ nents, however, were able to continue ing repairs in order to make it safe for their practice without interference, due any work at all. to their indoor fields, and' had more The program of a track meet includes than a mental advantage over our 50% of field events. At the present team. time it is impossible to do any work at In baseball, even now the other col­ Colby on the following field events,­ leges of the State are warming up their Broad Jump, Javelin, Discus, Hammer, men and sifting out the new material, Hurdles· and Pole Vault. Ver y little so that when real campaigning is in­ work on the Shot Put, and only ordi­ augurated the coach will have had a nary work on the High Jump. This chance to determine the best group makes a complete list of more than half from which to pick his varsity team. the events in a track meet which must On the other hand, we must wait for wait until a period of three to four at least another month, and more prob­ weeks before a definite and severe com­ ably six or eight weeks· before we will petition takes place, before any con­ be able to do anything like that sort of structive practice can be indulged in. preliminary choosing. This necessa­ Second and third 'Places in a track rily cuts down considerably the number meet many times decide the winner. THE COLBY ALUMNUS _101

There is practically no opportunity to mind, but the fore.going will probably develop a possible second or third place prove to be enough to make any Colby man, and should our "best bet" in any man not only eager to help but most event fall down, we cannot expect to eager to get others to help to do away make any better showing than in the with the necessity for any excuses on past. the part of Colby College in not provid­ There are, no doubt, many other rea­ ing for modern equipment for its stu­ sons whic h might be brought to one's dents.

In Memoriam:

BY THE EDITOR

FRED MYRON PREBLE, '81 born in Chesterville, Me., October 15, 1855, son of Otis M and Emiline A. The following news dispatch of the . death of Dr. Preble appeared in the Preble. He was educated at the Maine February i1ssue of the Riverside, Cali­ 1877 fornia, Press- : Wesleyan Seminary, graduated in from the Waterville Classical Institute, Riversiders who have become ac­ received his A.B. at Colb quainted with Dr. Fred Myron Preble, y College in 1881 who for the past twelve years has made and was given an A.M. by that in­ stitution in 1906. In 1884 he received this city his winter home, will be sad­ dened to learn that he passed away a B.D. degree from Newton Theologi­ cal institute, and was given doctor of following an apoplectic stroke suffered 1901 Saturdey. divinity degree in by Colby and in 1909 'by Bates. Death called the aged divine at nine His marriage to Miss Effie J. Petti- o'clock Sunday night, February 12. The end came peacefully, Dr. Preble passing away while unconscious at Community hospital. Dr. Preble had greatly endeared him­ self to Riverside during his years of sojourn here, his summer home being at Ludlow, Vt. He took an active part, so far as his health would permit, in the civic life of the community, and was an active member of the Present Day club. All matters of national import­ ance were eagerly followed by Dr. Preble, who was a close friend of John C. Coolidge, father of President Calvin Coolidge both having been residents of Ludlow, Vt. Funeral arrangements are being completed by Mrs. Effie Preble, the widow. It is understood that Mrs. Preble, for the time being, will remain in Riverside at her home, 861 West Fourth Street. Mrs. Preble is the sole survivor of Dr. Preble except for his twin sisteer, Mrs. Neil Tilden of Old Orchard, Maine. Fred Myron Preble, listed in Who's Who in America as a clergyman, was FRED MYRO� PREBLE, '81 102 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

.grew took place June 6, 1889, four Rev. Dudley Perkins Bailey and Han­ years after he had ·been ordained to the nah Cushman Bailey, and was gradu­ Baptist ministry. After long and actiye ated from Monson Academy and Colby pastorates at Windsor, Vt., Camden College. and Au.burn, Maine, he retired from As a young man Mr. Bailey studied active ministry in 1916. He was chap­ law with the late William L. Putnam of lain of Vermont State prison for two Portland, later judge of the U. S. Cir­ years, and served as professor of cuit Court in that city, and was admit­ church history in Cobb Divinity school ted to the bar in Portland, April 26, from .1907-1909. He was tru stee of 1870. He began practice in Eastport, Colby College, Newton Theological Me., and in 1872 came to Everett where Institute and Coburn Classical Insti­ he had continued in active practice un­ tute for a number of years. His schol­ til a year ago. He was attorney for arly attainments won Dr. Preble mem­ the Everett Co-operative Bank for bership in the national honor society, many years, served on the school com­ Phi . Beta Kappa, and he was also a mittee of Evere tt for fourteen years, member of the Delta Upsilon frater­ the last five of which he was the chair­ nity. man, and from 1878 to a few years· ago Among his published writings are was a trustee of the Everett Public "Flowers in Footsteps," a book of ser­ Library. He was a representative to mons, published in 1916, and numerous the legislature in 1886 and 1887. other sermons and hi storical and lit­ While living in Portland Mr. Bailey erary addresses. was connected with the Portland Daily Pre.ss and since coming to Everett had DUDLEY PERKINS BAILEY, '67 continued to contribute to publications, principally the Bankers Magazine. H Dudley P. Bailey, a native of Corn­ e was active in the Baptist Church, serv­ ville, Me., and for several years dean of ing as treasurer-from 1878 to recently. attorneys in Everett, Mass, died The Rev. A. J. Hughes, formerly pastor Wednesday, March 29, at his home at in Eastport, Me., officiated at funeral the age of 84. H was the son of the e services which were held Sunday after­ noon. Mr. Bailey married late in life and his wife died several years ago.

HENRY WARE HALE, '67 For fifteen of the years between 187 4 and 1893, Rev. and Mrs. Henry Ware Hale gave fruitful service at Shwegyin, Burma, among other things gathering together a church of Burmese and Hin­ dus and erecting a church building without the aid of American money. They gave faithful service also in Tavoy, where they lived later. t t e time of their final return to America� �m the spring of 1902, they had been mis­ sionaries for about thirty years. Mrs. Hale's ill health caused their return at that time. She died in 1918 in Savan­ nah, where they had a suburban home. On Sunday evening, November 27, Mr. Hale passed away in Savannah. Mr. Hale had attained the age of eighty-four years. He was born in South West Harbor, Me., in October, DUDLEY PERKINS BAILEY, '67 Long a Trustee of the College 1843. He was brought up in a Chris- THE COLBY ALUMNUS 103

- tian home, being early taught to pray He was born on a small farm at Fay­ and to read the Bible. When he was a ette, Maine, on May 20, 1852. He re­ student in Waterville, now Colby Col­ ceived his preparatory education in the lege, in 1864, he be came a member of academy at Kents Hill and was grad­ the Ellsworth Congregational church. uated from Colby College, Waterville, · In college and later he was interested Maine, in 1877. in the question of the form of baptism, Rev. Mr. Sturtevant later took post­ and the conviction to which he came led graduate work at the Newton Theologi­ to his being bap tized anq uniting with cal Seminary in Massachusetts, and at the Baptist church of Benton Harbor, Chicago University. · Michigan, in July, 1871. He was made an honorary member of Mrs. Hale, who until her marriage in the Asylum Lodge, No. 133, F. and A. 1870 was Miss Susie N. Coffin, had de- · M., of Wayne, Maine. sired to be a foreign missionary. Her He is survived by three daughters, interest was one wit h her husband's Mrs. Sarah Sturtevant of New York ; therefore when, while engaged in farm­ lVIrs. Crystal Blakesley, Modesto, and ing in the Middle West, he finally made 1\.frR. Ruth Whitehouse, Oakland ; two the decision that he should preach, and sons, Andrew of Fresno and Ralph of that his service should be gi ven to the Empire ; one sister, Mrs. Abbie Lovett foreign field. Mrs. Hale studied with of Oakland, and several grandchildren. Mr. Hale at the Baptist Union Theo­ -Modesto, Calif., News-Herald, Nov. logical Seminary at Chicago, and later . 30, 1927. at the Newton Theological institution, here she also received a diploma. The NATHAN BUTLER, '54 young couple were appointed to mis­ sionary service in September, 1873. Nathan Butler, the oldest living Five children were born to Mr. and member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity, Mrs. Hale. Two sons and two daugh­ died at his home in Minneapolis a short ters survive them.-The Baptist. time ago . He was ninety-six years of age, and at the time of his death had ANDREW JUDSON STURTEVANT, '77 been out of Colby nearly seventy-five Rev. Andrew Judson Sturtevant, for years. He was one of the first set­ forty-eight years a Baptist pastor in tlers of Minneapolis, having taken his central California, died in Modesto yes­ residence there in 1856, shortly after terday. F'uneral services were held the very small village on the west bank Thursday afternoon, with pastors from of the Mississippi had been named . Sacramento and · Oakland officiating. For thirty-five years until the time of Rev. Mr. Sturtevant was senior min­ his retirement, he was surveyor and ister of the Northern California Bap­ land examiner for the Great Northern tist Convention. He had served as railroad. His fame as a story teller moderator in many associations and as was equalled only by his experience as a member of the Baptist state board of a pioneer of the Middle West. He had directors. a wonderful opportunity to .pick land Taking his first pa storate at Sonora for agriculture and timber during his in 1880, he later served as pastor in early days in the west, but never Vallej o, Willits, Fort Bragg, Oakland seemed anxious to acquire great wealth. · and Sacramento. At the time of his His type, the pioneer of the early he was a member of the First death days, is rapidly passing away, !ind few Baptist Church of Modesto, and teach­ of the youth of today would desire to go er in the Good Will class, the largest in out and endure the hardships of the the Sunday school. early pioneers and examiners. Rev. Mr. Sturtevant was ordained in Baptist Church at the Tenth A venue ELIHU BURRllLL HASKELL, '72 Oakland on May 10, 1880. On the same day he was married to Martha Rev. Elihu B. Haskell, 80, retired Ella Coe, who died twenty-nine years Baptist clergyman, died December 2 at ago. his home in Fiskdale, Mass. He was a 104 THE COLBY ALUMNUS graduate of Colby College and Newton next three years he was a teacher at the Theological Institute. Portland, Me., high school, before en­ He had filled pastorates in Maine, gaging in busi ness here. He served in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Minne­ the State legislature as a representative sota and North Dakota, being the fir t in 1917 and 1919 and as a senator in settled Baptist minister in the latter · 1921, and was a former president of the state when it was a territory. Vermont Congregational Conference. He is survived by a widow and one IVAN CECIL HIGHT, '93 daughter.-Lewiston Journal. Ivan C. Hight, associate manager of the Touraine for more than a decade, FRED WILLIAM PEAKES, '96 died last even ing at the Peter Bent The death, in February, of Rev. Fred Brigham Hospital, after an illnesss of William Peakes, of the class of 1896, two months. His illness was not con­ will come as a, distinct shock to many sidered immediately dangerous until Colby graduates. Mr. Peakes was one last Thursday, when he suffered a cere­ of the best known of Colby's sons, held bral hemor rhage, which necessitated in the highest esteem by college mates his removal to the hospital. and classmates, and had held a number Mr. Hight was ·born at Harmony, of pastorates with distinguished ability. Me., February 24, 1868. He prepared He was born in Bo ston on May 30, for college at the Maine Central Insti­ 1868, was graduated from Newton in tute at Pittsfield, and was graduated 1899, and then held pastorates in Ash­ from Colby College at Waterville in land, Mass., North Berwick, Maine, 1893. For five years he served as a Everett, Mass., Athol, Mass., West teacher and superintendent of schools. Newton, and Poultney, Vt. Colby In 1898, not quite 30 years ago, he mourns the passing of this loyal son. became connected with the J. R. Whip­ ple Corporation, hotel owner. He was active in the Greeters of AMOS BARTON LUNT, '67 America, the Boston Colby College In some way the death of Amos Association and the Phi Delta Phi fra­ Barton Lunt, of the class of 1867, ternity. His wife and two children which occurred June 13, 1927, escaped survive. He lived at 62 Chester Road, the Editor. For some years letters ad­ Belmont.-The Boston Globe, Dec. 30, dressed to Mr. Lunt have been returned 1927. and it was not known that he was mak­ ing his home with his daughter, Martha JAMES OTIS FISH, '82 Lunt Williams, in South Brewer, Me. James Otis Fish was a student in the No details are available as to his later College for the year 1878-1879. Noth­ years. The General Catalogue gives ing is known of his life except that he the date of his birth as August 21, was living in China, Maine, and that 1845, and the place, Benton, Maine. He he passed away in China on Janu­ was a surveyor of lumber in Maine, ary 2, 1926. This information is con­ Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Minne­ tained in a letter received from Mrs. sota. Lue A. Fish • under date of December 22, 1927. NATHANIEL BRYANT COLMAN, '63 Mr. Colman was a student in Colby GEORGE LORA DUNHAM, '82 from 1859 to 1861. He was born in Brattleboro, Vt., Dec. 12.-George L. Vassalboro on October 13, 1833, gradu­ Dunham, 68, head of Dunham Brothers ated from Dartmouth Medical School, Co., one of the large�t distributors of was · surgeon ill · the 17th Me. Vols., a rubber footwear in New England, died physician in Portsmouth, N. H., from at his home here Sunday. He w�s born 1866 to 1874, in San Francisco, from in North Paris, Me., and was graduated 1878 to 1883, and in Washing-ton 1883 from Colby College in 1882. For the to 1896. �ince 1896 he has been an THE COLBY ALUMNUS 105

orchardist in Los Gatos, California. WILLIAM PRENTISS MORTON, '86 He died on March 3, 1927, at the age of Mr. Morton was a student in Colby 94 years. from 1882 to 1884. He was born in .Sumner, Maine, on June 24, 1862. He ROSCOE GREEN RICKER; '84 was engaged in sign painting apd in For three years, from 1880 to 1883, advertising, making his home in Cali­ foria and New York, and finally set­ Mr. Ricker was a stuqent in Col by. He tlin n South Paris, Maine, where he came from Hartland, Maine, and spent g i died on April 21, 1926. much of his life in Auburn, Maine. In­ .formation has recently come from his ISAAC i8ELD.E N CLIFFORD, '62 son, C. S. Ricker, that his father passed L UMNUS away in January, 1927. Information reaches the A that Mr. Clifford passed away Decem­ . ber, 10, 1925, at his home in Springdale, RALPH WINFRED TOWER , '92 Ark., where he was for many years en­ Mr. Tower was a student in Colby gaged in farming. Little is known of for one year, graduating from Brown Mr. Clifford's life except that he en­ University in 1892. He wa later a tered college from Waterville and that teacher in Brown, and thereafter held he served as a Corporal in the 21st Me. important positions as Librarian of Vols. The information of his death various associations. His home was in comes from his daughter, Miss Ursula New York. He died in January, 1926. Clifford, Springdale, Ark.

Professor Libby Announces Ca ndidacy fo r Governor ·of Maine

Late in December Professor Herbert he stands on important state issues, C. Libby, head of the Department of summarized as follows : Public Speaking, for many years Water-Power-I stand squarely for Registrar of the College, and former the retention of the Fernald Law on editor of the Annual Catalogue, and the ground that a "bird in the hand is present ed'itor of. the ALUMNUS, an­ worth two in the bush." I advocate nounced his candi dacy for Governor of the reference of this whole question to Maine. He has served for the past a committee of leading business and two years as Mayor of the City of professional men of Maine, composed Waterville. of those who favor and do not favor His candidacy has created keen in­ exportation, that all the facts connected terest on the part of the people of the with the question may be ascertained State and particularly graduates of and the people thoroughly informed. Colby and he has been gaining such Good Roads-I am opposed to the strength that his nomination at the building of temporary roads with per­ June Primaries is confidently expected. manent bonds. _ We should aim to pay The undergraduates of the College, not as we go except for concrete construc­ to be outdone by citizens of Maine, have tion and bridge work. met and organized a "Libby-for-Gover­ Rural Li/ e - Everything possible nor Club", and have pledged their should be done, and much can be done, efforts to assist in securing his nomina­ through State departments and agen­ tion. cies to bring .about a better labor supply 'During the past three months Pro­ for our farmers, better distribution for fessor Libby has been traveling over their crops, discovery of more markets much of the State speaking before vari­ for produce raised, electrification of ous groups of citizens. He has not rural sections, improved school facili­ hesitated to tell people exactly where ties, encouragement of small industries, 106 THE COLBY ALUMNUS and the cultivation of greater pride in State be properly districted and prop­ our towns. We need to keep in mind erly supervised. The appropriation that when the agricultural sections de­ should be large enough to insure effi­ cay, disaster overtakes the city. ciency of supervision. We can do more Temperance Laws-Every form of than we are doing to make Maine the assistance should be rendered by the Mecca of those who wish to fish and :State in the important work of enforc­ hunt. ing the temperance laws. The Eight­ Taxatio?'lr-Closest possible relations eenth Amendment is the wisest piece hould be e tablished between the State of legislation ever enacted. No bless­ Board of Assessors and local Boards in ing ever came from the liquor business. order that uniform methods of taxation Men elected to office must not only be­ may res ult. This particularly applies lieve in temperance laws as a party to taxation on aut omobiles, furniture, declaration, but they must be above and intatngibles. No general method criticism as to their personal habits. i being followed. Some equable basis Educati�Every boy and girl in should be found to tax intangibles and Maine should be given every encourage­ so relieve the home owner and the farm ment to secure the best education possi­ owner from bearing the greater burden. ble. Loyalty to our cherished Ameri­ Departme';nt Expenses-My experi­ can institutions should be required of ence as Mayor of Waterville has taught every teacher. If our Maine colleges me that close study of department ex­ must restrict their numbers, then the penses is ab olutely essential if econo­ University of Maine should be given my is to result. The tendency is to adequate funds for proper development. spend other peoples money freely. I No boy or girl in Maine should be believe in making a public dollar worth forced to seek an education beyond our a private one. That means personal borders. contact with the heads of all depart­ Owr Youth.---�ine's greatest asset ments and a careful scrutiny of the is not the farm, factory, or power budget. house, but her boys and girls. Assist­ BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ance should be given our municipal courts that they may wisely handle the Herbert Carlyle Libby was born in wayward boy and girl. Avoid giving the town of Burnham on December 28, youth the stigma of the name of a cor­ 1878, the son of Isaac C. and Helen rectional institution. Keep them in the (Green ) Libby, and is the youngest of homes under expert observation. Es­ a fa mily of seven ch ildren. His father tablish the juvenile court. Give all of was known as the "Cattle King" of them every safeguard for proper devel­ Maine through his extensive shipments opment. of livestock to the Brighton markets. New Industries-Advertise legiti­ Later the father became interested in mately and wisely the State's natural electric railroad building and built resources with the purpose to secure many of the electric railroads of Maine. new industries and new friends. Seek The son was educated in the public to expand the aviation program. Make schools of Burnham and of Waterville, a careful study of the needs of our tex­ entered Colby College, and later Har­ tile industries, and let the State cooper­ vard college, from which he was gradu­ ate with towns and cities where textile ated in 1904. For a time following mills are located that proper encourage­ graduation he was interested in the ment may be given them to remain newspa'.Per busines1s, and then joined where they are. the teaching staff of Colby College. He Inland Fisheries and Game-No de­ is now the fifth ranking man in. the partment of our State is more import­ College faculty in point of length of ant. Let it be manned by a leader that service. The Trustees of the College there may be a "god in Israel." Let honored him in 1919 by bestowing up­ him devote his full time to the work on . him the honorary degree of doctor and let him have an assistant. Let the of letters. THE COLBY ALUMNUS . 107

Mr. Libby has taken an ac tive part He has taken an active interest in in educational work. He was superin­ service club work, serving as secretary tendent of the public schools of Water­ of the Waterville. Rotary Club, later as ville from 1909 to 1912, and during its president, and in 1924 he was elect­ that time organized and successfully ed at Worcester, Mass., Governor of the

conducted the Central Maine Summer · Rotary District including all of Maine, School. He has served as one of the New Hampshire, and a part of Massa­ officers of the State Teachers' Associa­ chusetts. During his term as Gover­ tion and of the Kennebec County nor h� established a record by founding . Teachers' Association. For 10 years 19 new Rotary clubs in the three states. · he ga ve instruction in the Bangor At the Denver, . Col ., international con­ Theological 'Seminary. He served for vention he served as a member of the ten years as Registrar of Colby, and important committee on resolutions. as editor of the annual catalogue of the Mr. Libby has been activ� in many College. For · 11 years he has served other ways. He was one of the organi­ as editor of the college graduate maga­ zers of the Waterville-Winslow Cham­ zine, recognized as one of the finest col­ ber of Commerce, and later a member lege publications in the country. He of its board of directors, and re-elected joined the teaching staff of the College in 1927. He was one of the organizers in 1909 as an instructor, was later of Community Service that for several elected assistant professor, and still years ·had charge of the summer and later full professor, having charge of winter sports for children. He was the department of 1public speaking and one of the organizers of the Federal Qf journalism. He served as chairman Trust Company, and a member of its of the Commencement Committee since executive committee until elected 1920, and in 1920 was general chair­ mayor of Waterville. He is a tru stee man of the Centennial Committee. He of the Waterville Public Library, treas­ has spoken extensively before the urer of the State of Maine Committee schools and educational societies, and for the Boy Scouts of America, is the few men in Maine have been instru­ author and editor of text books and mental in encouraging more boys and stories, a member of the Executive girls to enter our Maine colleges. Committee in charge of the administra­ Mr. Libby has alwa ys played an im­ tive affairs of Colby, and is secretary portant part in the· political life of the of the Committee on . New Gymnasium, State. He has taken an active part in made up of members of the Trustees, nearly every State and national cam­ and is directly charged with the work paign, serving as delegate to State and of com pleting the raising of a fund of . District conventions. He was presi­ $100,000 for the construction of the dent of the State Referendum League first section of a new gymnasium. He of Maine which, with the help of the is a member of the Congregational Grange and the State Federation of Church, served as a teacher in its Sun­ Labor, secured the enactment of direct day School for many years and for a legislation. He was one of the officers number of years as its superintendent. of the Direct Primary League, and For ten years and more he has occupied served again in 1927 as chairman for pulpits in various parts of the State. Kennebec County in helping to retain Mr. Libby was married in 1912 to ttte Law. He was elected mayor of Mabel Esther Dunn, a member of the Waterville in 1926 in an election that class of 1904, of Colby and daughter of polled over 6,000 votes by a maj ority of Willard Morse and Alma Burbank 61 votes and was re-elected in 1927 by (Lowell) Dunn, of Waterville. They a majority of 350 votes at the same have three boys, WiHard Dunn, Carlyle time that the cit y elected a democrat Lowell, and Mark Lowell, and reside at representative to the legislature. 73 Pleasant Street. 108 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

High Honors fa r a Colby Graduate

The following report of the recent Since then he has spoken before the election of George Otis Smith, Ph.D., American Iron and Steel institute, the '93, to the presidency of the American American Institute of Mining and Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Metallurgical Engineers, the Coal Min­ ing Engineers appeared in the Iron Trade institute, the Army War college and other technical and scientific or Review under dat of March 1, 1928 : ganiza­ e tions. Director of the United States geologi­ Observing attempts being made to cal survey since 1907 and geologist of defraud the government of its oil international repute, George Otis Smith lands, he was instrumental in effecting has been honored recently by his elec­ the enactment of the federal oil land tion to the presidency of the American leasing law, through his presentation of Institute of Mining and Metallurgical facts. He is author of numerous Engineers. He has been a member of papers on the subject. Dr. Smith was that organization since 1902, a member editor and co-author of the Strategy of of its board of directors for two terms, Minerals, published in 1919. He pub­ lished in professional paper No. 123, of beginning in 1921, and was a vice presi­ the geological survey, the superpower dent in 1927. study made in 1920 and 1921 by a Dr. Smith was born in Hodgdon, Me., special staff of engineers. February 22, 1871, and was educated The late President Harding appoint­ in the public schools of Augusta and ed Dr. Smith a member of the United Skowhegan, Me. Following his gradu­ States coal commission which func­ ation from Colby College, Waterville, tioned in 1922-1923. In 1924 he was Me., in 1893, with the degree of bache­ appointed by President Coolidge to the lor of arts, he journeyed westward and naval oil reserve commission, on joined a geological survey party as a which he since haS' served as chairman. field assistant. He later returned to Following the creation by President college, going to Johns Hopkins univer­ Coolidge of the federal oil conservation sity, Homewood, Baltimore., from which board, Dr. Smith has served as chair­ he was graduated with a doctor of man of its technical and advisory com­ philosophy degree in 1896. He went mittee. President Roosevelt ap·pointed back to government geological work Dr . .S mith to one of his first federal and was given a regular assignment as commissions, placing him on the assistant geologist, later being appoint­ committee on departmenta methods, ed geologist. In 1907 he was chos1en known as the Keep commission,V under director, a position he still holds. He which he was ap·pointed chairman of is now dean of government bureau the committee on accounting. chiefs. Among· the various scientific and Since becoming a director of the technical organizations· of which Dr. geological survey Dr. Smith has given Smith is a member are : Geological So­ special attention to coal, oil and power, ciety of America, American Association the principal energy resources of the for the Advamcement of Science, nation. His interest in coal began American Forestry Association, Wash­ much earlier, however, his work in ington Academy of Sciences of which Washington in 1898-1901 having in­ he was vice president in 1908. Mining cluded mapping of the Roslyn coal field. and Metallurgical Society of America, He has taken part in the government National Geographic Society of which statistical work on coal and made his he is a trustee, and the American Insti­ first Important contribution to the tute of Mining and Metallurgical En­ economics of coal in an ad dress before gineers. Dr. Smith makes his home in the American Mining congress in 1916. Washington �nd Skowhegan, Maine. THE COLBY ALUMNUS 109

A Roberts Memorial Volume

EDITED BY CARL J. WEBE'R, M.A.

Plans. were Service to be held in connection with · laid d u r i n g the commencement next June. the recent The volume contains adequate and Christmas va­ representative selections from the vari­ cation for the ous types of writings left by Presi­ publication of dent Roberts. Literary essays and a volume of lectures from his days as an eminently the writin gs successful teacher of English litera­ of the 1 ate ture, addresses and talks to teachers, President Rob­ samples of · his classic chapel prayers, erts. Dur i n g typical speeches on special occasions, his forty-o n e and addresses on broad general topics years.' connec­ to college undergraduates,-exam·ples tion with Col­ of all are found in the memorial vol- .

by College he ume. · wrote a great The book is. an octodecimo publica­ deal ; but, with tion containing 224 pages with a g·ood the exception portrait on good paper arid bound in of the bacca- cloth. The price is $2.00. Every effort laureate sermons delivered in the year has been made to make the book one of the Colby Centennial and at subse­ that all friends and former students. of quent college commencements, almost President Roberts will wish to .possess. none of his writings were published. All graduates and former students of Friends of the late president amc;mg the college and all other subscribers to the trustees and faculty felt that many ALUMNUS of his essays and addresses were im­ the are therefore urged to portant enough to preserve in perma­ make immediate use of the order-blank nent book form, and the movement was provided below, in order that no one therefore initiated to have a volume who wishes a copy of· the book may be ready before th'e Roberts Memorial disappointed.

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The Gymnasium Fund Campaign ' . BY THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE

Below is given the complete list of all the needed sum of $100,000 will be those who have thus far pledged to the ·realized. Colby Campaign Fund for a New Gym­ Your committee is doing its best to nasium. Please look the list through carry through to a finish the campaign and see if your name is there. If it is begun by the late President Roberts. not, please see that your pledge is sent How hard he worked upon this ! How at once to Professor Libby, secretary anxiously he awaited at the Post Office of the Special Committee of the Board for responses to his appeal ! How of Trustees. keenly he felt disappointments, no one Look over the list of classes that shall ever know. Death pu.t an end to have giv en. If your class is making a his faithful labors for the College that poor sho wing, how would it do if you he so dearly loved, and his last cam­ doubled your gift ? Before the cam­ paign was over. The least the College paign is ov,er, every last Colby man will authorities can do now is to carry be given not one but several opportu­ through to a successful finish the un­ nities to pledge. Over 1,000 men have dertaking that was so close to his heart. not yet responded. If these do as well Let no one. fail to contribute some­ as the 800 who have already pledged, thing. Pledges are not due until June.

COMPLETE LIST OF GRADUATES OF THE COLLEGE WHO HAVE MADE PLEDGES TO THE NEW GYMNASIUM FUND

1867 1881 M. E. Rowell W. W. Merrill W. N. Donovan C. R. Coffin C. B. Winslow E. E. Silvel' 1889 1893 1868 C. L. Judkins 1886 N. S. Burbank A. H. Bickmore E. C. Rydel' B. Doyd F. E. Nye 0. L. Hall R. W. Dunn E. L. Sampson 1882 L. C. Bridgham E. L. Nichols 1870 J. B. Bryant E. F. Stevens D. E. Bowman H. Dunning R. ). Condon C. H. Pepper L. Glover C. H. Cumston R. G. Frye 0. H. R. Dunham 1890 C. F. Stimson 1872 B. A. Pease S. B. Overlock C. F. Smith W. C. Philbrook M. A. Whitney T. G. Lyons H. L. Putnam I. C. Hight E. H. Phillips W. R. Curtis W. W. Perry A. M. Rchard on A. B. Patten D. J. Gallert E. M. Pope E. Sanderson W. E. Lombard 1873 W. H. Robinson W. L. Soule T. J. Ramsdell A. P. Wagg E. P. Neal A. H. Kelley E. F Tompson . ]. vV . Trafton G. N. Hurd H. T. Jordan H. L. Stetson H. S. Weaver R. A. Metcalf· M. M. Smith G. 0. Smi.!_l;l W. C. Crawford -;; J. B. Sampson 1874 G. A. Andrews 1887 1894 E. T. Wyman . C. E. Young W. Bradbury F. L. Ames 1883 H. F. Curtis C. W. Spencer 1875 A. h. Berry H. C. Barto11 C. E. Cook 1891 E. C. Clark E. J. Colcord G. M. Wadsworth C. E. Dolley N. L. Bassett P. S. Merrill C. K. Merriam F. R. Woodcock J. F. Larrabee G. R. Campbell A. H. Evans 0. Tilton H. D. Dow Dr. J. 1884 1892 M. G. Freeman W. F. Watson A. M. Jones 1878 s W. L. Bonney c s. E tes E. E. Parmenter D. W. Kimball Thompson C. H. Sturtevant H. M. J. E. Cummings S. H. Holmes W. Padelford H. E. Wadsworth F. D. W. Holman I. 0. Palmer W. B. Tuthill 1879 F. B. Ni chols E. F. Robinson A. W. Smith T. H. Ki nney G. E. Murray G. A. Andrews F. D. Mitchell F. K. Ow en L. W. Robbins E. C. Whittemore G. P. Fall H. M. Lord C. C. Richardson D. T. Harthorn C. E. Owen H. L. Pierce Wm. Fletcher E. E. Burleigh V. A. Reed · Everett Flood A. G. Hurd H. R. Purinton A. H. Crosby V. M. Whitman W. H. Lyford C. P. Barnes F. W. Johnson 1888 J. A. Nelson W. C. Stetson Wm. A. Smith C. J. Ross A. B. Lorimer S. Stark 1895 1880 1885 A. F. Drummond D. G. Munson J. C. Bassett H. W. Page B. S. Annis W. M. Cole L. Herrick H. D. McLellan A. M. Thomas G. R. Berry W. D. St ewart E. H. Stover H. T. Waterhouse THE COLBY ALUMNUS 111

Archer J or

A. Shaw J. H. Foster E. G. Holt F. C. English C. W. Lawrence . L. S. Trask J. L. Howe D. W. A hley L. L. Levine · 0. C. Wilbur H. A. McLellan R. F. Good R. A Bramhall F. C. Foster A. C. Little W. G. Foye R. M. Hussey R. P. Luce H. A. Eaton W. H. Erbb N. · E. Wheeler P. A. Drummond R. A. Hu sey T. F. Joyce F. H. Rose 1914 L. W. Crockett R. C. Joudry N. Weg T. J. Seaton R. I. Haskell P. F. Fra er E. C. Simp on F. K. Hussey E. F. Allen W. L. Beale A. D. Gilbert . A. Treat C. B. Flanders 1910 H. E. Umphrey P. P. Bicknell J. N. Harriman F. F. Carpenter L. H. Shibles L. F. Carter 1918 S. F. Brown A. D. Gillingham H. W. Rand H. 0. Goffin Geo. E. Ferrell F. T. Hill E. L. Wyman L. P. Spinney H. G. McKay P. E. Alden H. B. Moor R. H. Bowen R. W. ilmore H. . hohet R. S. Holt R. N. Good H. P. Fuller H. S. Campbell W. M. Rand H. G. Boardman I. W. Richardson E. K. Currie C. R. Mills I. R. Stanwood H. E. Moor C. H. Swan E. L. Warren T. J. Crossman C. M. Bailey C. L. Ha kell F. H. Dubord F. A. James 1917 M. A. Philbrook C. E. Dodge J. P. Burke W. H. Kelsey E. D. Cawley A. L. Shorey M. F. Crowell R. E. Owen A. H. Lary E. W. Campbell E. A. Wyman J. M. Maxwell W. A. Tracy L. F. Murch D. W. Tozier H. L. Robinson 1911 F. S. Martin M. F. Hunt M. L. Ilsley R. L. Sprague R. E. John on A. C. Niles H. E. Hall F. J. Howard D. W. Clark V. H. Tibbett� J. R. LaFleur C. B. Price R M. Hayes R. R. Rogers . H. M. Morse R. D. Robin on R. N. Smith T. P. Packard P. . Thompson G. W. Pratt B. A. Ladd P. G. Whittemore I. Higginbotham W. G. Hastings E. R. Wheeler W. J. Blades H. M. Pullen 1916 C. F. Wood D. B. Flood 1919 A. W. Blake H. W. Nutting A. F. Bickford M. R. Thompson E. R. Craig C. H. Pierce A. S. McDouo-all A. Craig L. D. Hemenway Ira E. Creelman G. W. Vail n . J. F. Pineo C. M. Joly H S. Pratt R. H. Drew N. R. Patterson B. H. Smith C. A. Rollins v\ '. V. Driscoll L. E. Thornton 1915 C. E. Dobbin T. B. Madsen E. J. Perry R. C. Bridges T. W. Fransworth A. W. Allen G. Leeds R. C. Hughes H. M. Stimson E. S. Marshall 1912 Il. E. Small H. C. Allen 1-( . E. Sullivan · J. A. Bagnall J. G. Sussman S. C. Cates W. B. West J. B. DeWitt V. H. Tooker W. J. Rideout N. L. Nourse J. E. May B. S. Hanson T. S. Grindle M. L. Wiseman E. H. Cole G. E. Ingersoll A. L. Whittemore J. B. Conlon J. B. Thompson 1920 R. W. Hogan J. P. Dolan R. J. Miranda A. Fowler Charles M. Bailey E. D. Gibbs P. P . .tBarnes :T. W. Kimball J. W. Brush R. K. Hodsdon J. F. Choate M. E. Lord A. L. Fraas Rooney M. C. Hamer J . . A. E. D. Jackman H. E. Brakewood R. A. Harlow H. F. Hill S. A. Herrick H. A. Smith E. C. Macomber J. G. Perry R. J. Faulkingham S. G. Twichell Guy M. Gray H. L. Bell A. E. C. Carpenter R. K. Hurley C. L. Estabrook H. N. Dempsey G. R. Skillin 1913 C. S. Eaton G. L. Beach H. A. Osgood E. R. Bowker W. R. Pederson D. Baum C. A. Tash L. G. Shesong H. T. Urie C. F. Benson R. E. Wilkins F. A. Hunt E. S. Tyler D. H. White ALBERT F. DRUMMONJ?, A.B., '88 H. C. White R. K. Greeley Member Committee on New Gymnasium C. E. Vigue M. P. Roberts E. A. Rockwell • i'

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E. L. McCormack E. M. Co.ok C. B. Kalloch R. E. Castelli H. B. Mcintire M S. F. Greene R. B. Eddy J. A. Klain B. Crane W. N. Baxter Rollo B. Fagan Edward L. Perry E. E. Bressett In Memory of R. W. Bolton W. M. Fraser J. I. Liscomb J. H. Claffie E. W. Everts

1921 M. Umphrey A. F. Richardson F. J. Hois N. F. Leonard P. H. Merchant R. H. Sturtevant R. H. Spinney .A. Br.udno 1A. M. Greeley H. V. Cyr R. Pratt E. A. Adams, Jr. H. M. Barnum S. H. Ayer T. G. Grace J. F. Waterman L. Pulsifer Smith Dunnack D. Ray Holt E. H. Gross B. E. Esters J. E. Little S. Wolman C. L. Brown H. C. Marden R. D. Conary D. 0. Smith W. W. McNally C. Drummond A. R. Mills B. L. Seekins S. R. Black V. G. Smith F. J. Pope N. Levine CHARLES K T. SEA ERNS, A. B., 01 Generous Giver to the Gymnasium Fund and Member of Committee on New Gymnasium 1922 - A. C. Adams G. F. Terry, Jr. ,Th111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111�11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111n11111111111111111111 111111i11111111 1111111111111111111111111;1111 111111111:11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111m11� W. F. Cushman L. W. Mayo C. L. Robinson F. W. Knowlton K. C. Dolbeare E. S. Kitchin W. G. Chamberlain H. C. Whittemore A. J. Sullivon W. L. Stearns N. W. Foran A. L. Bickmore A. C. Farley R. E. Bousfield G. F. Hendricks A. G. Eustis H. Good J. P. Loeffler L. H. Cook P. Simon J. R. Gow G. W. Currier P. H. Woodworth A. M. Pottle J. T. Howard 1923 W. J. Curtis W. T. Moreland E. J. Shearman A. R. Daviau M. F. Lowery C. E. Russell H. D. Teague B. B. Ames E. R. Frude T. R. Cook H. T. Smith E. L. Williams A. L. Berry H. R. Ratcliffe I. S. Newbury R. M. Jackson G. H. Wills S. G. Estes L. A. Guite A. E. Urann C. A. Haines C. H. Gale A. W. Cole C. A. Hoai: G. W. Brier Gordon W. Gates A. B. Malone J. L. Dunstan RM. Wallace 114 THE COLBY ALUMNUS

W. F. Grant W. E. Garabedian J. D. Johnston J. A. Anderson R. S. Fotter W. J. Brown C. H. Ayer G. B. Barnes G. R. Guedj ·1 . P. Emery J. P. Hedman H H. Crie S. B.• Berry Roy Hobbs P. C. Fullerton C. L. Brown E. W. Millett P. E. Keith W. E. Fagerstrom R. F. Prescott 1924 E. F. McLeod W. M. Ford J. H. Halpin H. K. Allen E. M. Taylor K. W. Bragdon M. L. Ames G. F. Hodgkins J. I. mart E. H. Merrill A. N. Law J. A. Barnes H. M. Wortman W. L. MacPherson P. G. Pearce R. F. Brown . ']. Koff W. E. Herbert G. B. Vale D. J. Mills G. L. Earle G. M. Davis E. J. Condon A. Jordan J. R. Monroe C. E. Getchell . L. M ittelsdorf M. E. Cobb R. F. Fransen C. E. Hale 1927 B. L. Cratty K. M. Rood R. M. Squire P. M. Edmunds C. A. Anderson R. C. Hunt J. C. Smith Chas. B. hapman J. F. Goodrich D. Ferguson F. E. Baker J. . John on Roy C. Hearon D. C. Freeman A. H. Snow A. F. Bennett E. R. Howland R. M. Grindle I. M. Hodges A. G. Sanderson D. E. Nicker on A. W. Coulman P. N. Freeman C. H. Litt! field Noel J. Raymond W. F. Edmu0nds M. W. Maxwell C. . Roddy F. R. Hunter . Emery, Jr. T. F. O'Donnell R. J. Pike Verne Reynolds C. R. ·MacPherson P. Tarpey F ..Taylor L. A. Roy A. Ro enthal W. B. McAlli ter E. C. Marston L. L. aucier . Tripp "R..Weymouth C. S. Parker J F. Berry H. . Jenkins L. J. Treworgy E. A. Fran en L. Hebert L. H. Warren R. M. Waugh F. R. Porter · . R. Feldman I. M. Richardson P. F. bible J. E. Candelet 1926 J. . Tibbett . E. Riley A. R. Warren 1925 D. N. Armstrong L. E. Knight A. E. Peacock F. L. Turner E. M. Archer R. A. Bither R. H. Short W. P. Cadwallader W. A. Macomber A. K. Chapman F. F. Bartlett C. D. Tripp T. . Smart C. H. Eaton, Jr.

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HOW THE CLASSES ARE GIVING TO THE GYMNASIUM FUND

Amount Given Amount Given Clas umber Giving or Pledged Class Number Giving or Pledged 1867 1 $ 10 1898 24 1,480

1868 · 1 1,000 1899 6 415 1869 1900 7 705 1870 1 25 1901 11 10,665 1902 13 365 1871 1903 13 575 1872 2 .60 1904 8 535 1873 2 31 1905 15 805 1874 1 5 1906 13 735 1875 3 460 1907 14 725 1876 1908 19 410 1877 1909 12 800 1878 1 70 1910 10 320 1879 6 320 1911 12 395 1880 2 110 1912 26 . 535 1881 3 40 1913 13 '436 1882 11 680 1914 24 970 1883 3 1,005 1915 26 1,396 1884 ' 6 301 1916 21 370 1885 4 70 1917 24 735 1886 12 810 1918 15 340 1887 15 630 1919 17 460 1888 5 240 . 1920 44 785 1889 5 330 1921 35 670 1890 10 380 ' 1922 40 838 1891 6 2,185 1923 20 305 1892 15 2,960 1924 17 315 1893 13 1,450 1925 22 400 1894 16 306 1926 37 685 1895 9 610 1896 14 1,564 1927 43 403 1897 10 850 1,180 $46,305 Hebron Academy "THE MAINE SCHOOL FOR BOYS"

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Established 31 years ago. During the last year or two there has been an incessant demand for Coll ege assistants, High School and Private School teachers at splendid salaries. No charge for registration. Send full and complete letter about your sell. Because of location (New York) , positions are cominJ:" hereall the year 'round. Tell your friends. "\V rite today.

The INTERSTATE TEACHERS' AGENCY · 500 Dolly Powers Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. T. B. ARMSTRONG, Prop.

Has successfully placed several graduates of Oolby College during the last few years. If you want to tea.ch, write for informa·tion. Directory of Leading T.heological Schools

, ROCHESTER- THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, DIVINITY SCHOOL . OF THE ROOHiEiSTER, N. Y. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FACULTY of ten members. Thorough and comprehensive curriculum. Wide choice of electives. A graduate school of the University, ' granting A.M., D.B. ,- and Ph.D. EQ IPMENT. Dormitory building with par­ lor, music room and bowling alleys. Library of

· Its courses give practical training in 50,000 volumes. Attractive · chapel and class rooms. I preaching, social service, religious edu- cation. . DEGREE of B.D. granted at graduafion and degree of M. Th. for special graduate work. Exceptional opportunities for prepa- I· ' ROCHESTER is a beautiful and prosperous ration for missionary fields. city of 300,000. Many varieties of religious and philanthropic work. Approved students given guarantee All courses in the University of Rochester of remunerative work so directed as to available to Seminary students. become part of vocational training. Correspondence welcomed. Illustrated cata­ Address logue for the asking. Address CLARENCE A. BARBOUR, President, or J. W. A. STEW­ SHA:ILE R MATHEWS, Dean. ART, Dean.

THE CROZER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION Tuition and Room-Rent Free. Scholarships available to approved students. A SCHOOL FOR LEADERS Seminary's relation to University of Penn­ sy 1 vania warrant offer of the following courses : I Courses Leading to B. D. Degree Regular Course for Preachers and Pastors. Seminary. Degree of B.D. or Diploma. Special provision for Post Graduates II Course with special emphasis on Religious Many opportunities for Missionary, Education. Semina.ry and University. Degrees of B.D, Philanthropic and Practical Work or A.M, Ill Training for Advanced Scholarship. Grad- Harvard University offers special free · uate Course. privileges to approved Newton Semina.ry and University. Degrees of Th. M. or Ph. D. . Students Address MllTON G. EVANS. ll.D., President Chester. Pa. Newton Centre, Mass .. Extension Course.-Seminary .maintains a Cor­ respondence department for' men unable to take a course in residence. Cost, including books, $10 a year. Certificate on completion. Address ELI S. REINHOLD, A.M., Director, Chester, Pa

I BANGOR THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

NOW OFFERS KENT'S HILL SEMINARY YOUNG MEN DESIROUS OF BECOMING MINISTERS: Kent's Hill, Maine 1-Courses adapted to college and non-college men. 2-A course (three years) having a diploma. 3-A course (three or four years) leading to the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. ' one of the.best equipped schools in New 4-A graduated and · attractive system of elec­ tives. England. Modern buildings. Extensive 5-A large, varied and growing theological athletic fields, 500 acre farm. Courses librarv.· 7-The best current theological magazines, preparing for college, scientific schools American and Foreign. 8-A good gymnasium, with regular drill un­ and business. Music. der a trained physical instructor. 9-Association with an earnest, bard-working, Catalogue and Illustrated Booklets aspiring set of students. 10-All the above at very reasonable expense. For detailed information address : . WARREN J. MOULTON, President Address the Principal Bangor, Maine Directory of Leading Preparatory Schools

HIGGINS CLASSICAL INSTITUTE RICKER CLASSICAL INSTITUTE Charleston, Maine Houlton, Maine A:N E1XGE'LLE·1JT PRE1PARIA!TI{) RY SCHOOL FOR COLLE GE. "The Best Knoum School in Aroos­ Teacher's Trainin and EngliS'h � took" courses. Ideal locat10n. Large and ph..asant grounds. Athletic field on campus. E·xpenses moderate. Elec­ tric car service. Christian influence. Ricker presents ilne opportunities for enterprising boys and girls.

Strong Faculty, Excellent Courses For information, address Prepares for College Prin. WILLIAM A. 'TIRAOY, B. A., For information apply to the Prin­ Charleston, Maine. cipal.

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