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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections and Archives at Bowdoin Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Bowdoin Alumni Magazines by an authorized administrator of Bowdoin Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS NOVEMBER, 1934 Vol. IX No. 1 The Bowdoin Group within the 1934 Group totaled 19 WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL-CAMP Summer Session of Wassookeag School Lloyd Harvey Hatch, Director Lake Wassookeag, Dexter, Me. STAFF OF 16 COLLEGE AND SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR 40 OLDER BOYS

PROGRAM ARRANGED FOR THE INDIVIDUAL: l. Preparation for Entrance Exam- inations. 2. Introduction to Courses of Freshman Year in College. 3. Junior College Transition

Study on one, two, and three Season Schedules. 4. Informal Outdoor Program—Tennis Matches, Water Regattas, Golf Matches, Baseball, Basketball, Aquaplaning, Sailing, Riding.

ON THE 1934 WASSOOKEAG STAFF FROM BOWDOIN: 1. Lloyd H. Hatch, B.S., '21,

Director; 2. Professor Edward S. Hammond, Ph.D.; 3, Charles E. Berry, A.M., '26; 4. Robert D.

Hanscom, Ed.M., '23 (Sabbatical Leave); 5. Norman S. Waldron, A.B., '30; 6. Edward G. '26 Buxton, A.B., '28; 7. Cyril H. Simmons, A.B., (Sabbatical Leave) ; 8. George W. Freiday, Jr.,

A.B., '30; 9. Walter O. Gordon, M.A., '28.

SCHOLASTIC RECORD: Final candidates in the 1933-34 student group at the school and the final candidates of the 1934 summer term at the School-Camp attained a perfect college entrance record—21 graduates entered Amherst^ Bowdoin, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Dickinson, Hamilton, Harvard, Maine, Michigan, Trinity, Wesleyan, Williams, and Yale.

Sports Contribute Appreciably Toward Wassookeag's Scholastic "Results" WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL

Mr. Hatch, Director of Wassookeag School-Camp, is the founder and Headmaster of Wassoo- keag School, a Tutorial Junior College for Boys. Wassookeag School offers a Bowdoin

Preparatory program for a student group of 20 boys whose study is directed by 6 full-time teachers (4 are Bowdoin graduates and 3 formerly of the Bowdoin faculty). :

THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS Member of the American Alumni Council

Published by Bowdoin Publishing Company, Brunswick, Maine, four times during the College year Subscription price, $1.50 a year. Single copies, 40 cents. With Bowdoin Orient, $3.50 a year.

Entered as second-class matter, Nov. 21st, 1927, at the Postoffice at Brunswick, Maine, under the

Act of March 3, 1879.

Philip S. Wilder '23, Editor

Stanley P. Chase '05, Book Editor John S. Baker '35, Business Manager

Paul E. Sullivan '35, Undergraduate Editor Elizabeth F. Riley, Editorial Associate ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD Alfred E. Burton '78 Thomas L. Marble '98 Arthur C Bartlett '22 Henry A. Huston '79 Kenneth A. Robinson '14 Henry S. Dowst '29 Charles S. F. Lincoln '91 George E. Minot '19 Harrison M. Davis, Jr., '30

Vol. IX NOVEMBER, 1934 No. 1

A Matter of Relativity

If the return of Alumni sons to the John H. Halford, Jr., son of John H. '07. campus of their fathers is any indication of Halford William DeW. Hyde, son of George P. interest in a college on the part of its grad- Hyde 08. uates and former students, Bowdoin should Robert D. Morss, Jr., son of Robert D. have little to fear in the nature of waning Morss 'io. Alumni support; for nineteen members of Frederic S. Newman, son of William P.

1 the Class of 1938 are sons of Bowdoin Newman io. of William men, while thirtyseven more, with three William J. Norton, Jr., son Norton '05. transfer students, claim relation of some J. Edward H. Owen, son of Henry W. sort to earlier members of the College. Owen, Jr., '96.

The list of sons is given herewith Leonard A. Pierce, Jr., son of Leonard

Willard S. Bass, Jr., son of Willard S. A. Pierce "05. 1 Bass '96. Frank H. Purington, Jr., son of Frank grandson of Francis Leonardo E. Buck, son of Dr. William E. H. Purington 'n, and Buck M'i4. O. Purington \So. David B. Sonic, son of Alfred M. G. Philip F. Chapman, Jr., son of Philip F. Soule '03. Chapman 'o6. ( reoffrey R. Stanwood, son of Frederic Andrew H. Cox, son of Dr. James F. A. Stanwood *02. Cox '04. Mortimer P. Warren, son of Dr. Morti- William Frost, son of John William mer Warren '96. Frost "04, and great'grandson of Obadiah William B. Webb. Jr., son of William IV E. Frost 1826. Webb 05. John P. Greene, son of John A. Greene Vincent B. Welch, son of Arthur D. Welch '.:. [The B o w d o i n Alumnus The Eleventh Alumni Day

Twenty years ago last June the Alumni been ushered in with a bonfire rally, which Council of Bowdoin College held its first crowded the Delta to listen to the band, meeting, and ten years ago, November i, the cheer leaders, and to talks by Mai Mor- 1924, the first Alumni Day was observed. rell '24, by Coach Jack Magee, and by Since that time the event has become an President Sills, all introduced by Punster annual one varying in program somewhat Herbert R. Brown of the faculty. from year to year. In the course of the morning the Alumni

This fall the Council committee in charge Council was in session, all but two of its under the chairmanship of Frank A. Smith members being in attendance. In addition v i2 and including John F. Dana '98 and to routine business three new committees Stanley P. Chase '05, proposed to increase were set up, one of these under the chair- somewhat the athletic nature of the obser- manship of E. Baldwin Smith 'n, of vation and to provide a luncheon somewhat Princeton, which will consider the desira- more suited to late fall weather than those bility of instituting at Bowdoin a mid- of earlier occasions. In accordance with winter "Homecoming'' similar in nature to their plans some two hundred and forty those at Princeton, Williams, and else- Bowdoin men sat down at noon to a meal where. Professor Smith will welcome com- of steaming lobster stew topped off with ment from our readers pertinent to this apple pie and ice cream, and listened to plan. A second committee, headed by brief words of greeting from the Presidents Donald C. White 'o^, of Lewiston, will of Bowdoin and the University of Maine, look into the matter of the cost of football and to a colorful address by Charles F. tickets, which have seemed to many alumni Stanwood '32, internationally known as to be far too expensive. A third group not Oxford's track star of the past two seasons, yet named will constitute a standing com- and now master at Choate School. mittee on athletics, and will devote itself Various football captains since the in- during the coming months to consideration ception of the sport in 1889 had been in- of the present athletic situation and what, vited to sit together at the luncheon, and a if anything, should be done about it. It is presentation in behalf of this group was probable that a winter meeting of the made to Captain Albert W. Kent '35 by Council will be held, or that its members Hon. George B. Sears "90, of Salem, Mass., may get together in regional sections. who first captained a Bowdoin eleven, and Following the game President and Mrs. who has been characterised by Dr. Whittier Sills were at home to alumni and others,

1 as the "father of football at Bowdoin '. and crowds gathered also at a number of Each of these captains was called upon by chapter houses where tea dances were in Harrison Atwood '09, presiding at the progress. In the course of the evening a luncheon in his capacity as President of the dance was held in the Sargent Gymnasium Alumni Council, to rise for recognition by under the auspices of the Student Council. the assembled alumni. Singing was led by Lawrence W. Parkman 'n. Fathers' Day was observed on November More than one hundred ladies were 17, the day of the Tufts game, and more served at the Moulton Union at the same than half of the fathers of the freshman time as the men's luncheon. class were entertained at luncheon by the midnight At on November 9 the day had College. '

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Captains All

Among the alumni returning for the Elmer H. Carleton '93, and Alfred

Maine game were fifteen men who had cap- Mitchell, Jr., '95. In the second row arc tained varsity elevens in their undergrad- Frank A. Smith '12, captain in 1910, Guy uate days, invited back for special recogni- W. Leadbetter '16, Frank A. Farrington

tion by the Alumni Day Committee. '27, and H. Philip Chapman, Jr., '30, whose Twelve of them were prevailed upon to father, Henry P. Chapman '06, was unable pose at the entrance to the Swimming Pool to be with him in the group. Behind these for the picture reproduced herewith. Daniel men are Bradley P. Howes '28, Charles L. C. Munro '03, Allen E. Morrell "22, and Hildreth '25, and Winslow R. Howland '29. Athletic Director Malcolm E. Morrell '24 were at the luncheon but were not avail- With the receipt of an honorary LL.D. able when the group was photographed. from Bowdoin last Commencement, Presi Reading from left to right in the picture dent Sills achieved the unique honor o<

we see in the front row, William P. New- holding such degrees from all lour of the man 'to, Emery O. Beane '04, George IV Maine colleges. He received the doctorate Sears '90, who captained the first varsity of laws at Maine in [916, at Bates m [918,

team against Tufts m the fall of [889, and at Colby in [920.

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e Gridiron

Opening the varsity football season in a teams engaged in nineteen football games, drenching rain on October 6, the Bowdoin all but five of them at home. The fresh- team held Massachusetts State to a score- man squad numbering sixty men showed less tie before a crowd of around a thou- sufficient strength to defeat Hebron 20 to sand gathered at Whittier Field. The fol- 12 for the first time in a long series of con- lowing week at Wesleyan the Bowdoin contests. They will play the sophomores on tingent suffered a 13 to o defeat at the Whittier Field at one o'clock Saturday, hands of a definitely superior eleven, the November 24, and the covered stand will

1 game closing with the ball in Wesleyan ? be available for spectators. In addition to possession on the Bowdoin one-yard line. two teams of freshmen a junior varsity Returning to Brunswick to meet Wil- squad was also active. liams on October 20 the team was again defeated 20 to o, making but one serious DRAMATICS threat in the four periods. The Masque and Gown will open its State Series games at Waterville and season on November 26 with a melo-

Lewiston on October 27 and November 3 dramatic farce, "Whistling in the Dark", were lost to Colby 12 to 7 and to Bates and it is just announced that its second 2 to o. Impartial observers agree in prais- play, "Spread Eagle", will be cast Novem- ing the work of the Bowdoin outfit, partic- ber 20. Such overlapping of activity would ularly against Colby, but the scores went be impossible were it not for a wide and otherwise. varied interest in the student body. Over Threatening consistently through the thirty men tried out for "Whistling in the 11 first period of the Maine game at Bruns- Dark . A temporary proscenium and addi- wick on November 10, Bowdoin lost again tion to the platform in Memorial Hall by a score of 13 to o. make more pretentious and significant plays On November 17 an unbeaten Tufts a possibility. "Spread Eagle" will test the eleven, scored on only by a field goal, came expanded stage, for it requires several elab- to Brunswick with a band and several hun- orate settings and a large" cast. It comes dred enthusiastic supporters. They found very appropriately on the heels of the themselves outplayed during the early min- munitions investigations in Washington, utes of the game and saw their goal line being a fictional drama of a "fixed" war crossed for the first time this fall, but mus- with Mexico. If adequately presented it tered sufficient power to maintain their should act as a lesson in how wars are cre- unbeaten record by a 7 to 6 score. ated, and toward providing an effective Your editor, by no means a technical power for peace. It is certainly a signifi- sports reviewer, has not seen fit to com- cant as well as an entertaining play, and

" 1 1 ment in detail as to "breaks and injuries the Masque and Gown is to be congratu- which have worked against Bowdoin during lated on having the courage to use it for a the season, nor to praise such individual house party audience. players as have done outstanding work. It is his opinion that in the six games he has On November 1 the Caravan Players witnessed the team has played hard and presented "The Taming of the Shrew" in with a will to win. Memorial Hall before two audiences nearly Including the varsity schedule, Bowdoin filling the auditorium.

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T he B o w o i n A J u m n u ]

is it that Bowdoin Never— BY THE UNDERGRADUATE EDITOR

Why is it that Bowdoin Never — ? activity of Bowdoin. The reason it is not

To answer that question is an order deli- manifest in track is plain. For Bowdoin

cate as it is Gargantuan. But small wonder has a track coach who combines ability

at the raising of this query, for why IS it with an acceptance of the challenge from that Bowdoin teams never win, why IS it the common foe, indifference. He is a that a Bowdoin team never comes from be fighter, and instills fight in his men. He 11 hind, very frequently "boots a lead, and puts teamwork high in a sport where indi- generally bogs in a crucial moment? vidual prowess is the usual essential.

Cognisant of the unpopular tenor of an As this is written the current varsity attempt to settle these bewildering propo- football team has yet to win a game or sitions, we are impressed nevertheless both score its second touchdown. Granted, by the antiquity of them and by the in- Colby was outplayed by a superior brand creasing cry to have them answered. We've of Bowdoin football, and Bates was held simply got to get them off the books. If from scoring an impressive triumph. And the following falls short of fulfillment of its too, the team must be credited with show- self-appointed task, refuge is taken in the ing life, eagerness, and fight on the field, fact that many will agree something is ac- Still it is firmly contended here that this complished by merely echoing a campus life, this eagerness, and this fight have not dilemma, timeworn as it is. been given on MONDAY, TUESDAY, The author is not without prototype. WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, Numerous observers have essayed the as- or SUNDAY. When conscientious effort signment but have universally come out of is applied only one-seventh of the time al- the rough with charges: "Ah, the fraterni- lotted, it should be beyond the sanity of 11 ties, down with them! "The eligibility those concerned to expect even average 11 rules, out with the profs! "Numb coach- success. 11 ing, give it to the coaches! Our point of There are those who maintain that the attack differs, though it must be admitted defeat from Colby was unmerited, yet in mentorial blunders have had damaging ef- many respects Colby deserved its victory. fects. Resentment at eligibility rules may Santa Glaus was there, to be sure, but in part be reconciled, too, and certainly fra- Colby was waiting for him. After spot- ternity interference has figured to a frac- ting Bowdoin seven points Colby played tional extent. with a keen sense of readiness tor breaks, Veering from the traditional pattern, this which must be applauded. Eventually article shelves discretion to assault an un- those breaks came and Colby was set to dercurrent of indifference, an assault which capitalize. This spirit of readiness is sadly offers much un-angelic treading, fot it lacking in Bow Join's play. When Colby strikes upon that popular something, the had taken the lead Bowdoin's defense student body including of course the teams. crumpled and the Mule backs gained at

Immediately someone is heard to obi will. But it wa an old story.

"You fonyt track, the sport in which Bow- Three to four years <^l' it have been d\^- doin really produces winners." But this ing. No man in college at present has

us to first this tr; I . merely brings the premise of i a Bowdoin team, outside of argument: Indifference pervades (he whole come from behind. At least not in a major

[5] [The Bowdoin Alumnus contest. Yet more provoking is the fact cient response among the debaters, whether that the past twelve years have not seen a more than the usual do2,en spectators will State champion football eleven at Bowdoin. come around for the contests remains to be Ten years in retrospect finds no baseball title, seen. and five years no hockey diadem. Not even The thought behind all this might well be a single football game has been captured narrowed down to the criticism that there against Maine competition since 193 1. exists too much of a receptive attitude. If,

Grief dpes not end here. Not only have as it is widely recorded, society expects of

Bowdoin teams shown losing and wilting college the radical, a little of the puerile, qualities, but a surprisingly adept faculty and an abundance of the enthusiastic, why for throwing away hard earned leads. A not follow the order of the day and change touchdown advantage has meant nothing to radicalism, puerility, and enthusiasm? time and again. Eight and nine runs ahead The change would at least be refreshing. has not been a safe lead in baseball, and last winter a hockey championship fluttered F. E. R. A. away along with a four goal in-favor score.

Most assuredly this is not pessimistic. In the course of the second semester of

Something is radically wrong. The mate- 1933-34 more than $3,000 was made avail- rial is there at the outset, despite published able for student employment at Bowdoin declarations to the contrary. Bowdoin re- from the funds of the Federal Emergency ceives excellent football timber into fresh- Relief Administration. This fall this pro- man ranks each year, and invariably Bow- gram has been continued with a monthly doin has a brilliant yearling eleven. Where payroll of $1,035 to be assigned to a quota does this talent disappear? Apparently it of sixty-nine men. Projects on campus and goes to seed, recurring later in flashes of in the community have been carried on individual brilliance. through the fall under the direction of a faculty committee, and have covered a And this sends us along another line of broad area of activity. In the Town of reasoning. Where does this material go to? Brunswick a night school has been estab- This article sees as the receptacle of this attendance of about eighty, talent a groove of lethargic indifference, or lished with an and a faculty of seven students. Seven are if it is more illuminating follow the above at as playground supervisors, and suggestion of seed maturing in a garden of work others have been assigned to the town clerk, gentility. An aroma of respectability seems fire department, other agencies. On to shroud the gentlemanly ease of the the and are assisting in several depart- rocking-chair athlete. Not only in sports campus men ments, while others are working under the is this influence of the status quo felt. The direction of the superintendent of the classroom, rallies, etc., cannot escape en- buildings. tirely this derogatory influence. Freshmen grounds and are generally eager and alive, but fall rapidly into the mould. This aesthetic ease is An article by Stanley Casson, Tallman okay, but why not forget it at times? Professor at Bowdoin during the last year,

Speaking of life, the Debating Club ap- which compares American and English pears to have awakened, with its announced traffic control and road discipline, appeared intention to enter the Eastern Intercol- in the London Spectator in September, to a sur- legiate League. Whether it's merely an praising the American motorist appearance, whether the club will find suffi- prising degree.

[6] The B o w d o i n Alumnus] Books A NEW DEPARTMENT HEADED BY STANLEY P. CHASE '05

Donald B. MacMillan, How Peary has made the stretch of ice-filled waters Reached the Pole, Houghton Mifflin Com' between Cape York and the Polar Sea as pany, 1934. Pp. 306. $3.00. well defined to the casual reader as if it were a highway running through a varied It would be difficult for me to give an country in the temperate sone. unprejudiced review of a book in which I refresh the memories of those whose have such a passionate interest were I to To recollections are a bit vague concerning the rely entirely upon my own judgment. But deeds of the great explorers of the old days, I have talked with lawyers, scientists, ex- not only a brief resume plorers, teachers, and society women, and MacMillan makes of their work but also quotes sufficiently all of them agree with me that it is a per- their books gives enough infor- fectly grand piece of work. from and mation about each individual to furnish a Here is a book which appeals to the gen- living impression of the man, beginning eral reader and not just to a group of with Kane and ending with his own idol- specialists. Whatever one's interests may ized commander. He avoids the matter-of- be, there will be something in Commander fact cataloguing of the guide book and yet MacMillan's book which will satisfy him. at the same time he brings in most effective- To the builder of an Arctic library the ly the associations of thrilling or tragic book is, of course, a necessity. It not only events which are connected with almost treats of one of the greatest figures of every island, fiord, harbor, and cape. Even Arctic exploration but it throws an entirely Fort Conger lives again for us, probably new light upon the man himself. Peary as the most northerly Army post ever estab- a leader has been spoken of from the lec- lished. So think only of the tragic ture platform by both Captain Bartlett and many Cape Sabine in connection with the ill-fated Commander MacMillan, but this is the Greely expedition that it is pleasant to read first time that the subject has been pre- of the spot where the men were compara- sented in a form available to the reading tively comfortable and contented before public. Coming first hand, as it does, from starvation and scurvy had decimated their a man who saw Peary closely and intimate- lanks. ly over a period of months, this is a valu- those enjoy studying the tech- able commentary on the discoverer of the To who nique of Arctic travel, particularly that of North Pole. a bygone era, MacMillan's book will prove To the beginning reader of Arctic litera- of especial interest. It is doubtful if the ture, and to those who have any knowledge, Pole will ever be revisited in exactly the however acquired, of the so-called Amen- same way as Peary achieved his goal can route to the Pole, this book furnishes a twenty-five years ago last April. And not picture at the same time vivid and con even in Peary's books will the system so vincing. MacMillan has a genuine appre peculiarly his own be found described in ciation for the peculiar and characteristic such detail and yet in so thrilling a way. beauties of the sky and the ice and the sea, drive in the Arctic day and during the long MacMillan makes one see the gre.it months of darkness, when he paints a clean on the North Pole as a sort of well planned cut image of the scenes disclosed by the army game. During the entire winter the the were moon and by the light of the aurora. Me leader, his assistants, and Eskimos [The B o w d o in Alumnus engaged in hardening themselves by hunt' ing difficulty of all in the wait before the ing trips, by training their dogs, and by big lead. When the distressing days of idle- putting their equipment jnto the best pos- ness had passed, the advance was deter- sible condition, all in preparation for an mined, methodical and uninterrupted. The advance in force upon the citadel of the plan worked like a well geared machine. Pole. The experience and suffering of all Successively, four parties turned back for former expeditions had been studied by a the shore, taking in each case the least de- master of exploration, and like a general or sirable Eskimos, the weakest dogs, the worn chief of staff he made in advance a plan of out sledges and equipment, thus leaving the attack which probably covered every pos- strongest Eskimos and dogs and the most sible contingency. The great adversary al- efficient equipment for those who remained. ways had in reserve certain terrible moves Even the weather was not unkind and the which could not be forseen, or, if forseen, contrary gales actually seemed to give a could not by any possibility be forestalled. breathing spell to the attacker. Among these might be numbered contrary When the last party turned back, just gales, wide open leads, or days of contin- short of the 88th parallel, there was left a uous storm. small group under the command of Peary In addition to his own carefully planned himself, with the best dogs, the best sledges, system of advance and supporting parties, and all hands in prime condition and keyed Peary, with his white man's intelligence, for a supreme effort. Like a small corn- had absorbed for his own purposes the best mand of seasoned infantry, this small force experience and travel technique of the accomplished the age-old quest, and re- Eskimos, adapting for his own use their turned to the ship in a series of arduous methods of dressing and hunting and their and sustained marches which MacMillan ingenious devices for maintaining them- justly calls a superb example of the use of selves upon the ice, as well as their skill in man, the Eskimo dog, and the sledge under handling their dogs. Best of all, half a life- the most racking conditions, time spent in intimate contact with these So the theme unfolds. It is impossible little known natives of the North had ere- for me, at least, to quote from the book ated in them a trust and confidence in without wishing to quote it all! Besides Peary which they knew from experience the story of Peary's last expedition and the would never be violated or abused. This discovery of the North Pole at last, there made a certain, reliable, and willing instru- are numerous stories, some touching and ment in the hands of a natural leader of some amusing, of the Eskimos and their men. ways of living and hunting, and of the Step by step MacMillan carries his reader Arctic animals. Commander MacMillan is out across the Polar Sea to the Pole itself at his best when telling of his dogs whom and back, explaining why each move was he adored and who quite obviously re- made and how, and yet never letting down turned his devotion. from the sensation of excitement and sus- There is one incident of which I must pense. When the expedition moved off speak because it struck such a responsive from Cape Columbia, it was with the confi- chord. Without doing so purposely or dent feeling that all which could be done in with any object of eulogy, the author by advance to effect a conquest had in fact telling with interest and relish the simple been done. As the expedition advanced facts of his trip with George Borup to the across the ice, it encountered the most try- northeast coast of Greenland, has given to

[8] The B o w d o in Alumnus'] his readers the picture of what was appar- told by Dad, with Eskimo traditions, cus- ently an almost perfect friendship as well toms, habits, such as she can never forget, as an ideal and complementary exploring and which she tells in a most interesting team. Also, with deep sincerity, because manner. it is unstudied, he brings back across many Marie Peary is a writer. She has given years the fascination, ardor, and charm of us a real book, one which I am glad to his young companion. have in my library. The entire book, from its delicately and Donald B. MacMillan. appropriately worded dedication to the end, is written with impressive sincerity, Paul H. Douglas, restraint, and vividness. Even the unsavory The Theory of Wages, The Macmillan Company, 1934. and distasteful Cook episode is handled Pp. 639. $5.00. with a frankness and a thoroughness which cannot fail to convince. How Peary In a series of brilliant studies Professor

Reached the Pole is a book of which every Douglas has established himself as the lead- Bowdoin man can well be proud, telling as ing authority in this country on the ex- it does the saga of one of Bowdoin's illus- ceedingly complex and highly important trious sons and written so skillfully and so problem of wages. His Real Wages in the feelingly by another Bowdoin man, no less United States, 1890-1926 and his Moue- illustrious in his own field. It is one more merit of Money and Real Wages, 1926- link in the chain which binds the names of 1928 are recognised as the standard histori' Peary and MacMillan together in history cal accounts. His Wages and the Family of Arctic exploration as well as in that of may be described as an original and well- their Alma Mater. considered program for adapting wage pay- Marie Ahnighito Peary. ments to family needs. Now in The Theory of Wages he has made a notable Marie Ahnighito Peary, The Snow contribution to economic theory. baby's Own Story, Frederick A. Stokes Awarded the Hart, SchafFner and Marx Company, 1934. Pp. 305. $2.00. prize in 1927 for the best original treatise During the last thirty years I have read on the theory of wages, the essay has since many books pertaining to the Arctic, but been considerably expanded and revised. none more interesting than The Snowbaby 's The stout volume which now appears will

Own Story. not appeal to the general reader, and it will What a wonderful life she has had and present difficulties to the exceptional reader what thrilling experiences! Born at the who majored in Economics some years ago.

Top of the world in the evening of the long It is heavily laden with footnotes; it is

winter night, her first words were Eskimo richly illustrated with graphs. Its pages words and her first playmates Eskimo chil- are strewn with mathematical formulae

dren. And back she goes again and again which, it is to be feared, will mean little to to the land of her birth and the land that those who have forgotten their differential she loves. With such a great explorer as calculus along with their Greek grammar.

her father and with such a helpmate as her But while the book is intended primarily

tin- mother, both sacrificing everything for for the specialist, it is concerned with prob-

end in view — the placing of the American lems oi wide interest; and it may be pos-

flag at the Pole, her life has been filled sible, even within the limits oi a brief re-

with Arctic lore, with thrilling stones as view, to characterize the spirit in which it

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is written and to indicate its bearing on advanced if men could everywhere realize some of the burning issues of the day. that the mechanical operations of economic What Professor Douglas has done, essen- forces in a competitive and capitalistic so-

tially, is to utilize and interpret available ciety do not of themselves tell us whether

statistical data for the purpose of criticising such is the society under which it is best for 11 wage theories which other economists have mankind to live.

arrived at deductively, and for the further It is to be regretted that the author does purpose of stating a law of wages which not consider more fully the implications of may be true to the facts and realities of this statement. He has deliberately con-

economic life. Condemning alike the ster- fined himself, it is true, to a description of ility of dialectical economics and the pur- the forces at work under capitalism; but he poseless amassing of statistical data, he tells does appear to believe that socialism would us that facts must be treated not as ends in give us a better society, at least from the

' themselves but as means of 'obtaining sig- economic point of view, than that under 11

nificant and interpretative results . His which mankind now lives. He suggests in

conviction, as expressed in the preface, is a footnote that in a socialist state interest that "the inductive, statistical, and quasi- could be reckoned as a cost in order to pro- mathematical method must be used if we vide a basis for estimating the relative effi- are to make economics a truly fruitful and ciency of the various productive units and 11

progressive science . for the maintenance and improvement of The application of this method leads the productive facilities. "There would be no 11 author to the following conclusions. Capital deductions, he adds, "for the luxury of a 11 and labor, the basic factors of production, capitalist class. But is the capitalist class

have tended to contribute one-fourth and a luxury? Does not the individual capi-

three-fourths respectively to the total prod- talist perform a socially necessary function?

uct. The course of distribution has closely Is industrial progress possible in a society

followed that of production; that is, interest wherein the profit motive is absent? In and wage payments have been regulated the present work Professor Douglas ven- and determined by the relative marginal tures no detailed answers to these questions. productivity of capital and of labor. In cer- Perhaps in the future volumes which he tain cases and under certain conditions, how- promises in the preface he will find occa- ever, labor may increase its share through sion to discuss them. Certainly few men organization and collective bargaining. As are better qualified to do so. population becomes fixed at stationary Paul A. Palmer. levels in the leading industrial countries, the position of labor will be improved. In any Erik Achorn, European Civilization case, Professor Douglas assures us, the con- and Politics since 1815, Harcourt, Brace clusions reached do not necessarily justify and Company, 1934. Pp. xxm, 879. $4.00. the present economic order. Capital may oi the be productive even if it is not owned by Modern history, especially that general interest. capitalists. "One may, therefore, be a sup- l,i 1 century, is a subject of porter of either socialism, communism, or There are numerous excellent volumes

individualism and still square one's social dealing with special primarily the diplo- philosophy with the theory of production matic aspects of that period. The broad' which has been developed. Our whole er surveys, as a price for their inelusiveness, tern of social philosophy would be further become conventional textbooks, with their

[11] [The B o w d o in Alumnu s defects as literature. The main part of fine illustrations, the maps are numerous, such a volume is filled with the customary and there are eleven appendices containing account of political events with a few items unique material for any textbook. A criti- listed here and there in an effort to pay cal bibliography provides plenty of refer' respect to social and cultural history. Little ences for any person who desires to do effort is made at interpretation and the ''further reading". weight of facts obscures all individuality. There are few pages that do not turn up Such a volume is hardly one to be reconv a sparkling sentence or observation. These mended to a general reader or even to an together with the author's interpretations inquiring student. and interjections give an individuality to

European Civilization and Politics since the book which is stimulating and provoca-

1815, while it purposes to be a text and tive of thought. Many points are made therefore is inclusive, is cut on a different vivid by apt illustration or comparison. For pattern. The emphasis is laid throughout example, the value of the dollars expended on cultural and social history. A deter- entertaining the Congress of Vienna is mined effort is made at a synthesis instead illustrated by the sixteen-dollar tuition and of a mere cataloguing of names and move the five-dollar-a'year roonvrent which suf- ments. The usual political facts are given, ficed at Bowdoin College in 1811. Generous but here Dr. Achorn has selected his ma- insertion of source material gives added terial very critically in order to make room solidity to the narrative. On the other for other things. Yet certain matters, for hand the catchy headings seem somewhat example the Schleswig-Holstein question, beside the point. the imperialism of the great powers, es- Dr. Achorn does not write down to his pecially the expansion of Russia into Asia, college reader. At times references and or the causes of the world war are treated allusions are made which require a general in greater detail than is usually the case, knowledge beyond the average freshman. It

This also is true of the history of the is a book designed primarily for upperclass' world war, but the reader will search in men and for those general readers who de- vain for a more concise, clear, and gripping sire to do some serious and critical reading description than that given in chapter XV. of history. The brilliance of the style With a firm conviction that something aside from its other qualifications makes should be done about the unhistorical metlv this book outstanding in its field, od of periodizing history, Dr. Achorn pre- Ernst C. Helmreich. cedes his chapter on the Congress of

Vienna by two brilliant chapters on the Walter J. Greenleaf, The Cost of main features of medieval history and the Going to College, U. S. Department of the cultural aspects of the eighteenth century. Interior, Pamphlet No. 52, 1934. Paper, 2 cents. It is to be regretted that he did not attempt PP- 4- 5 to orient the reader politically as well. In The Cost of Going to College Dr.

Roughly a sixth of the book is then devoted Greenleaf presents a careful study of the

1 to the period 181 5-1870, with the rest al- minimum and "typical ' cost for the men most equally divided between the pre- and and women who entered some 1,462 insti' post-war eras. This gives an unusually full tutions last year. Brief sections describe account of the events of the last decade. the different types of institution and the Here the chapter on Russia merits special different charges which are tabulated. Such attention. There are many exceptionally items as tuition and standard fees are given

[12] The B o w d o in Alumnus'] without qualification. Obviously, the other an attempt to assess the relative merits of items in the "typical" freshman budget the several types of institutions in compari- must be gauged by the judgment of the son to the cost of attending them. It is no various college officials who furnished the fault of the author that his work may occa- information. sionally be used like a mail order catalogue Statistical tables show the averages for to enable some prospective student to select the different types of institution (state con' his college by the price tag method. trolled, privately controlled, denomina- Glenn R. McIntire. tional, professional, etc.) and for many of the individual colleges considered. George H. Bigelow, M.D., Dr.P.H.,

Bowdoin charges, it appears, are below and Herbert L. Lombard, M.D., M.P.H., the average for the privately controlled col- Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases in Massachusetts, Mifflin leges. Institutions in this group number Houghton Company, !933- p 355- $4-oo. 122. It is interesting to note that total P- expenses are lowest at co-educational insti- This book is an exhaustive study of tutions, while board and room are most ex- chronic diseases, especially cancer, incident pensive in privately controlled colleges for to middle life. The first 133 pages present women. with admirable clarity the general aspects The highest average cost reported of the problem and the authors' conclu-

($1,145) is i n privately controlled junior sions. Over half of the volume consists of colleges for women, followed closely by an appendix containing technical studies privately controlled colleges of all types, and many statistical tables. These are most while the lowest average ($260) is found valuable to other states and to the country in the relatively large group of negro col- at large, in showing the changing responsi- leges. Probably the seemingly high cost in bility from the individual to the state along privately controlled institutions should be economic, social, and medical lines. This offset in some degree by relatively high is a study that every other state in the scholarship and loan funds. It is reported Union should carry on. that in 1931-32 student aid funds amount- The authors have dedicated their book to ed to $90,360,284, of which 85% was the late Eugene R. Kelley, M.D., former available in privately controlled and de- Commissioner of Public Health in Massa- nominational colleges. chusetts and a graduate of Bowdoin in the Recent news items about fraternities and Class of 1902. their troubles will direct attention to the Henry L. Johnson. sections on the cost of fraternity membership. Gredit is given the Interfraternity Powell Stewart and Michael Brad- Conference for the statistics presented. SHAW, Jr., A Goodly Company, a Guide to These show an estimate for the freshman Parallel Reading, American Book Company, year ranging from $100 to $160. Here also 1934. Pp. 300. $1.50 (paper); $2.00 Bowdoin charges are doubtless below the (cloth). average. The editors of this volume, assisted by Dr. Greenleaf makes no attempt to do several colleagues m English at the Univer-

more than report the facts. It would be sity of Texas, here offer expert and friendly

interesting and valuable if the work already guidance to the freshman confronting em- published were supplemented by a study of barrassingly long lists o\ books for "outside the reasons for the wide range in costs and reading." They aim to ,mswvr his queS'

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tions, "What is the book like?" and "Will I Company (Boston), 1934. Pp. 314. $2.00. that his choices may be like the book?", so The first of these books is a companion to with more adapta- made more intelligently, Rhymes of Frec\le Days, published last interests, and tion to his own tastes and year. It contains thirty stories, for readers thus turn what too often is distasteful of eight to twelve years, selected from those drudgery into delightful recreation. To this written by Mr. Minot for the Children's end, they have written brief descriptive Page of the Youth's Companion during the statements about some 130 novels and a decade when he was one of the editors of smaller number of biographies, essays, — that publication. The second book listed is plays, and collections of short stories the fifth in the series of the "best" anthol- roughly 300 books in all — ranging from ogies which Mr. Minot began a few years Tom Jones to The Good Earth, from Fran- ago with The Best Animal Stories I Know It a cis Bacon to Heywood Broun. was and followed with bird stories, college editors task well worth doing, and the stories, and true stories of exploration. adroit- have performed it with uncommon Both books are informed by that spirit of ness and understanding. sympathy with childhood and youth which has endeared Mr. Minot, as a man and as a writer, to so of the younger William Sutherland, Behind the many generation. Headlines, Arrowsmith (London), 1933. Pp. 286. 7s./6d.

—— , Death Rides Oxford Cross Words, Oxford University the Air Line, Claude Kendall (N. Y.), Press, 1934. Pp. no. $1.00. 1934. Pp. 288. $2.00. The deviser of these cross-words, Mr. M. Mr. Sutherland, who may be better R. Ridley, assures us that their solution known to readers of this magazine as John requires no use of dictionaries or encyclo- M. Cooper, ''29, has written two mystery paedias, but merely "a reasonable stock of stories, the first laid in England, the second general knowledge and any amount of low on the air line from Boston to New York. cunning." If these are insufficient, as this The earlier story, while perhaps making use reviewer predicts they will be, cheating is of more conventional devices in the solu- to be recommended, — unless the would-be

tion of the mystery, is nevertheless agree- solver has Mr. Ridley's penchant for

able for its Devonshire setting and dialect. sleight-of-brain performances (private mes- The second not only shows a skillful manip- sage to the compiler: cf. L.G.W., Prol. B, ulation of "leads" and "blinds", but also 152). arouses a real interest in the characters of

the book as people. Seldom in fiction is Curtis Stuart Laughlin, If I Were a one privileged to track down a murder with Big Green Duc\, silhouette decorations cut so comfortable a conviction that, whoever in linoleum by the author, Lefavor-Laughlin Press (Portland, Maine), 1933. Paper, pp. did it, the job needed doing. In either 28. book is a good evening's entertainment. . Mr. Laughlin's sprightly and amusing verses and his delightful illustrations are John Clair Minot, Tales of Frec\le addressed "to ail whose hearts are in their Days, W. A. Wilde Company (Boston), stomachs" — an aggregate which includes, 1934. Pp. 128; 20 illustrations. $1.25. feel sure, all children and not a few , Editor, The Best we Stories of Heroism I Know, W. A. Wilde Bowdoin graduates. [14] The B o w d o i n Alumnus^

THE AUTHORS While final arrangements have not yet Donald Baxter Macmillan, Sc.D., '98, ex- been made by the faculty committee acting plorer, scientist, and teacher, in 1932-33 Tallman under the chairmanship of Professor Orren Professor at Bowdoin, is at present on a lecture- tour, with headquarters at Provincetown, Mass. C. Hormell, it is expected that the Institute Marie Ahnighito Peary (Mrs. Edward Staf- of Politics will begin its sessions on April ford), Admiral Peary's daughter, is the author of 9, 1935, and will continue through the fol- three previous books—all for children. Her pres- lowing Thursday. Every effort is being ent volume of reminiscences is, of course, for adult readers. made to obtain the finest possible speakers

Paul H. Douglas, Ph.D., '13, is Professor of on both national and international phases of Economics in the University of Chicago and a the country's political and governmental leading authority in the field of industrial legis- situation. lation.

Erik Achorn, Ph.D., '17, who lives in Brunswick, is engaged in historical writing and Sunday Chapel speakers during the fall research. have included Rev. Bernard Iddings Bell, Walter J. Greenleaf, Ph.D., '12, is Special- ist in Higher Education in the Office of Educa- D.D., former president of St. Stephens tion of the Department of the Interior. College, and now of Providence, R. I.; Rev. Herbert L. Lombard, M.D., M.P.H., '12, is Robert W. Gammon, associate secretary of Director of the Division of Adult Hygiene of the the Congregational Education Society; Rev. Massachusetts Department of Public Health and Assistant Professor of Hygiene and Public Ray Gibbons of Westbrook; and Rev. John Health in Tufts College Dental School. C. Schroeder, D.D., of Portland, now lec- Powell Stewart, A.M., '28, after year's a turer in Biblical Literature on the facultv. study at Harvard, became Instructor in English at the University of Texas, where he has re- On November 18 Mr. Lee Hanchett of the mained, teaching and working toward his doc- national staff of the American Red Cross tor's degree. was speaker, and on January 13 Bishop John M. Cooper ("William Sutherland"), Charles Wesley Burns of Boston will con- '29, after some years of newspaper experience in New York City and of residence in Devon, has duct the service. settled in Harpswell for the autumn months, and is working upon a third book. '78 John Clair Minot, Litt.D., '96, has been for The gift of Isaac W. Dyer of Port- many years Literary Editor of the Boston Herald. land to the College, one of the finest col- M. R. Ridley, L.H.D. (Bowd.), Fellow of Bal- lections of the works of Thomas Carlyle in liol College, Oxford, and author of Keats' Crafts the world, has come to the College Library manship, recently reviewed in these columns, held the Tallman Professorship in 1931-32. where it was placed on exhibit November

Curtis S. Laughlin, '21, is a typographer as- 10. The collection, rivaled in America sociated with the Lefavor-Laughlin Press of only by that at the University of Michigan, Portland, Maine. comprises almost six hundred volumes and THE REVIEWERS includes all of the Carlyle first editions with Paul A. Palmer, Ph.D., '27, is a member of the exception of "Sartor Resartus". the faculty of Rockford College in Illinois. Ernst C. Helmreich, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of History and Government. Charles S. F. Lincoln '91, whose acquain- Glenn R. McIntire, '25, is the Bursar of the College. tance among alumni is exceeded by very Henry L. Johnson, M.D., '07, is the College few, will assume the duties oi Class Note Physician. Editor with the January ALUMNUS, bring ing to "News from the ("lasses" a personal Portland Symphony Orchestra will touch which should add much to (he m.ite present a program in Memorial Hall on rial already appearing there. Tuesday, December 4.

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[The B o w d o i n Alumnus With the Alumni Bodies BOSrOH CLUB BOSTOKt GRADUATE STUDENTS The first fall meeting was held on Octo- The first meeting of the year was held on ber 24 at which time a report was received Saturday, November 17, in the dining-room from the special committee on reorganisa- of Adams House at Harvard. There was tion. This report with its recommenda- no speaker from outside. tions for increased activity was accepted, and committees have been appointed. On November 1 a second meeting was Faculty held, with Commander MacMillan as Notes speaker and an attendance of almost a

hundred. Dean Paul Nixon, on sabbatical leave

for a year, is now in California.

DETROIT CLUB Stanley P. Chase '05 is representing the The group will meet at The Wardell on faculty on the Alumni Council during the Saturday, November 24, with Commander sabbatical leave of Boyd W. Bartlett '17, MacMillan as speaker. who is studying at Munich in the field of atomic physics.

HEW YORK ASSOCIATION The Alumnus has not previously re- Some sixty-five alumni gathered at the corded the birth of twin boys to Professor Amherst Club on the evening of Wednes- and Mrs. Cecil T. Holmes just prior to day, October 31, for an informal meeting. Commencement President Sills, an unexpected guest, spoke William W. Lockwood, Jr., Assistant briefly, and the remainder of the evening Professor of Economics, on leave for the was devoted to general discussion. year, was married on October 23 to Virginia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip PORTLAND CLUB F. Chapman '06, of Portland. The annual President's Smoker was held Elbridge Sibley, Assistant Professor of at the Portland Country Club on the eve- Sociology, is delivering a course of lectures ning of Monday, October 29. Following under the auspices of the Westbrook Junior dinner and the address of the President, College in Portland. questions were asked from the floor. On Thursday, December 6, Coach Jack TEACHING FELLOWS Magee will speak to the club of his ex- In accordance with action of the execu- periences in the Orient with an American tive committee, four teaching fellows will track team. work with the faculty during the current year. The group comprises Joseph M. BOWDOIH TEACHERS' CLUB Odiorne '25, Ph.D., in Biology; Richard N. The annual meeting of the club was held Cobb '32, in Mathematics and Physics; and '32 and Wallace M. on Thursday, October 25, at the Columbia Laurier G. Rousseau History, respec- Hotel in Portland with an attendance of True '31, in French and graduate work about sixty. Professor Herbert R. Brown tively. All of the group did received spoke for the College. Sanger M. Cook '21 at Harvard, the last three having 1 heads the new executive committee. masters degrees there.

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The B o w d o in Alumnus'} The Necrology 1865 Rev. George Roscoe Williams, oldes' matic History of the historical branch of the gen- living Bowdoin man, though not a graduate of eral staff, which branch of the army he repre- the College, died at his home in Oakland, Cali- sented during the Peace Conference in Paris. He fornia, on September 8, 1934. He was a grad- was one of the electors to the Hall of Fame, and uate of Dartmouth. Born in Woolwich, Feb- served as delegate to the Sixth and Seventh In- ruary 20, 1839, Mr. Williams went West soon af- ternational Congresses of Historical Sciences. ter leaving college, and had practiced law in Nevada, Arizona, and California until his re- 1887—Freeman Daniel Dearth, A.M., former tirement. Death followed a two weeks' illness judge of the municipal court in Dexter and from with pneumonia. 1919 to 1927 reporter of decisions for the Su- preme Court of Maine, died in Bangor, August 1.874—Rev. Charles Edward Stowe, son of 8, 1934, following an extended illness. A native Professor Calvin E. Stowe of the class of 1824 of East Sangerville, where he was born April 16, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, died in Santa Bar- 1 86 1, he came to Bowdoin from Foxcroft Acad- bara, California, July 25, 1934. Born in Bruns- emy and Maine Central Institute. Following wick July 8, 1850, he left Bowdoin to receive his service as a high school principal and in the A.B. at Harvard in 1875 and to enter the Con- United States Railway Mail service, he began his gregational ministry. He left the pulpit in 1908 practice of law in Dexter in 1896 and became to devote his time to writing and lecturing, and municipal judge the following year, later serv- had made his home in Santa Barbara since 1919. ing as postmaster of the town. He had also 1875—Rev. Charles William Hill, who fol- served in both houses of the State Legislature, lowing his graduation at Bowdoin received the resigning from the Senate in 19 19 to become re- degree of Bachelor of Divinity from Yale in porter of decisions. He left to the College a bequest of to at the discretion of 1878, died at La Mesa, California, on August 14, $5,000 be used the Governing Boards. 1934. Born in Biddeford September 19, 1847, he- had devoted his entire life to the ministry and 1887 Samuel Bullett Fowler died at his to mission work, having in foi served Hawaii home in San Diego, California, on July 24, 1934. fifteen years, and at an earlier period in the Following graduate work at Cornell in the year pioneer mining towns of Utah. He had been after leaving Bowdoin, he had engaged in work pastor at La Mesa from 19 10 to 1925, when he as an electrical engineer in various parts of the retired from active service. One of his dearest country until his retirement and removal to memories was that of having introduced Long- California in November of last year. Mr. Fowler fellow at the Commencement Exercises in 1875. was born in Augusta September 12, 1865. His son, Lemuel B. Fowler, is a member of the class 1881—William Warren Towle, who received of 1914. his A.M. at Bowdoin in 1884 and his L.L.B. at 1888—Frederick Henry Spaulding, Brattle- Boston University in the same year, died in Bos- boro, Vermont, business man, died there July 10, ton on August 28, 1934, concluding a distin- 1934, according to reports which bring no de- guished career in the Boston bar which had been tails. He was born in South Boston, Massachu- punctuated by service in the Common Coun- setts, October 25, 1863, and was at Bowdoin for cil of the city and in both branches of the legisla- one year. ture of Massachusetts. He was a native of Frye- burg, where he was born August 21, i860. He 1889—Frank Howard Hill, Superintendent of had maintained a keen interest in Maine and in Schools in Marblehcad, Massachusetts, for the the College, where his service as executor of the past fourteen years, died on June 29, 1934, after Manson estate during recent years had been an illness of a month. He was a native of Cape much appreciated. He was President of the Elizabeth, born September 5, 1867, and had de- Board of Trustees of Fryeburg Academy. voted virtually his entire life to education, having served as teacher and superintendent in sev- Fling, Ph.D. of 1883 Fred Morrow the Uni- eral Maine and Massachusetts communities. versity of Leipzig in iGermany. Professor Fling was the author of a served with the Ninth New York Infantry dur- number of well-known works in the field of His- ing the Spanish War, and had practiced his pro- tory, and during the World War served with the fession in New York City and Middlctown for rank of major as Chief of the Section of Diplo- about forty years.

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1890—Ernest Leon Bartlett, who was born at as physical instructor in Manchester, New Newburgh, February 9, 1863, died suddenly af- Hampshire, he had devoted his entire career 10 ter a paralytic stroke on JNTovember 9, 1934, at his work at the Academy, and was credited with his home in Thorndike. Mr. Bartlett went to being largely instrumental in the construction of Thorndike to continue school work begun in the alumni stadium dedicated there five years Stonington, and after more than twenty years of ago. service there became postmaster, the position he 1895 Herbert had occupied until his death. He had main- John Dudley, County Attorney of tained an active interest in various phases of Washington County, died October 18, 1934, in community work and was devoted to the College. Calais, where he was born June 11, 1871, and where he had served as mayor and as city so- 1890— Henry Harmon Hastings, who was born licitor. He had also served as United States in Bethel March 25, 1865, died at his home there Customs inspector at Calais, and as representa- August 16, 1934, after several weeks illness. tive to the Maine Legislature. In 1929 he was Following graduation Mr. Hastings taught in the unanimously endorsed by the bar of Washington high school at Cherryfield and at Pawtucket, R. County for appointment as justice under the new I., meanwhile carrying on graduate work at Superior Court system. Brown University. He returned to Bethel for 1899—Harold Fessenden Dana, Harvard Law the practice of law in 1899 and became a promi- graduate in 1902, who began a journalistic career nent figure in the political life of Oxford County in New York the following year and who had and of the state, serving in both branches of been associated with the editorial staff of the the legislature, as a member of the Governor's Tribune and the Herald-Tribune since 1921, died Council under Percival P. Baxter '98, and as the at his home in Ridgewood, N. August 26, holder of several county offices. He was at one J., 1934, after an illness of several months. Born in time superintendent of schools in Bethel, and Falmouth July 22, 1878, he maintained a New was for six years a member of the State Prison England interest throughout his years of metro- Commission. politan editorial work, and the Herald-Tribune 1891 Henry Chester Jackson, who during his paid to him at his death the following editorial undergraduate years was at one time associated tribute with the class of 1889 and who after graduation "In that group of varied abilities received his M.D. at Dartmouth in 1897, died in which unite to make a newspaper, the Woodstock, Vermont, on July 13, 1934. As an contribution of Harold Fessenden Dana undergraduate he won the Dudley Sargent Prize to this page was constant, widely infor physical excellence, and was a member of the formed and of the finest craftsmanship. famous four-oared crew which established a His modesty and reticence were State world's record at Lake George in 1889. From of Maine in their every gesture. So, 1891 to 1896 he was Director of Athletics at too, was his sense of humor, alert, Phillips-Exeter Academy, and at Colby College, sensitive and original, that added much and after leaving Dartmouth began the practice to his writings in this page. But the of medicine in Norwich, moving to Woodstock qualities which made him a craftsman con- in 1904. He had been prominent in local affairs. of the first rank in every matter and served during the World War as captain in cerning the English tongue had a broad- the medical corps. Dr. Jackson was born Sep- er base. Essentially they stemmed from truth which tember 22, 1863, in Wiscasset, and a surviving the same core of loyalty and of the made him the cherished friend of his brother, N. Gratz Jackson, . a member in him, well class of 1895, is a resident of Bath. fellow workers. It was not or ill, fresh or tired, to do less than his 1894 Francis Alvan Frost, a New York and best or fail in any act of friendship. Brooklyn newspaperman who at one time served This paper owes much to his years of as London and Paris correspondent for the Neiv devoted service. In saying hail and York Herald, died in Brooklyn October 28, 1934, farewell, we send our heartfelt sym- from an embolism of the lung. Mr. Frost was pathy to his family for a grief in which born in Belfast August 26, 1872, but left Maine his associates deeply share." '31 immediately after graduation to enter the field of Survivors include his sons Robert W. Dana metropolitan journalism. and Donald M. Dana '32, who followed him at Bowdoin, and two brothers, John F. Dana '98 —Howard Andrew Ross, for thirty-nine 1894 and Samuel T. Dana '04. years director of athletics at Phillips-Exeter Academy, died at his summer home at Flancock 1899 Willis Bean Moulton, who received his Point August 30, T934, after a year of failing M.D. at Johns Hopkins in 1903 and returned to health. He was a native of Biddeford, where he the campus as a member of the Medical School was born October 21, 1871. Except for one year faculty, died in Portland, where he was born

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March 20, 1877, September 19, 1934, after sev- was at Bowdoin for two years. eral days illness with pneumonia. Except for his service in the World War, from which he was 1925 Robert Seymour Webster and his wife, the discharged with the rank of major in. the Medical former June Danforth, have been given up Corps, he had maintained practice in Portland as lost after an extensive search covering five for almost thirty years. He was a Fellow of the hundred square miles of territory in the Allagash American College of Surgeons. region of Maine, where they embarked Septem- ber 23 on a canoe trip. They were last seen near 1900—Albert Warren Clarke died in Boston, Eagle Fake, October 9, and the canoe and a por- Massachusetts, August according to a 19, 1934, tion of their supplies were found on the bottom brief report received at the Alumni Office. He of the lake November 3. No bodies have been was a native of Nobleboro, where he was born found, but a memorial service was held at Dov- November 26, 1878. real estate broker in New A er-Foxcroft on November 12. York since 1904, he had previously engaged in Mr. Webster, who was an outstanding track teaching and coaching. man in his undergraduate days, was a native of 1910—Ralph Woodward Smith, who left col- Brookline, Massachusetts, where he was born

lege in 1909 to associate himself in his father's April 4, 1902. Since leaving College he had been music business in Augusta, where he was born engaged in teaching and in camp work, and was December 23, 1884, died at his home there Oc- vice-president of the American Association of tober 17, 1934. Camp Directors. He had served as Class Agent for the Alumni Fund for some years. 1912—True Edgecomb Makepeace, M.D., received his degree in the Medical School in 19 17 1931 Frederick Hussey Dunn, chief pilot in and had been practicing in Farmington for fif- the airport at Gardner, Massachusetts, was killed teen years, died suddenly at the of a pa- home at the Portland Airport in Scarboro, September tient November 6, 1934. He had been in poor 2, 1934, when the wings of his biplane crumpled health for some months. Born at Chesterville, as he was attempting an outside loop before eight April 5. 1 1, he had spent virtually his entire 89 thousand visitors to an air meet. He was born life in Farmington, excepting only his years at in Ashland July 25, 1909, and left college early college and in war service, when he served as to take up flying at the Scarboro port. a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps. He was director of the laboratory and secretary of the Medical 1882—Samuel Crosby Bridgham, who medical staff at the Franklin Memorial Hospital. was born July 4, 1852, at Hebron and who moved to the Pacific Coast in 1898, died at Colfax, 1915 Ivan Colson Merrill took his life, by Washington, September 3, 1934. shooting, in the woods at Etna, where he was born February 27, 1889, on November 1, 1934. Medical 1883 William Howe Merrill, prac- He had been despondent for some time on ac- ticing physician in Lawrence, Massachusetts, count of continued ill health. He had been a since 1896, died at his home there February 18, resident for of Lawrence, Massachusetts, many 1934, according to word recently received in years. Brunswick. He was a native of Newport, where 1917—Harold Seba Young, who was born in Au- he was born April 3, 1864. burn July 28, died at South Freeport March 1894, Medical 1894 Wallace Nathaniel Price, l^, 1934. After service in the regular army begin- who was born in Calais, October 29, 1871, died ning in 1917, he was discharged in March [919 in Gardiner June t6, 1034. He had practiced with the rank of second lieutenant in the ord- there and in Richmond since leaving the Med- nance department, a rank which he retained in ical School. the reserves. Since that time he had been engaged in the automobile business in Massachu- Medical 1898 Alberi Ism mi Vikk, star! setts and Rhode Island, and had come to Free member <>f the Franklin Memorial Hospital in port to continue this work about three years ago. Farmington and trustee of Wilton Academy, died 1920—-Burleigh Stevens Powers Jones, who in Wilton October i<>. [934, of heart disease. for many years had been associated with the Born in Temple, he had practiced in Wilton quartermaster's department of the National Sol since leaving Bowdoin, and was prominent in local affairs serving on the school board and diers' I lomc at Togus. died in Gardiner, June as the the board of health. 1934. lie was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, head Of February [898. Further details have not been 4, Medical L898 Edward Philip Day, a prac- received. ticing physician in Dorchester, .Massachusetts, 1923 — Dewees Frank Tk e, according to The since i<)ii, died at Ins home there October 31. Shield of Theta Delta Chi, died at Melrose [934. Me was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont,

Highlands, Massachusetts, in February, 1934. Mr. November 13, 1869, and had practiced in Albion Tice was born February 10, 1903, in Boston. M< before going to Massachusetts, C19I ——

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Medical 1907 Charles Arnold Wyndham. uate of Mount Holyoke in 1893, who received an who had in Lisbon for fourteen years, practiced honorary A.M. at Bowdoin in 191 1, died in Nor- ended his life hanging^ at his there by home wood, Massachusetts August 7, 1934. She was September 23, 1934, after a long period of ill born in Walpole, Massachusetts, December 20, health. He was a native of Durham, where he i860, and had been at Wheaton College as teach- was born March 4, 1882, and had practiced in er and Dean from 1905 to 193 1. She had also Massachusetts before opening his office in Lisbon. taught on the Pacific Coast, and was the recipient of honorary degrees from Yale and Oxford Honorary 1911 Ida Josephine Everett, grad- Universities.

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Mr. and Mrs. J. Willis Crosby of Dexter cele- See also Book Department brated their 50th wedding anniversary on Au- Henry Hill Pierce was last month elected to gust 14. the Board of Trustees of Fryeburg Academy. 1888 1898 Willard W. Woodman, principal of Peabody, See Book Department Mass., High School for thirty-four years, retired 1900 at the close of the last school year. He had been Simon M. Hamlin a teacher for forty-seven years and retirement of South Portland was this fall elected Representative to was at his own request. Congress from the First District of Maine. 1890 Henry G. Clement has for the past twenty-five Professor Daniel Evans, D.D., was honored at years been connected with the public schools of

the Commencement of Andover-Newton Theol- Redlands, Cal. ; first as principal of the high ogical School by the observance of the 25th An- school and since 1919 as superintendent of niversary of his service as Abbott Professor of schools. The Portland, Me., Sunday Telegram Christian Theology. The Andover Alumni Asso- recently printed a pencil sketch of Mr. Clement ciation signalized the occasion by the presenta- by Victor Kahili above a complimentary article tion of the Daniel Evans Fellowship, which will on his experience as a teacher. be awarded next year to a promising graduate in William B. Woodbury, superintendent of philosophy. schools at Skowhegan, has been elected president of the Maine Teachers' Association. 1891 Weston M. Hilton of Damariscotta was elect- 1902 ed County Attorney of Lincoln County in Sep- Harvey D. Gibson has been elected President tember. of the Board of Trustees of Fryeburg Academy. has Elden P. Munsey of Wiscasset has been elect- Walter S. Glidden of Bath been re-elected ed Register of Probate for Lincoln County. Judge of the Probate Court of Sagadahoc Coun- ty. 1892 John W. Higgins of Skowhegan was this fall Re\. Daniel Mclntyre has resigned as pastor elected Register of Deeds of Somerset County. of the Congregational Church of Boscawen, N. 1903 H., but will continue his residence in the town, the Tele- where he is chaplain of the Merrimack County George Libby, Jr., has retired from Institution. phone Company and is now living at the Fal- mouth Hotel in Portland, having moved from 1893 Watertown, Mass. Clarence E. Sawyer has been elected represen- Blaine S. Viles received the Honorary Degree tative to the State Legislature from Cumber- of Master of Arts at the University of Maine land County. last June. 1895 1905 N. Gratz will Jackson represent Sagadahoc William J. Norton received the honorary de- County this year in the State Senate. gree of Doctor of Laws at the commencement [20] The B o w d o in Alumnus] exercises of Wayne (Michigan) University for 1913 his work as executive vice-president of the Chil- See also Book Department in dren's Fund of Michigan, and the social work Neil A. Fogg will this year represent Knox general, to which his life has been devoted. County in the Maine Legislature. 1906 Leon Dodge was elected second vice-presi- Chester S. Bavis of Worcester was the candi- dent of the Maine National Bankers Associa- date on the Republican ticket for re-election as tion at their annual meeting at Bar Harbor. register of deeds, of Worcester, an office he has James E. Philoon of Auburn has been made held since 1922. Clerk of Courts of Androscoggin County. Professor Henry P. Boody of Ripon College 1914 was the author and director of an elaborate Several poems written by Kenneth A. Robin- tercentennial pageant presented on August 16th son have been published in recent issues of and 17th at Neenah, Wisconsin in celebration of "The New Yorker". landing Nicolet in the of Jean 1634. 1915 Walter B. Clark of Houlton has been elected George C. Thompson was elected as a repre- Clerk of Courts of Aroostook. sentative to the State Legislature from Waldo Following the murder of Dr. Elliott Speer, County. headmaster of Mt. Hermon Preparatory School, the trustees temporarily appointed David R. 1916 Porter, head of the Bible department of the Francis H. Bate of Winthrop has been elected school, as headmaster. County Attorney of Kennebec County. 1908 Rev. Robert Campbell, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Troy, N. Y., received Since the publication of the necrology in the the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity the June Alumnus we have received word that at Bowdoin commencement exercises in June. Clarence P. Robinson died in Benson, Arizona, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cronin announce the on January 26, 1934. J. birth of a son on November 6. 1909 President Harry Trust of Bangor Theological Ralph O. Brewster will represent the Third Seminary was doubly honored during the com- District of Maine in Congress during the next mencement season this year. The degree of Doc- coming sessions, having been elected in Septem- tor of Letters was conferred upon him by the ber. University of Maine, and the degree of Doctor Reed H. Ellis will represent Franklin Coun- of Divinity by Bowdoin. Dr. Trust was seriously ty in the State Legislature this year. injured in an automobile accident last July, when John W. Manter, of Cony High School in Au- he received a crushed chest and other injuries. gusta, was elected to the executive committee of His wife was also seriously hurt, and his son and the Bowdoin Teachers' Club at the annual meet sister received minor injuries. Dr .Trust's name ing last month. was on the danger list of the Eastern Maine 1910 Genera] Hospital, hut he has been recovering rapidly, as have the other members of the Mr. Philip Grondin of New York City an- fain- nounces the marriage of his daughter Mary to ily. Allen W. Lander. 1917 Harold E. Weeks is a newly-elected State See also Book Department Senator from Somerset County. Roland II. Cobb is a member of the faculty of Earl L. Wing of Kingfield has been elected The Bancroft School in Worcester, Mass. County Attorney of Franklin County. Lawrence 11. Marston of Maiden, who is this 1911 year president of the Massachusetts Cooperative Bank League, has reported a rise in Franz U. Burkett has been elected State Sen- considerable ator from Cumberland County. the number of Home Loans in the Massachu- setts area. Professor Arthur H. Cole has received a gram C. Moran, will represent the See from Harvard University for use in the publica- Edward Jr., District of in next session 'if tion of his reports of the "British Royal Coin Ond Maine the missions since r86o." Congress. Donald W. Bhilbrick was this fall elected rep 1912 resentative to the State Legislature from Cum See also Book Department bcrland County. Ralph G. Oakes, Superintendent of Schools ol Carleton M. Bike and Mis. Margaret Curtis Freeport, attended the meeting of the National Bohlen of Boston were married in l.uhee on the Education Association in Washington this sum _>3rd of July. mer as a delegate from the Maine Teachers' Sherman N. Shumway of Bangor has been Association. elected president of the Maine Trust ("onipain [«] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus

Association and a member of the executive com- Edward B. Ham, who spent last year on leave mittee. from Princeton University in study and travel in 1919 Europe, is now a member of the faculty in the French Department of Calhoun College in Yale Lee S. Gorham is located in Augusta as Di- University. rector of Adult Education for Maine under the F.E.R.A. 1923 E. Clara Pea- Harold Hersum and Miss W. Udell Bramson has been elected state repre- body of Portland were married on the 23rd of sentative from Cumberland County. June. They are living in Waterville, where Mr. Robert D. Hanscom is the new head of the in the Infantry Reserve Hersum is a captain English Department at Cushing Academy, Ash- on C.C.C. duty. burnham, Mass. Leslie from Bidde- W. Pearson has moved William B. Jacob, for the past four years ford and is now principal of the Buckfield High teacher of Latin, head coach of the first foot- School. ball tea'm, and registrar of Governor Dummer Rev. Percy L. Ridlon has been elected secre- Academy, has this year been appointed assist- tary of the board of Trustees of Kent's Hill ant headmaster. Seminary. Norman F. Miller is now manager of the Perley S. Turner, for ten years principal of Thomas J. Stewart Company, in charge of a rug Skowhegan High School, is now principal of the cleaning and storage establishment at 3247 Elizabeth Pligh School. In Mr. Turnei Cape July Broadway, New York City. a to the National was delegate from Maine Ed- Radio greetings from Dr. Earle B. Perkins ucation Association meeting in Washington. who is with the scientific staff of the Byrd Ex- 1920 pedition have been brought to the Alumni Office Miss Marian K. Briggs and Lieut. Francis A. by Leonardo Buck of the freshman class, a. rela- Ford, U.S.N., were married in Houston, Texas, tive. on September 29. Lieut. Ford is now instruc- Considerable concern was aroused in July tor of French at the Naval Academy at Annap- when the Navy Department was called upon for olis. aid in locating the 34-foot sloop Igdrasil on which Mrs. Roger Strout sailed from George J. Cumming, Superintendent of Mr. and Schools in Houlton, was a delegate to the Na- Jacksonville, Fla., June 14 on a round-the-world tional Education Association meeting held in cruise. Word was received later that they had Washington last July. arrived safely at Kingston, Jamaica, and they Oliver G. Hall has been elected state represen- are now located at Balboa in the Canal Zone. tative from Hancock County. The engagement of Miss Charlotte Synder of Herbert S. Ingraham is now serving as prin- Winchester, Mass., to Frederick King Turgeon cipal of the Skowhegan High School, having was announced the latter part of the summer. transferred this year from Newburyport, Mass. Mr. Turgeon has been promoted to Associate Justin McPartland has accepted the position Professor of Romance Languages at Amherst of night superintendent at the Lincoln Hospital College. in New York City. 1924 instructor Irving T. Richards is a director and George E. Hill was this fall elected represen- in English at The Cambridge School of Liberal tative from Cumberland County for the next Arts, a new school in Cambridge, Mass. session of the State Legislature. 1921 James M. Keniston has been transferred from See also Book Department Boston to the E. A. Filene store in Worcester.

Sanger M. Cook will represent Somerset Arthur J. Miguel has written from Buenos County at the next session of the State Legis- Aires, where he is located in the magazine pub- lature. At the annual meeting of the Bowdoin lishing business, that he hopes to get home by Teachers' Clubi held at the Columbia Hotel in Christmas. He has not been back since Octo- Portland last month Mr. Cook was elected chair- ber 1924. man of the executive committee. Announcement is received of the marriage of L. Baldwin and Walter DeC. John J. Whitney of Ellsworth Falls has been Miss Catherine appointed treasurer of the Union Ti*ust Com- Moore, Jr., at Oxford, N. Y., in August. state pany. He is also commander of the American Frank A. Pike will serve this year as Legion Post. representative from Washington County. 1922 1925 Lee M. Butler is on the staff of the Cleveland Mr. and Mrs. F. Webster Browne announce Shopping News in the syndicate department. the arrival of a son, Jonathan Fiske, on Octo- Mr. and Mrs. Stanwood S. Fish announce the ber 11. arrival of Marilyn Lucille on June nth. Mr. and Mrs. Albert S. Cobb announce the l>] The B o w d o in Alumnus]

arrival of a son on November 5. He is associated with Reynolds & Company. Chauncey L. Fish received his A.M. degree at Paul Palmer was married this summer, and Bates last June. is now on the faculty of Rockford College, Rock- Dr. and Mrs. Francis W. Hanlon announce the ford, Illinois, in the Department of Economics. arrival of a son, Peter Francis Maclean, on the Burton W. Trask, Jr., M.D., of Rumford, has nineteenth of July. recently passed his examinations for practice in Miss Doris Louisa Woodbury of Holyoke, Maine. Mass., and Henry L. C. Leighton were married 1928 in Cambridge, Mass., the 10th on of August. See also Book Department They are now living in Exeter, N. ri., where Mr. Announcement has been received of the mar- Leighton is an instructor at Phillips-Exeter riage of Miss R. L\ Academy. Eva Taylor and Frederick Cowan on the twenty-hrst of June at Jamaica Walter C. MacCready and Miss Mildred Plain, Mass., in which city they are now living. Knowlton of Boston were married in Bingham Miss Ellen M. Connor of Swampscott, Mass., on July 7. Mr. MacCready is associated with an and Stuart W. Graham were married in Lynn, insurance firm in Philadelphia. Mass., on July 9. Verne S. Melanson '29 was Donald W. MacKinnon of the Bryn Mawr a member of the usher group. Psychology Department received considerable A daughter, Jane Priscilla, was born on July publicity in the fall because of a report before 27 to Mr. and Mrs. Nathan I. Greene. a national association in which he told of ob- Dr. Richard P. Laney, after a short practice in serving ninety-three college students, forty-three Brunswick, has opened a new office in Norridge- of whom "cribbed" on a class-room test taken wock. while he was apparently out of the room. We have received word of the wedding in Elwyn F. Towne and Miss Gladys G. Spear June of Laurence A. Morgan and Miss Roxanna were married at Lewiston on September 3. They J. Christopher of Cambridge, Mass. are residing in Falmouth, where Mr. Towne is a Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mostrom announce the member of the faculty of the high school. arrival of Philip Edward on the twenty-first of 1926 July. The Mostroms are living in Belmont, Mass. Theodore D. Clark, M.D., has opened an office 1929 for practice in Newtonville, Mass. See also Book Department Walcott H. Cressy is teaching French at Wor- Miss Dorothy A. Gould and R. Howard Bod- cester Academy, having returned to this country well were married at West Newton, Mass., on after several years of teaching in France un- the fourth of August. Mr. and Mrs. Bodweli der the auspices of the Institute of International are living- in Augusta, and Mr. Bodwell is prin- Education. cipal of the Emerson School in Richmond. Charles N. Cutter has been promoted to as- On the thirtieth of June Miss Eleanor A. Payn- sistant superintendent of agencies of the Union ter and Thomas J. Connelley of New York City Mutual Life Insurance Company of Portland. were married at St. Patrick's Cathedral. They George S. Robinson has been named by Secre- are living in New York, where Mr. Connelley tary Ickes as Federal Attorney for the Virgin has a position with Grace & Company. Islands. Malcolm Daggett has this year returned for Joseph Thomas this year accepted a position in his third year as instructor in French at the th*e chemistry department at Middlebury College. University of Rochester, N. Y. Middlebury, Vt. John I). Dupuis is now located in New York 1927 City where he is handling Out of Town Credits Mr. and Mrs. Briah K. Connor announce tin- for the Irving Trust Company. arrival of Briah K., Jr., on September 27. George B. Knox and Miss Mary McCune were Albert Van Dekker (Al Ecke) opened in New- married in Los Angeles on July 6. They art- .11 York November 13 in "Brittle- Heaven" with home at [137 W'ooster Street in that city. Dorothy Gish. The play, which first appeared at John D. Lincoln has recently been transferred Lakewood under the sponsorship of Herbert I. from the Chicago office of Appleton & Cox, Inc.. Swett '01, concerns the life of the poet Emily writers of marine and transportation insurance, Dickinson. to be manager of the Kansas City, Missouri,

William J. MacGuire, Jr., reports tli.it follow branch of the company, ing graduation from the Southern Law School al The engagemenl of Miss Isabel F. Kemp ol

Athens, Ga., and the receipt of an L.L.M. from Maplewood, X. ).. to W. Merrill Hunt, Jr., has Webster University at Atlanta he lias been ad just been announeed. The wedding is planned mitted to the New York Bar. After leaving Bow for next spring. Hunt is now associated with El doin he served under the Rockefeller Founda brook. Inc., an import and export house in New- tion in West Africa, returning to marry Mis York City.

Sarah I>odgcn of Spartanburg, \\ ( '., in 1931. Ilarald A. Render received his Ph.D., from

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George Washington University last June and is Hofmiller at Munich, Germany, on the twentieth now Assistant Curator of Mollusks in the Na- of June. Mr. Pettegrove and his bride are now tional Museum at Washington. living in Bennington, Vermont, where he is on On the eighth of October the Rev. Robert F. the faculty of Bennington College in the De- Sweetser took his position as curate at the partment of Literature. Church of the Advent in Boston, having resigned Henry M. Pollock, Jr., is a laboratory interne his pastorate at Newcastle, Maine. at Boston University School of Medicine and at The engagement of Miss Ann B. Frothing- the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital. ham of Boston to William G. Wait has recently Herbert L. Prescott and Miss Ruth Van Buren been announced. of Bangor were married in July. 1930 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Riley, Jr., announce the arrival of a daughter, Edith, in June. Announcement is received of the marriage of The engagement of Miss Elsie P. Sinnott of Donald Berry and Miss Ruth F. Rand at Middle- Marshfield, Mass., to Donald H. Randall has re- boro, Massachusetts on the twelfth of this month. cently been announced. Mr. Randall is a member of the faculty of the Marshfield High School. George W. R. Bowie, M.D., has been appointed Howard M. Sapiro passed his State of Maine second lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the examinations on medicine and surgery in organized reserves, U.S.A. July- Howard V. Stiles is this year teaching French We hear that Carter Lee's engagement was an- at the Storm King School at Cornwall-on-Hud- nounced in July, but no further details are known. son, N. Y. George S. Willard has accepted a post as law On the twenty-second of June, Miss Lydia S. clerk to the justices of the Massachusetts Su- Riley and Harrison M. Davis, Jr., were married preme Court, having been admitted to the Maine at the First Parish Church in Brunswick, with Bar in October. a reception in the Moulton Union. The usher Gerhard H. Whittier has joined the German group included Herbert W. Chalmers '30, Wesley Department of the faculty of Newark Academy P. Cushman '31, James M. Parker '30, John W. at Newark, N. J. Riley, Jr., '30, and Gregory Smith '29. Mr. Davis and his bride are living at Tucson, Arizona, 1931 where he is head of the English Department and Sherwood Aldrich and Miss Constance Libby lecturer in American History at The Evans were married in Topsham on September first, School. the Rev. Earl C. Davis '97 performing the cere- Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Davis announce the ar- mony. Mr. Aldrich was admitted to the Maine rival of a daughter, Sally, on October 15th. They Bar this summer, and is associated with his are living in Wilton, N. H. father at his law office in Brunswick. Charles H. Farley has been appointed assist- Blanchard W. Bates is head of the French De- ant in history at Harvard for one year. partment at the Fresnal Ranch School for Boys Manning Hawthorne is a member of the fac- at Tucson, Arizona. ulty of the Adirondack-Florida School at Onch • James B. Colton is teaching Latin at Albany iota, N. Y. Academy, Albany, N. Y. William N. Locke is teaching French and A radiogram from Francis S. Dane, Jr., dog English at The Emerson School in Exeter, N. H. driver with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, was Mr. and Mrs. Laurence C. Martin announce recently received by President Sills, and the marriage of their daughter Rebecca to Ben- brought greetings to "the best College in the jamin G. Jenkins on the eighth of September. Mr. world". and Mrs. Jenkins are living in Springfield, Mass. Lawrence C. Jenks is a member of the faculty Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Bement of Grand of The Cambridge School of Liberal Arts in Rapids, Mich., have announced the engagement Cambridge, Mass., where he is teaching mathe- of their daughter, Miss Ellen M. A. Bement to matics. Edmund P. Lord of Framingham Centre, Mass. Edmund N. Lippincott and Miss Mary Carolyn Miss Elizabeth Harding of Chestnut Hills, Bacchus were married in Wilmington, Delaware Mass., and Dr. James M. Parker were married in on the twenty-eighth of June. Mr. Lippincott Brookline on the twenty-first of September. has a position with the DuPont Company in that Huntington Blatchford '29 was Dr. Parker's best city. man, and the usher group included Charles P. Another June wedding was that of Robert Emerson '32, Garth P. James '32, Walter B. E. Maynard and Miss Clara C. Minsinger which Parker, Jr., '38, Marion Short '32, and Dr. Mayo took place at Dorchester, Mass., on the twenty- H. Soley '29. Dr. and Mrs. Parker are living in fourth of the month. Boston where he plans to do both hospital work Donald E. Merriam is a member of the faculty and general practice. of The Gow School at South Wales. N. Y. Announcement has been received of the mar- Richard Perry and Miss Hilda Randall were riage of James P. Pettegrove and Miss Elisabeth married on Alumni Day, November 10, at Fal- [m] The B o w d o i n Alumnus'] mouth Foreside. Austin K. Smithwick attended Ned W. Packard has been appointed assistant the bridegroom as best man. After a wedding superintendent of Opportunity Farm, New Glou- trip to the Windward Islands the Perrys will cester, and assumed his duties on November 1. make their home in Boston. Gilbert B. Parker is teaching French at Ver- Benjamin R. Shute, who graduated from Har- mont Academy, Saxtons River, Vermont. vard Law School in -June, has a position with Charles F. Stanwood, having completed his Cravath, De Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, lawyers graduate work at Oxford, is a member of the in New York City. faculty of Choate School at Wallingford, Conn. Announcement has been received of the wed- During his two years residence at Oxford Uni- ding of Julian C. Smyth and Miss Olga Quintero, versity he attained international recognition as on the fifteenth of September in New York a hurdler and high-jumper, twice winning three City. first places to lead the Oxford track team to John L. Snyder and Miss Margaret E. Jacobs victories over Cambridge. of Portland were married on Commencement W. Lawrence Usher and Miss Virginia Donald Day. They are living in Cleveland, Ohio, were married in Cambridge, Mass., in October where Mr. Snyder is connected with Dun & 12. John Creighton was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Bradstreet, Inc. Usher are now living in Bloomfield, New Jersey, Warren E. Winslow and! Miss Marguerite where he is employed by the Liberty Mutual In- Clifford were married in Topsham on the sixth surance Company. of September. Lloyd Kendall attended Mr. Wins- 1933 low as best man, and Owen W. Gilman was one Witoldo Bakanowsky is now known as W. of the ushers. Mr. Winslow has been admitted to Warren Barker. He has a position with Dun the bar and is now practicing law in Portland. & Bradstreet, Inc., in Cleveland, Ohio. 1932 Miss Pauline Stearns, sister of Louis C. Robert S. Beaton has resumed his duties as Stearns, and Gordon D. Briggs were married in master of the seventh and eighth grades at the Bangor on the thirtieth of June. Tilton School, Tilton, N. H. During the summer Marshall Davis, Jr., is a member of the fac- he was director at the Y.M.C.A. camp at Mid- ulty of Scarboro High School. dleboro, Mass. The engagement of Miss Marjorie Stone of Dura S. Bradford and Miss Elizabeth E. Wil- Lynn, Mass., to Francis H. Donaldson was an- son were married in Upper Montclair, N. J., on nounced this summer. the fourteenth of June. They are living in Port- Russell Hall, Jr., is employed by Charles land, where Mr. Bradford is a trust officer at Schribner's Sons, Boston. the Portland National Bank. Announcement has been received ot the mar John Creighton, principal of Thomaston High riage of Miss Victorine HaW and Freeland Har- School, was elected to the executive committee low in New York City on the fifteenth of Sep- of the Bowdoin Teachers' Club at the annual tember. They are living at 405 East 54th Street meeting in October. in that city. Clyde P. Dolloff is Vocational Division Man- Paul Jack, English assistant at Richmond ager for the Curtis Publishing Company, with High School the past year, has now been elected his headquarters at Scbago Lake. principal of the school. James B. Donaldson and Miss Elizabeth Hick- Roger D. Lowell is teaching at Limestone High ey were married in Arlington, Mass., on Septem- School. ber 3. Harrison M. Davis, Jr., '30 was best man, Joseph J. Miller is a student at the Yale School and the usher group included Francis H. Don of Architecture. aldson '3.3, Joseph P. Flagg '30, and Richard N. Donald P. MacCormick is teaching English at Sanger '32. Following a wedding trip to Ber St. Albans School at Washington, 1). C. muda, Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson have settled in Sumner H. Mclntire has a position in the Cambridge, Mass., where he is located in busi Science Department at Westbrook Junior Col ness. lege. James A. Eastman is this year studying a! Richard A. Mavvhinncy is a reporter in the the School of Library Science at Columbia l'ni New York City Department of Dun & Brad- versity. street, Inc. Gordon C. Knight is employed in the commer Edward II. Morse has been promoted and cial department f >f the New York Telephone transferred from the office of the Owens Glass

Company. Company at Bridgeton, X. J., to that of tin. Stephen A. Lavender has a position in the Owens-Illinois Glass Company in Alton, 111. Workman's Compensation Sales Department 01 William II. Perry, Jr., is employed as a Di- the New York Office of the Liberty Mutual In rector for the Amateur Theater Guild of P.oston. surance Co. The engagemenl of Miss Elizabeth Johnston Stephen F. Leo is on the staff of the Kennebec ot Portland to Ellsworth T. Rundlett was an Journal in Augusta. nounced in July Rundlett is now connected C»j] [The B o w d o i n Alumnu s

with the H. M. Payson Company, brokers, in Department of the S.S. "Pennsylvania" of the Portland. Panama-Pacific Line, running from New York Fryeburg Academy football, hockey and track to San Francisco via the Canal and return. are being coached this year by Ronald G. Tor- Bryant C. Emerson is an employee of the Uni- rey. During the past year Mr. Torrey was a versalist Credit Company of Boston. clerk with the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. oi Richard P. Emery sent word in Boston. September that he was "shortly to be with Lever Bros., John M. Watson is with the Newport News Cambridge." Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company at New- port News, Virginia. Harold H. Everett is studying at M. I. T. 1934 William W. Fearnside is a student at Bonn University in Germany. Samuel D. Abramovitz is studying this year at Harvard Graduate School. Robert S. Fletcher is employed by the Per- sonnel, Charles W. Allen is attending law school al Department of the Massachusetts State the University of Michigan. Prison. George James P. Archibald is a student at Boston M. Fish formerly of South Paris is University Law School. now living in Santa Barbara, Calif., having re- John L. Arnold has entered Harvard Medical ceived his A.B. degree from Leland Stanford. School. James C. Freeman is this year studying at Harvard James E. Bassett, Jr., is a reporter for the Graduate School, and hopes to be teaching English next year at this time. Los Angeles "Times" , and is living in Glendale, California. John C. Gazlay, Jr., is attending Harvard Bus- F. Donald Bates is living at home and has iness School. a position with an insurance company. Gordon E. Gillett is a student at the Theol- Eugene E. Brown is a student at Tufts Med- ogical Seminary of Alexandria, Virginia. ical School. Charles O. Goldberg is engaged in radio serv- Dudley H. Braithwaite is a yarn salesman in ice work. Auburndale, Mass. Richard L. Goldsmith is occupied in Y.M.C.A. John D. Brookes is a clerk in the Boston Safe work in Brooklyn, N. Y. Deposit and Trust Co. James E. Guptill is a claim adjuster with the Charles S. Burdell is in Boston learning Hotel Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, located in Management. Lynn, Mass. The engagement of Miss Nella Barber of Garnet R. Hackwell is an insurance agent in Brunswick to Philip E. Burnham was announced Boston. on the seventeenth of June. Burnham has re- Frederick G. Hall, 2nd, is a junior accountant cently accepted a position with The Reynolds and is living at Scituate, Mass. Metal Company, Inc., in New York City. Joseph G. Ham is attending the Medical Frederick W. Burton has a position as sales- School of Columbia University. man in Houghton & Dutton's, Boston. James W. Hand, Jr., is a student at Harvard Charles W. Carpenter is employed as Junior Business School. Economist with the Tariff Commission in Charles E. Hardies, Jr., has taken up his Washington. studies at Cornell Law School. Alexander P. Clark is taking graduate work at Robert W. Harrington, Jr., is an insurance Columbia University. salesman in Rochester, N. Y. William W. Clay has a position with Canada Robert F. Hayden is employed by a building Dry Ginger Ale, Inc. wrecking concern. Alfred S. Hayes is doing graduate work at Kennedy Crane, Jr., is an assistant to the manager of a W. T. Grant Co. store in Dayton, Harvard. Ohio. John B. Hickox has started to learn the to- in the Penn Russell W. Dakin is a student at Harvard bacco business, and is now a worker Business School. sylvania Tobacco Factory at Wilkes-Barre. Richard H. Davis has a position as an ac- Walter D. Hinkley is a student at Yale Law countant. School. obtained a position Stephen R. Deane is attending Harvard Grad- A. Perry Holt, Jr., has uate School. with the W. T. Grant Company in New York Charles E. Dewing is studying at Colorado City. College. Enoch W. Hunt, 2nd, is attending Harvard Edward DeLong is an accountant in New Business School. York City. Charles F. Kahili is taking graduate work at Robert G. Dowling is an insurance broker with Columbia. Cornell an office at Hyannis, Mass. Stanley Kamykowski has enrolled at Frederick E. Drake, Jr., is in the Purser's Agricultural School. [*] The B o w d o i n Alumnus}

Jerome H. T. Kidder is a student at Johns in at Milo High School. Hopkins University. Edward C. Uehlein is a student at Harvard Robert F. Kingsbury has joined the faculty Law School. of Sanford High School. Henry P. Van de Bogert is with the GHdden John H. Kozlowski is working in Milford, Buick Company in New York City. Conn. Carl F. A. Weber is instructor in English at H. Clay Lewis is studying Chemistry and Eng- Thornton Academy, Saco. lish at M.I.T. He also mentions that he is on Carleton S. Wilder is studying at the Univer- the "board of visitors to Wellesley College." sity of Arizona.

Arthur B. Lord, Jr., writes that he will be James G. Woodruff has accepted a position a.-> teaching next year but is a student at Tufts agent for the Equitable Life Assurance Society, College for the present. being located in Barre, Vermont. John W. Lord has entered Harvard Business Richard Y. Woodsum is in the real estate School. business in Wollaston, Mass. Joel Y. Marshall has entered Tufts Medical Eugene G. Ingalls is a member of the faculty School. of Higgins Classical Institute at Charleston. John E. Mullen is employed by Brierly, Lom- M Chandler Redman spent a considerable por- bard & Company in Worcester. tion of the summer as a political speaker on be- K. Edward Miller is taking a secretarial course half of the Democratic party. at Bay Path Institute and doing some part-time Medical 1888 work in Springfield. Richard F. Nelson is attending Harvard Busi- Charles A. Dennett, M.D., has been elected ness School. representative from Cumberland County to the James H. Norton has a position in the Re- State Legislature. search Department of the F.E.R.A. in Michigan. Medical 1890 Lawson Odde is engaged in real estate business in Watertown, Mass. Nelson C. Haskell, M.D., is consulting physi- Carl G. Olson has been doing some newspaper cian on the Senior Staff of the Springfield, Mass., work in Belmont, Mass. Hospital. During the past year Dr. Haskell

George F. Peabody and J. Blenn Perkins, Jr., served as President of the Springfield Academy are studying at Harvard Law School. of Medicine. Asa O. Pike, 3rd, has joined his father, Asa Medical 1901 O Pike, 2nd, '07, in the insurance business in Fryeburg. William R. L. Hathaway, M.D., was this fall Gardner C. Pope is teaching at Washington elected senator from Piscataquis County for the Academy. next session of the State Legislature. Robert C. Porter has a position in the Trust Medical 1915 Department of the Banker's Trust Company in New York City. Linwood H. Johnson, M.D., of Westerly, R. I., Raymond Prince is a clerk with the American was one of the three Rhode Island surgeons Radiator Company in Boston. awarded a fellowship at the annual convocation Seth H. Read is a student at Harvard Medical of the American College of Surgeons in Boston. School. This is the highest honor which can be con- Henry W. Richardson is in the maple sugar ferred on any surgeon. Dr. Johnson has been candy business at Sugar Hill, N. H. engaged in the practice of medicine- in Westerly Bradford Robinson is dividing his time be since io-'7. succeeding the practice of Dr. Henry tween attending the School of Applied Social L. Johnson '07 when he became College Sciences of Western Reserve University and Physician. being a staff member in the "University Neigh Honorary 1911 borhood Centers" of Cleveland. James L. Conaughy, Presidenl of Wesleyan William D. Rounds is a student at Harvard University, received the honorary degree of <\l Honorary 1911 Deering High School in Portland. Dr. Payson Smith, commissioner of education Leo Sternberg is attending Boston Universit) of Massachusetts, was awarded the honoraryde X. is a studi m al Tufts Frederick Sweetsir of doctor of laws al Northeastern Univer

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Vol. IX JANUARY, 1935 No.

The Kent's Island Expedition of 1934 FREDERIC A. FISHER, JR., '35

It was with great pleasure that the four chartering a small boat to cover the remain- members of last summer's Kent's Island ing distance of six miles. Kent's Island was Expedition read in The Whispering Pines, acquired a few years ago by Mr. John

Commander MacMillan's generous appro- Stirling Rockefeller, who has maintained it bation of their work, and his recommenda- as a bird sanctuary. Hay and Sheep

tion that it be continued in the future. Islands, not more than 100 yards away, are Certainly, from the point of view of pure owned by Mr. Henry Ingalls, a retired vacation, we had passed an ideal summer, Canadian herring-fisherman, who has lived

and it was gratifying to discover that the on the former for over 80 years. interesting investigations in which we had On each side of the Bay of Fundy are been engaged had been productive of results two biological zones, the Canadian and

thought worthy of mention. Possibly it Transitional. It may be stated that these will be of interest to alumni to have a are conventional names adopted by biolo- clearer idea of Kent's Island, the work car- gists as designations indicating regional ried on there, and of the recent interesting differences in plant, animal, and bird life. developments in relation to it. The location of Kent's Island at the junc-

Kent's Island is one of a group of three, tion of these two zones makes it uniquely the other two being named Hay and Sheep, interesting to the ornithologist. Birds who respectively. The geographical designa- find the natural conditions of one or the tion of the group is Three Islands. Their other of these most favorable to them are location at the entrance of the Bay of continually in the vicinity, especially in the

Fundy is approximately 44° 34' north lati- mating season. Thus many species arc met tude, 66° 45' west longitude, and they are with throughout the year which would not included in the Province of New Bruns- be found \n a locality wholly within one wick. About equidistant from the Maine biological region. Grand Manan, oil our and Nova Scotia shores, and but a few miles North American coast, has more than once north of the international boundary, they been compared to Heligoland in the North are reached by taking a mail steamer from Sea, the Mecca ol European scientists for Eastport to Grand Manan, and from there the observation of rare species. During the

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[3°] The B o w d o in Alumnus] two months of our stay, 70 different species from which to take off", and if we could of birds were seen, either nesting on, or catch up with them before they found one, visiting the island, and, according to re- they were ours. Even with gloves on, a liable reports, more than 200 come there at snap of their beaks could be felt through one time or another during the year. This the heavy leather.

is a remarkable total for so limited a local- As indicated by the relatively large

ity. The island is particularly favorable number banded, the young gulls were the for ground -nesting birds as there are no most easily captured. Their favorite habi-

rodents on it whatsoever, in fact no preda- tat was found to be grassy, hummocky land tory mammals of any kind. abounding in fallen tree trunks. In such The work of the summer consisted of circumstances we would come upon little three main parts, bird-banding for the groups of them huddled together for

United States Biological Survey, the collec- warmth. These were all fairly large birds tion of data on the Great Black-backed two or three weeks old. They lay very still, Gull, and an intensive study of the Leach's merely waiting for food from the parent Petrel. Burt Whitman and myself concen- bird, and silently, rapidly growing. In this trated on the banding, Paul Favour worked comfortable situation, if approached tact- on the Black-back, and Bill Gross did some fully a tergo, they would lazily allow excellent and thorough investigation on the their right legs to be stretched out behind petrel. Besides these specific lines of en- them and braceleted with the aluminum deavor, Whitman, Favour, and Gross, bands of the Biological Survey, each with whose previous ornithological training at its separate number. Under ideal condi- Bowdoin College proved valuable, made tions these young gulls could be banded at observations and notes upon all species the rate of from 150 to 200 an hour. seen on the island, and in general studied The banding of the Leach's Petre'l en- the bird life. Over 5,000 birds were banded tailed a good deal of exertion but was in- during the course of the summer. Of these, teresting. Although a number were banded young Herring Gulls constituted about on Kent's Island, the majority were taken 3,000, Leach's Petrel 700, the remainder on Green Island, about a mile to the north. Eider Ducks, Guillemots, Swallows, and Nothing but a large, grassy knoll about others. Possibly the two most outlandish three hundred yards long, and fifty to species banded were the Ra^or-billed Auks seventy-five yards wide, this island was (aptly named) on Yellow Murr Ledge, six honeycombed with the distinctive tunnels miles to the southwest, and the Atlantic which the petrels dig for their homes. The Puffins on Machias Seal Island, fifteen miles firm, tough soil gave excellent support to away in about the same direction. Both of the walls of these tunnels, yet was movable these birds have limited powers of flight, enough for the limited technique of petrel having wings almost ludicrously out of pro- engineering. These small, web-footed,

portion to the weight of their stocky, cigar- shite-colored birds loosen the soil with their

shaped bodies. The husky black beak of bills, and kicking the dirt back with their the Auk and the brilliantly variegated one feet, burrow down into the ground to o( the Puffin were equally to be avoided. whatever distance seems safe to their judg-

Capturing them at these colonies, interest- in nt, usually about an arm's length. Their ing as the southernmost in the world, was burrows end in a saucer-shaped recess in extremely good sport. We surprised them which the eggs are laid. During the mating

among the boulders where both species laid season one bird is nearly always found in

their eggS. They needed ,1 slight eley.it Km the burrow while the other is apparently

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at sea hunting for oily matter on the sur' cumulated data into an article which should face of the water which constitutes its food. prove of real value and interest to orni' The birds were reached with some dim- thologists. culty. The procedure was to thrust one's Paul Favour was engrossed in his work arm into the tunnel, enlarging it by digging of gathering information for a life-history away the sides a little with the hand. When study of the Great Black'backed Gull, a one's shoulder came to rest against the species which, for some reason or other, has mouth of the hole, a warm, fluttering bunch extended its southern range during the last of feathers could usually be felt. Grasping generation to the vicinity of Grand Manan.

it firmly but carefully, one could then with- However, as conditions last summer were draw the ruffled and indignant petrel to be not particularly favorable for the observa' banded. This accomplished, the bird was tion of this bird, his conclusions were nee released in the entrance to its tunnel down essarily based on a limited set of data and

which it scuttled with apparent relief. On he wishes to study its habits more fully be. Green and Kent's Islands, taken together, fore publishing any of his findings. He there must be more than 3,000 pairs of this hopes to continue his investigations next bird and well over 10,000 of their burrows, summer. counting both those in use and those aban- Besides the ornithological work carried doned. The Herring Galls, even more on, we also attempted to get a fairly ac- numerous, we estimated at about

From material gathered through banding bird work is concerned, and there is excel' and supplementary observation, Burt Whit' lent opportunity for investigations in man is soon to bring out an article for an botany, entomology, and bird anatomy and ornithological publication on the distribu' embryology. The great multitude of gull tion of birds on Kent's Island. This article and petrel eggs in various states of develop' will be the most important and complete ment offers to the scientific photographer an summation of the results of last summer's unusual chance to get pictures of bird work. embryos all the way from the tiny life-cell Bill Gross's study of the Leach's Petrel in the newlaid egg to the "chick" emerging occupied him almost constantly. Periodic triumphant from its broken shell. Dr. measurements of the young birds, photog' Alfred O. Gross of Bowdoin, who in the raphy, close observation, in fact every summer of 1932 made an ecological study available approach was employed to glean of the Eider Duck on Kent's Island, plans a more nearly complete knowledge of this to pursue some experimental study of birds truly remarkable species upon which very on the island next summer, meager reports indeed have ever been pub' But no account of our stay at Kent's lished. Gross intends to correlate his ac Island could be complete with the statement

[3>] The B o w d o in Alumnus] alone of the investigations which we had a supper equally incredible in scope. Our chance to carry on. Both when working digestive systems once synchronized with and on "days off", we enjoyed to the ut- this unwonted gastronomic regime, all was most every moment of our vacation. In the well and it worked excellently. first place, our living quarters were as com- During the morning and early part of the fortable as could be desired. We spent the afternoon, Whitman and myself attacked summer in a small frame cottage built by the banding. Young Tree-Swallows in Mr. Rockefeller, who so kindly made the bird-boxes happened to be our first objec- vacation possible for us. The cottage is well-constructed, with a large room serving for kitchen and living-room, two small ad- joining bedrooms, and a capacious attic for use as a storeroom. A stone foundation forms the cellar, which served as a cool, well-ventilated place for keeping food. An ample supply of cold, clean, fresh water was provided by a well about 150 yards from the cottage. We bought our supplies at White Head, an island three miles to the northeast. Transportation was provided by an eleven-foot dinghy to the stern of which, was bracketed our indefatigable little one- cylinder outboard motor. Not remarkable either for speed or seaworthiness, this outfit did, however, give us hundreds of miles of economical travel in spite of the wry smiles and ominous headshakings of our good Canadian friends, of whom more later. Members of the Expedition Soon after arriving on the island, we de- Paul G. Favour, Jr. vised a "system" whereby we thought the William A. Gross Frederic A. Fisher, Jr. most could be accomplished with a mini- F. Burton Whitman, Jr. mum expenditure of time and energy, this a brain-child born as much of laziness as of tive. These had to be opened with hammer purely scientific enthusiasm for efficiency. and screwdriver. Some of them, perched Two of us cooked on the gasoline stoves on posts high above the ground, were diffi- and kept the house in something like order cult in the extreme, provocative of sore for a week while the other two carried thumbs and much tuneful comment. After water from the well. Then we swapped the swallows came the young gulls. Day and so on. With sea-island appetites we after day we picked up small, chirping soon discovered that cooking, and clearing puffs of brown-mottled gray down, and up after three meals a day was a physical banded them. It was comical to see them impossibility if we wanted really to accom- straddle away with heads lifted high, piping plish anything. Hence, part of the scheme a shrill mixture of alarm and defiance. was to have but two meals a day. Up at Every other afternoon two of us, at least,

6 a.m., we consumed a breakfast of Gar usually set out for White Head for mail gantlian proportions, were then lire for the and supplies. Thirty minutes of steady day until 5.30 I'. M., when we devoured a buZZing and we 8WUng around the head it-

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[The B o w d o in Alumnus self, a rounded ledge of white granite, in' on the fog-horns, which meant shutting off variably to see half the village down on the the motor in order to hear them. The dock to see "them boys from Three Islands" necessity of relying on them was at this come in. How many amusing incidents point, and for the time being, obviated - were connected with that dock! — failing someone through the sweeping mists sighted to shut off the motor soon enough and land. Tremendous relief. We made for smacking it with great loss of nautical it, landed, and discovered it to be Little prestige and dignity; getting stuck in the Green Island, a mile directly to the north mud while making some particularly ele- of Kent's Island. By this time the idea of gant maneuvers angling for a mooring at a going to White Head had subtly lost its crowded landing; yanking at the starting- charm. We shoved off again, started the cord of the outboard time after time with motor, taking what we deemed a southerly no result, while a flock of snickering course, forgetting fog-horns and trusting by urchins ventured apt comments and inept divine grace to strike Kent's. We churned suggestions. on for a few dismal moments through the Memorable trips we had to all places gray pall. A boat's motor! Nearer and within a radius of 10 miles. Down to nearer it came, and throwing dignity to the Gannet Rock lighthouse to make the ac- winds, we sung out. Picture the woeful

quaintance of the keepers, over to, Seal reaction when it went past nearby in the Gove on Grand Manan to visit a friend fog without our being heard. The motor made on the boat coming over from East- was shut off and we listened for fog-horns port, across to Wood Island to band gulls atempting to get our bearings. But what or to enjoy a meal with Captain Harvey should strike our ears at this juncture but and his men at the life-saving station. the faint sweet music of crying gulls. The On one unforgettable occasion, having oars were out in a flash. Making toward been fog-bound on the island for three days, these siren calls, we soon saw land loom up and being reduted to oatmeal and tea for again. Speculation as to its identity was provender, in desperation we embarked for rife. We landed. Shamefaced were the White Head, trusting for guidance in local grins when we discovered that it was Little fog-horns and a tiny, impotent-looking Green Island once more. We had merely land-compass. In a brief minute or two the described a semicircle with its shoreline as island faded into a ghostly shroud, and with a diameter. a dubious sensation roaming around The situation was waxing desperate and through our abdominal regions, we realized complicated. We did not fancy staying on that we were now dependent on symbolic Little Green Island until the fog lifted in reasoning alone for our directions instead maybe one, maybe two days! A solemn of vastly more reassuring direct sensory conclave was held, a very solemn conclave, impressions. Immediately the compass be- It was seen from the chart which we for- gan to exhibit idiosyncrasies, impartially tunately had with us, that Kent's Island choosing one point, now another, as in the was in an absolute beeline from the south- direction of magnetic north. For a moment ernmost tip of the island we were on, also civil war seemed imminent in the bow that Gannet fog-horn was just a hair to where the compass was by now being fran- the west of this line. Consequently, if we

tically snatched to and fro amid much con- rowed, listening for the horn, keeping it flicting reasoning. However, order issued just off our starboard bow, we were bound

out of chaos, and it was decided that the to strike Kent's. We went round to the compass was haywire. We would depend southern tip of the island, and getting our

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bearings from Gannetfs throaty and encour' able and generous. Statistical measures of

aging boom, started off. kindness are perhaps irrelevant and in poor In about half an hour of careful rowing, taste, but when four hungry men can live

perfect fog'horn audibility, but terrific sus' for nine weeks on $100, $25 apiece, that is,

pense, we again heard gulls, then land once there is a "biasing factor" somewhere. Their

more — Kent's Island! With its blessed soil kindnesses ranged all the way from a three- once more under our feet, we concluded day trip to Nova Scotia in the heart of the

South End of Kent's Island A Typical Breeding Place for the GulVs, Eider Duc\s, and Petrels that, if necessary, we could live joyfully on Evangeline country to innumerable presents oatmeal and tea for the rest of the summer. of fish, vegetables, cream, and cake. Cer- Later, relating the experience to some of tainly we had never before met human be- our fishermen friends, they roared with ings so genuine, friendly, and likable. laughter, but fundamentally gentlemen to Throughout the summer we never passed the core, they refrained from the obvious a dull moment. After spending a day of and did not tell us in what category of steady but interesting work, for example, fools we should be placed. Instead, they banding petrels on Green Island with what provided us with a mariners compass. On satisfaction and enthusiasm we piled into another occasion rescuing two of us in the the dinghy, shewed gratingly off the rocks, dinghy nearly caught in a vicious tidcrip, spun over the outboard, and were thrashing they of their own accord promised that if our way homeward. Our bulgy little tub, we should return another year they would comically overloaded, wallowed and

See to getting us a seaworthy dory with .1 pitched, nearly inundating first her how well built into her for the outboard. ami then her stern to the tempo of !<>ur Our whole vacation was continually be- rauCOUS voices each contentedly howling a ing made all the more enjoyable by their different tunc. Cranky as she was, she cordiality. They were incorrigibly lm nit grew in our affections as she nosed and

[3J] [The B o w d o in Alumnus splashed her way hither and yon in all sorts ogy, described the island to the Committee of weather. and detailed some of the valuable work Home to a sumptuous repast of fried which could be done there. The Committee pollock and potatoes, bread, tea, and fruit, evidently looked with some favor upon the we afterward stretched with satisfaction proposal and authorised Dr. Gross to enter four abreast across the couch and vegetated into correspondence with Mr. Rockefeller for a while in the luxury of a cigarette or in this relation.

Pens for Experimental Bird Work

1 a pipeful of good tobacco, hazily taking in Mr. Rockefeller will "seir (merely to from the radio the dulcet cooings of Bing avoid legal complications) the island to the Crosby or momentarily rousing out of our College for the exorbitant price of one pleasant torpor at news of the latest politi- dollar, with the condition that it be main- cal moves of "Der Fuehrer". tained as a bird sanctuary, Bowdoin stu- Thus we passed the summer, a summer dents or professors each summer to carry full of activity and interest, fittingly closed on ornithological studies there. From the by the beautiful trip back to Portland in middle of May to the middle of June, be- the returning Bowdoin, made possible by fore the undergraduates arrive, he also the great generosity of Commander Mac- stipulates that a warden be kept on the Millan. island in order to protect the gulls from the Since our return, Mr. John Stirling wholesale deprivation of their eggs by local Rockefeller has offered to make a present gulls'-egging parties. The maintenance of of the island to the College. Such a pro- the warden, annual repairs on the property, posal is, of course, of the greatest interest and taxes on the island as real estate would to us who have had an opportunity to learn entail a yearly expenditure of about $150. first-hand how fascinating and valuable a There is, of course, the possibility that the place it is. Developments thus far in rela- Canadian government would waive the pay- tion to the acquisition of the island by the ment of taxes were the island thus to be College are substantially as follows: used for educational purposes only. In September the Executive Committee In order that the College may be proof the Governing Boards had the matter tected from what might possibly become a

1 brought up for their consideration. Dr. 'white elephant" should Bowdoin interest

Alfred O. Gross of the Biology Depart- in ornithology wane, it would be provided ment, and whose especial field is ornithol- that in such case the island might either be

[36] The B o w d o in Alumnus] returned to Mr. Rockefeller, or given to the Phi Beta Kappa Province of New Brunswick. The mid-winter initiation of the Phi Of course in all matters pertaining to the Beta Kappa, Alpha of Maine, will be held acquisition of real estate the action of the in the Alumni Room, Hubbard Hall, on Executive Committee is, according to the Monday, February nth, at 6.30 P. M., and by-laws of the College, recommendatory will be followed by a dinner in the Moulton only. But certainly its favorable opinion Union. The speaker will be Dr. William must have a great deal of weight with the Allison Shimer, of New York, Secretary of Governing Boards as a whole, when annex- the United Chapters and editor of The ing the property would mean the possession American Scholar, whose subject will be of so unique and valuable a field laboratory "American Culture and Phi Beta Kappa". for the ornithological and other biological The literary committee of the chapter is departments of the College. making arrangements for a public lecture Surely it is in line with Bowdoin's fine to be held later in the year. tradition as a "nurturer of men" to give to her sons so splendid a chance to get actual experience in the absorbing study of orni- Herbert von Beckerath of the University thology, and to give to them an unparalleled of Bonn, who is this year Visiting Profes- opportunity for vigorous life in the open sor of Economics at Bowdoin on the Tall- among as fine a community of genuinely man Foundation, delivered the first of his open-handed, open-hearted folk as Canada public lectures on the evening of January 2. affords. This lecture and that of January 9 were concerned with a general view of "Society

For the period ending December 31, and Economy". On February 13, 20, and Bowdoin undergraduates had received from 27 Dr. von. Beckerath will consider "Crises the Federal Emergency Relief Administra- and Reforms within Individual Countries", tion $3,303.03 in return for activity on taking up Italy, Russia, and the United projects on and off the campus. States.

Dean Nixon is expected to meet with the Alexander Woolcott, radio and magazine three alumni associations in California in commentator, and author of "While Rome

the course of the winter. He is living at Burns", has been chosen as the Annie Tal- 2620 Foothill Boulevard, Altadena, Cali- bot Cole lecturer for the year. He will fornia. come to Bowdoin on May 2.

^B Stanley Charles Perkins Stuart m' Chase, Ph.D. Fessenden

1 -• ,3 Lincoln, M.D., M.S.

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Financial Note The 1935 Institute

Last year the gross expenditures of the The committee of the faculty in charge College amounted to $918.18 for each of of the program of the Institute of Politics,

567 full-time students. Excluding the ex- April 9 to iS, 1935, is pleased to report to penditures for the. Department of Physical the alumni and to other friends of the Col-

Education, the average cost falls to $815.46, lege that the list of speakers already accept- while eliminating the Cafeteria accounts ing invitations to address the Institute con- and the amounts paid for Scholarships, tains public speakers of international repu- Prizes, etc., reduces the per capita cost to tation including among others Secretary $686.07. of Labor Frances Perkins, Secretary of

For tuition, room rent, and other charges, Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, and Hon. the average student paid to the College Ogden L. Mills, Secretary of the Treasury $341.45, or a little more than one-third the under President Hoover. gross operating cost. Secretary Perkins will speak on the New Deal and Human Welfare, Secretary Wal- So many factors in operating and report- lace on the philosophy of the Deal, ing are unlike that exact comparisons New and Mr. Mills will discuss the New Deal in among institutions are impossible, but a relation to individual liberty. casual examination of reports from other Other outstanding leaders in national and colleges indicates that the gross per capita international affairs will -speak on the cost at Bowdoin is not far from that of the topics: Liberalism; the program of the general run of endowed colleges in New Labor's problems; the experi- England. Apparently, however, the Bow- Progressives; ments with in Russia and with doin student does not pay quite so large a Communism Fascism in Italy and Germany. share of the cost of his education as does It is the object of the committee to have the boy who goes to the "average" New the most able leaders the sev- England college. presented by eral points of view relating to present-day Glenn R. McIntire '25, Bursar. political problems, and it is the purpose of the committee to see that each of the sev-

eral groups is well represented. President Sills desires to express his gratitude to the many members of the College Orren C. Hormell, Chairman in different parts of this country and differ- of the Committee in Charge. ent parts of the world who were kind enough to send to Mrs. Sills and himself Sunday chapel speakers in February and cards of greeting at Christmas time. As it March will include Dr. T. O. Wedel of the is not possible to acknowledge them indi- Department of Religious Education of the vidually he is availing himself of the kind- Protestant Episcopal Church, Rev. Newton ness of The Alumnus to express his deep C. Fetter of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Pro- appreciation and gratitude. fessor J. Seelye Bixler of Harvard, and Rev. Joseph C. MacDonald '15 of Waban, Mas- The Forum of Religious Thought, now sachusetts. seen as an annual event, will open on Sun- day, February 10. It is expected that the Winifred Christie, pianist, will give a re- usual twelve clergymen will be on the cital at Bowdoin on Tuesday, February 19, campus for about four days. using a double keyboard piano.

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The Beginning of Football at Bowdoin

GEORGE B. SEARS, '90

Editor's Note:—Judge Sears, who was the alumni of a small college to support, as characterized by the late Dr. Whittier as no revenue was derived from it.

"Father of Football at Bowdoin" , wrote There were at Bowdoin a few men who that he was glad to contribute this interest' had played football a little at their Pre- ing chronicle, if only to refute the Orient, paratory Schools, and knowing the excellent which referred to him as "George B. training they received from it and its ability

Seasons '8o". to draw spectators, it was felt that Bow

The Original Bowdoin Football Team

The first College footDall game ever doin ought to have an eleven. After hard played in the State of Maine was played work and perseverance a team was gotten by Bowdoin against Tufts in the fall of together of especially good material, but as 1889, on the Baseball grounds in Portland. most of the men had never seen a football

Most of the New England Colleges and game it necessarily required considerable large Preparatory Schools outside of Maine training and practice to develop a fairly had played football for a number of years strong team, although the game then was prior to that date. not as complicated as at the present time, For several years before then, Bowdoin there being no forward passing. Most of had been! quite active and successful in the plays were through the line or around boating with four-oared crews, but about the ends. that time the colleges that Bowdoin rowed It was estimated that there were about against had put on eight-oared crews, mak- seven hundred spectators at the game with ing it a heavy burden for the students and Tufts which was a very good attendance

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considering the fact that football contests Brunswick on the Delta winning by the were entirely new to the people of Port- score of 62 to o. We also played a team land. The pleasure of the game was some- from West Roxbury, Mass., at Brunswick, what interferred with by the encroachment and won the game by the score of 24 to o. of the crowd upon the playing field. Not one in fifty of the spectators knew anything about football and they cheered and laughed More Bowdoin Plates and yelled at every tackle, and every time In response to inquiries from a number the ball was "down", the crowd would of alumni, arrangements have been made make a rush for the scene of action. The with the Wedgwood potteries to prepare shouts of the crowd were amusing. Such 11 for us on special order four numbers cries as new "Slug him", "Jump on him , and 11 to be used with Bowdoin plates. Rim soup "Hit him in the eye , were frequent. The plates with or without the campus view game was won by Tufts after a hard, close centers may be secured^ on special order struggle by a score of eight to four. Tufts through the Alumni Office at a cost of made two touchdowns and Bowdoin made $18 a dozen, and coupe soup plates (without one in the first half. Neither side kicked a the broad rim) are available on the same goal and neither side scored in the second basis. Bouillon cups and saucers with en- half. Some of the newspapers reported the graving similar to the original cups and game in such a way that it appeared to be saucers may be secured at the same price, very rough and the parents of some of the and cream soups with stands similarly en- players at once wrote their sons not to play graved are priced at $20 per dozen. any more football, with the result that the Captain of the team was obliged to go The above items may be had in either about seventy-five miles to Damariscotta to black or blue, in dozen or half-dozen lots, see the father of two of the players and with extra individual pieces at $1.75 each, get him to allow his* boys to play in a game Bowdoin plates, cups and saucers, bread and which was scheduled for the next week. butter plates, and platters are available for After much persuasion the father gave his delivery at any time at the original prices. consent. The Alumni Office will welcome in- In the Tufts-Bowdoin game the elevens quiries as to available material and as to were made up as follows: additional pieces which may be desired. Tufts Bowdoin

Cunningham, e e, Sears The football team will be captained Snow, t t, Foss 1935 by Albert P. Putnam '36 of Houlton, and Foster, g g, Haskell managed by Philip A. Christie '3,6 or Lane, c c, Parker Presque Isle. Williams, g . g, Hastings

Brown, t t, Downs

Hickock, e e, Freeman On March 1 the annual New England Rose, qb qb, E. Hilton Glee Club Concert will be held in Port-

Storer, hb hb, W. Hilton land. Nathan I. Greene '28 is chairman Powell, hb hb, Packard of the committee of arrangements, and it

Edmunds, fb fb, Andrews is hoped that there will be a large alumni Substitutes interest. First and second prize winners in Kempton, Carleton, Bartlett this contest will go to Pittsburgh to partici- After the Tufts game we played Bates at pate in a national competition.

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The Current Athletic Situation

MALCOLM E. MORRELL, '24, DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS

There is absolutely nothing that this experience, for them to get the information writer is allowed to predict about the pos- necessary for them to have to decide Col- lege athletic policy efficiently and effec- sible outcome of the present athletic mis- tively. At the present time, the Athletic understanding: but something can be Director is on the same plane with the written about some of the factors leading coaches in that they are all approved or to it. vetoed by the same body, and they are all In my opinion the present system of ath- fully aware of that fact. This in itself in- letic control is partly at fault for the very vites the playing of politics to secure power unsavory position in which we find our- through votes of poorly informed members. selves. Under the present constitution the No member of the department can feel that Athletic Director appoints the coaches with honest effort and good work assures him of the approval of the President, and the security in his position. Rather he in- alumni and faculty members of the Athletic variably feels that he must entrench himself Council. There are five alumni and three with voting members of the Athletic Coun- faculty members on the Council, a total of cil in various ways, and this holds true eight votes. All of which means, in the whether the man is doing good or poor practical working out of the system, that work. the Athletic Council has final and full au- No later than last fall, 1933, something thority over engaging and dismissing occurred which definitely makes this point coaches, unless, as is extremely unlikely, the evident. The Athletic Director wanted Boards of the College take a hand, since the one set-up and the Council wanted some- Council can veto any nomination until the thing different. In the meeting the recom- one they want comes through, and since mendation was made by the Director that council action comes before the matter the present football coach be appointed for reaches the President or Governing Boards. one year as a member of the Department o( They can further bring pressure by refus- Physical Education with such duties as ing to approve other appointments. The might be assigned to him. This recommen- Athletic Director's own appointment must dation was passed by the Council, and then be approved in this same manner by the the Director asked for the approval of a Athletic Council. If full authority could three-year appointment for the oldest and be given the Athletic Director he could most successful member oi the department then be held responsible, but under the only to have it refused unless the football above plan he is no more responsible than coach got one ol equal length. To offer the the mayor of any city may be for the acts track coach a one-year appointment after of his council: not nearly so mueh so be his years of success, considering his value to cause the mayor is not elected iii any sense the College in many ways and the laet that by his council. This is in no way an atta< I he has been on three-year appointments for on the individual members oi the Council years, would have been equivalent to tlis who give freely "I their time and pay their missing him. The result of the deadlock own expenses. These men are all in' was that both men received three year eon and doing their best under the condition tracts. This example (s mentioned merely It is impossible, as a matter <>l practical to p<»mt out th.it the ultimate control of the

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athletic policy is in the hands of the Ath- the respect for courageous action and scorn letic Council. for the opposite type of action, the idea Of course, it can be maintained that the that one never quits until the whistle blows, present situation is a result of the Director's and that one doesn't hit a man when he is insisting on any three-year appointments, down: are attitudes of mind that carry but it seems to me that those members of over. the Athletic Department who perform their For these reasons we feef intercollegiate work well over a long period of years are sports are justified if greater evils do not as deserving of the security of a three-year develop in connection with them to offset term in office as any other College em- these values. We also feel that since we ployee. Particularly is this so when their must justify sports on the basis of value to work is judged by an Athletic Council not those competing we can say definitely that on the ground, deciding matters without the games are for the boys. It is true, full information. moreover, that the games must be played in There are many other angles to the an effort to win, and victories must be at-

Bowdoin Athletic situation in which I feel tained in some degree at least, if the boys sure the Alumni are interested. Times are to receive the benefits of athletic com- change and we are doing many things now petition. With nothing at stake, nothing which even the more recent graduates do depending on his cooperation in team play not know about. or in smashing courageously into a head-on Sd that there may be less danger of tackle or doggedly fighting on until the offending those who have no particular in- game is over, wanting to win that game terest in athletics, let me state, that no mem- more than anything on earth, for the time ber of this department feels that it is by any being at least, and yet playing fairly within means the most important department of the rules, there is no great lesson to be the College: but we all feel that it has its learned in athletics. In other words, while place and that the members of the depart- these games are being prepared for and ment have a right to feel that they are en- played some importance must be attached gaged in educational work. We believe that to them, and the effort at all times must be the purpose of the College is to develop to win, and some wins must come or the boys along mental, moral, and physical whole thing means nothing, since all the lines. We believe that proper supervision manly qualities are emphasised to the boy in on the athletic field helps to develop a boy an effort to accomplish a definite end. Since along all of these lines. The high emo- we play teams in our own class we have a tional tone of all experience on the athletic right to expect that we should win some of field assures a very high degree of interest our games. I have heard a lot about the and makes the opportunity for affecting any danger of the boy getting a distorted sense boy along the proper lines a tremendous of values if we are not careful to point out one. Naturally the mental ability of any that games are only games and rather fool- human being is affected by his physical con- ish after all, but I have yet to find a Bow- dition. Games properly conducted put a doin man who thinks he has made his mark premium on every manly quality, and such in the world because he has made a touch- attitudes of mind as the following are val- down or set a new record in the shot. Of uable in their effect on character. For ex- course, these games can be emphasised too ample, the idea that no matter how much much, but there seems to be little chance of one wishes to win one must play fair, the that ever happening at Bowdoin. It seems idea of self sacrifice for the common good, to me that we have the tendency to lean so

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far the other way that we tend to defeat We had about a hundred men playing any possible purpose in an athletic program football this fall on four different teams in at the very start. nineteen games, and three cross country

All of which is supposed to be an ex- teams competing in ten races. Out of ap- planation of why we have a faculty rule proximately 160 freshmen who signed for which states that freshmen and sophomores athletics this fall 62 elected football and 55 are required to take physical education from took track: that is 117 out for two varsity October ist to June ist, and juniors have to sports in season. Many of the 43 remain- take it from December ist until the Easter ing will be found on other varsity sports vacation. Every man must have a physical later on as they come into season.

examination, and those who need it are as- We have had an average of 60 candidates signed to a body building or corrective class. out for freshman football in the past four

All of those who are physically fit are re- years, and they have stayed out since we quired to demonstrate sometime during have arranged two schedules and made an their four years in College a playing effort to give every boy a chance to play in knowledge of some sport with carry over games. That means that we have 240 boys value. These include golf, tennis, handball, in College now who have been out for foot-

and swimming. The man who is physically ball for a season, and 180 upper classmen

fit is further required to spend at least one m College who have had some football ex- season out for some varsity sport under the perience. Of course from the very nature training and discipline of a varsity coach. of things a great many of these boys will We have this last rule because we feel that never play football again, but there seems every boy should have the benefit of this to be no reason why we should not be able type of training, and because we feel to give a large number of boys the benefit the best way to put the Athletics-For-All of training on the football field.

plan into practice is to have as many boys There are other things, naturally, which as possible out under the varsity coaches effect Bowdoin's success on the athletic field playing on varsity, junior varsity, freshman, as judged by wins and losses, and the Ath- and team B freshman teams in competition letic Director would like to take this oppor- with outside teams. tunity to inform Bowdoin men that he will Of course, there will always be a certain be very glad indeed to speak to them any- number of men who cannot be reached that where at any time, no matter how small the way; and so we also have an intramural group, and tell them about these things and program in which the men who play in out- to talk over plans for improving the general side competition are not allowed to partici- situation. pate, since we believe that in so far as possible every boy should have a chance to Bowdoin's first hockey game was lost, by take part in games. a 2 to 1 score, to the University of New- As a result of this program we had ap- Hampshire. proximately 480 boys taking part in some

form of athletics regularly this fall, and In addition to his duties on the campus the past many more getting some exercise in games I 'resident Sills has served during informally on the tennis courts and the goli fall as chairman <>l a state commission on course. This seems to be a very good School Finance, as chairman of a group record when we realise that neither juniors charged by the Governor with the consider- nor seniors are required to take physical ation of the Quoddy Dam, and as a mem- education in the fall. ber of a commission on Taxation.

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An Indictment and a Defense BY THE UNDERGRADUATE EDITOR

1 Taking its cue from President Sills ap- Bowdoin's first coaching muddle. Bowdoin pointment of committees to probe Bow is well seasoned in how not to hire and fire doin's "athletic situation", this article de- coaches. Still the awkward agency for the fends without ceremony the policy and dispatch of this all important business personnel of the Athletic Department in persists. general, and indicts a system that has To begin with it must be admitted that proved its inadequacy—the Athletic Coun- there exists the possibility that the personnel cil and its only benefactor to date, a foot- of the Athletic Council as well as the sys- ball coach who has failed. tem itself may be at fault. Both personnel

The Athletic Council has written its own and system are attacked by this article. The death warrant. Twelve hours of evasive charges follow: debate, in which personal influence, politics, (i) It is wrong in principle for so much or what-you-will, fenced off sound reason- power to be vested in persons who are not ing and common sense, brought no decision. close to the ground of the situation. And the issue was clear; the mandate of Alumni representatives who spend two out the Council imperative. of the 8760 hours of the year at the seat In the interests of gooci government the of the trouble can hardly be expected to test of any organisation is that it wor\s. pass judgment on how to eradicate that And the failure of the Athletic Council to trouble. Chairman Crowley, although one work has precipitated the whole of the of the most respected of Bowdoin alumni present muddle. President Sills appreciates and one of the best qualified football men the complete incapacity of the Council by in the country, is a case in point. seeking counsel from committees represent- (2) The body is not representative of

ing the very same constituencies as the alumni thought. If the Council is to con- Council itself claimed to represent. tinue in any form a new scheme of election

The President is to be commended for must be effected.

the thoroughness and caution of his action. (t,) Faculty representation is on an un-

But the difficulty is glaring. Further delay wise basis. Even if made merely advisory

is farcical. Petitions of protest are coming the Council should embody faculty mem-

from alumni groups. There is solidarity of bers who are alumni of Bowdoin.

student opinion : The Football Coach Must (4) Students should be granted voting as Go! well as floor privileges m the Council meet'

Since the target is so plainly in sight the ings. The crystallising oi student opinion only conceivable outcome of continued is not as dangerous as the practice of the shooting will be what damage partial ob- past might indicate. servers may bring about. That whatever (5) Responsibility for the Council's ac-

shakeup such activity will produce is unjus- tions is too widely diffused under the pres*

tified is contended here. The only obstacle ent scheme. With centralized control and to decisive action should have been the responsibility the present dilemma would

much argued contract mix-up, and this can never have been. It IS only natural for

be traced directly to the unwieldiness of the coaches to become rapidly entrenched in

Athletic Council itself. their positions if there is no direct re

Make no mistake about it, this is not sponsibility.

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The alternative offered is to make this (i) Bowdoin's team has been shaky in fun- Athletic Council fully responsive to inter' damentals, linesmen are not coached ade- ested sources and then established as an quately in tackling, tackling- dummies being advisory board only. Ultimate control and moth-eaten from disuse. (2) Finesse in the responsibility, according to this plan, is to attack has been lacking, deception too ob- be placed in a single officer, the position to vious, the handling of backfield men poor.

be similar, in respect to the dismissal and (3) Practice sessions were irregular and ill acquirement of coaches, as is Athletic advised. (4) The coach has not been coop- Director Bingham's position at Harvard. erative with the rest of his department. Under such a scheme someone at least can (5) Results are way out of proportion to be held to account for the success or fail- available material in comparison to the 11 ure of the ""athletic situation to improve. cases of Bowdoin's opponents.

Politics, delays, would be eliminated Above all a change is needed. Far too through the accountability of this official. long have Bowdoin football teams been the Call him Faculty Manager of Athletics, joke of the state. The quip recently made, Graduate Manager, Athletic Director, or "Back in the days when Bowdoin was Bow- what you will, but give him the power. doin and not just another football team"

To fill this post is a huge assignment, but is not only piquant but painfully true. a fully qualified man is available. The in- Bowdoin's coaches have many handicaps cumbent of the present Athletic Director's to encounter, it is only fair to acknowledge. chair is an ideal candidate. In personality, But it also must be acknowledged that the in executive ability he has demonstrated his college pays well for a man to combat those aptitude. No one can deny that the general handicaps. Eligibility rules, a strain of in- policy of the athletic administration has not difference (reducible of course to further advanced under Malcolm E. Morrell's re- fundamental causes) and a puritanical en- gime. A wholesome balance between intra- trance committee are the most significant. mural and intercollegiate sports has been Now in their own right some of these han- effected. As for the detail of his depart- dicaps are essential to maintain the stand- ment there is no better handling. Those ards of the college. Great success on the close to the situation know of the tested effi- gridiron cannot be expected, but certainly ciency of Bowdoin's Athletic Department in more than one state series victory in fifteen this matter of detail, of how Bowdoin's attempts may be demanded. It is our firm policies and schemes have been worked into contention that Bowdoin's difficulty is not a the athletic departments of other colleges. question of scrapping or reducing the inter- Bowdoin has always been slow to make collegiate program, but that of a change changes, and we are not disputing that such in regime. a policy is not without its virtues. Hut it A change is needed! Bowdoin s football seems only logical that the college's organi- coach must go! sations could be effected to stand ready to make decisions minus feeling and rig- Friends of Ben Houser, former coach of marole. Bowdoin's baseball and hockey teams, will Meanwhile the immediate and universal be interested in knowing that he is making cry is for a new football coach. He has not an enviable record as director of the Fed- succeeded and the reasons for his failure eral Transient Camp at Gray, Maine. are glaring. The charges against the coach have been stated both privately and pub- Commander Donald B. MacMillan '98 licly, and a reiteration of them will suffice: spoke at the College on December 1 1

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Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Lost Paradise: a new and finer polish. I had a feeling of uneasi- Boyhood on a Maine Coast Farm, The Macmillan ness as incident after incident was repeated in Company, 1934- Pp- 284. $2.50. nearly the same form as in earlier poems and sketches — more sparkling, more lustrous to be The commonest laborer who sees wonder in sure, but still the same old crystals. Tom Mc- stars and seasons and living creatures is greater Cann, the buck pursued by hounds, the first- than a king. Since the beginning this has been furrow, Captain Pye, and others. I knew the true, although it is hard to keep the truth in Captain was coming, for his figure appears in the sight amid the clamor and guile of the twentieth end papers, and I was conscious of a queasy century. At a time when society is straining anticipation. This breath-taking old monomaniac over economy of of abundance and economy first came to my eye in The Attic Room. The scarcity, Mr. Coffin's latest as stir- book comes a sketch was good, but, in its frenzy of doubloons ring contrast to the prevalent mood. Scarcity and diamonds, not entirely convincing. It was Abundance! "I came that they might life have repeated almost verbatim in Portrait of an Amer- and have it more abundantly." And government ican. Then with a few additional phrases and experts and professional economists place the the slight adaptation necessary for ballad verse, "poverty level" variously at to for $1,500 $2,500 the same incident was set down in Ballads of a family of five. Below this level of annual in- Square-Toed Americans. Now, with few changes come, they say, people live in poverty approach- of detail, the account appears once more. Ot ing destitution. the Lost Paradise is a study of course it is natural for writers to use basic ma- abundant life. The cash income of the family? terial over and again in different books. Frank Very, very little. But, we are told, living condi- Norris, to the irritation of some readers, even tions were different in the last century. So they used to repeat many times in one book a pre- were. Read the book and see how far that ex- ciously detailed figure of speech. But repetition planation suffices. of the sort in Mr. Coffin's books is certainly out Mr. Coffin's father was a farmer-fisherman in of the ordinary. It reminds one a little of the the world's view ; but he knew where the gold performance of a grandfather who captivates new of life is hidden, and his children shared the auditors by flashing accounts of the gale of '71 finding. Peter, the central character of Lost or the storming of Cemetery Ridge. It's delight- Paradise, spent his early life in a land of meta- ful for the guests but rather unexciting to the phor. Now, as the author, he knows the facts family. The book is so surpassingly written and to have been ephemeral and the figures real. even these old stories so well told that one could Where is the gold to be found ? Peter knew almost wish the previous volumes done away where to look, and so did his brother, Nathan. with, to let this one stand alone as Mr. Coffin's "He had been one who stepped over on the other masterpiece. side of things everybody could see and do every In a critical examination of the author, the day. He had gone behind what people said were matter of repetition comes up again. The myste- trees and hills." There is the thesis of the book. rious, wonderful, marvelous aspects of ordinary Persons, things, incidents may present flat sur- things are on every page. Real poetry of the faces to the commonplace mind ; but on the other earthy and the sublime in natural harmony is side there is a third dimension extending straight rare outside the pages of some of the masters. to eternity. In this book it is achieved to a remarkable de- As a recapturing of the wonders of imaginative gree. The real and the ideal, fancy and fact are childhood, Lost Paradise is as nearly perfect a exquisitely blended. The beauties are true — piece of work as one will find in a day's journey perfection and imperfection in proportion. A through the shelves. As a tract against the mate- few key words in both extremes, sublime and rialism besetting us, it has the weakness of its earthy, are repeated constantly, not by design, it is para- form ; it a look backward, not a present appears, but unconsciously. Half way through lost. is dise but one What we need acutely a the volume I became possessed of a curiosity that book of the same strength and feeling on the would seem unworthy of any but the meanest theme of paradise maintained. It may be, how- comma-counting Ph.D. With slight attempt at ever, that the author had no tractarian purpose euphemism tin- author refers to the buttocks when he wrote. If so, he has simply presented a twenty-six times in the 284 pages. Thirty-seven portion of his youth as it remains crystal-like in times there is mention of the stars. his consciousness. This he has done brilliantly. The finest word-pictures in the book come in As an old reader of his books, I confess that chapter six, in which Peter lies awake trying to there seems to be a disturbing side to the crystal dull the edge of his homesickness by fixing upon quality in Mr. Coffin's memory. These experi- some really bad feature of the coast farm life. ences are crystalline in several ways. The form lie reviews occupations on the shore, in the field, the livestock. What follows is a is set ; the substance perdurable ; and all that he and among has done to some of the gems is to give them a series of descriptions like pictures painted by

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Hogarth and reproduced by Currier and Ives. his method of approach as that of a "reasonable There are black flies on the marsh, honey pots in philosophy" which is neither irrationalistic nor the mudflats, and cow manure in the tie-up. But rationalistic in the sense in which these terms there is beauty, too, beauty everywhere, even in are commonly understood. A reasonable philos- the tie-up. And Peter finds no anti-nostalgic in ophy has to balance and to defend from each all his memories. other certain "notions" that indicate the very High relish and ruggedness common to all Mr. nuclei of human problems insofar as they guar- Coffin's writing are particularly noticeable in the antee the significance of the fundamental phases style of this latest. There are a profusion of of interest and activity through which men ex- simile and a piling up of superlatives that sound press themselves. Before we are brought in con- at times like Chaucer, yet have more push and tact with the problem of creation itself, we are less quiet humor. The gusto falls somewhere given ample opportunity to watch the working of between that of Chaucer and that of Theodore this method in the preliminary discussions on de- Roosevelt. Or perhaps it is closer still to the terminism and free will. spirit of the old Anglo-Saxons. "When Peter's In the historical outline of the problem of father went to work it was a marching out of creation the reader who is intimately acquainted thanes. And when he came home, he came like with the philosophy of Kant might object to the an army with banners." generous share which the author attributes to Lost Paradise is a great book, one that comes Kant's Critique of Judgment. Kant's teleology close to being high literature. I venture to say and esthetic were not primarily written from that it will prove to be a useful book as an anti- the standpoint of the creator and of the creative dote for the getting and spending that lay waste artist but from that of epistemological and appre- our powers. ciative judgment. When Fichte and Schelling Ronald P. Bridges. later introduce the ontological view, they have consciously of unconsciously forsaken the stand- Newton P. Stallknecht, Studies in the Phil- point of the originator of transcendental idealism osophy of Creation, Princeton University Press, and are as much indebted to Spinoza, Herder, they are to Kant. The transition 1934- Pp. xv, 170. $2.00. and Goethe as from the epistemological to the ontological view The present volume represents a very careful is best illustrated in the philosophical develop- analysis of the idea of creation, treated both ment of Friedrich Schiller. But we must re- historically and systematically. The author began member that the author is justified in empha- his investigation of the subject with his doctoral sizing the contribution of the Critique of Judg- dissertation entitled Bergson's Idea of Creation, ment because it is in this work that the teleo- which was presented to the Faculty of Princeton logical and esthetical categories are for the first University in May, 1930. The second part of the time developed in a satisfactory way. It will be book is a revision of this dissertation. Dr. Stall- with their help that he will be able to save knecht has now added in the first part a general Bergson's most valuable idea. From Schelling methodological justification of his philosophical Dr. Stallknecht shows a direct influence, through position, which leads up to his definition of a Ravaisson (who at one time had been in contact "reasonable philosophy" and then traces his- with Schelling) on the French School. He then torically, with the method thus derived, the be- gives a brief but concise critical account of ginning of the idea of creation in modern philos- Ravaisson's and Boutroux' philosophy. ophy. The third part of the present work, which In the analysis of Bergson's doctrine of creative is also newly written, offers the author's critical process the author finds that it offers assistance studies of his theme in some philosophical sys- toward framing a reasonable philosophy although tems after Bergson. In a splendid preface, at it cannot be applied to reality as the necessary the end of which he gives a very interesting conclusion of the arguments Bergson himself transformation of Aristotle's four causes to the advances. He shows that it is ambiguous in its realm of esthetics, he has erected a magnificent representation, which has resulted from a con- gateway to the whole book, which, true to his fusion of two interpretations of creative process. idea of literary creation, now stands as a work He joins the critics with regard to the irrational of one cast. interpretation which Bergson offers as the most To outline Dr. Stallknecht's philosophical posi- fundamental one. But he adds that Bergson's tion it is good to remember that the first dis- best illustrations of his idea are taken from the cussions of Bergson's Evolution Creatrice seemed realm of esthetic, which may very well be ana- to confront the critic with the alternative either lyzed and used as a foundation of Bergson's of accepting Bergson's irrationalism or of re- philosophy. Bergson himself has on one occa- jecting with it his central idea of creative evolu- sion, when confronted with a plan of this kind, tion. Thus most of the criticism offered both in openly declared that he could not acknowledge it. this country and abroad never penetrated much His objections to Seailles' book Le genie dans Stall- further into Bergson's philosophy than the gen- Vart, however, cannot be used against Dr. eral controversy of Rationalism versus Irration- knecht's renewed attempt in that direction. On alism would allow. Dr. Stallknecht characterizes the contrary, Bergson's criticism against Seailles

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offers to our present author a few very valuable Bob Bartlett's Log, and his latest book, Sails clues to the limitations of Bergson's position. Over Ice. With his distinction between and characterization One suspects that the publishers have taken of material and constitutive elements Dr. Stall- the same liberties with the title of the new book knecht introduces one of the finest portions of that the producers did with Owen Davis' recent his analysis. It shows how Bergson's aversion to play when they changed the title from "Spring what he called inert systems led him to an ex- Freshet" to "Coming Spring", on the theory that treme over-simplification of the real situation no one outside the State of Maine knows what a and to his rigid division of all knowledge into spring freshet is. the two classes of scientific spatial conception Despite the suggestion of Hollywood in the (which can be defined) and mystic intuition title, Sails Over Ice is a straightforward narra- (which is in the last analysis ineffable). The tive of Captain Bartlett's adventures by sea and esthetic intei-pretation of the doctrine of creative land since he became owner and skipper of the evolution shows convincingly that the difference two-masted fishing schooner Effie M. Morrissey between rational and irrational knowledge is not in 1924. During this period his restless spirit an absolute one but one of degree, thereby con- took him to Labrador, Iceland, the northwest and siderably modifying the author's original thesis northeast coasts of Greenland, to Baffin Land as of the two conflicting theories. Not Bergson's far as the fomidable Fury and Hecla Strait, and doctrine but his method of approach is to be to the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska. The criticized and corrected, in order to save him Alaskan voyage involved a complete circumnavi- from those severe rationalistic critics into whose gation of the American seaboard, as he had to hands he easily falls through his own irrational- take his stout little schooner through the Panama istic presentation. Canal and thence north through Bering Strait. The most delightful chapter of the book is the The book is an odyssey of these voyages of fourth chapter of the second part, on the cosmol- adventure and scientific research, written in the ogy of the esthetic theory. It contains most of same intimate style in which Captain Bob is ac- the author's original ideas and can, although it customed to talk to a group of friends. He is based on the argumentation of the previous addresses the reader as "My dear man" — the chapters, be read and thoroughly enjoyed by a familiar salutation of one Newfoundlander to an- reader who does not want to work his way other. The story is crowded with exciting ex- through the somewhat difficult methodological periences sufficient to satisfy the most exacting parts. lover of adventure — narrow escapes from col- The third part of the book extends the au- lapsing icebergs which break apart in the path thor's studies of the idea of creation to the sys- of the Morrissey with a roar like thunder and tems of Alexander, Croce, and Gentile and to drop tons of ice on her deck, close calls when the Whitehead's philosophy of organism. Here and vessel is beset by the ice-pack in northern lati- in his last chapter on objections and alternatives tudes where no help can be expected if the vessel Dr. Stallknecht has brought the discussion to the should be crushed and the crew forced to take to present day. the drifting ice, bitter gales which heave the schooner down to her beam ends and where the To the professional student the book is most only refuge is the lee of a towering iceberg valuable as a contribution to the phenomenology which may at any minute "go abroad" and com- of creative consciousness, but its firm organiza- plete their utter destruction, encounters with in- tion and lucid style should commend it to every furiated walruses which charge the frail sealskin one interested in modern philosophy. kayaks of their pursuers, and many more similar Fritz C. A. Koelln. adventures. All is told with the calm fatalism of a man Captain "Bob" Bartlett, Sails Over Ice, who believes that "you've only got to get your Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Pp. 301. $3.00. neck washed once". If there is a certain grim- ness in the telling, it is because the author's life Captain "Bob" Bartlett is primarily a man of has been largely lived among the stark realities action; but when he resorts to words he handles of the North, where man has to combat the ele- them with Homeric simplicity and directness. mental forces of nature and outwit the evil spirit One of his shipmates once remarked that it is of the Eskimos' devil Torngat. hard to imagine Captain Bob in the throes of The Effie Morrissey is herself a chief actor in literary composition. But, notwithstanding the this story withoul a plot. Like all who love their fact that his gnarled fist fits most readily over ship (and who doesn't?), Captain Bob endows his the spokes of the steering wheel or the peak schooner with a personality and says, "I love her halyards, or even over a belaying pin if the crew as a mill can love his vessel, and if she is not as shows signs of becoming mutinous, he has taken young as she was once, neither am I." a firm grasp of the pen on more than one occa- Of special interest tO Bowdoin men arc the sion and has produced several very readable references to meetings with Donald MacMillan books, including The Last Cruise of the Karluk and ili« Bowdoin in the North, and the chapter (the ship which was crushed in the Arctic ice), on tin Peary memorial, which was designed by

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Felix A. Burton '07 and erected at Cape York divisions on the Collection of Data and Matters in northern Greenland in 1932. of Form. It will be remembered that Captain Bob was In subject matter (the authors wisely draw for many years a companion of Admiral Peary upon various types of scholarly enquiry), general and commanded the Roosevelt on her voyages to arrangement, illustrations, and references the the Arctic. The story of the Peary memorial book is commendably clear and direct; in tone has already appeared in the Alumnus, but Bart- it is throughout practical and stimulating. It is lett's detailed personal account of it, covering good exposition of the art of good exposition. thirty pages of the book, should be read by every A valuable and up-to-date Bibliography is friend of Bowdoin. No adventure was ever more appended. generously or bravely conceived than the trip oi Herbert Hartman. the Morrissey to Cape York, with Peary's daughter and her young sons on board, and the erec- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Snow-Image : a tion of the granite shaft near the place where Childish Miracle, with a prefatory note by Her- Peary set out over the frozen Polar Sea in search bert Ross Brown, The Bradford Press, Portland, of the North Pole. The work of carrying mate- ^934- 5Y8 *7 3A> PP- ix + 34. 300 copies bound rial to the top of the fifteen hundred foot cliff, in paper boards, plain cloth (gold stamped) back. which had been selected as the site of the me- $2.50. morial, was carried out under great difficulties. Cold fogs blew in from the Polar Sea and at Professor Brown contributes a well informed times the cement froze and the uncompleted and pleasantly written introduction to this beau- shaft was coated with ice. When not at work, tiful reprint of the text (corrected) of the first the men slept or shivered in wet bunks and on American edition of Hawthorne's famous story. soggy mattresses ; but the work went on, and the memorial is there as a reminder to all of the man THE AUTHORS whose motto was "Find a way or make one". Robert P. Tristram Coffin, B. Litt. (Oxon.), he stood beneath the Bowdoin banner which As Litt.D., '15, author of many previous volumes of decorated the completed memorial, Captain Bart- prose and verse, formerly of Wells College, re- lett told Ootah, the Eskimo leader, that "we were turned to his Alma Mater last fall as Pierce handing the monument over to the care of his Professor of English. people, appointed him to see to it that they and Newton P. Stallknecht, Ph.D., who studied knew the whole story of how and why the edifice at Princeton, Edinburgh, and Freiburg, is Assis- was built, and to make sure that the tale was tant Professor of Philosophy. Dr. Stallknecht generation." Then, passed on from generation to has contributed several articles to learned jour- Captain Bob, feelingly, "I thanked that adds God nals. This is his first book. I had been able to help give the world a definite Captain Robert A. Bartlett, Hon. A.M. served." memorial to a man I had loved and (Bowd.), was the captain of the Roosevelt, on mariner, In Sails Over Ice, the bluff master which Admiral Peary sailed on the voyage which who sailed out of the little Newfoundland fishing led to the discovery of the North Pole. straight into hearts of the port of Brigus the Arthur H. Cole, Ph.D., '11, is Professor of American people, has written a story of adven- Business Economics in Harvard University. His ture, touched with humor and sometimes with previous publications include a two-volume study pathos, which should find a place alongside Mac- entitled American Wool Manufacture and an edi- Millan's books in the libraries of Bowdoin men. tion of some important correspondence of Alex- Albert T. Gould. ander Hamilton. Herbert R. Brown, A.M., is Associate Profes- Arthur H. Cole and Karl W. Bigelow, A sor of English. Manual of Thesis-Writing, for Graduates and Undergraduates, John Wiley & Sons, New York, THE REVIEWERS 1934. Pp. 48. 75c. Ronald P. Bridges, A.M., '30, after a year's The necessary evils of accepted form and work in English at Harvard, was teacher of his- proper mechanics in exposition — literary as well tory and head of social sciences in the Milton as scientific — are skilfully handled in this work- (Mass.) High Schools, until serious illness last able and inexpensive little manual. Profiting from year forced him to give up work. He is now their experience as supervisors of thesis-writing, recuperating in Sanford, Maine. the authors approach the subject with the highest Fritz C. A. Koelln, Ph.D., Assistant Professor aims of scholarship in view : passion for ac- of German, received his degree in philosophy at curacy, discrimination in the treatment of data, the University of Hamburg. and relentless search for the truth. Albert T. Gould '08 is an admiralty lawyer in The manual proper is divided, with various Boston, an Overseer of the College, and Presi- sub-topics, into three chapters : Problems Prior dent of the New England Grenfell Association. to Composition, Composition, and Final (Re- Herbert W. Hartman, Jr., Ph.D., is Assistant vising) Tasks. Especially valuable are the sub- Professor of English.

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[5i] [The B o w d o in Alumnus With the Alumni Bodies

ASSOCIATIOH OF BOSTOH evening of Friday, January 25, with Presi- The annual meeting will be held on the dent Sills representing the College. evening of Thursday, February 7. Presi- dent Sills will represent the College and a BOWDOIH CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA guest speaker will be President John Edgar President Sills will meet with the club at Park of Wheaton College. its annual meeting on Saturday, January 26. BOWDOIH CLUB OF BOSTOH The December meeting of the club was BOWDOIH CLUB OF PORTLAND The annual meeting was held at the held on Thursday, the sixth. A large as- Portland Country Club on Thursday, De- sembly heard the director of athletics, Mal- cember 6, with Coach Jack Magee as the colm E. Morrell '24, discuss the work of his principal speaker. Chester G. Abbott 'ij department. Horace A. Hildreth '25 was was elected president of the club and Ed' elected president of the club, and Abbott ward F. Dana '29 succeeds himself as sec- Spear '29 becomes its secretary. retary. ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO ASSOCIATIOH OF A luncheon meeting of the association WESTERH MASSACHUSETTS was held in the Interfraternity Club on There will be a meeting of the association Thursday, December 27, with an atten- on the evening of Thursday, January 24. dance of about twenty-five, including President Sills will speak, and the Alumni several undergraduates. Secretary will show motion pictures of the campus. BOWDOIH CLUB OF DETROIT Members of the club with their wives PEHOBSCOT COUHTT gathered on the evening of Saturday, BOWDOIH CLUB November 24, at The Wardell, with Com- An enthusiastic meeting of the Club was mander Donald B. MacMillan '98 as their held in Bangor on the evening of January attendance of about twenty. guest, and an 3 with an attendance of about 40. The speaker was Athletic Director Malcolm E. BOWDOIH CLUB OF MONTREAL Morrell '24, whose talk was followed by a The second annual meeting of the club discussion session and the preparation of a was held on the evening of Thanksgiving set of resolutions to be forwarded to the Day. Six of the seven Bowdoin men who College. are now members of the Faculty of Medi- cine at McGill University were in atten- On the evening of December 10 a stu- dance. Letters from the campus were read, dent-alumni conference was held under the

and it was decided to hold another meeting, auspices of the Alumni Council Committee later in the year, to which all Montreal on Undergraduate Activities. Earlier in alumni would be invited. the month a smaller group of undergraduates was invited to meet with representa- ASSOCIATIOH OF HFW YORK tives of the faculty and the members of the AHD VICINITT Examining Committee of the Governing The annual meeting will be held on the Boards.

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1877—Philip Greeley Brown, Portland banker, 1934—Sanford Oscar Baldwin, Jr., son of the died at his home in that city on December 18, late Sanford O. Baldwin '93, of Framingham, 1934 after a long illness. He had been engaged in Massachusetts was killed at San Diego, Cali- financial activity in Portland since his gradua- fornia, December 19, 1934 when his monoplane tion and had served as president of the old First crashed. Born June 26, 19 12 he had been active National Bank, treasurer of the firm of J. B. in aviation during his college course, and was Brown & Sons, and president of the Portland studying at a California Flying school prepara- Public Library, which institution he remembered tory to receiving a transport pilot's license. generously in his will. A bachelor, he is sur- Medical 1881—Augustus Littlefield Tall- sisters a brother, Nathan vived by three and man, who was born in Bath January 17, 1850, Clifford Brown '79. Mr. Brown was born in Port- died at his home in East Boston, Massachusetts, land June 24, 1855. October 22, 1934. He had practiced in that city 1882—Albert Humphreys Perry, according to since his graduation. belated reports received at the College, died at Medical 1883—Walter Joseph Downs, physi- his home in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, March cian and druggist in Waterboro for fifty years, 18, a native of Quincy, Massachu- 1934. He was died at Alfred December 14, 1934. He was born setts, where he born January 10, 1859. was in Waterboro November 5, 1855, and devoted his 1883—Walter Clarence Winter, who had entire life to the service of that community. practiced law in La Crosse, Wisconsin, died sud- Medical 1883—Clark Barker Rankin, who denly at the home of his brother Frank Win- was born in Hiram September 7, 1858 and came '80 ter in that city November 22, 1934. A native to the Medical School after graduating from of Carthage, where he was born August 4, 1857, Bates in 1880, died recently at Mechanic Falls Mr. Winter went West immediately after leaving where he had practiced for forty years. College, and after a few years as a teacher and Medical 1884—Clinton Perley Hubbard, who law reader he began practice as a member of was born in Hiram April 9, 1849 and had prac- the firm of Winter, Esch and Winter. He was ticed medicine there and in other Maine com- active in the civic life of La Crosse. munities, died in South Paris November 19. —Alfred Hastings Strickland, grad- 1897 who 1934. He had come to South Paris two years uated from Harvard and from the Harvard Law ago after an extended residence in Florida. School after leaving Bowdoin, died in Brooklyn, Medical 1888—Seldom Burden Overlock, who New York, April 11, 193 1 according to a recent was born in Washington November 13, i860 and report. He had been engaged in the practice of received his A.B. at Colby in 1886 and his M.D. law in New York City since 1904. Mr. Strick- at the Bellevue Medical College in 1899, died at land was born in Houlton September 6, 1875. Pomfret, Connecticut on October 8, 1934. He — principal the 1901 Arthur Fenno Cowan, of had practiced in Pomfret since 1894, and was at Emery School in Biddeford, died suddenly in one time president of the Connecticut Medical Saco on December 4, 1934, following a heart at- Society. tack. He had been in ill health for several years. Medical 1891—Herbert Harmon Purinton Born in Biddeford August 4, 1879, Mr. Cowan died in Somersworth, New Hampshire, June 7, returned to that city as a high school teacher 1934- A native of Saco, where he was born immediately following his graduation. He later April 22, 1865, he had practiced in a number of spent some time with the engineering firm of communities in Maine and New Hampshire. Stone & Webster and as a teacher in Massachu- —George Clarence Parcher, who setts and New Hampshire, returning to Bidde- Medical 1892 and ford as high school principal. During the War was born in Saco September 13, 1871, who College of Physicians he saw over-seas service as a First Lieutenant received his M.D. at the in died at of the Coast Artillery, and since that time had and Surgeons at Baltimore [893, Sau acted as principal of the Spruce Street and gus, Massachusetts, November -<), [934. Me had Emery Schools. practiced at Saugus since 1804. — died at 1901 —John IIowakd Wyman, who was born in Medical 1893 Leland Howard Poors Central General Hospital in Lewiston Skowhegan August 29, 1879 and received his the Maine in April M.I), at Harvard in 1906, died at a hospital in November 29, [934. Born Bethel .<. in Casco,' Mil ford, Massachusetts on December 17 follow- 1867, Dr. Poore had practiced medicine Poland and Windham. Me ing a cerebral hemorrhage. Dr. Wyman had prac- Otisfield, Raymond, of ticed in Medway, Massachusetts, since leaving had been active in the affairs CaSCO, serving Harvard, and had been prominent in the affairs as representative to the Legislature, superintend "i the of of that town, serving at one time as a member (Hi of schools, chairman Board Health, of the Board of Selectmen. selectman, and tax collector.

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FOREWORD 1869

Once upon a time a small boy grew up in a Mr. Thomas H. Eaton is the only member of college town. His father was a graduate of the his class. He is hale for his years, now lives college, and a number of uncles and cousins on near Boston and visits Bowdoin every year. The the maternal side were also. alumni and students who are fortunate enough He early acquired the idea that the college was to know him, certainly enjoy his stories of the the best of its kind and the ultimate aspiration late 6o's. Ask the Alpha Delts. for any boy who wanted an education, and hoped 1870

to be anything worth while ; and that idea has Erastus F. Redman of Dorchester is the key become a fixed obsession. man of his class, but has not been on Campus He was naturally friendly, ingenuous, (fresh) for some years. and easily came to know his fellow townsmen, and the students among whom he had his per- 1875 sonal heroes, mostly athletic. Prof. Edwin H. Hall, Emeritus Professor of

In time he entered college, and never made Physics of Harvard, is the Class Secretary ; and any special record, but did make friends, who lists nine members. '75 will celebrate its 60th, have been among the most cherished possessions at Commencement. of his life. 1876 After graduation he was away from Maine for Have twelve members with A. T. Parker of some time ; but always kept in touch with the East Orleans, Mass., Class Secretary. college, and so far as he could, with its alumni and undergraduates. After many years he came 1877 back, like a homing pigeon, to his own ; with his Samuel A. Melcher of Brunswick is Class Sec- interest still keen in it all. retary, with fifteen men on the roll call. The Now he has been asked to edit the Alumni class has had nine losses in the last five years. Notes; no mean job, if it is to be done proper- 1878 ly. Has only four living graduates. Prof. Alfred The primary aim of this column is to keep E. Burton, Dean Emeritus of M.I.T., is the alive and quicken the interest of Bowdoin men Class Secretary. in each other; for whether we be old or young, we are the sons of the same Alma Mater, have the 1880 same traditions, and similar interests and aims, Celebrates its 55th this year. There are ten and, as the years increase, I think we all realize graduates and four non-graduates. Edwin C. Bur- that personal interest is the one great asset in bank, Esq., of Maiden, Mass., is the Secretary. life that will bring the richest and most endur- 1885 ing returns. Celebrating its 50th this year, has twelve assistance in this Your encouragement and graduates and six non-graduate members. Prac- column is gratefully solicited. tically all of the latter graduated at other col- in and for Bowdoin, Yours leges due to over-activities of Phi Chi. Eben W. C. S. F. Lincoln '91. Freeman, Esq., of Portland is Secretary. Address until April: 556-14^ Avenue, N.E., 1895 St. Petersburg, Fla. With a goodly membership comes back for its From April to December : 38 College Street, Brunswick, Maine. 40th. Hon. William M. Ingraham of Portland is its Secretary. 1862 1897 Rev. Dr. Sylvester Burnham, Prof. Emeritus The latest address of Edgar G. Pratt, Esq., is of the Theological School of Colgate University, 215 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, Cal. has the honor of being the oldest living alumnus. 1898 His home is 51 Boardman Street, Newburyport, Mass. Thomas L. Pierce of the Providence, R. I., Na- tional Bank has recently changed his residence 1864 to Seekonk, Mass. The runner up for longevity honors is Mr. It would be fatuous to credit as a news item in Daniel F. Littlefield of Saco, Maine. the Alumnus the recent separation that has tak- 1868 en place between "Our Don" and his obsolete Prof. George A. Smyth, the last member of the and recreant appendix. When a genus homo of family that has brought fame and honor to the finer type becomes a potentate or a celebrity Bowdoin lives in Pasadena, Cal., and is the only the press attends to him, and it has. From the survivor of his class. columns of clippings sent in we could easily

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1899 Al Gould is an admiralty lawyer in the same

Edwin M. Nelson is now living at 2y Cherry firm with Young '98 and Dana '01, 1 Federal Street, Lyons, N. Y. Street, Boston. Clarence Osborne is manager of the C. R. Mc- 1900 Cormick Lumber Co., Portland, Oregon. Jo Bell's residence is now 46 Morton Street, The business address of Frederick Pennell, Andover, Mass. Esq., is now 60 East 42d street New York City. Harry Burbank is living in Randolph, N. H. 1909 Hon. Simon M. Hamlin, Representative in Congress from the 1st District in Maine, was John Crowley, an electrical engineer in Bos- married in the Executive Mansion in Augusta, ton, gives his address as 130 High Street, Read- ing, Mass. December 15, to Mrs. Evelyn Field Ward of North Windham, Gov. Brann acting as best man. John Hurley, Esq., is living at 8 Coolidge Avenue, Plains, They went directly to Washington to get settled White N. Y. in time for the opening of Congress on January Hervey D. Benner is Secretary and Treas- urer of the 3d. Mrs. Hamlin, a graduate of Simmons Col- Sterile Products Co., 724 4th Ave- nue, Diego, lege, Boston, will be her husband's secretary. San Cal. Paul is western of Little Richard Parsons is located at the Westing- Newman manager Co., E. house Ref. Office, 620 Central Avenue, East Brown & 221 20th Street, Chicago, 111.

Orange, N. J. 1910 1902 Dr. Adam P. Leighton of Portland was elected President of the Obstetrical John Sinkinson is now with McCann-Erickson, New England and Gynecological Society at its Inc., in New York City. annual meeting in Boston The Modern American Poetry—1934, an an December 12th. thology of hitherto unpublished verse edited by 1912

Gerta Aison and published by the Galleon Press, Lt. Col. Philip P. Cole, G.S., is on the Gen- 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, contains poems by eral Staff at the U. S. War Department, Wash- Rev. Daniel I. Gross, D.D. ington, D. C. 1903 Raymond W. Hathaway is a salesman with the Remington Rand Co., at 205 E. 42nd Street, Lt. Col. H. B. Pratt, U.S.M.C, is now sta- New York City. tioned in Boston, office 510-12 Federal Building. 1913 1904 A. P. Cushman is with the Indian Head Na- Chester T. Harper is a consulting Mining and tional Bank, Nashua, N. H. Oil Expert. His address is Box 72, Denver, Col- Mr. and Mrs. Chester Abbott, who have been orado. living in Detroit for some years, have returned The Rev. B. of Very Chester Emerson, Dean to Portland, Maine, to reside at their Blackstrap Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio, has recently home. been inducted to the office of Rt. Eminent Grand 1914 Prelate of the Grand Encampment of the Knights C. F. Templar in the United States. White is agent for the N. E. Mutual Life Co., 3 Park Avenue, Keene, N. H . 1905 1915 Ralph Cushing, who is in the advertising game, Capt. George W. Rieker, U.S.A., is at Head- in Chicago, sends his last address as 706 London quarters, Dept. of Hawaii, Honolulu, T. II. Guaranty Bldg. Last July he was at 360 N. Harry P. Faulkner is in Hanking at 67 Wall Michigan Avenue. He had better come on to his Street, New York City. 30th and explain. These advertising men are 1916 hard to keep track of. W. Thomas Henderson now reports himself c-o Robert C. Clark is an insurance broker in

Cia Miners, Asarco, S.A., Apt. 1, Ocotlan, Newburyport, Mass. Oaxaca, Mexico. It looks as if he had struck Lawrence Irving is Professor of Experimental "pay dirt", but it is up to him or the Dept. of Biology at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Spanish to explain the meaning of (lie address. Canada. II. ( John L. Baxter of '. Baxter & Bro., Brans 1906 wick, was elected Secretary of the New England The office of Edward R. Hale, Esq., is now [g Council al a meeting of the directors held in Federal Street, Boston, Mass. Boston, November j.nd.

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1917 1922 in Representative and Mrs. E. C. Moran, Jr., William F. Clymer was married Aug. 8, 1934, Washington for the Congressional season, are to Miss Margaret McCullough of Harris, Mis- now permanently located at 800 Sixteenth Street, souri. They are living at 1467 Midland Avenue, N.W. Bronxville, N. Y. Dr. C. S. Dalrymple of Brookline, Mass., is Dr. Edward B. Ham contributes a review now Assistant Professor of Pathology in the of the new edition of Hofer's Grundriss der Tufts Medical School, Boston. Romanischen Philologie to Modern Language Elwin A. King, Esq., is with the Legal Division Notes for October, and an article on "The Basic of the N.R.A. in Washington. His residence is in MS of the Marcade Vengeance" to Modern Lan- East Falls Church, Virginia. guage Review for October. 1918 1923 Wallace Putnam is doing research work in Capt. Edward Hildreth, U.S.A., is attached Chemical and Gas Engineering in Charleston, to the office of Chief of the Air Corps, Wash- W. Va. ington, D. C. A son was born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Capt. Richard T. Schlosberg, Signal Corps, George T. Davis of Portland, Maine. U.S.A., is stationed at the Commander and Gen- Elvin R. Latty is Associate Professor of Law eral Staff School, Fort Leavensworth, Kansas. at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Major J. L. Scott, U.S.A., (C.A.C.) F.D., is The right man in the right place is the return residing at present in Cantonsville, Md. of George H. Quinby as instructor of English at Neil E. Daggett is now living in Milo, Maine. Bowdoin, and director of the activities of the 1920 Masque and Gown. Those who know him best earnestly that Bowdoin will be able to hang Douglass A. Haddock, M.D., has opened an of- hope onto "Pat". fice in Lebanon, N. H., following eight years of private clinic work in Detroit, Michigan. F. K. Turgeon, Ph.D., of the French Depart- ment at Amherst, was married on November 28 to Ezra P. Rounds, for the past 14 years instruc- '34, Winchester, tor in Phillips-Exeter Academy, has been appoint- Miss Charlotte Snyder, Smith of 1st they will be at home ed director of admissions to succeed the late Mass. After January at South Pleasant Street, Amherst, Mass. George L. Richardson, Jr. 77 1924 1921 At the fall meeting of the New England As- Norman W. Haines, Secretary and Treasurer sociation of Camp Directors, J. Halsey Gulick, of the Class, kindly sends the following notes director of the Luther Gulick Camps, South Philip H. McCrum, M.D., is sponsoring the Casco, Maine, was elected President. advent of the rising generation of Portland on Paul L. Phillips, M.D., is now assistant pychi- the Obstetrical Staff of the Maine General Hos- atrist at Neuro Psychiatric Institute, 200 Retreat pital and City Dispensary. His home address is Avenue, Hartford, Conn. 15 Fairlawn Avenue, South Portland. 1925 Gordon R. Howard, M.D., is practicing his Of which William H. Gulliver, Esq., 1 Federal profession at 3906 Gage Avenue, Bell, Cal. He Street, Boston, is Secretary, is due back in June announces the birth of a daughter, Jean Adele, to its decennial. Something vivid but not too Sept. 19th, 1934. hectic may be confidently predicted. Hugh Nixon is Secretary of the Massachu- Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Hayes announce the setts Teachers Federation. His address is 19 arrival of a son, Richard Kendall, at Cranston, School Street, Melrose, Mass. R. I., on September Albion M. Benton announces the birth of a 23, 1934. daughter on Jan. 13, 1933. Ben is in the insur- 1926 ance business in Biddeford, Maine. Henry A. Jensen, store manager with the W. of the firm of Norman W. Haines, formerly T. Grant Co., has been transferred from Elyria, Flye, Grabile, Buttrick and James, 68 Devon- Ohio, to Chicago. shire law in- Street, Boston, is now practicing Alan F. Small, formerly of Manchester, N. H., dependently at the same address. is now in the Florist business; 16 Center Street, Philip law firm of R. Lovell, Esq., is in the Bristol, Conn. Hale and Hamlin, Ellsworth, Maine.

Hugh Pendexter, Jr., is temporarily associated 1927 with the conduct of the Boston Emergency Re- Norman Crane, M.D., is now on the staff of lief Campaign. the New York Hospital, 525 E. 68th Street, New Dwight Alden, Esq., is now conducting the York City. Bar Review for Northeastern University, Bos- Francis H. McGowan is still in New York ton. His home is 41 Lawton Road, Needham, and acting as a Credit Investigator. His address Mass. is 230 East 71st Street.

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Quincy Sheh is teaching in the Nationalist that his elevation with the Company will be University and in the Catholic University at neither untoward or unexpected. Peking, China. Al Stein is with the Revere Brass and Copper 1928 Co., Rome, N. Y. Norman Waldron is teaching French at Man- A son, Charles Dunn, was born to Mr. and lius School, Manlius, N. Y. Mrs. Walter Whittier last July. Porter Collins is Assistant Purser on the S.S. Earl S. Hyler is now Assistant Manager of Manhattan. the Portland Beneficial Loan Company. His ad- Announcement has been made of the marriage dress is Hotel Eastland, Portland, Maine. of Miss Olive Colby of Brunswick and George 1929 E. Stetson on June 15. Stetson is now employed Dick Fleck is a statistician with the Provi- in the office of the Brunswick and Topsham Wa- dent Trust Co., Philadelphia. Residence R.D. 2, ter District. Media, Pa. 1931 Brenton Roberts reports that he is writing Artine Artinian is Assistant Director of Educa- fiction. What would you expect? He lives at 122 tion at the New York County Penitentiary, Claremont Avenue, Arlington Heights, Mass. Welfare Island. Should be rather an interest- Philip A. Smith is Instructor in English at ing job, and with our "Spike" on the watch Ar- Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. tine does not need watching. Dana and Marshall Swan, true to family tra- Arthur Deeks, M.A., is teaching history at ditions, are practicing law with their father East Greenwich Academy, Rhode Island. Frank Swan '98 in Providence, R. I. Both are Parker Loring is in the printing business 209 married . One has a son and the other a daugh- Court Street, Auburn, Maine, and producing a ter, but my informant did not know whose was very fine line of work. which. Bob Maynard is Instructor in Mathematics at Theron Spring is with the Equitable Trust Co., Phillips Exeter Academy, N. H. Calvert and Fayette Streets, Baltimore, Md. Dr. Benjamin Zolov is on First Medical Serv- "Chan" Lincoln is manager of the Sales Pro- ice at the Boston City Hospital. duction Coordinating Div., Indiana Plant Office George T. LeBoutillier of Andover and Pigeon of the U. S. Rubber Products, Inc., Indianapolis, Cove, Mass., was married in November to Miss Ind. Miriam Alden Randall, Radcliffe '29. They will Paul W. Allen, formerly of South Orange, live in Pigeon Cove. N. J., is now addressed at 621 West 4th Street, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Fuller, Jr., are living Los Angeles, California. at the Ambassador Apartment Hotel, Cambridge, Harold S. Shiro, M.D., Johns Hopkins '33, is Mass. "Doc" is a junior in the Tufts Medical now engaged in research work in Medicine with School. the Harvard Medical School, Boston. The engagement of Miss Marion Alberta 1930 Crowther of Wakefield, Massachusetts, to "King" Crimmins of Charleston, West Virginia, was an- Ronald Bridges is in Sanford, Maine, teaching nounced during the Christmas holidays. and writing. Dr. Paul Butterfield is an interne at the Salem, 1932 Mass., Hospital. Dick Barrett is a medical student in the Uni- Lewis Coffin is in the Library of Congress, versity of Vermont, Burlington. Washington, D. C. Hugh Barton is an assistant in the Division Steve Haycock has been admitted to the Bar of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve and is Assignment Clerk in the U. S. Attorney's Board, Washington, D. C. Office, Washington, D. C. Residence 1869 Wy- Charlie Bilodeau is enrolled in the College oming Avenue, N.W. of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia, New- Bill Kephart is a radio announcer with the Na- York City. tional Broadcasting Co., Chicago. Ted Dcnsmore is teaching French and Spanish Asa Knowles is Act. Chairman Depart, of Tnd. at the Stuyvesant School, Warrcnton, Va. Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston. Edward F.stle is in the Insurance business in William Moody, a civil engineer, is with the Boston. Home 5 Elm Street, Brookline. Reclaimation Bureau, Boulder City, Nevada. Paul Everett is an Instructor in French al Kaspar Myrvaagnes is Instructor in German Harvard. in Alfred University, Alfred, N. Y. Mcleher Fobes is an Instructor in Mathe- Frederick Morrow is a writer and columnist. matics at Harvard. living at 252 Berry Street, Hackensack, N. J. Charlie Goldberg is a graduate student' at Jack Riley is Instructor in Economies and Clark University, Worcester, Mass. Sociology at Marietta College. Marietta, Ohio. Alden Lunt is Mechanical Engineer in the Edward Spaulding is a chemist with the Her experimental department <>f the Neptune Meter cules Powder Co., New Brunswick, N. J. We trusl Co., Long Island City, N. Y.

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Bill Munroe is teaching English and Music at Alton H. Hathaway is now living at 430 Wood- the Berkeley School in Boston. land Avenue, Williamsport, Penn. Art Sperry is leaving the textile business at Charles S. Mead is teaching French and His- Ware Shoals, S. C. tory since October in the Florida Preparatory Francis Vaughan is a chemist for Lever Bros., School, Daytona Beach, Fla. Cambridge, Mass., and Instructor in Mathematics Edward D. W. Spingarn is taking post grad- and Chemistry in Phillips Andover Academy. uate work in Economics at Harvard. John A. Loring is an investigator for the Rist 1934 Analysis Co. of Boston. He is living at i Sachem Paul Park, Wollaston, Mass. Ambler is living at 10 Shattuck Street, Natick, Harris M. Plaisted was married in Spring- Mass. George Desjardins is field, Mass., December ist, to Miss Betty Hatch a student at the Hahne- mann of Sheffield, Ala. They will make their home in Medical College, Philadelphia. Portland, Maine. Lloyd Hackwell is manufacturing lumber in Newport, Harry M. Thistlewaite, a mercantile reporter N. H. Eric for Dun & Bradstreet, has recently removed to .Loth, Jr., has entered Tufts Medical School. Baltimore, Md. His address is 17 13 Park Avenue. Lawrence Flint has been giving A. P. Royal, Jr., is a student in the Tufts some moving picture lectures the last Medical School. His address is 28 Queensbor- of Bowdoin MacMillan Expedition ough Street, Boston. to the Button Islands near the entrance to "Tingey" Sewall, who has been with the Hudson Straits north of Labrador, sponsored the Pathfinder's Young & Rubican Advertising Co., 285 Madison by Club at the Deer- ing High School. Neal Allen '07 introduced Avenue, since 1933 is now living at 70 E. 79th the speaker. Street, New York City. "Herb" The engagement of Richard N. Cobb, teaching Hempel is working for the Russian Cement Co., makers fellow in Mathematics at the College, to Miss of LePage products, Signet Inks, and Chase's Barbara Damon of Ipswich, Massachusetts, was Glue, at Gloucester, Mass. Here's announced recently. hoping he is stuck on his job. John Griffin is a relief investigator in New 1933 York City. His address is 466 W. 142nd Street. Doug Anello is doing social service work in Luther Holbrook of Walpole, Mass., is study- New London, Conn. ing in the Harvard Business School. His en- Russ Booth is a graduate student of Mathe- gagement to Miss Ruth Price of Walpole was matics at Princeton. announced in December. Robert Campbell ,is studying in the Business A. Perry Holt, Jr., of Braintree, Mass., is School of the University of Chicago. doing some research for the Massachusetts State John Cuddy is a student of Medicine at Mc- Prison.

Gill University. J. W. Lawrence is with the Water Dept. of Hobie Lowell is in his second year in the Har- the Central Maine Power Co. Address 42 Dres- vard Medical School. den Avenue, Gardiner. Dick Mawhinney, previously reported with Harold Seigal of Portland is in the Jefferson Dun and Bradstreet, is living at the Grace Medical College, Philadelphia. Church House 10th and Broadway. In his leisure Fred Sweetsir is studying at the Tufts Medical hours he plays everything in the nature of a School, Boston. musical instrument that comes within reach. "Art" Stone, living at 26 Berry Street, Dan- vers, is for the Tremont Canning Fred Woodbury is a student in the School of a salesman Social Science, Fordham University, N. Y. Co. (milk). Carl Olson is a salesman for the Colonial John Schultz is in his second year at the Johns Beacon Oil Company in Boston. Hopkins Medical School. Miss Sarah Hamilton of Brunswick and Ray- Newton K. Chase, after a year of teaching in mond Brown were married in New York City California, is at the School, now Gunnery Wash- on Saturday, December 22. ington, Conn. Bill Perry has joined the faculty of the Emer- George D'Arcy is with the Prudential Life son School at Exeter, N. H. Ins. Co., in Boston. His address is 18 Mellen Phil Burnham is now with the Cherry-Burrell Street, Cambridge. Co., McGraw Hill Bldg., New York City.

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Winter Athletic Schedules TRACK SWIMMING

1 Feb. -Y. M. C. A. Meet: Boston. Jan. 5 —Portland Boys Club: Here.

Feb. 9" -B. A. A. Meet: Boston. Jan. 9—Mass State: There. Jan. 10 Trinity: There. Feb. 16- -Colby Meet : Waterville. — Feb. 20- -University Club Meet: Boston. Feb. 8—B. U.: There. Feb. 9 Williams: There. Feb. -A. A. U. Meet : New York. — 16 Mar. 2- -I. C. 4A. Meet: New York. Feb. —Springfield: Here.

Mar. 9" -Interclass Meet. Feb. 23 —Portland Boys' Club: There. 2 Mar. 15- -Interfraternity Meet. Mar. —M. I. T. : Here. Mar. 16- -Interscholastic Meet. Mar. 9- 10—New Englands: Wesleyan.

Mar. 15-16—I. S. A.: C. C, New York. Schedule Spring Mar. 22-23—Open. Apr. 27 Penn Relays. — Mar. 29-30—National Collegiates: Har- May 4—Springfield at Brunswick; 2 year vard. agreement, at Springfield, 1936. J. V. Swimming Schedule May 11 Amherst at Amherst; 2 year 1 — Dec. 8—Olneyville Boys Club: Here. agreement, at Brunswick, 1936. Dec. 19—Auburn "Y": Here. 8 May 1 —Open : Major Exams. Jan. 16—Hebron: There. 1 May 25—New England Meet: Probably at Feb. 13 —Portland Boys Club: There Portland. Feb. 16—Hebron: Here.

June 1 —I. C. 4A. at Harvard. HOCKEY Frosh and Junior Varsity Dec. 18—Bliss College: Here. Jan. 12—South Portland: Here. Jan. 5 —New Hampshire: There. Jan. 16—Portland: Here. Jan. 9—Bates: There. Feb. 7—Thornton Academy : Here. Jan. 12 —Colby: Here. Feb. 19—Deering: Here. Jan. 14—Bates: Here. Feb. 27—Bridgton vs. J. V. : Here. Jan. 16- Colby: There.

Feb. 7- New Hampshire: Here.

INFORMAL BASKETBALL Feb. 9- Bates: There. Dec. 8—Winslow High: There. Feb. 12- Colby: Here.

Feb. 15- Northeastern : There. Jan. 5 —Farmington: There.

11 Feb. 16 Open.

Jan. 12—Portland "Y : There. Te ntativf. Junior Varsity Schhihu.k Feb. 23—Portland "Y": Here. fan. 8 Wilton: Here. 2 games: B. U. Ext. No dates yet. Jan. 1 5 Hebron : Heir. 1 2 games: Portland Boys Club. No dates Jan. 1 7— Fryeburg : Here. yet. Feb. 8 Wilton: There. 2 games: Stoneham, Mass., Champs. No Feb. 1 1 Hebron : There. dates yet. Feb. 1 3 Fryeburg: There

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Hanscom, Ed.M., '23 (Sabbatical Leave); 5. Norman S. Waldron, A.B., '30; 6. Edward G. '26 Buxton, A.B., '28; 7. Cyril H. Simmons, A.B., (Sabbatical Leave) ; 8. George W. Freiday, Jr.,

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Institute Prevue ATHERN P. DAGGETT, PH.D. '25, ASS'T. PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT

The seventh biennial Institute of Arts 5. Saturday, April 13. Fiorello H. and Sciences will be held at the College, LaGuardia, Mayor, New York City; sub- 11 April 9 to 18. The 1935 Institute is desig- ject: "The American City . 11 nated "The Institute of Politics . It is the 6. Monday, April 15. Matthew Woll, purpose of the College to present to the Vice-President, American Federation of student body, alumni, and other friends of 11 Labor; subject: "Labor's Problems . the College a discussion of the significant 7. Tuesday, April 16. Maurice Hindus, changes taking place in present day govern- 11 Lecturer and Author; subject: "Russia . ment. 8. Wednesday, April 17. Henry A. The committee has secured as speakers Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture; subject: able and distinguished leaders to present the 11 "The Philosophy of the New Deal . several points of view relating to present 9. Thursday, April 18. Ogden L. Mills, day political problems in America and former Secretary of the Treasury; subject: abroad. 11

"Constitutional Liberty . The following is the program so far as The committee hopes to be able to an- arranged at the time the Alumnus goes nounce soon the name of a prominent to press: European scholar to fill the open date of 1. Tuesday, April 9. Sidney B. Fay. Friday, April 12th. Professor of History, Harvard University; It is fitting that the opening lecture of the subject: "The Changing European Govern- Institute should be given by Professor 11 ments . Sidney B. Fay, Professor of European His- 1. Wednesday, April 10. Frances Per- tory at Harvard University. Professor kins, Secretary of Labor; subject: "Human Fay's experience as a lecturer and his inter- Welfare and the 11 New Deal . national reputation as a scholar and as an 3. Thursday, April n. Oliver M. W. author in the field of present day European Sprague, Professor of Banking and Cur- history make him eminently fitted to pre* rency, Harvard University; subject: "Man- senl to a college audience the present day aged 11 Currency . experiments in European governments, with 4. Friday, April 12. Open. special emphasis upon the German situation.

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Professor Fay studied at Harvard and at the 1926-29; member New York State Indus- Universities of Paris and Berlin. For fifteen trial Commission, 1922-33. She was ap- years Professor Fay taught European His- pointed Secretary of Labor on March 4, tory at Smith College and since 1929 he 1933- at has been Professor of European History At present she is a director of the Ameri- Harvard. As an author he is probably best can Child Hygiene Association; Consumers' known by his two-volume work on the League, New York; the New York Child Origins of the World War, published in Labor Committee and the Maternity Cen- histori- 1928. He is a member of numerous ter Association. She is a member of the cal associations, and of the American Politi- National Fire Protection Association (Com- cal Science Association; editor of the Smith mittee on Safety to Life), National Safety College Studies in History; member of the Council, the Division of Industrial Hygiene Board of Editors of the American Histori' of the. American Public Health Association, cal Association; and contributor of articles the Academy of Political Science, and the on current political subjects to such maga- American Economic Association. Miss Per- zines as Current History, The J\[ation, 7\[ew kins is a member of the Cosmopolitan Club

Republic, and Living Age. In the January and is Vice-President of the Women's City issue of Current History he has two articles, Club. President Roosevelt appointed her one on the Fate of the Saar and the other chairman of the Committee on Economic on the German Recovery Program. Profes- Security. She is the author of: Life Hazards Dis- sor Fay was one of the Round Table from Fire in l\[ew Tor\ Factories, 191 2; cussion Leaders at the Williamstown Insti- The Problem of Mercantile Fire Hazards, tute of Politics in 1924. 1914; A Plan for Maternity Care, 191 8; Under the auspices of the Society of Women as Employers, 191 9; A Social Ex- Bowdoin Women, America's first woman periment under the Wor\mens Compensa* cabinet officer, Frances Perkins, Secretary tion Jurisdiction, 1926; People at Wor\, of Labor, speaks on Human Welfare and 1934- the J^ew Deal. She is too well known to Two recent magazine articles by Miss the New England public to require an ex- Perkins are of especial interest, "On Our tensive biographical sketch. Probably no Way", in the September 1934 issue of the other woman in America is so well fitted by American Legislative Review, and "Way of

1 experience and actual achievement to speak Security' in the December 1934 Survey authoritatively on Human Welfare. Graphic. 11

Since receiving her Master of Arts degree "Managed Currency , a subject of grow- from Columbia in 1910 she has devoted her ing interest in the field of governmental ex-

time almost continuously to social welfare perimentation, is to be presented by one of work. Among the numerous positions of America's outstanding authorities on cur- public service held by Secretary Perkins the rency problems, Professor Oliver M. W. more notable are: Executive Secretary of Sprague, of Harvard University. L. H.

1 the Consumers League, New York, 19 10- Robbins in the Review of Reviews, Nov. 12; Executive Secretary for the Committee 1933, wrote about Dr. Sprague as follows: on Safety, New York, 1912-17; Director of "For forty years at Harvard the name of Investigations for the New York State Fac- Sprague has been a synonym for scholar-

tory Commission, 1912-13; Commissioner ship. He is the personification of intellec- of the New York State Industrial Commis- tual integrity. His colleagues call him a 9- sion, 1 91 1 921; director on the Council on rock, so staunch is he in his principles." Immigrant Education, 1921-23, chairman, Robbins describes him in his article as a [6a] " 3

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"moralist and a conservative, a man self' knowledge of people and conditions and the contained, saying little but saying it vigor- experience of almost thirty years spent in ously, he is a leader on the campus even government life and the government ser^ 11 when championing a minority opinion. vice. He entered the latter inconspicuously "A gray-haired man of kindly face and at the age of twenty as a member of the urbane air, Professor Sprague has had little consular staff at Budapest. After five years time in recent years for teaching, unless there and at Trieste and Fiume he returned distressed governments and distracted cen- to the United States where he acted as in- tral banks of the western world may be terpreter at Ellis Island from 1907-1910. called his pupils. Such baffling things as These experiences broadened and deepened trade collapse, credit freezes, and bank fail- his sympathy for and understanding of the ures are as understandable to him as cross- foreign-born whose cause he has so often since championed. In he left the civil word puzzles to ( '/ dinary folk. Ht .nas been 1910 characterized as the clearest monetary service to practice law in New York City. thinker in America. By 191 5 he was back in public life, this Professor Sprague was instructor in eco- time as deputy attorney- general of New nomics at Harvard from 1900 to 1904, and York. During the war he was an officer in an assistant professor in that subject the the United States Air Service, rose to the next year. From 1905 -1908 he was Pro- rank of major, and was decorated for ser- fessor of Economics at the Imperial Uni- vice on the Italian front. From 191 7^1023, versity of Tokyo, Japan. Returning to with the exception of one term, he was a Harvard he became assistant professor of member of Congress. When he was de- banking and finance in 1908 and since 191 feated in the fall of 1932 his public career has been the Edmund Cogswell Converse seemed for the time being at an end. How- professor in those subjects. ever, such was not to be the case. In 1929 While on leave of absence from 1930 to LaGuardia had initiated an attack on Tam- 1933 he was economic adviser to the Bank many which came to a climax in the Sea- of England; and probably knows more than bury exposures. There was an opportunity any other American about currency affairs for the anti-Tammany forces if they could there. From June to November 1933 he obtain vigorous leadership. The result was held the position of financial adviser to the that LaGuardia found himself in City Hall U. S. Treasury Department. almost before he was out of Congress.

He is the author of The History of Cnses LaGuardia, throughout his entire career, Under the J\[ational Ban\ing System, 1910; has been noted for his independence, his

Banking Reform in the United States, 191 1; vigor, and his courage. He has never been and the Theory and History of Ban\ing, a party man. He has run for office as a

1929. His most recent magazine article is Republican, a Progressive, a LaFollette In- in the Review of Reviews of January 1934, dependent with Socialist backing, and a in which he discusses the "Influence of Fusionist. "The Career of Fiorello H.

, 11 Money on Prices \ LaGuardia, said a recent writer in Colliers,

At present Dr. Sprague is foreign ex- "is the fairy story of American politics, as

change adviser to the General Motors he is one of its most colorful and provoca-

Corporation. tive figures . . . Savage in a speech, sensa- Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York tional in action, fanatically earnest in his 11 "Tamer of social justice, and the Tammany Tiger , needs passion for reform and and

no introduction. He brings to his discus- often too critic, il of the current national 11 sion of "The American City an intimate- mood for his own good, he has been a

r 63 ] [The B o w d o in Alumnus taunting, five-foot four gadfly to both major continue his education and was admitted to parties." Mayor LaGuardia will be intro- Colgate. Graduating with high honors, he duced by Austin fi. MacCormick '15, his went from there to the Harvard Graduate Commissioner of Correction. School. While in Cambridge he wrote his No discussion of the significant changes first book, The Russian Peasant and the taking place in present day government is Revolution (1920). It is as an interpreter complete without some consideration of of Russia, and especially of rural Russia, "Labor's Problems". They will be dis- that he has since gained his chief reputation. cussed by the vice-president of the Ameri- He visited his native country in 1923 as a can Federation of Labor, Matthew Woll. writer on the staff of the Century Maga- He has given practically all of an active zine. Since then he has spent a good portion life to labor leadership. He was born in of his time traveling in the Soviet Republics Luxemburg in 1880 and came to the United and studying conditions there. He has re- States at the age of eleven and settled in ported his observations to the American the middle west. He attended the public public in a notable series of books: Bro\en schools of Chicago and later studied law at Earth (1926); Humanity Uprooted (1929); Lake Forest University. He learned the Red Bread (193 1); and The Great Offen- photo-engraver's trade and by 1906 he was sive (1933). president of the International Photo- Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agricul-

1 Engravers Union of North America. He ture in the Roosevelt cabinet, is gaining has been an official of organized labor ever recognition as one of the authoritative since. He was especially close to Samuel spokesmen of the administration. He will Gompers and was associated with him not discuss "The Philosophy of the New Deal" only in the labor organizations, but also in aided by a knowledge gained from intimate the Council of National Defense during association with it from the beginning. His the war. Gompers was chairman of the department has assumed a place of increas- Committee on Labor of this council and ing importance as the policies of the admin-

-1 Woll was his assistant. During Gompers istration have developed. His signficance, lifetime Woll was frequently referred to as however, is greater than that that would "the crown prince" and many confidently belong to the Secretary of Agriculture expected that he would be tTie next presi- alone. His is one of the two or three names dent of the Federation. Although Green most frequently mentioned when the gov- has since followed Gompers in that office, ernment's program is being discussed.

Woll is still in much the same position as "There is little doubt," says a recent before. In his recent book, Labor, Industry writer, "that in Henry A. Wallace the and Government (1935), he has given an middle west contributes an authentic figure authoritative statement of his essential not out of place in the line of George W. position. Norris and the elder LaFollette." He was Maurice Hindus, in his lecture on born in Iowa and was graduated from the

"Russia", will continue the discussion of the Fowa State College. He is the son of Henry European situation which was opened by C. Wallace who was Secretary of Agricul- Professor Fay. Hindus was born in a Rus- ture under Harding and Coolidge. Like his sian village in 1891. He came to America father he has been interested in farm prob- with his family at the age of fourteen. lems all his life. Since his graduation he After attending Stuyvesant High School in has been associated with the family paper, New York City he went to work on a Wallaces Farmer, and since 1924 he has farm. Not satisfied with that he soueht to been its editor. He has written several [64] 6

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books on agricultural problems. His latest for Congress. In 191 4 and again in 191 publications include America Must Choose, he was elected to the State Senate. There a pamphlet in the World Affairs Pamphlets, he displayed the industry and ability that which discusses America's place in world have ever since marked his public career. trade, The Dairy Dilemma (1933), and He early made himself an authority on state K[ew Frontiers (1934). This last is an ex- taxation. The war intervened and he saw position and defense of the New Deal service as a captain in the A. E. F. He en- which has attracted widespread attention. tered Congress in 1921 and served for three terms. While there he was a member of Generally recognised as one of the domi- the powerful Ways and Means Committee nant figures, if not as the dominant figure and soon became an expert on national fiscal of the final period of the Hoover adminis- problems. This knowledge won for him a tration, Ogden L. Mills has inevitably as- place as a leading administration spokes- sumed the role of a leading critic of Roose- man in the House. Leaving Congress to velt and his policies. He is now looked to run as the Republican candidate for Gov- for leadership by a great part of the some- ernor of York, he was defeated by what scattered forces of Republicanism. At New Alfred E. Smith. This reverse sent him a time when much of the legislation passed back to national affairs and he was ap- since 1933 is under fire before the courts it pointed Under-secretary of the Treasury. is natural that Mills should discuss "Con- In February Mellon resigned, stitutional Liberty". 1932, when he was given the Secretaryship. During Ogden Mills has given the greater part those trying months which remained to the of his life to politics and the government. Hoover administration his force, his grasp of He was born at Newport, Rhode Island, in affairs, and his leadership made a lasting 1884, graduated from Harvard and the impress on the nation. When the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to Democratic party came into power Mills the New York bar in 1908. His wealth naturally became the leading spokesman of and position have given him the leisure and its critics. He has recently published his means to devote himself to public affairs. opinions in book form under the title What In 1 91 2 he was an unsuccessful candidate of Tomorrow? (1935).

The fourth annual Forum of Modern Before a record crowd including Gov- Religious Thought, sponsored by a com- ernor Louis J. Brann, Alice Bridges of the mittee of undergraduates, was opened on Whitinsville Community Association low- Sunday, February to, with an address by ered the world's 400-yard backstroke record Rev. Sidney Lovett, Chaplain of Yale Uni- by ten seconds. This feat was an outstand- versity. During the following three days ing event in the Olympic Swimming Car- twelve clergymen were in residence at the nival held at Bowdoin under the direction Moulton Union and the eleven fraternity of Coach Robert Miller, on February 23. houses, and a great deal of discussion was A second Olympic meet may be held at carried on among the student body. An in- Bowdoin in April. novation this year was the inclusion in the list of a representative of the Roman Cath- At the University Club Meet held in olic Church, Rev. Quitman Beckley, Chap- Boston on February 16, Bowdoin's track lain of the Catholic Club at Princeton Uni- team placed second to Harvard in the ClaSc versity, being among the group. A division.

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The Senior Overseer Looks Back REV. CHARLES H. CUTLER, D.D., '81

One day in the fall of "77 a seventeen' and fed by his chum, or, if very ill, or with year-old boy presented himself for examina- a contagious disease, was sent home). J\[o tion for admission to Bowdoin College. The Moulton Union — with luxurious lounging "exam", held in the north wing of the and reading rooms and a cafeteria. (The chapel, occupied one day — a written boys patronized the R. R. station restaurant 11 for a "exam , limited to the three subjects: midnight lunch of baked beans.) Latin, Greek, and Math. (I do not recall The average of culture in the student 11 any "exam in English, or History, to say body was not high. Most of the boys came nothing of Science.) from rural homes in Maine — (today there are more students from This boy who, with some fifty odd others, Massachusetts than from Maine!) thus came with fear and trembling, did not — of good stock, but in the rough, have the advantage of a thorough and con' without much cultural background. of the boys, of the best, sistent preparation and when, a day or two Many and some were working their through college by- later, he rang the President's door-beli with way teaching district trepidation, and received from that august a school for which they had a long leave of absence in the winter, a hand a clean certificate of admission to 11 serious interruption of their college work. Bowdoin College, without "conditions , it The major athletic interests of the college was the thrill of his young life! were baseball and rowing (inter-class re- The Bowdoin College of today is, 1 am gattas on the river — '81 had a winning happy to know, a very different place —

crew) . Football had not yet arrived. and a far better one — from the Bowdoin Lacrosse and tennis were minor sports. I I knew as an undergraduate. played on my class nine, but never attained In material equipment and the beauty of 11 a position on the "Varsity , though '8i the campus there is a striking contrast. In was well represented there. my day there was no Hubbard Library, (the The moral and religious tone of the college library being housed in the rear of student body I cannot think was very the Chapel, in crowded shelves). K[o healthy. I suppose there was a good deal Wal\er Art Building, (the art treasures, of drinking in college, but I did not see some of them priceless, were to be found, much of it. The religious spirit which was if not seen, in a small musty room behind not aggressive or influential was represented the Chapel platform). l\[o Searles Science by a remnant of pious boys banded in Building, (the Chem. laboratory was in an 11 "The Praying Circle (dreadful name!) old brick building across Bath Street) . ls[o who met at a meeting once a week. The Sargent Gymnasium, (we waved dumb-bells College Y. M. C. A. with its program of and pulled weights in the unfinished base- applied Christianity, had not reached ment at Memorial Hall). 7\[o Swimming Bowdoin. Pool, (indeed there was not even a bath- The Curriculum room or a toilet in any of the dormitories! And no Central Heating; each room ran its Freshman and Sophomore years were a own coal stove and the roomers lugged their pretty steady grind in Latin, Greek, and own coal. J^o Electric Lights; of course, Math. we burned the midnight oil! K[o Coe In- A smattering of the sciences: Chemistry,

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1 wore a fur cap with tered through the later years. A year in "Cosine"' , who always French (Sophomore) and a year in Ger- earlaps and fur gloves, took no notice of it man (Junior) gave us a taste of modern but conducted the class as usual, keeping us languages. When I survey the time spent shivering there at the blackboard until our on languages — five or six years' drill in fingers were numb. The joke seemed to be Latin, three or four in Greek (not includ- on us! ing New Testament Greek), a year each in The studies of the last two years were French, German, and later, a year or two diversified by courses in Political Science in Hebrew, and reflect at the same time under "Prexy" Chamberlain. Butler's that I have never acquired the use of a "Analogy" and Paley's "Evidences" with single language, be it alive or dead, to read dear old Professor Packard, Logic — extra it without a lexicon, (not to say the use of dry — and then — the bane of Senior year it written or spoken) , and that I have never to most of us — Porter's Human Intellect had the command of any language except — a ponderous textbook, under Professor my mother tongue, as a door to its litera- Ladd. (My eyes having given out, my

ture or the life of its people, why then, I chum, Harold Chamberlain, used to read conclude that there must have been some- aloud the daily chapter of "The Human thing wrong with my education! To be Intellect" at night, and we both took good sure, it is my own fault that I did not follow marks in it!) We had little history, ancient up my reading m any of these ancient or or modern; no economics, and, as I have modern tongues, with the exception of the especially regretted since, no philosophy. Greek New Testament. Yet I count it From beginning to end of the curriculum, against such teaching in the Classics as I which seems to have been a good deal of a had that in all the classroom reading of hodge-podge, with no definitely charted Caesar, Livy, Virgil, and Cicero, The major or minor pathways, I do not remem- Anabasis, or Iliad, I the The never once had ber that once I exercised the choice of an suspicion, so far as I recall — This is litera- elective subject! There were no elective ture! This is life! there is no reason Now courses! We all were ground out in the why Virgil or Iliad, if The not Caesar and same mill. Xenophon, should not be made interesting Doubtless this was reflected in our atti- to the average boy. The courses of Junior tude toward our work. Lacking the free- and Senior years (with Latin, Greek, and dom of choice it was servile. It did not Math happily forgotten) were more inter- educate or draw out the scholar's interest esting. The Science courses as given by in the subject for its own sake, even less Professors Robinson and Lee were as good did it quicken the adventure of research. as the rudimentary laboratories permitted. Nor did it stimulate and encourage initia- (Physics under Carmichael was a terror.) tive and independence of thinking, if indeed I haven't spoken of "Cosine"*, Professor of thinking at all! Charles H. Smith, professor of mathematics,

but I suppose his was the best teaching wc Our nose was held to the grindstone ol had for the first two years. His gentle this curriculum steadily throughout the voice could be devastatingly severe. All four years; we worked lor marks,- and

freshmen were in awe of him. I recall my "Verily we had our reward!" What then ol surprise at the first discovery that he could did I get out of it? The residuum

smile! One winter day, when it was below knowledge seems to me alter all these years

zero some bright Sophs took out the win- pretty small, but two things I certainly

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First: How to wor\. There was mental proverbial pin drop! It was pretty well discipline in all this grind, even if the grist understood in College that when a boy was was mostly chaff. under probation for misbehaviour or low 11 Second: The value of time. There were marks he was "rusticated with Elijah Kel- very few wasted periods during the day for logg in Harpswell; there was a story of one me, and there were periods of ten or fifteen unruly boy who flourished firearms in his

minutes which seemed priceless! dormitory at the risk of life and limb to My recollections of Bowdoin would be the inmates, who was committed to Elijah's incomplete without recalling one pictur- care. The first day he was taken for a sail esque figure, that of Elijah Kellogg of the down the bay, (for Elijah was a seasoned class of 1840, known as the author of the skipper). The wind was fresh, the sea 1 11 sometime popular boys books: "The Elm choppy, and the rather "fresh boy became

1 11 Island Stories ' and "The Whispering Pine quiet, then green, and then — but Elijah series. When a student at Andover Sem- held her course into the wind right out to inary, where, by the way, he wrote the sea, until, after a pleading look from the prue-winning declamation, "Spartacus to boy Elijah answered, "Throw your shooting 11 11

the Gladiators , for a Phillips Academy iron overboard, and well put about. That, 11 boy, he had "supplied the church at it is needless to add, was the last of that

Harpswell, and the fisher-folk there begged boy's bravado! One more incident is vivid him to become their pastor. He gave them in my own memory. It was after a frater- his promise upon condition that the Harps- nity initiation at which Elijah Kellogg had well people would build a church (they had been our guest, (for he also was an Alpha

been meeting in a schoolhouse) and sure Delt) . He spent the rest of the night with enough they forthwith did build a church, me (it was my Junior year and I was room- and true to his promise Elijah Kellogg, ing in the north end of Winthrop in the when graduated from Andover, returned room now marked as Longfellow's when a to Harpswell and was ordained as their student in Bowdoin). But before we went pastor to remain with them as their beloved to bed the old man, taking my Bible from

minister (with an interval of ten years as the table, read aloud, as he could read it, Chaplain of the Boston Seaman's Friend the XCI Psalm:

Society) until his death. It was an event He that dwelleth in the secret place whenever Elijah Kellogg preached in the of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Church on the Hill. (He didn't often oc- Almighty. cupy the pulpit of the College Church be- And then, throwing his arm about my cause, as he said, he was better known to shoulders as we kneeled together there, the student body as the fellow who once he poured out his soul in unaffected fervent upon a time climbed the Chapel spires and prayer! What boy's heart would not melt stole the clapper of the Chapel bell!) But and be deeply moved! how attentively the boys, herded in the gal- college leries of the church, would listen to a Head and shoulders above my rather long sermon by Elijah Kellogg — teachers stands Henry Leland Chapman, (the boys who never listened to a sermon who was the English Department. To hear his sonorous reading of Chaucer was to at all). And when the old man came to the end of his manuscript, closed the pulpit catch the cadence of old English and his lecture on Macbeth or King Lear was as Bible, and leaning over it, pleaded in wooing as play. words for the life consecrated to the ser- good a vice of God, one could have heard the Professor Chapman was a scholar of rich [68] ]

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culture, yet, save for an occasional address, However, the glamour of war may have en- he never made an adequate contribution to hanced Gen. Chamberlain's fame as a sol- literature. He might have written a book dier, there was never any question about

of fine ' essays, or even a volume of noble the martial spirit of his "charger . (The verse. He, himself, always seemed to me bay horse, a familiar figure on Brunswick greater than anything he ever produced. roads who, the General used to say, was re- Some thought him indolent but he had little sponsible for his own reputation for leading literary ambition, and none of the urge ""to the reckless charge at the front!) The old 11 publish something , which today seems to war horse, who must have lived to an in- be the sine qua non of academic recognition. credible age, used to paw and whinney in To the boys of my generation as to a his stall on the fourth of July, when he score of classes before and after us, "Harry sniffed the crack and smoke of battle! 11 Chapman was the personal embodiment of In senior year we had a course in Parlia- the traditions of Bowdoin. I like to remem- mentary Law with Prexy and his class exer- ber him as at the Commencement dinners cises in the rules of order and parlimentary he always led the in the old Alumni Bow- procedure were very good fun. doin Hymn:

"Let children hear the mighty deeds

Which God performed of old . . . A life-like life-siz,e portrait of Henry Debating Leland Chapman hangs in a fine room of Debating, which has increased in popu- the Hubbard Library. One has only to larity at Bowdoin under the coaching of look at it to feel the dignity and manliness Prof. Athern P. Daggett '25 and the man- of the man. agement of Harold C. Tipping '35, reached "His life was gentle and the elements its high point on the evening of Monday, So mixed in him that nature might

stand up March 1 1 , when a varsity team met Bate" And say to all the world, 'This was before a crowd of more than four hundred 1 a man! " people. Speaking for the negative on the I can add only that I admired him tre- subject, Resolved: "That all collective bar- mendously and loved him. gaining be negotiated through non-companv 11 11 I must say a word about "Prexy in my unions, safeguarded by law, John O. day. General Joshua L. Chamberlain, with Parker and Joseph L. Fisher, both seniors, a record of distinguished service in the were awarded a unanimous decision over Civil War, had been made Governor of the Bond Perry and Gordon Jones of Bates. State of Maine before he became president This award puts Bowdoin into the lead' of Bowdoin College. (He had been sum- ing position in the Eastern Intercollegiate moned to Augusta to maintain martial law Debate League, the championship now 11 in the capital during the "count out hinging upon the success of an affirmative anarchy). With his erect bearing and team comprising Manager Tipping and white hair and moustache, Gen. Chamber- Edwin G. Walker '36, who will meet lain was a soldierly figure. In his famous Lafayette in the near future. lecture on the Battle of Gettysburg he him This was the first varsity debate, for a self figured modestly as "the hero of Little 1 decision, with Bates m eleven years, and il Round Top' ! He was on the snot to the is interesting to note that Coach Daggetl end of the war, and was, I believe, one of the officers entrusted to receive tin- iur as a member ol this earlier team, which lender of (Jen. Lee's army at Appomattox. was defeated In' the Lewiston contingent.

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"For Bowdoin, Walsh Replaces Bowser 3?

1 Following a meeting of the executive where he was one of the seven ""mules'' who committee of the Governing Boards held at formed the line backed by the famous 11 Brunswick on the evening of January 19, "four horsemen . In the four years fol-

it was announced by President Sills that the lowing his graduation he was head coach at resignation of Charles W. Bowser as coach Santa Clara, a small California institution of football at Bowdoin had been accepted, where his team met with considerable suc- to take immediate effect. This resignation cess. From this post he was called to Yale, and from there to his present position at Harvard. m mm* In commenting on his choice for the Bowdoin post, Director Morrell said, "In making this appointment we were not at

all influenced by any previous connection HHBfin£j|p of the candidate. A certain standard was set and an effort made to find a candidate

to fit that standard, and he was recommended in spite of his big college connec-

1 tion rather than because of it/ Although not actually assuming charge of activity in Brunswick until July, Coach Walsh has already made himself known on the Bowdoin campus and has met the men who will make up his squad next fall. Comment from the members of this group has so far been most enthusiastic, as has the Adam Walsh editorial section of the Orient.

brought to a close a period of increasingly At the close of the first semester it was bitter criticism of his work since he as- announced that the Abraxas Cup had been sumed charge of Bowdoin's football activi- won by the freshman representatives of ties in 1930. Bangor High School and that the Student First steps toward the choice of a suc- Council Cup, for the highest scholastic cessor to Coach Bowser were taken imme- standing of any fraternity, had been diately by Athletic Director Malcolm E. awarded to Alpha Tau Omega. Morrell '24, and following a meeting of the

Athletic Council on March 2, it was an- Five members of the senior class, Stuart nounced that his recommendation of a new K. Davis of Winter Harbor, Leon A. Dick- man for the position had been confirmed by son of Portland, G. Roger Edwards of

the Council and approved by President Southington, Conn., Deane S. Thomas, Jr.,

Sills. Two days later it was made known of Falmouth Foreside, and Nathan W. that Adam Walsh, last year in charge of Watson of Bath, were initiated to Phi Beta line coaching at Harvard, had accepted ap- Kappa at the mid-winter meeting on Feb-

pointment and would begin his work ruary 3. William A. Shimer, Ph.D., Sec-

officially at Bowdoin on July 1. retary of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Walsh is a graduate of Notre Dame, Kappa, was the guest speaker.

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53 'For Worthy and Indigent Students

In these days when the cost of a college scholarships by Hon. J. B. Brown of Port- education comes as a very considerable bur' land in memory of his son, a member of the den to many undergraduates and to the class of 1856. This fund is not handled parents and friends who serve as the spon- by the College, but by the Treasurer of the sors of their educational careers, it may be City of Portland, who passes annually to of interest to survey the program of scholar- each of four undergraduates who are grad- ship aid which has been set up at Bowdoin uates of Portland High School the income College for the assistance of worthy stu- of $1,000. dents. According to the report of the The period of the 'seventies was fruitful Treasurer of the College, as of June 30, for the establishment of scholarships, no 1934, the endowment funds of the College less than fifteen funds being set up at Bow- amount to approximately six and one-half doin during this decade. Since 1880 there millions of dollars. Something more than has been a steady stream of donations, and

$500,000 of this amount, a total which has it has been felt that a summary of these since come to approach ten per cent of the funds, with some of their provisions, might full endowment, is qualified as "scholarship be of interest to our readers. funds, the income of which amounting an- There are now 90 scholarship funds listed nually to more than is devoted to $25,000 on the College books, 52 of them adminis- the assistance of meritorious students of tered separately and the others grouped to- slender means." gether as "the consolidated scholarship The idea of scholarship aid for Bowdoin^ funds. " Many of them have been given to undergraduates first makes its appearance the College without restrictions while other in 1 8 14, when the Commonwealth of Mas- donors have prescribed conditions under sachusetts granted to Bowdoin a ten- year which grants may be made. Several of these annuity of $3,000, one-fourth of the sum to funds, as has already been noted, give pref- be used for paying the tuition of "worthy erence to students from particular prepara- and indigent students". This annuity was tory schools, the list of such institutions assumed by the State of Maine and was comprising Lawrence Academy at Groton, continued until 1831. During a part of Mass., Portland High School, Bangor The- this same period scholarship aid was also ological Seminary, Bangor High School, the made available through the work of a English High School in Boston, the public Benevolent Society, established in 181 5 but schools of Portland, Fryeburg Academy, destined to survive by only a few years its Thayer Academy, and Lincoln Academy. incorporation in 1826. Another group of donors have expressed a

During the next twenty years little aid preference for students under various geo- classifications, including such spe- was available, but in 1 847 Mrs. Amos Law- graphical rence, a sister-in-law of President Applcton, cific localities as Buxton, Minot, Richmond, established a foundation of $6,000, the in- Topsham, Brunswick, Bristol, Portland, come to be used for undergraduate scholar* Augusta, Dexter, Bethel, Bangor, and Cape ships with a preference for students enter- Elizabeth, Maine, Beverly, Mass., and the ing from Lawrence Academy at Groton, States of Maine and Massachusetts as such. Mass. Tin's first donation was to stand A third classification is that ol ancestry, alone for almost twenty years, being lob preference here being given to "American lowed in 1865 by the establishment of l<»ur 00™" students, to students ol Colonial or

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Revolutionary ancestry, and of American Charles Carroll Everett Scholarship, a fund ancestry on both sides. In a few instances amounting to about $14,000, the Henry W. preference is given to the descendants of Longfellow Scholarship in Belles Lettres, particular individuals or of a given Bow with a fund of about $10,000, and the doin class. Galen C. Moses Graduate Scholarship of There are many interesting clauses in the $5,000, which is for work in natural science. It is to be hoped that more funds of this deeds of gift conveying some of these funds. Two of them indicate a preference for stu- sort may be established in the future. dents showing a proficiency in Literature, one is for an outstanding chemist, while Austin H. MacCormick '15, for seven others show preference for excellence in the years Alumni Secretary of the College and Classics, in History, in Mathematics, and now Commissioner of Correction for the in studies "allied to ophthalmology". Some City of New York, came to Bowdoin on awards must be made to freshmen, and Friday, March 8, and discussed "Crime and others to members of the upper classes Criminals" before an audience which only, while one award goes to the same packed Memorial Hall to the doors. It was man throughout his course unless his particularly appropriate that a member of scholarship falls below a reasonable level. Delta Upsilon should deliver the lecture Some deeds have specified a minimum which has in recent years been sponsored by award to each recipient, and others the members of this fraternity. a maximum. One fund is for the benefit of students intending to enter the The Very Rev. Cyril A. Alington, Dean law, while several others must go to stu- of Durham, and for many years headmaster dents preparing for the Congregational of Eton, will speak at Bowdoin on March ministry, one of these being further quali- 19, discussing, "Eton — Its History and fied by the proviso that the award shall be Life". repaid in the event that the undergraduate m question shall abandon his intentions. Alexander Woollcott, New York writer There are funds under which preference is and radio commentator, will deliver the given to teetotalers and to students abstain- Annie Talbot Cole lecture at Bowdoin on ing from the use of tobacco. Two scholar- Wednesday, March 27. He will take as his ships are given with the understanding that subject, "An Experiment with Time". the recipients assume the care of a cemetery lot, one donor prescribes that preference be Herbert von Beckerath, Visiting Profes- given to members of a particular fraternity, sor of Economics on the Tallman Founda- while a third establishes six scholarships to tion, delivered the fifth of his series of pub-

be given only to students who are followers lic lectures on the evening of February 27, of the Christian faith. discussing "The United States and the New

The medical scholarships awarded each Dear . year from the income of the Garcelon and the Merritt Funds are quite well known, The second One-Act Play Contest for and aid each year a considerable number of undergraduates, sponsored by the Masque Bowdoin men continuing their studies in and Gown, culminated in the presentation medical school. of four plays in Memorial Hall on the eve-

Graduate scholarships at Bowdoin num- ning of March 4. The first prize went to ber but three, the last of which was estab' John V. Schaffner '35, who was last year lished only last year. They include the editor of the Quill. [72] The B o w d o in Alumnus']

An Open Letter to Adam Walsh BY THE UNDERGRADUATE EDITOR

Dear Adam: Those observers were taking an effect for a

Your talk of March 7 to Bowdoin foot- cause, Adam, and together you and I will ball men heard and contents noted — prove it. damngood contents, too. Your promise, Adam Walsh, you'll have no easy row of "We'll win some games", offered on the it up here. You will have countless obsta- strength of your intention to change Bow- cles to contend with, particularly three con- doin football tactics, principles, and spirit, temporaries of rare strategic mettle. I've impressed me greatly. Good stuff, Adam, been on the receiving end of this ambush and I want you to know this: Fm behind battle far too long. you 100%. But you are going to have over sixty men Since your arrival many ominous clouds out there next fall, undoubtedly the largest football have evaporated above the local scene. squad in Bowdoin history. They will aid in close of There's new and fresh air, a shower of marking the of the Days Defeatism, optimism, a sparkle of faith, the dawn of Disillusionment, and Dictation, and ushering in the of whole-hearted cooperation. It's a relief to new Era Understand- ing, Cooperation, hope, Success. find everybody full of life and hope. and we Yes, there's going to be a New Deal in. Now Adam Fm writing you to ask your Bowdoin football, Adam. You have admir- help in a little secretarial work. You see ably set down the policy we are to follow. I am woefully behind in my correspondence And although the nearest approach wc There are endless old accounts on the books have to a Blue Eagle is a convalescing Polar and I know you are the man to cancel them. Bear, mark this: We will do our part! In recent years these accounts have accum- trusting servant, ulated rapidly. Take that "Open Letter to Your Bowdoin Students" of four years ago from Joe Bowdoin. a mid-western "Old Grad". That was a bitter pill, Adam, sent to cure a charged Philip G. Good '36, hurdler, who accom- "diet of defeatism". And that thing, "We panied Coach Jack Magee on his Oriental Break Silence", claiming metropolitan dicta- expedition last summer, tied for first place tion of Bowdoin athletic policy — we've in the 50 metre hurdles in the annual IC4A just got to answer that. There are moun- Meet in New York on March 2. The deci- tains more of purple rhetoric piled up be- sion was originally given to Charles Pessoni fore me here, everything from newspaper of Manhattan, but three days later a study column blasts to private letters which made by the Kirby Electric Camera-Timer lament the absence of "he-men" at Bow- showed the finish to have been a tie. doin.

I almost began to believe these fellows, The annual interfraternity track meet, really! It's my one purpose to set them in held on the evening of Friday, March 15, t cir places — to show 'em that they were and the afternoon of March 16, is evidently going by football scores only, and that to be won by Zeta Psi. As we go to press, traces of "defeatism" will vanish with a fair the Zete team, led by Captain Niblock and measure of gridiron success. If the annual Phil Good, is leading Delta Kappa Epsilon autumn fizzle ends, I don't believe we'll by 18 points. Niblock is high scorer of hear any more rhapsodies of "indifference". the meet.

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William E. Lunt, Papal Revenues in the vestararius, he has indicated in what respects Middle Ages, 2 Vols., Columbia University Press, their duties may be differentiated and in what 1934. Pp. vii, 341; 665. $12.50. respects their functions are not yet clearly understood. Likewise, in relation to the obscure in This two volume work is the nineteenth question of the privy purse of the popes pre- edited under the Records of Civilization series, vious to the pontificate of John xxii, he has the auspices of the Department of History, Co' pointed out both the paucity of materials and primarily a lumbia University. While it is the difficulties of identifying definitively the frag- collection of documents in translation, it con' ments from the archives which have sometimes tains an admirable historical introduction de- been mistaken for accounts drawn up by the voted to the fiscal administration of the papacy private camera of the popes. To the student in the Middle Ages. The portion of the work of the medieval papacy the significance of this first and thirty- contained within the hundred is all the more apparent in the light of the con- of six pages of Volume I is a masterly synthesis clusion, that "the existence of a privy purse the historical literature relating to the whole cannot be inferred from the existence of a subject. Not only has the author extracted camera secreta^ significant results of and brought together the Without pursuing too far, however, the nu- other scholars who have dealt with various merous questions which are of primary interest aspects of the fiscal system, but he has incorpo- to the scholar, the introductory portion of the results his previous labors rated the of own work is of no less interest to the more general which have appeared, since 191 3, in the English student of the papal administration in the Mid- Historical Review, Vols, xxvil, xxx, xxxi, dle Ages. Aside from the excellent account ot xxxll, xxxvii, and xli; Annual Report of the the organisation of the camera and the various American Historical Association for 191 7; in fiscal agents of the popes, the introduction the American Historical Review, Vol. xvil; the throws much light upon the sources of revenue, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. xxiii; and papal tributes, Peter's Pence, income taxes, sub- in separate monographs such as his Valuation of sidies, annates, the jus spolii and other sources Norwich (Oxford, 1926). Although the Vati- from which the papal treasure was accumulated. can Archives have been open to students since The general reader also, accustomed to asso- 1 88 1, and European scholars have made use ciate indulgences primarily with the Reforma- of the abundant archive material as the basis tion period, will find much of interest in the of a complete reinterpretation of our knowledge scholarly treatment of the origin and the grad- of the financial system of the medieval papacy, ual commercialization of indulgences during the this has made but little impression on "the Middle Ages. rather scant English literature of the subject. The raison d'etre of the work is of course the It is in making accessible a large part of this selection and translation of documents, "with material in the English language that Professor the intention of providing a reasonably com- Lunt has performed a most valuable service to prehensive and impartial view of the organiza- students of the medieval papacy. tion, work and growth of the papal financial What is possible in this field of historical department and of the nature and development research is suggested throughout the brief, but of the revenues which it levied." The his- substantial introduction which in itself serves torical introduction provides the necessary ex- as a corrective to the traditional, but erroneous planatory matter and gives coherence and con- treatments. Historical fallacies often establish tinuity to the succeeding documents. The hun- themselves by dint of sheer repetition and per- dred and eighty-eight translated documents in sist even when investigation has clearly dis- the first volume illustrate almost every feature proved them. This has been peculiarly true of the fiscal administration, and are particularly with respect to papal finances in the Middle enlightening with respect to questions of or- Ages. Only in the face of overwhelming evi- ganization, the functions of fiscal officials, meth- dence can such fallacies be made to yield to ods of auditing accounts, the activities of couri- sounder conclusions. With respect to the papal ers and collectors, and the 1'r relations to local revenues in the Middle Ages, Professor Lunt's depositaries and tax-payers. The additional book supplies the necessary corrective evidence. three hundred and ninety-three documents For the scholar his introduction provides a point which constitute the second volume afford a of departure for future investigation, indicating wealth of easily accessible source material illus- those features of the subject which are clear trative of the papal revenues during the Middle and, at the same time, suggesting those which Ages. In view of the varied character of this remain obscure. Thus, in his discussion of the material, its copiousness, and its skillful ar- various functions of the three papal fiscal offi- rangement, there can be little doubt that the cials, the arcarius, the saccellarius, and the author's hope will be fulfilled, "that the pres- [74] The B o w d o in Alumnus]

ent collection of documents in translation will keen and kindly character dominates the story. serve & useful purpose." He founds the Grant Mills, extends the range Each of the volumes contains an excellent of their operation, adds one product after an- table of contents of the utmost usefulness both other to their output, skilfully adapts his wid' in relation to the historical introduction and to ening business to ever changing conditions, and the classification of the documents. Although then hands it all over to his grandson. Here in the bibliography, some twentyfour pages, con' fact we have a slight but veracious contribution tains only works actually cited in the text, it to the saga of American industry. is so nearly exhaustive as to give to it the char' As a whole the book is an estimable addition acter of a bibliographical guide to the papal to the "literature of escape." It will be ac administration in the Middle Ages. Throughout cetpable to many readers who desire or need the work, the documentation is achieved with that sort of pabulum. precision and conciseness. Citations are abun' Algernon S. Dyer. dant, leaving nothing unauthenticated, but this has been accomplished with brevity, without Wendell McKown, Me an' Pete: A Boo\ repetitiousness, and yet with due regard to of Verse, Doubleday, Doran 6? Company, Inc., clarity. The work is a notable addition to the 1934. Pp. 88. $1.75. whole body of scholarly literature on the sub' A few weeks ago I received a neatly printed, ject of the medieval papacy, but it is a particu' attractively illustrated book of verse with this larly valuable contribution to the all too meagre inscription: "Humbly offered as a freshman historical literature in English on this important theme — provided all colored pencils have been subject. mislaid. Sincerely, Wendell P. McKown." I Cleve. Thomas C. Van was both pleased and surprised, pleased that a former disciple should thus generously remem' ber me, surprised because I had always before Thomas Littlefield Marble, Product of associated the author with the prosy profundities* the Mills-' A Romance, Bruce Humphries, Inc., of law. But here he was, in fitting verse ex- Boston, 1934. Pp. 242. $2.00. pressing the whimsies and fancies, the fertile The title of this short novel might lead the imaginings and the blank misgivings, the joy> reader to expect a realistic handling of some and astonishments of lively youngsters. No, 1 phase of the social and economic struggle so have not mislaid my colored pencils. There nearly universal in the industrial world of to- they are on my desk in Room 10 1, Memorial day. The stage is set for such treatment. The Hall, all sharpened for service as they were dark spruce forests on the steep hillsides, the when the author was a Freshman forty yeais busy lumber camps, the rushing streams and ago. But in reading these delightful verses, writ' placid lakes that carry the logs to the Grant ten especially for those who are still in the Mills in Merlin, the polyglot mass of workmen golden age, I have found scant occasion for that convert the wood into paper, pulp, and blue marks or for red. There are here, it seems, various byproducts, the roar of mighty ma' no split infinitives that should not be split, no chines, the toil and sweat and peril — all are dangling participles that should not dangle, no authentic and may be readily identified by any false rhymes, no halting meters, that should not reader familiar with northern New England. be false and halting enough to express the won- However, as the author announces in his derment and confusion of the growing boy as Foreword, the story is frankly a romance. he is jostled about in this funny old world where In it the most roseate dreams of some New the Olympians, as Kenneth Graham calls them, Deal find their embodiment. Every problem is hold their blundering sway. solved fortunately, everybody attains his ob' Years ago there was a legend floating around jective, and all ends happily. Romance indeed it the Harvard Yard about Adams Sherman HiTT, is in generous measure — not one pair of young the famous Boylston Professor of Rhetoric. He lovers but three: Peg and Deb, Silsbee and used to require each member of his English 5 Jane, Gabriello and Maxima. In diverse ways to write a story for children; and then he would they are all products of the mills, for the mills submit those stories to the acid test. The proof determine their careers or mold their achieve- of the pudding was more than chewing the ments. They are a youthful and engaging string. He would call in the children of the group — the idealistic manager of a great in- neighborhood and let them unconsciously judge. dustry, the lawyer winning the case for his The stories they liked best he marked A: those company before the Supreme Court in Wash- that bored them, E. I am venturing (he guess, ington, the versatile commercial artist and archi- gentle reader, that when you read these "Me an' tect, the librettist, the composer, and the prima Pete" verses to your ten-year old grandsons, donna of a successful opera. They play their they will not noisily cease (o listen bin' they parts agreeably; but the true protagonist is will pester you with repeated demands: "Read Peter the Great — wise, humorous, forceful, 'em again, Granka. Read 'em again." For here yet knowing how to yield on occasion. His yon will find amplified and discussed in boy [75] :

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language and boy logic such momentous themes Algernon S. Dyer, A.M., '91, after a long as "A Short Argument for Long Pants", "The period of teaching, which included two years at Protection of Bulging Pockets'", "Fishm' ", the College as Instructor in Classics and English, 1 1 "Visitin ", "Speakin Pieces", and "The Les' is now retired, living in Bar M'lls, Maine. son of the Unmastercated Toad", — fortyseven Wilmot B. Mitchell, Litt.D., '90, Edward of them in all. Little Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, is first two Perhaps a fair sample are these the senior member of the active Faculty, and stanzas from "A School for Dogs" this year the Acting Dean of the College. You're a lucky dog, old Pete, I would say, For our school it opens up Alumni Fund This very day; An' because it's been the rule The annual Alumni Fund campaign will For all boys to go to school, open early in April, the corps of class I jest have to go, an' can't Stay home and play. agents being virtually the same as that of

If the Pilgrims when they came With their flock, Had begun a school for dogs On Plymouth Rock, You'd be doin' like I do, Havin' school an' home work too, An' be sent to bed at night At eight o'clock.

At all odds, long before you have read the last poem you are convinced of one fact. It is this: Although Mr. McKown was a -freshman forty years ago, he can still understand a boy's way of reasoning and can still see vividly the world of people and the world of things through a boy's eyes, — no mean achievement for any man past the meridian and a sine qua non for a successful boys' writer, be he poet or storyteller. Wilmot B. Mitchell. James C. Freeman '34 The Authors last year. Notable among new appoint' William E. Lunt, Ph.D., L.H.D., '04, a present member of the Alumni Council, has ments made by Roland E. Clark 'oi, chair- taught at Harvard, Wisconsin, Bowdoin, and man of the Fund board, is that of James C. Cornell, and now holds the Walter D. and Freeman, who will serve as agent for the Edith M. Scull Professorship of Constitutional History at Haverford College. He is the authoi Class of 1934. Mr. Freeman, who was of articles and in the field many monographs last year undergraduate editor of the of medieval history, as well as of a widely used Alumnus, is the son of Captain George History of England. At the Versailles Peace Conference he was advisor on Italian affairs to F. Freeman, star class agent for 1890 and a the American delegation. direct descendant of Samuel Freeman, sec Thomas Littlefield Marble, LL.D., '98, ond treasurer of Bowdoin. who in his undergraduate days was one of the founders of the Quill, is now an Associate Jus- Other new appointments include Hon. tice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. John A. Peters '85, Harold H. Sampson '17, Wendell P. McKown, '98, is a lawyer in Virgil C. McGorrill '22, Barrett C.

New York, a former member of the Alumni 1 Nichols and Alden H. Sawyer '27. Council, and a former president of the Zeta 25, Psi Fraternity. A questionnaire on the week end com- The Reviewers mencement proposition will probably be Thomas C. Van Cleve, Ph.D., is Thomas sent to alumni sometime in April, as will, Brackett Reed Professor of History and Political Science. also, the new Alumni Address List. [76] The B o w d o i n Alumnus'}

With the Alumni Bodies

BOSTON ASSOCIATION day, January 26, at the Poor Richard Club, with President Sills as guest and speaker. A well attended annual meeting was held at the University Club on Thursday, Feb' ruary 7. Speakers included President Sills, PORTLAND CLUB Austin H. MacCormick '15, and President A meeting scheduled to be held at the John Edgar Park of Wheaton College. Falmouth Hotel on January 24th was post- Wallace M. Powers '04 was reelected presi- poned a week because of severe weather dent, and Stuart R. Stone '30 continues as conditions. The speaker of the evening was secretary. Athletic Director Malcolm E. Morrell,

whose talk on athletic conditions was fol- essex county association lowed by a period of general discussion. All Massachusetts alumni are cordially Luncheon meetings were held at the Fal- invited to attend the annual meeting of the mouth on February 28 and March 14, the Association which will be held at the Hotel time being devoted to discussion of the Hawthorne in Salem on the evening of athletic situation.

Wednesday, April 10. It is expected that Adam Walsh, newly appointed coach of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA football at Bowdoin, will be a speaker. ASSOCIATION HEW YORK ASSOCIATION. A well attended meeting of the Los Angeles section of the group was held at On the evening of Friday, January 25, the University Club on the evening of the Association gathered at the Union February 26. Dean Paul Nixon, enjoying a League Club for its annual meeting. Speak- sabbatical leave at Altadena, was the guest ers of the evening included President Sills, of honor. Hon. James Donovan 'Si is the Mr. Leon Henderson of the National Re- new president of the Association, and Her- covery Administration, and Professor Ah bert H. Foster '16 succeeds George C. fred O. Gross, who gave an illustrated talk Wheeler 01 as secretary. on the Bowdoin-MacMillan Expedition of The San Diego section of the Association last summer. Mr. John Stirling Rockefeller, met at the University Club of that city on whose gift of Kent's Island to the College February 9 with Dean Nixon as their guest. had just been announced, was a guest of honor. George H. Stover '03 was elected president of the Association, with M. Law- WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION rence Willson continuing as secretary. A hastily called meeting with President Sills as guest and speaker was held on the PENOBSCOT COUNTY CLUB evening of January 22. The entire (".on The second winter meeting of the ("lull gressional delegation from Maine were was held on Wednesday evening, February among those present.

13, with Professor Herbert R. Brown as a A second meeting is scheduled for the

representative of the College. evening oi April 3, when the Alumni Sec- retary will be in Washington attending the

PHILADELPHIA CLUB annual session <>l the American Alumni

The annual meeting was held on Satur ( )( iiineil.

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WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS Gifts ASSOCIATION. At the Boston alumni meeting on Feb- In spite of a blizzard which prevented the ruary 7 President Sills reported that in the arrival of two 'of three speakers, the Asso- 1 seven months period from July 1, 1934, ciation gathered with President Sills on the through January, 1935, the College had evening of Thursday, January 24. actually received through gifts and payments on bequests the sum of WORCESTER CLUB $1,140,964.97. In round numbers approximately $490,- fifteen of the group were Some members 000 of this came from the residuary of the Layman's League of the Uni- guests account of the Kling Estate; $325,000 from the evening tarian Church of Worcester on the estate of John Hubbard; $165,000 from February Sills ad- of 20, when President the John C. Coombs Estate; $50,000 from dressed the League. Others were able to the Kling Estate for the establishment of the meet him as he spoke at Worcester Acad- Kling Scholarships, and $46,000 from the on the following morning. emy bequest of Evans S. Pillsbury '63. Forty

thousand dollars is from the estate of

On February 25 a "Tolerance Team", Augustus F. Moulton; $20,000 is the gift sponsored by the National Conference of of Mrs. Elizabeth Washburn; and $7,000 is Jews and Christians, was at Bowdoin for through the bequest of Mary W. Gray. informal conferences and for a public meet- During February the College has been ing, which filled Memorial Hall. The trio given a fund of $25,000 by Mrs. Charles H. included Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, Director Payson of Portland for a scholarship fund of the Conference, Rabbi Beryl D. Cohon in memory of her late husband, who re- of Temple Israel, Boston, and Rev. Michael ceived an honorary degree in 191 4. A sum

J. Ahern, S.J., of Weston College. of approximately $18,000 has also been received from the estate of Almira K. Hasty.

President Sills has been notified by

President Roosevelt of his reappointment to The first indoor dual track meet staged the Board of Visitors to the Naval Acad- by Bowdoin with a Maine college was held emy at Annapolis. President Sills served on at Waterville on March 6. Bowdoin de- this Board from 1917 to 1921, acting as its feated the Colby contingent, 82^3 to 43^. president in the latter year. He was again Phil Good equalled the world's record of appointed in 1934. 54-5 inches for the 4 5 -yard high hurdles, President Sills has also received notice of and Capt. Howard Niblock set a new state his appointment as one of the one hundred record of 47 feet 3% inches with the electors of the Hall of Fame of New York 16-pound shot.

University. He is the only representative of the State of Maine in this group. The Bowdoin Glee Club participated in the New England College Glee Club Con- Morgan Dennis, illustrator of dogs, spoke test held in City Hall, Portland, on the eve- on "The Art of Etching" on the evening ning of March 1st, but failed to place of February 26. among the leaders.

The annual Stanley Plummer Prize The Bowdoin swimming team closed its Speaking Contest will take place on the season on March 2 by defeating M.I.T., 52 evening of March 25. to 25, in the Bowdoin pool. [78] .

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1872—Edgar Henry Deering, who for some 1 505. He had studied at Johns Hopkins and at years has been at the Marcotte Home for Aged the University of Michigan, and had instructed People in Lewiston, died there on January 26, his courses in several schools and colleges, re- 1935. A native of Portland, where he was tiring last June after forty years at Ohio State born March 4, 185 1, he taught school for sev- with the honor of Emeritus Professor of Latin. eral years after leaving college. He then en- 1898—Hugh Finlay Graham, retired min- tered the grocery business in Portland, later ister, died in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Feb- operating a farm at Minot, from which town ruary 11, 1935. He had been in poor health he moved to Auburn some forty years ago. for some years. A native of Earltown, Nova 1876—John Gair Libby, who was born in Scotia, where he was born March 26, 1865, Wells, December 7, 1854, died at the home of Mr. Graham came to Bowdoin from Bangor his sister in Westboro, Massachusetts, May 2, Theological School. Following graduation he 1934. Mr. Libby entered the medical course served parishes in Maine, New Hampshire, New at Dartmouth after leaving Bowdoin, but dis- York, Connecticut, and Kansas. continued his studies on account of poor health. 1901—William Alden Johnston, who had He taught at Gould Academy, Bethel, and at for many vears maintained a pharmacy in Rock- other preparatory schools in Maine, and was land, died at his home in that city February 15, for some time employed by the Boston and 1935. Entering business as a salesman after Maine Railroad. He had retired and moved to leaving college, Mr. Johnston turned to the Westboro in 1926. profession of pharmacy in 1907. He was a 1877—George Hersey Marquis, lawyer and prominent citizen of Rockland and was at one circuit judge, died at Watertown, South Dakota, time a member of the School Board. He was « on the 27th of January, 1935. He first prac native of Sebec, where he was born September ticed law in Portland, where he was born Jan- 21, 1879. uary 17, 1850, but after five years moved to 1918—Albert Otis Moulton, who received South Dakota, where he had since made his a certificate of honor from the college for his home. Mr. Marquis practiced law in Clear undergraduate work at Bowdoin prior to war Lake for some years, moving to Watertown in service., died suddenly at Lewiston while in that 1910. He was the author of "Fairview's Mys- city on business. He was born in West Rox- tery", a novel of Dakota life, and served sev- bury, Massachusetts, October 5, 1895. Mr. eral terms as municipal and circuit judge. Moulton entered military service in September, 1880—Edwin Charles Burbank, secretary of 191 7, and served in France and in the Army of the class, died at his home in Maiden, Massachu- Occupation throughout the War, being dis- setts, January 20, 1935. Following graduation charged with the rank of first lieutenant. from Bowdoin he became principal of a high Medical 1886—George Washington Whit- school at Black Waterfall, Wisconsin, and then ney Whiting, for more than forty years a came to Ware, Massachusetts, as principal of the practicing physician, died at his home in West high school. Later Mr. Burbank was desk man Medford, Massachusettts, February 14, 1935. on the old Boston Journal, at the same time After two years at Bowdoin he transferred to studying at the Suffolk Law School, and doing New York University and graduated from the some writing for the Boston Transcript. Forty medical school there. He was a native of Carmel, years ago he moved to Maiden, where he served where he was born May 4, 1864. in several public offices, having at one time been Medical 1897—We have recently learned of police commissioner. He was born in Limerick the death of Samuel Thomas Ferguson on on the 27th of March, 1859. the 24th of April, T933, at Goffstown, N. H.

1888—William Lincoln Black, retired vice He was born March 3, 1869, at Manchester, N. president of the People's Trust Company of H., and had practiced medicine in New Hamp-

Hammonton, N. J., died at his home there Jan- shire since his graduation from the medical nary 7, 1935. A life-long resident of Hammon- school ton, where he was born November 24, i86t, Honorary 1894 -Abram Winegardner Har- public Mr. Black had served in many offices. ris, who received the Sc.D. degree at Bowdoin During to the last sixteen years he had come in 1894, died February 21, 1935, in Philadel- Waldoboro for his summers and was most phia, where he was born November 7, 1858. faithful in attending Bowdoin Commencements. A graduate of Wesleyan in the class of [880 1889—WALLACE STEDMAN El.DEN, professor his Bowdoin contacts came during his presi- of Latin and Greek for many years at Ohio dency of the University of Maine, which posi' lo to State University, died at Columbus, Ohio, on tion he held from 1893 1901. From 1 906 the 13th of January, 1935, after a short illness. 1916 In- served as president of Nort hwestei 11 A native of Watcrvillc, he was horn May 25, I Jniversity. [79] [The B o w d o in Alumnus

News from the Classes

Preamble worth while, and not hastily to be cast into the discard is passing the winter in St. Petersburg. In the strenuous and never-ending game of Rev. A. G. Pettingill, Pastor of Preble trying to keep up with the Bowdoin Alumni, Chapel, Portland was elected Superintendent it is both encouraging and gratifying to know of its Sunday School at the annual meeting that the Department Editor has the sympathy held in January. and support of so many friends and colleagues. 1882 He wishes gratefully to acknowledge letters Prof. W. A. Moody, Secretary: and notes to date from the following alumni Dr. George F. Bates of Yarmouth, Maine, mostly Class Secretaries: Prof. E. H. Hall, '75, recently celebrated his 75th birthday. who reports Lincoln Rogers of Topsham as After graduating from The Long Island Col- Class Secretary; if not frozen to death this win- lege Hospital School in 1885, ne went to Min- ter; Arthur Parker, '76, "Ben" Freeman, '85, neapolis where he practiced for two years, and Harry Andrews, '94, Jack Minot, '96, Jim then removed to Hillsboro, N. D., where he Rhodes, 2d, '97; wish he were twins; Jo. Pier- practiced for many years. While there he was son, 'oo, who reports that he is not It but that elected president of the North Dakota Medical Burton Clough of Portland is It; Lyman Society, a Division Surgeon of the Cousens, '02, Bill MacCormick, '12; now in and was Great Northern R. R. He returned to his old Who's Who as Spike's Brother; Bob Rounds, '18, Norman Haines, '21, Clarence Rouillard, home in Yarmouth in 1905 where he has since practiced. '24, who kindly inclosed his finely edited De- cennial Report; Jim Abrahamson, '26, Brain This summer he will have completed 50 years Truster, Ltd., 'Brec" Micoleau, '29, Phil Chap- as a physician; and in December next his golden extends con- man, '30, Al. Jenkins, '31, "Tingey" Sewall, '32; wedding is due. The Alumnus gratulations, all wishes for the life and last but by no means least a delightful, and good Bates. whimsical letter from Prof. Henry A. Huston, and happiness of Dr. and Mrs. '79; indicating that, in spite of the revolution in 1888 contemporary chemistry, the supply of regener' George Cary and wife of Portland are win- ating, revivifying electrical components of his tering in Mt. Dora, Fla., 912 Tremain Street. cerebral centers are scoring direct hits on the 1889 cosmos in which he has played such a useful W. M. Emery, Secretary: and distinguished role. "Burt" Smith, the able and effective Chief Though most of the young crowd, later than Deputy U. S. Marshal for so many years in '25, are still unmarried it is not too presuming the District of Maine, was chosen again to take to express for them the wish of the Poet, (Leigh over the office temporarily to fill the vacancy Hunt?) for Abou Ben Adem. caused by the death of Kingsbury B. Piper of Bangor. 1862 1890 Rev. Dr. Sylvester Burnham, Bowdoin's old' Prof. W. B. Mitchell, Secretary: est alumnus, observed his 93rd birthday, Feb. C. L. Hutchinson, Esq., is president of the re- 1 st, at his home in Newburyport, Mass. organised Cumberland Club in Portland. Dr. Burnham, who is now blind and con- 1894 fined to his bed, was Professor of Semetic Henry E. Andrews, Secretary: Languages and Old Testament in the Thee Rupert H. Baxter, President of the Bath logical School of Colgate University for 43 years. Trust Co. was made a member of the exec- He retired in 19 18. utive committee of the Trust Companies of 1876 Maine recently organised in Augusta. Mr. Baxter also plans to sail for England on a A. T. Parker, Class Secretary: business trip early this month. Bion Wilson, in a letter of recent date, gives The following letter from F. J. Libby was his residence as 7 Beacon Street, Norwood, published in the New York Times of January Mass., and his business address, Room 251, 100 nth: Devonshire Street, Boston. He is associated with Stanley W. Colburn, '23. Paying for Wars

1881 To the Editor of The T^ew Tor\ Times:

John W. Manson, Esq., Pittsfield, Maine, The national budget is bound to impress the Class Secretary: world as very satisfactory to the jingoes. Sev- Mr. Manson, having attained that maturity of enty-five per cent of the proposed budget, when vision which enables one to look upon life as we leave out the extraordinary and temporary [80] The B o w d o in Alumnu s }

estimates for relief of $4,500,000,000, is to go School for boys, is preparing a history of Wind- to pay for past and future wars, $700,000,000 ham, Me., in connection with the 200th anni' for care of veterans, $875,000,000 for interest versary of the incorporation of that town. Mr. on debt—largely war debt—$636,000,000 for Dole is the author of several historical works the sinking fund and $800,000,000 for pre and text books of English. paredness. The Direct Primary Law passed by the Maine Why are we asked to pinch pennies on the Legislature in 191 1 is up for revision in the State Department, which is our department of present session of that body. State Librarian peace, while we increase the military expendi- Henry E. Dunnack, former vice-president of the tures of the War Department from $270,000,000 Direct Primary League, says that a modified to $315,000,000 and the military expenditure of law, a combination of the Convention system the Navy Department from $343,000,000 to and the present law will probably go. He thinks $447,000,000? This is a total increase for mili- if more attention had been given to correct- tary purposes of $179,000,000, setting what ing abuses in the convention system the direct The New York Times calls a "new peace-time primary law would have been unnecessary. 1,1 record of nearly $80,000,000 for national de- 1898 fense. Clarence W. Proctor, Secretary: Frederick J. Libby, Ex-Governor Baxter put in a busy Christmas Executive Secretary National Council for the (rather late as news) visiting the Home for Prevention of War. Orphans of Soldiers and Sailors in Bath on the Washington, D. C, Jan. 9, 1935. way to Thomaston where he had dinner with 1896 the inmates of the State Prison by invitation of the warden and men. John Clair Minot, Secretary: Don MacMillan was up and out of the Knox Richard M. Andrews is enjoying his sab' Hospital before many of his friends realised batical year from his high school work in New that he was in it. He spent Christmas at the York City where he has been teaching mathe- home of his nephew and surgeon Dr. Neil A. matics since graduation. Fogg ''13; and now, according to the Roc\land Willatfd S. Bass, Henry W. Owen and Morti- Courier'Gazette, he is trying to figure out mer Warren have sons in the present Freshman whether he will go to Iceland or Honolulu or Class. This brings to 18 the total number of both this coming season. sons of '96 men who have come to Bowdoin, Don has a very readable article in the Feb- with several more on the way. What class has ruary number of the American Mercury, en- done better? titled "Why go Worth". Charles W. Marston has retired from the staff of the Stuyvesant High School, New York, 1899 where he has taught for 30 years, and his per- Roy L. Marston, Secretary: Dr. Fred H. manent address is South Londonderry, Vermont, Albee of New York, and Venice, where he bought a farm several years ago. Even Fla., was a recent speaker at a meeting of so, he and Mrs. Marston are passing the winter Orthopedic Surgeons in Tampa, Fla. in Florida. (Another wise man) Ed. Captain Arthur P. Fairfield, U.S.N., has been raised to the rank John Clair Minot was forced by ill health to of Rear Admiral. take a long mid-winter rest from his work as Thatcher Soule, formerly of South Freeport, literary editor of the Boston Herald, his nearest is now living at 310 Concord Avenue, Wash- ington, approach to a vacation since his return to his D. C. desk in 19 19, after a year in France. Press Herald Bureau, Jack was elected honorary president of Delta "Washington, Jan. 6. Kappa Epsilon at the recent national conven- Senator and Mrs. Wallace H. White of tion in Cleveland, Ohio. Maine were hosts tonight at a dinner to mem- 1 bers Harry Oakes sister, Miss Gertrude Oakes, was of the Maine Congressional delegation. Guests one of the victims of the Mohaw\ disaster late were Senator Frederick Hale, Repre- sentative in January. She had been spending the early and Mrs. E. C. Moran, Representative and Mrs. winter with her brother Harry and family at Simon M. Hamlin and Representa- Palm Beach. tive and Mrs. Ralph O. Brewster. Mrs. Mort Warren was in the Maine General Hos- White is dean of the Maine Congres- sional pital in January as a patient; an unusual role women, since Senator Hale, senior member of the delegation, for him. Trust he is all right again. Bowdoin, has no official hostess and Senator Portland, the Maine General and his friends White ranks next in length of service. can't spare "Mort". This is the first occasion on which the Maine delegation has gotten together since the 1897 beginning of the present Congressional season. James E. Rhodes, 2d, Secretary: With the exception of Senator Hale, who is Frederick Howard Dole, head of the depart- a Harvard man, the occasion might have regis- ment of English at the Roxbury Memorial High tered as a Bowdoin Dinner. [81] [The B o w d o in Alu mn u

1900 trustees of the Northfield schools after a spc Burton M. Clough, Secretary: cial meeting in New York, on Monday. This At a meeting of the New England Demo' is the post left vacant by the tragic death of cratic bloc, all members agreed to leave the Elliott Speer on September 14 and which Mr. way clear for 'appointment of Representative Porter has virtually been filling since then as Hamlin of Maine to the committee on agri- head of a temporary administrative committee. culture, with no other New England Democrat Before his acceptance was announced Mr. asking for a place on that committee. Porter received many messages from friends of At the 47th annual meeting of the Rockland the school urging him to assume the post, and (Maine) Loan & Building Association, Fred the school personnel expressed the same feeling of directors Knight was elected to the board in resolutions adopted by the faculty and stu- in place of Dr. Neil Fogg, '13, who resigned. dent council. 1901 Mr. Porter came to Mount Hermon in Sep' Walter L. Sanborn, Secretary: tember to take charge of the Bible department. For President Sills last month completed his an' many years he had headed the national nual circuit of the "Near East" Bowdoin Alum' student work of the Y. M. C. A., but was pre' ni Association meetings. Following these an- vailed upon last spring by Mr. Speer to join nual hectic fiestas the Lenten season should be a the Mount Hermon staff. distinct relief. Mr. Porter was born April 21, 1882, in Old Town, 1902 Me. After graduating at Bowdoin college he went to Trinity college, Oxford, as of Lyman A. Cousens, Secretary: one the first group of Rhodes scholars from the A portrait, by Edwin Megargee, of Harvey D. United States. There spent three years and Gibson, Master of the Foxhounds of the Mead' he received both his bachelor's and master's ow Brook Hunt Club was recently presented to dc grees. Mr. Porter worked his way through him by his fellow directors and friends in the Bowdoin to his final year Manufacturers Trust Co. Mr. Gibson was a and previous taking there spent a year as principal of the high school member of the American delegation at the Ber' at Mattawamkeag, lin parley on short'term credits. Me. Since leaving Oxford in 1907 Mr. Porter's 1903 work and life has been in the educational field. Clement F, Robinson, Secretary: This period has given much stress to "volunta' Harold W. Files now with the International rism" in education and, into that new trend Correspondence Schools of Scranton., Pa., sends he helped to bring about the rejuvenated stu- us his address as Y.M.C.A., Waterville, Maine. dent Christian movement. A total of 9 1/2 million feet of saw logs will be During sabbatical leave he has in recent cut by Blaine S. Viles of Augusta in six proj' years studied at Union Theological seminary ects during the Winter and of this total 2,000/ 1 and Teachers college, Columbia university, and 000 each will be cut at West Carry Pond at at the summer school of Harvard university. Mayfield and in that vicinity, a million and a Mr. Porter has always been interested in ath' half each at Spencer and Moxie, and a half letics. He was on the faculty tennis team at a million at Stony Brook. In addition Mr. Viles Mount Hermon last fall, winning all of his will cut 5000 cords of pulpwood at Highland matches. Both at Bowdoin and at Oxford he for the Great Northern Paper Company and played football and received varsity letters in 12,000 cords on Dead River waters for Holl' track as well. While playing on the Bowdoin ingsworth 6-? Whitney. The Viles operation football team in 1903 he scored against Har' alone will give employment to 500 men and vard by the longest run for a touchdown which will necessitate 12 camps. 1904 has ever been made on Soldier's Field. Daniel I. Gould of Bangor has been elected 1907 clerk of the Penobscot County Fish and Game Felix A. Burton, Secretary: Association. Ensign Otis recently nresented his resigna' 1906 tion as treasurer of Knox Academy of Arts and Robert I. Woodruff, Secretary: Sciences, and at a meeting of the Council held In a recent book issued by the Textile Foun- at the home of Miss Ada Burpee, Miss Lenore dation, Inc., on the "Production and Distribw Benner was elected as his successor. The Coun' tion of Sil\ Rayon Broad Goods" the summary cil passed a resolution assuring Mr. Otis of "our and forecast is by Dr. Melvin T. Copeland of deep gratitude and appreciation for the many the Harvard Business School. years of faithful and helpful service that he has Special to The Hartford Times. given so generously."

East Northfield, Mass., Jan. 17. Asa O. Pike, not sure if it is father or son, David R. Porter announced last night his ac is boosting the winter sports game in Fryeburg. ceptance of the headmastership of Mount Her' A special snow train was scheduled from Port' mon school which was offered him by the land on Sundays. [82] The B o w d o in Alumnus'}

1909 The sponsors of the movement declared that Ernest H. Pottle, Secretary: this response indicated a general discontent Representative Ralph O. Brewster opposed with the administration of Mayor Edward J. the gag rule and objected to giving the Presi- Kelly. They cited that twenty-seven cities, in- dent such a huge sum without check, but said cluding New York and Cincinnati, have elected "The measure in its final form (The Relief fusion officials and asserted that the fusion Bill) seems to present the sole issue of relief or chances in Chicago are bright. 1 no relief. On that issue my mind is clear.' Rev. Charles A. Hatch is now living in Os- During the past year Harold H. Burton, Esq., sipee, New Hampshire. of Cleveland, has been serving on the Gov 1914 ernor's Commission on County Government of Alfred E. Gray, Secretary: Milton Academy, the State of Ohio; and has recently been elected Milton, Mass. to the County Charter Commission of Cuyahoga President and Mrs. Lee of Bennington Col- County. This Commission is now drafting a lege, Vt., are on a semester leave of absence County Charter which will include the greater and expect to visit Germany and Russia before Cleveland area, and is to be submitted to a returning. Prof. C. H. Gray, formerly of our vote next November. English Department, is acting President in his Dr. Merlon A. Webber who has been prac- absence. ticing in Pittsfield, Maine, for several years has Vernon W. Marr, Esq., of Boston and recently moved to Wilton, Maine. Scituate was unanimously elected chairman of 1910 the Republican State Committee, January 17. E. Curtis Mathews, Jr., Portsmouth, N. H., In accepting the chairmanship he promised

Secretary : to help construct "a new liberal Republican 11 l Frank C. Evans is head of the Service De- party. His statement follows: 'I pledge my partment in the Du Pont Company, Wilming' best efforts to make the people of Massachusetts ton, Delaware. proud to be members of the Republican party. Lewis L. Mikels, formerly of Hong Kong, A new structure is being built on sound foun- China, is now living at the Auto Club Hotel, dations, a party to which Independents and Figueroa Avenue, Los Angeles, Cal. He is still dumbfounded Democrats are welcome, a new in the China export trade. liberal Republican party assuring the people a 1 ' 1911 better deal. Ernest G. Fifield, Esq., Secretary: 1915 Franz; U. Burkett of Portland has the unique The parole system has been so persistently as- distinction of being in the State Senate with his sailed of late by those who, either by ignorance father Fred E. Burkett of has just Union who or intention, set themselves against every meas- been elected senator from Knox having served ure of prison reform or humane treatment of two terms in lower the house. prisoners that further competent testimony to 1912 its worth is valuable. Speaking recently on prob- William A. MacCormick, Secretary: Y. M. C. lems of crime prevention and control, Austin H. A., Huntington Avenue, Boston, Mass. MacCormick, New York Commissioner of Cor- Joseph H. Newell is now living at 526 Scran- rection, condemned the "slow, cumbersome and ton Avenue, Lake Bluff, Illinois. He is with disorderly administration of criminal justice, " but the Conn. General Life Insurance Co., North defended the parole system. The system, he said, LaSalle Street, Chicago. had its weaknesses, but the amount of crime committed by paroled prisoners was grossly 1913 exaggerated, and the device was so sound that Dr. Neil A. Fogg of the Knox Hospital, "we should stop criticizing it in principle and Rockland, who has done so much for Bowdoin never stop trying to improve it in practice." and humanity by keeping such men as Overseer Spike recently got a call down from the Ed. Goding, '91, "Don" MacMillan, '98, and Mayor for unguarded comments on the Haupt- we know not how many other sons of the Col- man case. lege on this side of the Great Divide, has been reelected senior representative in the State Leg- 1916 islature from his home city. Ora L. Evans, Secretary: Special to the J^ew Tor\ Times. George E. Beal received an A.M. from Bates CHICAGO, Feb. 15—Professor Paul H. in 1934- Douglas of the University of Chicago today be- David F. Kclley has recently been appointed came assured of a place on the city ballot as Postmaster in Gardiner, Maim-. fusion candidate for Mayor. The Fusion movement announced that 1,500 1917 workers have turned in more than 40,000 nomi- Prof. Noel C. Little, Secretary: nating petition signatures in seven days. Francis W. Jacob of the University of Chi [83] [The B o w d o in Alumnu s cago has recently published several articles in 1921 legal magazines. Norman W. Haines, Secretary: 68 Devon' Congressman Moran was appointed a mem' shire Street, Boston. ber of House Appropriations Committee. In Albion W. Benton and wife of Biddeford the last Congress he was a member of the Ac have a two year old daughter Mary Elizabeth, counts Committee. not previously reported in these columns. "Ducky" (A.B.) Holmes dropped into the The Litigation Board named by the Maine Secretary's office Feb. 7th reporting excesses Trust Companies elected Sherman Shumway of of snow and low temperature in Brunswick and the Merrill Trust Co., of Bangor, President. R. vicinity. His time is fully occupied with a H. Baxter, '94, of Bath and Leonard Timber- general insurance business and the training of lake, '09, of Portland are on the executive com' the Brunswick Company of the National Guard. mittee. "Gus^ Howard announces the birth of a A bill providing for the convention system daughter Jean Adele, Sept. 19, 1934. He is of nominating candidates for State and county living at 3906 Gage Avenue, Bell, California. offices, with the right of defeated candidates to Curtis S. Laughlin announces the opening appeal in a popular primary election was in' of a new printing establishment, specializing troduced in the House by Representative Don' in advertising and distinctive designs in all aid W. Philbrick of Cape Elizabeth. The bill sorts of commercial work, at Exchange would repeal all existing laws inconsistent with 45 Street, Portland. its provisions. 1 "' "Jack St. Clair is District Traffic Supt. of

1918 the Telephone Co. in Elizabeth, N. J.

- "1 Roland H. Peacock, Esq., was married on "Larry Willson of the firm of Walker & September 29, 1934 to Elizabeth Engle Chap' Redman, New York City, has recently returned man of Medford, Massachusetts, in which city from a business trip to South America. the couple are now living. 1922 Robert C. Rounds, Esq., who has his law of' fice at 60 State Street, Boston, is engaged in Carroll S. Towle, Secretary; U. of N. H., the Boston Emergency Relief Campaign as a Durham, N. H. committeeman. Warren E. Barker, District Manager of the Timothy R. Stearns has entered the employ N. E. Telephone Co. at Portland has recently of Financial Records, Inc., of Boston. been transferred to that position at Boston. Leslie W. Clark of Ogunquit, Maine, was 1919 married on Dec. 29th to Miss Jeannette Cal' Donald S. Higgins, Secretary: 17 Royal iendo of Mexico, Me. They will make their Road, Bangor, Maine. home in Ogunquit where Mr. Clark is manag' Roy A. Foulke, manager of the Analytical ing two hotels. Report Department of Dun & Bradstreet, N. Y., Frank O. Stack is teaching Spanish at the has an article in the February number of "Ban\' Westbrook Junior College in addition to his ing" on "Commercial Paper in the Banking teaching at the Deering High School. System." The special committee from the Alumni Coun' Fred P. Hall, Jr., received the degree Ed.M. cil to investigate the athletic situation at Bow- , from Bates College in 1934. doin; Waldo Flinn, 22, Tom White, '03, and Dr. '12, to us Leon Leighton, Jr., President of the Leighton Frank Smith, looks pretty good Heel Co., of Lewiston, has recently moved to from the side lines. Harrisburg, Pa., where he is opening a new 1923 plant. Richard Small, Esq., Secretary, Portland. Frank B. Morrison formerly of Newton High' Lawrence of reports the ar' lands is now connected with the Cabot Allen Sanford Manufacturing Co. in Brunswick. Mr. and Mrs. rival of a second son, Charles Willis, on Jan. 13th. Morrison are living on Elm Street, Topsham. His other son Frank C, is 8 years old. Francis C. Warren writes that he received a Lawrence is President of the Trustees of the degree from Rollins College, Winter Park, Unitarian Church and of the Kiwanis Club. His Fla., in '34; passed the State teachers examina' home is 227 Main street. tion, and is now teaching History, and Civics Wesbrook Pegler, the columnist has a very in the Winter Park High School, besides coach- interesting and illuminating little story in his ing the athletic teams of the senior and junior column in the Chicago Daily T^ews of Jan. 15, high schools. He writes enthusiastically of the of how two reporters are the real authors of the keenness of the southern boys both in studies curb on Munitions Profits; one was Kirby of and athletics. the Wall Street Journal, now with the Liberty [84] The B o w d o in Alumnus]

1 ' League, and the other was our own "Ted and Geological Society at its recent annual meet' Lewis of the United Press. It is a good story. ing in Portland. God bless them both. E. A. Sheridan, after several years on the Now that they are actually on their way Js[ew Yor\ Times, has joined the Securities and home, the College will be keenly interested to Exchange Commission in the Dept. of Public hear the personal experiences of Dr. Earle B. Relations, Washingtoin, D. C. 1 Perkins, Scientist, and "Duke' Dane, '31, driver 1927 of huskies and all round utility man, both mem- 3 Roseland bers of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. What George O. Cutter, Secretary; 171 they may have to say about frozen assets and Avenue, Royal Oak, Mich. Star last summer, climate in the Great White South will be Pegler in the Washington unfortunate politics worth hearing, and will make Maine's feeble in a series of letters on the in well deserved tribute to attempts in the direct production of low teni' Louisiana, pays a editor of the paper in peratures look like a hot spell at Old Orchard; Hodding Carter, Ham- courageous opposition as well as supplying material for unlimited bull mond, for his firm and sessions in the next two years. to the dictatorship of Senator Huey Long. after year's study in Abie'l M. Smith and Miss Natalie Brown of Henri A. Casavant, a 1 France and several years teaching in Ipswich, Mass., were married at the Old South Maine and Virginia is teaching French at the Church in Boston on March 2. Lawrence W. now in of which he is Smith '13 attended his brother as best man. Mr. Cony High School Augusta also and Mrs. Smith will make their home in Mont' an alumnus. is associate professor of Mathc pelier, Vermont. Tom. Downs matics at Sweet Briar College, Virginia. 1924 Albert Ecke, Albert Van De\\er, has been Clarence D. Rouillard, Secretary; 89 South in at least two productions this winter. "Brittle Pleasant Street, Amherst, Mass. 11 Heaven , a history of the life of Emily Dick' Richard H. Lee, Esq., was defeated by a enson, in which he had the leading role with small margin for alderman in Newton, Mass., Miss Dorothy Gish as the leading lady; and "Fly at the last election. On the bright side he opened Away Home", a comedy by Dorothy Bennett his own law office in the Sear Bid., 199 Wash' and Irving White, which opened at the 48th ington Street, Boston, and has a second daugh' Street Theatre January 15th. ter, Elizabeth Kingman, born Nov. 7th, 1934. Mr. and Mrs. Morrell P. Goodwin announce 1925 the arrival of a son, Winthrop Morrell, on the 21st of January. William Gulliver, Esq., Secretary, 1 Federal The engagement is announced of Herbert G. Street, Boston, Mass. Jones of Waban, Mass., to Miss Dorothy R. The engagement of Lawrence B. Leighton to Bossert of Brookline, formerly of Wellesley Miss Mary Trumbell Bennett, of New Haven; Hills. Smith, '34, was recently announced. Mr. Leigh' ton is now teaching at Harvard. 1928 As they would say in Jonesport, it beats thun' Howard F. Ryan, Secretary; 1 Langdon der what can happen to Phillips Lord when he 11 Square, Cambridge, Mass. gets on the high Cs. Nathan I. Greene was chairman of the com' We have several columns of clippings, too mittee of the Portland Men's Singing Club voluminous to incorporate and of too diverse which sponsored the New England Intercol' character to form an opinion; but from reports legiate Glee Club Concert held in City Hall of persons who inspected the Seth Parker before on March 1. she sailed, and knowing from experience what The engagement of Ed. Leadbeater and Miss sort of seas the Pacific can produce on occa' Lucille Johnson of Alexandria, Minnesota, has sions, we should say that he is derned lucky recently been announced. to be turning his wheel over instead of push' Clyde Wakefield is now living in Fernwood ing clouds to the tune of his favorite hymn "The 1 Avenue, Hollywood, California. We do not Sweet Bye and Bye' . We await further particulars. know what he is doing, but there is always a vague aroma of (lie movie industry associated A son was born July 17th last, to Mr. and with that flourishing city. Mrs. Frederick P. Perkins, 29 Lancaster Road, West Hartford, Ct. They also have a daughter 1929 Elizabeth. Brec Micoleau, Secretary; C'O Continental 1926 Corp., 65 Wall Street, New York City. Albert Abrahamson, Secretary; Mass., The Benedick, Mrs. Chester J. Briggs of Ncwtonvillc, • 808 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. announces the engagement of her daughter Benjamin B. Burbank of Brunswick was Elizabeth Balfour Briggs, Smith '36, to John S. elected president of the Maine Mineralogical Balfour of Bedford. [85] s

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Tom Braman is with the Davenport Water A promisory note on the marriage scale has Co., Davenport, Iowa. been struck by Gilbert G. Harmon, now a senior Kenneth Crowther was transferred last June in Boston University Law School, whose engage ment to Dorothy O. Thorndike of has to the New Yprk office of the Springfield Thomaston been announced. Fire Marine Insurance Co. as a special agent. The office has been notified that William T. Alden E. Hull was recently transferred to Moody a civil engineer on government re- the New York office of the Everlastic Inc., for clamation service in Boulder City, Nevada, has whom he is selling. not been getting his college publications, which Mrs. Richard C. Payson, Jr., sailed Mr. and should be addressed c-o U. S. Reclamation January 19th for a Mediter' from New York Bureau, the mere omission of the U. S. caus- cruise. ranean ing the difficulty: Page Post Master General A recent news gem from some Maine paper- Farley. sent to this department. Reggie Robinson, was Herbert L. Prescott the English depart- 1 of is working for his doctorate in "SocioY at who ment of the Bangor High School has been ap- N. Y. U., drove out to Chicago for a rest and pointed a reader in English for College Board change; and while there his Ford roadster was Entrance Examinations, held next June in New stolen outside of a country club, (unidenti' York City. fled). little of regaining such an With hope The engagement of Miss Annah T. Blood of easily transformable article he went back to New Swampscott, Mass., to Harry B. Thayer, Jr., has York by train. later noti- A few weeks he was just been announced. fied by the Chicago police to come back and get his car, which he did, and drove back to 1931 New York. A few weeks later, dates uncer- A. E. Jenkins, Secretary; 51 Ingleside Ave- tain, he needed to put up the top, and a ma' nue, Winthrop, Mass. l chine gun fell out. Haec fabula docet'; watch Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Crowther of these sociology sharks and be careful with whom Wakefield, Mass., have announced the engage- you associate while in Chicago. Here is the basis ment of their daughter, Miss Marion Alberta of a plot for John Cooper, who writes detec- Crowther, to Arthur Lawrence Crimmins of tive stories, or Brenton Roberts who writes Charleston, W. Va., son of Mr. and Mrs. John fiction, which? Crimmins. Miss Crowther graduated from Dr. Herbert H. Smith is now an Opthalmic Simmons College, Boston, in 1931. Mr. Crim- Resident at the New York Opthalmic Hospital. mins is in the auditing department of the Ches- Dr. Waldron L. Morse (M.D. Yale '33) is apeake & Potomac Telephone Company. interne at the Hartford Hospital; Conn., where 1932 he will be until July next. G. T. Sewall, Secretary; E. 79th Street, Carter Lee writes to correct a slight error in 70 New York City. his social status reported in some previous is' The engagement was recently announced of sue. He was married Aug. 31, 1934, to Miss Miss Barbara of Mass., to Rich- Grace L. Brengle of Chillicothe Missouri, in Damon Waban, ard N. Cobb, M.A., Teaching Fellow in Math- Morristown, N. Y. They are now living in ematics at Bowdoin. Quincy, Mass., 35A Revere Road. Carter is on Phil Ahern's address is care of Dr. George the faculty of the Quincy High School. Gallop, Princeton, N. J. 1930 Roland Courier is with Dun 6=? Bradstreet, Henry P. Chapman, Jr., Secretary; 226 New York City. Capisic Street, Portland, Me. James E. Esson is in the Production depart- Flight Lieut. William M. Altenburg, U.S.A., ment of the Quaker Oats Co., Petersborough, was transferred to Langley Field, Virginia, early Ontario, Canada. this year. Freeland Harlow is with the Grace Line Of- John Ames and Miss Barbara Lawson of fice, New York City. He was married last sum- Arlington, Mass., were married on March 13th. mer to Miss Victorine Hall of New York City. The usher group included Dr. Olin S. Pettingill, Gordon Knight is working for the Telephone Jr., Irving D. Humphrey, Jr., and Harold M. Co. in New York City. Ridlon. Following a wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Steve Lavender is with the Liberty Mutual Ames will be at their new home near Two Lights, Life Insurance Co. in New York City. Cape Elizabeth. Morrill Toz,ier is with Doubleday Doran Co , "Gus" Garcelon who graduates from the New York City. Medical School of McGill University in June 1 Wyman Trull recently enjoyed a two weeks has been appointed to take up his duties as vacation on a cruise to Bermuda . interne at the Newton, Mass., Hospital. The fourth in direct descent in the profession "Gus"' 1933 should surely be a good risk for any patient John B. Merrill, Secretary; 54 Albion Street, who may come under his care. Somerville, Mass. [86] The B o w d o in Alumnus}

Jack Clarke is with the Provident Loan As' Medical 1918 Physical sociation, New York City. Dr. Allen G. Ireland, Director of and Health Education, State Board of Educa- Leo C. Christopher is a senior at the Tufts tion, New Jersey, is the author of an interest- Dental School. He is living at 145 Hemenway ing series of syndicated articles entitled "Tour Street, Suite 32, Boston. Child and the School". Louis T. Steele is an advertising Radio Di' Honorary 1920 rector. His address is 230 Clarendon Street, is planning to make his Boston, Mass. Capt. "Bob" Bartlett 25th trip to the Arctic regions this coming sum- 1934 mer. Gordon B. Gillett, Secretary; 17 Aspinwall Honorary 1931 Hall, Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Va. Isaiah Bowman has been made President of Chandler Redman has joined the Soil Johns Hopkins University, and will take over Service of the Department of the In' Erosion his new duties at the end of this college year. terior, and is stationed in Washington, D. C. Honorary 1933 is the Alden H. Vose, Jr., a broker on New Miss Mary Ellen Chase, Smith 'do, author of Exchange. is living at East York Cotton He 350 ''Mary Peters" is spending her sabbatical year 55th Street, New York City. near Cambridge, England, where she plans to R. Lloyd Hackwell is living in Cincinnati, work on another book. Her article in Scrihners working in the office of the Episcopal Diocese July 1934, "The American Father Attends His of Southern Ohio. Wife's Reunion", is rich.

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Apr. 27—Penn Relays Apr. 19- -Bates at Lewiston (exhibition) May 4—Springfield at Springfield Apr. 24- Colby at Brunswick (exhibition) May 11 —Amherst at Amherst Apr. 27- -Colby at Waterville May 18—Open date May 1- -Amherst at Amherst May 25 —New Englands at Portland May 2- -Wesleyan at Middletown June 1 —I.C.4A. at Cambridge May 3" -Trinity at Hartford

May 4- -Tufts at Medford J- v. May 7- -Maine at Brunswick Apr. 27—Exeter at Exeter May 10- -Maine at Orono TENNIS May J 3" -Colby at Waterville

Apr. 30—Williams at Williamstown May 15- -Bates at Brunswick. May 1 — Tufts at Medford May 18 Maine at Brunswick May 2 Wesleyan at Middletown — May 21 -Colby at Brunswick May 3 —Trinity at Hartford May 28- -Bates at Lewiston May 4—Amherst at Amherst May 30 -Bates at Brunswick May 8—Colby at Brunswick

May 1 3 Bates at Lewiston — J. v. May 18 Maine at Brunswick Apr. 26 -Fryeburg at Brunswick May 20— State Tournament at Lewiston Brunswick May 3 Hebron at

J. v. May 8 BridgtOll at Brunswick

May 11 Exeter at Exeter May [6 Hebron at Hebron

^~ May 1 Hebron at Brunswick May ^4 Fryeburg at Fryeburg

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Volume IX JUNE 1935 Number 4 The Bowdoin Group within the 1934 Group totaled 19 WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL-CAMP Summer Session of Wassookeag School Lloyd Harvey Hatch, Director Lake Wassookeag, Dexter, Me. STAFF OF 16 COLLEGE AND SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR 40 OLDER BOYS

PROGRAM ARRANGED FOR THE INDIVIDUAL: i. Preparation for Entrance Exam- inations. 2. Introduction to Courses of Freshman Year in College. 3. Junior College Transition

Study on one, two, and three Season Schedules. 4. Informal Outdoor Program—Tennis Matches, Water Regattas, Golf Matches, Baseball, Basketball, Aquaplaning, Sailing, Riding.

ON THE 1934 WASSOOKEAG STAFF FROM BOWDOIN: 1. Lloyd H. Hatch, B.S., '21,

Director; 2. Professor Edward S. Hammond, Ph.D.; 3. Charles E. Berry, A.M., '26; 4. Robert D.

Hanscom, Ed.M., '23 (Sabbatical Leave); 5. Norman S. Waldron, A.B., '30; 6. Edward G. '26 Buxton, A.B., '28; 7. Cyril H. Simmons, A.B., (Sabbatical Leave) ; 8. George W. Freiday, Jr.,

A.B., '30; 9. Walter O. Gordon, M.A., '28.

SCHOLASTIC RECORD: Final candidates in the 1933-34 student group at the school and the final candidates of the 1934 summer term at the School-Camp attained a perfect college entrance record—21 graduates entered Amherst, Bowdoin, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Dickinson, Hamilton, Harvard, Maine, Michigan, Trinity, Wesleyan, Williams, and Yale.

Sports Contribute Appreciably Toward Wassookeag's Scholastic "Results" WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL

Mr. Hatch, Director of Wassookeag School-Camp, is the founder and Headmaster of Wassoo- keag School, a Tutorial Junior College for Boys. Wassookeag School offers a Bowdoin

Preparatory program for a student group of 20 boys whose study is directed by 6 full-time teachers (4 are Bowdoin graduates and 3 formerly of the Bowdoin faculty). THE BOWDOIN ALUMNUS Member of the American Alumni Council Published by Bowdoin Publishing Company, Brunswick, Maine, four times during the College year Subscription price, $1.50 a year. Single copies, 40 cents. With Bowdoin Orient, $3.50 a year Entered as second-class matter, Nov. 21st, 1927, at the Postoffice at Brunswick, Maine, under the

Act of March 3, 1879.

Philip S. Wilder '23, Editor

Stanley P. Chase '05, Book Editor Charles S. F. Lincoln '91, Class Notes Editor John P. Chapman ''36, Undergraduate Editor Elizabeth F. Riley, Editorial Associate Owen H. Melaugh ''36, Business Manager ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD Alfred E. Burton '78 Thomas L. Marble '98 Arthur C. Bartlett '22 Henry A. Huston '79 Kenneth A. Robinson '14 Henry S. Dowst '29 Charles S. F. Lincoln '91 George E. Minot '19 Harrison M. Davis, Jr., '30

Vol. IX JUNE, 1935 No. 4

The Last Thursday Commencement?

There would seem to be every indication Dean Wilmot B. Mitchell, and the forty- that the traditional Commencement exer- year reunion group will also have rooms in cises at Bowdoin will, beginning in 1936, this end, Dr. Alfred Mitchell of Portland conclude on Saturday instead of on Thurs- being in charge of their program. day, all features of the program being John R. Bass of Wilton has arranged for moved forward two days, except the Bacca- the class of 1900 to maintain a room in laureate service. The fact that next year is North Hyde, while 1905 will have its quar-

leap year will mean that, if this plan is ters in South Appleton. Their reunion adopted, the actual date of Commencement dinner, according to Secretary Stanley P. will be the same as in 1935. Chase, will be at the Gurnet House on

If there is any one point to be stressed in Wednesday noon. anticipation of the 1935 Commencement it The twenty-five year class, led by E. Cur- is an evidence of unusual interest on the tis Matthews of Portsmouth and James F. part of the reunion classes. For the first Hamburger of Boston, will have a room in time in many years the sixty-year class is North Hyde, where they and their families making definite arrangements for a get- will also find sleeping accommodations. 1915 together and will be quartered in the Moul- will report to South Appleton and will have ton Union. Lincoln A. Rogers of Topsham its dinner at the Lookout Point House on is in charge of arrangements and expects Wednesday evening, according to Secretary that several members of the class will be on Clifford T. Perkins. 1920 will gather in hand. The fifty-year class, of which Eben North Appleton, and arrangements have

W. Freeman of Portland is secretary, will been made by Robert E. Cleaves, Jr., and also have headquarters in the Moulton Emerson W. Zeitler for a Wednesday eve- Union, and the three members of the Medi- ning dinner at the Lookout Point House. cal class of T885, led by Dr. J. Frederick The ten-year class, according to Secretary Hill of Waterville, arc expected to be on William H. Gulliver, will report to North the Campus. Maine, and (heir dinner will also be at the 1890 will be quartered in South Hyde, Lookout Point House on Wednesday eve- arrangements having been made by Acting ning. Philip Chapman plans (or a reunion

[89] [The B o w d o in Alumnus of 1930 with South Winthrop as its focal George H. Quinby '23 will present ""The

1 point, and for a banquet at the Lookout Merchant of Venice '' on Wednesday eve-

Point House. » ning, and has issued special invitations to The general Commencement program will the alumni who took part in the perform- vary in no particular from those of recent ance of this same play at the 1920 Com- years except in its personnel and in the mencement, when he himself, a freshman at choice of a Shakespearean play. Director the time, played the part of Antonio.

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Alfred Edgar Burton, Sc.D.

Alfred Edgar Burton, of the class of member of the American Society of Civil 1878, first Dean of the Massachusetts Insti- Engineers and the Astronomical and Astro- tute of Technology and for thirty years an physical Society of America. Overseer of Bowdoin, died at the home of Deeply devoted to Bowdoin, where he his daughter in Gloucester, Massachusetts, was followed by two sons, Felix A. Burton

1 May 11, 1935. A native of Portland, o7, and Harold H. Burton '09, and by a where he was born March 24, 1857, he was grandson, William S. Burton ''37, he ac- one of the little group of Bowdoin men who cepted membership in the Board of Over- studied engineering under Professor George seers as a real duty and served as an active Leonard Vose and who left the College to member of several of the more important take distinguished places in that field of committees of the Boards. As Class Agent activity. A roommate, fraternity brother, for the Alumni Fund he assumed responsi- and close associate of Admiral Peary, he bility for that group of older graduates 11

was active in the work of Peary's expedi- known as the "Old Guard , and his annual tions, and was a member of the group who letters to these men will be missed in years made the trip to Greenland to bring back to come. He had been given the degree of

the Cape York meteorite. In his own right Doctor of Science in 191 3. he led expeditions to Washington, Georgia An able administrator and engineer, he in 1900, and to the interior of Sumatra in will be even more remembered for the wise

1 90 1 for the observation of eclipses of the and kindly counsel which he gave to genera- sun. tions of young men who came to know him Dean Burton, with Admiral Peary, served as a friend. with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for a few years after graduation, Philip G. Good '36, internationally known both of them returning to receive the degree hurdler, who accompanied Coach Jack

of C.E. in 1 88 1. In 1882 he accepted ap- Magee on his Japanese expedition of last pointment as instructor in topographical en- summer, will head the Student Council for

gineering at the Massachusetts Institute of x 935'36- Albert P. Putnam '36, of Houl-

Technology, rising through the faculty ton, is vice-president. ranks to his retirement in 1922 as Professor Emeritus. He had been appointed Dean of As already chronicled in the report of the Institute on his return from the Sumatra Acting Dean Mitchell, the activities of Expedition in 1901, and in his twenty years Rising Week, observed Tate in April, of service built from the ground the system reached such an excess that the faculty has of undergraduate administration and of seen fit to abolish the sophomore society. controlled force at student activities now in Phi Chi, and to place other limitations on the Institute. future contests between the freshman and During the World War Dean Burton sophomore classes. was in charge of the Schools of Navigation maintained by the United States Shipping Photographs have been taken lor use in .1 Board. He was a fellow of the American new pictorical booklet of Bowdoin, which Academy of Arts and Sciences and the will he available lor prospective students

American Geographical Society, and was a and others some time in tin - hill.

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Bowdoin and Liberalism BY THE UNDERGRADUATE EDITOR

Four times a year the alumni secretary sordid clouds of materialism — the heritage reminds the undergraduate editor of the of a disillusioned war generation — and Alumnus that an editorial is expected may thank us for stimulating the world from him within a few days. As nothing with the healthy ideals which rejuvenate. more is said he proceeds on his way either And yet we may be dismissed with a scho- reviewing the current athletic situation or lastic sneer for succumbing to impossible depicting the spirit of youth with all its im- and ephemeral panaceas — for contributing possible ramifications — impossible, that is, another chapter to the decline of the West. they in print. when appear AIL this the historian of tomorrow may indiscreet individuals will Some always well accomplish, but for a contemporary to argue that the average of alumnus an Amer- catalogue the reasons why he, as a represen' ican college would lose touch with his alma tative of an age, thinks and acts in a partis if it athletic mater were not for the bond of ular manner, or why he classes himself as a interest which is supposed to exist in com- "disciple of Marx" or a "spiritual ancestor mon between the graduate and the under- of Christ" or a "child of the emotional re- graduate. present writer, however, The vival" is not only impossible but ludicrous. will refrain from discussing the athletic sit- This does not necessarily mean that there uation chiefly from lack of authoritative are no reasons, for, whether one likes it or if knowledge and partly because he doubts not, he is definitely and essentially the prod- the alumni body as a whole is terribly in- uct of his heritage and his own experience. terested. But when one individual brutally assumes What then of the "spirit of youth"? the task of dissecting the "spirit" of his age, the triteness Aside from always annoying egotism runs rampant, and the world is of the subject, it is rather a difficult thing cluttered with another half-baked theory. ex- to analyze. The historian can calmly Whatever, therefore, is reported in this plain movements of the past with the cool brief essay will not attempt to build up a and calculating ease of a scientist who system of thought or to explain what may works with microscope and test tubes. His- be expected of the younger generation. It torically, the literature, art and philosophy will merely note obvious indications and of an age are both expressions and explana- make feeble attempts to reconcile them with tions of the peculiar temper of the people the present and the past. of that period. Thus the historian has all Bowdoin, partly due to its wealth of tra- the evidence before him and with little dition and partly to its geographical isola- trouble may become pedantical over the tion, is as conservative a college as one could cause, effect and particular genius of an find anywhere. Every once in a while a age. A half century from now we un- group of individuals are inspired with the doubtedly will read an analysis of the ideal of lifting Bowdoin from its customary decade of 'thirties as it is explained by its lethargy and stimulating it with a few manifestations m art, literature, music and so, following politics. We, of the present college genera- liberal beliefs. For a week or tion, will be blamed or praised for the this effort, the College exhibits a few radical "existing world crisis". Our "biographers" tendencies, but soon lapses back into a state may emulate us for emerging from the of comfortable indifference — the former

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liberalism vanishing in a thin cloud of liberals, in general the College seems incur- ineffectual smoke. ably conservative — disgustingly so at times.

Such proved to be the case this year. One Obviously the spirit of liberalism is more week during the snowy season Bowdoin's successfully nourished in an institution sit- routine was suddenly interrupted by a uated in a metropolis. Bowdoin's strength

young Wellesley graduate, a delegate of the in a large measure is dependent upon its World Peace Foundation, whose persuasive continuity—dependent upon that well-worn personality and disarming sincerity inspired phrase, "we'll send our sons to Bowdoin in 11 the fall. A college with such a heritage is more inclined to advance slowly and cautiously, jealously clinging to the past. The spirit of liberalism and the sermon of the "whispering pines" are hardly com- patible bed-fellows, and while Bowdoin, as a collegiate body, may possess a few liberal ideals, they should not be expected to dis- play themselves in any overt fashion. The reception given the Institute of

Political Science this spring is one indication

that Bowdoin is turning out something more than a forest of conservative dead-wood. The majority of the student body received more inspiration from the lectures and conferences of Maurice Hindus and Harold John P. Chapman '36 J. Laski than it did from the platitudinous Undergraduate Editor political harangue of Ogden L. Mills. An- the College along liberal paths. Committees other healthy sign was the feeling of resent- were organised and ambitious students ment generally expressed by the student mapped even more ambitious plans to not body at the unfair treatment which Secre- only transform Bowdoin in a camp of politi- tary Wallace, following his lecture here, cal liberalism, but to organise the State of received from the more reactionary of the Maine for political action, with the aim of New England papers. influencing legislation in Washington. Bow- Ministers and educators trouble them- doin had joined the ranks of other colleges selves a good deal today about youth's atti- with the noble intention of defeating the tude towards religion. There seem to be forces of Long, Coughlin, and Hearst at two prominent points of view : the first cries their own game. Yet apparently the three out against irreligious, immoral youth while messiahs are still marching triumphantly the other thinks it has discovered signs of along their jingoistic path — "saving Amer- a religious revival. Although it is a diffi- ica for the Americans" — little disturbed by cult question to answer dogmatically, it voices from the North. Needless to say the would seem that both contain an clement of spark of liberalism could not be fanned into truth. The present college generation quite a respectable flame by a handful of indi- definitely attaches little significance to theol- viduals. Regrettably enough, Bowdoin had ogy and differences of church dogma. It, withdrawn again into her conservative shell. nevertheless, is interested in religion, con- Although Bowdoin may house a few sidered \w its broadest and most spiritual [93} [The Bo w doin Alumnus interpretation. At the recent Forum of Ten Days of Politics Modern Religious Thought interest was Inasmuch as the annual report conspicuously manifested by large attend' of Presi' dent Sills has recently been mailed to all ances and long discussions at the fraternity alumni, carrying, as one of its major fea- sessions held each evening for three days, tures, a summary of the Institute of Politics, and conducted by a visiting clergyman. But there would seem to be little need for a this does not necessarily indicate a religious detailed chronicle of this event in the col- revival, though it may quite conceivably umns of the Alumnus. It may be of in- point to an emotional revival, a revival terest, however, to note that attendance on which, to the amateur philosopher, is the part of students and the general fundamentally necessary before the world public reached a new high level and that the First is cured of its many ills. Parish Church, where all of the lectures Thus youth rolls merrily on through the were held, was crowded on several occa' mill of learning; grasping here and there a sions, and well filled for all of the sessions. message from the past; constantly veering from the temptations of transitory illusions, offered by "would'he" infallible panaceas — Bowdoin's tennis team won the State yet seeking always for some sign, some championship in both doubles and singles this spring, also symbol of life which makes it all worth furnishing the runners'up while. in both contests, while the golf team was also winner within the State.

Bowdoin's track team opened its season At a swimming carnival held on April on May 4 with a triangular meet at Bruns' 19 in the Bowdoin Pool, Miss Alice Bridges wick, defeating Colby and Springfield with of Whitinsville, Massachusetts, set a new a score of ten points in excess of those world record in the 150'yard backstroke, gathered in by both the visitors. Four days and an American record in the 100 'meter later the team journeyed to Amherst, where backstroke. Similar records for the 500' a close contest was lost by a four -point meter and 5 00 'yard breaststroke events were margin. The State Meet, held at Lewiston set by John Higgins of Providence. on May 11, was won by Maine with 52 points, Bowdoin placing second with 38^3 It was announced early in May that points, with Bates four points behind. At Football Coach Adam Walsh will assist the New England Meet, held at the Port' Track Coach John J. Magee during the land Stadium on May 25, a large crowd saw winter months, that Don Lancaster will Northeastern, Maine, Bates, Holy Cross, serve as Assistant Football Coach, and that and Bowdoin grouped in that order within Linn Wells will assume charge of the fresh' a range of less than four points, the final man football squad during the coming year. decision coming in the pole vault, which was contested by representatives of the four Hon. James W. Wadsworth, member of leaders. Phil Good of Bowdoin, winning Congress and former Senator from New both hurdle events, was voted the outstand- York, delivered a Memorial Day address at ing athlete. Bowdoiin.

A concert of chamber music was enjoyed Ivy Exercises, held on May 24, were very at the College on Saturday, June 1. well attended. [94] The B o w d oin Alumnus']

Bowdoin in the U. S. Congress EDWARD W. LEWIS '23

Editor's Note:—Mr. Lewis represents tions, and an influential member of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, the the United Press in the gallery of the House Senate listens intently to his discussions of of Representatives. commercial issues. He is a quiet, unassum- Maine is represented in the United States ing type, a rabid Republican, but with the Congress during these "New Deal" times ability to provoke inter-party discussion by five Bowdoin men. No other state has when he speaks. His name may not appear such a record of congressional collegiate often in the papers, but he votes "reg- 11 affiliation. ularly, and influences many committee In the Senate there is Frederick Hale, decisions. 11 Honorary 193 1, and Wallace Humphrey They call the House the "monkey House.

White, 1899. Both are Republicans. In That is because there are so many different the is A.B. House Simon Moulton Hamlin, types of humans in it. Maine is an example. in back 1900, Edward Carleton Moran, For instance Hamlin is somewhat the Nean- 1 91 7, and Ralph O. Brewster, 1909. With derthal type, a large boned man, with a the exceptions of Hamlin and Moran, the walrus mustache, and a protruding jaw. He entire Maine congressional delegation is has often in House speeches referred to the

conservative Republican. The two named fact that he is a college graduate, and go along with the administration, as taught school. He has a special antipathy

Democrats. to uncontrolled foreign immigration. He is Just off the record — and we all would chairman of the House Memorials Com- like to write that way down here — there mittee, an insignificant group which comes is little to say about any of the Maine con' into its own on special occasions such as the gressional delegation. This is a congress annual House services for congressional which rubber stamps, although for the sake dead. of appearances it may slightly change now Moran and Brewster are two of the and then the type on the stamp. hardest working congressmen. They may Hale might qualify as one of the best not get in the papers, but they are always

dressed men of the Senate He is a big navy working for their constituents. Moran is expert, ranking Republican member of the on the House Appropriations Committee.

Senate Naval Affairs Committee. As a The committee right now is probably the Republican — and there are of course few only congressional committee which actually in the Senate — he cannot be said to play does some legislating. The others, ulti- a vital part in New Deal actions. One of mately, do what the administration wants. the jibes about him which runs around the The appropriations committee, however,

press galleries concerns the President. Mr. writes its own bills — calling for funds to Roosevelt at one time recently suggested run government departments — and really

that he knew more about Maine than Hale. writes them. That is Moran's big job and

He probably did. He suggested that he was he is astute at it. in Maine more often than the Senator, who Brewster's pet hobby is the potato situa- likes to travel Alaska way during Congres- tion, with the tariff involved. He has made sional off seasons. several timely speeches on the floor about

As for White, an expert on radio ques- the subject and all have been effective —

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that is, as effective as a Republican speech of Congress. Most of their real work is may be with only 112 Republicans in the probably in committees. It may not reach chamber. the front page but the things they do, the Politics is a funny game. But Maine's arguments they make, probably have more representatives in Congress are perhaps a effect on the ultimate legislation which the little more astute than the usual run. They President signs than you or I may dream of. certainly, however, are not the type to force They serve possibly without national honor. front page stories when they speak. They But they are honored in that the work they talk sense. And when one talks sense, few do is valuable. We of Bowdoin should be headlines are made. proud to have them known as Bowdoin Tve seen them all — Huey Long — Joe men. I am. And I have seen a lot of jack- Robinson — Joe Byrns — Percy Gassaway asses down here — and the jackasses finally —Jack Garner—Nick Longworth—all in' become known. And these men from Bow- teresting and actually attractive people. But doin are statesmen. As for you who knew they don't do the legislating, although they them back "when" they are still the "boys 11 may make the headlines. It is such men as of yesteryear. None of us change much, the five from Maine who do the actual work do we?

Alumni in Political Life ROBERT G. ROUNDS '18

Bowdoin College has for an athletic totem men. Of them, eighteen became lawyers, the polar bear, in honor to her sons who scattered from Maine to Mississippi. The have braved the chilly winds of the Far class included in its membership a United North. Peary and McMillan have given States Senator, three members of the Na- their Alma Mater quite a reputation along tional House of Representatives, four State the lines of exploration. This jingle calls to Senators, seven members of lower houses of mind another name known as associated State legislature (including two Speakers of with Bowdoin, that of Longfellow. In the House), a Circuit Court judge, a State realms far removed from New England, Secretary, a United States Collector of Cus- the college is indeed probably best known toms, a mayor of a capital city, a Commo- for having produced the poet who composed dore in the United States Navy, a United 11 "The Psalm of Life. Certain others may States Collector of Customs, a United States recall that Bowdoin's record in the War Marshal and a United States Consul. The between the States was unsurpassed in the consul was Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfel- North, and that General Howard was in low was also a member of that class. command on the first day at Gettysburg A century ago the Governor of the and later led the Army of the Tennessee, State of Maine was Robert Pinckney Dun- while General Chamberlain, the hero of Lit- lap, of the Class of 181 5. Since that time, tle Round Top, was designated to receive several other sons of Bowdoin have occupied the Confederate surrender at Appomatox. that gubernatorial chair, including William But the Bowdoin contribution to the po- G. Crosby, Joshua L. Chamberlain, Alonso litical life of the nation has not lagged be- Garcelon, Frederick Robie, John Fremont hind the other records. The class graduated Hill, William T. Cobb, Percival P. Baxter in 1825, for instance, contained thirty-nine and Ralph O. Brewster. General Chamber- [96] :

The B o w d o in Alumnus] lain was also President of the College for a The truth of the matter, however, seems dosen years. Governor Hill served for to be that, while Mr. Achorn was thinking some time as Chairman of the Republican of past glory, some present day sons of National Committee. Bowdoin are rather successfully making Other States from time to time called their way in the same general direction here Bowdoin men to serve them. The Civil and now. The three men first elected to the War Governor of Massachusetts was John present National House of Representatives

A. Andrew, Michigan still honors Alpheus were the Maine delegation, Simon Hamlin,

Felch, Governor and United States Senator. Edward C. Moran, Jr., and Ralph O. Brew- Wilmot Brookings acted as Governor o> ster, all graduates of the college at Bruns- the Dakota Territory. Seargent S. Prentiss wick. They joined in Washington United represented Mississippi at Washington. States Senator Wallace H. White, Jr.

This is by no means intended to include Senator White's career is well known. all those who should be mentioned. Let us, Born August 6, 1877 at Lewiston, Maine, however, note that Franklin Pierce of New he was graduated from Bowdoin in 1899. Hampshire was the fourteenth President of His chief interests there were the study of the United States, and that Lincoln had government, singing in the glee club and in his cabinet William Pitt Fessenden of choir and 'Varsity tennis. He was an Alpha Maine and Hugh McCulloch of Illinois. Delta Phi, belonged to the debating society In more recent days, Bowdoin's influence and was popular with his associates. Soon at Washington has not been unnoticed. after graduation he went to Washington From 1896 to 1899, William P. Frye of as Senator Frye's secretary. He was an apt Maine was President pro tempore of the student of law and of politics, and was United States Senate, Thomas B. Reed of elected to the National House of Represen- Maine was Speaker of the National House tatives from the 65 th to and including the of Representatives, and Melville Weston 71st Sessions of Congress. For four years Fuller of Illinois was Chief Justice of the he was Chairman of the House Committee United States Supreme Court. Senator Frye on Merchant Marines and Fisheries. In was in the Senate for thirty years altogeth- 1930 he was elected United States Senator er, and served as its President pro tempore from Maine for the term expiring in 1937. for half that time. Reed was Speaker of the He has served as American delegate to va- House for six of the twenty-two years of rious conferences, including some held at his membership in that body. Fuller's term Mexico City, Paris, Geneva, London and of twentytwo years as Chief Justice began Copenhagen. Being a Republican, his pres- in 1888 and extended well into the present ent activities are of] necessity somewhat century. limited, but he is rated universally as a

Perhaps an excerpt from a little poem sound and constructive statesman whose pe- by Edgar O. Achorn, late Boston lawyer, riod of usefulness is by no means over. entitled "Bowdoin College", will not seem Simon Hamlin, elected to Congress as a amiss Democrat from the First Maine District,

"From thy fair seat in former day is a colorful person. Born at Standish,

The Star of Empire took its way, Maine, August 10, 1866, he did not enter And in the western sky now glows, Bowdoin until he was thirty. He worked Resplendent with the worth of those his way through by teaching school and got Whose mind and heart were taught of his degree in 1900. During his course he 11 thee." took enough time from his teaching to dab'

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ble in track and football. Even then he was sentative from the Third Maine District, interested in politics, and he tells with gusto was born at Dexter, Maine, on Washing- incidents concerning political campaigns ton's Birthday in 1888. A Delta Kappa during his undergraduate years. After grad- Epsilon at Bowdoin, from which he was uation he continued teaching and, after graduated in 1909, his college activities holding pedagogical positions in a number somewhat parallelled those of Mr. Moran. of places, became Superintendent of Schools Debating and public speaking were his spe- at South Portland in 191 3. That same year cialties, though he also was a member of the he became City Clerk. It looked as if that Mandolin Club and managed the 'Varsity would be the extent of his political honors, track team. He went to Harvard Law but twenty years later he ran for Mayor of School, from which he was graduated after South Portland and was elected. His cam- a bri-lliant record, and, four years after his paign for Congress last fall was featured by admission to the bar, he was in the Maine his witty speeches. In addition to his other Legislature. He served in the Army during duties, he had for many years successfully theWar, after which he resumed his legisla- conducted a farm. A slogan that tickled tive career. He was elected to the Senate, the voters was : "I have worked hard all my and in 1925 he became Governor. He served life and I owe no man a dollar." Another in that capacity for four years. Always a was: "I will stay with the forgotten man' stormy petrel in Maine politics, there is for I am one." When the votes were reason to believe that he will be heard from counted, it was found that for the first time in Washington before his term expires. in a generation the Democratic candidate in In New York, a Bowdoin man is Mayor that District had not been forgotten. LaGuardia's Commissioner of Correction.

Edward Carleton Moran, Jr., better Austin H. MacCormick, of the Class of known as "Carl", was born at Rockland, 191 5, is considered a prison expert and it Maine, December 29, 1894. He is the Dem- was only natural that the reform Mayor ocrat who represents the Second Maine Dis- should choose him to purify Welfare Island trict. A member of the Class of 191 7 at and run the many other penal institutions in Bowdoin, and of Kappa Sigma, he was even the big city. MacCormick was a very pop' then famed for his talking ability. He ular man at Bowdoin, which he later served played class baseball and was for one year as Alumni Secretary. He not only made class secretary. He was a star debater and Phi Beta Kappa but quarterbacked the foot- prise speaker, and received his degree cum ball team when he weighed something like laude. Upon graduation, he went into in- i2o pounds. He belongs to Delta Upsilon. surance and soon achieved success. Then he Several Bowdoin men have been promi- hurled himself into the political arena and nent in the Massachusetts Legislature of waged two hard-fought but unsuccessful late. John C. Hull of Leominster was

campaigns for the Maine governorship in Speaker of the House, and J. Walton Tut- 1928 and 1930. He had better luck in tie, Jr., of Framingham, is well known there. 1932, and again last fall, as candidate for Mr. Tuttle was a classmate of Mr. Moran's Congress. A speaker of real ability, he at Bowdoin. attracted much notice by his maiden speech Two other sons of Bowdoin have recent- at Washington and completely misled many ly been advanced in local Republican circles. reporters into acclaiming him "an old hand These are Vernon W. Marr and John Laur- at haranguing juries." He is not a lawyer. ence Hurley, both lawyers practicing in Ralph O. Brewster, Republican, Repre' Boston. [98] 1 1

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Mr. Marr, recently elected Chairman of compiled by Senator White, showing alum- the State Republican Committee, lives in ni thus engaged in Washington. This rec- Scituate and has for many years been con' ords Bowdoin men as being in the State De- nected with the Boston Legal Aid Society, partment, Treasury Department, Navy De- of which he is Assistant General Counsel. partment, Department of the Interior, Labor He was born in 1891 at Farmington, Maine, Department, Shipping Board, Securities and and was graduated from Bowdoin in 1914. Exchange Commission, Bureau of Internal He was a 'Varsity track man in college, Revenue, Library of Congress, Geological played football and belonged to Delta Upsi- Survey, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Ion. He studied law at Harvard and North' Veterans Bureau, Housing Commission, eastern and became a member of the Bar Bureau of the Census, Tariff Com- soon after the World War, in which he mission, Public Health Service, National served as an infantry Captain. He was first Museum, Forest Service and a great num- chosen a member of the State Republican ber of the alphabetical organisations now

Committee in 193 1, and his present posi- prevalent, in addition to Rear-Admiral Ar> tion testifies to the esteem in which he is thur P. Fairchild of the United States Navy held in G. O. P. circles. and ten other Army and Navy officers now John Laurence Hurley, Secretary of the stationed in that city.

Republican Club of Massachusetts, is a na- All of which would seem to suggest that tive of Maiden. He went to Bowdoin from Mr. Achorn's reference to "the western Exeter and was an outstanding leader in sky" may have been unduly conservative, athletics and in the Class of 191 2. For three as would befit so loyal a Bowdoin man. years he was All-Maine end, and in 191 he was captain of the football team. A The Commonweal for June 14 con- member of Zeta Psi, he was not only class tains an article on "Religion at Bawdcm" president but was chosen "popular man" of by Rev. Quitman F. Beckley of Princeton, his class. For five years after graduation, he who was one of the clergymen who took taught at Winthrop High School. Since his part in the Religious Forum in the Spring admisison to the Bar in 191 9 he has held of 1935. many important positions, r'or more than three years he was Special Assistant United The Class of 1935 has chosen Howard its Paul E. Sulli- States Attorney, and he later served as As- Niblock as president and editor sistant Attorney General of Massachusetts van, for the last year undergraduate of the Alumnus, as its secretary. Mr. Hurley is a member of the faculties of the Suffolk Law School and the Bentley FERA payrolls for student employment School. Some years ago he was awarded a at Bowdoin have averaged about one thous- Carnegie Medal for an attempt to rescue a and dollars monthly. man from an electric wire. In addition to his athletic prowess at Bowdoin, Mr. Hur- Alumni Fund receipts, as the Alumnus ley was also prominent literary and dra- in goes to press, are encouragingly in excess matic activities. He is known now as an of those lor the same date in [934. able speaker for the Republican cause in this Commonwealth. The Masque and (iown presented "The

Some further indication oi the interest ( Jirclc", by Somerset Maugham, at Sub' many Bowdoin men are displaying w\ the Freshman Week end, observed on May 3 public service is given by a list recently and 4.

1 99 [The B o w d o in Alumnus Louis Hatch WALTER R. WHITNEY '23

If the spirits of men walk, this June Louis his lapel and his stick whacking against the Hatch will find his way back to Bowdoin trees and posts in a Johnsonian manner, his Campus. Alive, he could be kept away by lifted shoulder, his wavering gait — they all nothing. He once said to me, not long seemed strangely out of place. As he before he died, "I have missed only one strolled from room to room in the Deke Commencement since my own in '95, and house, peering near-sightedly at other then I was very ill. On an old pincushion alumni, croaking his greetings at them, his in his bedroom he had stuck the Commence- presence may have been, if anything a trifle ment badges — a double row of them — irksome, for many felt that they ought to that marked his return to Bowdoin. He felt stop to speak with Louie. I suspect that the sorry about the one that was missing. undergraduates, despite their kindness, There were in the Class of '95, I imagine, found looking after him a bit of a bore men who were more successful than he. Some of us, though, knew the real Louis Certainly there are those of whom Bowdoin Hatch better. The officers of the College spoke more often. And yet I doubt if knew him; a handful of younger Bangor there were one who loved the College more alumni who, in their high school days, had sincerely, or in whom undergraduate affec- worked for him knew him. Many knew tion later became transmuted into a finer, him better than I, and yet none of them has more durable gold. Bowdoin, to Louis prophesied that the spirit of Louis Hatch Hatch, was all that Alma Mater can be to will walk, this June. any man. The years that he spent in writ- It was during my sophomore year that I ing her history were years of filial obliga- first went to work for Louis Hatch. A tion; the gifts that he made to her during number of Bangor boys had worked for him

his life and after his death were thank before me; after my time the list continued offerings that, because they were given out And many of us first heard about Bowdoin of a limited store, were all the more a part from him, and began to think about Bow- of himself. And yet, aside from the collec- doin, and later matriculated as Bowdoin tion in Walker Memorial, there is no visible men. I doubt, though, if he ever urged evidence on the campus that he was a de- any one to go to Bowdoin; the College did voted son. Other alumni, in their gifts, not need boosting. To become one of her have made themselves more tangibly felt, sons, one felt, after listening to Louis Hatch, yet none of them has put more of himself was a privilege. Instead of trying to prose- into the gift. lyte us he talked about her and recalled the Those alumni who knew him only as they nick-names of his few friends, and — saw him at reunion time must have carried somewhat to our perturbation at first — oc- away a prejudiced picture of the man. A casionally broke into a rasping joyous shout !" lifetime of illness and deformity had made of "Phi Chfs in her ancient glory him weak, shrunken, twisted. His greet- Few of us realized what a lonely man 11 ing, pitched in his grating voice, was as "Dr. Hatch was. If he paid us seventy- jarring as the expressions that he used — five cents an evening for the privilege of terms that had had their brief vitality back talking to us, if he leaned on one's arm as in the ^o's. His figure, as he walked uncer- we walked through his sombre rooms while tainly about the campus, with a badge in he told us of Cheops, or Marie Antoinette,

[ 100] The B o w d o in Alumnus] or Charles the First, we thought him a trifle audible than the remembered speech o' garrulous, and not very interesting. It must Bradshaw or the tread, of Hannibal's ele- have been empty for him — a man whose phants marching through the Alps. life had been spent in making himselt at To us, his life seemed grotesquely empty, home in all the ages — to spend his evenings for we were unfamiliar with the single- talking to callow high school youngsters. footed path of scholarship, and we did not Of real friends he had very few; most of respond to the touch of old paper and the his contemporaries understood him no better smell of long dried ink. Whether the his- than we did. And so he would walk among tories that he wrote are accurate or wise, I his teakwood chairs and inlaid cabinets and do not know. I have been told that his marble mantels, through the study, across facts were occasionally biased and that his

the gloomy hall into the parlor where a hiss- style was dry . . . that his point of view was ing gasjet lit up the green wallpaper and unclarified by the vigorous play of imagina- the heavy, rich furnishings brought back tion that is a part of the great historian. from the corners of the earth. Followed by These things are unimportant. What counts shadows, he walked about the murky rooms, is that he wrote the stories of places that he swaying on the boy's arm, talking, talking, loved — the State of Maine and Bowdoin talking, sometimes about Hamlin's vice-presi- College. The history of the vice-presidency dency, sometimes about the licentiousness of was, I believe, never finished. It was not the Restoration. Strange names filled those the kind of thing that he could put his evenings: Hamlin and Praise-God-bare- heart into. But Maine and Bowdoin — they bones, Blaine and Semiramis, someone were a part of him. named Choate, and an equally unknown an- Since he was so much of the time at cient called Lorenzo di Medici . . . Lorenzo home, it is natural that his household fur- the Magnificent. He never asked if he had nishings should seem more than ordinarily told that amusing story about Senator connected with him. No one who has Hoare or the tale of the sunken road at worked for him has forgotten the oriental Waterloo. We heard many times, with richness of the parlor chairs and vases and deaf resignation, of Lincoln's Cooper Union cabinets, the cold, heavy touch of teak and speech and of the regicide Bradshaw's inso- ebony, the smooth joinings of parquet table lent rebuke to King Charles. What if his- tops, the dingy velvet of a prayer rug hung tory repeated itself? In those evenings men on the wall over a register where, in the and women of the ages walked about the course of years, it had accumulated a grime shadowy rooms with us — with Louis of soot, the fabulous set of chessmen in red Hatch, to whom they were old, familiar and white ivory, with elaborately carved friends, and with a boy who was being paid rooks and knights, and bearded, taseled seventy-five cents to keep an eccentric, kings. He had played with that set just lonely man company. once, he said, so that he might say that he There were many evenings when he had had. Ordinarily, if any of us hired boys no one to talk to, except his faithful house- knew the rudiments of the game, he would keeper, Maggie Owen, with her kind Irish get out an inexpensive, lathe-turned set of us face, who would come to tell him that it maple that was good enough for him and was time he got a boy to rake up the fall to handle. There was, in his hunger for leaves. Usually he was alone. And al- textural richness, the expression ol beauty though he read incessantly, the ticking of that felt no discrepancy between the from the clock must have been ;it times more shrunken man and the ivory and teak,

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Jerusalem and Egypt and Tokyo. While pilgrimage to Rome, Louis Hatch turned his the lotus-flower screen and the cloisonne steps towards Bowdoin. We who have vases glowed in the dim light, he stumbled families or businesses will fail to understand about his rooms, peering at those things what Bowdoin meant to him. One suspects that he had brought back with him, and that his four undergraduate years were the

talking, perhaps, of Margaret of Navarre. one shining experience of his whole life. Although the College never called him back Judged by any standard, his was an to occupy an academic chair, he served her anchorite's life. New clothes he never had; with a devotion that few equal. His last the food on his table was plain and savor- gift was but the culmination of many — less. Diabetes deprived him of all sweets. this time the objects of art that he had Twice a year, however, he broke fast and collected and loved. ate what he pleased, chuckling when he Yes, if the spirits of men walk, this thought of what Burt Bryant would say June Louis Hatch will find his way back to later. I used to go with him when he bought Bowdoin campus. himself a five-pound box of chocolates for Christmas and the Fourth of July — for those were the two festival days. Later he

would sit before his empty fireplace, biting Miss Smith Retires into chocolates. If their centers pleased Miss Anna E. Smith, who has served as him he would munch with an animal greed; Curator of the College Art Collections since if they were distasteful fondants he pitched 1 91 4, retires at the close of the current them between the andirons. On the day College year and will be succeeded by Mrs. after Christmas Maggie Owen swept the Roger Sessions. hearth clean again. Meanwhile he went to Miss Smith will be missed by the hun- see Burt Bryant, knowing what the doctor dreds of alumni and others who have come would say. to associate her personality with the Walker

These things are not important, possibly, Art Building and its collections, and Pro- and yet one likes to remember them. One fessor Henry E. Andrews '94, Director of likes to remember too the pride with which the Museum says of her, "Her pride in the he would announce that he was tone deaf. Museum, her zealous oversight and safe- his Always at alumni dinners he jumped to guarding of its treasures, her accumulated

feet when he heard "Down by the Old Mill knowledge of its history and acquisitions, ,, Stream" or ""Sweet Adeline, only to be her gracious efficiency as its hostess, have told to "sit down, Louie; it isn't Bowdoin established a tradition the College honors Beata Beata." But the words of Bowdoin and which it will remember gratefully

1 ' he knew, and of Phi Chi. If he struggled through the years to come. to his feet at the beginning of every song Mrs. Sessions graduated from Smith he was sure to be up for the Beata. College, summa cum laude, with the class of During the years when he made his slow 1920. She has taught at the Hathaway - collection of Commencement badges the Brown School for Girls in Cleveland, and college changed. New buildings arose, old has studied extensively in France, Italy and faces vanished, memorial gates and flagstaffs Germany. Her most recent work has been spoke eloquently to him of the death of his at Smith College, where she was engaged

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Warren B. Catlin, The Labor Problem (Re science with real literary charm. This is rare vised Edition), Harper and Brothers, 1935. Pp. enough, but perhaps even rarer is his fusion of 765, $3.50. warm human sympathies with great poise of judg' ment and a complete sense of fairness to all sides. It is always a pleasure when a student may All in all, the book is not only the best text pay tribute to the work of a beloved teacher, and on the subject produced by an American, but it especially so when that teacher has produced a perhaps is the first single introduction for the book which ranks among the very best of its kind. general reader. Bowdoin College has reason to It is now a quarter of a century since Warren be proud that this distinguished contribution has come from its faculty and in this pride Professor Catlin's students past and present will most affectionately share. Paul H. Douglas.

Paul H. Douglas, Controlling Depressions, W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1935. Pp. 281. $2.75.

A work on this topic by the eminent Chicagoan economist and statistician is certain to be received with great interest and, undoubtedly, Professor Douglas has enlarged the long row of his excel' lent writings by another contribution which is PROFESSOR CATLIN most stimulating both in its theoretic and prac lical bearings. Catlin began his work at Bowdoin and I happen Indeed, the book is both theoretic and practi' to have been one of those who worked under cal. In spite of its catholic title, in its practical him from the very first. From him I got my start purpose it is primarily devoted to an analysis of in economics and my debt to him has been great. the present American crisis and the discovery of Of all the courses of his which I took, the most a way out, and of methods for preventing as far inspiring was that on labor problems. That Mr. as possible the recurrence of such dreary events. Catlin's scholarship is careful and profound is This particular interest in American matters and indicated by the fact that he worked unceasingly problems, however, does not prevent the writer on this book for twenty years before it was first from taking international complications into con' published in 1926. It was immediately recog' sideration or from extending the work into more nized as the best text book in its field in this strictly theoretic arguments of a general nature. country, and now after another decade it appears The work is divided — apart from a short in its second edition still further improved. preface — into two main parts: the first, and by Professor Catlin traces the roots of the so'called far shorter part, being given over to a short "labor problem" to the creation by modern in- analysis of what the author calls ''the cumulative dustry of a more or less permament wageearning and the generating causes of depressions" and of class which produces a form of horizontal cleav the problem of automatic cure of depressions age in our society. He shows the difficulties through self 'adjustment of the social economic under which this group works and lives, and his process. The second part, which is entitled discussion of unemployment, overstrain, ill'health "Some Methods of Controlling Depressions", is and accidents, wages and the distribution of much more concrete and especially concerned wealth and income is, like everything else which with American conditions. he touches, lucid, full, sympathetic and yet com' In the first part, the reader will find the dis' pletely fair-minded. cussion of the cumulative causes of depression The main branches of the labor movement are particularly stimulating. The author sets forth three, namely, unionism, labor politics within the in a very impressive way the mechanism by existing order and collectivism, and in the case which depressions, once started — from one cause of each of these Mr. Catlin discusses the methods, or another — have a tendency to feed on them' aims and problems involved, with a wealth of selves which is brought about by cumulative con' historical material and with real insight. tractive tendencies in the credit structure and In fact, one of the most striking features about cumulative contractive tendencies in productive industries. the volume is the. extraordinary way in which Mr. industries, particularly in capital goods Catlin combines such complete mastery over In times of boom, these cumulative forces work minute details as to resemble academic omni' the opposite way and thereby in modern economy

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a tendency arises to make the ups and downs in his very topic and in the present situation. He economic life into a very hard strain on the argues about measures to reestablish a workable whole framework of social economy. In the main, capitalism which, as we agree in principle, needs the analysis of 'the author's in this part seems to for the time being some pegging and some reform be particularly excellent, though one might doubt before it can be hoped to become self-adjusting whether these mechanisms, under all circum- again. Because of the latter circumstance, he has stances and necessarily, have the importance at the same time to take into consideration many which the author seems to ascribe to them. Their measures of planned economy. It seems to us special importance, however, in the last crisis, that in this respect he tends to overshoot the particularly in the United States, seems to the mark, being dragged away by a tendency very present reviewer incontestable. The chapter on natural to the rational and speculative-minded the generating causes of depressions contains an theorist, to overrate the importance and feasibil- interesting survey of up-to-date business-cycle ity of measures aiming at systematic and particu- theories which, however, will leave the average larly at governmental control of business. Much reader with a less clear-cut decision as to what of what he has to say about monetary control the real answer to this problem is. However, the (through transformation of the whole currency stress which the author lays on strictly monopo' into 'government-made and government-controlled listic prices as a cause of trouble seems to be money) is very stimulating. The same holds true largely justified. Also, the author seems to us for much of what he has to say about the control unfortunately correct in his contention that of wages through governmental policies. "without vigorous constructive action even ulti In these and other matters, however, the ques-

mate recovery is by no means certain while it lt>, tion occurs to the reviewer whether the author in any event, likely to be long delayed". has sufficiently kept in mind the question Out of the second part, which among other whether, in a country used to so little govern- things contains an interesting analysis of the mental control and, therefore, with little bureau- American banking system and its operation, the cratic tradition, governmental agencies of suffi- 11 chapter on ""Public Works stressing the partic cient stability and sufficient independence from ular importance of creative public works — such group pressure will be available for such purposes. — as constructing housing facilities as a means for The author simplifies his problems to some recovery, and the chapter on "Price Policy, Un- extent by taking a stand which at least for the 11 employment Insurance and Relief seem to de- time being is willing to sacrifice international serve especial praise. adjustment and stability to national adjustment An evaluation of the book as a whole is not and stability, particularly in monetary matters. very easy. It is, of course, written with the To the reviewer, it is a matter of doubt whether masterly command of the theoretic and statistical this point of view, which for some years was outfit of a modern economist peculiar to the practically justified, can be maintained any it ex' author. Also, as stated before, contains longer. A world market which is only the battle- tremely valuable contributions both to certain ground for a free-for-all fight between nationally theoretic and certain practical problems. This organised and governmentally supported eco- does not prevent us from thinking that the author nomic warfarers, and the dumping ground of leaves the reader somewhat bewildered as to the national surpluses, after a while must get into a general frame and conception of his plans for stage where its decay reflects unfavorably even on economic improvement. The reason for this strong and relatively self-supporting national seems to lie — in part — in the fact that the economies such as the American one. More im- author — at least in the organization of his portant, however, in this respect is the problem material and thought — does not quite clearly whether the political disturbances which are distinguish between measures aiming at reform brought about abroad by economic disturbances and measures for recovery; neither does he dis- do not lead to more unfavorable reaction on the tinguish with sufficient clarity between measures national economy than is brought about as an for purely national reform and measures to be immediate result of purely economic trouble. applied in all countries. In general, the author seems not to have kept We think that really the problems of recovery in mind quite sufficiently the fact that balancing and reform at the present time are intertwined an economic system is not only balancing those and neither theoretically nor practically can be properly economic features but means, at the separated entirely. However, it would be much same time, making for a workable relationship easier for the reader to follow the author's argu- between the ethical, social, and political frames ment if the latter had made clear his ideas as to and tendencies in society and the economic ones. the sequence in which recovery and reform meas- Economic prescriptions which do not take into ures follow the logical relationship in which they account the facts, tendencies, and necessities of stand. that larger social order seem to us not of prac- Furthermore, the author evidently struggles tical value. very much with that dilemma which is given in As to special economic propositions of the

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The B o w d o i n A I umnu s author, we cannot follow him in his plan to make in Epitaph for the Race of Man for didactic ex' good for a lack in the purchasing power of the position. consumers by an artificial rise in wage rates. These instances, clearly incomplete though they Apart from being inconsistent with his generally are, may serve to suggest some of the innovations most excellent plea for less monopoly and more affecting English and American poetry in the last flexibility in the cost structure, and 'with his criti' thirty years. It is in connection with such experi' cisms on the NRA codes on that point, such an mentation that the volume here reviewed should idea seems to us to disregard too much the be considered. For in First Symphony, a sequence special motivation of business activity in in of eightyone sonnets, Mr. Pulsifer has adapted creased chances for profit. How can business the Shakespearean form of sonnet to the pur' activities and investments expand and unempioy poses of didactic verse. To the question, What ment decrease with such a policy which results is Truth? he has given his answer in nine books rather in an immediate rise in costs than in an of nine sonnets each. Truth, according to him, immediate rise in sales, output, and prices? Such is to be understood only when we understand the policy a might have been possible during the meaning of the six major desires that move men. boom of I92i'i929, but even then only at the Book I poses the question. In Book II he dc expense of introducing government regulation scribes the effect of the desires, i.e., for food, and less flexibility in business. At the present power, knowledge, love, fame, and immortality, 11 time, however, it is hardly conceivable how it upon the "Watcher, who serves as "a symbol of 11 could work as a means of recovery. Man. Books III'VIII contain the discussion of These criticisms should not leave the reader the several desires. Book IX summarizes the con' with the impression that Professor Douglas has elusions reached in the earlier books. Thus the not made a most valuable and constructive con' volume, in Mr. Pulsifer's Argument, "bears some is last tnbution. This book not the word on the resemblance to a musical composition. There is problem, but the last word could not be written a prelude, a statement of various themes, a deveh by anyone at the present time. The previously opment of these themes, and a bringing together mentioned theoretical contribution about the again in a final movement of all that has gone 11 rhythm of depressions, and the chapters on prices, before. on currency and banking policies, on unempioy The sonnets, then, are integrated parts of a ment insurance and relief, and on public works, whole, and a critic's first response should be to indeed, contain most valuable analysis and advice. the effect produced by the work as a whole. To H. von Beckerath. the present reviewer First Symphony seems a defi' nite and a very considerable contribution to English poetry. Its importance arises in part Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer, First Sym- irom the use of the sonnet in serious didactic t phony, A Sonnet Sequence, Houghton Mifflin verse, although Mr. Pulsifer has been preceded in Company, 1935. Pp. 101. $2.50. this device by Wordsworth, Rossetti, and Miss The twentieth century has witnessed a striking Millay. In even greater degree it arises from the revival of the practice of poetry in England and sustained dignity, sincerity, and firmness of the the United States. In quantity and in quality style. If there are lapses from perfection, these dc the results have been generally notable. In some fects concern the rather narrow range of the cases the achievement seems likely to possess en' rhyme sounds, an occasional lack of clarity of ex' during value. Moreover, it is significant that pression, and from time to time the use of well- poetry, like other aspects of social life, has en' worn images or phrases. Primarily, however, First tered into a period of experimentation, when Symphony commands our attention because of new forms of expression have been devised or old the high poetry frequently, and often continu' forms revived to satisfy new aesthetic needs. ously, present in its pages. Perhaps the most considerable work of the period The impressiveness of the achievement is iiv was The Dynasts, published between 1903 and creased when one observes the method and the 1908, in which Thomas Hardy combined the at' variety of the treatment. Broadly speaking, Mr. tributes and the functions of epic, dramatic, and Pulsifer relies upon two ways of presenting his didactic poetry. The verse of T. S. Eliot, which ideas. In the first two books, the last book, and seems to have reached its culmination in The in several sonnets throughout the other books, he Waste Land in 1922, expressed by its careful speaks in his own person, setting forth some doc subtlety of phrase and its ascetic Alexandrianism trine of his faith or describing, as though he were the intellectuali2ied emotions of a generation an observer, some real or imagined event o! the shocked by the war and influenced by obscuf present or the past. I^ecause the ideas and the antist French poets. In William Ellcry Leonard's episodes are all designed SO explicitly to illustrate

Two Lives, published in 1925, a sonnet sequence . theme, it is in these sonnets thai the didacticism was used for the purpose of sustaining a coiv of the poem is most evident and Occasionally OD' tin nous narrative told in the first person. In trudes itself upon the reader. In the remaining 1934 Miss Millay employed the same poetic form sonnets, on the othn hand, we have dramatic

[ 105 ] [The B o w d o in Alumnus monologues, often after the manner of Brown- desires mentioned in Book II and because they ing's or Hardy's, in which the speaker, e. g., are still further summarised and coordinated in Socrates, Lord Nelson, Galileo, a Roman aristq- Book IX. crat, or George Washington, briefly presents a The volume has been discussed as a unit, be' significant moment in his own life or a significant cause such a test seems to be an essentially fair aspect of his society. Here unity of subject criterion of didactic poetry, which should exem' comes, not from systematic exposition, but from plify architectonic solidarity to a greater degree the aptness and precision of the dramatic episodes than most of the longer forms of verse. This as well as from the careful integration of the par' demand First Symphony satisfies by the firmness ticular episode with the topic of the particular and dignity of its style and its happy union of book. Whatever didacticism there is is indirect. the intellect and the imagination. It is produced in the reader's mind by his own Accordingly, it is proper to pass from a con' powers of selection and association. sideration of the whole to the consideration of The skilful blending of these two methods particular parts. In a volume of the sise of First brings about variety of treatment. This impres' Symphony no one should expect to find equal sion is enhanced by the wide range of the lllus- perfection everywhere. Broadly speaking, The trative episodes and by the adroit juxtaposition of Boo\ of the Flesh seems distinctly below the high contrasting instances. Different aspects emphasise level of attainment which characterises the vol' the dominant theme. I shall mention a single ume as a whole. This weakness, if it be granted instance, The Boo\ Power, where the results of for the sake of argument, seems to spring from a seem particularly successful, In Sonnet xxvni, number of factors. It is certainly due in some the first of the book, the trout is the symbol in degree to the position in the sequence, for the nature of "certain power and safe repose.'''' The book seems to break what is otherwise an ascend' next sonnet is a description of the battle of ing scale of importance. Perhaps it would come Salamis, illustrating the power of the free as more naturally and gracefully after The Boo\ of against the power of the slave. Pope Alex- the Belly. Moreover, the lack of vividness in ander VI speaks in Sonnet xxx, where his these sonnets, with the exception of L, LII, and words set forth the power of the Church. Sonnet to a less extent xlvii and LIV, may well arise xxxl, surely one of the most distinguished for from the fact that the author did not use here, force and dramatic fitness in the entire volume, is as he has done so successfully in the other central put into the mouth of Christophe of Haiti, who books, the direct method of dramatic exposition. exclaims that, as he has been master of the lives Had the sentiments been put into the mouths of of others, so at the end he will still be master of some of the great lovers, the excessive didacticism his own. No more striking contrast, both in sub' would have been in part avoided. The general ject and in style, could easily be imagined than effect, finally, seems marred by the frequent ap' the next sonnet presents. It is in epistolary form, pearance- of the word "hot" and by the imper' being drawn from a letter written by George fectly conveyed metaphor underlying the word Washington to his wife. It shows, as distin' "line." guished from the lawless power of Christophe, These lapses, if they are so regarded, do not the firm and restrained power of the greatest of detract in any serious degree from the significance Virginia squires. In Sonnet xxxll the scene of the volume. Praise is far easier than blame. abruptly shifts again. A modern capitalist, plan' First Symphony contains at least twenty sonnets ning to exterminate his competitors, exemplifies that seem, even when wrested from the added conscienceless exploitation and irresponsible their context supplies, to be defi' "livin' on the meaning which power. In Sonnet xxxiv a man the nitely excellent and to hold theij own with town" describes the accidents that led to his ruin great sonnets of English. Among that number and to the loss of all that meant power to him. reviewer would include Sonnet xvil, espe- A contemporary of Thoreau's comments, in Son' the daily for the; lovely sestet; Sonnets xx'xxiv, net xxxv, on Thoreau's lack of success and particularly for the feast of the Roman aristocrat lack of ambition, on his failure, in other words, Puritan Thanksgiving; Sonnet In tht last sonnet and for the to achieve any sort of power. the xxvni, where the trout is represented as of the book the author summarises the signifi- symbol of power; Sonnet xxxl, for its tremen- cance of power in our present society and asks — xxxvm, for its skill in only king, dous energy; Sonnet "If power is gold and gold the Son- capturing the Quakerish style of Aristotle; What is the madness in our mortal breath Galileo thanks his God for the Icarian wing, net xxxix, where That crowns with honor xlii, the discovery of the telescope; Sonnet That holds life sweet and freely chooses death? described as being based "on state; greater love that frail man hath temperately What is this government documents; of wrath?" ments found in several Who bares his body to the scourge mercen- xliii, for its bitter picture of the Substantially the same method is followed in Sonnet xlv, chiefly for the beauty of produces the same rich ary Ph.D.; Sonnet the other books and which deal together the sestet; Sonnet L and Sonnet LII, variety. 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lviii, for its touching description of Boswell's nounced instantly on the first page of the book: holiness relation to Johnson; Sonnet Lx, for its irony and "There is strange around energy; Sonnet Lxiv and Sonnet Lxv, for their Our common days on common ground." perfection and magnificence; and Sonnet Lxx, for Occasionally it would seem as if the witness he holiness. But its beautiful version of Socrates' defense. All ques- bears is to beauty rather than to tions of the details, of the fine phrase, the fresh we foo have been to the Country Church and image or original juxtaposition, must be passed wi}l not quarrel with him. short line, over for lack of space. There is richness to spare F^is metres are not numerous. The in this "vineyard of the mind of man." One may whether in couplets or in once-rhymed quatrains, find much to cheer him in such lines as these is well suited to the subject-matter. Unrhymed pentameter is used easily — in "First Flight" for (lxv) : leisurely description, in "Potato Diggers" (most "When Budda passes and Mohammed dies, wisely) to indicate their hobbling walk, in "The And Peter's Dome is dust beneath the blue, Haters" with sinister suggestion. Nothing is And all the gods that Socrates the wise lost, nothing redundant, from metrical necessity. Laughed to their doom are long forgotten His words are seldom more than dissyllabic, too; their virtue lying in their accuracy and purity When all the saints are lost in time's abyss, of sound, in their own truth rather than in their Gone with the flower of faiths that bloomed connotations. The effect of a few has been and died, dulled by too frequent use, — for example, Earth will survive the crumbled realm of Dis, "crystal" and "jewel". "Lovely" is in danger. The elements renew their primal pride. And "nebulae" is no word to bandy about. But There will be ghosts among the rustling almost always he makes his choices with happy corn, precision. To see what he has gained in control, And spirits riding on the driven hail; comparison might be made of the spider of the The ancient chants will sound again their marsh, painted in The To\e of Thunder, 1932, lorn with that other, etched, shall we say, on page And hopeless challenge to the bitter gale. six of the present volume. The lushness of the New gods arise to die and come to birth former description is exchanged for a clarity Upon the vernal passion of the earth." that is terrific and delightful. The language of "The Dead Bittern" is excellent, ample but not Stanley Barney Smith. florid. In the poems of barns, of clover-scented country church, of homes with lighted windows, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Strange Holi- there is entire command of a medium, and a ness, The Macmillan Company, 1935. Pp. 10 1. deceptive simplicity. Mr. Coffin's words can be $i.75. assumed to have the usual meanings. He does not, like Humpty Dumpty, say they shall mean just In his latest volume of poetry Robert P. Tris- what he chooses them to mean, neither more nor tram Coffin adventures little in form or in field l esS} — nor see 'em when they overwork come of interest. He has written more of what he round for extra pay of a Saturday night. writes best, and written it better. A greater The persistent interests reappear, — in the sureness, a greater restraint, a growing skill in arch of the sky and the rectangular house of choosing delicately among the elements of the man, in the steel of the knife-edge, in warm common day which will best communicate his gold, the crystalline, and the jewelled, in the simple and precise idea — these have resulted in lovely and the straight, whether man or tree. better poetry. The notes of his songs are still the Light is almost an obsession; if it is not those of the middle octaves; but great music Great God's self, then it is His "holy bread". and harmonious has been wr>tten before now When the poet "remembers to give thanks", within those narrow bounds and may be writ' tired eyes ten again. "Now before my the volume of the sTdes," The book contains some sixty poems, only Close up one of which exceeds two pages in length. his figures are almost wholly of light and its at- of That exception is an account of a journey by tendant heat. He is fascinated by the eyes an- air westward from Washington toward sunset. the creatures, and so, by the way, arc the at our I am glad there exists for posterity a poet's cient brothers themselves, who often gasc one could record of human flight in its newness. With eyes with like strange intensity. But generosity of detail Mr. Coffin has written of wish that Mr. Coffin's pleasure m light would both the "steel angel" and his beloved country not lead him so frequently to use the language nde below, seen with* the eyes of the bird and of the jeweller. Too many eyes arc frozen into to of the mind. The poem, however, has its own Crystals, too many living beauties compared firm structure and is far more than a mere the precious but inanimate. sequence of visions or recollections of the land. Some poems contain merely line and' true matter of a The thesis of this and the shorter poems is an- observation of nature; others are the

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formulated, not very complex philosophy. The ing a series of forty volumes under his editorship, young farmer taking the "Advice" would know assumes added significance. That the trust of well how to live with deep satisfactions in the guiding to the press these attractive little books society of man and nature, and would need no belonging to the most celebrated of all Shake- startling event to shock him into consciousness speare editions (five million sold since 1894) of living. To the poet humanity remains close through the maze of modern scholarship will be and dear, but curiously un-personalized. Except thoroughly appreciated only in academic circles, for historical characters, the only individual who does by no means preclude the interest 11 of the has a name is the man on his first flight. "She ordinary 11 , reader.

"he , and (once with grim effect) "they"" serve As those who have studied under Mr. Ridley the purpose quite adequately. The congregations, realize, he brings to this honorable labor not only the dancers, the ploughmen, the children are no an unusual critical judgment but a splendid feel- less real for being only the "folk". Child of the ing for the requirements of the everyday dabbler sun, is a being man of great dignity. He has in literature. At first glance we see the result in the position the and possesions of the patriarch, his treatment of Hamlet. Here, and we expect in a house and a hearth-fire, fields, herds, a barn for the plays to follow, the student will be pleased the harvest, a wife, and children for whom is to find that, where there are both Quarto and this heritage. On the whole, life is a thoughtful, Folio versions, such passages as occur in one or happy business, sometimes overshadowed by the other only are included by ingenious use of night, fear, and thunderclouds, but full of con- brackets. Other notable features are the glossary solations, enlivened by occasional hens or a spi- and the extracts from famous criticisms of the der, blessed by hard work, and peaceful at the play. end. It is impossible to review properly a Shake- Mr. Coffin observes, clearly and serenely, the spearean edition without becoming involved in ways of his fellow-men, his countryside, his na- technicalities. But in this bit, which is more a tive tongue. He resists many temptations — ex' notice than anything else, there is no place for cept to play the lapidary. He knows that there such high seriousness. Happily, the cruxes and is enough of strangeness in the common day, the knotty problems can be left to the literary and feels that no constraint upon him to invent journals. In passing, however, it may be useful fantastic additions to the universe. From an to say a word explaining why a new edition of enormous treasure of simple elements at his com' Elizabethan drama is necessary in the twentieth mand he chooses and combines, yearly with more century. skill and wisdom. Some of these latest poems Do you perhaps think that what was written are triumphs of the beauty that comes from originally by the world's greatest dramatist is sheer choice and distillation, — "Peace", "The plenty good enough and all scholars who prod Haying", "Fireflies in a Graveyard", "A Boy, a their wits in the attempt to re-write should be Lake, a Sun", and permanently deprived of pen and ink? If so — New Guests bravo! And that is just the reason why the New merits praise, for it takes advantage of The upstairs of the house has gone Temple discoveries arising from recent efforts to get The way of men and wood; the at, insofar as it is humanly possible, what Shake- Whatever the stairway led to once, speare really wrote. It leads up now to good. H. Allan Perry. Step after step goes up where men Went up to live or die, The Authors The topmost stair breaks calmly off Warren B. Catlin, Ph.D., Daniel B. Fayer- Into the open sky. weather Professor of Economics and Sociology, Where love and sleep once met, the rooms completes this June his twenty-fifth year as a New guests entertain, member of the Faculty. The work here reviewed The young sun and the ancient moon in its new edition appeared first in 1926. And the godlike rain. Paul H. Douglas, Ph.D., '13, Professor of Helen J. Chase. Economics in the University of Chicago, is widely- known as an authority in his field and a liberal Theory Wages was Hamlet, in The New Temple Shakespeare, in public life. His The of Recently edited by M. R. Ridley, M.A., E. P. Dutton and reviewed in the November Alumnus. Douglas was the candidate on a Fusion Company, Inc., 1934. Pp. xxvi, 195. 65 cents. Professor ticket for Mayor of Chicago. The Reverend M. R. Ridley will be affection' Pulsifer (Harvard, ately remembered by many readers of the Harold Trowbridge a former editor of The Outloo\ and a Alumnus as the Tallman Foundation visiting 191 1 ), Poetry Society of America, professor for i93i'32; hence the appearance of past president of the the New Temple Shakespeare Hamlet, inaugurat' (See Page 111) [108]

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ANDROSCOGGIN ASSOCIATION Rev. Oliver W. Means '84 of Hartford, The annual meeting of the Association while Willis G. Parsons '23, continues as was held at the DeWitt Hotel on the eve- secretary. ning of Monday, April 29. Professor Her- bert R. Brown, Athletic Director Malcolm KENNEBEC ASSOCIATION E. Morrell 24, and Coach Adam Walsh President Sills and Professor Herbert R. were speakers, as was also Charles F. Brew Brown spoke for the College at a gathering ster '37. m the parlors of the Unitarian Church at Augusta on the evening of March 25. San-

BOWDOIN CLUB OF BOSTON ford L. Fogg, Jr., '27, was elected presi- Professor Melvin T. Copeland "06 of the dent, and Donald B. Hewett '28 assumed Harvard Business School was the speaker at the secretaryship. a meeting held at the University Club on the evening of May 2. Remarks were also NEW HAMPSHIRE ASSOCIATION made by Dr. Charles S. F. Lincoln '91, Although a glee club concert, to be held Class Notes Editor of the Alumnus. m connection with the annual meeting on

Wednesday, May 8, was cancelled at the

BOWDOIN CLUB OF BRUNSWICK last minute, an enthusiastic gathering lis- At an organization meeting held in the tened to an address by Professor Daniel C. Lounge of the Moulton Union Thursday Stanwood following a dinner at the Eagle evening, April 18, Edward W. Wheeler Hotel. Brief remarks were also made by '98 was elected president of the Club, and the Alumni Secretary. Harlan M. Bisbee '98

John W. Riley '05 was chosen as its sec Durham was elected president, and Scott retary. Following a brief talk by Presi- C. W: Simpson '03 of Intervale remains dent Sills, the meeting adjourned to the secretary. First Parish Church for a session of the In- stitute of Politics. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION ESSEX COUNTY ASSOCIATION Dean Paul Nixon was the guest speaker

Speakers at a meeting held at the Hotel at a meeting held at Solan's in San Fran- Hawthorne in Salem on the evening of cisco on the evening of Wednesday, April Wednesday, April 10, included Professor 3- Melvin T. Copeland '06, Harvard Busi- ness School, Athletic Director Malcolm E. BOWDOIN CLUB OF PORTLAND Morrell '24, and Coach Adam Walsh. The annual sub-freshman party of the Club was held on the campus on Monday, CENTRAL CONNECTICUT May 27, dinner at the Moulton Union be- ASSOCIATION ing followed by brief addresses by President An enthusiastic meeting was held at the Sills, Coach Adam Walsh, President How- Rockledge Country Club, Hartford, on the ard Niblock '35, of the Student Council, evening of May 6, with President Sills as and John O. Parker '35. Motion pictures representative from the College. The Club of Kent's Island were shown by Professor was reorganized under the presidency of Alfred O. Gross. [no] The B o w d o in Alumnus]

RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION BOOKS — Continued now resident in Brunswick, is known to many Professor Orren C. Hormell represented Bowdoin men of recent classes as a wise counsel' lor in literary matters and a gracious host. the College at the annual dinner meeting Robert P. T. Coffin, Litt.D., '1$, whose Lost in Providence on the evening of Friday, Paradise was reviewed in the January issue of this May 17. William W. Curtis, Jr., '20, of magazine, is Pierce Professor of English. Pawtucket, was elected president. M. R. Ridley, L.H.D. (Bowd.), sometime Visiting Professor of English Literature, is Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford.

The Reviewers ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON Doctor Herbert von Beckerath, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Bonn, The annual meeting was held at the Uni' has this year held a visiting professorship of ecc nomics on the Tallman Foundation. versity Club on the evening of April 3, Stanley Barney Smith, Ph.D., is Professor with the Alumni Secretary as scheduled of the Classics. speaker. Professor Stanley P. Chase '05 Helen J. Chase is the daughter of the late and President Sills were also present and Professor Henry Johnson, '74, and the wife of Professor Stanley P. Chase, '05. She divides her made brief remarks, as did Governor Louis time, somewhat unevenly, between literature and J. Brann of Maine. Dr. Howard F. Kane silviculture. 'oo, was elected president of the Club, and H. Allan Perry, '33, for two years has been studying English literature at Oxford, where he William F. Johnson '30 was chosen as sec has been a member of Mr. Ridley's college, retary. Balliol. He is "taking his Schools" this June.

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1868—George Adams Smyth, sole survivor country hike on March 10, 1935. He was born of his class, died at his home in Pasadena, Cali' in Rockland, March 20, 1882, and had recently fornia, on April 8, 1935. Born in Brunswick, lived in Brooklyn. September 23, 1847, he was the son of Professor — William Smyth of the class of 1822, who will be 1909 Anthony Humphries Fisk, who was remembered as the moving spirit in the building born in Brunswick, April 22, 1866, died in Edge of Memorial Hall. Dr. Smyth did graduate work wood, Rhode Island, April 8, 1935. He had en' at Bowdoin for two years and then went abroad joyed a varying career in business since leaving for further study, receiving his Ph.D. at Berlin Bowdoin. in 1876. He was Professor of Chemistry and 1932—'George Burgess Pottle, only son of Physics at the University of Vermont for several Philip Lowell Pottle 'oo, died at his home in years and later carried on scientific research in Lewiston, May 30, 1935, as the result of injuries California. received- in the fall of 1932, when he fell from 1874—Edward Otis Howard, a native of the roof of the Bowdoin College observatory in Winslow, where he was born March n, 1852, the course of preparations to photograph the died at his home in Dorchester, Massachusetts, eclipse of the sun on August 31 of that year. March 8, 1935. He had practiced law in Boston for fiftythree years. Medical 1881—Charles Henry Gibbs, a native of Quincy, Illinois, where he was born 1876—Rev. Charles Albert Perry is re August 29, 185 1, died in Ellsworth, August 27, ported as having died June 23, 1934. Born in 1934, according to a report recently received. He Blanchard, April n, 185 1, he attended the had practiced medicine in Maine since leaving Andover Theological Seminary after leaving the Medical School. Bowdoin, and held pastorates in Vermont, Michi' gan, Maine, and Massachusetts for a long period Medical 1887—Edward Franklin Stevens, of years. Following his retirement from the min' one of the early settlers of Seattle, Washington, istry he maintained a residence in Boston. died on the 12th of February, 1935. Born in Carroll, August 12, 1848, Dr. Stevens settled in — in 1878 Alfred Edgar Burton died Glou' Seattle immediately after graduation from the cester, Massachusetts, May 10, 1935. A sketch Medical School. of his career appears in other columns. Medical 1895 — Merton Wilmot Bessey, 1880—John Swanton Jameson, who was practicing physician in Waterville since his grad' born in Bath January 15, 1857, died at his home uation and at one time an instructor in Biology in Union March 15, 1935. at Colby, is reported as having died at an un' 1891—Algernon Sidney Dyer, who received confirmed date. He was born in Buckiield, an A.M. at Bowdoin in 1896 and at Harvard in October 30, 1869. 1904, died at Bar Mills, May 12, 1935. Born in have been informed of the Hollis May 2, 1868, he attended the Harvard Medical 1920—We P. Divinity School following his graduation at Bow- death, on July 18, 1934, of Clement Le' Britain, Connecticut, where he doin, but had devoted his life to education, teach' lasher in New ing English and the Classics in New York and was a practicing physician. New England until his retirement a few years — Robin- ago. Honorary 1925 Edwin Arlington son, Litt.D., died in New York, April 6, 1935, 1900—William Harvey Cutler, who was at the age of sixtyfive. Born at Head Tide, and supplemented by born in Chicago, Illinois, March 6, 1878, died at with a public school education three times won his home in Bangor September 23, 1934, accord' two years at Harvard, he had recognition ing to reports received at the Alumni Office. the Pulitzer Prize and had attained as the foremost living poet of America. President Service 1904—Austin Edward Spear, who since Sills delivered the address at a Memorial the graduation had pursued a career as a teacher of held in Gardiner, to which a group from modern languages, died in the course of a cross' College Chapel choir also contributed.

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News from the Classes

Foreword Prof. Edwin H. Hall and Miss Hall have been in California this spring visiting his brother F. In imitation of our own "Roving Reporter'" W. Hall, '80, an attorney in San Francisco. of Boston Herald fame, the News Editor, re- They are expected back in Cambridge about the turning from his suntanned sojourn in Florida last of May. to a belated spring in Brunswick; and in transit William G. Hunton, industrial agent of the from thence to hence by a circuitous route Maine Central Railroad, was re-elected president which included Louisville, Cincinnati, New York of the New England Hereford Breeders Asso- City, Hartford, Boston and Cambridge, managed ciation at its annual meeting in Portland. He was to track down quite a few alumni. Some of them also elected president of the Portland Associa- by information imparted, and all of them by tion of Zeta Psi at its annual meeting last week. their warm hospitality have made the editor their friend for life; and are destined for niches 1876 in the Alumnus 1 Hall of Fame. For further Bion Wilson's home address after June 1st particulars read News from the Classes. will be 3A Waban Street, Wellesley, Mass. It was a shock to find how many of the 1878 alumni there are who do not see or take the Having known the late Dean Burton for over Alumnus. It is issued four times a year at the fifty years, may I also add, that in a lovable per- very moderate price of $1.50. For any graduate sonality, and a devoted loyalty to his Alma or non graduate who wishes to keep in touch Mater, and everything that concerned its wel- with the College and his old associates, the fare, the Dean had few equals and no superiors. is link, tie Alumnus a real connecting and a The College and all who knew and loved him that should not be broken. We keep an open will regret his passing while they rejoice in the mind to criticism, and we strive to please. record of his devoted life. Incidentally it will be a crime of the first magni- S. Emerson Smith of Thomaston, Maine, tude if neither of our Antarctic veterans, Dr. passed the winter in Boston and was expected to 11 Earle Perkins '23 or "Duke Dane '31 shows up return to his home May 23d. at Commencement this year. 1888 1864 The Class and all friends of Prof. George H. Larrabee, will regret to learn of the death of Daniel Franklin Littlefield, the "grand old 11 Mrs. Larrabee, which occurred on May 7th in man of Saco, celebrated his '93 birthday on Portland, Maine. April 3rd. At present Saco correspondents claim that he is Bowdoin's oldest living graduate must 1890 be conceded to his friend and fraternity broth' Frank P. Morse, retired superintendent of er Rev. Sylvester Burnham '62 of Newburyport, schools in Revere, Mass., who has come back Mass., who is just two months older. But what to make his home in Brunswick, was elected to is 60 days between nonagenarians? the School Board at the town meeting in March. 1869 1891 The Cumberland County Bar Association held At a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees a memorial service for Federal Judge Clarence of Amherst, Prof. H. DeF. Smith was appointed Hale, on March 30, in the U. S. District Court Director of the Amherst College Library from where he presided for thirty-two years. Judge July 1st, next. Scott Wilson of the U. S. Circuit Court of Ap- The annual class dinner of '91 will be held at peals at Boston, and H. D. McLellan, G. Judges Miller Inn, North Harpswell, opposite the Kel- F. Morris, and A. Peters of the U. S. District J. logg Church, Wednesday evening June 19th. Courts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, presided at the memorial. Justice Thaxter 1892 of the Supreme Court of Maine and Justices Hon. John C. Hull of Leominster, Mass., ex- Powers and Emery of the Superior Court were Speaker of the House, and director of the se- guests. curities division of the state department of public utilities, whose term of office expired May 1875 — Bac\ for its 60th. 1st, is menaced with the loss of his position Lincoln Rogers, Class Secretary, reports that because of the desire of the Governor to have a he expects 5 or 6 of the 9 living members will be new man appointed in his place. here. The class headquarters will be in the Moul- ton Union, and he plans to have an informal re 1894 ception for the relatives and friends of the class His friends and classmates will regret to on Wednesday morning before the alumni lunch. know that Elias Thomas has been seriously ill, [»3] [The Bow do in Alu mnu s

and confined to his house for the last four 1898 months. Commander MacMillan was in Florida last winter, and lectured at the 1895 — Celebrating its 40th. Buckingham Hotel, St. Augustine, March 16th. Dinner June 19th at the Gurnet. On March 28th he announced his visit with marriage The News editor had a delightful to his Secretary, Miss Miriam Look of Boston. Fred L. Fessenden, friend and kinsman, in Gin' Commander and Mrs. MacMillan are sailing cinnati in April. Fred is a general insurance man from New York, July 3d on the S. Bldg. S. Volendam with his office in the Union Central 4th for a 13,000'mile Mediterranean-Norway cruise. and Vine streets. The Commander is announced as Travel Lectur- His son, Dr. W, L. Fessenden, U. of Cin- er for the trip, cinnati, '25, a specialist in Diagnosis and In' ternal Medicine, has an office in the same build' 1900 last ing. The class report, published in '30, is at' Judge and Mrs. Ingraham of Portland were tractive, and has brief personal sketches of every in Honolulu this past winter, and reported a member. Since then the class has lost five men; delightful visit. Babb, Cutler, Folsom, Strout, and Webber. Secretary Burton M. Clough 1896 reports that their headquarters will be in Hyde, and the Philip Dana has been appointed receiver for class dinner at the Gurnet June 19th. He hopes the Haskell Mill in Westbrook, Maine. to produce two out of three of its famous Ham- The Shanghai (China) Daily J^ews, late in lins, Harry H. of the American Tel. and Tel., January, has the following, received too late for and Representative Simeon M. of the Maine 1st

the March Alumnus : District, as the big attractions at the feast. MR. FESSENDEN RETURNS A picture of Prof. Philip M. Palmer, head of the College of Arts and Science, appears in the Mr. Sterling Fessenden returned to Shanghai "South Mountineer", a very fine illustrated yesterday, looking well and, judging from re pa' per published by the Alumni Council of Lehigh ports, in his customary buoyant spirits. It is University. hoped that he will feel satisfied with Shanghai's behavior in his absence. He has spent his holi' 1902 day in his own country and also in Europe, and Harvey D. Gibson, President of the Manu' no doubt he has been a firm champion of China facturers Trust Co. who has been appointed in general and Shanghai in particular, in answer' chairman of the American stand'Still committee ing the question put to so distinguished a trav on German credits, successor to Mr. Goodhue eller by the natives of the West. Mr. Fessenden of the Bank of Manhattan, returned from Ber' is so much a part of Shanghai, and especially lin March 9th, where they have been discussing of the International Settlement, that it seems ap- and drawing up new agreements with the Ger- propriate to give him a warm welcome at this mans. On March 12th he was elected a di' time when Shanghai sorely needs a little en' rector of the Western Electric Co. couragement. His philosophical outlook and his Ben Kelley and wife were trailed by the News discerning assessment of the course of events Editor in Harrisburg, Va., April 12th, on his may readily be sought to correct perspectives way home from Florida. As the city is on the which tend to get awry when the strain of per' Lee Highway of the Shenandoah Valley, the plexity is casting a film of doubt over the vision. presumptive evidence is strong that they also It is good to report that Fred L. Smith, who were returning from that delightful State. was seriously ill earlier in the year has recovered All good Maine people while they live-and and has returned to his home in New Hartford, can afford it, winter in Florida. When they die N. Y. —The statistics so far received at the Alumnus office via Station P.H.H. (Purgatory, Hell, and 1897 Heaven) are too vague to compile any accurate Ruel W. Smith Esq. of Lewiston was elected data on locality. Vice President of the Maine Association of Sidney W. Noyes is Vice President and Di' Philatelic Clubs at the annual meeting in Hallo' rector of M. F. Schlater, Noyes and Gardner, well, May 2,5th. 11 investment brokers, 1 Wall St., New York City. "Jim Rhodes, legal department of the Trav elers Ins., Co., Hartford, writes that he will be 1903 unable to make Commencement this year, as he According to the Rockland Courier'Gazette is leaving with Mrs. Rhodes and Richard, the James B. Perkins of Boothbay Harbor and En- last week in June for Los Angeles, where he has sign Otis '07 of Rockland, are possible ap- to read a paper at the annual meeting of the pointees to one of the judgeships of the Supe- American Bar Association early in July. rior Court of Maine. ["4] The B o w d o in Alumnus']

OSSIPEE, N. H., April ii—Announcement House of Representatives during the present of his candidacy for the Republican nomination session. for State Senator in the 4th New Hampsrrre The Alumni Office has lost track of Henry Senatorial District was made today at a meeting Rowe, formerly of Old Town, Maine. of the Carroll County Legislative delegation at Fred D. Wish, Jr., superintendent of schools in the Carroll County farm by Scott C. W. Simp' Hartford, Ct., was elected president of the First son of Intervale, N. H., now serving his second Unitarian Congregational Society at its annual term as Representative of Bartlett. meeting on March 8th. 1904 1914 John W. Frost, member of the Board of Over' The annual meeting of the Trustees of Frye- seers, and a New York attorney, was reelected burg Academy at the Parker House, Boston, Mayor of Pleasantville, N. Y., for his second April 17, had the aspect of a Bowdoin reunion. term. It is one of those delightful residential Headmaster Elroy O. LaCase was reelected, towns in Westchester County, 25 miles from the with permanent tenure. Col. Harvey Gibson '02, Grand Central Station. presided. Among other trustees present were 1905 Col. John S. Barrows, '88, of Boston, Dr. R. B. Chase, '89, of West Baldwin, Charles G. Wil- Col. Keith Ryan was transferred from the Na' lard, 'oo, of Brockton, Dr. John Z. Shedd, M. tional Veterans Home at Togus, Maine, and on '91, of North Conway, N. H., Ellis Spear, '98, Feb. 1 6th took over the duties of Manager at of Boston, and Hugh W. Hastings, 'n, of the Veterans Home at Hampton, Va. Fryeburg. 1906 1915 Prof. M. T. Copeland of the Harvard Busi' Prof. R. P. T. Coffin was awarded the Golden ness School had a paper for a Symposium of the Scroll medal of honor of National Poetry Week, American Chemical Society, April 25th, on observed last week in New York, and was desig' "Chemical Prices, Their Present and Future 1 nated National Poet of Poetry Week. He spoke Trends' . over a nationwide radio connection from the Dr. Copeland gave an interesting talk on pre National Poetry Center in the R.C.A. Building sent Government economic trends at the dinner in New York Sunday evening, May 26th. of the Bowdoin Club of Boston, May 2nd. Commissioner of Corrections MacCormick 1909 made an address on "Crime Prevention through Hon. Harold H. Burton of Cleveland gave an Probation""' at the annual luncheon of the Na' address on "Recent Development in Govern' tional Probation Association in New York on 11 ment at the initiation and dinner of Phi Beta March 7th, which was broadcasted; and doubt' Kappa, Alpha of Ohio Chapter, on March 9th. less heard by many Bowdoin men. Carl E. Stone is now with Stockley Bros. G? 1917 Co., canners in Oakland, Cal. L. F. Dow of Ann Arbor, Mich., reports the 1911 birth of his son Russell LeBaron on February

The News Editor is indebted to Class Sec 15th. retary Ernest G. Fifield for a very useful and Representative E. C. Moran of the 2d Maine concise address list, the 24th Annual Report District has been having plenty of excitement dated in New York, May 8th, 1935. Would this past year. After his own election he mc that there were more of his kind. tored to Nebraska to campaign for his friend Fred C. Black of Rockland was elected Presi' Edward Burke who was candidate for the Sen' dent of the Knox County Fish and Game As' ate. In April some unknown men stole the keys sociation at its annual meeting on March 29th. to his car, for unsolved reasons as they did not State Senator Franz U. Burkett, ex'Speaker steal the car. And in May be blew the roof off of the House, and Harold E. Weeks, 'io, Presi' of a meeting of the House Merchant Marine dent of the Senate, are mentioned as probable Committee by a strong attack on the Bland' candidates for Attorney General at the end of Copeland Marine Bill then pending, and intro' 1 the term of Clyde R. Chapman, i2. duced one of his own for consideration. writing to Harold H. Sampson, 1912 Carleton Pike, Class Agent for the Alumni Fund: "Please for' Edgar F. Cousins is the present Mayor of give my tardy response to your effective appeal, Old Town, Maine. but I have just returned from an inspection trip 1913 to the hula girls in Honolulu to find your letter. Dr. Neil A. Fogg, of Rockland, has twice Good luck to you with the Alumni Fund Cam' been called upon to preside over the Maine paign." [•"»] "

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H. H. Sampson, principal of Bridgton Acad' Harpers Magazine has promised to pubh'sh emy, and for many years secretarytreasurer of an article in its June issue by "Pop"' Hatch. the Western Maine Central Board in basketball, "Pop" is still director of the Wassookeag 1 received ist, ' a signal' honor in New York June School'Camp, and "Pop's literature on the sub' when he was appointed to the executive com' ject is very enticing. mittee of the National Board of Approved Bas' Capt. A. B. Holmes of Brunswick who has ketball Officials. commanded Battery G of the 240th Coast Ar' "Dan" True writes that he is managing the tillery, National Guard, since 1925, has been largest department store (Hennessey Company) promoted to Major of the 2nd Battalion, com' in Butte, Montana. been in Butte for six Has prising Batteries E and F of the same regiment, years, and with the corporation nine years. "If from April nth. ist Lieut. Percy E. Graves, any of the boys plan to make a trip out this '19, of Brunswick, succeeds him as Capt. of I them. I not way will be very glad to see am Battery G, in Brunswick. Yellowstone Park, and far from Glacier Park or Harrison C. Lyseth of Augusta, Maine, was it is an interesting and exciting part of the elected chairman of the Department of Second' world. ary School Principals of the National Educa- 1918 tional Association at its meeting in. Atlantic City, Feb. 27th. All communications to Llyod O. Coulter One of the speakers in opposition to the bill should now be addressed C'O McCann'Erickson, before the Massachsetts Legislature, seeking to Inc., 285 Madison Avenue, New York City. impose compulsory allegiance for all school Bela W. Norton is publicity manager of the teachers, was Hugh Nixon who appeared as Colonial Williamsburg Inc., the Rockefeller Secretary of the Massachusetts Teachers' Feder' restoration project, in Williamsburg, Va. ation, to which office he was re-elected recently. Roderick Pirnie, organiser of the Pirnie Estate Hugh may be found at the office of the Federa' Service (insurance), with offices in Springfield, tion, Ashburton Place, Boston, at his Holyoke and Worcester, Mass., and Providence, 15 or resi' dence, 19 School Street, Melrose, Massachusetts. R. I., was one of the chief speakers at a series Arthus Pym Rhodes writes that he is prin' of three meetings of the Maine Life Under' cipal of Clear Lake Union High School, Lake writers Association held in Bangor, Waterville, port, California, and that he is the father of two and Portland, the last week in March. sons, Richard W., 12, and Stuart W., 6. 1919 Alex Standish, President of Standish, Racey Frederick B. Canavello is now with the Sun &? McKay, Inc., investment counsellors, 10 Post Oil Co., 220 Lexington Avenue, New York City. Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts, has broken into the news as a speaker, having addressed 1920 among - others the Massachusetts Association of Myron H. Avery, Esq., of Washington, D. Savings Bank Women and the College Club on C, member of the Appalachian Club, and an economic and investment questions. enthusiastic mountaineer, has a short account of the Appalachian Trail in Maine, in the Maine 1923 edition of the Old Farmers Almanac for 1935' Prof, and Mrs. Cousins of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., In addition to Prof. E. P. Rounds, Director announce the birth of a son, Thee of Admissions, whose appointment was record' dore W., Jr., on June 20th, 1933. ed in the January Alumnus; Paul E. Everett, 1924 '32, and George R. Booth, '33, have been ap' George E. Hill, Esq., of Portland, Republican pointed instructors in French and Mathematics, floor leader in the Maine House of Representa' respectively, in Phillips Exeter Academy for tives has announced his candidacy for Speaker i935'36. of the House in the 88th Legislature which will 1921 convene in 1937. James M. Kenniston formerly with E. A. Fi' Hal Beach is still with the Atlantic 6? Pacific line Co., in Worcester, is now with Bacon and Tea Company, Detroit, Michigan, and reports Co., Louisville, Ky. that he is still married. To prove it, he offers Robert T. Phillips, M.D., opened an office at as evidence a son, Stephen Beach, born John 270 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass., on February 16, 1935. Hal's address is: co A. 6? Feb. ist. P. Co., 5469 Hecla Avenue, Dertroit, Michigan. William Rowe, Esq., of Newark, N. J., an- Norman W. Haines has recently opened a law nounces the arrival of a son Peter Wentworth office in Reading, Massachusetts, for the conven' on April 19th. ience of his Reading clients. He continues to pay rent at 68 Devonshire Street, Boston, Mas- 1925 sachusetts. After many vicissitudes on land and sea, Capt. [n6] "

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Phillips Lord of the Seth Parker sailed from Boston, and is now with the S. D. Warren Tutuila, Samoa, March 19th, for Hawaii on the Paper Co., of Westbrook, was married on June S.S. Mariposa. He is reported to have expressed 1st to Miss Barbara Tebbetts Rogers, daughter of the intention of selling his schooner, left behind Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Spencer Rogers of Madi' in Samoa; but from the news accounts it would son Avenue, Newtonville, Massachusetts. The seem rather a doubtful project. The concensus of wedding took place at 4 o'clock in St. John's opinion is that he is extremely lucky to be on Church in Newtonville. The best man was John terra firma again instead of consorting with the Fayerweather Pickard, 2nd, '30, of Newtonville, notorious "McGinty at the bottom of the sea". and the ushers were Neal Rogers Boyd '28 of The body of Robert Seymour Webster, whose New York City, Charles Curry Rogers '29 of Laconia, death was reported in October, 1934, was found N. H., and John H. Milliken '33 and May 30, 1935, on the shore of Eagle Lake, where Bernard Lucas '28, both of Westbrook. The he and his bride were last seen at the start of wedding trip will be to the Gaspe peninsula. their canoe trip last fall. Upon their return they will reside in Westbrook. The bride is a graduate of Atherton Hall. 1926 John S. Balfour of Bedford, Mass., and Miss Mr. and Mrs. William W. Fisher of Dover Elizabeth B. Briggs of Newtonville were married Street, West Hartford, Conn., announce the March 8th at their home on North Street, Bed- arrival of a daughter, Betsey Baldwin, on May ford. 1 6th. Walter M. Hunt, Jr., and Miss Isabel F. 1927 Kemp of Maplewood, N. J., were married , , in St. George Church Maplewood, May 4th. 27 s best known member is the versatile "Al" The Rector was assisted by Rev. Carter S. Gillis, Ecke, or Albert Van Dekker, to give him his '29, of Hartford, Conn. Huntington Blatchford, stage name, who has been playing a variety of '29, was best man, and John Dupuis, James Jos' roles since he played the Baron in Grand Ho' lin and Phil L. Smith, all of '29, were ushers. tel. As one of the dramatic critics has dc 11 "Merrill is with Elbrook Inc., 79 Worth Street, scribed him "By taking a chance, and demand' New York City. The couple will live in Maple ing different sorts of roles even in cases where wood. he might be considered to have stepped down a At an informal tea in their home at Cape bit, Albert Van Dekker is one of those actors Elizabeth, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Parker an- whose days are full. Never has he been pigeon' nounced the engagement of their daughter Flor' holed and categorized and marked 'Save' for ence E. B. to Huntington Blatchford of Port' future reference. land; incidentally Miss Parker is a sister of Dr. A son, Clement S., Jr., was born April 13th M. Parker, '30, of Boston. to Dr. and Mrs. Wilson of Brunswick. J. Rev. Jack E. Elliott, who has just graduated 1928 from the Union Theological Seminary, New Frank H. Farnham of Brookline and Miss York, and Miss Emily Frances Whitney are Amy C. Merrill were married at the bride's home to be married June 5th at the bride's home on in Winchester on March 9th. Ralph Farnham, Pitt Street, Portland. After July 1st, they will his brother, served as best man, and Raymond be at home in Columbus, Ohio, where Mr. El- Deston '30 was one of the ushers. liott will be associate pastor of the First Congrc

1 "Ted '' Fuller is in the legal department of the gational Church. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., no Lewis A. Stone is working for the New Eng- William Street, New York City. land Power Co., in North Adams, Mass. His A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. William home address is still 77 Paradise Road, Swamp' Curtis Pierce, 167 E. 82d Street on March 30th. scott, Mass. He has been named Martin Gay, for his mater' The editor just missed seeing "Ham" Oakes nal grandfather. in Cincinnati, as he was away on a business trip. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thiemer of Summit, N. "Ham" is representative for a Massachusetts

J., announce the arrival of a daughter, Jane Reece Buttonhole Machine Company. He is Groot, March 27th. living at 3902 Beech Street, Marimont, and has

Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Lawrence of Haverhll, a delightful wife and fine son, aged 5. Mass., announce the engagement of their John D. Lincoln's business address in the daughter Marjorie Howard to Loren D. Drink' new Bowdoin Directory should be 916 Walnut water formerly of Yarmouth, Maine, who is now Street Building, Kansas City. His home is 3602 with the State Street Trust Co. of Boston. Roanoke Parkway. 1929 1930 Phil Bachelder, who for four years was in the Don Berry was married to Miss Ruth Rand On

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Robert Sargent, in New Jersey (place not re Bob Smith has recently joined the firm of ported). They are living in Northfield, N. J. Niles and Closson, 44 School Street, Boston. Ronald P. Bridges of Sanford, Maine, an' He is in the insurance line and lives at 17 nounces that he will seek the Republican nomi- Chauncy Street, Cambridge. nation for Congress in the ist Maine District in The engagement of J. Warren Vedder, Jr., 1936. to Miss Sara Lucile Long of Reading, Mass., is "Tom" Chalmers, with W. S. Libby Co., 40 announced. Plans are being made for a fall Worth Street, New York City, was married to wedding. Miss Janness E. Sanger of Washington, D. C, in Grace Church, N. Y., April 20. They will 1932 Dick Barrett, live at Fairlawn, Raburn, N. J. now in the Medical School of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison M. Davis of the the University of Vermont, writes that he is Evans School, Tucson, Ariz,., left there by motor about to take the National Board Examination May 11 and are due in Marblehead the last in Medicine. Best of luck, Dick! week in May. Harland E. Blanchard is at Boston University Joseph P. Flagg of Portland and Miss Mary taking postgraduate work. Brewer Nash of Chestnut Hill, Mass., were Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Swift of New York married in Trinity Church, Boston, May 25th. announce the engagement of their daughter, James B. Donaldson, '32, of Cambridge was Miss Mary L. Smith, to Garth P. James. best man. Huntington Blatchford, '29, and Aus' London, May 17— (AP) —The engagement tin Smithwick, '31, were ushers. After July 1, of Charles Fuller Stanwood, son of Professor Mr. and Mrs. Flagg will be at Diamond Island and Mrs. D. C. Stanwood of Bowdoin College, for the summer, and next fall will live in Port- Brunswick, to Miss Katherine Rosemary Letitia land. Culme-Seymour, eldest daughter of Lieutenant ''Biir*' Lancaster is supervisor of education in Commander and Mrs. Evelyn Culme-Seymour the C.C.C. ist District; Maine, N. H., and part of Murray Banks, Murrayfield, was announced of Vermont. His headquarters is in Port- today. Stanwood attended Oxford in i93 3'34- land. "Dick" Van Varrick is now with Dun b T. Maxwell Marshall of the Portland Morris Bradstreet, New York City. Plan Bank, has been elected president for 1935- Phil Ahern is working on a research project 36 of the Portland Chapter of the American In- in the study of political trends. His address is stitute of Banking. Mr. Marshall's engagement c-o Dr. George Gallop, Princeton, N. J. to Miss Mary Frances Doughty of Yarmouth was Gilbert Barstow is in the sales dept., of the announced June ist at a luncheon at Wescustogo Remington-Rand, Inc. He is living at home, and Inn. is reported to be engaged: no further data. Carl K. Moses sends us his new address 216 Henry Cleaves has just been made assistant office Strawbridge Avenue, Westmont, N. J. supervisor of underwriting in the home Harry B. Thayer, Jr., of Marblehead, Mass., of the Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. and Miss Annah Tapley Blood were married John Keefe is doing well in the Aetna Insur- on Friday evening May 3, in the Church of ance Co., Springfield, Mass. He is living at the Holy Name, Swampscott. Richard Thayer, home, 35 Meredith Street. '28, was best man, and Stuart Stone, '30, of Dana Lovell has recently taken a job with Newton, was one of the ushers. Mr. and Mrs Lever Bros, in Cambridge. Thayer will live in Marblehead. Larry Usher is adjusting losses for the New- Insurance "Pete'" Phelps is in the Kendall Co. in the ark, N. J., office of the Liberty Mutual Bauer and Black Division, 1260 Dearborn Park- Co. He married last summer, but we have way, Chicago, 111. no data on the important event.

1931 1933 is in the Cleveland, A. W. Atwood is assistant manager of J. j. Witoldo Bakanowsky Newbury Co., Presque Isle, Maine. Ohio, office of Dun and Bradstreet. Litho- John Burke is now with the Niagara Falls Dick Boyd is with the Stecher-Traung store of the W. T. Grant Co. graph Corp., 131 State Street, Boston, Mass. Co. Bob DeGray was married April 2, to Miss Bart Bossidy is working for the DuPont Division). was in Old Hick- Hortense Power of Newark, N. J. They are (Rayon Yarn He until January, but is now living at 215 Clinton Place, Hackensack, N. J. ory, Tenn., from May S. B. Dwyer will be teaching, and also football back in the New York office. coach next fall at the High School in Lancaster, Jack Clarke is working for the Provident N. H. Loan Society in New York. He was married of Glen Joe Kraetser is in the main office of the Em- May 2 1 st to Miss E. Charlotte Rogers ployer's Liability Co., Boston. Cove, L. I., N. Y. [H8] The B o w d o in Alumnus}

Ed Fay is also with the DuPont Co., Chrysler Apologies are due Brec Micoleau for not get' Bldg., 42nd Street, New York City. ting the name of his Firm Tri'Continental Corp. 1 George D'Arcy's engagement was reported straight. Also "Dick '' Payson, '27; inadvertantly by the Office on April 6th. But we have no recorded with '29. further information. The Green Sox Aggregation which will play for Burnham 6? Morrill in the Portland Twilight The marriage of Milton Hickok of Manhas- Baseball League this summer will be strength' set, L. I., N. Y., to Miss Katharine Voicing of ened by three ex'Bowdoin luminaries, "Cliff" Glen Cove on March 16th is reported in the Gray, '28, of Fryeburg, and "Sonny Dwyer, '31, 7<[ew Yor\ Times. and "Jit" Ricker, '32. Will M. Kline, Jr., is now employed in the Technical Section of the Federal Bureau of In' Medical 1894 vestigation, U. S. Department of Justice. His Dr. A. M. Small of Freedom, Maine, a mem' address is 19 18 F Street N.W., Washington, ber of the Governor's Council, was stricken with D. C. a heart attack while attending a bank directors'

C. Stewart Mead is teaching at the West meeting in Belfast, March 25th, and was in the Nottingham Academy, Colora, Md. local hospital for some days.

William Munro is teaching at the Berkeley Medical 1910 Preparatory School, Boston. Dr. Adam D. Leighton of Portland, Secretary Winthrop E. Prescott of Sharon, Mass., is of the State Board of Registration of Medicine, engaged to Miss Mary Lathrop Gillett of Can' supported a bill introduced by Senator Franz U. ton. Burkett, 'n, which would give the Board addi'

Charles Kirkpatrick is in the Harvard Law tional authority to revoke licenses of physicians School. Address 15 Water Street, Newton. found not to be "practicing the way they should." He was opposed to a bill which would Ellsworth T. Rundlett of Portland was mar- permit chiropractors with certificates of registra' ried at St. John's Church, N. H., April 20th, to tion to use the title "doctor" before their name Miss Elizabeth Johnston. Mr. Rundlett is now when "accompanied by the word chiropractor." connected with H. M. Payson and Co., Port' The measure also requires applicants for regis' land. tration to have four instead of three school years John C. Rosenfeld and George P. Taylor are of not less than six months each. both students in the Law School of Boston Uni' Medical 1918 versity. Lieut. Comm. James C. Kimball, U.S.N., 1934 writes that he is on shore duty recruiting

Carl Ackerman is working for the S. S. Pierce Marines in Los Angeles, California. Co. in Boston. Lieut. Comm. William D. Small, U.S.N., sta' Phil Burnham has a teaching appointment tioned at the Naval Hospital in Washington, with the Adirondack'Florida School for the D. C, has recently been advanced to the rank year 1935-36. of Commander. Byron S. Davis director of the junior school Honorary 1917 at Proctor Academy, Andover, N. H. President and Mrs. McConaughy of Wes- Bart. Godfrey is working for the Can Fast' leyan University sailed on April 10th on the ener Co., Somerville, Mass. S.S. George Washington for a ten weeks' vaca- Roger S. Hall of Highland Mills, N. Y., will tion in England. be swimming instructor for the junior boys at the North Star Camp at East Waterboro, Maine. Honorary 1925 The camp is conducted by the Y.M.C.A. A memorial service to the late Edwin Arling' John Hickox is now working with The Marcu ton Robinson was held in his home city, Gardi- of Time News Reel, in New York. ner, Sunday, May 12th, in the auditorium of The engagement of Dr. Richard Betts Phil' the High School. Zips of Jamaica Plain, Mass., to Miss Aldine Mrs. Laura E. Richards presided, and the Sahlholm of Greenwood was recently an- principal address was given by President Sills. nounced. Governor Brann and Willard P. Atwood of Poet, Bob Porter is with the Bankers Trust Co., Auburn, who were schoolmates of the New York City. also spoke, and excerpts from his works were St. Paul's School, Thurston B. Sumner is working for the Sim' read by Mr. John Richards of mons Company, bedding manufacturers, in their and Mr. Harold T. Pulsifcr of Brunswick, for- of Atlantic Division Plant. His mailing address is mer editor of the Outloo\, and past president still 276 Summer Street, West Somerville, Mass. the Poetry Society of America. ["9] THE VISIT MAINE'S LEADING COLLEGE BOOK STORE DINER

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