Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 12-1900 The aB tes Student - volume 28 number 10 - December 1900 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 28 number 10 - December 1900" (1900). The Bates Student. 1941. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1941 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. IDOL fjiDimr. December, 1900. mo. 10. CONTENTS. Sympathy 289 True Tests of Greatness 280 The, End of the Feud 291 Ode 295 Bates Library: Its Founding 295 Its Growth 297 Poem 300 Coram Library Building: How it was Secured 301 What it Means to Bates . .304 CARBON KTTKS: Very Old, Yet Ever New 307 Lady Blanche 308 ALUMNI BOUND-TABLE: Personals 310 AROUND THE EDITORS' TABLE. EDITORIALS 313 LOCAL DEPARTMENT: Y. W. C. A. Notes 316 Glimpses of College Life 31(5 COLLEGE EXCHANGES 319 OUR BOOK-SHELF 321 The BATES STUDENT is published each month during the college year. Subscription price, $1.00 in advance. Single copies, 10 cents. Literary matter should be sent to the Editor-in-Cliief; business communications to the Business Manager. This magazine is sent to all students of the college unless otherwise :::::::::::::::::::::::::::sy notified. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter at Lewiston Post-Offlce. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. HOLDER & FROST, ..Mm Tailors J65 Lisbon St., LEWISTON. Suits Made in an Artistic and Durable Manner from $15 to $45. We do not claim to give you $25 Suits for $15, but we do claim to give you one hundred cents on a dollar every time, and perfect satisfaction guaranteed. COPYRIGHT, Please Call and Examine Our Goods and Prices. PROMPT, COURTEOUS, FAIR. He Lakeside Press Winship PRINTING, BOOK and JOB WORK Teachers' OF ANY DESCRIPTION. Photo-Engraving, Half.Tone, and Zinc Etching, Agency. Lithographing, Office Stationery, We have uncqualed facilities for placing teachers and Color Work, Labels, etc. in every part of the country. Send for Manual and Registration Form. Book-Binding, Edition and Job Work, WM. F. JARVIS, Magazines, etc.; Paper Ruling and Blank ALVIN F. PEASE. Book Manufacturing. 3 Somerset Street, - BOSTON, MASS. Office and Works, -rts\TimT * TVTT\ -n/r-n 117-119 Middle Street, PORTLAND, ME. WK8TEKNOKK.CE8[A^».0^;MO NOVELLO CUAFTS, Proprietor. BOSTON SHOE STORE. REMOVAL. You will find the best wearing shoes E. P. SAMSON, at the lowest prices, at the Funeral Director BOSTON SHOE STORE is now located at 118 Lisbon St., LEWISTON. 286 Main St., Hayes Block, LEWISTON, ME. Residence, 218 College Street. Sign, Golden Slipper. C. A. JACK80N & CO. Telephone Connection. GEO. V. TURGEON & CO., Catering a Specialty. Agent for Moxie Nerve Food. JEWELER; JAMES M. STEVENS, Scientific Watchmaker and Manufacturer of Fine Confectionery Graduate Optician. and Dealer in Repairing neatly and promptly done. Cash paid for old gold and silver. FRUIT, ICE-CREAM, and 80DA. 72 Lisbon Street. Sign, Electric Clock. 63 Court Street, ATJBUEN, ME. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. syQ Lisbon St., John H. Whitney, Lewiston. Physicians' Prescriptions Apothecary, a S ecialty. IF YOU WISH TO BUY ICTURES.. Made of you and distributed BOOKS among your friends become part of your personality, give an Send to us for Prices or other Information. insight into your character. We carry the largest stock of any store If you go to the in New England, and can furnish any books in print at the shortest notice. IM6RRILL WE CAN SAVE YOU MONET. STUDIO, Catalogue of Special Bargains mailed free. you will get the best and show an evidence of good taste. Where to go for a perfect likeness is DE WOLFE, FiSKE k CO., a serious matter for the thoughtful. 361 & 365 Washington St., Lisbon SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS ..... ROKTON, MASS. 102 Street. TO STUDENTS. GEORGE H. CURTIS, FRED. Q. PAYNE, LIVERY, HACK, and • • Job Printing. BOARDING Stable FINE SOOIETY AND COLLEGE WORK. 48 Ash St., LEWISTON. Pilsbury Block, LEWISTON, ME. STEAM HEAT. SAMPLE ROOMS. THE BEST FUNERAL OUTFIT IN MAINE. ELEVATOR. TELEGRAPH. Hacks for Weddings and Private Parties a Specialty. Also, Hacks to and from All Trains. Orders left at The New DeWitt, Stable, 48 Ash St., Uerrish's Drug Store, and G. II. Curtis' Residence, 107 College St., GEORGE R. PATTEE, will receive prompt attention. PROPRIETOR. TELEPHONES : Stable, 382-12; Residence HATES: Long Distance Telephone 128-2; Gerrlsh's Drag Store, 29-2. •2.00, t)2.SO, S3.00. Stenography and Typewriting ii BUSINESS DIRECTORY. THE LARGEST and best equipped retail drug store D. P. MOULTON in this section. The prescription department espe- cially complete and satisfactory, as Registered Apothecary, our files with 180,000 on record will testify. Successor to D. W. WIGGIN & Co., A Registered Apothecary always in 213 Lisbon Street, Corner Pine, - LEWISTON, ME. charge of the prescription department. JOHN C. COBURN, ...Fine Tailoring LOWEST PRICES. 240 Main Street, LEWISTON, ME. Repairing, Pressing, and Cleansing. WRICHT & DITS0N Athletic outfitters to the leading S.P.ROBIE colleges, schools, and athletic clubs of New England. Athletic Outfitter to Bates College. Gymnasium EVERYTHING FOR Supplies of ^ Equipments, BASE-BALL, GOLF, TENNIS, ETC., ETC. Every V& and Description S^FTT^ Field Do not Shirts, for f. 7| -ik/^s Supplies. fail to Collars, Base-Ball, see our Neck-Wear, Tennis, ]M^/ Estimates Gloves, Golf, \usrigi2 and SWEATERS Hosiery. Foot-Ball. - Samples for before House Coats CATALOGUE ws Team buying. and FREE. ' ill Uniforms Bath Robes. furnished Secure our SPECIAL GOOD VALUES AT POPULAR PRICES. rates before // ■ D on purchasing. // SFl rS short U-^*« notice. Men's Furnishings, 344 Washington St., , Athletic Outfits. WRIGHT & DITSON, BOSTON, MASS. S.P. S. P. ROBIE. Local Agent, Lewiston, Me. LOCAL AGENT FOR WRIGHT &. DITSON. KINDLY NOTE GENTLEMEN FURNISHERS That you will find four barbers at our shop and Dealer! in all first-class workmen. On Saturdays we shall run six chairs afternoon and evening. BOOTS AND SHOES. Shine Stand Connected. Sole Agents of Auburn for Lamson & Hubbard Hat. Bartlett's Hair-Dressing Rooms, Sole Agents for E. & U. Collar. 18S LISBON STREET. WRIOHT 1 D.TSON ATTWOOD & BARROWS, A Prominent College Street Man Says: SWEATERS. 60 Court St., AUBURN. I have in the past tried many different kinds of cough cures, but am free to confess 1 never used any that would hit the bull's eye so often as Smith's J. L. MERRILL & CO., Cough Syrup of Wild Honey and Tar. It will cure more kinds of coughs, and that quicker than any of 49 Lisbon St., LEWISTON, them. In this New England climate one wants a bottle with them always. Q. \y. WALDRON. FOR SALE BT £INE CLOTHING. SMITH, The Druggist, FINE CUSTOM CLOTHING Cor. Main and Bates Sts., LEWISTON. MADE FROM MEASURE. PERCY D. MOULTON, Assistant Manager. JOSEPH WILSON, Locals. LEO CHARLES DEMACK Business Manager. GERTRUDE B. LIBBEY, Book Reviews. HARRY MOORE, Editor-in-Chief. HERBERT GUPTILL, Alumni. LENA B. TOWLE, Exchanges. ETHEL B VICKERY, Locals. THE BATES STUDENT. VOL. XXVIII. DECEMBER, 1900. No. 10. f Published by the Class of 1901. ; ; BOARD OF EDITORS. HARRY L. MOORE, Editor-in-Chief. JOSEPH E. WILSON. LENA B. TOWLE. HERBERT S. GUPTILL. GERTRUDE B. LIBBEY. ETHEL B. VICKERY. BUSINESS MANAOERS. LEO C. DEMACK. PERCY D. MOULTON. SYMPATHY. The fog drifts in from the leaden sea, Wreathing and curling it shrouds the hill, The veil of gray floats down the lea Like Silence deep, and all is still. The gathered mist drips from the tree, The sullen waves forget to play, The world is wrapped in mystery, And my heart and I are sad to-day. —B. TRUE TESTS OF GREATNESS. "Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know and seek in the broad places thereof if ye can find a man."—Jere- miah. VERY generation has produced its great men—or men, at E least, who have in that generation towered above the average. From the prehistoric man, whose greatness consisted in agility and the cunning to circumvent his enemies, down to the man of to-day, how various have been the tests applied. Which have been the true? for "Brass has oftener passed current than gold." 1 The world, addicted to hero-worship, has bestowed the name "great" for many and divers reasons and frequently for no reason at all, upon almost every sort and condition of men. Fame has often been deemed a test of greatness, but man's applause has so seldom been meted out in proportion to merit that it can be used as no criterion. Too often the bubble of fame has broken and left no trace of its existence. 290 THE BATES STUDENT. On the other hand, great men are often so in advance of their age that their lofty conceptions are hidden from view and their work for the time passes unrecognized. For example we may look to the early history of Greece. It has been truthfully said of her that she "allowed her greatest poet to wander in blindness and penury through her cities; she saw unmoved her greatest orator an exile; she condemned her greatest warrior to cleanse the filth from her sewers, and with flimsy pretence she doomed to death her wisest philosopher and purest patriot." Character is often esteemed the one true test of greatness. No man can be great in the truest sense of the word without character, but character alone does not make a man great. Many men against whose character nothing could be found, have lived lives of so little service to humanity that they have fallen far short of greatness.