Bowdoin College Bowdoin Digital Commons Bowdoin Alumni Magazines Special Collections and Archives 1-1-1936 Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 10 (1935-1936) Bowdoin College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/alumni-magazines Recommended Citation Bowdoin College, "Bowdoin Alumnus Volume 10 (1935-1936)" (1936). Bowdoin Alumni Magazines. 10. https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/alumni-magazines/10 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]. "1**^* IfIf. We BOWDOIN ALUMNUS NOVEMBER 1935 Volume X Number 1 ^*- * ~ ^ *$ W7^ *"• 1 ' %» '*** sA/lW 1 j&#lr%r¥ * -1 1 I 4| v \ 1 f CS V -5>- IT" III I npp JW/Z Captains and Champions at the School-Camp WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL-CAMP 1936 Summer Term—July 9 to September 3 Lloyd Harvey Hatch, Director Lake Wassookeag, Dexter, Me. STAFF OF 13 COLLEGE AND SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR 40 OLDER BOYS PROGRAM ARRANGED FOR THE INDIVIDUAL: 1. 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 1935 WASSOOKEAG STAFF FROM BOWDOIN: 1. Lloyd H. Hatch, B.S., '21, Director; 2. Charles E. Berry, A.M., '26; 3. Robert D. Hanscom, Ed.M., '23; 4. Norman S. Waldron, A.B., '30; 5. Edward G. Buxton, A.B., '28; 6. George W. Freiday, Jr., A.B., '30 (Sab- '28. batical Leave) ; 7. Walter O. Gordon, M.A., SCHOLASTIC RECORD: Final candidates in the 1934-35 student group at the School and the final candidates of the 1935 summer term at the School-Camp attained a perfect college entrance record— 14 graduates entered Amherst, Boston University, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Hamilton, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Wesleyan, Williams, and Yale. The School-Camp Fleet WASSOOKEAG SCHOOL Mr. Hatch, Director of Wassookeag School-Camp, is the founder and Headmaster of Wassookeag School, The Tutorial School 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 Postomce 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. Mf.laugh '36, Business Manager ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD Henry A. Huston '79 Kenneth A. Robinson '14 Arthur C. Bartlett '22 James E. Rhodes, ii, '97 Dwight H. Sayward 'i6 Henry S. Dowst '29 Thomas L. Marble '98 Norman W. Haines '21 Harrison M. Davis, Jr., '30 Vol. X November, 1935 No. 1 A Look at the College Bowdoin has opened its 134th year with percentage. Thirteen freshmen are the the largest enrollment in its history, a total sons of Harvard men and five fathers at- of 617 men now being listed at the College tended Yale, while Tufts, Massachusetts office. Of this number 186 are freshmen, Institute of Technology, and the University a group somewhat larger than entering of Maine are each represented as the alma classes of recent years but not exceeding mater of four of the men. The full list the usual figure by enough to account for comprises thirtytwo institutions, the most the increase in the size of the student body, remote being the University of Warsaw, which is primarily traceable to the con' An analysis of occupations of fathers of tinuing of more men from the lower classes freshmen shows almost fifty classifications, to the junior and senior years than has re led by those two vague divisions "sales" cently been the case. and "manufacturing". Seventeen doctors A geographical analysis of the new men are on the list, and ten lawyers, with about shows that a majority of them, 87, are a dozen in the field of real estate and in- from Massachusetts, while 52 are from surance. Three members of the class are Maine. Connecticut has sent 11, New York sons of law enforcement officers, while 10 and New Jersey 7, while there are 10 other unusual occupations include a vet' from other New England states. One man erinary, a blacksmith, and a missionary, is from California and there are 8 repre- As would be expected, the largest re- sentatives of other states toward the West. ligious preference classification is that of More than half of the entering class are the Congregationalists, with an enrollment sons of college men, and thirty of the group of about sixty. There are about two dozen present both fathers and mothers who have Episcopalians and the same number of attended college. The list of institutions Catholics, with twenty-one Unitarians and attended by fathers of freshmen is headed a scattering of representatives of other by Bowdoin, twentyseven of whose sons groups, including one Quaker and an affili' have sent their sons in turn to the college ate of the Greek Orthodox Church, of their choice. This is an unusually large The College dormitories are practically [1] [The B o w d o i n Alumnus full, and there are about a dozen students Weeks, Jr., son of Ernest E. Weeks '12, quartered in the residence of the late Pro- Harold S. White, Jr., son of Harold S. fessor Cram at 83 Federal Street, with sev- White 'ii, and Frank E. Woodruff, sod eral other privately controlled student of Dr. John H. Woodruff 'ck. houses near the campus. Phi Chi, the soph' omore society in charge of freshman disci- Teaching Fellows pline, was abolished by the faculty last Since the opening of College six teach- spring, but its duties have been taken over ing fellows have been appointed for the by a new committee responsible to the first semester. The group includes George Student Council, and the Class of 1939 B. Welch, Ph.D. '22 in Mathematics, will be expected to conform to traditions Joseph E. Odiorne, Ph.D., "25 in Biology, as have its predecessors. Van Courtlandt Elliott, Ph.D. '28 in Clas- sics, James P. Pettegrove, A.M. '30 in Eng- Alumni Sons lish and Philosophy, Gerhard O. Rehder '31 in History, and Marshall S. Barbour Sons of alumni in the Freshman class '35 in Chemistry. are -.Luther D. Abbott, son of E. Farrington Abbott '03, David W. Bamford, son of Wellington A. Bamford '16, John E. Cart- Alumni Day- land, Jr., son of Dr. John E. Cartland 'n, Plans for the observation of Alumni Arthur Chapman, Jr., son of Arthur Chap- Day, to be held at the time of the Bates man '94, Harry H. Cloudman, Jr., son of game on November 2, are in the hands of a Harry H. Cloudman 'oi. Reed H. Ellis, Jr., committee of the Alumni Council com- son of Reed H. Ellis '09, Louis Garcelon, prising Scott C. W. Simpson '03, Thomas '08, K. Jr., son of Louis Garcelon William C. White '03, and George F. Eaton '14. Gardner, son of George R. Gardner *oi, During the morning there will be meet- Winslow C. Gibson, son of Algernon T. ings of the Alumni Council and of a group Gibson 'n, Everett L. Giles, son of Ralph of Fraternity Advisers, and at ten-thirty W. Giles '07, Ernest L. Goodspeed, Jr., an exhibition swimming meet is scheduled son of Ernest L. Goodspeed '09, Thomas to begin. The Alumni Luncheon will be F. Gordon, son of Eugene B. Gordon '14, held in the Gymnasium at noon, featuring John H. Greeley, son of Willian H. Gree- lobster stew and chicken salad. Special ley '90, Leslie S. Harris, son of William guests will be the varsity football men of M. Harris '09, Charles O. Hunt, son of 1 910 and 1925. A ladies' luncheon will Dr. Charles H. Hunt '02, Seth L. Larrabee, be served in the Moulton Union. After the son of Sydney B. Larrabee '03, Richard game President and Mrs. Sills will be at F. Marsh, son of Harold P. Marsh 'io, home and there will be tea dances in several William B. Nulty, Jr., son of William B. chapter houses, as well as an evening dance Nulty 'io, Jotham D. Pierce, son of Leon- in the gymnasium. It is expected that ard A. Pierce '05, Nahum R. Pillsbury, attendance throughout the day will be un- Jr., son of Dr. Nahum R. Pillsbury M'i5, usually large, especially if the Colby game Thomas P. Riley, son of John W. Riley has been won. '05, Blinn W. Russell, Jr., son of Blinn W. Russell '07, Edgar F. Sewall, Jr., son of Edward A. Thompson "91 read "Dis- 1 Edgar F. Sewall '09, Charles E. Skillin, son raeli ' in Memorial Hall on the evening of of Dr. Waldo T. Skillin 'n, Ernest E.mOctober 21. The B o w d o in Alumnus'] Gridiron Opening MALCOLM E. MORRELL '24, Director of Athletics The football team has played two games punter in the first part of the game. It was as this is written, and has looked good in the first game under a new system and the both.