The Portland daily press., 1862-10-16
COMMUNICATIONS.
For the Daily Press
Letter from Brunswick.

Editors OF the Daily Press:-We have to
record many changes in our little world of
college lie since Commencement. Prof
Chamberlain, the popular Professor of Modern
Languages, has entered the army as Lieut..
Col of the 20th Maine regiment, and Prof.
Whittlesey, of the Department Of Rhetoric
and Oratory, is Assistant Adjutant General
upon Gen. Towards staff Mr.. Stephen J..
Young, A. M, OF the class of 80, is at present
Acting Professor of Modern Languages, and
is, we believe, very popular with the class un-
der his charge. Prof. Packard is protein Pro-
fessor Of Rhetoric and Oratory, besides doing
the duties which devolve upon his own Pro-
Smythe, now absent upon a tour in Europe.
Tutor Tucker, Instructor in Latin and Matl-
ematcs, Register, and Librarian, has resigned
his various offices, though he is still in town,
and engaged upon the College Library Cata-
logue, which, when it is done, will be a pom
derous volume. and withall an Encyclopedia of
books, and will be about the size of the Re-
vised Statutes of Maine. The Tutorship Of
Latin and Mathematics is held by Wellington
X. Cross, of the class of '61.
The army has drawn heavily upon us, as
well as upon other people, and the thin classes
and vacant seats in the chapel indicate what
the war is doing for everybody. Besides the
two Professors whom have mestioned, each
class has lost many of its members since Com
mencement. In the Senior Glass, Brown,
Howe, Roberts, A. j. Smith, and Sturtevant.
In the Junior, G. Bennett, J. Burnett, and
Hayes. Sophomore, Andrews, Bennett, Davis,
Knight, Kyes, and Stearns; in all IA have
entered the army. How many the Freshmen
have lost in this way of course it is impossi-
BILE to TELL but it is fair to judge that their loss
has been greater in proportion. These are by
no means all that the classes | have mentioned,
have sent to the war. Nearly every term since
the war commenced there has been cores
ponding draft, SO that Bowdoin to-day has
about two-thrds the number of students that
it had three years ago.
But the war is not the only enemy to full
classes in college. An element has been dis
covered within itself which has temporarily
absented all but six of the Sophomore class.
Some more than month ago the members of
the class felt themselves aggrieved that they
were obliged to recite to a tutor in Mathemat-
les, instead of Professor, as all Sophomore
classes had done before them; and they petit
toned the College Government that they
might recite to Professor. The petition was.
of course, not acceded to, and the class com
menced TO be exceedingly turbulent and
~ sba ,,pc, tb
matter eliminated in the class asking for an
"adjourn," and on beiug refused, taking two;
or, in the College phase, 'cutting." AS the
uninitiated may not understand the meaning
of the word adjourn, in our language, will
explain that it means haring no recitation
OF course rebellion on the part of class could
not be allowed by the government, and must
be put down. Accordingly the class were re-
quired the next day TO meet at their respect
i've recitation rooms, and recite the omitted
recitations, besides getting the regular lessons.
When the appointed hour arrived only one
made his appearance. Thus, it will be seen
the Faculty were placed in the dilemma of
either severely furnishing the class, or of re-
ceding; and as the latter was not to be con-
sidered for an instant, it was decided to sus-
pend the class; accordingly on Friday Oct
3d. all but six of them were indefinitely grant
ed "leaves of absence"
1t is thought, however, that they will not re-
main away more than three or four weeks, at
most, as their absence materially, retards the
harmonious working of the complicated ma
chinery of our college government.
Last Saturday at meeting of the Students,
the following persons were chosen editors of
the Boudoin Bugie:
Senior Editor-Nathaniel F. Putnam, Croy-
don, n. II.
Junior Editors-William II. Pearson New
buryport, Mass, Samuel S. Caswell, Strafiord,
NH.
This celebrated periodical will make its ap-
pearance in the course of four or five weeks,
and as it is journal that has quite an extern
sive circulation, its advent will be watched for
with much interest.
As students when absent from each other al
ways correspond" we have abundance of let
ters from our friends in the army / am per-
mitted to make some extracts from one, writ
ten by person in Gen. Howard's Division,
most of which is in regard to the Presidents
visit TO Harper's Ferry, short time since.
"The newspapers have informed you that Pres