The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-11-22
Bowdoin College.

1ne Il all CerIn clOSeu L ueSQay OF CnlS week
with the usual examinations. The usual Sen
ior and Junior exhibition took place Monday
evening at the Mason st. Church with the
following order of exercises: q, lase. =
I 1-SALUTAroRY GRAFTON IN LATIN.
,sf+.,-. Charles King Hinkley, Gorham.
2.-SCIENcE OF LANGUAGE.
: H Charles McCulloch Beecher, Georgetown, Ms.
s.-GREEK VERSION FROM ENGLISH OF sHAKs-
Ht *Usher Ward Cuts, Biddeiord.
4.-UNREQUITD GENIUS.
Sylvester Benjamin Carter, Newburyport, Ms.
5.-THE DREAMS OF LIFE. 81
Hiram Kendall Colby, Topsham.
6.-GERMAN VERSION FROM THE LATIN OF CIc-
! swinfeld Scott Hutchinson, Paris HILL.
THE CLASSICS. -71 7199a
I -" Ezekiel Hanson Cook, Lewiston.
s.--THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR. a,a ~.
( vd5 John Allen Chandler Fellows, Bangor.
/ o. SYBARITIsM. -far sFs
Frederick Henry Gerrish, Portland
10.-ENc. METRIcAL VERSION FROM GER. OF
*Stephen Morren Newman, West Falmouth.
1.-THE IMMORTALITY OF THOUGHT.
M Q John Jacob Herrick, Auburn.
12.-TENNysoN's 'TN MEdoRIAt1" ga AZ y a.
George True Sumner, Appleton.
13.-FRENcH VERSION FROM THE GREEK OF
*George Tingey Sewall Oldtown.
ELECTROMAGNETIC; IT'S INFLUENCE IN THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THOUGHT.
+ - -s Charles Edwin Webster, Portland.
+ Music by the Orpheus Glee Club of Port
land. The first prize for excellence of compo-
sition was awarded to George True Sumner,
the second to John A. C. Fellows. ,ao i;
Tuesday evening of last week, Professor
Chamberlain, by invitation of the students,
gave description in familiar talk of the bat
tie of Gettysburg, in which the Goth Maine, of.
which he was then Colonel, performed dis
tinguished part. His account was thrilling
and some of the incidents he related were
very touching. The towns and cities of Maine
which have winter Lyceum Lectures, could do
no better thing than get Gen. Chamberlain to
repeat that description, OF give one OF the bat
tie of Fredericksburg, or of the battle before
Petersburg, in which he was SO severely
wounded, as one of their Lyceum course.
some distinct idea of what fighting battles in
the war of the rebellion has been, it would
give also an idea of the heroic part which our
Maine soldiers have performed. te aia s
One event of the term has been the institu-
ton of an Ivy day, for the planting of an ivy
by the Senior Glass, an account of which has
been given to the public. This class, which is
a very enterprising one, have also undertaken
to furnish Brunswick with course of Lyceum
Lectures of the highest order during the
Spring term, This class also, propose to have
one of the empty panels IN the Chapel, filled
with a painting, at their expense.
Professor Bracket has been for some weeks
engaged in delivering course oflectures at
Lewiston on Zoology and Geology, for which
he is eminently qualified. The great loss which
the college has sustained this term by the
death Of Professor Conant has been Temporal
rily supplied by the election of DR.. W. w.
Greene of Pittsfield, Mass. who has already
attained high reputation as a Medical Lect-
urer. Professor Smyth has been engaged
this term in collecting funds for the erection,
of an Alumni, or Memorial Hall. He has OBJ
tanned a subscription of about $4,000 out of
the $25, 600 required. No doubt the full sum
will be obtained during the winter, 1t most
certainly will, if the Alumni and friends of the
College are alive to its interests. When Prof
Smyth visited Bangor ON this errand, the JEFF
fersonian, in notice of his presence and OBJ
ject, made the severe and wholly untrue
charge that majority of the government of
the College were sympathisers with Jefferson
Davis. The College Government consist Of its
President, eight Professors and one Tutor.
The President was one of President Lincoln's
supporters at the last Presidential election,
and all the rest-one only, perhaps excepted,
being probably a Democrat, though he says so
little on such subjects that few have the OPP
portunity of knowing-are staunch Republic
cans, some of them old abolitionist warhorses.
Think of calling majority of that body Of
men sympathisers with Jefferson Davis, of
which Smyth, Packard, Upham, Chamberlain,
Bracket, and, lately, Whittlesey, constitute
the majorityl Prof Smyth sent three sons to
the war, and furnished substitute for a
fourth; Prof Packard gave one son; Prof
Upham, his two adopted sons. The other
Professors had no sons of age; but Professors
Chamberlain and Whittlesy went themselves,
and about two hundred and fifty graduates and
undergraduates of the College went. What
College can show better record? srii
The Jefersonian declared that of which it
did not know and which is utterly untrue.
We hope it viii correct the statement, and the
truth be spread as far and wide as the false
hood, that no injury may come to the College
thereby. s.
1.-THE Jefarsonian has made the a1neiade
honorable, though it has escaped the notice Of