The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-07-10
BowdOin Commencement.
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS


the earth and sky, yet the day will do very well
for terrestrio-celestal wedding. The proven
bal scorching commencement has at last put
| in its appearance. and Brunswick sand is Civ
| ing out its usual tropic heat There were very
many arrivals last night, and to-day all the
trains have been heavily loaded. Governors
and ex-Governors and Governors to be,
Congressman an esSe and in posse, and mag
mates with many tribes, are present. At every
street corner and under almost every tree in
the college campus are groups of men with
locks more or less silvered, recounting old col
lege Jokes and conjurng up the ghosts of dead
joys. "Her comes Benz exclaims three
score-y ears-and-ten, as a man with long gray
beard and wrinkled face saunters up leaning
on cane; and he gives 'Ben' sounding
whack on the shoulder that makes him reel.
ben" introduces his grandson as member
| of the graduating class, and the grey boards
glance at old Massachusetts Hall and sigh.
| Memories of dead and gone commandments
are reviewed, and the old boys chuckle as they
tell of greasing the backboards thirty years
ago. or of fastening that calf into the recitation
i room. Then they turn with qualm to some
undergraduate standing by, and tell him they
hope no such foolish tricks are perpetrated
| now.
Ladies swarm all over the grounds. Pretty
| girls, leaning on the arm of some student
brother or lover, promenade along the walks
and peep into the dormitories and shudder with
well simulated horror at the recital of Sopho-
moric praRks. Ladies whose locks are thread
ed with silver now, gaze with glistening eyes
and fond maternal solicitude at their boys, who,
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telling of the glorious achievements of sour
fellows and of the great merits of 'our society,"
As they look at the society and class groups
| the women wonder if such brave and hand
| some boys were ever seen before. On the whole
the scene is a very attractive one 1t is COM
mencement day, and the groups are preparing
to fall into the procession for the church, there
to listen to the "parts." Meanwhile the Su-
pervising Boards are in session.
MEETING OF THE BOARDS.
The meetings of the Board of Overseers and
Trustees were holden at a. m.
Messrs. Bourne and Titcomb were appointed
visiting committee Messrs. Bradbury and
Brown were appointed Finance Committee;
Messrs. Shepley and Swan were appointed an
Examining Committee, and Rev. j. S. Abbott
and Prof. Levi L. Paine were joined thereto.
The committee was requested to make to the
Boards written report of the condition of the
college in the matters of instruction and
study.
The faculty of medicine was authorized to
temporarily ill any vacancy that may occur in
the professOrshpis of that department.
1 The Treasurer of the College was made Au-
ditor of Accounts of the Faculty of Medicine.
| ,,ak., - A.. IN.
college to transmit to the Secretary of the
Alumni a statement of all amounts received in
accordance with the resolutions passed by the
alumni last year.
Hon. Charles W. Goddard was chosen lectur-
er on jur sprudence, Judge Appleton having
resigned that chair
Robert Amo1y was chosen Professor of Phys
iology in the Medical School,
Alfred Mitchell was chosen Professor of OBJ
| stetrcs and diseases of children.
Edward w. jerks was chosen Professor of
Medicine and surgical diseases of women
f. III. Gerrish was chosen Professor of Mate
ria Medicine and Therapeutics.
Thomas Dwight was chosen Professor of
Anatomy.
The recommendations of the faculty in re-
gard to fixing commencement for the third
Thursday in June, was adopted
| The title of Prof. Palmer's chair was declar-
ed to be pathology and practice of medicine.
The title of Professor of Ancient languages
and literature was changed to that of Professor
of Greek
Thanks were rendered to Hon. Peleg Chand-
Ter, for his liberalty in renovating Massachu-
sets Hall.
Messrs. Appleton, Chandler, Barnes, Dodge
and Tappan, were chosen committee to con-
suit with the Alumni as to the expediency of
procuring by joint action of the legislatures of
Maine and Massachusetts, change in the
charter, by which the board of overseers may
be chosen by the Alumni A vote sustaining
the president in the 'snew departure was pass
| ed.
Two recitations in the morning and one in
the afternoon, were recommended.
Drs. Swan, McKeen and Lincoln, were chos-
en- members of the medical faculty
The four entrance scholarships proposed last
year, were approved and authorized to be con-
tinued.
| A. d. Lockwood resigned the office of treas
urer Of the college, and Joseph Titcomb, was
chosen in his stead.
| Provision for establishing an analytical labo-
ratory, yves authorized.
$3.50 were appropriated for various expenses.
| 1t was voted that the meeting of the board of
overseers be held on Tuesday, before COM
mencement Thursday.
Charles A. White was chosen. Josiah Little
Professor of Natural History.
The degree of M. A. was conferred upon DIS,
Alexander, G. f. Beale, W. E. Frost, f. E.
Hanson G. w. Hobson, w. E. Holmes, j. w.
Keene, C. HI. Moore, R. M. Peck, E. B. Red
man, j. B. Redman, A. G. whitma. sh, E. B.
Weston, of the class of 10; r. B. Hayward of
'56; A. j. Smith of '63, and U. w. Cults of 81
The degree of A B. was conferred on c. B
Benson of class of IT, A. Wiswel of '43, 7. S.
Perry of 81, j. L. Crosby of '53.
Charles H. Moore was chosen Instructor in
Latin.
line degree OF A. b. was conferred on the
following members of the graduating class
Loren Foster Berry, William Augustine Blake,
Albert Joel Boardman, James Mcclellan
Boothby, Hervey Wilfred Chapman, Nathan
Dane Appleton Clarke, Edwin James Cram,
John Arthur Cram, Augustus Luther Croker.
Benjamin Tappan Deering Isaac Luther Elder
John Frederic Elliot Albert Cushman Fair
banks, William Green Fassett Frank Astlev
Floyd, Royal Erastus Gould, Francis March
Hatch, Addison Emery Herrick Horace Bar
rows Hill, George Evans Hughes, Alfred Gree
ley Ladd, John Nathaniel Lowell, Augustus
Freedom Moulton, George Sewall Mower, Al
bert Francis Richardson, Franklin Clement
Robinson, Cassander Cary Sampson, David
William Snow, Clarence Marshal Walker.
Frank Shepard Warehouse, Fred Eugene
Whitney, Fred Arthur Wilson, Andrew Peters
Wiswell.
III the Board of Overseers: Joseph Dane Ken
nebunk; VIM. T. Savage, Franklin, N. H.:
Nelson Dingley, Jr., Lewiston; W. M. Barbour.
Bangor; Cyrus Woodman, Cambridge, Mass.
THE PARTS.
The following were the parts:
Salutatory Grafton in Latin
Augustus Freedom Moulton, Scarborough
Philosophical Dsquistion. "A Phase of Evolution
Hervey Wilfred Chapman, Bethel
Literary Dlsquistion. The Two Records.
Lorene Foster Berry, Biddeford.
Dsquls1tlon Universal Education.
Benjamin Tappan Deering, Augusta.
Literary Disquisition. .
Relation of he Aoa tn Ral; audi ,n1