The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-07-09
BowdOin Commencement.
Exercises Of the Graduating CLASSROOM
mencement Dinner-PresIdent's ReceP-
iOn-Overseers'iHe eting-Etc., etc. -.
BRUNSWICK, July s.

BRUNSWICK, July s.
Commencement Day belongs to the present
generation The veterans of fifty years have
had their day and celebrated their anniversary,
and now the impatient young orators of 70
have possession of the platform for the last
time before leaving old Alma Mater. The day
dawned beautifully, and if Commencement
weather is ominous of the future, rs has a
bright hereafter awaiting it. The class num-
bers AZ members; at entering there were 6S. 1t
is the first class whose entire course has been
under the presidency.of President Chamber
lain. Some of its members are the first who
have pursued, through the entire four years.
the scientific course inaugurated by him. They
have been the witnesses, and, in many cases,
the especial subjects of his important reforms
and his peculiar discipline. The Faculty give
them the credit of being the most unruly class
ever in college. They were the last class to do
any extensive ''hazing." and many of them
suffered for participation in it. They were the
leaders in the drill rebellion of last year, and
four OF their number were the only ones who
held out and were finally dismissed. Their
ranks have been torn by suspension shot Eand
dismission shell, and few of them have escaped
unscathed Their last quarrel has been over
Glass Day, the class being determined to hold
it after Commencement, and the Faculty equal
ly resolute that it should take place before,
while the reins of discipline were still in their
own hands. The battle has waxed hotter and
hotter the past week. The Faculty have dis
creetly pursued Fabian policy while the stu
dents as usual have rushed to the fray with
all the passionate ardor of college youth The
result is the students have lost the campus for
their exercises and have been compelled to Sc
cure Lemont Hall-a most deplorable issue
since Glass Day outside the college campus will
deprive the exercises of their most sacred asso-
Citations. But the class of '75 though their
bump of combativeness Is so abnominally de-
veoped, will, we predict, turn this very trait
of character into mighty motor for right. A
new departure was made this year in assigning
parts, only twenty-three being given out. Next
year all will receive parts, but only ten will
speak on Commencement Daylight who re-
ceive the highest rank and two for excellence
in oratory and composition.
The procession formed at the Chapel at 10 o.
m. Hon. c. j. Gilman of Brunswick, acted as
Marshal. Chambers Band of Portland, head
ed the procession, affording, as usual, most ex-
cellent music. Behind the band were the grad
uating class. acting as escort to the Board and
Faculty and Alumni in the order of their grad
uation. The exercises in the church were open
ed by prayer offered by DR.. George T. Adams.
The order of exercises was as follows:
EXERCISES FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
ARTS AND BACHELOR OF SCIENCES.
Salutatory Grafton in Latin,
*Edwin Herbert Hall, Windham
Frederic Grin Baston, Hiram
Disquisition-The Saxon Origin OF English Liberty,
Horace Reed Patten, Bath
Disquistion- Humor, Woodbury. Pulsifer, Auburn
Literary squsition-National Unity,
tGeorge Newell Dorr, Center Sandwich
~ ' " ~ Seth May Carter, Auburn
Philosophical Disquisition-The Rise Of Personal
Liberty...... Charles Alvah Black, Paris ill
Dissertation-The Study of the Classics.
ERNEST Henry Noyes, HeWburyport, Mass
Reuben Richard Baston, Hiram
Disquistion-The Unity Of Human Interests,
*Dudley Allen Sargent, Belfast
Literary Disposition The Dangers Of Centraliza.
tion. Melville Augustus Floyd, Portland
Oration-Theory and Practice,
Philosophical Disquisition--Ignatius Loyola,
-, George Robinson Swasey, Standish
Horace Roger True, Augusta
Discussion-Re in France,
Wilson Nevins, New Gloucester
Disquistion-The Cultivation of the English Ian
guage, Robert Given Stanwood, Brunswick
Literary Disquisiton-The Old Philosophy and the
New, David Maurice Mcpherson, Gorham, N H
Oration-Cardnal Richeeu,
George Croswell Cressey, Bath
Oration-The War Against Alcohol,
Walter Hamlin Holmes, Calais
Dissertation-The Battle of Conscience in Macbeth,
Stephen Chalmers Whitmore, Gardiner
Discussion-Dante Alighieri,
Christopher Henry Wells, Great Fails, N H
Disquisition-A Plea for Shorter Yardstick,
Francis Robbins Upton, Peabody, Mass
Oration-Cnwritten Law,
Seth Leonard Larrabee, Scarborough
EXERCISES FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
Grafton Herbert Harris, East Machias
Valedictory Grafton in Latin.
Herbert Milton Heath, Gardiner
Comforting Of Degrees.
Ahcant