The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-30
BATES COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT
Junior Prize Observation-Disclosures Of
the Trustees, etc., etc.

| LEWISTON, June 20, 1875
| The prize defamation by the members of
| tie Junior Glass occurred at the Main street
church Monday evening. The names of those
Who contended for the prize are as follows:
Our Heroic Age. .orville William Collins
| Higher Education of Women,
| Wendell Holmes Adams
| Fetters. Thomas Hobbs Stacy
The Centennial. ............... Enoch Case Adams
| Art. George Fish Adams
The Study OF Law. ..........; Marion Douglass 9
Idleness ..;;;.:.........: Irving Cushing Phillips
| Impulse and Principle. James Halman Huntington
AS whole the orations were excellent, and
! several exhibited much originality and depth
of thought.
The committee of awards, consisting of Rev.
j. c. Snow, L. III. Hutchinson, Esq, and Rev.
G. S. Dickerman, will report their decision at
the close of the regular commencement exer-
cises, Wednesday.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES.
The trustees of the college met at io'clock
this morning. The President read lengthy
address. He announced that the college had
received several important requests during the
past year. the most important having been
wiled to it by Joshua Benson, formerly of Iiv-
ermore, Maine, but for many years resident
the college will ultimately receive a large
amount from his estate.
Mr. Bates second pledge of 100000 will be
paid by him whenever the friends of the COL
lege shall raise an equal sum. 1t was supposed
year ago that the friends of the college had
met the conditions of the pledge, but it now
appears that $4,000 more remains to be raised.
The President recommends that the trustees
| unite in saying respectfully TO the Free Baptist
Educational Society that, in their opinion, it
will be for the best interests of the college and
of the denomination that the society give to
the college what it proposes to give at once.
| When the present subscription shall be filled
the assets of the corporation will be fully $780,
900. The property of the college is invested as
follows: State fund (bank stock) $50, 900; Hath
| orn fund (bank stock) $4,000; library fund (bank
| stock) $4,000
| Several persons in making their wills, have
| remembered the college, and others are serious
| ly considering their duty in this respect
| The President refuses to accept the leave of
| absence voted him until the college is placed
| on a sound financial basis.
The trustees transacted little except rou tine
| business this forenoon. Horace r. Cheney
| Esq, of Boston. made a statement in regard to
| the bequest of Joshua Benson. He thought it
would amount to about $4,000.
At two o'clock this afternoon the graduating
| exercises of Bates Theological School occurred,
| at the Main street church.
The following is the programme:
| The Principle of Christian Unity,
Theodore Greenlaw Wilder, Eastport
The Value of the Divine Expression of Truth,
| Benjamin Atherton Sherwood Norton, q
| Christianity the Religion of the Future,
| Frederic Henry Peckham, Westport, Mass
| The Success of Failure,
| John Mckenzie Lowden CORVALLIS, N S
| Christianity and Art,
| Clarence Augustus Bickford, Portland
| 1t being generally understood that the exer-
| cises of Theological school are not of the
| lightest kind, the attendance this afternoon
was small. Those who did attend, however,
! were very much gratfed at the creditable man