The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-10

he would not speak it.
1t is sometimes wondered why he left no
ent works His ideas of perfection were so high
that he was critical with himEelf. 1t was not
that he would nod, but that he could not, do
anything complete.
In his college work he adopted his own ways
of discipline, and would much rather try to
save man than to punish him. L think that
under President Woods, Bowdoin Cole ye off
cred means of education in come re5pect9 I'M
equalled in this country.
His private influence was made powerful by
the genius that made itcelf felt in his public
addresses. None who ever heard them will
forget his baccalaureatcJ The students
brought to their President a chivalrous love
and reverence that think is rare. But at
last there came a terrible moment in our
country's history. The nation was under mai
tial law. Hearts, also, were under martial
law. Our President having little faith in the
power of college discipline, shrank from the
bloody discipline inflicted by the nation. He
did not believe thai hearts could be won and
patriotism created by the bayonet and the can
non. He may have had some belief in the
doctrine of state rights. Whether he or we
were wrong, you may be very sure that his
motives were as patriotic as those of any who
joined most eagerly in the great impulse of
the movement. He felt that the battle he was
waging for the freedom of the college from
sectarian narrowness could be better carried
had held so long and so honorably.
He found occupations that were more con-
genial to him. He was made delegate to the
Democratic convention at Philadelphia, and
one of its vice presidents. This was an expo
rience very novel to him, and one which he
greatly enjoyed. He spent much time in the
work of the Maine Historical Society. In 1867
he prepared for another trip abroad. He was
commissioned to procure materials for the
early history of Maine. He was received with
t1,o tati Of l. g,
first visit.
In 1875, fire destroyed very many of his
books and manuscripts, and this broke up the
entire course of his life. By this accident all
the lines of activity that bound him to the
past were broken The books he had studied
the works upon which he was engaged, the ma
terails he was collecting towards the life of his
father his unfinished historical work, all disap-
peared in a flash.
In June 1875, he received shock of paraly-
SIS He had never been married Now that
he was shattered in health, sister in Boston
took him to the care and affection of her home
where he died December a, 1878.
AT meeting of the Alumni Association the
following officers were elected for the next
three years:
President-Prof J. B. Sewall.
Vice President-Hon. Josiah Crosby.
Treasurer-Prof I'll. L. Chapman.
Secretary s. V. Cole.
Executive COMMUNICATION. J. B. Brown,
Portland, DR.. Alfred Mitchell, Brunswick,
Gen. T. w. Hyde, Bath
Two members were recommended TO cleo
ton to the Board of Overseers, Hon. John H.
Goodenow, class 80, and Hon. Francis Fessen-
den, class 49,
The following was voted III reference to Me-
mortal Hall:
That authority is hereby given to the build
ing committee to convey to the college what
ever interest this association may have in the
Memorial hall.
AT meeting of the Athen@um Society the
usual officers were elected and the question of