The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-02
ROWDOIN COLLEGE.
Exhibition Of the Senior and Junior
Classes.-Memorial Hail.

The annual exhibition of the Senior and
Junior classes of Bowdoin College took place
Thursday evening. The following was the
programme:
Frederic A. Fisher, Westford, Mass
Our Merchant Marine,
Frederic c. Stevens, Veazie
Extract from speech of Lacepede, English YER
sion from French. .*Wm. G. Reed Waldoboro
Elouuence - 49,. Clinton l.. Baxter, Portland
Mormonism. Fred l.. Johnsoh ri''shoiu
Daniel j. McGillicuddy Lewiston
Meeting of Hector and Andromache, English
Version ifo .Cb h T. stinchfield Brunswick
a '''"''''" y" 0"' : Arthur 6. Pettengill, Brewer
The Name of Shakespeare, English version ,,O+o
from German) i. .*Melvin S. Holway, Augusta
William Of Orange. 80. William l. Cole brunswick
Robespierre on Death of Louie XVI, English
version from French),
sWiiiiam o. Moody Kennebunkport
The Merit System in Civil Service Reform,
Harold w. Chamberlain, BrunsW lex
juniors.
The history of Bowdoin College, left unhn-
ished by Nehemiah Cleaveland OF the class OF
1913, and brought down to the present time
by Prof Packard, is ready for the press, and
waits only sufficient number of subscribers to
warrant its publication. The committee on
publication, chosen by the Alumni, do not
feel warranted in proceeding further with the
work until the number of copies subscribed for
shall reach 600. Subscriptions for about 40
copies have thus far been received by Prof.
Chapman, who has the list. The book will
contain 500 or 800 pages, with numerous Illus
trations and should be in the hands of ever y
Alumnus and friend of the college.
The uniforms OF the Cadets have been re-
seived.
At meeting of the Memorial Hall building
committee, held March Goth, the following
plan was adopted In the first place, there is
to be a fine vestibule with two staircases rum
ming to the upper floor. A janitor's room and
a coat from occupy the spaces under the stairs,
each side. On the first floor a wide passage
room leads to the principal lecture room,
which occupies nearly the whole north half of
the floor space Two small rooms open from
this passage way, one on each side, east and
west. These can be used for recitation rooms
or small lecture rooms. The large room will
seat perhaps three hundred persons and will be
used for general purposes and when it is desir-
able to assemble all the colleges. Tt will be
finished with view to the possible necessity
of holding chapel exercises in the winter and
on Sundays, until something can be done to
make the chapel more comfortable and con-
venient for such use.
The designs for the principal hall, on the
second floor, give beautiful effect. The cut
ting down of the windows. will greatly add to
this effect All the windows will be filled
with scathedral glass, and underneath the
round, or medallion, windows will be fur
nished between each window, running up to
the floor beams, and thus makingsa panelled
wall with long window and round window
and tablet in the alternate sections The walls,
cornices, and ceiling will be ornamented with
decorative painting. Over the entrance will
be a gallery occupying the space above the YES
tibules and capable of seating seventy-fve per-
Sous. At the opposite end, around three sides
of the stage, arranged as section of an ell
lipse will be a series of seats, rising and re-
ceding towards the wall where they will meet
the window tsills, thus giving, at once, an
economical and picturesque use of space. This
plan, it will be understood, shows the entire
ceiling and windows of the second story, and
utilities all the cornices of the floor space by
ante-rooms, rising only to the height of the
upper windows. This will be the Alumni
hall and will be the place for Commencement
dinners and all large gatherings, except the
regular Commencement ceremonies of the
graduating class. 1t will seat about seven
hundred persons.
The contracts are already made for the re-
pairs and improvements on the walls The
rest will soon be concluded, and all work COM
mence at once.
The season has sopened very favorably for
the baseball nine. They commenced practic-
that time, under the direction of their efficient
captain, Mr.. j. w. Wilson, they have made
excellent progress, having practiced daily un-
til the late Snow-StOrm
The several class crews have been diligently
training all winter and we hope to see good
race this season.
The Junior class have voted to change the
days of holding field day and ivy day exercises
from Friday and Saturday to Thursday and
Friday. By this arrangement the boat race and
baseball will be held on Thursday and the
feld-day and ivy day exercises on Friday.