The Portland daily press., 1883-07-13
MAINE.
BowpoIN COMMENCEMENT.
Programme OF Graduating Exercises and
Neurology Report.

BRUNSWICK, July H. Nearly 500 OF the
day, to attend the seventh annusl commence
ment
AT a. M. the two boards met and finished
the business upon which they have been en-
gagged during the week.
The joint committee appointed by the trus-
tees aud oversesrs to nominate a prelident to
take the place of Gen. Chamberlain have not
yet succeeded in lelecting any man for the po-
stion. Prof. Smyth, of Andover, who has
been strongly urged to accept the place, has re-
fused. Meanwhile the committee will endeav-
or, during the year, to select man who will
take the place, and the committee will call
final decision.
Prof. Alpheus S. Packard, D. D., has been
elected acting president TO commence Oct. 81.
Prof. Henry L. Chapman was also elected
Dean of the college faculty, to assist Prof.
Packard in his duties as president. 1t was
voted hereafter that the president should be al
Stone Professor in Intellectual and Moral Phi
losophy. The boards voted to commend the
Hallowell Classical Institute and the Fryeburg
and Bridgton academies as fitting schools for
Bowdoin College to the generous remembrance
of the alumni.
A committee was also chc-en to confer with
the trustees of the Bethel and Foxcroft acade-
mics in regard to making them fitting schools
for the college. The thanks of the College
were extended to Col. The. W. Pierce for the
valuable gift of portrait of Franklin Pierce,
ate President of the Uuited States.
A distinguished alumnus of Bowdon, Prof.
Little, was elected assistant librarian for the
coming year. Provision was made that suita
Bile tutors in rhetoric, history and mathematics
should be appointed by the faculty.
The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was
conferred on Hon. John NJ. Harlan, of Wash.
ington, ID. c.; Doctor OF Divinity upon Rev.
Albert H. Currier, of Oberton, Ohio; Master Of
Arts upon DR.. Charles w. Packard, OF New
York City; Bachelor of Arts upon Nathaniel
Clifford Brown of Portland
Bachelor of Arts, out of course, was confer
red on Enoch Foster. Jr.. of Bethel, class of
ga; James Austin Burns, elaes of '62, Cassius
NJ. Ferguson, class of IA; and Master OF Arts,
out of course, f. o. Conant and Charles L.
Nickerson, class of TT.
The degree OF Civil Engineer was conferred
on VIM. Henry Chapman, class of 80.
A committee from the alumni, consisting of
f. r. Upton of New York, Oliver G. Stevens
of Boaton, E. G. Spring of Portland and d.
A. Robinson OF Bangor was appointed to act
with the committee lrom the boards to procure
funds for gymnasium.
The degree of Master Of Artl IN course was
conferred ON e. W. Bartlett, A. M Edwards,
NJ p hall
and III. B. Wilson, class of 80.
At II a. M, procession of the alumni
moved from Kings Chapel to the Congregs-
tional church, where the regular graduating
exercises of the claEs took place. Hon. Chas.
G. Gilman of Brunswick, acted as marshal.
Gov. Robie and staff were present at the exer-
cses. Prayer was offered by Rev. DIR. Pike, of
'33. The following was the programmes:
Education and Morality, with Latin Salutatory
....-. -. William Abbott Perkins, salem n II
Modern Estheticism. Herbert Elmore Cole, Sebago
The Character of Oliver Cromwell.
.s.....-.. George Benjamin Swan, Waldoboro
Political Duties of Educated Men ..s...........
..................he Herbert Lincoln Allen. Alfred
Philosophy as Forerunner of Christanity....
........... Charles Henry Stetson, East Sumner
Howard Re blnson Goodwin, Augusta
The Search for Truth .;;-..,...........
Thoroughness in Education. .......... ~.
- Edward freeman Holden, East otisaeld
rhe American College in its Relation to Ameri-
can Life -. EDWARD Albert Packard Auburn
ExtIa iition with England ...................
.........Noah Brooks Kent Pettengill, Augusta
DEGREE OF MASTER or ARTS.
Restriction of Foreign Immigration ......
...*Mr. Frederick Winslow Hall, Vallejo, Cal
Valedictory in Latin .......f..... ......
sMr. iliam Higgins Chapman, Newport r
Comforting of Degrees
Prayer.
Benediction.