Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-26

commencement day at Brunswick opened
warm and clear. The trustees and overseers
met in the library and chapel and transacted
routine business. DIR. H. II. Hunt was an
pointed professor of physiology in the med
icai school. Three hundred dollars was ap-
propriated for arranging pictures. under the
direction of Prof. johnson. Some of the
paintings will be placed in Memorial Hall,
while Others will remain in the chapel Two
thousand dollars was given by VIM. G. Means
OF Boston, to found the scholarship memory
of his brother, Rev. James Means, '33. Prof.
Geo. I. Hhtle was appointed librarian, with
additional duties of rhetoric. Rev. Wm. d.
Hyde of Patterson, N. j., was unanimously
elected president of the college, and Stone,
professor of mental and moral philosophy
The following degrees were conferred out of
the course:
ID. D.-Rev. Sylvester Burnham.
l.. l.. D.-Chief Justice John A. Peters
l.. l.. D.-Associate Justice Charles W.
Walton.
Ph. D.-James A. Burns, '62.
A. B.-Wm. M. Baker, AT, deceased.
A. M.-Dr. p. II. Ingalls,, IT.
The local members of S2 received the de-
gree of A. M.
Prot. c. ii. Smith was appointed to deliver
lectures to the seniors on public law and
political economy, and Prof. Avery to per-
form the duties of the Winckley professor
ship, latin, with the assistance of a special
instructor, as temporary measure.
The boards did not feel justified in consent
ing to the removal of the medical school to
Portland this year.
The commencement dinner was held at
Memorial Hall. Rev. E. G. Bert c. Smyth
presided, and with Chief Justice John A.
Peters. L. L. d., and Prof ii. l.. Chapman,
occupied the table of honor upon the plat
form. Prayer was offered. The presiding
president of the college, reading several tes-
timonals of his great mental ability and his
thorough going manhood, and thought it would
not be long before he would be seen in
Brunswick as president of Bowdoin College.
Speeches were made by Chief Justice J. A.
Peters, Prof. II. L. Chapman, Rev. Geo.
l.. Prentiss and others. Many pathetic illus
ions were made to the memory of Prof.
Packard, " no presided at the commencement
dinner of year ago.
In the evening the faculty gave reception
in Memorial Hall to the graduating class, the
alumni and friends of the college. Eight
members of the class of '35 he Id a reunion
at the house of A. G. Tenney of the Bruns-
wick Telegrah, last evening. This is the
practical closing of the commencement.
The attendance of the alumni has not been
as large as in previous years, but this is in a
great measure due to the G. A. r. reunion in
Portland. The week, however, has been
very successful, and may be regarded as a
fitting close for the college year just ended.
Following is the neurology for the past
two years:
ls26-Alpheus Spring Packard of Chelms-
ford, Mass, born Dec. 90, 1875, died at Squir-
rel Island, July l3, 1884.
ls27-Isiah Preble Moody, born at York,
Dec. 8, 1904, died at Newton, Mass. Feb. l.,
1886
ls2s-Luther Dearborn, born at Wakefield,
N. H., March Z, 1908, died at Wakefield,
July 10, 1884.
ls37-John r. Shepleigh, born at Saco,
June Is, 1917, died at st. Louis, Oct. IL,
1884.
iss9-Beniamin Apthorp Gould Fuller,
born at Augusta, May 23, 1918, died at
Brookline, Mass, March 23, 1885.
ls4l-Daniel Fox Potter, born at Augusta,
Feb. %, 1919, died at Brunswick, Sept. 10,
1854.
1855 Kingman Fogg Page, born at koch-
ester. N. H., Oct. 10, 1882, died at New
York City, April %, 1885.
ls54-Jobn Westley Simopds, born at
Franklin, N. H., May, 1929, died at Vermil-
ion, Dakota, June, 1885.
lS63-Benjamin Fuller Smith, born at
Wiscasset, Feb, 2s. 1912, died at Wiscasset,
March %, 1885.
ls76-Hardy Ropes Sewall, born in New
ton. Mass, March Is, 1858, died April IL,
1884.
Is77-Fremont Manning Palmer. born in
Portland, February 20. 1856, died in Port
land, June %, 1885.
lSSO-Richard Lewis SWEET, born in Bruns-
wick Sept. 5, 1858, died in Brunswick, Dec.
26, 1884.
MEDICAL.
ls2s-Richard Moody of Belfast, died
October ., 1884; aged 81.
1s2S-Wiliam Sweeney, died 1884.
IS3O-Stephen G. Martin of GAINESVILLE,
Wis died March. 1885; aged so.
Is3O-George Parcher of Ellsworth, died
Dec. %, 1884; aged SO. i,
lS3l-Noah Gilmore, died in 1884; aged
70. -
lss2-Nahum Wight of Gilmanton, N. H.,
died 1884.
ls4s-Joseph Sturtevant. died December,
1894.