The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-06-28
DISTINGUISHED SONS OF BOWDOlN
Among the Speakers at the Com
mencement Dinner.
Other Exercises Of the Day at
Maine's oldest College.
How the Students at Bates Ended
their College Life.

BRUNSWICK, June 27.-Today was COM
mencement day, and has been fitting close
to week of pleasant exercises.
At0o'clock this morning the meeting of
the Bow doin Alumni Association was called
to order by Vice President Charles F. Libby,
'64, of Portland. h4A
Messrs. James McKeen, Arthur T. Parker
and Llewllyn Deane were appointed COM
mittee to carry out the scheme of elections
by the alumni to tho board of overseers. The
scheme proposed Is the same as that used
now at Harvard and Amherst.
Samuel Clifford Belcher, '57, and Enoch
Foster, '64, were elected for candidacy to the
board of overseers The board conferred the
following degrees:
LII. D.-Hon. William Pierce Frye, 80; Hon.
William W. Virgin, IA; Hon. Hugh Mccullough
d: DaAmericus ,g, Fuller, '5s; William Scott
A. N; Honorary,nHenrry y,olry Jewstt Furber, Jr,,
Weeks M D asnry LSSsrd genSs HsnpE Harrison
Andrews, Alexander Wadsworth tongfellow,
Franklin P. knight, 's4, Marshall H. burlington,
George Gee yS 5. Berry, 'se' Irving W. Horne ss. 90
A. NJ. In Course George M. Norris. George S.
Berry, Walter L. Wentworth, Arthur 7. Butler,
Charles A. Davis, Levi Turner, Jr, j Ohm G. Park
er, Elmer E. Rdeout, Thomas W. Dixie, Frederick
L. Smith.
A. M Out of Course-John E. Walker, 's1; Le-
land B. Lane. S7 Llewellyn Barton, 's6; Wilson
r. Butler '85.
A new recitation hall will be constructed
at the north end of Main hail. Hereafter
the boards will meet in the Memorial recita-
tion rooms and commencement dinner will
be served in the gymnasium. A committee
was appointed to consider the erection of
S house e for the president. a com committee was
Bowd0in College.
The board of overseers elected the follow
ing members: Rev. Charles +. Allen. Kent's
Hill; Rev. Jonathan E. Adams, Bangor;
Samuel Clifford Belcher, '57.
Professor Lee has appointed John G.
Parker, 'S6, assistant in biology. At quarter
past eleven a long procession of alumni
formed in front of King chapel and, headed
by the Salem Cadet band, marched to the
church on the hill. The church was well
filled with friends and admirers of the grad
yates and sons and friends of the college.
The following was the commencement pro-
gramme:
EXERCISES FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
The Anglo-Saxon Elsment in English Literature;
WIN Aa'n 'S George Taylor Files, Portland.
Our Public Schools .........................
Lincoln John Bodge. South Windham
Twenty Years in the History OF a Naton......
Edward Roland Stearns, Saco
Russia's Treatment of the Protesting Party.
Earl Abbott Merrill, Pennington.
Music.
William Morrel Emery, New Bedford, Mass
nc lDHuence OF Arb..
Wallace Stedman Eden, Wateryille.
Commercial Union with Canada. :.....:.....
John Rogers Clark, New Portland.
Music
The Church Universal. ........................
Daniel Edward Owen, Saco
Chaucer. r.............Albert Edwin Neal, Portland
The Southern Question ...-.....................
Frank Leslie Staples, Benton.
Music.
EXERCISES FOR DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS.
The Necessity of Popular Education....
*Mr. Frederick Lincoln Smith, Newmarket, H.
Valedctory in Latin. ..........................
*Mr. Walter Vinton Wentworth Ticonderoga,
Ny.
Conferring of Degrees.
Prayer
Benediction.