The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-07-04
WHY OUR ARMY LEFT DUTCH GAP.
General Butler Told All About 1t at
Dinner Yesterday,
Besides Giving the college a Picture
Of Himself.
Yesterdays commencement Pro-
gramme at Colby University.

WATERvILLE, July 3.-At the commence
ment dinner Gen. Butler presented a large
oil portrait of himself in army uniform
painted on the field. In an interesting
speech, he stated that his failure to open
Dutch Gap for which he was severely
criticised was not from inability but because
the commander Of the Union gunboats on
the James feared the rebel vessels would
come down through it and destroy our
squadron and requested Gen. Butler to desist
from his work to open the Gap. He stated
that this was the real reason Dutch Gap was
abandoned by our army.
Hon. E. F. Webb accepted the gift on be-
half of Colby in very graceful speech.
The concert on the campus this evening
and the presidents reception closed the ex-
ercises. A Freshman class of fifty is ex-
pected.
The following programme of commence
ment exercises was carried out today:
Watch Words of the Nation.
.................. Nelson s. Burbank, Jefferson
-A' :...... e.s.s o Charles H. Pepper. Waterville
o o..o VI M Hiram E. Farnham, Belgrade
Tie Crises Of History. Henry B. Woods. Calais
..............H Hattie M. Parmenter, Waterville
Trusts. Lincoln Owen, Buxton Centre
Two oen.e'niais Edward F. stevens Waierville
Parallelism between Art and Literature......
......................H Henry w. Frye, Belfast
The Lyric. .Abram Wyman, SkOwhegan
The CoDferring of Degrees.
The following were the honors in general
scholarship in the graduating class:
ENGLISH oRATIoNs.
Nelson s. Burbank, Jefferson.
Henry W. Frye, Belfast.
Lincoln Owen, Buxton Centre.
Hattie M. Parmenter. Waterville.
Charles II. Pepper, Waterville.
Eugene L. Sampson, Waterville.
Mary L. Tobey. Norridgewock.
Henry B. Woods, Calais.
Abram Wyman. Skowhegan.
oRATIoNs.
Hiram E. Farnham, Belgrade.
James King, Wateryille.
Frank 4. Nye, SkOwhegan.
John L. Pepper, South Norridgewock.
Beecher Putnam, Houlton.
Edward F. Stevens, Waterville.
DISSERTATIONS.
Parker P. Burleigh. Houlton.
Charles +. Megquier, East Corinth.
The graduating exercises took place at the
Baptist church at 10 a. m.
The trustees received check for $500
from Mrs. Edwin Noyes, to found the Timo-
thy Routelle library at Coburn Classical In
stitute.
A plan of college government by the
faculty and the students was approved.
There is to be board of conference to con-
sist of three professors and ten students,
and the students are to be intrusted with
maintenance of order in the dormitories and
on the campus.
Resolutions of coincidence and regret were
passed on the decease of Gardner r. Colby.
Charles L. Colby of New York, r. G.
Shannon of New York and Judge George
Wilson of Paris were elected trustees.
Degrees were conferred as follows:
A. NJ, in course-R. F. Metcalf, LII. D.; p. 1.
Merrill, G. g. Bryant, j. E. Winslow. z. p. Small,
class of 1886.
A. NJ, out Of course-Wm. H. Baldwin, Cincin-
natl.
LII. D.-Artemas Libbey. Augusta.
Phi. OWN. III. Lambert, Fall River, Mass.
W. II. Bayley, of Baltimore, was elected
professor of natural sciences.