Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-06-28
Caps and Gowns Get their An
nual Airing.
Stern Tasks Ahead i0r The ColIese
Boys.
Thursday OF Commencement weel
Among the Colleges
BRu NswtCk, June 27.

BRUNSWICK, June 81.
AT nine O'Clock this morning the meetin.
of the Bowdoin Alumni Association va,
called to order by Vice President Charles F
Libby, "a. of Portland
Messrs. james Mckeen Arthur I. Parkel
and Llewellyn Deane were appointed a com
mittee to carry oat the scheme of elections
by the alumni to the board of overseers
The scheme proposed is the same as thai
used now at Harvard and Amherst
Samuel Clifford Belcher. 81, and Enoet
Foster "a, were elected to candidacy to the
board of overseers
The board of overseers conferred thu fol
lowing degrees
IL. D.-Hon. William Pierce FRYE. 80
Hon. William W. Virgin, a. Hon. Hugh
Mccullough.
d. D--Americus Fuller, So William
Scott Southgate, 81.
A. NJ. Honorary Jewett Furber,
Jr., Israel Thorndike Dana, NJ. ID. S,ephei.
Holmes Weeks, NJ. D.; Henry Lombard
Nichols.
A. b. Out of William Henry
Harrison Andrews, Alexander Wad-worth
Longfeliow Franklin ?. Knight, 81, Mar
shall II. Purrington, So, John C. Hall, -
William c. Kendall. 50, George S. Berry.
sc, Irving w. Horne. sc.
A. NJ. In Course-George NJ. Norris
George s. Berry Walter l.. Wentworth.
Arthur 7. Butler, Charles A. Davis, Levi
Turner, Jr., John C. Parker. Elmer +.
Rideout, Thomas W. Dixie, Frederick l..
Smith.
A NJ. Out of COurse-John f. Walker.
81; Leland b. Lane; Llewellyn Bar
ton, 50; Wilson X. Bptler, So
A new recitation hall will be constructed
at the north end of Maine hall
Hereafter the boards will meet in the
Memorial recitation rooms and commence
ment dinner will be served in the gymnasium
committee was appointed to consider the
erection of house for the president.
A committee was also chosen TO prepare a
charter and laws of BowdOin College.
The board ot overseers elected the follow
ing members Rev. Charles F. Allen. Kent's
Hill; Rev Jonathan +. Adams, Bangor
Samuel Clifford, Belcher, 81
Professor Lee has appointed John c.
Parker, SO, assistant in Biology
AT quarter past II 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 filed with friends
and admirers of the graduates and sons and
friends of the college.
The following was the commencement
programme
ENERoIsEs FOR DECREE on BACHELOR or ARTS
The Anglo-Saxon Element in English Literature;
with Latin salutatory,
George Taylor Files Portland
Our Public Schools.
Lincoln John Bodge. South windham
twenty Years 10 the History OF Nation,
Edgar Roland Strarns, Saco
Russia's Treatment Of the Protesting Party,
Earl Abbott Merrill, Pennington
Music.
John Keats
William Morrel Emery, n w bedford. Mas.
The Influence Of Art,
Wallace Stedman Eden Waterville
Union with Canada,
John Rogers Clark. Portland
Music.
The Church Universal,
Daniel Edward Owen Ssco
chHueer,
Albert Edwin Neal. Portland
The South~ra Question,
Frank Le.lie Staples, Benton
Music
EXrRcISES FOR DEGEEE oF MASTER ~ ARTS.
The Necessity Of Popular Education.
'Mr Frederick Lincoln smith. Newmerket, Nh
Naledictory in Latin.
'Mr Walter Ninton Wentworth, Ticouderoga,
NY.
Comforting Of Degrees,
Prayer,
Benediciion.