The Portland daily press., 1892-06-24
OLD BOWDOIN'S DAY.
Commencement OratOry and Din.
n0r.

MANY ALUMNI RECALL STUDENT
DAYS AT BRUNSWICK.
General Congratulation Over the Bright
Prospects of Names Oldest College
President Hyde Is as Popular as Ever
The Searles Gift the Topic of the Hour.
Especial to the Press.l
BRUNSWICK, June 23.-"This is very
quiet but happy commencement has
been the comment of the alumni today.
1t has been quiet because there appear to
be relatively few alumni in town. The
younger graduates have not returned so
numerously as usual, perhaps because the
annual athletic exhibition earlier in the
| season is taking the place of commence
ment with many of them as a time for
renewing old associations. But the older
men seem to have made up for it, and
the alumni dinner seemed to be as well
attended as usual. And as for enthusi-
asm, there was never more of it. The
Searles gift of new scientific building
to cost 100000 or more, and the new
| 100000 art building which is even now
| going up on the campus. were the topics
| of every tongue. The good fortune of
| Bowdoin in the last two years has been
| phenomenal. Assistant Treasurer
Booker gave the PRESS correspondent
the following list of benefactions that
have been turned towards Bowdoin with
in the last two years:
Fayerweather bequest.. $1oO,0o
Garcelon bequest Meaiio Medieal 550oo9o 50oo9o
Woodman fund Qormerly in trusD.... 25,0o0
/ walker ArG Buldlng. ....-.... 80. 300, GOO
| Sclentl1lc building .................4 $4,000
| Shapleigh fund d...-............... 1,1O0
Edward Little professorship .......... 5000
| Observatory and Library fnnd. $3.50. 5000
Total. l......................" .S7o1, 100
Estimated value.
| Probable cost.
1t is no wonder that a spirit of JOY per-
| vaded all the exercises today.
| Really the main event of the day is
| The Alumni Dinner,
The graduation of the seniors means
much to the young men and their imme-
diate friends; but the dinner, with it's
good fellowship, takes in all. The long
procession filed into the gymnasium hall
about 1.30. Seventy years of college life
were included between the van and the
rear of that long column.
BY President Hyde at the table sat the
venerable survivor of the class of Long
fellow and HaN thorne, ex-United States
Senator j. w. Bradbury of Augusta, who
recalled that it was seventy years ago
this commencement that he first came
upon the college grounds, and heard John
Appleton, long afterwards Chief Justice
of Maine, deliver his commencement
part. Mr.. Bradbury was debarred by the
threatening weather from remaining
throughout the exercises. General
Thomas Hamlin Hubbard, 81, chairman
of the Board of Trustees, Hon. Chas. +.
Libby, '64, president of the Board of
Overseers, Rev. DIR. Egbert G. Smyth, '4S,
and Rev. VIM. L. Hyde, only survivor
present of the class that graduated fifty
years ago, also sat near President Hyde.
Other alumni present were:
| '77-George I. Thompson, Brunswick.
'52-J Il. Adams, Bangor.
'56-Galen c. Moses, Bath.
'57-Henry Newbegin, Defiance, o.
'39-C. r. Allen, Kennebunk
'62-J. f. Pierce, Monmouth.
'S8-D. M. Cole, Pennington.
'S1-Henry S. Payson, Portland.
'73-F. S. Waterhouse, Portland.
'63-Gharles Y; Bell, Lawrence, Mass.
'S8-William Fl. Bradford, Portland
'35-Josiah Crosby, Dexter.
'73-Frederick A. Wilson, Andover, Mass.
SIC. L. Nichols, Brunswick.
'89-S. L. Fogg, South Paris.
'89-J. M. Phelan, Portland.
| '91-C. S. i. Lincoln, Brunswick.
'S9-Charles II. Fogg, Houlton.
77-P. H; ingalls,, Hartford, Conn.
'S9-Frank l.. Staples, Bath.
$50. T. Watts, Thomaston.
.'9o-G. H. Tolman. Portland.
'91-G. G. Mahoney, Alma.
'90-W Z. Dunn, North Yarmouth.
'8S-A. w. TOlman, Brunswick.
'63-A. r. G. Smith, Whitefeld.
'S9-J. G. Little, Augusta.
'41-George A. Thomas, Portland.
'74-William H. Moulton, Portland.
,56-E B. Palmer, Winchester, Mass.
'74-A. F. Richardson, Castine.
SCI c. Russell, Castine.
| '91-C. H. Hastings, Bethel.
'41-William L. Hyde, Jamestown. N. Y.
'5S-F NJ. Drew, Lewiston.
1910. d. Sewall, Strong.
'72-Herbert Harris, East Machias.
'65-Charles Fish, Brunswick.
'69-Clarenee Hale, Portland.
: '88-Henry c. Hill, Cape Elizabeth.
'eO-Thomas G. Spilane, Lewiston.
'85-F. N. Whittier, Brunswick.
'S9-Lory PrentisS, Newark, N. j.
: 'S7-Arthur w. Merrill, Portland
Sc. N. Austin, Westfeld, Mass.
'S0-A. H. Holmes, Brunswick.
'62-A. Burbank, Exeter, N. II.
'57-H. Fairfield Scco.
'57-Charles W. Pickard. Portland.
'67-Staney Plnmner, Dexter.
, 'S1-William King Brunswick.
, $50. L. Rideout Portland.
'72-W. +. Bickford, Dedham, Mass.
'72-F. W. Spaulding, .Epplng, n. H.
'73-C. c. Sampson, Tilton, N. H.
'72-George Whitaker Boston.
'91-Gould A. Porter, Strong.
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