Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-02-18
BOwDOIN'S NIGHT.
Her Sons Hold Their Annual Banquet and
Enjoy Themselves.

CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER REFLECTED PRESIDENT
AND MAKES SOME HAPPY REMARKs--sPEEcHEs
BY SENATOR FRYE REPRESENTATIVE BoUTELLE,
PROF. LEE AND MANY OTHERS
Last night was Bowdoin's night Between
thirty and forty of the graduates OF that way
down east college that has educated SO many
| of the brightest men of New England sat down
to the banquet table at Welcker's and for the
time being were boys again. They talked over
the old days, their college life, sang the songs
of Bowdoin Enthusiastically demolished large
sized and handsomely served banquet Chief
Justice Fuller, the president of the Washing
ton Alumni Association, sat at the head of the
| table and made a most charming presiding
| officer. Prominent among the invited guests
was Prof. L. A. Lee, who came down from
Bowdoin to speak for the faculty. Prof Lee
] came into prominence last summer as leader
| of the Bowdoln scientific expedition, which
| penetrated several hundred miles into Labra-
| dor and visited the famous falls Of the Grand
river.
Before the banquet business meeting Of the
association was held in one of the parIors OF
the hotel Chief Justice Fuller was reelected
president and Mr.. J. c. Strout secretary, and
memorials were read in honor of three men,
pers OF the association who had died since the
last meeting.
THOSE WHO PAnTIcIPArEp.
Those who sat down to the long table that
was spread in the new banquet hall Of tho
hotel were: Chief Justice Fuller, Senator Frye,
Representative Charles Boutelle. Rev. Frank
Sewell, F. L. Bennett. Prof. j. W. Chickerlng,
Col j. ii. Gilman, s. l. Eimball. II. L. Prince,
Stanley Plummor Woodbury. Pulsifer, +. y.
FISH, Winthrop Tappan, c. II. Hastings, f. 5.
Bartlett, Charles Ii. Nerrill Ellis Spear. Prof.
L. A. Lee, William z. Drew. Rev. DR.: William
:. Southgate, J. ". Butterfeld, Col W. II.
Owen. Capt q. A. Fairfield. Gen. +. ID. Sewell,
DIR. ID. L. Wolhaupter, Prof. Il. L. Packard,
J. c. StrOut, Llewellyn Deane and Joseph +.
Whitney. With the coffee and cigars came Mr..
Ellis Spear who ofIiciated as toastmaster and
called upon the various speakers in turn.
MR.. LIEwELLYS pEANE.
He introduced as the first speaker Mr..
Llewellyn Deane, who read paper upon the
condition of the college. mentioning the Fair
weather bequest of 500 900 and other gifts, in
Guiding that of DR.. Merritt of Oakland. Cal.
who died recently and left upward OF s400 600
TO Bowdoin. This raised the total resources of
tho college to about S1.300.000. He read a
memorandum to be forwarded to the college
authorities suggesting that in view of the pros
porous condition 1t would be no more than
right to increase the salaries of the faculty and
possibly of thu other officers of the college.
PROF. LEES REMARKS.
Prof. Lee was introduced to speak for the
college. He said that there are now us stu
dents in the institutions there were fifty three in
the last graduating class and as many in the
present freshman class. He spoke of the great
improvements that are going ON in the college,
more especially in the line of library work,
which has increased in effectiveness ten times
In the past fifteen years. The college has many
pressing needs, however. especially in the way
OF new buildings for laboratory work.
AS to the Labrador trip, Prof Lee said that
several years ago he had had the opportunity
TO go around Cape Horn as naturalist on board
the Albatross- He became deeply interested in
the life of Terra del Fuego and Patagonia and
was anxious to compare the fora and fauna of
the Tar north, SO last summer he organized q
party, who chartered a schooner and spent the
summer months on an expedition into the in
terror OF Labrador. While there a section of
the party succeeded, after many difficulties and
setbacks, i'll reaching the great falls of the
Grand river, which were said to be 1000 feet
high. He was glad to have this opportunity to
speak Of the expedition, for The STAR had made
the statement that DIR. Keneaston of this city
and his party were the first to visit the falls
since they We're visited by the two employees of
the Hudson Bay Company. The truth Of the
matter was that the Bowdoin party visited the
falls and sailed away from Labrador on the
very day that the other party reached the falls.
Prof. Lee was followed by Mr.. T. E. Den
nett, a recent graduate, who talked entertain
ingly of the college as it is today, well as Of
the apparent needs of the institution
Representative BOutelle. one of the guests,
was called upon TO speak as one who had re-
ceiyed his education by induction, as it were,
for while he was not graduate of the college
he spent much of his early life in Brunswick,
the seat of Bowdoin. Mr.. Boutelle paid an elo-
quent tribute to the members of the faculty of
that day, especially to Prof. VIM Smith, to
whom was due more than to any one else he
said, the credit for the establishment of the
graded school system Of the state Of Maine.
SENATOR TRYEs SPEECH.
Senator Frye, graduate and now a trustee
of the college, gave a number of witty incl
dents connected with his student life and his
more recent relations with the college. He
said that Mr.. Boutelle had congratulated him
self that he WAS sitting at the right hand of the
chief justice OF tine United States when III fact
he was only sitting by Mel Fuller, who was a
greater man than the chief justice. and would
bring sunshine into any dark corner. AS to
the college. he said that, with all respect to the
venerable professors OF past generations, he
was convinced that the instructors of the pres
ent day doing better work than was
ever done before in all that pertains
to the education and training OF young men.
He hoped Bowdoin would have all the money
she wanted, but never as much as Harvard or
Yale, for he considered that those two great
institutions were utter failures in the all-ir,-
porlaht WORK OF making men. Nnen man
graduates from one of these universities it
takes from ten to twenty years to teach him
anything really useful
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLERs HAPPY TALK.
Chief Justice Fuller was also called upon for
few remarks, in the course of which he said
tina: the most pleasant prerogative of the Presi-
dent was his exemption from the burden OF
making speech. He did not want to make a
poor speech and he did not dare to make a
good one, because Of the burdensome re-
suits which follow a reputation of being
gifted IN that direction. In other words he
said the chief justice Of the United States
did not dare to be as funny he could.
Remarks were also made by Mr.. VIM A.
Drew, DIR. Wolhaupter. Rev. Frank Sewell,
Rev. DR.. Southgate and Mr.. Pulsifer, and the
evening closed with the singing OF that good
old Bowdoin song, Whispering Pines"
ADJUSTMENTS.
The BIscRoFF CoScERr.-The third Of the
Bischoff concerts took place in the Congrega-
tional Church last evening before large audi