Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-12
Brooks was chosen for the place you were
the very man had In mind"

the very man had in mind
Progress of the College.
With this pleasant beginning President
Hyde went on to make an Interesting ad-
dress on the subject of the present condi-
ton of the college. Said he: In appeal
ing from the college in the shell to the
college Matched we have every reason to
be satisfied with the progress of incuba-
ton. l see about me man who was the
most fawless student in his day now pos
ing as a general in the army, the man
who was most obstreperous as speaker and
the widest as a Senator, but 1t is of the
progress of the college that / would speak
now. Ten years ago the finances of the
college were in a very unsatisfactory con-
dition; now they are entirely satisfactory
The buildings We're put down then as worth
$li4,OtU; now they are worth $450,OOO. We
have finer dormitories and an observatory,
building for sciences, laboratories and
an art building that will compare favora-
bly, with the best. Buildings and money,
however, are not everything The course
of study is the most important and this
has been materially improved. Instead of
scattered courses we now have continuous
courses, so that man may pursue the
same study consistently for two years.
We have grown from los to 219 students
We will not try 20 become a university
the community from which we draw our
students is too small. but we are salts
fed to remain a college and are turning
to other universities to pursue advanced
courses. We are not going in for co-educa-
ton, not because We do not believe in the
education of women, but because with
three colleges for women it remains the
province of Bowdoin to educate young
men. Three things college must be able
to do. First, it must give a severe and
rigid discipline and drop out men SO that
the quality and not the quantity of the
classes shall be maintained. At Bowdoin
we are willing to drop tenth of the class
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him reason for his work and make him
interested in what he is doing. This is
the object of the elective system, system
which has been greatly misunderstood.
Third, II must get man to interest him
self in the study for its own sake These
three things are what Bowdoin is standing
for so successfully.
Morally, the men of Bowdoin are of a su-
perior class, and 1t would be hard to find
community more respectable and free from
vices Through the agency of the college
jury, the men govern themselves better
than the faculty could do. In eight years
Only four men have been severely disciplin
ed by the college, All other cases have been
dealt with by the jury. Morally. socially
and intellectually, the college is in most
satisfactory condition, and is doing a good
and creditable work. We have every rea-
son to be thankful and hopeful that we
shall continue to send out men equipped for
any sphere of life"
After the singing of Whispering Pines"
Gen. Howard was called upon. He was in
PRODUCED as man of undoubted courage on
field and flood, the latter part proved by his
behavior on the steamer Spree last year
As Mr.. Dean said. IF he did so well on a
spree, what might he not do when SOBER
Gen. Howard. speaking Of his temperance
principles, said that the name of the steam
er should be pronounced spray" Spree
means an excess of whisky, but spray is a
surplus OF water. and this was the matter
with his steamer. He then went on to give
some pleasant "reminiscences of his college
days under President Wood, at the mention
OF whose name every one applauded vigor-
SusIy; lie paid a pleasant tribute to Gen.
Sewali as an officer in the war and to Col
owen, who was his quartermaster He then
gave little bits of history, interesting and
timely. that connected him with his fellow
alumni about the table.
Speaker Reed Made n Substttute
Bowdoin dinner without Senator FRYE
would be curious dinner indeed. but last
night when he was asked for a speech he
gave one that was probably the shortest
tnat ne has ever delivered on such an &C.
casion Said he: There are new faces
ABOUT the table tonight and new voices
back or them, and / think the boys here
would like to listen to these voices rather
tnan TO me. 1 have never missed a ban
quet OF this associa ton and never fail to
make speech, but tonight there is a gem
uemah present on the opposite side of the
table whom We would all like to hear l
can't say that know him personally and
l don't know that would admit 1t If did,
put Judging by the cuts / have seen in the
newspapers 1t must be Tom Reed of Maine
and l hereby appoint him my substitute"
res. and the late war never would have
been won unless the people had sent better
substitutes than you have provided" said
the ex-czar of all America as he ambed
to his feet. Il did not expect to speak this
evening. This. you probably think. is a
Is that 1 forgot all about this dinner and
so forgot to prepare the speech that a man
always has ready when unexpectedly called
upon to speak. But first / would like to say
few words about this young president Of
our college. l remember that when he was
selected for that position people said We
were taking long chances to pick so young
a man, but in view of what he has ac-
complished since l must say that we took
no chances at all. / am glad, however,
that the new dispensation he has inaugu-
for if they had made it the practice then to
drop ten men from each class to improve
the quality 1 can see in my minds eye old
Prof Packard looking over his glasses at
me. 1 am not making speech, but In
closing these remarks 1 want to say that
after all these years in which 1 have had
a chance to look about me. L have nothing
but feelings of satisfaction that the four
years of my college life were spent under
the whispering pines of old Bowdoin."
senator Washburn.
Senator Washburn of Minnesota, but a
native of Maine. and a graduate of Bow
doin, was introduced as a member of the
class of "a, which did not believe in the
Maine law. He spoke of life along the An
droscoggin and of his college days and said
that as the years roll on he looks back
with more pleasure at his college
course than at any other period of his life.
And now at this time, he could say that 1t
was with even more pride that he looked
upon the men that Bowdoin is sending out.
He spoke of the value of the training given
in the smaller New England colleges in
comparison with that at the larger uni
versities with all the nonsense they are
sending out. He was willing to pin his
faith to cid Bowdoin, and in closing he saiS
that though he had a son at Yale also had
another whom he was going to send to
Bowdoin.
DR.. Rankin made pleasant little address
in which he said that he had come very
near being a student of Bowdoin himself.
He spoke of the pleasure 1t gave him to
he at this dinner, though he was not ac-
customed to dine with pubiicans and sim
ners He had had under him as pastor OF
a church in this city Gen. Sewall and Gen.