Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-28
At THE COLLEGES.
Bowdoin and Colby Graduates
Receive Their Diplomas.
An Immense Att ,ndance at the
Boxdoin Exercises.
Colby HI Large Crowd At Graduation. IIum.i
Dinner and Oihsr Events.

WATERvILLE, June 27.-(Special y
Little showers came pattering down all the
forenoon but not enough to seriously in
terrupt the proceedings of the graduating
exercises of tie class of '94 of "Old Colby"
Long before the hour for the commencing
of the order of exercises at the church the
house was crowded to its fullest capacity
with the exception of the seats reserved for
the trustees and alumni.
At $50 the procession formed at the
chapel. 1t was headed by Chambers band
and included the trustees, faculty alumni
and students. They marched to the church,
where the following programme was carried
out:
Music.
Prayer.
Music.
Origin Of Religion" Daniel Webster Kimbal
"Gladstone," Theodore Harding kinney
"A Poet to BE Read" Anuie Elizabeth Merrill
t'Browning as an Ethica! Teacher
Mary Lane Carleton
"Ihe Home in Politics." Sadie Loan,ha Brown
1.-The Temple to Athletic, Torn Down and
Remodelled." Frank Lester Ames
s"The Universal Stage in Social Development"
Frank William Padelford
"Man for Man." William BodIe Tuthill
"Are Americans Becoming Soc a'istsS" , ,
s"Tho Poetry of the Bible"
Frank Horton Morrill,
Evolution" Austin Hall Evans
tx KOssuth," Walter Francis kenrick
Excused.
The cOnfcrrirg of degrees.
Music.
The following honors in general scholar
ship were awarded:
English Orations-Frank Lester Ames,
Skowhegan; Arthur Henry Berry, West
Boy lston, Mass; Austin Hall Evans, Har-
ward, Mass. Alfred Ernest Hooper, ST.
Peters Bay. 2. E. L.; William Lincoln
Jones, Fairfield; Walter Francis Kenrick,
Fairfield; Daniel Webster Kimball, Cam
bridge; Theodore Harding Kinney, Houl-
ton; Jacob Kleinhans, Jr., Milford, Pa;
George Henry Dwight L'Amoureux, South
Hadley Falls. Mass; Percy Shepherd Mer-
rill, Waterville; Frank William Padelford,
Calais; Linville Wadsworth Robbins,
Waterville; William Franklin Rowley,
Edgartown, Mass. William Bodle Tuthill,
Goshen, N. Y; Verne Mortimer Whitman,
Norway Sadie Loantha Brown, Bangor;
Mary Lane Carleton, Westbrook: Franc ces
Harriette Clutter, Waterville Lille May
Hezelton, Norway; Clara Gordon Jones,
Deering; Annie Elizabeth Merrill, Dover;
Blara Prescott Morrill,, Waterville
Frank Horton Morrill,, Waterville; Annie
Maud Richardson, Norway.
Oraiions-Albert Little Blanchard, Unity;
John Thew Coleman, Jr., Crystal Run, N
Y; Melville Chase Freeman, Vassalboro;
Drew Thompson Harthorn, Waterville;
Wellington Hodgkins, Lsmoine; Freeland
Howe, Jr., Norwsy; Asa Minot Jones,
Unity; Fred Savage Latlip, Waterville;
John Sarsfeld Lynch, West Boylston,
Mass. Robert Move Mailman, Lubec;
Harry Weldon Osgood, Ellsworth; Thomas
Adriance Pollard, Georgetown, Col. Fran
els Burnham Purinton, Waterville; Her
bert Leonard Whitman, South Paris; Elinor
Frances Hunt, Bath.
issertations-Samuel Appleton Bur
leigh, Vassalborc; Edward Charles Clark,
WATERFORD; George Walter Hoxie, Water
Vile; Clarence Warren Pierce, Deering;
Ernest Henry Pratt, Clinton; Virgil Con-
nor Totman, Bar Mills; Frank Lincoln
Tozier, Fairfield; Nahum Morrill, Wing,
Auburn.
Beside the degree of A. B., conferred to
the members of the graduating class, the
following honorary degrees were conferred
A. M. ON Rev. Irving Bemis Mower, South
Berwick, and Henry Winchester Sawtelle,
M. D., Chelsea, Mass. ID. d. on Rev.
William Thomas Chase '65, Philadelphia,
Pa; LII. ID. on Prof. Nathaniel French
Davis. professor of pure mathematics,
Brown university; degree of A. M. in
course on John l.. Deeriug 'S4, Frank A.
A. Gilmore and Alvin p. Wagg of 80, Will
liam Fletcher, Frank W. Johnson, Albert
F. Caldwell, Herbert r. Purinton. Emeline
M. Fletcher, Reuben L. lllsley, Charles +.
Leadbetter and Charles S. Pease of 81. At
the meeting Of the board of trustees the
resignation of Prof. Norman L. Bassett as
instructor in Greek was accepted and the
appointment of successor left with the
president.
1890 the exercises at the church were
marched to Memorial hall, where the alumni
dinner was served. The popular caterer,
J. Fields Murry, provided an excellent
banquet, serving the guests with every
delicacy which money and the market could
procure. Two hundred and fifty sat down
at the first table and many were obliged to
Walt 1Or seCOuu taUics hlteK uinhei
here were short speeches by
President Whitman, DR.. Kicker, Llewellyn
Powers, Judge Whitehouse, ex-President
Small and Prof. Smaller Mathews.
During the afternoon the college build
ings were opened to visitors and very
large number availed themselves Of the op-
portunity of visiting the different buildings.
In the evening Chambers band gave q
splendid concert on the campus. The band
has furnished music at all of the exercises
and has given perfect satisfaction to every
one and many are the compliments which
the Portland musicians have received, both
from the college students and visitors.
While the band wss giving the concert this
evening the presidents reception was going
on in Memorial hall.
Bates Colleae COmmencemeat.