Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-16
BoWDoIN IVY DAY.
Hundreds Of Friends Of College
Attend the Exercises.
Juniors Own Campus and Buildings
for One Day at Least.
Perfect WsatheT-1hs Ivy Hop-Sophomo
Win Race from Freshmen.

BRUNSWICK, June 15.-(Special. This
was ivy day at Bowdoin, one of the gala
days of the college year. Never were the
skies more pleasant, never the campus
more beautiful, never the events and exer-
cises of the day more successful and inter-
esting. A large crowd was present from
out Of town, both at the race in the morn
ing and at the afternoons rxercises. The
sophomore-freshman four-oared race in the
morning on the river was the closing ath-
letic event of the college year. 1t was a
good race but proved a sophomore victory,
and the air rang with SO yells and cheers
as the victors were carried up the slip on
the shoulders of their classmates.
The freshmen crew was a quartet of
powerful oarsmen and it pulled a plucky
race, but the better shell and added years
experience Of the. SO boys brought them
over the line several lengths ahead. The
time was just minutes, being % seconds
better. than the time of last years victorious
'95 crew. The course was the usual one,
considerable over mile from point down
river up to the M. C. r. r. bridge across
the Androscoggin.-The '96 crew was COM
posed of Newbegin, Baker. Brown and
Libby; and the 81 crew of Sewell, Shute,
Rbines and Thompson. The sophomores
were happy over their second victory of the
week, having also beaten the freshmen in
the field events Thursday afternoon.
The afternoon events were, perhaps, not
quite 90 exciting as those of the morning,
but they were certainly more interesting
and impressive. On Ivy day the juniors
own the college, and their sweethearts, rel.
atives and friends helped the rest of the
college to fill Upper Memorial to over flow
ing at o'clock, when the literary exercises
began. The Salem Cadet band, which has
grown to be part of the Bowdoin COM
mencement season, furnished its usual de-
lightful music. After the junior class of
so men, in cap and gown, had marched
| slowly in and taken their seats on the cir
cular platform, the following literary pro-
gramme was carried out:
Music.
Prayer. .. X. Woodbury., Castine
Music.
Grafton. E.P. Mayo, Smithport, Pa
Music.
Poem. A. L. Churchill, Houlton
Music.
Presentations: Handsome man, mirror.
A. Quimby; class schemer, globe, w. S.
A. Kimball; best mustache, mustache cup,
J. w. Crawford; class dig, ace; of spades,
Z. d. Smith; puny man, Indian clubs, G.
l.. Kimball; popular man, wooden spoon,
A. Mitchell, Jr.
After these exercises, which occupied two
hours, the class ivy was planted beside
Massachusett, hall, the Oldest building on
the campus. Here the class ode was sung
and the cheer given. j. T. Shaw wrote
the ode, and II. B. Russ was curator of the
ivy planting. The literary exercises were
of an unusually high order; the poem was
a very pretty creation, and the orator, deal
ing with the vision of the Emperor Con-
stantine and its lessons, was an eloquent
effort. The responses to the presentations
were all witty and taking.
After the planting of the ivy the impress
sive ceremony of the seniors last chapel
took place. The chapel was packed full,
the crowd being mostly ladies'. After sing
ing, and prayer and brief address by
Pres. Hyde, the senior class, with locked
arms and step, marched very slowly the
length of the long chapel, and between the
ranks of the classes drawn up in order to
receive them. Ross was marshal, and ss
they marched they sang "Auld Lang Syne"
with the power and feeling that "A manly
young voices are capable of giving. Out
side they cheered the college, '94, and the
classes below them, who in return united
in the senior yell. 1t was pretty and i'm
pressive ceremony.
In the evening the ivy hop was gwen in
Town hall. 1t was largely attended and
very successful, fitting close to the ivy
day of Bowdoin, "a.