The Portland daily press., 1895-06-25

1895.
Banks Roberts, Buffalo, N. Y. Harry
Bertram Russ, Freeport; Sewall Reeves
Savage, Augusta; Joseph Thompson
shaw, Gorham; George Eaton Simpson,
North Newcastle; Fred Ossian Small
Madrid; Harlan Page Small. Biddeford
Perley Dennison Smith, Waterbury, Ct.
Harvey Stetson, Bath Philip Dana Stubbs
Strong; Harvey Waterman Thayer, Gray;
George Curtis Webber, Auburn; Arthur
Goodwin Wiley, Bethel; Ernest Roliston
Woodbury., Castine.
THE FUTURE DOCTORS.
This year twenty eight young men will
receive diplomas from the medical school
Among them are several from Portland,
Portland boy, Mr.. Keating being the
class orator. These are the doctors to
be: Morton W. Bessey, Bridgton; Louis
G. Bickford, Dresden Mills; George W.
Blanchard, Lewiston; Lendall H. Brown,
South Windham Ralph W. E. Bucknam,
lewiston, Ernest L; Burnham, South
vile; Harry H. Colburn, Portland; ;
Clarence W. P. Foss. Boston; VIM B.
Flynt, Belfast Willis E. Gould, North
Leeds; Arthur e. Harris, Bath Robert
A. Holland, Portland; James E. Keat-
ing, Portland; VIM. B. Kennison, Booth
bay Harbor; Frank W. Lamb, Cumber-
land Mills. Thomas W. Luce, Winthrop,
L. McAleney, Portland Harold C. Mar
tin, Foxcroft; Alfred M. Merriman,
North Harpswell, Albert W. Nash, jeff
erson; Benjamin L. Noyes, Charleston !;
George e. Parsons, Ellsworth Harry
g. Reed Pembroke, Mass. Amos E.
Small Sunset; G IS. F. Whitcomb, Hen
mixer, N. H; Wallace E. Webber, Au-
burn.
President Hydes' annual report deals
with matters of general interest to all
friends of the college. One of the most
important portions Is the following:
The one important step forward which
the college ought to take this year is the
provision for broader, not lower or
easier basis of admission. Three years
ago I recommended that the faculty be
authorized to offer an alternative for
THE REQUIREMENT IN GREEK.
In my report for the year 1891 go. I stat
ed the reasons for the proposed change
as follows: The average number of
students fitting for college in each class
in the average high school and academy
in Maine is less than four. Our present
requirements for admission compel these
three or four scholars to be made into
class by themselves They consequently
take disproportionate part of the time
of the teachers, and they take an undue
supporting high schools, andN of the
funds of small academies. That this is
not merely speculation is shown conclr-
slyely by a table kindly furnished me by
Mr.. Daniel E. Owen of Thornton Acade-
my, Saco Six high schools, having an
average attendance of one hundred and
seven scholars, have an average of two
and five-tenths entering college Yet,
though the proportion of students enter
ing college is only two and three-t -tenths
per cent of the whole number of stu
dents, the proportion of time given to
the classical course is thirty-t two and
three tenths per cent 1t is frequent
complaint of principals of schools and
academies that the nature of the require
ments for admission to college compels
them to give to the other departments of
the school inferior teachers, inadequate
attention and imperfect equipment
Nor is the evil to the school the only
evil. A large number of boys do not make
up their minds that they wish to enter
in the high school or academy. Then
it is too late The course of study which
they have been pursuing receives no re-
cognition from the college. Every year
considerable proportion of students in
these schools and academies are diverted
from the colleges into schools of technol-
ogy or into business, simply because the
colleges refuse to recognize the value of
the training they have received in morden
languages and science as an equivalent
for any part of the classical course.
Thanks to the generosity of Mr.
Searles we now have as then we did not
have, facilities for giving advanced in
struction in the physical sciences. The
principals of the schools in Maine are de-
manding it now, as they were not then.
The recommendations of The Commit
tee of Ten, and the resolution passed by
The New England Association of Col
leges and Preparatory schools, indicate
Enthusiastically that the trend of educa-
tional thought and practice is in the di-
rection OF broader basis of admission to
college. Finally it is a fact that. if we
except Yale college, which, inasmuch as
it has the Sheffield Scientific school con-
nected with it in the same university,
is an apparent rather than real excep-
tion, every college in New England to-
day offers four years course for admis-
sion to which Greek is not requisite,
except three colleges in Maine, Bates,
Rowdoin and Colby. Furthermore, the
change now to an extent which it was
not three years ago. At a meeting,
May 27, 1895, the faculty passed unani-
mously the following resolution: Re-
solved, that in the opinion of the Facul-
ty the privileges of the college should be
extended to students offering substitute
requirement. for Greek. :"
President Hyde then goes on to say
that the college is in need of a recitation
hall, of more funds to increase and pro-
tect the library, of a new athletic field
of immediate and thorough renovation
of Appleton hall, of a common dining
hall where expenses of board may be re-
deed, of increased endowment as the COL
lege has this year for the first time in
many years gone considerably beyond its
income.
The cost of building an athletic field,
exclusive of the cost of land, has been es-
timated as follows; Quarter mile track,
built of clay and cinders, 500; prepar-
ing land inside track for baseball and
$500; grand stand, $500; total, $500.
President Hyde notes the progress of