The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-12-19

ernor James Bowdoin of Massachusetts,,
whose son endowed it on its foundation
with money and lands to the value Of
nearly $1,000 and decided it 1000 acres Of
land in Lisbon, Me-, just before his death,
besides remembering it generously in his
will.
Brunswick having been settled on as the
most favorable place for the location of the
college, Massachusetts hall, a three story
building of brick, was built, and the col
lege opened in 1902 with class of eight
students, all of whom graduated four
years later.
Rev. Joseph McKeen, D. D., graduate
of Dartmouth, was the first president, and
John Abbott, Harvard graduate who was
nominally professor of languages, was all
the rest of the faculty till 1906, when Par
ker cleveland, afterward famous at home
and abroad for his achievements in chemis-
try and mineralogy, was added to the staff
as professor of mathematics and natural
philosophy. President McKeen died in
1907 and was succeeded by Rev. Jesse APP
pleton, D. D., another Dartmouth man,
under whose management Bowdoin made
rapid advancement.
President Appleton died in 1919. His
daughter afterward married Franklin
Pierce, president of the United States, who
graduated from Bowdoin in the class of
1894.
Rev. William Allen, a Harvard man
and editor of the first two editions Of the
American Biographical and Historical
Dictionary" who had been president Of
the short lived Dartmouth university, sue
ceeded DR.. Appleton in the presidency Of
Bowdoin. He founded the medical depart
ment, which has since become well known
as the Medical School of Maine. During
his administration two new buildings were
erected-North college, since rechristened
Winthrop hall, in 1892, and Commons
hall in 1885. Longfellow, Hawthorne and
John s. G. Abbott, all members Of the
class Of 1926, were among the famous
graduates Of Bowdoin during President
Aliens term, and Governor Andrew of
Massachusetts and DR.. Fordyce Barker
were in the class Of 1887.
President Allen resigned in 1889, and
Leonard Woods, graduate Of Union col
lege and Andover seminary, was his sue
cessor. President Woods administered the
affairs of the college for ~ years, and dur
ing his incumbency the college made
marked advances in every line. Appleton
hall, King chapel and Adams hall were
built during his term, and Senator Frye,
General o. o. Howard, Chief Justice Full
Ter and the Hon. Tom Reed were among
the famous graduates Of his presidency,
which he resigned in 1885,
Rev. DIR. Samuel Harrisc Ct Bowdoin and
Andover was presidenG and professor Of
mental and morei philosophy from 1867 to
1871 - Memorial hall was begun during
his Term, though it was not completed un-
til 1882. DR.. Harris resigned the presi-
dency to take the professorship of system
attic theology at Yale.
Joshua L. Chamberlain, LII. d., grad
uate of Bowdoin, who had been brigadier
general Of volunteers during the war and
three times governor of Maine, was presi-
dent of the college from 1871 to 1883.
Rev. DIR. William Dewitt Hyde, the
present president, was elected to that Office
in 1885, when he was only 81 years of age.
He is graduate of Harvard. Before he
was called to Bowdoin he was pastor Of
the Congregational church at Paterson, N.
j., for two years.
Under his management the college has
prospered greatly, its funds, facilities and
the number of its faculty and students
having been materially increased. Its en-
dowment now amounts to over $500, 900
and it's libraries contain SO, 900 volumes.
1t has % professors and other instructors
and about 800 students.
Including Bowdoin, there are now 81
universities and colleges in the United
States that are 100 years old and over.
Harvard, founded in 1885, is the oldest,
and the Virginia college of William and
Mary, dating from 1893, the next. Yale.
founded in 1901, is third, and after that
they come in the following order: Univer-
sity II Pennsylvania, Princeton, Washing
ton and Lee, Columbia, Brown university,
Rutgers, Dartmouth, Hampden- Sidney,
Washington college at Chestertown, Nd:
Dickinson college at Carlisle, Pa; Univer-
sity Of Georgia, University Of Nashville.
Georgetown college in the District Of Co
lumbia, St. Johns at Annapolis; Sc.
Mary 8, Baltimore; University Of Vermont
and Williams.