Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-06

hhS PnACSs dLQ SS1iQ iIS lSOldIlOu WAS IN some
respects benefit rather than a disadvan-
tage. The number Of students at present in
the college Is practically $50. divided into
classes of sixty. Nine-tenths Of all the
students were Maine boys, and he was glad
to bear witness to the fact that they were
the Representatives of the race Of Maine
men. 1t was the old stock Of Drawn. brains
and muscle, uumixed.
OF all those who entered the college applied
for aid to assist them in getting an educa-
ZION. And the college never refused to lend
a ready hand to help those in need. The col
lege, he said, is largely to educate those who
are unable to get away from Maine, and 1T
was great deal to the credit Of the college
to have the education of such race of men.
He did not think the college had the number
of students it was entitled to, although the
work had increased 90 per cent in ten years.
And the expenses of the college had like
wise increased. 1t was equipped through
large donations with superior scientific de-
partment and fine art building, but the
donors had not contributed for the care of
these departments and their support caused
heavy expense to the college. The library
needed aid, and a new lecture hall was
sorely needed. Every department of the
college, he said, had increased in efficiency,
and he paid a glowing tribute to the val
liable services of the board of trustees, who
labored SO faithfully and SO well with no
other considerati ton than that which comes
from a consciousness of well doing. The
loss of Prof. Young, who had given the best
years of his life for Bowdoin, was great
one. To him and his policy, more than to
any one else, the college was responsible Tor
its steady advancement. He spoke OF the
financial condition of the college, which was
not just what 1t should be, and In this con-
nection referred to the litigations over large
requests the college was interested in, and
feld out promise Of success, although ii
would be from three to five years before the
college received one cent, even IL the suits
terminated satisfactorily. In the medical
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registered. larger attendance than ever
before. Concluding, he said: 1.-The college
was founded by devotion, gets whatever
success 1t attains by devotion, and deserves
the devotion Of all those who know what 1t
Is doing"
Some Great Men of BowdOfn.
Mr.. John H. Gocdnough was the next
speaker, and he referred to the great men
Bowdoin had turned out. In speech by
that great statesman, the late James @.
Blaine, he had referred to the college, and
challenged the college records of the world
to produce six greater names than those Of
w. P. Fessenden, Franklin Pierce, Nathan
lei Hawthorne, Henry w. Longfellow, Sar-
gent S. Prentiss end John z. Hale, who
were all graduates of Bowdoin, and grad
uated within four years of each other: He
related the incident of how Senator Hale
called down Henry Clay during discussion
of the fugitive slave law In the United
States SGHdto, lISl lililt TIC ACiitdShs
statesman had ever been worsted in de-
bate. Mr.. Woodbury. Pulsifer and S. ID.
Fessenden, recent graduates Of Bowdoin,
followed in short speeches.
Senator Frye's Speech.
Then came Senator Frye witty and elo-
Qrent as usual. He was glad 10 be pres
ert. This getting together and being boys
once more, he said, was delicious. And
what relief 1t was to run away from long
drawn-out essays on the Monroe doctrine;
to forget fer a little while the terrible
atrocities In Turkey, and the condition of
the re bells in Cuba seeking liberty from the
most cruel and deSpotic people on the face
Of the earth. How glorious it was to be
with the boys again, and stop listening to
the dreadful condition of tie country, to
forget all about the reconciliation of sill
yer at IL to 1, and to get away from
reither nesh, nor fish, nor fowl, and not
even good red herring. To leave behind
the republicans, the democrats and popu-
lists and TiIlman. 1t was delightful to ne
a college boy again. But what changes
time had wrought. There at the head of
the table sat the highest officer of the
grandest court Of the world. Who would
recognize in that dignified jurist the boy
with light curls, whom nobody respected,
but every enc loved? They called him Mel
Fuller in those days. And what trans
formation had been worked at the other
end of the table, where a distinguished
R6nGI al SAT, WHO, IL we only went pdch "
the dear old college days, would be recog-
n.Zed as that good-natured red-headed boy,
Ellis Spear. And at the other END of the
table sat eX-aSsiStant attorney general
Of the United States, whom Ben Butler
complimented one day by saying, on a
81 eat water rights case in which Cotton
was arguing, that he was the first law Of
ficer in the department that he had ever
net that knew more about water than he
cid about whisky. 1t was Johnny Cotton
then. And over here that man who had
done such noble. work in organizing the
best nfe-saving service in the world. Every
enc recognized Little Kim Is. /. kimbalD.
The Senator referred touchingly to those
old comrades who had gone to a higher
school, and mentioned the names of William
Rice. Fred. Sewell, old Commander Bridges
and Lew Deane. The teachers of Bowdoin
College had hard task before them to
beat the records of the past 100 years
There was no college in the world that
could produce catalogue that contained
the names of such distinguished men.
Representative HiIborn Talks.
Congressman Hilborn of California was
the next called upon, and he made one Of
his characteristic bright speeches. He said
that when he was a boy In Maine there
were two things which he believed could
not be excelled in the world. One was Mt
Washington and the other was Bowdoin
College. He had changed his mind about
on 1t after seeirg those great mountains In
California he had suffered a change of
heart and lest bis respect for Mt. Wash
ington. Not SO with Bowdoin College. That
had increased his respect, for he had seen
all over this continent the great men she
had turned out to do her honor. There was
a territory in Maine, he said, thirty miles
square which had turned out more notable
men than any other given territory in the
world.
Other Speeches.
Mr.. 8. I. Kimball spoke about the life
saving service, and interspersed his inter-
esting speech with several funny anec-
dotes.
Prof. Chickering read set of resolutions
upon the death of Llewellyn Deane, which
were unanimously adopted, and Rev. Dr.
SeweH made some interesting remarks in
support of the theory that the notable
product of Bowdon in the way of distin-
guished men was due to the fact that the
students were wholly Maine boys, descend
ed from an unmixed race stock. Capt. H.
L. Prince read a eulogy upon the death of
Horace Piper, and the banquet closed with
the college song, 1T is the Bowdoin Creed"
Among those present were Prof. Henry
johnson, Chief Justice Fuller, John II.
Goodnough, Ellis Spear, Frank Sewall, Gen.
William p. Frye, Represe NATIVE S. S. Hill
born, S. D. Fessenden, Woodbury. Pulsifer
Crosby S. Noyes, Charles Chesley, James
c. Strout John B. Cotton, H. L. Prince, S.
I. Kimball, j. w. Chickerng, F. Z. Demet,
S. S. Gardner, B. w. Pond, C. H. VerreIl,