The Portland daily press., 1896-02-17
BowD0IN ALUMNI
Enjoy TIL ,ir Annual Dinner at the
Falmouth.
Electionof Oficers-InteresiingA Addresses
A Capital Time Generally.

EIectionof Officers-InterestingA Addresses
A Capital Time Generally.
The annual dinner of the Bowdoin
alumni of Portland, held at the Falmouth
hotel evening Saturday was as enjoyable
as those gatherings always are.
These are the sons of Old Bowdoin
who gathered about the banquet board {:
Glass of 1873, Augustus +. Moulton t,
1880, Virgil o. Wilson; 1878, David W.
Snow; 1876. FIanklin G. Payson, 1850;
Joseph W. Symonds; 1883, S. T. B. jack
son; 1886; Levi Turner; 1887, Arthur
W. Merrill; 1888. Horatio L. Card /;
1872, George NJ. Soldiers; 1875, George F..
McQuillan 1882, Thomas Henry Gately !;
1866, Frederic H. Gerrish: 1899, Leon
Melcher Fobes; 1883. Robert S. Thomas
1892, Edward H. Wilson; 1889, Oscar L.
hideout; 1865, William L. Putnam
1898 Walter E. Haskell; 1860. Albert W..
Bradbury; 1898, Clarence w. Peabody !;
1868. Joseph A. Locke; 1878, Clarence
M. Baker, NJ. D.. 1885, Eben Winthrop
Freeman; 1890, Charles l.. Hutchinson !;
1860, William W. Thomas, Jr.; 1894,
Frederick W. Packard; 1872, Geo. Fl.
| Cummings. M. D.; 1885, Harry Bertram
Russ; 1866; Prentiss Loring; 1871, Geo.
A. Thomas; 1896, VIM. M. Ingraham
1889, Prof. Geo. L. Files, Prof. Vim.
Mcdonald; 1885, Walter S. A. Kimball.
At the business meeting before the
dinner, the following eff GERS were
elected:
Pres dent-Joseph W. Symonds.
| Vice observation-disclosures f. Libby.
Augustus II. Moulton. Gsorge A. Thorn
as, Clarence Hale, Prontiss Loring.
| Corresponding and Recording Secre-
tary-FrAnklin c. Payson
Treasures. l.. B. jackson.
| Executive Committee-Virgil G. Will
son, George +. McQuillan, Levi Turner,
Jr.
Dinner Committee Eben w. freeman,
Charles L. Hutchinson, Clarence A.
Baker.
| Orator--John Marshall Brown
| Poet--Augustus T. Moulton.
| Toastmaster-Ch Charles Z. Libby
After the dinner Mr.. David W. Snow
pronounced a most scholarly and in
structiye Grafton upon thoughts sug-
gested by the Venez ueian difficulties
Mr.. Joseph A. Locke chen read one OF
the brightest, wittiest and most original
of poems which clearly showed that he
had missed his calling.
| Mr.. Clarence W. Peabody was then in
trcducod AS POSTMASTER, and offered til G
| following sentiments:
| Bowdoin G llege-R Responded to by
Prot VIM. Mcdonald.
Our Country-Responded to by Col. A.
W. Brad bury.
| The Naxt Administrations RESPONDED
TO BY Hon. VIM. W. Thomas, Jr.
The Law-Responded TO by Hon. VIM.
| L. Putnam.
The State Of Maine-Responded to by
| Hon. GEORGE M. Seiders.
| The Medical Profession-Respon to
| by DR.. Geo. Fl. Cummings
The American acknowledgements to
by Pref. Geo. Il. Files.
The Eewspap per Responded to by
Frederick W. Pickard
The Good Old Bowdoin-Mr. Geo.
Thomas called upon to lead in the Old
Bowdoin hymn.
Prof. Mcdonald in his response ex.
planned the needs of the college and
spoke of the relations of the alumni to
the college.
0OI- loEaNDuIy ttnlu I'LL ClOQuEnG VII
butte to our country closing with Scott 8
lines:
Breathes there man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said
This is my own, my native land.
Mr.. Thomas a classlnate of Thomas B.
Reed in college, pointedly alluded to the
fact that Maine numbered somewhat less
tboo in la+
United States numbered some 70, 600, 600
and that the graduates OF Bowdoin stood
som ewhat in the Same proportion to the
graduates of all the other colleges, only
one in one hundred. Yet in spite of the
fact that Maine and Bowdoin were only
one per cent, the United States cams to
this little down east state and college
for men to preside over the Supreme
Court of the nation, and over the Senate
and the House of Representatives. More
than this, this year the country will ask
for q son of Maine and Of Bowdoin to
preside over the Executive Mansion and
over the destinies of this great republic.
and this because We have in Maine a
statesman that in honesty of purpose,
breadth of view, and in Drawn and brain,
towers among his fellows an some forest
giant among the whispering pines"
of Old Bowdoin rises high among the
surrounding woods. Surely it was he,
our own T. B. Reed. whom the great
dra.natist of the English race had in
view, when he uttered the immortal
words: Z. B. or not T. b. that is the
question? (Great applause and laugh
ter.) But brother alumni this Is the
English view. With US Americans there
is no question about it; the next admin
istraticn is to be 7. B. you be sure of
that.
Judge Putnam in his response to "the
Law" spoke OF it as a hard mistress in
her many and varying demands upon the
best efforts Of her votaries, but over and
above the technicalities of the law was
the earnest and honest effort of every ad-
yocate that right and Justice should
triumph. Hon. Geo. M. Soldiers, the
PRESIDENT of the Senate. spoke OF the many
and exhaustiess resources OF Maine in
its forests. its quarries, it's harbors,