The Portland daily press., 1897-06-29
PRESENTATION DAY AT COLBY.
Junior Glass Gives the College Magnifi-
cent Drinking Fountain.

Junior Glass Gives the College Magnifi-
cent Drinking Fountain.
exercises of the Junior class occurred on
the Colby campus toay.
After the opening exercises the oration
was given by Harrison A. Allen of VAS
| salboro, who took for his subject the
Deathless Dead.
The grafton was followed by class
poem written and read by Miss Alice
Lena Cole of Hope.
| After a selection by the band the his
tory of the gentlemen was read by Justin
Owen Wellman of Augusta, and the his
tory of the ladies by Miss Mary Caroline
Evans of Fairfield. Following the his
tories the ode was sung.
ode, Bertram Carver Richardson of
Brockton, Mass, conducted the award
ing of the prizes. The hits were well
taken. The first presentations were a
tin sword and wooden gun to Col Arthur
Hartstein Page of Fitchburg, Mass, and
| Capt. Edward Henry Nash of Portland,
Henry Lysander Corson of Canaan, the
class cherub was awarded a pair of white
wings. 'SS's day dreamer, Charles Mil
lett Drummond of Portland received
candle. The queen of forgetfulness, Miss
Mary Caroline Evans of Fairfield, was
presented with a large tag. Everett Carl
ton Herrick of Greene, the original
| dol
A round comb was the present given
| to Fred Parker Hamilton Pike of Boston,
the long haired wonder Of the class. The
professor of cuts, Willard Lowell McFad-
den of Waterville, received pair of
shears. The presentation to '9S's fair
maidens, through their president, Miss
Edna Harriet Stephens of Norway, was
a bunch Of beautiful roses, containing
one for each member of the class. The
closing presentation was a squirt gun,
| which is the hereditary property of the
even year classes to the class of 1900.
The class then marched to the front of
Champlin hall where the stately granite
drinking fountain stood ready to be un-
veiled The president of the class, John
Edward Nelson of Waterville, then ad-
ressed Hon. Josiah H. Drummond, the
chairman of the board of trustees, and in
a brief speech presented the fountain to
the college.
After. the presentation speech the foun-
tain was unveiled and accepted on behalf
of the board of trustees by Hon. J. n.
Drummond of Portland. The presenta-
tion ode was then sung.
In the evening occurred the junior ex-
hibition with the following programme:
A Plea for the Immigrant,
Willard L. McFadden
The English Ballad,
Edna Harriet Stephens
The s'Boss'' in Politics,
Norman K. Fuller
American Perpetuity,' Everett c. Herrick
The Romance of New England,
Janet G. Stephens
In War and Peace, Charles E. Gurney
A Hero of Emancipation,
Charles M. Woodman
The Master for a Certain Theme,
3 Alice L.Cole
The World and the Dreamer,
f 81 Harrison S. Allen
The Next Step, Arthur H. Page
The members of the class of '97 who
rGC0lV6u an 6l6CUlOu 10 En1 Beta Kappa
were publicly received into the society at
the college chapel Saturday evening. The
address to the new members was made
by DIR. Butler. The members admitted
were George Kemble Bassett, Winslow;
Fred Elmer Taylor, Bath; Harry Bates
Watson, Oakland; Charles Huntington
Whitman, Bangor; Alice L. Nye, Auburn;
Tina P. McCallum, Warren; Martha D.
Tracey, East Rethel; Edith B. Hanson,
Skowhegan.
The Phi Beta Kappa held it's annual
meeting and banquet in the afternoon
when Rev. DIR. Lorimer and Miss Mary
A. Sawtelle, the latter dean of the Wom-
an S college, were elected honorary men,
bers. President. Butler Of the college was
reelected fraternity president; Prof. L.
B. Warren, secretary; Prof. J. William
Black, treasurer; Hon. S. S. Brown and
Mr.. F. W. johnson, executive commit
tee. The banquet was largely attended.
Addresses were made by Rev Francis
W. Bakeman, d. d. of Chelsea, Dr. VIM.
| Matthews of Boston, Hon. S. S. Brown
of Waterville, Norman L. Bassett of the
Harvard Law school and Prof. E. W.
Hall.