Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-16
BATES COLLEGE.
Full Attendance at Opening
Of College, tuesday.
Seventy-one in Freshmen Class Some
More Expected, Later.
Prospects Tor Victorious Foot Bali Team Arc
Very Rosy Practice Commences.


The fall term of Bates college
opened. Tuesday. with most of the old
students back in their places. The
freshmen class promises to be large
one, it being impossible to determine,
thus early, just how many there will
be. AT present II have entered with a
prospect of quite a number more later.
The following is the names of the
freshmen class together with their fit
ting school:
Clara Francis Allen, Leominister,
Mass. High school; Florence Sophia
Ames, Lewiston High school; Julia
Emma Babcock, Levi ston High school,
Sadie f. Bangs. Lewiston High school;
Elwyn Bynell Bemis, Dexter High
school: Wallace Mellen Bickford, Au-
burn High school; Harry Alfred Blake,
Dexter High school; Lucian William
Blanchard. Rumford High school: Ar
thur Calwell Brown. East Poland High
school; Robert Alphus Brown, Nichols
Latin school; Preston Jewett Carver,
Auburn High school,; Marguerite
Blanche Chapman, Bowdolnham High
school; Bessie Dyer Chqse, Lewiston.
High school; Earle Alfred Childs, Will
ton academy; Ernest Fairlie C,ason.
Nichols Latin school; Edna Cornforth,
North New Portland High school;
Elmer Eugene Daicey, Auburn High
school; Francena Bertha Rust Day,
Auburn High school: Ethel Mae Deane,
South Paris H gh school; Arthur Lewis
Dexter. Whitman. Mass. High school;
Charles Fletcher Donnarker, Melrose,
Mass, High school; Willard Melvin
Drake, Auburn High school: Philip
Revere Everett; Bertha Sarah Field,
Auburn High school; Alice Miriam
Filtz, Natick, Mass, High school; AL
bert Francis Fowler, Nichols Latin
school; William Shelton Glrcelon,
Nichols Latin school; Edna Mae Cos
line, Newton, Mass. High school;
school; Virgil Dewitt Harrington,
Lexington. N. H.. High school; Clar-
ence Loring Jordan. Nichols Latin
school; Charles Garfield Keene. Gardi-
ner High school; Lucy Florence Kim
ball, Newbuiyport, Mass, High school;
Helen Knowlton, Pennington High
school: Lillian Gertrude Reggett,
Northboro, Mass. High school; Percy
Augustus Leighton, Nichols Latin
school; James Alexander Lodge, Man.
chester. Mass. High school; Florence
E. Lang, Monson academy; Georgiana
Lunt, Auburn High school; Ida Mae
Manuel, Franklin, N. H.. High school;
Alfred Elwood McCleary. Maynard,
Mass. High school; Philena McCallis-
ter, Lewiston High school; Ernest Lie
wellyn Mclean, Augusta, Cony High;
Bion Corydon Merry. Nichols Latin
school: Annie Eunice Millay, Bowdoin-
ham High school; Frank Benjamin
Moody, Nichols Latin school; Angus
tine Dec Ohol, Gushing academy. Ash
burnham, Mass; Clarence e. Park:
Ruth Eugenia Psttengil1, Gardiner High
school; Ray Eugene Pomeroy, Lewis
ton High school; Evelyn Achsah Pur-
inton, Bowdoinham High school; Ma
bel Arnold Richmond. Monmouth
academy; Edville Adallos Roys,
Nichols Latin school: Ethel Olineda
Russell, Auburn High school; Samuel
Ellison Sawyer. Auburn High school:
Claribel Gilman Smith, Monmouth
Bowdoinham High school; Walter e.
Sullivan. Lewiston High school; Laura
Anna Summerbell, Lewiston High
school; Franklin Asbury Tenney,
Nichols Latin school,; George w.
Thomas, Monson academy; Walter
Pearl Truell, Northboro, Mass, High
school; Grace Ellen Thompson, Ports
N. H., High school; Harry
Harding Thurlow, Nichols Latin
school; Arthur William Tryon. Au-
burn High school; Ellie Louise Tucker,
Laconta, N H., High school; Charles
Oscar Turner, Pennington N. H.. High
school; Erastus Lewis Wall, Hebron
academy; Bessie Vara Watson, Med
way, Mass. High school; Susie F.
Watt; Margaret Elizabeth Wheeler.
Mass, High school.
Several of the students are out teach
ing, Mr.. Hicks, 80, is teaching in
South Paris, Miss King '99. in West
Minot. Miss Berry, 100, in Springfield
Normal school, A. NJ. Jones, 90, in
Brooks, Bragg, 1901, in Ripley and
Crossman, '01, in Monmouth.
Erastus Wall, formerly member of
Colby 1901, has entered Bates, 1902.
formerly of 1900, has entered
1902
The prospects were never brighter
for football at Bates than they are.
this year. Under the energetic manage
ment of Palmer '99, and Captain Pulsi-
fer the team was out for practice the
first day. Anywhere from 30 to IS men
are out on the field for active practice.
every day. There Is a great deal of
material in the freshmen
class and the enthusiasm is high
them.
The team is to have the same COACH
as last year, Mr.. Haag of Harvard "a.
Thus early in the season it is impossi-
Bile 10 ascertain the lineup Of the team.
but it is probable that most Of the old
men will play their old positions. al
though some OF the new men are go
ing to make the old ones hustle for
heir positions. Never before has there
been SO much interest exhibited at the
beginning Of the term. Such enthusiasm
combined with the large number OF
men will surely give Bates
! victorious team on the gridiron.
Palmer has already arranged
FOR a number of games. The full
,ot<,.S,,,a ss,sN no announced later.