Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-19
UNIvERSITYOF MAINE.
Plans and Prospects for the
Coming Term.
Large Entering Class and Good Foot
Ball Team.
The se~ wonan's Oornilor- Changes in
Faculty The Law School.

winter term of the University OF Moline
wiz open next "Wednesday, Sent. p. and
II PROMISES to be the most successful in
the way of large attendance, than any
term Tor many years. The Journal man
had an interesting chat today with Pres
icent Harris. on the outlook for the COM
ing term. The president is busy man
luss row. When the Journal representa-
tive called at the house, he was told
that Dr. Harris might be at the new
building across the way, which Is heinp
buiI for the women who are now stu
DENTS at the university, and for those
VINO are to enter in the freshman class
% ti.s newspaper man went hfther and
iouha tne president, head over heels in
the work which is going on there. He
mad his hat off and was hustling around
IN the big building, telling the. plumbers
ana steam filters what to do here. and
ne carpenters to do this or that thing
ihe new women's dormitory has been
puiic from a reconstruction of the old
q. 4. V. chapter house, which sets Veg.
70 Inc Kappa Sigma building. Two i'm.
retise wings has been added to the huiid-
f fng' An ana Inc interior has been arranged
I ~ uEe accommodation of many "colds.
~ Is an attractive building from the out
Size and when finished will be far more
a ao on the interior. 1t is far from
completion, but some of the rooms ara
IN such shape that they can be occupied
until the work in other parts of the
ilouse is finished and today several of
me students were moving in.
A large number of the students ha w.
already returned TO Orono The mem
oers of the foot ball team. that is, what
Is left Of last years aggregation are
m nsc.asa oask and turned out for the first
lem Bird of Rockland came back sew
cray Gays ago. Bird is in excellent shape
tr t wli >f pqt Ip a mis- usual game at
Europe during his vacation and the sea
voyage greatly benefited him. Only four
men OF last years team are left. Seven
were lost by graduation or in other
ways. Thus there are seven new men to
get INTO shape. but the entering class
has some excellent players among its
members and Capt. Bird will strive hard
to have the university represented by n
strong team. Only four of the old play
ers Will be seen on the team: Bird, PALM
er. Aines and Wormwell
Noyes may come back and play his old
position at erd. The meE VINO will try
for positions on the team are Morrill,
Of Amherst. Mass. Archie Grover OF
Bethel; who is a well known college attn
Hill eleven last season, Rollins of Water
vile, Il clever player, Knight of South
Gorham, and Capt. Bird expects to be
able to play Dow Of Saco, who IS Web
his connection with the Thornton Acad-
envy team Dow will entep the university
in the freshman class and if he decides
to play foot ball this fall he Will no
doubt. be able TO easily make the team.
H. H. Oswald of Portland, will manage
the foot bail team this fall and he has
about the same as engaged prominent
Yale player to coach the eleven. The
team will play its first game with the
Bates college eleven at Orono.
Over 100 candidates for entrance. to the
rol!ed and more are expected before the
term begins. In this big list are, many
young men from western Maine and
Massachusetts,. This is the largest class
for years with the exception of the en-
tering class Of 1896.
The trustees have made many changes
in the faculty which are announced here
for the first time. p. S. Lanpher, pro-
the university to further his education
with a course of study at Cornell Uni
versity. His place has been filled by. the
election of Leonard F. Dickinson of New
York City. He is a graduate of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and comes to the University of Maine
highly recommended.
NJ. G. Fernaid Phi. D.. for . years
president of the Crono institution. has
been made professor of philosophy and
iogic. This is a new .professorship. L.
stry, has been given a leave of absence
for six months. and is now in Germany.
with the beginning OF this term Prof. G.
II. Hlrnlen. of the civil engineering de-
university and Prof. N. c. Grover takes
this chair in The faculty board. Prof. p.
b. Nichols. assistant professor in mod
srn languages, returns to duty with the
opening OF the fail term> after stay OF
several months in Germany. A new an
structor in che mistry is Gallert Ale
man, a graduate of Washington Univer-
sity and who comes highly endorsed as
a able n. AT,nt her new instructor is
Garnett Rylard, Pm. d. He will assist
Prof. Alleman. He is graduate OF
Richmond University and also of Johns
Hopkins University.
Charles r. Marston of Madison. has
been made instructor in civil engineer
ing. He graduated from the University
ematics is Arthur R. Crathorne. a grad
uate OF the University of Illinois. An
other new assistant instructor is II. g.
Dorsey of the Denison University. He
of Wesleyan University, will be assis-
tant professor in English.
Ralph Hamlcn of Orono, a graduate of
the University of Maine, class OF '9s.
will be instructor in civil engineering
Elmer T. Merrill. also of the class of vs.
viii be assistant Instructor IN natural
olo:y and veterinary science, has been
made professor in this branch of learn
ing at the university. Stanley ]. Stew
shop.
President Harris said today that he
was greatly pleased over the outlook Tor
a successful winter term. Many OF me
students who enlisted in the army at the
outbreak of the war with Spain. will re-
turn during THE coming term to resume
tleir studies. There are. about ~ IN the
service of Uncle Sam who are from the
university. -Four of the U. of NJ. boys
have given their lives to our country;
having died from disease contracted
While the LIST Maine Regiment WAS IN
camp at Chickamauga. They are Morse,
Hackett. Scrbner ard Scott.
President Harris is greatly. Delighted
with the prospects of the University OF
Maine law school which is to open in
Rangor on October s. He hardly expect.
cd an attendance at the first term or
more than dozen students. but II looks
now as if there would Oe an entering
class OF 80. They will COMPRISE young