Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-13
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BOWDOlN COLLEGE.
Newsy Items From The Campus al
Brunswick. ~
Or. Lewis Lecture. An Autograph CoIIec-
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evenings, DIR. Charlton I. Lewis OF
New York, Friday evening, delivered a
most interesting discourse upon La
fayette The Bowdoin students were
fortunate to have been afforded the
chance of listening to 80 eminent and
lecturer DR.. Lewis is
the secretary of the New York Lire
Insurance Association and the ac-
knowledged authority upon insurance
matters in that state. At present ne Is
engaged in delivering a course OF nj
teen lectures upon insurance, potn at
Harvard and Columbia. He mas TWO
lectures week at Harvard ana II was
between his two lectures OF TINS week
that he so kindly consented to make
a fIying trip to Brunswick. Or. Lewis
recent reply to the address of DIR. Ly-
man Abbott in Brooklyn upon the
ruastion of expansion is well remem-
hered 1t was with the greatest de-
light that the whole student BODY OF
Rowdoin together with it's faculty
and many townspeople assembled the
steps of Memorial hall to listen to DR.
Lewis DR.. Lewis's style of speaking
is especially attractive: he appears'per-
fectly at home before an audience and
his manner and choice of words is so
polished that it is pleasure to listen
TO him. He dwelt upon the great debt
that the people of the United States
owe to the memory of Lafayette for
his untold aid to Washington during
the darkest hours of our revolution.
He speaks with great feeling upon the
tender friendship between Lafayette
and our own Washington, the two
greatest men of their day in France
and the United States. He traces the
career of Lafayette through the three
French Revolutions. during which La
fayette was the guiding hand Of the
people He shows Lafayettes great
self sacrifice for the national good
when at the close of the third Revolu-
ton, instead of establishing himself as
the first President of the French Re
public he places Louis XVIII upon the
throne. DR.. Lewis places Lafayette as
q statesman before Pitt, as soldier
before Napoleon and as a man above
reproach, both morally and mentally.
He shows the great injustice done TO
Lafayette by historians and closes his
lecture in pathetic eloquence, placing
Lafayette next to Washington as the
greatest combination of soldier, states
man, patriot and philosopher that the
world has ever seen.
There has recently been received by
I Bowdoin College collection of some
60 or more old letters of the most prom
inent 1of our early presidents, states
men. and other public men. This in
teresting collection was the gift of Mr..
Robert c. Winthrop. Jr., of Boston. the
son of former Governor Winthrop of
Massachusetts, and was taken from
the early correspondence of his father.
Among these letters We're some writ
ten by George Washington, John q.
Adams, Andrew Jackson, Abraham
Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford
B. Hayes and several others of our
former presidents. The writings Of
such statesmen as Daniel Webster.
Henry Clay. Rufus Choate and Will
liam Fl. Seward are included in this
collection. Literature has its repre-
sentatives in Washington Irving, John
c. Whittier, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Walter Scott. Charles Dickens and Will
liam NJ Thackeray. Together with
these are the letters of Winfield Scott,
d. G. Farragut and Hamilton Fish
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getting an insight into the real char
acter of the men, most frequently
heard of in history. One letter is of
particular interest. it is from George
Washington to Governor Winthrop.
written in 1880. 1t will be remembered
that this was exactly the time when
our forefatherS were looking anXiousiy
to France for aid against our mother
lnlt hi orr
tells winthrop that he has just heard
that the French fleet, equipped and
bound for our assistance has been
blockaded in the harbor of Brest by
the English feet and that all hope Of
French assistance was lost. Washing
ton expressed himself as being very
down hearted but calls upon Governor
Winthrop and all strong patriots not
to give up hope of ultimate success.
This collection as q whole is a great
addition to the already large number
of interesting letters and autographs
in the possession of Bowdoin College.
These manuscripts may be seen at any
time in the college library S.
The heartiest thanks of the college
are due to Mr.. Winthrop. who so kind
ly sent these interesting epistles to be
placed in the hands Of the college.
During the week there has been at
Bowdoin the visiting committee APP
pointed by the Congregational Con-
ference of Maine. The committee IS
composed of the following men: Prof.
G. A. burlington of Pennington. chair
man; Rev. A. S. Mcdonald of North
Waterford; Rev. E. II. Abbott Of Frye
burg: Rev. Fl. H. Noyes of New Glou-
cester, and Rev. II. N. Pringle of East
port. Prof. burlington expressed him
self as being greatly pleased with the
condition of the college and noted sew
eral advances made during the past
year The committee attended several
Rotations and were particularly in
terested in methods used by the differ
ent professors in the class rooms.
At recent meeting of the Alpha
Kappa Kappa Fraternity. the follow
ing medical students were initiated:
Robert Harold Donnell of Bath; Her
bert Mansen Larrabee of Portland;
James Mansfield Lowe of Vinalhaven:
Henry Willis Haynes of New York;
Frank Yuba Gilbert of Old Town.
The late Frank W. Davis, Bowdoin.
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