The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-05-11
UniHernltY of Maine.

The program for Commencement week
at the University OF Maine, as now ar
ranged, is as follows:
SATURDAY., JUNE 10.
Junior Prize Exhibition, in the Town
Hall, at s p. m.
SUNDAY, JUNE IL.
Baceslsurest IT, Address, In the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, at g p. N.
MONDAY, JUNE IL.
Convocation, in the University Chapel,
ut 10 a. m.
Glass Day Exercises, IL the Town
Hall, at 2.30 p. N.
Memorial services for the late Ex-
President G. F. Allen, alumni and under
graduates, who enlisted and died during
the Spanish war, in the NJ. +. Church, at
s p. m.
TUESDAY, JUNE Is.
Exhibition Drill, on the Campus, at 10
a. m.
Receptions by the Fraternities, at
3 p. N.
Reception by the president, at S p. M.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE IA.
Commencement Exercises, in the NJ.
+. Church, at 1870 a. m.
Commencement Dinner.
Meeting of the Alumni Association i'm
mediately after the dinner.
Commencement Concert, at 8 p. m.
One of the requirements for degree
In the courses in engineering and 10
chemistry at the University of Maine is
the preparation of thesis which shall
nrafucoiNna1 Of "a char
acter that the graduate is likely to have
presented to him in his professional
work after graduation. These theses
are now required TO be typewriter and
bound. and are deposited for reference In
the university library. AT present the
members of the civil engineering section
are at work as follows: Bert Whitaker
Flint, Bangor, and Allen Whitmore
Stephens, Old Town, Cement Tests ;
Frank Lothrop Batchelder, Machias, and
Alison Edwin Boynton, Alma, Bridge De.
signs; Wallace Edward Belcher, Ply
mouth, Mass, and Charles Comfort
Whittier, Skowhegan. Water Supply For
Caribou; George Collins, Athol, Mass,
and VIM. Augustine Murray, Plttstield,
Sewerage System For Orono.
The catalogue Of Columbian uDiver-
sity, Washington, for 1S98-99 contains
the names of three University of Maine
men among its faculty: Arthur N.
Harrington, '76. professor OF obstetrics
and zootchnics; F. Lamson Scribner, 73,
professor of botany; George z. Merrill,
70, professor geology and mineralogy.
During the first four months of 1899
the library of the University of Maine
has had $40 volumes added to 1t by pur-
chase and gift.
SO far as is known the first public ex-
hibition of wireless telegrapby given in
the State of Maine was that of Prof. j..
S. Stevens at the University Of Maine, in
lecture before the Athene club OF Ban
gor, on Fast day. The oscillations re-
quired In the experiments are produced
by means of ten inch Splitdorff Undue
ton coil recently purchased by the uni
versity.
About eight weeks ago German
named Wehneldt devised new form of
interrupter which seems likely to revOlu-
tionize Induction coil construction. A
current is made to pass through water
calculated with sulphuric acid; lead is
used at the anode and platinum at the
cathode terminal. The electr0-chemical
action which results alternately makes
and breaks the circuit, and performs the
work of the mechanical interrupter
which is usually employed. AT the Uni
yersty of Maine, Wehneldts expert
ments have just been repeated with APP.
paratus arranged by Herbert G. Dorsey,
tutor In physics, with complete success.
The results obtained included the glow
ing effect in the liquid, the charge Of
pitch in the current, the production OF
the peculiar Wehneldt spark about
double the length of that produced by
the soil when used in the ordinary man
ner, and the increased brillaney Of the
electric light in service. 1t seems pro-
bable that this increase in the brilisncy
OF the electric light involves important
commercial possibilities.