Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-06-26
Daily kennebec Journal
BOWDOlN'S CHANGES.
Summary Of President Hyde's Annual
Report.
GIFTS and Bequests-Loss Of Prot. Emery
Changes in Courses.

brunswick. Me-, June %, 1900.-President
HYDE of Bowdoin College. has given out
Ms report for the academic year of 1893
and 1900 He says the year has been one
of the most prosperous in its history.
The only change in the faculty is the
resignation of Prof Emery. to accept a
professorship at Yale University. The
college has received s25o00 from the will
az the late Mrs. Alice NJ Rice of Worces-
Ter Mass as a memorial of her hUs-
band, the late Congressman William W.
Rice; SSUvo has been received from the es-
tate OF the late Josenh Walker to be de-
voted to the procuring of suitable
buiIding for the medical school in Port
land: Henry j. Furber Of Chicago gave
$500 to complete the college set of publ
The great event of the college year has
heen the gift Of 4 magnificent library
building by Gen. Thomas II Hubbard Of
New York of the class of %. The build
ing will occupy the south end OF the
campus. facing Massachusetts ana Memo
rial halls.
the college will fan into line with the
urpsent practice Of institutions like Har-
ward. Williams, Amherst ana Cornell. a
practice which is sure to rapidly extend
and grant tn, degree of a. Il. to all stu
dents whom il deems worthy 70 receive
any academic degree whatever. If this
is imnossible. he says. he hopes that, as
The least Ol three evils. ilIt ttSItt' VI
bachelor Of philosophy may be substitute
ed for the inappropriate degrees Of bach
eIor of letters and bachelor OF science.
The transfer of the last part Of the
medical course from brunswick to Port
land has proved Of great advantage to
the school. he says. 1t is expected that
the ground and the portion Of the build
ing already completed. which is now oc-
cupied by the medical school in Port
land. will he conveyed To the college at
the coming commencement.
The Sargent gymnasium he says, is en-
tirely Inadequate to meet the present
need of the college. Various plans have
been suggested for extending or remodel
ling it. but it seems To be impossible to
solve the problem in that way. For the
sum that would be required 10 make the.
gymna SUM meet modern requirements, Il
new gymnasium can be built that will be.
far better adapted To needs. Fifty thou
sand dollars would give BowdOin new
gymnasium that would greatly incrrdS"
the value Of the course IN physical train
ing.
The one great permanent need Of the
college is adequate endowment. The
rapid growth of the college. both in ma
terial equipment and in numbers Of stu
dents. together with the increasing re-
quirements of education, has compelled
the college for the past three or four
years slightly to exceed its income. IN
accordance with vote of the oVerSeers,
passed last year. it will he the policy OF
the college to make no further expansion
until this deficit is removed.
Several important changes are to be
made in the courses. beginning next fall.
IT has always been felt that the small
amount Of required work in English has
been one of the weaknesses OF the cur
riculum. The work i'm rhetoric ana logic
is to be- so extended that it will cover the
three terms of sophomore year, and be
made compulsory for all members Of that
class. The geology and biology courses
are also to be rearranged.
Prof Mcdonald has announced the
changes in his department Of history.
An extra course in international law is
10 he offered in the spring term senior
year. Constitutional law has been moved
back to the winter term, ana the course
in American government to fall term. y
lecture course in American history is to
be given each year Tor juniors, and in
stead Of Offering English history each
year to the sophOmOres, the department
live in general European history.