The Portland daily press., 1900-06-29
Graduation Exercises and Alumni
Dinner.
Speeches by Eminent
Sons of Institution.
Degrees Conferred and Prize
Winners Announced.
uPRcrAr To THE rnT ss.y


Brunswick, June 2s.-Commencement
at Bowdoin is over. Today the class
which has been sometimes called the
class of 200, went out from the college
halls to join the alumni and immediate
ly after they met nearly 400 Of the older
graduates at the annual dinner. Not
since 1894 has there been such an atten-
dance at one of these dinners which are
famous for the wit and wisdom of the
post prandial exercises. In the crowded
gymnasium today sat men who gradu-
ated from the college over 60 years ago.
At the long tables were men who have
won distinction in many walks of lite.
Gen. o. o. Howard sat by the side of
President Hyde and made one of the rrin-
cipaI addresses. A New York Congress
man was another speaker. The Chief
Justice Of the state, who had just bee
honored with the degree of LII. d., had
something to say and Hon. w. W. Thorn
as, minister to Sweden, delighted his
hearers with his stories of Sweden old
and new. 1t was hot In the gymnasi-
UNI The sun sent his rays straight down
through the big skylight and the Their
mometer made an appalling record, but
the alumni were repaid for the discom-
fort for from the time that 400 voices
Joined in the college hymn unie the lead
of Prof. Chapman, until George A.
Thomas of class OF tine 40's had finished
singing the laughing song, there was
not dull moment.
4 TIL 70 TO- ,,teo zal
for the college has closed a prosperous
year and in the coming twelve months
will see work begin on the library
building to be given it by Gen. Hubbard
of New York, loyal son OF Maine and
old Bowdoin. Every mention of Gen.
Hubhard's name this afternoon was
cheered to the echo.
Another thing which pleased the gath
erings was the announcement that the
trustees and overseers had appointed n
committee to raise 500 eco to add TO the
endowment of the college. This with
the money from the Faye-weather and
Garceion requests and other sources, will
give the college 81, 100000.
At the tables, We're many representa-
years. Among the older a lumni present
were
AT THE TABLES.
Josiah Crosby, 80, Dexter; Geo. NJ.
Adams, "A, Auburncale, Mass; VIM. =.
Marshall AZ, Belfast; Alonzo Garcelon,
'36, Lewiston; Z. r. Dunlap, '46, Bruins
wick
Glass of 1s5O-Oliver Otis Howard,
Burlington, Vt II. f. Har ling, East
Machias; G. c. Everett, Cambridge
Mass; Francis Adams, Bath; Abner Nor
rill, Wolcott. N. Y; Samuel p. Buck,
West Woolwich.
SID. g. Iinscott, Boston.
-58-E. b Palmer, Winchester, Mass. !;
'57-Chnries W. Packard. Portland
Henry Newbegin, Defiance, o.; Thomas
4. Moses, Waltham, Mass. Q. l.. Mich
OILS, Phippsburg; ). Q. Belcher, Farming
ton.
6O-Samuel NJ. Came, Alfred; II. IL.
Burband, Saco; Augustine Jones, Prov :
idence, II. l.; +. A. Kendall, Cleveland /;
ii. C. Robinson, Newcastle.
'69-AIbion Burbank, e. n. Packard.
'63-Thomas NJ. Giveen, Brunswick;
A. Belle, Lawrence, Mass; Geo. A.
Emery, Saco.
i6i-Enooh Foster, Portland.
'65-Joseph A Locke, Portland; Melvin
j. Hill, Wakefield, Mass; Henry W. Swa-
sey, Portland; Chas. Fish, Brunswick;
'66-F. II. Gerrish, Portlan1; G. *.
Hinsley, Gorham.
Ell. S. Curtis, Brunswick; Fl. S.
Webster Gardiner; George T. Davenport,
Bath; Stanley Plummer, Dexter; ). W.
al
SS.-Gharles G. Holyoke, North Edge
comb; q. A. Ring, Portland.
'69-John c. Coombs, Boston; o. p.
Cunningham, Bucktield; Hiram Iuell,
Milton Mass. II. :; whitman an Por r
H.; Edward p. Payso Boston; Clarenee
Hale, Portland; Thomas II. Eaton, Port
land.
'70-wm. e. Frost, westfisld. Mass. ;
A. G.. Whitman, Melrose; ID. ;. Alexan-
der, Buffalo, n. Y; Walter Z. Holmes,
Lucien Hows, Buffalo.
'T3-John f. Eliot. Hyde Park, Mass. /;
ID. A. Robinson, Bangor.
i74.-Don A. III. Powers. Houlton.
'75-B. w. Hewes, Danforth, A. NJ.
Gard, Head lids; Myles Stsndish, Bos-
Mass. W. s. Thompson, Augusta; Fred
erick A. Powers, Houlton; Geo. f. Nc
Quillan, Portland; Stephen c. Whit
marsh, Brunswick; A. q. Bowie, Water
VILE; +. b. Osgood, North Conway; Geo.
@. Cressey, Northampton, Mass. ID. NJ.
Mcpherson, Portland; p. p. Nugin, Wey
mouth, Mass. VIM. K. Hatch, New Bed
ford, Mass. Lincoln G. Rogers, Pater-
s,n, n. Y; Edwin H. Hall. Cambridge,
Mass. Albion 5. Whitman, Boston; Vim.
Z. Reid, Bath; Woodbury. Pulsifer, Lew
iston; w. j. Curtis, New York; Geo. X
De ID
New York.
'76-Charles ID. Hardy, Bangor; John
A. Merrill, Auburn; A. q. Whalen,
Iopsham; Franklin {. Payson, Portland
Edward II. Kimball, Bath; Arthur Il
Parker, Bath.
'T-Geo l.. Thompson; I'll. t. Stack