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Vacation. Visit Of Examiners

Brunswick, Nc, June 7.-(SpcciaD.-
The last term of tie college var Is
drawing to close. After one more
week OF recitations ana lecture wcrk
come the examinations and then comcs
Commencement. June 1927. Professor
Robinson win hold his examinations
next week before Ivy day. as he
leaves for Europe June Goth. Profc33or
Lee, Professor Calender and Mr..
Goodell will also hold their examina-
tons next week. Ivy day, the great
day of the year for the junior class.
founded almost 40 years ag". fc lis on
Friday. June II. In the morning there
will be a baseball game with Batcs on
the Whittier field. Today, Bowdoin
plays in Portland with the Columbia
University team of New York. Next
Saturday. Colby is played at Water
lville.
| The Maine college tennis tourna mcnt
| will not be held, this year, IS the other
colleges will not enter ii. In Dana ol.
Paine 'C3, and Libby 'c3 Bowdoin has
unquestionably the best tennis players
in Maine. Paine and Libby repre-
scented the college at the New England
tournament at Longwood and defeated
the personalities of Dartmouth
and Bates and lost To those Of Brown
who won the tournament.
At the recent meeting Of the New
England Intercollegiate Press Ag3ocia-
ton, with representatives present
from almost every college. g. l.. Fogg
OF the Bowdoin Quill was elected presi-
dent and II. Il. Dole OF the Bowdoin
Orient secretary and treasurer.
This week. the examining board
made its annual visit to the college
| The members of the committee pres
ent were Professor Il. .. Smyth OF
| Andovcr Theological seminary. Pro-
fessor j. $. Scwall. Bangor Theological
seminary, Rev. Edgar NJ. Cousins OF
Riddeford and Hon. John II. Rcdman
of Ellsworth.
President Hyde will deliver the Com
mcnccment Grafton. June l.. at SYRIA
cuse University. Syracuse. y. Y. Last
"Wednesday he delivered the address
| at the graduation exercises Of Boston
University, his theme being Academic
Freedom.
| The senior class pctltioncd the facul-
| ty 10 have their examinations one
| week earlier than the regular time in
order to have a senior vacation as was
always the custom until a year or two
| ago. The request was not. however.
granted and there will be no recess.
| The Quill board announces that
| there will be prizes given for the best
| short story and the best poem offered
for the Commencement number Of the
l ~ f..,- ell, To
la handsome edition OF Hawthornc's
| MARBLE Faun" In two volumes: for
the poem a complete set Of Whittier's
| po, teal works in four volumes.
II is expected that the Bugie. the
| college annual published by the junior
class. will make its appearance by Ivy
| day. Tales OF Bowdoin'' Is due from
| the binders early next week.
Robert L. Hull. 20. who has been
| coach of the baseball team this spring.
| concluded his engagement. this week.
| and left for Boston. The energy
| which Mr.. Hull has put into the task
! OF making a winning team out OF raw
| material. the impartiality with which
| he has criticised and commended. to-
| gethcr with the knowledge which he
has had. as an cx-player and ex-
| captain of a winning Bowdoin nine. of
| conditions here. have worked together
| 10 justify decidedly the policy of
| choosing a Bowdoin alumnus as coach.
| Equal success for the football team
| with Sykes. "a. as coach seems natu-
| raj 10 augur. and the same policy will
be carefully considered by future man
| ayers of teams.
| There have been several important
gifts tn the library during the past
| two weeks. a most valuable and in
| terestinC book is n copy of the first
| edition of the Holinshed Chronicles
presented by Henry J. Furber. 81. of
| Chicago. Particular interest is given
| the book by the fact that il was from
| these chronicles that Shakespeare OBJ
| tanned a great of his material. The
| book was printed in 1856 and is in the
black-letter type. The three volumes
| are in remarkably well-preserved
binding. possibly the original one w
j. Curtis. Esq. 80. of New York city.
has made a useful addition to the his
| torical material now in the library by
presenting the United States Gazette
| for 1T?1-11?3. Chas. w. Pickard 81. of
| Portland. one of the overseers of the
| college, has presented nearly 500 vol
| umes of miscellaneous works to the Ii
brary.