Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-20
B0WDOINS YEAR.
President Hyde's Annual Report
To the Trustees.
Many Important and Interesting Mat
tiers Touched Upon.
Deaths on the Doard..A. 8. Withou! Greek.
Ranking System.

brunswick, Ne, June 19.-(SpeciaD. -
The annual report of President Hyde
of Bowdoin to the trustees and over
seers of the college is made public and
contains many matters of much inter-
est to all graduates and friends of the
insti;ution. In opening, President
Hyde touches upon the death during
the past year of Hon. J. w. Bradbury
and Rev. l.. b. Webb of the board of
trustees and Rev. J. f. Adams and
Judge Thomas II. Haskell of the board
OF overseers. paying an eloquent
tr butte to their lives and their long
and faithful service upon the boards of
the college they loved. After reciting
briefly the facts of Mr.. Hladbury's
life. Pres. Hyde says of him: AS a
cIassmate Of Hawthorne ard Long
fellow, rs a colleague in the Senate
with Webster. Clay and Calhoun, as
chairman of the most important com
miitee of tho boards, and finally as the
oldest graduate of the college, Mr..
Rradbuny had come To be an object of
reverence and affection to all Howdoin
| men. lie retained to the last his eager
interest in the financial. intellectual,
and moral welfare of the college. ON
enc of my last visits to him he sent to
the students this parting message:
Tell the young men to be good schol
ars, good gentlemen, good Christians.
Rev. =. Il. Webb had been on the
board of trustees for 30 years and be
| fore that had served 10 years as an
oVerSeer 1t is n coincidence that it
was during his first passionate in Au
| gusta that Mr.. Bradbury who had
graduated from Bowdoin 20 years be
| fore him, was received into the
| church. Rev. DR.. Adams was a grad
uate in the class of '53, and had been
! an overseer since 1889. The late Judge
| Haskell became n member of the board
| III 1896.
The president dwells regretfully
| upon the departure for Brown Cniver-
| aity of Prof. Mcdonald who has occu-
pied the chair Of history for eight
| years. The departments of history and
| economics have had and lost five men
| during the past dozen years. The
fact that all five are holding prominent
| positions today is an indication that
| the work has been well done. In de-
partments where methods are chang
| ing so rapidly as in these departments,
| a college can do much worse than TO
have Il series of brilliant. enthusiastic
| young men. who give TO ii the f!rst fVe
| or ten years of their teaching career
on the other hand, continuity of ser
| vice is of great value, and President
Hyde points out that the college Is
| fortunate in having three professors.
Messrs. Chapman, Robinson and Lee,
whose period of continued service en-
| tends over a quarter OF century OF
| more. Professors Johnson, Woodruff.
| Moody and Hutchins. Mr.. Little ana
DR.. Whittier have all been i'll their
| present places fifteen years or more,
| and Professors Files, Houshton ana
| Mitchell eight years or more.
| The report urges with much en-
| phasis that the college abolish the de-
| gree of b. s. and b. l.. and give the de-
gree of A. Il. to the full class, with
our the requirement of Greek. 1t Is
the tendency of educational instltu-
tions TO do this. In Massachusetts.
| Harvard, Amherst. Williams. Weiles-
| lev. Smith and Mt. Holyoke grant an
A r. without Greek. At Cornell ana
! Michigan the same is done. ana laie
and Dartmouth are about to take TINS
stem This is the third annual report
| in which President Hyde urges that
Rowdoin grant A. Il. in all liperai
| courses.
! The report points out the advantages
of tho newly introduced course in
Spanish. 1t is recommended that the
Merritt fund. affording an annual IN
come of $500 be used for the employ
OF,
tho college. President Hyde warmly
annroyes of the chapter house s!s,e"
now being adopted by the fraterhlties,
but points out that in case all puiiu
houses il will withdraw so many SUI
dents from the dormitories as to diihih-
;eb the income of the college from room
rent. 10000. in
| Tho report explains the changes III
the ranking system by when the i.i"N
| will be recorded by letters iiisteau "
NV figures, the computation Deihs
| ccale of s as at present. Inc
advantages of the change are '''a' -
lrIaco of what was in great measure "a,
sacret record. the faculty no" VIZ
Laan only such n record as IS CIV" -
III. student The student VIII
nov, he stands from term to TERM ITO
Knowledge of his standing VIII oe
PRESSED in precisely the same terms 90
~. record which the faculty Keep anu
viii he as definite and detalleu a.. as
heirs The substitution OF letters .n'
numbers in the record VIII a,
a;ron,ifv the computation of RAM. M
.r.antine of degrees cum laude' 'n's
lido and summa cum Iaude'
,,;ah will also be done in propoi'lo"
to the rank attained. affords ;,i a S it ap-
Inc RI scholarly effort by glvins !" "a
ronriate academic recoghi'io" =,
a;stinction. These distinctions are -
va elsewhere, and their siSni'.a an
we'll understood in the acau.
,,,orld 1t is to some extent r,-
70 the early practice Of this co,'e were
,,bich distinctions in rank a;s-
marked by ,o osnt sssays dissertations
rho need of a new gymna, .;,,,
.o,,cbed upon. The central nst
. Giant which has worked in naSe-
ra,;sfacory manner occupies 'he ''