Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-05-13
B0WD0lN COLLEGE NOTES
Prospects at worcest,r..AthIe cos,;,
Tales Of Bowdoin-.fraternib Houses

Brunswick Maine. May 12-(Specian
Most of the athletic inte,ast 80 -,
college now centers in the New Enc
land intercollegiate field day at wor-
cester. next Saturday. Cant C1o,a
man has his team well picked and :,
large number Of supporters viii ,o
company IL. Many are confident that
Bowdoin's chances of again winn;,,,
the championship are excellent ,n5
figure out from Is 10 % points o,hnr.
are more conservative, but nobod, h,-
lieves tha. the team viii stand lower
than second or third amonr tho IN
colleges to be represented. The tri,I.
I" PICK 'he '''i'n We're held last week,
and large amount Of new materfal
showed up IN promising fashion. The
freshman class has number or rooa
men in field and track work
May %. week from Saturday The
third annual invitation meet OF the
Maine hitting schools will be held here
and the indications are that nearly 20
Of the leading academies and hiyh
schools from all parts Of the State Will
send teams. The full expense of this
meet is borne up by the Bowdoin Ath-
letic Association which gives a silk
penn1nt to the winning school and
medalS to the individual winners. 1t
wili he the largest meet yet held. A
week later. June !. the annual field dov
Of the Maine colleges will be held at
G"ono. and Eowdoin win send over the
winning team. The fight as usual will
H.. al.
seem tn favor the University of Maine
boys. Bowd"in's first important base
ball game on the home grounds will he
played. next Saturday, with the L. OF
NJ. nine az opponents.
At recent meeting Of the class Of
1862 William Lcavitt Watson Of Port
land was elected marshal in place Of
Eeniamin Pierce Hamilton. resigned
and Eugene Robert Kelley of Island
Fallf was elected chaplain The IVY
day exercises Of 'o2 will be held June
H.
Harvey Dow Gibson. 1902. has been
chosen leader of the Bowdoin College
chapel choir for the coming wear ana
Leon Valentine Walker '63 organist.
The press work Of Tales of Bow
do.n" is nearly completed and the vol
urnc will be delivered by the binders.
early in June. The alumni are show
ing great interest in the book and
there seems little doubt that the edi-
ton of 2G00 copies will be quickly ex-
haustcd.
President Hyde will represent the
college at the two hundredth ami
rersary of Yale University next fall
Thomas W. Bowler of Hopkinton
Mass. ana John j. Corlss oe Bridg-
ton. both of 'c1, have received appoint
mcnts as teachers in the Philippines
They have not yet learned when they
viii he obliged to leave. probably not
till August.
The fine new residence which II. &.
Baxter is building on College street is
almost an exact duplicate in exterior
and interior Of The Delta Kappa t,psi-
Ion haptcr house. 1t was designed by
the same architects. Frazer & Chap
mIu of Boston. and is being built by
the same contractors, Smith & Rumcry
OF Portland. Mir. Baxter is 4 member
OF the ID. X. T.. fraternity and in com
mon with all members and outsiders
much admircS the splendid new home
Of the chapter. The grading. this
spring. nf the extensive grounds
around the house adds much TO its ap
pcarancc. Nearly all the other fra
tcrnitics in Eowdoin are now getting
in lire to have chapter houses and
probably three or four will BE- built in
the next few years. though it is not
likely that any will be built. this sea
son. The Psi Upsilon and Theta Delta
chi fratcrnities own lots on Maine
street: Xeta Psi owns q lot on College
street and Beta Theta III has just pur-
chased 4 lot on Mckcen street.
The annual meeting of the Bowdoin
Golf club was held 4 the office of Mr.
W. j.. Hatch, last week, and the fol-
lowing officers were cleo ted for the en-
suing year George l.. Skolfield. pres-
dent: Benjamin l.. Furbish. treasurer;
Walter II. Hatch. secretary; Col.
George l.. Thompson. Prof. George 4.
Files. Harold X. Webb. Ralph Il.
Stone. Sidney Hughes and Robert X.
Eaton. green committee: Prof. +. +.
Woodruff. Prof Harry de F. Smith. Ed
ward II. Willis benjamin l.. Furbish. T..
L. Pennell and the president and sccre-
tary. ex ofiicio. governing board and
membership committee. 1t was voted
tn change the name to the Brunswick
Golf club. since so many town people
are Interested.