Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-06-27
AT B0WDOIN.
Over $4,000 in Gifts Was
Announced, Thursday.
Many Notable Speeches at Commence
ment Dinner, Thursday.
Degrees Conferred-Prizes Announced
Tho Closing Exercises.

Degrees Conferred-Prizes Announced
| Tho Closing Exercises.
brunswick, Me-, June 27.-(SpeciaD.-
1t is matter of record that Bowdoin's
first Commencement. a century ago was
postponed one day on account of rain.
History made a desperate effort. today.
to repeat itself, but made complete
failure, and BoWdoin's commencement
exercises. While marred by the driving
rain Of the forenoon, were by no means
spoiled. The usual procession from the
chapel to the church was given up. but
otherwise the full program was car
RED out. When the sun came out in
glorious fashion in the afternoon cVerv-
body was happy ana agreed that it was
perfect ending to a grand Commence
ment week.
But the rain in the morning, 1t be-
gan about the time when the boys. old
ana young. We're turning in for a few
hours sleep after the fraternity re-
! unions. 1t came in torrents well into
tn" forelpon, turning the campus into
a lake and keeping everybody within
doors. The oldest graduate could re-
member nothing like it on Commence
mont day. Last year and in 1900 the
day was intensely hot. The rain not
only made lots of trouble for those here
for the week, but it kept away many
who would have been present for the
IL,
its capacity and over 700 alumni were
present at the dinner in Memorial halls
pleasant day would have meant 1000
or 100. But the rain could not spoil
the interest in the exercises, nor the
enthusiasm aroused by the distinguish
ed speakers at the dinner, nor the sat
isfaction with which the alumni heard
President Hyde announce gifts to the
extent Of $4,000. with the prospect of
more soon to come.
The exercises at the church began at
1920. Governor Hill and staff in uni
form were with President Hyde, the
faculty governing boards and guests
upon the platform. The following or
der of exercises was carried out:
Music.
Prayer.
Music.
The Value Of Science to Modern Civiliza-
tom Ralph Bushnell Stone
Strikes, Lyman Abbott COuSenS
Science and r. liglon.'
Daniel Irwin Gross
Music.
should Cabinet Officers Have Seats in
ConErvss?' Eugene Robert Kelley
Grant as a Soldier"
Robert SANFORD Benson
Municipal Home Rule"
George Rowland Walker
Music.
Comforting Of Degrees.
Prayer.
BcnediCtiOn.
The following are the Il members of
1902. upon whom the degree of A. Il.
was conferred:
Edward Swasey Anthoine, Portland:
John Appleton, Bangor; Ben Barker,
Portland; Nat Bailey Twycross Barker.
Cedar Grove; Robert Sanford Benson,
Shows Falls: Thomas Herbert Blake,
Bangor: Ralph Porter Bodwell, Bruns-
wick: Gideon Eden bradbury, Hollis;
Edward Edgecombe Carter. Bath;
Philip Howard Cobb, Portland; Rich
ara Gryant Dole, Portland; Harold
benjamin Eastman. Portland; Ernest
Woodbury. Files, GOrham; William
T.aberec FIVE. SheepScot; George Edwin
Fogg. Portland: Ernest Bertrand Fol
som. ;'troudwatcr; John Arthur Fur
bish. Brunswick; William SHELTON Car
celon. Lewiston; Harvey Dow Gibson,
North Conway, y. H.; Erwin Garfield
Giles, East Erownfield: Walter Seward
Glidden. Bath: Lee Thomas Gray, Lu-
bee: Herbert Leroy Grinnell. Jr., Bath;
Daniel Irving Gross, Bluehill; Eben
Kicker Haley, Gardiner; Benjamin
Pierce Hamilton, WATERFORD James
Oliver Hamilton, WATERFORD Benjamin
Franklin Hayden, South Portland; Ed
mund Hayes, Pennington; John War
rcn Higgins, Starks; Almon Franklin
Hill. Jr., Portland; Charles Henry
Hunt. Portland; Harry Joseph Hunt,
Bangor: Benjamin Edward Kelley,
Boothbay: Eugene Robert Kelley, Is
land Falls: Irving Ellis Mabry, East
Hiram: Harrison King Mccain, West
brook: Perez Benjamin Merrill, Little
ton. Mass: Sidney Webb Noyes. Port
land: Clifford Hamilton Preston,
Pennington; Andrew Stroud Rodfck,
Bar Harbor; Charles Edgar Rolfe, I'd,
Unity: John Hudson Sinkinson, Port
land: Frederick Arthur Stanwood.
wellesley, Mass: Ralph Bushnell
Stone. Templeton, Mass; Harry Cor
don SWEET. Brunswick: George Row
land Walker. Portland; William Leav-
lit Watson. Portland; Harold Randall
Webb. Brunswick William Ellery
Wing. North Arson.
The following honorary degrees voted
by the boards were then conferred by
President Hyde:
Doctor of Laws-President George {.
Chase of Bates College: President
George Emery Fellows of the Univer-
sitv of Maine; John Jacob Herrick,
ESD. sc, Of Chicago: Hon. Charles U.
Bell. 'sS. of Andover, Mass; Rev. Egg
bert l.. Smith. d. d., AS. of Andover.
Mass: Hon. Charles F. Libby, ga, OF
Portland: Franklin A. Wilson. "a, of
Bangor: and Prof. Merritt c. Fernald,
81. of Orono.
Doctor of Divinity-Prof. lothian b.
SewaIl. As, of Boston; Rev. Frank
! Sewall. SO. of Washington; President
Charles Lincoln White of Colby Col
lege-
| Master of Arts-Hon. Melvin T.. IN
gals Of Cincinnati, Ohio.
/ Civil Engineer, out of eourse-Wil-
! liam G. Nerriman. 80, of New York.