Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-19
u. OF MAINE
Opens With Largest Entering
Class in Its History.
One Hundred and Thirty-six to Date
III Last Year.
List of the Freshmen and Their Sew
eral Courses.

Orono, Me. Sept. 1S.-(SpeciaD.-The
University of Maine opened. today. I'M
der the most suspicious circumstances
but 1T 11.45 o'clock, exercises were
held in the chapel and here it was that
the freshmen got their initiation into
the joys of college life. They were in
dividually forced to pass between two
long lines of sophomores who induced
them by liberal applications of per
suaders" to give an exhibition of hurd-
ling.
1t is said that one of the new instruc-
tors who had not had the good fortune
OF making the acquaintance of the
sophomores in some way got mixed up
in the affair and reluctantly hurdled
the horse which blocked the entrance
to the chapel.
The college has the advantage. this
year. of having the largest entering
class ever recorded in the history of
the institution. the number who have
registered up to date being 1856. Last
year the number of freshmen who had
registered up to the opening day of the
COilSSt numbered l1t, tuuS. THIS veal,
shows IL gain of over 10 students over
last. A large number of new students
are vet to arrive while still others who
are already here have not yet regis
tered.
Following is complete list of those
who have registered to date:
Edward Burton Aorn. Lynn Mass,
scientific: jefferson Leavitt Alexander.
E'1Sfnprt plpctric1l. Alton Arthur Austin.
Ridlonville. civil; Roy S. Bacon, Sidney,
scientific; Girard Newman Bass, East
Wilton, civil; John Battye. Wales. Mass.
electrical: Henry Walter Bearce. Hebron.
scientific: Arthur Guy Bennett. PARIS
Hill. engineering: Elmer Percy Bradley.
Pemaquid. engineering: Edwin ID. Drawn,
Dexter, mechanical: Everett Dana Brown.
North Bethel. classical; Horace Everett
Burril. Oakland. engineering: Charles
William Campbell. Ellsworth. civil; FREQ
Glover Campbell. Rockland. prep. medi-
engineering; Warren \. Carter. Hodgdon.
chemical: Wilbur Joshua Carver. Sears
port scientific; Sidney Casey. I-ynn,
Mass, mechanical: Claude Edgar Cas-
wei, Gray. engineering; Edward Kelly
Colby. Brunswick. engineering; Guerric
Gaspard De Colisny. West Roxbury.
Mass, chemical. Lincoln Crowell. Dor
chester. Mass. engineering; Charles Els
worth Courier. Brewer. engineering:
Franklin Wendell Danforth Skowheean.
classical; Frank Albert Derby. Temple.
short pharmacy Arlie Abner Dinsmor2.
| Bingham electrical; Esther Margaret
Dixon. South West Harbor. Latin scien-
tific; Herbert Plummer Downing. RIPLEY
mechanical; james Raymond Dwelley.
Franklin. electrical: Dayton James Ed
wards, Oaks, mocha meal: James William
Elms. FoXcroft mining engineering;
Gladys Ethel Fellows. Orono. Latin sci
entific; Clinton Fairfield Forbes. Buck
field. electrical; Cecil Sumner French.
Kingfield electrical; Walter Oscar Frost.
Rockland. scientific: George Parlin Good
win. Skowhegan. engineering; Louis Elms
Gould, Pressure Isle short pharmacy:
ing: Ernest Linwood Gray. North Fair
field. chemical; Robert Williston Grin
nell. Searsport. electrical; Roy Gilbert
Hamlin, Gorham, n. IL. electrical: Bry-
macy; Guy Lee Harville. Skowhegan. sci
entitc; Wellington p. Hews. Ashland. sci
entilic: Carolyn Adele Hodsdon. IIamp-
den Corner. classical: Lester BoyntOn
| lin Hoxie. Watervillc. electrical: Charles
John Huen. Sebattus, pharmacy: Carl
Hunnewel. Madison. civil: Caleb Hart
well Johnson, Nahant. Mass. mechani-
cal: Albert c. Jones. RockIand special I;
Gertrude May Jones. Corinna. prep med
ical: Roy Faunce Jordan. Norway, en-
| electrical; Ralph Berry Kelley, Island
Falls. classical; John Raymond <ittredge.
| Rockland. pharmacy; Raymond Brown
| Kittredge. Beverly. Mass. civil: Allen
Mdrk NilnWieS- tbtlllld, CIVIL, ftpWdl''
| Augustus Lancaster. Old Town. civil
| Clement French Lemas sena. Newark. \.
| j.. short agricultural; oscar Ralph l.. E.s-
| perance. Woonsocket. r. l.. prep. medi-
! cal. delbert Ieaton Locke, Pennington.
/ special: Ralph f. Lord Bangor. scien-
! tifc: Edward Martin Lynott. East Ed
| dington. Latin scientific: William Law
renee McDermott, Biddeford, engineer
| ing: William Alvin McLain, RockIand.
| scientific: Charles Henry Martin Fort
| Fairfield, electrical: Jerome Alfred Mo-
rim. Biddeford, short pharmacy: Max Glib
son Newman. Fryeburs. electrical: Har-
vey Hayes Nutter. Corinna, pharmacy
electrical Robert Franklin Olds, Lewis
| ton, electrical; Alcot Johnson Pencil,
| Melrose Highlands. Mass. engineering
| Roy H. Porter. South Paris. engineering
| Charles Edward Prince. electrical: Frank
| Rudford Reed. Jr.. Rumford Falls en-
| gineering: Alton Willard Richardson.
Bethel. engineering; Bernard Ernest
Robertson. Detroit. agriculture; Harold
Dockum Ross, Skowhegan. electrical
| Raphael Simmons Sherman, Rockland.
electrical: Walter Scott Skies. Springfield.
Mass. short pharmacy; John Percy Sim
mon. Belfast, engineering; Ralph S.
Smith Orono engineering; Frederick
I Dean Southland E,aston. Mass. classical
| Carl Crabtree Spencer. Beverly Mass.
/ short course horticulture; Edward Ar
1 thur Stanford. Lowell Center. electrical
| Iucius Black SWEET West Hollis, Latin
| scientific: George Roger Tarbox, Calais.
! civil: John Leslie Tewksbury. Dover
! mouth owen. electrical: Albert Ames
/ Whitmore. Fryeburg. electrical; George
| Wilson Portland. civil: Mary NJ Wilson,
Soior1 special: Walter Albert Mood Gar
| diner. civil; Herbert Wheeler. Worcester
| Portland. civil a1I