Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-08
B0WDoIN COLLEGE.
Students Back and Settle Down
to Work of Winter.
The Relay Team Preparing for the
Annual B. A. \. Meet.
La,hrop Again Trac1 Coach. and Williams
Bowdoin SO. Base Ball Coach.

Brunswick, Me-. Jan. The winter
| term at BoWdoin has opened and most
! of the students in the academic depart
mcrt have returned and work has be-
| gun in earnest. The smoothness and
rapidity with which the courses have
| begun show that the time has come
| when it no longer takes "a week to get
started" Everything is in working or
| der now and considerable studying WAS
done on the first 2ay-a condition Of
affairs which did not obtain in former
wears. Winter term has always been
The term for work. In the fall there Is
football. and III the spring baseball to
interfere and all this must be made up
by unusual and harder study during
the long winter days and evening when
the outside attractions are fewer. ana
less eXacting in the attention and time
put into them. With the exception OF
the Glee Club men. everyone has much
more time for work in the scholastic
line during the winter than at any
other time of the year.
The medical department of the col
iege opened December 81, the introduc-
tory lecture having been given by DR..
r. n. Whittier the day before. The en-
tering class is large and is made up OF
fine set of men, who show plainly the
earnestness and eagerness for knowl-
edge of the human body and it's i'll,
which is of necessity common to all
such students.
During winter terms the students
II, PM
this year it is only required three hours
week, whereas in former years it has
always been four hours. SO the work is
little less eXacting. Those who are
trying for the athletic teams, either
baseball or track, are allowed to take
special work under their captains or
squad leaders. In former years many
| have taken this special work, thereby
| in reality getting out of the real gym
nasium work by either emitting TO do
/ the work at all or doing very little, and
! trusting 10 their friends who We're TAX
ing attendance to pull them out all
| right on their rank. But this year a
( change has been made. No one is al
lowed to take baseball or track train
/ ing unless he is a likely man for. the
/ team, and appears to be in the game in
| earnest. This is a sad blow to the
/, loafers. but is a good thing all round.
| 1t keeps the men who are really trying
| for the teams from being burdened by
men who are foOling, and it also puts
| the loafers to work or at least to think
| ing of some plan for getting out of it.
| The track men are taking cross coun-
/ try runs and are sprinting, some on the
! outdoor board track, which has been
put down once more. The first athletic
contest is the Boston Athletic Club
meet which comes on the second Satur-
day in February. In this meet there
will be a relay race between Bowdoin
| and the Massachusetts Institute OF
! Technology. Bowdoin has run against
/ Tech for the last two years and has
easily defeated her each year. The
( BOwdOin team also ran against the
( Amherst relay team and defeated it,
| last year.
| This year the race will at least be close,
| for Cloudman and Snow, two of Bow
doins best men, have graduated. The
candidates for the relay team are Hunt
and Nutter. of last years term, and
Gray and Soule, new men, but men Of
track experience. and possessing con-
| siderable speed. Gray and Soule both
made an excellent showing at Worces-
ter last spring. and no doubt they viii
prove good substitutes for the old men.
A. c. Denning. who for the last three
years has been so prominent in the
weight events in our inter-scholastic
| meets. will also represent Bowdoin at
| the Il. A. A. meet.
Cloudman. who has been Bowdoin's
CONTINUED on page 81